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I was listening to Staying still by Noah Kahan today and the chorus is so Beth and Leigh coded for the last few chapters

worst week(s) ever with work but maybe chapter forty two gets posted sooner than planned? and I get caught up with reading!! Carolina by Taylor Swift is on repeat non stop & a third of it has been written!! 
          
          

updated civilians playlist for chapters 31-40
          
          Fable - Gigi perez 
          Mirror- the last dinner party
          Hand me downs - Florence road 
          Kingdom come - the civil wars
          Skinny love - bon iver
          That white cat - Mitski 
          Alleycat- Mumford and sons
          Kill me - Hayley Williams 
          Gimme sympathy - metric
          Willing and able - Noah Kahan

chapter of civilians took forever but we're getting super poetic because what do you mean Abraham & Leigh and Daryl & Glenn are taking field trips together and Negan is fast approaching the story?!
          
          I know Becca Ford is supposed to be dead according to the show, but I like the idea of her floating around somewhere and surviving and maybe showing up in the eventual dead city part of the sequel 
          
          also chapter notes--
          -cedar wardrobe referenced back in chapter thirty with the infamous rose dishes which actually will appear again for the plot
          -chapter 35 was soft launching this idea about going home with Leigh unsure if she left the door open or shut to her bedroom, what colour the carpet was
          -and chapter three for the reference of letters that Leigh's grandmother never sent out BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS.

really big civilians chapter going up tomorrow!!  it took forever to write but there is a little piece that connects back a bit of fever dialogue in chapter three <3

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kind of want to do a section of bonus chapters that don't fit in with civilians? like I wrote a whole chapter for Beth's POV at the hospital when she meets Leigh for the first time and kind of love it. (I'd call it uncivilized because I think that's low key kind of funny)-- nothing essential to civilians, but general stuff that didn't fit the storyline or what-ifs

I'm almost done with the new chapter-- I've been working towards a whole section of storyline which is Leigh straight up not eating meat and having a restrictive eating disorder which she does recover from-- just a heads up going into that section of the plot!! I've been hinting about it for a long time but we're properly rolling with it from here on out

merry early Christmas !! thank you for all the support with the rewrite of broken claims this year <3 I've always wanted to try fresh with Leigh's character and civilians has been very fun for me to play with -- I promise really fun plot lines and a really fun sequel and happy endings for almost everyone <3
          
          also playlist update : 
          second chances - Gregory Alan isakov 
          river and roads - the head and the heart 
          the chain - Fleetwood Mac 
          break the girl - Florence road 
          killer - Phoebe bridgers 
          Paul revere - noah kahan 
          bitter medicine - the crane wives 
          a memory away - matt maseon 
          mirrorball - Taylor Swift 
          darkish - sharon van etten 
          I will be back one day - lord huron

been MIA for a brief minute- got sick once, got sick twice, learned that I can no longer take cold and flu medication since I started reacting badly to a common ingredient in it, took a tiny detour with my best friend, and had to work?? crazy times. but I am * so close * to finishing the next chapter of civilians and hope it’ll be up Saturday. this one is extra exciting because it features a different POV, something I’ll be sprinkling around this story. pls play mirrorball on repeat because that’s the vibe.