#tsomd ending

[cynosurus]

Just finished The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty.

I don't think I will be over the "I'm bringing my former subordinate-turned traitor with me in a cage to my new assignment" resolution in a long time.

[jgys-hat]

I've only watched the first two episodes and this is my main impression so far

[chi-chi-chimera]

Tang Fan, Tantai Jin, what is it with these thin, waifish pretty-boys with their autistic swag?

[wawamouse]

20 questions for fic writers :)

Not tagged specifically but it came across my dash with a 'tagging everyone' and that includes meeee! (I think I've actually done this meme before but I don't remember it exactly. And I love filling out questionnaires, so whatever lmao)

Tagging: Everyone! Everyone who see this :P

1. How many works on AO3?

165 on main… and 9 on my RPF account from high school LOL

2. Total word count on AO3?

1,254,112 wowza! Most of that word count is from 2020 onward lol.

3. Top five fics by kudos?

We Who Have The Souls - HxH - 773 kudos

The Horror Not To be Surveyed - HxH - 717

Amethyst Remembrance - HxH - 552

Suppositions - The Walking Dead - 514

Ash is Purest White - TSOMD -191

4. What fandoms do you primarily write for?

Currently: Oz

In the past: The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty, X-Men (comics), Hunter x Hunter

5. Do you respond to comments?

I try to now. In the past, because I used to write without really being  "in" fandom or knowing anyone, I didn't realise people expected you to lol. I thought as a writer, you did your thing, someone commented if they thought it was at all worth saying anything about, and then you just went on your way like two ships passing in the night.

6. Angstiest ending?

Probably When Tomorrow Comes because the POV is tortured and beaten and dead by the end :)c I actually cried IRL when I wrote this one. Ahh, good memories! Out of my Oz fics… (squints) Dead Man Walking, maybe? Although I think it's open-ended, too, so maybe it's not that angsty. Maybe Terror Makes a Sour Meal, idk. OH. The Death of Jaime Velez. Doi.

7. Fic with the happiest ending?

You know, I write a lot of angst but there's also a ton of happy endings. I guess the happiest is probably the sweeter the sun (wedding fic) or for Oz?? It'll probably be Silver Moon's Sparkling, just because in my mind, it's basically a romcom.

8. Do you get hate?

Not on my fics (not enough readership + I am a perfect human being) but I've seen people vagueing me in fandom tags before for, idk, hyping up rarepairs and side characters too much (skill issue on their part frankly).

9. Do you write smut?

Yes :) I published my first attempt at smut (very vague frottage I think—idk, I refuse to reread it) June 2020, and have been incorrigible ever since.

10. Do you write crossovers?

Not currently, but I've played around with them in the past! My first two fanfics ever were crossovers 💀Harry Potter x Twilight, I'm sad to say.

11. Ever had a fic stolen?

Not technically, no, but I had some fics translated and posted to another site with no link back to AO3, which is not what I thought the person was going to do when they asked me. But… Oh well…

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

A couple! 6—that I know of—to Russian (TSOMD fics) and then one to Chinese (an HXH fic :))

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

Yes… But I took myself off as an author so now it's just on their account 😂 It was from middle school and also a 4 fandom crossover event including Superwholock, soooooo…

14. All time favorite ship?

Whatever is my main hyperfixation tbh, so I'm going to say Miguel/Chico! I don't really have ults of anything in life (colors, movies, books), and that includes ships.

15. WiPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

The Nineteenth Year of Chenghua, my zombie apocalypse fic based on the finale cliffhanger (why did they go so hard with it, knowing there'd be no s2???) 😔

16. Writing strengths?

Dialogue? I feel like I do a decent job/have been told I write banter and other verbal exchanges pretty well. Plot, I hope, is also becoming more of a strength, where before it was a weakness.

17. Writing weaknesses?

Description is something I'm always trying to improve—and using more *descriptive* words as well. I think I get stuck in using the same vocab over and over. Reading other works helps shake me out of that pattern a bit, but I haven't been much of a fic reader in past years (I keep stepping into small fandoms lol), and poetry can only take a guy so far… This year, I've been trying to get into audiobooks to help me listen to more sentences and learn from a wider range of examples 😂

18. Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

My takes on this are kind of changing, but for the most part, if the characters are bilingual with part of it in English, I like making the effort of researching the non-English language and placing it in, with translations through hover text. For my TSOMD fics where the language is Chinese but my story is English, I write titles and words with no English equivalent in pinyin, i.e, du-gong, da-ren, zhihui-shi, etc, instead of blanket terming them all as Your Excellency, or whatever. 

I did try a different approach with Recognition of Another when there was English and Chinese being spoken. I didn’t want to write out everything as pinyin, so for the longer sentences, I wrote it in Chinese (which is obviously gibberish to non speakers/readers) and then wrote the English in italics next to it. Still not sure about that approach… I have an Oz wip as well where it made more sense to put all the “Spanish” in Italics since there was so much of it, but there was also English I wanted to differentiate. When there is a character in the scene who doesn’t speak Spanish, I then wrote the dialogue in Spanish like for most of my fics. 

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Harry Potter :S

20. Favorite fic you’ve ever written?

I'm quite proud of several of the fics I've written recently for various reasons, technical and creative, buuuuut Knuckle Down at the moment, just because of how many times I've reread it myself 😂

[zhoudadudugongjin]

I finished tsomd. I am more than satisfied with that ending.

I love all this babies so much

[recapitulation]

What have been your favorite Cdramas out of the ones you’ve seen? Like top 3 or top 5 favorites?

hehe hiiiii thank you for the question :)

I'm going to leave out mysterious lotus casebook/lhl/莲花楼 (2023) because I finished that most recently and its consuming my every waking thought so I don't think I can be properly impartial. and I strive for long-term accuracy on tumblr dot org

okay here's my opinion on a top 5 from what i have personally watched (but really that isn't that much)

1. the untamed/cql/陈情令 (2020). obviously. lifechanging for REAL it taught me about the power of love

2. guardian/镇魂 (2018). OBVIOUSLY. shen wei you will live in my head forever.

3. till the end of the moon/长月烬明 (2023). i thought this one was fucking captivating i wish more of my mewchuals watched it pspspspsps

4. the sleuth of the ming dynasty/tsomd/成化十四年 (2020). tang fan voice SUI GUANGCHUAN ‼️‼️‼️

5. love between fairy and devil/clj/苍兰诀 (2022). BEST costuming. story was so fun. as long as you can get past The Killer (the secondhand embarrassment in episode 8 or whatever it is)

honorable mention to hikaru no go/棋魂 (2020), I really loved that one too.

once upon a time word of honor/shl/山河令 (2021) would have had a place here but my feelings abt it are complicated now. that being said there was truly nothing like all the jesties watching it at once. take me back !!!!!

also when eternal faith comes out i have no doubt i will lose my mind. i need to see the wind master. huge.

[sleuthdaily]

[risoria]

messy hair sui zhou my beloved.....

[tormilind]

Sui Zhou just being present on screen or on the page just makes me feel so safe

[zhuhongs]

gay cdramas ranked by ending (as far as ik abt how they ended):

shl (havent seen the ending but everyone said it was a happy ending) > cql >>>>>>>> guardian (LMAO) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The leaked deleted guardian ending that we all refuse to acknowledge..its bad bad>>>>>>>>>>>> (TIMES 500) The twwtadsl drama/birth of a drama king (THEY MADE GUIHAN BROTHERS...LIKE BIO BROTHERS)

[cynosurus]

My reactions to the endings of the media I finished in the last week:

The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty: wtf :D

Good Omens 2: wtf D:

The Scum Villain's Self Saving System: *wipes sweat off forehead* - now give me the AU where everyone gets therapy in time

[catboymuqing-moving]

i get so caught up in tang fan being autistic that i forget the actual subplot with the autistic guy that part was so bizarre.. i thought they handled it really well mostly except a couple parts that were just off the deep end

[leatherbookmarking]

oh hey, thanks, woh made me realize that there’s a plot point i hate more than everything, to the point of seriously considering dropping it! and it’s ‘characters having zero chemistry, getting into situations that make people go ooooh you fucked didn’t you!, even though they didn’t, because they have zero chemistry, and eventually getting together, even though they have zero chemistry’

[kastors]

#when your husband’s in danger and you have to cut through an army of bad guys to rescue him

[catboystigmata-archive]

yknow it’s been a little too quiet around here

[shijiujun]

once again, duboku has overachieved and released like... another 16 episodes until the end wtf i thought i’d have another week before duboku pulled this again but great this bij is gonna watch until dawn again

edit: TSOMD ENDS WELL!!!! OMFG THANK GODDDDD

omg it ends well so i can sleep easy also like i liked some parts of the show way more than the novel with wang zhi and wang gui fei’s roles? gosh and they didn’t force a hetero ending!!!! OMFGGGGGG like i love it i love it i mean it was a lot of fighting all till the end but i almost cried at the last seven minutes i think TSOMD ended pretty well, had its moments, sometimes was a little boring with confusing cases BUT ain’t half bad omg, and i actually get fed with fanzhou my god like thank god for small mercies i really needed that ;-;

also wan gui fei’s character surprised me the most? she’s like a good person in the show and gets so much screen time and she’s fucking cool she leads an entirely female army?!!! like wtf man that’s the coolest shit ever - because in the novel she’s described as a jealous, petty and bad-tempered woman and she didn’t even get that much screen time except when she turned up to like manipulate the emperor and gosh i didn’t like her plus she kinda just died quietly at the end of the novel but the show rewrote her character?!!! which i love i love i love!!!

i’ll tag #tsomd spoilers for all my future gifs if any!