#anti-homophobia-cheese

[bigassbowlingballhead]

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I have never seen this clip and now my heart's beating so fast I can't go to sleep on my GOD HIS THIGHS

go to sleep? that's it? I need them to crush me.

[mylucayathoughts]

hi sweetheart. i miss you <3 just wanted to let you know that you and your loved ones have been in my thoughts. take your time and know that you're loved 🫂🩷

Hi love!

Thank you for the beautiful messages you, @almightaylor and @elliss-stuff left me, though I could not reply right away, know that I have read them many times and they made me feel so good, so at peace, like there is light at the end of the tunnel after all 🥹 like there are good things in this world left to look forward to. Like your friendship ❤️🥹 love you guys so so much! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[kiwiana-writes]

Ooooh please can I ask you about the rockstar!Alex WIP? I cannot explain how INVESTED in that AU, I gobbled up all the snippets of it that you've posted 👀

ABSOLUTELY you can, because I’m also invested in that one 😅

So this fic started out as a tumblr game. The basic idea was “send me an idea for a fake AU and I’ll give you five facts about that AU.” And @tintagel-or-cockleshells sent me “An AU in which Henry and Alex are exes, also Alex is a rockstar who puts a lot of himself into his songwriting. And there’s a happy ending.”

And… here’s the thing. Up to this point, I’d never had a conversation with tintagel one on one. I’d commented on some of her stuff, she’d commented on some of mine, we’d reblog each others WIP snippets on tumblr. We didn��t know each other outside of that. But EVERY DAMN TIME I did games like this, she would ALWAYS come in with something that made me REALLY wanna game fail and actually write whatever it was. She was just impressively tapped in to the sorts of things that make my brain go brrrrrr 😂

The other thing about tintagel is that she’s on, effectively, an opposite timezone to me. So by the time I answered the ask, she was already in bed. I also hit post on the answer and then immediately went into an hour-long meeting…

And came out of said meeting to like 40 notifications and a DEEP sense of confusion until I actually opened them. It popped off, and I absolutely succumbed to the peer pressure. Which meant that by the time tintagel was back online in her morning, this fic had run the full gamut from “this is a fake AU” to “this has a google doc and oh my god I think I’m writing original songs send help”.

At first I thought it would be MOSTLY epistolary, because I was really attached to #3, and then I had a brainwave about how I could make that epistolary, so… now it’s fully epistolary. I’m gonna have to create MULTIPLE new skins for this sucker. As well as like… recording original songs, because I have never made a sensible decision in my life.

And if you think I can’t inflict immense emotional damage via epistolary, I have a lot of Schitt’s Creek pals who would be HAPPY to prepare you for the Suffering ™️😂

[Sleepover weekend!]

[eusuntgratie]

Hi Grace! I read voice note last night and I absolutely loved it! The way you write their dynamics makes my brain melt 🫠 I was so excited to receive a notif for that series, it was such a pleasant surprise. Disaster verse is my favourite and the first ever RPF I ever read (taynick or otherwise).

If I could be vulnerable for a second and make a small confession? I used to be an uptight little prick about RPF before and chose not to go there. But then I found your blog (and Jon's too!) and I thought to myself "hey these people seem cool, maybe I could get over myself for two seconds and check out something new before I reject it".

Then I read this could be disaster and it turned my brain into soup. I set out to gingerly dip my toe into uncharted waters and ended up diving headfirst— thank god for that, I would have been missing out. I had read that fic months ago but some of the scenes are still so fresh in my mind. I LOVE that fic <3

You have inadvertently kickstarted my foray into RPF and I just realised I never gave you credit for it. Thank you!

D thank you so much for sending this. Checking my inbox in the morning is a bit of a dice roll but this is just such a lovely message to receive <3

Thank you for loving disaster. She's my baby, my love child with @bigassbowlingballhead that we've been working on and planning and writing and brainstorming for a year at this point. I love this 'verse, and this story, and it was so fun to write. It makes me really happy when other folks love it too.

Thank you for telling me about your rpf journey! I totally understand the hesitation, and I think that a healthy awareness that you are writing/reading about fictionalized versions of real people is important. It's clear that there are people in this fandom who have blurred those lines which leads to fandom drama and the actors being put in a weird position, or made uncomfortable. The fourth wall exists for a reason!

However, apart from that, rpf really isn't any different than reading about any other fictional character. Pam & Tommy on Hulu is RPF. Seb Stan's new trump movie is RPF too. Historical fiction featuring real life characters is RPF (there are SO MANY examples of this). Monsters on Netflix is RPF. ALL true crime is RPF. People have been writing rpf for EVER. It's nothing new, or even limited to fanfiction.

It is fun for me to take the bits and pieces that we see and fill in the gaps of what could be possible. the 'canon' of rpf is SO DIFFERENT from writing characters from a tv show, movie, or a book... it's an interesting and fun challenge for me (which is why i've written in...4? i think?...different rpf fandoms at this point).

I could ramble for days but I'll leave it there. Thank you for this message; I really appreciate it 💜

[insecuregodcomplex]

V, I sent you my first ever boop!! I gave you my boop virginity 🙂‍↕️🩷

D!!! This is a precious gift I am so lucky to have!! Thank you for sharing this experience with me🥰😘🫶

[firenati0n]

Hi Roop!! I read the Proposal AU yesterday and I wanted to tell you how delightful my experience was! I couldn't stop myself from word-vomiting all over the ao3 comments but apparently it wasn't enough and now I'm in your asks wanting to congratulate you for this truly stupendous accomplishment! I can't believe THIS was only your first ever multichap??

Chapter 5 was my most favourite!! The way you've written Alex's pov there? It made me ache. It was sheer poetry, that section about Henry leaving in broad daylight. God, just thinking about it now is making me tear me up again. I LOVED the fact that they truly SAW each other. It really shone through in your writing. Every time I read the Alex, his/ Henry, his bits, it made my heart stutter. 🥺

Thank you for this wonderful, wonderful gift. Your version of firstprince will stay with me for a long time. Sending you much love 🤍🌻

oh my GOSH!!!!!!!!!! this ask was so delightful i am actually floored jlsjdflajsldfsad THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! i am so happy you read and enjoyed!!!!!!! :)

LISTEN I LOVE AO3 WORD VOMIT I AM DELIGHTED BY AO3 WORD VOMIT!!!!!!!!!!! this is so lovely of you to say, i really appreciate this!

and chapter 5 ohhhhh that one hurt me so badddd and that passage you referenced was a gut punch for me as well to write flajslkfsdf this is such a kind thing to say PLEASE i am on the floor. this made my day.

the Alex his // henry his parallels made my head spin LMAO i was so excited to include that!

thank you thank you thank you i love you <3 <3

xoxo roop

[youtastelike-sunlight]

Oooh would you answer 24 for me please? (For the Handwriting ask game.)

24. Favourite food

[Handwriting asks]

[fallingleaves-46]

charlie's speeach at the end of 2x01

nick's speech at the end of 2x08

i love how both of the vow to be each other's safe place. the journey isn't going to be easy or perfect, but they will 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 be each other's anchor no matter what.

[caffeinated-by-daylight]

HELP I SENT MY EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE SISTERS SOME HEARTSTOPPER CONTENT BY MISTAKE AND THEY SAW IT AND ONE OF THEM ACTUALLY SAID DO NOT WATCH THAT 😭😭😭😭

I keep my comics hidden for this exact reason!!!

[gwenthegreengremlin]

Currently rewatching Heartstopper season 1. Remember everyone, make sure you're prepared with your anti-homophobia cheese!

[heartstopper-lover123]

what's anti-homophobia cheese?

In heartstopper season 1, I think episode 4, some random girls at higgs were making comments about Tara and Darcy, so Darcy said to Tara if she wanted to throw cheese at them. Tara asked why she had cheese and Darcy replied "one must always be prepared with anti-homophobia cheese" and now I live by that quote!

[bigassbowlingballhead]

Spotted your cameo in Roop's herny mountana fic and I laughed so hard, I peed my pants a little

This is 100% something you'd say, A+ characterisation, right down to your twitter name. My god, I am wheezing

@firenati0n you hear that? you characterized me PERFECTLY. you don't only capture henry and alex perfectly. but also me!!!!

anyway everyone go read roop's herny mountana fic you might see some other familiar names!! and it's very good! and very fun! roop is such a good writer!

[mylucayathoughts]

💌 send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome 💌 🌸

Hey beautiful girlie 🥰

thank you 😘

[kiwiana-writes]

2, 17, and 24 please MJ? 🩷

2. Most recent fandom you joined?

The Pairing, probably? I never know what "joining" a fandom actually entails for questions like this but starting the fandom tag on AO3 must count, right? 😅

17. Favourite blog(s) in your favourite fandom?

Literally all my moots. Y'all are so cool.

24. Funniest fandom-related story?

I went to see Noah Reid with some fandom friends last year, because despite the fact that he played in Australia, between flight prices being weirdly out of whack and the fact that I have family in California it actually wound up cheaper for me to see him in LA than in any of the Australian cities he played in. Anyway, none of this is relevant except that I got chatting to other people in the audience while we were waiting for the show to start, and ended up having a conversation with someone that went something like this:

Them: "So where did you travel from for the show?" Me: "Oh, I'm from New Zealand." Them: "No, I can hear the accent. But where are you living now? Are you in LA?" Me: "...New Zealand." Them, and also like four other people in our vicinity: "What the FUCK."

[Fandom/fanfic asks]

[eusuntgratie]

i saw mechanic alex and i RAN here!! please Grace, mechanic alex chapter 3

okay okay i went down a rabbit hole clearly... hope everyone enjoyed the lingerie reblog spam.

i'm very excited about getting this chapter started so thank you for the ask <3

Henry would happily take Alex out right after work, the smell of oil and sweat soaked into his skin, grease smeared on his forearms, sweat stains at his collar and armpits. Henry doesn’t think he’s ever seen anything more beautiful than Alex with his hands buried in an engine, but if he wants to take Henry on a fancy date he won’t complain.

wip wednesday game - make me write!

[insecuregodcomplex]

you give off big nora holleran energy <3

see this is sooo interesting to me and feeds into why I asked!! this is so sweet of you I’d be honored <3 and I’ve never really put myself there, which is part of why it’s so interesting to me!

asking about perception and characters