Summary: It was a mutual separation if there was such a thing. They were going to different colleges across the country and neither of them wanted to do long-distance. Besides, they knew the statistic: only 2% of high school relationships lasted, and while they did last longer than the national average, the odds were against them.
Or, after nearly two decades, Bucky finds Steve again in the small town of Portland, Maine and they spend the week together.
Specs: Square back bradel, green edges with gold sprinkling, white endbands, gold endpapers, 63 pages, A6. With an accompanying unpublished alternate fic as bonus content.
A favorite of mine from @bonky-bornes that lands exactly where it should and digs into all the softest crevices of your heart. Melancholic and full of heartache, reading this felt like a painful, refreshing bout of rain.
On the process: It was so much fun trying to typeset something stripped back yet still elegant to match the tone of this story, and I really ended up liking the clean look of this. The snippet of the summary on the back was a last minute choice that I ended up adoring.
I wanted a nature-inspired, rainy feel and look, so in addition to the umbrella and images, I decided to do gold sprinkled edges over green to emulate raindrops and add a bit of sparkle. Overall, I think this is pretty close to what I had in mind!
learning how to be a better writer is really all about having the confidence to be shit at it!!! let yourself suck and have fun with it!!!! give yourself the permission to write the worst story in existence and then write it slightly better!!! a snail may be slow but he’s still crossing that sidewalk and he’s doing great and i love him
Tagged by @kallisto-k to share the most recent line in my WIP! This is from the Wylan Whump fic™️, chapter 1 will hopefully be posted this week 🎉 and it’s not the most recent lines, but pretty close.
It stung like a slap across the face.
“Can it—“ he didn’t feel solid, it was like his fear had rendered every part of him unsteady. “No, Wylan. It can’t wait, this is the second time in a week you’ve fully stopped breathing, and you- you—“
Yes, this is longer than one line, but I simply do not care! What are rules!? I am an agent of chaos! The boys are fighting, and you’re gonna hear about it!
oh my god that sounds deliciously whumpy i cannot wait to read it.
here’s a bit of my prompt for val that i swear is coming this week
He expects Wylan to go red and roll his eyes, but only one of those things happens. Wylan does flush, a lovely shade of magenta, but he is eyes don’t waver from Jesper’s. Instead, they catch with something in the low light of the streetlamp, something that almost looks like the little fires they’ve left in their wake.
this is also more than a line but what are we but the gods of our own stories (and silly little tumblr wip posts)
Thanks for tagging me, Luisa! Your snippet is so delicious <33
This is for an au I tried drafting the other day to see if it holds any water.
Steve does, once he fumbles over hellos and whathaveyous, manage a rough sketch when Bucky asks for one—and he doesn’t even charge. He always was a romantic at heart.
Bri, hiiii! ❤️ How are things? I miss you, and was just thinking about you earlier, and then I dropped by tumblr and saw you’d tagged me in the ask game! ✨
Okay I am lowkey highkey feral for the exhusbands fic, but seeing as you’ve already told me something about it, I’m gonna go with you linger and remain 🌷
Sending you lots of love and hugs! 💕
Hi kay!!! I’ve missed you too, I hope you’re well! Hahahah it’s nice to hear I’m not the only one into the exhusbands fic.
you linger and remain is a bit of an angstier one following Steve after he gets defrosted. The concept is centered around a take that focuses on Steve’s grief over losing a spouse.
It’s an old draft I found that I decided to polish up and hopefully it should be looking okay soon. Here’s a brief snippet!
Stripping the bed of its off-putting fitted sheets, he cushions the floor with them and finds the makeshift bed just as unnerving.
Guess it’s not the marshmallow thing after all.
Thanks for saying hi, kay! It’s always so nice to hear from you <333
god i cant take it with sense8 theyre just like. heres an establishing shot that cost thousands of dollars. heres a bunch of people dancing and having the most lit time of their life. heres the coolest fight sequence you’ve ever seen. heres a pansexual orgy. heres a transgender hacktivist. here are villains that are closeminded and terrifying and use their positions of power to threaten anyone who’s different from them, in a thousand big and small ways. heres those villains getting their asses kicked by the power of martial arts and friendship. heres a love triangle finally getting resolved with polyamory. heres a guy weeping and yelling because hes stuck in traffic. like they just give you EVERYTHING.
Tagging anyone who wants to do this! Actually no, tagging anyone who had as hard a time as I did when AO3 went down last time. (I had a very hard time.)
if the world ran out of salt tomorrow i woouldnt even notice because i would have lready killed myself a week earlier when my sources informed me of the impending disaster
I cannot stress this enough, write it poorly. Write the shittiest draft you possibly can, stick ‘ah fuck something happens here and now they’re fighting’ to get over
Write the worst fucking version you possibly can and stick it in a folder and forget it for a month or two before you look at it again. You know what you have now?
A first draft. And with enough time to think some new thoughts about it, you’ll soon end up with a better, second draft! And eventually, you’ll end up with something you’d be perfectly okay with letting other people read!
You’ll never believe this process works no matter how many times you do it, but it totally does. You just have to drag your brain kicking and screaming to that blank page and get the bones down first.
