"That Looks Kind Of Like A Friend Of Mine Is It A Bear?"

"That looks kind of like a friend of mine – is it a bear?"

There was something you were hiding, on the night you ran away.

Was wishing there was a positivity post for original fiction writers since I see so many about how fanfic writers are doing so much for their communities even when they're not actively writing, and then I thought:

Be the change you want to see in the world.

So this is a positivity post for the writers out here who are working very hard on stories with no established community. Who can't talk about their blorbos and plot lines and brainstorming to anyone and expect them to know what any of it means. Who don't have much to share publicly, but are hoping they will one day.

You're doing a lot of hard work, and I recognize and appreciate what you're putting into the world, even when you're resting.

I literally hate getting wet 99.9% of the time but today was a weird day so I biked in the rain. 10/10 would recommend. Don't know what it was about intentionally getting soaked, but great vibes, really.

In other news the next installment of Werewoof Undies is set to post tomorrow. I'm overly excited about that.

So I finished the first round of editing on the first book of my WIP trilogy. Absolutely relieved it's over - now on to the next thing! The second round of editing. So that's great.

Inseparable Duos

My current project is one I have been working on for years now, and though it's kind of large and deals with a lot of things and has a lot of themes and consistencies, one that I have been thinking a lot about recently is the concept of 'inseparable duos'. These are pairs of people who are so close that, no matter what happens, you assume they will still be together. On example in pop culture is Lorelai and Rory, in Gilmore Girls. They might have fights, they might not talk, but you know the whole time that they will make up - the characters in the show also assume they will make up. They're properly inseparable, after all. I've also seen Crowley and Aziraphale put into this category.

Some of this is genre specific, as well. A lighthearted story is more likely to support an inseparable duo, but a darker story that shows death and separation of families, etc. requires more character intentionality or interventions of fate for a duo to stay together. As an example on the lighthearted end, my story "Werewoof Undies" has a sort of variant of the 'inseparable duo' (the inseparable trio) in Max, Jake, and Ethan. They'll stick together no matter what - they're inseparable.

On the darker end of things, the protagonists of my current project (a trilogy that's almost to the editing stage) each book has a pair of protagonists that are an inseparable duo. The themes in the trilogy are darker and the events get to be grim, so there is threat of things like death separating a duo, but these duos are, by nature, inseparable. They won't let anything separate them, not even death.

Does anyone have any other examples of this, either in your own work or in pop culture? People who aren't just around each other for convenience or unless something comes between them, but two people (or more) that cannot be separated, no matter what?