#omegaponyboycurtis

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‘get to know me’ meme ➠ tagged by @omegaponyboycurtis

➠ last song: Well, I’m listening to music right now, so the last song I heard in full was Polaroid — Imagine Dragons. But the song I’m currently listening to is Breathe (acoustic Faith Hill cover) — Orville Peck 🫶🏻

➠ last show / movie: Okay, so the last show I finished was Justified: City Primeval, but as Justified is also the answer to the next question, I’ll tell you that before that was season 6 of The Great Australian Bake Off with my Mum. The last movie I watched was Bridget Jones’ Baby, also with Mum.

➠ currently watching: So yeah, it’s Justified. My Dad can’t get out of bed at all anymore and he sleeps a LOT, so Mum needs company, so we’ve been watching a whole bunch of stuff together, and I (finally!) talked her into watching Justified. We just watched 1×09 Hatless. Do you know how painful it is for me to have to NOT keep pausing and replaying it over and over??!? 🤯

➠ currently reading: Oh! I have a new answer for this one! It’s The Alienist — Caleb Carr. It’s my second time reading it. I first read it in 2017 because I was in my Luke Evans era and he was filming the TV adaptation. It’s a thriller about using psychology to investigate the violent grotesque murders of young boys in New York in the 1890s, so it’s dark and gruesome and grisly and not for the faint-hearted, but the narrator is such a fuckin drama queen, he’s ridiculous, I love him 🙈

➠ current obsession: Obsession? I don’t— whaaaaat? 🤭 My Timothy Olyphant and Orville Peck obsessions calm and torment me in equal measure. And, in the middle of this dreadful heatwave, I’m completely obsessed with my portable fan.

➠ tagging: The meme says to tag nine people, but I’m gonna offer it up to anyone and everyone who wants to do it! 💜

[motownfiction]

a scene for daniel, carrie, lucy, and will. (one for each)

this whole universe actually begins with daniel.

and, like, that's not true. but daniel's story was the one that made me know there was a lot here. no one here has read "remember when?" which is a 33-page story about charlie coming to visit daniel on christmas eve in 2004. and i just needed to see daniel grapple with losing his best friend, with not being able to use that term anymore, with realizing that everything he wanted for his life is just ... different now. because of charlie. in one way or another, it's all because of charlie. i just really wanted to hear that story from daniel's point of view first. and i think that would surprise people to know -- that the world began with daniel -- because he's not as central now, nor did i ever really intend for him to be central. but when his point of view matters, it really matters.

i also just really wanted to write about carrie falling in love with sam/having a brief fling with him in the few months she and charlie were broken up at the beginning of college. there was something about their chemistry in a random vignette that i never planned on, but once i saw it, i just couldn't get it out of my head. i've written about this recently, so forgive me for repeating myself. but carrie and sam are just ... they should have ended up together. i know that, readers know that, characters know that. and i wanted to write about it to show that sometimes, the thing that makes the most sense, the thing that's the best for you ... sometimes, that thing doesn't happen. sometimes, it never will.

with lucy, i just really wanted to see her go to the senior prom and wear a pretty red dress, even if it wasn't her prom. so, i wrote all of dance hall days to give her that. it would feel really lame if lucy, because she was a teen mother/wife, because she's smart, because she kind of sees high school as purgatory before you can really spread your intellectual and creative wings, didn't ever participate in the rituals of high school. because there's a part of her that thinks they're fun. i want her to be all sorts of inconsistent -- the kind of inconsistent that feels human. no one does it like her. no one does it better than she does.

and with will, i wanted to really explore his friendship and similarities with sadie. they weren't supposed to have much in common (they hardly did in the rough drafts, except they did, just no one noticed), but once i realized how clear it was, i had to lean in. i love their friendship a lot. and my desire to see them interact on a deep level is part of why i wrote love will keep us together. but if i'm being honest, love will keep us together really existed to explore sadie's feelings about daniel, which i still love the depiction of.

[thewriterg]

𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐲

pairing(s); dallas winston x gn!reader, mention of curtis gang

summary; Dallas Winston was in simple terms the love of your life but you refused to put up with anything less of what you deserved and he figured it out quick enough for him to fix it —flufftober day; 2–

word count; 600+

request; dallas winston x reader who does NOT put up with his bullshit💀🙏🏽 she will teach that mf a lesson if he tries to mouth off to her too🗣️ — @jokersscarrd

warning(s); mention of arguing, reader rather be caught dead then kissing dallys ass, fluff, kisses, and language

playlist; My love mine all mine by Mitski

A/n;—GIFs; @omegaponyboycurtis— killing two birds with one stone with a request

The crisp air of Tulsa flew against the current of your body the color changing leaves crunched under you boots holding yourself under the worn leather jacket that wasn’t yours taking in a breath of humidity before taking a seat on the bench the worn wools groaning at your weight you’d admit that your body temperature was cooler than your nerves were

it was a fact that Dallas Winston was the burner to your simmering pot

You huffed roughly into the cool air fog following after your breath you pulled a smoke from the box that came from the inside breast pocket of the jacket that smelled of smoke, pine, and the fading of stale beer

You took the lighter from the pocket of your jeans letting your thumb roll over the striker wheel just for it to not give a lick of a spark causing you to ‘curse real good at it’ as Ponyboy would say

“Need a light Y/l/n?” You whipped your head around to the location of the voice your blood simmering like the apple filling before being put in a pie crust

You were up from your seated position on the bench walking away from the juvenile listening to his leaf crunching steps behind you calling out your name in a obnoxious, disruptive, way that he knew you hated

Suddenly his hold was on your wrist in a firm grip and your palm stung against his pale cheek a faint making already appearing as the slapping noise carried through the winds with an echo that you couldn’t quite feel sorry for

“Now listen to me Dallas, I’d rather drop dead than kiss your feet and shake like a leaf at drop of your name. I’m not Buck, or Ponyboy, or Slyvia, or any punk to beat on you savy?” You hissed the words dripping like venom from your tongue and teeth and after a brief moment of Dally visibly fighting his pride and his attraction to you in the current moment he’d finally kissed his teeth a small smirk forming against his lips

“You got it doll” The hood put his hands up in mock surrender as you rolled your eyes his arms slithering around your waist to pull you into his front where you were inches apart no avail for personal space

“You f’give me babe?” You could picture the smirk on his sharp face as he leaned his head into your neck nibbling against your skin while in response you just hummed in return

“Yeah, you mouth off to me again and I’ll do more than give you a slap” You threatened no room for a joke in your voice as the brunette finally lifted from your jugular wrapping an arm around your shoulder protectively forcing you to a few steps before you started walking on your own

That day you walked through the park and took the long way home and the stinging against Dally’s cheek that you would’ve been dead for if it wasn’t you was something he’d remember you by

©2023 thewriterg spooktober do not copy, translate, or modify.

[ragamuffingunnar]

thank you friend for tagging me @hoppkorv 💞 here's five songs I've been listening too

lost in the flood (live at hammersmith) — bruce springsteen

heartstopper — shakey graves

sorry for the things — benjamin tod

waste — brand new

lay me down — nick hans

do it if you feel like it 🐈 @omegaponyboycurtis, @skeletalhistory, @mustybooksmelll, @racinginthestreet, @nebylitsa

[motownfiction]

19-25, 36, 37

19. how do you keep yourself motivated?

you know, it's honestly not that hard for me because of the way i balance it? i work on school stuff a lot. so much that i will always need a break. this is that break.

20. how many WIPs and story ideas do you have?

two mini series that i would love to update if i ever had the time. i also kick around ideas about elenore from time to time. i've been thinking about whether she stays a lawyer, whether she stays married to sean despite really loving him, etc. i think the answer is yes to both, especially the sean thing. but i kick stuff around just to see what might work and what would not.

21. who is/are your favourite character(s) to write?

lucy and sam. i don't know how many different ways i can say it, lol. they're the characters that feel the most me to me. i love being able to be both of them. i think lucy is who i really am, and sam is the character i play in front of people i don't know that well (e.g. students). either way, they're both very real parts of me, and i love them. but like, you know i love will and sadie, too. so those original four are always going to be my favorites to write about, but i have an even more special place for lucy and sam.

22. who is/are your favourite pairing(s) to write?

i'm going to be difficult and answer this question in a few ways, lmao.

my favorite canon endgame romantic relationship is obviously lucy and will. god. they love each other so much. it's unreal. he is devoted to her, and she is devoted to him. they like each other. they understand each other. they grow up together in a way that the other pairings do not, and i think that makes them so much stronger. like, yeah, sadie and daniel were kids together, and they'll always have that frame of reference. but lucy and will catapulted into adulthood at age sixteen together, and no one will ever quite understand that time like they do. they're bonded by mutual admiration, trust, and unique circumstances. i love that they're a given for each other, but neither of them ever takes the other for granted.

my favorite canon non-endgame romantic relationship is sam and carrie. i don't count sam and steph because even though they weren't technically together at the time of sam's death, i think it's either strongly implied or just outright stated that they were headed there. but oh, sam and carrie. what could have been! like lucy and will, i think they get each other in ways that no one else can really broach. sam understands carrie's quirks and the creativity that rattles awkwardly inside her mind. he wants to help her let it out, while charlie is too often oblivious to the fact that it's there. and carrie can see through to sam's silent emotions, see through his jokes, his song-and-dance numbers. sam is so easy to pair with all sorts of characters. i can't deny that. but there is a large part of me that thinks, even with steph in the picture, sam should have ended up with carrie. steph can still end up with katie! but sam and carrie should have been forever.

and my favorite non-canon romantic relationship, which could have happened in a very different world where very different things occurred, is lucy and sam. i think, in a world where neither of them ever knew will, or will had never been born, this would have been a great partnership. their personalities just sing to each other, imo. she is the seriousness to his silliness, but they are both so brilliant, so witty, so cool. these two very unusual, very glittery people could have been a great team. in their reality, they have no romantic or sexual tension whatsoever, as they're both busy being obsessed with will (💜). but they could have been together in another world.

23. favourite author

idk, lol ... jane austen, charlotte brontë, virginia woolf, charles dickens, chinua achebe, some works by jerry spinelli (really just stargirl and its sequel), katherine mansfield ... it could go on.

24. favourite genre to write and read

i mean, broadly, realistic fiction with an emphasis on youth and coming-of-age. and you know what i mean by that: not necessarily school dances and first crushes, not necessarily high school stuff. but just a young person navigating a difficult situation.

25. favourite part of writing

dialogue and character dynamics.

36. last sentence you wrote

She’s not supposed to know anything, but she can’t help reading Elenore like a dog-eared copy of a deeply old book.

37. first sentence or your current WIP

Lucy knows what’s been going on, but she hasn’t told anyone yet.

[motownfiction]

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💧rain - what’s the most emotional scene you’ve ever written?

fuck if i know. weirdly, this vignette about steph comes to mind, though i'm not sure if it's actually the most correct answer. there's something so sad about watching steph wrestle with her feelings about sam after he dies, especially when she transfers those feelings (briefly) onto a somewhat single charlie. i love writing about that even though it's so harsh.

☀️ sun - what’s your favorite part of your WIP?

if we're defining that based on this whole blog, then it's definitely the character relationships and getting to go back and show people the moment when something significant actually happened or started. i like being able to play with chronology. memory is nonlinear, so why shouldn't my fiction be?

🪹 drought - what do you do to help with writer’s block?

i don't experience it that often, but when i don't know exactly what to do, it's helpful to listen to good music and imagine a scene or a vibe that goes with it. i get a lot of ideas from picturing people dancing.

[motownfiction]

14, 15, 20, 21, 26 for will and lucy!

14. do they enjoy PDA, or are they more private with affection?

lucy and will enjoy some degree of PDA. they hold hands. they peck. but their private affection is where it's at.

15. what songs remind you of their relationship?

of course i'm going to overachieve on this one:

under the milky way // the church

ain't no mountain high enough // marvin gaye and tammi terrell

never my love // the association

touch me // the doors

willamania // the will rogers follies

she loves you // the beatles

there she is // the lovin' spoonful

i couldn't live without your love // petula clark

hotel yorba // the white stripes

something good can work // two door cinema club

20. how do they comfort each other when one of them is upset? is this method of comfort effective?

will sits with lucy and holds her. lucy helps will strategize about what he can do to improve things. weirdly, yes, both methods are effective. they offer each other the opposite of their personal defaults, which is useful in times of sadness and struggle.

21. do they enjoy domestic life?

they do. their domesticity doesn't look like everyone else's, but they love their life, love raising kids, love being married to each other.

26. what sacrifices do they make for the other?

will moved away from home for lucy's doctoral program when we all know he'd have been quite happy to attend law school back home, where the rest of their family is. after they get to new york, lucy refrains from looking for jobs outside the city or the state, even if better opportunities might drift in her general direction. once will passes the bar in new york, she thinks it would be wrong to move him, no matter what happens for her.

[motownfiction]

👩‍💻⭐️💅🏾😭

⭐ share a snippet where a character is the best at something

Maggie’s not sure what it is about Charlie that makes him so special. But every year he grows, he just gets better and better. He’s got a smile that could power the whole town. Before his third birthday, he can whistle any tune you give him. He walks into his first day of first grade whistling a happy tune like Anna and Louis in The King and I. By the end of the year, he can play “Heart and Soul” like nobody’s business. He plays it at the talent show in June of 1976.

“Hoagy Carmichael, watch out!” Maggie yells in the midst of the audience’s cheers.

Her husband leans over and whispers to her, pressing his nose into her ear.

“Maggie Doyle, watch out,” he says. “You don’t want them thinking you have a favorite.”

😭 share a snippet that will break our hearts

Here, in this motel room, she is twenty years old, and she is in love with him. The days of pink gel pens and sugary sweet crushes are over. Elenore has fallen in love with Charlie, like she always thought she would. Like she always thought she could, if they lived in a world where he would ever give her a shot.

👩‍💻 share a snippet that you worked on for a long time or struggled with

i don't think i particularly struggled with this piece (the conclusion to sadie's part in first of may), but it did apparently take more than a month for me to finish it. november and december of last year were so much work! here's part:

Sadie sighs and sits at the foot of the bed, parallel to Sam, the place where she belongs. She really looks at him for a long time. Maybe ten whole seconds. Sometimes, she almost forgets he’s just her twin. Sometimes, he feels like so much more. Like he’s her eyes when she closes her own.

“You know, this is all your fault,” she says.

Sam scoffs in mock surprise. He presses his hand to his heart like a parody of a Southern belle. Sadie can’t help but laugh, just a little.

“Me?” he asks. “What did I do?”

“I keep thinking about this one time, about two years ago, I think,” Sadie says. “Mom and Lucy ambushed you with that college visit in Ohio. Do you remember?”

Sam snorts.

“Oh, yeah,” he says. “That’s the kind of thing you don’t just forget.”

“Right. Well, anyway. I keep thinking about what you said to me that day. You asked if I ever thought about how you and I are different.”

“Yeah. I remember that, too. You said you thought about it all the time.”

“Yeah, well, I was telling the truth. I do think about how we’re different. Except I don’t know if I know who I am. I know … I know you’re a genius, and I know you’re funny. I know you were always more willing to put yourself out there, to get rejected, to be wrong … just so you could say you tried. I know you like The Replacements, and when the college rock stations are on, I usually prefer The Pogues … but that’s about it for comparisons between us. I feel like … I feel like I know exactly who you are. But I don’t know what makes me different.”

She looks up at Sam, not really sure how she expects him to react. And in truth, she really didn’t expect anything in particular. She just didn’t think he would sit there and shake his head.

💅 share a snippet showing a character embracing their lgbtqness

“I’m standing around,” Sam says. “I could have given the first bite to myself. But I’m not doing that. I’m giving it to you. That’s how nice I am.”

Eddie chuckles and takes Sam’s hand in his.

“I would never describe you as nice,” Eddie says.

“How would you describe me, then?” Sam asks. “Am I an asshole? Because I’ve always had a sneaking suspicion.”

“You’re not an asshole, Sam.”

“Then why am I not nice?”

“Because that’s reductive. Nice means stupid. You’re … I don’t think they have a word for what you are. But if they ever do, you’ll be the one who invents it.”

Sam feels himself blushing like a kid. He knows it’s a line. But it’s a good line, and dammit, if he’s not a sucker for a good line.

[motownfiction]

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💖 what is your favorite moment in this WIP?

literally, in terms of this entire blog, fuck if i know (again!). i know it hasn't been long since i mentioned this, but i really like when lucy realizes they're all in ohio to crash some other school's prom. it's fun.

🌈 if at the beginning of your WIP the characters knew about the end, would they kill you to stop you from writing it?

yeah. i think they'd be ok with most things that happen (lucy and will staying together, sadie and daniel staying together, emma being born, etc.), but obviously they do not like that sam dies. obviously they don't like that he never knew his daughters. and obviously they don't like that elenore and charlie had a romance, even if it did get them veronica.

📖 what form do you want this WIP to take when it’s done? Posted, printed, published, etc?

since this universe kind of doesn't have a definitive ending, i think it would work best if it was, eventually, adapted into a tv show.

🖋️ describe your WIP in a single, terrible sentence.

a teenage girl gets pregnant, and everyone around her pays the price.

[motownfiction]

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✨ what’s a fic you’ve posted you wish you could breathe life into again and have people talking about it? (or simply a fic you wish got more credit)

in terms of vignettes on here, i don't think "asters & goldenrod" got its due. i get that it's less than a week old, but it has zero notes, which is actually unusual for this blog (most of my vignettes get at least one). i don't know if it's because it had too much rapid-fire dialogue or whatever, but i really enjoyed writing it.

💘 is there any posted fic you want to rework/re-edit/re-write?

in terms of whole vignettes or mini series, no. i mean, there are some small details i need to go back and fix (e.g. i think there are still some instances where the doyles were still the carrolls, and i think there's a vignette where i say that lucy and will weren't married yet in the summer of '84 when they had been married for like six months at that point), but i just want to make those small continuity changes at some point. not much more than that.