I just posted the final chapter of my first Human AU. Writing this is one more entry on the long list of things I’m grateful for as a result of Terry and Neil and this fandom. I have been writing for work (marketing, fundraising, grants) for 20+ years. I know I can write. But I deeply believed I didn’t have the imagination to write fiction. It was too serious, too important. I wasn’t up to the task. And so the few times I tried, it felt like a chore.
Neil and this fandom and the existence of human AUs gave me permission to just play. Neil refers to it as a sandbox FFS! And fuck if I didn’t play. It wasn’t a chore. It was delightful. I can’t wait to see what else I can do if I can get out of the stupid guardrails I’ve let others put around me.
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