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In 2021, my Seventeen fic Weight of Heaven was featured on episode 33 of the Fic Clique podcast! If you’ve read the fic but haven’t yet listened to Fic Clique please go and listen to that episode right now. It is such an Experience and you will be blessed. It’s actually incredible to hear fic being discussed between such clever funny people. I feel like a fly on the wall listening in on a close conversation between friends.

For the third anniversary of Fic Clique, I decided to record an audio reply to that episode, to use words to thank Nic, Brenna and Reid, and also to continue the conversation from the ideas raised in the podcasts. Ta da! (31:30 minutes total).

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I mentioned in the audio that Weight of Heaven is born from fandom. From the beginning to now, its creation is fuelled by so much of the good things that happen when fans inspire each other. The original idea is a gift that keeps on giving, an idea that keeps escaping to run wild in the world.

It’s a little crazy now that the full experience of this fic now encompasses:

2011: Glee Kurt/Blaine fic Permanent Marker by wynnie the pooh - the earliest occurrence of a ‘words on skin’ AU. (Possibly the origination, as the ‘soulmate marks’ trope also started in 2011 and this might be a derivation of that trend)
2013: AU is prompted on snkkink, a kink meme for Attack on Titan.
1. This prompt was filled IN A HOUR: falsehood is never in words by vype
2. 2nd fill: Corporeal Vocabulary by bluebackstabber
2019: a kpop fandom event, bleak boyband bingo begins.
January 2020: Weight of Heaven is published with its accompanying extended author’s note
September 2020: curiouscat conversations about the world-building (archived on dw)
March 2021: Weight of Heaven is featured and discussed on Fic Clique. (while you’re here, please also listen to the other 2 episodes where they discuss seventeen fic: now you have to let me go (four dreams in a row) by notspring and to hold it against your bones by Ester.
September 2021: Weight of Heaven remix - such common words, will they be sincere? by hannihoneybee
October 2022: hwarium records a voice reply to Fic Clique.

For anyone that has reached this point of the journey. Ahhh, you’ve worked hard. Thank you for investing so much time into this fic of mine.

hahahahahaha this was actually supposed to be a warm up exercise for another longfic, and a short break from you can be king again. And here we are.

I thought I could get it out of my system quickly because it was based off a personal post I wrote in March that was already 5000w, but then my overachieving brain had to adapt everything to Seventeen, interweave two plots, and make sure everything aligned according to narrative logic.

Most of the details were written from life, either parts of real relationships I experienced, the stories I picked up from friends, or the stray work of creative non-fiction. Definitely mixed and matched and multiplied so don’t look too closely into it~
( References, chacterisation, influences, a journal of the writing process )

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