#i'm at work and cobbled this together but i am already in love w all this

[frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe]

@limbs-are-optional, @gezell-igg, @juiceicicles

the fact that i didn't even consider immortality for either of them probably says smthg about me lmao

anyway, immortal steve (vampire? mutant? who knows) who had just arrived to the US from another round of living in italy right as another world war is starting, sees the news out of pearl harbor in december 1941 and is like oh great, here i go again, and is drafted soon after he reaches his not-quite-his-real-age when he became immortal (he basically stopped aging at 24/25, and is "21" when the US gets involved.

he survives the war (of course, nothing can hurt him) he goes to live in europe again for a time, then australia, is back in the midwest again in the 80s, and after another "life" living in italy, is back in the states for a couple years when he gets one of those electronic mail things (he stopped paying attention to technological advances after he was in the states last, and e-mails were one of the things on a rapidly shortening list of anonymous forms of contact that he'd kept up with (don't get him started on the chatrooms he had once tried out in the 90s/00s)) that says "hey man, this might sound weird but i found these at a second hand shop, and i think they may have belonged to your grandpa?"

against his better judgement, he goes to meet up with this eddie character at the coffee shop not far from the home he'd lived in every time he'd come back to the states (a beautiful brownstone in chicago that's been so generously "passed down" from each Steve in his family to the next. he gratefully accepts his old set of dog tags from the frankly beautiful other man and tells him all about his…grandpa.

then, continuing to be not smart about a whole lot of things this time around apparently, he continues to see eddie. the quirky guy wound his way into his long-unbeating heart and just...stayed there.

eddie's love for tolkien, his love for one of the stranger louder genres of music that's come about in the last half-century, his love for that one tabletop game steve'd had once sat though many a confusing conversation about back in the 80s when he'd met Dustin (the only non-immortal being to know about steve)...eddie was.. eddie.

and eddie is perfect.

they grow closer and closer, and closer to dangerous heartbreaking territory for someone who doesn't age.

steve starts to panic, calling his best friend in a tizzy, "Robin, this isn't good..", "No, I'm not going to do that to him.", "Of course I haven't! He'd think me insane!", "Yeah, Robin, I know he already thinks I'm hot, that's not the point.."

he refuses and refuses and refuses to tell eddie about himself, despite a couple more years going by where robin finds someone of her own, someone she ends up making like them.

he's happy for Robin and Chrissy, really, but he just.. can't. do it.

then, on the night of eddie's own 25th birthday, eddie confesses.

"I think...I think I've been head over heels in love with you since I first saw that picture of y--I mean, your grandpa. Wait, shit, is that weird?" eddie pulls a lock of hair across his face, "I just.. it just feels like I've known you forever and--" he laughs nervously, avoiding Steve's eye. "Yeah. Yeah, this is weird, I'm just gonna--"

steve stops him from retreating back into his living room from the balcony. robin gives him a questioning look from her spot on the couch next to chrissy (they had made the trip for eddie's birthday, and of course eddie and chrissy had clicked the same way steve and robin had all those years ago) that he answers with a fleeting look of his own.

he waits until eddie's gaze meets his, searching the dark depths of those eyes of his for no more than three whole seconds. who's he kidding, he's been going to do this since he took that first step toward the coffee shop that day.

"Eddie, sweeheart," steve takes a breath at the same time eddie's hitches and says. "I need to tell you something."

regular thrifter eddie comes across a pair of dog tags with the name 

HARRINGTON, STEVEN 04 AUG 1920 AB NEG U.S. ARMY

he takes them to the counter without even thinking about it, no more than a new addition to his outfit.

he looks up the name eventually, and holy shit, this guy’s gorgeous

something something he tracks down the old-timey hottie’s great grandson Steve Harrington (the fourth) to return the tags and wouldn’t you know it, Steve is the spitting image of his grandpa

[rollercoasterwords]

hi rae!! i was wondering if you could tell us more about your writing process :)) im very curious about it. like, do you brainstorm then write or write whatever flows or both. do you painstakingly line edit after or just give it a glance for any mistakes. im mostly curious about atydsp bc its so exceptionally well written and it absolutely boggles my mind that you were posting a ch a day. how much of your time for atydsp involved editing/scrapping & rewriting/etc? xx

hi sure i'd be happy to!! gonna put this under a cut tho bc it got long lol

for atydsp (+ my captive prince rewrite) my process was pretty different from my other writing in that i basically descended into a feverish haze of obsession and literally abandoned all other hobbies just to write bc i loved the story so much lol. for atydsp especially that thing was like...my only hobby for half a year like i was not reading or watching tv or movies or playing video games etc bc the only thing i wanted 2 do in my free time was. write.

when i'm rewriting a story from another character's pov i usually have the ch of whatever i'm rewriting open next to word doc and just kinda go 2 town. i think it's much easier when you aren't having to do the heavy lifting when it comes to plot and are following an outline, bc obviously you aren't having to do much story planning urself--although for the later chs of atydsp where i sort of broke off from the og version + the chs where r + s are separated + i had to write new scenes for s i did have to spend more time planning, writing, editing, etc, but i didn't start posting the story until i'd already written the first 20 chs so. i had a pretty large buffer and that combined with the obsession combined with the shorter chapters + outline to follow is why i was able to post so frequently.

when i'm writing a new fic there's much more brainstorming involved bc obviously i am having 2 come up w a whole new plot!! but bc i'm only writing fic for fun i don't really take it too seriously and usually i just cobble together a couple of fun scenes or tropes that i like and then sort of...fill in the blanks? like if i'm like "ok i want to write a scene where x happens and then later a scene where y happens" i usually end up figuring out a plot/how to keep the story moving between those two scenes, rather than vice versa (having like...a coherent plot and then coming up with fun scenes that fit into it). like my current wip started as just a single idea of "ooh what if there was a werewolf fighting ring" and then it become a voldemort-won au bc i was like hmmm in what situation would r + s meet at a werewolf fighting ring...and then i decided it would eventually turn into a horcrux hunt bc i was like "ok if r + s grew up in a voldemort-won au...what would james be doing...." and now the story is continuing to change as i continue to have ideas of like "ooh what if i incorporated this trope" or "ooh this would be such a fun scene to write." like lily + james's entire dynamic in this fic basically grew out of an idea that i had for a single argument that i wanted to write lmao

anyway when it comes to actual writing process i usually go into a ch with just a vague outline of a few bullet points, and if i'm stuck on something i send a voicenote to my sister just like...talking through my thoughts + what i want to happen + usually by the end of the voicenote i'll have figured out what direction i wanna take things. or sometimes i'll ask her opinion (the ending i'm planning rn for atwmd changed completely after one such consultation...had an idea but then talked myself out of it but then my twin was like wait....i think that idea works better than what ur currently planning....and i was like damn maybe ur right....). so most of my planning + brainstorming is basically just me daydreaming + then talking 2 myself lmao.

when it comes to actual writing i'm pretty slow because i'm too much of a perfectionist and i need everything to sound right. immediately. like i have heard the advice so many times "just get something down on the page then go back and edit it later" but i am like. incapable of following it lol i will write a sentence and then read over it three times to decide if i like it before i move on. the plus side to this is that my chs usually need very little editing; i generally just read over them once or twice and make a few minor tweaks and i'm good to go!

anyway. i have had some similar inquiries abt my writing process etc in the past so i'll tag this ask w 'writing tips' bc i think that's what i've used b4; hopefully this satisfied ur curiosity!

[blueskyheadleft010]

Warframe: The New War, is f*ing blowing my brain

Finally finally got enough cobbled together parts to build a Necramech + made sure I at least had rank 5 in all the Railjack upgrades, so I felt pretty confident starting the questline The New War tonight.

[Some spoilers ahead; yes, I know I'm late to the game. Also, sorry for sloppy image insertions.]

Dear god I was not prepared in the least.

I’ve already logged about 3 hours into the quest and i’m not even a quarter of the way done. 

Can I just say; HOW IS THIS FREE TO PLAY GAME THIS DAMN AMAZING?!?

Like holy shit, you guys. Like GUYS. THIS FUCKING GAME.

It just cranked up the difficulty by taking away your ‘warframe’, and giving you multiple quests as other npcs (that were oddly interesting to play as. I liked some more than others. Teshin was a welcome surprise, but his gameplay was aggravating, and I felt too enclosed in the maps despite how spread out they were), then popping in old questline characters like cheeky nostalgia bait, but 9,000 times more interesting than just being a cameo, and then topping it all off with some amazing interactive cutscenes.

I mean, I kinda consider myself a vet (gameplay wise I have 30 days total of logged playtime, which... Yeah, probably not getting back that time irl ._.’), but even by my standards the gameplay was pretty damn difficult. 

Also, god bless the game devs. This. Is. Epic. 

The amount of dialogue, maps, cutscenes, homages to gameplay styles, and all around really cool enemy designs is great!

I’m loosing my mind over how many themes, and art styles they’ve thrown in here and I'm not even done playing! 

Good lord, I thought to myself, ‘meh, that warning box about it taking several hours is just a suggestion. I’ll have this done in 3 hours tops.’

No. No way am I anywhere close. The devs literally placed a game within a game and I’m loosing my absolute marbles over this. 

I’m having to James Bond style sneak around and not die (or literally in one part, I kept getting my head blown off cuz I kept getting caught), use smoke grenades, stun batons, hack into systems guiding my cursor backwards in order to disable security, to just stay alive. 

[These are the weird mirror hacking consoles I was talking about.]

I was literally screaming in panic at all the (as I’ve lovingly dubbed) ‘void spiders’ that kept killing Teshin before I could hit the energy beacons with his disc. 

This is Warframe on crack; but I fucking love how it never feels like I’m being overwhelmed. (except for the ‘sneak around and don’t get seen or you blow up’ quest. I cried a little.)

Also the art design?? Stellar!!

You’ve got kingdom hearts styled evil floating priest cloaks.

Egyptian motifs, evil brainwashing helmets, bizarre angelic quotes;

[Ballas thinks he’s freaking Pharaoh now I guess...]

And then, the insane flashback to the Zamarian Ten-Zero that literally feels like it jumped out of Epcot’s Horizon’s ride.

(WHAT IS THIS THING?! IT IS SO TERRIFYING!!)

I honestly did not expect the game to pull a ‘PowerPoint’ old-school presentation on me, and then quiz me on it. Not only is this Cephalon lady terrifying looking, but she made me answer multiple-choice questions about spacetime.

[I hate you robot lady!! D:< ]

In conclusion; I am grateful that the game lets me pause in between big missions (since I have work tomorrow ;w;’) because this questline is so large my poor brain cannot deal with it all in one run.

(Also, people should just pull up a playthrough of all the interactive cutscenes and playthrough. It should at least be viewed as the beautiful art that it is. It literally felt like I was in a Star Wars movie (with all the cloak and dagger and space battles and cool shit), and I am living for this kind of content.)