#queueing this so both my year in reviews aren't on top of each other

[batshieroglyphics]

I posted 95 times in 2022

That's 29 more posts than 2021!

63 posts created (66%)

32 posts reblogged (34%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@batshieroglyphics

@batsutousai

@seekingidlewild

@bats-batsutousai

@kye-fandomsnstuff

I tagged 80 of my posts in 2022

Only 16% of my posts had no tags

#fandom:star wars - 23 posts

#fandom:merlin - 21 posts

#series:dragons soar the skies with plentiful fields below - 19 posts

#pairing:merlinxarthur pendragon - 19 posts

#fic:we can burn brighter than the sun - 18 posts

#holiday card fics - 17 posts

#merthur - 17 posts

#one-shot - 16 posts

#bats' patreon wips - 9 posts

#series:jasben save the galaxy - 9 posts

Longest Tag: 93 characters

#poor tier will get it either when i think it's finished or i get distracted by something else

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

[FIC] I Hold My Own Hand ~ Star Wars Prequel ~ Teen

Title: I Hold My Own Hand Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Era Author: Batsutousai Rating: Teen Warnings: The clones deserve better, abuse survivors, Kamino is the worst, hurt/comfort, Jango is not the clones' parent, OC character death (offscreen), decommissioning, reconditioning, touch-starvation, grief Summary: The Alpha-batch were the best of all the clones, intended to be a one-being army, able to hold their own no matter the odds. They were never meant to need anyone else.

Seventeen opened their mouth, and then stopped, realising that they just...didn't have the words for what they needed to ask. Which was why they needed Baar in the first place. "It's– We're...upset," they settled on, grimacing. "How do we be...not upset?"

Baar blinked at them once, twice, then groaned and rubbed a hand down his face. "I legitimately hate you, right now," he muttered.

Seventeen relaxed, because that line, among the Alphas, usually meant one of them had cottoned on to something that another felt they should have realised sooner, because it fell under their specialised training. Which meant Baar had understood what they'd tried to ask, and probably had an answer.

Baar dropped his hand and looked around the room. "Right, you know how the cadets sleep in little piles?"

A few scoffed or let out other disgusted noises, while a few let out noises of acknowledgement.

"Yeah, we're doing that," Baar announced.

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52 notes - Posted March 12, 2022

#4

[FIC] Wrapped in the Warmth of You ~ Star Wars Prequels ~ Obi-Wan/Jaster ~ Teen

Title: Wrapped in the Warmth of You Series: JasBen Save a Galaxy Far, Far Away Fandom: Star Wars Author: Batsutousai Rating: Teen Pairing: Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi/Jaster Mereel Warnings: time travel fix-it, all the hugs, lineage feels, Ben has PTSD, Feemor has depression, Jedi as family Summary: Four years after their trip to Coruscant resulted in Ben obtaining a padawan, the first group of Jedi hoping to find a new home in the excavated and repaired Temple on Mandalore arrive.

"Good afternoon, Ben'ika, Jas!" Tor called cheerfully, as Ben and Jaster joined him.

When Jaster nudged him to take the open seat next to Tor, Ben sighed—Tor's grin widened—and then did so, leaning in for a slightly too hard Keldabe kiss, because he'd long since resigned himself to the majority of Clan Vizsla deciding he was a Vizsla.

(Him finding Tarre's Temple and finally using his excessive 'allowance' from Jun to renovate it, had apparently just solidified the idea in all their heads.)

Tor offered greetings to Xanatos and Shmi, and traded cheerful insults with Arla, when the three joined them, then said, "Xan'ika, I hear your sibling is coming to join us."

Xanatos startled slightly, then shot Tor a narrow, suspicious look. "Who told you?" he demanded.

"I will never reveal my sources!" Tor insisted.

"I did," Shmi admitted, and Tor groaned and covered his face with one hand.

"But you're the nice one!" Xanatos complained.

Arla patted Xanatos' shoulder. "We've finally done it. We've ruined Shm'ika."

Shmi rolled her eyes at the pair of them.

Ben hid a smile at the byplay behind his shig, while Jaster chuckled and said, "Yes, Knight Feemor and their padawan are joining us. And their grandmaster and their padawan."

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63 notes - Posted March 12, 2022

#3

[FIC] (We Can Burn) Brighter Than the Sun ~ BBC Merlin ~ Arthur/Merlin ~ Mature ~ Chap 1/26

Title: (We Can Burn) Brighter Than the Sun Series: Dragons Soar the Skies With Plentiful Fields Below Fandom: BBC's Merlin Author: Batsutousai Chapter: 1 of 26 Rating: M Pairings: Arthur/Merlin, past-Arthur/Gwen, background relationships Warnings: AU, time travel fix-it, PTSD, immortal!Merlin, powerful!Merlin, grief and loss, allusions to suicide Summary: Merlin has been alive for 1500 years, and he's long since accepted that Arthur's not coming back. But there may yet be a chance that he can go back to Arthur and get a chance to not fail his king.

A/N: The idea for this fic came from reading Ikdaswani's This Time Around... series. This fic is complete with 25 chapters and an epilogue. A chapter will post every 4-5 days (alternating with the fic posting on Patreon), so the epilogue will post on the 22nd of June, for those who prefer to binge.

Chapter One—Endless Nights

He gave himself a year to settle his affairs—he'd made his share of friends in his current life, and there was a young girl fighting cancer who he couldn't bring himself to leave until she'd fought it to remission—then driven his car off a bridge and 'died'.

He returned to Avalon and stared across the lake for a long while after his latest death, two halves of himself at war over whether or not this was really the best course. What if he created a paradox and the world imploded? (Unlikely, and it would probably serve the rest of humanity right.) What if the spell failed and he was left as he was, eternally waiting for something that would never happen? (Then it failed, and he went on living among mortal humans.)

What if he went back, only to fail all over again?

He choked out a slightly hysterical laugh, the sound shattering the familiar stillness of the shore.

He forced himself to swallow down the noise, to close his eyes against the cruel view he'd been suffering for over a millennium, to take a much needed deep breath.

And then he opened his eyes and narrowed them on the distant tower, still standing strong even as everything around it changed. "Arthur," he said, almost surprised at how strong his voice came out, "I'm coming."

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If you enjoy the fic, please remember to reblog this post. Likes are nice, but all they tell me is you saw the post. Reblogs tell me that you think the fic was actually good, and that other people would like it, too.

64 notes - Posted February 25, 2022

#2

[FICLET] Darasuum ~ The Mandalorian ~ Din Djarin/Boba Fett ~ Teen

Title: Darasuum Fandom: Star Wars: The Mandalorian Author: Batsutousai Rating: Teen Pairing: Din Djarin/Boba Fett Warnings: respect of culture Summary: Din collapses in Boba’s arms, and Boba is still by his side when he wakes up.

For the anon who requested Boba/Din – "You fainted...straight into my arms. You know, if you wanted my attention you didn't have to go to such extremes."

"You're in my palace," Fett said, voice kept low and almost soothing, like he was worried that Din might be sensitive to sounds.

His head did ache, admittedly, but it was a dull, distant throb, which suggested that he'd been given some form of analgesic already. Which tracked with Fett's particular brand of kindness.

"You landed two days ago. Rough, even for you," Fett added with just a hint of amusement, like he was sharing in a joke with Din, and Din didn't bother trying to suppress a smile of his own, because Fett had been tracking him during some of the worst landings the Razor Crest had suffered through, including that one incident on Trask, when it had needed to be fished out of the water.

"You weren't steady on your feet when you disembarked," Fett continued, the amusement in his voice turning to concern, and it said a great many things, that Din was able to inspire concern in the widely feared King of Tatooine, and said even more that Fett wasn't trying to hide it from him. "Made it down the ramp, stumbled a couple more steps, and then fainted. I barely caught you."

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73 notes - Posted February 17, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

[FIC] With Nothing to Lose, There's Everything to Go ~ Star Wars Prequels ~ Teen

Title: With Nothing to Lose, There's Everything to Go Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Era Author: Batsutousai Rating: Teen Warnings: The Corries deserve better, abandonment issues, fix-it, abuse survivors, terrible coping methods, PTSD, Kamino was the worst, Palpatine was the worst, Fox needs a hug, Fox gets a hug, little bit of hurt/mostly comfort Summary: The end of the war arrived, but nothing changed for the Coruscant Guard.

"Well," said a voice that almost brought tears to Fox's eyes, "I'm not your CMO, but he did comm me."

"Kriff off, Cody," Fox bit out, because it had been a year since he'd last spoken to his batchmate—shouting their name in terror when he'd seen the shrapnel hit them in the face during a live-fire exercise, hadn't even known they'd survived until he'd seen holos of them with Kenobi—and he was angry.

(He was hurting and still half-grieving, had never understood Cody's silence. It had felt like someone firing another bolt into their chest, every time they'd seen another holo, heard another soundbyte, and still no comm.)

"No," Cody said, and Fox heard heavy boots thumping on his floor, too many for just one interloper.

He finally raised his head from his datapad, snarl firmly in place, only to find himself meeting Cody's eyes, crinkled at the corners the way they'd always looked when they were worried, the scar making the expression somehow even more pronounced. Fox had seen that expression turned on Cody's blond mutant so often, had fond memories of Wolffe warning them their face was going to get stuck that way and Cody reaching over to shove him out of his bunk or a chair in the mess or–

"Kriff, you look like osik," Wolffe said.

Because it was Cody and Wolffe and Colt and Bly and Gree and Bacara, and he could just hear the familiar sounds of Thire and Neyo having a go outside his open door while Thorn tried to get them to knock it off, already, and—

Something caught in Fox's throat, that familiar ache that hurt to swallow around, brought tears to his eyes. Entirely involuntary physical reaction, nothing at all emotional about it.

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91 notes - Posted March 12, 2022

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[melyzard]

Hi, sorry to bother, but have you heard if something where random old tumblr posts are vanishing from blogs? I've found at least 3 posts from my own blog gone and I only realized it from checking my tags. There was nothing objectionable about these posts either (unless armillary spheres or Itsukushima are) and there doesn't seem to have anything in common (i.e. content, dates). I asked staff, but they think it's my queue when it's stuff I'm asking about already posted years ago. I'm worried.

Hey, anon, it's no bother, and I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble. I don't know for sure, of course, but here are a few possibilities for why you can't find your older posts:

- are you using the app from the Apple store/viewing tumblr on a Mac? From what I understand, Apple's draconian rules about what is "acceptable" content means tumblr blocks/deletes/pretends it cannot find posts for any Apple users based on a list of forbidden tags (which includes hilariously ridiculous things like 'sad,' 'answer,' or 'self.')

- did your old posts ever get the dreaded orange "This Post Has Been Flagged For Inappropriate Content" banner? After a period of time, if you don't appeal the flag, I understand that tumblr just deletes it (supposedly a human being reviews each and every post first, but I highly, highly doubt it).

- try looking up your tumblr cache for deactivated posts. Here's a (slightly older) guide to a few methods. Bear in mind that tumblr updates constantly, so its hard to keep up with their coding shenanigans.

- when you are searching thru your blog, check that “Allow this blog to appear in search results” is enabled on your settings page. The searches might be deliberately excluding something you posted yourself.

- did you try looking for your old posts using your user name and some keyphrases from the post on a search engine other than tumblr's? The search engine on tumblr could not find, excuse my language, its own ass with both hands and a flashing neon sign. (I use duckduckgo, myself, because Google has privacy issues up the wazoo and also...they aren't actually that good of a search engine anymore. They code their algorithm to prioritize websites that pay them off rather than to search for the actual content).

I don't know if any of this helps, but it's all I've got off the top of my head. If anyone else has any ideas, please feel free to share! I've got over 10,000 posts on this blog, so I will never know for sure, but occasionally I get the feeling that some of my old stuff has gone missing too...