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Having some serious AFMH Feels today. It’s amazing to me how it’s been years and this story still sits with me so often. I saw an Octavia-esque woman on a motorcycle today and it just hit me. Did all of the girls like to ride with her? We’re some more into it than others? Thank you again so much for this gift! Hope you are well my friend.

Hi, I’ve been bad at answering my inbox lately and I know this has been in here a while! I frequently have AFMH feels so I’m right there with you. I loved writing that story and sharing it each week with everyone.But as to the motorcycle...

Clarke’s been on the motorcycle loads, she loves it, but mostly because it’s nerve wracking. Raven’s been on it, she doesn’t ride much, just because she doesn’t like to with her leg, but she does enjoy it. Lexa is probably the most apprehensive of them but only because she’s worried it will take Octavia from them because of O’s reckless wild streak. As O tones that down over the years she worries less, but also once they have kids O rides less often

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M!!! You beautiful person!! I would love some OT4 + fighting for the last pancake ;D

HEY YOU! Just for you, some silly fluff.

Screech!

Octavia stabs her fork into the last pancake, and softly but also with a certain amount of aggression drags it across the serving plate. Claiming it.

“Um, excuse you,” Clarke says around a mouthful of bacon. “I was going to have that.”

“You still have pancake on your plate,” Octavia flips the pancake up onto her fork. “Besides, I’m prefuelling for my run.”

Raven points her fork at Octavia, “I made the pancakes, which means I was the last one to sit down, which makes that one mine.” She lifts up her plate and waggles it. “Thems the rules.”

“Raven does make a strong argument,” Lexa leans back in her chair and takes a sip of coffee. Clarke frowns at Lexa, exaggerating the pout. “Don’t look at me like that. I was thinking about having another pancake too!”

“I say we split it,” Clarke prods at the pancake, nudging it back towards the serving platter. “That way it’s fair.”

“That is in no way fair,” Octavia moves the pancake toward her but it’s caught between three forks and she doesn’t want to rip it. “I called dibs first.”

Lexa shakes her head and pushes back from the table, taking with her the serving plate and her coffee.

Raven pulls the pancake with her fork just as Octavia and Clarke have the same idea. The pancake tears into three very uneven parts. Clarke makes off with the largest piece. Just then Lexa pokes her head back out of the kitchen. 

“There’s batter leftover, how many more am I making?”

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how do the kids in amfh handle it when their mom/aunt clarke spirals down into her depression?

I think when they’re really little there are enough parents they can kind of keep the kids away from it. but when they’re about 4 or 5 when Clarke is low, but not at her worst (as that does happen less and less, or for less time because she had a good support system and therapy and tools that help her) if the kids notice Clarke is sad she talks to them about it.

They’re good kids. Aden brings Clarke his stuffed animals when he notices she’s sad and as he grows up he hugs her out of nowhere (he’s really intuitive). Charlie has moments where she doesn’t handle it well, because she gets stressed out. She learns early how depression can end up and so it takes a lot of in depth conversations between like seven and ten for Charlie to learn how to give Clarke space when she’s down. But Charlie always makes her a cup of her favorite tea before she (Charlie) goes to bed and leaves it next to Clarke whenever she is in the house. Tris sees it less but enough that she’s a little older when she is first one on one with a depressed Clarke. Charlie had tried to explain it but Tris didn’t really understand. She gets upset because she thinks she’s done something wrong. But she doesn’t talk to anyone about it. She’s kind of like her mum, stoic and stubborn. Niylah figures it out after a bit though and talks with Tris about how no one did anything wrong. Tris tends to avoid Clarke when she’s down because she’s old enough to understand and before she really hits her teenage years she understands the feeling and what Clarke deals with because she knows she can’t explain the anger and sadness inside her. When she’s fourteen she talks to Clarke about it. Clarke is the first one she tells.

I think I got a little off topic from your question. But here you go. I miss these guys.

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In the OT4 verse, can you tell me about more about Lexa going to Raven’s doctors appointments with her??? How do they act toward each other? Does Raven have some setbacks? Success? How does Lexa comfort her in the doctors office?

At first it’s like we see in the fic. Lexa sits with Raven in the waiting room mostly. She’s there before and after for whatever Raven needs which is sometimes just like quiet time together. And ice cream. Other times though it’s fine.

As time goes on she definitely has a lot more success than setbacks. We see her have to take downtime during the course of the story as she heals. Once she’s doing well she ends up pushing too hard, but everyone is pretty good about trying to pull her back from that before she ends up having to take a full on break and use her wheelchair.

Most of the time though the check ups are pretty routine. If Raven is nervous about anything Lexa knows (mostly because her hand starts to go numb from Raven holding it too tight). She lets her without saying anything. Sometimes they google things so Raven knows what questions she wants to ask, sometimes they distract and talk about the day.

Rarely does Lexa go in with Raven. It happens once or twice, but only when Raven is feeling overwhelmed and not sure she can remember everything she wants to discuss. Mostly Lexa waits and gives hugs and helps Raven make a plan if changes are needed or just get on with the day.

It’s really pretty routine for Raven at this point in her life, but having Lexa there is just this really nice bit of strength. Like she knows if something is draining that Lexa is gonna be there with a hug at the end of it. Good motivation

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Who wins poker nights at the OT4’s house? Exactly how over the top do Octaven get trying to beat each other?

They're not really poker people. I'm thinking more Uno, Jenga, and some table top RPGs (House on Haunted Hill, eventually Settlers... etc). Occasionally they play Liverpool Rummy but usually that's when Abby is over. Lexa is like a bit competitive, as is Octavia. Raven is too but she also just enjoys egging on Lexa and Octavia when it's the four of them. Clarke always wins Jenga. Lexa is ridiculously lucky with Uno. Somehow, Octavia wins Monopoly, a lot. Raven ends up owning half the town in rpgs with like six wives and a couple husbands for good measure. Her charisma is always high. She never dies in the haunted house.And all of them are very over the top. They're there to have fun, damnit, and fun they will have.

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okay. describe an average lazy summer's day for the ot4 & extended family over the course of a few years. who's usually watching the kids vs who's at work? are they often at the ot4's house? is there a little kiddie pool for them to splash in? what about a swing set? do they go to a park? do they hit a museum to escape the heat? do the kids maybe head off to day camp or a summer sports league? a bonfire with s'mores? swimming? what kind of summer memories do the kids talk about years later?

hi. this has probably been sitting in my asks for TOO LONG and i’m procrastinating writing my novel so HI TUMBLR I AM BACK FOR TONIGHT (at least, probably a little bit more here and there)

There’s definitely a weekly/biweekly as the kids get older family dinner/afternoon. I think this got mentioned somewhere. So you’ve got clextaven & team mvp with the three kiddos. then after a time Bellamy & Gina with their kid who is a bit younger than the rest. So like, they end up at the Clextaven house because it has the best yard, and a swingset. Also the hammock. There’s a bbq during any day it isn’t pouring rain. It’s just chaos, and everyone just kind of coexists and hangs out and plays board games and naps and eats.

Everyone takes turns with the kids, though I think Niylah and Clarke and Raven end up doing the most kid wrangling because their schedules flex the most.

There are definitely park and pool outings (no pools at any of the houses). All of the parents except Octavia hate taking the kids to the pool (it’s too loud and too crowded). O usually wrangles one other parent to go with, usually Lincoln.

Raven and Niylah and Octavia often take kids to the park. 

Lexa and Clarke do museums and artsy things. Lots of pottery and ceramics.

Anya of all things takes them to the archery range a couple times a year.

Once the kids are most of the way through grade school they start doing camps, mostly because the kids are like THIS THING IS COOL and also, everyone wants a small break, lol. 

One thing that does happen is a big family & friend camping trip each year. Each kid can invite one friend (said friend’s parents also get an invite but are not required to come). Theres clextaven, team mvp, bellamy & gina, jasper and monty go for a few summers, Harper & monroe tag along. And new friends as well. Basically they take up about 4 camp sites and it’s sheer chaos for about a week. It’s glorious.

Later on the kids definitely talk about the camping trips, and keep the tradition going. They also do the fortnightly dinners and board games (kids get really into Settlers of Catan or like whatever the equivalent is in 20 years). Everyone but Charlie is always in awe that Anya took them to archery practices. Charlie is just like, yeah, no that makes sense. Tris loved the hammock, a lot, just laying in it and looking at the clouds. Aden loved finding quiet corners and reading and that’s what he remembers fondly

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So im rereading And four makes home, and as always I loved it,, but I remember reading about how the mess w bellæmy worked out? Icant find it in your masterpost of the tag (or maybe i got lost lol)

I vaguely remember answering this as well. I think it gets touched on a little in the epilogue? 

Everything I’ve written on tumblr for this fic is on this tag.

I did a quick scan of the first 8 or so pages and wasn’t able to locate an ask with that in it, I also checked the ficlets associated with the verse over on Ao3 and I’m not seeing it...

To quickly summarize what I can recall - it takes a while. A long while.

Some of the reconciliation starts in this chapter of the fic. Bellamy and O text some. Then Gina brings letters fro Bellamy to the girls.

Then in this chapter (aka the epilogue). O wakes up to a letter that Bellamy gave to Gina to give to Octavia (she gave it to Raven to slip to O). In this Bellamy apologizes. He’s gone through anger management. The girls leave it up to O to decide what to do next. They end up meeting him all and talking. 

After that there’s nothing concrete in the canon of what I created. Mostly I imagined Bellamy was true to his word, he made a real effort to be 100% better than he had been and to be supportive and to learn and to not fuck up. He definitely gets to meet the kiddos and go to the wedding and all that.

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would anyone be interested if i offered up some fic commissions? trying to work on paying down some debt i have so i can move to scotland and marry my fiancée ( @kohiruu ) and be even gayer