#out of the everything that the post canon 'writers' pulled out of their ass to justify their worthless garbage this is maybe the biggest

[manifestmerlin]

of all the awful bullshit garbage i now have to see about Dirk Strider because of the post canon shit 'Dirk is transphobic' might be the worst.

[steddieunderdogfics]

This week’s writer spotlight feature is:  @cuips-not-cute! cuips_not_cute has six fics in the Stranger Things fandom on AO3 and all of them are in the Steddie tag!

Our anonymous nominator recommends the following works by @cuips-not-cute:

he could be brave

blood is an aphrodisiac

honeyed affection

blinking red light

cyclical

"cuips is a master of taking the reader on an emotional roller coaster ride. The amount of times I've laughed and cried at the same time reading his fics have been too numerous to count. Especially the depth of the sex scenes and the character beats and growth they portray are gorgeous to read - and also very titillating. I love Steve and Eddie in every one of cuips stories, adore the little mannerisms they are given and the way they interact with each other and other characters. Besides the inspiring prose cuips can pull off a plot like few other people I've found so far - since blinking red light is still ongoing, I'll just point to cyclical for that. I'm very thankful to cuips for writing and posting these stories and for being a very active part of this lovely fandom." -- anonymous

Below the cut, @cuips-not-cute answered some questions about their writing process and some of their recommended work!

Why do you write Steddie?

i don’t even know. i was happily in the ofmd fandom when i watched season 4 almost three years ago now (oh god) and then the characters… they got me. i fear they’ll never leave.

What’s your favorite trope to READ?

god, so many. they’re all kinda the same flavor though so i’ll list out what i’m always filtering for to find a new fic: bottom/sub eddie, creature/monster eddie, post s4, canon compliant, soft dom steve, sex pollen, spit kink, rimming (perhaps my FAVORITE ever thing to read), switch eddie/switch steve… the list goes on.

What’s your favorite trope to WRITE?

probably also rimming. there’s just something so romantic about eating ass. and i really love to stick with post s4 canon compliant aus, too, i don’t think i’ve written an actual for real au yet, though i do have an idea for one after brl.

What’s your favorite Steddie fic?

i don’t know if i can pick!! my ao3 bookmarks host my many all-time faves, but if you wanna go by the fic i’ve reread the most it’s probably the affliction of the feeling. it’s so fucking good.

Is there a trope you’re excited to explore in a future work but haven’t yet?

YES!!! i have never written omegaverse!!! which is crazy, ‘cause i like it a LOT. i have a post-s4 omegaverse au kicking around in my head currently, and i cannot wait to sink my teeth into all the messy biology and politics that come with the omegaverse.

What is your writing process like?

chaotic, in a word. usually, i’ll get a fic idea while i’m balls-deep in writing another fic so i’ll shove it to the side and let it simmer while i finish that first one, then i’ll spend a good long while planning it out in ridiculous detail, and THEN i’ll start actually drafting. i like to have a fully fleshed out outline and a couple chapters written and edited before i start posting, and once posting begins i tend to deviate quite a bit from my outline but it’s all good fun.

Do you have any writing quirks?

definitely. i don’t like pointing them out for fear of other folks seeing them in everything i do, but they’re there. one that i don’t mind so much is my absolute abuse of the word “little.” everything is “a little” of this, “a little” of that, but i try to cut my usage down significantly while i’m editing.

Do you prefer posting when you’ve finished writing or on a schedule?

i always TRY to keep a schedule but… yeah. it never works. i’m far too busy for one, but attempts are made. i’d like to one day write a fic in full before posting it, because i think it’d be a whole lot better if i let it sit for that long but lord, i sure do like getting ao3 comments on every chapter. they make the writing motivation go WAY up.

Which fic are you most proud of?

brl, definitely. that fucker is LONG and i’m barely halfway through it. i think i’ve done a lot of cool things with it and i’m going to do some more cool things and i’ve made a lot of really awesome friends in the process of writing it so it’s got some pretty insane sentimental value to me. it’s definitely going to be a fic i’ll miss writing once i finish it, but that’s what the epilogue series is for!!!

How did you get the idea for blinking red light?

from another fic!!! @racketghost is the author of one of my favorite things i’ve ever read, which is the good omens zach and miri au, closed set (https://archiveofourown.org/works/23320960/chapters/55862155 <- hyperlinked), wherein crowley has been lying about the existence of some angelic sex tapes to all of hell, and then he and aziraphale have to actually make the tapes. it’s awesome. it’s gorgeous. brl is one big giant love letter to this fic, because it means so fucking much to me and i think about it ALL the time. 

When writing honeyed affection, what was something you didn’t expect?

hmm, i don’t know? ha is, i think, a pretty easygoing fic with lots and lots of porn stuffed inside it, and that was all i intended it to be so i cannot think of anything i was surprised by!!

What inspired blood is an aphrodisiac?

i just wanted to write vampire eddie. it was july ‘22, kas theories were everywhere, i had to try it. these days i think i would change a LOT about it because my ideas and hcs surrounding the characters have evolved significantly, but i’ll write vampire eddie again and “fix” everything i no longer like about biaa.

What was your favorite part to write from he could be brave?

…the fisting. i genuinely think some of my best writing is in that scene, and while i feel the same way about this fic as i do biaa, the fisting scene will always hold a special place in my heart. i’m very, very excited to write the fisting chapter in brl because of this scene. fisting rules.

How do/did you feel writing cyclical?

i wrote cyclical during a very weird few months of my life, so writing it was sort of my way of dealing with all the insane shit going on around me, and i think it shows. in a good way, though, because cyclical is a timeloop fic so it needed to be a little angsty and insane. i’m stupidly proud of that fic. @ryeallytired actually BOUND it into a PHYSICAL BOOK and SENT IT TO ME and when i tell you that is the singular most precious object i own, i mean it.

What was the most difficult part of writing blinking red light?

PLOTTING THAT BITCH. GOD. i’m so happy to be actually WRITING it now, the planning was genuinely so brutal. my issue was that i was sticking too close to the plot of closed set (<3) which just… did not work for steddie. closed set’s premise centers around crowley lying about making sex tapes, yes, but he lied about them to PROTECT aziraphale, which is the messiest, kindest, riskiest fucking thing ever. and it’s awesome. in the early planning stages of brl, i was trying to put eddie in the crowley role of lying about having made sex tapes with steve, but it reallyyy didn’t work. there was an oc and i absolutely hated him, plus i didn’t like what that premise was doing to eddie’s character… ugh. it was a MESS. it took several rubber duck-ing conversations with my brilliant friend @lollaika and a rewatch of zach and miri to finally realize that it had to be STEVE who brings up the idea of sex tapes so that he could protect eddie, rather than eddie bringing it up to save his own hide (yikes).

Do you have a favorite scene and/or line from any of your fics?

oooh, lots. reallyyyy loved chapter 8 of cyclical with all of the pov shifts, that was super fun to write. i also really enjoyed writing the dry humping/sex tape convo in the first chapter of brl, and i’m stupidly excited to write chapters 12, 13, 15, and 17, because of specific scenes that will happen in each.

Do you have any upcoming projects or fics you’d like to share/promote?

i do!! after brl is completed i’ll have to choose from two story ideas (because i cannot have two wips at once or i’ll get SO stressed), one being a semi-realistic steddie cowboy au based off my own experiences with growing up on a farm and featuring messy, earnest cowboys and not-fully-human eddie, and the other being the omegaverse au i want to write, which will have a very fun mix of vampire eddie, dubcon bitching, and accidental mating bites!!!

Outside of these questions, Is there anything YOU would like to add?

i cannot think of anything!! this was super fun :D

Thank you to our author, @cuips-not-cute, and our anonymous nominator! See more of cuips_not_cute's works featured on our page throughout the day!

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[the-path-to-redemption]

I know you hate canon Yang but do you think she and Mercury could at one point bond over having been messed up by a parent that made them base their worth on their strength?

....Long Post Ahead

Anon let me tell you-

I fucking hate that people now believe Adam was Yang's foil because the writers fucked up. No, he's not. He's Blake's foil; they share the same story, and the same past, and everything about them was supposed to be linked together down to their fairy tale allusion. Whatever came out of making him and Yang rivals are bullshit ass-pulls.

Mercury was designed to be her foil; he has a grey monotone color palette and a very low-key, cyberpunk-esque fashion while Yang is in a warm-tone, bright-colored palette with a steampunk style that sets her out from others visually. She's mostly a boxer, while he's focused on kick-based combat. Mercury doesn't have a semblance and has to rely on his own skills, and Yang relies TOO much on hers and it becomes her double-edged sword.

Mercury has a terrible father and no mother, suffering alone in a home that took everything from him and forced him to kill. Yang might not have Raven, but she has a loving family who cares for her even when they're not perfect. Everything about them was set up to be a narrative of two people who could very easily become the other had the circumstances of their lives been different, but their actions had also led them to this point and they have to take control of their future now that a new chapter begin.

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, should have changed this aside from the fact that MK and CRWBY are fucking stupid enough to make Yang wedge into a narrative that she DOES not give a fuck about even though she supposedly cares about Blake and her causes, but never fucking does anything for the Faunus or even talk to Blake about her goals for them. It muddles their characters (Yang, Blake, Mercury, and Adam) because now the writers have to make dumbass fucking reasons for Yang and Adam to fight each other when Mercury and Blake are right fucking there.

I made a post about this subject before here and the same sentiment still stands. I fucking hate it here.

[linkspooky]

Hey. Long time follower here. Your metas, your discussions of "bad victims", your nuanced view of heroes and victims, your favoritism towards "losers"...not only did you heavily influence my own writing and my own favorites in different medias (I'm entirely blaming you for me being a Makima stan) but you helped through an extremely dark time in my life. I don't think that you just made me a better writer, you also sort of saved my life. I'll always be grateful for that.

There's something I want to ask. You answered to another ask that you don't regret reading MHA because focusing on what doesn't work about it made your writing stronger. Do you feel the same about Homestuck? Or about the more disappointing parts of Tokyo Ghoul (and, while we're being candid here, Avatar?).

Thank you for your compliments they're very encouraging to read.

At this point this blog is becoming the bad victim lovers support group where we all hug each other and cry over how MHA is treating all of its bad victims.

HOMESTUCK: Honestly, my main problem with Homestuck is that ACT 6 was so long and uneventful full of characters not doing anything that by the end of it the only character I was invested in was Vriska. ACT 6 also did go out of it's way to kill my enthusiasm for everything I liked in ACT 5, especially John Vriska. I've never seen a comic throw out all of its previous development that the audience was invested in and like everything that was foreshadowed - oh wait My Hero Academia. Unfortunately Vriska is an all-time-fave so I still write Homestuck Fanfic about her to this day. I used to like think the finale of Homestuck was one big "meh" but after years to reflect upon it, I do like Vriska's arc ending on a final note of Terezi searching for her in the void, possibly forever, and the ambiguity of whether they'll reunite.

TOKYO GHOUL: I remember being mad about Kaneki getting a happy ending that he didn't earn. Kaneki was a character that really frustrated me for a long time, but I came to realize that if you like remove Kaneki from his group of codependent enablers he's actually a really interesting character when he's alone. So he's a character I love to explore in fic, even if I disliked what they did with him in canon. Also, Tokyo Ghoul killed off its biggest victims Furuta and Rize in a really cruel way, but it didn't kill off every single victim so it just disappoints me instead of making me sick to my stomach like MHA does.

ATLA: I actually think the Avatar the Last Airbender ending is fine. Which like, isn't saying much because I think the Season 1 finale and Season 2 finales are some of the best things ever put to television. The worst sin that the ending does is number one lack of foreshadowing in earlier in the season and number two rushed plot points. Aang not wanting to kill the Fire Lord makes sense. I think the reason a lot of people criticize this and call it an ass pull is that it's not even BROUGHT UP until the finale. Vash the Stampede is pacifist and one of my favorite characters, but it's established from episode 1 that Vash is constantly up against people who want to kill him and he either has to run away or find a way to fight back nonlethally. Azula's insanity and mental instability could have been a thing, but it's not foreshadowed at all so all it ends up doing is conveniently nerf Azula for Zuko, and also being ableist. The worst problem is while there are epic fights it doesn't feel like an ending, because everyone's character arcs are 3/4ths of the way through. ESPECIALLY ZUKO's. Like people say Zuko is acting out of character in the comics, but I think Zuko is the only person in character in the comics because that's how Zuko without a proper end to his character arc would act. It really feels like they had plans for a fourth season that they didn't get, and their solution was to cram an entire season worth of development in everything post the eclipse on season 3. The fact that Azula is left as such a hanging thread is like proof of that, and the fact that Azula's last shot in the series is just her crying and screaming with like no follow up afterwards is something I've been bitter about for fourteen years.

I could write an entire post about how Zuko's redemption arc is unfinished though. It's like the same problem as Catra. I like both characters and I'm glad they got redeemed but they crammed in the entire redemption arc into 1/2 of the last season and that simply wasn't enough time.

[tewwor]

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send🍒 for nice words >:) ( accepting ) — whoever sent this, ilu

anon, you're so goated 4 this. gotta crack my hand knuckles and brain knuckles for this because WHEW....... i do have that many folks i'd love to yap about in no particular order. also, this is so long — that's my only warning ❤️️

🍒 @desalvar idc if we've only written 1 thing together. i don't care if we haven't chatted an exuberant amount. i'm here to say i love nik sm and i love how passionate you are about him. those hcs i see floating around? eat them up instantly. i cannot wait to yap and explore more no matter how long it takes!!!!!!

🍒 @interxstitial YAINT SLICK. I SAW THAT OTHER ASK SO I MUST PUT YOU ON BLAST about how much i've come to cherish you. fr fr i haven't hehe'd haha'd with a relatively newish mutual this fast in a Long time. but you take the cake. the entire bakery, even. the way you just... okay, look, i said it literally when i first imed you, but your verses are so CHEFS KISS GOOD. THE WAY YOU WRITE IS SO INCREDIBLY GOOD. JIWON AS A ENTIRE CHARACTER IS SO SENSATIONAL.

you're so silly, he's so silly, we're all so silly together. the marked literally became a whole ass community because of your enthusiasm. it genuinely encouraged me to not hold back and continue to yap about all of their stupid nuanced dynamics. and the way we have soooooo many threads together, but they all feel different? juniper's just babey!!!! he's the marked's babey!!!!! don't even get me started on ravi.... i did not think anyone would pick him up by the scruff and hang onto that bro frat man bro. hes so ridiculous but you RAN WITH IT AND WE KEPT SPRINTING. you're amazing, i'm so so happy i followed you all those months ago ❤️️❤️️❤️️❤️️

🍒 @gollldrush okay, not going to lie. you're currently an inspiration for my writing. there, i said it. you're so well-rounded with so many genres — like how can you write the most visceral angst, fluff, action, and eerily atmospheric threads? hello? i'm knocking on your blog door, teach me?????? i absolutely adore leo and ellory both SO much. but the way you write rilen specifically has me fascinated.

also, not to mention, it's a field day to chat with you in the best way possible. you're SO nice and you, too, have contributed greatly to the inner dynamics of the marked. i can't wait to see what other shenanigans we come up in the future ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

🍒 @justsurvival KEVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gosh. DARN. sorry if this comes across as too much, but i was so incredibly excited to see you back. would also like to thank the stars for aligning, because i literally got flashbacks to hatsune miku ORYN THE OTHER DAY OUT OF NOWHERE? the picture... haunts me....... anyways. you're a phenomenal writer across the board. you're so fun to chat with and your creativity's off the fucking charts. when i said i couldn't pick who to write a starter for, i meant it. the concepts are all so GOOD it amkes me ( wails on the floor )

🍒 @cordoliae vic, this is my official appreciate blog post tweet story. i cannot for the life of me... even begin to explain / do justice to how wonderful you are. like, as a person AND a writer — i am bowing down at the steepest degree. your writing is TOP TIER and it has influenced my writing so, so much. a lot of the prosier things i type has 10000% been from our earlier threads where mister no-good chanyeol plonked himself in baby jail to bother THE love his life 💗

also, idk if i've ever told you this but i got into botw because of you. like off to the sidelines, i got that game to relive some nostalgia and try to understand that world more and got dunked into getting lost in everything for an eternity. i would also like to POINT OUT that your understanding of ANY canon you write floors me. vincenzo? that's quite literally him pulled from the kdrama itself. BONGGIL? THAT'S HIM DIRECTLY FROM THE SCREEN ITSELF — ACTUALLY? I would like to also point out how ecstatic i was when you reached out about mutually loving exh.uma. i quite literally haven't tunneled that fast before, and while my focus is severally scattered right now — the best shamans are still in my brain. also, you're one of the 3 people that got me into op, so thank you sm for that ♡♡

🍒 @huntershowl ( kicks thru the wall big bird style ). raine... you.. i cannot describe everything i adore about you, but i sure can try. let's get the obvious out of the way, alright? seph, the creature that you are........ fantastic.. feral..... so for real with the cards you've been dealt............. i want to dub you and seph as THE ones that got me to progress jie so much. also litho HELLO? NOT TO DRAG THAT BEATEN HORSE BACK IN but i'm so serious when i say this, he's like so close to being a single ship with seph. highkey the reason why he only crawls out of his stupid cave when seph's around. it still might end up happening, but either way — the influence and sheer devotion and love he has for seph clocks me over the head every single time.

NOW FOR THE NEWERISH DEVELOPMENT. i might not be immersed in jj.k and only have a pinky toe dipped into wb / bn.ha BUT i know you're taking everything and everyone by storm. anytime i see one of your posts about anxiety ( which is so totally understandable ), i'd like to try and reassure you that there's an entire group of folks that love and adore your version of canons and ocs. and if anyone else tries to muck around like a fucking buffoon, i'll send a mathematical plague upon them i s2g

🍒 @xinxiins this is my confession.... not featuring usher, hi, it's just me. i'm clearing out the entire room to say that you have reconnected jie with his culture and i am so forever grateful for that. his slice of life verse version is currently hibernating, but i Did Not Forget about our yapping and immersion in a community he so desperately wanted to be a part of. and as someone that's also struggled with that connection, i thank you so so so SO much from the bottom of my heart. it's truly so incredibly special to have experienced that, and i hope to continue that in the future!!!!!!!!!!!! ALSO, YOUR WRITING IS BREATHTAKING. I FEEL LIKE THAT'S A GIVEN BUT I HAVE TO SAY IT ANYWAYS. AND YOU'RE A GEM TO TALK TO ❣❣❣❣❣❣❣

🍒 @fangmother don't mind me scooting on by, but hi, yes, hello. i know we recently started to interact, but a) love the way you write b) love the lore you have surrounding rainer b.1) i was so immersed reading up on her bio / verses — like, truly, thank you for the meal c) cannot wait to explore more dynamics because already, i'm buckled up for more replies and will eventually reach out just to yap yap yap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🍒 @miidnighters brodie.... 100 golden stars for you. just.. gosh..... i can say with full confidence, i will never tire of your characters ever. i don't care if we have a million dynamics with the x amount of characters i have. i still want more!!!!!!!!! you're so talented. honestly very inspirational. idr if i told you this before, but you are also 100000% part of the reason why i got so involved with the marked. OH? ALSO? LETS NOT FORGET HARBORVIEW TOO? before the marked consumed me BUT HELLO???? FLYNN IS HARBORVIEW'S COLLECTIVE GROWN MAN BUT ALSO BABEY. ahem, anyways, i've learned so many new things about my own characters because of our interactions. and i always, always wish the best for you / am so grateful we're pals.

🍒 @catfcng going to be so fr, idk most of the fandoms you run with but i want to ( eventually )!!!!!!!!!! there's just something so captivating with the way you write and bring attention to your characters in the best way possible. also? your blog's entire aesthetic is So Good. i hope to write more with you and will always cheer loudly from the sidelines !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wowowwild]

Heard you were looking for an excuse to post hot takes...

(rules)

Apollo doesn't like Phoenix and might straight up hate his ass send tweet.

At the start of aa4 Apollo tolerates this man at best. I don't necessarily defer to aa5 and aa6 canon bc the new writers came in and decided to wreck the place (yes there are things I like about them, no I do not think they are so horrible that I will never play them or that no one should ever play them, yes I am very upset they took everything aa4 set up and threw it out the window), however I do believe that Apollo could grow to understand what happened and become work friendly. This is ONLY if Phoenix apologizes well and actually walks him through it, but they both have 'I don't talk about myself or my feelings' disease so... Good luck. Oh, and if Phoenix actually did wait that long to tell him and Trucy they were siblings idk if their relationship could ever be repaired. Also I said work friendly bc let's be honest, the only reason he likes Trucy (and Athena if you're forcing me) is bc they are so outgoing they make up for his chronically introverted persona. (Of course after a certain point he's been through it with both of them and that creates a bond, but they wouldn't have gone through it together if Apollo was the one in charge of that.)

That being said I don't think he wants anything bad to happen to Phoenix. We see pretty quickly that Apollo is actually very sensitive to what is happening to other people. For example: when Trucy fake kidnaps herself he is whole ass bawling even though he pretty much doesn't know her. Not just an, oh man, this is awful, he is feeling and living and expressing those emotions with his whole self. Other example: He feels soooo bad that these people in Klavier's life suck. He devotes himself to 'pulling the darkness' out of a guy that by all accounts he doesn't really know or personally like (I think we have evidence that Apollo respects Klavier's ethics, even if his personality is a little glimmerous.) So I think if anything happened to Phoenix or it seemed like something was going to happen to him, Apollo would do everything he could about it. That doesn't mean he likes the guy.

And like, I work retail. I work with a ton of people that in any other situation I would never speak to, and yet I can still get excited for them and strike up in depth conversations with them while still going home and thinking 'Wow, that lady sucks'. Apollo is not going to be openly hostile or anything, he's just not going to give a whole lot in terms of a personal relationship.

Also I think Phoenix genuinely likes Apollo and I think he knows he likes Apollo a lot more than Apollo likes him. I think this would make him sad but he wouldn't try to force anything. And I think Phoenix genuinely feels bad and if there had been any other way forward he would have taken it but there wasn't and he didn't and he has accepted that this is part of the consequences of that.

[findafight]

It is tiring to be regarded as a 'homophobe' when you claim to not like a queer ship or say you do not think a queer ship is going to be canon & should not go canon. ST fandom has this type of fans especially Bylers and recently Ronancers. Sorry that I do not think Byler has a chance of being wrapped up in a nice way when the writers actively refused to even breakup Mileven in this season and intentionally added a confession scene on the show from Mike to El. We literally have 1 season left with everything else going on in a limited time frame but I am expected to be okay with the possible resolution of this whole thing, and should expect a nice wrap up where we supposedly will see Mileven break up, Mike and El moving on from each other, there will be a time for them to adjust to that, for Mike to consider dating Will HECK even for Will to consider confessing and dating Mike, for the writers to make that all believable to the audience in a nice way within the narrative.... and I am expected to like Ronance when Stobin is one of the most important platonic relationships on the show and we canonically know Nancy and Steve's break up was bad, and that Steve still has feelings for Nancy. I want to see representation, I really do but it feels like the fandom itself is bending any logic and sensibility to make a ship seem reasonable and make sense within the narrative... when it really does not.

God. Yeah. Like sure queer people can have internalized homophobia or intra community basis (like bi/a/trans phobia) etc but to say someone's a bigot just because they don't like the a fictional ship, or even that they just don't think it will be canon, is just silly and causing problems on purpose.

The intense blr shippers have really turned me off the ship, honestly. I have a few asks from them saved as drafts just to get them out of my inbox, and they're saying the same as others "we're fighting homophobia" "you're just as bad as people saying why don't we shut up about blr and ship mlvn if you don't think this has been part of a grand and epic master plan for the greatest romance ever" as well as just not understanding what the very specific phenomena of queerbaiting is, all telling me I don't belong in the ship because I don't ship it correctly. So. Makes me feel bad and really disappointed. People who ship mlvn (which my original post was also tagged, because it discusses them too) DIDNT come to my inbox and call me names or a fake shipper when I said I thought they should break up. Make of that what you will.

As much as Will and Mike getting together would mean to people, putting that much emotional weight and expectation and emphasis on a single aspect of a show, a single ship, is not healthy. It also, if it does happen, will not be the epic romance planned from the start they think it is. (We remember tjlc, right?? RIGHT??) If it happens it will possibly be slap dash and rushed, because you're right. There's a lot happening, the show struggles with ending/starting romances, and they are NOT the only characters that matter. The breathing room required for both Mike and El AND the audience to make the breakup feel real and that enough time has passed to not make Mike look like an asshole for immediately dating his ex's brother (and for Will not to look like an ass for dating his sister's ex?!?) Is now insufficient given how short the seasons are, and as you said, they should've broken up in S4 to pull that off.

And then the fandom would likely feel a bit cheated after building it up so much in their heads, only for it to be a bit of a flop. But I guess a lot of people don't mind how Nancy and Jonathan got together, so with the way some of the people in my inbox were talking about El then it could be like that too. Just. Not giving a shit if someone, a character I personally love, was really hurt and betrayed by her recently ex boyfriend and her BROTHER.

Pretending it was all fine because romantic love is the most important thing ever to them I guess. When it's not, especially in the show! Non romantic bonds are so important to these characters! It would just ruin it for me, because what I was originally saying was that Will, Mike, and El all mean so much to each other and actively try to not hurt one another (even if the do accidentally or end up hurting themselves) and that, because Will and El are siblings now, Will might think twice about dating Mike so soon after he broke up with El. It would make them look cold hearted and selfish tbh. That's why a good ending would be Will feeling comfortable enough to come out, and being accepted by his friends. (All of them not just Mike) and that final emphasis on the Party as a whole rather than individual Romo relationships.

It's actually very important to consider other people's feelings in everyday life, I think. Sure, ultimately they shouldn't dictate all your actions, but there will be consequences for some of them. They can lose friendships, or other relationships. It can also make a character look REALLY BAD.

For rnce, people go on about how Robin absolutely does not need to consider Steve's feelings in pursuing a girl. (Ignoring other issues people have with the ship that have nothing to do with Steve, lol) And sure. Okay. For every girl but the one that broke his heart, cheated on him, and who he still has feelings for that Robin herself encouraged. People are out here saying they could be endgame without completely ruining stobin's friendship like huh??? Do they understand Robin "what if we just combined" Buckley? Do they not care about the most important relationship in her life? Do they not care about her beyond how she can hype up Nancy instead of one of those icky boys?

A problem I have with rnce is that a lot of the writing saying it could be canon (which, lbr, it won't be. While I think blr may be canon just in a kind of disappointing way, I don't think there's any chance of rnce happening, especially with Vickie right there blushing and flirting with Robin) only focuses on how it would be good for Nancy, or if it's trying to make it seem good for Robin ignores their personalities and other relationships. Like Nancy isn't annoyed by Robin until Robin's speech gets them into Penherst, or that Nancy wasn't dismissive of Robin's ideas, and Robin wasn't clearly nervous and apologizing for being annoying in order to get Nancy to like her (tbh I think Nancy should have been the one pursuing a friendship with Robin instead of the other way around but alas). Tbh I could go on about how Nancy and her relationships and her needs/wants inside those are often misdirected? Misidentified? By fandom, and how that feeds into Robin being reduced to someone who supports Nancy (which, if people complain about Robin considering her bffs feelings about her dating someone, shouldn't they complain about her becoming a glorified cheerleader for Nancy...oh. it's because it's romantic. And some parts of this fandom value that most.) In rnce, which strips Robin of her personality and makes it boring. But this is already long haha (Not to mention it'd be super weird for Nancy to be dating her ex she cheated on and never actually told she cheated on him's best friend. Awkward!!)

I used to not mind rnce that much, tbh. I didn't get it and did think it was weird but the art was cute! And now it's sort of an alarm bells for people being weird about stobin.

Steve and Robin's relationship, like so many platonic relationships but more glaring with just how obsessed with each other they are, is often devalued by the fandom by virtue of the idea that a romantic partner needs/should be someone's number 1. Even though those two want to combine, and are seen taking active roles in trying to get them a romantic relationship, and are really the first person the other felt they could be completely themself around. They're the most important person to the other, regardless of their romantic relationship status.

[galindatopland]

you can literally always hate jeff in the tags of my misty posts btw im reading those tags the way one reads a morning newspaper. the fanon version of jeff seems so different to canon jeff like he’s not really the dedicated malewife people make him out to be shsjsks. he didn’t want to even try strawberry lube like c’mon now. he freaked out when she saved their asses and grabbed the gun. perhaps this is an unfair assumption for me to have of the writers but ive seen it happen in other shows and i fear they might’ve seen how the general audience liked there’s no book club!jeff and added more of him and that general vibe bc of it. but to me s1 jeff worked bc you spend most of it distrusting or disliking him and then he has a shining moment at the taylors and thennn he goes back to being Like That when you find out he’s the blackmailer. and it’s like this really sad, terrible marriage two people are stuck in for various reason so idk where the couple goals even in a fun failmarriage way comes from. he’s not even the most interesting non shauna member of the sadecki family!!! callie is right there esp if they’re focusing on her motherhood!!! ANYWAYS. jeff & walter’s downfall 2k23 im with you

okay thank you for giving me the excuse to talk about it actually cause i was thinking this since the season started. people's ENTIRE interpretation of jeff as a character hinges and is almost exclusively based on THERE WAS NO BOOK CLUB? literally everything else he does gets twisted so he can stay this fanon dream himbo wifeguy. and that's the show's fault to an extent for sure cause there is a framing there due to how much they want jeff in the comic relief role. but the show does make a point of showing that jeff is deeply disturbed by shauna, that he's been a shit husband actually and he's kind of an awful person tbh. like! thats not a character flaw per se, we are all here for awful characters. but people don't want an interesting dynamic between those two or for jeff to be more than a one dimensional goofy idiot. and they also want shaunajeff to be like. santa clarita diet marriage or whatever which. loved santa clarita diet but that's AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THING. and an entirely different type of show and we do all get that this would strip shauna of all her amazing nuances right? right? anyways back to jeff. people will see how he reacts to shauna pulling that gun or how he's entirely against everything shauna does regarding callie and go omg wifeguy always supportive. he is not? and for good reasons lmao? people will see teen jeff cheating and be like ye shauna was awful for doing this to jackie but jeff is just a poor little idiot plus (did see a take like this which. hello) jackie wouldn't have sex with him so he's without fault. like. what. anyways he's a cheater who found out SOME of what his wife experiened in the wilderness (not everything for sure cause that man is way waaay WAY too freaked out by shauna's behaviors to know it all lets be real) and decided to profit off the victims he knew as a teen dgsbjfjdjdsb like he offered to go to jail for adam murder in part cause his own blackmailing scheme is what pushed shauna to kill adam? just cause he's kind of funny every once in a while doesn't mean he's A Loving Himbo Wifeguy. all jeff related posts are that and its why i started having an allergic reaction to jeff

[becauseimanicequeen]

Rewatching Lovely Writer

This is part of my Crazy-Ass End-of-Year Rewatch Challenge where I will rewatch some of my favorite shows, some of my least favorite shows, and some shows in between. I pulled another title out of the bowl (yes, I'm letting chance choose for me) and got Lovely Writer. I finally got one of my favorites!

Anyway... I can't promise cohesive thoughts in these posts because it's the end of the year, I'm currently living in right-brain land 10+ hours per day, and I'm TIRED because the darkness of winter is here. You've been warned.

Also, since this is a rewatch, there are spoilers ahead.

Background

I first binged Lovely Writer in October 2023 and loved it. And I've rewatched it 2 times since. It's one of the few QLs I've given a 10/10 rating.

So, I think I'll just use this post to list all the reasons I love this show as I rewatch it. Let's go!

Why I Love Lovely Writer

Dee Hup House

Well, first of all, it's from Dee Hup House. They have an incredible list of shows, IMO, and aside from one collab that pissed me off (Jack & Joker, but we don't talk about that here, lol), I haven't given their projects any ratings below an 8/10.

The Actors

Another reason I love Lovely Writer is because of the actors. Starting with the main roles, I love both Up (playing Gene) and Kao (playing Nubsib). (I love Up so much that I wrote an appreciation post where I gush about him earlier this year.)

I also love Zorzo and Ken who play Tiffy and Tum respectively.

I'm especially weak for Zorzo. She's such a fucking goddess!

Bruce is great at annoying me as Aoey, which means he's doing his job very well, lol. (Btw, I loved him dearly in Step by Step and would love to see him in more shows.)

And my beloved Poppy, whom I love in everything he does, plays Gene's brother Jap.

It Sheds Light On the BL Industry

Since the story revolves around a BL writer's novel being adapted into a show, it shows the behind-the-scenes of how that happens and the not-so-nice realities of that.

Gene is writing stuff he doesn't really want to write (he would rather write dark fantasy or something) but his publisher is pushing him to write BL because it's popular and it sells.

In addition, he's being pushed to write scenes he's not comfortable writing, including sex scenes and dub-con/non-con scenes.

Even though the show critiques stuff that I personally enjoy in the media I consume (because I'm trash, lol), there's definitely a breath of fresh air over how this series deals with these topics.

It also discusses pairings/shipping and the not-so-positive side of fandom. It's a BL that critiques the BL industry. 10/10.

Up's Pen Twirling

I definitely think this is a valid reason to love the show.

He's clearly got skilled fingers...

Also, Up Wearing Glasses!

Is this just me gushing over Up Pompat because I love him? Yes. But he's also cute as fuck in those glasses.

Nubsib Doesn't Know What Subtle Flirting Means

From the moment Sib sees Gene, his flirting game is on. And it never stops.

He doesn't know what subtle means. He even lies about his living situation so that Gene will allow him to stay at Gene's place for a while.

Even though he basically owns the apartment next door. But Sib will justify his lying because his attention is focused on one person and one person only...

And he's not subtle about it...

Not at all...

Not one bit...

Good for Sib. Good for Gene (though he's annoyed at first, lol). And good for me. 10/10, no notes.

Gene is Reserved

I have a tendency to love quiet and reserved characters. I love the complete opposites as well, but reserved characters have a special place in my heart. And Gene is one of those characters.

He's also socially awkward and a loose canon with a temper than just makes me love him even more.

The "Eat Me" Shirt

I love this shirt for obvious reasons.

And that both of them are wearing it.

10/10, no notes.

The Way Sib Carries Gene

On his back...

And in his arms...

10/10, no notes.

Sib Being a Gentleman When It Counts

Even though Sib has wanted to be with Gene for a long time, he doesn't take advantage of a drunk Gene when Gene wants to kiss him.

And he asks for permission when he wants to kiss Gene.

Both times are when Gene is in a vulnerable position (he's drunk the first time and it's after he finds out about Sib's true identity in the second example). Sib just makes sure Gene won't regret it the first time and that he won't overstep Gene's boundaries the second. Love it!

Gene's Dad's Story

I love that there's a deeper reason behind Gene's dad's initial disapproval of Gene and Sib's relationship other than being against it because he's a straight-up homophobe, or that it has something to do with familial reputation/status, etc., which is otherwise pretty common for the disapproving parents in many of the QLs I've watched. Gene's dad, though, has his own story.

Even though he's projecting his own experiences, fears, and feelings about being queer onto Gene and his relationship with Sib (which is sad, but understandable), it just makes me have a lot more empathy for him than other parents in the QL world. He genuinely wants his son to have a better life than he did. And when his own fears have settled a bit, much thanks to Gene's mom (who is such a gem, btw), he's the one who reaches out to his son first and apologizes. Other parents in the QL world should learn from him.

Tum's Rap Confession

Tum rapping his confession to Tiffy to make her believe he likes her is iconic. I don't know how many times I've seen that scene, but it's many. I just watched it four times, lol.

Final Words

I love this show.

The only thing I feel like could’ve made me love this even more was if Gene and Sib’s brothers had revealed that they’d already been dating for a decade.

Well... It's canon to me either way.

I could gush about the show some more, but I've reached the image limit and I'm done with the rewatch.

Onto the next rewatch!

[ultimate-marysue]

So for my Genderswap Batfam AU, a couple of clarification/basis/warnings:

It's still very much a patriarchy. I have only swap the genders of the DC characters I have no intention of rewriting all of human history. Think of it as: normal world, different characters.

In case of characters like Joker, whose backstory relies on being the guy leading the red hood gang and then falling into the chemicals, I don't think I can just swap the gender. Yes, there are female gang leaders, but given the time it wouldn't be realistic. So Joker is a different dude that went through a similar process. The female version of Joker might turn into someone like Punchline instead.

Unless otherwise specified, the rest of the characters are the opposite gender/trans the other way around. For example, the Amazons are the Gargareans from Greek mythology, superman is Superwoman, etc...

I have made up some new rogues but I don't think I'll post about them anytime soon, first I just wanna set up the Batfam.

I'm not pulling shit out my ass, there are basis in canon for what I'm thinking. Sure, some characters would look ooc because the male/female socialization has a bigger impact on their personality/arc. Others will remain fairly similar because who cares about gender?

I'm also not an expert in lore. I know enough to know that even the writers contradict themselves, so I'm just unapologetically taking the parts I like the most/find most interesting.

Yeah that's everything for now I guess.

[aquaburst3]

I'm starting my own take on Pomefiore. That means Neige is coming into play a lot more. While I seen posts saying why they enjoy him and think he's a fleshed out character, I still think he's the complete opposite.

He has almost no personality. His good personality traits are similar to the Golden Aged princesses and princes. Charming, kind, gullible and easily forgiving. There is nothing inherently wrong with this. I enjoy Cinderella. I don't mind Snow White for what she is, especially given the fact it was one of the first animated movies ever and was created at a time when male writers didn't know how to write female characters yet. The problem is that none of Neige's similar traits are examined or developed. He is as static and bland as they come. Hell, Snow White from the 30s movie is a better developed character than him! That REALLY says something...

He has done some pretty shitty things in the arc. He picked his buddies to be on his team, slamming the door on anyone else at RSA with actual talent. Instead of working on his routine, he came up with a half assed on. He relied on the dwarves' cutesiness and childlike appearance to win over the crowd, going against everything the competition stands for. Do I think Neige is a bad person for this? Absolutely not. However, like Kalim, I think he's an inconsiderate, thoughtless and selfish person, who is like a Disney prince who just skipped straight to his happy ending without earning it. Unlike Kalim who learns that how he's acting is hurting others, especially Jamil, and tries to improve himself, Neige is treated as being in the right and never learns anything, despite hurting many other people. That is anger inducing.

He's also rather dumb and gullible. He takes the drink from Vil without even questioning it.

His connection with Vil is all "tell" and no "show." We only get Vil's perspective on the situation. While I love Vil and he's one of my favourites in the game, even I admit he's extremely biased. We never get a chance to learn anything about Neige from his own words. Vil and Neige never directly interact till the climax, despite Neige being the antagonist of that arc.

The same goes for his acting ability. We're told that he's an amazing actor, but are never shown any examples other than two commercials. Let's face it. Acting in a commercial is different than in a movie or tv show.

Honestly, the canon doesn't show us anything that proves that Neige is more talented than Vil in regards to acting and singing. If anything, it seems like the exact opposite. It comes across like Neige is coasting by on only his looks.

I'm 95% sure that Yana pulled that info about Neige right outta her ass after Rook's VA received death threats from the Japanese fandom. For one, all of that info came out AFTER this incident instead of being woven in organically into the previous book. None of it was even remotely hinted at in advanced nor makes any sense when you think about it more than a few seconds. It's so tacked on that I don't even consider it canon. (Seriously, why the hell wasn't Neige taken away by Child Protective Services if he was a minor living with seven other kids, who don't seem all there? What the hell happened to his parents?)

Any opportunity to give them a deeper connection is completely dodged by the narrative. Again, why aren't they stepbrothers? It would make them resemble the original story more and have Neige's backstory make far more sense.

At the end of the day, Neige is just a cardboard cutout for Vil to sneer at and that's it. Ironically, Neige's such an underdeveloped and boring character that Vil is better Snow White analog than him, despite technically being based on the Evil Queen. Both Vil and Snow White are adaptable, capable, stern, value hard work, and want to help out other become their best selves.

Honestly, it's a damn shame. Neige could've been an interesting and fun character, but that was all dodged in favour of lazy and shitty writing. Hopefully my take on his character with his new backstory will improve him a lot, including making Neige Vil's stepbrother.

[trkstrnd]

hiya. wanted to pop in after i read ur rant post, i hope that's ok.

i agree with what you've said, and personally for me, after i knew That had happened, what had kept me sane was that deep down, i knew carlos would never do this, it is so out of left field, and this is just a shitty plot point the writers pulled out their asses in the s4 writers room (if they kept insisting that they thought of this since s1, they're going to have to try harder, and even then, i'm not sure i would believe them.) for the sake of drama. they know having a wedding planning arc throughout this season doesn't make for good drama, so what do they do? add in this shitty plot to impede their wedding planning.

what really kills me is, in the process of this, it might have undermined carlos' entire character arc in the previous seasons. it really hurts. i don't hate him at all, i understand completely where he's coming from. what i hate is carlos' as a character (in canon at least) suffers as a direct result of the showrunner and writers' shitty plotting and writing (i think this post makes a damn good point of what i'm trying to say,) and i hate how there's nothing we can do in the face of this. i feel helpless, and it hurts to see them go down this route for the sake of 'good drama', whatever the hell they think it means. clearly the writers and the fandom as a whole have wildly different understanding of things, as clearly shown in the interviews they've done so far.

which is why, i'm willing to wait it out and see how this unfolds, even though from the snippets i've read re: the upcoming eps, i think it will piss me off and probably the fandom as a whole. at the end of the day, as the eps start airing and we slowly move past it, i think we can easily choose to take away whatever we want to from this arc, and shove the rest down in a deep, deep drawer where i personally would never revisit again.

it just really sucks for now bc we only have one ep of information to work with, and 5-6 more days to wait until the next ep. i really do appreciate posts of ppl reminding us of how they've handled previous bad arcs (tk relapsing, the breakup, gwyn's death, etc., you get the drill) that have turned out to be phenomenal in hindsight, and i'm clinging to this until the eps start airing, and we get a more coherent picture. until then, we only have each other to discuss and perhaps rant to, to try to make sense of it all.

sorry for the rant, and thank u for reading this all the way through. sending u love in the meantime, and i know we'll get through this with time.

anon i mean this with everything in my body and soul and heart.

you summed it up perfectly.

we know it’s a bad plot, and we know we will move past it, and i really think the thing that hurts the most is it does really taint their entire story so far, knowing he had this all along, but i am hoping and praying that we get more, better plot in the next few episodes, and hopefully we can shove this down and forget it ever existed.

the disconnect between these writers and the fandom is insane, though. that’s what’s getting me. it’s like tim genuinely likes making us upset. remember when his twitter handle was cancelledagain? it’s like he doesn’t care about his own show, and the real drama for him is watching us all react and hate him for the plots he pulls out of his ass.

it’s so out of left field, and it fucks with everything we’ve known so far, and that’s why i see a bunch of people giving up on this plot and show, because it feels like we have been lied to the past few years as well.

even though we haven’t. it wasn’t the truth until he sat down and wrote it in. it’s fucking dumb, and surviving on 43 minutes a week with a plot like this is exhausting.

thank you so much. please never hesitate to dm me, anon. this ask was so very appreciated.

[kari-izumi]

My slash shipping friends don't think this whole "It's not real if they don't kiss" attitude is a thing that exists among M/F fandom pairings, but I would love to thank everyone without reading comprehension for giving me this example to show them lol

Snark aside though, if this W was any bigger, it'd be replacing Warner Music Group's current logo. Spirk is THEE ship that saved this franchise from obscurity and not even THEY have gotten this kind of huge moment in the sun in official canon like we've been given in Prodigy.

Also, keep in mind that unlike live action media, where actors can make choices that go against what the writers or creatives want (see also: Garashir), any and everything that makes it into an animated shot, especially one where animated motion is involved, was done with intention.

This one was a very deliberately thought out easter egg that could've easily have been left out as we'd already seen Chakotay gift her his chah-moo-zee, a very, very, veeeeery personal heirloom to pass down to anyone, and that would've also sufficed. But no, we get this mirror that also had stones from their time from the Delta Quadrant. I thought I had the passenge screenshots but I think they've been shared recently enough at the time of this posting on July 29th 2024 to find in the tag.

But hey, let's put aside beta canon and look at the show itself. Damn near every time J/C are in the same scene as Dal and Gywn--two characters who HAVE kissed and who we know have feelings for one another--the show makes a point of juxtaposing the latter with similar actions from the former. I mean, it's clear enough that an 8 year old fan asked Kate Mulgrew about whether Janeway was in love with him or not in a rather adorable clip I saw on Twitter (and good taste on kid, you're gonna love this ship tag in seven to ten years!). I mean, that's someone in the target demo of the show who picked up what the writers was laying down like Chakotay did the minute he and Janeway got some privacy after their reunion

It's just strange to me that people think this is not something to be excited for as someone who came into VOY shortly after it ended and never thought we'd have any official follow up to the show after Janeway's two second cameo in Nemesis. When we got that bullshit asspull in Endgame we thought that was the end of that and C/7 was forever more, the end (thankfully, Picard pulled that bandaid right off with gay Seven tho). Most of us just ignored that entirely.

But even if there weren't all these details? The great thing about fandom is we can transform it into our own vision *anyway*. And I love what we got because it's just enough where I can still have scope for the imagination where I can still fill in my own blanks.

But in this case? As much as I'd love to see an actual kiss onscreen, this has watered my crops and cleared my skin more than any other callback or shout-out in Modern Trek. For comparison, Picard and Crusher, the J/C equivalent on TNG, had a whole ass CHILD but apparently were a Ross/Rachel level disaster of a couple that Crusher went off the grid to raise the kid. That one was confirmed but speaking as someone who shipped that concurrent to J/C in the 2000s, I know which of the two feels far more satisfying because here I am, writing my first two J/C fanfics since high school, re-watching VOY (a show I have unfortunately slagged off after learned from other fans that it was "bad" but now realize many ppl were gonna hate it no matter what it did) and having headcanons of Janeway and Chakotay doing the JoJo torture dance together on their Lake George date (we all know that's a date when he came by with a frigging ROSE and I'm tired of pretending otherwise!) because I'm a shit poster at heart but also, these two have been through it and need some fun.

This post was longer than I expected it to be, but TLDR: OP is right and kissing is not the only way to convey that two people live each other. it's not even the most meaningful way, most of the time.

J/C shippers are being salty and lamenting Prodigy for not being explicit about Janeway and Chakotay’s love for each other.

Meanwhile, in the text of the Prodigy series itself…

In Janeway’s Ready Room on the Voyager A (seen in episode 5) are a bunch of mementos from her adventures. Some are obvious, such as the framed arachnid on the wall as a reference to her Captain Proton Holodeck adventure, or the mini Voyager model…

But there’s ONE deep cut memento you might not realize the significance of. And that’s this compact mirror she stops to admire.

Which is a reference to a series of short stories that was published around 2005 under the title “Distant Shores.”

And in this series of short stories is one titled “Isabo’s Shirt” written by Kristen Beyer. And the story centers around Janeway and Chakotay… going on a DATE.

So when Janeway looks over the mementos in her Ready Room, she specifically stops and dwells on this compact mirror and the episode takes the time to show her doing this and show how much it means to her.

I’m sorry, but how are you lamenting that J/C is NOT cannon after witnessing THAT??? The writers of Prodigy took non-cannon short stories from 2005 about a J/C date and turned it into factual, textual, official Star Trek cannon!!!

[amischiefofmuses]

Masterpost of Plot Ideas - Canon Muses

I have a lot of canon muses, so here is a plot masterlist rather than spamming the dash for individual characters. I spent far too much time on this thing and I will be adding more to it over time.

NOTES: - If you see a plot being used we can still use it, things go different directions with different writers. - For any 'friends of' plot ideas - Either they have to have an established friendship or we'll need to discuss a pre-established one so we're on the same page.

!!Warning: THIS IS A VERY LONG POST!! [Click here] while holding CTRL to open it in a new tab and avoid it flooding your dash on pc. On mobile it should be perfectly fine!

[OC MUSE PLOT IDEAS TBA]

Green - For anyone || Blue - For canon muses Pink - For other criteria

Any kids from Hawkins lab (El or oc lab kids) - They escape and Eddie ends up finding them, looking after them with help from Wayne (who is used to Eddie picking up strays). Trouble ensues.

Robin - Eddie sees her at a gay bar, both are trying to make up excuses as to why they're there that doesn't out them. It's the beginning of a ridiculous friendship.

Steve or Billy - Eddie is making out with a guy in the dark quiet room of a house party out of town, assuming he's far enough away from Hawkins not to get spotted. He spots Steve/Billy looking at him from the doorway, panics and things go from there.

Anyone [I actually have an open starter for this one] - Eddie breaks into someones house trying to hide after causing trouble with some of the local jocks. Is he gonna get his ass beaten for his troubles? Someone calling the police? Who knows!

Anyone - Vampire Eddie - Eddie has clawed his way from the Upside Down and begins picking off people who caused him trouble before his 'death'. Maybe your character catches him in the act and they become his next target, maybe they talk him down.

Any friends of Eddie - Vampire Eddie - Eddie survived the Upside Down but something seems different. His wounds are healing surprisingly quickly but he hasn't really been eating or drinking - in fact he's starting to look pretty pale. Vampire Eddie but he doesn't know he's a vampire yet.

Any friends of Eddie - Vampire Eddie - Though they survived the Upside Down, something has been killing people in town and the squad are determined to find out what. Eddie hasn't told them that he's been waking up covered in blood, with the coppery taste in his mouth and he's terrified of what that means.

Steve or Billy - Mechanic Eddie - This could be set post s3 for Steve or just after ep1 of s3 for Billy. They come to the one little mechanic shop Hawkins has and have to deal with Eddie asking them questions about the damage to their car, with Billy acting strange or Steve ducking the questions. That only serves to make the mechanic more curious as to what the king or former king have going on.

Any friends of Eddie - Post s4 - Eddie survived the Upside Down and recovered well but now he's gone MIA. He won't answer calls, nowhere knows where the new trailer is and everyone is beginning to worry. He's located with a little help from Hopper and though they're assured he's fine, they want to see him. Little do they know, he's struggling with the aftermath of everything and avoiding them in some attempt to no longer cause problems. He's gone full hermit and someone needs to drag him out.

Anyone - Set after s3 - After being sent on his way after the events of Starcourt, the adrenaline is wearing off and Steve is reluctant to go back home to an empty house but he doesn't want to lean on his traumatized friends either. Instead he pulls in on the nearest street, busted and bruised with probable broken ribs, sits himself down to try and calm his shaking hands. He's not expecting someone to come across him in this state.

Dustin - Werewolf Steve - There's tales of a werewolf in Hawkins and the kid has been obsessed with it, enough so that he's decided it's time for a sleepover at Steve's on a full moon since he's amply placed by the woods - perfect to gather evidence. Steve is the damn werewolf, he's fighting the call to change but it's getting harder every second.

Billy - After their fight in S2/early s3, Steve is surprised to see Billy stepping into the scoops while he's closing up. Turns out Max is out late and nowadays he doesn't dare to push things, so Billy is reluctantly enlisting Steve's help to get his sister home. Perhaps they have a heart to heart, perhaps they just fight, all depends on chemistry.

Anyone [this is one I have an open starter for] - Werewolf Steve - Foolishly deciding to nap after a nightly run, he's caught completely nude in the leaves and has to explain himself. With legends of wolves in the Hawkins woods, it's hard to explain why he'd be out there at all.

Any friends of Steve - Post s4 - He calls early in the afternoon and seems drunk as hell already, which is entirely out of the norm for him nowadays but he won't explain what's wrong because he knows it sounds ungrateful. He's had a call from his parents that they're giving him the house, they're reluctant to return given the state of Hawkins these days and Steve refuses to join them wherever they are because he has a life here. It seemed like a fair compromise but now he's in a big empty house all by himself and the idea of that seems incredibly daunting.

Anyone - Werewolf Steve - On a run at night he's used to the woods of Hawkins being peaceful, devoid of Human life. Imagine his surprise when he lunges through the bushes at a movement and finds his teeth clamped around a very human limb. Considering he was turned without choice, he's being eaten alive by the guilt of doing that to someone else and thus takes it upon himself to teach them how to handle it.

Anyone - [Open starter can be found here] - Werewolf Billy - Set after a big fight with his Dad, which is far more intense due to them being werewolves, able to withstand more etc. He goes out while still injured, intending to change and run out his frustration. However, on the cusp of change someone comes across him. He's trying to fight it while trying to get the other person to leave.

Steve or Max - Werewolf Billy, set during the standoff between Billy in Steve in s2. - While posturing outside it seems more Demodogs have come to try and find El, Billy is forced to decide between keeping his secret or protecting them.

Any of the s4 Hawkins party - Post s3 - Billy has to help with the situation with Vecna, having gotten more involved in the Upside Down bullshit since being flayed. He can sense the creeping feeling of the Upside Down just like Will can, so this can even be before anyone dies in Hawkins and he's trying to figure out what's going on with the other members of the party.

Anyone - Billy is out and about after a bad particularly bad fight with his Dad, it's clear he's angry and he has a black eye but he won't talk about it. He might need reassurance but god knows he won't accept it.

Anyone - Billy is drunk and reckless, he's heading to his car with a stumble and someone should probably stop him. Though there's a risk you might get a punch for your troubles but it's probably worth the risk.

Anyone - [Inspired by Etherdwellers] - There seems to be a ghostly presence in your home after acquiring an old box of medals and war memorabilia - including an old swagger stick. He's not expecting you'll be able to see him but for whatever reason, you can. Chaos ensues.

Anyone - This one is a little fantastical but can't help my self indulgence. Rather than dying, the Captain experiences a slip in time that has him now stood in the modern day. Baffled and now capable of seeing ghosts himself, he requires a modern day guide.

Anyone - Your muse is killed while visiting Button House during a function, the Captain has decided he will lead the charge in trying to figure out the culprit. Could be done as a fun whodunnit while your character has a crisis about being fucking dead lmfao.

Any of the Ghosts - Due to something going on in their room, a bed has to be shared. This isn't necessarily a romantic plot, given female ghosts are welcome but I expect chaos to ensue regardless of who it is. Basically it's a reluctant sleepover plot.

Anyone - Set before GOTG 3 - With Quill hesitant to return to Earth it seems that Rocket is having to play embassador. He intended to do some recon, instead he's caught off guard by Earth's ability to shoot his ship down. With nothing but a wreckage and no commucation back to his crew, he needs some help to get back home.

Any Guardian - After GOTG 3 - While he may have faced his past, Rocket still has a lot of trauma to do with medical environments. After a particularly bad scrap he's forced to see a medic and he's starting to panic on the wait to see them, maybe your muse can offer some support?

Any Guardian - Set any time after forming the Guardians - Just some big epic mission to save the world. Big bad guy, big fights, maybe times where they protect eachother. Just hand it over.

Anyone - Young Rocket - Rocket runs into your character after just escaping captivity for the first time, the two end up having to team up to avoid a situation. Friendship, rivalry or even hatred ends up developing between them.

Any spacefaring muse - After getting stuck in some space prison again, Rocket enlists your muse to help him escape. Whether he actually gets them out with him? Well, that depends on how things go, doesn't it?

Anyone - While in hiding, pre Captain America: Civil War - He breaks into your muses house thinking it's empty. It just kinda goes from there. Maybe they fight, maybe they take pity on him, we'll see! Alternatively maybe your muse takes pity on this homeless man and offers him help, slowly befriending him like a stray animal. Could be better for a slow-build friendship.

Any Avenger Muse - They're both sent on a mission together, he's closed off, guarded, but he starts warming to them as time goes on. Bonus: This happens when the two of them are trapped somewhere and trying to find a way out.

Anyone - While in hiding, pre Captain America: Civil War - Bucky has been living as your muses housemate for almost half a year now and you barely know anything about him, he keeps to himself and seem to be the perfect person to live with. However, someone has come looking for him and they break into your place to try and get him. This can have offshoots where your muse is held captive and Bucky saves them, they run together with Bucky protecting them, ect.

Steve - Set during Captain America: The First Avenger - Bucky has noticed changes since he's come back from Zola's torturous tests but he's scared about what that means, whether he'll end up a monster like the Red Skull. During a fight he's forced to defend himself and almost punches through a guy, maybe Steve sees or hears of it and is concerned about what's going on. Or maybe he just notices something is off with his old friend?

Sam - Set post Captain America: Civil War - While out on a mission they receive a distress call from Steve, they have to team up to rescue him. I'm thinking a 'rival' to friends kinda vibe but that's down to chemistry.

Child muses - Let this man pick up a stray kid and end up being a dad to them. He's made to nurture, dangit. Spent his youth looking after Steve for that reason. Bonus if the kid doesn't have parents and he can end up adopting them rather than taking them back to their home. Additional bonus if they're little shitheads that he has to fight to earn the trust of.

Anyone - Modern AU - Ben is involved in criminal activity, he's out late to collect money from someone and ends up in to protect your muse from some idiot trying to mug them. Ends up walking them home and possibly making friends. Alternatively, they're who he's been sent to collect money from.

Any spacefaring muse - Smuggler Ben - Your muse has been sent to convince Ben to rejoin the resistance fully rather than living his free life. He's reluctant as he knows part of that means embracing his force abilities that he has tried to avoid using. Alternatively, your muse is from the First Order, trying to bring Ben in to work for Snoke.

Any spacefaring muse - During his time as a knight of Ren and Snoke's right hand - Kylo's ship is fast approaching and it seems he's locked on, he has every intention to bring you in and interrogate you for information on the resistance. Maybe your muse knows enough to be useful.

Rey - While it may have seemed he killed his father, Ben managed to only wound the man and make him seem dead. He's a double agent, tearing apart the first Order from the inside. With their new Force bond, he's desperately trying to get her to believe he's not the bad guy he seems to be.

Hux - As the new Supreme Leader, Kylo is uncertain of what he wants to do next. Still processing the death of Snoke, the abusive master, he needs someone to step in to take charge. Though he doesn't trust Hux, he knows he's capable and promotes him to the position. Will he still get stabbed in the back for his trouble? Or will they find some sense of equalibrium without their former master pitting them against eachother? We'll see!

Any of Sherlock's friends - He comes home to the flat to find Sherlock barely conscious, the flat a mess and the knocked out body of a criminal in the middle of the living room. It seems someone intended on taking him out but failed, Sherlock could really use some help though, regardless of how stubborn he might be about it.

Anyone - Sherlock set up a dating profile to draw out a killer, using very specific details pertaining to the case. You absent-mindedly swiped on him, figuring it was worth the chance. All the while Sherlock is playing along, offering the best chemistry your muse has had in a while and even planning a first date with your muse unaware it's meant to be to catch you for this crime.

Villain muses - After his apparent death, Jim is working to rebuild his criminal empire and it needs a lot of new blood. It seems your muse is just what he needs but he expects them to pass a test first, prove themselves worthy.

Sebastian Moran - Jim returns from the dead as though nothing happened. Up-ending Sebastian's life that he's been building for himself. Will he rejoin the criminal as his right hand? Will the criminal get a punch for his troubles?

Molly Hooper - Honestly anything from their little time as partners, anything from their first meeting to date nights. Also the fight that must have happened when she finds out he left his number with sherlock? Yes please.

Any muses with powers/abilities - Jim finds out such a thing exists and it proves to be a new point of interest. He just has to see it in action, own that for himself. Thus he kidnaps your muse and has fun seeing the extent of their powers.

Any 'Official' muse in positions of power/Cops/Agents - Jim has been brought in as a consultant, if only because he has the information that your muse needs. However it comes at a cost, he wants something interesting in return. Can your muse deliver? And if so, are they willing to make a deal with the Devil?

Anyone - Jim has to play 'normal' with your muse as part of a plan, befriending them and getting close to them. Good for future betrayal angst.

Any paranormal/creature muse - After hearing stories about a 'monster' in the area, he goes to scope out the situation. Little does he know the person he's talking to is the very same 'monster' he's been looking for. Will he figure it out? Guess we'll see.

Anyone - Small bitey creatures escape a container while he's going through things in storage, they end up in your muses house and now John's having to stay in your muses house to make sure he gets every last one. Might as well have a drink together while waiting for the little blighters!

Chas - Exploring the day after Chas survived his first brush with death thanks to John's spell. Gimme that sweet sweet drama.

Anyone - John is conducting a spell in a specific spot in the city. When his portal opens up and he steps into the Fae realm, he's not expecting someone else to accidentally stumble in behind him before it closes. Oops.

Anyone - John is out chasing a cryptid that's been running rampant, your muse just so happens to be obliviously out here camping. Does your muse think he's some kind of crazed killer when he comes bolting out of the woods toward them while covered in blood? Do they try to help? We'll see!

Any Human - Monsters have just arrived to the surface, you're not expecting a skeleton to nudge you while asking for directions. Oh holy shit.

Anyone - On the surface the monsters have set up a few little towns for themselves, Sans has taken to working at Grillby's new bar. A Human enters and Sans intends to make them feel welcome. Alternatively, a monster comes in for help as Humans have been giving them trouble and he intends to help.

Papyrus - Just gimme brotherly shenanigans. On the surface, down in the underground. Just the two of them being a chaotic duo pls and thank.

Frisk/Chara - Post genocide route, after a reset. Sans remembers and is sick of pretending otherwise, he knows he can't stop the kid but he can sure as hell be a menace while they're pretending to be all nice this time around.

Anyone - Your muse catches Eda doing magic in the Human realm, do they dare speak to this mysterious witch? Or perhaps they end up following her to the Demon realm? Guess we'll see!

Raine - School shenanigans between the two of them. I'd love to see them growing closer, eventually getting into their relationship and such. Some happy times leading into sad times for these babies.

Luz - Eda and Raine are getting married, Eda is a mess about it, she's never been good at planning things like this. It seems it's time for her apprentice to step in and help.

Anyone - It's halloween and Luz has convinced Eda to check out the way the Human realm celebrates. She decides to use her Harpy form as a lazy costume, enjoying the attention her 'awesome outfit' is getting. Your muse got a sticky toffee apple that unfortunately ended up on her wing, suddenly you realize that it isn't a costume at all and she whisks you off before you can make a scene.

Anyone - Your muse somehow slips into the Demon realm before the portal has been repaired by the Collector, luckily the Owl Lady is willing to take you under her wing while you adjust to your new temporary home.

Anyone - After 'Hollow Mind' - While running away from the Owl House, Hunter is unlucky enough to be one of those entities that slips from the Demon realm to the Human realm. Now he's safe from Belos but in a world he doesn't understand, maybe he could use some help.

Luz - Any sibling shit. Give me sibling shenanigans. Going out shopping, preparing for an event, just anything tbh. Hand it over.

Willow - I want to write their first proper date so bad. Once everything is over and they're able to relax they just, decompress and talk about their feelings, then get to go on a little date. Just, so cute. Yes good.

Any Demon realm muse - The Golden guard has been sent to collect your character to bring to the Emperor. Do they come along quietly and end up working alongside him, or are they going to put up a fight?

Any Human - [Open starter for this can be found here] - They somehow manage to slip into the Demon realm and are caught by the Emperor's guard, who bring the Human to him thinking it may be the one he's looking for. Not wanting this new person to fall prey to the lures of the Demon realm, he plays 'hero' and offers them protection within the castle, promising to return them home when his work here is done and the portal is ready.

Any Demon realm muse - Completely AU scenario where Belos was not fueled by hate but instead fascination with the Demon realm. Unfortunately he went too far, causing him the same curse by putting the sigils on himself in an attempt to give himself magic. By the time your muse finds him, he's monstrous and in need of help.

Any Demon realm muse - Your muse has been brought in to stand before the Emperor, perhaps they have found something he has great interest in or they are a possible asset to his cause. Will they work with him or dare to put up a fight?

Anyone - Your muse takes a trip to Gravity Falls, having heard stories of spooky stuff going on. Bill tries to take advantage of their lack of knowledge about the town and tries to manipulate them as a new, unknowing puppet for his plans.

Anyone - Bill emerges from the statue after Gravity Falls is saved but things are different. He's practically powerless, corporeal and in need of help. Can he convince someone to assist him?

Any Pines family - Bill ends up as somewhat of a ghost, linked to the shack as that was Stan's mindspace when he invaded, trapped within those walls. Since there's little he can do, he's intent on causing trouble. With time maybe he can attach to the Pines family to haunt them while out and about too.

Ford - Writing their time working together, including after the betrayal where Bill begins to try and wear down Ford's psyche.

Any of Dipper's friends/family - Gimme some monster of the week shananigans. Just them dealing with some big ol beastie, ghostie, or smth.

Anyone - Your muse is new to Gravity Falls, they decided to go explore the woods and come across one of the many creatures of the town. Dipper comes across them and has to help them get out of there alive.

Anyone - Blue comes down to Earth after SU:Future to visit and see what the fuss is about Humans now that everything is calm and peaceful on Homeworld and the underlying colonies. She wants to see why Pink went to such trouble over these little creatures. Maybe your muse can teach her some of the wonders of Earth!

Anyone - Not being used to having her own freedom, Delphi is taking time to adjust. After helping your muse with something, she ends up following them around trying to serve them, falling into bad habits.

Any alien muses on Earth - Your muses recognizes Zim as the alien he is and worse still, as an Irken - one of the biggest growing empires in the universe. Perhaps they try to ensure he's not going to destroy their new home? Perhaps they try to align with him to ensure their safety? Anything goes.

Anyone - You're trying to go about your day as usual when this little bug alien lets himself into your house in a rush. He's without disguise, looking panicked. Maybe your muse takes pity on him and he takes advantage of that? Maybe they try to catch him? Just figured this would be a little fun.

Dib - After the events of the Florpus - Zim has gone surprisingly quiet again, which makes Dib suspicious of what he might be up to. As usual it's shockingly easy to get into his base and he finds it looking almost bare. Descending further inside, he finds Zim packing up to leave. Maybe he should be happy about that, that Earth is safe but suddenly there's the dread of how boring life will be without the alien bothering him. Possible enemies to friends. No ZaDr here.

Anyone - Trouble is brewing because everyone knows Fizz and Ozzie are together. One peaceful night a group of powerful demons come to cause trouble and Ozzie sends fizz away to the Human realm. The poor imp has no idea what he's doing, where he's going or if his boyfriend is alright and desperately needs some help.

Blitz - These drunken teenagers are getting themselves in trouble, now they're trying to avoid getting caught on their trip back home.

Oz - Lets write how they met and them developing their relationship! I'm thinking it begins with Mammon wanting the Fizz dolls to be accurate, so they end up having to spend a lot of time together.

Any hell-dweller - Before quitting, Fizz is trying to go about his day when he's cornered by some fans. Maybe your muse steps in to help and a friendship develops.

Any hell-dweller - [I have an open starter for this one] - After quitting, Fizz has been working on setting up his own show as he misses getting to perform. It's a smaller venue, with stricter rules but as he's preparing for the night, he's starting to seem more and more frazzled by the idea of going back on stage.

[daphnejane]

Hi DJ! Some questions for you (I had trouble narrowing it down I want to know *all* the things)

💞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

🤲what do YOU get out of writing?

💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited! (I mean, I think you know which one)

Hello there! Thanks so much for playing! I love these things. Also, I just answered some different questions here. 😊

from the fic writer asks

💞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

Oooooh, tough one. I think a tie between plot and characters. A plot can be great, but if the characters suck I'm going to nope out, and vice versa. Oh wait, that's for reading and this is meant to be from the writer POV isn't it? 😅🤦‍♀️ Some of those things can have different levels of importance depending on the piece, but I would say the technical stuff is always super important. My grammar isn't perfect, but I do make an effort. And if I find mistakes after posting, I will correct them.

🤲what do YOU get out of writing?

With fanfiction, it's usually scratching an itch. That's how I ended up writing Locklyle. 😅 I really wanted more of their story—what does their future look like—that canon doesn't give me. So I'm making one up haha. It's also a creative outlet and a great way to hone my writing skills. I have started probably 5 original projects but haven't been disciplined enough to finish any of them. Maybe one day!

💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited! (I mean, I think you know which one)

Hahahaha yes, I think I can guess which one you want to know more about! I did share a snippet of it here in case you missed it. I got the idea for this Locklyle fic about halfway through The Empty Grave and started writing. Then the ending made me question the whole timeline of my fic, but I decided it's fine because this is ✨fanfiction!✨ Basically it's about them getting older and losing their talents, how that changes their investigations, and what it means for their future. It fits several of the prompts for Locklyle week (stumbled into this fandom just in time!) so I am busting my ass to get it done by Sunday! It's a little bit firsts, a little bit denial, a little bit love languages, and some domesticity thrown in too. Keep reading below the cut for a snippet! I will warn you that it's not been edited yet.

Thanks again for the ask! 🥰🥰

We tried to go back to sleeping apart—honest, we did—but slowly, we came to an unspoken arrangement. I'd wake up from another dream of the Other Side and show up at his bedroom door, clutching my pillow tight against my belly, awkwardly waiting for him to say something. He never did, just pulled the covers back and made room for me. At some point in the intervening months, it became a nightly habit for me to sleep in Lockwood’s room. And I don’t mean in the armchair, though he certainly tried. But now it seemed natural to slip into bed next to him, the warmth of our bodies heating the blankets, shutting out the cold of haunted places that threatened to sink into our bones. My pillow stayed in place next to his.

Everything was above board. We might as well have kept a rapier between us. Not that I wished otherwise. I only mean to say there wasn’t any funny business, and that’s that. Sure, sometimes our hands found each other in the dark, but even school children hold hands. I might have woken once or twice with my palm clasped in Lockwood’s, held to his chest as we lay flat on our backs. People can't control what they do in their sleep. It didn't mean anything. And there was the time I woke up from a dream of Dark London with his long limbs wrapped around me. You know when you wake up suddenly with the feeling you’re falling from a great height?

“It’s all right, Luce,” his low voice said in my ear. “I’ve got you. You were shivering.”

I settled back into his warmth and drifted off.

Shaking off the memory, I spit into the sink and rinsed out my mouth. My point is, we never talked about it. Never acknowledged aloud that something had changed between us. We simply got in bed, said our good nights, and went to sleep. But now I had broken that silence, and he… He seemed pleased at the thought of going to bed together. When he said it like that, come to bed with me, it was more than just our usual banter.

Finished with my bedtime routine, I descended the stairs to Lockwood’s room. Suddenly self-conscious in my tatty t-shirt and worn shorts, I hesitated on the threshold. 

Lockwood looked up from his glossy society magazine and flashed his signature megawatt smile. “That’s rule number one broken, Luce.”

“This isn’t a haunted house,” I grumbled. “Not anymore, anyway.”

He had new bedsheets. Blue. I knew they were for me. The covers were folded back on my side of the bed, just waiting for me to slip in.

“Thought you might’ve changed your mind.”

I flapped my arms and stepped into the room. “Not a chance.” Avoiding his eye, I sat on the edge of the bed and swept my legs up, half turned away from him as I shoved them under the coverlet. I made a show of fluffing my pillow.

“You alright, Luce?” 

“Of course,” I said brightly. I heard the rustle of paper—Lockwood setting the magazine aside—and then the lamp clicked off. “You can keep reading if you like. The light doesn’t bother me.”

The mattress shifted beneath me. I was almost rolled toward him. “It’s okay. I can sleep now that you’re here. Good night, Lucy.”

“Good night, Lockwood.”

We lay in the dark without speaking for some time before either of us found our rest.

[tht0nesimp]

out of this universe 1/?

TW: insecurity, possible ED, portals, fantasy, slight age gap(?), simps, indulgence, pills, mirrors, crying, shivering, yanderes, they are attached really easily, cellars. basements, mention of nudity, mention of sex, reader canonically is a tumblr writer, hypersexuality(?), death, blood, a single kick, alot of characters.' fake' identity's. bullying, isolation, schools, reader has a mom, kind of goth reader, bat, knife, scrapes, cuts, scabs, ddlg(?), swearing, gun, sibling, walking, plot, drugs, plushies, running,sweat, drugging,

you awoke to your mom pulling your blankets down a bit before walking away and closing the door behind her, you leaned up and turned stretching and getting up looking in a mirror you had on your desk and pulled your shirt up and sighing noticing the blemishes on your face before leaning a little to grab a oversized black and white sweater and a grey plaid skirt sitting on your bed and scrolling through all your yandere tumblr posts reading a few and fantasizing while putting on some knee high black and white checkered socks putting your phone away and walking down stairs getting some cereal and your sibling gets up walking up as you sit down and sigh once again checking your tumblr again and finishing up staring checking the time and groaning putting on some loafers as you approached the door opening it and lt stepping out and closing it behind you

you walked on the side walk on your phone taking long strides and eating a lolipop you had in your backpack as your headphones sat comfortable on your head

you felt a small bit of wind reach your legs and you felt yourself get goosebumps and hurried a bit not wanting to get a tardy as the school came in view and you ran jaywalking and all before stopping with your hands on knees looking down and furrowing your brows before a portal swallowed you closing behind you leaving a pair of headphones on the concrete

"thats not great..." eddie joked as they sat around an opening in the forest where a portal in the sky had sat for a few minutes and eddie and the others tried to figure it out. a girl fell through and they all stared for a moment before eddie had knife to your throat and they were questioning you steve holding his bat to you at times before eddie stole your phone and began scrolling through your tumblr laughing his ass off as the others joined him, you felt your face go red and stole the phone from him and he finished up his laughing fit

"well your pretty hot your self sugar" billy approached you and you froze like a deer in headlights as you felt his breath down your neck before running like the wind away feeling your legs begin to hurt as you reach closer to the tree line before being grabbed by steve and being dragged back in a chokehold and they all continued walking around you and asking questions as steve moved to hold you by your stomach instead of your neck allowing you to squirm your way out and stare at all of them "should we indulge or nah?" steve questioned and most of the group nodded while you desperately shook your head

trying to reason as the group continued circling you and one of them grabbed your hair " watch it you dickfac-" steve covers your mouth and interrupts "1. language, 2 that was rude" you smiled sarcastically at him " did i hurt your fuckin feelings asshat" you felt a swift slap from mike and were taken aback at this but remained stubborn against the man "oi you fuckin" you felt a punch to your jaw and fell spitting out a tiny bit of blood the young boy scoffing and walking back with his hands in his pocket as the rest leaned over you

"i think its time for bed kid" you felt a rag over your mouth and shook your head and managed to land a kick on a young womans leg and she stumbled back a bit before everything was covered in black