Snippet Sunday
Eventually, Stevie finds her own place not far from the apartment and David spends almost as much time there as he does at his own place.
Until one day.
David heads over as usual and he and Stevie split a joint and sprawl across her couch to watch the Food Network. Once the weed really takes hold, Stevie leaves the room and returns less than a minute later.
“WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?” David shrieks, standing up and flying to the other side of the room so fast that he has no idea how he got there.
Stevie is holding a creature, a monster from the depths of hell, and she is cradling it like a baby.
“David, I’d like you to meet someone very special to me. This is Algernon,” she coos.
“What the fuck? What is it? Stevie Budd, what the hell is that?”
“It’s a bearded dragon, David,” she says, bouncing him a little, “awww, look! He’s saying hi! He loves his Uncle David already!”
David edges around the room, staying as far away from Stevie and the monster as he can and grabs his shoes by the front door, “Nope. No. Fuck you. Fuck this. I’m leaving.”
“But wait! You still haven’t met Florence!” she calls to his retreating back.
David shivers as he waits for an uber, thinking of creature’s scaly skin and creepy eyes and sharp, sharp claws. He climbs into the back seat of the Toyota when it arrives and shivers the whole way home. When he gets there, Patrick holds him and soothes him, until the weed wears off.
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fellas does your boyfriend ever feel a little sad so you create an elaborate story that makes him think he's the chosen one from ye olde prophecies and you have everyone he's ever known stand around and clap for him
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💜 What is the most heart wrenching passage you've ever written?
Here’s a recent passage from the PTS2 - Doing The Best We Can
Any evening not spent at work is spent in his studio. He paints it all. The forced silence. The fake smiles. Patrick’s obstinate fucking assertion that everything is okay when that couldn’t be farther from the truth. He paints the last two years of loneliness and anger at being repeatedly shut out and turned away. He pours his soul onto canvas after canvas and paints the fear that he was right all along: Patrick really is pulling away. This is all going to end. It’s not a matter of “if” anymore, it’s “when”. David has been fighting for them and their relationship for months now, and he finally accepts that he’s fighting alone.
David used to tell himself that he couldn’t imagine his life without Patrick. Now he doesn’t have to. The truth is, Patrick left long ago, and all David is left with is the ghost of a man he loves, and a relationship that no longer exists. All that he can do at this point is wait. One day soon, Patrick is going to leave him, if he hasn’t already. Patrick is going to leave him, and all David can do is paint.
⭐ What part about writing do you struggle with the most?
I don’t sit with the moment enough (in fic or in life). A lot of my scenes are short and quick. The characters are there. They say what they need to say. Fuck who they wanna fuck. And we move on.
That was one of the unconscious benefits of writing fan fic. I don’t need to go into detail about a character’s appearance or their location. Everyone already knows who they are (more or less) and where they are (more or less)
You Were There All Along was the first fic where I consciously sat down and described a location in specific detail (Twyla’s apartment), and holy fuck did it help.
Then I started noticing that a lot of my beta’s comments were suggestions that I elaborate in certain places, or describe something in more detail and (after a WHILE) I realized that that’s what I’ve always done. Describe the action and move on.
So that’s what I’m working on now. Staying with the moment. Not just writing about the actions and dialogue, but spending time describing the location and the physical appearances of the characters. Focusing more on the details.
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hmm... my thistle looks a little weird...
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feyd rautha looking like he's seconds from cumming while paul kills the baron is peak cinema
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the recent chapters are making me miss asaden interactions
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