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Nobody:

Olivia for 20+ chapters:

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Wait! I was thinking about this literally today! Remember the excitement of Monday morning in 2020?

oh boy do i 🥹

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do you ever read it from start to finish? or do you always jump around? i’ve never thought about that 😭

i rather kms than read the early chapters. it’s rare that i start anywhere before 17 which is the start of liv and lucas breaking up but i tend to go for post breakup liv/lucas angst if im real

i get the urge to read a chapter like once every six months and idk it’s just a nice little moment to go back into the lil world hannah and i created together that summer and the fond memories we somehow found in the middle of that dark time in all of our lives <3

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fucking around and reading random chunks of ciwyw after So Long™ and man! hate to say it but what a treat! when i said this shit was self service i MEANT IT

ok that’s all xx bye again

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thinking about bobby

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idk why it’s so funny to me that your girlfriend is aware of ciwyw. i think about that randomly after seeing you post about it forever ago.

listen i know that these asks go into the void once answered bc no one truly cares but like hey! at least this one person did!

what’s crazy is that she doesn’t think it’s lame 😭 i haven’t let her read it or anything but she’s always thought it was cool that i wrote one of the most popular fics for a micro fandom

honestly she thinks all of my litg fandom lore is so funny JDNKSBFKSJD like it sends her into orbit when i tell her about my silly little “fandom mean girl” era. and like how i had like this infamous clique within the fandom and all the genuine BEEF i had with randoms 😭

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what other songs made you think of ciwyw

liv/lucas

fortnight

my boy only breaks his favorite toys

down bad

but daddy i love him

the black dog

chloe or sam or sophia or marcus

i hate it here

i look in people’s windows

the prophecy

loml

liv/bobby

guilty as sin

fresh out the slammer

so high school

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seeing you on my dash made me so happy 🥹 i miss you. how’s life?

life is so so so good rn!!!!

my girlfriend and i are approaching our 1yr at the end of june which is wild and exciting. her name is sarah and when i tell you she’s if bobby mckenzie were a real life lesbian. she organically says things i literally wrote in ciwyw (ex: the other night while debating who loved the other more, sarah used the argument that because she’s taller then she’s got more room to store love) and just good for me!!!!!

i hit my tenth anniversary of when i started doing makeup professionally back in october and i celebrated the milestone with a promotion at work, im the counter manager at my store’s MAC counter. im a MAC artist. and i still feel so ~pinch me~ about it all. it’s made me fall in love with my work all over again and it’s the best.

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same anon from before here! did you have a favorite on the album? i'm having trouble ranking but the black dog, guilty as sin?, down bad, the smallest man who ever lived, and but daddy i love him are def in my top 5, just can't figure out the order. fresh out the slammer too... the way she says "sunshine" and "his smile" itches my brain just right

imgonnagetyouback!!!!! that shit SLAPS!!!!!! my other favorites are the prophecy, the black dog, i look in people’s windows, i hate it here, so long london, and thanK you aIMee

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guilty as sin and fresh out the slammer are so liv coded

sooooooooo true bestie especially guilty as sin

and not to hurt anyone’s feelings but the prophecy for lucas

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I was already having a rough day. And this is really sad.

Working on Love Island the Game wasn't always easy in a variety of ways, especially at the end, but even after most of us were laid off amid dramatic circumstances, more than two years ago now, it was nice knowing that some people enjoyed our work that was still out there.

The Season 3 episodes and scenes, and the ones I edited, were my first experiences in a game studio team (shoutout the scenes with Tai, Rafi, and Lily that were the first pieces of writing I did on the game!). I learned so much from that, from The Wedding, Chelsea's Murder Mystery and The Boat Party, from all the prototypes and ideation that never went anywhere (that wonderful Regency-era Noah art... sigh...), from how the characters and storylines came together for Season 4 aka Bombshell (I loved coming up with the original concepts for Bruno, and Oliver, and Juliet, and Lexi, and Tiffany, and Valentina, and Kobi, and Hazeem: absolute joys to write and to see other writers bringing them extra sparks of life, and to do the same with helping bring other writers' concepts to life, and to start doing all sorts of exciting senior role stuff). It was very sad and stressful when it turned out that we couldn't be there to complete Season 4 in as polished a way as all of us wanted.

I'm still friends with many of the people I worked with on Love Island the Game and our other projects, and the things that didn't end up going out there, and I've worked with some of them since which was an absolute pleasure. I saw a lot of them earlier this month, and chatted with one on a video call just this morning. The way it ended for us was very painful, but a lot of it up to that point was so much fun.

There will still be some of the work I did for Love Island the Game out there in Season 4/Bombshell. But what a shame that a huge chunk of the work we all did, and the work before my time that got the studio its audience in the first place, turns out to be so ephemeral.

Thank you to all the people who played and enjoyed the work we made.

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okay hi i know that this is truly just posting into a void at this point but the chance of some of y’all seeing it is enough for me bc only y’all will understand what this means to me

my birthday is in a week and my girlfriend gave me one of my gifts early and just. oh my god.

she knows ciwyw exists and that the song inspired it. but she doesn’t know that it was specifically that lyric from the bridge - “i want to wear his initial on a chain around my neck, not because he owns me, but because he really knows me.” that inspired me to write a 46 chapter long fic. that 23 word line inspired over 200,000 words of my own.

what liv and bobby have is what i’ve always wanted. and i have it now. and that’s genuinely so insane to me when i think about it.

anyways. truly doin better than i ever was.

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why did reading that snippet feel like hearing one of the songs from taylor’s vault for the first time? reading fresh litg fic from you in 2023 was not on my bingo card

okay no actually last one just because this made me snort

okay byeeeeee love you mama

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one more peep please 😭 begging and pleading 😭

okay listen i’m gonna dip again HDJSJSJSJSJ so i’m standing by hit a bitch up if you wanna read her now 😙

this is in the third chapter and sends me into orbit

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ciwyw was my emotional support fic. I was so sad when AO3 went down and it disappeared..

Please if you publish new one put the link here! I would love to read it, Shawn sound great already!

feel free to slide into my dm’s and i will send you the chapters that exist already & will send you them as i finish them in the future <3

also thank you for loving it that much i love u

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i really do be screaming into a void now huh anyways y’all are so 🥹 to care about my writing still even tho i’ve been dead and gone for so long now

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…a new fic? please for the love of god at least give me the plot

basically? the story takes place the following summer after season 2. the cast plans their own reunion trip to mexico where shawn and bobby see each other for the first time since the show ended.

they had coupled up day one. their connection was immediate and sparks were flying up until operation nope. though she agreed to participate, the suggestion rubbed her the wrong way. this little bump in the road gave shawn the excuse she needed to do what she does best - self sabotage. she ends up bringing carl back from casa amor. while devastated, bobby took it like a champ. no hard feelings.

well. up until shawn decided to kiss him when he was packing after he was eliminated despite carl being just in the other room. bobby thought that meant something. bobby thought she wanted him back. but for the following year, his phone never rang. and with each passing day, his resent for her grew stronger. but upon seeing her again, bobby realized she was going to be a lot harder to ignore than he anticipated.

it’s called second chance theatre and honestly? truly? shawn has become my favorite child. i truly adore her and bobby’s dynamic. here’s a silly little bit of when they met for the first time, talking in the line up after she chose him.