#wip: zc

[moondust-bard]

It’s Athena’s Birthday!

[moondust-bard]

I’m doin this for all my books mwa haa ha

TBD: hoax

LSN: switched

HG: hidden

ZC: family

WW: half

PPTT: knight

RomWiP: fated

WRITERS

If you see this, spoil your WIP's biggest plot twist using ONLY ONE WORD

Here's mine!

Dying

[zc-undertale]

Whoops, the player wouldn't have the Justice gear in Hotland in the G-Route, so I've changed the background (earlier featured in THIS little image collection) to The Core. Thank goodness there's plenty of areas there that let me keep the backlighting. (I also fixed a few details on The Kid.)

No Thoughts, Gun Empty

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[mary-is-writing]

Last Line Tag

Thank you for the tag @ahordeofwasps !! I'm finally getting around doing these qwq)

For this I share with you the last lines I've written for a fairly new wip named Zombie Chronicles:

I don't know. There's no glory without risk, so do we risk it? Or is it better to play it safe? I really don't know what to do.

It seems The Lovers are the only ones that'll have a quiet night today.

I'm not sure when or how I'll get around writing this, so for now you just have to know that there's zombies, tragic romances, and possibly a child with a concerning lack of fear of them.

[toasti-cocoart]

IM ALIVE

and I bring some sc/zc wips

[moondust-bard]

Fun fact for the viewers at home: Zenith Code started out as a Harry Potter au fanfic. I took it down when Rowling lost my respect and revealed her TERF-y ways to the public. Now I’m revamping it into its own story. I never would’ve gotten the inspiration or courage to do so if I hadn’t observed fanfic writers publish their work. My characters were nothing like the HP ones, save some shared life events. I just… didn’t know how I could write original work and find people who’d enjoy it, so fanfic-writing was where I landed.

As a fun exercise, guess which of Harry Potter’s schoolmates received the mantle of which greek deity in my YA sci-fi book.

i will never complain about a book seeming like a fanfic with the serial numbers filed off because that means the author had the invaluable ability to tell when their au had diverged enough that these were just straight-up different characters now

[arcade-sekai]

so far, is momoko alone in the sekai..? like, does she have other bandmates with names n such.. or is that a wip

interesting question !!! momoko has herself a few friends, however none of them are a part of ZC or the arcade SEKAI.

it’s a bit complicated to pinpoint why exactly did she not consider inviting them, but the most likely reason is that she views the SEKAI + her band as her own private form of escapism. she simply does not consider those friends as someone she wants to see in that space.

in that regard, momo is a bit selfish.

[sugaroto]

SERIOUS QUESTION TO EVERYONE WHO WRITES

When you write, are you in control of what happens? Like do you know where this is going?

Or like you start like hm we are supposed to go there

And then the characters start doing stuff on their own? Bc I swear to God- I had not planed this conversation to go like that-

But here we are

[moondust-bard]

It’s Demeter’s Birthday!

[sushisalmon95]

Secret tumblr only post lol Zhongli WIP from my new zc doujin (still working on it!) Thank you for following me here too hehe I see you all and I appreciate you 👁👁 💖

[enden-k]

One day... i really hope to see your fem zhongchi. I get the feeling they would look amazing (your zhongli jiejie is already dope she just needs a lil taru)

waa anon thanks!!

i have a lot of fem zc wips actually but never really managed to finish anything yet wwwww

ill make sure to draw smth proper some time anon!! but for now if you want, i can offer an older AU sketch that looks somewhat presentable ajksbck

[moondust-bard]

I cannot remember if we’re mutuals. I do follow you, and I figure, hey, might as well intro my wips in a reblog to see if they catch your fancy. Also, I might steal this post idea. I definitely need more wips to follow. I’m a sucker for intricate, dense worldbuilding and aesthetically pleasing book graphics.

Luna’s WiPs!

The Bloody Divine (#wip: tbd)

adult gothic fantasy with romance subplots

It’s a duology (probably)

3 PoVs

where I channel all my feminine rage and religious trauma

The bad guy is hot???

Mild body horror

Dracula, Hades and Persephone, and demon countess of Anjou as inspo

Workin’ on draft two in 2024

Lost Souls’ Night Series (#wip: lsn)

YA, mythic fantasy

5 books, 6 PoVs

Intricate worldbuilding

Large, diverse cast

Magic girls save (or destroy?) the world

Somewhere between drafting book one and outlining books 4 and 5

Her Enchanted Garden: Potent Poison, Treasured Tonic (#wip: pptt)

urban fantasy, portal fantasy, fairytale retelling

Book one in a likely large series

12 dancing princesses, but make it darker and gayer

Court politics, complex family relationships, faerie mischief

Nature-based Faerie religion

Still developing the plot and world

Zenith Code (#wip: zc)

sci fi, dystopia

Standalone with spinoff potential

Inspired by greek myths

Government is Bad

Found family

Diverse cast

Still in outlining stage

Lost in the Witherwoods Series (#wip: ww)

fantasy, romance

4 books with spinoff potential

Intricate worldbuilding

Witches, vampires, sirens, shifters

Fun magic system — the covens, familiars, and talismans, especially

Outlining the later books and adding to the worldbuilding

2024 WIP SEARCHING

Howdy everyone! One of my goals for 2024 is to search for more wips to interact with, both with my mutuals and people who I'm not currently following!

I tend to like fantasy, soft sci-fi and dystopia, but I am looking to also branch out more into other genres, especially hard sci-fi and horror.

If you have any wips you'd like me to check out (or update me on bc i'll admit I haven't been the best on keeping up with my mutual's wips), please reblog this with links, tags, or any info you want to share about it!

[zc-undertale]

(WIP Project Spoiler)

Me, working on an angsty Undertale animatic: "I have to draw SO many pictures, so I'll just sketch sloppily & use flat grayscale coloring so I can churn these out quickly."

Also me:

…Dang it!

(Now I HAVE to make the surrounding frames detailed too aaaaAAAAAFfHKJSH this'll take FOREVER....)

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[thewanderingcotabus]

WIP by ZC G

[lossantosofficial]

“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” -Al Capone #alcapone #quote #gun #ak47 #sketch #drawing #workinprogress #art #artist #wip #goodvibes #leo #lossantos #2019 #dreamhustleconquer https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvk-zC-Aq89/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1m6ip2bz9qz3m

[fanfictiongreenirises]

i've got a few fics that might fit what anon's looking for :D

canon divergence from after LWJ and JC find WWX. it's also queerplatonic ZCX!!!

Found by WithBroomBefore

Lan Wangji waits outside the supervisory office when they emerge. Jiang Cheng is as relieved as he is unsurprised, and he is a great deal of both: Wei Wuxian sways at his side. When he stumbles at the gate, Lan Wangji moves wordlessly to take the arm that Jiang Cheng does not hold, steadying him. “Lan Zhan,” Wei Wuxian says. He blinks, slowly. “You’re still here.” “Yes,” Lan Wangji says.

omegaverse, other warnings in the beginning a/n.

don't want no other shade of blue but you by sofkoo

“if they find out jiang min is wei ying’s child?” lan wangji questions. jiang cheng grinds his teeth at the thought of it, “i lose custody over jin ling, the reputation of yunmeng jiang goes down the drain, and my child is the target of a hundred different sects.” lan wangji nods slowly. he’s silent for a long while and jiang cheng gets the sense he’s contemplating something. “jiang wanyin,” lan wangji speaks finally, with deep gravity, “will you marry me?”

(the first time jiang cheng lets wei ying knot him, they’re still bloody from killing wens.)

female!jc where she and lwj have a kid in the years that wwx is dead. content warnings in opening notes

right where you left me by sofkoo

“no.” lan wangji says abruptly. jiang cheng gives him an appraising look.  “no?” lan wangji shakes his head. “jiang cheng has always been tolerable.” he announces.  “really?” jiang cheng does not look convinced.  “jiang cheng has always been tolerable.” he repeats more firmly. because that is the truth. because before loathing, envy, hatred, and the worst of emotions, back when they were disciples of cloud recesses. lan wangji had looked at wei ying and thought— beautiful. lan wangji had seen jiang cheng and he hadn’t been able to think. he had been struck speechless.

the one where jiang cheng is as riveting as she is unpredictable, lan wangji is both a disaster bi and a disastrous drunk, and wei ying is horrible at being a ghost and worse at being alive.

okay, i have v little memory of this fic but it Does have a lot of post timeskip divergence

Wishing you were somehow here again by 2009190801 (WIP)

When Jiang Cheng sees Lan Wangji at his doorstep, he doesn't know what to feel. Should he shout? Should he scream? Should he tell the Second Jade to kindly just fuck off to Gusu? But Lan Wangji knows something. What had Wei Wuxian done this time? "Wei Ying gave you his core." The illustrious Hanguang-jun repeats. His face is void of all emotions, but his knuckles are clenched at his sides, white and curled tightly together.   Alternatively, the fic where Jiang Cheng learns the truth immediately after Wei Wuxian dies and becomes fuck buddies with Lan Wangji.

summary explains it all :D it doesn't quite hit timeskip but that's because canon gets diverged much earlier because of a ZC marriage

sunset, like survival by serein (WIP)

Lan Zhan had never expected to marry. So of course, fate would have it that he was wed to Wei Ying's beloved shidi, just as they had become close, somewhere between friends and companions. aka Canon Divergent AU where coreless!JC marries LWJ, complicated feelings ensue. Eventual zhanchengxian.

this one also technically doesn't get as far as timeskip but pre timeskip events change bc of ZC getting together

Tercet by DachOsmin

"You and Lan Wangji taste different,” Jiang Cheng mumbled as he pulled himself away from Wei Wuxian's mouth. Wei Wuxian’s eyes grew wide as saucers in the moonlight. “You’ve kissed Lan Zhan?” Or: Lan Wangji and Jiang Cheng fall into each others' bedrolls while searching for Wei Wuxian. Complications ensue.

LWJ and LSZ growing up at Lotus Pier!! ZC in this have sex but are mostly just friends/life partners, and it diverts in really cool ways from timeskip canon

Delight in Misery by nirejseki (WIP)

When Lan Wangji ran away from the jingshi to look for himself, his back still raw, and on Yiling he found only a small child, feverish but still capable of a little bit of babbling, still able to tell the story of what had happened – when he found the traces of blood on the ground, Wei Wuxian’s from when his power had backlashed on him – when he saw the bodies in the blood pool, already rotting – For the first time in his life, Lan Wangji didn’t want to go home. (what if he had another option?)

i have only the vaguest of memories of this fic alas ;~;

some things never change (but other things do) by lycheewine (WIP)

When Wei Wuxian wakes up in Cloud Recesses after fainting on Dafan mountain, the last thing he expected is for Jiang Cheng to show up there unannounced. Actually, the fact that Lan Zhan and Jiang Cheng are together is even more unexpected.

this fic rewrote my whole brain chemistry. this fic is part of my roman empire. pls read the tags as it involves child death and suicide attempts

respire, suspire (all the old white bones forsaken) by alessandriana

"The doctor said you don't appear to be possessed," said Lan Wangji, just behind Jiang Cheng's ear. He sounded nothing more than bemused, as if Jiang Cheng were a puzzle someone had presented him. Jiang Cheng's shoulders shook in silent hysterical laughter. Yes, possession would be the obvious theory, wouldn't it? If he'd come across some sect leader slitting his wrists in the back of a cave, it would've been his first thought, too. --- Three years after Wei Wuxian's death, things go wrong. Jiang Cheng winds up in Gusu. (Canon divergence AU.)

I read your zhanchengxian post and I feel the same. So Ive got a question: do you know of any fic with timeskip zhancheng where canon is substantially changed by it? I'd love to read one is why I'm asking

Hi! I am happy to know someone agrees with me! Anyway, I've not read a fic like that, sorry, but I've this habit of saving for later fics and never read them, so I've got some recs, even though I've never read these fics.

Fic (I've never read but seems zhancheng timeskip ~ canon divergent):

time waits for no one by adasinon

“Ah, Er-gege,” Wei Ying forces yet another laugh, it is breathless and helpless, and painful as always. “So inappropriate. What would Jiang Cheng say?”

Lan Zhan doesn’t recoil, or laugh. He really has changed.

“You didn’t tell us you’re injured,” Lan Zhan gently moves his arm around, dotes on Wei Ying like he cares for him the way Wei Ying wishes him to. He’s convincing, for sure, and Wei Ying tries not to pretend his delusions are coming true.

(Years ago, Wei Ying went to Lanling on his own, and died during the ambush. He returns to a changed world, where the loves of his life have seemingly been doing better without him.)

((Established Zhancheng, but we all know where this is going))

Fics set during Sunshot campaign:

Wonder of all Walkers by CoolTapes

Lan Wangji and Jiang Wanyin search for Wei Wuxian, rescue a dog, and fall in love.

Let Me Hear The Sound Your Heart Makes by Nantai

In a universe where you can hear any music your soulmate makes (be it singing or playing an instrument or just humming under your breath) Jiāng Chéng often hears his soulmates play together, but he doesn't dare join in. Because he knows Wèi Wúxiàn can't be his soulmate and Jiāng Chéng certainly won't come between him and Lán Wàngjī.

This changes when Wèi Wúxiàn goes missing during the Sunshot Campaign.

moored by fluffysocks

Lan Wangji comes over and they kiss. Lan Wangji comes over and they have tea.

Lan Wangji comes over and they talk.

It turns out that the available study materials are contradictory and unenlightening.

Fics I've read and enjoyed, that portray an interesting zhancheng dynamic during wwx's death (they don't reach canon, being set during the timeskip, but they set the mood actually)

mirror-bright scale by sugar_shoal

It's a serie! Dragon!LWJ AU, that follows canon events. At the moment there are only two fics about snippets of zhancheng moments, but it's not completed! First fic:

The Care and Keeping of Dragon Pearls by sugar_shoal

Lan Zhan's mother wore Qingheng-jun’s pearl around her neck, as big as Lan Zhan’s small fist; he stared up at it. Tints of gold shimmered in its surface, the same gold as Lan Zhan’s father’s eyes, his father’s qi. But despite the warm colors it still appeared cold to him, fastened around her neck with a chain. He touched his own smaller, paler pearl that rested in the hollow of his throat.

Lan Wangji always watches Jiang Wanyin with rapt attention. So he sees the moment of startled joy when Wanyin opens the small silver-inlaid box and realizes what it contains, the warmth that brightens his eyes. He sees when that brightness dims.

* * *

Jiang Wanyin closes the box and holds it back out to him. “Wangji,” he says, “I can’t take this from you.”

Beyond the Autumn Waters by omphalos

Two days after the first siege of the Burial Mounds, Jiang Cheng returns there to hunt for Suibian. What he finds is something completely different, but he takes it home all the same.

A found family and friendship AU that branches from canon shortly after Wei Wuxian’s death and covers the period until just before his return.

(this last one is not jgy friendly- and it's not tagged-, I don't know if it's a deal-breaker or not, but be mindful!)