oh my god you can't just drop a 90s romcom au and not expect me to go fully feral about it "it had to be you" for the wips? đđ
omgggg tyyyy for helping me <3 <3 <3 i just reread 'it had to be you' to refresh my memory about what happened and where this story was going and! not to toot my own horn, but it is quite cute. here's the start of chapter four!:
Once Hannahâs left his office, Steve moves some of the paperwork around on his desk in an attempt to find his phone. After a few long moments of searching, he finally locates it, thumbing over the screen and watching as it lights up.Â
Eddie Munson: look at this dog i just met
Eddie Munson: Attachment: 1 Image
Eddie Munson: doesnât he look like al pacino
Steve canât help but let out a huff of a laugh. The dog does look like Al Pacino, actually.
Steve and Eddie had exchanged numbers after their drink together last week. Since then, Steve has been privy to the following: multiple 2am rumination on what your favorite salsa says about you as a person (ranked by both texture and spicy level and presumably while Eddie was eating salsa); various photos Eddie took throughout the week, including, but not limited to, the weird things he finds pigeons holding in their beaks, any time Eddie spots a rat in the âwildsâ of the city, and selfies with hot dog vendors that have âthe best âslaw in the city, Stevie, you have to believe me, promise me youâll find him and try it this weekâ;Â and half-developed horror plots for various short stories and screenplays Eddie's working on that tend to scare Steve more than he'd like to admit.
Steve would never say it, not even to Robin, but heâs found himself eagerly awaiting the chime of his phone for the first time in a really long time.
Steve: Wow⌠the resemblance is truly uncanny.
Steve: Seriously.
Eddie: :)
you can read chapters 1-3 on ao3 here!!
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i miss floppy disks tbqh
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ok my top 5 songs from ttpd after one week so far:
1. the albatross
2. but daddy i love him (gay. so gay. the most obviously gay song on album 1.)
3. loml
4. the black dog
5. i can do it with a broken heart (this is SO camp)
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we were talking abt brokeback mountain today and we ended up having a really great discussion abt queer cinema and the structures of hollywood that uphold certain ideological viewpoints.
and we started comparing jenniferâs body to brokeback because we watched that last week when we covered horror and this week was westerns so we were thinking abt genre in general and queer cinema in particular and how genre works to create cultural mythologies and provide framework to perpetuate those mythologies and by extension reinforce certain real-world cultural attitudes.
and we got on the subject of intended audience and how jenniferâs body is clearly intended for a queer audience even if thatâs not how it was originally marketed and how brokeback actually is quite heteronormative in its focus on pining and suffering and trauma and i pointed out that brokeback is actually quite desexualized in a way that jenniferâs body very obviously isnât. like, yes, ennis & jack of course have sex and thatâs central to the story, but the way the camera shows us those moments (and mostly doesnât) is important and a majority of their intimacy is initiated by ennis becoming violent even while jack tries to be tender. and i pointed out their play fighting at one point in the film.
and one of my male students said that that was still pretty sexual because theyâre shirtless and wrestling (even tho this wrestling leads to nothing else in the moment). and i said âokay so when all of u get shirtless and wrestle with your friends, thatâs inherently sexual? or are you only reading it as sexual because the two men involved are gay?â and these moments donât arise often, where i can actually hear and feel in the room an important point clicking into place, but boy, this sure was one of them.
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in the russian sleep experiment the guys only went crazy because the researchers told them they weren't allowed to have sex with each other in there
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my job in the leftist commune is babybel unwrapper and everyone wants to fuck me
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#notallswifities but swifties are genuinely the most hateful fandom iâve ever encountered. they should be studied.
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bro i nearly had a panic attack because for whatever reason i password protected some of my fic docs but not all for my fic and itâs been like two years since iâve touched them that i donât remember and i couldnât open them and almost ended it all
but i figured it out lol abt to answer all my asks, yes, letâs do thisssss
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happy lesbian day of visibility. alexa, play 'but daddy i love him.'
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the jerk store called. and they said. sorry wrong number. i love you
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do u guys wanna help me write my WIPs? :D published and unpublished?!
u can choose from any of these!
monsters are always hungryârobin and steve find a mysterious tape at family video and become vecnaâs victims (ring au kind of⌠there are two chapters up on ao3)
empire records au (unpublished but exactly what uâd think)
oh my love is a lieâsteve hooks up with eddie after a devastating break up at the beginning of summer only to never see or hear from him again⌠until he shows up at steveâs friendsgiving party (fwb, pining, one chapter on ao3 currently)
all of me changed like midnightâeddie leaves hawkins behind to pursue his music career; steve is left behind, broken hearted. they express their feelings through the music they write for each other (famous!steddie, non-linear narrative spanning ten yearsârewriting whatâs already published on ao3)
it had to be youâwhen harry met sally au!!!!!!
always, help me!!!!! i wanna write. send me an ask and iâll write one whole paragraph!!!!!
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Eddie surviving and going to see The Princess Bride when it comes out in 1987âand itâs a tentative thing, still, between him and Steve; they havenât named it, but their hands still brush in the space between their seats, and really if Eddie were pushed, heâd say that they both know exactly what theyâre heading towards, that theyâre just floating between the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. Thatâs fine by him; they have time now, so much of it.
And the movie is charming and funny, but itâs not the romance or adventure that hits Eddie in the chest. It comes on unexpectedly, every time thereâs a scene with the man reading to his grandson whoâs sick in bed: suddenly Eddie can feel the softness of the bedsheets he had when he was young, when the move to Wayneâs was still raw and difficult, and itâs Wayne whoâs reading to him softly, back when stories of things turning out fine were all Eddie had.
âLetâs see⌠where were we?â the grandfather mutters, and Eddie laughs because he can hear so much of Wayne in it, that gentle, wry humour. âOh, yes. In the Pit of Despair.â
Eddie laughs again, choked. Heâs clawed his way out of that damned pit so many times. His breathing catches at the thought that itâs been over a year since the deepest pit of them all, when Eddie once thought that the walls were far too high to climb.
âWoah, hey,â Steve whispers, âwhatâs wrong?â
Eddie shakes his head, smiling. âN-nothing.â
Their row is empty, and in the dark Steve reaches out, fingertips gently brushing underneath Eddieâs eye. They come away wet.
And Steve gives a little shushing noise, so that only they can hear, and itâs him who makes the leap, easily turning the page into the new chapter.
To some people Eddieâs first kiss would mean nothing at allâin their eyes, a chaste peck of comfort in a movie theatre would be just a speck in the grand history of the kiss itself. But for Eddie, it leaves them all behind.
âFarm boy,â he murmurs, when the movieâs over, smiling because the great, terrible story is done, and he is here; he is here. âTake me home?â
Steve smiles back, winks out the corner of his eye. âAs you wish.â
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because this story was truly meant to be my masterpiece⌠my magnum opus⌠my folkmore⌠so.
i think that iâm going to work on rewriting âall of me changed like midnightâ and reposting it with the vision i originally had for it before i felt so constrained by time limits (truly of my own making) that i didnât write what i wanted to write and so lost all interest in postingâŚ
i wonât remove the og from ao3 until iâve started posting the Eldritch-Thrumming VersionTM but know that itâs coming⌠could be a year, could be next week lol
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i think that iâm going to work on rewriting âall of me changed like midnightâ and reposting it with the vision i originally had for it before i felt so constrained by time limits (truly of my own making) that i didnât write what i wanted to write and so lost all interest in postingâŚ
i wonât remove the og from ao3 until iâve started posting the Eldritch-Thrumming VersionTM but know that itâs coming⌠could be a year, could be next week lol
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