This is primarily a fandom blog, currently focused on BNHA, previously active in BBC Sherlock.
Here you'll find fandom things, headcanons, rambling about fics (and writing in general), occasional meta & translations, as well as other miscellaneous things I find interesting.
(See the index below if you're looking for my old Sherlock posts.)
Writing updates are tagged: dancing girl writes.
AdventureOfTheDancingGirl on AO3.
@/dancinggirl221b on bsky and twt
Sideblogs:
@seeyouafter a collection of my thoughts and various ephemera related to my ongoing tdbk epistolary fic "See You After"
@ordinaryoffensivemagic various content related to the manga/anime 葬送のフリーレン (Sousou no Frieren)
Notes and helpful tags:
Asks are open if you want to chat. Give me an excuse to talk about my writing notes or headcanons if you want to make my day. Anon is usually on but be kind. There is a real human on the other side of the screen.
Replies are tagged as dancing girl asks. If you want to say hi but don't know what to say, feel free to check out the ask games tag.
🏷️Tag Index:
I have a comprehensive tag index that I finally updated but these are the tags that I'm using most often these days:
💜Personal Tags:
dancing girl rambles - random thoughts, generally not fandom related
dancing girl writes - tag for my fics and general thoughts on writing (previous tags: my writing - this one has mostly Sherlock stuff, writing updates)
also: see you after fic, sya writing log
🩵General writing & fandom stuff
on writing, writing reference, fandom life, AO3 tips, tumblr tips
💚BNHA Content
dancing girl’s bnha thoughts - includes my personal reactions, headcanons, misc. thoughts related to bnha
bnha fanfic - includes my fics and others I recommend
I use the tag bnha for all my hero academia related reblogs. spoilers are tagged bnha manga spoilers
Chapter reactions/thoughts are tagged with the chapter number as bnha xxx, see also: bnha meta (not all meta is mine)
images: bnha manga, bnha anime, bnha art (for my favorite bnha fanart)
Multi-ship, but TDBK is my OTP. (that being said, a lot of my reblogs with "ship" tags are purely for organization purposes and most can be viewed as platonic.)
I just want a happy todofam au so I made a tag for it (other AUs/themes that I reblog a lot: fantasy au, winter au, childhood friends au)
The ladies of this series don't get enough love in canon so I like to highlight them with the tag bnha girls
Other commonly used character tags: class 1a, origin trio, remedial squad (If you're searching for someone specific I generally just tag the character’s name as it shows up in AO3’s tagging system)
misc collections: 2023 bnha xmas sketch
💛BBC Sherlock
Main tags: sherlock, johnlock
Sherlock Fic Recs - Mostly BBC Sherlock universe. Most of my own Sherlock fics are under the My Writing tag
BBC Sherlock: sherlock meta, series 4 theories (also: season 4 theories), sherlock parallels, mirrors
Original Canon: acd canon, AStudyInCanonBookClub, acd parallels, sherlock analysis
see tag index for additional tags and other fandoms
🧡Misc. Tags (not fandom)
mental health, reminders, encouragement
otterly adorable, cute animals, beautiful things, reasons to smile
bookish things, reading log, quotes
💭Random Facts:
I share my birthday with Dabi
My username is a play on the Sherlock Holmes story "Adventure of the Dancing Men".
Even though I'm not active in the Sherlock fandom anymore, I decided to keep the same username because dancing is part of my IRL identity and I didn't want to keep track of a separate account. Also, Mina is my dancing (alien) queen so the name still works.
I'm going to try to write a little bit every day this month. Mostly I want to work on my existing WIPs that are long overdue for posting, but I also want to write some short things, just for fun, to hopefully find my spark again.
•A word scramble will be posted every other day starting on August 1st, 2026, at around 4 a.m. Eastern. There are 14 prompts in all, with a plethora of possible words.
•All fandoms and original works welcome! We absolutely do not believe in censorship. Please be kind, tag properly, and have a great time!
•We guarantee that there is a 7-letter word in each scramble. However, feel free to use any word(s) you find that inspire you. The word(s) you choose simply need to inspire your creation; they don't need to be a major theme.
•Handy link to a Scrabble word-finder site to help you if you need it! https://scrabblewordfinder.org/solver
•Use #wsc2026 #word-scramble-challenge, and there is a collection on AO3 [here] to which you can add your creations anytime starting August 1st (the collection will remain open indefinitely)!
•Will you be reblogging everything? No, this blog will remain prompts only for ease of use, but please browse through the tags and get your fandom involved! It will be more fun that way!
• This is for creators of all types: create anything! We mean anything! Write a multi-chapter fic, drabbles, one-shots, haikus, or an experimental poem. Puffy paint a t-shirt. Make a sticker or paper collage. Sketch in your journal. Take a photo. Cook a recipe. Bake. Embroider! Sew. Quilt. Mood boards. Alter a book. Send postcards to friends. Sculpt. Make a house for your pet rock! Invent a cocktail. Write letters! Create playlists! The list goes on infinitely!
It's that time of the year again! 31 days of writing prompts. You have two prompts each day, meant to give you a choice if one of them doesn't speak to you, but how you handle them is up to you. Whether you work with only one of them, put both prompts in the same fill or write two fills, one for each prompt.
This even is open for all forms of writing. Original stories, fanfiction, poems, haikus, drabbles or novel lengths. We don’t dictate what you write or how you write it; all fandoms, all ships and all themes are welcome in our event. AI created content is strictly forbidden.
Some important links: Rules (more detailed) | FAQ | AO3 Collection 2026 | Discord Server
Just very berrybrained right now. I'm picking and eating blueberries everyday and I can never get enough! I like to imagine that every berry has a whole world in them ✨
I'm so obsessed right now that I spent a week of no sleep designing blue space berry lanterns. It's still just a prototype and needs a lot of refining, but I'm pretty happy with it so far :)
It's wild blueberry season in Sweden and I've been picking and eating my fill everyday from the forest behind my house! The entire forest floor is covered in wild blueberry bushes and the tangy taste is so cosmic, I had to paint them✨
Photos of the berries I picked!
honestly one of my favorite things about fanfic is when you can see the canon influences come out in really subtle ways. like a canon line thats mentioned once as a throwaway is suddenly the entire premise for a fic or it influences the characterization or something. its just so cool to see how people weave their ideas around a source material, especially if its not a detail i'd thought about before
