#idtfy

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oh my gosh!! I just read your epic mattdrai and I am OBSESSED the hits just kept on coming for Leon and I was so sad for him. Both him and Matthew were messy and it was so real. His disintegrating friendship with Connor was epic. Thank you sooooo much for sharing it with us and I can’t believe you are following me, oooops 🙈

Thank you!! Hit after hit and 90% of them byproducts of his own choices! I was very much going for messy and real and unraveling and hoping it would resonate. Glad you enjoyed! 🩷

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every time I think about “I’m Doing This For You” I feel pain in my chest. (this is a compliment). One of my fics of all time.

🩷🩷🩷!!!! as I have said before…“induced physical sensation” is kind of the biggest compliment you could give me.

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hey i just started reading 'i'm doing this for you' and am absolutely obsessed. i just have a question regarding the time line. so *spoiler I guess?* they hooked up the last time in 2023, now at least 3 years passed with the divorce. and leon is 34 so it must be 2030? sorry dhdhsjksos i know this is really random but i would really like to know how much time has passed since the last time they were together. thanks 💓

The gag with IDTFY is that midway through writing I stretched the timeline to span an extra year so there’s a very good chance I forgot to adjust some details and references to ages when I made that change, lol. But I believe/intended that we pick up with Leon in April 2029 (so he’s 33 and a few months) and it’s therefore been a little under 6 years since he and Matthew were last together in Florida (June 2023). And then we’re with him through the 2029-30 season and the 2030-31 season.

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you've kinda absolutely wrecked me with your quinntrevor fic. and idtfy. the way you captured the loneliness of hiding who you are reached really deep inside me.

<333!! thank you so much, this is so nice! i definitely wrecked myself a little, too, especially writing Quinn in PFITP—he's just so fucking isolated and lonely and caught in his own brain!!! have been thinking a lot about inauthenticity this year in my own life, and how it erodes/corrodes you, makes you unknowable to the people who want to know you, makes your secrets feel like toxic black sludge. and i think that theme snuck its way into both of those projects.

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