Bite Sized Bits of Fic

here we are with the third day of the snowflake_challenge! two in one day! click here to see all of my snowflake 2026 posts!



snowflake_challenge question #3: Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

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oh boy. where do i start?

i first got into identity v about last year around july/august! my partner dragged me into this hell and i think i'm here to stay forever. i mostly avoid the vast majority of the fandom (being shy and all), but i've made a few really amazing friends and mutuals in the fandom. it's a small crowd but it's a safe haven.

i can't play the actual identity v game due to photosensitivity, but i love watching my partner livestream and share screenshots of his endeavors. i love writing modern and fantasy settings, giving my favorite characters their own little fresh coat of paint, and just exploring dynamics that they might encounter in new worlds and AUs.

i tend to ignore canon lore if it's not a character's backstory, but i really just enjoy giving my favorites their own personal stories for my worldbuilding and AUs. i'm especially super proud of the worldbuilding i'm currently working on, my fantasia setting, where it's based on an old dungeons & dragons campaign i never finished, but managed to work on through using the IDV cast to play the parts. :3

rambling aside, i would have never gotten back into writing if it wasn't for identity v. i have over 40 fanworks and multiple OCs, self-inserts, and yumejoshi pairings! i self-ship primarily with joseph and joker, and i have so much fun writing my OCs and shipping them with canon characters.

also tons of amazing writers have inspired me to write for my own enjoyment, overmore got me into joseph/aesop and luvcrumbs got me into luchino/eli. i haven't written for the latter ship yet but one day i plan to!

of course i have my partner to especially thank for getting me into IDV in general. we're planning to RP together soon and i'm so glad that my partner is open to writing OC/canon with me. ;w; and he got me into an OC/canon ship that i didn't even realize was perfect for my OC LOL.

it's just so nice to have a community where you aren't picked on or bullied for having wild and zany AUs, worldbuilding, etc. i can't say the same for my past fandoms. IDV feels like a home because i don't need to be into the game itself or be involved with the game to enjoy it. similarly to how i got into fire emblem before ever buying a nintendo switch. i feel welcomed even as someone who is a little on the "fandom blind" side, where i only am into IDV for the characters and not necessarily the game.

so... yeah! that's my yapping for the day. XD i could go on forever about how much i love to write joseph as a character. he's kind of my shipping hoe next to emil. (and ada i love you but your husband is so pretty you feel me.)

speaking of ships: i also love how there's no judgement whenever i ship emil with someone else, like luca. it's really sweet that i'm not put down about how emil is canonically married to ada. i adore adamil, i just enjoy shipping them with others as well as each other (and hell ada + emil can be a polyam queen and king too). i especially ship emil and my self-insert lol.

all in all i'm glad to have found a home in the fandom, where i feel safe and accepted despite my disinterest in canon lore and despite my laser focus on characters and ships. and especially feeling accepted for shipping characters with whoever i want without persecution.

a bit of a late entry due to being sick. if you want to see my previous snowflake challenge entry, click here!



snowflake_challenge question #2: Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

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i have a 10 year old fur baby! her name is sally, and she's the sweetest cat in the whole world. she has watched me endure so many hardships, from my first breakup to graduating high school. she has always been there for me when i needed someone by my side.

i'm listening to an estonian "rock" station when it's a bunch of death metal. 😂 i love waking myself up to maniacal screaming into microphones. i'm surprised there hasn't been a commercial yet LOL. probably too aggressive for any kind of advertising unless it were to advertise concerts.

i miss talking about estonia. it's one of my strongest special interests. before i left the hetalia fandom due to a lot of negativity, i would work so much on my estonia gijinka, mihkel. i won't talk about him here except for in extremely private settings as mihkel is very personal to me.

anyway, i really miss working on my eastern european + russia gijinkas, but given the political climate and the tragedies happening in ukraine, i don't want to accidentally overstep. i have a lot of eastern european + baltic gijinkas, and i never touch politics as it's a triggering topic.

i focus primarily on cultures and pleasantries, like the music, food, language, and even national costumes and traditional dress! i own a few rare books on estonia, as well as a lot of russian language/grammar books. estonian is said to be one of the most difficult languages to learn as an english speaker, and sadly it is difficult to find any resources on the language. so i've taken up on learning russian.

i might actually spend most this year focusing on self-teaching. i might even take notes in my journal here on dreamwidth! and if anyone speaks russian (or even estonian 👀), feel free to add any input, tips, etc. :D

i learn a lot through hearing, which is why i listen to a lot of estonian + russian radio stations as well as watching videos and even listening to EE/RU dubs. i remember in my german club in high school we would watch finding nemo in german.

also, thank you rock FM metal for introducing me to this banger.