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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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. Â
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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.
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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).
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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.)
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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).
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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.
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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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@madluluwriting asked: If you have time one of these days I’d love a blue and orange aro ace on with the rebellion symbol! Will def use one of these for my discord iconÂ
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So, I’m a big fan of how the flags look with vertical stripes for the Rebellion symbol, but the orange/blue AroAce flag just makes such a lovely sunset over water look… *stares at it and sighs happily* Anyway, did one in horizontal and one in vertical.
Also, since I had everything open, made the other AroAce flag variation that I’d saved, and then also the Ace and Aro flags, because WHY NOT, am I right? I’m right.
Anyway, free to use, and lemme know if you’ve got any other ideas.
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Realised I hadn’t recoloured the Old Republic version of the Jedi Order symbol, yet. (Trying to find a way to stay awake while my sheets are in the laundry, whoops)
Anyway, represented flags are: Progress Pride because I always do that one, Queer Pride because it’s the only multi-identity flag that doesn’t have red, Gilbert Baker Pride because idk pretty, Bear Pride because that’s 100% the Jedi aesthetic and I love it, and then AroAce Pride with the orange/white/blue because as I observed with the Rebellion recolours it kinda looks like a sunset.
It occurred to me that I don’t have a base for the Republic cog, just the Senate symbol the Corries wear, so I should maybe go hunting for that, hrm. (After I change my laundry, I think it’s time to switch loads, or will be once I get my last load downstairs) Also need to find a TARDIS base; the one I had didn’t work out and I’m disappointed.
As always, free to use, let me know if you have any requests.
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In honour of my just started reading the High Republic books, have some recoloured versions of the High Republic symbol. (Uh, best way to describe it, for those who aren’t familiar with the image and need it described? A spear above a horizon, with beams of light shining outward.)
Flags done for this post: Progress Pride, Gilbert Baker Pride, Queer Pride, Asexuality Pride, AroAcre Pride (blue/white/orange version), Intersex Pride, Genderqueer Pride, Trans Pride, and Nonbinary Pride.
Progress and Gilbert Baker variations are using what I call the ‘soft’ pallet, which is to say there’s limited definition between the colours, so they bleed together.
Gotta admit, getting the ‘We are all the Republic’ catch phrase stuck in my head, lol
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Using two Doctor Who symbols: The DW with the light on top (11th Doctor) and the TARDIS looking straight on at the door, with the windows and the sign on the left not filled in.
(I had another TARDIS variation, but I ended up not liking how it looked)
Serious rep going here for the Doctor’s lack of static gender (always and forever appreciating that we got a lady Doctor at a time we 100% needed more trans rep in popular media). Also rep for the Doctor being a bit equal opportunity with the gender they’re kissing.
In the TARDIS, we’ve got the Progress Pride, Bisexual Pride, Polyamory Pride (original colours), Pansexual Pride, Genderqueer Pride, and Non-binary Pride.
In the DW, we’ve got the Gilbert-Baker Pride flag variation, Genderfluid Pride, and Trans Pride.
Got some variations in the Torchwood T that I’ll put up later, probably. (tis the season for Pride recolours, lol)
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@aderynrrowntree​ requested Doctor Who/TARDIS (which I posted before I saw the comment, lol) and Star Trek badges, so here’s the ST badges.
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I did a hollow and filled-in version of each of the represented flags, as seen with the intersex-inclusive (-ish; I tried) Progress Pride.
Alternate versions of the Queer Pride, Trans Pride, Genderqueer Pride, Trans-inclusive Gay Pride, Bisexual Pride, Trans-inclusive Lesbian Pride, and both variations of the AroAce Pride badges under the cut, in that order.
Mentioned in the Doctor Who post that I had some Torchwood ‘T’s ready to go, so here those are.
For those who need it, the symbol is a capital letter T made up of 22 hexagons, with the outer edges coloured, and the inner hexagons transparent.
Flags represented (chosen mostly because of Jack) Intersex-inclusive Progress Pride, Queer Pride, Progress Pride, Bisexual Pride, Trans-inclusive Gay Pride, Pansexual Pride, Polyamory Pride (both the original blue-red-black and the newer blue-magenta-purple), and Trans Pride.
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Had a go at recolouring two different versions of the Wonder Woman symbol, one from the comics, one from the 2017 film with Gal Gadot.
Some of these I did actually do both versions for a flag, but I'm only posting the ones I preferred of those duos. (The circle for the Intersex flag, for example, ended up cutting off at the bottom for the film version.)
Flags represented (& the WW version) are:
Lesbian (film), Pansexual (comics), Bisexual (film), Gilbert Baker (with the lavender top; film), Intersex-Inclusive Progress (comics), Queer (comics), purple/green AroAce (comics), orange/blue AroAce (film), Nonbinary (comics), Trans (film), Genderfluid (film), original Polyamorous (film), newer Polyamorous (comics), and Intersex (comics)
As always, if you'd like to see a flag on either of these symbols (or any other DC hero symbols; I've got Super(wo)man and Batman I plan to do, but didn't grab any others), reply to this post or send me an ask!
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Flags represented are:
Gilbert Bakers (with the lavender top line), Intersex-inclusive Progress, Trans-inclusive Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans-inclusive Gay, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and the original Polyamorous.
(Tbh, I did the Polyam flag for colours reasons, more than anything else.)
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As always, if you’d like to see a flag on this symbol (or any others), reply to this post or send me an ask!
Find more of my fandom symbol recolours by clicking this sentence, lol
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Took some digging, but I managed to hunt down versions of more than just the Star Trek: Original Series/Alternate Original Series command badge to recolour.
Decided to recolour them each with the gold/red/blue that is most commonly associated with each badge, although I did use two different blues: a paler blue for the medical badge, in honour of TOS colouring, and a deeper blue for the science badge, in honour of the AOS colouring.
Then, while I was looking through my queer flag options, I realised that the demigender/demigirl/demiboy flags could totally follow the gold/red/blue pattern. I have zero regrets, lol.
And then, below, the intersex-inclusive progress pride in the outline version of the three new badges:
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(Not actually all of them, lol, but these are the ones I turned into stickers. Most of them are using a pastel pink-purple-blue-green-yellow-orange colouring, because snowflakes should be soft colours, idk. There's one done with the colours of the queer flag, which would have done better if I'd thickened the outline, since the white doesn't actually show up on the sticker, lol)
The only other holiday recolour I used this year was the below gift box with a bow, which is recoloured with the Philly flag:
Probably gonna spend a chunk of today recolouring more snowflakes. And maybe go with brighter colours, lol. Not that I don't like the pastel aesthetic with the snowflakes, I just....really wanted something different, by the time I was done. ^^;
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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