#carry-the-sky

[redbelles]

vampire!eddie you say????

yep! it's a hellcheer fic that's exactly what it says on the tin:

The trailer door clanging shut wakes him up from a dead sleep. Eddie scrubs at his eyes and cracks his jaw a couple times, trying to release the tension that’s built up there. It’s just Wayne, leaving for his shift at the plant, but try telling that to his nervous system. Dustin finds the whole thing fascinating—enhanced senses, heightened reaction time, fangs—but Dustin doesn’t have to live with it. Turns out getting demobat bit to shit doesn’t mean dying so much as it does vampiric undeath, so Eddie’s not really living with it either, but the point stands.

ask me about my wips!

[ninzied]

omg how fun 📝

[heidiamalia]

oooo 10 and 11 for the fic recs??

okay so i had to do a lil digging for these lolol i apologize for the wait

10/ a fic that isn't prose [poetry, text fic, etc]

after a length of time searching i found the script-formatted fic where crowley and aziraphale create a podcast after the not-apocalypse and i mean -

it's great.

it's a new craze by attheborder

CROWLEY: I try not to make a habit of gratitude, but I must give our appreciation to everyone out there who’s been listening and subscribing to The Ineffable Plan.

AZIRAPHALE: Ooh, yes, we’ve become quite popular, haven’t we?

CROWLEY: Yeah, just hit number eight on the advice charts … No advertising at all.

AZIRAPHALE: Mm. How … miraculous.

CROWLEY: … Aziraphale. You did not.

Crowley and Aziraphale are very possibly the people least qualified, on the entire planet, to start up an advice podcast. But what else is there to do when the world isn’t ending anytime soon, you’re technically on indefinite sabbatical from your lifelong careers, and you need a plausible excuse to spend more time with your best friend who you’re definitely not, absolutely not, maybe just a little, actually maybe overwhelmingly in love with?

i do very much enjoy how thoroughly in you get with this one. we're stuck to the sidelines with the rest of the listeners tagged on twitter and whatnot, watching certain spirals come out and the plot thicken. their voices are so real in my head throughout, without any moment of doubt. i think i laughed right from the summary and didn't stop.

11/ a fic that brought you aboard a new ship

now this line isnt exactly fair because the show itself brought me aboard the ship - the gifsets and the pacific rim comparisons and the long metas to being in sync with each other really introduced me. but the first fic i absolutely remember reading for the ot3 was this one -

safe as houses by thecanaryfalls

Parker and Hardison comfort Eliot, in their weird multimillionare-convicted-felons-who-are-planning-a-life-with-him kind of way.

Set right around The Rundown Job.

this is that middle of the night, quiet and soft piece where you can hear how loud someone's shifting on the couch is -

like does that make sense.

the bit of early early dawn where its too soon to speak up before the birds but you still wanna have that sleepover conversation moment where you have to reassure your best friend you're always gonna be there.

this was that. this is where it was so so solid for me.

ask me about the fic rec meme!

[majicmarker]

falling for somewhere i’ve never been PLS

oh ur gonna Like this one, i think—

the summary:

His girlfriend—the love of his life—has fucking amnesia. Eddie doesn’t know when his life became a goddamn made-for-TV drama, but here he is.

But. But!

He made Chrissy fall in love with him once. He can do it again.

(and, from chrissy’s pov—)

Chrissy knows she loves him. That’s why they’re here, right? Because they love each other. All she needs to do is remember how that happened.

And if this is who Eddie Munson is—honest and earnest and devoted—well, Chrissy can’t imagine it’s going to be hard.

some more ~deetz:

dual pov. either a one-shot or a short multichapter, depends on how the pacing shakes out.

after an accident, chrissy gets amnesia and loses her memories from the last year-ish, so she doesn’t remember that eddie’s her Very Serious (bc u know these two are attached-at-the-hip codependent immediately) boyfriend. ergo, eddie’s gotta woo chrissy all over again, but they’re both pretty into that—make the best of a bad situation and all that.

to jog her memories, eddie takes chrissy around hawkins to all of Their spots (the places that mean something to them, like where they had their first kiss, that sort of thing) and he basically spins their love story to get her to remember.

(and of course, eventually, she does.)

(i’m not a fckin doctor, man, idk how amnesia works, we’re here for the romance~)

snippet!:

(ps an incomplete/first draft snippet, so bear with me—)

“What’s wrong?”

“Oh, it’s—it’s nothing.”

“Uh, so.” Eddie tucks his hands under his armpits, watches the ruffle of the carpet when he drags his foot back and forth. “We don’t really… do that. Not talk to each other, I mean. We kinda tell each other everything. I wanna know what’s on your mind.”

“Oh.”

“Yeah.”

“Really?”

“Yeah.” He looks up at her with another one of those smiles. It gives Chrissy butterflies. “Yeah, pancake, I love knowing all about that weird little head of yours.”

“Even if it’s… really weird?”

“Oh, especially then.”

“Okay. So. Um. We sleep here together?”

“We do.” He slips his hands in his pockets, rocks on his heels. “You’re a blanket hog.”

“I get cold.”

“Ice cube feet,” Eddie agrees.

“So—what, um. What else do we do?”

“You mean…?” When Chrissy nods, Eddie’s cheeks go pink. Hm. “Uh, so. We… do stuff. We kiss a lot.”

“You like kissing me?”

“Oh, man—” Eddie drags his hands down his face, laughing. “Oh my God. Yeah.”

[hangon-silvergirl]

10, 16, 29 for the ao3 wrapped ask?? 😘

Hi Hayley! 🥰 

10. What work was the quickest to write?

something pretty! I wrote it in about six hours, total.

16. What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?

This year that is apparently "Eddie Munson is a sweetheart." Which... very true!

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

I posted yesterday about the 7/11 meeting scene from Marigold, which is my favorite. Bonus, though, here's a close second, from chapter 7 of the buzz: Chrissy appraised them critically, then she grabbed three cups, and wrote out the drink order details three times with her sharpie. She pointed at the curly, fidgety, lanky boy and asked, “Name?” “Mike?” Chrissy wrote ‘Mike (?), who is not subtle’ on his cup, and set it on the bar. The other boy jumped in with his own without being prompted: “I’m Lucas! Hi.” Chrissy wrote ‘Lucas, who has nice hair’ on his cup, and set it on the bar. On the third cup she wrote ‘Eddie!’ and dotted the ‘i’ and the point of the exclamation mark with a heart. “Oh, it’s just, uh. The two of us?” Mike tried to say, but Chrissy shook her head. “I think,” she said in a measured warning, but tone still (threateningly) pleasant, “That if you were coming to lurk and guffaw at me for whatever reason to annoy your friend, the least you could do is buy him a coffee, don’t you?”

Thanks for the ask! (From the ao3 Wrapped ask game.)

[proxycrit]

Linktober day 10: the fire temple

Ghosts cry too, you know.

(The desecration of a loved one vs the undying determination to help preserve the future… a tale as old as time memorial. The sage of fire had sealed himself in his temple, preserving his soul in preparation for the day Rauru’s seals were to break with Mineru’s technology. But the Malice does what it does best— corrupt and twist, until nothing was left except a dying wish.)

Unfortunately, nobody knows ancient Goronese. So that story’s sort of going right over their heads and nailing rauru’s weepy ghost in the skull.

This au is called Familiar Familiar, and is totk without the time travel! I’m basically building my own lore at this point.

Patreon!

[keferon]

…..I should be working rn but one of the songs in my playlist hit harder than usual so

[dreamdripdistance]

redraw !

[cheatsylu]

A little tune to lift spirits 🎵

[justaz]

merlin (immortal) giving arthur (pendragon) the only blade that could kill him

[redbelles]

7, 19, 27 for the writer asks?? 😘

7. when is your preferred time to write?

i prefer early mornings (assuming i'm, you know, conscious) and late evenings!

19. are there any stories that you’ve written that you’d really love to do a sequel to?

lmao someday i will post the sequel(s) to like a heartbeat drives you mad, i swear. also the eddie pov sequel to tongue's talkin' riddles (sticky sweet)

27. do you make a general outline for your stories or do you just go with the flow?

great question! sure wish i had an answer for that beyond "it depends on the story but i do try to outline regularly but also sometimes my outlines eat me for breakfast!"

send me some fic writer asks!

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 333

I once more believe Battinson Batman needs to be given a child. Or multiple. Multiple children. I am also once more rotating Ghosts Have Wings Au. 

So Batman, still early in his whole vigilante career ends up busting a shipment, nothing too surprising there. Pretty usual honestly. Except for what was in one of the crates already open. Because it looks like some sort of gemstones but… perfectly spherical. Strange. Suspicious. 

But it’s also late, er, early in the morning, and the GCPD is notoriously corrupt, so like, he’s not going to just leave the weird gemstones, each about the size of a plum or so. (Dear Gotham he’s apparently hungry, and might inwardly vow to never let anyone realize what his tired mind decided to use as measurement) 

So he, unknowingly spurred on by more than just a slight bit of ecto contamination, takes the strange spheres back home. Just puts them in his pockets and heads back to the manor that they moved back into after the whole Riddler mess. (He even found a cool cave! With a bunch of terrifying bats, but they made a glass separator! For safety!) 

But in Bruce’s defense of forgetting about them, he’s more than a little tired and hungry and just wants to sleep for a bit, y’know? So maybe he forgets about the gems as he falls asleep in the chair in the cave (Alfred was not pleased!) until he starts digging around for them. Erm. Did they fall out somewhere?? There’s no holes in his belt pockets… 

And maybe these sort of things shouldn’t slip his mind, the spheres had felt Weird with a capital W, but he gets forced to a circus and there’s an… accident. So maybe he pushed it away as not important because there’s now an angry grieving eight-year old living with him and he’s panickedly reading any and all sort of parenting books he can get a hold of because he has no clue what he’s doing. 

Yeah, maybe his back is itching like crazy no matter what he tries, and maybe he threw up the other day, but it’s fine. This is fine. 

….

Oh dear Gotham those are feathers, this is not fine- ALFREEED!

[zip-toonz]

Annoying Each Other for Sport

[majicmarker]

favorite pet name that eddie has called chrissy in one of your fics, GO

this is BULLSHIT

that being said—ahem—might have to go with "peach" in the sex shop au. it's cute, it's different, it pops.

i do, however, appreciate the challenge of "shortstack" in the jason pov. gotta use that one a bit more sparingly than others, but i think i'm making it work, u can let me know when it makes a reappearance in the next chapter (eddie's pov, smthn to look forward to, *eyeballs emoji*)

[bisexualchrissycunningham]

👀🗑️📌 for the fanfic ask!

👀 Do you have any words/phrases you use habitually?

Oh god, I realized pretty recently just how much I overuse that moment when a character is lost in their thoughts and someone else "pulls them out of their head" by maybe touching them gently or something. I have a thing for letting characters go on long internal tangents but I really have to find other ways of dealing with it cause I'm pretty sure I've used it 4-5 times so far in my current WIP 😣

🗑 What is one fic idea that you loved at first but then scrapped?

There was this one post on here very early on about how Eddie essentially acted as music for Chrissy, in that his presence protected her from Vecna which inspired a retelling of that Friday night where Chrissy stuck by his side and even went so far as to ask him to touch her, cause she noticed how much having him close soothed her. His kiss was going to save her when she briefly got trapped in the trance.

But ultimately, I felt like I didn't have a unique enough spin on the events of that night so the fic just didn't turn into anything particularly compelling. I did really like some sections I wrote, some of the dialogue, some specific phrasing, and headcanons I included about Eddie's mom, so I think some of those bits and pieces will be lifted and end up elsewhere eventually.

I also abandoned the first Hellcheer WIP I posted to AO3 (RIP to Chrissy the tutor flirting with Eddie in the drama room under the supervision of a teacher who knew EXACTLY what those horny teenagers were doing). It was intended to be a role reversal where Eddie was Vecna's target, but I never found a good angle for why he would have been chosen and it just kinda petered out. Although I did write Master of Puppets as the song that woke Eddie up from his trance before Volume 2 dropped and I'll forever be proud of that.

📌 If all your fics/WIPs fell off a ship and were drowning (go with it), and you could only save one, which would it be?

The medieval arranged marriage AU between semi-disgraced knight Eddie and unloved princess Chrissy, hands down. I still think about it a lot, and I'll never be able to get the scene of their first night together out of my head until I write it.

Thanks for the ask 💚💜💚

[hangon-silvergirl]

G, L, P for the writing asks?? 👀😘

Hiiiiiii Haley!! 🥰 Thanks for the ask! (From the FanFic Ask Game.)

G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

For the most part linearly, start to finish. If concepts stick in my head though, or if there is something I feel I need to define so that it helps to shape the story properly, then I will write that first. For example, the next chapter of the buzz is the penultimate one, and I have had a core scene from that written since midway through the second chapter. I wrote the 7/11 meeting scene in Marigold first, before anything else; for Marigold I also made all of the mixtapes before I started writing.

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

When I pause for a session of writing, the next time I do I will edit whatever I wrote before, and tweak everything that came before that. My editing is a lot of finicking until I get everything done. Once a story or chapter IS complete, I try to let it marinate for a day or so before I do a full edit, and format, to post. After I post I do a quick re-read with formatting in place, and adjust if needed. Sometimes, however, if something has been a challenge or if it's making me crazy or if I'm at a point of picking it apart, then I just post it so that it will stop haunting me.

P: Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an “architect” or a “gardener”? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)

It depends on the story. For some concepts I just have vague ideas of where things are going from beginning to end; I generally know what I want to accomplish and let myself list lazily there. The outline for just something you wished for & you almost missed is a series of unhinged discord conversations between @majicmarker and myself (though yes, there is a table in the gdoc, so we can track our sections). Other stories are more structured, especially if there are key events or concepts and I don't want the narrative to meander to far away. For Marigold I have a chapter table, broken down by the dates, with the applicable soundtrack chapter title, and notes. A lil peek: