Wrap It Up !

So, I wrote a serial about a fairy princess. . .

The 2nd picture in the first row is the dress I imagine April wearing at the end.

Alternate Playlist (click to listen)

I have 45 songs I didn't get to use . It's hard to believe when I started I only had 6 songs. The music-spiration was based on those love-encompassing top 40 songs that go from first meeting, love, break ups and tribulations. Some of the songs may get pulled into to Bellum's playlist. Here are a few I really wanted to use.


Ever Ever After by Carrie Underwood (Alternate ending song)
Wings by Little Mix 
I Knew Your Trouble  by Boyce Ave
Human by Jon Mclaughlin


On American Fairytale

N:AF was. . . different. I came up with this idea of taking the Twilight formula to tell the story of the "Evil Queen". When I say Twilight forumule I mean the -- Teen moves to small town to live with estranged relative and meets paranormal love interest who they have some super special immunity against. Stop me if you've heard this. It was fun becuase I had a roadmap that I could fill in with my own ideas. It felt so right and open, starting this project felt like a new phase of LiLe

I wrote the first four chapters and the last two chapters almost all at once. I had been holdingo n tight to Dead In The Water and Seven Devils hoping they wouldn't become top 40 and taunt me ! Lucklily Elle Goulding had a bunch of other hits.

Anywho I'd been staring at the ending and the beginning for so long.

I liked these chapters and the characters, dialogue and stories. Yet, something about NAF seems so outside of the LiLe mindspace.  I had so much fun with this but for some reason  it distract me  with tiny plot bunnies, plot what-ifs or AU ideas like my other serials do.

I get these alot about my other serials (hince the Vault), for some reason I can't ever get myself to think about NAF in that way,  I only ever see these characters doing their story over and over again. I'm not sure what that means ?

 Maybe it's just a great stand alone serial ?  I'm just glad I got to explore the idea this was such a fun thing for me to do and get outside of cities.

I have a super general idea of what happens to April and Cillian in the future but I said I'd only tell if someone asked.

Okay, someone is going to ask so I'll spill

Of all the LiLe couples I see them being in it for the long haul and it being a lot of fun. I can maybe see a post-fight winning spontaneous visit to to a Vegas chapel somewhere in the future. I don't see Cillian making it to the UFC, but I think a part of his life will be working with troubled kids. As for April ? Maybe teaching  soccer moms how to work a pole.


Alex Meraz
So, get this. I wrote Cillian as a MMA fighter when I realized I needed to give the characters some intersest.and as you know I've had Meraz's picture for years. Well I recently found out that  Meraz was in a few MMA films and does MMA himeself. I had no idea. I really wanted to explore that  more but I didn't like the characters leaving town to much.

Wings
I wrote the chapter with Penelope confronting Thantopsis and the Epilogue and all that 2 years ago.  So I had forgotten that the whole "wing-ripping" thing happens in BH. It made me want to tie the idea of losing wings to shame and degreaation like in BH so YAY !

Trust me in the future, LiL-ian scholars will call this period my derivative period. I swear SH will sue me for some of the stuff in Bellum

Music Throwback
What really made the last chapters flow was the music. A while ago someone bought up Jason Mraz and I looked him up. . . and I was like I wonder what S&A faves Sara Barilles and Jon McLaughlin are up to ?

Well it turns out they are making awesome music. . . together ! Sara B has not lost her groove at all,  I want to revisit more S&A songs and artist..

I have a GIF post below. . . because it might be a while and Gifs are fun.

Lets Talk About Bellum and Lux . . . In Gifs. . . again

So, doing Lux was a spur of the moment thing and at the end of it I was like

 (psst. I'm Stitch)

You all were like

 

I think I rushed it even thought it  sorit fell out of me. I really shouldn't post something before I even have a title. I feel like Bellum has the feel of what I was going for and certainly the plot elemetnts I wanted. I think I finally have a grasp of what does and doesn't work.

 I know what you are thinking.

With that said I've  really looked at the world in Bellum and I'm doing all sorts of new things. I'm shaking off what didnt work from the first installment

There are new characters and multiple plot lines, humor, romance and action working together to make one narrative, it's all like

When you hear the playlist

So. . . there is no update

But I may post a vault item. The vaultest of the vaultest items. I have two AU Humorours (dare I say Crack) fics for LL. One is a crossover with Twilight and one is just. . . odd.

I know what you are think "The Twilight one isn't the odd one ?"

Okay, done !

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