#LokiNightFury

[sloelimbs]

It's a fluffy one!

Eddie and Chrissy as friends, she's still dating Jason and they have that moment where they just KNOW

In her first game of D’n’D, Chrissy rolls highly on charisma and wisdom, which suits her. She supposes that very first session doesn’t really count as a game - it had just been her and Eddie at their table in the woods, Eddie leaning against her shoulder and scratching out details on a sheet of paper, chewing the eraser off of his pencil - but it had felt like it. Childish glee in make believe again, free from the bounds of herself. Between them they came up with a character for her - Button, half elf and talented with healing, rolling stats that are more or less okay apart from her strength. Probably, sometimes, make believe mirrors life.

She’s taken to joining them a couple of nights a week, though, after cheer practice but before her dad gets off of work. She tells her mom she’s studying, and sits between Dustin and Erica sharing Captain Crunch with no milk and Uncle Wayne’s homemade banana bread. Chrissy likes that he puts cream cheese frosting on it. It feels like biting her mothers hand. Anyway, they’re in the middle of some home brew Eddie’s concocted and she’s genuinely afraid. She doesn’t see a way out of the temple that doesn’t include someone sacrificing themselves, and she’s kept them alive so far. She doesn’t see how she can protect them. There’s no way that she can. Eddie is looking at her from across the tables and his eyes are soft and pitying in the candlelight and it’s surprising how much she hates him in this moment because he is so good at this. He’s so good at beckoning them into stories with his lulling voice and the details that make them care enough to try.

So she has to try. And if a self sacrifice is what it will take, then…

“Can I invoke Tymora on a saving throw?” She meets those eyes with her own and feels fierce. 

“Chrissy, you can’t—.”

“Listen, there isn’t a way out of this and Karapitis is in the tower.” Jeff looks mollified, then thoughtful.

“Can we all invoke her?” All heads turn to look at Eddie, who looks - frankly - stunned. 

“Huh. Well, sure. May the gods be with you, it’s gonna be a pretty goddamn high number.” Chrissy steels herself against the bloodshed that isn’t real and takes a deep breath, feels the weight of Dustin’s hand on her shoulder.

“Then I step onto the stone table and slit my own throat.” A collective groan of horror, of her friends buying into this with her, and then the clatter of dice.

“I warn you. If anyone rolls a single digit, there are different consequences depending on how low it is.”

“Shut up and let us concentrate.” One by one they throw their dice, clattering around the table, bouncing from miniatures and books. The room holds its breath and Chrissy closes her eyes so that she can’t see. Erica clasps her hand tight and her heart is in her throat and she feels Eddie’s voice when he speaks again.

“Your call to Tymora doesn’t fall on deaf ears. She smiles on you this night, and Button is surrounded by a golden glow. She opens her eyes and is back to her old self, but something glitters behind her eyes. Once touched by a god, they never really leave you.” Chrissy opens her eyes and Eddie is already there. Meeting her head on. He really has an answer for everything, doesn’t he? There’s just ideas bubbling in him all the time, and that’s why he can’t keep his mouth shut. Better to be loud and obnoxious and scare the wrong type of people away, she guesses. The friends he has are way more loyal than any of the Tigers would be. Erica lets out her air and squeezes her fingers and Chrissy grins around at all of them. The fear dissolves in her breast but when she looks at Eddie again it becomes something like apprehension. Once touched by a god… her heart races. When was the last time it picked up to anything more than a gentle trot for Jason? And why is it that here, among her Party, she doesn’t remember him at all? 

She doesn’t know whether to call it sudden or slow but what it is, is certain, and she sees the realisation flash across the corners of Eddie’s mouth too. That they’re starting to circle something deeply forbidden and inevitable. After all, didn’t she start this? Didn’t she ask him for something stronger than weed when her mom had gotten really bad? Hadn’t he taken her home and given her a joint and then, very gently, suggested that there could be a different way for her to escape her troubles? Eddie clears his throat and she looks away, startled and embarrassed and all too aware of staring. 

“I think that’s enough for tonight.” He closes his book to another collective groan of grief. “No, come on, you guys threw me a curveball,” his eyes linger on Chrissy’s lips, so she bites them together to watch him turn red, “... I have writing edits to make.”

In her dads car on the way home, Chrissy smiles to herself and watches the moonlight shift through tree branches. If he’s making edits, that means that he’s thinking about her, and if he’s thinking about her, then… then, maybe they’re in the same boat after all.

[hangon-silvergirl]

Ooooh directors cut question!

For the Buzz, when you knew CC was Chrissy the Barista but Eddie didn't. I loved that chapter and the little hints that were woven in there. Would love to hear your take on it!

Thank you, my dear! 💖

For Chapter 3 of the buzz, I went back over that about, oh, twenty times, before I published it? I actually roughly wrote (and re-wrote) Chrissy's perspective for bits and pieces of the message exchange, because I wanted to get the tone of her responses right, and it was largely her just giggly and kicking her feet and beet red and making high-pitched noises that were alarming dogs in the neighborhood. From her perspective she also was strongly considering coming clean after she gave him her song request, but when he asked for her name that doubt disappeared and she just though nah imma have fun with this and started essentially prompting him to shower her with compliments. She also used it as an opportunity to feel out how serious he was being ("Mr. Metalhead being married to a /cute/ girl seems to be /opposite/ to your style.") Meanwhile she was Googling him and discovering all sorts of things about his career history in Bloomington, and found an old newspaper article about him and his D&D club at his old high school, where he'd been quoted saying that D&D wasn't really a spectator sport, but the school had great cheerleaders so maybe check them out (this was, again, all rough notes), which lead to her, a former cheerleader, dropping the "Sounds like you found a cheerleader in the wild, to me. ;)" line. By the end of that chapter she had made the decision to call into the station if he actually did find a song to dedicate to her.

Send me an ask for the Fanfic Writers: Director's Cut!

[barriss]

So, the lovely @lokinightfury tagged me for a thing. Love you, babes!

Write the latest line from your WIP (or post where you last left off in your art) and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog.

The following is from the next installment of the "Max's Annual Uncanny Hootenanny" series.

Wayne Munson: I see a lonely kid desperate to be loved and accepted

[fivela-secret-gift-exchange]

📢 Fivela Secret Santa 2024 // Masterlist (unrevealed)

Secret Santa will be revealed once the polls are closed.

Ties That Bind for @marygeldingm93 True love story for @lokinightfury Love Unexpectedly for @lokinightfury [WIP] I can see you as a secret mission for @deadinsideserpent Fancy Nancy (with Spanish version) for @little-moony (LadyMoony) Loyalty for @howdoioperateher (chronokinesis/Mercy) [WIP] The Edge of Us for @tardis-jpeg (Tardis_jpg) Fanart for Resonant Dissonance for @okay-letsbestill [ART](okay_lets_be_still) Strawbrella Forever 🍓 for @littleleopardseal (little_leopard_seal) Wherever you will go for @kitsuneudon743 [WIP] Secret Santa for @hansodax Can we simply starve this sin? for @bloodyplunder In the swimming pool for @just-b-wilde (JustBWilde) [ART] The Trail of Christmas Ghouls for @silverywolf14 (Alexa_K3S) [WIP] Christmas Presents for @bittersweetnessd [WIP] Golden Cage for @seasphinx (Sea_sphynx)

~ We aim to please 🍓

[hansodax]

Something a little different! My first collaboration too with the wonderful @lokinightfury. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into this with me.

[lokinightfury]

After figuring out the code using the tried and true method of nice pen and a sparkly notebook, it was getting more and more annoying having to write out the symbols so I could translate them.

So of course the obvious answer was to make a font. Right?

Anyways. Enjoy. It's here (fontstruct).

[cheerscoops]

this has been a long time coming, and I finally have the url that I feel like I was destined to have. same over the top multishipper content as before just under a new name. masterlists will be updated eventually, but for now please bask in the awesomeness that is my new url

tagging a few beloved mutuals <3 : @sherifftillman @miwtual @vinmauro @queenofthekings @justhere4thevibez

@lokinightfury @jenniebellie @sloelimbs @spdrgwen @spicysix

[monfivela]

📢 Your Song // Finale chapter 10 "Ensemble" is out

Aaaand... It’s a wrap! 🎉

I’m so glad of the way this brainchild turns out to be ❤

Chapter 10: Ensemble

Summary: The end of the journey, or the beginning. 

Thanks to the readers who believed in this story from the very first chapter. 

Big shout out to my dearest @HansoDax, who bore with me from the very first line till the end, always pushing for the fastest update.

Thanks to those who kept coming back, sharing music and comments every time. 

Thanks to those who don’t usually read AU but give this story a chance anyway. 

I hope others will find their way to this story now that it is complete, you missed some rollercoaster cliffhangers, but you got one beautifully wrapped story, so I hope you’ll enjoy it as I have been writing it. 

Sneak peek:

In the quiet stillness of the night, he carefully replaced his hand on her waist, shifting just enough to cradle her more securely. Her head lolled back against his neck, and she mumbled something incoherent before her soft snores resumed their steady rhythm—a sound he had come to cherish. 

He pressed a tender kiss on the top of her head, relishing the moment, before closing his eyes. Her even breathing lulled him back to the restful embrace of sleep. 

Time had never slowed down for him like this before.  

🎧 Here's a companion playlist:

Come What May, Ewan McGregor et Nicole Kidman, for you @LokiNightfury! Breaking news, flowerovlove  Sweater Weather, The Neighbourhood Hostage, Billy Eilish xxx

[justhere4thevibez]

10 people to get to know better!

Tagged by @hunter-gatherer-stuff for this fun challenge! It's been an age since I did one of these! Thanks for tagging me, lovely 💛

last song: Into the Unknown from Over the Garden Wall - I was attempting to work on some original fiction last night, and movie/show soundtracks are my go-tos.

favourite colour: blue! I have always been a blue girl, though I've been branching out into soft pinks a lot more lately.

last movie: I think it was a Mama Mia! rewatch actually. I needed something cheery and silly on a snowy night.

last tv show: okay so this is technicallyyyyyyy not a tv show, but I've been listening to Worlds Beyond Number the podcast in lieu of watching tv for the past week+ (and it honestly feels equivalent). if we want to get technical about it, I think I was doing a leverage rewatch before then, that's one of my comfort shows.

sweet/spicy/savory: I tend to flip flop between savory and sweet. I'm a snacker by nature, so I'll graze on a lot of different things throughout the day!

relationship status: very, very single. dating makes me incredibly anxious, and I'm somewhere on the demi spectrum anyway, so if I'm ever NOT single, it's gonna be an outlier.

current obsession: I got a sewing machine for christmas and i am MAKING things!!! It's so fun! I love being a lil gremlin with my lil crafts

last thing I googled: "professional shoes women"... writing research, sadly. I could not for the life of me remember the term DRESS SHOES smh 😭

okayyyy now tagging: @jenniebellie @1lostsoul0fishbowl @pearlypairings @rose-n-gunses @deliriumsdelight7 @lollipopsandlandmines @billysblueeyes @cheerscoops @lokinightfury @sloelimbs

[slumped-in-the-arms-of-fiction]

Several people are typing…

A modern day Hellcheer group chat au

Part Seven

First part • Previous part • Next part

Shout out to @lokinightfury for the Max takeover idea!

[1lostsoul0fishbowl]

August 21 is Fanfic Writer Appreciation Day 💕

…so I tried to make a list of 21 of my absolute favorite fanfics, but I couldn’t quite narrow it down enough. Instead you get 25!

(will tag the author if I know/can find their Tumblr— if I miss any please let me know)

🎉🩷🎉🩷🎉🩷🎉

Warm by @patternscolorsflowers - I made an Ao3 account for the sole purpose of bookmarking this as my very first favorite fic. A gorgeous one-shot of Joyce giving Eddie some much needed motherly TLC. I must’ve read this fic at least a dozen times, and cried every single time.

Disliking You Less by @claracivry - Claudia Henderson slowly learns to accept Dustin’s weird new metalhead friend. Just the sweetest, cutest fic!

Red and the Metalhead by @cunninghamschrissy - of course! The adorable fic that inspired me to write Not-so-iron Maiden! Max and Eddie as sibs have my heart forever.

Best we can do is to pick up the pieces by @hearjessroarfics - very, very sweet fic from Wayne’s POV as he observes Eddie and Chrissy in an unguarded moment.

Come True in the End by Many_Impossible_Things - absolutely BAMF Chrissy is tired of being underestimated, and comes back to life with a vengeance through the power of Pat Benatar. Seriously, read this one!!!

Take a chance on me by @womanof-1000-faces - Chrissy joins Hellfire. And it’s just as awesome as it sounds.

We’re not alone (I’ll find a new place to be from) by @grasslandgirl - Eddie learns to love Dustin’s hugs. Soooo cute.

Of All The Waffle Houses In The World by Babeinthewoods - a few unconventional wingmen (aka, the Party) help Eddie get a date with Chrissy, with lots of hilarious shenanigans along the way.

Eddie My Love by @ghostlynimbus - sweet little Hellcheer scene, and you’ll end up with the song stuck in your head for days.

Graceland, too. (Whatever she wants) by cunninghams - Eddie and Chrissy survive Vecna and then make a bucket list to take advantage of their new lease on life.

Five Drunks and a Cheerleader by @phoenixwrites - Chrissy goes to see Corroded Coffin at the Hideout. It sounds simple but it’s so.dang.cute and there’s a whole delightful series now!

That’s all I’ve got to say by @barriss - Eddie gets a little too emotional during movie night. Absolutely adorable.

The shop around the corner by @adelaideelaine - Hellcheer meets You’ve Got Mail with a little dash of tattoo parlor AU thrown in. One of my favorite ships plus one of my favorite movies? Heck yeah!

Have no fear (the monster’s gone) by JuliaRose12 - Heartmelting Wayne and Eddie fluff, as everyone’s favorite uncle looks after his beloved nephew in the hospital.

In Her Mercy Does All Abound by viharker - medieval troubadour AU. Nuff said, right? This one is so beautiful.

the buzz by @hangon-silvergirl - modern day Eddie as a chaotic DJ wooing Chrissy the Barista via music and text. Absolutely hilarious!

Come What May by @lokinightfury - Hellcheer starring in Grease? The entire Party and Corroded Coffin as wingmen? Yes please!!!

Wasted Years by @bratanimus - Eddie and the guys listen to a new album, as Eddie comes to terms with the past and prepares for his future. So introspective and beautiful, I cried so much reading this one. Really the entire Man to Man series is amazing!

The Kingdoms Never Weep by @sokkas-first-fangirl - Eddie’s estranged family tries to come back to haunt him, but the Party has his back. I love the gorgeous friendships in this fic and the whole series!

Guidance Counseling by @khaleesa - Eddie is determined to graduate, and slowly gets his life on track after surviving the Upside Down. I wanted to climb into this fic and live in it forever.

On the Other Side by @iwasateenagevirginiawoolf - One year after Vecna’s attack, Eddie and Chrissy are both learning to live again. Absolutely heartbreaking but so beautiful and optimistic at the same time.

Long is the Road out of Hell by @justhere4thevibez - Chrissy joins Hellfire, but this glorious fic comes with the added bonus of her escaping her mother, and the best Mike Wheeler I’ve ever read.

Family Recipe by @foxylibrarian - the cutest fake dating AU, Chrissy has Nancy, Robin, and Barb as her BFFs, and there’s lots of Wayne too. It’s everything you could want!

On My Terms by @pipergirl17 - Jason injuring Wayne in an accident doesn’t sound like the basis of a Hellcheer hospital meet-cute, but trust me, it works.

In the Shade of Aurelias by @pearlypairings - last but MOST CERTAINLY not least, is my favorite fic by my favorite author! A magical fantasy AU, with hints of D&D, mystery, intrigue, and romance. It was hard to choose just one from Pearly, because all of her works are amazing, but this fic is truly outstanding.

Happy Fanfic Writer Appreciation Day to all of my favorite writers, and happy reading to everyone who enjoys these fics!!! 💕

[sloelimbs]

B, T and V for the ask game!

B:  What was the first fandom you read fic in?  Which was the first you wrote fic for?

it was pirates of the caribbean and it was SELF INSERT. captain jack sparrow love of my life.

T: Any fanfic tropes you can’t stand?

not massively? the stuff i can't stand is so specific (ooc patrick hockstetter drives me batshit). i guess i'm pretty allergic to straight up cheating fic too.

V: Are there certain comments you’ve received on your stories that have stuck with you?

this is the one i had to get on my laptop for so i can copy and paste:

the real answer to this one is every single comment i get roots its way into my heart and makes itself known when i feel bad about things, but these three specifically get me. especially the first two, because they were the start of something beautiful.

[hellcheerficdatabase]

This IS Music

Author: @lokinightfury

Rating/Warning: Mature

Chapter Count: 11/?

Description:

Eddie Munson really thought he was living the dream. A record deal straight out of high school with his friends as bandmates. But 8 years later things are starting to unravel, and he's at risk of losing the one thing he actually knows how to do - make music. His last record tanked, and the label want to see him bringing in the return against their investment in his solo career.

Chrissy Cunningham worked hard, a self made artist who finally managed to get the attention of the right people. Her third album isn't coming easily, and her management team thinks she needs something extra in there, an unexpected collaborator to take her music in the direction they want it to go in.

A record label merger brings the two of them onto the same books, and the higher ups have the perfect solution to both of their problems. What could possibly go wrong?

Tags: Alternate universe- no vecna, alternate universe- modern au, enemies to lovers, popstar!Chrissy, Rockstar!Eddie, enemies to friends to lovers, PR relationship, slow-burn, secret relationship, fluff, angst, eventual smut, smut, Chrissy POV, small section of Eddie POV, multiple chapters, status: WIP

[fivela-secret-gift-exchange]

📢 Fivela Secret Santa 2024 // Masterlist... with Santas revealed!

What a joyous and wonderful end of the year we had. Thank you to these wonderful writers and artists who gifted our community with such thoughtful and original works!

Ties That Bind for @marygeldingm93, by @kitsuneudon743 True love story for @lokinightfury, by @marygeldingm93 Love Unexpectedly for @lokinightfury, bt @marygeldingm93 I can see you as a secret mission for @deadinsideserpent, by @lokinightfury Fancy Nancy (with Spanish version) for @little-moony (LadyMoony), by @hansodax Loyalty for @howdoioperateher (chronokinesis/Mercy), by @tardis-jpeg The Edge of Us for @tardis-jpeg (Tardis_jpg), by @okay-letsbestill Fanart for Resonant Dissonance for @okay-letsbestill (okay_lets_be_still), by @bloodyplunder Strawbrella Forever 🍓 for @littleleopardseal (little_leopard_seal) by @deadinsideserpent Wherever you will go for @kitsuneudon743, by @seasphinx Secret Santa for @hansodax, by @just-b-wilde Can we simply starve this sin? for @bloodyplunder, by @little-moony In the swimming pool for @just-b-wilde (JustBWilde), by @silverywolf14 The Trail of Christmas Ghouls for @silverywolf14 (Alexa_K3S), by @littleleopardseal Christmas Presents for @bittersweetnessd, by @howdoioperateher (Mercy) Golden Cage for @seasphinx (Sea_sphynx), by @bittersweetnessd

~Thank you folks for the feast 🍓

Want to join in the fun?

📢 Secret Valentine 2025 Sign-up Form is open until January 12nd.

[olpie]

Author Interview

Thanks for the tag @gneebee!!

1. How many work do you have on AO3?

7

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

169,125

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Walking Dead and Stranger Things

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

I Need You -- Beth/Daryl (Walking Dead)

Late Night Talking -- Eddie/Chrissy (Stranger Things)

Friendly -- Beth/Daryl (Walking Dead)

The Munson Family Secret -- Eddie/Chrissy (Stranger Things)

Sorry I'm Late Sweetheart -- Eddie/Chrissy (Stranger Things)

5. Do you respond to comments?

Yes!! I love the conversation that comes from them.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I'm a Happily Ever After kinda girl

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Probably Late Night Talking

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not a really. I have had some people comment with things they didn't like about a chapter but mostly all positive

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Usually no. I am trying to stretch myself and write some love scenes but I don't write smut for smut sake.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

Nope

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I am aware of

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

No but I would love to try it sometime.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Bethyl aka Beth/Daryl it's the ship that got me writing/reading fanfiction

15. What a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I don't have any. I thought for a long time it was gonna be I Need You. I never intended for it to be so long but got some new inspiration and am really determined to finish it now.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Not sure. Maybe dialogue/humor? I feel like I can write some funny stuff from time to time.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I don't know. I am not great at planning fics out.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language?

Muy scary

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Bethyl

20. Favorite fic you've written?

Oh gosh it's hard to pick one. I love all my fics. I am probably most proud of I Need You and Late Night Talking.

Thanks for the tag! I will tag @sasusc, @littlelindentree, @lokinightfury, @slumped-in-the-arms-of-fiction, @pipergirl17