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[SEADLA] Chapter 1/2?: Empty bottle
Monday, July 4th, 2016 06:24 pm
✗ TECHNICAL DETAILS
FANDOM: Marvel’s MCU
RATING: Mature
WORDCOUNT: 1 203
PAIRING(S): -
CHARACTER(S): Tony Stark
GENRE: Angst
TRIGGER WARNING(S): Suicide (Check the AO3 listing for a glimpse of what’s to come)
DEDICATION(S): To everyone who read the first version for their support and enthusiasm, to the Fantastic Five ( @zeronoa, @dreamychaos, @herrvarg, @litfiva and @hoopsadoozle) for their support which meant so very much to me back then and still does, and to 2012!me, who needed to write this fic a lot.
NOTE(S): This one’s going to be long, feel free to skip ;)
So back in march 2012, I saw this fanart by @ladynorthstar, and wrote the first version of this chapter on impulse, to exorcize some of my own issues. Then, because I couldn’t bear to leave things there, I started writing what followed, and SEADLA was born.
A little over a year later, after twenty chapters and overwhelming responses, I let go of the fic out of a combination of anxiety, fatigue and simply not knowing how to deal with Tony’s emotional development. I never really liked leaving things as they were, and the fact that even three years later I still occasionally get positive comments on this unfinished story kept nagging at me–I kept wanting to pick the story up and finish it, but the difference in quality grated too much for me to just get back into the original trail.
So now here I am, with SEADLA 2.0, and the firm intention to finish the story as it was started. As far as I’m concerned, I intend this to be an update in writing style more than a reworking of the story: I know there are problematic aspects with how it plays out, but I’m not here to correct them.
Still, maybe it’ll interest some of you, in which case you can look for updates on the first monday or the following 24 (ish) months. The AO3 version of this fic will also be updated as I publish chapters on Tumblr, btw.
Here’s to making things better and keeping deadlines ;)
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