#sproutwings

[oneiriad]

No, see - people reblogging an old original post, that's business as usual, whether people are clearing away reblogs or just stumbling across it through tags.

That's not what's happening here.

First of all - there is no original post. I deleted it years ago. What they are reblogging and liking is a multiple-reblogs text post ending in a frankly extremely unimportant reblog comment from me. I anything, if clearing away pointless comments, they should have gone a few steps up the chain.

It's not something they'll just stumple upon - it's pretty clear that they've encountered the actual still-circulating post on their own dash - the tumblrs I've glanced at seems to share fandoms, so I'm pretty sure that bit is natural organic reblogging - but then instead of the reblog then being from their own dash, they somehow go to my old post and reblog that straight from me, and like that, so I get the likes.

And if it was just one or two I'd probably barely have noticed, but it's been dripping in the last few days, and it's new and it's puzzling?

I've started getting reblogs and likes on an old post of mine - or, more precisely, an old reblog of a post, where I deleted the original in self-defence back when a post going viral would pretty much destroy your dash. And deleting the original pretty much kept it out of my activity feed.

It's just weird. I know the post has continued in circulation over the years, I'm just not sure why I'm getting likes and direct reblogs from people that I'm reasonable sure aren't following me now. Why aren't they just reblogging it from wherever they see it?

[zeroducks-2]

JayTim for the ask game!

(turns out you did already ask JayTim 😁) Absolutely totally oh god yes

I ship it!

What made you ship it? I just love the dynamic right there! The tension, the resentment, the snark, the way Jason is fixated on Tim. It hits all the right spots (I'm talking pre-reboot of course, then the N52 had to come around and ruin everything lol)

What are your favorite things about the ship? My ideal dynamic is when a part of Jason hates Tim and would like to see him gone for good, but another wants to help him as he sees himself in Tim’s spot a few years back - he too thought to have a special place at Batman’s side, but it turned out how it did and Jason is sure the same thing is going to happen to Tim. Tim on the other hand just wants Jason to stop bothering him. He’s not affected by what Jason says about Bruce - he doesn’t think Bruce would discard him, and he doesn’t think that’s what happened with Jason either, just that Jason was a victim of the circumstances of being a kid vigilante. Only at some point, Damian comes into the picture and Tim does get discarded in favor of the “natural son”, and that puts everything Jason ever told him in a new light. Angst and complicated feelings galore!

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship Listen. I know Jason would never. He'd go to the Joker, hand him a crowbar with a pretty pink ribbon, and ask to be beaten to death again rather than being a rapist. But LISTEN. I'm a simple person. And I'm here for the noncon/dubcon, and that's how I like my JayTim (not always, like I'm always down for some fluff, but you know me). And that's why I can never find fics that suit me lol.

Ask game found here! Go grab it folks!

[crestfallercanyon]

Ten characters of ten fandoms, ten tags.

thank you for the tag ❤️ @its-tea-time-darling

Gally - The Maze Runner

Dr. Sara Tancredi - Prison Break

Mick Rory - Legends of Tomorrow/The Flash

Sugar Berzatto - The Bear

Ian Gallagher - Shameless (US)

Claude - Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Lucca - Chrono Trigger

Mal - Inception

Revali - Legend of Zelda: BOTW

Beth - The Queen's Gambit

no pressure tags (sorry if you've been double tagged): @mylittleangelxxx , @sophiainspace , @callivich , @incorrectcoldflashblog , @fatherofthebride , @sproutwings , @hoesaekyoongi , @sidekcks , @comebacknow , @go-catch-a-chickn

[zeroducklings]

Some underrated but delicious Slade/Tim 😋 Thank you @sproutwings for the request! Uncensored -> HERE

I'm not back at full capacity but I'm definitively feeling better! Now I have to sort out all the WIPs and the new projects I was planning, and it feels great 😭

ALSO, I'm evaluation if it may be worth to open commissions slots for art and/or writing. Please, participate in the pool if you can, it will give me an idea how many ppl are interested. Thank you 🙏 -> POOL

[moriavis]

First Lines Tag Game

Rules: list the first line of your last 10 posted fics and see if there’s a pattern!

Once again, I've been tagged by the lovely @incorrectcoldflashblog Thank you!

For the sake of this one, I"m going to ignore the kiss prompts I've been posting on tumblr and look at my last fics posted on AO3.

Each breath Leonard took burned in his lungs, acrid with smoke and the sharp chemical tang of plastic and electricity. the sun shines through (Coldflash)

Leonard had to admit it— he loved everything about how crazy the world had become. Adrenaline (Coldflash)

Shawna Baez didn't necessarily have a particular fondness for Central City, all things considered. Jello Shots (Iris/Shawna)

Catra was never at her best when she butted heads with Adora. Tangled (Catradora)

Barry cast another anxious look over the bed, reaching out to adjust the pillow beneath the curve of Leonard's back, and Leonard couldn't help but smirk, flexing his hands just so Barry would lose his focus and double check the long coils of red silk currently binding Leonard's wrists above his head. In Silk (Coldflash) Holy run-on sentence, Batman! JFC.

The moment Barry Allen walked into the board room, Leonard's attention was fragmented. a little give and take (Coldflash)

Barry let Leonard pull him onto the dance floor and take the lead, the familiar warm affection filling him as Leonard rested his hand against the small of Barry's back, guiding him further into the crowd. Reception (Coldflash)

Eobard couldn't say when it changed. Ouroboros (Eobarry)

Electricity crackled over Barry's skin, and Leonard sank his teeth into Barry's bottom lip, shuddering as sparks ignited everywhere they touched, stinging Leonard's fingertips and tongue before grounding in the button on his jeans. Kiss Kiss (Coldflash)

Bill tossed back his scotch and wiped his mouth against his forearm, turning his attention to the left where the TV was playing the news, the sound lost beneath the bustling of the bar. Agree to Forget (Holden/Bill)

This is actually pretty interesting! I generally start sentences with the name of my POV character at the beginning of the story, but I didn't realize I did it so consistently. Also, things that are smutty start off with longer sentences. I wonder why that is!

Tagging: @saekhwa @scheherezhad @kisahawklin @sperrywink @sproutwings @qlala and anyone else who wants to do it!

[phantomato]

Ten Books to Know Me

Rules: 10 books for people to get to know you better, or that you just really like.

Tagged by @broomsticks, thank you so much! 💖 Love that you listed Battle Royale—what a good manga series!

Going a little loosey-goosey on the selections, here.

Batman Annual #2 by Tom King and Lee Weeks I’m not a well-versed capes person, but this always makes me cry.

Blankets by Craig Thompson Beautiful graphic novel about coming of age in the midwestern US.

Bravetart: Iconic American Desserts by Stella Parks It’s a damn good cookbook and a wonderful history of American desserts. Parks’ research and introductions to the foods are as worth reading as the food is worth making.

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood Probably the reason I imprinted on narratives of middle-aged protagonists reflecting on their pasts.

The Fifth Form at St. Dominic’s by Talbot Baines Reed The platonic ideal of my interest in the public school novel.

I Love Dick by Chris Kraus Absolutely perverse recounting of a woman’s sexual obsession with an uninterested man, and I mean that as high praise. Makes the private into the public in a way that seared me.

The Little Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman A textbook written like a children’s picture book, complete with illustrations, about one of the most beautiful programming languages of all time.

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides A formative exposure to gender identity as changeable and imperfect.

Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett Quiet, mundane, wonderfully descriptive recounting of a life in rural Ireland.

The Sandman (collected series) by Neil Gaiman and various artists Nostalgia in a 10-volume series.

Tagging, if you’re interested! @yletylyf @sproutwings @mademoiselle-red @ralphlanyon @kellychambliss @liesmyth @golden-biro

[incorrectcoldflashblog]

Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote and tag as many people as there are words.

Tagged by: @knightofthieves

Barry is used to Snart looking at him like that.

Tagged- No pressure!

@simpledontmeanpeachy @polyflashtrash @starstruckpurpledragon @leatafandom @stillnotginger10 @coldflasher @qlala @sproutwings @a-redharlequin @kleptoandpyro

[hithelleth]

I posted 3,010 times in 2022

90 posts created (3%)

2,920 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@daniel-bruehl

@stargazerdaisy

@vesperass-anuna

@lady-eleanor-vane

@sproutwings

I tagged 3,003 of my posts in 2022

#queued - 1,311 posts

#scheduled - 673 posts

#the rings of power - 281 posts

#marvel - 201 posts

#cats - 178 posts

#the cleaning lady - 169 posts

#the rookie - 163 posts

#lucy chen - 152 posts

#tim bradford - 149 posts

#lucy x tim - 141 posts

Longest Tag: 137 characters

#(gah i hope these pandemics wars and shitty governments all around sort themselves out and my health at least holds and finances improve)

My Top Posts in 2022:

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[arleney]

@sproutwings

in my work of fanfiction i am going to hold the villain responsible for their actions by making them have sex with the person they tried to kill, which will effectively address all the relevant moral issues by being hot.

[zeroducks-2]

20 Questions for Fic Writers!

@sproutwings tagged me in this, thanks Sandrine ♥ I'll give it a try!

How many works do you have on AO3? on the Zero_Ducks account, 37 (+1 unrevealed).

What’s your total A03 word count? 393,092

What fandoms do you write for? Only DCU at the moment.

What are your top five fics by kudos? (all of these are Sladick!)

You could be my luck, with 394 Kudos. REALLY? Oh well that's a discovery lol. Dick gets pollened and hides in Slade's safehouse because it's the closest he can get to, hoping Slade isn't home. Slade is in fact right there.

Darling Little Things, with 355 kudos. Also quite the surprise! Omegaverse in which Dick is pregnant with Slade's pup, but hasn't told him out of fear Slade wouldn't want them. Everything goes surprisingly well.

Served Cold, with 338 kudos. This one was expected since it's more than a single chapter and was a pretty anticipated entry of my Sladick series. Slade takes his revenge on a hit that Dick ruined.

lie in your bed the way you made it, with 327 kudos. LMAO. I love this fic. It has to be one of the filthiest I've ever written. A pwp in which Dick took a blow intended for one of Slade's marks, and not wanting him to die, Slade has to take care of his sorry ass.

Slade's lucky day, with 301 kudos. My very first Sladick fanfic! Slade is on a mission in Montenegro, and Dick is too. They end up accidentally and less accidentally helping each other, with some strings attached.

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Always. Fandom remains stagnant without interaction, and that's on writers too, not just on readers. Also if I post a fic (which doesn't happen often compared to how many fics I write) is because I want to talk about it with other people!

What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Among those I posted on AO3, probably Losing Game. It's an Eobarryiris fic, and I imagined a potential way it could go well but it ends on a very angsty note (it's a timeloop situation in which they have no idea how to break it, and one of them keeps dying in every cycle so they keep resetting it because they can't let him go).

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? It has to be Darling Little Things, it ends on a very fluffy note.

Do you get hate on your fic? Not regularly but it happened. What hate gets there is promptly deleted, trolls are not to be fed.

Do you write smut? My smut has plot sometimes.

Do you write crossovers? No, the most I can do is "characters from X universe are now in Y universe", but I don't mash-up characters.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Yeah. Long story. Bad ending. It was years ago though.

Have you ever had a fic translated? A couple of times, not from the Zero_Ducks account though!

Have you ever co-written a fic? I co-write pretty often.

What‘s your all-time favourite ship? I am too ADHD to pick one. Speaking of the DC fandom (which I'm here for), Sladick and Eobarry which I'm sure doesn't come as a shock for anyone.

What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Boy I have 200+ WIPs I will never finish, and I really want to finish like 80% of them lmao. Probably Clipped. Based on the fact that I have no idea how to finish it (it's a Bad Guys Won scenario in which all them little birds are captive and in distress)

What’s your writing strengths? Smut!

What’s your writing weaknesses? Being that I'm not a native English speaker, I have a hard time writing in "styles" which penalizes the dialogues. I have no idea how to show that a character is a certain English speaking nationality, how to give them dialectic quirks, how to make them speak in an old fashioned way. I can in my native language though, and it frustrates me so much not to be able to "translate it".

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? If it's just a small line it's okay, it helps the immersion. If it's entire dialogues I don't see why, people don't understand it what's the point.

First fandom you wrote for? Possibly Spyro Gateway to Glimmer when I was 6 lmao.

Favourite fic you’ve ever written? Again strictly speaking for the Zero_Ducks account, I think it's Elegia. It's been almost two years but it holds the test of time, the emotions still feel very raw and the smut is still good (it's that one time Dick's suicidal behavior after Jason's death went a bit overboard, and Slade decided to do something about it whether Dick liked it or not).

I got to tag people now I guess! No pressure folks, it's just the law

@deepwithintheabyss @anawrites3 @waffleinator-inator @ftl-faster-than-life @ladytauria @thesandsofelsweyr and anyone who wants to do this!

[crestfallercanyon]

I've missed so many of these tag games recently but I've got a bit of spare time and I always love seeing 'em and so THANK YOU @incorrectcoldflashblog for tagging me <3

@leatafandom Thank you so much for the tag <3

Last Song: Matilda by Harry Styles

Favorite Color: Green. Pretty much any shade.

Last Movie/TV Show: Oceans 11. Watched while I was priming a wall.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: ooh, I like all three. um. if I'm being completely honest with myself, I'd be more sad to lose sweets than anything else, so I guess sweet.

Relationship Status: Single

Last Thing I Googled: sweatshirts from my homestate. I've been feeling very nostalgic and admittedly a little homesick for it.

Last Book: still reading Six of Crows because I'm a slow reader these days. i'm really enjoying it though!

Looking Forward To: being fully moved in and really enjoying my apartment and feeling settled there.

Tagging @jrooc, @sproutwings , @moriavis , @newtedison , @its-tea-time-darling , @hamartian-cathexis , @pathsofoak, and anyone else who sees this and wants to play!

[arleney]

Tagged by the wonderful @woodswit to list my top 10 comfort movies (in no particular order)

1. The Princess Bride

2. Galaxy Quest

3. Easy A

4. Mulan

5. The Fellowship of the Ring

6. Pride and Prejudice BBC (that counts as a movie, right?)

7. Sense and Sensibility BBC (this one’s two episodes, totally a movie)

8. Gladiator

9. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

10. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Tagging (no pressure!): @stpauligirl @fullyvisible @colubrina @sproutwings @soundsfaebutokay @like-a-million-suns @ealdorcottagecore @ace-and-ranty and anyone else who wants to play!

[moriavis]

Answer the Questions and Tag 5 Fanfic Authors

I was tagged in this by @incorrectcoldflashblog on May 6th. /o\

1. How did you get into writing fanfiction?

I'm absolutely about to age myself, but I had watched Gundam Wing and went searching for fic, only to find nothing written for the pairing I wanted. So I thought: Fine, guess I'll do it myself.

2. How many fandoms have you written in?

IDK, 16? I think?

3. How many years have you been writing fanfiction?

I released my first fic in August of 2002. So 22 years now?

4. Do you read or write more fanfiction?

I definitely read more fic than I write.

5. What is one way you’ve improved as a writer?

Uhhhh. I think I've definitely improved my use of body language in stories. I've noticed a tendency to rely more on body language now than what the characters are actually thinking, and I can't decide if I like that development or not.

6. What’s the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

What haven't I researched at this point? I've researched the grotesque things, like murder and cannibalism, and I've also researched pirates and the Golden Age of Islam, which which was happening at the same time as Europe's Dark Ages. I've also read an incredible amount about poisons and diseases.

7. What’s your favorite type of comment to receive on your work?

My favorite comments are when people pick up on foreshadowing and clues for something I have planned in a later chapter--especially if they're following along with each chapter and updating their guesses! It's for real the best thing about releasing long fic.

8. What’s the most fringe trope/topic you write about?

I genuinely have no idea. I don't think I've ever written anything particularly fringe? Correct me if I'm wrong and you know better@

9. What is the hardest type of story for you to write?

Long fic, for sure. If I start a story and I don't know how long it's going to be, I can handle it. If I start a project and know intrinsically that it's going to take a long time to finish? I get overwhelmed by how much work I have to do and start avoiding it. (Shout out to Resonance!)

10. What is the easiest type?

Prompts that involve a single scene or a single moment. That way I can create all the backstory in my head and I don't have to write it all down. LOL

11. Where do you do your writing? What platform? When?

I do my fastest writing on my laptop, but the screen hurts my eyes and my cats always get curious about what I'm doing and knock things over. If I'm trying to get something down on a page, I'll grab one of my notebooks and handwrite. Doesn't give me a headache and I can at least get a basic idea down.

12. What is something you’ve been too nervous/intimidated to write, but would love to write one day?

I don't think there's anything I've been too nervous to write. Resonance definitely intimidates me, but that's the only one.

13. What made you choose your username?

When I was a teenager, I was naming a character for a story... I think the name I chose was Autumn? And my mom was like: Why don't you name her something cooler, like Moriavis?

Which I loved. It was a long time before I realized I had basically named the character (and myself, once I got a livejournal) Dead Bird in Latin.

Tagging: @scheherezhad @saekhwa @kisahawklin @qlala @sproutwings

[phantomato]

I loved your Another Country fic, so would love to hear your thoughts on Bennett/Harcourt, Bennett/Judd and Bennett/Fowler for the ship ask game! <3

❤️❤️❤️ Another Country! Small fandom questions win the ask game. Okay, I’m going to do this one as another lightning round, to cover all three ships:

Why don’t I ship Bennett/Harcourt?

Poor Harcourt doesn’t have much of anything going for him. While that’s not always an obstacle for me in a ship—I love a blank slate—the movie puts Harcourt on screen and makes him sort of a wet sack of potatoes. Yes, he’s pretty, but he just sort of smiles at and is amazed by Bennett, and then he (not unreasonably) disappears from Bennett’s life when their relationship threatens to come to light. There’s one fic that managed to inject some tension into their relationship via a later-in-life reunion, a trope I always enjoy, but otherwise there’s not really much to this ship beyond first love and adolescent romance.

Why don’t I ship Bennett/Judd?

God, I don’t rightly know! Their chemistry in both the play and the film is incredible, but it reads as totally platonic from Judd’s side, to me. I love the friendship. I love that these two misfits have found solace in one another, forging a shared set of references and jokes. It feels like a teenage friendship built on top of circumstance, like they otherwise would not have had reason to talk and see past their differences to find the points of commonality underneath. I really like that dynamic.

But Judd is just so resolutely straight. There’s the conversation where Bennett invites Judd to consider whether he might not like kissing a man as much as he likes kissing a woman, and Judd pretty flatly rejects this while continuing to insist that Bennett will grow out of being gay. There’s the bit at the end of the film, as they’re wandering around outside, where Bennett breaks down over the unfairness of homophobia as wielded by people in power (his schoolmasters now; the government, in his future career) and Judd only finally begins to see that Bennett is serious. I think I want some scrap of flirtation in return, but Judd’s focus is turned strictly towards the cause.

Bonus: I totally ship Judd/Menzies, primarily on the strength of these two fics: one, two. Judd takes special pains to be offended by Menzies when Menzies wrongs him, and channeling that as sexual tension instead of purely schoolboy squabbles is delicious.

Why do I ship Bennett/Fowler?

I mean, I’ve read Out of Bounds. @sproutwings knows how to sell a ship.

Fowler, unlike Harcourt, isn’t a wilting flower. Fowler, unlike Judd, demonstrates a marked interest in Bennett’s sexuality. Fowler is in some ways Bennett’s equal and opposite—repressed, fiercely angry, performatively masculine. They’re both stubborn, so neither personality gives way when they clash. It takes almost nothing to imagine that some of Fowler’s anger is the result of repressing same-sex desire, and that’s if you’ve only seen the film. I would argue it’s part of the text if we go by the stage play. He gets off on caning other boys! That completely recontextualizes his constant desire to beat Bennett, from rule-breaking nuisance to untouchable object of desire. If the cane is the only way that Fowler allows himself to touch other boys, and we certainly don’t see him in casual and affectionate friendships like we do with Bennett and Judd, then he seems specifically interested in sharing that experience with Bennett. Hot! Also deeply sad. The combination is perfect for me. I want to put my filthy little claws into all of Fowler’s sexual angst and mix it with Bennett’s sexual angst until they come out the other end in love.

[moriavis]

Dust Writers

It's hard to combine air and earth, and you are the proof that impossible is just a word. You mix the patience behind the creation of long stories, with the lightness of air, and its force. Your prompts are the best, interesting, funny, and creating infinite possibilities and universes in front of them. Your words carry the reader in new and unexplored worlds, you give them wings and the whole sky. You can give a just taste and it's too good to stop. Your readers become your fans, because your writing gets them addicted. Your words can have an aftertaste of sadness sometimes, but mainly you like to show the feelings, like to let them really exist, without apologies. You're the writer that's born with the ability to touch the deepest floor of an abyss and, at the same time, smile while sitting on the clouds. Dust writers are a breathing miracle that make readers reach heights that others can only dream of.

Sounds fake, but okay! 😅 The quiz was fun anyway!

Tagging: @sproutwings @qlala @incorrectcoldflashblog @simpledontmeanpeachy

what element writer are you?

water writer

just like water, you carry your readers in a new world, and they just can’t do anything but follow. your poetic writing allures the readers in with beautiful words, just for them to find themselves on the deepest oceans floors, where you make them taste pain in its sweetest form. water writers are the gentlest liars, they show the readers a small stream, and no one can see the waterfall at the end. if you were a tag, you would definitely be ‘Everything is Beautiful But Everything Hurts’. cliffhangers are one of your strong points that, mixed with your incredible versatility, make you a great writer. your stories have a deep meaning, and never miss to leave traces on your readers hearts. you don’t limit yourself, you like to explore the deepest parts in the human soul, and that’s why readers can sometimes find MCD in your stories. your endings tend to be sad or open, and your stories have the power to drag your readers with you, from the highest waves of a storm, and to the darkest secrets of the ocean.

this feels like the highest compliment i ever received when i honestly feel like a 4-6/10 writer :’)

tagging: @kitastowel @haikyuutothetop @amjustagirl @forgetou @luvnami @kohi-zeri @violetsoju @throughtheinterstices @moondaius @yacoka + anyone else who wants to try it !!

[elasticella]

Narcissistic November a ficathon focused on the self

Come play with us! Anonymous commenting is allowed, so you don’t need a dreamwidth to participate. For full rules and to join, click here \o/