luvs mina

after nearly 4 years off from publishing fic, caitvi brought me back in one fell swoop with an au that i never intended to be anything other than goofy. circle click! was never meant to be a serious endeavor, let alone the 16k words it became, but here we are. the arcane-driven fandom culture revival got to me and spat out this monstrosity (and some more ideas fermenting in various parts of my google docs), and the process was honestly the most fun i've had in months. it started with hours of conversation post-s2 release, carrying my laptop back and forth from my bedroom to my kitchen so i could keep typing away at my bullet point outlines like a madman, and it ended in a 3am fever that had me rushing towards that last stream chat section as fast as i possibly could. i wrote so much of this in airports and on airplanes, fighting with the google docs ios interface, and it turned into such a weirdly unique Experience™ for me that i have a feeling it'll shape my next pieces of writing in its own strange way. leaning your phone away from the person in the middle seat and hoping the in-flight wifi doesn't crap out on all your progress is incredibly formative. king princess would be proud.

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