Uncle Asad in Fandomland

Also in the Garden | Uncle_Asad on AO3 | Writer for Hosie & Bishova, fan of many things | Keeper of Old Knowledge | Hosieus interruptus!

[uncleasad]

New pinned post! Lots has changed since the last one, so time to rewrite (and hopefully make it easier to read 🤞)…

Writer for Hosie & Bishova, fan of many things

Asks are open if you’d like to ask me about my writing (or not-writing, as the case may be 😂) or Hosie or Bishova or fandom in general

My Fics

👤 Uncle_Asad on AO3

📜 WIPs, ideas, and more on my Works page (including tags used to talk about them here on tumblr and links to the published fics on AO3)

Faves and Fic Recs

⭐️ My “Top 10” Favorite Hosie Fics of All Time (as of June 2024)

⭐️ My Top 50 Hosie Longfics Part 1 and Part 2 (as of May 2025)

📃 The #fic recommendation tag on this tumblog for Hosie and Bishova stories from others that I’m enjoying (“right now,” at the time of said post)

📑 I also maintain several AO3 collections of Hosie fanfics on specific topics (actress AU, summer fics, zombie apocalypse AU, etc)

Tools and Tutorials

📖 A tutorial that shows how I make tumblr’s “link preview” boxes for my AO3 fics not look so jumbled and full of extraneous text when I use them

🔖 A bookmarklet to partly generate the tumblr link preview code for an AO3 work when AO3 is blocking tumblr (as it has been doing off and on in 2025) or your fic is locked to AO3 users only

About the Blogger/Author

🖊️ Writer for Hosie & Bishova, fan of many things | Keeper of Old Knowledge | Originator of the expression Hosieus interruptus!

👤 There’s a bit more about me on my About page

❓Asks are open if you’d like to ask me about my writing (or not-writing, as the case may be 😂) or Hosie or Bishova or fandom in general

There are also a few “Ask games” with questions you can ask that I’m always happy to answer, if you want some help coming up with something to ask/an icebreaker:

Fanfic Work-In-Progress Guessing Game [#WIP game tag to find my previous answers]

ask game for fanfic writers [#ask game for fanfic writers tag to find my previous answers]

Fic Ask Game [#fic ask game tag to find previous answers]

Ship or Character ask game [#ship or character ask game to find previous answers]

Fanfic Writers Director’s Cut ask game [#director’s cut ask game to find previous answers]

fanfic end of the year asks game [#fanfic end of the year asks game to find previous answers]

35 Questions for Fanfiction Writers! ✨ [#35 questions for fanfiction writers to find previous answers]

Fic Writer Ask Game [#fic writer ask game to find previous answers]

Fanfiction Writer Ask Game [#fanfiction writer ask game to find previous answers]

✍️ more fic writer asks! [#more fic writer asks to find previous answers]

Fanfiction Writing Asks [#fanfiction writing asks to find previous answers]

❗️ If you wonder why I’m not liking posts left and right, there’s a bit of an explanation in this post.

👋

[girlonthefireescape]

Pink, Purple, and Blue (Ava & Mel, Teen and up)

Synopsis: It's the morning of NYC Pride, where the New Avengers will be part of the parade on their very own Valentina-mandated float, and Ava is staring at Mel's barely-covered tits in the Tower kitchen.

Note: Just wrote this! Inspired by the tags I left on this post. Happy Pride!

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When Ava spots Mel in the Tower kitchen, she freezes in the doorway. Bob barely manages to swerve around her, interrupting his frazzled muttering about how he hasn't showered and is going to be so, so late to throw an affronted hey in her face.

"Sorry," she mumbles, eyes still glued to Mel, who is busy trying to get the new espresso maker to make espresso.

She's dressed in denim cutoffs Ava has never seen on her before and has thrown a thin cardigan over her pink, purple, and blue bikini top, which Ava has definitely never seen on her before.

Ava's brain is already on the blink, and she can't tell if it's because of the colors of Mel's bikini top or because Ava's never seen Mel show this much skin.

She's been staring for a solid few seconds when her higher brain functions kick back in, and she realizes that she has, in fact, been staring straight at Mel's tits.

Shit. She didn't mean to do that! Or did she? No, she didn't.

The machine splutters to life with a hiss.

"Ava, you want coffee?" Mel asks.

Ava, that's her! Mel knew she was there, staring at her, the whole time.

"No, thanks," she blurts out and panic-phases out of the room.

Back in her bedroom, she has what one might call a very mild crisis. Not an identity crisis, not a sexuality crisis per se. Last week, she bought a set of Pride-themed face paints. The set contains pink, purple, and blue. She still hasn't managed to work up the courage to use them, and today is the big day. Big parade, New Avengers float, people and press and pictures. The skin around her nails has seen better days.

Before she can change her mind, she grabs the little face paint kit and phases back into the kitchen.

"Changed your mind about the coffee?"

"No. I mean, sure, I'll have coffee." Ava fidgets with the plastic in her hands. "Can I ask you something?"

Mel grabs a second mug. "Sure."

"Would you help me with this?" Ava places the little box on the kitchen island.

It takes Mel a second to understand what Ava wants from her. It probably takes Mel a second to figure out what exactly Ava has just presented her with. She could have probably been clearer about the favor she's asking.

"Sure," Mel says again and picks up the face paints. "Come sit down."

Ava slides onto one of the stools at the kitchen island.

"Where would you like it?" Mel asks.

"My left cheek?"

"Okay." Mel steps closer. "What do you want me to draw? Just the flag? Or maybe a heart?"

"Just the flag."

Mel gently takes Ava's chin between her thumb and index finger, and Ava stops breathing. She tries to hold still, tries not to stare, because Mel is pretty and way too close.

Of course, Mel has always been pretty—Ava has eyes—but seeing her out of her drab office uniform has somehow turned her into a real girl.

Mel turns Ava's face to the side, and Ava closes her eyes. With a few quick strokes, Mel draws a little bisexual pride flag on Ava's skin.

"Looks cute," she tells her, turns Ava's face in the opposite direction, and presses her lips to her other cheek.

Ava's eyes fly open.

"You should keep that," Mel says.

She gives Ava a smile and a wink, and Ava doesn't know what Mel is talking about until she looks at herself in the hallway mirror and spots the red lipstick. It makes her knees go a little wobbly as a wave of something unexpected hits her right in the solar plexus.

She doesn't wipe the lipstick off.

When Walker sees it later, he does a double take and grins at her. "Hey! Who'd you kiss?"

Ava's about to tell him to fuck off when his gaze flicks to her other cheek. His eyes go soft, and before Ava can tell him to mind his own business, he tells her Happy Pride, and walks off.

[blackwidowcanliftmjolnir]

Kinda gay of Kate to wear this suit. Why is she wearing a tie? For Yelena to undo it? Why is she wearing a blazer? For Yelena to pull her close by it?

[strangelythirsty]

Keep Safe From the Devil [3/?]

Pairing: Yelena Belova/Kate Bishop

Chapter Rating: Teen

Chapter Words: 4,325

Summary:

It's easy to stalk Kate Bishop, vampire hunter, no The Slayer. It would be sad if it weren't also so lacking in action. Three stores and two churches and now she's heading back to her house. Then Kate surprises her by speaking in a low voice, like she's speaking to herself. "Following me now, Yelena Belova?"

"Now?" She says, a prod to her lack of general self-awareness, hoping down from the balcony she was standing on and landing on her feet.

The pair continue heading toward Kate's house. "It's dangerous for a vampire to do that in this city." A stray hand hovers at the stake in a hidden holster at her side. "Or anywhere."

A Buffy AU

Preview:

Valentina continues like Yelena hasn't spoken. "What are you wearing? I mean, I knew your life was kind of in the dumps since, well, you know. Dead sister, the curse, blah blah blah. I don't need to remind you of all that!"she chuckles blithely, "But seriously? Garage-chic?" She scoffs and shoves her hands into her pockets, wondering what has drawn Valentina out here. Surely not a conversation like this. "What do you want this time?" "Want? Well!" If Valentina is annoyed, she doesn't sound like it, even as she gives a sharp tsk with her tongue at Yelena's rudeness. "I should think that's obvious, right?" Yelena continues to stare ahead as she walks at a relatively brisk pace. "Please, spell it out to me." "Just the same offer I gave to your friend, John Walker! Complete control over your territory. Join me, and I'll even see about lifting that little curse."

Link: here.

[yorkshireteauk]

Kate is playing the guitar one sleepy morning and doesn’t notice yelena watching her as Kate is humming to Two of Us by the Beatles

[crybabycunt]

Yelena: I love you.

Kate: How many people do you tell that same thing to?

Yelena: Everyone.

Kate: Everyone?

Yelena: Yes, I tell everyone that I love you.

[dykevillanelle]

happy pride to whatever the fuck buffy and faith had going on <3 #loveislove

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[uncleasad]

[Image ID: Post from Alexander Pennington @Authoralexp:

Writer: *Sits down at computer to write* Brain: Nah. I'm tired Writer: *Goes to bed* Brain: Here's an outline of the next five sequels to your story

/end ID]

[multi-fandom-lunatic]

chat reminder to just write whatever the fuck you want. write that overused trope. write that obscure shit that no one will have heard of. just. do it. your writing is yours stop depriving it of that.

[sadboybrigade]

honestly in the era of AI slop it is more important than ever for you to write or draw that incredibly niche/strange/unpalatable thing you want to make. the world needs the unique weirdness of people more than ever

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[20xbetterthanu]

i hope everyone knows you don’t have to let go of your interests as you get older. I still like what I liked when I was twelve. My love for it has evolved like I have with age. But I still love those things. Your interests shouldn’t die when you become an adult. You’re always you.

[kritzenkriegen]

*thinks up an idea for a silly quick piece* okay haha let's whip something up real quick

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

oh no

[uncleasad]

WIP Wednesday Last Sentence You Wrote

Welcome to the first Wednesday in June! Let’s wrangle those last sentences written 😏

Make a new post with the last sentence* you wrote on your current WIP* (and tag some friends if you want)

“That’s still the most fun flirting I have ever had.” The Widow shot her Hawkeye a stern glare. “It had better be, Kate Bishop.”

What’s this? 😳 A new WIP in the wild?! Yup! My enablers 😏 were whispering in my ear (aka tumblr post comments) 😈 and, uh, I was brushing my teeth, and the next thing I knew, I had an idea for how I would like to open bishova and red guardian at pride…and 300+ words later, here we are with my last sentence(s) 😂 (Having only the last one by itself would have been a doozy! This way, it’s a little more fun.) I’m not sure if I’ll be able to finish it this month or not—but there’s always next year if not!

“You didn’t,” Kate lamented, head bowed and cupped in her hands, shaking in disbelief.

Made a little progress on the mikerowave5year fic the other day, too. I think I’m just about to the point where what I’ve written meets the notes where I’ve sketched out the remainder of the scene.

How many years had it been since he had become a Victor? How many children from Twelve had he shepherded to the Games, how many had died in those Games…all of them.

What sorcery is this?! 😳 Asad, inta majnoon! Indeed, I have worked on three different fics this week 🪄 and this is the last line from the Bishova Hunger Games AU.

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As always, feel free to disregard the tag if you’re not up for it this week 😀 @evilpenguinrika @persevereforahappyending @sirenicspell @the0fi @stories-and-such @toriwritesstories @junglejam @poppyseedxx

@hersterical @ooga-94-booga @girlonthefireescape @bishlova-ship @schrodingerspsycho @vidathomir @justburnitwithfire

And of course anyone else who sees this is welcome to join in…just make a new post with the last sentence* you wrote on your current WIP* to share it with your readers and fans.

* Treat them as guidelines, not hard-and-fast rules; feel free to bend to fit the circumstances as necessary. This is for fun, so spirit of the thing 😀

[existennialmemes]

Every Website right now: Give us a scan of your driver's license or be banished. It's for safety.

Every Website for the last 10 years: Oopsies we had another massive data breach! Tee-hee!

[the-reti-gambit]

Every website 10 years ago: REMINDER: do not share personal information online!

[uncleasad]

Think of the children data breaches.

We have to protect the children data breaches.

[boycottxxlove]

my dream as a fanfic writer is for one day, one of my fics to be someones comfort fic. like the fic that they reread when they don't feel good and want to be happy. i want my words to comfort someone one day

[king-james-1andlonely]

"it was real. it was real to me." - yelena belova in black widow, marvel

(istfg i saw this gif on here earlier but when i went to look for it i could NOT find it so i went to google and did it my-fucking-self goddamn)

[yorkshireteauk]

Kate and yelena decide to go on a cross country road trip since Nat and wanda are looking after the dogs but yelena very quickly finds out that Kate has the weakest bladder of any human after the 20th stop in 3 hours