#sfts asks

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Happy birthday to sfts!! Im so happy you decided to share this amazing story with us ❤ hope to hear from you soon

Ok anon I haven’t been ignoring this, I was saving it, because I was so charmed by it & it made me wonder what the actual specific date of sfts’s birthday is so I went and checked and it’s today!!!! :)))))) Thank u for this I have unending amounts of adoration for u and all the other anons in the past year and everyone on here thank u thank u 💙🦈🎂☕️✨

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Okay so... what can you tell about Thomas and Alastair separately? 😏

Whatever u tempt me to tell, in all likelihood 😅 (esp bc I feel so guilty abt the long wait I am a pushover) but I can choose smth for this one, let me think …

Alastair has made a few lifestyle changes in light of the new threat from the Navy. Thomas is engaging in behavior that the Thieves find immensely confusing. Both, individually, make at least one enemy and at least one friend :)

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Sorry if this feels a little random, but im feeling a little sad today so can i ask for a thomastair snippet to cheer me up? 😄 im a big fun of your work btw you're an amazing writer ❤ hope u had a nice day!

Oh hello love!! I'm SO sorry to hear that you're feeling down, and I’m also sorry I didn’t see the email until now! Based on when you sent this to me I'm guessing we're in different time zones (unless you were feeling sad at 8 am which, honestly, fair) so I have no idea if you're still awake, but either way, I sincerely hope tomorrow brings you better things. Wherever you are I am sending you lots of love.

As for your snippet ❤️

Alastair gave a beleaguered sigh and turned his face into Thomas’s palm, eyelids fluttering shut. “Fine,” he said darkly. “You win, for now. But not for long.”

Thomas tried for a smile. It would not stick on his face. “That’s a threat, is it?”

“Yes.” Alastair wrinkled his nose. “Your hand is freezing,” he said reproachfully, then caught Thomas’s wrist as he made to pull away. “No. Don’t go anywhere.”

“I’m not,” Thomas assured him. His heart gave a single, sharp thump in his chest as Alastair’s other hand curled into his wet shirtfront and pulled him down closer.

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I reread all of songs of the shore this week (it remains one of my favorite fanfics of all time), and was wondering how the writing is going? Part of me is still convinced Kamala is secretly a mermaid even if the last chapter seems to contradict that.

And I've been theorizing about the reflection Thomas saw, with curly brown hair and green eyes instead of hazel and the obvious person would be Tatiana, but why would she be there... Do half mermaids exist? What would happen if someone were half mermaid?

Do you have something of an outline of how long the whole story is supposed to be? There's so much we still don't know even if what you have written now is already novel lenght.

Ok first of all, THANK YOU, it is beyond lovely to learn that somebody has taken the time to reread all of my fic this week ❤️ and to get such interesting questions/observations too!!! It means so much to me :)

I like the predictions about Kamala because you’re picking up that *something* secret is afoot with her (although I’m not sure when I’ll get to what it is).

The writing has been super interesting lately, thanks for asking!! Each new chapter tends to go very differently from the last, and I knew that going into this one, but I worked on ch 7 for so damn long that I think there was a part of me that believed I would remain in the mental space of ch 7 forevermore. So it’s been somewhat shocking how different the experience of this one has been.

We’ve not seen the last of the siren Thomas spotted in the water, so you’ll find out who it is! I’ll say it’s not Tatiana, but you’re on the right track as it is someone from tlh. (A child of a human and a merperson would be a full merperson, good question!)

I do have an outline! Much to my amazement, I have mostly followed it—I ignore my own outlines so consistently that I would’ve stopped making them by now if I trusted my memory more. I don’t know how long it’s going to be. It terrifies me. At absolutely every stage it has gotten completely out of hand, and I’m sure it’ll continue to do so. (ch 7 was initially meant to be sort of montage-style, like a quick summary of a week, and it ended up 36K words, so. I’m beyond predictions at this point).

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I saw an article about top ten fanfics we should read after reading Chain of Iron

AND YOURS WAS THERE OHMYGOD-

Link is here btw

Omg?????? 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳 😳😳That is AMAZING thank you sooooo much for telling me!!!!!

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Wanted to mention

Not exactly accurate but Cassie said once that for Valentine's day Thomas would take his significant other to travel. Or to a place important to both of them. Maybe it's something else but the important thing is that it's SPENDING TIME WITH THE PERSON YOU CARE ABOUT. So I say you're rather precise about Thomas's view on spending time with Alastair!

Ksbejd I love talking about these two dorks-

Omg I LOVE this and to add onto it — it’s not just that Thomas is spending time with Alastair, it’s that he’s taking him to some place that’s really important to them both (the sea)! I didn’t realize how legitimately in-character that was and now I’m super excited about it.

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hiii darling <3

how are you doing? I hope everything is all right and that you had a nice weekend ;)

ps: how is next chapter going? can't wait to read it!

Hiii love!!! So good to hear from you!! ❤️🥰

I’m doing great in that I moved back to college and am thrilled to be here :) but also, moving back to college has been a bit like being hit by an eighteen wheeler going 90mph so there’s that! I took a year mostly off from school and so I haven’t been a full student in a very long time and right now I’m like omg, do I even remember how to do this? I tend to romanticize college in my head so I kind of forgot that my school is like. Really hard. It’s going to be fine, I just need to get my feet under me.

So you can probably anticipate the answer to your next q…not much is happening with ch 8 atm :( I’m seriously regretting not getting it done before I moved, but I was not in a great mental state in the latter part of the summer which makes writing hard, so, I have to be gentle w myself. Still. Frustrating. It’s been so long since monster chapter. I’m hoping things will settle down a bit soon, at least enough that I can be more active on here! (sorry for not formally announcing a hiatus…that’s clearly what’s happening.) Also just. Please know that I want the chapter to be published as much as u guys do, or even more. sfts is a v important part of my life. I will find time for it.

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I still remember that bit of Alastair possibly dancing in the future in some of the first chapters!

WHY IS THIS WORDED SO OMINOUSLY, I LOVE IT. Whether or not you meant it this way it feels like a dare…to keep a promise I may or may not have made.

Thanks for remembering, anon. You’re very observant :)