#hellcheer fanfic: keggers & synth pop

[hangon-silvergirl]

“I will give you… /ten dollars/, to make out with me right now.”

I love you and I love this. 'Five Sentences' isn't even part of this anymore. Also! It's HellCheer Day, so... Have a whole-ass fic!

keggers & synth-pop by @hangon-silvergirl on ao3 (Complete!) A HellCheer Day One-Shot

Eddie narrows his eyes at her; takes a considering drag of his smoke. What else on God’s green earth is he good for in context? He’s not sure that he and Chrissy Cunningham have ever said more than a handful of words to one another ever. “Why?” “I’ll give you ten dollars to make out with me right now.” She couldn’t have stunned him anymore if she had told him that she was joining a nunnery and needed a ride, or if she had asked him to help her hunt down Bigfoot. Eddie blinks at her a few times, then sticks a finger in his ear and shakes it around vigorously to try and dislodge whatever’s impairing his hearing. “Uh. Come again?”

Eddie really oughta leave this party, but... Chrissy Cunningham is pretty persuasive.

[hangon-silvergirl]

8 and 18 💛

Thank yooooooou! 💜

I touched on both of these here, but like that'll stop me from answering them both again!

8. What project(s) are you currently working on?

Beyond the kinkmeme fic, most of my WIPs are dormant; the only one I've really plugged away at in last little bit is a Chrissy POV I've mentioned before that is tentatively titled "bitch". But that is because I've rewritten it about 15 times since April. 😅

18. What’s one of your favorite lines you’ve written in a fic?

Another line I really like (from keggers & synth-pop): It deepens quickly, gets comfortable, adds new squishy and gratified huffs and groans to the ambience of the well-settled evening. They are full-on making out before Eddie really, fully comes to terms with it all, and whatever, he can come to terms with it later or never, who even fucking cares, he’s making out with Chrissy Cunningham on a bucket.

(From Bored Fanfic Asks!)

[hangon-silvergirl]

Find the Word Tag Game

I was tagged by @astorytotellyourfriends (❤️) to find lose, tear, accept, and shake in my WIPs (and to post the snippets).

Amazingly, I found all of them!

lose, from an upcoming one-shot titled keggers & synth-pop:

(Or else he’d lose his fucking mind.)

tear, from chapter 10 of Marigold:

“After banging on the thrift store doors half a second past opening, yes indeedy,” Eddie replies with a grin. “They are really, really ugly with these radical goddamn, like, electric, neon palm trees, on it? And will clash like fuck with my tattoos and my personality. Buuuuuut I’m not expecting to run into Tommy Ioomi in Gary today, so. But if by some freak circumstance we do, know that the tears I'll shed afterward will be entirely justified.”

accept, from chapter 10 of the buzz:

You (9:14): well FUCK OFF then You (9:14): i will NOT let a man named STEVE throw cold water on the best fever dream of a day that i’ve ever had TheHairTM (9:15): I acknowledge and accept your disdain.

shake, from chapter 5 of just something you wished for & you almost missed (writing with @majicmarker):

Chrissy shakes her head. “We adapted. I told you, we didn’t want to exclude anyone. But for the sake of your milk I’m not going to tell you what those categories were called.”

I'll tag (with no pressure) @a-strange-inkling, @khaleesa, @bratanimus, @amandaashplease, and @majicmarker to find grin, sharp, blue, and try.

[hangon-silvergirl]

🌿🕯️💌💞✨

Thank you! 😊❤️

🌿how does creating make you feel?

Every emotion under the sun. Sometimes I'm spamming @majicmarker passages like a gleeful little gremlin, while other times I'm beating my head against the floor, or screaming into pillows. There's nothing more satisfying then when it all comes together though, and you're proud of the summation of all that blood, sweat, and tears, and you get to yeet the emotional weight of it out into the universe.

🕯️was there a fic that was really hard on you to write, or took you to a place you didn't think it would take you?

Marigold has been my biggest struggle, and that's largely because I keep second guessing the story I set out to tell. I tend to stick more to silly and funny takes, quick and dumb, and while there's humor in Marigold, it's a lot more serious in tone and intent, which has been a challenge.

💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!

I'm writing a one-shot called keggers & synth-pop that's just a short scene (based on one of the prompts I asked for a few weeks back). I like the normalcy in slice-of-life for Hellcheer; that more typical teenage experience, which this is. It's not very long, so I'm not going to post any snippets, but I will say that the thought came to be because I was fixating for like a month on trying to figure out how to get Eddie to sit and wobble around on an upturned bucket.

💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language

The vibe and the pacing. Whatever I'm trying to emulate or convey, I want the progression to flow sensibly and for that immersive reference to come across without squinting. I spend so much time just editing and editing and editing the structure of thoughts and mechanics and transitions. I feel like I'm doing Mad Libs. And I think characterization goes hand-in-hand with the vibe. The spirit's gotta be there, or the ass'll fall out of the whole thing.

✨What's a fic you've posted you wish you could breathe life into again and have people talking about it? (or simply a fic you wish got more credit)

Probably For Luck, which is D&D-inspired. It features the ST teen characters as members of a mercenary adventuring group, and reimagines Chrissy as an eladrin (extraplanar elf) druid, and Eddie as a tiefling bard. There is a major character death, so perhaps that also puts folks off, but in D&D there are ways around the permanence of that.

Fic Writer Asks.