Outer Banks

L. 21. Writing those Jarah B fics. xxx (this is a side blog, likes and follows will come from main love-someone-special)

[thatjohnd]

New Chapter of Ignored & Neglected is now live!

Chapter 16: We Drown Our Hearts (it’s oh so easy)

- by love-someone-special ( @thatjohnd )

Fic Summary: “Man, do you reckon these are those moments we’re gonna like, look back on in fifteen years, and be like, fuck, those were the good days?” Pope’s deep voice floats up into the air, just as John B nudges Kiara’s side, passing the joint the full circle. She takes a full drag without sitting up, the night getting syrupy in front of her. The stars keep shifting in the sky.

Au. Rivers College is the most elite boarding school in the country. JJ, Kiarra, John B, Pope and Sarah are just trying to steal a little freedom back from the school’s strict rules. They get more freedom than they bargained for.

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[milfsisyphus]

stop earning advanced degrees i need you to finish your fanfiction

[bxthharmon]

congrats on 500 love!! cast your moots as kooks :))

Oh damn okay I got this i got this

Rafe - @void-maybank

Topper - @queenk00k

Kelce - @socialwriter

Sarah - @thatjohnd

Wheezie (I had to include her) - @jellyfishbeansontoast

[thatjohnd]

Hi!

This is random and not really an Ask and I don’t really know tumblr etiquette so this might be weird but bear with me 😂

Earlier this year I went to Charleston so I rewatched outerbanks and my love for the show developed into an obsession, especially with John B and Sarah- at one point I think I had read every Jarah B fic that I could find on AO3 🌝

Yours was absolutely one of, if not, my favourite. You write so beautifully, I can’t explain it but it really hits me and i’ve been non stop thinking about it for the last 2 days 😭

Im not here to beg for an update, I just thought you might see this with obx4 coming soon and i’d want you to know that it actually altered my brain chemistry 😅 I remember listening to ‘Aftermath’ by David Wingo from the obx soundtrack whilst reading it back in like May and in my mind it perfectly fits the vibe of them sneaking out at night when everything is peaceful and I absolutely love it 🥹

Also the way you write Jarah makes my heart bleed, the insomnia storyline making her vulnerable and John B being the only one to see that side of her whilst they sneak around trying to keep out of trouble is like everything I love in a romance type book. I don’t read much but only the few books which I love and actually stick with until the end leave me thinking about them months on and Ignored and Neglected has had the same impact loool

I also read The Map That Leads To You, (the only actual book i’ve read in YEARS) which Madelyn Cline is starring in, and yeah I loved it but there weren’t nearly as many moments in it that gave me the butterflies that your writing did 😩

Anyways, if we get any Jarah content in obx4 that is acted the way that you wrote them i’d be over the moon ☺️

I guess this is just a thank you for writing it :)) and if you did update now we know you’d definitely have at least one reader 🤣🩷

What a lovely message to receive. I’m always so heart warmed to know people are still out there reading my fics. I’m not done with that fic, god knows when it will be picked up again but it lives rent free in the back of my head and I will let you know as soon as I’m back at it!

Thank you for sending this message, it means more than you know 💕💕💕

[tempestaurora]

i miss being in the trenches of a fandom and writing fic every single day and just being so In It and loving it so much. like its nice to write a fic every now and again when the inspiration hits, usually about a completely random piece of media that i've never written for before. but it was also really really nice to have that inspiration every day. even if it meant writing 70 spiderman fics. i loved loving that, you know?

[thatjohnd]

Hello

This is specifically to the one person who commented on my ao3 saying for the love of god its been a year please update

I want you to know i’m trying.

Maybe soon! And if so, your comment will be the reason

[eldin-tower]

no matter the struggles there is always ao3 in bed

[love-someone-special]

Selling a seated ticket for Harry Styles tonight at wembley!

[yukswl0v3]

pls make a fanart version of the jiara hug from the teaser😭😭 you’re work is so good

Yes. 🤚😐

[love-someone-special]

Selling three tickets in W9 Row K for Edinburgh on the Friday night. Relisted them with ticketmaster and they’re going to make a £40 pound profit on each of them so would rather sell privately cos fuck that price gouging. Let me know if anyone would like them! I paid £247.50 for each of them.

[love-someone-special]

Hey folks i lied its on the saturday night (27th of may) dates and I don’t get along

[yukswl0v3]

Jiara with their kids (or a baby)

Well since it's mother's day....

[thatjohnd]

It has been… an inexcusable amount of time. BUT.

Ignored and neglect, chapter 16, is live. Now.

If anyone is still here in this beautiful echo chamber, go read! You might like. If you do, please tell me.

Lots of love xxx

[thatjohnd]

Oops! Forgot:

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[thatjohnd]

It has been… an inexcusable amount of time. BUT.

Ignored and neglect, chapter 16, is live. Now.

If anyone is still here in this beautiful echo chamber, go read! You might like. If you do, please tell me.

Lots of love xxx

[winteroroctober]

Everyone you know will die. And by everyone, I mean everyone. […] I mean, of course, there’s another way of looking at it. Since it’s all so short and over so quickly, that makes everything meaningful. Everything’s just one time.

Outer Banks - 2.01 The Gold

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

after a suicide attempt in 2016

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“When Daddy comes in, he carries you to bed. Is there anything you feel like you could eat, Pokey? Anything at all? All you can imagine putting in your mouth is a cold plum, one with really tight skin on the outside but gum-shocking sweetness inside. And he and your mother discuss where he might find some this late in the season. Mother says hell I don’t know. Further north, I’d guess. The next morning, you wake up in your bed and sit up. Mother says, Pete, I think she’s up. He hollers in, You ready for breakfast, Pokey. Then he comes in grinning, still in his work clothes from the night before. He’s holding a farm bushel. The plums he empties onto the bed river toward you through folds in the quilt. If you stacked them up, they’d fill the deepest bin at the Piggly Wiggly. Damned if I didn’t get the urge to drive to Arkansas last night, he says. Your mother stands behind him saying he’s pure USDA crazy. Fort Smith, Arkansas. Found a roadside stand out there with a feller selling plums. And I says, Buddy, I got a little girl sick back in Texas. She’s got a hanker for plums and ain’t nothing else gonna do. It’s when you sink your teeth into the plum that you make a promise. The skin is still warm from riding in the sun in Daddy’s truck, and the nectar runs down your chin. And you snap out of it. Or are snapped out of it. Never again will you lay a hand against yourself, not so long as there are plums to eat and somebody-anybody-who gives enough of a damn to haul them to you. So long as you bear the least nibblet of love for any other creature in this dark world, though in love portions are never stingy. There are no smidgens or pinches, only rolling abundance. That’s how you acquire the resolution for survival that the coming years are about to demand. You don’t earn it. It’s given.”

excerpt from Cherry by Mary Karr, context being after a suicide attempt at age 13

[elfwreck]

Some context: Texas and Arkansas share a corner border. Now, Texas is FECKING HUGE and there are many, many parts of Texas that cannot visit Arkansas overnight, but there are parts where it’s no trouble at all.

However, those places of Texas that are close to Arkansas, do not include “close to Fort Smith, Arkansas.”

The closest Texas gets to Fort Smith is about 185 miles (about 300km), at “a little closer than Texarkana.” (Dallas, fwiw, is about 275 miles/450km from Fort Smith.)

So the dad in this story drove at least SEVEN HOURS round trip, to pick up a bushel of plums for his little girl, in the hope that some almost-out-of-season fruit would convince her to go on living.

[thatjohnd]

missing ignored and neglected hours gonna do a reread tonight

Um hello this is lovely.

Sometimes it blows my mind that like. A work of mine just finds its way into other peoples lives and minds and then pops back up in their minds randomly with no prompting from me and thats just like… wild.

Anyways. This is a very lovely message as I am currently in bed with #covid yay and this brightened the whole thing just a lil bit so thank you. I also have not forgotten about ignored and neglected and i promise i will finish it it may just take me some time. 💖💖💖

[strawdogs]

“tumblr is the only social media that didn’t crash” tumblr literally crashes every day. it never works. this is a half operating website. have you ever been able to search for a post and find it? everyday we complain about the stupid gradients because nothing will load. the bar is so low here