#i've learned from this ask that i mostly like au longfics instead of canon ones.

[blessyouhawkeye]

sorry to bother you but do you have any wangxian fic recs? just finished the untamed and i need More

EXCELLENT question i have so many.

my personal two all-time favourites are live from new york by varnes (saturday night live au) and all the shine of a thousand spotlights by doodlebutt (figure skating au) because i'm a funny lan wangji truther and also a known wx figure skaters truther.

i'm also always coming back to your heartbeat, across the grass by fakeplasticlily (footballer lwj au), because it has everything: perfect narrative parallels to canon, a-yuan, sports. nothing more you could ask for. (if anyone has any favourite wx sports aus please rec for ME because they are my LIFEBLOOD)

become tomorrow by shanastoryteller is brilliant, perfect, amazing, i deserve a million more fics featuring wwx as baoshan sanren's disciple. that writer in general is pretty great, lynchpin (jiang cheng pov time travel fix-it au) is a legendary wangxian longfic and is probably my favourite.

last one i'll say is saw my life in a stranger's face by timetoboldlygo (post-canon wwx slowly gaining his original body back), because i'm obsessed with that concept and this writer executes it the best out of everything i've ever read.

hope this helps in literally any way!

[lindendragonart]

M and R for the ask game?

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?

Uhhhhh so many. Ok so you all know my Ahit prince longfic, my Nyakuza au fic, and my Hunter Gatherer au, and the angsty Toh Hunter one-shot, which is, at the time of writing this, the only fic I've publicly posted so far, but I've got more crap, mostly Hunter-related, mostly due to discord shenanigans.

I was recently thinking about how Gus and Willow have been pushed to the side. But oh I can't create content of them myself, I only ever create content of the specific character I'm fixated on, unless I can make some kind of tangential relation-

Gus and Hunter both have some type of gifted kid burnout and don't want to disappoint their parental figure.

Now there's obviously some major differences here, the most obvious that Perry is not abusive and doesn't seem to be a bad father in general, but I still feel like he's projecting his desires onto Gus and that is not good.

I had a lot of individual Hunter scene concepts/future episode predictions, but then I realized I could compile all of them into the same timeline if I keep the plot vague and ambiguous enough and mostly focus on the character study/character introspection part of writing. Hunter finding he's a Grimwalker and having an existential crisis over it is the main premise, then we delve into his thoughts during and after the Day of unity. Despite being titled "Grim-fated" the ending is happy/hopeful.

In Hunter Gatherer au I had Belos make Hunter's replacement sibling, and then some part of me went "You know what I'll do it again." So uh yeah, I have another self indulgent au that is canon-compliant 'till after Eclipse Lake, but Belos created a backup Grimwalker so… baby sibling! Running away! Palistrom bonds making the baby project emotions onto everything also made of palistrom wood.

On the topic of that, I always liked the idea of post-canon Hunter, assuming he's a grimwalker, becoming Bat Queen's protege, learning about himself, discovering his abilities, hosting palisman adoption day in other parts of the isles.

But the beginning of his tutelage admittedly did not go smoothly, considering that after he unlocked his latent palistrom abilities he got hit with waves of emotion from every palisman in the vicinity, and we all know how much inner turmoil all these palismen hold. So yeah that made Hunter very sensitive and prone to emotional outbursts at the slightest provocation until he could learn to get the palistrom hyperempathy under control.

I also got the concept that King's species are stonesleepers so Hunter's lungs were actually harvested from one of King's relatives. The main premise is basically Hunter feeling guilty for every breath he takes cause it's not really his own, knowing that a life had been taken to grant him his, wondering if it would have been better if the stonesleeper was alive instead of him, just this strange type of survivors guilt.

And uh, now this one started out as a discord discussion on whether or not the Owl gang would be willing to assasinate Hunter to stop the Day of unity, then it devolved into a joke about Hooty owl-pelleting him into the basement, and then somehow evolved from crack fic concept to actual story about Hooty stockholm-syndroming Hunter (only half-joking but hey, even that is better than what Belos is doing to him so I see this as a win). So yeah that's a thing that ended up getting far more serious and whiplash-inducing than planned, despite the silly moments inherently tied to the premise. Bany is basically co-creator on that one. (I should really clean up my concept doc and show them the scene snipets)

Btw you can ask me about any of those. The questions motivate me to actually write. (Gosh I gotta get back to ahit)

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?

Yeah, my style always slightly shifts under the influence of an amalgamation of all the writers I've recently read, but I still stand that Lemonadesoda and Banyanas have had the most influence on me considering how much I've discussed stuff with them. They're some of the first fanfic creators I've reached out to form a steady online friendship with and ask for advice and brainstorm concepts. And it's a combination of Lemon's work and the realization that some of my ideas are just too detailed to simply draw a scene and then tack on an explanation, that kinda broke me out of that shell and made me snowball into actually writing in the first place.

Thank you for the question!