fuck it, romantic madwheeler

hi, it's me - your friendly neighbourhood madwheeler fanfic author! (she/her) find me on ao3 under plumsfromyouricebox

[plumsfromyouricebox]

hear me out...

Look, I am aware that this is not the most popular of ships, but I’m here to hopefully change your mind.

But plumsfromyouricebox, you might say, that's gross, they're obviously platonic soulmates! They’re sibling coded! And to that I might answer, sure, but... what if they kissed? :)

And maybe I am just such a sucker for an antagonistic, borderline flirty dynamic and that scene in the gym in season 2 permanently altered my brain chemistry, but idk, give it a shot before writing it off completely. They're both pretty, and I dig their vibe, and it's hot and angsty and all that good stuff.

So if this intrigues you, check me out here, or peruse the masterlist of my completed/ongoing works.

I also have a madwheeler themed spotify playlist ☺️

[plumsfromyouricebox]

what's your usual daily output when writing? like wordcount or page count?

Most days zero. I definitely don’t write every day. Some days I’ll just think of a single or plot point I want to include and write a few sentences.

When I actually sit down and focus on writing I can probably do like 2-3k?

After smoking is when I can really lock in lol 🍃

[plumsfromyouricebox]

Another day, another filmmaker selling out to AI companies

[peanutbutterbirdwings]

saw a discussion about whether people would like to see an El spinoff and one guy was like: “I’d rather have a Scooby Doo-esc spinoff with Steve and Dustin solving mysteries and teasing each other, sometimes joined by Murray and Robin!”

and like see??? This is the reason why the show turned into meaningless slop that prioritized t-shirt sellable one-liners over actual character development and cohesive thematics.

[imjunebitch]

every other post on this site has the caption "my beautiful gay girl wife princess bpd boyfriend husband girlwife girl hes a woman to me" and then a gifset of the most mid white cishet neurotypical actor ever

[calciumcryptid]

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

[plumsfromyouricebox]

Do you have any ships for Wednesday?

To the surprise of no one I am deeply unwell about Weyler haha. Like I was already all in when it seemed like it was just a black cat/golden retriever type of ship BUT THEN he’s the fucking Hyde and he’s obsessed with her but he was also brainwashed and abused and spends months in an asylum thinking about her and she insists she hates him and feels nothing for him but of course her immediate instinct when he escapes is to become his MASTER and then he begs her to kill him and she CANT???

Like it just doesn’t get any better than that

[knifefightscene]

We genuinely need to romanticize aging because the dread destroys us all

[plumsfromyouricebox]

🌞 new fic alert! 🍉

Mike opened his mouth, then closed it. His brain short-circuited, trying to process. Max Mayfield—Max, who used to call him a dork-ass loser on principle, who once dumped a milkshake on his head for beating her at Pac-Man—wanted to keep sleeping with him. Casually. For the summer.

He took the beer when she offered it again, mostly to buy time. The cold aluminum felt grounding against his palm.

“You sure?” he asked finally. “I mean, you and me…” He trailed off, unsure of where he was going. “Could get complicated.”

Max laughed, soft and surprised. “Scared you’re gonna fall in love with me?”

Mike immediately rolled his eyes. What a completely ridiculous notion.

“No.” He glanced over at her, raising a brow. “Maybe you’ll fall in love with me.”

She snorted. “Dream on, Wheeler.”

***

Mike and Max can totally do this casual friends with benefits thing without it becoming a big deal. It’s just sex.

And it’s just for the summer.

(Right…)

Read Here!

[share-the-damn-bed]

Days later I'm still stuck on and I'm still shocked at how bad the original finale script for ST5 was... like NO ONE was spared.

Lucas and Max's original epilogue interaction was uncharacteristically hostile and mean-spirited:

...like, wtf?!

[junk-thunder]

[deeply concerned] whose pussy is this?

[jack-abbot]

"I hope you're pleased to see me." "Very. For several reasons."

— BERTHA & GEORGE RUSSELL in The Gilded Age, 2x02, "Some Sort of Trick" (2023)

[plumsfromyouricebox]

I always get so excited to post a new fic and then I get to ao3 and remember I still have to come up with engaging tags and a summary and copy the html to embed my title image and write my authors notes…

[thatsashitplan]

I don’t like this trend in media where struggling characters “have” to die. why aren’t addicts and outcasts allowed to have happy or hopeful endings anymore. I know things are bleak and people die but holy shit. the one grace of media is that you can CHOOSE to live in the best reality possible where EVERYONE can move on with their life and things can get better, not this defeatist nonsense.

[plumsfromyouricebox]

The “Idiots in Love” tag

[buggachat]

the best female characters are the ones that online discourse calls annoying and cannot stand. this is a fact sorry. the more hated she is by the online sphere the better her character is sorry

[tired-fandom-ndn]

Sometimes "rarepair" means "you are literally the only person who posts about this on tumblr dot com" and you have to learn to be okay with that.