#FURIYUN

[jade-doodles-questionmark]

Drew a comic based off of @soverane’s fic (link)

After two months… I’ve finally found strength to tackle to deal with line art & background & coloring and finished it…

[soverane]

about more than a month ago, jade shared some cute hc's of furina meeting yun jin and bonding over opera, film, and the arts, potentially collaborating on a film adaptation of the divine damsel of devastation. then i got furiyun-pilled. so now we're pushing the furiyun 💧🪷 agenda bc i think these 2 opera performers should meet and connect over their craft. here, furina returns to the stage, and she writes letters to a certain opera star on the other side of the continent. beware of woefully obvious, intensely wistful yearning. happy sapphic valentines!

furina x yunjin, epistolary, rated G, 23k words

[jade-doodles-questionmark]

Let’s dance

Theater gfs who would rehearse dance moves & talk abt operas together🥹🥺🥺🥹💞

Pose ref

[jade-doodles-questionmark]

Guys, may I interest you… in furiyun

Wrote something on this scene too⬇️

Yun Jin briefly looked away, suddenly looking shy. When those pretty scarlet eyes fell on Furina again, the warm adoration in them almost made her crumble.

“I wonder if… we can be more than good friends, more than partners in art.”

“W-what do you mean?” Furina knew where this was possibly going, but asked nonetheless. She needed to hear it spoken aloud.

Yun Jin softly laughed, without any hint of judgement. “I mean I really, really fancy you.”

“But how do you know?” Furina instinctively asked. For some reason, she felt tears welling in her eyes. Seeing the questioning look on Yun Jin’s face, she elaborated, “how do you know you actually like me, the real me? How do you know you are not falling for a facade I put on?” Because even I cannot tell them apart now.

“Because I see you, Furina de Fontaine.” Yun Jin answered, patiently as if guiding her through a homework question. “You are the girl who makes a cute noise when you eat something you like. You are the girl who would subconsciously hum songs to yourself when you are concentrated in doing things you enjoy. You are the girl who would go through tomes and tomes of abstruse texts to look for a solution. You are also the strongest, kindest person I know.”

The tears must have fallen out by then, because Yun Jin’s hand had risen to her cheeks and gently wiped them away.

“I see you, Furina, and I like you.”

[soverane]

wip vision board ! :')

[soverane]

Last Line Game

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag some friends

Tagged by @ohmeadows

What makes this so terrifying is that there is no audience, no spotlight, no stage. No letters, no seals, no postscripts.

this is so no-context (unless you've read this!) i checked the version history of my furiyun doc... aw

Tagging: @opalescent-cheetah @chuchupurin @elusetta @sukizula <3

[soverane]

i've been writing 6k+ words for 3 consecutive days furiyun really pulled me out of writer's block. will take tomorrow off to work on uni stuff first 🥹🫡

[feen-feet]

Read this in one sitting, felt deep anxiety for their relationship, cried, felt things

Superb writing applied to a massively big brain crackship, this is everything I ever want, highly recommended go read it now

about more than a month ago, jade shared some cute hc's of furina meeting yun jin and bonding over opera, film, and the arts, potentially collaborating on a film adaptation of the divine damsel of devastation. then i got furiyun-pilled. so now we're pushing the furiyun 💧🪷 agenda bc i think these 2 opera performers should meet and connect over their craft. here, furina returns to the stage, and she writes letters to a certain opera star on the other side of the continent. beware of woefully obvious, intensely wistful yearning. happy sapphic valentines!

furina x yunjin, epistolary, rated G, 23k words

[soverane]

i really had too much fun in the process of brainstorming, researching, and writing this fic... perhaps i'll put my thoughts together and share a bit of the writing process a la "behind the scenes" videos they do for broadway productions i guess? sometime within the next few days

from format to concept... format (epistolary) was probably what made this most experimental for me. as for concept! idk i'm a theatre kid so in a way it was still well within my comfort zone to write :> still had to do lots of research tho, esp for peking opera

about more than a month ago, jade shared some cute hc's of furina meeting yun jin and bonding over opera, film, and the arts, potentially collaborating on a film adaptation of the divine damsel of devastation. then i got furiyun-pilled. so now we're pushing the furiyun 💧🪷 agenda bc i think these 2 opera performers should meet and connect over their craft. here, furina returns to the stage, and she writes letters to a certain opera star on the other side of the continent. beware of woefully obvious, intensely wistful yearning. happy sapphic valentines!

furina x yunjin, epistolary, rated G, 23k words

[queer-aunty]

I am listening, very intensly👀

Drew a comic based off of @soverane’s fic (link)

After two months… I’ve finally found strength to tackle to deal with line art & background & coloring and finished it…

[jade-doodles-questionmark]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

about more than a month ago, jade shared some cute hc's of furina meeting yun jin and bonding over opera, film, and the arts, potentially collaborating on a film adaptation of the divine damsel of devastation. then i got furiyun-pilled. so now we're pushing the furiyun 💧🪷 agenda bc i think these 2 opera performers should meet and connect over their craft. here, furina returns to the stage, and she writes letters to a certain opera star on the other side of the continent. beware of woefully obvious, intensely wistful yearning. happy sapphic valentines!

furina x yunjin, epistolary, rated G, 23k words

[soverane]

a brief "BTS" (?) look into my writing process for this fic!

that nobody asked for but i want to yap about it bc it was so fun

structure

i started with writing the letters first before anything else, so i could structure the flow of the story around the exchange of letters, which will largely determine where furina and yun jin end up by the end of it. this is my first time writing an epistolary, and this method worked well for me. so i wrote the letters first, but would write a few snippets of the fic outside of the letters here and there. then i'd bounce ideas back and forth with jade, who gave me really helpful feedback in this early stage!

research

as usual, i do lots of research first at the early stages of fic-writing. a big part of my "brainstorming" the story is research about anything and everything i need to know to make the story happen: character lore, world lore, and, in this case, peking opera, refreshing my memory on classical music, and a bit of french lol. i think i may have had to watch at least 2 short documentaries about peking opera, and a few random videos about... different types of western classical musical/instrumental compositions. many of these bits of research didn't make it into, or were ultimately irrelevant to, the fic. it's common for me not to be able to use everything i research but i think that's normal. i tend to stop researching altogether once i start writing, and just review or add to my notes if i need to.

vibes. flavors.

i made a moodboard on pinterest (see pictures above in my og post) that served more as a creative exercise for me than it having any actual use to the fic lol BUT it was fun and it did help me get a visual grasp of the vibes i was going for with furiyun. i also made a playlist for the same purpose (link in the ao3 page of the fic).

ideating the story

outside of their letter exchanges, i wanted to feature the two girls' lives, with heavy emphasis on their line of work as artists/performers. so i wanted to write glimpses of, like, a-day-in-the-life-of the yun-han opera troupe director and how she juggles her responsibilities, how she manages the troupe, etc. as for furina, i thought it would be cool to see her performing again, and i think directing and starring in a musical production was a nice next turning point after her SQ and her work with the little oceanid.

in the fic, i intended to write furina in a place where she's relatively more well-adjusted, socially and mentally. but not quite there yet, and if you've read the fic already you might see what i mean; she's not fully there yet, and i prefer to write her coming from this place in between, where growth and healing aren't linear and she's just navigating things bit by bit. i did not write her to be this mature and healed version of herself; i personally think she isn't there yet. but i envisioned her to at least be in a place where she's got friends, she's re-established old connections and made/makes new ones, now navigating how relationships work.

i tried to focus on the "hats" yun jin wears in her life, so i wrote about her work with the opera troupe, how she treads that line between director, mentor, businesswoman, celebrity, friend, pen pal. how she tries to make time for her personal life amid the bustle of her showbiz work. though i did do more of a character study with furina than i did with yun jin, i liked to write yun jin in this light: that she's just a girl like the rest of us. she's just a girl!!! with a crush!!! she gets nervous and anxious too!!! she is not the shiny distant celebrity some people may perceive her to be. (see: pedestals)

since they did not have in-person interactions until the end, naturally i'd write them in scenes with other characters and NPCs. i had to make up 2 NPCs to make the story work on furina's end of things, while the other made-up NPCs on yun jin's end were mostly filler names at best just to fill scenes.

i wanted salon solitaire to act somewhat as furina's familiars (or "retainers") who are highly attuned to furina's energy and emotional state, which is why she's able to communicate with them even if they don't talk.

more author's notes

to date, i've cried more times writing this than i have cried for my other wips and published fics. i'd cried at least once or twice for other fics and wips, but i cried several times writing certain scenes here lol

i've officially reached a new level of rarepair hell: the trenches, the ninth ring, the abyss

(note: i'll add more thoughts if i have any more to say tomorrow but otherwise this is pretty much the process, it was so fun, so i'll delete this note afterwards.)

about more than a month ago, jade shared some cute hc's of furina meeting yun jin and bonding over opera, film, and the arts, potentially collaborating on a film adaptation of the divine damsel of devastation. then i got furiyun-pilled. so now we're pushing the furiyun 💧🪷 agenda bc i think these 2 opera performers should meet and connect over their craft. here, furina returns to the stage, and she writes letters to a certain opera star on the other side of the continent. beware of woefully obvious, intensely wistful yearning. happy sapphic valentines!

furina x yunjin, epistolary, rated G, 23k words

[queer-aunty]

I have read the fanfic and I am at a loss for words. I have never read something so beautiful and soft and so many emotions and to keep it short: I loved it SO MUCH. The author better continue writing or I will haunt them. Thank you for gracing me with your art or itherwise I would have never found this ship and this masterpiece of literatur. I did not expect to go into this and go out of this story with my heart stolen by another rarepair.

Drew a comic based off of @soverane’s fic (link)

After two months… I’ve finally found strength to tackle to deal with line art & background & coloring and finished it…