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greekgeek24 · 6 days
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Hi dears, I've been a little under the weather. I'm still not completely over it, but I'm going to try to get back on track with my writing schedule. I'm really hoping to finish Sail Away this week. And I'm also going to try to get the next Honest chapter up.
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greekgeek24 · 8 days
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1. How many works do you have on ao3? 41
2. What's your total ao3 word count? 466,479
3. What fandoms do you write for? Queen, Marvel, Stranger Things, and one day, Avatar the Last Airbender and Harry Potter
4. Top five fics by kudos:
Bette Davis Eyes 
I, Walk on Water
Safe Keeping
Honest
Dark Bars
5. Do you respond to comments? Yes
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Break Free by @ravenclawwitch18 and me
7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Over the Rainbow maybe
8. Do you get hate on fics? Not really
9. Do you write smut? I don't, but a friend writes it for me
10. Craziest crossover: Stucky meets 70s serial killer meets Slavic mythology
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Hopefully not
12. Have you ever had a fic translated? No
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yes with @ravenclawwitch18
14. All time favorite ship? Probably Stucky
15. What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will? When I first started writing fanfiction, I promised that I'd finished my stories. It'll just take me some time.
16. What are your writing strengths? I guess that I'm a perfectionist. I hyper fixate on things, and I edit insanely.
17. What are your writing weaknesses? That I'm a perfectionist who overthinks everything I do XD
18. Thoughts on dialogue in another language? I like it. I usually add the translation in parentheses because I'll forget the phrase by the time I reach the end of the chapter.
19. First fandom you wrote in? Stucky
20. Favorite fics you've written? Coney Island, Carousel, and Father and Daughter
No pressure tags: @ravenclawwitch18 @kleenexwoman @buckybarnesdeservestobehappy @monster-cock69
20 Questions for Fic Writers
Tagged by @thepiper0fhameln 🩶
1. How many works do you have on ao3? 10
2. What's your total ao3 word count? 44,662
3. What fandoms do you write for? anything with chris evans x sebastian stan characters
4. Top five fics by kudos:
hoping these roses dull the pain, cover the scars and turn the page
call of the moon
all the fire that ever burned you has turned you into gold
maybe we’re just born with stardust in our blood
an ode for stucky
5. Do you respond to comments? Yes
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? this might qualify: hoping these roses dull the pain, cover the scars and turn the page
7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? maybe we’re just born with stardust in our blood
8. Do you get hate on fics? No
9. Do you write smut? Do I ever... yes
10. Craziest crossover: Fresh x Gray Man
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Don't think so 😮‍💨🙏🏾
12. Have you ever had a fic translated? No
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? No
14. All time favorite ship? There's too many versions of my boys for me to write down lol
15. What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I truly hope to finish all of them!
16. What are your writing strengths? One of them is writing characters through their transformations [at least that's what teach said]
17. What are your writing weaknesses? Writing anything without paranormal elements
18. Thoughts on dialogue in another language? As long as I can get a translation somewhere, it's cool. I like throwing different languages around for spells *wink wink, nudge nudge*
19. First fandom you wrote in? Fresh x Gray Man
20. Favorite fics you've written? in his house beneath the sea, he waits dreaming of you & hoping these roses dull the pain, cover the scars and turn the page so far!
No pressure tags: @late-to-the-party-81, @capsicle13, @ellethespaceunicorn, @readmymindao3, @kingofsorrow20, @endlesstwanted, @greekgeek24, and anyone that wants to play!
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greekgeek24 · 9 days
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Last song I listened to: The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology
Last thing I read: Dune by Frank Hubert
Last movie I watched: The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Last tv show: The Big Bang Theory
Last thing I googled: Google Docs
Last thing I ate: Cough drops
Sweet, salty, or savory: Salty
Sleep: Desperately need
Currently reading: A Summer to Remember by @queenfanatics, And the Sun Will Rise by @lexirosewrites, A Spark of Romance by Paullett Golden
NPT: @ravenclawwitch18 @monster-cock69 @lexirosewrites @kleenexwoman
Catch Up Game
tagged by @moodymelanist 🩶
Last song I listened to: Lose It x Sebastian Mikael
Last thing I read: What Happens on Asgard - stucky
Last movie I watched: Dune 2
Last tv show: Citadel
Last thing I googled: Princess Irulan's opening monologue 😅
Last thing I ate: a double cheeseburger w/ grilled onions & fries
Sweet, salty, or savory: salty & savory
Sleep: 100/10 would reccommend
Currently reading: Burning Oranges - narusasu
no pressure tags: @ellethespaceunicorn, @gyokujyn, @capsicle13, @kingofsorrow20, @katie-delaney, and any others that would like to play!
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greekgeek24 · 13 days
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hey guys unpopular opinion but you’re not a bad person if you don’t care about every bad thing happening in the world all the time, or if you do care but you’re not constantly reblogging posts spreading awareness and information
it’s okay if you’re just on tumblr to have fun and reblog things you like or that make you happy.
humans aren’t made to process trauma and suffering on a worldwide scale without any breaks whatsoever & the internet has created an unprecedented access to bad news so please never feel guilty for scrolling past it because you can’t process it! and you’re not doing anything wrong & there’s no need to feel guilty
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greekgeek24 · 16 days
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CATWS Anniversary Day 10 - Devotion
@catws-anniversary
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greekgeek24 · 19 days
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Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle Vincent van Gogh, Garden at Arles (1888)
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greekgeek24 · 1 month
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The serums amplified Steve & Bucky's feelings for each other
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Dr. Erskine:
“The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse.”
I’ve been thinking about this fantastic post that discusses the scientific effects of the super-soldier serum on Steve Rogers’s brain.  It’s based on info from the Avengers exhibit in Times Square, and what it concludes is that after the serum, “Steve just feels more.” Because of the changes to his amygdala, everything Steve felt would have been amplified – joy, pain, loyalty, all of it. What this made me realize is:
The serum would have increased everything Steve felt for Bucky.
Whether you ship the idea of a romantic connection between those two or not, Steve loved Bucky. Bucky was his person, 100%, ‘til the end of the line. They’d spent most of a lifetime developing love and loyalty and friendship. Steve might have had some hero worship going on, because Bucky was everything he wanted to be: strong, able to fight for the little guys, charming, loyal. But once he got hit with Erskine’s serum, everything – every one of those feelings – would have been amped up, magnified. If Bucky was his person before the serum, afterwards, Bucky would have been everything. This is why Steve was willing to risk his life, to disobey orders, to hop in a Jeep and go chasing across Europe by himself to rescue the man. There was never a possibility he could do otherwise, because every bit of love he’d built up over a lifetime was driving him forward.
The serum amplified all of Steve’s feelings, and his love and loyalty for Bucky would have become absolute devotion.
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But Bucky got Zola’s version.
Whatever Zola did to Bucky before Steve rescued him, it was already acting upon him in fundamental ways – otherwise, there’s no way Bucky could have survived the fall from the train. But what if Zola’s version tended to increase the negative feelings more? I feel like we see some of this in the bar scene, when Bucky complains, “I’m invisible.” Sure, he’s joking, but he’s being pretty hurtful and taunting about how Steve had been treated in the past.
Maybe Bucky had always been a little envious of Steve, envious of the goodness he saw in Steve that he believed he, himself, didn’t possess. And now Steve has all of that inner perfection but has the outer shell to match; he’s caught up to Bucky in the one area where Bucky ever believed he had even the slightest advantage over Steve. And Bucky’s slight twinge of envy becomes a hot streak of jealousy.
Maybe Bucky isn’t feeling jealous, but possessive. Steve has always been his, exclusively – Bucky’s the only one who ever recognized his value. To Bucky, Steve was like that secret spot you find where you can sit and watch the sunrise in perfect isolation; only suddenly the rest of the world has discovered his secret place. With his feelings amplified, Peggy’s interest in Steve might have hit Bucky like a physical blow, because he’s being forced to share his Steve with everyone, just when he desperately needs him the most. And all Bucky can do is lash out – at Steve, who brought this on by taking the serum.
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Or maybe, Bucky is truly angry. Because he’s just been through hell and he’s nowhere near recovered – look at the disheveled uniform, and the fact that he’s sitting alone tossing back drinks while the rest of the Commandos party and sing in the other room. He’s survived torture, and then Captain America sits down and asks him to rejoin the fight. And because of the serum…he can’t say no. His love and loyalty for Steve have always been stronger than fear; he’d take on any challenge to protect Steve. Now, even though the fear has been increased, so have the other feelings. Maybe, with the serum running through his veins, he literally can’t say no. Maybe he tries - his first response is “Hell no,” but he can’t stick with that, because he has to protect Steve. So maybe Bucky is angry – that he can’t make himself walk away – and hurt, that Steve even asked this of him. And all he can do in that moment is try to hurt Steve, too.
But what if it’s not a negative feeling being amped up? Maybe (hello, Stucky shippers!) what we’re seeing is Bucky’s reaction to all the love he feels for Steve being amplified out of control. Because Bucky has always tucked those feelings away; buried anything but brotherly affection, not about to taint Steve with feelings that Bucky has decided are dark and wicked. With the serum, he can’t deny it anymore, can’t hide from what he feels, what he wants. He tries drinking, and it’s not enough. Maybe he’s afraid he’s given himself away, by telling Steve he’ll follow him anywhere. So he tries flirting with Peggy, but it fails, because even she can see how magnificent Steve is, and Bucky’s heart wasn’t really in it anyways. Then Bucky does the only thing that makes sense to him – he tries to be mean, to push Steve away before Steve figures out that Bucky wants so much more from him than he ought to.
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It’s heartbreaking to think of Steve and Bucky’s feelings for each other being amplified by the serums they’ve been given.
Because it just makes it that much more painful that Steve has to watch Bucky fall. That Bucky falls knowing he won’t be able to protect Steve any longer. That all of their feelings for each other – love and loyalty and respect and devotion – have been increased, and their ability to feel anguish and loss has increased right along with it. The serums made Steve and Bucky more fully themselves, amplified everything that made them who they were – and at the core, what made these two was each other.
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greekgeek24 · 1 month
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For those of you who want to follow along as I self-publish Dark Bars you can follow me here: @freddiegene.
I won't be sharing a lot about Dark Bars here because I decided to publish it under a pen name. But if you followed me along chapter by chapter, then I think you deserve the chance to follow me into this new frontier.
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I'm so excited to reveal Torn Asunder's cover! I'm absolutely in love with this cover; it's exactly what was in my head.
Silas and Butch's story is coming to you soon!
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greekgeek24 · 1 month
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I’m going to be home tonight. That means back to my writing schedule. I am going to warn you that I’m quite busy rewriting Dark Bars and writing the first draft of my novel. But I’m still going to finish Sail Away. Honest’s next chapter is almost finished, so I’ll hopefully be posting that soon.
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greekgeek24 · 1 month
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Hello, lovelies, still writing and editing at a snail’s pace. I’m going on a spontaneous little trip though. I’m going to rest and let my creativity do what it will.
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greekgeek24 · 1 month
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I’ve been tinkering with this one for a while, and it’s rough, but I wanted to get it posted for Bucky’s birthday. 🎂 It’s probably too angsty for a birthday posting, but angst IS in my username. 😁
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greekgeek24 · 1 month
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Hello, lovelies, I have been really busy, but I’m working on updating Sail Away and Honest soon. Once I finish Sail Away, I’m going to start working on one of my older Stucky fics. Vote for your favorite
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greekgeek24 · 2 months
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Read the first chapter of my novel!
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greekgeek24 · 2 months
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The thing is every single one of us is flawed. That’s why we find flawed characters so compelling because we can’t relate to perfect characters, but we can find ourselves in flawed characters.
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