I don’t know how active this blog is anymore, but on the off chance you check this: would you be willing to share a few details about how your Speirs/Malarkey prohibition AU was going to end? It’s a favorite of mine that I return to time and time again—the world is so interesting and so well-executed—and I’ve always been curious. Both to see how the story ends but also get another glimpse into how they got together in the first place. It’s such an endlessly compelling premise. Love your work!
Hi anon! I really appreciate this ask, because I have always loved the ending to this fic (as someone who haaaates writing ends), and the fact that I never finished it has always lowkey haunted me. This ask prompted me to go back to my draft of chapter 3 to remind myself of what was going to happen in it, and in doing so I realized that the chapter was actually just 2.5 scenes away from completion. One of those scenes I could not remember in the slightest, one I decided was unnecessary, and as for the half, I think I was just being too much of a perfectionist when I was initially writing it.
So I lowered my standards a bit, resisted the urge to do a complete edit and rewrite, and published chapter 3. 🙂 Sorry for the wait lol.
Some of the other details I would have included have faded from my mind, but I hope the resolution is satisfying. At one point I also intended to write a followup oneshot where Malarkey realized that Roe/Toye were together and just keeping quiet about it, but alas that basic detail is all that stuck around.