#I guess I have another wip now

[blood-orange-juice]

I am unpleasantly surprised by the lack of Ningguang x Lumine fanfiction. 29 fics on ao3 (Wriowinne has 24, to help you understand the scale of the disaster).

I think the fandom is sleeping on these two.

[jichanxo]

subjugate your shame (uncropped under the cut)

i like yasu's face too much here to not post it uncropped....

[governmentmandatedryujinstan420]

I FORGOT TO THROW OUT AFTER THE EPISODE RELEASED NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[emily-mooon]

So honey take me by the hand, and we can sign some papers

Forget the invitations, floral arrangements, and breadmakers!

[puppyeared]

oh yea.. its all coming together

[mdemn]

hey all! severe storms have knocked my power out & so all the food in my fridge/freezer has gone bad. the news is predicting this can be a multi-day outage. i have no money until friday to get any more food. in addition, my phone is without service thus rendering me unable to get to work. i had to walk over a mile to get enough service to call out of work today. though, i can NOT afford to miss any more.

if anyone has an extra $5-10 they can spare so i can walk to the store to get some nonperishables while this passes, please please help if you’re able.

kofi link | dm for $-app | if you need a news link to the stories to verify this, i can provide those as well via dm, just ask!

[goldensunset]

everyone told me she was terrifying but they didn’t tell me she was so cool and nice

[amethystina]

I am intrigued by all the wips honestly. Anything you give us will be amazing, I have no doubt.

I will ask about Thou Shalt Not Covet tho because it is completed.

And I LOVE the How To Build a Family for Dummies title lmao. If you feel that it fits the story, you don't have to change it imo 😆

Also, I have to ask about your health. I hope you're doing well these days and that you're getting better. If not, don't push yourself too hard. Take care of yourself either way 💜

No pressure x'D

Jokes aside: thank you 💜 I'm very flattered that a lot of you have such faith in me and my writing.

Thou Shalt Not Covet was something I wrote in a feverish haze about a week ago because I was high-key panicking over not having been able to draw or write in what felt like forever and my brain just latched on to that story. Which wasn't at all what I had planned but, apparently, what I needed at the time, so I try not to hold it against myself.

It's basically a fic about Ga On being a raging ball of jealousy for 10k straight.

... or gay, I guess?

So the title is a bit misleading since there is actually A LOT of coveting going on. Coveting of Yo Han, to be more specific.

Ga On you little sinner you.

And it's 10k before editing, I should say. Because since I wrote it with a fever, I'll probably have to add a bit as I edit. Understandably, I tend to miss a lot of details when I'm too feverish. The fic is set just before Kim Choong Sik's first trial, so around episode 10. Which means I'm going to have to add a couple of warnings because Yo Han does not play fair. Whenever I write Yo Han as he was during the drama I'm reminded of how far he's come in Who Holds the Devil because dear LORD is he a manipulative asshole in this one x'D

So yeah. Jealous!Ga On and a Yo Han who doesn't pull his punches. A recipe for disaster, in other words. But they work it out eventually.

Here's a snippet from the beginning of the story (though unedited so there might be changes before it's posted)

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Ga On had never understood how utterly devastating jealousy could be until he felt it — truly felt it — for the first time.

If asked, he would have said he wasn't a jealous person. He may have felt a burst of it once or twice as he and Soo Hyun had grown up — whenever another boy had shown an interest in her — but it had faded just as quickly as it had flared up. Perhaps because, deep down, Ga On had known that Soo Hyun only had eyes for him.

There was no need for him to feel jealous since the odds of him losing Soo Hyun to another were slim.

And, in hindsight, that must have lulled Ga On into a false sense of security, giving him the impression that he wasn't the jealous type. That he was calm and rational enough not to get upset, and knew how to handle the surge of emotions that might occur. Not realizing that what he'd felt at the time wasn't jealousy — or at least not the true depth of what he was actually capable of feeling.

Ga On had underestimated his own possessiveness.

And it wasn't until he met Kang Yo Han that Ga On knew true jealousy.

His first clue that he'd misjudged himself should have been his inexplicable desire to remain within Yo Han's orbit despite having numerous reasons to stay away. All Ga On wanted was to keep pushing closer, to keep proving himself, to keep asking for that intoxicating attention that crackled like electricity down his spine. He may not want to name what he was experiencing — instinctively shying away from a revelation he knew would change his life beyond what he was ready to deal with, finding comfort in denial — but he still craved the rush it gave him. He couldn't help wanting more.

His second clue should have been his own reaction as he'd watched Jung Sun Ah fuss with Yo Han's tie during their photo shoot.

The anger Ga On had felt in that moment — curling black and vicious inside his chest — had been an overreaction of the kind that should have given him pause. But, somehow, it hadn't. Somehow, Ga On hadn't even registered it as something out of the ordinary. Some part of him had even felt justified in his anger.

As if he had a right to feel that possessive over his chief.

But the rational part of Ga On knew that he didn't. He may be sleeping in Yo Han's house and helping him with his mission to upend the world as they knew it, but they were still nothing more than coworkers.

Yo Han had never promised him anything.

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Expect jealousy, anger, and a bit of angst. Because Ga On has abandonment issues and it actually hits pretty hard when he starts suspecting that he's not so special to Yo Han after all...

As for How to Build a Family For Dummies, the title doesn't fit the vibe AT ALL which is why I'm calling it a working title for now. It just sounds way too cute and cheerful for the actual theme and content of the story x'D But more about that in another reply since I got a specific ask about it!

Aaaaand when it comes to my health, things are really bad, unfortunately. The kind of bad I haven't had since January, with daily exhaustion fevers and lack of focus. And it's probably not going to get better anytime soon since the main cause is related to something outside of my control that will most likely take months to fix. So it's really just a matter of me trying to hold on as long as I can and, if I'm lucky, I won't break completely before I reach the other side. I guess we'll see?

Anyhow! Thank you so much for the concern and the lovely ask. You take care of yourself too 💜

WIP Tag Game

[corfisers]

i really need to finish this one day

[fisheito]

I tried to animate sappyass yakuei in Sketchbook and it bugged out, corrupted the file, and wiped all my other WIPs inm gonna 😂🤧😭

[cherrybombfangirlwrites]

me: i already have 5 huge wips, please i don't need another-just let me sleep please-

my brain not shutting up: NEW IDEA NEW IDEA NEW IDEA NEW WIP NEW WIP NEW WIP WWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-

[rolandkaros]

i read that you don’t find iga/karo that compelling, but i have to know if you’ve read ‘the fine line’ by delacourt on ao3. like that fic is so well done even if u don’t ship it 😭 i highly recommend it because it’s a beautiful piece of fiction (and personally it turned me into a karo/iga truther) :)

oh i have read it and i greatly enjoyed it. dont get me wrong, not being 100% on a ship does not mean i wont read it or even that i wont casually ship it/have fun with it. mostly it just means i wont write it myself or explore the dynamic on my own. but that whole series was very good, plus i love both karo and iga so much that it wouldn't have even mattered if i wasn't into shipping them because i'll take any fics i can get 😭

[nocoffeeforoldmen]

hello friends. i have no self control.

I JUST FUCKING STARTED MY NEW RUN THAT IS GOING TO BE A KARLACH ROMANCE BUT I'M BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN.

the plot bunnies have multiplied and now I have a 20+ chapter story in a non magical modern day college professors AU.

anyway they're professors and neighbors and writing them awkwardly dancing around each other has me kicking my feet like a schoolgirl.

[devynconstance]

I might have taken the historical inaccuracies a step too far this time. But hey what's more historically accurate than using the scraps you've stashed away for moments such as these instead of going out to buy something new. So let's go over what's actually happening here. While I was practicing handsewing the eyelets I very quickly realized that this material was way to delicate to handle the tension that would enevitably be put on the side seams (which I was kind of expecting when I altered the dress pattern for whimsy instead of accuracy). So I decided to reinforce the sides with two boning channels on either side of the eyelets, but it still didn't feel secure enough. So I decided to reinforce the section where the eyelets would go as well. The only problem, I was completely out of ribbon. Or so I thought. Ironically enough, while digging through the deepest recesses of my misc. sewing storage, I found this old ribbon I used to tie in my hair when I was playing volleyball as a kid. Now there's a lot of other ways I could have reinforced this strip of fabric, including more historically proven methods, but why do that when I could just use this hilarious "go team" ribbon I didn't even remember I had. So that's what I did and this is the result. I would also like to emphasize that this is the inside of the garment so the black lettering won't show through to the outside of the garment, so this will just have to be our little secret.

[dragonji]

breaking out of artblock in thee most complicated way possible♡

[carlos-in-glasses]

Carlos Reyes is such a rich, compelling character. The man is an inkwell. If you merely scratch the surface, you can write ten fics. So, the show's writers (who could have done *so many other things*) felt the need to give him a past that undoes so much of what we've already come to know about him over the past three seasons?? And Tim is telling porky pies?? It's super frustrating. With Tarlos wrapped in a neat little bow at the end of season three, I knew they'd spend some of season four unpicking it. But come on, lads.

I hope the overall arc makes more sense as it progresses. My issue isn't with the fact that he married his high school BFF in a panic when he was younger - I'd actually like that as a concept if well executed from the start, genuinely. It's just that we're being asked to believe he'd keep it from TK, and it's definitely come out of nowhere. Tim is trying to pretend it's been a thing all along, but it messes up everything else we've already had. I watched some season one clips re. Carlos/Michelle/Iris, and knowing what we know now, it makes Carlos seem kind of sinister lol, because he dgaf. Which just isn't fair. 

What I do appreciate (really, I am super grateful about this) is that the show is presenting Tarlos as so deeply in love that they'll face Carlos' past together. That's what I want to see! But how they've decided to go about it...yikes.