content warnings: fantasy violence, blood, family conflict, unhealthy parental relations (a/n: daddy issues), body horror, intense dream sequences, temporary dismemberment, oikawa tooru, mentions of animal death, mentions of claustrophobia and alcohol, childhood trauma, minor character death, mentioned character death, happy endings
june's twitter. elmo's twitter
-the first quote is from the journey by mary oliver
-the second quote is from you are jeff by richard siken, as is 'i will come back from the dead for you'
-june says "thank u and hope u enjoyed this rollercoaster of a fic we had lots of fun planning it and i hope u continue to support us in the future". she also wants to add something about me? but the wind is too loud. i cannot hear it
-inspiration and like will to live from quynh @ naiivu_u on twitter and moumo @ inawizaki on twitter because their royalty au art honestly stuck in my head. it stuck in there. like a third leg. also cirque de soleil came out while i was working on chapter 6 and i almost passed out on the spot. if you're seeing this circue de i can't spell the thing i'm sorry you guys are incredible.
-will probably be putting up a behind the scenes [thing] on how we fucking got here in 5 weeks but give us some time we're recuperating
so one day in may june was like ‘prince of a fallen kingdom atsumu tries to kill hinata but falls in love with him instead’ and then both of us forgot about it for a month and when we came back we were like 'let's fuck this up' and then we Fucked It Up. this may be the first time in my life i dedicated a solid, like, five hours from each day to hammering away at a google document that started out as a little snippet of a Fancy Au and became the length of two great gatsby's. it was an incredibly unhinged, but rewarding, experience.
the taylor swift gundam au is something we're very, very proud of. if you follow the both of us on twitter you've probably connected the dots between all the oikawa's, the taylor swift gundam, and the butterfly emojis. we held onto this for over a month, so at this point it's really pretty surreal that we're sharing it with you guys at all. hinata shouyou would call it a miracle. oikawa tooru the evil but well-meaning grandparent would call it magic. but me, well. i'll call it the power of friendship.
on behalf of the both of us god, thank you. it means everything to us that you gave this au a shot, and that you made it to the end. if you have any thoughts, any thoughts at all, please let us know in the comments, or come yell at us on twitter, but if not, you can send us some extra hands in the mail, too.
wherever you are, whoever you are, i hope you, too, will forgive yourself for everything you've ever fucked up. because fucking up is what makes us human, and all humans are secretly birds, and all birds are angels. as are you.
have a good one
