Look, I didn’t need this. A FULL ON DWP FIC THAT BLOOMED IN MY HEAD IN ITS ENTIRETY THE FIRST TIME I HEARD MY TEARS RICOCHET.
I’m already neck-deep in WIPs - or hadn’t you heard that OBaaT is still unfinished and that I’ve started a Dravasarala Expanse story that’s been reassuring me I can still actually write during a full-on global pandemic?
I took notes on my PHONE for this Mirandy fic, for fuck’s sake. So many of them, in fact, that over 2k words are sitting in a little note app. Already.
And then I hear the song again just now and, VOI-FUCKING-LA, the ending changes! Changes so completely that I was chills from head to toe! I had to go add more notes!
Oh, and did I mention how much angst this story is going to contain? I mean, my house rules still stand, but shit. This thing is fucking ripping my heart out, okay?
And don’t even start about how all three WIPs are basically a triptych of May/December Mentor/Protege Praise!Kink stories. I know. I KNOW.
Do you know Lori Petty? Did the two of you cook this up together somehow? I wouldn’t put it past TankedMuse (the Lori-Petty-as-Tank-Girl-shaped Muse that has lived with me for 25 years now) to have reached out, especially since I have been actively AVOIDING the Mirandy fandom because it’s just a little predictable for me, isn’t it? I mean, come on.
Then @xvnot15 posted all those Mirandy fics helpfully broken out by trope/topic. And then @chilly-flame wrote several brilliant hurt/comfort Mirandy fics that I had never read because I was avoiding the entire fandom, and then, well, I was fucked.
So... All of this to say THANK YOU, because this is the first album I have ever in my whole life pre-ordered, which I did because of its absolutely historic nature, and then it turns out it’s freaking brilliant. You’re brilliant. Truly.
I mean, I knew you were good but this is next level shit.
I have a lot of albums of yours to buy now. Luckily, I have the means to do it, too.
And thank you to @xvnot15 and @chilly-flame, too. Sharp Relief and By Heart were both decadent brilliance and I don’t think I could have reasonably expected stories so perfectly suited to me had I given you the prompts myself.
(And don’t think you’re getting out of anything here, @fictorium. Your AO3 page with all your Mirandy is bookmarked on my iPad, waiting.)
And finally, thank you to @fullmetalswift, whose post about Folklore and how it was being released let me know it was even a thing. If I hadn’t have seen that post with the link to Taylor’s page, I wouldn’t have pre-ordered the album and I wouldn’t be where I am now - which is basically overflowing with writing ideas, something I legitimately thought was in my past.
