#uhhh any more tags i'm missing hopefully not

[likeamothtofame]

// all 65 of my 150x150 valentino icons (free to use of course!) <3

// google drive

// i don't see any reason to keep these all to myself, especially since i plan on going through and making my own fancified versions eventually. of course none of these were made by me (i cropped and maybe slightly edited some of them but nothing noteworthy), they all came from the wikia or other official media. i don't care what you do with them, and i don't need credit obviously. feel free to use these however you want :]

[asgardian--angels]

Thanks for the tag @droids-in-disguise I miss doing these!!

Last songs: let's see at the gym I was just listening to my favorite Finntroll album, Nifelvind. Also just in general the past month I've been listening to the Arcane soundtrack, esp The Line, Ashes and Blood, Spin the Wheel...yknow, things that make me cry

Favorite color: midnight blue, if that's what you call it. that gloaming turquoise-blue when it's not quite full night yet.

Last books: I haven't had time to read many new books but in the last few months I read 'The Triumph of Seeds' by Thor Hanson (science nonfiction), and reread The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (fiction)

Last movie: jfc what was the last film I watched?? oh, I guess it was when I rewatched Nope after getting it on bluray for Christmas.

Last TV show: Arcane. hence the jayvik takeover

Sweet/savory/spicy: i have a sweet tooth like nobody's business. anything but spicy really my spice tolerance is so low it's in the ground

A beautiful relationship in my life right now: ...... :/ idk really. my mom, I guess. She's the person I'm closest to in my life, we're best friends. but I don't really have much else.

Last thing I looked up: searching North American species of the crabronid wasp genus Oxybelus to try and ID this tough little fucker I photographed last summer and it still has me stumped. They gotta work on getting specimen photos of all species so I can compare scutellum and axillae maculations!!

Looking forward to: next week I'm seeing Chris Fleming with my friends in Boston, I have tickets with another friend to see Korn & System of a Down perform together in NJ this August which will be insaneeee, uhhh.... I'm looking forward to continuing to write this (turning into a pretty long) jayvik fic that I've been working on the past month, as always I am looking forward to the end of winter when the bugs will start coming out again (as an entomologist, this is what I wait for!) and the chance to find more rare bees this year. Hopefully more travel - my friend and I are planning a trip in the near-ish future to New Zealand, and if I'm accepted into a field course I applied to I'll get to catch bees in Arizona for 10 days.

Current obsessions: jayvik. jayvik? jayvik. it's taken over my brain 24/7 to the point I've barely gotten any work done the past like, month and a half lmao. Also, I start the year off competing hard for the #1 spot in my county for birding (birding can be competitive if you let it....you can rank by number of species seen in a county, state, country, even specific location). Year rankings reset Jan 1, so everyone's off to the races. Last year I held the #1 spot for a month (I eventually lose out to the retired folks who can just. go hard), I've been stuck at #2 for a couple weeks now because it's a colder winter and some of my half-hardies I can usually get (hermit thrush, field sparrow, turkey vulture) don't seem to be around and it's not a winter finch irruption year so the siskins, redpolls, purple finches, and red-breasted nuthatches are all but absent. Haven't been able to track down a bald eagle which is so silly because I live on a major river and they're always around. Never have I been so happy to find a ring-billed gull to make species #46 for the year.

I'll tag some cool people on here: @hawkpartys @4amarcanethoughts @hexcoreviktor

[watcher0033]

Hi! I'm doing a school design project and I've decided to have a go at designing a Archive of Our Own app! I was wondering if you might be up for answering some questions to help me with my design (I need to show research in my project!)

If you are, answers to these would be SUPER helpful!

How long have you been engaging fanfiction sites such as Archive of our own, Fanfiction.net and Wattpad? 

What are some of your favourite works or fandoms on those sites? 

Are you a writer as well as a reader?

What drew you to these platforms and why do you stay? 

How long have you been engaging with the site Archive of Our Own specifically? 

What does your engagement with the platform look like? 

How often do you engage with the platform?

What are your favourite aspects of the platform? 

Do you think that you engage with all of the elements available on the platform?

Are there any elements of the platform that frustrate you? 

Of the fanfiction sites you frequent, where would you rank the site as a whole and why?

What do other platforms have that Archive of Our Own does not, which you enjoy interacting with? 

Are there any features unique to Archive of Our Own that you enjoy?

If Archive of Our Own were to develop a mobile app, what features would you like to see? 

Would you like the app to be similar in aesthetic and function to the already established website?

Are there any features you would like to see added to the platform in the app?

If you're not interested no worries! Thanks so much

Hello, there!!! That project seems interesting and I hope it does well, GL!! And ofc I won’t mind answering a few questions really.

Well, I’m in my twenties so my first engagement with anything fanfiction in general bfor sticking to ao3 was fanfiction.net back in 2013-2014 I think. So about 10 years. Give or take.

4. and 12. One of the best fanfic classics from fandoms that aren’t as popular as the ones hosted in ao3 these days are still in ffnet like fics of western sci fi shows, western movies in the 2000s, animes from the late 90s-early2000s, you get my drift. So if your hyperfixation is about a movie/show pre-2010s and you’re itching for some fics. Go to ffnet. If one is especially part of a big fandoms that exist today, AO3 ofc is our best home. If you had a Worm phase (or just webnovels in general), or an intense intellectualism phase like I did go to spacebattles.com or sufficient velocity haha

Yes.

I stay at ao3 for the good fics and great comfort/convenience. I visit others when looking for something specific.

I was very pro-ffnet back in the day, it was my 1st comfort site. But the moment I got a taste of those filters I quickly converted back in uhhh 2016.

I read fics (ao3 engagement), filtered to most bookmarked. Exclude tags that I’d rather not engage with. Find a good work. Browse through the authors other works, and their bookmarks too for next recommendation fic to read.

Everyday. Every few hours if I’m not busy irl or other social media sites like this one.

The tags and the filters should be universally used and imitated.

I’d like to think so but there might be more features I haven’t extensively explored yet.

Can’t think of any at the moment.

1st place AO3, 2nd: FFnet, 3rd-4th Spacebattles and Sufficient Velocity. 5th Wattpad ig?? Tho I don’t go there unless to read something from my local language.

Mostly just some fandoms have less works in ao3 than some other sites. But more of a people-fandom dilemma than platform one. I guess, I want a forum feature for ao3? Some sites i read works are sometimes interactive like were a poster would post a prompt or the first chapter. And someone would reply to add their own interpretation/what-happens-nxt scenarios and it becomes part of the story. I miss engagements like that.

The 👏🏼 filters 👏🏼 and 👏🏼 tags

And 16. Forum features!!

Hopefully, yes. With added features, but depends ig

[seelestia]

I sent my last ask about me moving literally a few hours before you answered it :''D

But uhhh since you probs already know who I am just based on me constantly liking your posts and answers to my asks- might as well do a reveal before I go offline for a while :P

So--the blog that keeps liking your posts and asks is my main blog with the name "sarcasticqueerblob" which is a more personal/multi-fandom account that i have not posted a lot on as of recently

The blog that I do use for interacting with genshin posts (reblogging and posting genshin related posts) is called......(are you ready for this?)

....

It's called medeaheartly.

yes that's the same blog that I recommended you on a previous ask.

yes i did recommend you my own fic (pls im so shameless istg)

BUT PLS DONT TAKE IT THE WRONG WAY- IT WAS ONE OF THE ONLY FICS I COULD THINK OF WHILE WRITING THAT ASK AND I DIDNT REALLY KNOW ANY OTHER FICS THAT BROKE THE SAGAU STANDARD :''''D

i swear I'm not as self-centered as I seem :'''D

forgive me (つд⊂)

and also- if u do check the sideblog, there's an announcement i just posted about the fic having to be paused cuz I am moving :''D

but if u look at the tags u might see something meant for u hehehe

BUT ANYWAYS- apart from my shamelessness and idiotic self-

yes I do acknowledge that I have the dearest privilege of that reserved spot, and yes I'm going to take advantage of it >:D (just this one time tho)

and as for my final final say as this might be my last ask, I will genuinely miss you my dear author, your answers to my asks and your posts are the things I look forward to and wait for everytime I open up Tumblr and I do actually kinda sad whenever I refresh my dashboard and not see you at the top :''D

(lil side note- I'd love to be moots but because my main isn't genshin centered, i'm not quite sure whether or not you'd like the content there :''D tho it's all just random reblogs and rambles atm) - Ever so forever yours, 👹✨ anon <3 (or you can just call me jae)

as soon as i saw your last ask, i just made it my top priority to respond asap because i wanted you to see my answer before you go offline 😭 aaaaa, i'm super glad i could catch you — somewhat? hehe!

yes, yes, i already know~ the funny thing is that i've actually interacted with your acc, @/sarcasticqueerblob before! like do you remember when i asked if i should write fluff or angst first sometime ago??? when i post rambles (non-asks or posts), i tend to respond/reblog if someone comments on them and you were there! i don't think you became my anon yet at that time, but i definitely remembered you <3

awww, dw, dw! i know some people feel vv strongly about self-promo — but i think everyone deserves to give themselves some spotlight once in a while (as long as they don't cross the line), you know? and you're not wrong, there aren't many c!imposter SAGAU fics out there, so i can understand where you're coming from! >:)

the angst in your request is astronomical per usual 🤌✨ AND THE TAGS. i feel honored that i got a special mention in your tags jfjejkfksek and no worries about your main blog~ to me, being moots isn't always about the content because even if our interests don't perfectly align, i'd still wanna follow you and know more about what you like! see it as a token of friendship of some sort, hehe.

and i'll miss you a lot too, jae! :( hopefully, you can come back in the future because i'll still be here 🫂 but in case you don't, just know that you're always in the back of my mind at all times! you have your own little corner in my brain, after all >:)