#but technically this is a hualian blog too?

[skyfish7]

Writing Pattern Tag Game

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 posted fics and see if there's a pattern. (Got tagged by my dear friend @29daffodils, thank you, this looks interesting! If you're interested in any of those fics, please click the title and it will guide you to the fic on AO3.) More Beautiful than the Moon [ How would you like to continue your romance storyline? A. Stay with Luo Binghe. B. Try to seduce Liu Qingge. This might or might not be reversible, so choose wisely…/ ] ship/fandom: Liu Qingge/Shen Yuan|Shen Qingqiu, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (I'm already cheating in the first one but I think the first sentence only isn't enough to convey anything so please excuse XD)

------------------------------------ Safe With You Cold. Wet. Dark. The boy's eyes can't see through the blurriness, his ears can hear only muffled noises of struggling. ship/fandom: WinTeam, Between Us|Hemp Rope, canon-divergent (Technically three sentences, I know but words alone don't make much sense right?) -----------------------------------

Convince me Otherwise It's the first day at uni for Team and things are supposed to go well, but in fact, Team's morning has already been quite eventful. ship/fandom: WinTeam, Between Us|Hemp Rope, musician AU -----------------------------------

Come Home With Me It's one of those days, Win spends working from home. ship/fandom: WinTeam, Between U|Hemp Rope, post-canon -----------------------------------

With You through the Seasons It happens in early spring, in the middle of the day, in the middle of the road, in the middle of town without any prior warning – Xie Lian's car dies. ship/fandom: HuaLian, Heaven Official's Blessing, Modern AU ----------------------------------- We'll still be Us It was one of those nights when Megumi was lying wide awake, staring up at the ceiling of his bedroom into the endless, merciless darkness. ship/fandom: GoFushi, Jujutsu Kaisen, Yakuza AU (OK those last four definitely followed a pattern and I don't really know what to think about that XD) -----------------------------------

Dragonfly “Hey, Akihiko,” Haruki starts when he can't stand the atmosphere anymore. ship/fandom: AkiHaru, Given ----------------------------------- My Boyfriend might suck at Games but he holds the High Score in my Heart Exam season sucks. ship/fandom: RitsuMafu, Given -----------------------------------

Waking up with You "Rise and shine, Sunshine, it's a beautiful day and we have plans today," Nao's whisper tickles Natsuya's ear as he bends down to wake his lover. ship/fandom: NatsuNao, Free! -----------------------------------

With You by my Side Once a year, sometime in April, without any fail, the former swim team of Iwatobi High makes an effort to meet up in their home town to catch up with each other and wallow in the nostalgia of their beginnings. ship/fandom: MakoHaru, ReiGisa, AsaKisu, HiyoIku, NatsuNao, SouRin, SeijuuGou, MomoAi, Free! ----------------------------------- So, do I see a pattern? A few of them start similarly, like the four that I pointed out. Then there are two starting with direct speech and a few starting with very short or only one-word sentences. Honestly, I don't really think too much about how to start a story because that's usually the easiest thing for me to do - to write the beginning. I just go with whatever pops up in my head when I start writing. I hope it's interesting enough to keep people reading but that's not for me to judge, so you tell me! :) Another thought that just crossed my mind is, why do most of my titles sound so lame? ;_; (It's truly one of the most difficult things when writing, if I don't know the title from the beginning, it's a struggle until the very end when I put the fic on AO3) Tagging some of my writer friends (no pressure to do this but I'd love to see it!) @tehalex3-blog, @radiodread, @berrynthewood and... I think my other writer friends aren't on here or I forgot their handles, sorry. Whoever comes across this and wants to play along, please feel free to do so!

[alexbutrandomthoughts]

Can I ask your top 10 fav fics ever (from any fandom, if you don't mind)?

Also, just curious, is there a story behind your name "alexbutrandomthoughts "?

"I was screaming your name through the radio" by ElectricSplatter a must-read for all soukoku fans, this shit is so good i reread it 20 times at least.

It's basically bsd retelling but they're all singers and it's focused on soukoku. Honestly writing is immaculate and i like the way it was told, format wise, like how we jump back in forth from present to past, and overall it has everything you could want from a story. I have this one saved on my phone and i reread my favorite chapters from time to time

"Time Speaks" by SmallMoon333 do not get fooled by that unassuming title, this fic made me physically incapable of reading any other Lawlight fic, bc this one is just too good. It's akin to trying a high quality steak and unable to eat any other meat anymore bc you know how heaven tastes (i obviously read other fics, they're pretty good too, but this one is just my personal favorite especially the characterization is so fucking good it's crazy)

"Electric touch" by bejeweledhaze okay so you know the feeling when you need something very specific, you go to store, and the stars align perfectly so you find that thing, just what you need it, almost feels like custom made. That's this fic.

So when Kaveh fans died (myself included) after that one official art with Kaveh as a mechanic, i just needed to fill the whole in my chest, after saving every single Mechanic Kaveh fanart known to men. I decided check out the tag, but i didn't really expect much, i mean it's been like what? Couple days since the official art was dropped. Sure there is probably couple of fics but not something i would like, right? Bejeweledhaze said "lemme cook" and turns out they were Gordon Ramsey in disguise. One chapter, 33k words of pure and unfiltered masterpiece.

"School watches Assassination Classroom" by TheSteinsGateFormula so I'm a sucker characters react to their show fics. What of it.

Yeah there are not many reaction fics that i like cuz personal preferences. But THISSSSSSSSSSSS ugh so good. And very much in character and i loved from start to finish.

"MSBY4's Lockdown Survival Guide" by mintberries

Okay so this was just good vibes. Social media aus fics for me is what Isekai is for Gigguk (but I'm also isekai trash person, their just fun) and this is ALSO a covid19 au???? With my favorite team????? This appeased my sakuatsu craving soul and it was just dumbasses having fun.

"Duo Heroes, Double Black" by Yellow_Canna

It's bsd&mha crossover and it's beast!soukoku isekai/sorta reincarnation/technically regression do i need to say more

"No Water Is Enough" by Boomchick

Hualian angst, my favorite type of angst. It's sorta memory loss and i knew the suffering would be glorious once Hua Cheng remembered and it did not disappoint

"Pick-Up and Chase" by SKayLanphear was laughing my ass off with this fic. Marinette just constantly flirting with Adrien as herself and as Ladybug was a wild and hilarious ride

"one step at a time" by OuterWilde (foreverraugust)

Honestly, this was just good old slice of life and overall nice fic. I was obsessed with Ace Attorney at the time, and well with all the crazy shit that was happening in the games, this was a nice break from it.

"A Century Between Us" by Dulllull dead ass my favorite jjk fic. It's not finished, not by a long shot but it's so GOOOOD SHIT SLAPS SO HARD and well it's reincarnation fic how can i not love it and written so WELLLLL PLEASE READ THIS IT'S VERY AAAAAAAAAAA-

As for my name, originally i migrated from Twitter cuz fuck Elon, and had another blog which had my name and this was a side blog for me to scream about my hyperfixations, whichever i would have at the time and i ended up using this one more lol. Hence the "random thoughts"

[stiltonbasket]

“Stop moping,” Shen Qingqiu tells him, slapping Shang Qinghua on the back of his head with his new silk fan--one that Shang Qinghua gave him as a present, because Cucumber-bro really is the meanest friend that Shang Qinghua has. “I’m sure he didn’t mean it that way.”

He doesn’t go so far as saying that Shang Qinghua wouldn’t be in this situation if he hadn’t written that extra about cultivators gaining new spiritual powers after fifty years of chaste cultivation, but it’s a near thing. “What other way is there?” Shang Qinghua moans. “He was going to strangle me! He dreams about--about dragging me off into dark corners, and then squashing me like a bug!”

“Maybe he didn’t want to squash you like a bug,” Shen Qingqiu suggests. “Maybe he just wanted to...reprimand you. Gently.”

“He was looming over me all threateningly, Cucumber-bro,” Shang Qinghua whines. “And I didn’t even do anything this time! Well, nothing except ruin his marriage alliance with the third daughter of that fire demon clan, but--”

“Are you sure he wanted to marry her?” Cucumber-bro says skeptically. “How would that work? Where would they even live?”

“OG Binghe married an ice demon and a fire demon. And they lived in the same palace, so he set up separate suites for both of them.”

“They weren’t married to each other, though.”

“Yes, but--well, that’s beside the point! The point is, Mobei-jun still fantasizes about beating me up, even though I told him humans don’t like that, and one day he’s going to snap and break my damn legs!”

“No, he’s not. He’s held out this far.”

“You’re horrible,” Shang Qinghua wails. “Can I stay here with you on Qing Jing until Luo Binghe gets back? Mobei-jun won’t bother you, even if he comes looking for me, and it’s not like my disciples need me over on An Ding.”

He makes his best pleading eyes, the one his mother once told him made him look like a baby hamster, and holds them until Cucumber-bro sighs and puts his face in his hands.

“Fine!” he snaps. “But don’t come crying to me if the disciples annoy you. Or if Zhangmen-shixiong tries to come over here and drive you out. Or if Liu-shidi--”

“Turns up with some kind of beast again, I know the drill,” Shang Qinghua says eagerly, diving into his pack and laying out his bedroll across from Shen Qingqiu’s bed. “Thanks, bro. You’re the best.”

Shen Qingqiu’s jaw drops open. “You came prepared?”

“I’m sorry! I didn’t have a choice.”

“Shang Qinghua!”

can't stop thinking about a moshang cherry magic au. sqh would definitely be the type to hear someone's thoughts and STILL draw the wrong conclusion. mbj internally: his face is all red again. cute. I want to bite his little round cheeks. sqh, bursting into sqq's bamboo house: I WAS THREATENED

you’re right omg the POSSIBILITIES

imagine sqh accidentally touching mbj while they’re sitting next to each other in a very boring meeting, and instantly sees mbj is daydreaming about kabedoning him in the filing room. mbj moves to touch him in his day dream, and irl sqh shoots out of his chair because oh hell no, he does not want to see mbj daydreaming about strangling sqh in a dark room. 

or!!! mbj thinks: i want to eat him up. and sqh goes: CANNIBAL MBJ THINKS I’M A TASTY TREAT?????????

omg who is going to write me 50k words of this au

[foolsgoldencore]

hoo boy i was gonna try to riff on that one Richard Siken bit like “you are in an oxcart with a beautiful boy” but i’m gay and it’s too real, i’m gonna need a minute..........