Welcome! I'm Petiolata 😊 you can also call me Wasps.
Since I get asked sometimes: you can write fics based off of fic ideas or snippets I've posted--nothing would make me happier. Please let me know when it's posted so I can read it too!
In addition: Non-commercial, non-AI use of my fanfics or fanfic ideas is also fine for podfics, fanart, and fic remixes or spinoffs.
Re: AI: I will never post or deliberately reblog AI content. If you see me reblog any AI content, please let me know so I can remove it from my tumblr.
Re: blocking: I block liberally and often have no issue with the people I block (for example blocking people with popular posts so I don't have to see their viral post for the tenth time). If you want to follow this blog or talk to me about something but have been blocked, let me know elsewhere and I'll unblock you.
ABOUT ME
My favorite thing in the world is stories, both reading and writing them. I write everything from fluff to darkfic, in lengths from drabbles to longfic and novels. I write gen, I write M/M, F/F, and M/F, whatever catches my fancy at the moment.
I have chronic fatigue + physical disabilities and I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to dictate most of my writing, and Audacity to record my dictations in case Dragon fails without me noticing. If I complain about editing a lot, it's because Dragon, while pretty good, f**ks up a LOT of sentences. Editing is my nemesisssss.
Current fandoms: DC (Batfam), APH, Warhammer (both 40k and Fantasy).
(POSSIBLY) RELEVANT BELIEFS:
—I'm very pro-fanon, fuck canon, do what you want. Fandom is for fun.
—I like Death of the Author and reader-response theory. I feel like every time someone reads one of my stories, they're bringing their own unique contribution to it. If my fic has been read 1,000 times, then it has 1,000 cowriters.
— Should go without saying, but: there are multiple ways to interpret creative works and no one right interpretation of them.
—I think canon is about what's in the source material itself, statements made by the directors or actors or writers on Twitter or in interviews don't count as canon.
—I'm staunchly anti-censorship.
WARNINGS:
I love nature and animals, so I often reblog posts of them, which can include ones that are common phobias (spiders, bugs, snakes). I am a descriptive tagger as my default--spiders are tagged as "spiders", bugs tagged as "bugs", and snakes tagged as "snakes". You can apply this logic to any animal I post--a lizard would be tagged as "lizards" and so on.
Posts about mental health and trauma will be tagged as such.
RELEVANT TAGS & LINKS:
OP - posts where I am the original poster
petiolata reads - quotes and musings on things I'm reading
my AO3 account - all my wonderful fics
snippets - fics ideas, snippets and drabbles here on Tumblr
I made a little Latin language zine for Taskmaster! Here they are. I'll be posting it on AO3 with translation notes aplenty. There's a banter section - in Latin - with a Latin pun that I stole!
"enthusiastic consent" "dubcon" "noncon" ???con where we're both so neurotic and strange about vulnerability and emotional and physical expression that it'd take a crack team of philosophers to figure out whether anything about what we did together was consensual or even semiotically definable as sex
I live for accents. Accents are human. Strong accents haven't been sullied by the kind of homogenisation of trying to sound like influencers and the like.
I love a heavy Polish accent. I love German speakers. I love Irish accents from the West and North. I love my own regional accent. I love it when people speaking in their second language use unusual words in a sentence. I love slang. I love working class, uncouth chat.
Be proud of your speaking voice. People who don't speak in a 'proper' way, I love you the most.
My disinterest in getting online continues, and it's so strange to me.
I've never been one of those people that struggles to scroll less or whatever. But people's creations/thoughts/opinions/discourses have always been interesting to me so I would consider browsing the internet to be entertaining.
And now I just don't care, am not interested. It's hard to make myself get online when it feels like I can always find a better use for my time.
There are definitely still some awesome ppl online with things worth hearing. That's why I still bother to try and check in every few days 😆 if it wasn't for them I really would walk away for good.
I can't think of anything that mightve induced this change, other than spending a lot of time painting miniatures. Like yeah, I did that before, but since I got 30+ dropped onto my to-paint list I've been painting p much from whenever I clock off until bedtime. Except when I have other obligations (cooking dinner, swimming, D&D, reading for bookclub, stuff like that).
Tbh It feels like there's nothing left to do on the internet, and no communities to be a part of. Anything interesting that can be found is scraps, the remaining few bits of goodness that enshittification hasn't gotten around to ruining yet. AI especially has really poisoned the well.
I'm doing well though, just keeping busy painting and working on my creative projects. Now I'm gonna go read with my partner and then paint 😆
