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Proud to present my latest fic bind. The amazing and wonderful Steddie AU fic Flight Risk written by ayes and with art by itskleo. One of my favorite fics I have read, completely captivating me from start to finish so I just had to make it into a physical book. Highly HIGHLY recommend if you haven’t read it already.

Read it here:

As always no profit was made from this bind, everything is done by hand and free copies were given to the creators as gifts only. This is solely a labor of love and a way to give back to those that have given so much to the fandom. I just really enjoy bookbinding, okay.

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👴🏻 Flight Risk: It’s for Dads too! 🌈

It only takes one fic to change your whole life. For this Dad, it’s Flight Risk. Episode seven comes out tomorrow! ✈️

Hosted by our lovely, Amy @mojowitchcraft. With the wonderful Ayes and Kleo @noxarcanaart. Modded by the amazing Birdie @audacityofbird. 🎙️

Video made by @strawberryspence 🎥

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I was thinking about the liberation-in-place of Genius Loci in my berry bramble today, so I thought I’d write out my simple black raspberry ice cream recipe.

Steviebats’ Black Raspberry Ice Cream

2c black raspberries

1 c sugar

2 c heavy cream

1 c milk or Greek yogurt or buttermilk

squirt of lime juice

Mash black raspberries with sugar and let sit for a while.

Optional cooking step: simmer berries and sugar mash in a small saucepan until the berries release their juice and the sugar melts (about 5 min, med heat), then cool.

When berry and sugar mixture is cool, mix with cream and milk (or your substitution).

Freeze according to your ice cream maker’s instructions.

Taste a spoonful, if it needs something add a squirt of lime juice.

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「𝙶𝙴𝙽𝙸𝚄𝚂 𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙸」

🌿🌾🌧️☕️🔮🌼 chapter one: the fool

four years after steve comes back from the upside down different, eddie comes back home the same.

it’s a new klayes fic day, so here’s a loose vibes-y piece cause ‘genius loci’ is already too fucking good

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this fic was so fucking sweet I feel genuinely sick to my stomach

so many amazing fic writers and artists ily all

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“…Eddie propped his chin up in his own hand to match, and then they were both watching each other, leaning heavily into the counter.”

🥂💔🇮🇹🌹

[𝓱𝓸𝓷𝓮𝔂𝓶𝓸𝓸𝓷 𝓹𝓱𝓪𝓼𝓮]

the first two chapters

archiveofourown.org/works/50909944

🥂💔🇮🇹🌹

[with Ayes @noxarcanaart ]

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my first book, bound!

this thing is a mess and i love every little part of it. i made my own bookcloth, sewed in the headbands, formatted and printed everything at home, with less than perfect materials, and even redid the whole text block after messing up trimming the first one. it was a learning experience that definitely taught me a lot.

this fic changed me, carved out a little space in my chest and has lived there since i first read it. it’s also been erased from the internet, and required some fandangling with the waybackmachine to ever check it out in the first place. i managed to scrounge the html file and turn it into an epub to read it initially, so making a physical copy of it was a no brainer.

it’s beautiful and heart warming and painful, and for some reason i knew it needed to look as battered as the characters felt. so when the fabric i bought for bookcloth turned out to be too thin and soaked up the glue in ugly splotches, i decided to keep it rather than go out and buy something new. when the paper i found for end pages ended up too small and misshapen, i left them. when i cut myself on my bookbinding needle partway through the second text block, i could have reprinted the signature, but decided i wanted to sew it in.

something about these wounds just aligned with the fic, to me. and now i have a real record of my first bind, errors and all, that i can’t wait to look back on in however many years from now.

edit: i reached out to ayes on twitter for permission to share the file for this, since it was taken down… and they’ve republished it for me instead!!!!!! 😭 please read it here

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GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

litany in which certain things are crossed out by ayes

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Prince Steve is lost in the deep dark forest.

Decided to draw Steve inspired by Ayes and Kleo’s fic However Wild - and heavily inspired by the art of John Bauer.

The fic is a fairytale, so I wanted to infuse this piece with some Swedish fairytale vibe, as a little twist is my own :)

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“Heal Me”🌿

Inspired by the fic Genius Loci: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45795196/chapters/115246126

I had to blur the slightly spicy bit for here but go see the full thing on my Twitter: @ashleyuncanny

Or on my Patreon patreon.com/littleashleylynn

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I was thinking about the liberation-in-place of Genius Loci in my berry bramble today, so I thought I’d write out my simple black raspberry ice cream recipe.

Steviebats’ Black Raspberry Ice Cream

2c black raspberries

1 c sugar

2 c heavy cream

1 c milk or Greek yogurt or buttermilk

squirt of lime juice

Mash black raspberries with sugar and let sit for a while.

Optional cooking step: simmer berries and sugar mash in a small saucepan until the berries release their juice and the sugar melts (about 5 min, med heat), then cool.

When berry and sugar mixture is cool, mix with cream and milk (or your substitution).

Freeze according to your ice cream maker’s instructions.

Taste a spoonful, if it needs something add a squirt of lime juice.

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Quick question, but how do you actually pronounce your tumblr username? I've been calling you "says ayes" but I don't know if that's right?

it’s just “ayes” like “eyes,” my username is it backwards and forewords!

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gay cowboys yeehaw

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“Look at what you did, baby king,” Eddie said, voice quiet. Steve couldn’t tell whether he was pleased or upset, but when he blinked… A perfect, tiny fire was contained within his hands, not burning him, but utterly beautiful.

Chapter 3 of However Wild is out and y'all should go read.

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happy valentine's day to THIS QUOTE only

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@3MinsOver wrote an article for Rockstar Eddie and it deserved a full magazine cover! Big shout out to @ayeayeayes and @noxarcanaart for their amazing work on Flight Risk, the fic that inspired this article. Leave kudos on both works here https://tinyurl.com/2a9zvm2z

Credits for the photos go to @fefemunson and @pearlyjaw go give them some love!  

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