Hi there! I'm Seiya, aka starsniper! (she/her) This is my blog for assorted blorbo posting and writing, hope you enjoy your stay! 😄
Other places you can find me:
BlueSky: starsniper
AO3: starsniper (backups hosted on Ellipsus)
Discord: starsniper
Transformative Works: Consider this statement blanket permission to create any type of transformative work based off my fanfics or headcanons on Tumblr! I only ask you let me know what you've created either using the "Inspired By" link on AO3 or tagging me on Tumblr or Bluesky, just because I love, love, love seeing that sort of thing.
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Below the cut are a list of my personal tags to make searching my blog a bit easier if you're looking for something I've made. There's also a list of general fandoms I blog about, though the list isn't exhaustive as my interests change fairly frequently. I try my best to tag sensitive content, but if I've missed something, please send me a DM or a non-anon ask!
⟪⟪General Personal Tags⟫⟫
#seiya talks (all my original posts and ramblings)
#seiya answers (answers out of my ask box! Includes fic requests)
#seiya gets tagged (for all the tag games!)
#seiya memes (memes I've made)
#icons by seiya (tumblr icons I've made)
#gifs by seiya (gifs I've made)
#seiya commissions art (all the lovely art I've commissioned from various artists)
#to read (books I want to read)
#to watch (media I want to watch)
⟪⟪Personal Writing Tags⟫⟫
#seiya writes (all of my writing, across all fandoms)
#seiya's wip previews (for previews on what I'm working on)
#seiya's masterposts (masterposts I've made for events/challenges)
#seiya's headcanons (headcanons I have that aren't full fics)
#wip inspo (things that might turn into fics! feel free to bother me about any of the ones that interest you!)
#writing prompt games (send me a fic prompt from any of these posts! no expiration date!)
#ask game (send me an ask from any of these games!)
⟪⟪Fandom Specific Personal Writing Tags⟫⟫
#seiya writes bean counter (writing for The Other World's Books Depend On the Bean Counter)
#seiya writes arcane (writing for Arcane: League of Legends)
#seiya writes solo leveling (nothing finished here yet, just a wip!)
#seiya writes nocturne (writing for Castlevania: Nocturne)
#seiya writes murderbot tv
#seiya writes dbda (writing for Dead Boy Detectives)
#seiya writes loki tv (writing for Loki TV)
#seiya writes gotham (writing for Gotham TV)
#seiya writes legends of tomorrow (writing for Legends of Tomorrow)
#seiya writes sandman (Note: posts with specifics ships will also have #seiya writes [ship name])
⟪⟪General Fandom Tags⟫⟫
#the other's world's books depend on the bean counter / #iseshachi / #isekai office worker
#kpop demon hunters / #kpdh
#interview with the vampire / #iwtv (movie and amc tv series)
As a fan creator, you are your own “boss” and therefore you decide on your own workload. However, if you are enthusiastic about the fandom or if you’re one of a small set of creators or if you’re trying to “keep up” with other writers, you might take on more work than you can reasonably handle.
A lot of fan creators feel a strong sense of responsibility attached to their posting schedule, for example, or feel guilt associated with not writing on a particular day. Self-imposed deadlines can become hard and fast rules rather than personal goals, and there is stress and anxiety related to not meeting those deadlines. Missing a posting date or taking too long of a break from uploading content can feel like a risk, like your audience will be disappointed and might even disappear.
Workload becomes a problem when you feel overwhelmed by what you need to do. This might be because you have accepted prompts from others, because you’ve started several works in progress but not completed them yet, or because you’ve signed up to participate in fandom events.
If you find yourself overloaded and stressed out by your to do list, it’s time to prioritize and deselect.
What fics are you most interested in writing? Put those at the top of your list. What are you not at all interested in doing? Remove those from the list. If that means that you won’t fill a prompt, let the requester know that you won’t be able to write it for them. Generally speaking, people are understanding. Telling them also means that they are free to give that prompt to another author.
Fandom event organizers would also rather you let them know early that you’ll be pulling out. The more time you can give them to find a replacement for you, the better. Most organizers have “back up” writers available who will take on unclaimed prompts for people who are unable to complete the challenge or event.
Be open and honest with yourself and with others about what you can really do. It will be better for everyone involved. A sustainable workload is necessary for you to be able to continue creating long-term.
Because of the amount of time and energy being devoted to fic and the exhaustion that results from overwork, authors who are experience burnout are more likely to need more rewards from the community in order to feel like their effort is worthwhile. If the reward they are receiving feels too small for too long, these authors might complain about a lack of comments or kudos, insist on more interaction from their communities, or maybe even stop writing altogether.
Unfortunately, no amount of reward will help them restore their depleted energy.
It’s important to note that you can feel burnt out, even when you’re doing something you love. Because it’s something you love doing, you are more likely to push yourself to do it even when you’re tired or otherwise need to rest. This is even more true when fic writing is something you’ve done in the past to help you relax from other life stresses.
If you are feeling stressed out or overwhelmed or like you have too much on your plate take a step back. Give yourself some time off. Remember that writing is your hobby and ultimately the only person you are responsible to is yourself.
Rest, recharge, and let go of the things that aren’t working right now. Take care of yourself first and you’ll be better able to take care of others later.
Why the fuck are so many people worried about Wattpad users reporting AO3 fics. Do you guys not know how AO3 works???
a real person looks at all abuse reports on AO3;
if enough people report a fic on AO3, AO3 won't let people keep reporting it, so that the volunteers' time isn't wasted going through 3000 reports;
IF it violates AO3's terms of service the author gets a warning and plenty of time to amend the violation;
most AO3 TOS violations occur in the tags or author's notes and are things like linking to the author's patreon or forgetting to tag a major archive warning or CNTW -- things it's easy to fix!
the only common thing I see that AO3 would delete (after warning the author!) is "not a fanwork" violations, where someone posts a request for prompts or something, and there's no actual fic or art;
AO3 tends to err on the side of keeping something up because they are a not-for-profit dedicated to giving fanworks a place to exist online, not a for-profit website that needs ad revenue to stay up.
If people are harassing authors, that sucks and authors should take measures they deem necessary to be comfortable. If they want to, yeah, they can delete their fics. It's always a good idea to download your favorite fics, because fics get deleted all the time for lots of reasons. But AO3 isn't out here deleting fics without warning and for no reason.
And for people worried that Wattpad users don't understand AO3 etiquette... c'mon, you can't tell me that current AO3 users all understand AO3 etiquette. There's plenty of people posting their giant oneshot collections or whining that you should've written this other ship instead of what you wrote or whatever who've had AO3 accounts for years.
It's out of fashion to drone on about "the pit of voles", but it's still open season on sold to 1D, I guess.
Dumb n00b behavior on AO3 has been constant for years because AO3 is super popular now and thus has a steady stream of new people all the time, not just when Wattpad, FFN, et al. do something.
TBH, I'm more concerned about the Wattpadders I see who are like "Guys, it's okay! The guidelines are only so they can delete the bad stuff with no artistic merit!"
I hope they keep offsite backups of their own work and download their favorite reading material because a lot of them are about to get a hard lesson in how content policies actually get applied.
A few days ago, I made a report to the abuse team about a Contact me on Discord scam comment I received. I got the confirmation email of the report and 16 minutes later I received the verdict of the abuse team that the comment was indeed a scam/spam comment and that it has been deleted.
Whatever the big fears around here are right now, the Ao3 volunteers aren't dying under a mountain of abuse reports.
Ehh, Wattpad "clarifying their policy" is an extremely common part of the life cycle of an ad-driven platform that is on the path to banning sexually-explicit fanworks, or at least making their rules so subjective that you just have to hope no one will be offended by your vanilla het fics. I am sympathetic to people on Wattpad who want to move to a more stable platform that definitely won't ban their porn, and I wish people on AO3 weren't panicking about things that cannot happen on AO3, like having your fics taken down unfairly due to mass reporting.
I was primarily a gen fan when LiveJournal started randomly deleting both porn communities and communities of rape survivors, and I was a kinky monsterfucker who still primarily wrote gen but enjoyed more explicit stuff when Tumblr banned visual porn and "female-presenting nipples." The Tumblr porn ban cratered my social groups LESS despite it directly harming WAY more of my good friends, because:
a. at that point I'd seen this happen a few times and I knew how it usually went!
b. AO3 existed, so there was a good place for people who were Tumblr-only posters to put their fics!
Fandom goes where the porn goes, and even if it's not something you are personally into, it sucks to realize how much of your social group's continuity depends on the whims of some shitty website's moderation algorithm and what the advertisers are scared of.
Yes, this. I am not especially interested in the most common content types on Wattpad. I am very interested in people not having their social groups constantly disrupted and their art destroyed.
Anybody who's been through the last few rounds should have a lot of empathy for Wattpad users right now. And anybody who's been through this before will know it goes better if you get nervous in time to back up your work and get alternate contact info for your friends that isn't just their handles on that one specific platform.
It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.
The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.
EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.
robots require very frequent breaks! welding machines generally have it programmed in that they can’t run so long they melt themselves. ive overseen two different manufacturing robots now and each of them were fragile, finicky idiots that require constant maintenance and repair. they pause in between moves, in between jobs. you’re always keeping an eye on programming errors, on coolant levels, on heat. you’re always pulling bits of scrap out of joints, sweeping up debris, washing off nozzles and untangling hoses. and even then it snaps a chain and takes a whole morning’s vacation.
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
So, Cheeseburger died on November 21st after an unfairly short battle with an unfairly rare cancer that is rarely seen in cats. I only got to spend a month with him after his diagnosis, and losing him has been the greatest heartbreak of my entire life so far. He was my best friend and my soul cat, and he was there for me when I was completely alone, for twelve long years.
I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.
I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.
Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.
Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.
"You should create for yourself" and "it's okay to feel discouraged when creating your own original projects if no one interacts with them" are two sentences that should be able to co-exist with each other
On the one hand, you should kill that capitalist in your head that tells you to make art only for the enjoyment of other people. On the other hand, it's totally fine to be disappointed that you spent hours or even days on something that only got 4 notes. You can feel both ways.
The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.
And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and
His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.
However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.
That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.
i truly think that this recent trend of “if you relate to a post about a different identity than your own you are ~derailing~ and taking over the conversation” is incredibly harmful.
i recently experienced some pretty severe transphobic abuse in my workplace (children’s home) that included having food thrown at me, being called slurs, being told i was a pervert because i am trans. one of the managers talked with me afterwards and shared that he had had a similar experience as an Asian man. this wasn’t him derailing my experience, or talking over me, or making things about himself. he was communicating “hey, i know how it feels and how much it sucks. you’re not alone.”
THAT is what solidarity IS. i don’t know what it’s like to be Asian, he doesnt know what it’s like to be trans, but we both had a similar experience and we were able to turn a horrible experience into an opportunity for bonding and comfort.
stop looking at people’s attempts as solidarity as an attack. and hey, you never know - you could find an opportunity to grow closer to other people.
