#...... idk what to doo.................. augh...................

[mr-aftons-rotting-pussy]

im literally going to cry whats wrong w my codeeeeeeeeee :sob:

[watcheraurora]

Now that I've slept I wanted to gush about the Ranchers fairy story some more and it'll probably be a bit long for in the comments there. I love the way you build up the story and the reveals! How we go from our small little world of just Jimmy and Tango, with hints of Scott (the housemate) and Norman (the cat-alyst of it all hehe). Then we expand that to the court and learn that fairies stay away from humans and Tango is like I'm not like the other girls, only for us (and him) to find out that Lizzie, Bdubs AND Fern all have their human! Cinema XD

The Lizzie reveal was so so good! The way we learn about Joel first is casual, just part of a phone call, okay so he's a human. Then the court talks about Lizzie and how she has disappeared. Well it takes no genius to know what happened to her and idk I just really loved that moment, the realisation on the reader's side and later with the park scene on Tango's side as well! Do Aurora and Etho know about each other's fairy 'friends'?

I really loved the frisbee scene as well, just friends having fun in the park!

And when Tango's heart broke and he just let himself feel the emotions augh my heart!! Feeling the magic of "a promise broken" the shock and fear for what's going to happen to Jimmy and seeing his family, his court fly over there in some sort of trance is so eerie! Poor guy!

Making Jimmy get rid of all the evidence he was ever there at all was so sad but then my brain was like what if Jimmy convinced Scott to take up dance classes with him that so happened to be the tango hmm?? What then hehehe :3c

I feel like there was more I wanted to say specifically rather than just love for all the scenes but I forgot as I was writing this ;-;

Everyone having their own colour of fairy dust is very cute btw!

All in all I really love your writing as always!! (I am incredibly behind with every other work my email notifs are spilling over but one day I will get to them all :'D )

Oh my goodness, thank you so much! <333

I'm gonna answer the question first because it does pertain to my favorite part of this whole universe:

No. Neither Etho nor Aurora have any clue about the other's fairy. Aurora has met Bdubs in his human disguise (because? of course she has? she lives there and that's her housemate's partner of course she's met him. she wears headphones and blasts music when Bdubs stays the night just to be safe) but she has no idea he's a fairy let alone from the same court as her fairy friend XD

So while the main story and the main house has Tango going through heartbreak and tragedy and Jimmy starting a romance with his housemate and losing his new friend as a consequence of said new romance, next door there is a freaking sitcom of comedy-of-errors/Scooby Doo-style shenanigans of Aurora and Etho hiding their fairies from each other and no one else knows or notices because they're hiding all of it happening XD The four characters next-door are having a time—and I don't think Fern and Bdubs even know that the other is constantly going to the same house they are to hang out with their human XD Because, again: sitcom

Anyway on to address the rest:

The build up on reveals and exposition was pretty organic to how I figured out what story I was telling and how I wanted to tell it. I sent Inferna a list in DMs of "these characters are fairies, those characters are human" and on that list, Lizzie was in the fairy category and I actually had "(former human?)" next to her name. Obviously I ultimately did the exact opposite and showed her giving up her life as a fairy to become human but those reveals with Scott and Norman and Fern and Bdubs and Lizzie were all written as I was building up the world around "Jimmy is a human and Tango is a fairy and here's a story for that." I'm glad you liked the Cinema! :-D <3

Yeah to expound on Lizzie, I was hoping those were clues that would be put together before the proper reveal that Lizzie had become human permanently to marry Joel, but I didn't want it to be too obvious because I did still want that little hint of "or did she actually go missing somewhere along the path of pursuing Joel?"

The frisbee scene was a lot of fun. Big fan of Shenanigans, me XD

The trance thing was kinda Inferna's idea. She just said, when I told her about the broken promise, that she imagined Fern drone, "someone broke their promise" and I went yoink and added it in. like when a promise breaks, the Fae of the court attached to the fairy that the promise was made to are obligated by their magic and Fae Rules to go to the human and enforce the laying of the geas

I mean... Jimmy and Scott could go learn the tango but idk if that would do anything XD Scott has no idea any of the fairy stuff even happened

Oh the colored fairy dust! Yeah! Originally with Tango's it was red because it was an obvious joke about redstone dust. But then I was like 'but I don't want all the fairies to shed red dust... it doesn't fit all of them' and thus everyone having their own was born!

Tango: Red

Skizz: blue

Impulse: Gold

Zed: Pink and gold (because pink and yellow wings)

Gem: pastel green

Fern: turquoise

Bdubs: forest green

Scar: cyannish-silver

Cub: silver

Scar and Cub are obviously Allay/Vex-ish based (mostly Vex) so therefore they're pretty similar to each other and I imagine they're blood related in a way that most of the court isn't. (Whether Skizz and Tango are actually brothers by blood I left up to interpretation on purpose)

Thank you again! Best of luck getting caught up on the overflowing emails. I know exactly how it feels XD

[nebulaleaf]

G, J, M, R, and U for the ask meme!

god you poor fucking soul. G - Have you ever had an OTP? If so, do you remember your first one? Who was in it? Okay uhh my first one... might've been a mlp one? i don't quite remember. I never really got INTO fandom until Danganronpa, so ig my first otp was Saiouma and ........................ sighs. ive found a better phantom thief pairing at least. J - Name a fandom you didn’t think about until you saw it all over Tumblr Scooby-doo mystery inc ig? or uh. RPF hockey ig. SIGHS. i wish those posts would stop being blazed onto my dash. M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend. Akira Kurusu 100%. he'd be so cool augh augh augh. fuck. actually wait i might go forr Haru Okumura because i might not hit it off well with akira 😔i have a better chance with her. R - Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom? OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHH TOUGH. honestly ryuji and akira are so besties i love them no matter the context. but for STRICTLY platonic........ i really really love morgana and akira together. ugh ugh ugh. i think theyre way closer than people give em credit for, i mean christ they live together !!!!!!!!!!!!!! waughle!!!!!!!!!!! U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites. ROUND TWO!! Natural Harmonia Gropius - (Pokemon BW) Ahh, N.fucking freak with increased textbox speed. i love him he's such a unique character from such a good pokemon game (though i wish they were allowed to break the formula a bit more; imagine...) his design is simple yet effective i love me some long hair and GREEN hair and his personality ! the sadboy energies! (why are all my faves sad?) the drive for truth or ideals! the fact that he's from my fave pokemon game! obsessed!!! his trainer theme slaps too Espresso Cookie - (Cookie Run Kingdom) cookie boy who can canonically go without sleep for like a week. a perfect representation of espresso as a concept, tbh. take a look at any coffee nerd youtuber and it's like they're making magic potions. every bean must be weighted, every step MUST be followed, no room for error when pulling the perfect espresso shot; much like this character! he is comically driven in his experimentation and you'd think he'd be a rule stickler given how he acts about his labwork, but nay! he's totally willing to steal from authority and flee from cops and its great. he's also surprisingly kind if you're anyone but madeleine cookie LOL. i love his blunt little wizard ass Kaito Momota - (Danganronpa V3 Killing Harmony) oh boy. what can i say about him that you also, don't already obsess over. the passion. the hair. the gusto. he's THE LUMINARY OF THE STARS, BABY. while not my fave on the first playthrough, i've really warmed up to him bcos of. certain people that yuou know also. and he's now cemented as my favourite drv3 character haha. idk what more to say he's just really fun and heartfelt and SMARTER THAN PEOPLE GIVE HIM CREDIT FOR HEYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!!!!!