i gotta post this for accountability or whatever, but 2025 is almost done and i haven’t posted any new writing. so HEY KERRY fucking post that update before i kick your ass. you better reblog this with a goddamn link and stupid self-deprecating comment before midnight on the 31st or else. and you call yourself a skam fan smh.
I absolutely love your Evak fics. Like LOOOOOOOOVE them. Are you planning on write another one? Thanks!
thank you! i have a follow-up to fredag 51:50 very slowly being written, so that’s likely the only thing i might get posted this year.
then probably the next big idea i had was a private chef au, but i haven’t touched that since the last time someone asked about it last september. the creativity/motivation slump that hit me pretty hard back then just kind of…hung around. which bums me out as much as it does anyone else i guess.
but there’s 15.8k of that update, with the intention of having them actually kiss! and maybe more! like resolve the issue of isak’s mom and even being in a clinic for a few months. y’know…plot.
and then after that i want a different isak, a rich real estate hot shot, who has just broken up with his longtime partner, but got the cute house in the hamptons in the split. and the different even is a chef that they’ve hired for the summer season at the house. he’s happily gone private for a break from a restaurant kitchen, but with a newly-single (and often drunk, tbh) isak, this summer might be more than just a break. it might end up being the rest of his life.
hi it’s a been a while (years) since I dropped by your ask box to thank you for all the fics! just finishing up 40 love epilogue and I’ve loved experiencing them fall in love again. I’m also I huge challengers fan so this fic is super fun in that aspect. I don’t think I have anything deep or introspective to say other than thank you as always for the words 🫶🏻
what a lovely hug i needed right now for this! i just reread forty love as well, because i was seeing rafa’s retirement at rg all over my fyp, and feeling nostalgic for the fedal era. but also because i’ve been feeling very low about my writing skills & output (barf). had to remind myself that i actually enjoy what i write and that i should keep doing it! the whole point, etc.
funnily enough, i still haven’t seen challengers! i got so exited, watched the trailer like twice, and then never went back to it. which is weird considering how up my fucking alley it is! anyway, let me get back to writing.
thanks again for popping in with the kind comment—i really needed to hear that, and i’m so glad the story still serves.
hello! i love your even/isak fics - you take the characters on such a wonderful emotional journey. i know you just finished with posting six of one but i really loved that one and wondered if you had any plans to give us a peak into how everything is going with olivia and even and isak (and arthur!) in the future? thanks so much for your lovely writing which has brought me much joy - i look forward to whatever you share next!
thank you so much for the message! i’m really glad you enjoyed it. i don’t have any plans for updates, but that’s only because i didn’t have any plans to finish it in the first place! i hadn’t outlined a proper arc for them, and didn’t know the last chapter was going to be the last chapter until it just was. there were also these snippets of things that sounded fun to write, but i hadn’t figured out how to work them in, or whether i had like, the narrative movement to get to those points, without dragging out the story longer than was worth it. like i’d spent so much time being afraid of the olivia reveal that it was built up too much, and i didn’t have a bigger climax to reach after it.
anyway, i though a really funny scene would be olivia having to witness isak and even kissing. it wouldn’t happen naturally—she would demand a kiss just so she could get that particular PDA milestone over with. this, of course, would make it terribly awkward for isak and even, and olivia would be more upset that they were bad kissers than the fact that they were kissing. i imagine it could happen at school one day, perhaps when isak managed to leave work early and meet even at school, but the olivia and arthur and teo would still be lounging in the office. after endless teasing, they would kiss, and the three teens would send up homemade scorecards. arthur would give an earnest 9 (he saves the 10s for chris), and olivia would hit them with a devastating 3.2. teo, torn between arthur’s kindness and olivia’s coolness, would give a midrange score and try to coach them for their next one. truly ridiculous, but fitting the vibes of that office.
i could’ve gone further, into arthur’s russetid, a time when olivia would be testing her boundaries with isak, and thus with even. they’d be able to work on parenting together, though up against the historical challenge of isak getting emma pregnant during his russetid. like, what rules can you enforce on someone who can always respond with “at least i’m not getting anyone pregnant!”? possibly none! but because olivia and arthur aren’t the party animals that isak and even think they have the potential to be, nothing truly scandalous would happen. but it’ll be a rough month until arthur’s graduation and they eventually figure it out…for now. olivia and teo’s russ would be a whole other story.
which, by the way, is how they’re intended to go: all the way. by their third year i saw them brokering a deal with isak and even and emma: olivia and teo could move into even’s apartment for their third year, and even could move in with isak. by that point even was already sleeping over pretty regularly, so it simply made too much sense for them to trade apartments. but isak and even had just gotten used to having a teenaged daughter by their side, and i can’t imagine it would be easy to let her go. and when they’d spent too many dinners arguing over the giant step olivia was taking with her boyfriend at such a young age, she would quickly argue that if isak had actually made a move on even while they were in school, living together during their third year would’ve definitely happened. and she, per usual, per canon, wouldn’t be wrong.
so yeah, no plans to go there, but definitely the potential. i haven’t written isak and even as parents much, and even with this one they’ve only just started being parents; there’s plenty of space for more. i would probably come back to it eventually.
but! i have other updates i owe first, and let me write them out here so i have them somewhere:
• fredag 51:50 update
• mondays at sixteen update (med et barn)
• and, while i’ve been dragging my feet on fredag, i started private chef!even at isak’s house in the hamptons
you’ll likely get those before coming back to charlie and lucy. oh! which, by the way, was supposed to be the ending. for a while i thought they would have a whole conversation about what olivia would call even now that they were a family. but teasing him about “daddy” felt weird, and even had already had the whole “being called a dad” conversation with astrid. still, the whole point of their charlie and lucy nicknames was that she had been calling him a special name for his closer role in her life. she’d been calling him her dad from that very first high-five. so they would have a tortuous conversation with olivia offering “pappa” and dad #2” and “doc” (à la bugs bunny, but that was sonja’s joke), and even would desperately beg her not to, knowing she still would, and olivia would just wink, finishing the story with a “good luck, charlie.”
Isak Valtersen is the world’s best male tennis player. Even Bech Næsheim is not. But he’s ranked #32 in the world, which is impressive enough, and he’s Norway’s favorite. Isak understands why: Even has a friendly face, an iconic headband, and the ability to make every journalist laugh in press, even after a brutal loss. He’s a hometown hero who pours his heart out in every match, and embraces the nickname fans have given him: Bechy with the Good Hair. He doesn’t advance very far in tournaments, if he qualifies, but whenever he does they are always matches to watch. Isak is the world’s best tennis player, but the world is watching Even.
After a chance training arrangement at the US Open, Isak is watching Even too. He doesn’t want to get distracted on his way to a world-record win, but it seems like his heart isn’t giving him a choice.
including beautiful art by @evakuality in the last chapter!
part of the 2023 @skambigbang | rated M | 5 chapters, posting on wednesdays
Six of one is one of my favourite pieces of writing in a long time! I am throughly enjoying reading, I hope you’re enjoying writing it as much
thank you for reading! and for your patience as i’ve slowed down. i do have about 8.5k of the next chapter done, but i have like, two more scenes to write to get to a stopping point, so i still don’t know when i’ll have something complete for you. but it’ll be longer than the last chapter at least!
I just saw a little something about the next big bang and got so excited when I saw your name signed up for a fic!! I had no idea you were even writing something. What is the idea of this new story?? I can’t wait to read it!!
howdy! yeah, i didn’t really announce much, but it’s going to be a tennis AU! i can’t remember what prompted it, but i signed up for the bang with no idea and managed to knock out a decent 60k love story. here’s the little summary:
Isak Valtersen is the world’s best tennis player. Even Bech Næsheim is not. But he’s ranked #32 in the world, which is impressive enough, and he’s Norway’s favorite. Isak understands why: Even has a friendly face, an iconic headband, and the ability to make every journalist laugh in press, even after a brutal loss. He’s a hometown hero who pours his heart out in every match, and embraces the nickname fans have given him: Bechy with the Good Hair. He doesn’t advance very far in tournaments, if he qualifies, but whenever he does they are always matches to watch. Isak is the world’s best tennis player, but the world is watching Even.
After a chance training arrangement at the US Open, Isak is watching Even too. He doesn’t want to get distracted on his way to a world-record win, but it seems like his heart isn’t giving him a choice.
eh? eh? it’ll also have beautiful art from @evakuality at the end! i almost want to skip ahead to that part, but i’ll be patient. five chapters, one every wednesday!
Hi! I just realised your follow up to Forty Love is a 49k fic and not just a one shot. I'm so stoked and I can't wait to read it 😄
hehehe hi dee! i wanted to do a sex epilogue just because i stopped myself from writing sex during the main story buuuuttttttt then i changed the POV and had an easy plot to give to even so i just kept writing. hope you enjoy it! and thank you for the comments! i was reading them at work and they really kept me going.
