I edit Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (and right the spicy bits) and I have a seeecret

Fool-Errant/NoCapes stalks this blog now but is too shy to say ‘hi’.

how dare the two of you make me seem like a cool person because you will not believe how long i have idolized their writing ever since i discovered it about a year ago, one crisp spring night in the depths of AO3, and ever since, i was hooked. I have gone many a sleepless night thinking about engie and spy. I have drawn scenes but scrapped them bc i didnt think the art was good enough to post (I don’t have them anymore, they’re traditional and lost to the depths of my sketchbook hoard). And honestly?

have i also mentioned how they are one of the two people directly responsible for getting me into this ship and starting this blog (the other person is my good pal who i rp with, they’re the one who convinced me of the platonic chemistry, fool-errant is the one who convinced me fully of the romantic chemistry)

have i also mentioned that i??? also really like the way you write too?? One day I wish to write spicy scenes as good as you but right now??? this boy is too cowardly to even write the word. you know. The Word. Well a lot of words but you get what I mean

have i also mentioned that one day I wish to be half as good at characterizing different character voices through effective use of localized vocabulary and diction to establish different tones and perspectives and how Spy and Engie could describe the exact same person using completely different language but still somehow capture that exact person in our eyes and how the person is, in reality, a combination of the different traits that Spy and Engie see them as (i’m talking about Evie) and that neither of them see her for who she truly is anD IM STILL WAITING TO MEET HER OFFICIALLY

have i also mentioned how i wish my engie interpretation was as on point as theirs

i have mentioned how many times i’ve reread the football scene but have i mentioned how many times i’ve reread the part where RED team got put in jail? And how the disguises spy takes on are so fully contained that I think?? one of the one shots genuinely fooled a user (yes I sometimes stalk the comments, don’t @ me, i sometimes get too in-character and start doing spy things irl), like full on fucking kudos, it’s genuinely hard to fool a reader in a fic from a third person limited perspective of a character, but what gave it away was the very very subtle use of specific words and grammatical choices that differentiated the character from the character that the character is disguised as and look. I am. Emotional. About. Smoke Eyes. I took AP English lit, I got a fucking five on that test, I can give you an entire five paragraph essay completely analyzing the extremely effective use of word choice and grammar to establish perspective, voice, and character and how the changes in word choice and grammar clearly and smoothly illustrate the development of these characters.

look basically i have so many good things to say about smoke eyes and fool-errant and i can talk for a really long time about how many times its made me laugh or put my phone down and put my face into my blankets to stop from yelling too loudly bc my inner fanboy started dying

I’m known to ramble so to summarize: