Hello, and welcome to this chapter of React to Ships! This is a very special chapter... it will give you a behind the scenes look at A. Fan trying to write!

Bold writing and/or writing in *asterisks* indicate a behind-the-scenes look at what A. Fan thinks she needs to include. For example:

Marella: *Blushing* Um... I think you're really great too.

*Insert fangirl moment here*

Me: ASDFGHJKL! SOKEEFE! *Pterodactyl screech*

Got it?

Great! Let's get started!

*Greeting* Hello! It's been a while, hasn't it? Sorry. Even with coronavirus, I haven't really had much motivation.

Let's see... do I have anything interesting to put here? No? Okay. Time to respond to reviews!

I copy and paste the reviews, type a response, then delete the original review.

R: Ouch indeed.

Sarcasticsnark13: Ch. 64- Yes I am! That may be true, but online I can show only the good parts of myself. SO I WILL KEEP THINKING THE THOUGHTS! Thank you so much though. Ch. 65- Lol, yeah. You can? I don't think Shannon Messenger will include enough diversity to do (gasp) a PoLyAmOrUs ShIp! Yay! Obsession! Yay! Dover! Thanks again! ~A. Fan AKA Carrot!

Marina: Whatever works! Lol thanks.

Swiftheart1267: Um... thanks for sharing your opinion, I guess? Idk why this is relevant but OH WELL!

Harryscuzin: Yay! Thanks! My break may be extended! O.o The song lyric is from Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko- you should check it out! Girls/Girls/Boys is good too!

Country-Fangirl: It's not spring break. It's corona break. I'm in quarantine. i HaVe WaY tOo MuCh FrEe TiMe! That is true. Hey, did you know-

Cary Swirls: Lol thanks! Don't worry, I think the big head award belongs to Fitz. (And Keefe, though Keefe only pretends to have a big head most of the time to cover up the fact that hE hAs So MaNy SeLf-DePrIcAtInG tHoUgHtS aNd He JuSt NeEdS LoVe (from Sophie)) Sorry, didn't mean to go on a rant. Yes. Cinnamon roll. Ooh! Yay! Swan Song! FOPHEEFE! XD. I have a lot of homework, sadly. yEaH, wHaT aM i GoInG tO fOrGeT! It's been two weeks and I still remember that 1 plus 1 equals 87! *Crickets* Okay bye! : )

IStillHopeForSophex: I've actually never met any Dex fanboys (other than you). I actually don't know any KOTLC fanboys offline. Probably because there are only like three KOTLC fanpotatos in my school. Myself included. Thanks!

FlowerGirl15: Lol. GO DEX! I hope he's on the cover of Unlocked but tbh that's unlikely. (Sobs).

Great, that's it! Onto the chapter!

Enjoy!

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Me: Hey guys!

All of the characters have to "greet" me! How about we start with an insult from Wylie?

Wylie: Back so soon? I was hoping you'd take another hiatus. Maybe for... I don't know... a few hundred years?

Me: You know my life expectancy is about 100 at most, right?

Wylie: Exactly.

Me: HEY! How about the rest of you? Are you glad to see me?

You know, Tam hates me too...

Tam: No.

Me: HEY!

Tam: You asked.

Me: How about someone who doesn't hate me?

Time to bring in Chandelier Head!

Fitz: Wait, people like that exist?

Demolish fourth wall.

Me: It's not like you exist either.

Keefe: What number was that? Never mind, I can't count that high. Let's just go with infinity.

Make an obscure reference...

Me: bUt SoMe InFinItIeS aRe BiGgEr ThAn OtHeR iNfInItIeS!

Dex: What?

Now, to promote the fandom of the obscure reference...

Me: The Fault in Our Stars, you uncultured swine.

I need a Nice Linh comment!

Linh, quietly: I don't hate her.

Me: SEE! I have fans!

Linh: I wouldn't say I'm a fan, but I don't hate you.

Me: I- I do have fans though, right?

*Crickets*

Let's bring in the Swan Song crowd!

Crowd: You really, really don't.

Me: OH GREAT, NOW YOU'RE IN MY OTHER STORIES!?

Crowd: Unfortunately.

Who do we have left? Um, how about Biana? And we do need to get on topic eventually.

Biana: So, what's the ship?

Me: Glad you asked! We're doing another react to Sokeefe!

Are they seriously reacting to the react topic?

Fitz: Ew! But wasn't that, like, chapter one?

Explain.

Me: Yeah. But I'm doing a behind-the-scenes chapter, and I wanted an easy ship to react to! And it's not like we talk much about the ship anyway.

Tam: What's behind the scenes of KOTLC React to Ships?

Add another funny/offensive comment from Sir Salty Shadows.

Tam: A bunch of monkeys typing at a keyboard, complete-works-of-Shakespeare style?

Wylie, naturally, would add on to the insult.

Wylie: Nah, monkeys couldn't come up with stuff this stupid.

Tam and Wylie: *High five*

Sophie: Look at that bromance.

Linh: Well, they'll probably become brothers-in-law at some point.

Fangirling time!

Me: *Eyes widening*

Marella: Linh!

Me: *Maniacal grinning*

Biana: Why would you say such a thing?

Me: *Hyperventilation*

Sophie: In front of her?

Me: *Inhales*...

ASDFGHJKLHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGLWORUEWILFADSKJFJADSOFSHILKJFASDLIKJASDFGHJKLOWEURSKJFDNLDOQ#$*# (RWUEIQJKEALDAFSVFOGLKTHERQ$JBNGFHYUJIO8765TYU21IO3PEWKLJJJJJJJFIUOWLQ90WIEKJLOIADPWFASDFGHJKLOIWUERSDKJFNMDPSKO-239UEIJKAS;LDFDGIRYEAWW9ERUFIDSKJAKWHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGLYLIEFORTHEWINHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Linh: Are... are you okay?

Me: NO! Do you know how hard that was to do in one breath? I miss having Glitterbutt23 around to fangirl with me.

Gotta keep it on topic somehow...

Keefe: So, are we going to react to Sokeefe?

Me: Duh! Three, two, one, REACT!

I'm starting with Fitzipoo- to get the negativity out of the way.

Fitz: Sokeefe? Blargh. Sophitz forever, definitely.

Me: Um... guess it's your opinion. But in this story, Sokeefe is canon.

Sophie and Keefe need to react to their own ship!

Sophie: Really? That's great! I'm so glad- in the real books, I have to do this "I still like Fitz" thing, and then the character development and realizing feelings and sorting out love triangles is painfully slow!

Keefe: Well, since we're reacting... and I think actions speak louder than words...

*Keefe and Sophie kiss*

Fitz: EW!

Me: *Grabbing popcorn* I SHIP. Anyway, while they're making out, how about the rest of you react?

Yay! I get to rant about Sokeefe! Try to include all my reasons over here... well no, they wouldn't fit. Most of my reasons.

Biana: Oh, I totally ship it! It's just... they're so perfect for each other! Keefe's humor balances out Sophie's anxiety, and she can keep him from doing exceptionally stupid stuff. Plus, with the head versus heart theory? How could they not get together!

Linh: And the moments they have are seriously so sweet! I mean, like, the paintings? I think all the fangirls were screaming at that part. The window sleepovers? The The way they comfort each other? Plus, it's not just the heavy scenes- the cute fluffy teasing stuff is great too!

Marella: I'm sorry, Linh, did you forget the E. L. Fudges bit? Seriously?

Linh: Yeah, that was pretty great.

Dex: What about the Keefe short story? That was pretty good too.

Tam: I think the concept of shipping is kind of dumb, because you're so alone that you have to feed off of fictional people's love to survive, but if I had to choose something to ship, Sokeefe would be it.

Biana: Um, what about Bam?

Cute ship comment for Bam because Bam is cute

Tam: I don't care if other people think I should be with you or if you should be with Dex or if one of us should be with Keefe or whatever. I don't care if people write fanfiction about us or draw fanart. I don't care if people yell "BAM! IT'S TIANA!" at random intervals. I don't give a sparkly alicorn poo what other people think about us dating, because the only important thing is that I love you.

Biana: *Blushing* Oh my gosh... that was so sweet!

Ahh! I need something funny to save me from suffocating in fluff!

Linh: *Filming Tam's speech* Heh. Look at that. Tam being sweet. Heh. Blackmail.

Dex: Wow, Linh has an evil side.

Hmm, evil Linh would be fun to add on to! A lot of humor in that!

Linh: *Stroking Princess Purryfins like that obligatory cat for evil geniuses* Oh really?

Dex: I'm a little scared.

Linh: As you should be.

Hmm. It's been a while since I said something! I need to say something! It's my fanfiction!

Me: Hey, look at that! I managed to write an entire Sokeefe rant without saying anything negative about opposing ships! And then I added cute Bam stuff without bringing up the Diana/Bam ship war! Isn't that the kind of healthy, bashing free environment we want in our Keepers community? *Puts arm around nameless/faceless Sophitz shipper*

Nameless, faceless, Sophitz shipper: *Moves away from arm, shoves me into wall*

How would the group react to that?

Tam: *Snickers*

Wylie: *Outright laughs*

Linh: Oh my gosh! A. Fan, are you okay?

Sophie: BAHAHAHAHA- I mean. Um. You good?

Me: Yeah, yeah. I'm a black belt. Takes more than that to hurt me!

What should they bring up that will hurt me?

Tam: I never meant to make it such a mess.

Wylie: I never thought that it would go this far.

(One sobbing mess later)

Me: All I ever do is run. So how do I step in? Step in to the sun... step in to the sun...

Linh: Is she okay?

Me: WORDS FAIL FROM (don't forget to promote the musical!) THE GLORY THAT IS DEAR EVAN HANSEN IS REALLY FREAKING SAD, OKAY!?

(Iconic/funny DEH line)

Jared Kleinman: KiNkY!

Me: Wait what?

Me: Also I believe I rated this K+ so please don't mention that word!

At this point, it becomes clear that any sort of organization is gone at this point. Time to wrap it up!

Me: Okay, hopefully you had fun reacting to Sokeefe!

Did they have fun?

Sophie/Keefe: Yeah!

Biana/Linh/Marella: The fangirling was pretty great!

Dex: Sure, I guess. Beats homework.

Wylie: Not really.

Tam: Fun? What's fun?

Fitz: EW! NO! SOKEEFE IS DISGUSTING!

Closing line.

Me: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND, CUT!

Wow, I wrote a whole behind-the-scenes chapter! Hopefully you enjoyed seeing a little bit of what goes on in my head. I doubt anyone will ever know the full extent of what happens in there- even I don't- but this was fun to write!

Any announcements?

I also may replace the initial Sokeefe chapter (Ch. 1) with an edited version of this. The first one is honestly just various versions of ASDFGHJKL. So... yeah. Let me know if you think I should do that.

Also! I am writing my first and only love triangle for Swan Song. Sophie may end up making a pros/cons list, so please give me one or two pros and cons for each in the reviews!

Please go vote on the kind-of-dead Iggy color poll!

Did this fanfic reach any milestones recently? No? Darn. Well, time for my trademark closing line:

Please review!