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Just posted the last rewritten chapter! The next one is gonna be complete new! None of you have read the next one yet! So excited to pick up right where we left off!
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Hello! New update for The Guy On The Chiefs includes a new scene right at the beginning of the chapter!
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No one asked for it, but here is the new Maroon Summary:
The world thinks it knows her story. It has always believed it does. It has loved tracing her life in lyrics, in fragments of confession set to melody.
But there is a night that resists interpretation. One night in New York, where everything quietly tilted.
Three presences, like currents pulling in different directions.
One that burned bright enough to feel like freedom.
One that softened into something like safety and shelter from the noise.
And one that arrived without announcement, untranslated, immediate, light and true.
She did not choose so much as drift between them. And still, she has spent years calling it a choice.
What remains is not the night itself, but its afterimage. The way certain lives narrow into the shape of what they could survive. The way other possibilities do not vanish, only recede, becoming quieter, not weaker.
The way memory rearranges itself to keep going.
Years later, when her world begins to fray at the edges, and her relationship finally fractures, it is not the present that feels uncertain. It is the past. Returning not as revelation, but as echo. Not as truth, but as something unfinished.
Because some moments do not resolve. They linger in the architecture of everything that follows.
Some choices do not conclude. They continue, quietly, underneath what comes after.
And some nights, once lived, do not stay in the past at all. They become morning, taking on the shape of something new.
Maroon is the shape of a memory that was too good to forget.
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@idunnooooolollll82 @idunnooooolollll82 if it helps understand it... I have changed the timeline... It's now 2016 (flashbacks) - 2023 (current timeline). The night in NY is May 2nd, 2016. An iconic reference in the Swiftverse — the MET Gala!
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idunnooooolollll82
I’m not smart enough to comprehend the summary BUT IM STILL VERY EXCITED FOR THIS!!!!! I just know it’s going to be amazing
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alchemypoet
One week into my publishing hiatus and I have already completely changed the entire context for "Maroon". That summary I shared is now obsolete. Gotta rewrite the entire outline, but... I think this version is gonna be a lot messier and a lot more interesting! I'm excited!
Should I share another summary when I have it, orrrr do we want to be surprised?
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Hello again!
I just posted a new chapter for The Guy On The Chiefs!
Just like for last chapter, this one also includes some previously unseen scenes! Hope you like it!
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Hello everyone! Happy Easter to all those who celebrate it!
I just posted a new chapter for The Guy On The Chiefs!
As you know, I have been reposting re-edited chapters... For the most part, the chapters are the same as before, but this one has a lot of new scenes! Even if you read The Guy On The Chiefs before the rewrites, you might want to check this one out!
Hope you like it!
newromantics_23
HAPPY BDAYYYY! I hope u have a wonderful day <3 just wanted to say I’ve been reading “guy on the chiefs” on AO3 and I love it soooooo much :D your writing is so good!!
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For all the interested…
Here is the summary for Maroon:
The world thinks it knows her story. After all, Taylor is a master at turning it into songs. But there is one night she has never written about.
One reckless Halloween party. One secret she chose to carry alone.
For five years she’s protected that secret from the world that watches her every move.
Until the night a small red-haired girl disappears backstage during her sold-out stadium show.
And the man who brings her back is the one person who was never supposed to find her.
He doesn’t know who the child is. Not yet.
But when an unexpected crisis forces them together, the truth she buried years ago begins to unravel, along with everything she thought she understood about love, forgiveness, and the life she built around a secret.
Some stories become songs.
Others are too complicated to sing about.
Maroon is the one she never told.
Anyway… Let me know if this is a story you’d be willing to read. I will happily share it with you if so!
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@idunnooooolollll82 I’m soooo excited too!! I love it when I’m this excited for a story! I think it will be very different from everything I have written before.
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Finished the outline for “Maroon”. We officially have a summary and settled on a total of 64 scenes (aka 64 chapters) + an epilogue!
The goal for this fic is to have shorter chapters (max 8k) and to post it frequently once I have most of it written.
Would you like a summary as a preview or do you want to be surprised by the first chapter?
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Was supposed to be planning a sequel for The Guy On The Chiefs, got sidetracked and planned a whole new fic instead.
Anyway... You should hear more about "Maroon" in a few months...
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@anideaofsorts I have a draft of a summary but it’s something still pretty rough, I can totally share a summary later. But I can tell you it’s very different from The Guy On The Chiefs. It is told in two timelines. Present timeline will be in 2018, around the reputation tour, and the flashbacks timeline will be set around 2012/13 after the release of Red.
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@TayvisWriterE9 I’m sooo excited to share! I just want to write it all in one go!
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