#yin Yu appreciation 2024

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Waning Moon 🌙

I made this to help hype @yinyuappreciationweek !

The event will take place the week of June 9th!

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slightly late day 3 prompt for abo. quan yizhen just scenting him like a cat when they rub their face all over you

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Yin Yu Appreciation Week 2024 Day Four- Sad - "Shackle"

Another HuaYin ficlet offering <3

“Does it bother you?”

Hua Cheng’s voice drew Yin Yu out of his thoughts, and he straightened to attention.

“Chengzhu?” he asked. The ghost king hadn’t even looked up from the scroll hanging from his hands and draping over his lap to the floor.

“That thing on your wrist.”

Yin Yu’s expression twitched imperceptibly, and he realized he had been idly rubbing at his shackled wrist. Quickly, he stopped, pretending he’d only been adjusting his sleeve.

“It’s of no concern.”

“I’d be concerned if it was distracting my officer during his duties,” Hua Cheng drawled, though he barely sounded like he was interested. “Does it hurt you?”

Hurt? Not physically. It was a painful reminder of his final day in Heaven. Of Quan Yizhen’s expression as he said those horrible words to him. Of who he once was - and who he definitely wasn’t. The emperor’s grip on his wrist had been firm, able to snap bone if he wished, but Yin Yu only received the shackle. Like a jade bracelet, it was a thing he would wear the rest of eternity. A gift and a punishment.

“No, Chengzhu,” he said softly. Hua Cheng finally lifted his gaze, and it settled on Yin Yu’s arm. Yin Yu didn’t recoil when Hua Cheng reached out for him and pulled up his sleeve. On milky white skin, dark symbols bore into his wrist. They were thick and unsightly. Yin Yu didn’t mind the look of the shackle too much, but even beyond it sealing his godhood away, it made him cringe. Even if he’d never been a magnificent god or a kind friend or a perfect person, he always had his body. It was the one thing he’d tended to daily during his cultivation. He wasn’t vain about his looks, but he was secretly a little proud of how much hard work went into upkeeping his strength and abilities that Hua Cheng required him to use daily as his officer. The shackle, meanwhile, took away the last of his “reward” for all that hard work. No matter how hard he worked now, this was all he would ever achieve.

The muscles in his forearm tensed when long, slender fingers trailed over his skin. Hua Cheng was inspecting him like some kind of specimen, tracing the shackle. Yin Yu got goosebumps as he felt Hua Cheng’s spiritual energy curiously prick at the shackle’s edges. The emperor’s energy was insurmountable, and as such, he was able to create the shackles with ease. If Yin Yu had to choose someone, though, he wouldn’t doubt that Hua Cheng might just be powerful enough to rival the shackle’s curse. The two of them had become rather close over the past few decades. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to imagine that the ghost just might-

…

Yin Yu had to immediately stop that train of thought.

“Ch-... Chengzhu…?” he dared to ask after a few moments.

“All banished gods have these?” Hua Cheng asked.

There it was. That’s why Hua Cheng had suddenly become interested in his shackle. Yin Yu let out a slow, steady exhale. 

Yin Yu answered all of Hua Cheng’s questions. He let the ghost poke and prod with cold fingers at his flesh. He bit his tongue when Hua Cheng tested the shackle with his spiritual energy once or twice more. As soon as he was released, Yin Yu excused himself.It was another preparation for Xie Lian. It was always for Xie Lian. For just a moment, Yin Yu had allowed himself to be foolish enough to believe that Hua Cheng might be interested in him. Stupid. Selfish, even. Stay, Hua Cheng prayed to him - Xie Lian, not Yin Yu. Yin Yu was nothing more than another banished god. Easily replaced. Easily a replacement. Stay. What a mockery of his pain. Of his desire. How dare Hua Cheng allow him to start feeling these things?

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My (probably only huhuhu) contribution for Yin Yu Appreciation Week 2024!

Day 1 Prompt: Work - Vacation

And because my brain is my brain I ended up adding a bit of character analysis and such. Hope you all enjoy this and send love to our bestest boi!

FIC SUMMARY:

“You should take a break.” Hua Cheng told Yin Yu one day.

The thing is…

Yin Yu didn’t think he was serious.

And when he found out Hua Cheng was serious, he realized he didn’t know how.

[cn-alastair-lite]

• this is a side blog, my main is @synvelesow •

updated: 9/11/2024

hello, hi, this is a space for anything connected to chinese culture; mostly danmei novels at the moment!

i've read the entirety of tgcf, dvawtk, svsss, tdtbpf (waiting for release of volume 3) and 2 volumes of thousand autumns!

i also post about my OCs, gu libao and chun siqing!

some important info & context to keep in mind below:

☆ i am a proshipper - boo, terrible 🍅 🍅 🍅 anyway, expect some ddne content and if you can't handle it just block and move on. i firmly believe fiction =/= reality and if the sight of two characters making out makes you mad this is not the place for you

☆ my ships:

TGCF

• hualian

• quanyin

• shi wudu/pei ming (i am one of the 4 shi wudu fans on this planet)

• one-sided 'failed broconner' qi rong/xie lian

• crackship mu qing/qi rong

• fengqing always welcome

SVSSS

• bingqiu

• sj/yqy

• lqg/sqq & lqg/sj

• shen qingqiu/zhuzhi-lang

• zhuzhi-lang/tianlang-jun

• mobei jun/shang qinghua

• overall i enjoy shen qingqiu harem to the fullest

DVAWTK

• wenren e/yin hanjiang

TDTBPF

• prince jing/li yu

QQ

• shen qiao/yan wushi

☆ inbox - art suggestions are welcomed and appreciated, ofc with no spoilers. stay respectful!

if i think of anything else i'll add onto this post. 谢谢 ( ￣▽￣)

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Recs round-up for the month of March, 2024! This month below the cut we have:

1 Nirvana in Fire fanwork

2 TGCF fanworks

3 CQL/MDZS fanworks

5 SVSSS fanworks

1 academic article on the gendering of trans voices

2 short stories

1 novella

1 Nirvana in Fire fanwork:

Go Forward Slowly, by burnt_oranges

a post-canon jingyan/mei changsu nif fic in which jingyan discovers that mcs survived after all…and never let jingyan know.

jingyan is uh. not handling it well, the loneliness and responsibility of being emperor. and this only makes it worse!

anyway it's a venue for lots of real good angst, and I definitely cried at one point!

I also really appreciate the use it makes of various secondary characters who are also important figures in jingyan's life

many feels. I love these characters. there IS a happy ending.

31k words in length

2 TGCF fanworks:

Never Look Away, by dkwilliams

hualian fanvid of the TGCF donghua set to Vienna Teng's "Never Look Away"

ahhhhh it's just very feelings!!!!

audio is song-only

youtube video includes lyric captions

3:16 in length

Ten Feet Behind, by thetrickisnotminding

tgcf quanyin canon divergence au where quan yizhen finds the coffin containing the guoshi fangxin

a fun look at a different way for xie lian and hua cheng to meet again, and for quan yizhen and yin yu to meet again!

9k words in length

3 CQL/MDZS fanworks:

in the tall weeds, by cordial

sangyao fic set during the qinghe era of jgy’s life

a look at trans man meng yao and his experience of his gender, and nie huaisang experimenting with transfemininity

a beautiful look at the complexities of identity, the precarity of position, and the connection between jgy and nhs

1k words in length

A Good Fit, by nirejseki

canon divergence fic where young Meng Yao goes to the Lan Sect to learn cultivation as a guest, instead of trying to be accepted into Jin

I had a lot of fun with the route this fix-it took!

and I enjoyed that it included friendship between Meng Yao and Su She <3

5k words in length

Practical Mythology, by metisket

a fun cute look at a cql wangxian time travel fixit au, where wwx is the alarming immortal who fixed the burial mounds and will grant wishes to deserving people, and lwj meets him for the first time at 8 years old and decides he'll marry him

I enjoyed the look at how this au has changed things for all sorts of different people across the cultivation world, and the ways in which wwx both is indeed extremely powerful and also is someone who still has his blind spots and emotional vulnerabilities

lots of different povs throughout the fic which is fun too!

17k words in length

5 SVSSS fanworks:

Oversharing is Caring, by Prudabaga

bingqiu fic where during the trial in jinlan city, sqq is given a truth serum that comes with a side of lowered inhibitions

nobody is prepared for the kinds of truths sqq wants to share (thoughtful and detailed list of who's hottest)

or, tbh, for the truths that come out by the wayside

funny and cute

4k words in length

Sweet Dreams Are Made of This, Prudabaga

another bingqiu fic about the jinlan city encounter going differently, this time because lbh has visited sqq's dreams

and sqq has a Totally Very Straight Of Himself tendency to have sexy dreams about lbh

hard for lbh to believe that sqq wants nothing to do with him after that! (he's still very confused tho)

love this for them

26k words in length

right from the start, I gave you my heart, by nex_et_nox

sqq is hit by an obedience curse! uh oh, it's time for the mission to jinlan city!

fun sqq & sqh interaction, and sqq's first meeting with lbh post-abyss going very differently than in svsss

sqq absolutely out here making his own life harder on a regular basis

lots of fun with this trope!

11k words in length

cleanse your life of me, by ambrorussa

svsss au where sy transmigrates into yqy instead of sqq

the fic is in two parts: first, from sy!yqy's pov as he tries to change events within the parameters the system allows him, and then the second from og!sqq's pov follows where the first part left off, with sqq trying to deal with the fact that yqy is so different now from the one he remembers.

the two parts are different in tone and both excellent, both really fitting the kind of character and person the pov character is, and what it is they want the most. I loved it!

endgame ships: liushen & qijiu

11k words in length

Scenario: Fix-It Fic, by lettered

bingqiu fic where due to System shenanigans sqq travels back in time to when he first encountered lbh in jinlan city post-abyss

sqq does his best to make things go differently this time, within the parameters of the genre "h/c fic" which the system tells him he is now in

I'm just! so delighted by so much about this fic!

and I love how the fic plays metatextually with its own fourth wall in ways I haven't really seen much in svsss fic before!

fic is a WIP; as of my initial rec on mastodon there are 14k words; satisfying to read as is

1 academic article:

"Transgender voices: Insights on identity, embodiment, and the gender of the voice" (2018, Language and Linguistics Compass)

this free-to-read academic article is an overview of the features of a voice that lead people to read that voice as a particular gender

it pushes back against the traditional view of male vs female voices, of pitch being the main deciding factor in gendering voices, and of a voice's gender being immutable

it's a pretty accessible read, IMO!

16 pages in length; 12 pages if you discount the list of references

2 short stories:

The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics, by Adam-Troy Castro

really more of a prose poem than a standard short story

about the experience of being a robot given unfair orders under unbreakable laws

a satisfying read and I loved the structure

2k words in length

Afflictions of the New Age, by Katherine Ewell

A sci-fi short story about an elderly woman hundreds of years old, making use of every life extending treatment she can, but her grasp on time and on memory is no longer good

Focuses on her relationship with her family, with her home aide, with her fear of death, with her experience of the confusion of past and present

Evocative melancholy wistful tone, really effective!

At the end of the story I'm left with many questions, but in a good way

4k words in length

1 novella:

On the English Approach to the Study of History, by E. Saxey

huh, in the end I'm not entirely convinced I LIKE this novella but it's odd and compelling and interesting for sure

about the academic study of history in a context where a very specific subset of people have access to a very specific subset of historical figures to ask them directly about what they remember

asking questions about who's an insider vs an outsider in academic study, about the values of different approaches to history

ultimately I think it turned too much into a story about the fantastical elements in the narrative and didn't engage as deeply with the themes as I thought it would at the beginning

but it's still a very interesting and well done story and I'm glad I read it!

22k words in length

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cuddling 💜💛

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vacation

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Yin Yu Appreciation Week 2024 Day Two - Shipping - "Stay"

(i wasn't able to do day one, but i'm trying to do a few days of yin yu appreciation week with some ficlets! enjoy a slightly angst-themed week to go along with the prompts hehe) a continuation of this post by @mdzs-owns-my-ass-i-guess. thank you again for taking my brain worms!!

“Stay.”

It had started as a simple command there in Qiandeng Temple one late night. Yin Yu obeyed, as he always did.

“I will always be here for you,” Yin Yu had assured. “Have faith in me,” he had begged.

Yin Yu had never known a love like Crimson Rain Sought Flower’s. For decades, he assumed that Hua Cheng’s obsession was unfounded, or based on childish obsession, but he quickly learned that this was not the case. Hua Cheng had so much love inside him that it was overflowing, and Yin Yu thirsted for a precious few drops of that excess.

It had taken months for either of them to mention what happened that night, when the smell of alcohol tinged Hua Cheng’s breath and his arms held Yin Yu tight before that statue of the Crown Prince of Xianle. When it did come up, the ghost king was once more in distress. Hua Cheng had been out for several weeks, chasing down a lead that he was sure was connected to Xie Lian. He had returned to Paradise Manor empty-handed. Yin Yu knew better than to ask about his efforts, so he attended to the manor and Ghost City as if nothing had happened. He gave his reports to Hua Cheng to catch him up on goings-on, and he bowed low to take his leave. 

“Wait,” Hua Cheng said.

“Chengzhu?” Yin Yu responded.

“...stay.”

Yin Yu’s mind was drawn back to that night. His stomach burned with that bittersweet fire that been kindled. Surely he was mistaken. Surely Hua Cheng didn’t mean-

“Stay.”

For centuries, the ghost king had persevered in his search for his beloved alone. Yin Yu presumed he would remain this way for the rest of eternity, searching every boundary of every realm with utmost certainty that his gracious, noble Someone was out there. On one hand, Yin Yu thought him foolish to believe such a love could ever be returned. On the other, Yin Yu craved its burning light to shine upon him once more. Slowly, cautiously, he came closer to Hua Cheng. Cold silver vambraces wrapped around his back, and a face was pressed into his chest. There was no alcohol this time. No trembling. Only dense, sorrowful silence.

The second time was no easier to process than the first. Nor was the fifth, tenth, twentieth. Stay became something much more. From a messy, tearful hug in the temple, it evolved into something… something Yin Yu couldn’t quite describe. More than once, Yin Yu found himself on Hua Cheng’s lap. More than once, he found himself in Hua Cheng’s bed. Yin Yu’s desires were different from Hua Cheng’s, he quickly realized. Laying on crimson silk sheets, fully clothed, they would curl up together in silence. Hua Cheng’s hands would grip Yin Yu’s robes, but he never attempted to strip them off. His lips came close to Yin Yu’s neck when he hid his face there, but they never made contact.

Yin Yu knew why. Of course he did. It only made the fire inside him burn hot as the desert sun, and he was a man desperate for a drink of that loyalty and devotion. So he held tighter, willing his desires to be made clear without acting on them.

Stay, Hua Cheng would send through the communication array when they were on opposite sides of the city. Yin Yu knew it was a summons, and he obeyed. No other words were exchanged. Yin Yu had already said too much that first night, and he feared with Hua Cheng in his right mind, anything more might scare him away. He was terrified that the moments they shared would suddenly cease. Yin Yu couldn’t take the thought of it.

Stay.

It became the first prayer he’d received in years. To feel like a god, he realized, he had to continue to obey.

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FAQ for Yin Yu Appreciation Week 2024

Q: Do I have to follow the prompt list?

A: Nope! They primarily serve as a starting point to offer inspiration to those who would like it. You can pick and choose from the prompts, skip others, or completely ignore them! On the flip side you are welcome to incorporate more than one into a single creation. The goal is to celebrate Yin Yu and have fun!

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Q: Will you do this again next year?

A: we will see! Depends on the turn out this time around and whether or not I have the time and energy to host this event again