#beru going like ‘OH IT’S LIKE THAT HISTORICAL DRAMA��‘

[hanakihan]

Bellion and Igris are two dumbass romcom knights (who constantly clank with their armor touching) and Jinwoo just watching their dumbass interactions and is like

‘Help my two knights are gay as hell what do I do’

[rarepears]

More Solo Leveling X SVSSS crossover ideas (ft. Beru being up to no good)

The original set of ideas (ideas 1-9), Ideas 13-15

More ideas: 10. Beru accidentally becomes the world's best spymaster.

To be more accurate, Beru likes to watch historical Kdramas. Why watch TV dramas when he can watch the real thing himself? He spies on the imperial harem, the various sects, and happily and eagerly relies what he (and his shadow summon friends/spies/subordinates) see to the various grannies and friends he's accumulated at the markets he like to visit all over the continent.

Oh his friend nine wants to know more about the Heavenly demon's illicit tryst with that female cultivator who wears a lot of gold? Sit your ass down because your buddy Beru has a lot to say.

The famous spymaster is well known that in return for the information he provides, he demands valuable information in return. Money, gold won't sway him. Only information does. Unfortunately no one has figured out how to stay out of the spymaster's eyes - no talisman or cultivation technique has been proven to work so far.

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11. Proud Immortal... Ant Way?

Beru sees how the imperial emperor has a harem of 3000 concubine. Beru knows that his liege is far superior to that imperial emperor and is determined that Jinwoo shall have a far superior harem.

Insert Beru the matchmaker exploring the world to find the most perfect concubines for Jinwoo. Except Beru is an ant and does not understand how human genders work. He collects both men and women and dump them in Jinwoo's mansion/castle/building.

Aka this is a story where Beru goes through all the Luo Binghe's wife plots with the man/woman he's interested in recruiting into Jinwoo's harem and Jinwoo has no clue what Beru is up to and Beru is actually terrible at talking like a normal person, so all the recruited harem members actually think that they belong to Beru's harem.

TLDR: Beru becomes the new demon lord who rules the whole world instead of Luo Binghe. Luo Binghe is actually just another member of Beru's harem. Luo Binghe really likes his father-in-law and does his best to take care of Jinwoo and Jinwoo's meals.

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12. Huan Hua Palace Lord Jinwoo

Once upon a time, Jinwoo decided to be a tourist and go sightseeing at a city that was known to be absolutely covered in gold. (Why yes, this is the Huan Hua Sect.)

Naturally, arrogant gold-clad young men bump into Jinwoo. Seeing Jinwoo's very ordinary clothes, they scorn him, insult him like all arrogant young masters do.

Beru does not take it lying down. Igris and the other summons aren't happy campers either. Before Jinwoo can step in, everything escalates to the point that he's too busy protecting the surrounding civilians to stop the Huan Hua cultivators who are launching attack after attack on the "demons" (aka Jinwoo and summons co).

By the end of the week, Jinwoo finds himself the new master of the Huan Hua Palace.

(Su Yixan X Beru X Tianlang Jun anyone? Or do we make it a triangle with Beru being the one being fought over?)

[laryna6]

OMG, you know what this fandom needs?

Jin-Ah marathoning some historical drama with Beru + other shadows and liveblogging their comments (as translated by Beru, in the case of non-human language speakers).

Featuring:

Beru going ‘my liege is the best king/emperor’ and making note of ways respect is shown to the emperor in the piece and needing to be talked out of/encouraged in emulating them.

Confusion about major plot points bc none of the shadows are aware ‘two-people co-creating a child’ is a thing even after grasping that humans have a drive to do the kissy face thing (likening it to monsters’ drive to destroy). During which it comes up that the shadows wearing knight armor grew on a tree and their species forms platonic multi-adult groups to adopt and raise children together.

Needing to explain the concept of ‘fiction’ multiple times because it doesn’t exist on their planet, although live entertainment does in the forms of torturing prisoners and tournaments/combat skill exhibitions (the knights). Beru is some help since he knows fiction from eating ants who ate humans.

Tusk is kind of interested in the costuming but doesn’t really care about the people. Beru is invested because he relates to certain characters and plotlines since the resonate with his own feelings, usually related to Jin-Woo. The knight shadows are the ones getting attached to characters and hoping they’ll be okay and such and such, levels of sympathy/empathy much closer to humans.

Igris is Supervising and has mostly been telling people not to shout/scream and disturb the neighbors. But then some character makes a Doomed Last Stand trying to protect someone (for extra points, someone they love who treated them like garbage and the character forced to kill them is a brother/bff or something who Did Not Want but the protected character was v. evil and had to die) and the knights are all oh no ;_; and won’t talk about why and Igris is Not So Stoic/especially overcome.

Getting to explore interactions of non-humans with human culture, but that also becomes a window to see that there are two different cultures/psychologies among the shadows.

[anghraine]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers (◠‿◠✿)

Oh, thank you very much! This is not set in stone and in no particular order, but

1) boringly, per ardua ad astra

The one where Jyn, Cassian, and Bodhi escape Scarif alive (if barely, in Cassian’s case), but get caught and have to pass themselves off as Imperials. On the Death Star. With the ANH clock ticking down.

I might be biased, because of course the current fic is always the one I’m most excited about. And, of course, it’s deliberately constructed to soothe myself after my faves dying, and highlight what I love about them and my ship, and throw my favourite tropes into a pot (slow burn! whump! competence! domesticity! emotional confusion and inarticulateness!).

So, despite the occasional glitches and glacial pace, I absolutely love writing it. I love planning the twists and turns and, uh, long stretches of dialogue, and thinking about where the characters are at the end of Rogue One but how it would be influenced by not facing down immediate death and different sorts of pressures. I even had fun looking up rib injuries 

I’m ridiculously gratified that it’s already one of my most popular fics, can’t lie.

2) we get dark, only to shine

The one where Cesare visits Lucrezia smack in the middle of Sforza’s most overt abuse, and they spiral into S3 territory in the middle of S1. Also, bonus Valencian poetry and quasi-OC historical figures, because I can.

One of the wilder twists of my fannish existence: I’ve gotten OMG SO PROBLEMATIC over things like ace!Luke, disliking tie-ins, defending Kylo Ren, and the like, but meanwhile… I wrote 170k of ~romanticized~ adulterous underage incest between a countess and a Catholic priest and not a peep.

(In all fairness, the characters are sexually active at that age in canon, they’re a canon couple, they’re played by 20-somethings, and I was very cautious about … many things. But still, I kind of boggle at the priorities here.)

Anyway, it’s somewhere between fix-fic and love letter to the show/ship, depending on the moment and the particular element, with a strong side of I DON’T CARE I’M DOING IT MY WAY BECAUSE I WANNA. While it’s too badwrong to be something I would encourage non-fans to read, I love it dearly and think it’s probably one of the best things I’ve done, qualitatively.

3) The Lucy Skywalker series.

The one where Luke is a girl. Obviously.

It’s not the most even or disciplined thing I’ve done, but it’s very close to my heart. When I first heard about the phase when Luke was going to be a girl and saw the beautiful McQuarrie art for her, I was both thrilled and disappointed—Luke isn’t really a gendered character to me, so while it made sense that he could be flipped from male to female to male in the drafting process and I reallyyyyy wished they’d stuck with f!Luke, there wasn’t much to do with that.

And then I started thinking about how incredibly male-dominated the Rebellion is (and everything, but it’s most jarring there), and how the Cloud City duel in particular is drowning in masculinity tropes, and the similar/different ways that f!Luke would relate to Leia in particular, and how Han would most definitely not approach a pretty blonde girl as he did a boy. Even though I did think a lot would stay the same, and wrote it that way (the first in particular verged on novelization at times), the differences were also fascinating and—it’s really just such a fun thing to do and one that I’m satisfied with at its most flawed.

(shout-out to @grumpyfaceurn for encouragement and Inspirational Art!)

4) what are we living for

The one where I have my own Skywalker language headcanons, basically. 

I formed a lot of these a long time ago (that is, on lj), but never managed to finish my various attempts to write them out. However, my writing meme helped me concentrate my ideas down to an actual fic.

It’s focused on Luke, but I wanted to also focus on the way that language works to link the various Skywalkers together: Shmi, Beru, Anakin, Luke, Leia, C-3PO. 

5) The Letters of Elizabeth Darcy (1796-1798)

The one where I explore the first two or so years post-P&P (assuming a 1795-6 timeline for P&P, which I do) through excerpts from Elizabeth’s letters to assorted loved ones.

It was a close tie between this and First Impressions (the f!Darcy/m!Elizabeth AU—honestly, catch me at a different time and it would be that), but I think this one is probably better. In fact, fractured as it is by the format, I think it might be the most even and focused fic I’ve ever written. It’s not the excitement of ad astra or the discipline+id candy of wgdots, I’m just… satisfied? It’s what I wanted it to be, and remains what I would want it to be.

It was an interesting challenge, really, because the central—conceit, I guess, is that it’s exclusively Elizabeth’s letters, and fragments of her letters, at that. So I wanted to give an idea of what’s going on over those two years without any other voices than hers, and to sound as true to her character as I could imagine. I wanted Elizabeth’s mediation with the Fitzwilliams, her relationship with Jane and her father, the inevitable pregnancies and attendant drama, hints at politics, and of course a sense of the Darcy marriage in general, and cramming that all into a fairly short fic in a natural way was just … I liked it and I still do.