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[rip-aizawa]

As a scuba diver, the underwater scenes in Leviathan were quite nice, both accurate and emotional. I don't have much time at the minute, but when I get back into writing MHA fics I plan to attempt to do Leviathan justice in a spin-off. Again, thank you for writing it.

yeah, a lot of the scenes were inspired by my few scuba experiences! it's something that continues to resonate with me to this day, and i was trying really hard then to recapture the emotions and do it justice. i miss diving dearly, but it's hard to find the opportunity.

best of luck with your writing, and i'd love to see if you do bring my guys around!

#the-chronomancer #ask #sparks speaks

[rip-aizawa]

Hey! I know you’re never going to finish Leviathan, but I want to thank you for writing it! It’s genuinely one of the most comforting series I’ve read since I struggle with a lot of anxiety, and even if you were just 14 you did a beautiful job at writing these underwater scenes that were just so calming. I really appreciate all the work and effort you put into this and I hope that you’ll continue to put that love into everything you do :)

thank you anon!! i really appreciate this, i'm glad it helped you :)

#i loved writing the water scenes haha it's why i kept shoving em in #guy who is obsessed w deep water but never gets to go. there's something magical about being under water and looking up #ask #anon #and i am trying to put that same dedication in. the love is definitely there on my current projects. maybe that's what makes them so hard #but it'll be worth it in the end.

[rip-aizawa]

Is this blog still active:p I just found ur fic on ao3

not really. i dust it off sometimes to talk to people but don’t ever really post bnha anymore. sorry!

#ask #multi-phantom #sparks speaks

[rip-aizawa]

I figure that while you probably aren’t working on stuff for MHA anymore, I reckon you’re probably still writing ‘n doing art, yeah? If that’s the case, and it’s not too invasive, are there any other places we could potentially see your work?

oh yeah no worries. i should probably put that in my blog header somewhere, i genuinely forgot i didn't

i'm not writing (or at least posting it anywhere) much anymore, because that's a very fickle bug, but i'm still drawing and posting on my main @emberglowfox ! (also on instagram, same handle)

warning its like. 99% oc stuff rn, but feel free 2 peruse if you are so inclined

#flattered you asked! id like to think my art at least has improved since i was 14 hahaha #sparks speaks #ask #leaubergineman

[rip-aizawa]

I can’t believe it’s been so long??? Your story and the Leviathan community was a blast and you’ll always be insanely talented for it. Hope your doing good in college!

omg tim hi!!! good to see you dude! i definitely do miss the community of it all. really creatively encouraging and fun. kind of selfishly i really hope i can recreate it someday with original works, though i'm aware a lot of it really is right place right time and luck, haha.

hope you're doing good!

#sparks speaks #timxstuff #ask

[rip-aizawa]

While I'm obviously a bit sad the Leviathan won't be completed, as an author I'm glad you moved away from something you just weren't feeling the inspiration for anymore. What you have now is still a great fic, no matter the completion status (as evidenced by the masses of derivative works. Seriously, I saw animated music videos for Leviathan. Wow).

Side note, my first fanfictions were much worse than Leviathan, though they shared the same quality of having absolutely no long-term plan.

Actually, now that I think about it, Leviathan was one of the fics that got me to start writing for BNHA. Or rather, one of the fics that got me to write eldritch BNHA. Thank you for that, it's been fun and I doubt I would have if not for that inspiration.

Leviathan was and is still one of the fics I regularly come back to, and I thank you for this update.

(Also at some point in the future I may write something inspired by Leviathan if that's alright with you? I've had lots of brainwaves, the most prominent being that Izuku was four. If his quirk was of similar mental age, then of course it lashed out when being held hostage. Basically a "Izuku does not trust his quirk/Leviathan does not understand humans but understands that its host dislikes it/Character study between the two perspectives"- type thing.)

thank you!! and yeah the response to leviathan will never not blow me away. i'm still in awe of it years later

(and i will say technically leviathan was not my first posted fanfiction. that title belongs to a bmc fanfiction that i don't even remember the title of that will never see the light of day again LOL)

and on the eldritch note, i'm glad! i've been told me and daymare got a bunch of people into that, and i'm happy. it was a blast to write, and the more the merrier.

and also yeah go nuts w the writing! i had no problem w derivative/inspired works while leviathan was actively updating; i certainly don't now. best of luck with whatever you create!!

#the-chronomancer #ask #sparks speaks #happy you enjoyed :]

[rip-aizawa]

always good to see you kicking sparks. i hope college has been treating you well! i’m approaching my second year next month

good to see u too epe :) good luck w your next year!!

#sparks speaks #epeboch #ask

[rip-aizawa]

Your art and writing were still amazing early on. Leviathan Izuku has always been in my top 5 AU Izukus, I still sometimes go back and dig through tags to look at the art of the sad boy/angry lizard.

And add to that the way you write the character interactions is always a delight.

Thank you for sharing your story with us ^-^

thank you!! yeah the vibes were absolutely a blast. lizuku and his antics are permanently entrained in my psyche, and definitely taught me how explore character dynamics while having fun, which is frankly an invaluable tool for having a good time in fandom lol

thank you for reading. i’m glad you enjoyed :)

#sparks speaks #anon #ask

[rip-aizawa]

Hey Sparks just wanted to say it was (and still is) a fun story and its still amazing you got so much done even at 14 and congrats for the first year of college! Proud of you dude ♡

thank you <3 <3

#staring at the second year of college like a mouse looking at a hawks next but we endure. we endure #sparks speaks #ask #anon #i know who u are lool #<3 <3

[rip-aizawa]

THE TIME FLIES, holy fuck! I could've sworn 2019 was thirty seconds ago, hot damn.

Leviathan was fucking fantastic, I can't believe you were fourteen, holy shit! Well done! Super curious about your writing now with four extra years behind you if you're at all interested in sharing.

Lastly, but absolutely more importantly- super grateful for the updates, good to know you're doing alright! Gotta say given the wild ass stories people see in the notes when people update I do tend to assume on the worse side of things- nice to see a fellow author dropping a longfic primarily because it Did Not Vibe Anymore, that's such a fucking MOOD.

god yeah it does feel like it was like last year lol. i still can’t believe how fast the last few years went

and thank you! i will sheepishly say i haven’t really written a ton since then so if you’re looking for any kind of writing savant you won’t find one. i drabble abt ocs and whatever fandoms i’m interested in, but i haven’t written consistent long form in years.

and god yeah that’s kind of why i do step onto this blog every now and then. the ao3 writer curse has not befallen me i promise. i have not been hit by any cars or hospitalized. i did go to college, but like… unexcitingly, lol. and yeah— my brain’s fickle enough. i can barely make stuff for what i AM interested in; i don’t have enough excess energy to burn myself out trying to dredge up old passions.

#for better or worse i have dropped many stories and will drop many more. mostly for worse #but we do what we have to w brain sillies #anyways thank u anon i hope you’re doing well :) nice to hear from u #ask #anon #sparks speaks

[rip-aizawa]

Tbh as a reader while not quite plot diagram satisfied cause there wasn’t an end, I’m 99%+ happy with what you have written of leviathan and the plot bit at the start is after thought. I enjoy the world building you did and just thinking about scenarios.

I am glad you got good out of it too.

:) thank you, i appreciate that a lot

and yeah i will say while there was no real plan, a LOT of work and thought did go into what happened, at least relatively. i had a lot of fun figuring things out and i’d like to think it showed.

also the quality of what does exist is 100% thanks to my betas and friends tanz and tj, if y’all see this, you’re legends

#later quality spike is thanks to tj’s editing largely LOL #sparks speaks #ask #anon

[rip-aizawa]

I started reading leviathan when I was in 11th grade, now I'm in my 4th year of medical school and I sometimes catch myself thinking about leviathan when something in the bnha fandom breaches containment (I stopped caring about bnha a long time ago). I'm happy that it was a good time for you writing it bc it was a great time for me reading.

geez now that’s a bit of a mindfuck haha. congrats on med school, hope that’s going well for you!! and i’m glad you enjoyed leviathan once upon a time :)

#yeah i try to keep up w bnha but i just. can’t #i’ll check in on shinsou and naomasa that’s it #sparks speaks #ask #anon #amazed how many people still follow this blog lol #i think my main finally passed it bc of loz after five years of trying

[rip-aizawa]

since i feel bad dusting off this blog i will add on that last note. since it has been like actually five goddamn years i can say with some level of security that leviathan will likely never be completed. i’ve tried off and on to continue it in recent years but the passion just isn’t there anymore. 

frankly, the main hurdle with it is one i ran into again while trying to hand it off or at least summarize what might have happened: there was no plan. i started leviathan freshly 14 with even less experience with longform writing than the modicum i have now. i started it because i wanted to write a bnha fanfiction, not because i had a story to tell. everything was made up on the fly. towards the end, i did actually start planning major story beats, but only that: none of the track to get there, or the emotional elements that i think were what made the story so well-liked. 

and, in all my young teenage brilliance, i didn’t record most of what i did come up with, so most of what didn’t get recorded in discord dms or the occasional onenote page has been lost to time.

this is kind of a long-winded way of apologizing, because i know a lot of people were at one time invested in the story, and would like to at least know how it was supposed to end if they didn’t get to actually see it. i’ve been on the other end of that before, and i know it’s not super fun. maybe some day i’ll figure it out, but i’ve kind of moved on in life, so i wouldn’t bet any significant amount on it.

peace out 

#if anyone’s curious abt major mysteries i remember w few of those and wouldn’t mind talking abt it but there is no bullet point plan #i would share one if i had it #if this is poorly written it’s bc i’m bowling rn LOL #anyway hope everyone is doing well #sparks speaks #leviathan fic

[rip-aizawa]

i am forever appreciative of the love leviathan got it quite literally changed my life and was very enjoyable while i was into bnha but i have to say. it will never not be insane to me when people seriously praise and critique the technical execution/prose/etc of it because like. i was an eighth grader

#disclaimer obviously this is not to say you can’t be skilled at a craft at a young age #age is never necessarily indicative or determinative of skill #but just like. idk. it feels weird. not bad! just weird #sparks speaks

[rip-aizawa]

Best quality: his wiggles

#hey guys. remember this #shoutout alba this still fucking rips years later #leviathan fanart #The Leviathan #reblogs #albatross-the-fanartist #42k notes and like 1% of them know The Truth lmfaoooooo. its me boy im in your mind look at my bnha au

[rip-aizawa]

sometimes you have just turned 14 and you start writing a fanfiction for the funny anime you just watched and it radically changes the direction of your life. and then you blink, and suddenly you’re in your first year of college and everything is different but nothing is. and you just have to live with that, or something

#the passage of time /derogatory #sparks speaks #i’m in a weird mood these days. hope y’all are doing well

[rip-aizawa]

i miss tsukauchi naomasa. wonder what that crazy son of a bitch is up to

#most character of all time <- is one of maybe six people that cares about him #anyways hiiiiiiii i’m in college now #sparks speaks