#FireandGrimstone

[bornfreakdraws]

Draw suggest: Getou during his depression arc 🥺🥺🥺

So fine even Six Eyes didn't see it coming :')))

[mxtxfanatic]

Have you ever thought about connecting the scene where Hua Cheng pulls the nail out of Xie Lian's foot after reaffirming his pain, and the extra where Xie Lian refuses to leave Hua Cheng's side even though its causing him increasingly excruciating pain?

Nope, never, but to be fair, I never used to revisit the tgcf extras outside of the cave one (probably cause the formatting of my doc was so weird), but I’ve found a new appreciation for them now. Also, you’re in luck cause that’s actually the most recent one that I read lmao

I think Xie Lian’s relationship to physical pain is very interesting in that he takes a very “no matter what, I can handle it” approach to it, the only time it is broken being in the temple scene. He is willing to endure physical pain as long and as often as it takes to accomplish whatever goal he has set out to do, usually saving others or preventing harm. It’s not that he never feels pain, but he is so skilled at pushing it down that it no longer registers to him, which is why Hua Cheng calling attention to his pain brings it back to the forefront. On the other hand, the extra drives home something about Xie Lian’s character that I feel like is not talked about often enough: physical pain is something that Xie Lian can handle, but abandonment, on the other hand, is not.

So the whole time Xie Lian is feeling this pain in at the beginning of the extra, what he’s thinking about is not upsetting Hua Cheng on his birthday. When the pain becomes physically unbearable and makes him pass out, what he cares about is how it may have ruined the day. When Xie Lian and co find out that the pain is somehow linked to Hua Cheng, all Xie Lian can think about is his husband. But the moment it’s suggested that maybe Hua Cheng stay away until they can find out the origins, Xie Lian panics. After all, pain is just pain, but to be physically separated from a loved one “for his own good”? That was his breaking point. He would rather deal with excruciating physical pain than the emotional pain of being isolated. And remember: the last and really only time physical pain broke Xie Lian also happened at the time in his life that Xie Lian had been completely and utterly abandoned. This was not coincidental. He knows what that feels like, and if he must feel pain, he would rather not feel it alone.

[corduroyserpent]

Driveby blorbo offer: baby zhuzhi-lang in a little ghost costume he made himself.

TLJ: Where did my nephew go... Oh! My, what a frightening little ghost!

[waitineedaname]

I keep thinking about that Tinder Girl text convo and imagining cumplane arguing over each other's names because bingyuan are getting married and need to put Moshang on the invite list but Shen Yuan only knows them as "Airplane" and "Airplane's boyfriend" and Shang Qinghua genuinely mistakes Shen Yuan for "Shen Qingqiu" because he only ever refers to him as "Cucumber bro" and never got his first name from him. Think that bit where everytime he's about to say his name a loud and inopportune noise drowns him out and Airplane refuses to keep asking.

PLEASE LSDKJFLKSDJF i love that in this scenario they're not the ones getting married. it's more like your best man threatening to not come to the wedding because you don't know his name sldkjflksdjf now im imagining sqh being like I OBJECT in the middle of the wedding just because his best bro doesn't know his name (never mind that he also doesn't remember his best bro's name). I also love that binghe and mobei-jun aren't helpful in this scenario, presumably because shen yuan and sqh get so focused on bothering each other about it that they. forget they can just ask their partners what their friends' names are.

[werepuppy-steve]

GET BOOPED IDIOT <3

STOP SMACKING ME!!!!!!!!!!

[puppy-steve]

I am a whole half-inch taller than you, bitch ✌️😘

i mean..... technically..... i'm 5'5 and a half...... 👉🏻👈🏻

[illuminatedferret]

27 for the fic writer ask!!!!!!!

hello!!!

27. your favorite part of the writing process?

Surprisingly difficult to answer! I'd say maybe my single favorite part is when I get to use some really snappy or inspired phrasing while I'm writing. It's very satisfying.

...Second favorite is finishing the fic, lol

[peerlessbellbird]

🍄🤔 for WIP ask game!

🍄Describe your wip/one of your wips in the format of “___ + ___ =___”

Oh this format feels so difficult to me for some reason... I'd probably describe my fengqing wip as betrayal + forced proximity = angst (+ eventual reconciliation)?

🤔What’s a story you’d love to write but haven’t even started yet?

Ooh there's probably a lot of these to be honest, and I've probably forgotten a bunch that I wanted to write and never started. The big one that comes to mind right now is my beefleaf gone girl AU, where beefleaf are unhappily married and what follows is, in the style of the novel/movie Gone Girl, a bunch of lying, murder attempts, death faking, fraud, etc.

Emoji ask game

[theladysunami]

BINGHE NOOO!

[bornfreakdraws]

Has anyone asked for a Mahito yet? Because Mahito is a (very spiky, very bitey) gem

Someone did ask for Mahito first, yes!

(but also, my hand slipped and wrote a fucked up little fic about him and kenjaku doing some truly deranged sex shit, enjoy!) (or... not)

[mxtxfanatic]

GASP Happy Birthday!!! Here's a Cuocuo from the English translation to celebrate!!

Thank you 💝 Also, baby!!! Where’s my other lovely tgcf child?!

[corduroyserpent]

Idk if you've read erha but i thought you might enjoy this thought I had: Zhuzhi-Lang would quickly become attached to Chu Wanning. Nevermind that Tianlang-Jun is Xue Zhengyong but with way more free-time and looser morals, Zhuzhi-Lang would take one look at the guy sitting quietly while everyone else parties and feel some sort of kinship. He'd see the nervous glances people throw him when he stands from his seat and admire his apparent fearsomeness. He'd be caught out in the cold one day and devote himself to Chu Wanning for lending him his cloak like he isn't prone to getting sick. Zhuzhi-Lang would fall for Chu Wanning's unintentional wiles just like all three of his disciples and it would be the end for him.

Also, Tianlang-Jun and Xue Zhengyong would have a great time together. Birds of a feather of whatever.

i absolutely love 2ha! and this gave me such powerful brainworms that i wrote a little zzl & cwn ficlet about it I HOPE THAT'S OKAY

Chu Wanning’s hands are red from the cold. It is not the first thing Zhuzhi-Lang notices once he has poked his head free from the soft white cloak that had been tossed over him—that honor goes to the intensity of Chu Wanning’s eyes—but it is the most pressing. Low temperatures can be harmful to humans. And it’s been snowing all night.  “Chu-zongshi is too kind.” Zhuzhi-Lang swiftly slides the cloak from his narrow shoulders. He doesn’t wish to lose the warmth but he’s a heavenly demon; the cold may be an inconvenience, especially being part serpent, but he can manage. He’s always been able to. “This humble one is grateful for your consideration but there’s truly no need.” “You don’t want it?” Chu Wanning makes no move to take the offered cloak. His expression grows a touch cooler. “Is it the wrong color?” Zhuzhi-Lang blinks. While it’s true that he tends towards wearing black, he doesn’t dislike white. But that doesn’t matter at the moment! The longer they stay out here pushing a cloak back and forth, the higher the chance of Chu Wanning getting sick from the weather.  “It isn’t that I don’t want it,” Zhuzhi-Lang assures. He subconsciously presses it to his chest. It’s so soft. “Then wear it. Sect Leader sent word that he and your uncle won’t be back for another hour. If you continue to wait out here, you’ll freeze to death.”   “But what about you?” “What about me?” Chu Wanning sniffs. The tip of his nose is terribly red. “Won’t you be cold?” “It’s only a brief walk to the Red Lotus Pavilion. A little snow won’t kill me.” Chu Wanning turns to leave. Then, face stern, he takes the cloak and flips it around to drape it over Zhuzhi-Lang’s shoulders. He nods once, the motion tinted with a slight awkwardness. “Good night.” Zhuzhi-Lang watches him head off into the snow. To be sensitive to the cold and still give away his cloak…what incredible kindness. Zhuzhi-Lang burrows into the gifted warmth, pulling it tighter around him, and thinks about how he might begin to repay Chu Wanning. 

and then zhuzhi-lang accidentally becomes mo ran's new worst enemy asdfgjkl

[goatpunches]

was inspired by @fireandgrimstone’s venom bingqiu fanart so I wanted to contribute too!!

[werepuppy-steve]

🐝 cj. 27. he/him 🐝

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[theladysunami]

@waitineedaname

#im really sleepy on a melatonin idk if im making sense #but one of the things that really struck me when i had just started reading #was how upset he was watching binghe get bullied #and how outraged he was that the system wouldnt let him intervene in a situation of child abuse #sqq's kindness was shining through even then.... i love him

@fireandgrimstone

#also like #it says a lot that all the peak lords and his disciples adore him #im sure ive tapked everyones ears off about this already but shen qingqiu is LOVED #A D O R E D #because of who he is and how deeply kind he is #qi qingqi wanted to get on his nerves so badly and failed #and ended up coming around to him so much so that she actively seeks him out later #i cant express enough how much this says about Shen Qingqiu's character #not as the scum villain #but the nature that Shen Yuan has brought into the character Shen Qingqiu just because that's who he is.

thinking about sqq using the leaves to end the fight between binghe and ming fan, even though he loses b-points in the process, and how this establishes a pattern of his: even when he's concerned with his own safety, he sacrifices it to protect binghe

[illuminatedferret]

Writing Patterns

Rules: share the first line of your last ten published works or as many as you are able and see if there are any patterns!

Tagged by neithoftheveil.

For the multichapters, I'm just doing the first chapter. In ascending order:

Dearly Departed

It was a combination of things.

2. Is Dawn Not Red?

Hua Cheng was used to disappointment.

3. be as a star

Xie Lian found him in the aftermath, once everything was said and done.

4. Dreaming of Home

All his life, comfort had been in precious little supply.

5. like tombstones

“Alright! I think this place should work for now,” Xie Lian pronounced with some hope.

6. Dusk Till Dawn

The sight of Xie Lian's bare body bathing beneath the moonlight was the most alluring sight in the Three Realms.

7. Absolute Territory

To be honest, Xie Lian should have seen it coming.

8. Pig in the Garden

The scrap-collecting, misfortune-bringing Crown Prince of Xianle had ascended for the third time.

9. A Very Different Ghost King's Birthday Extra

In another world, in another life, Xie Lian would be driven spare trying to secure a gift for his wonderful, handsome, exceedingly rich and accomplished husband.

10. the light streams out

Wuming had returned to Xie Lian!

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I noticed while doing this that I start a lot of fics with two-sentence setups, haha. Doesn't translate great to only looking at the first sentence, but a lot of these are still pretty solid on their own.

And I shall tagggg @artingstarvist and @fireandgrimstone if either of you would like to do this! Or anyone else who's interested :3c