#underground flow

[yellodisney]

[toffee-draws]

some fiddauthor and fiddlestan drawings! featuring lyrics from "who loves the sun" and "femme fatale" by the velvet underground :)

[gaypiratebrainrot]

Hi! I have a question about wfu and specifically about the tags. I'm among those who have always read it exclusively as rpf (and I'm completely okay with it) and I was curious about what prompted you to tag it also as stede/ed. Was it just because of the names swapping? Or was it a choice to make it all meta-ish? I find it super interesting either way, and the fic itself is amazing

hi! thank you so much for this question and your kind words!

"is this rpf?" was always a central question of wfu, and one that i wrestled with a lot on my own while writing it. an intended part of the thought experiment was to publish it in a way where "is this rpf?" remained an open question for the reader to answer for themselves. my first beta had a strong knee-jerk reaction that the text was rpf, like, as early as the scene where they're having drinks on the back porch, leaving comments like "this is definitely rpf". at that point, i actually made a second doc where i swapped the names back and considered publishing it as regular rpf. instead, at the encouragement of my beta, i added two small additional meta scenes to the stede/ed version (the conversation with jim, wee john, and frenchie at the party, and then the bit at ed's house when ed and stede are crying on the couch and ed brings up fan fiction again), and gave that to a second beta.

my second beta had a strong knee-jerk reaction in the other direction, to the point where they didn't even think i needed to tag it rhys/taika. that was when i knew the thought experiment was going to work--it wasn't that either beta was right or wrong, but that every reader was going to have their own unique reaction to the text and whether it was rpf, an actor au, or some secret third thing. it was an extremely cool moment in my life and i will never forget it.

i decided to tag it as stede/ed, rhys/taika, RPF, and Actor AU, because i suspected as long as i did not definitively say what it was, there would be readers who would read it as just rpf or just an actor au. and this is exactly what happened, and continues to happen; there is a pretty wild diversity of interpretations and justifications for why wfu reads exclusively as either rpf or an au, in addition to everyone experiencing some secret third thing. it's really beautiful and i think there's a lot to be learned about how different people engage with and negotiate the relationship between fiction and reality.

and then there's also just the readers-finding-it-on-ao3 factor of tagging a fic: lots of people who never read rhys/taika love wfu as a stede/ed fic, and also if you love rhys/taika, you'd probably be happy to stumble across wfu in the rhys/taika tag. of course, there was also a small twitter wank when i published it from a few people who, it seems, did not engage with anything else about the fic beyond seeing the rpf tag and strapping into their moral superiority outrage pants. this too was beautiful, because what lovely experimental evidence of what incurious, reactionary morality will lead you to miss about all the vast murky gray of the world.

[conceptpewpew]

Seems like A LOT of people like this song I made..🔥

[h233media]

Quote of the day : Gs up hoes down if a bitch can't swim she gone drowned

Break down : it's a man's world if you can't find your way in this world you will be lost / broke go and get your money and always know you gotta work twice as hard in a man's world

I didn't write the book on pimping I just repost it lol 😂

Nah the real Quote of the day is a common one you can bring a horse to water but you can't force it to drink it 😭 love this one oldie but goody

[amywritesthings]

silver underground will update with chapter 15 on friday, august 4th! ✨

[manuhigueras]

prod.Mylap Beats

What is your names? Let me know 君の名前を！

[creativelywise]

[catgirltoes]

Ah, I see, the water table flows.

[kittyinfinity]

call me david byrne the way im asking myself

HOW DID I GET HERE?

[ineffablelvrs]

byler au x meet cute trope they meet at a book store reaching for the same book and then become friends and fall in love 🫡

[yellodisney]

[honey-coyote]

This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife (do you see my vision?)

[gaypiratebrainrot]

hey water flowing underground folks! your attention!

if you have not read @epersonae's for the benefit of broken hearts, i highly, highly recommend it, and now that we're in our post-s2 era, it's a really great time to read it. Elaine took the idea of the unnamed second wife and ran with it, like, sprinted away at full speed and crafted a really beautiful and thoughtful and chewy piece of art. the second wife remains unnamed and also in the third person, which is a true grammatical feat, and worth reading on that aspect alone. but it's also hot as fuck, and evocative/provocative, and plays with the wfu set-up in so many fascinating ways while building out its own world of (sexy) possibilities.

there's also a bunch of sequels/bonus content that are all excellent, so if you're already immersed in the extended wfuniverse but haven't read those, definitely run, don't walk: end up several worlds away, back on my beat

if you read, or if you've read before and yet to comment, definitely leave a comment!! Elaine is having a shit christmas and is an amazing human being, so now is a fantastic time to let her know how great her fic is!!

[conceptpewpew]

Don’t let me go..

Just dropped a new song, poetry from the heart!

[cyrusdavirus]

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