#i hope someone caught my cringe yibo reference

[aheavenlyrush]

2020 Creator Wrap: Favourite Works

Rules: It’s time to love yourselves! Choose your 5 (or so) favourite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2020. Tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works.

i was tagged by @distantsnows, thank youuu *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

my own private idaho - i'm cheating a little here because i didn't make this in 2020 but i did make it last december so. these are the rules of my world eheh~ hmm, i like the flow of this gifset and how it tells the story but still doesn’t spoil the movie if you haven’t seen it.

on purpose, on purpose - i’m pretty sure i thought about this quote every day for at least three months this year and i’m ngl, when i finally managed to finish this set i nearly cried with relief. i screencapped so many different scenes but the colouring and the composition needed to be exactly what i wanted and the scenes had to be meaningful and basically my brain was screeching at me constantly while i was making this. i’m not sure if everyone realises that the last gif is from the scene where lwj restrains wwx from throwing down with jin zixun (who absolutely deserved it btw fuck this dude) and wwx tells lwj he’s afraid there’s gonna be more resentful spirits in qishan and what’s needed is “requiescat” and then he leaves and lwj stands there and looks around at the dead bodies and he knows wwx is right and he wants to show wwx that he’s with him, he’s trying to reach wwx through music... and wwx hears him and their duet is honestly one of the most beautiful soothing yet heartbreaking moments in the show to me. i love it so much!! (also i’m considering giffing it bc, you know. as you can maybe see i’m a little obsessed with it)

the wei wuxian / wen qing parallel - this still drives me crazy if i think about it?? it’s even framed the same way in the show??? i think i used up most of my words explaining the last set but i just. wwx never could have turned his back on wq here, ever. he sees his past and i know there’s a joke about wwx being forgetful and all but he was clearly traumatised living on the streets as a child and here he is smacked in the face with Memories. of course he had to help wq just like jfm helped him when he was a child. of course. also. the flashback scene was Not easy to colour because for some reason the colouring didn’t even stay the same throughout the scene?? must you torment gifmakers this way...

made shijie happy today :) - i love them so much i don’t know what else to say ;__; they deserved all the time in the world and wwx just wanted to make his big sis proud every day for the rest of his life!! aaaghhhh,, these were my first big gifs and i wanted to make them as ~smooth as possible and i think i did okay :>

beverly marsh (it 2017) - i wanted to make a nice red/green gifset for beverly because i think those colours suit her really well and i like the way this turned out. the bathroom scene (fifth gif) was a genuine nightmare to colour but i think i managed to make it look nice and i’m happy about that.

i’m very late to this game and probably everyone has already done this but if you haven’t and you want to celebrate the things you’ve created this year i’m tagging @zoewashburne , @isaksbestpillow & @kaikamahine :}

[rainbowsky]

hi rbs! im the anon who asked for non explicit fic recs. thank you very much for the rec, and of course also the person who saw it and had a whole list of of recs! I've almost got through them all and they rly are lovely and so sweet! It helped keep my mind off things as well :' ) based on what i know about you, im certain your recs wouldn't be the uhhh tasteless (?) kind of rated E, it's just me orz. i remember reading one of the fics on your rec list, the one with yibo turning into a cat, and still being pretty embarrassed and skipping that part... tho the story was super cute on the whole! ty again, and i hope you're well ^_^

This is in reference to a previous post.

More than a lot of things, fan fiction really is a matter of personal taste. As such, fic recommendations from one person aren't always going to fit into another person's comfort zone.

What's considered 'tasteful' is incredibly subjective. Dominant social groups often try to impose their ideas of 'taste' on the general public, and I actually find that more offensive than stories that feature themes I dislike (ABO, mpreg, gender switch, etc.). Everyone should be free to set their own boundaries within a consensual, non-harming social framework, and people shouldn't be shamed for their kinks and interests unless they act on them in a harmful way.

I definitely have boundaries in terms of what I feel comfortable with, but they're more about characterization, framing and tone than they are about what's actually happening in a scene. And it's not always easy to quantify what exactly makes it possible for me to enjoy one story while another story makes me squirm and cringe.

I could say, for example, "I don't like when a story is focused around sex or seems written entirely as a lead-up to a sexual encounter" and that would be mostly true, but there are exceptions. For example, I really enjoyed Venus despite the fact that it's pretty much entirely about a sexual encounter.

The best way I could put it to you is to say that I don't read explicit stories for the sex, and so if a story is going to be explicit it better really sell me on what's happening. I need to feel like this is what would naturally happen between these people, and it better read like interesting, well-written action that stays within the characterization of the participants or I will lose interest.

It makes perfect sense to me that grown adults will often have sex, and in the context of a story I am perfectly happy to read about how those things take place, and it doesn't bother me in the least. In fact, in many cases it gives the story more depth and the relationship more intensity and realism. I suppose I prefer stories that don't over-emphasize it, but there are also many stories that feature a lot of sex that are among my favorites.

As long as a story is sweet, interesting and well-written, and takes me on a journey I enjoy, I'm not going to get to caught up in what the author does with the relationship. And that's not even just about sex, it's also about things like affairs or breakups or arguments. If it's a good story that has a happy ending, I'm happy to let the author take me on that journey.

I think the thing a lot of people struggle with is, they just don't like that there is sex written about real people. I have to admit, I have a hard time relating to that perspective. The stories are fiction, and aren't pretending otherwise. I would no more be offended by a story being written about them having sex than I would be by a story being written about them going waterskiing. It's fiction.

Some people are offended by the idea of stories being written about real people at all, regardless of whether they're sexual or not, and again - I don't have that problem. I think it's fun to read about interesting people being placed in unusual circumstances.

If someone wrote such a story about me I would be flattered, not offended. Even if the story was horrible and a total misinterpretation of my personality. The very fact that someone wrote the story shows that something about me captured their imagination, that they found me interesting enough to inspire creativity. How could that ever be a bad thing?

So the misgivings other people have aren't the same ones I have. I feel 100% comfortable with reading stories about GGDD, sexual or not. Some things offend me or even repulse me, and that's perfectly normal. To each their own.

And people's feelings on this are subject to change, believe me. There was a time when I really wasn't comfortable with any of it. Now I'm recommending stories to people. Anything's possible. 😊

Glad you were able to find some stories you enjoyed!

For more of my thoughts on this topic, see this post.

My GGDD fic recs can be found here.

My Wangxian fic recs can be found here.