Are You Afraid of Musicals?

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Hey, Zundeer here. I'm a person that doesn't like and usually avoids any kind of conflict so I hate to be doing this, but I think that it's important that I say a few things.

This fanfic started because I saw a Dabby edit on TikTok before this ship was even a thing and some girl (thanks to her from here), encouraged me in the comments to make a fanfic inspired on it.

So I asked for permission to Artemis, the creator of the edit, before doing anything and when she told me that she was ok with it, I started writing AYAOM. (Always giving credits).

So yes, I took inspiration from that series of TikToks for the ship (exclusively for the ship and four chapters), but this story and these characters are mine. And with "this story is mine and these characters are mine" I mean that I'm writing this story alone, so if any of the plot points or character's actions/decisions make you uncomfortable, or concern you or you think something's "inappropriate", it's 100% my making and you should come and ask for an explanation only to me.

Every decision the characters make is my fault, everything that happens plot wise is my fault and every difference between the character's personality in AYAOM compared with their canon one it's my fault. I have my own headcanons for these characters and I also found funny to try and mix their personalities with other characters the girls play (for example Gabby has many personality traces that Chloe and Maryanne have), so it's normal if my headcanons are different from yours and that's completely ok. We all see the characters differently so something you might think is "off character" maybe in my story and with the explanation I give, it makes sense.

And that brings me to the matter that's making me do this because I want to clarify again that no, Dani didn't SA'd Gabby back in chapter 4. That specific scene is narrated on Dani's pov so we don't really know what Gabby's thinking, but there are tons of hints that suggest that Gabby wants what's happening. Hints like when she kisses Dani back, when she tilts her head to the side to give Dani more space to work with, when she wraps her arms around Dani's neck, etc.

You can actually see the big differences when the guy kisses Gabby at the party in chapter 5.6. She freezes at the beginning just like that time with Dani, but then she tries to stop him and pushes him back, and with Dani, Gabby did nothing to stop her because she wanted it to happen.

I know I'm probably talking to a wall because the people that should be reading this probably stopped reading the story in chapter 4, because this plot point it's been very important for Dani's character development and I addressed it multiple times. Probably they didn't bother to read the next chapter where Gabby explains how she feels, or any of the many comments I left explaining the situation to the ones that were misinterpreting it, or the authors note when I explained it again.

By this point we all saw multiple times how both Gabby and Dani feel about it, so whoever was complaining about this should know that Dani didn't SA'd Gabby. But even if I know that they're probably not reading, I think that it's important to clarify it again, just in case there's someone else that didn't point it out but still has doubts.

So as I said, if anyone has any concerns about the story or the characters you can always put a comment or contact me and I'll have no problem on answering your questions or give you an explanation. But I must ask you to do not go and bother anyone else, or ask anyone else to call me out on something that didn't even happen.

I think we're all mature enough to be able to talk things through directly, so there's no need to go and bother someone that has nothing to do with the decisions I make when writing this story. So as I said, if you have any concerns or questions or want an explanation about something, I encourage you to contact me and really, I'll have no problem on talking to any of you.

I could say a couple of things more but this... situation, pissed me off more than it should've and I simply don't want to give it more importance than it actually has or make any drastic decision that would not be fair for the rest of you.

I think that I've always been very polite and respectful when interacting with all of you, so I just ask for you to treat people how you would like to be treated and if you have any problem, concern or want an explanation, I believe that with communication almost everything can be fixed, so don't doubt to contact me.

I'm sorry for the ones that were excited to read a new chapter and found themselves reading this instead, but I really thought that clarifying this was necessary.

As always thank you all for the love you give to the story, the comments, the votes and the reads, and a special thank you for the ones that read this message till the end even when they know that it wasn't meant for them.

See you on the next update 🫶🏼.