TheBestWall

Three months later and the newest chapter of Missing Link is up! I'd say I'm sorry for the wait but this absolute BEAST of a chapter ended up being over 6,000 words so I feel like the time it took me to get it out is valid.
          	
          	Also I would like the record to show that I have been planning a Naturals Christmas chapter for the past THREE YEARS. So take that JLB. I know your next book is gonna slap, but in a much more real sense it was my idea first.

TheBestWall

Three months later and the newest chapter of Missing Link is up! I'd say I'm sorry for the wait but this absolute BEAST of a chapter ended up being over 6,000 words so I feel like the time it took me to get it out is valid.
          
          Also I would like the record to show that I have been planning a Naturals Christmas chapter for the past THREE YEARS. So take that JLB. I know your next book is gonna slap, but in a much more real sense it was my idea first.

TheBestWall

I know I've been saying it for months, but I swear the next chapter of Missing Link is coming soon. Brace yourselves for chaos, happiness, and all around vibes. It looks like it's gonna be an early Christmas!!!

PhoenixHiraeth

as someone who has read about 80% of this next chapter I am SOOOO EXCITED
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TheBestWall

I don’t think yall understand how inspired I am to write the Briggs poisoning scene from Veronica’s pov right now …  let’s just say EVIL ideas are going through my head and yall are gonna love it /should quite possibly be a little scared

Emily_V_

@ TheBestWall  let's go I love angst
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TheBestWall

@Gracelovesgreys we’re not gonna get it for a while though because it’ll be the actual chapter from my book  but when it does eventually get published it’s gonna be so goodddddddd
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Gracelovesgreys

@TheBestWall I feel like I need that so, so bad tho…
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TheBestWall

Just learned that the Naturals series is called the Cold Case Academy in other countries/languages and that's literally like the cutest thing ever stop.

elzbthyng

@TheBestWall in Brazil it's called that! It's funny to discover it's different in other places, I never imagined it was called "the natural" until I researched it. But "Academia dos Casos Arquivados" is too long a title. 
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TheBestWall

Anyone else lowkey dissappointed in the Guilded Blade book??? Like it felt like I was reading a mesh of All In and Bad Blood but instead of reading it from Cassie's POV and getting to see her getting kidnapped and everything that's going down we're just hearing about it from like Agent Starman's POV. It was weird. Like if that's how that book was I'm lowkey worried about what she's gonna do with the new Naturals book ...

ginnyweasleeyiscool

@TheBestWall ikkkkk  but i still wanted her povvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
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TheBestWall

@ginnyweasleeyiscool TEA I did not hear that. But honestly I’m ok with that because I’m worried getting the other characters POV’s wouldn’t be as good. Besides I feel like the end of Bad Blood makes Cassie and Veronica similar enough that the two of them will be going through similar things and we’ll still get some second hand Sterling angst through Cassie’s pov
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ginnyweasleeyiscool

@TheBestWall have u heard? only cassie pov in dangerous impulses. Bye bye striggs dreams, u were magnificent while u lasted
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TheBestWall

5,290 words later, it is finished. Go read "On the Topic of Tax Evasion" now up on my profile (and maybe go check out the new sexy book covers on my books???)

silvermoon34

Ahhhh it’s up! And those covers are awesome! 
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PhoenixHiraeth

Girl these covers are insane???
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silvermoon34

BTW this is for you @TheBestWall! ❤️
          
          I wrote this quickly so it’s a little on the shorter side, but I hope you like it!

silvermoon34

@TheBestWall Don’t worry and there’s no rush on reading it!! It’s about Thea babysitting the twins (post Twelve) by herself for the first time and I decided to add in Ronnie’s POV at the end 
            
            Again, no worries! I know how crazy life can get and mine is about to get insane as well as I’m moving and heading off to grad school next month so I have to take care of packing very soon. I’ve been having more free time and been really inspired lately, so I’ve been on a writing streak and posting a whole bunch of short one-shot chapters.
            
            Your one-shot is AMAZING!!! This morning, I saw that you posted it and I had to read it as soon as I could 
            (You might have gotten a lot of notifications based on the number of comments I left )
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TheBestWall

@silvermoon34 oh my gosh I feel so honored! I promise I will read it (and the new chapters of your other book) soon. Life has been literally insane lately and is gonna be crazy these upcoming weeks so I haven’t really had time to read stuff. Not to mention the fact that that one shot I was writing literally took up my entire brain and refused to let me think about anything else till I finished it rip
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silvermoon34

archiveofourown . org/works/87059606/chapters/236000666
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TheBestWall

Hey gang! I swear I haven't fogotten about you guys; the next chapter of Missing Link is currently several thousand words and counting. In the mean time though, hypothetically speaking if I were to publish a Naturals/Inheritances Games onshot on here how many of you would read it?

TheBestWall

He's getting longer by the seconds gang *sobs* My hypothetical is already over 5000 words long. This is taking over my life
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TheBestWall

Current obsession: Briggs and Sterling post Bad Blood.
          
           And I’m not talking, like them falling back in love (which I love obviously) but I’m talking the FBI giving them HELL because of their relationship with the Director. Like give me both of them getting put on probation and on the verge of losing their jobs simply because they were close to him. Give me people looking at Veronica and only seeing her father and Veronica herself downward spiraling because when SHE looks at herself she only sees her father. Like I know Briggs becomes the director of the FBI in cannon but like COME ON, there’s no way that would’ve actually happened right away. Briggs was way too close to the Director. Not to mention the fact that he worked off the record WITH THE DIRECTOR to create the Naturals program??? Like you can’t tell me that the whole Naturals program itself didn’t go through fire right after the whole thing came out. Like give me the drama. Give me Briggs and Sterling having to fight for their lives being all “we were the team that TOOK HIM DOWN” and yet people still don’t trust them like BRO the POTENTIAL.

TheBestWall

@applebotton_jeans Anyways thank your for that that was amazing
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TheBestWall

@applebotton_jeans OH MY GOSH THANK YOU. Literally YES to everything you said. And I didn't even THINK about the whole Lacey Locke thing. Like that is now TWO serial killers that Briggs has worked closely with. NO WAY was this man the first pick for the new Director. Also you're so right he's literally 30. ALSO is that even the job he would want??? Like I feel like Briggs thrives as a field agent. And yes he's ambitious, but Director of the FBI feels like more of a politial desk job role then what Briggs would actually want. It totaly feels like JLB just threw that line in there at the end to be like "oh look, everything is better now!" but like NO GIVE ME THE ANGST. Which is why I'm partially glad that she's giving us a new book that takes place after Bad Blood but I have a feeling that she's not actually gonna go into any of that despite the fact that there's SO MUCH POTENTIAL there. Also your whole thing about Briggs and Sterling getting put on different teams and the kids getting new supervisors literally just CHANGED MY LIFE. Like if I ever get that far in my book I would LOVE to go into a whole post Bad Blood pre Dangerous Impulses (assuming that the new book does not have any of this angst in it) that just goes into that whole thing. Like can you imagine post-everything Felicity who things should finally start going right for only for both of her parents (who now actually want to work together that's big for them) getting separated and then the kids get new agent supervisors who just want to shut down the program???? AHHHHHHH I can feel the inspo flowing (but also that was totally your idea so I wont steal it without your permission). AND LITERALLY. I have like a whole pre Bad Blood AU planned for my book that just goes more into Briggs, Sterling, Felicity and Judd coping with A) Nightshade is finally captured, and B) Briggs almost died??? Let's unpack that, give him some healing. I hate how glazed over that whole scene at the end of All In is.
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applebotton_jeans

@ TheBestWall  Oh my god, YES! Briggs and his team must have already been going through hell after Locke (I mean they worked with a serial killer for YEARS) and then their new old addition was the daughter of one. You cannot tell me the whole FBI wasn't really suspicious of the whole Team for ages after the director. I mean they must have gone through evaluation after evaluation. And tbh the team would have probably been dissolved and the members integrated into other teams. Give me Briggs and Sterling really struggling to prove themselves with new people who won't accept them no matter what, the naturals dealing with a new team in charge who evaluate their right to exist all over again (but harsher than Sterling in TN 2), give me Briggs and Sterling fighting to get their kids back before their mental health gets dismantled completely but without losing their jobs. 
            (Also to Briggs becoming director right away: that man was around thirty. There is no way, and I love him but I'm talking NO WAY that he was the most qualified. The man worked with a serial killer, was probably in a relationship with her and went behind the FBIs back to consult CHILDREN on murder cases. I mean it's a closure for the story I guess, but I'm really sad that jlb doesn't really follow up with consequences to the stuff that happenes in her books (like whatever happens to Briggs full but LONG recovery after All In? And the next book he's just fine?? Eh))
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TheBestWall

No one:
          Absolutely no one:
          Me: *blasting Christmas music in my appartment and dancing around trying to get inspiration for my next chapter* WE'RE ROCKING AROUND, THE CHRISTMAS TREE!!!!!!

silvermoon34

NOT JUDD’S FUNERAL 
            (I literally would not be able to handle it if Judd or any of the others died in the books)
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TheBestWall

@silvermoon34 STOP THAT SONG HURTS. Also How Do I Say Goodbye by Dean Lewis KILLS ME. (Maybe just because it makes me picture the Naturals at Judd’s funeral but STILL)
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silvermoon34

@TheBestWall My go to 'sad chapter' song is The One That Got Away by Katy Perry and I always know I'm going to start SOBBING halfway through writing it. I have a mix of different 'happier' songs, but that song makes me cry EVERY TIME (especially when the song matches the characters/story too well)
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