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ok so i finally had time to start olts and OH MY GOD. (spoiler) i'm currently at the part where they had the baby and.. "its a girl" THAT WAS FORESHADOWING!!!! i'm going insane thank you so much ive constantly been in tears the past few days poor alhaitham
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can i translate one lifetime too short to russian and post it on ao3? because i’m obsessed with it omg
not an ask , but rather a comment about your fic hands tied in blood. i lost my sister 3 years ago over a disease and experienced similar trauma response to the lyney in this fic. just would like you to know every words were felt deep within my heart , with memories to follows. thank you for writing. it’s works like yours that makes me feel less alone in my predicament.
Hi!! In "one lifetime too short", I was curious about what language 'abu' and 'amme' come from? It's been in the back of my mind for so long😭 anyway I hope your pillow is always cool and your cup of tea always warm!!
hello!!! so you will NEVER believe what just happened. this ask made me realize that this entire time it was actually supposed to be amu and amme. i actually have no idea what happened there. in our planning it was all amu and then when we actually wrote it i don’t know what happened????? i went through and fixed them all just now 😭 anyways so they’re from persian/farsi meaning uncle/aunt, specifically the brother/sister of your father :)
hi! there’s no way to reach you but this so i’m asking here… can i translate one of your ao3 works to russian? it’s just that i’m absolutely obsessed with it and willing to try
personally i only reread the last chapter of one lifetime too short because i choose peace
Hii! I just read ur fic 'particles in motion' and it was so good, i liked it so much :DD i really loved how kaveh didn't know what he wanted to pursue in life. i'm about to enter uni and i'm so lost- there's nothing i'm particularly good at and nothing i'm really passionate about so it was really amazing to see that mirrored in kaveh! (except he's perfect at chemistry despite not loving chemistry which is so much like him- his work ethic is insane??) kaveh realising architecture is his calling was also super cute, but it left me reeling in the realisation that most of us won't ever have that, which also made me wonder if you're doing what you love? sorry for the lousy question i'm just really curious (of course u don't have to answer if you dont want to), and thank you for the fic!!
hi omg thank u so much!!! that was exactly what i was going for w the fic 🥹 so i’m so glad it came across 🩷 and there truly is always enough time…. you will find your calling!!! and as for myself omg… i called this fic my “chem major kaveh projection fic” bc that is truly what it was LMAOO i study chemistry!!! and i actually do like it a lot especially since i’m in my last year and all of my classes are very specialized. once you get past the prereqs/general courses especially as a stem student it does get a lot more fun 😭 or at least it did for me lmaoo but yeah there’s always the whole “haha well what if i did xyz instead” but again there’s always time!!! thank u for the ask!!! 🩷🩷
hihi i loveee ur fics aaaaaaaa id just like clarify does the 20^ thingy in ur twitter bio means under20 dni? im a minor so if u dont want anyone under 20 following i will escort myself to the exit!!!!!
hi! just wanted to ask what abt wrioney appeals to you? for me, it's that they mirror each other a lot, and when they go against each other they have to confront difficult things abt their past + their choices moving forward. their institutions also put them in opposition to the other. their personalities also work well tgt
omg!!! ok so i’ve shipped them since the 4.1 archon quest when we got their cutscene and initially i just loved the complicated flavor there with wriothesley kidnapping/using lynette and freminet…. like all of that was so delicious to me and i was like Okay so enemies to lovers is what i am hearing….??
i agree with everything you’re saying!!!!! their characters are both very individually complex and i love love how they are foils of each other, both of them bred and brought up in a toxic and/or abusive system - though while one of them took it in stride due to guilt and some fucked up sense of repayment, the other murdered the masterminds and ended up in jail for it. like isn’t that crazy. and then both of them making their way to the top of the cream again lyney still in the system as arlecchino’s heir and wrio as the duke of the fortress he ended up in after forcefully leaving the system. they mirror each other exactly!!!
their personalities are soooo fun to play around with their dynamic is just genuinely so fun to explore!!!! i love BANTER if that isn’t obvious. and the flavor of banter that wrny have is so
hot and cold (haha get it) and there can be so much sexual tension there. enemies who banter and get on each other’s nerves but also cannot stay away from one another for some inexplicable reason. it would take a lot for them to actually get together and exploring that is so interesting to me considering both of their pasts and also their fucked up history regarding the events of the 4.1 aq.
also an add on i love age gap as a trope. so. also they look so good together like…. red and black red and black….
anyways wow ok i rambled a lot but yes!!! they are insane!!!!!!! thank you for asking 🫶🏽
HI i come directly running from hands tied in blood in tears. and it’s a very strange feeling because i don’t cry? i haven’t cried in 2 years? but somehow it’s your lyney’s fucked up grieving that makes me sob??? it’s kind of cathartic actually, thank you :”)
if i may, do you have any other wrioney ideas/wips? would love to read more of them from you if you ever write more for them :) thank you from the bottom of my heart, this goes up to literally one of my top 5 fics. Ever
hello what 🥹🥹🥹 my jaw is dropped right now thank you so much wtf……. TWO YEARS? that is absolutely insane i am so beyond glad that you enjoyed the fic TRULY!!!!! 🫶🏽
i will definitely be writing more wrioney in the future this is not the last you have seen of me!!!!! rn i don’t have like. any Concrete ideas but i am also the type of person who will get an idea and then immediately start writing it so - it’s kind of rare for me to have ideas in the back burner. though i lowkey do want to try to write a modern au of some sorts for them……i think it could be an interesting and fun dynamic to explore!!! :<
top 5 fics is absolutely nuts. thank you SO much for your kind words ♡
hey ! i must say that you have gotten me hooked on wrioney when before i didn't give a shit (respectfully). THEYRE SO GOOD BRO.
do you have any wrioney fic recs perchance....
omg this is literally the highest honor i am so glad i got u into this ship… they literally have me by the chokehold they make me go so crazy
anyways yes i DO have fic recs tho i wish i had more!!! i need to read more fic!!!!!!
ofc the first fic i’m gonna rec is underdog by alexisoak if you haven’t alr read it https://archiveofourown.org/works/51343141
one of my other favs is drop the ruse by intimatopia https://archiveofourown.org/works/57839299
this a/b/o office au five to nine by alexisoak https://archiveofourown.org/works/57751705
short cute wound tending fic!!! pheasant’s eye by eveningstars https://archiveofourown.org/works/57459154
this one is incomplete but the first three chapters are SOOOO GOOD the way they fall by ectoprince https://archiveofourown.org/works/53590801/chapters/135655585
oh i haven’t read this one yet myself but 2 of my friends have and they recd it to me so !!! knee socks by mynameisnotfelix https://archiveofourown.org/works/53046298/chapters/134206699
these are just a few i remember off the top of my head!!! the tag on ao3 is very very small so i’m sure if you just go down it you’ll find some bangers that i haven’t had the chance to read yet 🥹 (if you find something good PLEASE let me know) thank you for the ask!!!!!!
hello! just died while reading 'hands tied in blood'
hi!!!! omg im so sorry of this is prying (pls feel free to ignore if it is lmao) but. r you and luminvies dating or just good friends? 😭😭 seeing y’all interact on twt is literally so funny but i have been sensing Vibes. (in the sense that u both remind me of my gf and i LMAOOO) but!!! if this is just good friendship i aspire to the levels of friendship u both have reached 🙏🙏
hey ! tagging on from the last question a bit -
were there any problems u guys ever encountered writing one lifetime too short? bc i know you both are great friends, and the writing style matches seamlessly, but sometimes it’s still hard to write 150k(!!!!) w someone else :o
how did you guys come up with the premise/plot for the story too?
sorry for all the questions JFIAJASK im just curious
omg honestly no… like there weren’t any problems writing together it was lowkey a super seamless process i think mostly bc we weren’t really taking ourselves seriously and just having fun with it! honestly we didn’t even think anyone was gonna read it bc of the content of the fic SKCJEKDJD it was such a surprise to see so many people like it. we just had one big doc and one planning doc and we just went ham for a month together!!! i think the fact that we are such good friends def helped i don’t think i would have been able to do this with many other people i’m kind of a control freak and we both trust each other immensely when it comes to writing styles and hkvh characterization, plus the fact that we are both comfy w opposite povs helped too!!!
i came up w the plot line like in summer 2023 and i had started writing a few scenes (the very first scene of olts the haitham pov of hkvh’s first meeting was one i wrote over a year ago now) but stopped for some reason or the other. luma and i have been close friends since we met, and as our friendship anniversary approached i floated the idea of collabing on a fic together since atp we had thought about doing it a few times and had a few ideas but nothing ever rly progressed forward. but the deadline made it more concrete for sure!!! i had alr talked to luma abt the kidfic idea back in the summer so i suggested it as a possible idea and she was totally on board - i was like ok let’s gooo 30k fic and then bam. 158k. but sometimes it be like that. i think i spent about a month just planning the fic and i wrote about 30k of it while luma was finishing up her other projects, and then in march we both went ham and wrote the last ~120k together and then posted on our friendiversary!!!!! so yeah!!!
don’t be sorry at all omg i love talking about the olts writing process (and writing processes in general) bc it was such a fun time!! thank you for asking!!
where did you and luminvies get the title from one lifetime too short from, and are there any other titles you guys considered?
titles just make me so curious bc it can be such an integral part of the work
omg luma came up with it! she wrote a line in ch4 “Al-Haitham can’t wait for an entire lifetime of falling in love every single day” and i was obsessed with it as a title so i made it the title LMAOO
we were playing around w a few titles, i had been thinking of a few throughout the ch4 writing process (a lot of them were time focused like Until the end of time and It begins and ends with you and Until the sun burns out etc) but none were really clicking, we tried a few diff ones with the lifetime idea, like This lifetime and the next and This lifetime is yours to keep and i also remember going through a bunch with honey in them bc of the wedding ritual of honey dipped fingers, but i ended up liking one lifetime too short the most so i just made it our draft title and we ended up keeping it :) thank u for asking omg!!!!!!!! ♡
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