nico, probably

some people would argue i write

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hello there (´ ▽｀).。

my name’s nico, i use he/him, i’m 19 and i’m a writer. i mostly made this account to talk about my works!

i’m open to whatever questions about them/my aus. you can find them (and me) here on ao3!

DNI if you’re a minor, (i’m an adult, and even if most of my fics aren’t explicit they’re teetering on the edges), and other basic dni criteria.

I'm autistic and I struggle a bit socially so bear with me if I take some time to answer (ᵕ—ᴗ—)

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Hi!! So, this is not as much a question, and more a bit of a rant: a show of appreciation! This will get a bit personal on my part, hope it doesn’t come off as rude?? I guess?? Also i’m sorry for the lenght of this qwq (i don’t even know how requests work!! I’m a bit nervous).

I will say, though, that i have NEVER written anything in any social ever (comments-wise), and usually would stick to myself- but your work, and seeing that you have an account on here made me want to do so. I don’t even think i ever used tumblr in the last years or so, but oh well.

I’ve been reading a lot of fanfiction over the years, but I had never found something that resonated so much with me. So, a bit of the story: Spamtenna has been a pair of my liking for a while now, and while i went through refreshing the tag on ao3, i spotted your work. And it had an italian name!! I am also italian, so i was hooked! I usually don’t read aus that move away from canon too much, but yeah the title reeally peaked my interest.

And the story is so so well written!! I’ve binge-read it in like a day. And then i waited for the other chapters and went back to it on every update. A little funfact here is that I have recently moved to also other fandoms (outside of Deltarune), but I thought about your work and went back to read it. So that’s how much i enjoyed your story.

I really love how.. like, real, the characters feel. Human. Unique- not one-dimensional or exclusively tied to their romantic counterparts: in many works I feel that it’s overlooked how much the world, the people around them- other than the “X Partner”, have an effect on them. A positive one, at that. So i really enjoyed every bit of dialogue, where the characters developed through different kinds of bonds and relationships.

(And on a bit of a side note: I did NOT expect that kris-ralsei-susie drama at the end of ch6!! I am SO curious).

That being sad, yeah, at first, i was captivated because of the resonance I found in the italian language. Culture. Like, the fact that there’s even Naples specific references.

But the thing that made me want to write to you was your note at the end of chapter 6. For this part I will write in italian- hopefully this whole message and thing did not make you in any shape or form uncomfortable. Also again, sorry for the lenght.

Non scrivo, ma anch’io sono artista, almeno nelle arti grafiche, disegno. Quindi capisco bene quel “scegliere un Università per fare qualcosa di più economicamente semplice”, o simil- anche solo socialmente più facile da selezionare. Ho fatto una scelta simile, ma il punto è un altro: indipendentemente dal prima, la tua arte mi ha profondamente ispirato, e benchè non possa chiaramente dar previsioni circa il futuro o simil- posso parlare del presente, e da quel poco che ho potuto vedere, la tua creatività è strabiliante. Almeno, a me (e molti altri a che ho visto! ) è piaciuto molto!

I don’t really know how to end this message if not by saying keep up with what makes you happy, and sorry again for the lenght of this qwq

ciao, ti rispondo in italiano perché ritengo sia più giusto considerato il tuo messaggio toccante.

to all my dear readers that don’t speak italian; sorry for disappearing, i’ll get back to you. i’ve been dealing with some stuff and doing even more stuff, so please, look forward to it!

mi hai davvero, e dico davvero, emozionato. io cerco di spingere sempre i creativi attorno a me a pubblicare ciò che fanno da qualche parte su internet, questo perché— mettendo da parte l’ovvio fattore pubblicitario— se sei fortunato, potresti ricevere commenti come questi. come il tuo.

io non mi aspettavo tutto questo supporto quando ho scelto di scrivere queste storielle. è da anni che scrivo su internet e, per quanto non ritenga corretto lamentarmi dei miei risultati precedenti perché comunque un po’ di seguito l’hanno attratto, mai nulla di paragonabile allo tsunami da cui sono stato travolto da parte del fandom di deltarune.

ho fatto il classico (tra l’altro penso di aver menzionato da qualche parte che so il latino ed il greco, lol) per puro amore genitoriale, ma ho tollerato a fatica gli anni lì. in realtà ho sempre voluto vivere creando qualcosa. è tutta la vita che disegno e penso che i miei disegni in totale li avranno visti 3 persone perché sono piuttosto insicuro.

mi sono iscritto in una facoltà che non volevo fare perché ho fatto lo stesso ragionamento che fanno tutti; l’importante è arrivare col piatto pieno a mezzogiorno, no? e gli artisti non ci arrivano. gli artisti fanno la fame, gli artisti sono degli stupidi, sono superflui, di arte non si campa.

questa mia visione del mondo è stata massacrata nell’ultimo anno.

l’incessante ed a momenti soffocante supporto ricevuto mi ha dato un boost di autostima che non pensavo di sentire mai nella mia vita. non è davvero per tirarmela, ma durante il periodo di punta di Se bruciasse la città ricevevo dozzine di messaggi al giorno di persone che mi dicevano che adoravano i miei personaggi, le mie storie, che avevo avuto un impatto su di loro.

mi sono reso conto che io, per tutta la vita, avevo ascoltato le opinioni sull’arte di gente che arte non ne ha mai fatta e non gli è mai interessata. mi sono reso conto che, da qualche parte, c’è qualcuno che adora quello che faccio.

fosse una persona o fossero 500, io dovrei continuare a farlo.

fosse una persona o fossero 500, io dovrei fare arte.

è stato un processo lento e tumultuoso ma ho capito che non riuscirei a fare null’altro. è sicuramente un percorso complicato ma ho 20 anni. sono ancora un ragazzino. non provarci sarebbe un torto che faccio a me stesso, ed a tutte le persone che hanno creduto in me.

grazie mille. sono estremamente grato per le tue parole, la tua attenzione, il tuo affetto per le mie storie. immaginati che stia facendo l’elegante inchino che si fa nel sol levante per ringraziare.

tra l’altro— probabilmente è una cosa sbagliata, ma non so perché, i complimenti dei miei compatrioti li sento sempre nel profondo. boh. mi hai davvero emozionato.

grazie (=´∀｀)人(´∀｀=)

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hiii still gathering my thoughts about chapter 6 because i want to send a separate ask to gush about it but maybe once i'm less sleep deprived haha- so what i wanted to say is: screaming crying trying to dig my nails into this fic series because your writing is just so good and i LOVE how you capture these characters, and i know the Tenna oneshot is in the works and pardon me if this comes off as rude or pushy but do you think you'd ever want to try out a little prequel about the bigshot days? <- guy who likes how you write Sal having a bad time maybe a little too much. sorry

GOOD LUCK WITH ART SCHOOL BTW I HOPE IT GOES WELL AND YOU'LL ENJOY IT <333

AAAAA THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

and you’re not being pushy at all!!!!

so, i have thought about it and id be down for it but its probably gonna heavily talk about drugs so idk how many people are down for it? because i plan to make it uncomfortable. really show how sal’s addiction impacted everyone around him and him.

and while i personally can’t wait, idk if it’s a little bit too heavy of a topic??

but stay tuned nonetheless. i fear Nothing

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Weirdest ask I've ever written but it needs to be said: I can't wait to read about that guy's erectile dysfunction

thank you anon i also can’t wait to write it. i am a SUCKER for like silly sex shenanigans because, hear me out, i don’t think sex necessarily has to be sexy, especially in works of fiction.

every explicit fanfiction i read is very sensual and it makes sense because we’re basically writing porn— i’m throwing myself in the mix! i’ve written porn before! it’s public on my profile for everyone to see! i’m not saying it’s a bad thing, i’m saying it’s not the only thing you can do.

my old men are very much not sexy. nor sensual. or sultry. or anything remotely close to being sexually attractive. but that’s why i think i have some stretch room to get a bit wacky with it

like sure let it be more about logistics and positions rather than super sexy glances or touches. have you considered the BOTH OF THEM don’t have a bed. or a bedroom. are they gonna fuck on the couch? no, how could they! they both live with teens, you freak!

and also addressing the big penis shaped elephant in the room; i’m expecting all of you to take erectile dysfunction as seriously as i do because i promise you im never gonna joke about it in the fic. its a real thing that people that struggled with addiction may suffer from and im not making them the butt of the joke. i will make jokes about butts, though. plenty of them.

like i can joke about someone’s self worth plummeting because someone else’s dick won’t go up, but i’m not joking about the thing itself. that being said, i have a vast cast of characters and not all of them are as kind as me. you’ll see.

i’m also expecting all of you to be cool with all the dick talk. there aren’t gonna be any pulsating shafts bursting with desire. there are gonna be cocks and balls. soft ones, for the most part.

once i read a comment about someone saying that they were perfectly fine reading about dicks and pussies in smut but got embarrassed once they were brought into a more casual environment and if that’s something you’re struggling with i’m sorry because that’s exactly what’s going to happen. no flowery language. i’m talking scrotums and glans.

so yeah. it’s not exactly erotic porny stuff but it’s also definitely nsfw. it all Came To Me In A Dream

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hi ! hi ! i never made the connection that you're the one who wrote those mettatenna fics (the one where queen teaches ant to eat pussy. i remember it because i was screaming at my phone. please correct me but doesn't ant also ask ramb how he's supposed to eat pussy) which i have loved since the moment they were birthed and you're telling me you're ALSO planning a tonal twin to it but for spamtenna? friend ..... you are blessing us with too much /pos

that being said i love how you ended this fic and i wanted to echo what i said in ao3 comments about how seeing sal written so unapologetically Him in terms of his culture as well is so so Nice like i don't think i can put in words How Nice. especially considering at the end that's basically how he confessed .....

ANYWAY. im a #fan im so excited to see your next fics whether spamtenna OR mettatenna ! YAY

(if it matters your carolqueen made me cry. and i loved ravi ralsei and arthur's shenanigans!)

anon… anon i love you… (￣ε￣＠)

i’m not exactly mad that people don’t recognize me as ALSO a mettatenna author considering that i put a lot more effort into the spamtenna, but i do feel a little giddy when someone makes that connection.

i think the battat section of my mettatenna is like. one of my favorite things i’ve ever written. and i can’t wait to write tenna’s one shot because it’ll be a lot like that one fic lol

this may come as a shock but i don’t consider myself a “serious” author or like. an angst author. i’ve written before for other fandoms and i have a ton of fics under different accounts/orphaned works and they’re usually much lighter. what can i say. i like wacky shenanigans and cartoony characters sue me

this is why i’m so surprised these fics did so well. it’s entirely uncharted territory for me. queen’s whole arc is very heavy, considering her whole grieving and accepting that that one person you loved Maybe wasn’t the greatest, so i was pretty sure i was gonna mess it up, but surprisingly people really seemed to like it??? like huh????

but yeah, about tenna’s one shot— it’s definitely lighter because i personally Need it. i need to write something less dense. so yeah we’re tackling erectile dysfunction

im glad you liked sal’s relationship with his culture because i dont think i did a very good job actually??? genuinely all i did was make him italian. it was easy considering that i am, in fact, italian.

like making references and callbacks to his culture it’s hard because i don’t have to think about it. it comes natural to me because… in that regard, he *is* me.

i’ve been asked a few times if he’s italian american, an italian immigrant, a secret third thing, but i guess its up to you. sal was born and raised in italy until he was like 17 then his parents were like “america sounds nice actually” and moved there. sal didnt grow up being american, around americans, or identifying as an american, so he might be missing some key stuff about italian-american culture. then again, he’s 45 in the fics. he spent enough time in the states by now.

i also wanted to make his confession in italian because that’s how he strips himself bare. we see it with mettaton in chapter 5, where he says it in italian and mtt answers in hindi. sal isn’t great with words but when he tries he really makes an effort to revert to his most truthful self, and to him, that’s in italian. it slips out while he’s speaking italian because he just doesn’t think as much if he’s speaking *his* language.

i’ll get to every comment on ao3, i promise!! i just need my pc back because i hate answering on my phone (o_o;)

anyways, thank you so much and— if you liked the Tragic Yuri, i might have something coming. maybe. possibly. we’ll see.

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i had a really rough day yesterday (went to the er 😔) and seeing that your fic updated really cheered me up! it was wonderful 💕💕 i started kicking my feet in delight at how sweet the ending was. i really love all of your fics but ive been too shy to say anything until now 😅 im excited for whatever you write next!

ohwwww i’m so sorry o(tヘto) hope you’re feeling better now!!!

glad you liked the ending!! ngl i was a little unsure if it would land because it’s just pure unfiltered fluff so im happy you liked it!!

thank you for your support, and i’m counting on seeing you in my next work!!

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I was about to sleep when I saw chapter 6 finally released. I was so ecstatic i reflexively threw my phone across the room and it hit the wall real loud!!

I haven’t read the chapter yet but I’d like to say in advance: thank you for taking us on such a wonderful journey through your fics! This series really means a lot to me and I’m so glad to have even discovered this series in the first place >o< Definetely going in my top 3 fics of all time

AAAA THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! do let me know if you liked it… heheh…

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woah. hi guys.

since we’re done with this fic, i thought i could come on here and talk a bit about it. enjoy, for one last time, my slop

so, one thing that i actually do not like about the ending is that queen is nowhere to be seen. it makes sense, because she can’t really have a happy ending, but she was basically a protagonist as much as sal. i miss her.

and i don’t even think i could write something JUST about her and carol because, as much as i love writing, what u love about it is that i share it with people. we talk and share ideas and thoughts and i don’t think a queencarol would have that kind of platform. But if you want to see it, i’d love to write it.

other than that, i like how i ended wrapping things up. i wanted to have a vast cast of characters in the ending because opening up to people was spamton’s whole arc in this fic. he’s so loved, and he’s seeing it now.

i’m also very curious how you liked Those Three. mettaton, asgore and ralsei are such a weird fucking combination of characters that ended up working surprisingly well, especially once you put sal in the mix.

i was a little worried about mettaton stealing the spotlight because… he’s kinda my favorite character. ever. in anything. i love mettaton more than life itself. some people are shocked once they find out im a spamtenna author that likes mtt and im painfully reminded that 1) some people think your whole appreciation of something relies on ships 2) not that many people know i wrote a mettatenna. i did guys. it’s like 35k words long. i have never played about mtt.

having so many characters on “screen” all the time was tricky to make it right so let me know if it worked. the scenes with sal, ravi, arthur and ralsei were definitely the hardest. juggling four characters, all with very strong, distinct voices, is not really easy.

i had a lot of fun writing tenna. i think writing the valentine’s one shot helped a bunch, but now i just want to write stuff with him in it lol. im stupidly fond of the scene where he asks sal if mtt is lactose intolerant. he’s so dumb.

since we’re done with this fic, i think it’s time to share some stuff about the tenna one shot that comes after this fic.

it’s called “Mr. Ant Tenna’s Guide to wooing your Partner!” and it’s about tenna navigating the struggles of erectile dysfunction. i’m not joking.

it’s much more similar tonally to my mettatenna, so it’s way less serious and much more rom-commey. a lot of people told me i’m funny ever since i’ve started writing these fics and now i kinda want to give ‘em something actually meant to be funny… (꜆꜄ᴗ͈﹏ᴗ͈)꜆꜄꜆

it’s gonna be explicit, so to that one guy that keeps asking me if i will ever write nsfw spamtenna; yes. yes i will. im not the best smut author tho so forgive me if it sucks.

also, something that i wanted to say because i’ve been asked this before; im okay with nsfw asks!! im twenty years old guys!!!! im not a prude!!! theres a whole section in my mettatenna fic where queen teaches tenna how to eat pussy!!!

but, to go back to the ending; i’m both happy it’s done and very, very sad. i’ll miss writing these characters, especially because i don’t know how much of them people want to see. i’d love to write about the fun gang, about mtt papyrus sans and toriel, about queen and carol and about dess, about asriel, (did you notice he disappeared?) about tenna’s past and even more, but i don’t know if people care about all these little things!!!

nonetheless, i think i’ll still be active here. i’ll still answer all your asks, i’ll always read every comment and be thankful for each kudos.

this has been an amazing journey. thank you all, and i hope you’ll tune in for whatever comes next.

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the fic is finally done. now i can finally obsessively refresh ao3 for hours on end staring at my inbox like a maniac! my favorite part of writing!

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chapter 6 is officially done but idk when i should post it because time zones ( ꩜ ᯅ ꩜;) 

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What's the hardest character to write? Also do you have a favorite character to write? Like the one that you struggle less to write?

that’s a beautiful question and i’m going to milk the fuck out of it thank you anon

since the “hardest” character to write it’s a bit of a longer topic, i’ll start with the other question; it’s battat. my favorite character to write it’s battat and it’s not even close.

…what? i’ve never written battat? oh, but i did. in my mettatenna fic. almost a year ago. and i loved every second of it

i think he’s an incredibly fun character and i don’t even mingle with the mike people. i just gaze from a distance.

but queen is a close second. especially when she’s not moping about that Blonde Demon

(sal is also not a very hard character to write to me, but it’s probably because i’ve spent 100k words with him. im more inside his head than im in my own.)

… as for the hardest, well. it really depends on what emotion a specific character is feeling.

tenna’s spirals come very hard to me because i’m the farthest thing from him on planet earth. i have spent a lot of my life around people like him so i can, on paper, predict how certain things would make him feel, think and act, but writing it down feels very foreign to me and im scared it bleeds through.

i’m scared people read my tenna’s internal dialogue and are like “this chud clearly has no idea what he’s talking about” and yes, yes i don’t.

i don’t feel this way with sal because he’s much more grounded than tenna. where tenna might spiral like “oh, spamton said he’s tired and doesn’t want to spend the night over, he clearly must hate me and not want anything to do with me”, sal might be like “i promised noelle i would stop smoking and now im hiding cigarettes in my underwear drawer. im a bad person.”

i guess what i struggle with when it comes to writing tenna are the insane flights of fancy he takes.

mettaton is, also, fucking impossible to write, but you’ll have plenty of him very soon so i’ll shut up for now.

thank u sm for your question!! i loved answering (*´∇｀*)

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Will we get to see a version of the lost asks or are they lost forever to tumblr's insatiable hunger?

yepp but i’ll have to post some of em from my pc when i can because for whatever reason tumblr mobile app won’t let me add screenshots if a post exceeds a certain amount of words. this website is held together with spit and wishful thinking

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final chapter’s gonna be out in less than a week i think. are u excited..

i think they are. excited. haha. did you. did you understand the joke. haha. it’s because they’re about to fuNDAMENTALLY UNDERSTAND THE RULES OF THE HIT GAME TWISTER!!!

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Does sal like cats? Asking for a FRIEND...

(See what I did there)

Or actually do any of the main cast like animals in general or did they have any pets growing up?

not the main cast but the skelebros have a black cat. yes it’s called friend. yes it’s related to gaster

not gonna elaborate more about that. also i love the idea of tenna having a dog on paper. the dog has been living with uncle lanino and aunt elnina since 2017

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I THINK KRALSEI IS AWESOME!! And more importantly if you think Kralsei is part of the world you’ve built you should keep it in the chapter!! Trust yourself your ideas for this story are always awesome. Don’t modify them for any reason other than what you want for your narrative

i’m using this ask to kinda let you know my thoughts about some of the fun gang ships within the au lol hope you don’t mind!! and thank you so much for your kind words!!

the thing about kralsei is that i don’t. like. particularly think about them a lot. i REALLY like suselle and kriselle, and both of these ships are already, in one way or another, in the narrative.

but as i was trying to give the kids some depth, i ended up thinking about their friend group a little too much.

after noelle and susie got together things changed a bit. not necessarily in a bad way, but they definitely changed. noelle did hang out with the fun gang every now and then, but kris was mostly used to seeing her alone. they went through a lot together and to kris, noelle was removed from everything else surrounding them.

she was a constant, an anchor, that they didn’t expect would change anytime soon. they had a piece of her inside and they hoped she also carried a piece of kris with her.

but after getting with susie noelle became a fixed presence in their group hangouts, and kris likes noelle— is not like they mind her presence— but it was kind of… their thing. they and noelle alone.

inadvertently a “us vs them” dynamic forms because they’re teens. they’re dramatic and a little too much. susie and noelle kind of forget that there are other people too, and kris and ralsei both suffer from feeling excluded.

this creates a very peculiar situation where kris and ralsei are forced to cooperate to survive the new dynamic of the group. sure, susie and noelle are together and they don’t need us anymore, but we have each other. i understand how you’re feeling, im going through the same thing. i’m like you. nobody gets me but you.

i wasn’t writing these fics with kralsei in mind, it just kind of happened ('''' •᷄ ᴗ •᷅ ) stay tuned for when all of this will be relevant in ch6

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I know tumbler's being a real bitch with you (hopefully it gets back in shape for u 🙏) but is there any equivalent to the pipis egg in your au between sal and ant?

HIII i fixed it. hopefully. we’re gonna find out with this ask lol

as for the question— not for now? i mean, im not against adding something like that in the future but as of right now no, not really.

i think it’s also worth mentioning that we dont really know what pipis are. like, i love that the fandom universally adopted them as their kids but at the same time the game does kinda state that tenna grinds them and feeds em to his employees so yk. i think there’s some room to stretch.

i wouldn’t add another kid- we all know how many characters this fic has- but idk, maybe they move together and get a bird. or a cat. dog. pet clam? again, not too sure about what pipis are

anyway, thank you so much for the ask and!! we’ll see if tumblr is by our side today!!!

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turns out i have automatic updates turned off and my tumblr app was like a bajillion years old. i’m assuming this was why i couldn’t answer to asks. back on our scheduled slop now