#YMHW

[ekingston]

Would you rather have you art or your fic go viral?

gosh golly anon going viral doesn't carry the best of connotations, but as much fun as creating art might be my heart will always be more invested in the things i write. so allow me to ply my wares here for a shameless moment:

Multi-chapters:

You & Me & Holiday Wine (M)

The Shape of Soup (M)

One-shots:

By Way of Wit (M)

Liar Liar Plants on Fire (G)

Oh Oh Oh (I’m on Fire) (T)

Tickled Ink (T)

#the only viral post i’ve had was a shitpost #so it goes #ask me things! #anonymous #supercorp fan fic #YMHW #TSOS #fic by ekingston #fic masterpost

[battenthecrosshatches]

a comic adaptation of you & me & holiday wine by @ekingston

#a cover n inside cover n first page #btc art #fic inspired #ekingston #ymhw #when i tell you im obsessed... #& congrats on completing it! #fic rec

[otona77mtb]

自然界で繰り返される再生の美しさを感じて ボクは立ち尽くしてしまう #帰り途 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl5ESw-yMHW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#帰り途

[ekingstonart]

The Huntsman & The Wolf

(a supercorp fairytale AU)

(…) Something flickers just outside your field of vision. Movement unlike any beast you have ever seen.

Movement like a man — no. A woman.

You exhale audibly, surprised, and the sound carries across the clearing, across the perfect stillness of the moonlit night. Your mark hesitates, then turns, searching for the source.

Your legs feel heavy and rigid, as if lightning has struck you, rooting them into the ground. For the first time, your mark lingers in your sight long enough for you to get a clear shot.

You don’t take it. You find yourself thinking instead of the woman in the story who could turn flesh to stone with no more than a glance. When her eyes find yours, you think you may be stone already.

The woman’s skin is otherworldly pale, almost to the point of translucence. The locks of hair that have escaped from her cloak are as dark as the soil beneath your feet, her lips the deep red of the plums you’d had your eye on at the market this morning. You feel the same powerful urge to taste them.

This is no Wolf. But she can’t be human either. This has to be some new creature that no Huntsman before you has encountered before.

(…)

The movement of your dagger is quick, and you’re briefly mesmerized by the sight of the gleaming blade pressed close against the steadily thudding heartbeat visible along the column of her throat.

She seems entirely unperturbed by her captivity. She reaches for your chest, runs a long, pale finger over the buttons of your uniform. The smile that tugs on her red lips is all predator, not prey. It makes the hair on the back of your neck stand on end.

So much silver, she remarks. Your blade and your bow and your arrows, too. Are you really such a superstitious man?

You swallow hard. You say, I am no man.

She says, still smiling, And I am no wolf.

The words are sticky on your tongue. How can I be sure of that?

She asks, Would a wolf be so courteous with a dagger at her throat?

You hesitate. You rub the wool of her cloak between the fingers of the hand you’re using to pin her down and say, Perhaps it depends on the clothes she’s wearing.

from Rootbound — by me, coming to ao3 circa 2067)

#2nd person perspective? yes #and very unfinished unfortunately #i set this au aside so i could focus on getting YMHW done by the end of the year #but i’m not waiting for another halloween to post spooky scary supercorp! #rootbound #lena luthor #katie mcgrath #supergirl #supercorp fanart #supergirl fan art #art by ekingston #personal fave

[searidings]

hi! I was wondering if you could recommend some christmassy sc fics, since y'know... it's two months till christmas and the mood is settling in lol if so, thank you so much!

yes yes yes!

you & me & holiday wine by @ekingston

i keep my distance (but you still catch my eye) by @jazzfordshire

hallmark by @deadbiwrites

elevator buttons and morning air by @lostariels

a fiancée for christmas by kellsbells

my gift is you by uhpockuhlipz

entanglement under next-dimensional mistletoe by @bigmammallama5

#ive probably forgotten SO many im sorry #i havent yet shifted into holiday mode so christmas brain is not online #but these are all gems #especially ymhw i have to say probably one of my fave fics ever i simply cannot recommend it enough #but all of these are lovely little things that i hope will bring a smile to your face #hope you're having a great day #and happy reading! #asks #anonymous #my ficrecs

[ekingston]

It’s something, Lena thinks, taking on what feels like the entirety of National City’s late-night, mild-to-highly intoxicated population with a fondness for violent gunplay, as well as her own near-insurmountable desire to drop out of the game and onto her knees before the world’s goofiest Greek goddess.

It’s something, she thinks, and that something is agony.

You & Me & Holiday Wine chapter 12 is now up on ao3!

It’s a long one, just under twelve thousand words, so, you know. Settle in. Maybe grab some coffee. Maybe make it Irish; I’m not changing the rating to E, but this chapter made me seriously consider it. Because of all the blasphemy. And the— other thing.

#supercorp fan fic #supergirl fan fic #lena luthor #kara danvers #look at me making a brand new mood board for this chapter alone #they’re fun! #(​also i got antsy waiting for my wife to review my changes) #ANYWAY YAY IT’S HERE #happy turkey day! #YMHW

[ekingston]

Your reply on ao3 about your wife’s screenshot and being a cheerleader stuck with me, because I’ve realized I don’t actually articulate enough how amazing some writers (read: you) are. I finished the most recent chapter of soup (after eleven-thousand unacceptable distractions), and I was going to plunk together a quick comment that would absolutely not do enough justice to express the genius I find your writing to be. So instead I opened a google doc and started smashing my keyboard which resulted in a pretty long-winded... something, but allow me to fan-girl for like, a second:

The quality and style of your writing floors me every time. There is an effortlessness about it that makes it totally and completely bingeable but also something that gives a little more each time I read it. For me, it’s the most replayable form of literature: I can go back for the plot, for the character rapport, for the punchy dialogue, or for the voice of the narrator. It fits all the moods. It charms me. It amuses me. I want to hug it.

Your work excites me, and when I think of authors and works that excite me, I’m lumping you in with like, Heartburn which is an all-time favorite for that exact reason: I can binge it in a day or go back and sip on it and discover something clever and witty and just impossibly gorgeous in execution.

And speaking as someone who CANNOT for the life of me write something that doesn’t eventually tumble into a vat of angst, I also just adore the way you manage tension without losing the light-hearted reading experience. Holiday wine is a masterpiece, AND I think Soup is almost better because you juggle so much more: the chorus of characters are taking on their own plot lines, the stakes are higher, you add danger and adventure, you weave a more complex, interconnected storyline, and you massage it all beautifully to act as a supporting cast to the core of the story.

Which brings me to the trope (and a complete tangent): miscommunication. Like, ok look… I usually can’t stand it. But that’s mostly because of the execution: the obvious interruptions, the clear misdirection and disregard for natural intuition, the not asking the right questions, the very blatant ham-fisted forcefulness of it just… I can’t.

AND THEN YOU WENT AND MADE A MASTERCLASS OF IT.

You took every complaint you didn’t know I had and put in the work to make it believable. Kara is charmingly oblivious but not for lack of trying. She perfectly talks past Nia and Alex and Lena not just once but every. time. and every time is just so well-conceived and articulated and *gesticulates hands in the air wildly trying to find the right word* gah. The world of her confusion and misguidedness is so believable and commendable and *gesticulates again* gah. This is the absolute genius of the work. I will give kudos till I’m blue in the face about the story as a whole, but I will die on the ‘Easter crushed the miscommunication trope’ hill.

And this is just ONE EXAMPLE of how you knock it out of the park every single time. I could go on about how solidly you write the characters, how charming your prose is, how epic your one-shots are, or how I don’t even care that I can’t trust your chapter count anymore but this is already a run-on and I'm running out of air.

I don’t know how you write, if there is one draft or a million, if you just stream–of-conscious this into existence, or if you summon the words through a ouija board, but it’s brilliant and commendable and THANK YOU for doing what you’re doing.

so. this message is. a miracle? and you are a GIFT. and i’m not going to be able to elaborate much beyond that, because unlike you, i am terrible; at writing attentive notes, at handling compliments, and—hilariously, maybe, since i’ve finally started thinking of myself as a writer again after a decade of self-loathing false starts—at writing down my thoughts in an easily digestible way.

can i say it’s the nicest thing i’ve ever gotten from someone who isn’t (yet?) a close personal friend? that the timing of it was almost implausibly perfect because it arrived in the middle of the deep breathing exercises i was doing after being made aware of some deeply stupid twitter discourse around Soup that was going on right as i was getting ready to post its final chapter?

i think i’ll stick to the important stuff: like THANK YOU. like how your (AMAZING) note completely obliterated the bad stuff and made me excited not just to wrap up this fic, or even to jump into the next, but about doing it all in the first place. that it was a very needed reminder of what an immensely privileged position i’m in to be able to put something out online that brings people (you) enough joy that you want to come tell me about it. and, obviously, that the specific things you chose to highlight are extraordinarily flattering, and i am absolutely not immune to that kind of thing.

i went back and forth on publishing this ask because it feels almost embarrassing, and boastful. but whatever, you know? you made me feel good about my writing again and provided important perspective and ultimately you put thought and effort and overall awesomeness into it and i’m not going to hide that away when you intended it to be shared.

thank you. SO MUCH.

#also i’m totally going to cheat and add: #MISCOMMUNICATION MY BELOVED #if you’d told me a few years back that i was going to write a slapstick-adjacent romantic comedy of errors #i would have died a little inside #i LOATHED drama that only existed because people refused to open their mouths and speak to each other #you don’t know how thrilling it is to hear that you do too & that you think i got it RIGHT 🥳 #anyway you. are a hero. #i’m going to be thinking about this one for a while! #ps it’s the ouija board. 100% #ask me things! #eqt-95 #TSOS #YMHW

[ekingston]

do you prefer writing or drawing? would you ever illustrate your fic?

i value writing more but drawing tends to happen more easily! thank you for sending me this ask; it’s been really hard getting back into the current chapter now that my wife has left for the states again, but thanks to you i got to hang out with these characters in a low-stress environment — revisiting one of my favorite scenes from You & Me & Holiday Wine!

Here we have Sam the insufferable, Lena the illiterate, and Jess the righteously justified:

#YMHW #supercorp fanart #supercorp fanfic #lena luthor #handsome sam #jess the secretary #art by ekingston #thank you! ❤️

[ekingston]

I just stumbled upon your You me & holiday wine fic and binged it and may i just say thank you for your service 🫡🫡🫡 that work it’s everything to me and was just so fun to read!! you ate that up

hi hello & thank you so much! it makes me SO happy people are still discovering YMHW in 2024. i’m really glad you enjoyed it, it was a lot of fun to write as well!

#i’ve been slowly ironing out some errors over the past couple of months #and reading this work without the pressure of ‘oh god i need to get the next chapter out’ #really ​made me nostalgic for these characters & their little universe #i’m enjoying Sam & Alex & Jess & Ruby a little extra this time around #and laughing at my own (forgotten) jokes like a dork #‘Also did you happen to bring a gun? Ms Arias’ mother needs to be shot’ #Jessica Huang one day we’ll meet again #ask me things! #anonymous #YMHW

[ekingston]

For the wip word game: Squeeze

(or failing that: Blush)

Thankyou!

haha yes! thank you! this was another bit of cut dialogue from Holiday Wine, in which i did originally intend to have Lena and Eliza briefly interact in the final chapter:

#would have liked to have been able to include that tiny throwback to ‘your mom is pretty hot’ #it didn’t play out that way but i’m kind of glad i can share it with you anyway! #WIP keyword ask meme #anonymous #YMHW

[ekingston]

buddy. that is a very very sexy chapter cover. especially when you take the fact that is features a FORKING LAZER TAG PHASER into account

it was between it and this one, anon. hope i chose right

(for the baffled & bewildered, THE NEW CHAPTER OF YMHW IS HERE)

#i actually made this just before finishing chapter 11 #as a (surprisingly effective!) motivational device #ask me things! #anonymous #YMHW

[ekingston]

i could read you describing kara's beefiness from lena's pov forever

boy anon how i hope you have yet to discover you & me & holiday wine 🍷

here be dragons 60000 words of lena luthor blatantly thirsting after kara danvers’s arms (spoiler alert: she gets to touch them, too)

#thank you it’s been fun! #ask me things! #anonymous #YMHW

[ekingston]

For the WIP game: finish/finished?

aw, i actually found this one in an exchange between Sam & Lena in Holiday Wine that ended up on the cutting room floor!

#got me nostalgic for this fic #am i allowed to feel nostalgic for a fic that isn’t even a year old? #WIP keyword ask meme #anonymous #YMHW

[ekingston]

3 & 21 for the writer asks? 👀💗

hi Bianca! it’s been so nice seeing you on my timeline more regularly again!

3. What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written?

i’ll probably always save the softest spot for YMHW. and it’s not even just about the fic itself: i love it because it signified the end of a decade-long writer’s block; i love it because it got its start with the warm support of a small community of like-minded creatives within the supercorp fandom (scattered as we are now); i love it because it saved my sanity during both the early devastation and the endless aftermath of COVID-19. but also, i just flat-out adore lena’s narrative voice AND SAM. (And bread.)

21. Have you ever deleted an entire scene after spending hours laboring over it? If so, why?

i cut a lot, sometimes entire characters! in my second draft of the final chapter of YMHW, Andrea showed up at Alex & Sam’s wedding as someone’s unexpected plus-one, providing the catalyst for Lena’s confession. but then lasertag sort of happened, and she became unnecessary. i never delete anything though! any writing that ends up cut gets composted, to the benefit of future fics hahaha. there are actually descriptions and even snippets of dialogue in my current fics that are ancient—the exchange in the kitchen where Kara doesn’t know one green vegetable from another for instance was partially written when i was in college (somewhere in the early 1700s)!

send me writer asks!

#which incidentally is why i will never write a contemporary college au! #thanks for the ask! #ask meme #ask me things! #pippytmi #YMHW

[ekingston]

22. Do you know how your fic will end before you start writing?

i don’t think i’ll ever be brave (or cruel?) enough to begin posting chapters without having at least a fully fleshed out first draft of the story, so i have a pretty good idea—doesn’t mean that’s necessarily the ending i end up with in the final version though, haha! YMHW is famously at least twice as long as i drafted it to be (mostly due to the characters developing and interacting in ways i hadn’t fully anticipated) and even Soup threw me for a bit of a loop in the latest chapter. it feels pretty awesome though when the story tells you it wants to be something different than you planned, and i’ve personally found that it’s better not to fight it when it does!

send me writer asks!

#thank you for the ask! #ask meme #trashpandato #YMHW #TSOS

[ekingston]

pls mrs kingston don’t tear chapter 12 apart 🥺

i wouldn't worry ❤

(dear reader: i did not.)

#my wife — to the melody of captain holt’s BONE? — BANANA??? #BANANA?????? #so this was #admittedly #when it was still a much rougher draft #and she was very definitely doing the hype man thing. #but i think we'll probably be okay 🤞 #ask me things! #anonymous #YMHW #sweet j