Hi everyone! I have listed two new (9x12in and 5x7in) steddie paintings and one 9x12in Kas Eddie painting on my site! I am saving to buy a printer to start a monthly mail club.
Hi everyone! I have listed two new (9x12in and 5x7in) steddie paintings and one 9x12in Kas Eddie painting on my site! I am saving to buy a printer to start a monthly mail club.
My steddie calendar from @boltedfruit came today!! I can't tell which one is my favorite month, but it might have to be September (images under the cut)
This week’s writer spotlight feature is: @boltedfruit! boltedfruit has 104 fics posted to AO3 in the Stranger Things fandom and 43 of them are in the Steddie fandom!
Our anonymous nominator recommends the following works by @boltedfruit:
I'll Teach You Wonderwall
last man in the city
these tired empathies
to be known
Crave
"Boltedfruit has written a whole bunch of compelling short micro-fics and one-shots for Steddie fandom events, as well as several interesting AU's. Boltedfruit really excels at compact, succinct character studies within unusual plots/settings or unsettling premises. He often writes Steddie with darker, angstier elements, depicting imperfect relationships or characters, and it's always interesting to see what he comes up with for each new story. I always fly through his stories and come away amazed at how concisely he can portray complex ideas." -- anonymous
Below the cut, boltedfruit answered some questions about their writing process and some of their recommended work!
Why do you write Steddie?
I got hooked on the ship like a lot of others did and it was an emotional break from writing harringrove for so long before that. I find endlessly adaptable and the ship brings me joy.
What’s your favorite trope to READ?
I’m so bad at remembering tropes, but I really love certain flavors of omegaverse. Outside of that, I also enjoy forced proximity to get something done and maybe intimacy is part of the ruse/deal, and accidental feelings being acquired. Basically idiots being idiots. Also like when a bumbling character has something dark they’re hiding.
What’s your favorite trope to WRITE?
Very similar to above!
What’s your favorite Steddie fic?
Touched, Prism, Qualia, and The Girl Who Eats Flowers (and everything else) by Az aka oonionchiver, Heaven Cannot Wait Forever by rabidheart, Something Lost, Something Found by novemberthorne, and Tuesday's Gone With the Wind by thisappliepielife (one of the single most devastating stories I’ve ever read in my life and thus will never read again. It’s perfect.)
Is there a trope you’re excited to explore in a future work but haven’t yet?
For my current Big Project I’m excited to write tropes associated with crime fiction/mysteries and to weave those with a parallel timeline dealing with canon supernatural events.
What is your writing process like?
Getting a great idea, plotting it completely out, losing steam and feeling bad about myself, and finishing something now and again.
Do you have any writing quirks?
I need to be sitting at my desktop computer. Laptops are too small unless it’s an emergency. Phone is w o r s e.
Do you prefer posting when you’ve finished writing or on a schedule?
I’ve done a mix of both!
Which fic are you most proud of?
Everything in my 31 Days of Steddie Halloween Horror, especially Buried, Arrest, and Cage. Outside of Steddie, one of the more recent harringrove fics I’ve written called Feast, Wolf.
How did you get the idea for these tired empathies?
I didn’t really plot it besides ‘Eddie hurt, Steve help’ which is like so basic but I also used it to try and see how stats were affected if I posted on a schedule. That got kind of sidelined by a lack of plot/short amount of chapters and the fact I got sidetracked and didn’t stick to my schedule for the last one or two updates. I need to try my experiment again.
When writing crave, what was something you didn’t expect?
I didn’t expect to add in ‘the sex pollen is making Steve’s ass wet’ but it happened and worked out!
What inspired to be known?
An absolutely astounding gangbang record by a woman in real life and the original prompt by cowboythighs. I loved the idea of Eddie sneaking his way into a scene to have his one chance at making Steve feel good and then Steve going absolutely 0 to 100 to track him down and be like “hey you made me feel nice, wanna be together forever?”
What was your favorite part to write from I'll Teach You Wonderwall?
Definitely Steve’s disability, which is entirely thanks to the original prompt by @3minsover.
How do/did you feel writing last man in the city?
It was one of my first steddie fics, so I was still nervous trying to get the characters to feel right to me. But rereading it now it plays out a lot more confident than I originally felt when writing it.
What was the most difficult part of writing last man in the city?
Even though it was a smut prompt fill I had the hardest time transitioning into the sex scene.
Do you have a favorite scene and/or line from any of your fics?
Everything I write I have fave scenes/moments in, but in Buried I really like this line (and when I manage to write lines like this in general they tend to be my favorites: ‘I am nothing more than anything you might think me to be.’
Do you have any upcoming projects or fics you’d like to share/promote?
I’m still intending to finish Dom Eddie Week and March Mating Madness prompts, then I have several larger stories I’m working on too.
My next major idea is a continuation of a oneshot I wrote two Halloweens ago called ‘Missing’ that will take place over multiple decades and deals with two timelines running parallel to one another. There’s a lot of true crime/investigation details I’ve been researching to get the story right which is why it’s taken so long. But I officially started writing it last week. I also have a Victorian Steddie au and a Twilight au planned.
Outside of these questions, Is there anything YOU would like to add?
Thank you so much to whoever nominated me! This is a very cool idea and I’m touched to be thought of.
Thank you to our author, @boltedfruit, and our nominator! See more of boltedfruit's works featured on our page throughout the day!
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