Fleet Sparrow

Snowflake Challenge 8: How The Trick Is Done

2026-01-30T02:48:59Z

I feel like it's very hard for me to describe my creative processes. Maybe it's because I haven't spent much time actually thinking about what makes them happen. Maybe it's because I'm so used to them that there doesn't seem to be anything worth talking about. Maybe it's because 99% of my process is extremely internal, just turning the idea over and over like a rotisserie chicken until it's ready. Which, I mean, isn't not my process, so I guess that's descriptive???

Maybe if I break it down by types.

For fics--specifically fics written for fun that actually have a plot and aren't just elaborate set-ups for jokes:
There's a lot of poking at a plot to see if it's worth being Fic Plot or just Fun Daydream Idea. Pretty much all my fics start out as Fun Daydream Ideas anyway, but if something keeps coming up and I can see the story being written--I mean this literally; I see the sentences in front of me and will start rewriting/rewording them as I go--then it's time to start writing them down.

For fics that are basically elaborate set-ups for jokes:
A punchline gets me, or a pun, or a meme format makes me think "how could I put this into [fic universe]?" and then that's it. My like my full fics, I start writing and rewriting the idea over and over in my head. Sometimes I'll swap in different characters for whatever places they need to be. For example, I'm being haunted by the "Robert and Barbara Wire" Tumblr post, and I have a different word in mind but using that format, so I've been trying to figure out which of the Batfamily I want to use for each speaker. So, like all of them, I keep turning it around and trying new characters in different roles until I find what I like.

Fandom related posts, not fics:
Pretty much the same as above. I don't write a lot of serious meta about my fandoms because that's just not my preferred way to fan, so most of my fandom posts are jokes. I will say, though, that I tend to work these the same way I work my stand-up comedy bits: I try it out in my head to play around with it and see if there's a funnier way to do the bit. If I can't decide what version works best, I start ~~inflicting it upon~~ testing it out with my friends and family. Usually, I'll start IRL with my mom (as she knows at least of most of my fandoms) or a friend via text. Then I might move to a Discord friend, test it there. Once I think it's got the right feel of what I want, then I'll usually share it on Tumblr (which is pretty much my only social media presence nowadays).

And there you have it! Or some of it, at least.

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10 True Loves Prompts - Dick Grayson, Table 9

2025-12-06T07:04:51Z

01.	Safe.	02.	Danger.	03.	Limits.	04.	Private.	05	Denial.
06.	Reality.	07.	Lies.	08.	Wound.	09.	Habits.	10.	Flaws.

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Fairy Tale BINGO Card 2025

2025-11-11T22:18:38Z

Prompt list: Blue Beard, Doctor Knowall, Father Frost, Golden Hair, Heart of Ice, Lady of the Moon, Little Golden Star, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Forrest Fairy, The Golden Goose, The Lion and the Mouse, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, The Red Shoes, The Snowman, The Snowqueen, The Sweet Porridge, The Three Brothers, Banshee, Basilisk, Bigfoot, Djinn, Dragon, Elves, Fairies, Giant, Golem, Mermaid, Minotaur, Monster of Loch Ness, Phoenix, Selkie, Siren, Trickster God, Troll, Unicorn, Vampire, Werewolf, Witch, Angel, Broken Mirror, Candle, Castle, Devil, Dragon, Enchanted, Evil, Faith, Fire, Glory, Hero, Journey, King, Love, Magical Power, Mercy, Music, Pixie, Poison, Princess, Shadow, Solitude, Stars & Moon, Talisman, Time Travel, Trickster God, Vision, Wish, Wizard,

Sleeping Beauty	Heart of Ice	The Three Brothers	Dragon	Faith
The Red Shoes	Basilisk	Banshee	Trickster God	Golden Hair
Vampire	Djinn	Poison	The Sweet Porridge	Candle
Witch	Glory	Shadow	Solitude	Golem
Little Golden Star	Bigfoot	Wizard	Talisman	Troll

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Incest Bingo 7x7 Card

2025-07-20T06:58:19Z

Grooming	Obsessive/Needy codependence	Family gathering	Disguised/mistaken identity	Non-con	Estranged/separated relatives	Character is beard for incestuous relationship
Accused of incest/relationship becomes public	Eager for approval/praise	Can't keep hands off each other	Hypnosis/Altered mental states	Codependency	Mommy/Daddy issues	Well it's not not incest...
Incest for bloodline/inheritance reasons	Shota/Lolita character	Incest/Selfcest - With descendant or reincarnation (of self or other)	Seduction	Selfcest - With a clone	Selfcest - With other part/side of self	No one can have you except me
Spite Incest	Fighting becomes sex	Status differences within household/Golden child & scapegoat	You're the other half of me/One soul in two bodies	OT3 - with selfcest	Guilt	Incest by proxy
Gothic incest	Unexpectedly encountering family member in a sexual context	OT3 - two related + one unrelated character	Vampire incest	Undercover as dating/married	Moment of weakness	Fantastical/Supernatural Incest
Anonymous/Blind Relationship/Sex	Temptation	Matched on dating app	Mutual obsession	Family members on opposite sides of a conflict	Seduction/pursuit by younger character	Selfcest - With dark version of self
Mutual desire/attraction	Size difference	Traveling together	Who knows you better than me?	Us against the world	Repressed attraction	Possessiveness

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Snowflake Challenge 15: Unexpected Joy

2025-02-01T21:25:57Z

I actually had a few unexpected joys last year, but only one of them fandom-based.

Non-fandom joys: I was able to get a surgery I've been wanting since I was 16. I got a new day job which meant I could leave my old super stressful, extremely toxic day job.

Fandom joy: While I was recovering from surgery, I joined a brand new fandom Discord server. Within about a month, some Things Occurred, which split a handful of us into a group chat of "GIRL (gender neutral), DID YOU SEE THAT???" and our little subset has been going strong since.

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Snowflake Challenge 6: Favorite Piece of Canon

2025-01-26T21:10:30Z

Comics are a sprawling, convoluted, constantly-rebooted mess of timelines, continuities, and creative teams. That said, I do want to give another shoutout to the short-lived Grayson series by Tom King and Tim Seeley. It was fun, it was new, it was exciting! It fell off a cliff when they pulled the original team three fucking issues from finishing it ~~but I'm not still bitter about that, hahaha, noooooo, not me!~~ but damn, we had a good run while it lasted. Despite having some of the worst fucking haters (which I'm bitter about on record, just fyi) for no good reason (truly, Grayson came out at the beginning of fandom pissing on the poor), we had a very small but spirited love.

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Snowflake Challenge 5: New and Fandom Improved

2025-01-19T21:17:19Z

Talking about how fandom has improved my life must include the ways in which fandom has also been a struggle in my life. (Why must it? Because my thoughts about the good things are intimately tied up with the bad things.)

In an attempt to keep this relatively brief, I'm only counting fandom from my college days on (about 13 years ago to present).

In my last couple of years at college, I joined a DC Comics roleplaying group on Tumblr. I had, at this point, already made a couple of friends through tumblr, but it was during my time in this group that I really started posting my own fanfics online and getting very involved in the then-current Batfandom on Tumblr. (Fun Fact: My first ever smut writing experience was a threesome in a live chat/real-time RP with two other people. This was the event that convinced me I could, in fact, write and post my own smut. If I could do it live, I could certainly do it on my own time!) I was on Tumblr for the New 52 event. I was there for the entire run on Grayson, including the unnecessary (and, lbr, pretty damn racist) hatred towards the rebooted version of Helena Bertinelli and the absolute bullshit that was the aggressively loud Grayson-haters' Twitter harassment of Tim Seeley while he was on a date. ~~Some of y'all fuckers need to learn some manners, I stg.~~

During this time, I went to several comic conventions (WonderCon and Long Beach Comic Con being the biggest two). I met some local artists and creators. I actually got to not only get some Grayson comics signed by Tom King for me and a friend, but also got to talk to him about the comic for a good chunk of time. (My favorite story: During the issue where Dick walks through the desert with the baby, there are two pages where he tells the story of a dream he had, which is actually the 1963 Batman story Robin Dies At Dawn. The art in Grayson is of Dick walking through the bottom third of the pages while the sun beats down on the upper two-thirds. Tom King had originally wanted the upper parts of the panel to be drawings from the Robin Dies At Dawn story as a nice reference/Easter Egg. Editorial said no, so they stuck with the sun.)

I wrote a ton of fanfics between 2013-2018! I did so many fandom events and big bangs! I made some fandom friends who I still consider very dear friends!

And I also saw a lot of fandom explode at others and implode on itself.

Right around 2019, I got my first job outside home. I still wrote a lot, but a lot of my fandom friends were either going into new fandoms or moving to different sites, especially after the 2018 Tumblr porn ban. By 2020, I was starting to get back into fandom in a very light-touch way, but so many of us were gone. I did end up writing my biggest/most involved fanfic in years during that year (a graveyard shift job as a COVID symptom checker where I only had to pay attention at the top of each hour helped immensely, ngl). But, oof, there was a lot going on that I no longer wanted to be part of in fandom.

In 2021, I wound up back at the same company I worked for in 2019 (this time as a permanent employee) and my stress levels tripled. I started to get back into fandom as a way to stay sane, and it worked, for the most part! I was still doing too many exchanges and events (which ended up only adding to the stress, unfortunately), but I was getting back into that kind of fandom friendship space that I genuinely had missed. I even ended up going back on Tumblr!

And then, in 2024, after an incredibly brutal end to 2023, I found a Discord group that seemed to have that old-school fandom feeling to it. During my three months off work post-surgery, I not only joined that group, but found a subgroup of new friends within it (and we've been going strong since).

I feel like a lot of this post seems more negative, but it's not really meant to be. I have made some great friends through fandom. I've written some honestly fantastic things because of fandom. I've also learned a lot about myself through fandom, about what stresses I can take, about what kinds of things I like to write and read, even about how to take care of myself and when I need to remove myself from the more toxic and/or anger-inducing aspects of fandom.

And yet, unfortunately, brevity is clearly not one of the things I've learned via fandom.

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Snowflake Challenge 3: Opinions Are Like Feathers...

2025-01-12T03:06:02Z

...every bird has them.

I don't know if this is so much a fandom opinion as much as a fandom practice, but if my [redacted] years online have taught me anything, it's that I really do not have the energy to spend gleefully hating on things. Even if it sucks. Even if it's factually wrong. If it's in any way within my control to avoid seeing a terrible hot take or avoid a fandom, I'll do it. So long as no one's being hurt where it's within my power to help, I just do not have the spoons.

That does not mean I won't ever go into a group chat and have a good laugh at such things. I ain't perfect. But there is a certain level of ire and rage that I just no longer have the energy to expend by engaging with the willfully obtuse.

That said, I also no longer have the patience to be nice about certain behaviors. You don't get to come uninvited into my house and then complain about the decorations. It's my house.

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Fannish 50

2024-12-26T02:45:35Z

I think I vaguely remember signing up for this last year, or maybe it was this past year, but, uh, clearly that never got done.

Am I going to remember to do it this year? Who knows! I will try, though!

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Scalding Hot Consent Issues Bingo Card Round 2--2024

2024-02-04T08:28:49Z

Multiple Aggressors - Aggressor A is supposed to dub/noncon the Victim; Aggressor B fights A for the right to dub/noncon them instead	Gaslighting - Aggressor Convinces Victim That Dub/Noncon Was Their Idea	Aggressor Knows That It's Dub/Noncon But Pretends Not to Notice	Aggressor Finds Out Afterward They Victimized The Wrong Person	Gangbang as a Coming of Age Celebration
Demons Made Them Do It	Character(s) Too Drunk or High To Notice/Care That They Are In Public View of Others	Gentle Loss of Virginity As Emotional Manipulation By Experienced Character	Aggressor Later Seeks Forgiveness from Victim	Aggressor uses a blindfold on victim to conceal their identity
Aggressor Assumes All Sex Has Dub/Noncon Elements	A/B/O - Mid-dub/noncon Reveal that Omega is a Virgin	Coercion - Illusion of Choice	Everyone Is Too Intoxicated to Consent	Dub/Noncon as part of educational demonstration
Non-Virgin Character Feels Virgin Character Owes Them For Something; Says They Want Their Virginity	Cooperation - Victim Tries to Make Dub/Noncon Feel Good for Aggressor	Aggressor's Motive - As Method of Torture	Conditioning - Victim Comes on Command	A/B/O - Edging an Omega during their heat to get Omega to agree to dub/noncon mating bond
Fuck or Die - Dub/Noncon to Save Their Own Life	Bargaining - Aggressor Agrees to "Play Nice" in Exchange for Regular Sex With Victim	Aggressor is a Goo/Slime Creature	Victim Escapes After Dub/Noncon	Dub/Noncon to Save Victim’s Species from Extinction

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Valentine's Month Bingo Card 2024

2024-02-03T23:09:17Z

Electricity	Dancing	Naked in public	Dumped	Accidental sex
Violent Behavior	Helplessness	Why Heroes Make Bad Boyfriends	69	Self-Pity
Crossdressing	Wet dream	FREE SPACE	Oral sex	love / lust spell
Praise	Fantasies	Experimentation	Taking It Slow	Make-up sex
Dramatic proposal	Ethical Sluts	Harems	Gratitude fuck	Love at first sight

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Snowflake Challenge 3: Fandom Wishlist

2024-01-07T01:18:10Z

You know, I was trying to think of what kinds of things I like and would like recommendations or gifts of and, for a while, I couldn't think of anything. I was a little stuck because I know I'm ~~picky~~ particular about things I like in terms of reading and art and such. But then I thought, what if I expanded my ideas of what fandom-related things there are out there, and suddenly, I had ideas.

I am feeling very called to music and its intersection with fandom right now. But also, since I basically live within the floating timeline of DC Comics, I'm also super interested in any canon recs for various parts of canon that maybe aren't or haven't been as well-known as others.

Recommendations Wishlist:

Soundtracks (movies, shows, comics, etc.); I'm a big fan of, like, Prince's Batman album, or the Batman Forever soundtrack, or the musical It's A Bird It's A Plane It's Superman! for example
Concept albums/Story Songs (Thick as a Brick, The Wall, Tommy, etc.); Love me some concept albums, things that tell a story over an entire record or song are so my jam
Unique comic events (miniseries, AU/Elseworlds, Imaginary Stories, etc.); Doesn't even have to be strictly DC Comics related, though that's always my first love; I've been getting very much into indie comics and experimental comics
Comic-inspired/media tie-in novels/novelizations (DC's Inheritance, Last Sons, Final Crisis, No Man's Land, etc.); I cannot get enough of comic stories in novel/prose form
Comic Histories/Philosophies/General Academic-type nonfiction (The Caped Crusade, Soul of the Dark Knight, Is Superman Circumcised?, etc.)

Honestly, I'm just in such a mood for odd and unique fandom things, anything would be super cool!

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Fic or Treat 2023!

2023-10-19T05:29:45Z

ficortreat

Fleet Sparrow's Door

DW username: fleetsparrow

Light is on for: Anybody and everybody! (and no bodies, for the disembodied among us)

What's in the Bowl?

Ficlets (200+ words)
Memes
Cat pictures (of my own cats)
Photos of incredibly and/or embarrassingly destroyed freight
Random trivia
A single tarot card pull, with photo (choice of deck)
A single oracle card pull, with photo (choice of deck)
A COMPLETE SURPRISE FOR YOU AND ME BOTH

Let Me Know:

Fic prompts (fandom, characters (limit 2, for my sanity's sake), ships, quote/idea)
Meme prompts (mostly, like, what types of memes you like (pics, text, etc.))
Big Cat, Little Cat, or (perhaps, to be wild, if you dare) BOTH CATS???
How much damaged freight can you stomach?
Tarot deck request
Oracle deck request
If you really want a surprise, just leave a "TRICK OR TREAT", and you'll get what you paid for

Other info: The only things I won't write are sounding, watersports/scat, birth scenes; everything else is free real estate.

Fandoms I'm best with:

DC Comics (especially Batfamily/Gotham, but I can do pretty much anyone)
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
The Darkside Detective
Any fandom I've written on AO3

Tarot Decks on offer:

DC Comics (new only; may update if I find my old one)
Universal Monsters
Infinity Tarot
Disney Villains
Sugar Skulls
Mystical Medleys
Tarot of the Haunted House
Tarot of the Gnomes
Way of the Panda
Tarot of the Pirates
Everybody's Tarot
Housewives Tarot
Pulp Tarot
Vice Versa Tarot
Weird Cat Tarot
Tarot of the Vampires (old)
Tarot of the Vampires (new)
Tinsel Town Tarot
UNSOLICITED DECK PIC (choose this if you truly Do Not Care what deck I use; it may not be one listed)

Oracle decks on offer:

Divinimation
Dream Your Joy
Affirmations of the Fairy Cats
Fantasma Oracle
Wisdom of the Oracle
Wishcraft Oracle
Everybody's Oracle
Fairy Dust
Pride Oracle
Happiness Oracle
Oracle of the Strange Forest
Joyful Inspirations
UNSOLICITED DECK PIC: ORACLE EDITION (choose this if you truly Do Not Care what deck I use; it may not be one listed)

If you have another request, feel free to leave it, too! I have approximate knowledge of many things~

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Snowflake Challenge 14: Fandom Wrap

2023-01-29T04:04:49Z

What were your top 5 fandoms for 2022 based on the amount of time you interacted with them?

1. DC/Batman

2. Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

3. Mystery Science Theater 3000

4. The Darkside Detective

5. Sherlock Holmes

What were your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) you experienced fandom in terms of time spent?

1. Twitter

2. Discord

3. ...

4. That's it.

5. Tumblr???

What are the top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom in terms of time? Did you write? Comment? Send positive energy into the universe? Create art?

1. Wrote tons of fic!

2. Like, so much fic.

3. At least 5 fic.

4. Commented!

5. And still have too many to read....

What were your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions? (Note: I'm going off AO3's kudos stats here.)

1. Baby, I Got It

2. What To Expect When You're Expecting A Superhero

3. Smell As Sweet

4. Five Times Dick Got Bred Against His Will (+ One Time He Gets A Say)

5. Just What I've Always Wanted

I'd do a Top 5 tweets, but me and Twitter aren't getting along right now, so....

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Snowflake Challenge 12: Goals

2023-01-29T03:47:23Z

I have quite a few goals for this year, but I'll just list my main fannish ones:

Write only things I enjoy
Finish my posted WIPs
Do my writing classes this year
Hit my 75,000 word goal for the year
Have fun!

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Snowflake Challenge 11: Favorite Tropes

2023-01-29T03:42:02Z

(No, you didn't miss one; I'm only doing them sporadically.)

First off, can I say that I'm not thrilled with omegaverse, AND YET, I have now written so much of it. I think about it all the time. Although, whenever I do write it, I typically try to subvert some things from it.

Anyway, I always say I don't know what my favorite things are, aside from like, slice of life, humor, found family, etc. And then there's kinks....

Let's just say, I have too many to count by now.

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Snowflake Challenge 9: Personal Win(s)

2023-01-29T03:31:06Z

My main personal wins from last year:

Didn't quit my job in anger
Finished many fics
Hit my word count goal
Hit my reading goal
Survived

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Snowflake Challenge 8: Poll Time

2023-01-16T05:49:13Z

I love polls. They're probably my favorite ting, polls and quizzes. I cannot get enough of them!

Here's a lovely poll for you all (and for me, to help me, because I cannot be helped myself):

View Poll: Fleet, Do The Things!

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Snowflake Challenge 6: Scavenger Hunt

2023-01-16T05:29:31Z

The List:
1. A favorite character

2. Something that makes you laugh

3. A bookshelf

4. A game or hobby you enjoy

5. Something you find comforting

6. A TV show or movie you hope more people will watch

7. A piece of clothing you love

8. A thing from an old fandom

9. A thing from a new fandom

I can answer all 9 in basically three photos (except maybe the game, but the hobby I enjoy is writing, so I think it counts).

In this first photo, I have a favorite character (Dick Grayson as Nightwing in his first costume a.k.a. Discowing); something that makes me laugh (HIM, because his evil joyous smile makes me smile); my bookshelf (well, a corner of one); something I find comforting (the smell of white musk); and things from old and new fandoms (HIM and Discowing, again).

In this second photo, I have another bookshelf and my little magnetic Vodka Mutini plush, because, yes, I am Homestuck trash (oh, and there is a game here! Blacksad for the Nintendo Switch (which I haven't played yet, but still).):

This last photo is of some new jewelry I have: A ring! Which I love, because I've always loved rings so much, and my new writing bracelet of calligraphy jasper (a.k.a. elephant jasper, among other names):

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Snowflake Challenge 4: Of Heads and Canons

2023-01-09T04:35:30Z

Ah, the things I wish canon would add. Like making Dick Grayson canonically queer! Like letting Tim and Kon ~~make out~~ be queer and alive at the same time (and also make out, why not)!

TBH, I think my strongest canon change would be that every superhero is queer to some degree. I mean, come on, they run around in tights around muscle-people all day. They're an all-night Pride parade, dammit!

DC, LET ME HAVE THIS!!!!

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Snowflake Challenge 3: Wanted: One (1) Void In Which to Scream

2023-01-09T02:07:16Z

Oh man, I have a lot to scream about re: fandom. I could start with the pervasive and permissive racism that goes on in here, unchecked and unchallenged. I could go with the fact that apparently reading comprehension is for losers and that nuance is deader than the proverbial doorknob. I could go on with the strange pro vs. anti wars that are going on now, far, far worse than the wank of days gone by.

But honestly? I think I'm just going to scream.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Snowflake Challenge 2: Fandom Primer: DC

2023-01-09T01:58:26Z

I'm not gonna lie, DC is (much like Marvel), a nightmare to jump into. They're constantly resetting their own universes, having multi-title crossovers, and generally fucking up their own canon for so-called excitement.

My advice: You wanna do the DC? You start with wikis. Comic panels and wikis are great places to learn the history of comics and characters.

"But Fleet! I want to read current comics and get into things NOW~~, and also I hate happiness and good things in life~~."

Yeah, yeah, I hear ya.

Start with the all-ages comics.

Don't you roll your eyes at me! I know you're a big person now, but hear me out:

All-ages comics are fun. They're funny. They're goofy, but they also have a lot of heart and great interpersonal dynamics.

Read Batman Knightwatch. Read the Batman & Scooby-Doo team ups. Read the graphic novels (word on this: definitely start with trades if you want to get the history and backstory of any currently running comic, too. It's cheaper in the long run and they're all RIGHT THERE for you to read). Read Batman: Wayne Family Adventures on Webtoons. There's really good stuff out there if you want it.

And, if you're so desperate for broken people doing fucked up things to each other and not talking about dick until it's too late, by all means, jump into the newest Batman issue or whatever.

But don't say I didn't warn you.

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Fannish Fifty: The Beginning

2022-12-24T00:32:34Z

Hello all!

So, for my Fannish Fifty, I'm going to be doing 50 fanfics of my favorite characters. They'll all probably be similar, but who cares? It makes me happy!

~~Let's see if I can actually do it.~~

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5 Questions Meme!

2022-11-29T06:05:54Z

Hello, all, I'm back!...ish.

These questions are courtesy of kindkit!

1) You can successfully lure everyone you like into one single fandom, e.g. one comics title, one movie, one trilogy telling a single story, etc. What fandom do you choose?
Oh boy, this is a loaded question. OK, so, of course, nothing is perfect and general caveats, but I think I'd have to go with The Darkside Detective.

Because DC breaks my heart, Yu-Gi-Oh has too many parts, but Darkside Detective is great.

NO WAIT, MAYBE MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000!

Wait, no.....

;___;

2) DW vs. Twitter as a site for fannish interaction?
Ooh, another tough one. I think Dreamwidth is better for long-form fan interaction and event stuff, but I do like Twitter's more... laid back style of posting random thoughts and then disappearing into the ether like some kind of shitposting Ghost of Fandom Past. Maybe it's because I don't do a lot of meta or such, I do mostly like shower thoughts type posts (thanks, ADHD, for limiting my brainpower to tweet-size comments!). But for interaction, I think Dreamwidth does do it a little better, because it's easier to curate who finds you and who you follow.

Of course, I think Tumblr actually was the true heir to both, as it allowed random thoughts AND longform posts. However, I wouldn't go back to that hellsite if you paid me now, so I guess this is where I live now.

3) You have to eat only one national/regional cuisine for an entire month. What do you pick? (Assume suitable accommodations for allergies, dietary needs, etc. will be offered.)
Just because I'm doing Italian this quarter on Duolingo, I'm gonna have to go with Italian food. All the carbs. All the meats. All the sauces. (and none of the olive oil because I'm fucKING ALLERGIC, THANKS DAD). But yes, there are accommodations and I'm eating more fettucine than is possibly healthy for one human being. I'm in carb heaven.

4) Do you think there's other sapient life in the universe somewhere? (Not a question about UFOs or alien visitors, just whether you think it exists.)
I think so. I'd say I hope so, but I'm sure there is, because, like, the arrogance of us to think we're not only the highest pinnacle of intelligence but that we can't see it, therefore it doesn't exist is amazing!

Besides, if there isn't, it's an awful waste of space.

5) Are you a re-reader, and if so, what are your favorite books to re-read?
You know, I really don't re-read often, mostly because I'm always trying to get to new books, but--

As soon as I typed that, I realized that I've re-read the Sherlock Holmes stories, like, a dozen or more times in my life and am about to do them again, so there it is, that's my answer. Mysteries are my comfort reads.

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Fandom Meme: Questions 11-15

2022-07-17T05:04:43Z

11. Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

*deep breath* Everybody/Dick Grayson. Honestly, I only have one person I don't actively ship him with, and that's because I ship them mostly as exes-who-are-still-friends (see below). Otherwise, he's my favorite fandom LBD. I multiship like no one's business, and think, like, 99% of the DC universe characters would just be happier if they were all in a big poly relationship of some stripe or another with each other.

Other than DC... Pretty much Everybody/Kaiba, because he's my go-to in Yu-Gi-Oh, but again, I multiship like a mother, so I ship everybody with everybody else there.

12. A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson. I think they've tried too often and too much and by this point in time, DC is just making them both miserable trying to make them "twoo wuvs" for each other. Let them date other people!! Let them be happy with other people! They can still ~~make out~~ be friends! They don't have to be each other's be all end all!!

13. Do you prefer art, fic, or vids? Why? Bonus: If someone was to give you a fandom gift, what format would it be?

Um... Fic or art, I guess. I'm not much into vids, even though I do still love me some old school AMVs and think about what kind of fanvids I could make if I had that skill, but knowing I have to dedicate time to watch things gives me hives. Like, I can't even start new movies or TV shows unless I'm super in the right mood for it.

14. A pairing – platonic, romantic or sexual – that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.

Dick/Slade.

I know, right?

"But, Fleet," I hear you cry, "Haven't you written that pairing for a while now?"

Yes. But I still don't know when it went from, "sure, I'll try it" to "yeah, I ship it."

15. What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?

I'm pretty sure it was LOST role play stuff over MSN messenger and chat boards. Hoo, I think I just dated myself a little.

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