Hiya lovelies!! I hope all of you are doing well :)
I’m gonna be real with y’all… I dunno if the next update will be done by May 4th, but if there’s one thing I am, it is a stubborn grinder (if I don’t finish it, I’ll make another announcement, but my semester’s almost done). Chapter 32 got away from me. A lot. But I am having so much fun writing it. I’ve been lowkey ranty on the VTLL blog on Tumblr, but I think it’s funny looking through the #Chapter 32 tag AHAHA.
I started sort of writing it on February 21, 2025, and it’s just snowballed from there. It’s been nearly two months since I've been thinking about it, and I’m so excited for it to be complete. I think it’s going in a good direction so far!!
Anyway, the reason for this announcement is to give y’all a heads up about my scheduling. Chapter 32’s shaping up to be a Lotor short fic, and I don’t want to rush it and cut things out of my outline. My target was 10k-ish words, but it’s at about 30k right now. I’ll try to cap it at 50k max, cause that’s too much (and I also don’t think I can write *that* many words). The thing is that *technically*, I haven’t finished with my outlined scenes, so I have no idea what a reasonable target word count is.
Hopefully, no one will get reading fatigue with everything going on. I’m gonna have “chapters” within the chapter, so you can take breaks. :) I don’t want it to be overwhelming.
There’s probably too much I’m doing for Chapter 32, but I love talking. We’ve got an analysis, q&a headcanons, and an ao3 exclusive scene (I’ll explain this in the update) that’ll all be uploaded on the VTLL Tumblr/linked in the comments here.
If anyone has anything specific they want to learn about Lotor, (Y/N), or something else in Chapter 32, feel free to let me know here or send an ask to the VTLL blog :)
here’s an extremely brief outline:
-Lotor’s birth/VTLL lore
-cute sibling fluff
-growing up
-VLD canon snippets from episodes
-lots more stuff that I want to leave as a surprise