#i also still have my reverse bang fic to finish so im gonna write the ITNL chapter and then switch back to the reverse bang

[orcelito]

Finished rereading ITNL chapter 12 and Man it really is my favorite chapter of the fic (so far)

The Drama !! The Action !!! The Loopiness !!!! It truly has it all

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Hi Gina! :) have you read If I should Stay?? The bodyguard fic! I reread it again and absolutely loved the action part and the thrill leading up to it! Do you know any other fic where one of them has to protect the other from danger/harm in more of a physical sense? Im stocked up on the emotional support ones, thanks to you

I have read it! I love that author’s writing. And I don’t have any other bodyguard fics to suggest, which is super sad. But here are a few others that have more “action” and the boys protecting each other from harm.

of the divine by @thedevilinmybrain (Mixed ratings, 2-part series, 104K) Oh my god. This series. I cried buckets. It’s so beautifully written. The sex scenes are so tender and sexy, but in such a pure way. Their relationship is so good… you can totally feel how much they love each other, the fight scene OH MY GOD so intense. It’s also got great zouis friendship and a very sweet narry friendship. Tender punk Louis and guardian angel Harry. Read it.

To Honor by Awriterwrites / @a-writerwrites (E, 15K) there’s so much about this fic I love. The battle scenes are full of tension, the smut scenes are super charged and sexy, the story line is unique, the boys are in kilts… the list goes on. Seriously though, this author took this fic to a different level — the writing fits the time period (13th century Scotland), but still feels fresh and alive. Give this one a try — I hope you like it as much as I do.

Say Hallelujah, Say Goodnight by alivingfire (E, 110K) This is an epic Angel and Demon fic that I still think about from time to time. It’s action packed throughout, heartbreaking at points, and full of beautifully written passages. A wild ride from start to finish.

Sodalite & Adventurine by @forreveries (E, 81K) Gay pirate adventure that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat until the end. Amazing chemistry, great world building, super sexy smut, and beautiful writing. Do yourself a favor and read it!

Yellow by 13ways  (E, 85K) Oh mah gawd. I love this fic so much. This was the result of a reverse big bang I made a prompt for and I’m forever grateful that this was the author who chose it! Yes, it’s Batman/Catwoman. No, you don’t ned to know anything about the comics. But wow! Such good pacing, the smut scenes are fire, the concept is so original and keeps you guessing until the very end. Link is to a download.

Tied Down by HamPalpert / @ham-palpert (E, 49K - detectives) Harry and Louis are criminals in this one, the other boys are the detectives, and I really liked how original and layered this one was. If the tags concern you, contact the author (or me) –– the fic is a wild ride, but so worth the read!

everything that shine ain’t always gonna be gold by sarcasticfluentry (E, 49K) You don’t need to know anything about the movie that inspired this fic (it’s an Inception AU). What you do need to know is that it’s got great OT5, it’s super sexy, it’s got a terrific story line, and the pacing is just right for a nail biter. Extractor Harry and Louis.

Landslide by aimmyarrowshigh, spibsy (lucy_and_ramona) (E, 143K) Set in the 1970s. Read the tags because this fic is a lot. There are pairings you may not enjoy, there’s a lot of period typical unpleasantness, cult psychology, violence, etc. etc. HOWEVER, it’s very well written and the exploration of Harry’s internalized homophobia is done very well, IMO.  

a prayer for which no words exist by Eliane (M, 34K) Gorgeous, deep, layered writing that really makes you slow down and think. At times this fic felt like a metaphor for the war these boys had been through IRL. Normally a dystopian fic with no smut would not be something I’d even bother reading, but I’m really glad I did.

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And the fic you mentioned:

If I Should Stay by Gloria_Andrews / @gloriaandrews (E, 31K)

Louis is a television actor who suddenly needs a bodyguard. Harry is the bodyguard he ends up hiring.

A fic loosely based on the classic 1992 movie The Bodyguard.

[wandering-bitch]

Fic Annotation: No Round Peg, But Not So Square pt 1

No Round Peg is my fic about family and disability, for the mdzs reverse big bang. It's based on Ashes' beautiful art with the concept "a-qing joins the jiang sect"

Here are notes on the writing process and the world building!

I was really worried this fic would get the same lukewarm reception as Blood In The Cut, my mini bang fic. Both are really tied up in my feelings about my body at the time of writing and hashtag disability content, so I figured the Fandom would be bored

i mean this is about feeling like your body and circumstances are failing you and keeping you from your dreams, and also how part of community and caring is making sure children don't feel that way!

but apparently when ppl read this they just see jc being a dad, even though that's like, not at all the point of this fic, and fell in love, so whatever! nice!

scene 1

love my little worldbuilding here with the yunmeng tour, i can totally see the jiang sect, being all free loosey goosey, would pick up more gutterpunks with potential than most other sects

this is probably how jfm found wwx in the first place

also like that i got to write the regular world + how it was affected by sunshot. im really interested in non-cultivators!!! all this amazing shit happens!!!! what are the repercussions!!!

god in theory i should love g0t but i just don't fuck with it

anyway: i love a-qing!!! arguing with rich fuckers!

in my original outline, jc did test a-qing's spiritual root, bc i had just watched the beginning of duoluo continent + finished lingjian mountain and that trope was fresh in my head

a-qing had a wood spiritual root, bc her 'qing' is bamboo and bamboo is kind of wood and wood as a personality type grows very quickly and also water feeds and supports wood and i thought i was Very Clever to figure this out

but i couldn't find a way to do that in this interaction so now it's just extra info

scene 2: a year later

JIN LING JIN LING JIN LING

i just think a-qing's a gremlin who should get to bully a little brother!!!

now we're gonna talk about Classism

honestly "but now we're gonna talk classism" is a big Wandering Bitch//Covert mood

A-Qing's confusion at the passage of the book she read (or tried to teach herself to read) is because her eyesight is going, she just doesn't realize yet.

See, one of the things I noticed when reading the golden flower for research is the couple of times they make philosophical conclusions from how characters are written. There's a big thing about how if you write "gold flower" vertically, the character for "light" is in there. (check annotation on ch1 verse 8 on the translation i linked)

The passage I had a-qing read (ch 10 verse 5) includes a different character fr light, and then sun and moon. And while sure, I can tell the difference between 日 and 月, I figure if you've never tried to read and also everything is mildly blurry, it might be hard

and a-qing, being a proud gifted kid, gives up easily

and then fucking beats a man half to death with her bare fists because fuck classism 

“an unruly but clever disciple”  we get it covert you still like to invoke the memory of wei wuxian, you love the fact that jiang cheng can never let him go, even when jiang cheng has moved on with his life and is focusing on his new responsibilities 

 jiang cheng i love you but you should have given a-qing a reader from the start but what do i know!!!!

Scene 3: Probably six months later, although I didn’t draw a hard timeline

sorry i made being blind stressful, a-qing

this is me really obviously processing the stress of your body changing without your permission. if you think it’s about puberty, you’re wrong, it’s about progressive disability. 

anyway she runs away rather than dealing with her problems head-on because this is unbearable!!!!

“she probably bought something in town and had it billed to the sect, the restaurants and shopkeeps were used to that sort of behavior” hey jiang cheng i’m proud of you for thinking about your brother without crying

“he’d certainly stayed out too late when he was her age, although he was usually with someone else...” hey jc im proud of u for thinking about ur brother without crying 

i thought about getting rid of jin ling's little bit of narration but honestly how could i do that

jin ling deserves to narrate and he deserves to be a hero and a terrible little kid

sorry fairy but dogs do not belong on tiny boats

even if they're very good dogs

i love a good unreliable narrator especially when they’re an absolute clown about it. u may have noticed this from the 22000 words of “falling in love with love”, starring my favorite clown jin guangyao

in a-qing’s world there are three genders: kids, adults, and rich fucks

i just like wanderers and notions of home. 

“stuck his wet grimy hands around her in a disgusting hug” a running theme in my work is stuff like this, very visceral? sensory? descriptions of love and familial intimacy. I forget if i kept the phrase “wet baby noise” in a prior work but it’s one that’s stuck with me, because babies make wet noises, and it kinda exemplifies this stuff. tender and honest and gentle moments are not always sanitary or dry. they often happen because you have just rescued a six year old from a river in september and you are both sopping wet and covered in sand and a little bit of reeds, so your hugs and snuggles are gonna smell Bad

but the hugs are going to be no less important and i feel like part of your brain IS going to notice “uuugh river smell” as your heart go “jin ling u dork i love u”

dramatic frog screams

fairy mvp

a-qing is a mood though, if there’s a protection circle and u leave it and u die??? your fault. fuck you. 

the real way you know that a-qing is a jiang is bc she goes from 0 to yelling at jiang cheng. no other sect would dare. wandering cultivators??? they’d try to be “””reasonable””” or some shit. only a proper jiang disciple would jump to “are u fucking kidding me shut up i love u ur the worst” the second anything doesn’t go their way

also “you’re not a young woman you’re my best student” jiang sect doesn’t have gender it only has grades

on the one hand, i wanted the message to be “disabled people can be independent and successful”. on the other, i wanted it to be “disabled people can accept help and that’s not shameful and part of being in a community is the community understanding that you don’t need to perform to abled standards if you are disabled and also the community providing the aid necessary for u to excel as much as u want”

so i asked my spouse/beta which i should go for and they said:::::: both

have a-qing (the individual) say and demonstrate that she can be successful and independent, and have jiang cheng (the community) say and demonstrate that she doesn’t have to be independent and successful-by-exactly-abled-standards, her value is in her existence not her adherence to those standards

both both is good

jiang cheng not knowing how to comfort people

a-qing and jiang cheng ganging up on poor jin ling to point out his mistakes...... but kiddo u cannot put a dog on a tiny rowboat if that dog is dumb and you can’t steer a boat

jiang cheng: god damn it this kid keeps remminding me of my brother and technically has no family....... im.... gonna...... im gonna adopt her...... nie huaisang, paying jin guangyao three taels of silver: you were right, he is the fathering type jin guangyao: there’s a reason all the young disciples call him ‘daddy’

anyway thanks for coming to Wandering Bitch Disability Hours!! Because i disguised it as Wandering Bitch Dad Hours, Jiang Cheng Hours, and Jin Ling Hours, it was popular this time!!