Fern

Ao3 Author WaterTheFern She/Any Pronouns

[waterthefern]

Hello, I’m Fern! I use She/Any pronouns, and I’m an Ao3 author who mostly writes Miraculous Ladybug fics but has also branched out into Hermitcraft, the Life Series, and other fandoms as well!

I’m currently working on:

- A Miraculous Reboot story called The Miraculous Tales of a Beetle and her Shadow

- Having 250 total completed fics by the end of 2026

If you wanna check out my fics, I’m WaterTheFern on Ao3!

[waterthefern]

I have now officially watched every POV of Real Life SMP, and while this will probably be the only season I do this with (besides Simple Life which I’m gonna start watching tonight) I absolutely adored every POV and it’s honestly it’s hard to chose a favorite

If you’ve never watched the April Fool’s specials, I recommend them, especially since you could probably knock out every POV in a single day if you wanted to since there’s only one episode

If you don’t want to though, I think I’d recommend Joel, Jimmy, Scott, Cleo, or Gem’s, I love everyone’s episodes but these five were fun to watch

[ao3org]

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[waterthefern]

Im finally going back to watch xB’s season 11 since I’m (mostly) caught up on the other Hermits I’m watching and I completely forgot he tore down AN ENTIRE MOUNTAIN BY HAND

He is insane and I love him

[adamnagaitis]

can everyone reblog with the interest of theirs that was the most intense or continued for the longest because i’m so curious

[waterthefern]

I’m watching Real Life SMP for the first time and I have to say, watching everyone flail around and Joel basically throwing up the whole time is hilarious

Also Jimmy kissed Joel so like, 10/10 best April fools episode ever

[pyronado-moved]

Please stop trigger tagging with #epilepsy tw/cw/warning/etc.

I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is

I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.

Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.

Here’s proof of what I mean:

THIS POST IS 100% OKAY TO REBLOG, I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WITHOUT EPILEPSY TO ESPECIALLY DO SO!

[demonicsymphony]

And if you’re in the notes or tags telling us to “just get a new tag”

Fuck You

[distracteddaintydemon]

Good exercise for non-epileptic person who has a free hour or two:

Make a dump sideblog titled some variation on “flashing tag” or “retagging”

Go into any epilepsy tag

Go over posts and reblog flashing ones to side blog with correct tags

Assuming you’re not the only one doing that, it’s most efficient to go for Newest. You can also temporarily block flashing tags so you don’t see ones that someone already tagged correctly

You can actually prepare whole block of text with commas and add umpteen tags with one copy-paste. Like so:

“#flashing” is for light patterns causing seizures. “#epilepsy” is for epileptics talking epilepsy, flashing, tw flashing, flashing tw, NOT #tw epilepsy

(In activity notifs, not-bundled tags-only reblogs show beginning of the tags. If you want to relay some message to your prevs, put these tags on the very beginning.)

Edit:

Apparently Tumblr system is dogshit inconsistent enough that with having #flashing, #tw flashing, #flashing tw – all blocked, I still go into #tw epilepsy tag and see posts that I myself personally reblogged with these blocked tags.

So. Sweet. Very helpful. Makes me wonder why there’s shitton of money being put on societal levels in flagging and hiding so-called “mature” content, but we cannot put a fraction of that cash into flagging eyestrain and stroboscopes that way. But I digress

I’m going to change tactics: reblog with text “tw flashing” “flashing tw” so it can potentially be caught by content filtering (hopefully) and prepare a generic text meant for the artists explaining that “tw epilepsy” is as well-meaning as it is misguided.

[fox-c-rabbit]

bringing this back into the queue

[waterthefern]

Falling Into a Pond (And Kissing A Goose)

Recentish fic of Ren and Mumbo! Also there is a surprise lack of Goose Hybrid Mumbo fics

[stopgettingintotrouble]

Danny and Teekl!

[waterthefern]

I actually wrote something inspired by this!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[waterthefern]

I hate that I love Puppeteer because I have to put up with watching the wax museum scene when rewatching my favorite Akuma’s episodes

[miraculousbeetleandshadow]

Currently trying to decide if/how Adrien should he disabled for my reboot because on one hand, I LOVE disabled Adrien headcanons, especially when they play off his concept art, but on the other hand, he doesn’t need to he disabled, especially since I have a few other disabled characters in the main cast

That said though

How Should Adrien be Disabled?

He Shouldn’t Be At All

Deaf/Hard of Hearing

Blind/Sight Loss

Cane User (Joint Pain/Mobility Issue/Etc)

Something Else (Comment)

See results/idk/im bald

Voting ended onJul 17

[waterthefern]

Wait, What’s Skizz’s Last Name? Is a silly fic of Impulse not knowing his best friends last name since Skizz changed it when he got married

[waterthefern]

This doesn’t have many hits so go check out my most recent fic The Sleepy Wolf

It’s a Cleo centric fic with a focus on their and Ren’s friendship!

[a-rather-sifty-sketcher]

the Slimeknight never ends

[waterthefern]

Avery: … homo

Derek: … I’ll allow it

Avery: :D

[waterthefern]

Just finished rewatching the Midoriya/Gentle fight and OH MY GODS I FORGOT HOW MUCH I LOVE GENTLE AND LA BRAVA!!! THEY’RE SO CUTE

[waterthefern]

Currently rewatching MHA for the first time in a while (I’ve reached a few arcs recently but not the whole show) and knowing now that Aoyama is the traitor and watching some of the things he says/does makes it so obvious he was working for AFO

Like at the time he really just seemed like a really paranoid kid who didn’t think he was worthy of being of hero but then you realize he was terrified of AFO winning because he was helping and was actively sabotaging himself to be less useful to AFO

Not to mention baby Aoyama’s “why am I different” which obviously related to him being Quirkless even though at the time we thought it was just because his had that intense Quirk drawback (which obviously we know now was because his body literally wasn’t built for his Quirk, just like Izuku)

[achillesinhighheels]