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Chapter 3: not an update just a question

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hello sorry this isn’t an update…but i do have a question. i know i don’t respond to all of your comments, and to be honest it’s a little overwhelming the sheer amount of people who’ve read this fic. this is my most popular fic by a very large margin (the next popular one has 300 kudos, for perspective), but i want you to know i see and appreciate every single ounce of feedback that i get, even if i forget to respond to you. 

i’ve been reading all of your comments, and got to thinking. i have like 5 other drafts of steve centric fics that i’m working on right now that i was originally going to publish under my regular account, but i was wondering if you’d be more interested in me making this work part of a series instead ?? they wouldn’t really be connected like narratively, but i’ve seen some comments about wishing this fic was longer, and while i don’t have anymore plans for this work specifically, i do have plans of other works. also that way, you know they’re being published by the same person since i originally published this anonymously. 

i’ll make a list of all my current WIPs and a short synopsis so you can see if you’re interested :) 

cigarette, daydream (you were only seventeen) current word count: 245 words – insight on steve’s home life and overall mental health from dustin’s perspective. probable one shot. started pre volume 2 release.

dear steve (title subject to change) current word count: 1014 words – steve died fighting vecna, max reads him the letter she wrote at his grave. started pre volume 2 release, also a one shot.

no alarms and no surprises, please current word count: 944 – another steve death fic because i hate myself. mostly dustin and steve centric. also started pre volume 2 release. probable one shot.

did you get enough love (my little dove) current word count: 91 words – steve and robin (PLATONIC !!!) centric. heavily focused on his academic insecurity and self sacrificial tendencies. probable one shot. 

untitled current word count: 191 words – steve still has eddie’s best after eddie dies and goes to return it to his uncle, and they talk about eddie. one shot. 

you’ve got a beautiful brain (but it’s disintegrating) current word count: 22 words lol – max and steve centric. focuses on steve’s guilt for not being there to protect her while she’s in the hospital. probable one shot, possibility for a multi chapter fic. 

those are all my WIPs for now, but if you’re interested in them and want me to put them all in a series instead of publishing individually and disconnected, please tell me !! thank you again for all of the amazing feedback and encouraging comments. i appreciate all of them so much :))) 

i’ll probably delete this chapter in a few days because i don’t want people to get excited about a third chapter only to be disappointed by this author’s note. i usually don’t do author’s notes like this because i understand how frustrating it can be lol. so, in a couple days this will probably be gone. 

Notes:

EDIT: i am working on a second chapter !! i did start back at my summer job that i work when i’m not at school this week so it’s taking a little longer than i would have liked, but it’s a work in progress. i’ve got like almost 2k words down so we’re almost there.

i may or may not write a second chapter to this. we’ll see what happens. i left it open ended in cases i decided i wanted to delve into the aftermath of his encounter with vecna, and in case anyone else was interested in that.

steve has like…a lot of unaddressed trauma that i really wish the show would go into. i mean, the man was tortured by literal soldiers and drugged and you expect me to believe the man walked away without any kind of ptsd ??? no shot. i wrote it because obviously vecna goes after people with past trauma, and as much as the writers want me to think he has none, we all know that’s not true.

i kinda lost the plot halfway through. i was trying to figure out a way to tie all of this in together, and it ended up being really difficult. i tried my best, but yknow. i didn’t touch in everything i wanted to, but this was the best i could get it without making it too confusing.

praying for steve’s safe return in volume 2🙏🏼

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