eternally 30, self-identifying with she/they (but not picky), living under a rock (though my heart lives in Venice). Writing fanfiction since 2002 & still going strong.
(Since I’ve actually been opening some tumblr pages on mobile browser & got annoyed with how many things DON’T WORK on it, I realised I should...probably bring my about me page from a page to an actual post. ^^; Also, gonna go ahead and pin it.)
Hi, I’m Batsutousai, but answer to most nickname variations (I understand my name isn't really easy to spell at a glance), most notably Bats, Batsu, and Batty.
I self-identify with she/they, but I don't particularly care what pronouns are used for me. I'm asexual and demi-romantic. When I turned 30, I decided I will be 30 for the rest of my life. (Given the number of people irl who think I've only just graduated high school, it'll be a while before this stops working.)
I am American, but I've spent quite a few years in British fandoms, and it shows in my spelling and some of my turns of phrase. I don't, necessarily, do it on purpose (except to make my mum twitchy), but I also don't go out of my way to correct myself, unless I'm writing from the point of view of an American character.
I first started posting fanfic back in 2002, under the name Katmon, and while you can find some of that on AO3, most of it has (thankfully) vanished into the ether. After a bad breakup and a brief hiatus, I began writing under the name Batsutousai in 2004, and have no intention to change names again (even if some of the ‘04 stuff’s kinda crap, imo).
While I have a preference for male/male ships in fandom, what little original stuff I’ve done tends to be female-centric. You can find a list of all my ships here, on my writing tumblr.
In 2012, I became a Tag Wrangler for AO3, and while I fairly regularly bitch about ‘tumblr-style’ freeforms and weird ships, I actually really love the work. Unfortunately, I had to quit it summer of 2020, because I couldn't make the time while working retail during the pandemic, but I fully intend to pick it up again, once life settles back down.
I’m happy to talk about my experiences as a tag wrangler, and I don’t really hide what fandoms I wrangled for (Digimon, FMA, Radiata Stories, & some minor fandoms), but I DO NOT speak for the tag wrangling team or the archive as a whole. (I also don’t out other wranglers.)
In real life, I’m currently living with my younger sister, work at a family-owned local repair company (currently answering phones, but being transitioned into more of an admin assistant job), & occasionally catsit from some friends. I have an Etsy shop, where I sell crocheted things (nothing up there right now, because it costs money to keep things listed, & I don't sell enough to excuse the constant cost).
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Some FAQs:
When is (name WiP series/fic here) updating?
When it does?
Look, I get that you really, really like that series/fic – I do, too – and I’ve probably reread it fairly recently, to see if my muse will behave, but he’s a little shit, and every time someone asks about an update for any particular fic, that makes him LESS LIKELY to give me ideas for it. I’m happy to hear all about how much you like it, but asking about updates is more likely to keep one from happening.
Will you write a sequel for this fic?
My answer 99% of the time: No.
If I said somewhere there will be a sequel, yes. Eventually. Otherwise, NO.
Can I do a translation or podfic of your work?
You can indeed! I do request that you let me know when/where it’s posted, so I can add it to my list of such works!
*With some cautions; I have a list on LJ/DW of pieces that currently have translations; please speak to the translators in question if you want to continue something unfinished, as it’ll be easier for everyone to communicate in their (I assume) native tongue, than for me to play go-between.
**I don’t have a listing yet of podfics, mostly because the only ones I’m aware of, are either linked through AO3, or I don’t have a public link for.
Can I make fanart/fanfic/moodboard/etc based on one of your fics?
You absolutely may!
Please do add a note somewhere (in the post/author’s note) or, on AO3, use the inspired by option, to link back to the fic that’s serving as your inspiration. & then feel free to let me know!
Can I create a physical copy of your work for my personal use?
Yes, you may. I have nothing against folks saving copies of my work for personal use, be that in the form of old-school 3-ring binders, digital copies on kindle and similar devices, or through the increasingly common hobby of book-binding.
You don't have to show me what they look like when you're done, but you're welcome to.
Do you take requests?
For fanfic? Not really. I sometimes reblog those ‘give me a fandom/pairing/character(s) and a number and I’ll write the thing’ memes, but I can’t guarantee I’ll write everything I get.
Will you follow me back?
I don’t do follow-backs, sorry. Which is mostly because I have a thing about needing people to tag – the only people I follow who don’t tag are rl friends who post rarely, or folks who only reblog a specific fandom – and I prefer people who queue things, because I’m not fond of poking my head in and finding my TL taken over by one person (esp if they’re posting for a fandom I’m not interested in :/ I’m afraid I’m a bit of a crabby old person, not sorry).
What do you tag for?
Right now, I tag for fandom/character/ship, food, USA nonsense, politics, personal posts, and video/audio. I’m kinda bad about remembering to tag triggers, but if you’ve got one you need tagged, let me know and I’ll make a concerted effort. (For example, I tag for food because someone asked me to tag for it.)
Hey, I really like your work! Can I send you money?
You can, actually! You can buy me a tea via ko-fi, or go a bit more long-term and support me on patreon (where I post stalled WiPs and related snippets/fic notes you may never see anywhere else).
I want to show you this thing!
If you’re posting it yourself, tag me in one of the first five of the post’s tags (I follow batsutousai). If it’s a reblog, you can @ tag me. (I did finally figure out how to get tumblr to send me email notifications about those.)
I don’t allow submissions, sorry.
I have another question.
Send me a DM or ask! Anon is always on, if you want to keep your identity a secret from me, and I rarely respond to asks from users publicly.
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Threw a bunch of under-performing recolours in my queue, forgot about them, and then they posted while I was sleeping. (LOL)
Anyway, woke and saw the DW/TARDIS recolour on my dash and was like, hey wait, don't I have a copy of the newest iteration of the logo I'd been meant to recolour?
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Is it 'Bats finally gets their shit together and shares the recolours they made for Patreons in Nov/Dec'? Apparently it is! (Breaking this into fandom posts, to continue the previous theme, where I get to judge y'all for ignoring certain fandoms more than others. Also, this will be easier for me to quit midway through, when I realise it's my bedtime.)
First up, since the new season started this weekend, Doctor Who!
Got a request for a blue TARDIS and the long DW logo, then realised I'd never actually done any of my DW images in blue. Did ask the internet to get the exact shade that's been determined to be TARDIS blue.
Also, apparently I made the orange-white-blue AroAce flag onto the TARDIS at some point and never shared, so have at:
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I had one patreon request the symbols in a rainbow, not the pride flag version I had, so I made one each of the Gilbert-Baker colouring, with pink at the top, and one each of the standard ROY.G.BIV rainbow.
Another patreon wanted the symbols in purple and green. They ended up preferring the ombre version, so both the flamel and the ouroboros are in that one, but I do rather like how my test of the ouroboros in acid green, outlined in purple, ended up looking, so you get that, too.
And then, since I hadn't shared it previously, here's the red outlined thickly in black flamel I used for stickers in folks cards.
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APPARENTLY, I made a fuck-ton of Marvel symbol recolours and shared absolutely NONE of them. (Sorry/not sorry, I guess?)
Avenger's A in the Gilbert-Baker flag, the queer flag, and the trans flag.
Captain Marvel's starburst with wings in the intersex-inclusive progress flag, the trans flag, and the trans-inclusive lesbian flag.
Iron Man helmets for the pansexual flag, plain red with gold outlines, and the bisexual flag.
Two different designs for Loki's helmet, one a more complex version with gaps to designate the patterning on it in the films (which does not do well as small stickers) and a more simplified version with a few gaps to designate patterning and a circle around it, with the horns arching out over the circle. The more simplified version did get a single sticker request, for the genderqueer flag.
I thought I'd done a Spiderman mask that was all red and outlined in blue, but apparently not. For Spidey, I had fun using a different colouring effect for the flags, where they go around in a sort of array around a central point. I was especially fond of how the bi flag turned out, less certain about the intersex-inclusive flag.
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@magic-gps suggested Ace!Spiderman mask, with the mask the white/grey/black gradient, and the lining done in purple. And it is fab.
Left is horizontal stripes, equally sized, because that's the default layout.
Right is the sort of array around a central point. This one is actually grey/white/grey/black/grey, because, otherwise, the white and black just sort of slam together and it looks...not great. So, added grey at the ends to soften the transition, and then turned and resized the sections to sort of match the eyes. So the two versions actually look subtly similar. (I did try it with the grey at the top and bottom and the black and white colouring the opposing eyes, and it looked okay, but I liked it better with the grey over the eyes. If folks want to see that version, I can recreate it.)
Also, since I was doing edits anyway, have that all red with blue outlining of the mask I'd apparently imagined having done previously, lol.
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@magic-gps requested the Camelot crest in the asexual pride flag (because dragons, which is legit), and I said "FUCK YEAH!" and then proceeded to go a liiiiiiiittle overboard.
So, Ace Pride, AroAce Pride, Aro Pride, Gilbert Baker's Rainbow as a soft gradient, and the Queer Pride flags.
And then, because I do, actually, have some plain dragon images ready for recolouring, how about some Ace dragons of both western and eastern styles.
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Not me, playing around with recolouring the Studio Ghibli Totoro outline instead of doing...pretty much anything actually useful, lol (I have no regrets.)
I originally had the grey outline I always add a bit thicker, but it lost something at the smaller size.
Represented flags are the Gilbert Baker pink-to-purple pride, the intersex-inclusive progress pride, the Philly pride, asexuality pride, the newer aro-ace flag that's orange to blue, the aromanticism pride, the genderqueer pride, the trans pride, and the nonbinary pride.
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@gaybreakfast has this fantastic pin (currently sold out, sorry, but this text is the link to their shop) which is a pair of lungs and a heart in the colour of the pride flag, with the text Every Breath is Defiance stamped around it. I love that pin, so so much.
Was looking for images for...I don't even remember. (Possibly the monthly crafts project I create for a coworker; used to be origami, but have turned into largely clever papercutting images, this year.) Anyway, found an image of a pair of lungs I could recolour and I immediately thought of that pin. So, have a bunch of pride ombre recolours of a set of lungs.
Represented flags are:
At the top, the Intersex-Inclusive Progress flag (defined, because I didn't have the patience to make an ombre of that flag, whoops), the Queer flag, and the Philly flag.
Below are the Asexual flag, the Aromantic flag, the Trans flag, the Nonbinary flag, the Genderqueer flag, the Lesbian flag, the Gay flag, the Polysexual flag, the Bisexual flag, the Pansexual flag, and the old and newer versions of the Polyamorous flags.
Let me know if you want one that I'm missing! (Or any other colour variations. I know I do primarily pride flags, but that's because I'm queer.)
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These are not actually fandom recolours, but that's my tag for stuff like these, so suffer, lol
Anyway, I found this cool fox silhouette while looking for something else, I don't even remember what, and could not stop myself from recolouring it the two shades of Corrie red: the darker for their phase 1 armour, and the brighter for the phase 2 armour. Also, Philly Pride in a soft gradient, largely because of the peacocks below, which I've had since November.
Super pretty peacock silhouette I stumbled across last year and immediately had to make a recolour using the Gilbert Baker pride. Except, I hated how it looked with the defined stripes, so I softened it into a gradient. I love it, it's so good.
While I was recolouring the fox above, I realised I only had the GB pride in the softer gradient, and set out to make all of the flags with a softer gradient, which is how we got the two trans flags, one with white in the centre, one with black.
AND THEN, completely unrelated to the above, lol, other than it using the softer gradient, I recoloured some roses.
Two pride recolours—Queer and Progress—above, and then just an array of rose colours, because I was having fun.
(Should've make a black one. Oh well, something for another day; it's my bedtime.)
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I have spent waaaaaaay too much of the day trolling the internet for Skyrim logos.
Which is not what this is, lol, this is me tripping over the Star Wars Galactic Republic cog and the Galactic Empire cog slapped together with half on either side and then decided having the Republic be lightsabre colours fading out to near-white shades, while the Empire is red fading to black would be a good waste of an hour. Lightsabre colours are blue, green, purple, orange, pink, and yellow. (I feel like I'm missing one? I mean, the darksabre, I guess? Effort.)
(I feel like either the blue should have been lighter or the green should have been darker, seeing them next to each other, might fuss with shading at some point in the future. Also, I have a love/hate relationship with orange, I feel like it could have been a deeper shade, but I also think that might just be a danger of setting it bang up against red.)
And then, because I have no self control whatsoever, Republic as the Progress Pride flag and Empire still as red to black.
Actually really like how that one turned out.
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The darker green and lighter blue versions I was talking about doing. Also a black-white Republic side, as a nod to the Darksabre (we can argue all day about the canon characters wielding it; the fact of the matter is it was built by a Jedi, and that makes it aligned with the light. Fight me.)
@magic-gps suggested the Triforce with three flags and I mucked about with it while waiting for the cutting machine (cutting out parts for my co-worker's monthly craft) to finish between sheets. He didn't give me flag suggestions, to I went with the Ace and Aro flags on the bottom, and the combined AroAce flag variants on the top.
And then, since I've got it separated, I made a version that's the colours of Power, Courage, and Wisdom, because why not? (And also standard solid gold, because I realised I didn't actually have one yet, whoops.)
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Apparently made a handful of edits to some of the images I had and then never shared them. Whoops?
Anyway, Wolfpack's wolf head above, in the Gilbert Baker flag, the new PolyAm flag, the Philly flag, the Ace flag, the Greysexual flag, the Aro flag, the Demiboy flag, the Demigender flag, and the Demigirl flag.
And then, below, I yoinked the clone helmet out of the clone trooper badge (recoloured with battalion colours in this post) and recoloured it in the Queer flag, Gay flag, Trans flag, and Demigender flag.
Also apparently recoloured Boba's badge, but that will be a separate post.
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I'm going to out on a limb and say I very much had nonbinary!Boba on my mind while working on these, lol
So, this is the symbol that Boba wears on his chestplate. I've seen it referred to as the Fett Clan symbol (tho this may be fanon), and there's a 'note' added by Jango in The Bounty Hunter Code that calls it Jaster's sigil as a Journeyman Protector. It's a circle with a grain stalk going diagonally from lower left to upper right, with a drop in the upper left half of the circle and a stylised 7 in the bottom right half.
Flags represented are the Gilbert Baker, Trans, Philly, Bisexual, Gay, both AroAce variants, Genderqueer, Agender, and Nonbinary.
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Was looking back through and realised that this post has only got 3 True Mando variants, and that seems like a terrible oversight, so have some few more.
The True Mandalorian mythosaur is a variation seen being worn by Jaster Mereel in the Jango Fett comic. It's squatter than the more standard variant, the horns going out to the sides a bit more, and the 'teeth' look a bit like a dagger.
Represented flags this time are: Queer, Intersex-Inclusive Progress, Nonbinary, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, Agender, the orange-blue AroAce variant, Bisexual, and Gay Man.
And then, while working on these, I realised that I apparently hadn't saved anywhere the variant I made for the JastObi scene break I use on AO3:
[Image Description: A small sized Jedi Order symbol in blue with a light blue glow outside it on the left and the True Mandalorian mythosaur on the right coloured black with some white and glowing white. /end ID]
(I guess the image is too short, tumblr wouldn't let me add the description to the image.)
And, goodness, that was dumb. So I made a new one. I think it looks much better at the small size, and I think this is actually a different pattern, but it's better than the nothing I left myself, lol. Also, have a version of the glowing blue Jedi Order symbol. (which I also apparently didn't save the original of, thanks me.)
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Instead of checking bus schedules, since tomorrow is a holiday and my sis needs the car, I decided to play around with recolouring some of the Persona 5 images I've had in folders, waiting for me to get my shit together. *shifty*
So, recoloured the Phantom Thieves' logo, which is a top hat over a domino mask, viewed off-centre to one side, with flames coming out of the nearer eye of the mask. The version I went with has just the eyeholes of the mask and the flames cut-out, with everything else coloured in. Redone in the Gilbert Baker flag, the Queer flag, and an ombre of red-black-red, to match Joker and Arsène's colour theme, lol
And then, the dagger. This image is used on the calendar screen, when it switches between days, and I think a couple of other menus? Standard is white and black, with shadows and the outline back, and the tip missing because it's stabbed into something.
My initial thought was to just erase all the white and just have the black lining, and there is a recoloured version of that below, but I actually ended up choosing to do layers, with the blade and the handle of the dagger recolourable each on their own, and then the black shadow layered on top, and I really love how that turned out?
Blade is recoloured with a slight silver ombre, and then the handles are a sort of copper ombre, a bronze-gold ombre, and then a red, to match the logo above, lol
Just the black parts coloured in is, actually, not terrible, I don't hate it, but I think I like the layered version more, in the long-term. It looks more, mmmm, finished, I guess.
That said, I did put a fair bit of time into editing this one, lol, so that might be colouring my feelings about it.
Apparently, I never shared these? Shujin crests—using the variant I was finding online the most, which was also the best able to be edited, so the text actually reads 'Syujin High School', lol—and one crouching Joker.
Shujin crests, I made two variants, one with the outline recolourable and the interiors transparent, and the other one reversed. I actually did all of the recolours on both versions, which you can see with the blue version.
Blue version is based on the crest in the school auditorium, which has a blue background, the silver variant is for their school bags, and the black is because that's sort of the default. And then Gilbert-Baker and Queer pride flags, because no one can stop me.
And then, crouching Joker holding a gun, with his coat flared out behind him, because who doesn't love a bit of dramatics. Shades of red because red is P5's colour, and then the queer pride flag because bite me.
And then, these last two are not, actually, recolours, but it annoyed the shit out of me, how hard it was to find transparent versions of the music notes for levelling skills or confidants, so have both the blue and gold notes by themselves, and also a blue note trailing stars, which I was seeing a lot of during my search.