UPDATE: FINISHED IT!!
you can read the full fic here:
preview of my new fic Monsoon Season (in which i saw this tweet and immediately took it so, so personally)
“Harrington, are you fucking kidding me?” Eddie asks as he slams a magazine down in front of Steve, rattling the coffee cup perched on the edge of the little round table.
Monsoon Season, the headline reads. Just who is the man behind America’s hottest new book series?
Steve’s eyes are far too full of mirth for Eddie’s liking. “They think it’s you, don’t they?”
“Of course they think it’s me, you jackass.” Eddie snatches the magazine back, sniffing indignantly as Steve openly laughs at him.
Eddie doesn’t have a workplace nemesis — does his best not to participate in all the petty office politics that go on in the publishing world, thank you very much — but ohhh, boy. If he did. If he did have one, it would be this fucking guy.
Steve fucking Harrington. Former King of Hawkins High, Current Pain in Eddie’s Ass, and not even in the fun way.
See, three years ago Eddie finally got his first big break — topped charts, stole hearts, and broke records with his swashbuckling adventure series aimed at the 10-13 year old crowd. He hadn’t ever really planned to become a children’s author, but hey, turns out he’s great at spinning a tale that a fifth grader can’t put down. Kids love him, parents love him, and now—
Well, now, parents hate him. Are two seconds away from calling for his fucking head. And that’s the whole problem, isn’t it?
One group of ravenous mommy blogger watchdogs becomes unwaveringly convinced that beloved children’s author Eddie Munson is secretly writing filthy gay erotica under the pen name Freddie Monsoon, and now his whole career is in jeopardy.
It’s not even a good pen name.
“A source close to Munson assures us this scorching erotica can’t be his doing,” the article in Eddie’s claw-like grip reads. “‘He’s stupid,’ our source tells us with a bright laugh and a wink, ‘but not that stupid.’”
You know who is that fucking stupid, though?
“You’re still here?” Steve asks mildly while Eddie glares some more.
He knows the pen name belongs to Steve, because one, Chrissy’s a gossip and told him the second she found out, and two, King Shithead himself told Eddie to his face. Gloated about it in this very coffee shop, actually; smirked over the lip of a chai latte while angry mothers protested with homemade signs on the sidewalk outside of the building.
“Yes, I’m still here! Why the hell are you doing this to me, man?”
Does he know how many angry emails Eddie’s gotten in the last hour alone? Seriously, what the fuck?
Steve slides another glance his way — sideways through hooded lids, some sadistic delight gleaming just below the veneer. “Because I like it when you’re flustered,” he smirks, and then he stands to collect his things. “See you tomorrow, Munson.”
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I needddd to contact W Magazine immediately and make them have Jeremy Strong do a video for their celebrity asmr series. ITS A NEED. Please please I think I speak for all Jeremy Strong fans on this one. Like what if we all come together and make W Magazine know that we need this asmr video asap.
Like watching James Marsden do it so well made me want my man to do it so very badly🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️
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Starstruck/Junicrane ramble below the cut because......more content for them in the fandom is always good,,,,
So part of the reason I started shipping them (or at least relating them to one another in my head) is because of a huge misconception I had with what was going on in the events of ieytd 2 (at least when I first got seriously into it)
Basically, in ieytd 2, all of the heads of state were captured so Juniper could impersonate them, and basically I assumed the same must have happened to Reggie despite nothing in canon backing that up? Y'know since JJ impersonates him, and it never occurred to me all he'd need was a voice since Reggie is almost entirely on a voice to ear basis with Phoenix (lmao).
And despite it not being a thing, I still think it would be an interesting scene between them?? Because when I would (and still) sit and imagine it, I always think of JJ going to see Reggie in person? Maybe to gloat, at least a little, or maybe to gauge his voice in person, and part of the reason the impression is off is because Reggie was having absolutely none of it (and not because it was based on a voicemail).
But alternatively, all those thoughts and feelings on Reggie's POV? Crazy. Because heres this guy, who he's likely idolised for years, working for the company he's spent forever trying to thwart. That's a kind of personal betrayal that's hard to communicate, since it's such an intense flip of the narrative for Reggie in such a short amount of time. There's still the remains of a celebrity crush there, because it's hard to get rid of feelings like that quickly, and definitely the admiration for his works, but now there's these hateful feelings because he's doing evil shit now. How do you cope with that? It's so. Intriguing to me.
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