#published author

The completed long fic with @saranova One Manhattan (and it's companion piece Two Manhattans) have officially been archived from ao3.

Why? Because they have been scrubbed and published as an original work!! There have been significant changes, chapters added and removed, characters changed, enhanced, and removed, but the origins will always be FW fanfic. Think of the original One Manhattan as "based on" the fanfic of the same name

You can purchase/read One Manhattan here: https://www.amazon.com/One-Manhattan-Tenley-Ser%C3%A9/dp/B0H15BWF91/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

Or if you prefer not to go through amazon, you can purchase direct from IngramSpark (US only): https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=qL8PeHNBm4nzPQAiiL49KsjN5KFQ7EKPyY4nFyS6pnC

Sure, why the heck not? Likes, reblogs, and comments all count; my writing focuses on various elements of natural history, written for a general audience, on topics ranging from invasive species to nature identification to foraging and more.

Did you know my poetry has been featured in four books? The three at the top of this bookshelf in the video are the oldest.

Poems for My Namesake (2016)

A Womb of Violet: An Anthology (2019)

A Womb of Violet, Volume II: Blackness, Resistance, and Being (2021)

jason todd is 100% a secret fanfiction author and i have EVIDENCE

okay so we all know jay reads like it's his JOB right?? mans goes through books like they're snacks. classic literature, modern fiction, poetry, the whole damn library catalog

and here's the thing about readers - we ALL evolve into either fanfiction writers or headcanon creators like pokémon. it's literally inevitable. look at me, i did both and became the mega evolution lmaooo

BUT JASON?? oh honey, jason took this evolution and RAN WITH IT

so picture this: jason's just chilling one night, probably having Feelings about pride and prejudice (again) and he's like "you know what, mr. darcy would absolutely have anxiety in a modern au" so he opens up his laptop and just... starts writing

except he doesn't really GET social media (check my other headcanon about that on my account!!) so when he goes to save this random 3am character study, he accidentally hits "publish" instead of "save as draft"

BOOM. wakes up to 2k followers and his notifications absolutely EXPLODING

people are in the comments like "WHO ARE YOU" and "THIS IS BEAUTIFUL" and "PLEASE WRITE MORE" and jason's just sitting there like... what the hell is a kudos???

but the validation hits different when you've been through what jason's been through, you know?? seeing hundreds of people genuinely love something he created??? something that came from his heart and his love of literature???

he's hooked.

so now jason todd - red hood, crime lord, guy who literally died and came back - is out here being one of the TOP CREATORS on both wattpad and ao3. we're talking like 500k+ followers across platforms. his bookshelf tour videos get millions of views. his poetry posts break the internet.

AND NOBODY KNOWS IT'S HIM

his online persona is probably something completely different too. like he goes by "GothamReader" or "BookishBird" or something equally innocent, and his whole aesthetic is dark academia meets cozy reading nooks. soft sweaters, vintage books, aesthetic coffee shops. the LAST thing you'd associate with the red hood

he's definitely published actual books too. probably has like 3 bestsellers under a pseudonym and jason todd is just sitting there during wayne family dinner like "oh the new york times bestseller list? never heard of her" while internally SCREAMING because his book just hit #1

the way he probably writes the most beautiful, emotionally devastating character studies and fix-it fics. like his specialty is taking classic lit characters and either giving them the therapy they deserved or putting them in situations where they can actually communicate like adults

his romeo and juliet modern au where they just... TALK to their families instead of dying??? 10 million hits. his pride and prejudice college au??? broke ao3 for 3 hours when he updated. his jane eyre psychological thriller retelling??? is being adapted into a netflix series and jason has to pretend he doesn't know anything about it

tim probably follows his accounts and has NO IDEA. leaves comments like "this is incredible, you should publish this!" and jason's just... trying not to laugh because tim literally just told him to publish something that's already a bestseller

the CHAOS if the batfam ever found out. dick would immediately binge-read everything and leave essay-length comments. damian would probably grudgingly admit it's "adequate" (highest praise). bruce would be so confused but secretly proud

but jason's taking this secret to his GRAVE (again). mans has a whole separate laptop just for writing. deletes his browser history like he's hiding government secrets. changes his writing location every few days like he's in witness protection

yet he's out here single-handedly keeping classical literature alive in the minds of gen z through the power of fanfiction and modern aus

Why would you tame her wildfire soul—

when you could dance in her flames,

learn the rhythm of her burn,

and let her light ignite everything in you

that you were too afraid to set free?

She was never meant to be caged.

She was meant to be adored,

loved in the raw chaos of her becoming.