#jagn answers

[vellaphoria]

that panel of dick telling tim he’s not too big to spank has me thinking thoughts ngl

but it's such a normal thing to say. And it's very normal for them to be making these expressions at each other when he says it

anyway. nothing to see here ;)

#dicktim #timdick #a;slkdfjadsk #this panel sends me every time #anon #jagn answers

[mot-hesbian]

Fic request:

Jenny x Agnes + fake dating

It all started when they met a new business contact who could help move their line forward.

Jerome Benson was a well-connected, if unknown, person in the fashion industry. He knew everyone there was to know, he could make or break their line.

Jerome liked their designs, he said they were original, that they felt alive with personality. He praised Jenny's work, saying that he'd love to work with them but he wasn't sure that he had an opening available for a new client. That was when it happened.

Agnes threw her arm around her, drawing her close, the smell of cinnamon invaded her senses. "Come on, Babe!" She said, overly cheery and it seemed like she was trying to send a message. "Show him what you got, all that middle-class charm you caught my heart with."

Jenny had some trouble wrapping her head around what was happening, between the sudden shift in attitude, the affectionate pet name, and the way her heart skipped when Agnes said she had her heart. Suddenly, she recalled something Agnes had said earlier, "I'm just going to need you to trust me and go with it when I do something, alright?"

This was all for show.

Jenny worked to regain her composure and started to play the part of the loving girlfriend. If Agnes was doing this, there was probably a reason. Probably.

They spun some story of how they had started dating, twisting the truth, the best lies always had a grain of truth after all.

Later, when they had gone back to Agnes' place, she explained that Jerome had been looking for minority clients to represent. An upper-middle-class white girl hardly fit the part, a queer woman in fashion, however, had a shot.

Jenny accepted that without much questioning, still able to feel Agnes' arms around her, her lips on her cheek...on her own lips. The way she nuzzled into her neck, her breath on her face as she whispered small asides.

Send in a prompt and I'll write a fic for it

This didn't turn out quite how I wanted it to, but I figured it's better than nothing.

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[vellaphoria]

hello! 2, 5, or 6 for the ask meme? : D

Thanks for the ask, anon! (questions are from this ask meme) 2. Will you participate in any fandom exchanges or fic challenges, etc?  I really really really want to, but I always seem to either miss the signups for them or forget that they're happening... 6. Which yet-to-be-started fic is first on your list?

It's 100% a DickTim witcher au >:3c further details in another answer (here)

5. Which WIP is first on your list to complete this year? Will you post a snippet?

Definitely the Tim comes back wrong fic, now with vampirism XD

The fic is currently 21k long, so this counts as an excerpt, right? right

Forty-two minutes after Tim’s alarm went off, Dick watches him shuffle past the kitchen’s bar counter. It’s five minutes longer than it took him yesterday morning and nine minutes longer than the one before that.

There’s a dull, flat-sounding whump that is almost certainly Tim collapsing onto nearby couch.

Dick gives himself the space of two inhales before he puts aside the peppers he’d been chopping, wiping his hands on a nearby towel.

The area just outside of the kitchen is a moderately large, well-appointed living room. Couches form three sides of a square, with the fourth side being closed off by an unnecessarily large flatscreen.

As he approaches the nearest couch, he sees several of the throw pillows scattered across the floor. Peering over the back of it, he sees Tim lying prone with his face buried in a pillow. There’s a faint groaning sound coming from him.

“How did you sleep?” Dick asks, trying not to sound as hesitant as he feels.

Another groan.

“That well, huh?”

Tim shifts, flopping over onto his back with all the grace of a fish left on the shore. His eyes are still closed, and that makes it harder to ignore how the skin beneath them seems almost translucent, highlighting the veins in his lower eyelids.

“I’m not sure I did,” Tim mutters. “Not for lack of trying…”

His eyes blink open. Today they’re a deep, nearly-luminescent green. The color’s full in a way that the rest of Tim isn’t. Each day, his skin seems a little more pale and his cheeks seem a little more gaunt.

The urge to reach down and stroke the too-defined line of his cheekbone makes itself known in the back of Dick’s mind. But he quashes the thought before it can gain any traction.

“Do you want tea?” he asks. “Coffee? Something else?”

“Breakfast?” Tim asks, sounding hopeful.

“Sure. It’ll be a few minutes though.”

Right on cue, Tim’s stomach rumbles. He rests his hand on it delicately, his expression screwing up a bit.

“Did I hear a delivery person come by earlier?” he asks before Dick can voice the concern that he’s certain is bleeding through his expression.

“Uh, yeah. I sweet-talked Tam into having some more groceries put on the company’s discretionary spending budget.”

How, exactly, Tim heard that from upstairs is anyone’s guess. When Dick had checked in on him before coming down to the kitchen, he’d been sleeping so deeply that he seemed dead to the world.

“Anything good?” Tim asks him, looking hopeful.

“Depends on what you think is good. My current plan is making a mountain of bacon and maybe some toast.”

Tim’s hand finds the back of the couch, curling around it as his fingers dig in hard enough to look nearly bloodless. He uses that grip, plus a hand on the cushions beneath him, to push himself up until he’s sitting.

When he wobbles a little at the top of his arc, Dick puts a hand on his shoulder to steady him.

Tim narrows his eyes a bit, shaking off the assistance. Stubbornly, he starts to stand. A tremor runs through the muscles of his legs and back. He circles around the couch, walking to the kitchen. He even manages to make it most of the way there before his legs start to give out on him.

Dick rushes to catch him, getting an arm around his back and looping one of Tim’s over his shoulder. The maneuver thankfully keeps Tim from crumpling onto the floor. Its also ends with Tim pressed up against him, his hands flat on Dick’s chest.

His body trembles where it’s pressed against Dick. When he shifts, his breath is warm against Dick’s neck.

Dick’s skin tingles with the feeling of it. Even more so when he feels what might be Tim’s lips brush against him - before Tim is pulling back out of his arms, doing his best to stand on his own.

#ask games #anon #dicktim #jagn answers #jagn writes

[vellaphoria]

how about you just tell me about all of them /j

👀 ghost fic sounds like pain

Yessssss the ghost fic hurts in the best way imo. I've talked about it a little before (here), but it's basically a canon divergence of infinite crisis where Dick did die. Tim and Bruce have a falling out over it, resulting in Bruce going on the trip around the world from One Year Later and Tim staying in the mansions by himself. Dick dying was one hit too many for Tim's psyche, so he ends up isolating himself and burying himself in work. He's deep enough in it that it takes him a while to notice that things in the Manor seem a bit off. Electrical malfunctions in new wiring; sounds in the middle of the night with no apparent origin; shadows that seem to move on their own...

The eventual conclusion he comes to is that Dick is dead, but that doesn't mean he's gone. But figuring out what to do about that is an entirely different problem.

#jagn answers #ghost fic #aka #If Spirits Walk

[vellaphoria]

It's a nice evening to send random asks. We agree that Tim Drake is BAMF, but what random thing in his everyday life would try his patience the most? What could potentially best him and many people don't know about this (go wild with headcanons :>)

Oooooh that's an interesting one <.< This is headcanon heavy and has... lets say dubious basis in canon, at best :D

Broadly, I'm going to say general cleaning. In my mind, Tim is the kind of person whose vigilante-related spaces are immaculate, but his personal, Tim Drake-related spaces are uh. not. Left unchecked, his apartment and safe houses succumb to entropy and are chaotic messes. And yet he still knows where everything is.

One time Tim borrowed (or "borrowed") something from Dick and kept forgetting to give it back. So, after getting fed up with this, Dick eventually pulled a Tim and broke into his apartment to try and look for this. But the place is a mess. He spends an entire night looking and can't find it. Eventually he has to give up and ask Tim where he put it, and Tim moves like two things and pulls it out in less than ten seconds. Dick, who (pre-Bruce) grew up in a very small living space and still chronically keeps things organized so that they're out of the way is like wtf is wrong with you. Tim just shrugs.

(What's wrong with him is that his parents were very strict about everything in their home being neat and organized and that included Tim's room. Young children are not normally the most organized people on the planet, but Tim had to learn to be early unless he wanted to get in trouble. So the chronic entropy of his living spaces is more like him coping than it is him actually being messy).

Thanks for the ask!! It was fun thinking through this one <3

#tim drake #dc #jagn answers

[vellaphoria]

last line challenge

Rules: Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

Thank you @waffleinator-inator for tagging me!

The last line I wrote is the incredibly informative:

"Is there anything I can do to help with that?”

But since that isn't particularly interesting, here's an excerpt from the fic it comes from:

The light shifts with the Pit itself. Backlit as he is, Tim’s face is a study in contrasts. The lines and planes of it are lit by the glow and sharpened by deepening shadows. For a moment, his face looks like that of a stranger. Dick blinks and the effect is gone; all he can see is the familiar face he’s known for all these years. His fingers shift against Tim’s back. He pauses for a moment at the point of no return. Would Tim… want this? He stares down at Tim. At his empty, lifeless face.  Does it matter?

For anyone who's heard me rant about it, this comes from the DickTim tim comes back wrong fic that's been haunting me lately >:3

If you're in the mood for it, I'm tagging @gerryrigged, @captain-ursula, and @themandylion (though I think you were tagged for this recently, Mandy, so apologies if that's the case XD )

#jagn answers #tag games #writing things #dicktim #dc

[vellaphoria]

Boop

Watcha working on

(EVIL BOOP) >:D

In terms of fic writing, I haven't had much time to work on things lately, but when I do have the spoons for it, it's usually one of these:

Some of these have had sections from them posted on tumblr; others are newer stuff meant for this year's DickTim Week. All of them are going very very slowly because lately my priority has been my dissertation proposal, but I'm looking forward to after that's defended because hopefully then I'll have a bit more time.

I'm also happy to treat this as a prompt me to talk about my WIPs sort of ask game if people are into it >:3c

#jagn answers #dicktim

[vellaphoria]

As someone whose read Tim Drake comics can you answer a question for me? I've seen two troubling tags about Tim on AO3, Stalker!Tim and 'Tim's incel tendencies', and I was wondering are these purely fanon characteristics? I only read Tim's robin run through Identity Crisis before getting out of comics and into manga (I did read his Red Robin run as well later). And from what i read, I never got stalker or incel vibes from him. Like at all.

I read Tim following Dick to NY as showing off his detective skills and not stalking; He wasn't actively following Dick (or keeping track of where Dick was) before he decided to ask Dick to be Robin again.

And Tim stalking the bats on rooftops as a kid is purely fanon.

As for the incel thing... I can't think of anything from the comics I read that could explain this. He never pressured his girlfriends for sex (quite the opposite actually), and he never shown any signs of hating women as a whole.

Did they make changes to his character after Flashpoint that would explain the prevalence the stalker and incel tags for Tim?

Thanks for asking!

The short answer: of those two characterizations, I’d say that Tim being a stalker has sort of a basis in canon but is mostly down to interpretation, but Tim being an incel directly contradicts canon.

Please note that this is referring to post-crisis continuity because after flashpoint I stopped reading 😌

The long answer:

Part 1: Tim a stalker?

It’s a matter of perspective, but you’re absolutely right that most of that stems from events in and around A Lonely Place of Dying. What I mean by that is that Tim essentially got the job as Robin by proving to Dick that Bruce was going off the deep end after Jason’s death and subsequently impressing Dick and Alfred enough that they vouched for him as being Robin (though he still had to go through a bunch of training before he was allowed on the streets rip).

Things that qualify as stalker-ish that Tim’s done

Took pictures of Batman to prove that he was going off the deep end so that he could make his case to Dick (Batman #440)

Went to New York and Titans Tower to look for Dick, but didn’t find him. Ft. Creeping on the Titans (Batman #440)

Went to Kory’s apartment to ask her where Dick was, leading to her being fairly confused and kind of worried (Batman #440)

Broke into Dick’s apartment and went through his stuff/broke into his safe in order to steal the picture of him and Dick and the Circus (New Titans #60). Which is kinda creepy, not gonna lie

From there, it was following Dick to Haly’s, recognizing him when he’s dressed as a clown, Judo flipping him before Dick flips him right back, and helping him solve a crime/freaking him out enough that he brings him back to the Manor (New Titans #60)

He also has a somewhat later tendency of figuring out peoples’ secret identities (i.e. Huntress, Wildcat, others), but that kind of comes with the territory for Bat-adjacent people So, there’s an argument to be made that he has some stalker-ish tendencies, though they tend to be overblown by fandom (including me, because I think it’s fun lol)

Part 2: Is Tim an incel?

No.

Tim being an incel has no basis in canon. While an incel is a person who is involuntarily celibate, a direct reading of the text would mean that he’s voluntarily celibate; like you said, people have often pressured him for sex and he keeps saying no. It’s worth noting that a lot of this is pretty much Chuck Dixon’s ideas about sexuality and purity coming through a Tim-shaped mouthpiece. In his mind, Tim not having sex with his girlfriends made him a good person/hero, so Tim would therefore not express an interest in having sex with his girlfriends. This also had the side effect of making Tim read as having no interest in women, which many queer fans picked up on. (It's also worth noting that now that Tim is canonically queer, Chuck Dixon is throwing a fit about it because he’s a homophobic asshole).

Dixon is also pretty sexist, though arguably not much more so than most of the people writing comics in the 80’s and 90’s. As far as hating women, in some Chuck Dixon issues, Tim says some mysoginistic things on page, though I’d also chalk that one up to Dixon being insufferable.

Examples of Tim not having sex when it was directly offered and/or when others are trying to pressure him into it:

In Robin #40, Tim’s girlfriend Arianna Dzerchenko tries to pressure him into sleeping with her for a variety of reasons, none of which are relevant here:

So I suppose it’s most accurate to say that he’s waiting for marriage or something. (And also accurate to say that Dixon doesn't understand how doors work).

Their relationship doesn’t really go anywhere, and Tim goes on to date a variety of other people including Stephanie Brown (on and off throughout Robin), Zoanne Wilkins (late Robin), and Tamara Fox (Red Robin).

But, while we’re on the subject of people offering to have sex with Tim and him turning them down, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the time that he walked into his room in Titans Tower and Ravager was naked in his bed (Teen Titans 2003 #35). She clearly has excellent timing, since this is in the middle of Tim’s repeated (and failed) attempts to clone Kon after he died in Infinite Crisis:

Anyway he handcuffs her and puts a stop to that. Sort of.

(Dis)honorable mentions go to both Steph (Robin #37) and Darla Acquitsa (Robin #126) for non-consensually kissing Tim and not knowing how to take no for an answer. And an extra dishonorable mention to the Daughter of Archon who tries to rape Tim in Red Robin #25 before Cass fights her off.

It’s possible that there’s some basis for either of this in post-Flashpoint continuity? I’ll have to throw that one to the comments, though, since I haven’t read much of DC’s post-flashpoint stuff and tbh I don’t really intend to.

tl;dr: in post-crisis continuity, Tim could arguably be seen as a stalker for how he got Robin, but anyone arguing he’s an incel probably hasn’t read the source material. Like, at all.

#tim drake #dc meta #jagn answers #dc

[vellaphoria]

for the New Year Fanfic meme, 6 and 13? c:

Thank you so much for the ask! <3 <3 <3 (questions come from this ask meme) 6. Which yet-to-be-started fic is first on your list?

The vast majority of the fics on my list are wips, though one that I haven't started yet but really want to is a DickTim Witcher AU that I cooked up with my beta reader. Contrary to expectation, they're both mages within the setting rather than witchers. I consider this one not started yet, but I do have a tiny bit of it written, which is here as an excerpt:

Tim didn't cry when his parents gave him up.  How could he, when it was all but expected? Ending up on the wrong side of a succession crisis had thrown his parents’ political position into disarray. They’d been scrambling for any shred of influence, desperate to stay just one step ahead of the assassin’s blade. What is one life weighed against the legacy of a family and its ability to survive another day?  The first lesson that Tim learns at Ban Ard is that his life is worth several thousand crowns, a promise of political protection from the Brotherhood of Sorcerers, and the look of relief on his parents’ faces when they turn away from him for what he will eventually know to be the final time. The heavy hand that rests on his shoulder is little comfort in the face of this revelation. A handful of confusing, blurred-together days later, the second thing that Tim learns at Ban Ard is that Dick Grayson is the most beautiful person he’s ever seen

My beta reader knows way more about the witcher universe than I do, so I'm relying on them pretty heavily for details here lol 13. Aside from fanfic, are there any other fan works you’d like to try creating? Fanart, or fanvids, gifsets, or podfic?  Possibly podfic? Though it's not a skillset I possess, outside of at one point attempting to audio record the first chapter of Red in Tooth and Claw while drunk lol

#jagn answers #gerryrigged #dicktim #ask games

[vellaphoria]

Can I ask about "truth serum or dare" from you WIP list? 👀

it was originally my February YOTP entry which I am very late on lol

Basically: every year, Bruce makes everyone go through something akin to exposure therapy with truth serum. Tim, Dick, Jason, Steph, and Damian have instead turned it into a modified game of truth or dare where you challenge someone to a dare and if they decline, you get to ask them a question, prompting a forced response via truth serum.

Tim usually wins the game with his lying to Batman skills, but Steph is trying to pull of a surprise victory that year by exploiting Tim's crush on Dick.

Long excerpt is below the cut:

Steph glares down at the aerosol canister like it personally broke her dad out of Blackgate, once upon a time.

"I just don't get why we have to do this every six months," she says, tossing the canister from one hand to the other.  

Tim shrugs. "Could be worse. Could be every two months. Like the Gotham sewer escape drill."

"Ugh, don't remind me," She grumbles.

"At least it isn't shots anymore. That's one good thing."

There's a knock at the door frame.

"Hey, are you two ready?" Dick asks, poking his head in. He looks a bit… dressed down.

Steph almost laughs at that. While comfortable clothes are probably a good idea for tonight, he's the only vigilante she knows who consistently wears his own merch. Though she’d be lying if she said that he didn’t make the too-tight t-shirt and Nightwing sweatpants look good…

"One sec," Tim says. He holds up the aerosol and promptly sprays himself in the face with it.

“Alright. I think it’s working, but…” He raises an eyebrow at Dick. "You get one free shot. Ask me something."

"Why can't I ask you something?" Steph asks, trying not to sound whiny.

Tim makes a face. "Because you know too much," he says. Which is honest, if uninformative. "Also, that was a question."

She sticks her tongue out at him.

Dick, on the other hand, looks like he's really thinking about it. After a moment, he grins. Wide enough that it can’t mean anything but trouble.

"Who's your favorite vigilante in Gotham?"

"You are," Tim says, apparently before he can think better of it. 

Steph gasps in faux-offense. "Rude."

"Hey, he calls it like he sees it." Dick waggles his eyebrows in a way that's exaggerated enough to make Steph laugh.

"Jerk," Tim mutters. Though he smiles as he says it, so he can't be too mad.

He stands up from his seat, putting the aerosol canister back on the counter.

"I think there's an extra one back there if you haven't gotten yours yet," he says.

"Nope, not yet. Thanks for not asking."

It's the tradition, of course, to only ask questions within the game itself or by specific request. Anything other than that counts as cheating, and generally results in automatic disqualification and the offender being made to pick up extra chores from Alfred.

Usually the worst ones. Like scraping bat guano off of various things in the Cave.

“Well, don’t take too long,” Tim says. 

Dick doesn't make any particular effort to move out of the way as Tim walks past him, but he does glance down, his eyes tracking him as he leaves.

Is he… staring at Tim's ass?

When he looks back at Steph, he startles like he'd forgotten she was there. Then his expression turns a little guilty. It's confirmation enough that yes, he absolutely was.

Steph feels herself smirking. Because this? This gives her an idea.

This is how she’s going to finally be the one to finally beat Tim at his own game. And there's nothing he's going to be able to do about it. 

Apparently her thought process is showing, since Dick raises an eyebrow at her.

"Okay…" he says, "that's a mildly terrifying expression. Do I even want to know what you're thinking?"

"Nope!"

He shakes his head. Then he goes for one of the leftover aerosol containers.

"Well, better get ready. This game isn’t going to lose itself…"

#ask games #jagn answers #gerryrigged

[vellaphoria]

Fic Stats Tag Game

Thanks for the tag, @themandylion!

Rules: Give us the links to your fic with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the least words.

Disclaimer: this is only fics where I'm the solo author because otherwise the social isolation round robin gang throws off the results XD Most hits: Deadfall (Gen/Tim-centric, M for violence and Ra's being creepy) Second most kudos: Cut and Run (Tim & Bruce & Ra's, T, angst) Third most comments: This Whole Damn City Thinks It Needs You (But not as Much as I Do) (DickTim, E, nsfw) Fourth most bookmarks: to your own blood, and empty spaces in the throat (Gen, T, Thor angst hours) Fifth most words: This City's Built on Salted Earth (Gen, M for violence and gaslighting, Tim & Jason) Least words: All That You Are to Me (DickTim, T, supposed to be a flashfic series but I ran out of spoons after the first one lol)

it's late so if you want to be tagged consider yourself tagged XD

#jagn answers #dicktim #among other things #tag games

[vellaphoria]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Thank you for the tag @waffleinator-inator! <3

20 Questions for Fic Writers

How many works do you have on AO3?

There are 40 that I’ve solo-authored, and 9 that I did varying degrees of work on when a group of dc writers doing a round robin fic collaboration thing

What’s your total A03 word count?

It’s a bit thrown off by the aforementioned colabs, but I don’t want to go through and do the math, so the overall total is 567,072

What fandoms do you write for?

Mostly DC! The comics variant, that is. And within that, mostly Batman-adjacent characters. Though I also have one fic each for the avengers, the silmarillion, and haikuu

What are your top five fics by kudos?

Excluding the collaborations, it’s:

Cut and Run (Bruce crashes Tim and Ra’s’ dinner/business meeting; T, gen, 1.6k)

Deadfall (Canon divergence where Tim died in Red Robin and was resurrected/kidnapped by Ra’s; M, gen, 125k, on hiatus)

Recursion (Tim accidentally travels back in time to when Dick was just starting out as Nightwing, which is complicated by the fact that they still haven’t made up after Damian became Robin; M for mild nsfw, DickTim, 20k)

Complications (Outsider POV of post RR-canon divergence, ft. morally grey Tim; G, gen, 1.7k)

This Whole Damn City Thinks It Needs You (But Not as Much as I Do) (There has been a fair amount of building ust between Dick and Tim after Red Robin. Dick decides to do something about that; E for blatant nsfw, DickTim, 23k)

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes, but very slowly!

I respond because is someone took the time to engage with my work and actually write one, then it feels like it’s only right for me to put in an equal amount of effort to respond.

What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

That would probably be the DickBabs with unrequited DickTim wedding Tumblr fic (here, if you like pain)

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

It’s hard to say. Since I tend to be averse to bad endings, most of my fics have happy endings of one sort or another

Do you get hate on your fic?

Sometimes. Usually from people who can’t grasp that limited third person POV means that the narrating character doesn’t have perfect information at all times, or people who are upset that characters don’t make 100% rational decisions 100% of the time.

Do you write smut?

Yep! <3

Do you write crossovers?

Depends on how you define them. I tend to do a lot of AUs which blend elements from other settings with DC, but I don’t really enjoy writing characters from different, unrelated media meeting.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge!

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! My Running (and when to stop) DickTim series was translated into 中文-普通话 國語 by SummerVapour and tiktiktiktiktam, which is linked on the fic itself

Have you ever co-written a fic?

Yes; I helped write a few fics in the round robin collaboration series A Journey of Personal Discovery Through Social Isolation. Amusingly, we named it that a year before the pandemic started.

What‘s your all-time favourite ship?

DickTim, to absolutely no one’s surprise :D

What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Probably To Break Every Bended Knee; or, Apocrypha. I really love the setting, but the fic is supposed to be JayTimDick and all the endings I plotted for it ended up being DickTim with Jason kind of doing his own thing. That doesn’t seem like a particularly satisfying conclusion to anyone interested in the story, so I decided to put my time elsewhere.

What’s your writing strengths?

Comments that have gone into specifics have said that my fics have good characterization, visualization, and engrossing plots.

What’s your writing weaknesses?

I’m very bad at brevity, so writing short, snappy fics that also make sense doesn’t usually work out for me.

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I pretty much only speak English, so I don’t tend to do it. If I ever had a fic that absolutely needed it, then I’d ask for writing support from someone who actually does speak the language in question.

First fandom you wrote for?

Depends on how you define wrote. If you mean wrote and published, then it’s DC. If you mean wrote when I was a kid and then let disappear into the files of a long-defunct computer, then probably Stargate SG-1.

Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

Of the stuff I have published, probably Recursion. Though if I’m allowed to include WIPs, then I’ve been working on a DickTim slowburn on and off for a while now. It’s meant to cover things from when they meet to post-Red Robin, with a fair amount of mini canon divergences throughout. Currently it’s somewhere upwards of 50k, but I haven’t had a chance to work on it in a while. If you're in the mood for it, no pressure tagging @gerryrigged, @marirah, and @themandylion :D

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[vellaphoria]

Hi! For the writer's ask game: 25, 27, and 29 :) Also, I reread Midnight Elegy recently and it's even better then I remembered!

Hello!! :D as;lkdjfa;skldjls I'm glad you enjoyed it enough to reread it! I had such a good time writing that one. Thank you for the incredibly kind words! <3

Answers below the cut:

25. What fic do you wish you got more of a response on? Gethsemane in Winter, probably For context, at one point I wrote a DickTim Earth-3 series because there was a very specific interpretation of the concept that I desperately wanted to read but that didn't exist. So I set out to write it myself, knowing that it probably wouldn't get too much attention, given the number of (accurate) warning tags I slapped on it. I worked hard on it and am proud of the result, but there's still a bit of wistfulness about it because of the nature of incredibly niche things.

Though if anyone is curious enough to look at the part of the map labeled here be dragons, then the series is A Fact or a Weapon, which comes from a wonderfully haunting (and apt, for the fic) line from the poem "We are Hard" by Margaret Atwood:

A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you

is that a fact or a weapon?

27. What is your most and least favorite part of writing?

My most favorite part is writing descriptions! I tend to be a visual thinker, so I spend a fair amount of time thinking about where things are in a scene, how they would look, and how to describe things in a way that builds the sort of atmosphere I'm going for.

My least favorite part is writing transitions between scenes. I tend to over-write them and draw things out that aren't important to the plot (one reason why everything I write spirals out of control lol). Sometimes it's hard for me to know when it's best to put a scene break in vs. when to do an actual transition via text.

29. What’s your revision or editing process like?

I tend to go chapter by chapter for multi-chapter fics. My first goal is to get the thing written, so I try not to commit to serious revisions unless there's some sort of overarching problem with what I've got.

Revisions start once I have a mostly finished rough draft of a chapter. At that point, I read through it to make sure that I'm not missing anything and then send it to my beta reader so that they can give me a general vibe check (i.e. does it make sense, does it flow right, is the tone consistent/does it work for the fic, spelling and grammar, etc.). They also do a lot of cheerleading which really gets me through a lot of the tougher parts of writing <3 After I have the beta-approved version, I do another pass through for spelling and grammar and probably tweak some things. If it's a chapter, then it probably sits for a bit while I work on other parts of the fic. If it's a oneshot, then I format it for Ao3 and finalize the title and tags that I'm using before posting.

There's also a secret step where sometimes I don't like what I have, so I tear it up and recycle the parts into other things lol (questions are from this list)

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[vellaphoria]

So intrigued by Lazarus!Tim!

Oooooh I love that one. It started out as a DickTim week 2022 fic for a prompt that was something like 'Dick has a revelation' As can probably be guessed by the premise, the starting point is that sometime post RR, Tim dies and Dick has to make a snap decision on whether or not to resurrect him. He does, but there are some... complications. Mostly to the tune of Tim's normally firmly held moral convictions getting a bit looser. And also vampirism. Both of them handle these developments super well. (Narrator voice: no they don't)

It's also the fic that has a short part of it posted as part of an ask meme here.

Thanks for the ask!!

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