Decided to start one of these thingamajigs to ask my lovely moots some Tumblr-related questions! 🙂
🌟 What's the inspo behind your username?
🌟 How long you've been on Tumblr
🌟 AO3 or Tumblr and why? (or fanfiction.net etc.)
🌟 Which fandom was your first?
🌟 What's your favourite story/art created by you?
🌟 What's your favourite story/art created by someone in your fandom?
Please share with 5 more moots! Let's get to know each other! 💖
btw this is from @goodgirlgonebard 💖 💖
Thank you so much for sending this to me my love!!! And thank you to @anacdoce and @larvatuss for this ask as well!!! I figured I'd combine them all into one!! 🩷
🌟 What's the inspo behind your username?
Nashira is a star in the Capricornus constellation (my star sign!)! I love astronomy and the night sky so when I was coming back to tumblr I really wanted to make sure I picked a name that suited me! The name itself also can mean "bringer of gladness" and I feel like I fit that bill most days 🥰 The xx on each end is just cause I'm an edgelord 😂
🌟 How long you've been on tumblr
I first joined when I was like 13, was on for a year or so and dropped off (i wasn't an active poster or anything!) Rejoined when I was 17 and wrote a bunch of Star Wars yaoi and then disappeared again after a year or so, and jumped back on winter 2023 and haven't left! It's been a wild ride lol, but I'm happy to be here 🩷
🌟 AO3 or Tumblr and why? (or fanfiction.net etc.)
I never knew about fanfiction.net until 2023, lol, and I've been on AO3 for quite a long time! I prefer AO3 for the reading and commenting and organization, but do like tumblr still for finding fic and authors!!!
🌟 Which fandom was your first?
So you know how I said Star Wars yaoi... LOL technically, Star Wars was my first fandom I created fanworks for!!! I started watching it pretty much fresh out of the womb cause of my dad, and from there that choice shaped my future lol. Ironically, today is his death anniversary, and it's nice to remember my roots amidst all of this. Yaoi and dad being gone in one answer. There's a joke in here somewhere 😂
🌟 What's your favorite story/art created by you?
I think it'll always be With Stars to Filll My Dream 🥹 When I started this fic, I hadn't ever finished a fic before. WSTFMD isn't finished yet, but it's come so far and I've maintained my passion for so much longer than any work I’ve ever written and I'm so glad and just proud of myself for still going, even when times have been really hard 🩷
🌟 What's your favorite story/art created by someone in the fandom?
I have so many amazing friends 🥹 Can I Be Good?, @amouseyoucanhold 's incredible Ascended Astarion modern AU fic is passionately and lovingly written and so intimate and smoky 💚 I'm on the edge of my seat each time I sit down to read, and Lark is such a striking and beautiful character that I can't help but get lost in the story as it unfolds around them 💜 @losersmidnights's With Your Boots Beneath My Bed is a deliciously action packed, steamy canon retelling with a beautiful mysterious vaquera with secrets and callbacks to some of the best superhero comics of all time. 💙 @pinkberrytea 's beautiful works from the reader's perspective with Astarion, namely my fave La Petite Mort which is one of my favorite blood drinking fics to THIS DAY. 🤍 @bby-bel 's Death & Romance featuring another isekai'd human (Darcy my love) and one of my favorite Durge's on the planet Kell 🥹 They're such a good duo that leaves you smiling (and also wanting to strangle Astarion a lot, lol) ❤️ @khywren 's wonderful fics, their Kinktober 2024 list being one of the BEST little series I've ever read in my life with each prompt showing how much love and chemistry their Tav Ysera and Astarion have. Taught me so much about smut writing, and made my heart soar with each new situation these two got up to 🩷 @bloodjune 's Until You, a gorgeous, masterful fic set after the events of the game with a slowburn to the third degree that has left me literally breathless on multiple occasions- Effy and Star are so beautifully written and I have NO NOTES. 🩵 Portrait of the Pale Elf by @larvatuss is another incredible fic set after the games events, and it's imagery is akin to reading a work of art- painted so vividly with every single word. Astarion is portrayed so heart achingly well and Selene is such a beautiful character- it's made me look at everything in a new light- thinking about rays of sun dappling a stone column through an early morning mist 🖤 I'm tragically behind on a lot of beautiful works, like In Winter's Silence the Water Lillies Wait by @anacdoce of another post-canon Astarion fic with her beautiful Raven who I'd defend with my life 🥹🖤 as well as Dealbreaker by @goodgirlgonebard and all of her other wonderful fics and works featuring the beautiful Luna and Willow ❤️💚 And all of @hellethil 's lovely works around Astarion and Hellethil- so beautiful and There are so many more I've read over the years that have awed and inspired me, and I'm so lucky to have met so many incredible writers, shouting out @inkymoonbunny, @badbloodwitch, @justabiteofspite, @elinorbard, @verbenaa, @dramatiquechipmunk, @deadly-diminuendo, @deianestormborn, @irondeficienttav, @preciouslittlebhaalbae, @caffeinatedmunchkin, @roguishcat, @bludazey, @kittenintheden, @meeshrox, @alliskit, and so many more 🥹❤️ You all inspire me every single day, and though I'm extremely slow, every bit of your writing always lives on in my heart and I think about it often ❤️
Thank you for this lovely ask, beloveds!!! 🩷🩷 It was a nice way to escape the inside of my mind today 🥹