#Sons of the Star

[thegreenleavesofspring]

Waaaaay far ahead but I love this line so much and it's not spoilery. XD

"What's a girl?" Silver wonders.

"Your dad knew what a girl was by your age," Birdie calls over, and Ken nails his brother in the head with a drink can.

[fandomsandfairytales]

Happy Birthday, Max Way! 🥳

The cookie was delicious, albeit more sugary than I remembered that type of cookie being. 😂

@thegreenleavesofspring look, I celebrated Max's birthday! I was going to draw a motorcycle on the card but there wasn't a lot of space and it would've been fairly complicated. I really liked including the star, though.

[muse-write]

Hmm…is Eliot Spencer more similar to Riser Way or Max Way? I’m leaning toward Max, but I can see an argument for Riser. @thegreenleavesofspring, thoughts?

[fandomsandfairytales]

#Riser Way #Max Way #All the Wayboys really #SotS-adjacent

SO SO REAL AND TRUE

Shoutout to characters that are both genuinely deeply kind and also genuinely terrifying and willing to spill buckets worth of blood to get something done. And neither of these are an act, they're just both very true.

[thegreenleavesofspring]

Hello! It's Talk Shop Tuesday :) For today's ask about the Ways, it's fall-holiday-centric. Did they ever do Halloween (dress up, go trick-or-treating, give out candy)? Did they decorate the house for fall, go to a corn maze, do any fall activities? Did they offer to rake neighbors' yards for money? How did they celebrate Thanksgiving, and did they have any traditions for it? Did they ever see Ethan's family for Thanksgiving? I would love to hear any and all things about the Ways and fall.

There is no happy answer to this, really. Growing up, I don't think there was money - or time - for costumes, or even much inclination (they all grew up much too quickly.) Nor would there be money for candy to give out, so I think the porch light would have stayed off on Halloween night.

Decorations, festivals, and mazes would have been right out. They probably offered to rake yards one or two years, but mostly by the time they were big enough they would have been known to be delinquents.

They were not on good enough terms with their extended family for, um, family holidays (it would be a Finwëan-level fight.) Probably once they were adults they'd all gather at Nell's house for turkey and fixings, though!

[fandomsandfairytales]

It's rare that I ever make a post that intentionally includes swearing...but the language is part of what makes this post iconic. XD

Happy birthday Max!

@thegreenleavesofspring

[ylceon]

even the longest of dreams end eventually

[fandomsandfairytales]

#WAYCORE WAYCORE #SotS-adjacent #This is SOOOO the Ways

YES IT IS

there really are few emotions i find more compelling in a story than "you should be afraid of me. please don't be afraid of me"

[kittyoperas]

did he call you brother? did it once ring true?

[thegreenleavesofspring]

I am so glad it's Talk Shop Tuesday because you gave me a great question to ask based on your mention of the patches on the leather jackets (in your response reblog to my reblog of the Chris LeDoux song): What patches, if any, do the Ways have on their jackets? They have the star on the back, and that's just part of the jacket, but how do they customize them if at all?

(I'm also curious to know why the patches in the video gave you an emotional response, if you want to share.)

(I'd also still ask the question even if it *wasn't* Talk Shop Tuesday but it's very fun that this question happened to come up on a Tuesday)

The co-author does not know enough about motorcycle patches to answer this question. 😶😶

The patches in the video - the first one is In Memory of Big Red. He died in his mid thirties; I'd have to look up the date of the Vietnam War but I'd hazard a guess it coincides with the second date on that patch. (Big Red happens to be one of Max's nicknames too; Big Max, etc. So not only is it a memorial patch, it brings to mind my own character who - quite plausibly - could easily die in his mid-thirties.)

The second patch is a POW/MIA patch. Now, when I was a teenager, we attended political meetings several times a month at the local VFW post. I heard the veterans' stories, I saw the empty table in the corner with the guns and the boots and the uniforms and the poppy. I sort of grew up looking at that. I don't, obviously, fully know what it means. But also I kind of do, as far as someone who has never been in that situation can.

I've been thinking more about what it is that makes that song so very Way to me, and - it's the honor that underlies a very true desire to make trouble for the heck of it. They wanted to pick a fight because they wanted a fight. But when their honor was confronted, they didn't push it. They took the honorable course. (But there was still the desire for a fight.)

Thank you for the ask!

[fandomsandfairytales]

Happy belated birthday to the twin terrors, Red & Russ Way! I'm sure they had a lot of fun and shenanigans. XD (I did think of them on their actual birthday, November 11th, but it was when I was driving and then by the time I got home things were busy and I forgot.)

@thegreenleavesofspring

[fandomsandfairytales]

#...not me going through the list picking which Way (and honorary Way) would pick which flavor

@thegreenleavesofspring okay you can't just SAY that and then not share!!! (please)

(from what I recall/know the twins like coffee and Nikki likes mint chocolate chip)

[tenshiangle]

IT’S CONFIRMED! NICOOOOOOOO

[stealingpotatoes]

this is the way

(commission info // kofi support!)

[andyoullhearitagain]

I'm fine.

[fandomsandfairytales]

#This is me and Hwestalas and Cary Way #SotS-adjacent

LOLLL. Me with the Sons of the Star overall (and Annaáuchiwee) XD @hwestalas I'm quite happy to freak out about Cary Way with you.

My dream as a writer isn’t to get published and make a lot of money, it’s to have a fanbase devoted enough that I can post a story about a background character that had four lines or drop a piece of obscure lore and they go crazy over it