#fidothefinch

Tagged by @fidothefinch ! I'm getting back into writing after a major case of burnout so this was fun!

Fic Writer Ask Game:

how many works on ao3? 70

total ao3 wordcount? 647,949

Top 5 fics by kudos? As of 1st May 2025

TheBruceWayne of insta (7,738)

Unknown Origins (2,673)

Siren Call (1,180)

Buckle Up (its gonna be a bumpy ride) (883)

Make A Splash (770)

What fandoms do you write for?

Mostly Nightwing-centric, but Batfam/Batman to generalise it.

Do you respond to comments?

My inbox might bank up on me, but yes. The answer is always yes. I have an endnote to all my fics telling people what to do if they don't want a reply, though.

Angstiest Ending?

Oh. Heh. I have a few. The one that instantly comes to mind is Nightwing's Final Gift (tissue warning on that). If you want *dark* then its gotta be my death loop series aka Deja Vu (i still have a story -- or two -- to write for that, so take that warning for what you will) (but its definitely *dark*).

Fic with the happiest ending?

Fluffiest ending definitely goes to TheBruceWayne of insta by a large margin.

Do you get hate?

Not generally. I did get one comment that got deleted, and there's the occasional comment that I have to think how to answer... but not generally.

Do you write smut?

Nope. Never will. It's not in my wheelhouse, so to speak.

Do you write crossovers?

Uh, kind of? I do regularly crossover from Batman into his kids comics, and from there into the Titans. And I'm writing a fic rn which will use the JLA... but that's still solidly within the DC fandom.

Ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

None that I know of.

Have you ever cowritten a fic?

No, can't say I ever have.

All-time favorite ship?

oh, that's a funny question. I'm proudly ship-neutral, in that I honestly don't care about ships. You do you and all that, but I seriously doubt I will ever write a ship fic, or read a ship fic. Like I said, ship-neutral.

WIPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I have a long standing fic, CIRCLE II: Between The Cracks. I know what needs to happen, and I can see it my head... but it requires a major action scene, and I'm just ugh. I'll write anything instead of action, lol. As you can see because this has been sitting in my WIP folder for something like ten years lol. (And I have written lots of words to avoid writing that scene, lol.)

Writing Strengths?

Angst, emotional whump, character introspection. Basically emotional scenes, which i think is funny, considering i always find it hard to know what I'm feeling at any particular moment.

Writing Weaknesses?

Action. I loathe action scenes. In fact, it's caused some powerful writing blocks on more than a few fics.

Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

Love it! Sadly, I only speak English fluently, and I only remember a smattering of other languages from school (which was a long time ago), so... it'll have to be auto translators if I ever do it. Which I know get things wrong, so, there is that. So I generally resort to "so and so said 'this' in that language" which feels like such a cheat. And then there's how to format it in the story, which is another hurdle. Do you do footnotes, or fancy HTML? It's a whole thing. But I love it, and I wish more authors would do it.

First fandom you wrote for?

Star Wars. (First one I wrote, not the first I read, and not the first I published) :)

Favorite fic you've ever written?

Oooh. Close tie between Make A Splash and Unknown Origins. I love Unknown Origins for the sheer whumpiness of it, the detail, and the comfort ending (that I have planned) (yes, its not there yet, but its coming). I also love Make A Splash for the sheer, uh, unhingedness of it... and the whumpy angsty journey i took the characters on. I also love that both fics are leading me into a series. I have ideas. bwahahaha

Hi Fido!!! <3

2 ⧽. if you could sit down and finish any completely new fic without anything stopping you (time, tiredness, etc), what would you write? tell us about it if you want!

The completely new part about that question is meaaaan xD Otherwise I would just have said Severance AU. Just sit down and write those 60k as if it's nothing. That's be amazing- but since that isn't an option----

CIA Plant Adam AU. While that story works maybe as a tiny oneshot as well, I am deeply intrigued by the larger worldbuilding and character conflict of forcing Adam to have betrayed everyone he stands for back in college by being headhunted by the CIA only to now be someone who betrays everyone they love (Ben, Sam, Maeve, their fans) by not being who they say they are.

CIA AU sounds like a cool spies and robbers kinda AU, but it's weirdly enough Not That At All. Because in my mind, most of what Adam'd do while using Jet Lag as a cover for CIA missions is... make sure suitcases get into foreign nations. Just your run of the mill destabilizing non-US nations and betraying their national security in a way only US imperialism can do it act at a time. Deeply mundane, which makes it so much worse for Adam. He's a spy, but not even a cool one.

And while there's potential for a... Reveal down the line (Ben having some ties to some underground cell or something (Ben would not work for the US government (too occ))) what kinda intrigues me is the everything else. The lying, the break in self-perception, the fact that Adam Chase is a front but he's turning more and more real. The truth that Ben and Sam *are* his friends and he *does* actually care for all the shit he says he cares about only---- legally, he's never allowed for them to really return the favor.

Much to think about Asdfghjk

Thank youuuu <3

Full disclosure, this fic is an excuse for angst and porn. Background is that Dick is dead and Jason and Tim are sad and they get together because of that. But here's a paragraph that isn't porn :)

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The bar was nice, in that it looked like it could actually pass a health inspection, if it were possible to legitimately pass a health inspection in Gotham. They sat in a booth, the padded bench seat lacking in padding. Jason had slid into the better seat, the seat facing the door, and Tim had begrudgingly slid into the opposite seat. They were both in street clothes, or at least had street clothes on along with the pieces of their suits that could pass for street clothes.

Playing House by FidotheFinch 

Rec’d by @foriland

Ask meme: send me a word, and I'll post the sentences they appear in from my WIPs

Whumptober Day 6:

“You would turn your back from me to eat,” Din replies, deadpanned, “but wont trust me to not stab you in the back while keeping a night watch?”

Whumptober Day 9:

“Dick,” he gasps, his face twisted like he’s been stabbed.

Whumptober Day 12

“Macaroni fanart is not a valid form of identification,” she replies.

From The Gift:

"We might have broken it duringour last session with it. It's surprisingly fragile for something so feisty," the Grand General said with a smirk that madeShiro want to wrap his hands around his neck and squeeze.

Thank you for the ask @fidothefinch !