#bwtch

[llyfrenfys]

hey im a butch lesbian learning welsh, and i've seen a few different ways of butch translating into Welsh (specifically bwts, bwtsh, and bwtch). i was wondering if there's any notable difference between the three words and also if there are any Welsh terms for femme? sorry for the long ask I'm just really curious and u seem like the guy to ask ! thanks in advance and i love yr blog ! <3

Hello!

It's very interesting that you say you've seen variations on 'bwtsh' since I'd only ever come across 'bwtsh'. 'Bwts' and 'Bwtch' are new to me- if you don't mind, would you mind sharing where you came across these (e.g. spoken/in slang, written down etc.)? I love to learn about new variations I haven't come across before!

I wouldn't say there's too much difference between 'bwts' and 'bwtsh', though 'bwtch' may be difficult for a native speaker to pronounce since in Welsh 'ch' is pronounced like the 'ch' in Loch (like Loch Ness).

The current official word for femme in Welsh is 'ffem'- though I feel like Welsh versions of butch and femme could be cool.

There are older terms which are analogous to women's masculinity and femininity, however, they have negative connotations. E.g. 'gwrywes' is an old term (circa 1700s) for a masculine woman. If one were to reclaim that term, you could theoretically coin a new term like 'fenywes' (which would literally translate to 'feminine girl') to compliment it. (Of course, other terms would be needed for butch/femme in the gay men's sense as well).

Hopefully that's been in any way useful. Thank you for the question, I love talking about these things!

[y3nikilshi]

She did a fanfic!

For the first time in seventeen years I have written and posted fanfic! As part of the @stetersecretsanta2022 for @bwtch​

If the Moon Smiled She would Resemble You 

Fanart under the keep reading thing!

[lucky-bishop]

1, 3, 27 for the EOTY fanfic ask!

Thank you for the ask!! 💖

1. favorite fic you wrote this year This was a big writing year! I think I'd have to go back to early in the year and say Try, Try Again is my favorite from this year! It was just so much fun to write.

3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year Again, this is tough, because I wrote a lot this year! I have 31 fics on AO3 and 23 of them were published in 2022. I think for me it has to be the scene where Stiles meets the nogitsune in For This I'll Burn. Without tooting my own horn too much, I really like reimagining the nogitsune and its riddles for that scene.

27. favorite fanfic author of the year Oh god this is so difficult to answer. Here is instead a short list of fic recs from this year that I loved! Please check tags/warnings and note that some of these are series or parts of series, but I tried to keep it to what was published in 2022. I read so much amazing fic this year, this was a tough list to come up with! Would You Offer Your Throat to the Wolf With the Red Roses? by @punchedbymarkesmith

The Belt Awaits You by @meggie-stardust

I'm On Your Mind by @asarcasticwitch

Balancing Darkness by @illbeintheend

Own Me (series) by @nrnyx

[meggie-stardust]

:) for the new year ask game: 13, 24

Thanks, megtwin! <3

13. Aside from fanfic, are there any other fan works you’d like to try creating? Fanart, or fanvids, gifsets, or podfic?  Last year, as you know, I made my first gif for your fic, and that was really cool and fun to play with getting that Criminal Minds vibe... And it also made me realize that there might be ways for someone who is not as visually artistic to do "fanart" in ways I never considered.

That said, I've always wanted to try my hand at podfic; I used to do professional VO work, but I don't have a good set up at home, which is my biggest blocker. But who knows... maybe I'll try it if I have the time this year...

24. By the end of this year, you want your fandom to think of you as “that author who _______.” Recently, I've got some really lovely comments on my last few fics around two themes, and I think those are what I would like to me known for: 1. That author who does really interesting canon divergence fics 2. That author who explores magic in a really unusual way Or more likely: that author who does really interesting canon divergence fics that explores magic in a really unusual way

[mysuperrainbow]

My "FRIENDS" taunting me while I'm working!!

@slightlydepressing youre a ho, you know that! 👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽

[isthatbloodonhisshirt]

✨🌈☀️send this to the ten people you’re happy to see every time they pop up on your dash/notif and wish them a good day🌟🌈💥

Awww, thank you so, so much!! I’m sorry my queue has been empty for like, probably months >.>;; My bad |D But thank you for this, it’s super sweet and I really appreciate it <3<3<3 

[lucky-bishop]

New year ask game: 1, 14

Thank you for the ask!! 💕

1. Do you have a word-count goal for the upcoming year?

Loosely! It's not something I'm married to, but I'd love to hit 200k this year as a stretch goal, and 150k as a more 'reasonable' goal. In 2022, I managed 189,133 so I think 200k is possible, but it would be a reach!

14. Have you ever lost large chunks of your work in the past, due to not backing up your work? Will you change your methods this year?

Not for fanfic, haha. I write pretty exclusively in google docs so it's always backing up/saving. The biggest piece of writing I've ever lost was an original work that I did for NaNoWriMo back in 2015 (as my senior project in high school). It was only saved locally on a hard drive for my old laptop, which had a full ginger ale dumped on it and was fried and unrecoverable 🙃 I don't think I ever would have done anything with it, but it sucks to not even have something to look back on. I will never a) only save writing locally unless absolutely necessary for some reason and b) not receive a hug with an open ginger ale next to me again.

[meggie-stardust]

Hey, Meg twin! How about 1, 8, and 14 for the ask game?

Yay thank you <3

What’s the first fic you have planned for the new year? It's a Gundam Wing 2x3 fic that's part of a larger series I've been working on for the last year or so (which makes it sound longer than it is, but I wrote one in 2021, and one in 2022). It's already been started, so I just need to complete it, and I'm hoping to get that done in January for reasons.

8. Do you have a big project planned for the new year? I've been wanting to finally finish It's Only Forever, but I think that after 4ish years of ignoring it, it's not just about writing the ending; I think I want to go back and do an edit. Thematically it's a lot like At This Truth We Have Arrived, except that it's Stiles coming back to Beacon Hills after a number of years away, and after writing that, I know there are things I could update and improve in It's Only Forever.

The problem is that there really isn't a good way to re-edit once something is on AO3... I could create a new post but I'd lose the history in the only one; people have subscribed to the old one, so I don't want to do that... So, maybe it's replacing the existing chapters with edited versions? Or maybe it's leaving chapters 1-4 as is, and saying that Chapter 5 starts as a re-edit??

If anyone has some good tips on the best way to do this, let me know. It's one of the reasons I haven't yet.

14. Is there any idea that’s been laying around for a long time in your drafts that you think “this year I’ll write it!”? Good question... Steter has been my primary ship for about 6 years, and I feel like I've written everything that was on my to write list. That doesn't mean I'll stop writing for them, I just don't have a story that's waiting in the wings, so to speak. Give Me Pure Energy was from the old "what if Peter haunted Stiles" idea that had been kicking around for a while. AND a lot of little ideas where used during Steter Week this year (Daemon AU, bouncing through time, etc). All of this is to say, no, not really.