#fcodt

[ngbri]

Is fervent care of dying things offline? Where can I find it? I remember reading it years ago and it stuck with me, would love to read the rest.

No, it’s not offline! It's still up on ao3.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26905372/chapters/65655241

It’s locked on ao3 which just means you need to be logged into ao3 to read it. You can get an ao3 invite from a friend with an account to sign up immediately. Or sign up on ao3 directly but they might have a wait list to get a code.

That's touching to hear it stuck with you. <3 I poured a lot of love into that fic. I worked on that thing every day like it was my dayjob lol. And I learned a lot about writing by being able to write a character with such interesting/flowery thought patterns.

[cottoncandygorewhore]

My Larence-inspired tattoos! In the fic Fervent Care of Dying Things (**spoiler**)

Lawrence gets his fingers cut off.

"[...]positioned around the ring finger of his left hand, just below the nail-bed [...] this time in between the top two knuckles on the same ruined finger [...]using the shears to trim off a tiny piece of protruding bone extending from the wound [...] the shears clamp halfway down the middle finger on his right hand [...]"

Please read this fic.

[sepulchral-r0t]

Hey! Does anyone by any chance have a copy of Fervent Care of Dying Things somewhere? It looks like it’s been wiped from AO3 and it’s my biggest escapism fic when things get bad 

[goldendragonsflower]

“Every neighborhood has its secrets…some are just darker than others”

My version of Strade’s house on the outside. Layout based on Gato’s drawings and also partly inspired by @ngbri ’s fic ‘Fervent Care of Dying Things.’ Zoom in to see the little details.

Tree and lamp brushes downloaded from Obsidian Dawn.

Strade belongs to @gatobob

[ngbri]

I was reading Fervent Care of Dying Things for the absolutely fascinating story telling and characterization. I'm not much of a shipper in general and I just found the way you handled the characters regardless of shipping so fucking cool.

Aww thank you. Yeah I was a very seat-of-my-pants writer back then that discovered where the story took me as I went with minimal planning. Which meant I ended up with something really driven by the characters. I like my weird dark fiction to be heavy on the romance, but it was difficult to get there with those guys (I mean... Strade only loves things like a person can love a prized possession or a pet, Lawrence has a deep disregard for human life, and Ren is... well--used to being coveted being the only thing that makes him feel worth something at all). I was pleasantly surprised by how sweet the law/ren content ended up being since I wrote Law as having a general abhorrence for bullying that instantly made him super protective of Ren. Yeah I dunno. I had fun with their poly dynamic a lot even though the fic kinda just started out as strade/law propaganda. There's just something about an extrovert that obsessively adopts a loser introvert that I love I guess.

[ngbri]

Oh sure I have some uncomfortably reoccurring themes in my work which I definitely know about such as *checks notes* the murder basement to domestic bliss pipeline

[ngbri]

Hey! I know you haven’t updated it in a while but i just felt the need to let you know that I just finished reading fcodt and it’s amazing!!! You seriously deserve so much love 💕 <3

Thank you for your kind words! I’m glad that story can still give enjoyment even though it’s not finished. Honestly I don’t know when/if I’ll ever finish it, so I’m super sorry for that. But hearing that people are still reading it and enjoying it makes me glad I’ve left it up even if it’s unfinished.

[sepulchral-r0t]

Lexi downloaded the OWO extension and I didn’t know it. Tried reading Fervent Care for shits and giggles and it is So Good.