The Cracks Are The Foundation is an independent publication launched in April 2026 by Cian Ferrick (unknown20troper on Dreamwidth and AO3, heyitstempleuabackagain on Discord, and templetroper on Plurk) which includes both their original fiction and their nonfiction blog posts about fiction, neurodiversity and anything else that crosses their mind. If you subscribe today, you'll get full access to the website as well as email newsletters about new content when it's available. Your subscription makes this site possible, and allows The Cracks Are The Foundation to continue to exist. Thank you!

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YAP OF MY WIPs

Title: the Changeling's Geas
Short "meme like" concept: an enslaved faerie kills another faerie and ends up with their geas bonding them to the faerie's enslaved human. and then the enslaved faerie and enslaved human struggle to undo the geas and get freedom for the enslaved faerie as well.
"Why you like this" yapping space: this is a hella dead dove: do not eat premise i created just to make norm the genie and someone i ship him with trans original characters in an original universe, lol
and also, i just find these themes real compelling.

Title: the Branching Stars
Short "meme like" concept: two prodigies, one or both which are genetically engineered, who grew up together on an ark ship do a revolution taking down on the oppressive system leading the ark ships
"Why you like this" yapping space: this is literally just ender/bean from ender's game reskinned into gay original characters, lol

Title: A Relative Term
Short "meme like" concept: humans, denisovans, and neanderthals are all alive in a never ending ice age, with modern or futuristic technology
"Why you like this" yapping space: i like neanderthals and evolution, and this also is a good way to explore the idea of neurodiversity.

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