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Oh my goodness another loceit shipper in the wild!!!!! How wonderful :D!!!!!!!!

PS. I'd love to be added to your loceit taglist if it's not too much trouble :D

Ohhh right back at you! We are a rare and wonderful breed. I wrote *so much* Loceit stuff about a year ago and then life stole me away, but I am so stoked to be back! And fitting that it’s right around the time of Mistletoe, the fic that started me on my original Loceit storm haha. You all are absolutely going to get another Mistletoeverse fic at some point in December.

Of course! I’m happy to add you to the Loceit tag list. Welcome aboard!

[bonniebelleklyde]

so i just finished reading the mistletoe series and oml it hit me in places i didn't know i had. it really do be about loceit loving each other through their insecurities, huh? i think i needed the reminder that that's important.

Aw, yeah! I’m so glad it could be that reminder for you, anon!

Yes, Mistletoe is very much a reflection of what I think a lot of us tend to forget is a core and essential aspect of love-- when you love someone, you love them, period. You do not love them “in spite of” anything. Nothing. Not one single part of their personality.

The people that love us can see us in ways that are different from the ways in which we see ourselves, especially if we struggle with self love. Logan takes it as an objective fact that he’s a boring person-- that anyone who likes him must do so while tolerating that part of himself. But see, those parts of him aren’t objectively anything-- they’re just...who he is. Some people might find them boring. But Janus-- someone who loves Logan-- sees those things that Logan believes make him uninteresting (the tendency to ramble, the impromptu lecturing, the dry and matter-of-fact delivery, the sheer amount of knowledge he has at his disposal and the irresistible impulse to share it), and he says it himself in Things Unsaid; it’s those very aspects of who Logan is that Janus believes make him the most fascinating person in the world. 

Logan may struggle to see that in himself. That’s because Logan struggles to love himself. But Janus has zero difficulties in loving Logan. He loves everything that makes Logan who he is because that is what love requires. In the same way, there are aspects of Janus’s personality that Janus believes make him a bad person-- make him unworthy. Yet Logan sees those traits and admires Janus for them, loves him all the more for them. 

And that’s not to say that love requires you to believe the other person is perfect or that you have to condone their every behavior. I think it’s very easy for us to conflate behavior with personality. We as human beings are all incredibly flawed. To love someone, you don’t have to love everything they do. You do have to love everything they are.

For me, that’s the most beautiful thing about love. And when I started writing Mistletoe, I really needed a reminder of the beautiful things about the world.

Oh man, I really did just give a mini written seminar on love, huh? Whoops. Anywho, obviously these are just my opinions and my opinions only. Hopefully they give you some insight as to where I was coming from with Mistletoe. I hope you all have a lovely day <3

[bonniebelleklyde]

Alrighty, new Mistletoe-verse fic is well underway, but I need to look at it with fresh eyes before posting, so it won’t be up until tomorrow. Here’s  a sneak peek, though!:

Logan cocked his head to one side, turning over Janus’s words in his mind for a moment before gently shrugging his shoulders.

“You know, one would think—given who you are—that you would be better at that.”

It was Janus’s turn to furrow his brows.

“Better at what?”

“Lying.”

Janus blinked hard, his mouth falling open in an expression that Logan couldn’t be sure indicated offense or shock.

“I am literal deceit.”

Logan nodded, a small smirk crossing his face. “My point exactly— literal deceit should be more…adept at deception, no?”

[bonniebelleklyde]

Lawyering while chronically ill is an adventure to say the least. Very rarely are you able to completely turn away from work when the medical stuff gets tough, but there’s something very satisfying about doing the job-- and doing it well-- despite it all. I’ve never written about this aspect of my life before, but I do think I have something to say on the matter. 

So I’ve made a decision that I’ve been going back and forth on for a while (and it’s why I’ve been silent on this particular project for a fair amount of time now). Logan has a severe and lifelong heart condition in the Lawyer AU because Projection. He is no less of a certified badass of an attorney for it, and while his health presents him with myriad struggles in all areas of his life, in some ways he is better for it. It is part of who he is--  but he is so much more than his weak but beating heart.

So! Now that I’ve made the Big Decision that allows me to keep going with it, if anyone has questions about the Lawyer AU (about any of it! It doesn’t have to be about Logan’s health haha), shoot me an ask! I’m still not feeling quite up to working on my bigger projects at the moment, but hospitals are boring as all hell and I’d love to chat with you guys about my boys!

[bonniebelleklyde]

Believe me, I know how random this is, but hear me out. I just binge watched the first two seasons of Cobra Kai and now I CANNOT stop thinking about Dukexiety warring karate dojos. Friends-to-enemies-to-friends-to-lovers. I just. I think it has SO much potential guys.

[bonniebelleklyde]

I feel like it’s important to relay the information that, in my mind, Mistletoe and A Storm to Weather exist in the same universe, with the latter having happened about six months prior to the events of Mistletoe. I’ve been thinking a lot about Loceit being very soft and very oblivious lately and apparently that led to fear of thunder meets fear of mistletoe 🤷‍♀️😂

[bonniebelleklyde]

Now that the Mistletoe sequel is finally out, I’m excited to get to work on some other things! That Loceit Beauty and the Beast AU? Yeah, I’ve passed the point of no return on that one. It’s become a Whole Thing now, and you’ll see it emerge pretty soon. I think the next thing you’ll see from me will be Chapter 2 of Time and Distance, though, because lil Roman is very much demanding his spotlight 😉. I’m so excited to share more Loceit content with you lovely folks!

[bonniebelleklyde]

Okay folks, I think I’m gonna churn out one more Mistletoe Universe fic for now before turning back to the lawyer au. There’s a whole bunch I wanna write for the au but I feel like we’ve earned some post-mistletoe domestic bliss at this point, don’t you?