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[gauntletqueen]

I think if teabags started pulsating slowly after you were done with them that'd change the way we feel about tea somewhat

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

Reunions (or goodbyes) :,)

[chipthekeeper]

making a “how to tell something bad happened to the lesbians” compilation

[iodinejam]

okay hi i read schrödingers dead kennedy just after it was published and Holy Shit. it's stuck with me ever since. it was going to be my one fic before sleeping but then i ended up sitting there thinking about all the layers for an hour instead 😭 your writing is so beautiful and even now i'm a little speechless. i yearn for more fics exploring the family dynamics since there's so much to chew through, and i especially think that the smiths are underdone. i especially love exploring will and grace's dynamic, but truly sdk is the gold standard for their parents as well. just, all of it is so well done and i think it's going to remain in the back of my mind as something to aspire to in my own writing as well.

i know that it's an exercise in ambiguity and that we're all supposed to come away with our own interpretations of what really happened, but i'm also curious as to what your opinion is? of course with the nature of the story we'll never truly know and i'm not trying to ask in a way that will canonise any particular ending, but i am genuinely interested as to what your thoughts on the events with joey/the flight to switzerland/mack and colleen etc are, or even anything to do with the backstory haunting the narrative of it all? honestly any extra thoughts you have on the story i would love to see haha 🌺

hi anon! thank you for stopping by with so many nice things to say. i agree that 271 familial dynamics are very rich soil! so so so much to unpack, i still feel like i have thousands of words to pour into the complexities of will's household.

there is a decent amount of backstory that did not make it into the final product. will does not look at many things directly, and he does not want anyone to look at him directly. that makes him a tightly controlled, concise, and unreliable narrator. if it wasn't something i thought that deadkennedy!will would think about or remark upon (or think about thinking about) i cut it. that included a pretty decent chunk of character building and context about leno and mack, as well as joey - basically my own hcs about my own characters, lol. but because will wouldn't be thinking about these things, i kept them out.

when you have a character who is unwilling to do very much analysis (ie, letting the reader know wtf is going on) you have to make that analysis happen through either action or subtext. you would not believe the amount of effort and thought and time that went into word choice with this fic. writing and rewriting the same dialogue tag deciding whether it revealed more than will wanted it to. cutting cutting cutting, just constantly. i am still haunted by at least thirty lines that i spent ages agonizing over.

ultimately, the final paragraph exists for a reason. deadkennedy!will cannot allow himself the concept of want, because it will unravel him. it's only in the moments in which he has already been unravelled that he can give oxygen to the mack-shaped space inside of him. in those moments, he clings to his want. he digs his fingers into the festering edges of his mack-shaped space and drags himself out again.

he uses mack, the mack in his head, the mack living inside of him, the mack that he belongs to, as a lifeline. a way out of the unravelling, out of the water. so paradoxically, mack is the thing that keeps will clawing his way back to the surface, and is also what will ultimately drown him in the end. what does drowning mean in the context of the fic? we have arrived back at an alivedead cat in a box.

[littledead-ridinghood]

Jason and Steph going as the other for Halloween but as the other's robin, not as spoiler and red hood. Their current outfits already share the half mask motif, that'd be too easy and boring, and luckily, they're equally dramatic and committed to the bit

Steph: who let you out of the house to fight crime in these tiny panties as a kid? And why is your cape so big yet so bright? At least My big, purple cape let me hide in the shadows

Jason: Did you ever high kick in this dress? Or is this a fashion or function thing? Because if so, I get it: my legs and waist look great.

Steph: that's what the leggings were for

Jay: oh? not to keep you warm? silly me

Steph: need I remind you who had their entire legs out?

Jay: If you think about it, the cape acted as a jacket and also like a safety vest

Steph: right, so the cars didn't hit you while you were grappling roof to roof, but the bullets could--i get it.

Jay: Hey, I didn't design it: Look at the man who did and the other man who signed off on it!

[mushywutty]

Adel is a milf and David is a dilf

Thanks for reading

THANK YOU! HERES them being a little too happy about that ( youve stroked their ego )

[sunday-better]

silly little girl (she doesn’t have a name yet 🥲)