#I should be working on more important stuff but oops blorbos

[r-aindr0p]

Oh yeah another purple haired shady smiling guy in a cape, I'm instantly sold

Thank you fields of mistria for providing another Xellos coded character to my collection, and giving me another excuse at drawing a crossover involving demonic cone guy with a bowlcut (this is the third crossover so far iirc)

[muninnhuginn]

1, 11, 25 for the blorbo asks!!! Don’t have any series in mind 🫡 it can be anyone!

1. who’s the Blorbo that you’ve never posted about on your blog?

yang ruisen from murderous affair in horizon tower. never posted about her by virtue of not wanting to get spoilt in the main tag. but I latched onto her from episode one, oops. She tends to trust in people and authorities and the idea that "justice will be done" more than she should, so it's a really nice journey seeing her being forced to challenge that. But tbh a lot of why she's a blorbo is just... her personality. She's like "I will get a winning grade in this casework homework no one actually set me" and then she lowkey bails on several dates to finish reading a book for the case or because her superior summoned her for something that's not even important.

And it's just. Interpersonally, she is failing. And she doesn't realise the full extent of it. Some of it because she takes people at face value when they say it's fine. Some of it because she's prioritising her career over the rest and not realising that that means she's not meeting her boyfriend at the same level.

It's the whole job vs homelife deal, where she's quite frankly idealistic but still competent at work. But she puts all her effort into her job and lets other stuff fall entirely to the wayside. And it's lowkey refreshing seeing this kinda arc handed to a female character too ngl without... certain expectations attached

Something something so focused on the broader picture that you don't see the smaller things.

11. have you ever written a fanfic about your Blorbo?

I've written lu guang fic, technically, but I think his blorboness actively made me *worse* at it. If I'm not doing his POV it's not as bad, but the one fic I did in his POV I ended up in this position where I was actively trying to *let* myself project certain aspects to help it flow more naturally and it just. Did Not Work.

Not written any other blorbo fic (though I feel like Qiao Ling could easily become a fully fledged blorbo if s3 pulls it off), but I'd like to try murderbot fic one day maybe. Just because the way SecUnit narrates is already weirdly similar to how I type in conversations online (parentheses and all). I'd have to reread the whole series before even attempting it tbh but it'd be neat to see how closely I could mimic its voice?

25. how did you first discover your Blorbo?

I don't know which blorbo to pick for this one, hmmm. Oh! Maybe Yan Wei. I discovered her because the GL market was in shambles and Couple of Mirrors was a short length cdrama so in the end I just checked it out. And she won me over pretty quickly once we got to see what was actually going on with her. Similar to Lu Guang, she's very much actions over words. Similar to Yang Ruisen, she's not the best people person. And similar to Homura, she's ride or die for her gf.

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fic progress/thoughts

Holy crap, this week has been a week. You know what I'm gonna do about it? I'm gonna edit my fucking story and take solace in my fucking blorbos! Fuck yeah. :)

I'm also gonna talk more under the cut about what has been making this longfic so interesting to write/edit structurally -- kind of like constructing a complicated puzzle -- but also so difficult to start posting. Knowledge of canon is unnecessary.

If you have been reading some of my posts about this ridiculous accidentally huge fic and wondering what the deal actually is with the structure, here's a quick sketch of it that anyone should be able to follow (minor spoilers, but I don't think they're likely to surprise anyone):

CHAPTER 1 -- Blorbo 1 POV (J):

J's early life (childhood to canon)

J's POV on canon events (including additional scenes)

J's POV on initial revelations + threesome + immediate aftermath

CHAPTER 2 -- Blorbo 2 POV (R):

R's early life (childhood to canon)

R's POV on canon events (including additional scenes)

R's POV on everything post-canon that J already covered

R's POV on early relationship negotiations

R's POV on second threesome + immediate aftermath

CHAPTER 3 -- Blorbo 3 POV (K):

K's early life (childhood to canon)

K's POV on canon events (including additional scenes)

K's POV on everything post-canon that J+R already covered

K's POV on further relationship negotiations

K's POV on third threesome + immediate aftermath

Despite how it sounds, chapters 2 & 3 are not supposed to be incredibly much longer than chapter 1. In part that's because chapter 1 has a lot more to fill in about the events of canon than the other two chapters (since (a) J gets less screen time in canon, and (b) canon set Blorbo J up with a redemption arc that felt underdeveloped to me, so Chapter 1 does a lot of work to flesh that out). Also because each character's perspective on the previously discussed events gets briefer; my goal is for each character to only emphasize the bits that reveal new info and/or are particularly important to them.

EPILOGUE:

Thankfully happens after all the rest and is brief, whew

So what was the original seed idea for this story? Well, it was initially just going to be a single scene with some post-canon revelations + threesome (though that threesome was going to contain some elements from each of the sex scenes in the current version). Like ~5K words, maybe.

Then I decided I really wanted to flesh out J's canon arc more and explain more stuff from his early life as well, because that was going to make the final scene so much more satisfying. Oops, 15K+.

And then I came up with an additional interesting wrinkle for the characters to work through, and I decided that I actually wanted to have POVs from all the characters. In part because writing multiple POVs on the same thing is highly in my wheelhouse. Oops, 50K+. :D

With three highly overlapping POVs (and canon overlapping all of them), I spend a lot of time thinking through the same scene from every character's perspective, figuring out exactly who should reveal what information. It's like trying to construct a big puzzle and working to make all the the pieces fit together as elegantly as possible. Edits to one piece often affect all the rest. And it's really hard to keep the whole complicated thing in my mind at once and make sure that it's globally consistent.

At this point, I've drafted everything, and I have revised the first ~2.5 chapters (the first two chapters a couple times each). But as I revise the final chapter, I keep having to revise the first two more. So I've kind of given up on the idea of starting to post the beginning before the end is nearly done. At this point, it's to some extent self-torture... but it's also very much my kind of fun challenge. :)