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Progress Report - Avatar Backrooms
2026-10-21 05:54 pmI put this fanfic on hiatus until I drafted the next arc - and as of this post I've completed all 2nd draft chapter revisions of Arc #3. These would be chapters 21 thru 30. Yay! It's written by hand, so, the 2nds are always neater than the 1sts. Gosh 1st drafts are simply atrocious aren't they? I'm going to take a break to finish a project then I'm going to type. (sigh)
So what's going to happen with these chapters?
Spider needs to learn two aspects of himself that had been kept secret from him by everyone. First, everything about Pandora and Na'vis. Second, everything about the Backrooms. In this fic, the Backrooms are how people travel back and forth between worlds; the Backrooms also change their bodies into avatars able to survive those worlds. So he's got to take all of that in. And he takes it upon himself to explore the Backrooms alone. Where he makes discoveries (to say the least).
Then there's this plague that appeared at a site on Pandora that Grace & co are investigating. It may be connected to the Backrooms (we won't know for sure how this unravels until the hijinks of Arc 4 playout). But, and this was a total surprise to me ... Grace makes a friend with the na'vi version of ... PAYAKAN that I put together just for this fic.
Then there's this plot by Varang to wrestle the mangkwan clan from the usurper, Wukula; this, too, is something that won't fully resolve until Arc 5.
This is going to be a complex story, maybe the longest that I've ever written, so it takes chapters upon chapters to unravel everything properly. The editing itself is going to be monstrous. I'm not yet sure if I ought to post as I go or wait until everything is finalized. I'm vacillating but I'm also feeling like I'm jumping the gun any which way I go. Editing is going to be a nightmare just because of the additions I need to make along with the text. Ahem....
Anyway, while all of that resolves itself, I'm going to repost to DW my existing Avatar fics, one chapter per day.
So what's going to happen with these chapters?
Spider needs to learn two aspects of himself that had been kept secret from him by everyone. First, everything about Pandora and Na'vis. Second, everything about the Backrooms. In this fic, the Backrooms are how people travel back and forth between worlds; the Backrooms also change their bodies into avatars able to survive those worlds. So he's got to take all of that in. And he takes it upon himself to explore the Backrooms alone. Where he makes discoveries (to say the least).
Then there's this plague that appeared at a site on Pandora that Grace & co are investigating. It may be connected to the Backrooms (we won't know for sure how this unravels until the hijinks of Arc 4 playout). But, and this was a total surprise to me ... Grace makes a friend with the na'vi version of ... PAYAKAN that I put together just for this fic.
Then there's this plot by Varang to wrestle the mangkwan clan from the usurper, Wukula; this, too, is something that won't fully resolve until Arc 5.
This is going to be a complex story, maybe the longest that I've ever written, so it takes chapters upon chapters to unravel everything properly. The editing itself is going to be monstrous. I'm not yet sure if I ought to post as I go or wait until everything is finalized. I'm vacillating but I'm also feeling like I'm jumping the gun any which way I go. Editing is going to be a nightmare just because of the additions I need to make along with the text. Ahem....
Anyway, while all of that resolves itself, I'm going to repost to DW my existing Avatar fics, one chapter per day.
