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[nburkhardt]

3, 13, and 30 😘

My Love!! 🥰

3: What’s something you learned about yourself as a writer?

Mostly that writing angst is super easy for me lol. Also figured out I can write relationships, love & stuff like that but for me personally? Nah, I don’t have any feelings or the want. (Heyyy figuring out your own sexuality is crazy)

13: What fic was the easiest to write?

Definitely this one Feels Like the World's Gonna End (But I'll Get You Through) I got it all done within like a few hours of coming up with the idea.

30: What’s something that you want to write in 2024?

Nothing specific, just wanna finish my drafts for now 😅

2023 fic review questions

[withacapitalp]

For the send me a character thing: Steve Harrington of course :3

favorite thing about them

OH MY GOD THIS BOYS CAPACITY TO LOVE. Like Steve's ability to open up his heart and the way he cares SO FUCKING MUCH. Like he stays in the hospital in s1 after the house scene, he loves Nancy enough to absolve her of guilt before she even has any, S3 he sacrifices himself so easily s4??? I'm just so. He really just opens up to everyone and isn't afraid to be open, which in a show full of repressed nerds is so refreshing. Steve has so many emotions!!!! (That's why he and Eddie work together lol)

ALSO THE NAIL BAT AND THE WAY HE RUNS BACK IN SEASON ONE STEVE DEFENDERS RISE THIS BOY WAS ALWAYS GOOD HE JSUT TRIED TO HIDE THAT GOLD HEART BUT ONCE HE WAS DONE HIDING IT IT WAS ALL OVER

least favorite thing about them

Steve's a liiiiittle bit of a pushover (okay a lotta bit) I think that after all of the things he's been through the fact that he still kind of stays pushovery and still thinks he needs to want to achieve normal....baby c'mon!!!! You can let yourself continue to grow!! The crazy thing is he wants to grow, but he holds himself back

favorite line

" I may be a pretty shitty boyfriend, but turns out I’m actually a pretty damn good babysitter."

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THEY MADE HIM HATE BEING THE BABYSITTER IN SEASON FOUR It makes no sense!!!! Steve loves his kids and MAX WAS CURSED AT THIS POINT like it was so out of character. Anyway Not only did those kids packbond to him, but he packbonded to them immediately too. They're his family, they're his, and having him not want to protect them was confusing.

brOTP

Steve and Robin OBVI They're literally soulmates but!!! I also really love Stonathan as besties. I think that they have a ton that they could sympathize/empathize with and I will never forgive the duffers for stealing Monster Hunting Trio from us!!!!!

OTP

Steddie obvi, but I also really love stoncy? I think individually none of them work, but all three together they have this special thing that just hits so riiiiight. Also Stargyle is my crack OTP they would be SO CUTE and the hair in that relationship.......chefs kiss

nOTP

Steve and Tammy Thompson LMAO

Harringrove tho haha not my thing (even tho I have them being toxic af exes in one of my fic series)

random headcanon

Steve's Italian heritage!!!! Steve's Nonna helped to raise him (part of why he's such an absolute sweetheart) and she taught him all her recipes! He still has her recipe book with her hard to read cursive. He can't really read it (because dyslexia makes it hard enough to read regular print) but Eddie knows about it and he reads the recipes out loud for Steve

unpopular opinion

I think that Steve in season one was not that bad. People treat him live he was like the devil and he said some really unforgivable things but he also immediately regretted it and bought Jonathan a new camera and did so much to try and make up for the things he did that he knew were wrong!!! Eh I just season one Steve was not a villain he was just a guy!!!

song i associate with them

Landslide by Fleetwood Mac This is the Steve SONG like please guys listen to this song and think about Steve it is PAINFUL. Matilda by Harry Styles is another good Steve Song and Desperado by the Eagles

favorite picture of them

0-0......O-O HES SO P R E T T Y

[patchworkgargoyle]

For the 'be nosy' asks:

11, 27, and 33

Yesss these are great, thank you!!

11: If you could teleport anywhere in the world right now, where would you go?

To my friends, any of them 😭 I'd ask first of course, because I won't barge in, but I'm kinda dying to see them all. I'm so, so, so excited to be able to see a bunch of them this year again but it can't come soon enough

27: What's your pet peeve?

I did get this one already, but I have another, because I believe obnoxious tourists can be a pet peeve. I live in a small city that gets a lot of tourists in the summer and for the most part it's fine, but jfc, the ones that stand out really stand out. I have so many stories about tourists from the gift shop I used to work at...

33: If money was no object, what would your wardrobe be like?

This is actually a little hard to answer right now! Currently going through some Gender Things so it's a bit up in the air, but I do like my all black, cut-up tees, ripped jeans, patch jacket look right now. Though that's all easily doable with little money anyway xD

...I would love, like, a set of chainmail or full plate armour though. That'd be rad

[wolvies-claws]

Be nosy asks!

2, 14, 19, 31, and 50

2. What are you obsessed with right now?

You'll never guess... Team Fortress 2 teehee

14. How would you spend a million dollars?

when we were young festival

19. If you could change your name, would you? What would you change it to?

the perks of being trans.. i already changed my name, and it's casper >:D

31. Do you like paper books or ebooks better?

While I find it easier to read paper books, and more texturally pleasing, I read so many fanfics that I end up reading ebooks more

50. What’s your favorite kind of weather?

Partially cloudy, cool, dry weather!!

[a-little-unsteddie]

(It's strangersteddierthings on main)

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I intimidate YOU?? wild. cannot imagine i’m just a lil guy. but also ily <3

PDA Ask Game 💛

[bitegore]

For the Meme for Fic Writers questions

4, 11, and 20 (:

omg i totally missed this, sorry

4. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?

[shrieks]

AT LAST COUNT i had 100+ fics in the actual oven cooking and more wip ideas aside. That was a month ago. So probably like. Double that or some shit.

and sure i'll share one. I'm working on a barely-a-fic-mostly-a-game fic wherein you play Vortex in a choice based novel running around deliberately trying to get on Motormaster's nerves. This is all for the sake of it being really funny to get on Motormaster's nerves.

Check out this intro text lmao

Motormaster is the leader of a team of Decepticons known as the Stunticons. All five of them are loose-cannon losers who talk so big they could never possibly hope to live up to what they claim. Motormaster in particular has a temper on him like a stick of dynamite someone left in a furnace-- explosive, dangerous, and liable to go off basically without provocation. It is really fucking funny to set him off, because it's so easy and you can do it so often without him getting wise. Trouble is that he will then beat you up. That objectively just makes it funnier as long as there's something wrong with you. Your name is Vortex. This is the best thing that's ever happened to you.

11. Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby?

I don't actually know how to answer this. Yes and no? I can't not write, but writing isn't going to be my life and I'm not making it be so. I don't want to live off my writing, I want to have a job that pays real money so I can eat. You know? It's a fun hobby because I will force it to stay that way by beating it back with a baseball bat if needs be. It is never graduating from its position as thing that I do for fun.

But like, no, I can't not write, it's not just a hobby any more than art is for me. But it's still a fun hobby. I don't know. I'm not really sure what the definition for "my passion" is, either- I'm passionate about everything.

20. Describe your perfect writing conditions.

I am not expected to do anything for the day

It is warm enough that I can sit still without my feet getting cold

I have easy access to sugary drinks, caffienated or not doesn't matter, and they are warm (ie: tea, coffee, hot cocoa)

I have an idea I like and I've slept well enough to think words with my brain

I have music I like that I can listen to as opposed to music I find boring as fuck to listen to (this only happens like once every three days because I get bored of music so fast lately)

Something is happening in my house but I am not obligated to care, so that if I get bored I can go get up and say hi to someone in the kitchen and then go back to writing

There's easily-made food in the house

My computer is okay with being moved from room to room and i have more than one room to go hang out in

Someone is online on the internet that I can send snippets to without having to talk to them for more than 20 minutes and lose The Juice

my hands don't hurt and i don't have a headache

I know these are the ideal conditions because these are the conditions under which i can write 5000+ words and 10+ stories in one sitting and not feel drained at the end. Do you know how difficult that is? It is not easy lmfao. I've genuinely optimized that shit. this is why i write so much more during the summer even barring school- discomfort makes it way harder for me to write and the cold is always discomfortable for me lmfao

Questions list can be found here :D

[that-wildwolf]

For the fanfiction writer questions, if you haven't answered these already.

16, 24, 56, and 74 :)

Thank you so much for asking! 🥺👉👈

16. Do you write by hand, on your phone, or on your laptop?

Because I am Poor™ and couldn't afford to buy a laptop, I used to write almost exclusively on my phone. The entirety of Behind Closed Doors, which is close to 90K words from what I remember, was written on mobile. It was mostly for lack of other options, to be honest. After saving up for a while, I've bought myself a little writing laptop a few weeks ago and it's a godsend. I can't believe I used to get by without this.

24. How do you choose whose POV to write in?

Ooh, this is a good one! For one-shots, it just happens. I start writing and then it's just a matter of keeping the same POV throughout the story. For longer fics, where I switch the POVs a lot, I try to think whose emotions and inner thoughts would be most interesting in this particular scene and then write that character.

56. Are there any fics that you would change or rewrite if given the chance?

I've recently put down a fic that had a good premise but a terrible execution. It was resting on three huge plot holes and the way it was written, from a purely technical standpoint, made me cringe. I wish I could write that one again someday.

It would also be nice to fix my Shepard Twins fic. AKA rewrite it completely.

74. Do you have a fic you wish got a bit more love?

Honestly, who doesn't wish all their fics got a bit more love? As for me, I'm just slightly anxious that everything I've been posting lately hasn't received almost any feedback. My newest fics seen to have gone largely unnoticed and that scares me.

Actually you know what I just filtered my works by kudos and what the fuck my Kryterius fic deserves more love! I know I'm primarily a Shakarian writer, but that is one of the fics I'm most proud of!

[steddieunderdogfics]

For Challenge Monday, fic's with character names in the title. They're all just mine, so feel free to just use one if it's too many haha. All of these are Ao3 links. Porcelain Steve by alittleoff [/works/47260774] / Bad News First, Eddie by alittleoff [/works/44548348] / The One Where Steve Plays D&D by alittleoff [/works/44718712] / Save Max by alittleoff [/works/45485866]

Porcelain Steve by alittleoff

@annoyinglyfanon @strangersteddierthings

Rating: Teens and Up

21,305 words, 9/9 chapters

Archive Warning: No Warnings

Tags: magical transformation, Eddie Munson-centric, Period-Typical Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, Coming Out, Accidental Outing, Fluff, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Slow Burn, Originally Posted on Tumblr, Fairy Tale Elements, Gay Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Autistic Robin Buckley, Autistic Eddie Munson, (neither explicitly stated but it's important you know it's meant)

Summary:

When Robin and Nancy find a perfect replica porcelain doll of Steve and the flesh-and-bone Steve missing, the group has a minor freak out about it. But not Eddie. He's the only person seeming to handle this with any grace. Or so he thinks. Excerpt: He thinks he’s losing it a little. All this time he thought he was the level-headed one but now that it’s been two full days of not seeing Porcelain Steve, he thinks he’s going to climb the walls and start ripping up the carpets. Logically he knows that nothing has happened. If something had, he would have heard from Dustin already, either by phone or over the walkie (which may or may not be on him at all times, volume as loud as it goes). They wouldn’t leave him in the dark. Right? Right. Right.

Thanks for the rec!

This rec is a part of Challenge Monday. The challenge this week was Fics with character names in the title.

Know a fic that deserves extra love? Submit through our asks or the submission box!

[firefly-party]

@annoyinglyfanon aka @strangersteddierthings AND @phoebusapolo

Sweeties!!! Thank you so much!!!!

[inklessletter]

It's StrangerSteddierThings on my original blog. I have music asks! Can you do numbers 1, 6, 18, and your tagged 23 (Vecna song). Pretty please (:

Hiii sweetie! Thank you so much for asking! I apologize in advance, thisis going to be so random.

It's my personal goal not to include Taylor Swift in here, because she's the alpha and the omega of my entire existance.

Favourite song right now

Well. I don't know if it is allowed to put a cover, but I've been listening on and off to this song for the last year, and, god, it's healing.

Surface Pressure (from the movie 'Encanto') but Our Last Night Version (heavy suits this shit so well)

6. Good song for writing

Personally I don't always use music for writing, but when I do, it needs to not have any lyrics on it, because I'll start singing along and I won't write anything. I usually go for original soundtracks to evoke a particular feeling.

I like the soundtrack of Your Name (Kimi no Nawa) of the band Radwimps if I'm going for soft or angst (Mitsuha's theme is spectacular).

If I want to go for some intense build up, I'll definitely go with Closing Credits: Bolero (Moulin Rouge). This one is perfect for a climatic moment.

If I'm writing something calm, but I need a dark feeling, Erik Satie's Gnossienne No. 1 is absolutely perfect. Even for reading dark shit.

And I'm gonna go with the next question, because this could become easily a neverending list.

18. Popular song you hate

This one is easy.

Pa' tipos como tú, by Shakira and Bizarrap.

I swear to god, if I listen to this song just one more time...

23. Vecna Song

Finally, this one! I do not have one Vecna song. To be honest, I've got a whole playlist, but I'll put in here an emblematic one.

The one that brings me back to a moment when I was happiest.

This is Gospel, by Panic! at the Disco.

And to show you that I'm not kidding about the playlist, here's the Spotify link for my In case of Vecna, break the glass playlist.

Thank you so damn much for asking this, it was so fun to answer! Have a great night!

@strangersteddierthings @annoyinglyfanon

[nburkhardt]

77

Gonna go backwards in my asks 🫡

77: Castles Crumbing by Taylor Swift Feat Hayley Williams.

I’m not at all sorry that I can immediately say Steve to nearly all my songs but it’s SO TRUE.

This is 100% Steve especially after his fall, honestly I don’t think this one needs a little fic. It’s pretty self explanatory.

[annoyinglyfanon]

A few weeks ago my coworker put googly eyes on my work phone

Came back from lunch today to find him upgraded

[herder-of-gnorbus]

Lands of Neopia Asks! Kreludor! ((This is ucplushielenny's main blog))

Kreludor: Would you go into space if you had the chance?

if it was only for a few days maybe! not really interested in being away from home too long lol

[nyreenkandros]

15 and 17 for the Ryder ask please :)

15: Answered here

17: Did Ryder fall in love? If so, with whom? What drew them to that person? Would their sibling approve?

She fell in love with Vetra! What first drew Jaciel to Vetra was her swagger, confidence and smooth moves on the battlefield. Also that Vetra was a bit mysterious at the time.

Finding out about Vetras past and her sister, it became clear to Jazz that Vetra is a very caring person, dependable and has a great personality. Which made Jazz really start to fall for her. 

James would approve of the relationship because Jaciel is happy and Vetra’s trustworthy which is what he cares about most. Doesn’t matter about that fact that Vetra’s not human, he’s not judgemental and doesn’t discriminate.  

[egberts]

thank you @annoyinglyfanon for mine life

[nburkhardt]

Character bingo! Robin Buckley

(I will ask more if other people don't so look out for those later)

Yay 🥰

Character bingo, send me a character!