@h0mespun / h0mespun.tumblr.com
I'm asking the same question to everyone: 19 for the fic writer ask!
Love this question! Thanks for asking!
For my fics I've gotta say Love Game (pro tennis tour... a different city every week.. the training montages... Wimbledon Ball!) and for general Kingdon, the first thing that popped into my head was @starkovzova's halloween series for nfsw kingdon week last year. I'm imagining like a anthology like Black Mirror / American Horror Story
8? 16?
Hi dad!! ily
8. Which WIP are you most excited for? Definitely King Hunt; i got to write like 4k this weekend for that project and i think it's shaping up to be very cute, original, and the grovelcore that I want to see more of in the world. :)
16. Do you make playlists for your fics? I used to make playlists, but then I would get really tired of them and burn out of the songs. lately I've just had two or three albums which "choose" the project and vice versa, and I listen to those on repeat.
20 &. 4 for fic asks :)
omg hi cece!!!
20. Do you listen to music when you write? Yes. usually a couple of albums will present themselves as chosen for each multichapter piece i work on :) love this about the writing process. it feels like magic.
4. How long do you spend editing? Editing is my fave, I love it and could do it forever. In a perfect world I finish a rough draft, receive beta comments, and then just piddle around with sentence structure for a couple weeks until everything sings. in reality i usually am on some horrid self-induced deadline and post unbetaed first drafts :'( note to self: don't do this for kingdon week.
I’d love to know 7, 11, and 13 🤗
hiiiiiiiiii :^)
7. What's a fic you didn't expect to be popular but really took off? i started my ao3 journey in the dramione sphere in 2023 (I disavow, etc.) which at that time was a very fertile creative ground with tons of diverse readership; readers were really itching for stories and my stats there were immediately very impressive (*to me; of course there's always a bigger fish!). Honestly that was such a gift because it taught me that popularity in fandom is more about being in the right place at the right time than merit, so now I don't stress about numbers or how pieces perform. I never expect any of my stories to be, like, read at all honestly. But to answer the question, the kingdon answer to this is definitely needs met which i almost posted anon because i really wrote that with my whole pussy. Haha.
11. Which fic did you do the most research for? Definitely Love Game, my pro tennis au. Researching for that story led me to my new favorite sports autobiography, Open by Andre Agassi.
13. Is there a writing habit you wish you had? I am thinking about getting a walking pad and standing desk so I can walk and write!
2 & 18 for the ask game!
Hiiiiii Ty for asking 🫶
2. When and where do your best ideas seem to strike? Definitely my morning commute, which is 30-40 minutes in the car! I actually dictate on the Google Docs app on my phone to capture these brainworms, which I highly recommend if you can get over the cringe of hearing yourself write.
18. What’s a trope you want to write but haven’t written yet? Arranged marriage 🤤 beta reading @khrogerswrites’ sci fi au with arranged marriage has me feelin a certain kinda way. I simply love it!
Thank you @witchbitchadam for the tag :) And I’m tagging whoever wants to do this! You yes you, yes, you are now tagged :^)
ok yeah whatever virgin!mel in the sense that they hook up for the first time & then they fall asleep for the night but mel keeps waking up during the night to be like “frank can we do that again?🤓😊”
As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".
So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:
Excuse me???
you are right and you should say it.
Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?
Absolutely not
You know who would try that shit?
Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?
You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?
The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:
dog!frank snippet?? (i hope mel calls him a good boy (before or after he becomes a human again, you know he'd go crazy either way))
bro you know there will be ample good boys but really it's going to be painfully earnest and rated t for teen and just a mashup of The Metamorphosis and Dogsbody by the incomparable DWJ. this is the type of thing that will inevitably flop on ao3 but that's okay bc i'm excited about it.
snippet below!!!!
“Norman, come here, please.”
Frank rises from his sunspot, tail wagging, and walks over to his Mel.
A leather collar lies in her hands. She holds it out for his perusal, so he sniffs it from every angle with interest. It’s a handsome piece, the perfect size for a large dog like him, with a shiny silver coin attached. Frank can still read, if he really applies himself, so he squints at the lettering.
“NORMAN. PROPERTY OF MEL KING. IF FOUND, PLEASE CALL (412)-744-9862.”
He whines in excitement.
“I got this custom made on Etsy for you, after the animal control incident. Maybe I should have done it sooner, but to be honest I felt a bit strange about it, Norman, because, well. You know. Or maybe you don’t know. Maybe you are just a dog. Anyway, you would tell me if you didn’t want to wear it, right? I’m not going to force you to wear it. But I just thought… in the daytime… when you’re visiting Tanner’s school and I’m at work…” Uncertainty sours her scent, so Frank butts his head against her knee in reassurance. Why does she feel uncertain? Mel is his human, and he is her dog. Anyone who could smell would know that; it was obvious. Humans made everything so needlessly complicated. “And I’ll take it off every night when we’re alone, I promise.”
grace and rocky on the journey to erid having a (marital) spat and grace gets a roll of painters tape and tapes over the floor like newt and hermann in pacific rim and says that's your side of the mary this is my side of the mary. and rocky (trying to start shit) is like well grace didn't tape over the ceiling so if you look at it from rocky perspective i can just go on wall and up and here and whole ship is rocky side of ship. so grace is like oh you think you're so smart huh?? watch this. and tapes a circle around rocky but then rocky JUMPS the ball like flipping a skateboard (radical!!) and grace is like OH SO THAT'S HOW IT IS!!!!! and builds an elaborate tape polyhedron to contain him but rocky "accidentally" knocks it over (rocky didn't touch, statement. grace bad at make model. model fall over. very flimsy. embarrassing). so grace just tapes all over the xenonite ball until rocky is a ball of tape. and rocky (muffled behind tape) is like grace know rocky can still see, right?? tape does nothing. so then grace gets the heavy duty duct tape and tapes his whole ball to the floor (forgetting rocky is 400 pounds) and then rocky rips himself up immediately and goes careening around the ship but he took a whole floor panel with him and now he's picking up socks and pencils and dust and saying disgust. disgust. disgust. and basically grace created an enormous lint roller slash torture chamber. no one wins
for @purplebutterflyglasses and @shoujo-wizard, a snippet of king hunt
Summary: Why were all these men from the Pitt suddenly chasing after Mel, Langdon wondered. They’d never even seen her shake her hair out of her braid after shift. Word spreads across the Pitt that Dr. Mel King is looking for a boyfriend. Langdon throws his hat in the ring.
“Did you hear?” McKay leans against the counter to ask Langdon under her breath. They’re waiting at Central Command on an average Monday, a couple minutes before grand rounds. “Ahmed asked our Dr. King out on a date.”
A delighted smile cracks across Langdon’s face. How hilarious. The bookie of the Pitt, Ahmed Zidan, dating Langdon’s goofy, sweet, awkward best friend. “I wish I could have seen that. Her turning him down, I mean.” Langdon could just picture the wine stain blush on Mel’s cheeks. Glorious.
“No, that’s the thing,” says McKay, gleeful. “She said yes. They’re going out next Saturday.”
The smile slides off Langdon’s face. Mel, going on a date? With the security guard?
“I’m just glad people are finally recognizing what a catch she is,” McKay remarks, which falls on deaf ears. Langdon feels like the floor opens up to swallow him.
Mel said… Mel said yes? His Mel?
What?
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I’m alone this weekend with grand plans to sit my ass on the couch to watch tennis / write kingdon nonstop. send a shout if you want to see a snippet of my kingdon week WIPs!! it will encourage me.
