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[frankchurchillsaysrelax]

📂 High School Musical :)

well since it’s you mads i’m going to specifically make it a chyan headcanon too ;)

chad was definitely the one to make the first move but he agonized over it for months. he would find every reason for the two of them to hang out all the time but you know, just as bros obviously. by the time he finally told ryan he was into him and wanted to take him out, ryan had been under the impression that they’d been dating for weeks.

[the-golden-onion]

Madeline I started reading this 92 chapter angst Twilight fic where Bella's had a terrible life and doesn't talk and the Cullens take her in. And just-lord what have I gotten myself into. Though I am sad to say Fig Newton is a bit of an asshole

so my whole reaction reading this ask is exactly the same as that vine “ayy you know this boi’s got his free taco” because i was immediately excited about a long angsty fic and then you hit me with my idiot son being an idiot and i fell to the ground, my free taco of fig newton love spilling around me as i lost hope in humanity

[waterstribe]

as old as time ☆ some citizens of storybrooke are more thrown by the arrival of riley and jj than others. for stuart riley is a sign that his reign over storybrooke might be coming to an end, something he’s determined to prevent. his grasp over his son farkle begins to loosen, and sheriff maya begins to question if everything in this seemingly quiet town is everything that it seems.

[quincywillows]

MAGGIE YOURE WRITING A BOOK????? WHY DIDNT I, YOU LOCAL YOUTH LIBRARIAN KNOW ABOUT THIS. Maggie give me all the details you feel comfortable sharing

if you’re able to or even want to share how far would you say you are into writing your novel like a few chapters or half the book or even more also are we allowed to hear like a quick blurb on what it’s about ?

well first let me say i’m so tickled that y’all are interested!!! seriously that makes my little writer heart very warm :’)

so actually if y’all have been around for a hot minute, you probably actually know a version of this story – it’s quincy willows, which long ago had its roots as one of my many trillion gmw aus. in fall 2018, i had written a couple of one shots for it and originally outlined it like a show (kind of like ambition or cotu), but the more i thought about it the more it felt like a novel / meant for prose. it also felt like… bigger than an au given that i was doing all this creative work and worldbuilding for it and the characters only had these menial attachments to their original source, so i scrapped it and took it all down and decided i wanted to try and do more with it.

flash forward to my graduation, where i knew i wanted to work on something that wasn’t screenplays considering i had just spent 4 years doing that and wanted to work with something fresh. i had been marinating the plot of qw, so in may i sat down and just… outlined the entire thing. story phase by story phase, beat by beat, and realized that i had the whole story right there in front of me. i had given it enough thought by that point that it was its own narrative and i knew like. okay. i’m ready to try actually writing this. so here we are, two months later! i’ll go into the actual plot under a cut because i know i’m gonna ramble excitedly LMAO

as for what it’s actually about… the narrative kind of takes on two main plots. the first is that our main protagonist, jonah lee anderson, arrives in the quaint new hampshire town of quincy willows because he was taken in by a foster family there after his abuela passed away. but even from the moment jonah is dropped off, something about the town seems… just a little bit strange. for example, his driver isn’t allowed to take him into town because it’s “private property,” even though they’re just surrounded by woods. only when jonah is left there alone with no service to reach his foster parents, he feels like… the forest is whispering. he’s always had an overactive imagination, but he doesn’t think he’s making this up. luckily his foster father moe arrives and helps get him into town, but he’s not going to forget that weird moment.

and the weird things just continue to stack up. for whatever reason, almost everyone in town seems to hate him or have this derision towards him despite not knowing a thing about him. people keep making weird comments towards him, like about his smell or how his mere presence is irritating or disruptive. the gang of white boys who all lowkey look the same take to bullying him because they can, because they’ve decided he’s different. and oh yeah, there was that time he was walking back from the cafe late at night and is 100% sure his snarky classmate turned into a demon and almost killed him. but everyone just tells him they don’t know what he could be talking about – and it isn’t until jonah stumbles upon what looks like some kind of demonic seance in the middle of the woods and thinks he spots their class president, cassie hatheway, participating, that he decides he’s got to figure all of this out.

of course, he’s not the only one interested in this mystery. another school outcast, xavier petrov, questions him when he starts digging his nose into things. and after a very strange confrontation with their student VP connor rose (and the “leader” of the white boy pack), xavier reveals that he orchestrated their fight to test one of his theories. and he thinks it worked – didn’t jonah see that moment where it looked like connor had fangs? after a chat at the cafe, jonah and xavier agree to an unlikely partnership to try and figure out what the hell is up with quincy willows that xav has been trying to figure out for… like, as long as he can remember.

further shenanigans aside, what we come to learn by the first half of the book is that the reason jonah sticks out like a sore thumb is because he’s not like everyone else in qw. because everyone in the town is a supernatural of some kind, and he is damningly and distractingly Normal, a “normie” whose internal clean pure energy is so imposing that it’s near irritating for the supernatural residents of quincy.

but that’s not the only reason they hold derision towards him. as the first part of the book unfolds, there are a lot of hints to how the forest that surrounds and protects their town (the one that seemed to be whispering, yeah) is starting to weirdly decay. and they all think it’s jonah’s fault, because this has happened in their history before. it’s a dark and twisted part of their town tale, and after xavier and jonah figure out that first mystery they get pulled into trying to track down what’s causing the forest decay to clear jonah’s name, save the nymph population and even greater, the town as a whole.

that’s like the very bare bones of the plot and doesn’t get into the subplots and all that, but there are some very key things i wanted to get into when writing this story. one is just that… fun slightly campy feeling of supernatural series we love (harry potter, twilight) but with a confused male protagonist. i wanted a boy protagonist to be the one who is the odd one out, who is clueless and lost, but also loves so deeply and selflessly and is searching for his own place to belong. additionally, while there is a few different romances in the story, the main relationship in the first book is the friendship ( / one-sided crush) between jonah and xavier. with the exception of like… trc, i can’t really think of a supernatural YA series where a healthy friendship between males is allowed to be the focal point. so that was important to me too.

but i really… i don’t even know how to explain how much i love working on this book. the characters are all so fun to write and exist so easily in this universe. basically all of the 8 core young adult protagonists are queer in some capacity, and ¾ of the main 4 are poc. xavier is canonically autistic. i think that YA has the amazing power to be inclusive in a way that a lot of “prestige” work isn’t, and i wanted to lean into that full throttle with this trilogy. i just… i love it. i love it! i’m really excited to share it with y’all as i go

i didn’t really talk about my process for writing it, but if you want to ask feel free because i feel like this is already so long FDJSKLJDLKGJDFL. but thank you again for asking, it means so so much to me <3

[amarakaran]

☕️ books

love books. would love to have the energy to read a whole entire book in one sitting like i did in elementary school.

[imaginarybird]

Clams blew my mind. You did such an amazing job with the story and having it explained . I can see how all that behavior plays out and fits and just. MY MIND IS BLOWN I HAVE LOST IT. It’s so amazing and so are you and I’m so proud of you still cranking this story out! It gives me hope that one day I too will update my GMW fic 💜💜💜

Thanks Mads! I’m so glad you enjoyed it. I’ve been plotting out that backstory for a long time so it’s great to know that it fits in with the characters and the story for the audience as well as it did in my mind. Thanks for reading, even after the hiatus. I’m sure the time will come where the words come for your fic and I’ll be here when they do!

[roadlesswandered]

Im just here to proclaim my love for Matt Damon, especially when he was younger i.e. Good Will Hunting. Also him now like? Why do I love this man? I'm not sure but I love him a lot

90s matt damon could get it, early 2000s matt damon could get it and i’m just going to go ahead and say 20 years from now, when he’s almost 70 he can still, in fact, get it

lets proclaim our love for him together 

[gilbertandanne]

Katie sometimes I think about your GMW fics too hard and I have to lay on the floor for a bit to recover myself from the feelings of angst and love and just GOD FEELINGS. But also thank you because you taught me to love angst and I wouldn't be the reader or writer I am without you.

awwww mads, this is like the sweetest thing in the world!  and something, tbh, i really needed to hear.

i miss you so much! i hope you’ve been having a lovely summer. love youuuuuuu