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ANOTHER CHAPTER FOR YOU, DEARS, AND IT’S THE GAYEST ONE YET 🗣️🗣️🗣️
please pop over to the archive and read it and leave comments! COMMENTS! comments make me so ridiculously happy.
a brief jathrid moment from an unreleased piece since I’ve been doing so much writing but not sharing any of it:
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“Of course.” Kath pressed her lips to his temple and he watched one of her impeccably manicured nails tap the charcoal image of Davey. “This one in particular. That looks exactly like David, Jack— how do you do it?”
“Ah, it ain’t nothin’ special.” He murmured softly, following the lines her nail traced.
Katherine scoffed and placed a gentle hand on his knee. “You’re too humble, Jack Kelly. David! Come look!”
For some reason, Jack’s heart clenched in his chest at the thought of Davey seeing such a detailed drawing of himself. It had taken Jack the majority of their outing to create— amongst a few other short sketches of Kath, studying the way her loose, carefully rolled curls fell around her shoulders compared to the wild, natural disorder of David’s.
In truth, Jack normally didn’t show people his sketches. He hadn’t even liked showing Katherine at first, but they’d had one too many arguments about Jack’s issues with vulnerability so he’d since learned to show her a piece every so often, and he always drank up the sweet praise and encouragement she offered him in response, her perfect lips always forming a lovely grin around white teeth. Conversely, Davey didn’t press. If Jack decided to show him a piece, he’d start smiling and his eyes would scrunch into pleased half-moons and it was sort of like seeing the sun after a week of rain. Jack would create random, half-assed little sketches just to see that genuine smile.
Davey sat up and swiped a freckled hand over his eyes, and Jack watched as chocolate brown curls fell over his forehead. He and Katherine both had excellent hair— so different, too. Kath’s bright ginger, always perfectly styled, and Davey’s curls cropped close to his head by his mother (Jack always liked it more when it grew out). Jack was lucky to have such lovely looking people surrounding him.
And now Dave was sleepily moving across the blanket to sit next to the pair, stretching the stillness out of his lanky limbs. Jack eyed the sliver of his chest that revealed itself behind his partially unbuttoned shirt.
“Yeah, Kath?”
“Jack drew you.” She grinned widely as she slid the sketchbook into Davey’s pale hands. They were freckled and stained with ink, just like his pale forearms.
Davey’s round green eyes flitted over the page and Jack watched with a feeling of pride as the other boy bit down on his bottom lip, holding back a smile. “Wow, Jackie.”
“Christ, stop actin’ like I’m Van Goff or somethin’, you two.” Jack muttered, rubbing his hands over his face to hide his own smile. Davey liked the drawing. Of course he did. So did Kath. Jack had no idea why he was so embarrassed, but Kath tended to do that to him. Unfortunately, so did Davey. Little things that would turn Jack’s stomach into knots and melt his words right out of his mouth.
“Van Gogh.” Both Katherine and Davey corrected him at the exact same time, with the exact same strain of know-it-all in their exasperated tones.
Then, they shared a glance and bursted into giggles, and Jack’s heart beat wildly within his chest because he might’ve felt sort of stupid for not knowing that old guy’s name, but at least the two people he cared for most were getting along so swimmingly.
In the most loving way possible, your work has done irreparable damage to me and my friend's brains (this is the biggest compliment I could ever bestow)
To the point where me and a friend got into the 1900's period enough that I've started writing my own set of queer people in 1900's new york. Thank you for your time. I will be going feral over your work for the next millenia
oh my goodness. thank you so so much. i have suchhh a deep love for writing canon era/period pieces-- so glad i got you on the hype train, too! simultaneously sorry and happy about the irreparable damage! i can't believe something I wrote has had such an impact. this ask is just so wonderful and i'm currently cheesing at my laptop screen because of it
thank you thank you <3
davey jacobs with freckles and curly hair. davey with green eyes and round-frame glasses. awkward, tall, lanky davey with a big nose and big ears. davey, terribly pale because he isn’t quite friends with any of the other children in the neighborhood, so you won’t catch him playing outside. davey with cold hands. davey with big eyes and long, black lashes. davey jacobs with cheekbones and a jawline that could cut glass. davey with hipbones that jut out and shadows under a few ribs. davey with a constellation of freckles on his back.
thatssss my david jacobs and im thinking abt him extra today.
(and do NOT get me started on genderbent davey or ill never stop)
It's been two (2) years since I posted the bachelorette au prologue, and one year since I posted the final chapter! To celebrate, here are links to my unfinished character playlists
Katherine:
I decided pretty early on that I wanted to only use songs by female artists (or female fronted bands, since there's a Paramore song on here), which has definitely slowed down the process of finding songs for it. But I'm happy with what I have so far - it's a fun mix of parental angst, having a weird relationship with gendered expectations, and a couple girlboss-esque songs (as a treat).
Davey:
Davey's playlist is actually the closest to being done out of these three! Anyway, bachelorette!Davey's arc is primarily about a) learning to accept himself/accept that he deserves good things and b) realizing that there are people outside his immediate family who will love him unconditionally, so a lot of these songs reflect that. Amusingly, Danny Don't You Know has a line about going through an awkward phase from twelve to twenty-nine, and Davey is twenty-nine in the bachelorette au!
Race:
Bachelorette!Race contains multitudes, so of course his playlist had to as well! It is probably the least cohesive genre-wise because of this. I of course have a Tom Lehrer song as a nod to his math nerd ways, but the rest is a mix of how he presents himself to the world (Bubblegum Bitch), some heartbreak-related songs (So Alright, Cool, Whatever), and a couple that are about having a public image (Young Blood).
I'll probably reblog this once the playlists are actually complete. Enjoy!
i think my hottest hot hot take ever is im not gnna sit here and go “ship what you want to ship🫶” i genuinely think people who ship jack and crutchie need to go back to like 1st grade and relearn how to read and analyze. i fear that is the most strictly platonic relationship in the entire show. im being deadass rn.
Thought I'd come follow your tumblr after reading part of your fic. I just wanted to say that seeing your work brings me indescribable joy
My friends have watched me be Extremely Normal (lying) about your writing and the reason is that it brings me faith in writing
There's people who will never publish a "novel" and have writing that changes my brain chemistry forever, and you are one of those people.
Definitely going to be doing a study on your work in some way. At the least it'll affect my writing.
Thank you for being epic and I hope you have a good day
- fourwingedwriter
oh, this is just one of the sweetest things I’ve read and received on here.
I’ve read (and loved) all of your comments, and will be responding to them in depth whenever I get the chance! thank you so much for reading and vocally showing me support!! that means the world to me— it’s comments and asks like this that remind me why I post my stuff publicly!
just want to thank you again for this lovely message, it made me smile <3
and thank you for the ask! please do leave more!! I love yapping about my fics on here!
Hey so uh, I'm an (amateur) bookbinder, and presently your fic bluestars and crimson is taking up 105% of my brain capacity. So, I was wondering if you'd mind if I could print and bind it? (Just for personal use/my own bookshelf of course!) I just really love it dearly and want to have it physically (Also, I would love to do the same for I'll paint you shades of blue and red, once it's finished)
Obviously if you have any objection I won't, but it really would be fantastic.
P.S. (If you saw me leave a string of comments on nearly every chapter in the past 36 hours....no you didn't)
OH MY GOD?? yes please!! please feel free to print and bookbind and everything! all I want is some pictures, so be sure to send those when you finish!
and also— I did see all of your comments and I am so excited to go through them and read them when I get some time to myself!
full disclosure— I’m a college student taking 20 credits and also playing the lead in my theatre department’s spring musical. It’s been a busy semester. I’m planning on updating shades of blue and red once we close our show at the end of March— so you can absolutely bookbind that one too when it comes out!
I’m so excited to see what you produce from this project. Means the world to me that you loved my work so much <3
