#about cchapsticck

[cchapsticck]

15 questions. Stuff bout me! Thanks for tagging me @greenlikethesea!

1. are you named after anyone?

Okay kind of a funny story. When it comes to my deadname the story goes my parents were so sick of fighting over what to call me that that name was like a hands in the air okay fine concession between the two of them and neither of them actually liked it all that much. The name (and variations on it) I go by these days I am, without meaning to, named after two people. I share a deadname with one of my closest and oldest friends, and a mutual friend of ours has a condition that makes it difficult for him to distinguish faces - and we both have a similar vocal quality so we were particularly difficult for him to distinguish without someone having identified who was who in conversation. So he started calling her "Senior" and me "Junior" because calling us by the same name was just an additional complication for him keeping us distinctive and Junior stuck hard. My father's middle name is just the letter J, which someone at work started calling me and now everyone does. And I work a lot. So I am called it a lot. So that happened on accident.

2. when was the last time you cried?

I think it was before I had surgery, which was. Two months ago? Three? I forget how time works. I was scaredexcited. I'm not really a big crier, but I definitely have watershed moments of "cry a lot now" a couple times a year.

3. do you have kids?

I do not and I don't think that I will. I have a lot of respect for people who have and raise children, I just don't think I'm well suited to be a parent for a real smorgasbord of reasons. I like kids just fine though! My friend's kids are super cool and I always enjoy my time with them.

4. do you use sarcasm a lot?

I guess occasionally? I think when I do its this very intentionally hyperbolic version of it so as to not be misconstrued when I'm joking. If I'm ever going to be sassy about something I think I'd say my "style" in that arena is a bit more deadpan, but still very unserious. I tend to be a very earnest person so things like sarcasm are pretty much always employed as a joke.

5. what sports do you play/have you played?

/john mayer voice My Body Is A Garbage Can 🎶 my ramshackle horrible body is not cut out for sports, but in my youth I played hockey and figure skated. (midwest baybeeeee) I skipped out on my physical education requirement in high school by being in marching band for 4 years.

6. what’s the first thing you notice about people?

So I am deaf and I spend a lot of time looking at people's mouths, I read lips to fill in some lost information that my hearing aids don't reliably provide me with so it usually takes me a few encounters with a person before I start to notice other details about them beyond the lower third of their face. Sometimes I'll notice people's eyebrows, or if they have glasses or freckles but the specifics of their features don't always sink in right away.

7. what’s your eye colour?

Green!

8. scary movies or happy endings?

For my own personal enjoyment? Always always always a scary movie. I love a scary movie. Good, bad, doesn't matter, I want to watch it. A friend of mine and I spend entire weekends just watching the Shudder back catalogue and we've found some incredible films. (Please watch Death Spa I'm so not even kidding) I am a whole sucker for a practical effect. I also love a scary movie with a happy ending!

9. any special talents?

I always know where the car is parked.

10. where were you born?

American Midwest. Round the lakes. Y'know. The big ones.

11. what are your hobbies?

I'm one of those suckers who made their hobby their job so I genuinely enjoy garment construction and costume crafts. I also like to write and garden and live music.

12. do you have pets?

No not anymore. I had cats in high school (I am so deeply allergic) and we have had to put two of them down over the last few years and our last remaining guy lives with my mom. My partner and I raise carnivorous plants though and we've named all of them and talk about them like they're essentially pets.

13. how tall are you?

5'6"

14. favourite subject at school?

I always loved my English classes, far and away the classes I put the most work into and excelled at. I also took a radical dramaturgy class in grad school that changed the way my brain functions. Which is probably an extension of an English class tbh. While not a favorite: I'm good at math, but I don't actually like math. I often joke that I'm good at math against my will - I had a lot of math tutoring as a kid so now I can like. Do long division in my head and shit.

15. dream job?

Y'know, I'm not sure I have a dream job. I really like what I do, I work in the arts - live theater and I wear a lot of hats at the regional theater I spend most of my time at. I've put a lot of time and effort and lost sleep into trying to make a living doing something that feels worthwhile to me personally as an artist and important to the community I'm in and making that art accessible to that community but I'm also happy to go home at the end of the day, its easy for me not to think about work when I'm not at work.

So I think the dream is more to have a job that I like, that I want to be at most days, that feels worthwhile, but also to have a healthy work/life balance with that job. Y'know?

#about cchapsticck

[dreamwatch]

WIP Weekend

Thanks for the tag @hbyrde36 and @thisapplepielife!

rules: make a 24-hour poll with the names of your wips and then for whichever wins, write one sentence for every vote it gets (but you should also write 1 sentence for every vote each of them gets!)

When it’s over I’ll post a snippet of any/all wips that get at least one vote!

I’ve removed a WIP because I’m thinking of restarting it and using it for NaNoWriMo.

Summaries under the cut

Like A Stone: Post S4. Everyone has moved on except for Eddie. He's working with Wayne, stuck in Hawkins, withdrawing from life and his friends and haunted by Chrissy. Slowest of slow burns.

Prison Fic: My true love! Eddie gets a life sentence for triple homicide. This is about his life in prison. Happy (ish) ending guaranteed. I'm guessing at about 4 chapters, I have one complete and 2 others on the go (I write out of sequence, sorry!).

Dustin & Eddie: Eddie moves away from Hawkins as fast as he can and cuts himself off from The Party. A few years later and Dustin is having Big Feelings and seeks him.

Steve and Eddie 90s: Started life as a fluffy song fic until I broke it. Eddie and Steve run into each other in a bar in the 90s. They decide to meet up in the bar once a week and every time they do, the song that was playing the first time they ran into each other comes on at some point in the evening.

No pressure tags:

@occasionaloverboy @farahsamboolents @cchapsticck. @devilyouwere. I’ve kind of lost track of who has WIPs they’re working on at the moment, please let me know if you’re writing? Thanks!

#wip weekend #my writing #my wips #dreamy writes

[dodger-chan]

I was tagged by @cchapsticck for WIP Wednesday.

As it happens, I was a little busy Wednesday with a minor dental emergency, the cause and aftermath of which put a bit of a crimp in my writing schedule. The result: the most recent thing I've written is what will likely be the ending/epilogue of Reveal the Yearning Desert. So instead of those spoilers, please accept the beginning of part two (which will hopefully go up some time next week)

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks all striking thirteen couldn’t have made it any weirder.

It had been a shit day in what was turning out not to be his year afterall, and Eddie found himself in no state of mind to walk the fine line between causing pain and causing damage. So he left a note in Harrington’s locker, begging off their planned evening meeting and that should have been the end of it.

But these days Steve confounded Eddie’s expectations as often as he met them.

If he’d thought about it, Eddie would have predicted that fucking Steve Harrington would have brought an end to their occasional casual interactions. That Harrington would ignore him, stare right past him if they passed in the hall. If he’d been in a particularly pessimistic mood, he’d have predicted a certain amount of bullying. Harrington pushing Eddie into lockers as he passed, making his disdain obvious to all.

Eddie would never have guessed Harrington would have the balls to pretend nothing had changed. To ask Eddie for a light when he forgot his own. To laugh and roll his eyes when Eddie’s orations were particularly amusing. To talk down his teammates when one of Eddie’s anti-jock rants riled them up a little too much.

Still, such interactions were hardly direct conversation.

“Munson, hold up a second,” Harrington called, abandoning a scowling Carol Perkins to jog over. Eddie also wouldn’t have predicted Steve choosing the girl’s side in what had been the nastiest breakup to grace the halls of Hawkins High in living memory. Though he had, of course, managed the skillful social dance of remaining at least superficially friendly with Hagan as well.

“The Hair himself, deigning to speak to me?” Harrington smirked and steered them to an almost private stretch of hallway. Fully private now; the loiterers cleared off like they’d been given some signal. “And alone, too. What will everyone think?”

“That I’m buying.” A plausible excuse. Harrington wasn’t his most regular customer, but he did buy pot on occasion. Still paid for it, too, though without the rich asshole tax despite being both. “I got your note. Something came up?”

“Pretty self-explanatory.” It was as much of an explanation as Harrington needed.

“A good something? Or a bad something?” Harrington was trying to look him in the eye. Eddie fixed his gaze on a point over the other boy’s shoulder. “Because if-”

“Maybe I’m just not in the mood,” Eddie interrupted. He glanced quickly up and down the hall; no one was close enough to overhear. “I don’t have the energy. Not tonight, Josephine.”

It was a bit risqué for such a public locale, but it was perfect for getting Harrington to back off. With an eye roll, and a sure, whatever, Munson but Eddie was once again undisturbed in his misery.

#reveal the yearing desert #stranger things #steddie #my brain does seem to be coming back online #editing and reading resumed today #hopefully writing will resume this weekend

[greenlikethesea]

However many mutuals, 15 questions. Thanks @dodger-chan for tagging me, it was cool to learn about you!!

1. are you named after anyone?

My government name is just a name my mother thought was pretty, with the middle name being a family middle name. The name I go by currently (sometimes, anyway) is after a character in an indie movie.

2. when was the last time you cried?

Oh god, two days ago? I cry so much. I feel things super deeply and I cry very easily. It's something I've struggled with my entire life and have tried to keep heavily in check due to the whole "white woman tears" thing, but emotional regulation is not a strong suit of mine.

3. do you have kids?

I do not and I don’t think I will have any. I admire people who have them, and I actually like kids! I just don’t think I’m meant to be a parent. I think when I'm older and more financially stable, I'd like to foster teenagers.

4. do you use sarcasm a lot?

To some extent. I used to be a lot more sarcastic, but a well of tenderness has sprung up inside me and replaced it with sincerity. It makes me feel a hell of a lot better day to day.

5. what sports do you play/have you played?

I’ve done swimming and skating, and I did the standard sports in gym class. I’m decidedly not a sports person but I do think jocks are very hot, haha. The exercise I do currently is solo stuff (walking, running, weight lifting, yoga) or stuff that's technically exercise but more fun (dancing! zumba!).

6. what’s the first thing you notice about people?

Their posture and their hair, two things about myself that I am very fixated on so I zero in on them with others. And, of course, what they're wearing!

7. what’s your eye colour?

Blue-ish.

8. scary movies or happy endings?

I refuse to choose! They both have value and there’s room for both in my life! My favorite genre is horror comedy if you couldn’t tell.

9. any special talents?

I think people consider the writing and music thing special, but they're just essential parts of my being, so here are things I consider special: can cook a decent meal out of whatever is in my house. I am good at lip syncing. I can accurately guess the beat drop in basically any song.

10. where were you born?

NYC.

11. what are your hobbies?

Writing, reading, making music, theater, trivia, collaging, road trips, hiking, beach going in the summer.

12. do you have pets?

Not anymore :( I recently had to put my cat to sleep. I want a pet again in the future, and when I'm a bit more financially stable I definitely want a dog.

13. how tall are you?

5’3.5” (161.29 cm)

14. favourite subject at school?

English for the conventional stuff. But really, Chorus of any kind. I went to a performing arts high school and I loved that for four periods out of my school day, I got to sing.

15. dream job?

I'm not certain if I have a dream job! I kind of want to do a bit of everything. But right now, I'm working toward something I really like -- community outreach and guest experience at a cultural center, which may turn into event planning and hosting later on.

tagging @tony-buddenbrook @cchapsticck @laundrybiscuits @senorablack @campgender @r-o-s-e-f-i-r-e and whoever else wants to do it!

#tag game

[bettiebloodshed]

Okay tagged by @cchapsticck and school and work have been kicking my ass but I still have stuff, and damn it, things are going to get done eventually.

right | 

  He was allowed to hold this grudge, to feel this way. Harrington was an X, had him Number 6 on the list, would have killed him without a second thought and a grin on his face before he got de-bleached, and why did everyone want him to just let that go? Just cause he seemed normal? Like some nice fuckin’ normal guy who shrugged his shoulders when people spit at him and helped people. Like he hadn’t been at the right hand of BL/Ind. There was a piece of Eddie knew that he was reacting to this in a way that was irrational, for way more reasons than had to do with Harrington’s old profession (and more to do with the way he laughed at a joke, the wide grin on his face), but he didn’t have to acknowledge that to anyone. Least of all himself.

reason |

Eddie placed his hand over Steve’s mouth, and he was warm, so warm, and his entire body was trembling, a visceral reaction to feeling another human after two months. That was it, the only reason. Get it together, Eddie. Think, think, stop laughing like you’re mad (but you are, you are).

break |

Steve might have been off at college, but it was spring break, which meant he was still on driving duty for the kids. Or well, he didn’t have to be, but he wanted to be. As much as he bitched about it to their faces, he missed them when he was off at school. There was something soothing about having a car full of rowdy dipshits as he drove down the backroads of Hawkins.

done |

His eyes were searching Pony’s, as if he were expecting an answer in the negative, as if Pony didn’t know what he was doing. And–yes he might not have done this before, but it felt like all roads had been leading here. Only difference was that it wasn’t the dead end he thought it would be. Pony wanted to go full speed, blasting down the track to see where it led.

lost

It was good when Steve showed up; kept him from getting lost in his own damn thoughts at least. Eddie knew he was actively putting his foot in his mouth from nervousness, but it seemed to be a mutual issue between the two of them. (If he had been told before all this that King Steve would trip over his words around Eddie, oh that would have been a fucking top tier joke.) It was good to hear that those Reganinite Fascists Fucks did something right by Wayne and gave him a house. The idea of Wayne though, getting a damn house, a real house out of the trailer park, because their home was destroyed by the gaping hell he was currently trapped in? It sat in his gut, festering. Fucking Munson luck, really. Would be funny if it wasn’t so damn sad.

I'm absolutely shit at tagging anyone, so I'm...not

#wip #wip wendesday

[cwstau]

20 Questions for fic writers

@cchapsticck tagged me and given we should have an update on CWSTAU by the end of this month, figured I should post.

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

4 - Most of my work isn't published. I've written a lot but just...not put it out there. I've always been a chicken. However one I archived/deleted and the other is on an account I don't associate with this one, and is on long term hiatus. The other is on someone else's account that will be explained below and just, /gestures.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

18,760 (published) but to give ya'll some idea of how much of Conventional Weapons is sitting waiting to be edited/refined, I have 14k sitting in gdocs

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Stranger Things, Danger Days. This is a labor of love towards both fandoms, and when the main CW is done, I have pieces that are going expand with both the characters of ST and DD. Any other non-DD things will go on my other account (not associated here).

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

adlfkja only got the one baby. But I'm so thankful for each and every one of those kudos.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I do! It may not always be coherent or the best comment, but I try to give people some sort of response as they've gone that extra mile to provide me a comment. Every kudo, every comment means so much to me. Seriously, I wrote this expecting an audience of like, 2 people, and knowing so many more are enjoying it means the world to me.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

There is a timeloop fic that remains in the drafts that has a horrible ending, but I don't know if it will ever be published. As of right now, no angst endings here. Complicated, messy, but not angst ridden, really.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

The ending of Conventional Weapons is already written--its been written for a long time (before the middle parts were even written) and I don't know if it's the happiest ending, but it's the most hopeful.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Nah, I'm too niche for that lol.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Smut with emotion? IDK. There are plans for smut in CW but I think they are going to be 'missing scenes' published after the fact that people can read/not read at their leisure. I enjoy writing it, but it isn't really what this story is about, and I honestly don't feel that it works with the main body of this story. Hence, the "click here to read the sex" aspect of what is going to happen. The 'sequel' things may be more explicit, as they aren't the direct story.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Gestures to what this entire blog/project is about.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nah.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

While not a traditional co-written piece, @cchapsticck has provided insight that has really helped me move this along, and the key mantra in the fic itself is from them. Their art has also really been important as well. They sell themselves short on their additions, really. Their help, esp early on, in helping me shape the world, means that this fic is what it is now.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

Legit could never choose one

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Look, the story that's on hiatus may never be finished. And hey, that's okay. I have a few that I've got outlines for, that may never get past that. I'm a slow writer, I always have been. I really dont want to let anything else get rolling until CW is done anyways.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Look I'm going to be honest, I have no fucking idea. I will say I think I'm pretty good at characterization, and I usually feel confident in my choices for the character--in a 'yes they would do this given the situation' and a 'yes they would say that'. Given it's an AU I get more wiggle room, but I feel really strongly about Steve and Eddie's characterization, and I know that not everyone feels the same way I do regarding them--but I'm confident in my character choices in the story. [This goes for my other stories as well but--]

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I hate writing action. I suck at it, and I try to avoid it, despite evidence to the contrary. Trying to keep track of all the balls in the air is just annoying as hell. Also despite this fic having a real overarching plot, I have really wanted to keep it 'vibes' based more than plot, cause things get to plot heavy and I start to worry I'm a bore. It's where my insecurities start to sneak in, which lets my writing to become a lot weaker in turn.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

Note: all my statements are assuming you aren't fluent in the language you are trying to write in, and you're a native English speaker. Maybe a word or two is okay? But unless you're fluent, you're gonna make it sound weird. If a character is speaking in German, just say they are speaking in German. Unless it is absoLUTELY important to the narrative that the phrase be in a foreign language, in the fic--do the work to make sure it's correct. Get a native speaker to check it, put in the translation somewhere. But again, ask yourself once, twice, three times if it's necessary.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

I didn't consider it fanfic at the time but I absolutely wrote a 'fix it' chapter for the end of The Great Gatsby for class once lol. That was the beginning.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

This one. Again, I know it's niche, but CW is such a labor of love, and means so much to me. It's not perfect, I'm slow going because of school and work, but I've never felt so secure in my own work and felt such joy when I'm working on it.

#tagged in #meta #posts from L

[cchapsticck]

wait, runner by cchapsticck on ao3

They don’t talk. They do not talk. They don’t talk about portals to hell and the shit that crawled out and roosted in their dreams. They don’t talk about their matching scars and hospital stays. They don’t talk about the one year they were in in the same grade and Steve wasn’t altogether that different from anyone else on Steve’s particular rung of the social ladder. They don’t talk about the things they didn’t say to each other but hung in the air before Eddie decided to like, die, or whatever.

#fic: runner #steddie fanfic #steddie #steddie fanfiction #steddie fic #steve x eddie #eddie munson #steve harrington #stranger things #stranger things fic #steddie fics #web weaving

[dreamwatch]

 WIP Wednesday

Thank you @hbyrde36 for the tag! So this is my main WIP right now, my ‘Eddie in Prison because it all went tits up’ fic. This is first draft, unbeta’d so may change, but for now…

——

In his third week of the rest of his incarcerated life, Eddie receives a letter.

He recognises the handwriting immediately. Dustin. It’s been opened, and he vaguely remembers orientation, post is checked, stamps removed because people smuggle drugs under them, photographs of family only and no suggestive poses. He’s pretty sure Dustin didn’t try to smuggle heroin under the stamp or try to send him nudies. The thought is ridiculous and it makes him smile. 

He can’t decide what to do with it. He knows what he wants to do, he wants to burn it. Or flush it. He wants it gone. No contact, that’s what he had said to the councillor, but apparently letters don’t count and it’s up to him to decide what to do with them if they arrive. He gnaws at his cheek. Finally, he rips it in two, but can’t  bring himself to flush it. Throws it in the locker. Out of sight, out of mind.

——

Ok you know the drill, this is where I sweat profusely about tagging people because I don’t like bothering anyone, and also you may have already been tagged or may not be writing at the moment BUT just in case… @cchapsticck @devilyouwere @farahsamboolents @phantypurple @rindecision @storiesbyrhi And if you’re not writing or you’ve already been tagged or you just not feeling it right now then Hi! I hope you’re good, consider this a little check in from the UK. 😊 👋🏻🤘🏻

#wip wednesday #steddie wip #i actually think I’m going to finish this one day

[cchapsticck]

sunflower broke by cchapsticck on ao3 an ode to growing up in the rust belt and the real dungeons and dragons

If you told him two days ago about the nightmare dimension that kills cheerleaders buying his ket on his ceiling, of course he wouldn’t believe you. Fiction is still fiction. The rules of the universe are finite by his mere mortal dipshit understanding. But whether or not you believe, turns out, has pretty much no bearing on whether or not it’s true. That nightmare dimension is real. And it’s come for Dustin Henderson and Robin from Band and Mad As Hell Max and even Steve Fucking Harrington and now the call is coming from inside the house. And if those Onward Christian Soldiers break down Rick’s door while he white knuckles the kitchen sink two things will be true: God is good, and Eddie Munson doesn’t have a soul to save.

#steddie #eddie munson #steddie fic #stranger things fic #stranger things fanfiction #stranger things #my first entry into the ST writing sphere and still the one i think about the most #web weaving #fic: sunflower broke

[dodger-chan]

20 Questions for fic writers:

Tagged by @cchapsticck

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

59, if you count the very old stuff I archived there. 39, if you only count the stuff I originally posted there.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

194,755

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Recently, it's been all Stranger Things. If I start writing other fandoms again, tumblr will be the first to know.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Their Wedding Night (cowritten with @sharpbutsoft )

Adventures in Housekeeping

The Opposite of Love

The House Dick

Her Double Life

All but The Opposite of Love are part of A Bliss Like This

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to. I used to not, but I've gotten into some nice conversations with other authors who responded to my comments, so I decided to try it. And I'm a very small author (don't let the word/ count fool you; I've been posting fic online since the late 90s) so there aren't that many comments to reply to.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Probably that sin, through which I run. Though it's told backwards, so it might depend on what you consider the ending.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Any fic in A Bliss Like This. It's a guaranteed happiness series.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Never on AO3.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I've written, but not published smut. I'm not good enough at it.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I don't, really. Nothing wrong with crossovers, I'm just not usually inspired in that way.

I did work with a couple of friends once on a wild, universe hopping crossover that involved Sonic characters, Gundam Wing, Dragonball Z, The Old Man from Scene 24 (Holy Grail) and others with a friend that I think she posted somewhere. Probably fanfiction.net, but it was like 25 years ago (I am very old) and I'm a little scared of how awful it must have been so I'm not looking.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that anyone's mentioned to me.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not in the sense that we've blended our writing into a single story, but @sharpbutsoft and I built a 1920s AU together. Individual stories in A Bliss Like This are often hers or mine but they build off each other and all the major details are a joint endeavor.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

This is an impossible question.

I have noticed a preference for jock/nerd or similar such pairings. Where one half of the couple is "normal" or socially acceptable and the other half is very, very weird. But only when the relationship develops without either of them giving up that aspect of their personality. No makeovers!

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

A Nancy POV fic tentatively called 'Three Truths and No Lies' that I started between the two volumes of season four. Because there were all these "fruity four" fics and I thought Nancy would likely try to fix or at least find closure in her relationship with Jonathan as soon as he got to Hawkins, leading to her feeling a little left out of the Eddie and Stobin closeness.

Also a third part of Coming Out with a Purpose, where Robin and Steve come out to Joyce to test her reaction and give her the opportunity to learn from the mistakes she makes with them so that she doesn't fuck up when Will finally comes out.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Limited POVs. I think I'm decent at character voices, too, but I'm less confident there.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Actually writing words down (what do you mean just thinking about the fic doesn't make it exist?). The urge to edit while I write. Spelling. Plots.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I'm not good enough at it to really do it, unless the character speaking is not supposed to be fluent.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

That I published online? Fushigi Yuugi, as I recall. Maybe Gundam Wing. But as a kid I used to write Real Ghostbusters fic for my parents (they wanted to encourage my creativity). Mostly fleshed out (no pun intended) back stories for the ghosts.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

I'm still writing it. I'm gonna finish it, I swear.

Of what I've published, it's probably Her Double Life, because genderqueer drag queen Eddie of the 1920s is just so much fun. I have so many thoughts and feelings about her. So, so many.

No pressure tags for: @sharpbutsoft , @greenlikethesea, um, who else writes? If you do, and you want to answer these, please consider yourself tagged.

#tag game

[dreamwatch]

WIP tag game

Rules: In a new post, list the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Thank you to @occasionaloverboy for the tag. I havent done this in months because of Nanowrimo but I can't really use that excuse anymore!

Fell On Black Days

Like a Stone

Steve and Eddie 90s

Seasons - Spotify

Wayne - Drug Dealing

Eddies Hands One Shot

Recovery & Aftermath

Ok - I really emptied the vault today!

As usual, no pressure tags, and I'm late so apologies if you've already been tagged - @cchapsticck @devilyouwere @hbyrde36 @farahsamboolents @thisapplepielife @soaringornithopter @thefreakandthehair @loudsnapdragon

#wip tag game #my wips

[cchapsticck]

wait, runner (7556 words) by cchapsticck Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson Characters: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Wayne Munson, Robin Buckley Additional Tags: Character Study, Getting Together, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Recreational Drug Use, Internalized Homophobia, Passive Self Harm Ideation, Gay Eddie Munson, Mental Health Issues, Sometimes Your Life Ends And You’re Expected To Keep Living It, Pining, But He’s Mad About It, Medical Trauma, Unreliable Narrator, POV Eddie Munson, Jealousy, But Probably Not Why You Might Think, Coming Out, Period Typical Attitudes, Lack of Communication, Light Angst, Ambiguous/Open Ending Summary:

It starts when he’s sliding Videodrome across the counter at Family Video for the 7th time this month hoping to god no one’s noticed but reassured no one cares enough about his miserable ass to see it as a cry for help which it assuredly is not. Buckley and Harrington are there, which he knew they would be, but also hates, but also knows he’s less likely to be hassled in public when they’re around since the slur yelling and trash throwing hasn’t quite reached its P.C. average and he’s tired of having to check his brakes every time he parks anywhere for too long. He is not going there because he knows that’s where they are. If anyone were to ask. Which they won’t.

#steddie fanfic #steddie #steddie fanfiction #eddie munson #steddie fic #stranger things fic #steve x eddie #steve harrington #steddie fics #stranger things #fic: runner

[dreamwatch]

Last sentence tag game

Thank you to @hbyrde36 @occasionaloverboy and @cranberrymoons for the tags! I have pretty much ignored everything while Nano was in full swing, trying to catch up now.

Last sentence tag game!

Rules: post the last sentence you wrote and tag as many people as there are words.

This is from Fell On Black Days (aka Prison Fic):

There are dots somewhere that he can’t quite connect.

The thing about being late to a tag party is that everyone has already been tagged, very sorry if this is the 17th time you got tagged this week! 'no pressure/please ignore if you're not feeling it' tags.

@thisapplepielife @cchapsticck @devilyouwere @vegasol @xxfiction-is-my-realityxx @cuips-not-cute @unclewaynemunson @sourw0lfs @mentallyundone

#last sentence tag game #steddie #because its only ever about Steddie for me

[cchapsticck]

j - cchapsticck

series - metalhead (a stranger things eddie lives au)

UNTITLED RECORDING rcd ca. 1987-1988 - steddie [M] 13/13 35.3k

Steve’s been at every show since Eddie’s been back. Back from the nightmare dimension and induced coma and the staples in his stomach and the couple pints of other people’s blood in his veins.

ANACRUSIS ca. 1987 steddie | character study [M] 1/1 6.3k

Like, Eddie was just some guy. Like, at the time, depending on who you asked, Eddie was the guy who’d show up at parties uninvited and you just kind of dealt with that because Eddie was the guy you bought weed from between the ages of 15 and 22.

RED ATMOSPHERES rcd. 1995 steddie [M] 15/15 30.7k

He dropped the box again, bottom down this time, precious cargo safely intact. Grabbed the belt loops at Steve’s hips, bones colliding painfully, shitty ol’ bat scars matching up like the world’s most traumatized mirror. And it wasn’t goodbye because it hadn’t felt like goodbye, but life can surprise you like that sometimes.

THE UNENDING HOWL EP rcd. 1999 steddie | character study [M] 1/1 11k

In the way that a partially fictional version of his own life exists as public record, he’d passively written entire fucking anthologies about Steve Harrington in his head in those 11 years apart to match. Substituted fact for fiction of his own making. And man, he’s usually pretty good about guessing where a story might go (except his own, but Steve’s part of that story so maybe that’s where he went wrong) but it is routinely arresting to be so fucking wrong with the kind of frequency he’s been wrong since spring of 1986.

STAND ALONE

sunflower broke st | canon compliant character study [M] 1/1 5.5k

And god bless him, sweet baby angel Dustin Henderson introducing him to Steve Harrington through his aggressive-cornered-dog-that-bites terror with the assurance that “he’s cool” as though he isn’t blindingly and precisely aware of who Steve Harrington is and as if that isn’t exactly why he’s got a broken bottle to his throat.

phlegethos: the 4th hell (or: honesty, a similar hell) st | dnd au [T] 1/1 2.3k

It's all planning and logistics and it turns out their whole thing is they were trying to bust into Hellgate Dell to pick up some dead wizard shit, which is insanity just on its face. So of course the whole thing goes sideways no matter how good that intel they had was and how much arson one can muster in a single afternoon so they have to turn tail (as the only affiliated party with a tail) and run. That was months ago.

wait, runner st | character study | steddie [M] 1/1 7.5k

It starts when he’s sliding Videodrome across the counter at Family Video for the 7th time this month hoping to god no one’s noticed but reassured no one cares enough about his miserable ass to see it as a cry for help which it assuredly is not.

head line st | getting together | steddie [T] 1/1 6.6k

Like there’s diminishing returns with getting older and the days that denote it - old enough to drive, old enough to die in a war, old enough to vote, old enough to drink, end of list, exciting birthdays over - not that he’s got a lot of room to talk re: time spent maturely, considering his hobbies largely consisting of a very elaborate game of pretend but like you grow out of this particular kind of thing eventually, right? Just like, one day you’re gonna stop feeling no different than you did when you were 17, right? Like some threshold of adulthood achieved surely exists, and there’s some point when you know you’ve crossed it?

dog at the door st | come back wrong | steddie [M] 1/1 31.9k

Even before Hawkins received its Major Disaster Declaration he remembers Robin saying three fifths of the town’s population had vacated. Not “been evacuated”, not “relocated”. Vacated. Left. Which is kind of funny to him, well, not “ha-ha funny” but like, funny - it's funny to him that the majority reaction to something unexplained and dangerous is simply to leave. To remove yourself from that situation of your own volition for your own safety and well being.

bury me further down bg3 | character study | tav/astarion [T] 1/1 3.3k

He doesn’t like him. He doesn’t like him instantly. (It doesn’t matter if he likes him.) Doesn’t trust him.

of or pertaining to the body cr c2 | character study | blumendrei | [M] 1/1 4.8k

Know what that clawing emptiness feels like, remember what your inhibited self was once, what you were before you knew yourself in the margins of other people’s plans, know that you are better now and know with certainty what tools remain to you when what makes you uniquely extraordinary has expired. What you are when you are a beast.

wips || prompts || fic recs

#fic: head line #fic: runner #fic: phlegethos #fic: sunflower broke #fic: metalhead #fic: dog at the door #just some navigation #steddie #steddie fic #steddie fanfiction #steddie fics

[cchapsticck]

RED ATMOSPHERES rcd. 1995 (30780 words) by cchapsticck Chapters: 15/15 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson Characters: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Robin Buckley, Dustin Henderson, Original Characters Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Vignette Narrative Structure, POV Eddie Munson, Gay Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Implied/Referenced Drug Addiction, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Developing Relationship, Long-Distance Relationship, Genre Microcelebrity Eddie Munson, Multimedia, Journalistic Narrative Structure, Interviews, Unreliable Narrator, Getting Back Together, Getting to Know Each Other, The Brutality Of The Passage Of Time, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Jealousy, poor communication, Mental Health Issues, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Character Study Series: Part 3 of METALHEAD Summary:

There used to be a time, after a show, when he’d drink until he’d black out. Actually black out. Wander off, talk to strangers, find someone who’d sell him something or hand him something. So the adrenaline wouldn’t confuse his fragile grasp on “I’m fine” and make him feel like he’s got to run from something, like maybe he’s in danger, like the panic is closing in and survival is on the line. So whatever was lurking at the edge of his thoughts wouldn’t catch up with him.

There used to be a time even before that, after a show, where he’d have a regular number of beers or a regular number of whatever and climb into the back of his van, hitting his head against the headliner and needle Steve about a girl that flashed him in the audience, trying to make him jealous for fun - demanding his attention because he could have had an entire venue hanging on his every word but Steve had been the only he’d really cared if he’d seen. Because the world didn’t end at the Roane County line, and there was a world so much bigger than both of them still out there. Had Steve seen it too?

#steve x eddie #steddie #steddie fanfiction #steddie fic #stranger things fic #eddie munson #steve harrington #steddie fics #stranger things #eddie munson fic #fic: metalhead #okay I gotta open a show first but there's an epilogue i swear #this took me like a week to write and then several months to edit why and then also how

[cchapsticck]

ANACRUSIS ca. 1987 (6370 words) by cchapsticck Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson Characters: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Background & Cameo Characters Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Relationship Study, Developing Relationship, Getting Together, POV Steve Harrington, Character Study, Mild Sexual Content, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Gay Eddie Munson, Fluff But Everyone's Anxious About it Series: Part 2 of METALHEAD Summary:

He didn’t, like, know Eddie. Is the thing.

First he knew of Eddie, certainly. Just lacked the critical thinking skills at the time to understand that he knew of Eddie the same way a lot of people knew of himself.

Like, Eddie was just some guy. Like, at the time, depending on who you asked, Eddie was the guy who’d show up at parties uninvited and you just kind of dealt with that because Eddie was the guy you bought weed from between the ages of 15 and 22. Depending on who you asked Eddie was some guy who was loud and obnoxious, kept starting fights he couldn’t finish and had it coming and kept getting held back, too busy making a scene. Depending on who you asked Eddie was some guy who was the local queer and pervert, the devil worshipper in the middle of God’s country best to be avoided at all costs because the price to do otherwise might be your own eternal salvation.

He knew of Eddie in all the ways anyone knew of Eddie.

#steddie fanfic #steve x eddie #steddie #steddie fanfiction #steddie fic #steddie fics #stranger things fic #steve harrington #stranger things #steve x eddie fanfic #steveddie #eddie munson #fic: metalhead #if you saw me post this before mind your business