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[sardonic-sprite]

Hi! Uh... not sure you recognize me, but I basically wrote a fic inspired by your 'Harbor' (which was my first proper fic?)

The reason I'm sending this ask is cuz of... you're writing!

It's just- so brilliant! I mostly stick to fanfics in the batman fandom and I can't believe that in just a year you managed to write up all those fics! The dedication is 10/10.

But really, your ideas are what hooked me in. They're unique in ways and they're also so curiosity-building that I can't help but click onto ur fics on ao3. And then, your writing is what just keeps me going through word by word, chapter by chapter, fic by fic. I especially love your celebrity bat-waynes series. It's so fun and heart-anguishing at the same time! Seriously, my heart was twisting for Jason.

I love the batfam whumptober timeline. And ik I keep repeating this, but the flashbacks Jason had in the last chapter of one of the fics (Cant remember the title, but clearly remember the pain) including the "After a fall like that, I'm gonna have to call you Timber" still makes me squeal and cry at the same time. I also recently read zugzwang (is it called that?) and Ah~ the feels~. The way you wrote that - the writing - was so interesting and incredible that I still clutch my heart in my room and squeak because ohmyGod,poorDick,poorJason,poorTIM,thelittlebabies,noooooo,Dami'stooyoungforthis,IloveSteph,Bruceeeee,goBabs!Myheartttttttt. The brain factor? Incredible✨. Love it when there are fics with thinking involved. A+++

Your writing (is there a better synonym for that? Cuz I think the word's getting too repetitive) is just so amazing that, as a writer, I get so freaking inspired. So much that my second fic was inspired by yours cuz Ijustloveitsomuch! It still continues to inspire that even through my writer's block/burnout, after reading zugzwang, I am yet again inspired to create a work after that (I love thinking, there's going to be so much thinking, I love your character thinking, therefore your thinking too) and... uh, idk I just want u 2 know how inspiring you are.

I know I wrote paragraphs and paragraphs, but I still have sm to say! I could deep-analyze that stuff. Your fics make me so happy, so from one (hopeful and admiring) writer to another (inspiring and amazing) one, (if you are able to) keep it up and soak in the happiness brought from your stories whether it is as much as mine (the happiness) or even more. Because you deserve it, dear sprite. You deserve the happiness of writing and the good thoughts from readers.

(I hope I didn't make this self-centric, I just wanna tell you how good you are 😭)

And since this is an ask, may I ask exactly where the heck you get inspiration for such amazing ideas?

OMG HI!

I can't lie I was tearing up a lil as I read your ask, being told that you're someone's inspiration is like the best feeling I as a writer could ever have! And I do remember that fic! ;)

Eeee *squeals, runs around, flaps hands, dives onto bed giggling* I'm so happy that you like the ideas that I base my fics on! Premise is so crucial as a writer to get right, and I'm glad that other people want to read the stories i want to write.

Ooooh, that fic was Throw Away My Faith ! I remember cackling and sobbing while writing those flashbacks, and DEFINITELY screaming too when I wrote every chapter of zugzwang. Balancing hurt and comfort (and crack! for celeb bats) is very fun and also very tricky. and i usually lean closer to angst lol. oops.

(don't worry, darlin' there is no crime to reusing the right word :) ) And I am SO GLAD that my writing helped you out of writer's block/slump! Like what!? That is so fantastic, bc believe me, i have been there too and it sucks, so it means so much to me to be able to help!

Thank you so much for your paragraphs! I love it, 100% To me rambles are like, the purest form of expression bc they're just so GENUINE and they make me grin so wide. I can assure you I get so much joy from writing, and that joy just increases whenever someone says my writing made them happy. (wasn't self-centric at all!)

Where do I get my inspiration? Lord. zugzwang (since you mentioned it earlier) came from a pinterest prompt about a generic hero and villain playing chess for the hero's loved ones. I'd say a lot of my inspiration does come from prompts, especially events and such. But usually its too broad, so I have to combine things and set limits on myself, kind of. Sometimes real life will inspire something, although I exaggerate the hell out of it bc fiction (adopt a rescue is the best example there). other times i'll be writing, then veer way left on a tangent and ultimately decide to make it two fics. other times i'll ponder canon and say "lets explore a what if here" and then, like ona post below, sometimes there's just a tiny moment or dialogue line that i want to write, and so i have to work a plot around it.

idk i rambled there quite a bit, but the honest answer is i can't pinpoint where my general inspiration came from. If you name a fic, i'd probably be able to say "oh, yeah, that was this prompt," or smt, but i get inspired in so many different ways. and inspiration has context for me. the prompt "tearful goodbye" for example or the concept "bats take buzzfeed quizzes" will give me wildly different ideas if you catch me at a different mood, day, or after/before some event.

last, i'd be remiss without mentioning the many prompts/requests readers have given me. i love doing those, bc they're usually things i'd never have come up with.

Thank you so much for the ask, it really made my scribbly writer heart so happy! <3

[whatsitzface]

The way Annabeth was thinking so far ahead of Percy that Percy was confused. The way she refused to elaborate on anything, and then was like; 'I'm surrounded by idiots' whenever someone (Percy) didn't understand her. The way she looked so smug after she pushed Percy into the water and he got claimed. THE WAY SHE WAS SO BLUNT!!!!! ("ARE YOU STALKING ME??" "yeah lol")

Sorry, but that's the most accurate Annabeth in the world holy smokes Leah did such a good job. All my forgotten love for Annabeth's character that I felt while reading the books just crashed into me full force and I'm frothing at the mouth with obsession.

“-You’re gonna expect me to know how to do something I don’t know how to do, and I end up falling flat on my face, I- I can’t really have that right now.” “You still don’t get where you fit into all of this, do you?” SHE’S TALKING ABOUT THE PROPHECY AND HOW SHE KNOWS HE'S A POSIEDON KID, BUT SHE HIDES IT AS HOW HE DOESN’T KNOW HIS PLACE IN THE CAPTURE THE FLAG GAME!!!! BECAUSE SHE WON’T TELL HIM!!!! AND ITS EPIC BECAUSE IN THE CAPTURE THE FLAG GAME HE DOES FALL FLAT ON HIS FACE, BUT IN THE PROPHECY HE DOES GET HIS DAD TO SEE HIM!!!! And then she fixes his armor plate, making sure that its secure. Making sure he won't get hurt. That's not part of her plan, and things always go according to her plan. She's the game master. IM SCREAMING

[moeblob]

Shavuli !

She's just. Into rocks. It's fine. She likes to collect shiny rocks. (this is dice related and I am not apologizing for giving her this trait)

[dear-ao3]

How do you decide what to respond to when it comes to an ask? I imagine you guys get unhinged stuff all the time. I’m sure you have generally agreed to avoid things as a group. But as individuals what makes you interested in responding or not responding to asks?

if it’s funny or i can make it funny usually

or i can use the ask to keep talking about something, if it’s generally unhinged, or invokes a story time

[shukakumoodboard]

I don't mean to offend, but Temari is the useless one of the sand sibs. She literally does nothing in Shippuden, whereas Kankuro is at least given some stuff to do in the arcs that matter (the one where Gaara was kidnapped and basically killed and the big war arc thing at the end).

whats shippuden

[indelicateink]

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[liquidstar]

Can you not edit asks anymore wtf??

[laesas]

did you ever make a post about pete not liking tankhun ? i know you mentioned it a few times in your tags but i don't remember seeing a post. (i share your opin ions.)

I definitely toyed with the idea of meta or a gifset but I didn't ever make a full post! I love unrequited love and I ESPECIALLY love the extremely rare platonic version which Tankhun and Pete absolutely nail in my opinion!

There are loads of moments where Pete's smile drops around Tankhun very quickly, or he insults Tankhun behind his back. Instead of laughing things off like Arm and Pol, he almost has a wincing fear-response to Tankhun, which we don't really see at all from the other bodyguards.

I think that Tankhun likes to think of himself as being close friends with his bodyguards, and he does genuinely show a lot of open affection for Pete and eventually concern for his safety. But I think ultimately for Pete, Tankhun is just a part of Pete's job, and over time resentment has built up until he thinks of Tankhun as one of the *worst* parts of it. I definitely don't think he resents Tankhun enough to hurt or endanger him, but that's about as far as it goes, there's certainly very little love there.

Something about that dynamic is just particularly brilliant, especially when combined with Pete's eventual defection from Tankhun's side to Vegas'. He chooses a man who has beaten and tortured him over a man who showers him in affection and throws parties on his return.

I utterly adore Tankhun but I think as a character that's grown up in a gilded cage, he doesn't really understand that what Pete needs is a sense of his own autonomy rather than being dragged to "fun" "lets cheer up Pete" parties that Tankhun has demanded on his behalf. At least with Vegas he *chose* to go back, he handed Vegas the ropes, let him lock him back up again. Even before he develops feelings for Vegas, Pete has clearly felt like a subhuman pet for Tankhun and the main family for a long, long time and I think ironically Vegas acknowledging Pete's humanity is the tipping point for him.

I think even without their nascent romantic love as a factor, Pete would always choose Vegas. Because despite the threat of suffering, he offers a sense of freedom that Tankhun's gilded cage does not. It all makes for an incredibly interesting betrayal, and makes Pete choosing Vegas over Tankhun all the more pointed. By choosing to be Vegas' pet, he chooses to be human.

[salfishersimp2]

Okay so I think he would totally want something like chocolate or vanilla but wouldn't want people to think he's a basic bitch or something so he goes for mint (I was yet again proved wrong as his panic choice is vanilla but oh well)

That shit has drugs in there love

So no drugs (I was wrong again what a surprise lmao)

I have no idea what a speakeasy is but i'm going with the vibe here

My imagination was going on so hard when reading this that when the music stopped my ears started ringing as if I just got out of a really loud room

Istg I will read this again at some point bc I have got to find em (<--- known liar)

@jtl-fics

[danrifics]

anon, as an autistic non binary babe i think you sent your ask to the wrong person <3

[istherewifiinhell]

I am... ALL the way here for Leo's short little dark turn. HELLO?

[All of 2012 Leo in his "foot clan" outfit. A black eye mask with scrap wear armour pieces on his limbs, extra straps, fish net like gloves and sleeves, black shoulder/knee pads and foot wraps]

[IDs from alt: 1. No visible irises, sword in both hands, ready to fight. Brothers behind him. 2. Action shot, striking a Footbot with his fist. 3. Sitting with his head in his hand, looking troubled. April standing behind him. 4. Crouched on his knees, looking furious, enemies behind him.

END ID]

LIKE HE JOINED A GOTH GIRL GANG??

[Features Karai, an armour wearing teen with red eye and lip makeup and short black hair with a bleached uncut. And Shinigami, Shini for short, a teen with a witchy hat and black corset and cape outfit. Long black hair with a widows peak, and bold purple make up]

[IDs from alt: 1. In a room with money and fine art. Leo and Karai stand to either side, Shini kneels and celebrates the riches. 2. Shini sits in foreground, chin in her hands, smiling. Karai in background, legs crossed on a throne. 3. Shini, hat on, holding up a large, handle-less crescent blade, hair over one eye. Red clad ninja on either side of her. 4. Karai standing, wearing her metal half mask. Shini crouched, brim of her hat covers her eyes. Battle ready and surrounded by their ninja mercenaries.

END ID]

less aesthetic but for the full picture sake

[IDs from alt: Full body Leo standing from the front, you can see more of the outfit at once. He's got one spikey pauldron, and one with bolts. Shin guards, one clearly from a can, other darker and less distinct. A seat belt acting as a shoulder strap. Plates of metal at his hips, and wraps and chains on the upper thighs. 2. Leo sitting from the back, he has is swords hanging from the hip, and his black mask tails reach down to his belt, worn and blue at the ends.

END ID]

^last bits like thematic huh... like the blue isnt all gone but was just kinda hidden from view. also he dip dyed his hair : }

[bioswear]

KYS NIER IS FOR FUCKING FAGS AAAAAAA

Buddy I am a fag.

[homiro]

WARNING FOR LONG POST THAT WON'T GO UNDER A BREAK. FLICK IT UP OR SCROLL PAST IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ A MESSY FUCKING RANT ABOUT FANDOM BEHAVIOUR, ABUSE, TRANSPHOBIA, ANTI RADICAL FEMINISM AND MORE SHIT. THIS IS NOT COHERENT.

I have two hangster fanfics started but I don't feel like finishing them especially because I just keep writing and writing and making them longer and longer and like if I ever finish either of them I won't even leave the comments open if i post them and I probably would post but yeah the last piece of shit i wrote was met with nothing but insults and animosity so im like still very angry about that. like the least horrible of the THREE assholes who decided that insulting me was something they had the right to do instead of just saying 'your tags are wrong, fix them' tried to go on about oh you leave comments open so you're open to criticism uwu and girl criticism is basically tearing someone to shreds so if i don't want your damn critiques what makes you think that I want to be insulted? where did i say that i had a degradation kink? so yeah, i have a very bad impression of this fanbase. it seems very clique-y to me and it's funny because it's a minuscule fanbase no matter what this user tried to say I'm not stupid and making a single fanfic a series to crank up the number of fics isn't as sleek as yall think it is. like you can do it i'm not judging but don't tell me 'um akshully this is a super popular shipppp' like yeah within a fandom with maybe 1000 active users maybe lol and I'm just in a I want to fucking speak up about EVERYTHING mood and I'm tired of always being shut down, lectured, insulted, and treated like shit and expected to just be 'the bigger person' motherfucker no. i am 166cm tall that's 5'6'' or some shit I don't know american, that's not very big is my point so i won't be the bigger person and ignore and delete and blah blah. WRITING IS MY HOBBY AND WHEN YOU COME FOR IT, FOR THE THING THAT HAS KEPT ME MILDLY SANE SINCE I WAS FUCKING 7, WE HAVE A PROBLEM. no, i don't care that i write like shit. it's free. i do it for free because i like to do it. it's the only way i can express myself and even there i get shut down and mocked because im mediocre in everything i fucking do, thanks for the reminder, it's not like my abuser didn't remind me of that for well over 20 years lol /sarcasm/ if you don't like someone's shitty writing, you have the option to click the fuck back and not being a massive piece of entitled shit. i don't know what's wrong with this fanbase honestly i have gotten hate before but never this fast and never to this scale on a stupid fucking fanfic that was very fucking clear for anyone who had taken the time to read it before telling an abuse survivor what abuse is and absolutely getting it fucking wrong lol i am proficient in 7 languages, and my preferred writing style is simple because i understand the value of being understood for more than one reason.

why do people think it's acceptable to be cunts to strangers online? if you wouldn't say the shit you say to people online to people in real life, THEN DON'T FUCKING SAY IT. and yes, i would say all of this here in real life and that is why I am typing it down. i'm literally a chronically depressed dysphoric motherfucker with generalised anxiety, cptsd and semi-functional autism, you think i wouldn't lash the fuck out in real life? you're wrong. i'm actually much worse in real life. i'm the sweetest fucking pie if you respect me but if you treat me like shit expect to get the dressing down of your fucking life or punched in the nose because sometimes i become non-verbal when angry and that's bad because i am reactive to abuse. and online that translates to not shutting up, in real life it translates to violence. but the thing is that in real life people are aware of dos and don'ts. online people just become their fucking regina george wet dream of a school bully.

and i've had fucking enough of being treated like shit. i've had enough of people thinking that being a cunt is cool or edgy. i've had fucking enough of the yes queen slay culture that sees women displaying disgusting, abusive behaviour and applauds it as something good. because 'socking it to the men'. i hate radical feminists for this reason and it's funny that their fascist ideology is spreading like a disease and nobody seems to notice, especially because the pipeline from radical feminist to trans exclusionary radical feminist is an archway not a pipeline. before you know it, you'll see trans masculine people and trans men as 'traitors' and 'wanting male privilege' and 'still women deep down' and 'still has a vagina so she's a woman'. and i'm not pulling this out of my ass, i watched this happening in real time more than once. god i'm so fucking angry i'm just vomiting all the shit that's been pissing me off for months. and i'm talking about this because this shit is so prevalent and commonplace that i, who have been sure that I want to go through with fully transitioning, have been reconsidering because of the insidious hateful comments from terfs/radfems and casual sympathisers with the ideology of those people and the dysphoria i've been feeling has been making me want to wear an actual literal mask outside and carry a fucking fake sword in a scabbard so that nobody will approach me. i have isolation tendencies that are very strong and have been with me since i can remember and i can remember as far back as 4 years old. and then i have to see these fuckers try to find 'articles' to support their hatred and bigotry when they are the literal reason why we fucking kill ourselves and just put up with feeling miserable and don't transition. i don't want to be even more ostracised and treated like shit. i don't want to be even more treated like i'm holding an unpinned grenade just because i don't want to put up with people who insult me and make me feel bad and react to that and fight back. i don't have self-esteem, i fucking hate myself, i feel like ripping my body to shreds every damn day and then i have to work from home the shitty jobs i can do that barely pay for my meds and definitely don't pay for therapy because being around people and too much stimuli makes me shutdown like to the point where i can't speak. So you see the issue maybe idfk that I come online to unwind and write shit as a hobby and mind my damn business and take the time to say look I have these issues and people see that list as 'oh look an easy target for my being a cunt wet dreams because this one will react and I'll seem like a saint! UWU'

and why did this have to involve this ship from top gun? well, because i liked the ship, i wanted to write for it, because writing is my hobby, and what i got was abuse lol and then gaslit into thinking it wasn't abuse and that i had to accept being called names lol 'oh there are no victims uwu i will concede that insulting you was not very nice uwu' but i didn't get a single fucking apology i had to apologise because i was triggered since i couldn't actually do anything and im always ALWAYS on my own even if i cry for help, it never comes, no matter what's fucking happening. even friends just say oh well i didn't see that so oopsie daisy sorry you felt bad and nobody defended you as as been the norm your entire life' like i'm just fucking TIRED. i'm tired of never being good enough. im tired of my friends never having my back. i'm tired of only being told oh actually you weren't wrong when it's already over and i'm already feeling like shit mentally and can't cope with the ruminating feelings of being perpetually misunderstood, mediocre, and alone. 'oh having to stand up for yourself makes you stronger uwu' fuck you a million fucking times. no it doesn't. it makes you paranoid, it makes you isolate, it makes it hard for you to maintain friendships, it makes you a loner, it makes you depressed because you're not supposed to be alone because humans are social animals. and i guess that's the bottom line lol i feel utterly and completely fucking alone. the only person i regularly see and talk to is my brother who also has cptsd and is autistic like me lol obviously we grew up in the same shitty environment and these things tend to be hereditary so yeah i have to mask even with him because he's almost 11 years younger than me and is going through that early 20s phase of your life where you're just lost and don't know what you want and feel bad and as the older sibling i feel that it's my duty to try and pretend not to feel as bad as i do but it's getting harder and harder and im not putting this under a read more break. happy fucking mental health awareness day. enjoy your nothingburger posters and yellow pins of performativity.

rant over.

[larryrickard]

i had a dream that i made little cards that say "THEY!" on them that i handed out to people at work who got my pronouns wrong, immediately after they got it wrong. and in smaller text (or on the back) it said "i don't want an apology, i want you to do better" or "don't say you're sorry, DO BETTER" and ..... i kind of want to do it. maybe i'll get some moo cards made lmao

various scenarios included:

me slamming it down on a desk in front of them.

instead i had stickers, would slowly peel one off while they watched, and stick it on it on them.

handing out a quarter sheet piece of paper based on the 'i caught being good' tags we'd get in kindergarten which said 'i got caught misgendering hallie/my coworker'. it would have their name and date on it and a giant 🙁 face. i had them as a pad of paper and would hold up a finger to say 'wait a second', dramatically pull it out of my back pocket, take my pen out of another pocket, slowly fill it out in front of them, and hand it to them while staring them in the eyes.

getting a whiteboard for the outer side of my cubicle wall that said '[days] since i was misgendred' (with a bonus by saying 'last offender: [name]'

i also dreamt that i got into trouble for it because i was making people feel bad and was 'creating a hostile work environment'. i was just like.... okay and how do you think i feel? and my boss shut up real fuckin quick. dunno if that would be the case irl but if that does happen i can only dream.

[anticutes]

@ultfan, nagito: “ is that your fursona? cringe. ”

" that's headmaster fursona to you, jackass! "

[lavenoon]

I will HAPPILY “suffer” affection so long as you are prepared for Retaliation <3 !!

Also! Brain starting thinking more thoughts again. Sun and Moon don’t eat and, presumably, can’t get sick, either, but is it possible for only One of them to get injured, in any way? Would there ever be a situation where one of them has to stay “awake” for longer to let the other heal up? Regarding injuries as a General, do they have to deal with any of their Own repairs, or does HQ help out with that?

The fics also made me think… do Sun and/or Moon ever talk about *each other*? Has y/n heard much about their Other tenant and Other rival from the two of them, or do they tend to keep private on the other? -🌻 Daye

AARGH NO AFFECTIONATE RETALIATION, MY ONLY WEAKNESS!

*melts into a puddle*

*puddles don't talk*

*end of reply*

Okay yea joke over we all know I can't shut up about these guys <3

Any problem affecting only one of them would be a software issue, not hardware, and I will admit I'm not sure how far that will be explored in this AU, given that I don't care much for the virus in the context of this

Regarding repairs we are. MMMMMM very close to things I cannot talk about yet, for spoiler reasons (: I will say that HQ has connections to help them, as they helped Robin get settled in a hospital, however, they are rather self-sufficient!

And no, mostly they don't! Y/N is completely unaware there is another tenant, always being out of the house themself when Moon would be home/ Moon being the sneaky type anyway, and while Sun tried to somewhat mention him, the entire situation got away from him and he didn't feel like fixing it. Left it up to Moon to introduce himself, and doesn't actively talk about him. There are slip ups - the "our" instead of "my" kitchen in the drabble as example! But Y/N assumes there's only one tenant, all evidence points towards one person only, so they don't really notice these

Moon assumed Robin knew about Sun, given that their tag team setup isn't secret, then realized they don't due to working night shifts about 95% of the time and not really talking to other agents, and decided it's way funnier not telling them and letting them figure it out themself. It's gonna bite him in his metallic ass soon enough though <3