hiiiii I'm such a big fan of your fic "you may bury my body" on ao3! It's literally such a god tier fic and I've been desperately hunting for an update! This is me shamelessly requesting for an update to the fic please please PLEASE you literally have a whole fanbase waiting for you on ao3!! Sending so much love your way, that was an amazing fic!
Hellooooo 🥰 I wish I could hold your face and properly express how meaningful it is to get an ask like this, the equivalent of pure joy being injected directly into my heart <3
Now let's hold hands while we walk down the path of my shameful posting schedule 😭😭 I know it might not sound credible after months of not updating but I swear I'm not abandoning the fic, I'll update and finish it no matter what.
I have actually been working on the chapter for so long during my (kind of reduced) free time that I can probably close my eyes and recite parts of it because I have looked over it so many times I memorized entire paragraphs. Here I answered another ask with all the details of why this update has taken so long, in case you wanna read my yapping about it, but the summarized version is that I decided to edit parts out of the chapter once it was finished and add new details in, then changed my mind and decided to add back what I had erased, so more or less I have written the same chapter 3 times by now. And it's around 20k, so I have written, earased and written back around 60k total, which has me going a little cross-eyed.
BUT good news is I really really like how the chapter is shaping out to be, I'm really pleased with the details and pace, which might be too particular but I love the fic, I love taking my time putting it together properly 🥰🥰
Thank you for caring for the fic and for waitingggg so long. I'm sorry you had to hunt for the update all the way to my inbox lol but I also I deeply appreciate it <3 sending much love in return, comments and msgs like this fuel me with energy to keep working on the story.
i hope me asking doesn't come off as rude, but do you ever plan to come back to your "you may bury my body" fic?
again im not sure the correct "protocol" ?? for asking things like this but im just curious ^_^
😭😭😭 this is NOT rude at all, if anything is the sweetest and most polite way of asking so don't worry about it <3
Honestly thank you for taking enough interest in the fic to ask about an update! I know it varies from author to author of course, but I personally don't mind being asked at all 🥰
To answer your questions: YES, ABSOLUTELY! I think "you may bury my body" is in the top 3 of my favorite fics I have written. I have so much fun when I'm going over the drafted scenes, researching for them and then completely writing/completing the chaptrs! I'll never leave YMBMB incomplete, I'm committed to finishing it.
I'm hoping and have all my fingers crossed that I'll post the next part between this month and July.
Why I havent updated it yet is a longer story and will yap about it under the cut if you want to know <3
Basically, how YMBMB is written is a little messy? I came up with an entire timeline, then started drafting the chapters by writing the main events/scenes for each one of them and leaving keypoints of secondary scenes as bulletpoints I'd to fill up/complete in the future.
You could say the fic is kind of written from start to end, but only the main scenes between Aemond and Lucerys, so all the "bones and organs" of the body of the story are in place, but all the muscles and skin (the details and seconday scenes) are missing. That's what I have to work on for each update.
So each chapter is written around a 50%-ish I'd say? From start to end.
What I do for each chapter update is: I go over the draft I have already written, then write the missing scenes I initially left as bulletpoints. Many times I make the main scenes I previously wrote longer by adding more details (details of location descriptions, make action sequences and more elaborate or conversations between the main characters longer). Then I re-read the chapter a couple times for misakes (since english is my second language I try to be extra particular about this) and then I post it.
Now, for chapter 6 I kind of backed myself into a corner 😭😭
As I started working on it I realized I wasn't sold in the main scene of the chapter, it didn't feel all that cohesive, so I deleted it and wrote it again from scratch. I kept working on the chapter and as I checked on the rest of the draft I realized by changing the scene I had previosly written I deleted an important plot point that would become very relevant later. It even msessed with the end of the fic.
So I had to go back a second time and re-write the main scene again. I liked the new version better but I needed to reincorporate some points I had deleted (because I forgot how important they were for future chapters lol).
Trying to keep the new version with some of the old version's necessary points in it fucking killed me lol. It took me months to get it right since my workload and day-to-day life didn't give me time to write as much at the end of 2024 . And when I had time I kept adding and deleting, and then adding and deleting some more, until it finally felt right again. The adhd didn't help but that's another issue entirely lmao.
I know I'm being too particular about a fic when is just for fun but asfsdfsf I love writing it so much that I became very passionate about wanting it to come out just as I imagined it.
Thankfully the past few months have not been as hectic and chaotic, which gave me time to work on the fic properly again and not by chunks every other night after work. This is why I could also update the Halloween fic.
Anyhow, I'm much MUCH more pleased with how chapter 6 looks at the moment, I'm still adding details and scenes to it, but the main structure and plotlines of the fic are once again connected and untangled and I feel pretty happy with the result of the rewrite AT LAST 🥰🥰
My goal is to post the update this month, and I'll try my damn hardest to make it so AND to not let so much time go by in between updates for the rest of the story.
Sorry I used part of your ask to bent about the problems I created for myself adnflskfnlkfn prisoner in a cage of my own making tbh. But that's also part of the fun of fic writing I guess lol
When the update comes, I hope you enjoy it <3 Let me know what you think of it when you can 🥰
Thank you again for taking an interest in the story and for coming to ask about it, you're very lovely!
