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everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 4h

oh my gooood this looks so fun!!

everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 1d

💜💜💜

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everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy!! 💜

everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 1d

This one happens to have *plenty* of that!

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everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 1d

but I can't help how wonderful life is when you're in the world

🎾 Chapter 7: Duty
🎾 Ft. big sister June, Wimbledon shenanigans, and a shocking revelation at the DNC.
🎾 Soundtrack: Nowhere Man by The Beatles

🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/598072...

Fic banner featuring the title: "but I can’t help how wonderful life is when you’re in the world". Above the title are two photos from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The left photo is of the Renaissance City Gallery which Alex and Henry visit in the book. The right photo is of a different sculpture gallery at the museum where they filmed that scene for the movie. The photos are placed side by side and cropped so that the base of two statues in the respective locations align seamlessly in the middle.

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everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 2d

I hope you end up enjoying it!! 💜 I'm very psyched that I get to post it so soon

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everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 2d

that was really the idea! I wanted to find sort of a new direction for it, and the whole 'five years later' thing just made sense. plus, it's theoretically possible for me to do this *again* in another five years - or in two years, or one year. anything's possible! 🤯

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everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 2d

thank you!! 💜 I'm very excited about it!

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everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 2d

In the meantime, here's 'If you feel the way I do' for anyone who'd like to do the reading in advance:

archiveofourown.org/works/27137801

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everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a fun side-by-side of the opening of each fic, which is the only part where I've reused some writing. Incidentally, this excerpt also makes up the summaries.

‘FEELING SOME KIND OF WAY ABOUT YOU’ is coming to AO3 on October 21st, exactly five years after the original. Mark your calendars. ♡

'If you feel the way I do'

It's apparently true, what they say about soulmates. Once your sixteenth birthday has passed and you find yourself in their presence, close enough for your soulbond to come alive, you'll be able to feel it. You'll simply know.

Henry knows, all right.

He opens his eyes, his heart beating madly in his chest as he looks across the cafeteria. His gaze is drawn to a presence that he can feel so completely, now, almost like it's become part of himself, like a piece he's been missing. He blinks, slowly, as he meets the wide eyes of another boy.

It's Alex Claremont-Diaz.

Henry's breath hitches. Fuck. Oh, fuck.

$'Feeling some kind of way about you' It's apparently true, what they say about soulmates. Once your twenty-first birthday has passed and you find yourself in their presence, close enough for your soulbond to come alive, you'll be able to feel it. You'll simply know. Henry knows, all right. He opens his eyes, heart racing as he turns his head a fraction to the right. There, across the crowded living-room, is a man. Someone whose presence Henry can now sense without even looking. But God, does he want to look. He blinks slowly as he takes in a startlingly familiar face. It’s Alex Claremont-Diaz. Fuck. Not him.$

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everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 2d

The new fic is set in the same alternate universe as the original, but Alex and Henry don't meet until five years later. Instead of a high school AU, it's a college AU—and this time, happily-ever-after is more of a challenge. Sometimes, first impressions can be very hard to overcome.

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everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 2d

This year, I've rewritten that soulmate concept. It’s not an edited version of the original, but a whole new fic—a reboot, essentially. You know how fanartists sometimes redraw their old fanart in their current style? I wanted to do that, but with fic.

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everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 2d

‘If you feel the way I do’ was my first RWRB fic, a soulmate AU where soulmates are connected by a bond that allows them to feel each other's feelings. At the time, I obviously had no idea what a beautiful part of my life RWRB was about to become. I sure have a lot of feelings about that now. ♡

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everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 2d

Five years ago, I wrote a fic.

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everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 3d

for sure!! it sounds fantastic!

everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 4d

you're SO right, what was I thinking:

archiveofourown.org/works/72046996

(shibari kinktober fic by @anincompletelist.bsky.social!!!!!)

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everwitch 🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @everwitch.bsky.social · 4d

when the fic is so good that you'll settle for nothing less than getting on the first page of comments because your love for it cannot be rivaled actually