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Just posted a new fic!

Hello! Welcome to the official blog for bluebirdwriting on AO3! (That’s me!)

I’ll be posting all things related to my fics on here from now on

Asks (including anon asks) are on in case you want to ask me things!

Stay tuned for links to all my fics and a masterpost of them!

I’ve decided all my Star Trek fics take place in the same universe FYI

So unless I say so, they’re all in the same universe

I enjoy the Two Cakes Philosophy and I believe it deserves its place enshrined in fandom culture.

Forgive me for the extended metaphor but I also want to simultaneously celebrate what I’m calling Bakery Display Case Philosophy. You know when you walk into a bakery and the display case is full of beautiful treats? And there’s a variety of different colors, textures, and flavors to discover? And that’s so deeply exciting?

You might say to yourself, “No one is going to want to read this pairing. No one is going to want to want a character study of that character. No one wants genfic in this fandom, only shipfic.”

And you might use that to discourage yourself from writing a certain fic.

Fandoms, like bakeries, need cakes and cookies and éclairs and cream puffs and shortbread and brownies and pies and tarts and petit fours and turnovers and cinnamon rolls and madeleines and meringues—and so many other things—to survive.

Write your dark chocolate pistachio croissant fic. Your fandom needs it actually.

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

Unto the Labyrinth: Chapter 15 is posted!!!

The world in front of her was so blurry that she couldn't see Beetee's facial expression. “I'm sorry, Maze.”

“I can't do it.” Her voice broke. “I don't want to—I can't—be the Victor!”

There. She said it. The V word, in reference to herself.

Beetee's words softened even more. “I'm so sorry.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/56468086/chapters/166324528

Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types

Rating: Mature

Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death

Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC, Beetee Latier & Wiress

Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.

But no matter what, she won’t ever be alone again.”

NOTE: Read the author’s note at the beginning of this chapter!!! I’ll post it on here as well

Just realized that I’ve never posted Tales from the Labyrinth on here 😳 post incoming soon

Unto the Labyrinth Chapter 5 is now up!

Beetee’s hollow, despaired eyes at his final interview would not leave her mind. The eyes of a man — no, a boy — who had just witnessed an entire week full of horrors. The eyes of a boy who knew that out of the twenty-four sent into the arena, he was the sole survivor. The eyes of a boy who had to live with the fact that he had murdered six other teenagers.

Now, across the table, a calm, collected man sat and ate his dinner. There was no trace of the despair he once had anywhere on him.

Maze wondered just how Beetee had learned to live with it all. How he managed to compartmentalize his negative emotions and memories from the Games. Or if he hadn’t and just learned to mask it well.

She wanted to know what made him tick.

Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types

Rating: Mature

Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death

Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC

Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.

But no matter what, she won’t ever be alone again.”

Operation Comic Book

Fandom: SPY x FAMILY

Rating: General Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationship: Anya Forger & Loid Forger

Summary: “Anya's on a mission to get the new Spy Wars comic books, and she'll do anything to get them. Anything.”

In light of the information that some asshole has illegally scraped all public Ao3 works posted before March, I’ve decided to make all of my fics only accessible to registered Ao3 users, and I highly suggest you do the same if you are an Ao3 author