we tricked some treats!

this post comes a bit late, but linear time is fake and we do not abide by that fickle beast here.

man, i sure expected to do a lot more treating this year!! but alas, alack-- sometimes that's just the way the cookie crumbles! i got pretty busy toward the deadline between some art deadlines and work nonsense, but i wrote a fic i was pretty proud of and got two (2!!) AMAZING gifts!

having spent my entire october watching horror movies every day, i got sucked back into evil dead. which was excellent timing because missy requested some evil dead fic! so i got to rewatching them all obsessively and became particularly attached to ash in the 2nd film when-- say it with me, folks-- Things Get Weird! so this train of thought lead me to write plan all your moves in advance, which is about ash writing and subsequently re-writing his recent traumatic history to better suit his own narrative. i'm very happy with it and i hope you enjoy it if you decide to read!

magic meets music was a very cute lil jem fic by desertvixen, who i actually wrote for two trick or treat exchanges ago!! what goes around comes around! astral is my favorite jem character so i'm v happy to see her here and i'm very grateful.

retain the unconscious traces was an IT(book) fic by celluloid that i'm really still finding the words to scream into their comment section about how much i loved it. at the risk of knocking IT fandom, i'm very rarely satisfied by what i find there in terms of character study. but i was just so over the moon and thrilled by how perfectly they rendered the characters here, how they mourn things that are forgotten, and how their lives after the events of the book are influenced by the horrors they experienced in derry this go-around. i just have so many thoughts on it, all of them positive, and i'm excited to re-read this again and again as time ticks forward. i really can't recommend this one enough if you're a fan of the book and, like me, a known canon-liker.

i hope you're doing well this holiday and taking care of yourselves!