The Doonkelberry Revolution
Author's Foreword
It has been nearly four years since I posted my first P&F fanfic here. Well, you know what they say: Time flies when you're having fun. I've never done a separate foreword for a story before, but this sprawling mess needs it, so…
Here's what is about to happen. "The Doonkelberry Revolution" is going to be a series of stories that all fit together in a sequence, covering events during the course of the year that began with "On the Edge of an Unspoiled Universe." That story was a big reminder to me of why I don't like to start posting multi-chapter fics I haven't already finished writing, since it ended up hanging out there incomplete for a ridiculous amount of time. Every segment of this project is done, and I will be posting one story or chapter at a time in installments no more than a week apart. My plan is to post an installment every Friday night.
If you've been following my "Candace arc," you are in the right place. If you haven't read "Candy Cane Christmas," you might want to do that first, and you really really seriously need to read "On the Edge of an Unspoiled Universe" before you start this. Honestly, "Universe" should have been the first several installments of this, but I didn't want to take it down and move it. I DID move "The New Kid," which will show up in this sequence in due time. Arguably, I could have moved "Dinner Date" under this umbrella, too, but I didn't want to. I will, however, be back to nag you about reading "Dinner Date" when I get to the appropriate point in this series. "Ten Dollars" takes place early in this same year, but the only relevant point in that is the fact that Phineas is not around for any of the events that follow "Unspoiled Universe."
Now is a good time for me to throw out a disclaimer: As much as I like storytelling – mapping out general arcs of what happens to people – plot has never been my strong suit. I've had the basic main ideas of this for a long time, but I've fought the plotting of this every step of the way, and I'm sure it has more holes than the proverbial piece of Swiss cheese. Just keep telling yourself, "It's only a cartoon." On the positive side, I've had a lot of fun using some (literally) one-shot characters from the series. Hopefully you've seen the right P&F episodes to recognize them when they show up.
Now is also a good time to remind everyone that my head-canon long predates the last episodes of P&F, so certain things (in particular, Heinz Doofenshmirtz still Doing Evil at this point) are not in line with the eventual series canon.
Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh own most of the characters, but I'm the one mangling them here.
And away we go…