#tgbd posting

[flowerpotmage]

"You don’t question it anymore, when Miguel appears in your bed at night. He’s not there for sex, no, you’ve never even kissed—though you would be lying if you said you weren’t open to the idea of kissing him. He’s there for comfort. For rest. If only it could stay so simple."

Miguel O'Hara/gn!Reader

Additional tags/notes: Reader is almost entirely undescribed, aside from being much smaller than Miguel. This story features hurt/comfort, angst, pining, slow burn, the occasional fade-to-black/interrupted sexy dream, and cameo and background characters from ATSV and the greater Marvel universe. There is no use of y/n, and this fic now updates irregularly.

Read on Ao3 here.

Moodboard/WebWeave here

If you prefer to read on tumblr, you can find all published parts under the following links: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, Part 8, Part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12, part 13, part 14, part 15, part 16, part 17, part 18, part 19 in progress.

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[jdeowrites]

Life Doesn’t Change After You’re Published, and other kinda-truths

It’s been one entire year since my debut novel, TJ POWAR HAS SOMETHING TO PROVE, was published on June 7, 2022. My little YA contemporary about a girl and her body hair, but also about so much else. 

It sometimes feels like no time has passed at all—like just last week I was on my way to my little local book launch with friends. I remember that day so clearly. I got my hair (on my head, ha) and nails done for funsies, and my brother came to town for the launch. On our drive to the bookstore I was happy and excited, but also had jitters in my stomach because I wore a dress that ended just above my knees—with my very hairy legs exposed. Yes, this was despite not having removed my leg hair in years, and despite having worn shorts so many times in the interim without any discomfort. I knew why, of course: It was because now I was wearing an outfit typically very strongly associated with femininity (a dress) and somehow it felt like the two things couldn’t go together. I mused that here was further evidence that unlearning harmful things society had taught me was going to be a lifelong venture. Which was an interesting, amusing, and somewhat fitting realization to have on release day. 

I still force myself into that discomfort often. In some ways, as I said to my audiobook narrator last year (Mayuri Bhandari, she’s amazing), I even feel some responsibility to do so. Whenever wonderful, open-minded readers say to me, “I didn’t even know brown girls grew that much hair,” I think to myself, well, then it’s even more important that I show them.

To not feel, as an artist, completely divorced from my own work once it was public was one of the many surprises of having a book out. People always say that life doesn’t drastically change once you have a book published; and that, I was prepared for. Frankly I was more than happy with that idea--I’d spent so much time on promo in the lead up that I was exhausted, and looked forward to a quiet post-release. I missed my writing. 

But although there’s no magical life-changing switch, I’ve found that things have changed. Just slowly, and subtly, as satisfying and long-lasting change often is.

I’ve talked at length about how the content of the book changed me. But in a general sense, I can think of many things in my day-to-day life that have changed since being published. For example, having friends in real life snapping pics of my book at stores across the continent; having people in real life ask me about my writing (a bit of a horror really); being tagged in blog posts and Twitter threads where people talk about their favourite books; getting DMs from people gushing about the book; talking to teens as a published author about books; having readers stand in front of me and excitedly tell me all the things they loved about my book while I smile silently thinking is this real? Is this real?; the opportunities I’ve had to sit down with other authors and laugh and compare notes and realize hey, we’re all going through the same weird-ass publishing machine; being asked to blurb other authors’ books; walking into random bookstores and seeing a copy on the shelf; being invited for lit festivals and interviews and to give talks and such as an established author. But most of all, it’s in the simple joy of knowing, every day, I am a published author. That has changed me. It’s a new piece of my identity. Once upon a time, it was my wildest dream. It’s a special privilege to be able to say I’m now dreaming of new things.

So, if you’re one of the people who’ve read TJ POWAR HAS SOMETHING TO PROVE, thank you so much for giving my little book a chance. It’s been amazing to see its impact over this past year, and I can only hope it will reach even more readers as time goes on. And for everyone who’s asked me what’s next... I can’t wait to share. Eventually. ;)

[messier-47]

Tobirama's Gotta Big Dick ch.13!

shorter chapter this time but no less important or sexy ;)

[flowerpotmage]

ceilings, lizzy mcalpine // comedown, joesef // le lit, henri toulouse-lautrec // steps towards love, maryam savoji // unknown // tears dry on their own, amy winehouse // johnlock at the beach, deviantart usermformadness // bittersuite, billie eilish // la mano destra che sa cosa fa la sinistra, giovanni gasparro

[flowerpotmage]

WIP Wednesday!!

Ty for the tag @morning-star-joy 💚

Hoping to have this chapter done in the next week or two!

No pressure tags @jasonsmirrorball @writeforfandoms @cardamumblessing

[flowerpotmage]

Just finished chapter ten. 5k words y'all

[flowerpotmage]

Very curious to see how the TLT series brainrot is going to affect TGBD when I finally finish my classes and have time for writing

[flowerpotmage]

i love when a character u hadn't planned on writing decides to make a cameo

[flowerpotmage]

I read your Miguel fic and oooghhh… I looove it, I’m soo excited for your other chapters!! Im eating up the soft affection and the yearning !!! Im a sucker for “acting like a couple but we’re friends but we’re also yearning for each other but wont admit it… but yeah we act like a couple” thing ugh

Aaaa thank you!! I'm so happy you're enjoying it - I'm such a sucker for the mutual pining in denial trope tbh and it's been a blast writing it. Fingers crossed I have time to work on the next chapter soon!!

[flowerpotmage]

*vibrating neurodivergently* i wanna talk about tgbd

[flowerpotmage]

i just started tgbd it is so good ! thank u for making an inclusive reader

aaaa im so happy you're enjoying it!! and ofc!!

[flowerpotmage]

Is tgbd abandoned?

Hi! Sorry I've taken a few days to answer this, but the short answer is not at all!

Longer answer is I fully intend to return to working on TGBD and I intend to keep my streak of finishing my Spider-Man fics no matter what, I've just been going through it the last couple of months with health and other nonsense. October is one of the busiest months of the year for me so I haven't been writing or reading pretty much anything, like, at all 😭 but TGBD will be back!!

[flowerpotmage]

hoping I'm not toooooo late for the wip ask game (do ignore if I am), I'm feeling like 'touch' has a good chance (watch me completely flop this)

fuck time zones btw why can't the earth be flat

Felt on the timezones. (And no ur not late at all!!)

Touch, from TGBD:

Your breath catches in your throat, and you lift your hand from his side to touch his face.

[flowerpotmage]

I am literally so obsessed with your fic is insane. Im just a sucker for codependency in fanfics. and having them depend on each other for a proper night's sleep is so chef kiss and they keep their problems from each other and the lines between friends and something more is getting blurrier and blurrier with them. the part where he gets up and he's shirtless had me flustered 😭 I just can't get over how good this is. thank you for the meal 🍽️

also ngl..Ik this is Miguel fic but having Matty is making me kick my feet and giggling like a school girl🫣 if you ever decide to write a matt exclusive fic I will be all for it.

and just the little details with him just knowing that she's injured and hiding something is perfect.

thanks so much for sharing your work with us!💞

AAAA THANK UUUU!! can u believe this was supposed to be a oneshot about emotional support cuddling??? it's gotten completely out of control. They are getting completely out of control!

honestlyyy i'm thinking i might have to write a matt fic someday after this. maybe a oneshot at least? idk, im intimidated by his Catholicism ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The whole Karen moment in chapter 4 was just supposed to be like, a worldbuilding easter egg for reader's dimension that also got a little out of control. At this point I'm just begging Matt to not derail my plans, even though that's like, his whole thing hahaha

Thank you so much for the ask, nice things like this make me feel so much better about sharing my work with all of you :')

[flowerpotmage]

🌹TGBD wip 🤲

U got it 👉🏻👉🏻

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[flowerpotmage]

I hope I'm not too late! 😭

🌹🌹 for the inbox meme 💞

Never too late bb!! Here's a sneak peek at the next chapter of TGBD (pre-editing. Even looking at this screenshot im seeing little things I'm gonna change lol)

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