#a nice sprinkle of flavor at the cost of complete canon accuracy (which i prob wouldnt be able to achieve anyways)

[dieanywhereelseart]

hey i just read all of What Once Was Mine in one sitting! i know the last update was in 2020 but i still had to send you a message to tell you how much i love your writing! it was really fun getting to see things go from serious to silly, and i love how you handled both sims dealing with their past/future self and how nathans self destruction became apathy towards helping jon. also!! demiromantic sasha is literally everything i never knew i needed. just 10/10 everything!!!

tysm! I definitely want to get back to it, but it was honestly just a comfort project when i was in quarantine with my grandma so now with college and a job, as well as the end of tma, i haven't been able to work on it. i liked writing it as an experiment of pushing tonal changes. one of the most difficult things to balance in writing is humor vs maintaining tension, which is doubly important for action and horror. For wowm, the goal was to push the envelope as far as i could towards cringey, cheesy, romcom-type humor so i could practice swinging towards more meaningful conversations. I know i don't particularly write with the same style of humor as tma, but I'm glad it worked out for you! examining nathan and jon's relationship is honestly part of the reason why i made the story in the first place. like, the whole point of a time travel au is to examine how someone changes over time and how they react to those changes when directly confronted. its main appeal is in that unique kind of catharsis, and while it's hard to say if canon jon has the same apathetic tendencies as my interpretation for nathan, it does add a lot of spice that i enjoy. demiro sash my beloved <3 thanks for the ask! i'd like to update wowm someday, i already have a large chunk of a chapter that just needs finished and edited, but in case that takes a while i appreciate you stopping by my blog