#stevie rambles

[thatisntverycombefair]

so this isnt what happened during drink with me?????

[askstevie]

My mom, dad, and brothers finally all agree on something. They all hate Riya.

My live reaction:

[midwesttonberry]

Ladies, Gentleman, and Non-Bini's.

May I present....

✨🌸🐾✨HER✨🐾🌸✨

[zombubble]

6, 9 and 11 for the WIP asks? :D

Current WIP is... Mostly, I've been working on a sort of MDZS fix-it at the moment, so here's for that:

6. Does this chapter/fic have any twists that you’re proud of?

At the moment, there are some minor twists in there, but.... there are a few I'm looking forward to writing, and especially to publishing.

9. What is your favorite dialogue you’ve written so far?

It's so long, forgive me, but I really do love this bit:

“Wangji,” Lan Xichen says, “what are you looking to achieve?”

Lan Zhan looks at his brother. “Morality is the priority. One must uphold the value of justice. Be compassionate, ethical, and just. Help the lonely, the weak, the desolate. Assign blame only where it is due.” The message is clear: by refusing to help Wei Ying, his brother would be betraying Lan’s most closely-held teachings.

Closing his eyes, Lan Xichen looks down. Takes a deep breath.

He, too, knows that this is wrong. That should things continue as they are, it would be an injustice.

“I will consider our next course of action,” he says.  

“Next course of action is going back to Yiling and punching that asshole in his stupid, smug, arrogant, self-sacrificing, secret-keeping face,” Jiang Wanyin says from the door. Though his eyes, cheeks, and nose are still red from crying, he seems considerably more put-together than he had when they’d dragged him back here.

“While I understand this new information can be upsetting, I doubt violence, in this particular situation, would be ideal,” Lan Xichen says, smiling.

“It’ll make me feel better.” Walking towards the door, Jiang Wanyin picks up his sword.

“Where are you going? It’s the middle of the night.”

“Yiling,” he replies.

“For?”

“I said I’m going to punch him, I fucking meant it.” Putting his sword on his belt, he grabs his qiankun pouch as well and ties that on. “I want answers. I want to hear his excuses for not telling me. I want—I want to know why!” He looks at them. “He owes me this, at least.”

“At least wait until tomorrow,” Lan Xichen says. “You need sleep. I’ll have an early breakfast brought to you both so you can leave in the morning.”

“But—”

“He will still be in Yiling tomorrow.” Lan Xichen looks at Jiang Wanyin. “Impulsive actions, especially violence or cruelty, may yet have consequences one can’t foresee. Get some sleep, eat a meal, and leave with a level head tomorrow morning.”

As much as Lan Zhan also wants to leave right away, his brother has a point.

“What do I get by delaying this?” Jiang Wanyin asks. “I—”

“A night’s sleep,” Lan Xichen says. “The benefit of forethought and time to process.”

“We can arrive in the early morning to sort this out quickly,” Lan Zhan says.

Eyes glinting, Jiang Wanyin asks, with a disturbingly pleased grin, “Early morning, you say?”

Lan Zhan nods.

“Do you think we can make it there by Chen-shi?” he asks.

“Not before its start,” Lan Zhan says, “but well before its end, should we depart early enough. Why?”

“He doesn’t wake up before Si-shi if he can help it.” Marching back into the bedroom, Jiang Wanyin waves. “Good night. I’ll see you both tomorrow morning.”

The door closes loudly behind him.

“Well… As far as unfortunate motivations go, there are far worse,” Lan Xichen says. “Mn.”

11. What scene are you most hyped for this chapter/fic?

Oh, man. I've done a lot of dabbling in these but really, I'm most hyped to get to the turning point in the cultivation world, where everything is starting to go right... It's going to be. Interesting.

Thank you so much for asking and I'm so sorry about the delay--life has a way of doing the distraction thing and I got very, very sidetracked.

<3

[stevviefox]

Knowing what storms at sea can be like and having been through a hurricane, it always amazes me how these tall structures stood strong despite the storms. I’m not really an ocean person more a lake lover, but lighthouses are beautiful. You could have such a great time redecorating the inside with all the modcons. That and there’s just something about a round room. I suppose you could say a tower would do as well but it isn’t a lighthouse. A tower is just a tower, a lighthouse says ‘I’m here. You move.’

Rooms in a Lighthouse

Although the buildings of lighthouses differ depending on their location and purpose, they generally have common components. However, a distinction must also be made between a lighthouse station consisting of the lighthouse and all the outbuildings such as the lighthouse keeper's house, the fuel house, the boathouse and the building for fog signalling, i.e. a land station, and an inhabited lighthouse as it was found at sea.

Sections of Bell Rock and Skerryvore Lighthouses, date 1884

Skerryvore is a remote reef that lies off the west coast of Scotland, 12 miles (19 kilometres) south-west of the island of Tiree. Skerryvore is best known as the name given to the lighthouse on the skerry, built with some difficulty between 1838 and 1844 by Alan Stevenson.

The Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, Scotland, is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse. It was built between 1807 and 1810 by Robert Stevenson on the Bell Rock (also known as Inchcape) in the North Sea, 11 miles (18 km) east of the Firth of Tay. Standing 35 metres (115 ft) tall, its light is visible from 35 statute miles (56 km) inland.

If you are only dealing with an inhabited tower, you usually have the following rooms in it. Please note that, apart from the lantern room, there is no standardised scheme and the rooms were often arranged differently.

The lantern room is the glazed housing at the top of the lighthouse that contains the lamp and the lens. The glass panes are held in place by vertical or diagonal metal rungs. A lightning conductor and an earthing system, which are connected to the metal roof of the dome, ensure that any lightning strikes are safely discharged.

Sections of the Eddystone Lighthouse of 1759 and 1884

Immediately below the lantern room is usually a guard room where fuel and other supplies were stored and where the keeper prepared the lanterns for the night and often kept watch. The clockwork (for turning the lenses) was also located there. On a lighthouse there is often an open platform, the gallery, outside the watchroom (main gallery) or the lantern room (lantern gallery). It was mainly used to clean the outside of the lantern room windows. Below this was a living room, bedroom, possibly a separate kitchen, if not a cooking area was accommodated in the living room. In addition, there were often several storage rooms, an oil room (where the oil for the lantern were storaged) and a coal room. And if you're wondering where the bathroom was - well there wasn't one, there was a wash bowl, possibly a wooden tub for an occasional bath, but rarely, and chamber pots in the bedroom.

Life in a lighthouse at sea was not easy and managed to bring many an old sea dog to his knees. The lighthouse keepers on land had it much easier.

[lazylittledragon]

i'm going to scream i got accused of being a transmisogynist by someone on twitter because of this specific part of my t4t steddie art

[thatisntverycombefair]

tell me quickly whats the story who saw what and why and where! let him give a full description! let him answer to javert!

[askstevie]

Not me watching the new episodes, and then my older brother found me listening to Taco's Tirade on loop while pondering life. He then took me to the park and went for some ice cream. He told me if I ever so upset again to tell him. I wrote myself a note to tell him when ii2 17 comes out.

[askstevie]

Thank you!

Stevie (from @askstevie) again. I am so sad. Got any tips to cheer up?

“Not really! So sorry about that, I hope you feel better soon!”

[midwesttonberry]

mmmmmmm just went through my inbox and scraped all the way back to 2013.

Some of ya'll had no business discussing/engaging in certain topics with a 16 year old. I'm almost 2 seconds away from nuking my whole blog ngl.

[girlwiththegreenhat]

hey when they wrote "knight behind bars" and they wrote kitt helping a couple get together and they gave him the line "Some day, it will be my turn" [to find love]. did they know what they were doing. did they know that in some 40 years some gay autistic robot-obsessed little freak on tumblr would not stop thinking about it for weeks and write literal dozens of paragraphs screaming about it on discord. did they know they were going to ruin Me, Specifically, with this concept that feels like the culmination of everything kitt has gone through through the show and such a fascinating thing to think about in regards to michael and kitt's relationship,

one of the themes of knight rider is kitt developing as a Person, developing a line between the Knight Industries Two-Thousand, and Kitt. discovering humanity, his own emotions, the joys of the seemingly and logically pointless, and often through the lens of his own driver, his partner, his friend, Michael - his primary guide through all these experiences, his reference for those human things he doesn't understand. and as much as he initially claims to not be capable of experiencing emotions, of understanding feelings, he learns to. he experiences a wide range of emotions through the show even while claiming he doesn't, he even learns fear and insecurity. perhaps it's only natural a robot would learn to love, or at the very least be terribly curious about it and wonder if such a thing could ever exist for Him

the majority of people are not exactly kind to kitt. they talk about him like he's not there, they talk about him like he's a machine, a novelty, some people are even scared of or disturbed by him when all he's trying to do is make polite conversation and company. he's always Othered - there's no other cars like him (at least not anymore), but there's no other person like him either, he doesn't truly belong among humans or vehicles. some of the technicians at FLAG don't even seem to fully respect him as a person, at least they don't based on my vague recollection of how they talk about him in Junkyard Dog. when Michael asks him after KARR is destroyed if it feels good to be one of a kind again, he doesn't say yes or no - he only says it's a "familiar feeling." it may be familiar, but it's surely also isolating, and i think that's something he'd realize as he slowly picks up this curiosity about love. where could he even find it when so few people see him as an equal person to begin with?

and then there's michael. oh my god, and then there's michael. no matter what flavor you choose to read it in, the whole show is about their relationship, they're a duo, a set Not to be separated, they're Partners. they work together, they worry about and look after each other (forever insane about when kitt was a melted shell, Michael stuck around the garage for hours, waiting for any news like a worried spouse, constantly checking on him every opportunity he got... encouraging him to recover, and even helping paint back on his protective coating... kitt always looks after michael, but for once, it's michael's turn to look after Him), in a way they were Made for each other - Kitt more literally, being programmed for Michael and holding his namesake, but Michael was also made in a sense for the pilot program, hand picked and given a second life to work for the foundation and with this strange supercar. and even if they had a rocky start, michael comes to view kitt as a person - car, TV set, or computer core, Kitt is his partner, his buddy. he helps him find himself, guides him and teaches him about these things that make us human, and in a way, kitt becomes human - but his entire experience is still through the perspective of an AI in a car, it's still very unique and isolating, and I think he sort of grows into his own limitations, he's finally brushing against the walls that define him.

he learns of love, and then he learns to dream Of love. these things he sees in the movies, that michael tells him about, that he so often sees michael Partaking in that he gets so oddly jealous of, doesn't it all seem so wonderful? he's very curious. but who could ever love steel and circuitry, who could ever see him as an equal let alone a partner in a romantic sense? who would ever love a car and all the limitations That comes with? it's a problem for a hypothetical hopeful Some Day, in the meantime stuck between two worlds where he doesn't perfectly belong to either, where no car Can love him and no human seemingly Would love him...

and michael loves him anyway. before either of them really realize or talk about it, in spite of everything, in any form, regardless of the fact it wouldn't be a typical relationship by absolutely any means, michael loves him anyway. kitt is as much a person to him as bonnie or devon or RC, and that person is someone he loves and cares for deeply. the feeling is mutual, kitt's world revolves around michael, he's one of the most important people in kitt's life, and he'd do anything to protect him.

and it is michael that will finally teach him to love, and what it means to feel loved in turn, to be loved as the person he undoubtedly is.

[baconsoapp]

Stevie Rogers and Gender Dysphoria

if you're unfamiliar with my trans Stevie Rogers head canon, check out this post here. Anyways, more under the cut.

So, I’ve been thinking a lot about this post and how others perceive Stevie.

Like stated in the linked post, Stevie has always dealt with people not finding her body acceptable. Both in the purely aesthetic sense and the medical sense. After the serum, she has to grapple with the opposite side of the spectrum. So many people view her as a specimen, as a sex object and the paragon of man.

I think it would be interesting to view this in a trans lense. Stevie's hyperawareness to how she fits in along with others. How others behave around her and treat her.

Pre-serum, a lot of her gender dysphoria was physically-centered. Stevie wished she was fuller and smoother all over, like the typical woman seen in all the pin-up paintings she was told not to look at.

Post-serum, the same physical thoughts remained. Frequently, she wished that she could be softer around the edges and over all her new muscles. But now, the majority of the thoughts were socially-centered. She wished people still treated her with fragility and care, like a distressed dame ready to fall over at any moment.

When she comes out of the ice, the socially-centered thoughts only get worse. Now the rest of the world had the rest of a century and then some to catch up on Captain America, and how competent and masculine and assertive "he" is.

Stevie knows this is often a conflation between Captain America, the Figure, and Stevie Rogers, the person. But she can't help but balk at the expectations set for her. Maybe it's just because she has the world on her shoulders at all times, but maybe it's also because the gender roles are amplified and applied to her. That's what everyone expects of Captain America, anyway.

I just love the idea of Stevie completely rejecting gender roles and societies standards, especially after Civil War when she's already an enemy of the state lol (^^;

[kalmiaclown]

Ppl who... Wh o listen to They Might Be Giants, Oingo Boingo, Drive45, The Garden, Worthikids, Stevie Dinner, TV Room, Junie & TheHutFriends, and Machinery Of The Human Heart are... Scientistfically proven to be 100% sexier than everybody in the entire universe actually...... Ther was LITERALLY a sourse im not lying its was very scientific and real i jus cant find the link trust me bro.

Abyway guess who fits in that category ;o))

[tink27]

I'm am such a sucker for the "meeting earlier than they did in canon" sort of fic, whether they meet as kids or just in earlier seasons.

I love the idea of season one Steve subtly watching Eddie and being utterly entranced by him, while not yet understanding why

Or Eddie having a crush on season one Steve because of some small act of kindness and all of corroded coffin being so exasperated with it

Or them meeting as kids, before Steve learnt to be cruel and when Eddie's hair was buzzed close to his head. They meet with gap toothed smiles and scuffed knees and no matter how much they change over the years they never truly let go of those memories.

I love the idea of them meeting before they had the chance to become who they are in season 4. I wanna explore how they could have grown and become themselves, together.

[sinnettini]

do you guys remember when we used to post selfies every friday on football tumblr. or have i been on here wayyyy too long

[askstevie]

Bro, that does not look like me. That's an imposter!

Favorite Food? -Stevie from @askstevie

Beal is just staring at the new person...

Wait. Where did tear go?

Thanks for asking tho!