mp24 looks really interesting and i want to read it someday so badly! do you have any favorite things about it that you'd like to talk about? hope this doesn't come off weird i just think it's cool and have been absorbing the few snippets you've posted into my brain with excitement
absolutely not weird, and it's very sweet of you to say!
when it comes to my favourite parts it can be a little tricky to decide because i feel like so much of it is still up in the air. i've been in the planning stages for nearly a year atp and gotten very little done (though i had a lot else on my mind this year. lmao.) until i decided to just push myself to write whatever and hope it makes sense. and ironically, the one part that's both my favourite and is also more fully formed is the part i can't talk about because it's spoilers and also only alluded to in the main fic itself (etho's backstory.)
something i've enjoyed a lot though is probably figuring out all the character's motivations for staying where they are, because while that's not a Super important part of the story itself i think it informs them a lot. the entire story is set against the backdrop of being on a planet that's getting hit by a solar flare in two weeks time, and there's a chance it'll take all the life support systems in place that maintain the atmosphere and so on offline, killing everyone living there; most of the residents have left, but a fair amount remain. and bdubs of course isn't even from pluto, he's from mars, something which is regularly pointed out to him because that means he's made the active choice to be there. some of them are there because their work requires it (etho, cleo), some can't afford to leave (grian), some don't believe in the scope of it or are optimistic (joel, gem), and some simply don't care (pause). why bdubs took the job in the first place is something he isn't sure of himself. fuck me i'm not even sure i'm sort of hoping he'll realise by the end but it's probably to do with the divorce. (this is something i've also barely touched on but is shaping up to be one of my favourite parts- impulse is a character so minor he's only mentioned when bdubs talks about his divorce but a very specific picture of their life is painted by the snippets we do get. haunting the narrative or whatever the kids say but he didn't die he just got better)
thank you for the ask!!
