Sign-ups for the 2024 TGCF Reverse Big Bang open today! The form can be found right here and, as Ling Wen is helpfully reminding us, will be open from April 21st through May 11th.
I JUST SAW THAT MY A MATTER OF TIME SERIES HAS REACHED
100k words and 666 (public) bookmarks!!!!!
HOLY CRAP.
Thank you everyone who continues to love and read this series I've worked so hard on it, and I really hope I can finish the whole things this year! 1 extra, and the sequel are left!!!
I honestly didn't expect this much love and attention, especially considering the themes of this series, but gosh you guys are amazing.
We find out a bit more about Where Xie Lian Was in the past 8 years as well as his relationship with Hua Cheng, while Feng Xin and Mu Qing try not to argue with him.
However, Xie Lian has changed, and in the background the police are in a race against time as one of the murders hits too close to home.
Like I reread some of my older fics now that I've had time to separate myself from them. And they're really great!
I'm proud of you, me.
You did well.
(And I wish I could go back to that scared, little girl who had no self esteem and hated herself and everything she made and tell her I'm proud of her, too)
(Be kinder to yourselves. You will always improve over time. Your art will always be better. But before that you had to take that cringey first step, and that takes bravery.)
This is the official blog for the TGCF fan event, “Yin Yu Appreciation Week!” There is no official date yet, but it will most likely take place this summer and last 7 days. I will only host the event on Tumblr and will create a collection for AO3. You are welcome to post your own works on other platforms, but I am one person with a full-time job and can’t promise to run this event on Twitter too (also I have a personal gripe with Twitter anyway—don’t ask)
These are the tags I will suggest folks use for the event: #yinyuappreciation2024 and #yinyyuappreciationweek
Event Rules and Guidelines: Coming Soon
FAQ: Coming Soon
Google Forum; Interest Check (Available April 12th-20th)
Feel free to DM me or comment here with any questions or suggestions you might have!
THIS. THIS IS THE DYNAMIC I ALWAYS WRITE WITH YIN YU.
Post-canon Yin Yu being the only one Hua Cheng trusts to look after Xie Lian if he's not around (besides Yushi Huang, but she's generally unavailable.)
(Xie Lian does not need looking after. Irrelevant.)
It becomes this strangely intimate though platonic dynamic where Yin Yu is the only other person allowed in their bedroom; the only person allowed to see Xie Lian fluffy and half-asleep and debauched. And when some disaster makes Hua Cheng slip from the bed in the wee hours to go crush problems with an extra layer of irritation brought on by having to leave a cozy bed full of post-coital snuggles, it's Yin Yu who brings Xie Lian breakfast in bed. And Xie Lian would hate it to be anyone else; Mu Qing and Feng Xin would shriek and fuss over his love-bites and the way he winces a little when he moves, and anyone else would awkwardly avert their gaze and fluster and stutter. But Yin Yu is just like, "Would His Highness like a Tylenol with his orange juice?" and Xie Lian kind of loves him for that.