Happy Friday! ✨🌻🥳️🌷

I was just sitting here at my desk before lunch, and I saw you in my notes and in posts I have queued up and I just was overcome by how much I enjoy seeing your username float across my dash.

Then I started thinking about Steve Rogers and how much I love him for the decade-ish we got to spend with him, and also thankful for how he lives on in fandom, in fanfic and thrives so we haven't really lost him. I wanted to ask if you have three favorite things about Steve that you'd like to share with us?

You make me really happy, and I hope you have some lovely weekend plans ahead of you ✨

TEJ, you beautiful angel!!! 🥺💖 First of all,

HAPPY FRIDAYYY💕🥰🥳️

And second of all, WHY are you so sweet? HOW? 🥺 This message genuinely made me tear up a little because I'm just so touched that my presence on your dash and in your notes means anything at all to you, let alone that you enjoy seeing me and that I make you happy 😭 That's just so wonderful to hear, I can't even tell you. Especially coming from you, who I adore and admire so much in return!!! ✨✨ Sorry to make this all sappy lol but this message really meant a lot. I've been saving it for last, so I'm heading to bed after this, but yeah, just... thank you for being so sweet and kind and thoughtful ❤️✨

And also, thank you for loving Steve too, and for asking me about him, because GOD I love him so damn much? He and Bucky literally are my favourite characters ever, and I can't believe how much they've come to mean to me. I could talk about Steve forever and pretty much everything about him is my favourite thing, but let me see if I can think of three things I love about Steven Grant Rogers! 🥰

Ok, thing number 1. I love how GOOD Steve is. He's a genuinely good man who I'd trust with my life, with the fate of the world even, because you just know he'll never stop standing up for what's right, never stop helping people in need and doing the right thing. Steve's internal moral compass is strong, and he's steadfast and incorruptible, and in this world that is pretty rare and sorely needed. I just feel safe with him, you know? He kind of feels like an anchor and a true north and the sun all at once, and I love love love him for that.

Having said all that, I also love him because he's a little shit. He's got a great and underrated sense of humor, witty but dry, and while he takes himself seriously when he needs to (though he's never self-important about it) he's also self-deprecating (sometimes to a fault) and is absolutely able to laugh at himself too. And you just know that he loves good-naturedly trolling his friends (you know that swear jar headcanon? that's 1000% Steve) and is always up for a pulling a good prank. He and Bucky got into so much trouble together back in the day, I just know it <3

And thirdly (but definitely not lastly, there are so many more things!), I love how Steve loves. He just cares so much. About good people who deserve better, about making the world a better, more peaceful place, about protecting the beauty in the world. Steve is for a large part the person he is because of Sarah Rogers, and he loves his mother so, so much. I'll be forever mad that their relationship was so neglected in the MCU. Steve also fiercely loves his friends, like the Howlies and the Avengers, and he'd do almost anything to help and protect them when it came down to it, because he cares. He's incapable of not caring and I think that's beautiful.

But most of all (and this is more of an extension of the previous point but also kind of deserves to be its own point), I love how Steve loves Bucky. Bucky is the most important person in Steve's life. His best friend, his partner (both in crime and in life), his lover, his one and only. Soulmates, if you will, because Bucky is a perfect match for Steve in every way. Just as good, just as kind and incorruptible, just as caring - he just goes about some things in a slightly different way, which helps to ground and balance Steve and keeps him from losing himself completely in his noble but sometimes idealistic pursuits. And even when Bucky is seemingly lost, not remembering who he used to be and literally trying to kill Steve, Steve never considers giving up on him. He'd rather die than give up on Bucky, that's just a fact of life. Their love feels so certain and steadfast and unshakable and eternal, and that gives me so much peace and joy and comfort on a daily basis, you know? So yeah, I love Steve for the way he loves and cares, and particularly for the way he loves Bucky ❤️

So sorry to ramble on like this, I did warn you 😭 Thank you so much again for your message and this question, sweetheart. I hope you have had a wonderful Friday night, and that the weekend ahead is full of fun and relaxing things for you! Love youuuuuuuuuu 😘🌷

Kay ✨💗😘 I hope your week is going well and full of all the good things. I hope you're taking time for yourself 💞

For the superlatives, can I ask 6 and 16 please?

ily 💗💗💗

Tejjjj my baby, thanks for being nosey! 💖💖💖 But also lmao how dare you, these were really difficult to answer, ‘cause I’m not funny, and my writing philosophy is very much no plot only ~vibes~, but I’ll try.

So, the award for best plot goes to Map of the Falling Sky, which does feel a bit like cheating ‘cause it’s based on the Buffy&Angel meet-ugly, but I just like how well it works for these two? 💘💘💘 

And like I said, I don’t think I’m at all good at being funny (and I’m totally okay with that), but I guess the most likely to make someone laugh would be the Swim Team Himbo series 🌊 🏊🏻‍♂️

Tbh so far this week has been fucking awful, but thankfully it’s my last day of work for a couple of weeks, so maybe things will start looking up soon. I love you lots and lots! 💕💕💕 

Tejjjj you beautiful sparkly unicorn 🥰💖💫 For the writing asks, I'd love to know what a writer as incredible as you would reply to questions 14, 27 and 51 👀 Have a lovely evening, ilyyy 😘😘

Minnieeee! 🥺️🥺️🥺️ You're too kind and I adore you so much, you sweet butterfly! 🦋 Thanks so much for asking! I hope you have a lovely evening too 💞

#14: What is your favorite location and position to write in?

I mostly write on my couch with a blanket and my laptop cushion with football or a TV show on in the background (currently NYPD Blue). However, I also write at my desk when I'm trying to be very focused or if I'm writing during the work day. I do have a lovely armchair and footstool, but I find it easier to read on there and play video games than to write, unfortunately. However, I also do a lot of writing on the chair in my bedroom usually after a shower because I've suddenly had inspo ✨

#27: What area of writing do you feel strongest in?

Possibly dialogue? I find it easier to come through and I can hear their voices in my head so clearly. However, hearing it and writing it down are two different things so I have to really work hard to remember it when I write as I can get distracted easily.

#51: Does what you like to write differ from what you like to read?

I would say that most of it crosses over but I probably read a lot more fluff and smut than I write, and write more angst than I read.

[ask me about writing fic]

Kay, I'm invading your inbox again to tell you my favourite fic of yours. I feel like it should be No Lifeguard on Duty since we're swim team au bffs 🌊 (and I love it), but your Hollywood Forever series has a special hold on me. Something about eternal devotion and the Gothic atmosphere just makes it such an incredible series 💘

You're wonderful and I love you forever 💞

Tejjjj you’re so sweet and I don’t deserve you 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 But I’m also very glad to hear you enjoy these bloodsuckers ✨🦇🥀⚰️ (and the swim team idiots, too! 🏊🏻‍♂️🌊💞)

Tejjjj my love!! 💘💘💘 I hope the weekend has treated you well, and that you’ve gotten to rewind a little from the past week! Sending a long hug & your fave hot beverage your way ✨🍂

Also, 💄 & 12 for the fanfic ask thing?

Kay!!! Thank you so much for your ask. My weekend so far has been so fun and I've almost forgotten about my Horrible Week 💞 I just went to a football match (where we won 4-0!) and now am on my way home where I am going to have a lovely cup of chai 🫖

💄 Will you be trying anything different in this?

#12 is an upcoming Stucky Bingo fill for Sam Wilson. I will be doing an outsider pov for this, which I've never done before, and it'll be part of the last train home universe. I'm really excited about it!

Sending you lots of love for the weekend too! ✨

[ask me about my WIPs]