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[alexseanchai]

A conundrum, o writerly friends!

Suppose scenes taking place at the same time, both in a social media setting. One character is flipping between channels or tabs or apps or whatever in order to participate in both scenes. How does one track what's going on from that character's perspective, in chronological order, without cluttering the story with mentions of changing tabs?

I'm kind of thinking for AO3 purposes I might left-align one convo and right-align the other, but frankly that'll be ugly...

—say. Does AO3 do columns?

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[alexseanchai]

Well, as originally outlined Adrien's fanclub classmate #3 got the dubious honor of being turned into the villain-du-jour for the midpoint fireworks. My protags p much only encounter her at school. But since I changed the circumstances of the gala, I am not sure who gets to be midpoint fireworks anymore, other than minor-character-not-otherwise-specified.

Also as originally outlined, Adrien's health was made an issue of during the school day, but you may notice in chapter two that he falls over three times, is too tired to stand at least once, and has an upset stomach, which is possibly overkill on the plot-related health front! Also if enough of an issue is made of it to send him to the nurse over, then Nathalie and the bodyguard (whose actual name isn't canonical, I presume; everyone just calls him the Gorilla), if not also Gabriel, will find out. Which is a complication I may want for word count but do not need for plot purposes.

And it would be comedic to describe Adrien and Marinette's classmates reacting to the very changed-from-canon[-through-"Frozer"] dynamic these two have, but I may have slightly overkilled that in chapter two too? But also Alya and Nino's plot starts "...okay, wtf happened while I wasn't looking?" so I may want to show that Alya and Nino are legit not the only ones noticing? idk?

(I'm counting this whole comment towards words btw)