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A/n: the og idea was by @desitonystark , I just genderbent Tony. Also this was partially inspired by shubh mangal saavdhan
He doesn't really think of any other name when Ma suggests it.
It's a casual conversation, but she's been dropping hints she expects grandchildren before she turns 60. It's far away, but then again, so are his marriage prospects.
He's barely started earning enough to not blow it all over the weekend. Marriages are still a rare thing for his generation.
Right?
"Your friend from school, Nathan, he also got married." She drops the peas into the huge bowl and dumps the pod on the ever growing pile. He's back for Diwali, before he dives back into the bustle of Bombay. Concern for him is apparent on her face.
"And Stuti, too, I went to her engagement last week. All my cousins are asking when they'll get to attend yours."
"Ma, please."
"Oho, am I dragging you to the altar? Just start meeting people, if nothing. Send them prospectives."
Steve hums nonchalantly and grabs a few peas too. She does have a point.
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Maria often imagines what Howard would say about Toni if he were still alive.
She resembled him more than her in that strong jaw and determinate nature of hers. Thankfully the anger she had apparently skipped out on.
Or so she thought until she heard her anguished wail. Maria had thought to merely mention the rishta the Rogers family had sent; not expecting Toni to go off like a bomb.
"WHAT THE FUCK?"
"Language, beta." She looked up from the very traditional letter that was sent. Toni paced about, muttering. Stopping suddenly, she grabbed her blazer from the meeting in the morning and ran upstairs.
Her mother sighed, looking heavenwards and cursing all eleven forefathers of her daughter.
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Bucky yawned as he opened the door, eyes half shut from sleep. He had tried to nudge awake Steve, who'd refused to leave the bed, citing a headache from travel.
What he had expected to see was the society guard asking for his bonus, or perhaps the secretary for the maintenance check. Maybe the landlord for a sudden inspection.
What he definitely had not expected to see was a face he had mostly seen in Natasha's magazines or on some celebrity's Instagram. Toni Stark stood at the door, smiling.
"Uhhhh...."
"Hi!" She was practically beaming. "Is Steve home?"
"Yeah."
"Can I-"
"Oh, yes, please. Come on in."
He made it to the bedroom before dissolving into giggles. Shaking Steve awake, he pointed at the living room. He threw back the covers and went, cursing under his breath.
What do you do when the love of your childhood, to whose mother you'd sent a rishta to under the influence of three beers and two idiotic friends, is sitting in your living room? was not a question Steve had ever expected to answer.
Then again, billionaire heiresses didn't also show up at bachelors' houses at 11 in the morning uninvited.
"Hi Steve." She finally turned off that billion-watt smile that filmfare lived for and pursed her mouth, resembling more the 14 year old he had fallen in love with and never managed to get over. "What the hell is wrong with you?"
#i need to write more but im currently creatively constipated#lol#desi!Tony x Steve#Fem!Tony x Steve#my writing#stony#Desi!Tony x Desi!Steve#desi!stony
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11/11/11 Tag Game: Round... uh... 5, 6, & 7?
I got tagged by a bunch of people ( @quilloftheclouds is this how your 77 question one felt??) so here are a bunch of answers! I think this is the most Iâve ever talked about myself in my life.Â
Good gracious, youâre all so nice and have such good questions.
Tagged by: @surroundedbypearls, @waterfallwritings, @bigmoodword, @sundaynightnovels
Rules: answer 11 questions, tag 11 people, give them 11 new questions!
[Iâve done this enough to be able to break the tag rules. Fight me.]
44 questions and answers below the cut!
But Iâll be nice and put my questions right here:
What would you do for a Klondike bar?
When do you title your WIPs? It is the first thing you do? The last? Does it come to you during drafting?
How many inside jokes do you put in your WIP(s)?
Your WIPâs antagonist is now The Riddler. How do your OCs handle that?
Do you use sticky notes?
Laptop or desktop?
Your OC is a wrestler. Whatâs their hype music?
Do you own any craft books/books on writing?
Whatâs your favorite book cover?
How many unread books do you have sitting around right now? Which are you most excited to maybe get to eventually some time?
How committed are you to your outline(s)?
Bilbo Taggins: Literally anyone, but also @francestroublr, @sahados-shadow, @a-story-im-writing, @bethkerring, @citruschickadee, @bos-ingit
If Iâve tagged you before, you can totally ignore this. In fact, I encourage you to.
From @surroundedbypearls:
Whatâs your favourite genre to write in and why? Literary fiction! Itâs what I learned in university and the one that fits my themes best. Sci-fi is hard, Iâm just getting into writing fantasy stuff, I canât do thrillers, romance is hard for me, and historical is too much work.
Do you think you have a style/voice that you use more often in your writing? When did you develop that style? If youâve read one of my stories, you know exactly how my writing voice sounds. It doesnât change too much. I write like I talk, but if I had a lot more gravitas and charisma. Honestly, Iâve always had that kind of style, but it really developed in high school. Itâs been getting stronger since then. Itâs one of the things I always got comments about from my teachers and fellow workshop writers. âYour voice is so strong!â Yep. Itâs mah thang.
Do you play video games? Whatâs your favourite? YES I DO. Itâs hard to pick faves, but Iâve played Dragon Age: Origins too many times.Â
If you were going to do a WIP crossover, which OCs would be most interesting together? (If youâve only got one WIP crossover with something else) A crossover between H2HÂ and AOPC? Interesting. I think Mel and Keema would get along the best, Oz would have some fightinâ words for Elder Sanga, and Gemma and Teva would be a force to be reckoned with, my god. Two stubborn nerds who believe totally different things but are also very determined to be very good at what they want to do and love their communities to a fault? Fear them.
Do you prefer to plan WIPs in a document or through handwritten notes? I used to do it by hand but I couldnât read it because my handwriting is terrible and I kept losing papers. I do it in docs now. Much easier to organize and incredibly legible.
Do you multiple languages exist in your WIP? If so how do you address that in the story? H2H is set in the âreal world,â so yep. It hasnât been addressed too much yet, but I have a way for tackling languages. Iâve written multilingual-ish stories before. I never write phonetically and use hella context clues so the reader knows the gist of what was said if another character doesnât translate.
Whatâs your favourite animated film thatâs not Disney or Pixar? AN AMERICAN TAIL. All of them. Itâs on Netflix go watch it and marvel at the way a kids movie talks about Jewish immigration, poverty, and cultural oppression via mice. As a young Jewish child, this movie was my jam. Itâs very dark, though.
Do your real-life surroundings influence your WIPâs settings? Nope! One time I tried to write a story set in the same area where I lived and I couldnât do it. Too weird. Sometimes Iâll write in an item I see near me, or like, a painting or poster on the wall if I need some set decoration, but thatâs about it.
Which OCs would be most likely to break the fourth wall? Oz. Lookinâ at the camera like heâs in The Office.
How do you work out your OCsâ personalities? Hm. I look at the story Iâm trying to write and make a protagonist that would have the most interesting experience in that narrative. For H2H, I wanted someone who would be loyal as heck to the people they loved while still being experimental enough to try new things and get into shenanigans. The story called for someone like that, and there she was. Mel came about my thinking of someone who would compliment other characters in the story while still being their own person. If that makes sense. I think of dynamics and interactions with the story world in relation to the theme(s). Most of the time they just happen, though.
Do you prefer worldbuilding or character building? Character building! As much as I like making stories about places, making characters is more fun for me, and more interesting. You should see all the DnD character sheets I have.Â
From @waterfallwritings:
1. How do you come up with ideas for your WIPs?
At random. Seriously. Itâs like my brain has to be running something in the background to function normally, and usually that something is whatever story I happen to be working on. Or Iâll look at a thing and go âhuh.â My brain also likes to twist normal things to be a little bit different.
2. How do you get past gaps in the plot?
No idea, man. Itâs like throwing spaghetti at a wall. I like to work backwards. If this is what I want to happen, what needs to happen before that to ensure that it occurs? I look at all the elements currently in the story and see if one can be manipulated to fill in the hole.
3. What motivates you to keep writing?
If I donât, my brain gets all constipated and angry until I write something down. Like, seriously, I get grumpy and frustrated like Iâm hangry or something. Aside from physical need, I love writing. I love word puzzles and feelings puzzles and figuring them out. Sometimes I think of how my stories could help someone, or make them feel something that they enjoy.Â
4. Do you do any other kind of creative writing?
Oh, man, Iâve done it all. Screenwriting, playwriting, poetry, video game-ish writing, interactive storytelling, short stories, flash fiction, proposals, essays, DnD campaigns, monologues... You name it, Iâve probably tried it. I tend to stick to prose and poetry these days.
5. Do you have any other creative hobbies besides writing?
Iâve gotten into graphic design a little bit. I kind of wanna learn how to knit again. Iâm not really very crafty.Â
6. What do you do when youâre stuck on a scene and donât know how to get it out / write it?
Write a different scene, stare at the screen in frustration until I give up and go to sleep, meditate for a few minutes, go do something else to get my mind off of it, clean, work on a different project.
7. How do you decide how to end your WIP?
I mean, see the next question for part of my answer. How did I decide to end H2H? My friend, thatâs a big âole spoiler. But I decided to end it at a place where everything, and everyone, comes together.
8. When in the process of writing do you decide how its going to end? Or do you kind of just wait til you get there?
Right at the beginning. If I donât know where itâll end, I have a hard time writing the arc. I work backwards: start with the idea, then think of where I want it to end up, then work back to the beginning until I know where its going, then start writing.
9. Why did you decide to join writeblr?
My reasons are pretty personal, but the least personal is that I needed some accountability and motivation. And I missed being in a good writing community.
10. Whatâs your favourite food?
Pasta! Iâm eating spaghetti right now.
11. If you had to kill off a character in your WIP, who would it be and why?
Oz would be the most tragic. Treena would be the most logical.Â
From @bigmoodword:
1. using one sentence summaries, can you tell me about your wips?
Nerdy potion woman meets cute odd stranger who helps her solve magic mysteries in their quirky small town.
2. what inspired them?
I saw a zine accepting submissions for magic stories, then an open call for queer shifter stories, and thought âwhat if wholesome magical lesbians?â
3. which of your ocs do you most identify with?
Gemma!
4. if youâve ever cried while reading, which book cued the waterworks?
THE SONG OF ACHILLES. My God, my soul was weeping. Honestly, it still is. Doesnât matter that I knew the story from the Iliad. Madeline Miller is a feelings wizard.
5. how do you conduct research for your wips and whatâs the most interesting thing youâve discovered in said research?
On an as-needed basis. I used to do way too much research to avoid actually writing the damn thing, so now I only do it when I actually run into a problem that can be solved by Google.
6. thus far, which scene has been the most difficult to write?
The ones that arenât hugely emotional. Which is... unfortunate.
7. which of your ocs do you like the least?
Rude. On a personal level, Jill. I love her, but I would not be friends with her. We wouldnât mesh at all.
8. which pov and tense do you prefer to write in?
Third person limited present tense! To the bane of everyone whoâs ever edited my work.
9. do you write poetry?
I do! Not often, though.
10. who is your writing role model?
My freakinâ writing professor from college. He is crazy disciplined.
11. if you could give your younger writer self some advice, what would it be?
Hey, you know those people who say your writing is too dark? Yeah, they suck and theyâre wrong. They just want kids to live up to their expectations and write happy sunshiny stories about unicorns and dinosaurs having ice cream. And youâre not depressed because you wrote that one sad poem one time and someone asked if you were depressed. What you have is called feelings and theyâre very useful for a writer, nay, a human, to have.
From @sundaynightnovels:
Who is your biggest role model? Okay, so I got crap all the time in grade school for never having a role model, and I still donât have one. The teachers were concerned about me. But my reasoning was, âwhy should I want to live someone elseâs life?â Yeah. They didnât really know what to do with that...
What are your OCs favorite foods? Sort of answered here!
Which OC is most afraid of the dark? Oz and Mary!
What made you want to start a writing blog/participate in the writeblr community? Answered above!
Did you sleep with a stuffed animal as a kid? Do you still? I did, indeed. I donât anymore, but I have two that I shuffle around my room when they get in the way. One is a highland cow I got in Scotland (he has a plaid hat), the other is a blue whale I got at the Museum of Natural History in NY.
Do you like donuts? I love donuts. Especially jelly filled ones. Mmm.
Do/would your OCs like donuts? All of my OCs like donuts. I donât think Mel has ever had a modern one, though.
What is your least favorite food? Cauliflower? Iâm the household taste-tester, so thereâs been a lot of stuff I donât like. ( @sundaynightnovels I hate sparkling water, too, youâre not alone!)
What is your ideal writing environment? Comfy seating, a chair with no arms (stupid elbows), alone, plenty of chosen beverage within reach, headphones.
Favorite line from your WIP? So far, itâs this one!
Favorite quote from a book? Oh, man. There are so many. From recent memory, here are a few: ââGive it time,â she replies. âIt wonât be a story forever.ââ and âEveryone has heard stories of women like us, and now we will make more of them.â (both from The Ladies Guide to Petticoats and Piracy) âWhen he smiled, the skin at the corners of his eyes crinkled like a leaf held to flame.â and âI lean forward and our lips land clumsily on each other. They are like the fat bodies of bees, soft and round and giddy with pollen.â (I could write a goddamn essay about the imagery in this scene.) (It is quite possibly my favorite description of a kiss ever. And the metaphor extends through the rest of the scene so artfully ugh.) (both from The Song of Achilles) âThe thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head.â (from The Things They Carried)
#11/11/11 tag#about me#tag game#writer tag#oh my god so many questions#fun stuff below the cut#forgive my terrible jokes I am tired#writeblr#how I write#I guess#rec#book rec
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