#update i wrote 7 💪

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svsss 10th anniversary snippets [ 1/7 ] ▶ three bows @ ao3 | bingqiu | introspective, getting married

The first time Luo Binghe had ever bowed to Shen Qingqiu, tea was spilled over his head.

That memory is hazy now. He doesn't think back to those early days much now that fate has finally, finally opened its cold eyes to his past suffering. Everything important has changed, yet remained the same.

Cang Qiong Sect used to be a place he called home, with a shizun, a childhood friend, and the remaining people who made it a point to show he wasn't wanted there. Now, it's still a home whenever Shizun stays there, the childhood friend still greets him with kindness, even if a little more distant, and the rest of the sect still want him anywhere but there. Nobody dares raise a hand this time.

The past needs no ruminating on. It existed. It passed. It's dead and not mourned anymore.

He bows among the bamboo stalks, eyes on the blue of the sky, the green of the leaves, the tranquillity of the nature. Red robes similar to his own whisper with movement by his side.

Where he is now—when he is now—makes his heart beat faster. Now is good. Now is better than he's ever imagined it would be.

He bows to the wooden box, painted by Shizun himself, filled with precious cargo: his very first jade pendant; an old note with Su Xiyan's and Tianlang-Jun's scribbled handwriting; a wooden tablet with elegant strokes of two given names to the family name of Shen, both unfamiliar to him, offered in fragile silence. In the corner of his eye, Shizun moves in time with him.

Two cups filled with tea rest on a tray between them. The first time he'd ever bowed to Shen Qingqiu, tea was spilled over his head.

This time, when Luo Binghe bows to Shen Qingqiu, Shen Qingqiu bows along with him.

Red-clothed arms linked together, one teacup held in his trembling hand and another resting in Shen Qingqiu's steady one, they drink at the same time.

[recurring-polynya]

can i just answer them all??? is there room for that?? ill do 1, 4, 7, 9 for now. 1. sheeesh i love all of your works but i think the one that takes the cake is THIAM, followed very closely by TCBPYK 4. I love your renruki it is just so... theres something so beautiful about the way you write these two; completely in character, and how well you understand their bond, and the way you mix in their senses of humor and augh i love it 7. I literally sob every single time i read that one part with the fake proposal in ALILNAT..... its so raw and authentic and i cannot keep my heart still its just so sweet.. 9. ALL OF THEM (if i have to pick one, the fic that i have now adopted as my 'stepfanfic' since i love to draw for it so much for you, TCBPYK) but best of all is the writer ur so metal poly we love u!

(Fanfic Asks for the Asker)

My favorite fic of yours

It's really funny to see my fic labeled by their abbreviations, because I rarely think of them that way and I'm here trying to guess which ones they are. I need to give things shorter titles. 😂 this could be permanent is your fault!! I mean, a lot of people liked it, but I was just having trouble getting momentum on it (I think because it's a modern au, which is just not my usual beat), and now, here we are. I might actually finish it (she says, optimistically, as if we're not barely to the middle) Anyway, I'm really grateful for your enthusiasm for it, because it really picked me up when I was feeling really blocked up and depressed at the beginning of the summer. 💕

4. The best ship you've written for

lol, that is objectively the correct answer. 😂 I love them too much. I wish I could branch out and write some other ships or some other fandom, just for a change, but I always get bored with it immediately and would rather just write some other variation on Renruki. They're just...so...💕😍💖💪🐰🔥⚔💯

7. What made me the most emotional after reading

I wrote that bit way, way ahead of most of the rest of act iii, and the fact that I had to get to it is probably the only reason I managed to finish. I mean, I am very fond of a little in love, but all the complicated plotting and misdirections and politics was probably one of the hardest things I have ever had to write. I am very fond of that proposal. My man was trying not to be heartfelt and then he came out with "I will carry your shamisen case across the entire Seireitei. I will always let you have the spicy curry rice." Throw him directly in the garbage.

9. A fic i'm excited for you updating/posting

I am working on it! Writing can be very time-consuming, you see, because I had to take, like, nine hours to make an outfit moodboard for the thing that's going to happen in the next chunk of the story, and I'm probably going to have to draw Rukia's dress, because I only liked bits and pieces of the ones I found and need to combine them visually before I can describe it. Fortunately, this is also the fun part of writing.