hideflen's writing & thots blog

Helen (main @hideflen) | she/her | 30s | writingwintermoon on Ao3 | 18+ only | mostly Star Wars

[hideflen]

I commissioned the very talented @jupitermover to illustrate a scene from my fic Erosion, where Fennec sits on Boba's lap to get some Bacta on his face, and they have a bit of a moment...

[winston-ramone]

Krennic's fruity little hand gestures in "One Year Later"

[winston-ramone]

Some notes highlights:

#I don't go here but heyyy gurlll 💅 #look at the bedazzled pride flag on this queen's lapel#and the fitted shoulders on that cape? #trans 🪄 FORM ✨🌈🌤️

@fluidstatick [x]

#🫢 and it turns out! ✨🕷️ spiders 🕷️✨ are not the most unique. thing. in. ghorman. 💅

@hegodamask [x]

#TRANS 👌🏼 FORM 🔄👌🏼

@dilf-din [x]

#SPIDERSSS 🕷️🕷️🕸️💅💅✨✨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

@autistic-bashir [x]

#the hand gesture on 'tranform' is incredible #queening out in the middle of the meeting #dramatic bitch i love him

@cxsmicduck [x]

#he really is about to rock and roll isn't he #evil daddy

@jyn-ehrso [x]

#hate to say this about a fictional career fascist but his hip movements when he bends over the table make me think really bad thoughts

@rochenn [x]

#access to stable and ✨unlimited✨ power will tansFORM👌 the galactic economy 🙂‍↕️

@airplane-pt3 [x]

[buckysknifecollection]

i feel like the youth should be reminded that the point of shipping is not for a ship to become canon. the point of shipping is to collect all the canon crumbs like starved mice, run away cackling and make some fun little scenarios with them just for the hell of it.

[puppydogwhitaker]

just picked some fresh lilac and i’m about to drink some wine and write gay porn. no one is having as much fun as me rn.

[carys-the-ninth]

The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity

[zeenmrala]

i love writing fanfiction

[cowboyspones]

women were not banging out spirk fanfiction in the 60s for you to be AI generating your fic

[haughtyraban]

sometimes u go to a ship’s ao3 page and the top 10 fics are like “what if these guys were 2 completely different guys but had the same actors’ faces and character names”

[jennilah]

ok question tho

ive actually fucking tried to google this but i cant find an answer, all i get are fics

where does the whole “five times _____ and one time ____” fic title thing come from??

is it a reference to something? or is it just a fanfiction thing?

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

It comes from Basingstoke, a writer from the Due South and Smallville fandoms. 

I know she’s on Dreamwidth. I don’t know if she has an AO3 or not. 

There might have been one or two REALLY early examples of that story form (like 1980s early), but she invented it as we know it. 

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

ETA: As a matter of fact, here’s the first Five Things story ever: http://archiveofourown.org/works/9519

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

I just found the Fanlore article, and it looks like while Basingstoke invented the format, Strangecreature, a Torchwood writer, might be one of the first to have used “five times and one time.” But the original prompt was Basingstoke’s. And it’s definitely fanfiction only in origin.

[emyrys]

I love it when conversations about this come around again!  How cool is it that I know people in fannish history! (and how uncool is it that I never know it was Bas who invented this until recently – where was I, under a rock?)

[basinke]

tee hee. It wasn’t on purpose! I did the first Five Things and then people have been riffing on it for the past decade. It’s neat. 

[ruffboi-mags]

It’s SUPER neat. I love fandom.

[naye-et-cetera]

Nice.

[meret118]

Fanlore is such an amazing resource, and I feel like not enough people know about. Help preserve, and spread your culture and history!

[emdapaladima]

stealing glances

[writingwintermoon]

So I'm writing Part III of Sedimentation, which I plan will cover the time from the end of Outwash (~episode 5 of Mando season 2) to the end credit scene of Mando season 2, and it may take a turn for the horny... but I'm feeling conflicted about pacing.

I want it to be a slooooow burn, it took almost 20k words for them to kiss, but part of the charm of Boba/Fennec is that they seem so real and natural with each other...

[writingwintermoon]

I haven't forgotten about this!!

the real issue is this: do I want them to ... ~consummate the partnership~ at the end of "The Rescue" when they take the palace, or during/at the end of TBoBF?

[ivcath]

can we have heated rivalry but with bears

[ivcath]

this post was about big hairy men. big sweaty strong hairy musclefat men. mike parrow. martins licis. BIG MEATY MEN SLAPPING MEAT

[laserbobcat]

I put it everywhere, no joke. Everywhere. It might be my fav trope. When it's in a media I kick my feet on my bed while hugging my pillow.

[polls-for-fandom-deactivated202]

Where did you first READ fanfiction?

Archive of Our Own

Wattpad

Fanfiction.net

Livejournal

Quotev

DeviantArt

Fandom specific sites (i.e fimfiction, fandom wikis)

Other

Voting ended onFeb 11

[bloodiedbriars]

touch starvation

too scared to ask for affection

testing the waters with “casual” brushes

“please, don’t go…”

meeting a naturally physically affectionate person and being thrown for a loop

freezing up when receiving physical affection and not knowing how to react

being uncomfortable when they do receive affection

seeking out hobbies associated with physical contact (dancing, wrestling, …)

watching someone hug and feeling envy

taking long, hot showers to simulate touch

hugging self in bed to self soothe

trying to replace human affection with animal companions

learning to ask for hugs and cuddles

once they feel comfortable with it, they become insatiable for touch

(is also sometimes called “skin hunger” and i just think that’s sick)

(Whumpuary 2026, Day 29: Touch Starved)

[angelbumbum]

on this blog we support men whining. men squirming! men whimpering!!

[angelbumbum]

also men begging!!! men cursing under their breath !!!men whispering “pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease” !!!

[cheesenames]

if we can set aside attachment discourse for a moment (please) i think the jedi marriage prohibition makes sense in a “please don’t enter a complex legal, financial, social, and in some cases religious contract, the specifics of which vary wildly depending on planet and culture” way. the single jedi with a law degree does not have time to draft everyone’s prenups to prevent the whole order from getting sued

[eightbitpale]

New star wars show idea: sitcom set in the Coruscant temple’s legal department, chronicling the lives of a crack team of jedi lawyers desperately struggling to keep an interplanetary paramilitary religious organisation from drowning under the weight of its own litigation