Weakness One Year Anniversary
On April 14th, 2023 my friend Toni and I went to see a college production of Be More Chill. We lived three hours apart at the time, and I bought the tickets on a whim even though I would have to rush to make it to show time. I loved the production, even seeing some of my old classmates as background characters. It was a great night of reconnecting with both my friend and the show.
One week later, April 21st, I posted the first chapter of a fanfic called Weakness. Originally I was going to write the fic for the Dear Evan Hansen fandom, but going to the production of Be More Chill changed my course of direction. And now one year, a lot of fan art, almost 300,000 words, and some new friends later: I am still in love with the fic.
Weakness brought a lot of firsts for me. I had never written a Be More Chill fic with the intent of telling a proper story before. I had never received fan art based on a specific fic before. I had never video chatted for over three hours just to talk about fanfic before. I had never rewritten a fic under different circumstances and contexts before. And in the past year I’ve now done all of that.
It might seem silly to celebrate the birthday of a fanfic, but Weakness was my first step into the BMC fandom proper, and even now I’m still mostly a lurker. However, if not for Weakness I wouldn’t have auditioned for BMCblr, I wouldn’t have met @h0n3yk1tt3n—spoiler alert they’re the reason most of the AU exists—and I wouldn’t have shared my brain rot with the world.
In an ideal world I would be posting the last chapter of Frailty today. Unfortunately that won’t be happening, but I do have a fanfic treat to celebrate! James Heere is my favorite struggling dad, to the point that I’ve taken him and made his own character—origin story to boot. I hope you enjoy the one shot all about the man behind the bitchy rich kid, and have enjoyed my past year of writing. Have a wonderful day/night, thank you for reading!
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