#asks from the void

[sexymanxisuma]

Hi! I would like to inform you there's a maid Xisuma skin on the internet

absolutely incredible! love it see it!!! \^-^/

[iamstuckinthevoid]

Look at this cat

I am getting hyperfixated on this stupid cat (I wish I was joking but this cat has actually sent me down a rabbit hole of researching and now it lives in my brain rent free)

Anyways now you have a potato cat thing in your possession

yoooo tell me about it

[writergeek]

Fic Writers Game

Tagged by @fidothefinch ! I'm getting back into writing after a major case of burnout so this was fun!

Fic Writer Ask Game:

how many works on ao3? 70

total ao3 wordcount? 647,949

Top 5 fics by kudos? As of 1st May 2025

TheBruceWayne of insta (7,738)

Unknown Origins (2,673)

Siren Call (1,180)

Buckle Up (its gonna be a bumpy ride) (883)

Make A Splash (770)

What fandoms do you write for?

Mostly Nightwing-centric, but Batfam/Batman to generalise it.

Do you respond to comments?

My inbox might bank up on me, but yes. The answer is always yes. I have an endnote to all my fics telling people what to do if they don't want a reply, though.

Angstiest Ending?

Oh. Heh. I have a few. The one that instantly comes to mind is Nightwing's Final Gift (tissue warning on that). If you want *dark* then its gotta be my death loop series aka Deja Vu (i still have a story -- or two -- to write for that, so take that warning for what you will) (but its definitely *dark*).

Fic with the happiest ending?

Fluffiest ending definitely goes to TheBruceWayne of insta by a large margin.

Do you get hate?

Not generally. I did get one comment that got deleted, and there's the occasional comment that I have to think how to answer... but not generally.

Do you write smut?

Nope. Never will. It's not in my wheelhouse, so to speak.

Do you write crossovers?

Uh, kind of? I do regularly crossover from Batman into his kids comics, and from there into the Titans. And I'm writing a fic rn which will use the JLA... but that's still solidly within the DC fandom.

Ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

None that I know of.

Have you ever cowritten a fic?

No, can't say I ever have.

All-time favorite ship?

oh, that's a funny question. I'm proudly ship-neutral, in that I honestly don't care about ships. You do you and all that, but I seriously doubt I will ever write a ship fic, or read a ship fic. Like I said, ship-neutral.

WIPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I have a long standing fic, CIRCLE II: Between The Cracks. I know what needs to happen, and I can see it my head... but it requires a major action scene, and I'm just ugh. I'll write anything instead of action, lol. As you can see because this has been sitting in my WIP folder for something like ten years lol. (And I have written lots of words to avoid writing that scene, lol.)

Writing Strengths?

Angst, emotional whump, character introspection. Basically emotional scenes, which i think is funny, considering i always find it hard to know what I'm feeling at any particular moment.

Writing Weaknesses?

Action. I loathe action scenes. In fact, it's caused some powerful writing blocks on more than a few fics.

Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

Love it! Sadly, I only speak English fluently, and I only remember a smattering of other languages from school (which was a long time ago), so... it'll have to be auto translators if I ever do it. Which I know get things wrong, so, there is that. So I generally resort to "so and so said 'this' in that language" which feels like such a cheat. And then there's how to format it in the story, which is another hurdle. Do you do footnotes, or fancy HTML? It's a whole thing. But I love it, and I wish more authors would do it.

First fandom you wrote for?

Star Wars. (First one I wrote, not the first I read, and not the first I published) :)

Favorite fic you've ever written?

Oooh. Close tie between Make A Splash and Unknown Origins. I love Unknown Origins for the sheer whumpiness of it, the detail, and the comfort ending (that I have planned) (yes, its not there yet, but its coming). I also love Make A Splash for the sheer, uh, unhingedness of it... and the whumpy angsty journey i took the characters on. I also love that both fics are leading me into a series. I have ideas. bwahahaha

No pressure tags to participate: @cdelphiki @ckbookish and @sassydefendorflower (Sorry if you've already been tagged!) And consider yourself tagged if you want to do it, too!

[iggy-spades]

headcanon that Pecharunt hates being called by his beta name, Dokutaro.

Yesss

[jellicle-chants]

I saw your post saying Cats 1998 was made public on yt, would you mind sharing the link?

I’m happy to! The Show Must Go On made it public here: https://youtu.be/TAAaq7M0aXs?si=8JoU7LRycjFU9E7C

It’s technically not a new upload since it seems people were watching it during the pandemic, but I guess they decided to make it private for the past few years. Anyway, it’s publicly available now!

[wearethewitches]

Oh my gosh you've watched agatha all along?! I love that show!!

Yeah! I was a big Marvel fan, back in the day - I watched all the way up to Wandvision, Loki, and the Black Widow movie, then gave up for a loooooong time. It took The Marvels and Agatha All Along to drag me back in, though I'm not really up to writing fic about it. Just enjoying being a lurker, lmao.

[skellytonsandstars]

(⭐️🌊🦚) SKELLY DID YOU SEE THE NEW TEASER TRAILER FOR THE PJO SERIES IT LOOKS AMAZING!!!!!!!!

WAIT NO I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THERE WAS ONE GIMME A MINUTE

[globular-guardians]

Don’t worry Vectra, I got some more of your favorite stuff! *the same mischievous anon from before returned, this time with two more canisters of helium, eager to see just how big the local titan blimp could get~*

Vectra tried to shake her head, and deny the hose being slipped into her mouth, but due to her massive size and restricted forms there wasn't much she could actually do. The hoses popped in and just as fast she resumed inflating, her head sinking further and deeper into her blimplike body along with her hands and feet. The soft latex like body suit she wore under her armor was now beginning to creak and groan. At least she hoped it was her body suit and not her body, but given the pressure she was feeling building within her now, she couldn't be sure. Vectra felt like her entire body was trembling with each and every inhale of the gas, stretching her out and blowing her larger. Sure enough in a matter of seconds the tanks would be empty and she'd be left soaring ever higher over The Last City, all she was missing was a sponsorship logo and she'd be a real blimp.

[inarocky]

are you still planning on updating Full Circle? ive reread it so many times i think the entire 4th loop has been ingrained into my head lmao

I reaaaally want to, i genuinely want to finish this fic, i love it so so much. But it's kind of on hiatus right now so I won't be making promises that it'll update soon or anything.

But trust me, it's in the back of my head constantly.

[iampure-shippingtrash]

you seem like you like purple ??

i do! its my favorite color <3

[sillyscribblinggoose]

Silly comic idea I had about Sun being introduced to gravity falls :D

(Ignore the fact I haven't posted for actual months just pretend that never happened alright-)

[sexymanxisuma]

Pika boo

XISUMA!!! \^-^/

[iamstuckinthevoid]

can you tell your reblogging blog to notice me >~>

Ok, @iamstuckinthevoidreblogging2 come do some shit to aral

[writergeek]

I was tagged by @ckbookish to post 4-6 photos from my camera roll, so here's some things. Not particularly interesting, as I had to find things that weren't work related. (I am apparently not a photo taking person.) (Except when it comes to cats.)

Uhhhh, going to tag @daringyounggrayson @fleur-de-violette and @alchemistsarego .... and ig whoever sees this because I am awful at remembering names.

[iggy-spades]

hallo new mutual :3

hallo :3

[jellicle-chants]

I've always wanted a CATS animated movie that depicts the characters as actual cats (rather than people in cat costumes), with either Don-Bluth-style traditional animation or more modern "hyper-realism" CGI. But I wonder if that would take the "theatre" appeal out of it for other people. What do you think?

I'll be honest, I've never really been in love with the idea of making CATS the musical an animated movie. I think the designs that exist from the proof of concept are cool, but there's also definitely reasons they struggled to take it past that stage. This is not to say that Eliot's poems could never be adapted into a children's animated movie, but I think making it specifically an adaptation of the stage show is what makes it iffy. I'll try to break it down more under the cut:

Problem A: at the end of the day, CATS is a dance show. A lot of the show is just dancing, and very involved dancing at that. What are you supposed to do with the 9 minute dance break from the Ball? It's too iconic to cut, and the non-anthropomorphic cats ironically don't have the articulation to pull off a lot of the dance moves. (I'm thinking of movies like The Aristocats for comparison, which really doesn't have the characters do much that actual cats physically couldn't. I guess if it were more like An American Tail it wouldn't be so jarring, but I'll get to that later.)

Problem B: CATS has too little plot for a traditionally structured movie. The 2019 version also ran into this problem, which of course it solved in the worst way conceivable, but it's still a problem. Movie and theatre audiences simply have different expectations, suspension of disbelief, etc. that CATS is too theatrical to cross over into. I think it would be really interesting to make a Fantasia-like movie with each of the poems/songs being a totally different short in an anthology, but I don't think that's what most people are imagining when they say they want an animated CATS movie.

Problem C: what do you do about humans? The cats of CATS live in a world clearly populated by humans, but they're never shown directly. Adding humans, to me at least, clearly poses a "power creep" problem: any adult human can easily overpower any cat, and also leans the movie towards a more plot-driven story (as I feel like a lot of animal movies with humans tend to have a human antagonist). On the other hand, you could just make the entire world be populated by cats, which would (mostly) solve the dancing problem. However, I feel like doing that misses the point of the original poems: to illustrate the different types of pet/stray cats. It's not as funny to imagine Skimbleshanks being in charge of a group of feline train workers (which could be a completely normal thing within talking-animal movies) than it is to imagine an entire train full of humans and the orange tabby cat who thinks he's in charge of all of them. The same goes for Bustopher Jones, Gus, Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer, etc., etc.