#amy’s mail ✨💌

[skyfallscotland]

hey there, love!

as promised, i’m here with the HILARIOUS story of how i found BRV!!

i was in the library at my university while reading Iron Flame, and someone airdropped me a note with an AO3 link and said “if this is the girl reading fourth wing, this is for you” 😅😂

i sent it back telling them i’ve never been huge on ff (most of my exposure had been the stereotypical ff stuff 😅)

we had a little back and forth chat that ended when they finally sent it back to me AGAIN to tell me that “this isn’t fanfic, it’s literature” (in hindsight, i agree wholeheartedly😍)

naturally, i had to check it out, and i LOVED IT!!

all the good vibes!!

-🩵🩵

Oh my GOD. This is insane???!!

I love this so, so much!! Genuinely, it made my week!

Also, are they here???? Raise your hand if you have ever airdropped a random stranger BRV in a library!!

"This isn't fanfic, it's literature." I'm crying in the club right now 😭

Thank you so much for sharing! And thank you random stranger if you're here 🥹🥹🥹💗

[youre-ackermine]

OMG HAPPY BIRTHDAY VAL!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎂🎂🎂🎂

Thank you so much Amy 🫶

*smooch*

[skyfallscotland]

Hey I’ve just binged all of your writing amidst my onyx storm withdrawals 😂 I absolutely love your writing, it’s so validating to see characters with the same physical and mental issues I struggle with. Absolutely no pressure at all, but are you planning on continuing dead on arrival or Remi’s saga? Sending you spoons and love x

Hi!

Thank you so much! 💗

I'm so glad you liked them, I think representation is really important so I'm happy to do my part for people like us! And I do plan on continuing Remi's Version, along with some of my one-shots, too! I have lots of plans for this year if my brain decides to cooperate 🥰

I also got your follow-up immediately after this when you realised DOA was not, in fact, mine. Don't worry, it gave us a good laugh! 😂 @justallihere and I often joke that we share a brain cell across timezones so it's endlessly funny to us that we often get lumped in as the same person. I am her. She is me.

And because I am also her, I know what's coming in dead on arrival and I absolutely cannot wait to watch it unfold. You're going to scream, dear reader. I threaten promise, it's going to be glorious! ✨

Thank you for the spoons! 💗

[skyfallscotland]

omg you're THEE hurricane and your watch f1?? i'm your biggest fan 🙇🏻‍♀️

HI! That’s so cute 😭

Yes, I am hurricane, hurricane is me, all them other girlies just took aaaaall the URLs over here lmao

And yes! I love F1 🥹 I was an F1 girlie before I was a book girlie on here 🫶🏼 I feel like I need to start a channel or something for live watches there’s that many of us, though for me there’s probably only a couple more before I’m out 🫠 I can’t do the 1am’s anymore

[skyfallscotland]

I'm going back to read In Too Deep because:

1.it is a Masterpiece

2.I made a new ao3 account so of course I need to comment on every single chapter again.

3. It's my birthday and there's no better way to comfort me than reading my emotional support fic with chocolate cake. (Umm people forgot my birthday)

But anyways thank you for writing it.I love you for that. It feels like a warm hug. 🫂🫂💕💕

Hi!

Firstly, thank you so much, I'm so glad you love In Too Deep and I'm very thankful for everyone who comments 🥹 I'm glad it can be a comfort to you.

On birthdays well, I had a pretty terrible one this year too. A couple of people remembered, but the day was pretty awful and I did the same—lit myself a candle and put it in a cupcake for myself.

I wrote this on my birthday, but never posted it:

I think of birthdays the same way I think of Christmas. When they're inevitably (for me) disappointing, you can't say anything because you're expected to enjoy it. If you have depression, in my experience, it worsens until it's all you can do to breathe through it. I feel like I'm wading through mud, just trying to get to the next day. I was kind of excited to have Onyx Storm in my birthday week because I thought it would make things better, but really I just feel like I can’t be honest that I’m having a crap time or I’ll be raining on everyone’s parade, and if Onyx Storm isn’t what I hope, then again I’ll be raining on everyone’s parade again and I don’t know. It just feels shitty right now. 

Spoiler alert: it wasn't what I'd hoped and that did just make everything worse.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, I get it and you're not alone. It sucks to feel like no one cares and especially more so when you see other people celebrating on social media with tons of friends at expensive restaurants with fancy cakes. But I do! I very much appreciate you and I hope you enjoy the rest of your birthday, with your delicious cake and the Archive! 💗🥹🎈

[skyfallscotland]

Take your time!! I‘m hoping that you are already a teeny tiny bit better and that you feel hugged and loved because thats what you are. Praying that you get well and/ or better ❤️ (and not in weird mental illness doesn‘t exist way lol❤️‍🩹)

Thank you 🖤

I’m doing ok, I had a close family member end up in hospital unexpectedly, needing quite major emergency surgery and it’s just been very stressful and anxiety inducing. I’m trying to settle into a new routine but it’s just hard not knowing what the next day will bring, it’s all my brain wants to think about. But it is what it is, one breath at a time, right?

Appreciate you guys 🖤

[skyfallscotland]

Do you have a picture in your head for Remi's tracking rune on her hip? The intertwined v's?

I've always liked the idea of like the dopamine symbol or something as a tattoo - but with bipolar disorder being a bit different/having more complex drivers I've never quite found one that quite fit.

Then I was rereading T&T (as I do all the time) and am up to remi imbuing the rune and I've been thinking about it - i love a tattoo with multiple meanings (mental health, literature, fandom, magic).....

The molecular structure of dopamine is so cute! If you turn it on its side it's like a little creature, like a pokémon 🥹 I don't have any tattoos, personally! I'm a commitment-phobe and getting one with OCD sounds like a nightmare as much as I'd like to do it one day 🥹

I said intertwined V's because that's what was in the book, but when I wrote it I did go and try to find something similar online to get a feel for it and was ultimately unsuccessful. I originally thought she must have been describing/appropriating Elder Futhark or something similar the way she did Scottish Gaelic, but I couldn't find anything that matched.

In any case, this is what I'm picturing in my head, though I'm undecided if it's in this configuration or on its side on Remi's hip! 🖤

[skyfallscotland]

...can I personally fight whoever was anit good boy because I am SO HERE FOR IT and the change and growth you've written for Xaden 🥹

Also, this chapter absolutely KICKED ASS. I've read a lot of FW in the last several months and it's good but I think i forget just how phenomenal a write you are, you always knock it out of the park in a way very few writers have for me in twenty years of fandom ❤️

Ok this has been so funny to me reading everyone’s comments because I feel like I wasn’t clear that *I* wasn’t sure about the ‘good boy’ either and that’s why I asked 😂

I wrote it in twice originally and then sat on it for ages because I wasn’t sure if it was too much, so I asked @justallihere and @widebrimmedhatsblog and we were all kinda like ‘good boy’ is not our thing (it usually would give me the ick) but I was like…can I do it? Am I…better than everyone? Can I make it believable? 🤣🤣

So I went 50/50 on it and took one out, left one in, but it seems like it’s gone really well!

He is a good boy and he deserves to be told haha. He needs someone to take care of him for once 🥹 and I think it’s a nice parallel, she’s trying to take care of him and show him he can be vulnerable with her in the same way she is with him, so she’s mirroring what he does for her which is very 😭😭

Anyway that was a long rant, I am so sorry.

Thank you so much!!! 🖤 it really does mean a lot to me that people like my writing and it makes me think one day I can publish an original 🥹 if I can ever shave off like 400k of a word count 🤣

I’m hoping the next chapter will knock everyone’s socks off! You’re all going to cry, I think (I hope) 😭🩷

[skyfallscotland]

Hey!!

First of all, I wanted to send you some love because you deserve it ❤️ Take the time you need and I hope you feel better very soon ❤️‍🩹

What are you reading at the moment (in terms of fics, FW or other) ? What are your current obsessions?

Love the recommendations and reviews you make ! 🫶

Thank you 🥹💗

I haven’t been reading too much either because I’ve been trying to write when I have energy (migraine/fatigue life), but I’m meaning to catch up on Violet Sorrengail’s Guide to Spinning a Scandal and castles crumbling (@caeli0306), one night, then another (@widebrimmedhatsblog), and The Underpants Heist (@yanny-77) 🫶🏼

I’m also debating whether to toss my audible credit at the apparent dumpster fire that is House of Flame and Shadow, or whether to just leave it until I can concentrate on the ebook 🫣😂

Current obsession is the Olympic Games because I don’t watch any of these sports normally but every four years I turn into a nationalistic monster who hates every other nation, yells at the tv, and says “well I could do that” (I very much could not and I have major beef with the Paralympic committee for the fact that I don’t qualify as disabled by their standards).

💗 💗 💗

[skyfallscotland]

Macchiato is what got me hooked on the fan fiction bandwagon (I currently have almost 200 bookmarks let's not talk about it). Really needed a comfy cozy happy read today for my mental health and went back to it. Thank you for writing!!

(almost just filled every square with Andarna, she's too cute)

Oh my gosh! Thank you so much, this is so cute! I love this 🥹 and I’m glad it could be a small comfort, I know today’s been really hard for a lot of people 🖤

[skyfallscotland]

bit of a personal question so no need to reply but im curious: when u first read fourth wing and read that the main characters has chronic illness like u, how did you feel?

Someone wants to open a can of worms today, I see.

I think it was hard for me because I bought into the hype and everyone was raving about how great the chronic illness rep was, and I didn't realise my idea of great rep and someone else's idea would be so different. For reference, though it shouldn't particularly matter, I don't have hEDS, but a bunch of other chronic illnesses including POTS, one of the co-morbidities Rebecca has, that Violet seems to have too.

At first I was excited, especially when Violet crossed the parapet and had a bit of a POTS episode on the other side. But as we got into the book it became a 'she didn't let it stop her' story and I was disappointed.

I love the book, but I had to put aside my own personal experience to do that and just get sucked in like any other book, which I was hoping to not have to do.

Basically, I went in expecting a book where the main character couldn't do all the things everyone else could, because she was chronically ill, and there was value in her anyway. Not a book where the main character has a chronic illness but it's conveniently not bad enough to stop her from doing all the things everyone else does.

The parts where accomodations were made for her did make me teary, but they were few and far between and the fact that she never once crashes throughout the whole thing is so unrealistic. Her biggest problem is probably the fact that her legs can't hold onto her big ass dragon and realistically that might have been a problem for most people so...ask Gleann's rider

People will say any rep is good rep and I'll hold back from expanding on my opinion of this rep except to say that I'm not ashamed I wanted more and I think people would have embraced more. And I'm tired of this fandom telling me I can't want that because they're chronically ill and this is what it's like for them. Lucky you.

I love this book. I love Violet. It's not a crime to admit that not all things in this series are perfect. If people have an open mind to other disabled readers' perspectives, this is a good read.

[skyfallscotland]

Hope you had a good time catching up on the fanfics! Which ones are you in need of catching up? And which ones did you read? 😊

I did! I didn't get much sleep haha. It goes without saying that all of these are fantastic and you should definitely read them!

I finally read/caught up on:

the latest two chapters of @justallihere's storm in the quiet

@widebrimmedhatsblog's Foreign Affairs, the latest smut fic in her International Incident series for kinktober.

The newest chapter of Danger Zone by @caeli0306, as well as finally getting a chance to read her Did Someone Say Shots? series!

Immortal She by EmpressKadia

I'm still waiting for the opportune moment to start a few others, but these have been lovely 🖤

[skyfallscotland]

hi! not an ask but i just wanted to say that i absolutely love your writing!! there’s just something about it that gets me every time. i’ve read everything you’ve ever published and it always puts me in a reading slump because it’s just that good!! my favourite has to be Basgiath (Remi’s Version) i’ve read the whole thing probably 5 time over. I actually cannot read the original Fourth Wing because my brain inserts Remi into every chapter hahahah. Just wanted you to know that you’ve changed romantasys for me because why am i screaming and crying and giggling and kicking my feet up while reading, i love it and i love you!!

😭 don't make me cry! Thank you so much! The last year has been such a wild ride and everyone's been so kind to me. I don't talk about it a lot but finding a way to write again and the community we have here has gone a long way in helping me get through life. I very much appreciate you all 🥹💗

[skyfallscotland]

Omg and you’re an F1 fan???? Can I just say yuki has my whole heart and I’m so so mad for him being passed over for the second RB seat but also it’s less pressure on him (rip Lawson I give him like five races before they can him)

Sure am! I’ve been around motorsport my whole life—my first manuscript I’m working on is actually an F1 romance! I don’t think I’ve ever advertised that, so there you go! It’s the only reason I haven’t written an Empyrean F1 fic, because I have this (I think) amazing plot in mind and you know, plagiarism fears 🥲 but it tempts me on the regular! 🖤

I’m sad for Yuki! Not to be That Australian, but I think Ricciardo should have been in that seat from mid season last year and now we’re always going to wonder about what could have been.

I don’t think anyone left in the RB stable is right for that seat (even though performance-wise Yuki is the pick) because it’s more of a stable personality they need to be Max’s #2 driver. Daniel was at the stage in his career that I think he could have been chill with it. Yuki is too spicy 😂 and Liam, well…we’ve seen him give the finger to someone already lol, enough said.

If Max ever leaves though, that’s when RBR will really become interesting 🫶🏼

[skyfallscotland]

hii, this is probably a weird question to ask but do you ever write a really good line (or even paragraph) in one of your fanfics and then think it's too good that you want to include it in your original book instead, so you take it out of the fanfic? i was just wondering because sometimes it happens when writing a oneshot and i love the sentence so much that i just want it to be in my 'better' fanfic or the one i like more? lol sorry if this is weird but i cant get it out of my head

No, that makes sense! I can’t say I ever do, but there are lines that just hit and I go 'oh damn, I hope some bitch doesn’t steal that from me before I can put it in an original work' 😭😂

But I also used to worry that like…I’d never come up with something that good again? Now I have more than once, maybe because each of the characters is different and they have their own story, so it concerns me slightly less.

There are a couple of things in my ACOTAR works and a few in BRV that I intend to work into an original, but I mean…I write from a place of passion. I do it for the love of it and because these stories won’t let me rest until they’re out there (and the best they can be). I don’t want to handicap myself here, or my readers’ experience either just because other people are unoriginal, lol. It does weigh on my mind sometimes though, yeah.

I’m curious if anyone else wants to weigh in? ⤵

[skyfallscotland]

Hi how are you🥰

Hi! I’m good, stressed but good haha. I have two events to go to this weekend and I love my friends but I’ll be glad when they’re over and I can just be.

My brain’s focused on writing the last few chapters of In Too Deep and editing the first chapter of Truth & Talon: Part Two—if we want to call it that—but physically my body needs to be doing other things which sucks.

Having a weirdly productive swing where I’m getting things done which doesn’t normally happen to me and I’m just…stunned by the fact that neurotypical people can apparently be like this all the time? Like they need to do something and just…do it? Wild. (Yes, I need to see a psychiatrist, it’s on the list).

Anyway I hope you’re all doing well and if you’re in my part of the world, enjoying the good weather! 🖤