extended info coming soon. listed in cascading order of relevance:
Arkady's original world. multinational witch hunting organizations operating overhead-of and unknown-to world governments and their citizens? it's a bureaucratic nightmare, a violent and magical fever dream. think of it as an extra layer applied on top of the real world. Arkady is brought out of 'mundane' life and into witch hunting after a series of unfortunate events having nothing to do with witches [or Arkady individually] and everything to do with witch hunting guild politics.
the fix-it au for Arkady & co., a goofy academic/travel au for Tracy & company. everybody's got a [sort of] regular job in a world much like our own, a playground for a sweet, satirical partnership-tale between Arkady and Tracy. and, morticry gets to spin queer yarns he delights in. did Tracy and Arkady know each other in OLIVE? yes. now, they are free to expand their relationship. patronage began as an au and is now an alternative canon of joyous priority to the author. a reader is free to ignore these OLIVE notes and take patronage as law, but the world origin myth might be interesting. or at least, may clarify why Arkady's career and quality of life differs in writings that would appear to be about the same guy. it is the same guy, in another life.
Tracy and Arkady's original narratives have been rehashed to make the story possible [Arkady being a professor instead of a witch hunter, Tracy given academic reasons to return to Russia longer-term than for his original visit in Arkady's witch hunting world after he was patched into Russia to tattoo Arakady intially, at all] but characters are kept as true as possible to who they are, otherwise they would be different characters, yaknow. what has been re-written serves to give A+T more time and opportunity together and to provide a reader with lighthearted entertainment.
offshoot joke au for patronage, where Arkady and Tracy band together to form the pro bono pest removal service organization SLUSH. "the other guy pays all costs! call now for consultation."
another offshoot joke au for patronage, where Arkady and Tracy are reimagined as cod mw2 players/characters. they are suspended in a grey place between the black and white possible realities of 'being Tracy and Arkady gaming together' and 'being Letter and Risk in-world.' more or less low effort high indulgence fanfic, except I also created the original duo.
gee whiz.
thermoplastics 2023