I finally finished editing and reposting The Colour of the Jungle today.
And I wrote a significant change to chapter 7: Timmy the beloved snake is brought back to life.
This was a hard fic to put back on Ao3, because I was associating it with cringe writing, with failure, with a lot of other negative things.
But like I said in an earlier post, sometimes fanfic is not about me. Sometimes it's for the characters themselves. Giving them an out. A second chance. A new life. I like to think Russell Van Pelt has a new life now, even though there was a cost - I like to think he counts it as a cost worth paying.