#phoeniceae

[toburnup]

doesn't seem like this has been asked publicly yet (or i'm blind. 50/50 shot) but i'd love to hear your own thoughts on the famed cupcakes bit from last chap if you're into it!

THE FAMED CUPCAKES BIT

well. like many relationship problems, it's not really about the cupcakes.

steve's not particularly caught up on the kind of masculinity eddie is poking at. he doesn't have any real hangups about baked goods, he happily baked cookies in a previous chapter, said the thing about the brownies.

being back in hawkins (together) is forcing both of them to confront what they used to be and what they are now.

this moment isn't one that would necessarily register for eddie like it does steve. eddie's general air of silliness here is him being comfortable. but it asks a hard-hitting question (in steve's mind), and is probably one of the the more straightforward (hah) comments eddie has made about steve's sexuality.

this is the same grocery store where steve and hannah ran into eddie before. this grocery store is like... the site of The Perception of Steve Harrington's Gayness. i think if eddie and steve had a similar interaction but were in steve's apartment, steve would've laughed.

the question - is this too faggy for you? - is one steve has been able to ask himself in private, has (finally) found the answer to, has even contended with in public in the context of the gay bar. back in hawkins, it's a different story.

but in the end, he buys the cupcakes.

(and then there's the whole process of steve being the one to make the cupcakes in his ex gf's house of all places. transforming the mix into something that's accepted by the people around him. and helps facilitate his reconnection with lucas, who saw steve at a pretty low part of his time in hawkins and now he's sharing his problems with steve.)

#also i really wanted to have eddie say faggy in the hawkins grocer #what a fun way to put your crush on the spot #is eddie the cupcake? their relationship? steve's acceptance of himself??? idk #is your light on #iylo meta #phoeniceae #vio answers

[grimweathers]

R for music ask game👂🏻

hello!!!

rehab - amy winehouse

respect - aretha franklin

road to nowhere - talking heads

rollin' on - jackie venson

runnin up that hill - kate bush

feel free to send me a letter and i'll tell you my 5 favorite songs that start with it!

#phoeniceae #river talks

[bokkerijder]

all these vanilla guessers out here

kink rating game: pissing / fisting / tickling

(hi friend!!!)

ikr. amateurs.

Watersports

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know

I'm not into it myself but like. if I ever had a partner who was and would experience some great euphoria or something if I peed on them, then I would do that for them

Fisting

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know

Tickling

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know

I have Bad Memories regarding tickling. like even if a friend would just playfully tickle me I would probably react very badly

E-Stim (since you sent that in your other ask)

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know

I don't know if I would enjoy it myself? although I have a vague idea that I might. but I would love to do it to someone else

(hi friend hi!!!)

#answered #phoeniceae #tumblr games

[petraquince]

jesus christ can we be friends?? i am BOWING to your eddie munson. i picked up saint spellbound after your (extremely kind and uhhh now unwarranted!!) comment on my fic. just finished the first segment and immediately RAN to tumblr typed in your name hoping praying you were here so that i could scream praise at you from within this box. i could Not move on without saying this. i have a doc open and i'm taking notes. what the hell

!!!! The highest of praise coming from you???? Ye who ripped out my heart with your fics. Pardon me, I’m going to go run into the woods now and crawl up into a small ball and hyperventilate I LOVE YOUR WRITING

#phoeniceae

[yournowheregirl]

hi new icon 🖤

hiiiii! 💖💖

#phoeniceae #thanks for noticing #i figured it was time for fall #and nancy's adorable annoyed face

[derekstilinski]

i’m back for the ambulance show update. did your guy die or is he gonna make it

@phoeniceae 😂😂 he lived! he's okay, had a whole coma dream to get back to himself! he's got ptsd (more of it, ptsd advanced if you will) and had his first good sleep on his partner's couch! next week they go play poker?????

#phoeniceae #ask #911

[stevethehairington]

MOOTS

YES!!!!! MOOTS!!! 💕💕🥰🥰

#asks #phoeniceae #💕💕💕

[corrodedcoughin]

SHOUTING ABOUT TAZ EDDIE WITH YOU

TAZ EDDIE TAZ EDDIE THAT OP AND POST WAS SO PERFECT!!!

EDDIE LOSING IT AT THE I SAW SEVEN BIRDS!! Absolutely WEEPING at Magnus’ final scenes. Shouting and cheering when Hurley and Sloane reappear. HE LOVES KRAVITZ AND LUP.

I just!!! Have feelings!! And bless the creator of that post for fuelling them

#ask #phoeniceae #TAZ EDDIE!!! #I firmly believe he’d love august parsons too

[stag-bi]

oh man, re: mom tags, i have also been thinking about asking my mom (who i have a similar complicated relationship with) to go see EEAAO. so i really want to know how that goes if you end up taking yours. i’m invested

this ask is like 2 months old but i did finally watch it w my mom, and Uhhhhhh mom was just. Very Confused lmaooo. she had no idea what was going on, i guess bc the file didnt have subtitles and even though she knows english, its harder to understand as a non-native speaker when its spoken w an accent 😔 sooooooooo yeah it was awkward lmfao i rly fucked up not having subtitles on it. take this as a warning and a lesson if ur thinking of watching it w ur mom

#phoeniceae

[moonrpg]

i counted 13 swaggies… moon are you ok

it’s always a good day to say SWAGGIE

#ask #phoeniceae

[squawkoverflow]

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[toburnup]

okay i LOVED learning those most recent tidbits about your writing process, especially approx how long it can take you to write/edit! makes me feel so much better about my own wips lmao. especially with something as complex as iylo. i think it’s the easy-going kinda flow or vibe of your writing (though dgmw, you know how to make every line pack a serious punch) that made me assume you tend to bang this shit out hella quick… when in reality it sounds like it takes a pretty reasonable (“reasonable”) amt of time.

on this note i am so curious about your drafting process. like, how do you not get caught up fleshing out all the details in the moment? am i just terrible at writing outlines? feels like i’m always setting a hard goal to write short standalones but they always get out of hand

hahahah oh good, i'm glad it was interesting!!! i'd say my writing style on here is very casual, so. i like that that's the vibe i give off 😌

!! the drafting process! it's messy but it usually goes something like this (long post ahead!)

i start by writing dialogue or a specific moment from the scene i'm most excited to get to. i don't force myself to start at the beginning because who even knows where the beginning is.

dialogue can be a good place to start because it can lay out a whole dynamic in just a few exchanges (the best example i can think of this is when i wrote thirty days, because the first part i wrote was the "you should probably leave" - "why?" - "'cause i'm going to jerk off" - "i don't want to go" - "fine. stay." exchange which set up the whooole fic)

....and then i keep writing until i run out of steam lol. if i'm writing a scene and need to jump ahead because of an idea or whatnot, i just type // so i know i need to come back there (easy to search the doc for a symbol of some kind when it comes to editing). can't think of a specific word? i just pop a // in there as a placeholder.

once i've written out the meatier bit (ugh), i go back to the scene i started with, and then write backwards from there until i find a spot that feels like it could be the beginning (i mean i say that, but this is usually a lot of jumping around).

and that's the first draft!

i don't outline ahead of time, or write out plot points or anything. mostly because a) i have no idea what's gonna happen and b) i like character-driven stories and i find those motivations by writing them

that's the big reason i write dialogue without an end goal in mind - sometimes writing the lines or hearing them in my head takes the conversation in a different direction than i would've originally planned, and that can lead to some Good Moments

i’m always setting a hard goal to write short standalones but they always get out of hand

this happens to me too, for sure. i've found it's helpful to move away from the setup portions of a fic. and also being okay with things not being 100% clear (in terms of motivation, characters feelings, all that) and leaving some gaps for the reader to fill. and also being okay with your writing being misinterpreted.

idk if this is helpful at all!! my main thing is don't stop yourself from fleshing out the details. if there's a big scene you want to get to, don't force yourself to slog through the parts you don't want to write just to get there. i find it's almost easier to do it that way, because then you get to write the earlier parts with the question of: "what choices do they make to become the people in that scene?"

don't deprive yourself!! if you want to delve right into the details, do it.

#on writing #vio answers #phoeniceae #several tangents were taken lol

[thebotanicalarcade]

n9_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The florist and pomologist. London :"Journal of Horticulture" Office,1863-1879. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56795317

#1862-1884 #Floriculture #Flower gardening #Fruit culture #Gardening #gdn #Great Britain #Horticulture #Monthly calendar #Periodicals #Harvard University Botany Libraries #bhl:page=56795317 #dc:identifier=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56795317 #flickr #petunia #petunia phoenicea hender's strain #petunia phoenicea #Petunia integrifolia #violet petunia #violetflower petunia #botanical illustration #this one really need editing

[imafuckinghostbitch]

#phoeniceae my beloved #what did i do? #why are we pointing

[yournowheregirl]

god the bts footage is fucking hilarious. i cant believe they just get paid to be hot and do that

omg i know right??? what even were the stage directions there “just flap the oar around, there will be bats there? oh and joe just lie there and look pretty and kick your legs into the air?” i would’ve died from laughter tbh, they are stronger than all of is tbh

#phoeniceae #asks

[derekstilinski]

i don’t go here but my sincerest condolences on your most recent 1/2 dead ship. i notice that you are no stranger to it (*rages in sterek*) but the poker night-ambulance post made me laugh with bone deep sympathy

@phoeniceae 🤣🤣🤣 it's so hilarious bc it was a more lowkey ship for me until right that very moment and now i'm feral about the gay firefighters. but also condolences to you w/ our cursed sterek life that's uuuuuh can't believe they did our boy dirty like that tbh i'm pretending it happen. like the post i made, right now derek is alive and well and listening to his lil workout playlist (bc his heart is beating so fast yknow) while he waits for stiles to get off the airplane, with their son in tow ready for them to meet 👏

#ask #phoeniceae #buddie #sterek #also i see you like stranger things you're such a blessing