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I wonder how things would change if Shen Jiu had the ability to project his memories and emotions like The Giver, or Blue Diamond from Steven Universe by some artifact fuckery or if he was born with the power. Maybe a better way to describe it is Wei Wuxian's empathy.
If it's a one-time artifact mishap during a mission or smt, he's got everyone kneeling over, unable to move an inch because of how much physical pain they're in. And don't forget all the emotional pain they're hopelessly dealing with, too (the memories don't have to be included, just the emotional wreckage and physical pain is enough).
All the while, they expect their Shen Shixiong to roll over and scream in agony, coz obviously smn as spoiled as him who's never had any bit of hardship in his life would feel it the worst. Then, they're seeing him going on with the mission and fighting like he's not affected at all, and then it hits them-
Oh.
They're his emotions.
If it's an inate ability, then I imagine he's using it to make his life easier, even if it's just a bit.
Like just give QJL the pain of his beatings or whatnot. Every whip gets inflicted on to QJL until the whippings stop completely. This will probably make QJL make SJ suffer even more, but that also stops when he realizes SJ has the power to make QJL go thru the same shit and will do it with absolute glee. Maybe SJ manages to free himself earlier bc of this. But there's a possibility he'll still stay to wait for YQ. If he does, then he's constantly engaging in psychological warfare with QJL and winning. That would be interesting to write abt ejrgkdkf.
This ability will ofc makes things easier if QHT stays insistent that her family treated him well.
Or like when he's being confronted for the the first time for his brothel visits, he's making LQG feel what it's like to not feel safe in the place you're supposed to sleep. And he keeps doing this every night until LQG is almost never sleeping and the mountain anymore and understands.
During peak lord meetings, he's subtly giving everyone a bit of his paranoia/anxiety, so now he's got everyone agreeing with him, and are listening to him.
He's also torturing slavers and rich nobles with his memories as well bc of a sense of righteous retribution, or just for the fun of it.
This could make Shen Jiu development a Them vs. Me complex, he's already a pro at it as it is except he's differentiating himself from those rich nobles and the like and wants nothing to do with them. Ideally this will make him conscience of the way he's treating his disciples, bc he'd be manually giving his memories/trauma to his disciples, he's just doing it without the ability lol.
He hated being grouped with ppl who were like him in the book, so now I'm making him have that energy for nobles who push around their weight instead. And would despise ever acting that way.
For angst points>>
He's tries to soothe his disciples with the slightest scraps of the good memories he does have bc he has no idea what else to do, but doesn't work and he acidentally gives bad memories instead :/
#shen jiu#original shen qingqiu#og shen qingqiu#svsss#mxtx#scum villian#svsss au#the scum villain's self saving system#afsosville text
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Confession time - I find Miles Wei’s character more interesting that Li Xian’s.
It’s honestly The Double again for me - a female centric narrative about a driven woman with a terrible weak ex and a powerful new dude - and I find myself much more interested in the bad dude than the good one.
OK, before people come for my head, this doesn’t mean I find Peony husband a better person than the Envoy or that I ship him with FL (no thank you!), I just find him more interesting as a character for the same reason that I found Shen Yurong more interesting in The Double (tho in The Double, it was exacerbated by the fact that SYR and Princess Wanning actors gave the best performances in the drama - the mains were great but those two were another level. Here I don’t think Husband is giving a better performance than Envoy.)
You never truly know how Husband would act and which way he’d jump. He’s not the noble main character bound by the narrative restrictions (and censorship restrictions) within a certain path. And that is what makes him interesting to me - the complexity but also the uncertainty. I mean both actual MLs of The Double and Peony have a bit of an edge - Duke Su is dramatic and ruthless and starts out using FL and Envoy is dramatic, standoffish from FL and seemingly corrupt. But it’s a cdrama in this era, not a decade plus ago, we all know every minute they are actually good guys - no, Envoy is not actually corrupt and Duke Su is not actually murder happy - the former is saving the bribes for the people of treasury or w/e, Duke Su only kills death penalty people and both are super super duper loyal to the crown and of course would save the FL if she really needed it.
That makes them great husband material but it removes a lot of the tension I find interesting. No, a character does not need to be dark and/or unhinged for me to find them interesting - I loved 17 in LYF and am loving XXC in The Blossoming Love and those two are utter Boy Scouts - but it is hard to do in such a way they grab me.
Meanwhile secondaries are out there running free of confines of the moral messages which gives them an edge.
In the olden days, you could have MLs which were like this (I am thinking of Glamorous Imperial Concubine - the deliciousness of it was that Kevin Yan started ready willing and able to harm FL for his goals, not to mention all the “proper” historicals - think of Three Kingdoms or Advisors’ Alliance - those were not romantic heroes in traditional sense or a more recent example of Goodbye My Princess or Siege in Fog - except their inability to let FL go it was anything goes for those MLs) but for obvious reasons, this doesn’t happen much any more - the closest we’ve come recently is Kunning and Blossom and I adored both - there a lot of tension was that even after we realized MLs would die for FL, you often had no idea how they’d jump for other reasons and it gave us tension.
(Interesting side note is something like Eternal Brotherhood where even until the last episode, in terms of romance, I could not tell how Xiu would react to Ning - he was a very good person but the tension in the narrative came from his immense damage - every scene between them crackled with whether his feelings would win or his issues - it was constantly his issues but in every scene I kept going…but what if? That’s good acting and writing! But then there was the other tension because what Xiu was dedicated to was brotherhood and his platonic ideal of what a just society should be - which put him on a collision course with the wishes of his heart, and his friends and even the ruler - it gave uncertainty also. That’s a hard balancing act.)
Anyway this is a ramble so I will finish this failed attempt at an essay by saying - if cdrama rules allowed mains more edge and uncertainty, I’d probably be (even) more interested but as is, much as I love the mains, I often end up more drawn to secondaries in terms of interest.
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Nie Huaisang and Bingqui’s A-Ying are going to be even more besties
(Also, multiple of Wei Wuxian’s fans are spiritual weapons he made and altered himself)
Nie Huaisang sees one of Wei Wuxian’s fans that he uses as a weapon cut a target across the field in half with barely a flicker of spiritual energy and demands to know everything about that style of fighting immediately.
Nie Mingjue gets a very excited letter home rambling about Huaisang’s new “Xian-ge” and how he needs a new fan made that is iron reinforced and actually his friend’s dad knows someone who makes them here’s the contact information and pretty pretty please da-ge he’ll practice with it forever and
Honestly, he’s just glad his brother will have some way to protect himself.
He’s a bit less glad when he realizes “Xian-ge’s” dad is Shen Qingqiu, Peak Lord and married to the fucking Demon Emperor himself, but like… Huaisang is learning how to fight so… exceptions could be made.
#the elf talks#mdzs#svsss#Wei Wuxian should have a fan he can make bitchy commentary behind like his dad#it’s very important for his character in this
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A non-exhaustive list of weilan fics I’ve loved, for a truly diverse variety of reasons, in no particular order!
State of Matter by naye (~13k, T)
I am a simple soul who loves a) Shen Wei whump and b) hurt/comfort and c) hypothermia/huddling for warmth tropes and d) survival stories where characters get out of pants-shittingly bad situations via putting one foot in front of the other for way longer than they want to be doing that. This is a great fic for all of those things.
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All-Consuming by ratbones (~119k, E)
Zombie AU! Everything about this fic is exquisite – the pacing, dialogue, descriptions, characterization – everything. Having already loved both the novel and drama versions of Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei before reading this, I think this fic is my favorite version of them. Also, I know a bunch of us like to good-naturedly poke fun at how baby!Shen Wei’s crush plays out in the drama, but this is a fic that absolutely sells the idea that Shen Wei would fall in love with Zhao Yunlan in basically one night. Fuck, I’d love him too! I kind of do! Feels like watching a very good zombie movie. Has A+ humor, interesting science, a wrenching penultimate chapter. Please read this and come yell at me about it! You can read it fandom-blind.
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The Unexpected Legacy by FayJay (~84k, E)
Regency AU! Gorgeously written. One of the most scorching, horniest weilan fics I’ve read in terms of pent-up yearning, and that is a full compliment. I’m also a big fan of the climactic confrontation, which shows how much Zhao Yunlan cares about Shen Wei in a pretty visceral and unpleasant, typical fairytale way, something I enjoy because I am a sadist for that kind of horrifying devotion. One of my favorite Ye Zuns – he’s such a fantastic, complex, loveable brat. No twincest in the main fic, but if that’s your flavor you can also check out the sequels.
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Not All Those Who Wander by Xparrot (~23k, T)
This one is a bit hard to describe. It’s like a… post-apocalyptic fairytale AU fix-it?, and the writing is beautiful. I love how it plays with the novel versions of Kunlun and a young Shen Wei. Kind of desolate and bittersweet, but hopeful too.
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Day After Day | 日复一日 by hideyseek (~24k, T)
What do you say about a fic where the middle-aged original characters are still in your mind months later? Great timeloop casefic with a slowly unwinding mystery.
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Ghost Story by clevermanka (~90k, E)
Haunted house AU! I’m kind of a baby about haunted house stuff, and some parts of it toe the line of being too creepy for me – the slowly building malevolence has great atmosphere and is genuinely unpleasant in parts. Also really enjoyed the bizarre, earnest, kinky ghost sex, which by all accounts really shouldn’t work as well as it does. (Enthusiasm goes a long way when one of you is a ghost.) Has a proper gothic story arc that’s fitting for the fic as a whole. Also features a fantastic Zhu Hong who is saddled with way more bullshit than she deserves. I think about this fic a lot; it has a really strong sense of presence.
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Rapture by ratbones (~104k, M)
Cyberpunk AU! ratbones does it AGAIN with this fic. damn. This one feels a little less serious than All-Consuming and moves along at a faster pace that suits the glittering cyberpunk theme, but it still manages to cram in body horror and existential angst and just a lot of really lovely ways of looking at what it means to be human, without any of it ever dragging down the plot. I read it all on a 6-hour flight and may or may not have teared up over a robot – not that anything’s new about me crying about robots, but all the robots I’ve ever cried over have also been people, and so is Kunlun. Anyway. This is a fun romp that will probably NOT make anyone cry except for me, and it is another fic with an excellent Ye Zun.
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Better, Safe (~5k, E) and Whipped (~3k, E) by clevermanka
I’m listing these together because they go together in my head – clevermanka has a handful of lovely short fics that are either outright kink or kink-leaning, and these two are my faves. I love reading stuff that digs into the easy give and take between the boys as they’re passing the baton of who’s in control back and forth, and what control looks like for both of them, and what ceding it looks like, and how they enjoy each other’s differences, and how courteous and careful they are with each other without it being awkward, like it’s just a built-in part of sex for them. Joyful and hot.
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Spiders Crawling by tinypinkmouse (~38k, E)
…Spider… AU... Look. Shen Wei is spiders. I have to include this because I have never ever in my life read anything else where the main love interest is spiders, and the mental image of Shen Wei getting so flustered about questions he doesn’t want to answer that he just spontaneously bursts into spiders feels perfectly in-character (and also weirdly adorable). I would not be able to stand this in real life, but Zhao Yunlan has a remarkable ability (canonical) to be cheerfully into some weird shit. Worth clicking on for the what-the-fuck factor, and then reading because you get unironically sucked into the concept of Shen Wei being spiders.
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The Coherence of Light by Xparrot (~3k, E)
Sometimes (all the time) I just want to read porn that's hot and funny and in-character. I could happily read a hundred fics just like this.
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Scorched Earth, Deep Ocean by margrave (~35k, E)
Omegaverse palace drama AU! Emperor Kunlun, secretly an omega, performs a series of political maneuvers to cement his position as an omega Emperor – as well as to recognize his new concubine Shen Wei, former general of the enemy kingdom of Dixing and war prize given away by the Dixing Emperor during peace negotiations, as a consort accepted by the court and father of any future legitimate heirs to the throne. I was pleasantly surprised at how much fun I had reading this one, considering the action primarily focuses around court politics. Bonus: Zhu Hong is GREAT. Absolutely love her.
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unmoored by nanimono_da (~43k, M)
Post-canon fix-it! If you want something that dives really really deeply into the bodily experience of living through heavy grief, I actually think this does an uncomfortably good job of showing what than can be like. Reading it feels like treading water in the ocean when it’s raining and you can’t see the shore. Cathartic; draining. HURT/comfort. Has a happy ending. The illustrations are so, so pretty.
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Echo by Absolutelytrash (~26k, T)
Post-canon AU! Technically unfinished, but it leaves off at a pretty satisfying spot imo. Zhao Yunlan is taken hostage in exchange for the Hallows. I find the psychology around the perpetrator to be absurdly fascinating and very well done. I also enjoyed(?) watching Zhao Yunlan’s disintegration as he’s tortured under circumstances he does not believe he will survive, and the impact that this experience has on him later on.
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Hello! From what I see in your blog, you're very knowledgeable about the Eunuchs in TBOY and Dashing Youth. I'm having problem to identify who's who so I'm just wondering if you have a guide of their names, position, motives, appearance and short backstory? An appearance guide with DY and TBOY actors comparison will be very helpful. At first I thought Zhuoqing of DY is the same guy in the TBOY who also has white hair that keep helping the red prince but I'm afraid they are different people. I hope this is not too much to ask because I genuinely want to know about them but I always ended up confusing myself more. Have a nice day.
Hello, thanks for the ask! 😺 It always makes me happy to see people being curious about the Five Eunuchs! If you want to know more about them, you’ve definitely come to the right place! I’ll probably make a more comprehensive guide at some point, but I can offer a good bit of information here.
The Blood of Youth Eunuch Tree

To start with, here’s a guide to the Blood of Youth eunuchs and how they’re related. I explain more about it in this post: https://www.tumblr.com/feng-huli/753083060426293248/blood-of-youth-eunuch-tree
Now, for Dashing Youth, I’m afraid that I have less to offer, as not all of the eunuchs have appeared yet. Still, I can show the ones who have.
Zhuo Qing
First, we have Grand Eunuch Zhuo Qing. He is the shifu of the Blood of Youth’s Five Eunuchs (except for Jin Yan, who was taught by Zhuo Xin). He serves Emperor Tai’an and is fated to guard the Imperial Mausoleum when he dies. Needless to say, Zhuo Qing is far from pleased by such prospects and is fighting to change the future that has been written for him.
Jin Xuan
Next is Jin Xuan, who succeeds his role as Director of the Five Eunuchs. Growing up, he was the study partner of Xiao Ruojin (also known as Prince Jingyu, Emperor Mingde), and now serves as his most trusted companion and bodyguard, among other roles.
Jin Xian (Jade Deity, Shen Jingzhou)
Jin Xian is known as the Eunuch of Incense in Tianqi and Shen Jingzhou of the Blizzard Sword outside it.
Other
There’s also Eunuch Li (pictured left) and Eunuch Cheng (pictured right). Less is currently known about them, as they aren’t in The Blood of Youth.
The Blood of Youth Loyalties
Finally, for now, there is the matter of loyalties. The eunuchs are honestly some of the most complex characters in the Blood of Youth, and this chart merely touches on the alliances between the eunuchs and the royals. Jin Wei has assisted all of the princes, but I believe his devotion is to his shifu above all else. Meanwhile, Jin Xuan is… ambiguous. Even if his greatest affection is for his emperor, he is reluctant to put his whole heart into one person or cause.

I hope this was helpful!
#zhuo qing#jin xian#jade deity#shen jingzhou#jin xuan#five eunuchs#the blood of youth#shao nian ge xing#少年歌行#dashing youth#shao nian bai ma zui chun feng#少年白马醉春风#eunuch guide#my gifs#purple sweet potato essence
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Wow, I didn't expect you to list all your WIPs for the ask game! That's awesome. Can you tell me more about 22, 28, 58, and 61? Also your names are delightful.
I definitely wouldn't have if I didn't have a list already, it just needed a little editing. The names are supposed to help me remember what the thing is when I browse through my WIP folder, but some of them are more successful at that than others.
Turns out these are all kind of stream of consciousness sort of thing, maybe occasionally interspersed with something resembling fic writing. It's sort of like a story, it just needs a lot more coherence. You know when you really need all of that idea down before you forget about it and it all comes out in a jumbled mess, and half of it is you still trying to figure it all out.
22. time travel fix it - ye zun
So the very barebones idea of it is that what if post-canon after the twins made up and Ye Zun found out he was wrong about some things, he was the end who ended up back in time. Except he ends up in a time where he's still inside the Pillar, and that... probably isn't so good for him. It takes him some time to sort himself out, to reach out of the Pillar, to get out, you know all that stuff. So, basically everything happens while Shen Wei is still napping and Zhao Yunlan hasn't even been born yet. Ye Zun is definitely finding baby!Yunlan once it's time (has to keep him safe for gege). That kind of means Shen Wei has to sleep a little longer, but Ye Zun has changed things so maybe he does and tbh Ye Zun is a little iffy on the timeline seeing as he was stuck in the Pillar in the original timeline. And then eventually Shen Wei wakes up to didi being like "look I have fixed it all for you."
28. chronic pain
This is very much working through my own shit not so much in disguise. It's post-canon, some fix-it happens, weilan somehow come back but however that happens Shen Wei is left with chronic pain. Like nothing you can do about it, it's just there sort of pain. He doesn't tell Zhao Yunlan of course (it's not lying if he just doesn't mention it, ever). But of course, at some point when it's bad enough he just can't hide it, not from Zhao Yunlan. And then they both have to deal with things.
58. kidnapping
I want to say that before I'm looking this up I have zero idea what this is about or who is getting kidnapped.
Oh. Oh.
I did not expect that.
Weilan have their whole first meeting on campus. Shen Wei gets Zhao Yunlan's file. All as per canon. And then Shen Wei decides that the most sensible way of keeping Zhao Yunlan safe is to kidnap him. As you do.
The Black Cloaked Envoy goes to tell the SID that their Chief is... busy. They don't necessarily take that well, but what can they do?
I haven't really gotten far enough to decide if Shen Wei really knows what he's doing with Zhao Yunlan now that he has him. So far Zhao Yunlan wakes up tied up, but obviously entirely unharmed. It's for his own safety!
"He finishes tying Zhao Yunlan's hands anyway. He won't keep Zhao Yunlan tied up forever, just for now. Until Zhao Yunlan has time to calm down."
61. enemies to lovers
"Revolution from Zhao Yunlan's home, and he's pretty sure that's not what he signed up for."
The Haixing-Dixing relations are worse. HPS and the SID don't work together, never have. However, Zhao Yunlan is still less bad as a Chief than all the previous ones. Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei have never actually met, but they've had near run ins. Because Shen Wei still goes to Haixing to... catch/save some Dixingren and take them back.
But things in Dixing are also a bit... stricter, let's say. Ye Zun at some point ended up de-pillared and imprisoned and Shen Wei is not happy with his treatment. So he... removes didi from Dixing, except now Ye Zun is technically speaking a criminal on the run and not in very good shape. Shen Wei needs to put him somewhere. So he takes him to Zhao Yunlan in that very classic trope of "I had nowhere else to go."
Zhao Yunlan and Ye Zun actually end up spending quite a bit of time together. Possibly plotting revolution and a little bit of mind control. (Shen Wei still has HPS-ing to do so no one catches onto anything being out of the ordinary.)
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MXTX Headcanon: How the Couples would make oc's Edition!
Shen Yuan: He'd make oc's that are bland and "realistic". Every oc would have the most boring stories, maybe one traumatized edgy oc and that's it. No interesting names, no nothing. He can critique Airplane all he wants but no one said he's a good writer. He practically only makes fan oc's and has very few main oc's.
Luo Binghe: He adds a little bit of himself into his oc's and they are all traumatized with the exception of one happy character who shares no traits with him. He has a big group of main oc's and often makes self inset fan oc's.
Shang Qinghua: Literally every PIDW character.
Mobei-Jun: He makes a ton of edgy looking oc's but they are actually pretty well written and are generally happy, no sad backstory, just dark and edgy looking characters with bright personalities. He has a small group of main oc's and isn't afraid to make a fandom oc or two.
Wei Wuxian: His oc's went from traumatized, superpowered, half-angel, half-demon to a revamp that made them more realistic or at the very least better written and designed. Some oc's still have random trauma for no reason.
Lang Wangji: He has a small group of main oc's and zero fan oc's. They all have every trait he sees admirable and are written with complexities, interesting backstories both sad and happy, and has elegant and beautiful looks.
Xie Lian: He only has one oc and it's his own persona. He's thought of making fandom oc's but he never gets to actually making them.
Hua Cheng: His oc's are a reflection of himself and Xie Lian. Every male ship of his oc's are just Hualian in a different font. He has 2 main oc's, few oc's that he draws not as often, and has lots of fandom oc's.
#shen qingqiu#shen yuan#peerless cucumber#cucumber bro#luo binghe#shang qinghua#great master airplane#airplane shooting towards the sky#mobei jun#wei wuxian#lang wangji#xie lian#hua cheng#mxtx#mxtx fandom#mxtx headcanon
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10/24/2024 updates:
I know this is an active month as far as me posting. I'll probably disappear for a few months after this, you know how it goes. But for now, I am going to want these notes in the future.
Japanese: I'm 4700 sentences into glossika japanese now, out of 6400, so ~73%. I will get through the new sentences by the end of the month hopefully, and then just do reviews in November.
My hopes that increasing listening comprehension/knowledge of words would help my reading skill is actually working out: when I read manga, I am finding it easier and if there's a lot of furigana then that helps fill in the gaps for kanji words I guess (based on hiragana) but don't know the pronunciation for. I tried reading my japanese translation of Guardian by priest today, print copy, and I can understand everything on the page (except one use of 'yoku' hiragana which I am not sure what it was conveying). Unfortunately, my print novel does NOT use furigana on a lot of kanji, so a weird thing happened where the words I know the pronunciation of I could mentally 'hear' the japanese pronunciation of those kanji words, but the kanji words I didn't know from listening... I just mentally 'heard' chinese. So I'm going to need to read novels, or anything without furigana, WHILE LISTENING TO AUDIO. Otherwise I'm not going to pick up kanji pronunciations properly. So my plan to move to Satori Reader after glossika, is going to work well.
It's interesting to me just how many words in a novel... look just like the hanzi words in chinese (some kanji are slightly different but they're still recognizable if you know hanzi). So like... "try on" is 試着 shi-chaku (compared to chinese shishi 试穿 shi-chuan) which are quite similar pronunciations and shi is the same character and rough pronunciation, and if I saw 試着 in chinese I'd assume it means try-ing. Basically, it's recognizable as a word clearly related to 'try'. But "try" is 試す (tamesu) versus chinese 试试 shishi or 尝试 changshi, quite different pronunciation, still an ability to guess meaning. But then words like human resources, Special Investigations Division, Gate Guardsman, human-realm, Shen Wei's soul cutting title in the novel, souls, black-cat, are all similar kanji to the hanzi I would expect when reading chinese. So a LOT of words are quite easy to guess the meaning of but I'm lost on their pronunciation unless I already learned the japanese pronunciation of those kanji-words. This happens a lot with ALL kanji words (as in no hiragana conjugation).
This is just interesting to encounter, some kanji have super similar pronunciations like xiang-xin 相信 believe compared to japanese shin-jiru 信じる with the 信 pronounced roughly similar as xin and shin. While others are like guarantee 保证 bao-zheng in chinese, hoshou-shimasu 保証します in japanese use the same characters but totally different pronunciation. You can't be certain the japanese kanji pronunciations will be similar to the chinese. Kanji-only words seem to more often be similarly pronounced, but that is not true enough to rely on. One of the comparisons I made early on lol was japanese 時間jikan and chinese 时间 shijian for time. To my mind, ji and shi are similar enough sounds to notice, but kan and jian aren't. I suppose everyone will make those distinctions a bit differently. I just know seeing 時間 and hearing jikan the first time, it made sense that would be the japanese pronunciation to my mind from what I knew about the characters, but also threw me off for being the amount different that it was.
I'm curious what other language learners who knew hanzi before learning japanese words feel about picking up kanji pronunciations... I should go search some forums...
I do 100% think knowing hanzi makes figuring out the meaning of kanji words much easier. And for me, since Heisig and mnemonics never worked for me learning kanji (I think because I mentally NEEDED a sound to tie with the kanji but Heisig's book and suggestions didn't provide that or have a solution for that for kanji since kanji have multiple pronunciations, whereas when I studied hanzi I immediately tied a pronunciation to each new hanzi I learned so they stuck easier in my mind), learning hanzi was much easier. Once I had a bunch of meanings tied to characters in my head (thanks to learning hanzi), then seeing kanji presented only the issue of 'how do I pronounce it' and no longer the double issues of both figuring out pronunciation And meaning.
I also went through 2 songs yesterday, Hikari by Utada Hikaru and Doctor by Chanmina, and learned the meaning of all the words in the songs. The combo of romaji/listening for pronunciation plus the kanji-hiragana lyrics worked well. I finally get what my friend meant when they said Utada sings japanese... different. The pronunciation's clear, it's not that. It's that syllables I don't expect to be elongated when singing sometimes are, and the part of the word Utada decides to elongate is not always what I'd expect. I do, however, know the tune of that song intensely well lol as I've heard it since I was 11, so it wasn't hard to adjust. Chanmina raps mostly, and so probably as expected in rap, syllables were all around the same length.
tldr: the approach of listening-focused study has been helping the way I've hoped, and I'm seeing noticeable improvements in reading skill and listening skill, moving onto Satori Reader next will work well I think.
Chinese: so frustrating lol. But I just need to stick with it. Getting myself to commit to listening to 8 hours of audio... never mind 20, or 50, or the 200+ I REALLY need to listen to see the kind of significant improvements I'm hoping for? It's harder than you'd think. You'd think I could just put on audio, let it play in the background, and be good. But I get so frustrated I don't understand every word (or even just the words that SOUND familiar and I know I should recognize), so then I feel the urge to Replay certain sections, to re-listen to the same 5-10 minutes over and over, to focus harder and try to catch what I'm not quite getting, to look up the words I am getting frustrated by. And then before you know it, I spent 1 hour on my phone's translation app, constantly replaying audio in 30 second chunks, and was not able to multi-task at all. Instead of playing it in the background, I focused on it totally and tried to transcribe a bunch of words into a translator app, and then exhausted myself, and then don't feel up for doing another hour of that kind of intensive listening. The solution, of course, is for me to just fucking let go of being a perfectionist and LISTEN IN THE BACKGROUND. But then I feel irritated with myself for not looking up "just a few words" (a lie, I'll look up dozens) because I 'almost get them' and just want to quickly know what they mean instead of waiting several minutes for my brain to figure it out gradually.
I am TRYING to listen in the background. My perfectionist tendencies kick in a lot, though.
Despite it all! I am already seeing small progress, which will hopefully convince me to STOP intensively listening and looking everything up, and accept that background listening while working or walking WILL also result in progress.
Last night I listened to a podcast a friend shared with me, about Chinese supernatural stories. I could understand probably 90% or more of each word they said, I was just a bit puzzled by if in those first 7 minutes the podcasters were summarizing the several supernatural stories they'd be delving into for the rest of the hour, or if they were listing off several different supernatural stories SUPER fast. I noticed progress, because I listened to that podcast last week and could barely understand anything. So clearly, in part I just needed to train my listening skills more to hear what I already know. I also felt a bit of assurance, because I recognized nearly every word the podcasters said, so I do know a LOT of conversational words. In audiobooks, sometimes the words used are a lot less common than the words in dramas or conversations... since the words people say (unless they're giving lectures or educating or delving on a niche subject) tend to be a bit more commonly used. Knowing that, at least when it comes to conversational words, I do know around as many words as I expected I knew, was comforting.
Also, now I know I can listen to that podcast for 'easier' listening practice, when audiobooks are frustrating me.
Spanish: hahahahaha haaaaaaa. Should I be doing anything with Spanish right now? No, not really. I've got no time (I'm allotting an hour to Japanese and Chinese study each, with 2 hours for each a day if I can fit it in). I do not need to learn it, there's no pressing need in my life or things I'm directly involved in that require me to understand more Spanish. I'm just procrastinating my actual goals in other study, apparently.
My little attempt to use Dreaming Spanish got me curious. 1. About Comprehensible Input learning (without word lookups), and 2. about how much Spanish I could just 'pick up' with exposure, given the French I know, the ~2000 Spanish words I'm vaguely familiar with, and that 1 summer of Spanish cram study I did. Does it help that I have any easier time listening to Spanish and picking out words compared to when I listen to French? It sure does. Out of curiosity I looked up some of the beginner podcasts Dreaming Spanish learners were recommending on the r/dreamingspanish subreddit (which has great general study suggestions, if studying any language tbh). One of them was How to Spanish, so I looked that podcast up and listened to an episode. It was understandable, which was cool. So I may listen to more. Now, it is for beginners, so it's probably made to be understandable even if you know nothing or almost nothing. Still, it felt cool to understand! I also tried listening to a Spanish audiobook of a kid's book I've read before in English, listened to maybe 20 minutes, and had no trouble following the main plot based on the words I was catching. Now, to be fair, I was probably relying heavily on proper-nouns to place what scene and paragraph was about what. But still, interesting.
If I start trying to watch a Spanish show, well. I'm probably just doing more sidetracking and having fun. I really want to watch Elite, regardless.
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pride and prejudice AU, WIP that I WILL finish for ficwip5k
“It is a truth universally acknowledged,” Wei Wuxian lectured, “that a single man in possession of good cultivation must be in want of a cultivation partner. And have you heard, my three ridiculous children? Qiong Ding Manor has let at last.”
“Oh my,” Shen Jiu, the second oldest of the lot (also the second youngest for that matter), intoned flatly as he scrubbed the dirt from an enormous radish in a washing basin. “You must want to tell us who’s taken it.”
“I want someone to ask me first,” Wei Wuxian sighed, throwing a hand over his forehead and himself over a hard wooden bench. “But of course my cruel, demonic sons are beyond pity for their poor parent. Except A-Yuan. A-Yuan ah, you’re not one of the cruel, demonic ones, are you?”
Shen Yuan cleared his throat, set down the cabbage he was peeling apart, and put on an angelic smile just a beat too late.
“Certainly not. Do tell, dearest father, who has let Qiong—uh, Qiong…?”
“Qiong Ding.”
“Qiong Ding Manor?”
Look beatific, was Shen Yuan’s self-reminder, but again it was too late, even with Shen Jiu’s murmured assist. Wei Wuxian had dropped to his knees in the dirt and begun shaking his fists at the sky.
“Oh this unfair world, oh wretched fate! At my darkest hour you drop three brilliant young souls into my path to light my way across the lone-log bridge, and in return I have taken on your mission to nourish them into adulthood. All I wish is to ensure they have cultivation partners capable of keeping them comfortable for the rest of their lives but look here, what are these pieces you’ve dealt me? My eldest, who would be disingenuous to placate his crazy old father! My second, who brandishes his cutting comments without a filial care in the world! And my third!”
The sixteen-year-old, as stretched out and delicate as the vine on a beanpole at his age, smiled a lazy little smile before gutting the rabbit in his hands.
“Always just sitting there like a pretty little flower, head empty. Hua-hua ah,” Wei Wuxian said miserably. “Don’t you know you have the worst lot here, being the youngest? You ought to be encouraging your brothers to go to more functions, meet more potential partners.”
“And why should we be so eager to sell ourselves off as spiritual energy storage tanks to some rich Young Master or Mistress?” Hua Cheng asked idly. The meat he shaved off the hunted game hit the hot wok in loud sizzling chunks, and Shen Yuan readied a bucket of water to make it into stew. “Is father anticipating death sometime soon?”
Wei Wuxian and Shen Yuan both froze. An unintentional jerk splashed water from Shen Yuan’s bucket into the wok, and oil exploded into the air like the aftermath of a bomb. Meanwhile, Shen Jiu walloped the head off the daikon he’d polished as white as mutton fat jade and jabbed the blade in Hua Cheng’s direction.
“This is why nobody will ever want to cultivate with you.”
“But I learned it all from you and your line of suitors out the door, Er-ge”
“Boys,” Shen Yuan interrupted, “enough. Our father is not dying. Is he?”
Wei Wuxian waved both hands carelessly.
“Of course not! Don’t be ridiculous, the evil, all-powerful Yiling Patriarch cannot die—no matter how much his youngest son curses him. Hua-hua, how could you bear saying such a thing?”
Without a word, Hua Cheng bent down, picked up the radish head Shen Jiu had thrown his way, and lobbed it at Wei Wuxian. Wei Wuxian caught it without thought, and the moment it touched his bare hands, the leftover greens at the top wilted—and then the whole thing promptly dissipated to dust that fell through Wei Wuxian’s fingers before anybody could react.
Shen Yuan set the bucket down and started forward, energy coating his fingertips.
“Let me—”
“Don’t—” The red flickered out of Wei Wuxian’s eyes as swiftly as it flickered in. He was grinning again, a toothsome expression that was every bit as disingenuous as Shen Yuan’s smile had been moments ago. “Don’t you know it’s disrespectful to touch your elders without ceremony? Let your father have a little dignity here! In fact, you ought to treat your father like the legendary Patriarch he is!”
“Then the legendary Patriarch,” Shen Jiu said, expression neutral though tilting on the side of concern, visible only to the family who knew him best, “ought to get out of this filthy kitchen. Heavens know you’re too lazy to help with the prep.”
“A-Jiu’s right,” Shen Yuan said, hand retracted and smiling with a touch of apology. “Won’t our esteemed father please make his way to the dining hall, where the meal will be brought to him with proper ceremony?”
Wei Wuxian looked like he wanted to pat them both on the head. Shen Yuan had a distant memory of him doing that long, long ago, but not for years now.
“Finally, a display of the proper teachings I’ve given you. Yes, this father shall be waiting then. I’ll even bring out the good china.”
By which he meant the set of four bowls without chips on the rim, only cracks along the body. It’s poetic, Wei Wuxian liked to say, swishing soup in his bowl like a wise old philosopher pondering tea. Scars and damage, such and such, you know? If you know you know. (To which Shen Jiu had replied, you’re dripping soup everywhere.)
Once Wei Wuxian had gone, the three brothers proceeded with the stew in silence: Hua Cheng expressionless, Shen Jiu scowling, and Shen Yuan eyeing them both. After a while, Shen Jiu finally threw down his cutting board.
“Wei Wuxian’s not dying,” he declared. “And even if he is, we’ve got enough demonic cultivation between the three of us to bring him back. Why did you have to bring it up you insensitive little jerk?”
“Merely to encourage my brothers,” Hua Cheng replied, speaking coolly over Shen Yuan’s admonishment for calling his brother names, “to go to more functions and meet more potential partners.”
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So the thing was, Shen Yuan was a transmigrator.
No, that was neither a misspelling nor a misunderstanding. Shen Yuan was a transmigrator, a bright young modern mind (read: an internet-obsessed shut-in) who died and got placed into the universe of a classic novel—one of his favorites that he’d been rereading just before dying, in fact. He was lucky, he supposed, that he was placed in the actual novel and not its zombie apocalypse, sorta-tongue-in-cheek sorta-taking-itself-too-seriously spinoff, which he’d also been (spite-)reading on-and-off. Though there had been some zombies in sight when he first got to this world, Wei Wuxian took care of them with such ease that Shen Yuan knew these were only the zombies in the classical Chinese sense, not the scary movie sense.
As for misfortunes, Shen Yuan supposed he would say the worst he’d suffered was first transmigrating into the body of a nine-year-old. That put him now, at twenty-four all over again, fifteen years in Wei Wuxian’s not-so-tender care, which was absolutely batshit to think about. So Shen Yuan didn’t think about it.
#pride and prejudice AU#couldn't find the originaL??post??#anyways 5k!!! a solid goal to aim for#keep it tight keep it neat#svsss#my writing#plot stockpile
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1) The GYADL canon AU is a canon divergence that technically happens pre-canon: Tianying knows she's adopted. The actual fic starts during that scene in which Tianying is desperately trying to get someone to save XXC from the police and no one is helping her, so she decides to sell her necklace - except this time, she knows its significance as the last tie to her biological parents.
And Luo Fusheng, who has been a roaring asshole to her to this point, overhears her say goodbye to them, and has a Moment of Too Many Emotions. He manages to stop her by confessing he's been jerking her around and gets (deservedly) slapped for it.
So the point of all this is LFS getting past his asshole phase a bit quicker, Tianying realizing he isn't The Worst as he works to make up for the shit he just pulled and also noticing that XXC is an asshole to LFS in the process in a way she doesn't like, thus cracking his perfect image before she is ambushed into dating him. She ends up avoiding dating him and dates LFS instead, but I'm stuck on how to get to this point ngl :')
I've got the angsty start finished and am in the middle of the Making Up For It scene, but lacking vision for where to go from there is kinda tripping me up. Might just post to the Making Up For It part and leave my intention for the rest in an A/N, I guess.
@minnichan, since you wanted to know too:
2) Dead Dove Weilan (under cut for noncon content between ship)
This is a Canon AU in which Haixing and Dixing are actively at war during the modern era. Shen Xi was killed for being Zhao Xinci's wife, since Zhao Xinci is an important general. Zhao Yunlan thus grows up hating Dixingren a whole lot more than in canon.
Now, Haixing manages to capture Heipaoshi during a raid on a Dixingren spy hideout, and Zhao Yunlan is put in charge of his torture. Heipaoshi is a huge figurehead in this war, being a "war hero" and leader of Dixingren... and Zhao Yunlan crosses some lines in his attempts to break him. Hence the rape warning. (Not gonna get into detail here, but that's what's happening very explicitly in the first chapter, from Shen Wei's PoV. I'll be posting skipping instructions in the A/N when I get around far enough to post this fic!)
Except, and this is the twist: Shen Wei isn't leading the Dixingren side of the war - he's hiding Dixingren refugees on Haixing. He's against the war, but he can't stop it either (and I think it's Ye Zun pretending to be Heipaoshi who leads the war parties). He's doing the best he can to save any innocents he can... and that's how he's captured, buying time for refugee children and powerless Dixingren and their Haixingren families.
He's more than ready to outlast anything they throw at him, except then Kunlun walks into his cell.
Because yeah, this canon AU has the time loop, too 😉 and the ZYL who went back in time has by then firmly falling in love with Shen Wei.
#look it's called Dead Dove for a reason#it's my go to stress relief fic when RL gets to be Too Much#I really need to get back to the GYADL fic it's fun#WIP list#ingno writes#forerussake#what is the “saving draft” thing even worth#when you can't access said saved draft#before it saves the deleted content version?#*grumbles in tumblr*
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I’m actually on break-of-sorts! There’s extra free time in my days, and I can do what I want with it! (Even better—after a couple days spent zombie-ing in front of a video game and tv shows—my brain even kinda wants to do things. How refreshing flsdafjsa;)
So! A fic author interview, which the lovely @lynne-monstr tagged me in half an age ago. :D
1. How many works do you have on AO3?
327, apparently. God knows how many have been let loose to swim in the sweetly-orphaned seas.
2. What’s your total AO3 word count?
863,428.
3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
How Impolite, How Imprudent (The Walking Dead, Beth/Daryl) - 1,108 kudos.
Stripped (Death Note, Near/Mello) - 720 kudos.
let’s embrace the point of no return (Guardian, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) - 669 kudos.
Hoping's Free (The Walking Dead, Beth/Daryl/Rick) - 639 kudos.
The Married Ones (BBC Sherlock, Sherlock/Watson) - 625 kudos.
Mostly this is just… happening to write for popular ships sometimes, I think, rather than any reflection on the actual stories themselves.
Although, The Walking Dead ones were very much just posted at exactly the right point in time—AKA right when the folks who were gonna be reading Beth-centric stories were turning up to find it…and when there really weren’t many. I remember finding it really fun to write for that ship, in no small amount because it felt exactly like writing for my usual rarer pair stuff… but with bonus readers. XD
4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
I always plan to. They make me so happy! Unfortunately, my brain makes replying to comments a whole lot more complicated than it actually is… meaning I put it aside for when I’ll have the energy/capacity… and then my executive dysfunction sneaks in and eats my good intentions for breakfast. ;;
5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?
I don’t really write angsty endings very often. I guess… against the world? Probably? That’s pretty miserable through-and-through, and is definitely lacking my usually compulsive need to find a happy note to end on.
6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?
…everything? XD
Honestly, my first thought was to crib off Lynne’s answer and say a story that goes real sad before it gets happy. But… that just makes me want to say my Reunion Dinner GaoQiao break-up fic (In the space of your leaving), except… I haven’t actually posted the final chapters for that yet. Meaning it’s happy ending is currently hypothetical, and it’s therefore disqualified from this category. 😂
In which case, I guess… maybe Hoping's Free, actually. I wouldn’t have thought of it, except that I was doing the sort-by-kudos thing, which made me look at it again. But it’s probably a better answer for this than my usual fluff, if only because it was written in this almost grimly hopeful tone that was very intentionally at odds with the canon I was writing from (TWD). (And was probably influenced by the fact I was sitting there writing a “pregnant at the end of the world” story whilst hugely pregnant myself, ha.)
7. Do you write crossovers?
As in, non-fusion crossovers? Where you have characters from both things interacting? Not really, to be honest. I used to, a fair bit, although I’m not sure I ever actually posted any of them. I just recently stumbled across some unfinished drafts for some Harry Potter x Bleach stuff, which was honestly fascinating to look at because I would not think of something like that now.
I do still write a bunch of fusion-style crossovers, though. Like, I’m plotting constantly plotting those bastard things. (Seriously, constantly: my poor SO cannot engage with a show or a video game with me without knowing that I’m probably sitting there thinking about where Qiao Yifan would fit into it jadlf;jasdfl.) Unfortunately, it’s just… a lot harder for me to actually finish those stories. Or sometimes, even to start them. They’re definitely one of those cases where I need to get much better at just… dropping my worldbuilding glee into a tumblr post or something, sigh.
8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?
Once. So very long ago that I don’t even remember what it was about, just that I had the sweetest group of friends who made it immediately less devastating for my rejection-sensitive ass (thereby saving me from quitting fandom not long after I had discovered it). <3
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
So much smut! Mostly the kind with a whole lotta feelings.
It’s not that I don’t write other things—I write so many other things—but smut comes with this bonus setting for me, where it’s just a hundred times simpler than anything else (especially when compared to anything that tries to grow Real Plot—see Question 7, so help me). And that just makes it wayyy easier to actually, y’know, write. And finish. And edit. And post.
(Not that sex can’t be complicated, or complex, because of course it can! But it’s still easier than so many other forms of human interaction, y’know? Or… maybe it’s just that sex is the perfect chill-switch for my brain, and that’s carried over into how I use it for writing, too? Who knows!)
10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Nope. At least, not to my knowledge.
11. Have you ever had a fic translated?
Yesss, and it’s always exciting! Translators are the best. ♥!!
12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
I’ve planned to! Life got in the way, alas.
13. What’s your all-time favorite ship?
What’s an all-time favourite anything, precious?
Whatever’s bouncing around in my head in the moment, generally. Although, that said, I do keep returning over and over and over to GaoQiao in a way that definitely should give it some kind of special status, so… there’s that. XD
14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?
Hey, that’s quitter talk, Question 14. Anyway, everyone knows I’m trapped in a fandom until I’ve had all my WIPs wrung out of me. (That’s how it works, right? Right?)
More seriously, though, I… am not really sure. There are definitely some WIPs I am constantly thinking I should just give up on and post as partly fleshed-out outlines—because I love them, but I’m not sure I have the spoons to genuinely finish them.
Like, uh, haha, y’know—the insane FangWang fairytale-esque thing, the structure of which was very purposefully built off Propp’s functions (the, uh, narrative elements of a folk tale, per Propp’s Morphology of a Folk Tale stuff), because… I’m a raging nerd who re-falls down the folk tale rabbit hole at least once a year…? I do really love that fic, so very much, because there’s so much going on in it (actual witches! changelings and neurodiversity! Lin Jie baggage! FangWang being insufferable and wonderful and full of feelings! fae folk being terrible! fae folk being So Fucking Right! trials being passed! trials being failed! homely cooking, and magical needlework, and grumpy softhearted healers chopping firewood, oh my!) But also… there’s so fucking much going on in it, dear god.
It’s probably my best candidate for being flung up as a dot-point fic, but… I remain swimming in a sea of self-delusion, haha.
15. What are your writing strengths?
I think… I really like getting in the guts of things, when it comes to writing about characters as people-in-bodies. (Which… is a sentence I keep re-writing, but it’s not getting any less unhinged any time soon, so it can just stay there as-is.)
I really like that sense of grounding, anyway: of being grounded in skin and bones and body-connected feelings, which is… mildly hilarious considering—therapist noises intensify.
16. What are your writing weaknesses?
Executive dysfunction.
Uh. Yeah, so, I’m super bad at internalising that grammar exists for Reasons, and that those Reasons are that other people don’t necessarily think or read with the apparently weird rhythm that I do. And that means… y’know… that my own shit needs to confirm to at least a baseline of some kind or else it’ll become kinda unreadable. (I am getting better at it, I think. I am. It’s an endless project. Commas are my own personal hell.)
17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?
I do kinda get why people might do this, because baby-me was pretty enamoured with it.
Now that I’m no longer Baby, however—at least, not when it comes to this—it’s not really something I would do. I’m also more likely to politely exit back out of stories that do choose to do it, although that’s mostly because it tends to be one of those markers that says Things about whether or not I’m going to jive with a story. (As a boring-ass adult with too little functional time on her hands.)
(On the other hand, I am deeply into terms of address/honorifics being kept and used. They can provide such a rich dose of information about intimacy, familiarity, and all the rest of it. That said, I tick-tock back and forth like a busted clock on whether I think they should be translated or not.)
18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?
Animorphs, probably, although I didn’t know what a fandom was at that point. My first posted fic was for Stargate Atlantis.
19. What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?
I’m going to find a way to write that sedoretu Gao Yingjie/Fang Shiqian/Wang Jiexi/Qiao Yifan story if it fucking kills me.
(Also this random Gao Yingjie/Qiao Yifan & Su Mucheng/Wang Jiexi partner-swapping thing that’s been living rent-free in my head for literal years, but which has never actually been written down as anything more than a one line note. C’mon, story, get out of my head and onto some damn paper!)
20. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written
We play favourites in this house! Also… I’m just really bad at making those kinds of choices.
But—you know what? Fuck it, in the days this draft has been sitting here, I gotta say, I’ve kept thinking—probably the older the ginger (the spicier it gets). It’s peak rare pair, but I had such a blast writing it, and it’s one of those odd things I actually enjoy re-reading, too. <3
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Monday Fic Recs
Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei (Guardian)
Anywhere Beside You Is A Place That I'll Call Home by highlynerdy & tehfanglyfish
Zhao Yunlan didn’t realize how much he hated the Hallows until they threw him nine decades into the past. With no other options, he and Shen Wei can only wait on the SID to get them back, settling into an apartment that affords them a place to stay, but with limited privacy. They manage to make the arrangement work, but the longer Zhao Yunlan lives with Shen Wei in the past, the more he finds himself dreaming of a home they might share in the future.
This was such a soft and gentle read. Lots of domesticity and sweetness with minimal angst and drama.
any hope for the love that i hold back by mumblemutter
"You remembered," Shen Wei says, the smile turning softer. Quietly pleased. He's gotten up to join Yunlan at the edge of the outcrop, his face bare and his hood down. Beautiful.
"Who could forget this view," Yunlan says, spreading his arms to encompass the dark scenery before them. The tree tops below, the camp just near enough to keep watch, the stars all around them.
Nothing like the night sky in Dragon City.
This is so soft and tender and lovely
Wang Pangzi/Zhang Qiling (DMBJ)
Only by looking at your eyes I can tell Whatever may happen I want to know this emotion by bimingjue
Zhang Qiling has never been interested in kissing anyone, not even his boyfriend. But when he finds out just about everyone he knows has kissed Pangzi except for him, he wonders if he's missing out on something.
I love fics about asexual characters and this was so good it made me tear up
Hei Xiazi/Xie Yuchen (DMBJ)
not making peace by chancellorofxtrash
Geya didn't plan to eavesdrop
This is so sweet and so perfectly them
Liu Sang/Wang Pangzi (DMBJ)
You’re like the summer without the overbearing heat by bimingjue
When Liu Sang arrives in Wushanju, Pangzi is giving Ouxiang a manicure. After seeing how messed up Liu Sang's nails are after his latest job, Pangzi insists to give him one too. While he's working on him, Ouxiang gives Pangzi a well deserved pedicure. Liu Sang is jealous, but not for the reason they think.
This is so fun. Cute, and a little bit spicy.
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All or Nothing
by Jipyip
'Now's your moment. Or foreeever hold your peace!'
In the unimpressed silence, Shen Qingqiu sighed and puts down his fan with a dramatic flourish. He shoved a biscuit tin into Lan Wangji's chest.
'Too bloody perfect, that's your trouble. We can't have you going to Hua Cheng like a- huuumpph. Take one!.'
Lan Wangji resigned himself to nibbling on a digestive, aware of Liu Qingge's keen gaze following him from the corner. The head of Interpol had looked more weary each passing day, with Luo Binghe still refusing to show face except through increasingly gory kills.
'Lan Wangji.'
He gazed back at Shen Qingqiu, now uncharacteristically serious.
'Once you're in Hua Chengzhu's territory, you're going to be the worst man in the world. Down there it's all me, me, me. You won't know right from wrong if it bit you in the arse. Anyone pisses you off, God help them. Yes?.'
'Yes.'
Shen Qingqiu nodded, exchanging a terse glance with Liu Qingge.
'His right hand man will be a problem for you.' Liu Qingge looked at him, something sympathetic in his gaze. 'We've just found out the Yiling Laozu's real name.'
Words: 181, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 二哈和他的白猫师尊 - 肉包不吃肉 | The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con
Categories: M/M, Multi
Relationships: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Hua Cheng/Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Hua Cheng (Tian Guan Ci Fu)/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Liu Qingge/Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Chu Wanning/Mo Ran | Mo Weiyu, He Xuan/Shi Qingxuan, Feng Xin/Mu Qing (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Hua Cheng/Yin Yu (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Lan Huan | Lan Xichen/Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao, He Xuan & Shi Wudu, Jun Wu & Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Mob, Alternate Universe - Spies & Secret Agents, Violence, Organized Crime, Dark Hua Cheng (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Dark Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Possessive Behavior, Physical Abuse, Emotional Manipulation, Humiliation, Jealousy, Power Dynamics, Office Sex, Humor, Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu is Bad at Feelings
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Two days left, and Mei Changsu is in the lead with 36.2%, followed by Shen Wei with 25.9%, and then Hua Cheng with 14.1%.
Tag propaganda under the cut as well as tag antipropaganda which I will put at the end all in one group
Ronghao
#I haven't seen NiF yet#so I'm going with Ronghao#he's been living a lie for longer than everyone here has been alive#and I love Hua Cheng but his secret identity as San Lang is immediately obvious to everyone lol#maybe his identity vis a vis Xie Lian is a bit more hidden#but Ronghao takes it for sure by @vergoftowels
Shen Wei
#this was so difficult trying to decide between shen wei and mei changsu#in the end i went with shen wei#mostly because professor shen is so different to heipaoshi#and also because (with a few notable exceptions) his disguise fools supernatural beings in addition to mortals#but mei changsu is an EXTREMELY close second#hua cheng's was really not that successful with anyone except xie lian 😹#xie yun and qiu congxue weren't even trying that hard tbh#xie yun's success really came down to not using his original martial arts because that would kill him#and not associating with most people who knew who he was#while qiu congxue's success came down to practically no-one in devil venerable actually having a braincell 🤣🤦#and much as i love wu xie#he didn't use guan gen enough for me to consider that a proper alternative identity#rather than just an often used disguise#how are those two things different?#i can't explain; they just are by @merinnan
#of course I'm voting Shen Wei what else would anyone expect me to do :D#but also because THE ACTING#and the godsdamn REVEAL#like I legit spent my entire life thinking that I couldn't possibly care less about identity reveals in anything ever#and was mildly envious of people who did because it sounded like they had fun with it#UNTIL THIS ONE#like HOLY SHIT#♡♡♡#(and then the novel version was mostly *shrug* for me again lol; and I do love the novel) by @face--the--strange
#shen wei#because he is playing three people#like he's a proffessor and a enforcer and smol boy in love#and they are different#and yes we know the drama makes it easy to see#but on the whole he still does it fairly well#ZYL is just a smart cookie#he figures it out fast cuz he's smarter than one would think#but mei changsu is an extremely close second by @1ebilcat
Ming Lou
#Ming Lou without a doubt#and equally A Cheng who has to walk the same tightrope beside him#look I love Shen Wei but he's got supernatural powers and a mask#and Mei Changsu is physically unrecognisable from the man he used to be#Ming Lou stares in the face of his enemy who is actively watching him for signs of duplicity#with nothing to hide behind but the conviction of his words#and sell them the story that he is a traitor to his country#he has to make his family believe it too because they're being watched just as closely#and that's only ONE of the faces he has to wear#he's the secret commanding officer of his spy little brother and puts a hit out on himself and send his little bro to do it#he shot his own adopted brother & right hand man in the chest#he's leading 2 sides of a rebellion against an enemy that he is the public face of#who else on this list is juggling all of that? by @lasenbyphoenix
#ming lou stares in the face of his enemy who is actively watching him for signs of duplicity#with nothing to hide behind but the conviction of his words#and sell them the story that he is a traitor to his country#he has to make his family believe it too because they're being watched just as closely#and that's only one of the faces he has to wear#he's the secret commanding officer of his spy little brother and puts a hit out on himself and send his little bro to do it#<-stealing your tags because I was just going to incoherently scream MING LOU THE ANSWER IS MING LOU but you phrased it better by @jianghushenanigans
Mei Changsu
#well only know Mei Changsu#I mean Lin Shu#I mean Su Zhe#I mean maybe he’s an outlier who shouldn’t have been counted? lol#nirvana in fire#polls by @auroramagpie
#it feels unfair of me to vote in this poll when i haven’t seen/read everything on offer#but for me i am having a hard time imagining a secret identity payoff that is as satisfying and heartbreaking as mei changsu’s#so sir su gets my vote 🥹#fandom polls#nirvana in fire#lyb#mei changsu by @thatswhatsushesaid
#prev tags: agreed#i don't know all these stories but Nirvana in Fire is hard to beat as a story in general#and as a secret identity story in particular by @inappropriatewenning
The Emperor (A League of Nobleman)
#i mean it's obviously mei changsu#but my vote goes to the emperor in alon#i love him!!!#and he pulled it off for a whole interaction#😁 by @fire-burning-brighter
Other
#where's a-xu my dearly beloved drunk ex-assassin master of disguises by @mikathemad
#no love for wen kexing's onion-like layers of secret identities?#my dude has been wearing the [plot point] for 20 YEARS in full view of all the people looking for it by @witchmachine
#seconding the qi yan propogondo#the best to ever do it fr by @bitterfrosts
#oh hello i was gonna write in li lianhua#but now i'm very 👀👀👀 about whoever this qi yan is by @commandersya
#i am currently reading a gl novel about a woman who disguises herself as a man and joins the emperor's court#in order to murder him and all his family and get revenge for her people#i haven't gotten to the reveal yet because I'm not very far in but that's my vote#she's currently getting married to one of his daughters so by @azems-familiar
Anti-propaganda
#once again a case of I've seen/read too few of these to have a proper opinion but it's definitely *not* qiu congxue#if that woman didn't have heavy plot armour (zlq and to a lesser degree blqm's mere presence) she wouldn't have lasted a day#and hua cheng might have a thousand faces but they're so immediately recognisable as him that his whole city knows#cdrama poll by @evolutionsbedingt
#does shen wei count#i mean does it count as a secret identity when half the people don't know you exist#and the other half the concept of you as an actual person enough to have a life also doesn't exist#like no one wonders where a pseudo god is spending his Tuesday afternoons by @snake-and-mouse
They might not all be masters of disguise, but they are living a very successful secret identity. In fact, some candidates are living with more than one secret identity. The question is, who's pulled it off the best?
Write-ins, propaganda, and images are welcome!
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Meet Cute fic, Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei, 1/1
Another prompt from the Meet Cute Prompt List, this one for @flange5 who asked for #7: You both do the side-to-side dance when you try to pass them in the grocery store aisle.
Title: Meet Cute 7 Fandom: Guardian Pairing: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan - no-Dixing AU, alternate first meeting Rating: PG mostly for ZYL’s lecherous thoughts and slightly gratuitous use of the word ‘fuck’ Warnings: none
Zhao Yunlan had met his match.
It was a little embarrassing that after ten years on the force, three of them as the Chief of the Special Investigations Department, after surviving the Triads, domestic disputes, assassination attempts, one persistant stalker and a literal serial killer, he was meeting his match in the produce department of the local organic grocery store.
He sighed. Fucking fussy Da Qing and his fucking fussy snack foods.
Giving the display of vegetables one last look, he gave up trying to figure out which kind of mushroom Da Qing wanted and turned away only to walk straight into someone’s push cart.
“Shit,” he said, catching himself against the edge of the cart bin. His own handbasket clattered against the cart, causing even more of a racket than Zhao Yunlan had originally. “Sorry!” He steadied himself and let go of the cart, backing up a little to get out of the way-
-and backing right into the produce display behind him.
Strong hands grabbed his shoulders, pulling him upright the instant before he would have fallen and ended up sitting in a pile of organic produce. “Are you all right?” a strong voice asked. “I apologize, I shouldn’t have tried to get through the aisle while you were browsing. I thought there would be enough room.”
Zhao Yunlan huffed a self-deprecating little laugh. “I think the problem was that I wasn’t looking where I was going. Sorry about that.” He shifted the basket to his left arm and held his right out for a shake. “Zhao Yunlan,” he said, and looked up at his rescuer.
The man pushing the cart Zhao Yunlan had almost killed himself over offered him a kind smile and took his hand. “Shen Wei,” said the most beautiful man Zhao Yunlan had ever laid eyes on.
He was pretty, there was just no other way to put it. His hair was a deep, dark brown with reddish highlights, shiny even under the supermarket fluorescent lights, and, Zhao Yunlan couldn’t help but think, just long enough for someone to really run their hands through and mess it up. His eyes were dark behind the thin wire frames of his glasses, with just a spark of good humor at Zhao Yunlan’s clumsiness but offset by a general air of kindness. His smile was genuine and friendly. His lips were pink and moist and Zhao Yunlan wanted to do things to them.
He was dressed kind of prep for Zhao Yunlan’s taste - although he’d dated a few business types in the past and messing up their prim and proper attire had always been some of the most fun he’d had. Shen Wei didn’t look like a businessman, exactly. He was wearing a cornflower blue vest with a cream and blue plaid pattern and tiny, precise buttons that made Zhao Yunlan’s fingers twitch a little with the urge to touch. His shirt was a crisp white and he wore a cravat - a fucking cravat - in some kind of deep blue and white pattern at this throat, just peeking out from behind the collar of his shirt.
And sleeve garters. The same cornflower blue as his vest, with gleaming silver clasps. Zhao Yunlan had seen sleeve garters before but he’d never considered them sexy until right this very moment. Possibly because they’d always been on old, grouchy Ministry officials before, and not stretched enticingly tight around what looked like a truly gorgeous bicep.
Actually the rest of him looked pretty fucking enticing, now that Zhao Yunlan had looked. His shoulders were straight and strong, his chest solid, his waist trim. His suit pants had a plaid effect as well, Zhao Yunlan noticed, dark blue on dark blue that you only noticed at the right angle.
Zhao Yunlan was struck by the sudden and somewhat unusual urge to take this man home and strip every single piece of clothing off him.
“Thanks for the rescue,” he said, pitching his voice just a little lower and tipping his head so he could look at Shen Wei through his lashes. “I’m lucky such a strong person was there to save me.”
Shen Wei’s smile widened into a smirk. “Save you from a hefty produce bill, perhaps,” he said. His voice was dry, and he looked like he thought Zhao Yunlan’s flirting was mostly amusing, but he wasn’t walking away either.
His hand was still clasped in Zhao Yunlan’s, which they both seemed to notice at the same moment. Zhao Yunlan let his fingers brush against Shen Wei’s as they parted, and noticed the way Shen Wei’s cheeks flushed slightly at the gentle touch.
Oh yeah. The hottie was definitely interested.
Zhao Yunlan figured he had about five seconds to come up with an excuse for them to keep talking or he was going to have to watch this man walk away from him (he very firmly did not let himself think about what this guy’s ass would look like in those tailored pants). He glanced down at the cart and saw several bundles of fresh vegetables, fruit, flour - aside from the bottle of sesame oil, nothing processed or pre-packaged. A health nut maybe, or at least the kind of guy who cooked his own meals. Or whose partner cooked their meals, but Zhao Yunlan ruthlessly strangled that thought to death and kicked its corpse under the metaphorical couch. This guy was single until he said otherwise.
“Mushrooms,” Zhao Yunlan said.
Shen Wei blinked at him. “Mushrooms?” he asked.
“Yes. Mushrooms!” Zhao Yunlan held up Da Qing’s shopping list. “You look like you know a thing or two about cooking. Could you help me? I’m supposed to buy mushrooms for my roommate, but he didn’t tell me what kind and there are-” he gestured toward the plethora of mushrooms behind him. “There are a lot. And I suspect if I get the wrong kind it will make a difference.”
“It could, yes.” Shen Wei pushed his cart to the far side of the aisle where it wouldn’t block any more space that necessary, and then came around to stand at Zhao Yunlan’s side, just close enough that their arms brushed a little. It sent a bolt of warmth through Zhao Yunlan, half arousal and half the silly, almost giddy feeling of flirtation he hadn’t had in years. Not since school, at least. Maybe longer.
It felt… nice. He liked it. He wanted to see if he could like Shen Wei.
“What are the mushrooms for?” Shen Wei asked and Zhao Yunlan had to blink a moment and remind himself what they were doing.
“Hot pot,” he said. “He needs them for the broth, he said, but it didn’t occur to me to ask for more information than that. I don’t cook a lot,” he added.
Shen Wei glanced down at the contents of his basket - a bag of his favorite anti-smoking aids, a bag of coffee, a half dozen packs of instant noodles, frozen dough for youtiao, a box of the fancy chocolate cookies his mom had loved and which Zhao Yunlan always bought as a treat around her birthday, a box of green bean cakes, and several packages of dried squid. “I see that,” he said in a tone of deep concern. “This isn’t very well-rounded.”
“I order take-out a lot,” Zhao Yunlan assured him.
The furrow between Shen Wei’s brows only deepened. “He probably wants shitake for the broth, but there are a number of possibilities. Did he give you a list? Perhaps I can determine what he needed based on the other ingredients.”
Da Qing had done nothing of the sort. “He asked me to pick up a couple of other things - maybe we should just get a selection?” It would be worth having a month’s worth of mushrooms littering up the fridge if it meant he could keep Shen Wei around long enough to get his phone number. “Do you think you could help me pick some out? If you have time,” he added. “If your spouse is waiting for you to get home for dinner, I wouldn’t want to keep you.”
Shen Wei gave him a slow once over out of the corner of his eyes. It was deliberate, and appraising, and one of the hottest things Zhao Yunlan had ever had done to him. This guy was pushing all of his buttons and he still had all his clothes on. Zhao Yunlan found himself holding his breath. “No spouse,” Shen Wei said finally. The corner of his mouth curled up in a pleased little smile. “I’ll help you finish your shopping, on one condition.”
“Yeah?” Zhao Yunlan’s brain conjured up some truly inappropriate ways of demonstrating his gratitude.
“Meet me for lunch tomorrow,” Shen Wei said. “If you’re free. You can bring me the leftovers and we’ll see if my mushroom selection proved fruitful.”
Zhao Yunlan had picked up guys before, met women in bars, run into handsome and beautiful strangers who caught his interest. He’d never had a lunch invitation set his heart pounding and make his stomach flutter like he’d just won the lottery and been crowned king all in one moment.
“It’s a date,” he said.
#guardian#zhen hun#weilan#nightwalker writes#my fic#meet-cute#alternate first meeting#Zhao Yunlan can flirt with anyone anywhere#This is a bit more of an exception for Shen Wei
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If the sects aren't color coded then why the bridge that conects them is called THE RAINBOW BRIDGE??



I spent more time that I expected with this, so here are some details because this is based on my hc:
-Shen Jiu is there, yes. In this au, after he died, he became a resentful ghost and took the place of the leader of the beggars / spies sect. No one knows about this, except mqf, and sj spens his days complaining away how everyone likes the impostor more than him and recolects secrets of everyone.
-That's my design for Shen Yuan's plant body. I like the idea of him having shorter hair than the standar as how he finds balance between his old self and new self.
-Ye Qingyong is the leader of the farmers. I don't know they need food and they have to get it for somewhere. So a farm!! Also he's blind.
-Go Qingzhen is the leader of the adivination sect. I just think that Airplane got out of ideas and said "fuck it, adivionation sect, why not?". You can find more about your future in their weekly newspaper (Cang Qiong needs money okay?).
-Ru Qinghuan is the leader of Zui Xian and she makes things go KABOOM. They make alcohol but also some explosive not really safe drinks.
-Wei Qingwei already appears in the novel for one momment socI'm making him a family guy with 5 kids and a wife that he adores.
-Don't ask about the Ku Xing leader because I don't know ok he's a pacifist and buff I don't have imagination left to think about something else.
If you're interested, here's the link to With every bit of my heart, a fic canon divergence with transmigrator mqf!
#svsss#they have family holidays#that end up in disaster#obviously#they forget wqw in the gas station#scum villain self saving system#shen qingqiu#shen yuan#shen jiu#yue qingyue#liu qingge#mu qingfang#liufang#because mqf has a big crush on lqg#qijiu#qi qingqi#wei qingwei#shang qinghua#he's waiting for mobei jun to come pick him up
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