#start by pulling him out of the fire

[messessentialist]

I ve been reading your steddie fic and I love it so much!!! Wayne munson my beloved!!!!!! If u dont mind me asking, how did you come up with wayne’s characterisation?

AHHH I'm so glad you're enjoying it!! This fic has literally been my whole year so getting to see people engage with it and fall in love with Wayne and Eddie has been so so fun for me.

I think I felt very connected to Wayne from jump street, eve based on the little snippets we got in canon. The things I took away from those scenes were:

1. This is a man who has seen some adversity in his life and has dealt with it by keeping his head down and doing the work put in front of him.

2. We know he's working nights circa s4, which is a tough thing to do. It isolates you from normal social life. Maybe it's for the extra money, or maybe it's because he's a little bit of a liner himself. Maybe he and Eddie work because they're both on the fringes in their own ways.

3. He loves Eddie unconditionally. This is clear from the wonderful performance Joel Stoffer gave. But a part that stuck out to me in particular was the way he's coming into the high school at the end, as far as we know, just to replace the vandalized missing flyer with a new one. There's a quiet sort of dignity to the way he's doing it. It's probably not the first time, and he knows it'll happen again. But he knows who Eddie was. He will keep honoring that kid he knew, no matter what the rest of Hawkins thinks.

Which kind of brings us back to 1: Wayne Munson will take what is thrown at him in stride. He doesn't rage against the injustice. He just does what he can with what is put in front of him. So what would that have looked like when the thing put in front of him was a scared kid who needed his help? What does putting your head down and doing the work mean when the work is loving someone who desperately needs to be loved? Even if you feel ill-prepared for that responsibility?

I imagine it looks like giving the kid safety and protection and softness. Letting him talk your ear off for hours. Standing up for him when no one else ever has. So to me it followed that those are things Wayne would do. Identify the issue, execute the solution. Ask for help when you need it. Prioritize joy when you can afford to. Etc.

And at the end of the day, I just wanted Eddie to have someone in his corner. I think Wayne is that person. So I wrote him as a person who loves Eddie, and let the rest stem from that.

Thanks so much for asking, this was fun to dig into and think about!

[hellfiredemon]

Reblogging since start by pulling him out of the fire is fully published. Please show @messessentialist some love in the comments and look out for @maikaartwork's stunning and hilarious piece in Chapter 5.

Got to work on the absolute best team for the Steddie Bang for @messessentialist (AO3 @/pricklywhicket)'s fic Start by Pulling him Out of the Fire Featuring artwork by me and the extraordinary @maikaartwork (Twitter)

This story is incredible and so dear to me! Give it a read and check out Maika's incredible piece here.

[dykedvonte]

I just realized some people are confused about events in the alluded to past in Mouthwashing, particularly about how long the crew has been working together.

The only person who is truly new is Daisuke and it’s why his dynamic with the crew and role in the story is very unique and somewhat distant. Curly didn’t just get Jimmy this job on the Tulpar, he got him the job with the Pony Express. He’s been his copilot for probably a couple of years but still not as long as they’ve been friends. None of them are new with the freight industry, Anya and Swansea especially have been doing this for years, together.

Jimmy is the newest on the regular crew, maybe just a few assignments, but it’s not his first time working with them. I think it’s just something important because this isn’t just one bad mistake that snowballed with giving Jimmy the job. None of them thought Jimmy would do anything, no matter how off-put by him they could’ve been, since he hadn’t done a thing since being there. Generally unpleasantness isn’t a crime and he’d be aware of that.

It was a festering thing and a sort of forced trust they had to give him that he knowingly took advantage of. He was the black sheep and still a wolf under the wool. He expected when he lashed out, that he had been there long enough for it to be looked over completely. Got too comfortable in the space he inserted into and did a lot of damage with his claws when he felt he was going to get shaken out.

[gromlyn]

struggling through another art block, here’s a quick jon snow in the meantime

[pisshandkerchief]

there was an active shooter situation at work today god bless america

[rufusbear]

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[kiwisandpearls]

ngl this is the first time in a long time that I’ve actually been excited for a new genshin nation update

[tommygotwrittenoff]

i need them to put eddie in a coma so he can have his own little coma dream realization

[truly-quirkless]

@explodcor asked:

"Oi, All Might!" Katsuki called out to his teacher as soon as he saw him. "Hypothetically speaking, how would you react if I said that I was dating Izuku?"

[Unprompted. | Accepting!]

"I would wonder why you felt it necessary to tell me...and then I would politely ask that you don't take your boyfriend away in the middle of training..." Yagi hummed. "Hypothetically, of course." And he might divulge a few places where the other staff were less likely to be around, in case the two wanted to kiss without prying eyes...but he wasn't going to say that aloud.

"...and I would tell you to please take good care of him." Yagi, you're not Izuku's father----

[bylertruther]

the brainrot is so bad that i'm sitting here trying to watch the godfather just thinking to myself "damn..... how can i make a byIer au outta dis... 🤔📝"

[hellfiredemon]

If you guys haven't read Start by Pulling Him out of the Fire you are missing the greatest Wayne and Eddie fic of all time 😤

me watching conrad @hellfiredemon liveblog their thoughts on the wayne fic in the comments

[welcometomybraincomics]

Fumi: This is my husband

Heimdallr, who isn't even aware they started dating despite being together for 2 decades, sharing a house and several kids: Huh?

[cerealbishh]

"I saw today how much it bothers Jake to see us talking. It's- it's over the line. Yeah, you and- and me, while you're seeing Jake... It's over the line."

"Oh... you don't wanna see me at all?"

[hazardsoflove]

act two made me immensely suicidal

[kittyhazelnut]

Not to be a swiftie on main but Taylor Swift is literally the dumbest fucking person to ask to speak out about this. This has already happened to her. Kanye West made a naked wax figure of her and put it in a music video for a song that they "might still have sex" and claimed she owed him her success, and not one of those incredibly misogynistic pieces of bullshit mattered to anyone because tHiS iS aRt and kAnYe iS eNdInG tAyLoR sWiFt. this song and this video literally sent her into hiding for months because the reaction to it and to her daring to say it made her uncomfortable for her so-called friend to do this was so strong. this thread is genuinely pissing me off.

[lonaami]

i just

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