18+ MDNI! Vonny (formerly dusted-souls) 🐇 40s, she/her 🐇 💖💜💙 ~~~ I write things, sometimes. You can find these things here, on my AO3. My blog is a total disaster, just like me, but... Je peux faire ça toute la journée Sideblog: phoenix-rising-starbird-1-reads
Hi. I'm Vonny. Here, you'll find the links to my stories, either on this site or AO3. Please read the Tags and Warnings to be your guide. Most of my stories are rated E for Explicit! (Update: Feb 22, 2026 - still on indefinite writing hiatus due to life stuff but organizing some writing.🤞)
(Banner by me, modified from one of my paintings I did a while back.)
🥰 - personal favorite 💖 - fluff
😰 - angst 🔥 - smut
🏥 - medical drama ❗️ - possible mental health trigger
☠️ - character death warning (minor or major)
↳ - denotes follow up story or collection belonging to previous
Top Gun Maverick
One-Shots and Story collections
Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch (Bob Floyd x fem!Reader) 💖💖😰🥰
Every Hour We Spent Together, Lives Within My Heart (Jake Seresin x Natasha Trace)💖😰🏥
Top Gun: Drabbles, Ficlets and Other Things... (Collection of my shorter Top Gun Maverick-related writings.) 💖😰
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A good Heart these Days is hard to find... (Bob Floyd x fem!Reader) 💖💖💖😰
Star Wars
One-Shots and Story Collections
Here For You (Poe Dameron x gender-neutral!Reader)😰🏥
Promises (Poe Dameron x fem!Reader Modern AU) 💖😰
Of family dinners and falling in love... (chef!Poe Dameron x fem!Reader Modern AU) 🥰💖
In the still of the night... (Poe Dameron x gender-neutral!Reader)😰💖🔥🔥🥰
Poe Dameron Headcanons 💖
Secrets (Hux x fem!Reader 1920s/30s AU) 🥰💖
Starfire Dawn (Hux x Phasma Modern AU/ Nightingale Universe) 💖
↳ Scarlet Sunsets (Hux x Phasma Modern AU/ Nightingale Universe) 💖
Star Wars: Ficlets and Other Things... (Collection of drabbles and headcanons feat. various Star Wars characters.) 😰💖
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You're Not What You Seem (Poe Dameron x fem!Doctor!Reader)💖😰🔥🏥
You with me? (Poe Dameron x gender-neutral!Reader) 💖😰🔥☠️
↳ Moments in Between (Poe Dameron x gender-neutral!Reader) 😰☠️
The Things That Made Us (chef!Poe Dameron x fem!Reader Modern AU) 💖🔥
επιφάνεια - epiphany (AF!Poe Dameron x fem!Reader/ Modern AU)🥰🥰🥰💖🔥🔥
Bread, Salt, Wine, and Tender Loving Care (Bucky, Reader, platonic) 😰🏥🏥
↳ Of Comfort Foods and Lightning Bugs and Midnight Dances (Bucky, Sam Wilson x Reader) 💖😰🏥
The Fire Within (Bucky x fem!Reader, third person pov) 🥰💖😰🔥🔥🔥
↳ Hearth & Home (Bucky x fem!Reader, third person pov) 🥰💖😰🔥🔥
Marvel: Ficlets and Other Things (A collection of my shorter Marvel MCU writings.) 💖😰
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Anyone Like You... (Bucky Barnes x fem!Scientist!Teacher!Reader)💖😰🔥🔥🔥
Something... ...eternal (Bucky Barnes x fem!Agent!Reader)💖😰🔥
Gold-Framed Tesserae (Bucky Barnes x single mom reader) 🌟🥰🥰🥰💖💖😰🔥
I Think We're Alone Now (EMT!Firefighter!Bucky Barnes x reader / Modern AU)💖😰
Mixed Fandom Collections and Other Writings
Forty-Five Holiday Stories (Collection of holiday stories feat. various characters from Star Wars, Marvel and Top Gun Maverick (<- coming soon), mostly set in Modern AU.) 💖😰
October Vignettes (Flufftober 2022 One-Shot Collection )(feat. various characters from Marvel, Star Wars and Top Gun Maverick (<- coming soon) )💖😰
Elise - He Loves You (From Translations of Love Series)😰🔥🏥❗️☠️
Long Day (Evgeni Kolpakov x fem!Reader 💖🔥🔥
Phoenix-Rising-Starbird-One's Other Writings (Collection of poems, writing ideas, shared ideas via asks and short stories.) 💖😰❗️
“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Move back to the island. What could go wrong? It’s paradise, right?
The paradise:
Looks like the storm will graze us just so. I live on Oahu (the little island with the capital Honolulu).
Last storm passed us north. This time, it’s rolling in from the south side. (And like usual, coming in from the east.)
While it may not look as scary, we’ve had lesser Tropical Storms knock out power for days and flood cities/streets with the amount of rain that usually comes with these storms.
Fingers crossed for people on Hawai’i (Big Island), where Lala could make landfall as an H1.
“I understand your concern but as explained during initial appt setup, and the email confirmation we’ve sent out, it is a time WINDOW, meaning our colleagues will be there between the hours of. With your permission, I can forward your number to the crew and they can call you 30 mins prior to arrival. 🙃”
i am here today to write an extremely unorganised, chaotic thesis in which i argue that tg:m is an operational nightmare and crisis of middle management. please. this is deserving of at least one note on tumblr dot com. have pity on me. i have worked in corporate for so long and this is what i have to show for it.
the legacy employee protected by upper management
it does not take a genius to work out that maverick is the most liability-prone, chaotic and insubordinate employee. not only is he disobeying direct orders, crashing billion dollar equipment and breaking the hard deck, he's also got enduring and seemingly unresolvable beef with at least one junior employee that he's supposed to be supervising. more than one person is actively trying to fire him at any given time, however, due to protection from upper management, he is literally impossible to terminate. it wouldn't be a stretch to say he is creating immense liability for the US navy at all times. my hat goes off to him.
2. the entire plot revolves around employee performance management, and no one is doing it well
imagine if The Mission was a job advertisement. you've got a fast-paced environment (chaotic, rushed timelines) where you have to hit the ground running (insufficient preparation, you need to know everything immediately if not sooner). you will be required to wear multiple hats (in the case of cyclone this means managing maverick - a full time job - AND the entirety of the mission. in the case of everyone else, this means trying to learn while rooster insists on fighting with the instructor at every given moment), with flexible bandwith (again, you must take on the emotional toll of an ongoing hr crisis while trying to perform a deadly task). this team must meet strict operational targets under a very tight timeline AND the girls are fighting. wow.
3. the reassignment of problematic employees
back to maverick. you've got upper management forcing him into a specialised learning and development role which he is not super enthusiastic about, nor does he have extensive training in. you now have a liability prone employee (in some respects. pls. i know maverick is MAVERICK. i'm just saying...from a middle management perspective) mentoring overconfident junior employees. what could go wrong?
4. middle management is completely disempowered
cyclone is carrying almost 100% of the operational risk for the expected deliverable. he's literally in charge. he has a duty of care. he's SUPPOSED to call the shots. but at every turn!!! even IN THE MISSION ITSELF!!!! nobody listens to him (lmao). in this respect, middle management is completely disempowered by corporate machinations. every time cyclone goes to enforce a standard or try to effectively terminate maverick for gross insubordination, he is somehow foiled. surprised he didn't write up a PIP and call it a day.
5. hr crisis management as a necessary function of maverick's responsibilities
i dare say at every stage (onboarding, relationship management, deliverable), maverick is an HR disaster. to his credit, he does attempt structured training and shows flexibility in team building, but he also creates a hostile work environment and evidently (albeit mostly unintentionally) triggers distress in his junior employee (rooster). this is also displayed when rooster follows his advice (don't think, just do) and is rewarded with physical pushback (im JOKING).
6. poor attempts at change management
i just think they could have done the whole "maverick is gone these are your new mission parameters" a little smoother, AND the "oh wait, he's actually your team leader now" a little better. i wouldn't blame the daggers for being severely confused. once again, this does undermine middle management in front of the entire junior workforce, however i gotta lay the blame at beau's feet for this one.
anyway guys!!!! i hope you enjoyed my synopsis of tg:m - navy propoganda or hr crisis? you be the judge!
(PS. DON'T THINK THIS IS A MAVERICK HATE POST IM JUST BEING SILLY PLS)
The kindest thing that literature does is remind you that your little peculiar feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, felt equally bewildered by love, bored by society, tired of pretending, and hungry for meaning.
I'm sorry, you expect me to believe that Hangman intentionally played Slow Ride, and then walked up to Rooster with that cocky little smirk, and they haven't fucked at least once in the past? You're insane