NO. KJ WHY DID YOU RE-…
Wait, evil. Right.
I’m behind on my evil quota this year. You understand, right? :D?
I AM waiting till you try for Misconduct again! HOW DID YOU KNOW?
Also, FUNNY STORY ABOUT THAT. After watching you time-alter your way into an entire AU whose most obvious natural endpoint is ‘when they retire,’ I promptly learned nothing from your example and went off and did the exact same thing! o/
*stares at Man Who Sold the World*
You know, we could make anything we wanted happen in an AU. Probably the thing to do is, “Oh, look at this completely unexpected thing that came out of left field and has now derailed their tale into something that goes in a direction I can actually manage!”
I don’t think of it as ‘learning nothing’ as it clearly being an excellent idea and following suit! Just think, we can rewrite entire futures and histories just by not turning left. Not knowing when or how to stop is just all part of the fun, right >_> Though probably the further you go you’ll at least find a nice…resting point… to just park your fic and let everyone else just imagine the rest. (Or yes, Unexpected Things do happen. Huhuhuhu.)
It’s true that it was partially born of my great admiration and desire to emulate you! And I thought to myself (I really did!), “Misconduct was great! I’d love to do a story like that. But remember that trouble KJ had with the plot…I’d better avoid that. But the warning sign is RIGHT THERE! Surely it will be barely any effort at all to avoid that pitfall!”
And then about six chapters in, I realized I had sunk into the invisible fens of plotting before I’d even noticed—and oh that dream I had a little while back about my dad driving my car into a swamp suddenly makes more sense—and I am holding you to that ‘resting point’ thing! Or maybe I I just need to have somebody shot.
(This actually all happened because I loved the idea of writing a story where the characters went back in time and collided with the way they’d changed and outgrown their past lives, and got to dink around in each other’s powerful shaping backstories and…I sort of forgot to factor in the bit where the external world continues to roll along based on our actions regardless of whether we’d like it to or not. OOPS.)