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hils79 · 2 months

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Catching up on some of the things I've been tagged in. Some of these are very old. So sorry. I'm crap.

Fic author interview! I was tagged by the fantastic @lynne-monstr

No-pressure tagging: @pangzi @foxofninetales @merinnan @killerandhealerqueen @strandedchesspiece @thesilversun @silver-colour

How many works do you have on AO3?

266 as of now

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

1,467,370 words however some of those words are on collaborative fics. I don't know how to filter out the ones I wrote by myself but it's well over the 1,000,000 mark and that makes me happy

3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Unleashed (MCU, Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers) - 801 kudos

Visible to All But Me - (DMBJ, Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling) - 666 kudos (ehehe 😈)

The Truth About Cats, Dogs and Penguins - (Men's Hockey RPF. Evgeni Malkin/Sidney Crosby) - 621 kudos

In which Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes are surprisingly capable parents - (MCU, Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers) - 530 kudos

Not The Russian Way- (The Man From UNCLE movie, Ilya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller) - 516 kudos

I find it fascinating that a DMBJ fic is in my top 5. The other fics are all pretty old and in large and popular fandoms. I think it was just good timing in that I posted when a lot of people who have since moved on to other fandoms were into DMBJ off the back of Ultimate Note airing.

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try! I think it's just polite to at least say thank you. Occasionally I do forget of miss one though.

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I don't really do sad or angsty endings

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

Yeah, pretty much all of them.

7. Do you write crossovers?

Very rarely. I think all my crossovers have been co-written with other people.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not hate exactly, but somone once accused me of plagiarism because I posted a fic with vaguely similar themes to one of theirs. Luckily for me this was back in the LJ days where there was a comm specifically for reviewing accusations of plagiarism where independent people would review both fics. Of course they ruled in my favour but it was really fucking upsetting at the time.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I have, but I prefer not to.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I am aware of.

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I have! Someone translated one of my MCU fics into Chinese which made me very happy.

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes, a bunch of times! It can be really fun if you get along well with the people you're writing with.

13. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

That's like asking me what my favourite fandom is. My favourite ship is whatever ship I am into at the time.

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

RIP my au for The Untamed where Lotus Pier was a hotel that famous musician Lan Wangji came to stay in while he was on tour.

15. What are your writing strengths?

Probably dialogue or soft domestic fluff

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

Description. A beta reader recently commented that in one of my fics I hadn't actually described what anyone looks like. I just want them to talk and kiss, okay?

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Not full dialogue, no, but now that I've started writing in Chinese fandoms I think there are some words that can be used. Generally only terms of address, though. Like someone calling someone 'laoban'

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

19. What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?

I do still kind of want to write some Mysterious Lotus Casebook fic. At least one at any rate.

20. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written

Juxtaposition (DMBJ, Wang Pangzi/Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling)

I don't generally write AUs, and I definitely have never written anything close to this long before. It took me a year to write it and I am very proud of it.

#tagged #lynne-monstr

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lunanoc · 3 months

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Shipper tag game

tagged by @sunriseverse (thank you for tagging! <3)

What ship were you completely obsessed with when you were a teenager, but now you don't care about anymore?

uhh probably sakura/syaoran from cardcaptor sakura? very original i know i continue to be Very Basic. to be fair i was 13 and i’d just discovered what fanfic was so there’s that. now it’s more of a nostalgia thing? they’re cute but yeah not much else

Which ship would you consider your first one?

probably sakura/syaoran or link/zelda from the legend of zelda, again very basic but technically i discovered fandom through zelda forums so

Your first fanfic was about which couple?

still sakura/syaoran, and yes it was terrible because i was still like 13

Do you remember the first couple you saw fanart of?

i honestly have no idea but i’m going to assume it was probably link/zelda just because of the forums (i keep repeating the same two ships over and over rip)

Have you ever gotten into ship discourse?

no. not in a public setting anyway. i tend to keep to the ships i like and steer clear of the ones i don’t, and if for some reason i come across one i don’t like enough times that it starts to annoy me i’ll bitch about it in private because i’m a big believer that occasional bitching with your friend group is healthy, or at the very least while not tagging it/censoring it so it’s not going to end up somewhere the people who do ship it can see it

Did you use to have any NOTP or have one currently?

i don’t think i ever had genuine notps before dmbj really, at most 99% of the time it’s not really what i’d qualify as a notp, more just ships i don’t really care for? but i don’t have any strong feelings about them either way. dmbj fandom is particular for me in the sense certain spaces and people have pushed certain ships onto me enough directly or indirectly i just immediately get annoyed whenever those ships pop up so i avoid them like the plague now. i’m not going to say what they are (even if if you know me you probably have an idea) but they do exist

Who were the couple in the last fanfic you read?

pingxie from dmbj the brainrot is very real 😂 though for lack of food i mostly read chinese language fics these days (reminds me i should also make myself some more food one of these days too)

Currently, do you have any OTPs?

absolutely no one is shocked it is once again pingxie my beloveds who’ve had me in a chokehold for the past two years now atp i am literally here forever help

Is there any couple that, to this day, you are extremely mad about not getting together?

uhhh you know what i was going to say not really but actually. and it’s weird i have such strong feelings about this since i never hardcore shipped them anyway but ichigo/rukia from bleach i just refuse to perceive that is not the endgame

Is there any ship you used to dislike but now you think they are kind of interesting?

not really? if anything the closest i can think of is zhongchi/tartali from genshin that i initially didn’t really understand the appeal of but i got curious and ended up liking it. i’ve drifted away from it now because i don’t really enjoy the genshin fandom in general, and i don’t agree with a lot of the takes on them but that happened i guess

Do you have any ship that, in the past, would've been considered normal but now you would be cancelled over?

honestly i can’t really think of anything besides hopelight from ffxiii? and i guess kaeluc from genshin but i also don’t super actively ship those it’s more of a casual thing. oh wait i thought of this coming back but i kinda vaguely like ardyn/noctis from ffxv also casually but that is definitely cancellable over material oops

What is your favorite crack ship?

i don’t do crack ships really because i’m Very Basic and have zero imagination so i need substance to connect dots 😂

What is the couple you read the most fanfics about?

i can’t tell if this is past or present tense so i’ll just answer both. if it’s purely the amount over time it’s probably a toss up between destiel from spn and soukoku from bsd. if it’s currently what do i read about it’s pingxie

What do most of your ships usually have in common?

this is such a loaded question, weirdly a lot of them start off with differing degrees of antagonistic or challenging/playful relationship going on (on the surface anyway) and it progresses from there, and the care is both intense but not so easily expressed. there are clearly exceptions to this exhibit a: pingxie but those tend to pop up more for some reason. this is not discourse by any means but for example it’s why i preferred klance over sheith and that’s all i’ll say about voltron because that’s a can of worms i refuse to open ever again. what i’m saying is sometimes i wonder why i’m not a heihua person because on paper that’s what i should be and yet here i am with the old married couple 500k slowburn of a ship instead 😂

What you absolutely hate in a ship?

i wasn’t sure about what to put here but @sunriseverse is right, anything that fundamentally changes either of the characters for the sake of the ship or a trope. fanfic by nature is ooc to a degree anyway, but there’s a difference for me between when people make the effort to understand the characters and how they work/would work together, and when they either reduce them to two-dimensional cardboard cutouts for the sake of smashing them together, or make them out to be something they’re not. even more so when it then becomes the Universally Accepted Fanon Characterization

tagging @shaish, @tatchling, @tiesanjiaoshenanigans, @kelly42fox, @thatlittlemouse and uhhh honestly anyone else who wants to do it

#ask meme #fandom #shipping

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laireshi · 1 year

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12. A fic of yours that i’ve re-read 6. Something I remember vividly from reading one of your fics 7. What made me the most emotional after reading

OK, so a while back, I was thinking of this fic that I'd read when I was very new to DMBJ fandom. It was a fic about Xiaoge coming back to their home in Rain Village (which I absolutely was confusing with the Mute Village at the time, RIP me), remembering that Wu Xie and Pangzi were dead and then deciding to follow them. It left such a huge impression on me that my mental image of the house and of Xiaoge walking into the house and falling to his knees with the force of those returned memories stuck with me throughout all of my time in DMBJ fandom. I didn't even really understand the fic at the time I read it (I'd only seen part of TLTR and I didn't even know about Xiaoge's memory issues, or Yucun, or the Bronze GATE, for that matter), so it lived in this liminal space in my head outside of canon, but it was such a powerful image that I couldn't shake it. And it absolutely shaped my view of characters and events in a way I didn't even fully recognize at the time.

Fast forward to... IDK, 6-9 months ago or so? And I decided I HAD to reread that fic now that I had more context and knew more about the characters, to see if it held up and to see if the author had written anything else so I could read all of it.

IMAGINE MY IMMEDIATE PIKACHU FACE WHEN I REALIZED IT WAS YOURS. XD

(I absolutely should have KNOWN it was yours. I mean, HONESTLY.)

What You Looked For is the particular fic I'm talking about and yes it absolutely DID live up to my memory and mental image of it and is ABSOLUTELY even more painful and lovely and bittersweet now that I actually understand what's going on there. I'M NOW GOING TO GO REREAD IT AGAIN AND CRY FOR A WHILE, OK? OK.

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

I think you know which one. ^_~ POOR XIAOGE. HE ONLY WANTED SOME CHOCOLATE.

😁😁😁

You told me this before and I still think it's AMAZING and it makes me VERY HAPPY, thank you 💖💖💖 I can't believe you read it going on TLTR only, omg!

BUT ALSO I AGREE YOU SHOULD'VE MADE THE XIAOGE ANGST TO ME CONNECTION XDDD

Re 9: and now he'll never be able to enjoy chocolate again <333 Isn't that nice for him!

#eirenical

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foxofninetales · 2 years

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Cabbages and Kings by fox_of_nine_tales

Fandom: DMBJ | The Grave Robber’s Chronicles and related fandoms

Pairing: Wu Xie / Zhang Qiling / Liu Sang / Wang Pangzi (reader can interpret as queerplatonic or romantic as desired)

Rating: Teen

Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Modern With Magic, Found Family, Hurt Comfort (heavy on the comfort), Domesticity, fox!Liu Sang

Summary:

Wu Xie and Xiaoge are Pangzi's, in the same way that the cottage is theirs, and the cats, and the magic they share between them.

That is not Pangzi's fox.

Excerpt:

When he comes out of the bathroom, he pauses to look out the kitchen window. The moon is high and full, casting the kitchen yard into stark light and shadow. It is not winter yet, but the nights are cool enough that the cats have changed their summertime independence for the comfort of a warm hearth. There should be nothing living in the yard. He watches for a moment, then goes into the sitting room and shakes Wu Xie's shoulder.

It takes a moment for Wu Xie to wake, making a noise like a sleepy cat himself as he finally blinks his eyes open. "Bedtime already?" He looks and sounds distinctly muzzy-headed, dreamy and sluggish after eating.

"In a minute," says Pangzi, keeping his voice low. "The fox is in the yard, if you want to see it."

Read it on AO3

Bonus extra of pain: In the comments, @xantissa made the mistake of asking what Zhang Qiling is, and a minific happened. I’m copying it below if anyone is in the mood to have their heart ripped out. (Hurt-no-comfort warning, but *points in the direction of main fic* comfort happened eventually, right?)

It’s dark, and screaming, and everything is pain.

It moves without willing it; the body it is in coughs and gags and drags in a breath, and then another, and another. There is a terrible sound coming from somewhere; a gasping, keening moan that goes on and on and on. It’s only when it swallows the blood in its mouth and the sound stops that it realizes it is coming from the body it wears.

Slowly, the pain eases – not gone, but fading enough that it can be aware of something other than its skin and its bones and the agonizing weight of its own organs. It lies there, curled on its side in something the same temperature as its body, but slowly growing less so. It thinks it is blind, until its shaking hands find hair slicked wet and sticky over its eyes and pushes it out of the way.

Even then it is dark, but now there are shapes in the darkness. It’s huddled in a mass of something soft and viscous – not purely liquid, but with things in it that squelch and shift or thread ropily through its fingers. The light is poor, but there is enough for it to see. Most of the lumpiness is red, and brown, but it sees a flash of white and scrabbles for it. The thing it raises in its hand is another hand – a palm, five fingers – but hollow and flopping, as if the flesh has been poured out and only the skin remains. It considers it for a moment, then lets it fall.

There is nothing else of interest in the muck, but when it tries to move it collides with something it can’t see. Fumbling, it streaks redness from its hands on something that is there, but not, until it finds a shattered hole in the not-stuff that slices at it so swiftly and neatly that it takes a moment before it realizes it is in pain. “Glass”, something supplies, and that hurts in its head, worse than the cut on its hand.

Something is wrong with this body; it trembles and shakes, and does not follow its commands well, the fingers stiff, the feet dragging. Something is wrong with the air; it bites at its skin, and draws like daggers into its lungs. Later, he will know that he was cold. Right now it calls it pain, because pain is all it knows. Pain prickles through its raw, new skin, blinks in tears from its eyes, and makes it cover its ears against the high whine of the wind. The glass writes pain into its flesh as it pulls itself over the edge of the platform and falls.

It can’t see well in the darkness, and it hurts itself more when it tries to explore. It is in a space of stone that arches hollowly overhead; down one side, wind whistles through a jagged gap. There are things everywhere – shattered, upended things – some broken, others whole but beyond its understanding. There is more glass, and more blood, and more painful words: “book” and “chair” and “blade” and “array”. Whiteness drifts in through the shattered hole and gathers on everything, only melting when it land on its skin.

It is ravenously empty inside. It tries some of the sludgy mass still caked inside the shattered dome, but it is foul, and it spits it out. There is water in a hollow against one wall, rimmed with something a little like glass; it drinks this frantically, until something goes wrong inside the body and the water comes back out of its mouth in an evil-smelling rush, clotted with darkness, and now it is emptier than ever. It doesn’t want to drink the water anymore, but hollowness gnaws at the body it is in until it drinks again. It drinks less this time, and the water settles in its stomach, numbing it.

In the darkness, its hands find something soft: not soft like the slimy things, but soft in a way that is opposite of pain, softness that is a large sheet of some heavy material that gathers in folds under its touch. It knows this: knows to pull it around itself, to huddle into it until the pain begins to ease. It still hurts to breathe, but its fingers begin to work better, and it can feel its feet again. Looking up, it can see through the gap in the stone; overhead there are tiny lights that twinkle, and a bigger light, curved and white. The lights are the opposite of pain, too, and it watches them. It falls asleep like that, balled up in the softness, and when it wakes the world is bright.

It moves again, and there is pain again. The old pains have eased, or it has gotten accustomed to them, but as it begins to crawl across the floor there is new pain waiting for it. It learns quickly to avoid the sparkling fragments of glass, but that is hard, when there are so many of them. The soft material gets in its way, but it is unwilling to let it go and eventually finds a way to wrap it around itself that no longer trips it. It wants to have the soft material on its feet, too, and its knees, where the stone of the floor is seeping that numb pain into them again, but it can’t figure out how.

It finds nothing else to eat or drink, or to tell it what it is or what it should do.

It sits, wrapped in the soft thing, until the brightness goes away and the darkness comes, and then until the brightness comes again.

Nobody comes.

The gnawing emptiness returns, and water does less and less to fill it. The slimy stuff that cakes its skin turns brown and flaky, falling off; underneath, the body’s skin is white.

It waits, but nobody comes.

It’s that emptiness in the body’s belly that finally drives it as it walks - drags, climbs, stumbles, crawls – to the jagged gap in the wall where the brightness is coming from and clambers out into the light.

#dmbj #my fics #foxfic #pingpangxiesang #wu xie #zhang qiling #wang pangzi #liu sang #cabbages and kings #if you want pangzi feels we've got all the flavors #pangxie #pingpang #pangsang #roll up roll up and help yourself #the working tagline for this fic was 'hurrah for the felicity of unbounded domesticity'#or as xcziel delightfully put it 'homesteader porn'#so consider yourself warned #this is what happens when all my cottagecore longings #and queerplatonic feels #and the advent of winter clear and dark #have a head-on collision with all those childhood books about people rescuing and taming wild animals #and themes of the magic of mundanity in a fantastical world #also: cats #so many cats #basically 'cats i have known: the fanfic'#i didn't plan half this world it just sort of happened #i didn't so much write this as get mugged and wake up with scenes stuffed in my pockets and a vivid sense of place stapled to my chest #but yes in case you are wondering Xiao Hua is a university-trained sorcerer operating in the world of thaumaturgical politics and academia #and Hei Xiazi is his raccoon familiar #and XiuXiu is definitely the scariest one out of all three of them

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s1utspeare · 3 years

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Plz do Midsummer next, I want to know who are all the fairies and and WHO IS TOM SNOUT THE WALL?????

🙏🙏🙏

Thank you i love you I’m so excited for the Shakespeare discourse. 16 yo Shakespeare-in-the-Park me is LIVING

EDIT: WAIT SHIT I JUST REALIZED YOU NEVER SPECIFIED IF YOU WANTED THE DMUTUALBJs OR THE ACTUAL DMBJ CHARACTERS. OH MY GOSH. I’M SCREAMING. THIS HAS BEEN POSTED FOR TWO MINUTES AND I DON’T EVEN KNOW IF IT’S WHAT YOU WANTED. OH FUCK. OH FUCK. UHHHHHHH. UM. WOW. OKAY. I’M SO FUCKING SORRY FOR THIS.

OH???? YOU WANT MIDSUMMER????? YOU WANT FUCKING MIDSUMMER???? excellent

Okay, so first off, my ideal Midsummer would be gay (obviously) and involve a lot of playing with space and audience and stuff. Like, I would want it to be in the square and have all the seats on the same level/have the audience actually on the stage, so that when the Lovers are running around in the woods, and the fairies and Puck are doing their thing, they’re literally intermingling with the audience. Athens would be in a separate playing space, for both the beginning and the end, and the Players (with the exception of Bottom) would never get to mingle in the audience, because they are so fully enshrouded in their own acting and the world of the play that they are blind to the fact that they’re simultaneously playing and being played. At the end of the play, Puck would step up into that separate playing space to indicate physically that the play is done, they are no longer intermingling with us, and we are now separated from this reality that they have created over the course of the play (this has nothing to do with y’all, I’m just using this opportunity to nerd out about my ideal production specs lmao) and thereby physically releasing us from that space.

BUT THAT’S BESIDE THE POINT. NOW. I’M SHIFTING INTO DIRECTING MODE AND CASTING THIS SHOW USING THE DMUTUALBJs, THE TAG OF WHICH I’M STEALING FROM SIERRA (also sorry i do not have the skills nor the patience to edit y’all’s icons on characters like they did I am not that good @jockvillagersonly i would die for u).

HERE WE GO:

First up: the Lovers

Hermia: “though she be but little, she is fierce!” lmao I’m sorry @cross-d-a that’s gotta be you. I love Hermia bc she’s very sweet most of the time, except when she’s been wronged, and then YOU BETTER WATCH OUT CAUSE SHE’S GOING OFF, and I feel like Cross imbues that energy very well. She’ll cut a bitch for her friends, but is also the loveliest person you’ve ever met.

Helena: Helena’s got to be @humanlighthouse. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. Not only do I want her to step on me, I also think that she’d be willing to throw down in a forest. Plus, she and Cross would have very good stage energy, I think.

Demetrius: ok here’s where things get interesting, cause you remember when I said I wanted this to be gay right? SO that means we’re playing this with underlying currents of *internalized homophobiaaaa* which means that Demetrius is actually going after Lysander instead of Hermia; or so she thinks. She’s chasing after the closest male-identifying person in the group, but REALLY wants Hermia, and under THAT ends up wanting Helena, who she’s really intimidated by actually, which is why she’s so rude to her in the first parts of the play. And who will play this wonderfully complex Demetria? None other than @vishcount. Again, the STAGE CHEMISTRY BABES. also I think vish would bring a very lovely complexity to this role.

Lysander: Lysander is actually like my favorite character in this play??? I have no idea why, but I really love him. He’s very endearing and sweet, and just wants to make his girlfriend happy. So for this role I’m casting @psychic-waffles, who I feel would embody this character very well bc I love Jack.

Alright NEXT: the Players

Peter Quince: they’re the only writer in this thing, so I feel like this HAS to be @merinnan. Also, Meri-jie tries to wrangle crowds of dumbasses everyday in the Discord server and does an INCREDIBLE job, so I feel like Head Writer/Head Bitch works very well here.

Nick Bottom: who ELSE would I cast except for @jockvillagersonly. Not only are they funny enough to portray this absolute COMEDY role, I feel like they would really ham it up onstage, which is what Nick Bottom needs. Also I would like to lovingly force them into getting more sleep, so if rehearsals for the scenes where Bottom is Passed The Fuck Out go a little long, who’s gonna know???

Francis Flute: Francis Flute holds a special place in my heart bc in my university’s production of Midsummer, one of my friends played him, and he was funny as fuck, so for this role I’m going with @bookjoyworm. I think Joy absolutely would be fantastic as Thisbe, and have a very dramatic and tragic death scene (which, coincidentally, is often the only part of the Play Within A Play that’s actually acted well, and I think that Joy could pull off that bait-and-switch).

Tom Snout: YOU KNOW WHAT NOPEY, IT’S FUCKING YOU. YOU ARE THE WALL. LITERALLY THE FUNNIEST FUCKING SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE DAMN LIFE. I LOVE TOM SNOUT AND I LOVE YOU.

Snug the Joiner: Snug the Joiner is literally just a cutie patootie trying their best. I love them, and I also love @pissmeoffanddie, so that’s who we’re going with on this one. They would be a very fierce lion, I just know it (but not too fierce, so as not to frighten the ladies!!!!)

Robin Starveling: Moonshine! This so obviously has to be @undyingsunshine; it’s literally in the name!! They both fucking shine! I’m! Also I genuinely love Robin Starveling a lot too lasighaldkfjaldf.

The Athenians:

Theseus: all hail the kiiinnnngggggg. Obviously this is @xcziel. I would perform a thousand plays for @xcziel. A million. A thousand million. Mwah. My liege.

Hippolyta: BOSS-ASS BITCH. BITCH. BITCH. BITCH. none other than @foxofninetales could POSSIBLY be this Amazonian queen. Once again: step on me mom.

Egeus: Okay like. Okay don’t come for me I’m sorry I have to cast Egeus, but I think that deep down he wants what’s best for his daughter! And I feel like that has very @kholran energy. Idk they came up with the ShanSang pool noodle and that radiates very safe energy for me. So sorry @kholran ur my dad now.

The Philostrate: they’re literally just trying to get things organized and let everyone have a good time at the wedding! It’s a hard job!! Don’t make it harder for them!!!! I feel like the only one who could do this would be @mejomonster. Just trying to deal with all these idiots. RIP.

And Finally: the Fairies

Oberon: ok Oberon’s a himbo but in the best way. He’s just hanging out with his best friend Puck and trying to get his wife to pay attention to him again after she gets a baby. like I get it, dude. Me too. I feel like @elletromil has the most Oberon energy, partially bc I’m in awe of them, partially bc they feel like an old married couple along with:

Titania: @gaiahenshin. You two would be SO PERFECT together as Titania and Oberon. I’m also of the firm opinion that the Love Juice doesn’t actually work on Titania and she’s just acting for Oberon, and I feel like that’s something @gaiahenshin could get behind. ONCE AGAIN. STEP ON ME. THIS IS NOT A SUGGESTION.

Puck: ok I feel like the obvious one is the person who’s been doing ALL the magic in the fandom for us lately, which would be @xia-xueyi. Not only a Puck-level mastery of words, but also just blessing us with the energy and love and encouragement. She also feels very bouncy and joyful to me, and I would love to see her get to fly around the stage and do some fun magic stuff.

Cobweb, Mustardseed, Peaseblossom, and Moth: the fairies! THE FAIRIES!!! the literal BACKBONES of the play. Obviously this would be @thewindsofsong, @idlebeks, @staidwaters, and @i-sudoku. I know in my heart that they are all ethereal beings and that nothing would be the same without them. Also they deserve to get to fly around in some stage rigging. They DESERVE IT.

The Changeling Child: the only one who is not a mutual. This is the stupid baby dummy from the Moonfall Echo behind-the-scenes cause I think it’s hilarious.

AH!!!! ANYWAY!!!! THERE’S MY MIDSUMMER CASTING!!! I LOVE YOU ALL I CAN’T WAIT TO SPEND HELL WEEK WITH YOU!!!!!! >:)

#thank u nopey i love u #also listened to Jopping by SuperM the entire time I was doing this so #that's the energy u should attribute to this post lmao #brigid casts dmutualsbj #:/ damn i wanna direct shakespeare again this has got me SO HYPED #billy shakes #im going to be so fucking embarrassed if u were actually asking for the DMBJ characters #like no one fucking look at me #I'm literally crying in my house

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naiwong-bao · 3 years

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Fic Writer Interview Game

thanks for tagging me @extraordinarilyextreme!! (and enabling more of my procrastination lol)

name: e***** (eve)

fandoms: i’ve written for My Roommate is a Detective, MDZS, The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, DMBJ/Grave Robbers Chronicles, Yin-yang Master: Dream of Eternity/Qing Ya Ji, a Guardian (if a derivative counts), and the Three Worlds Three Lives: Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms.

i read just about anything that catches my interest though. if i’m recommended a fic by a friend, i’ll read it even if i’m not familiar with the fandom.

two-shots:

quality of light (Qingya xianxia AU) is meant to be a twoshot but...... it’s not done ahahahahaha......

love me like that and whispered or shouted (Sui Zhou/Tang Fan/Wang Zhi post canon OT3) is technically a two-shot?

most popular multi-chapter fic: i mean i only have the one so.

through the cracks of dreams (Pingxie SP*N AU)

actual worst part of writing: summaries

how you choose your titles: i steal a quote from something. lol. i have notebooks where i’ll copy down quotes, poetry, lyrics that i like so i’ll usually flip through those and see if anything calls out to me. or i tend to listen to music when i write so i might take a line from one of the songs that has been on repeat during writing.

do you outline?: yes. sort of? kind of. it depends on how long the fic is going to be/if i have a good idea of what i want already. i write my first drafts by hand, so that’s a jumble of scenes that i already have kind of mapped out and just random ideas/a timeline of where i think i want everything to go.

ideas you probably won’t get around to, but wouldn’t it be nice?:

- My Roommate is a Detective: ChuYao: Dirty Dancing AU

- Mystic Nine: Er Yuehong/Zhang Qishan: unrequited love, BE, not so much canon divergant as filling things in where there isn’t actually anything and kind of just... musings of how it must have felt to want someone, to have someone close and not choosing them in the end

- Mystic Nine: Er Yuehong/Zhang Qishan: running away the night before Er-ye’s wedding and being fucking farmers or something, living a simple life together (tbh this is halfway done but i think it’ll probably just rot in the wip pile forever rip)

- Mystic Nine: Er Yuehong/Zhang Qishan, and Er Yuehong/Ya Tou (poly): Er-ye and crossdressing

- DMBJ: Pingxie, 3H, Zhang Rishan/Liang Wan: Zhang Rishan and Liang Wan get married and the it’s the fucking weirdest wedding aka grave robers try and make wedding small talk with respectable medical professionals

- DMBJ: Pingxie, 3H, Zhang Rishan/Liang Wan: gift giving and sappiness. three part fic where they just... exchange things.

- Weilan Derivative: Pei Wende/Hua Wuxie: post Fahai movie. Pei Wende is still a demon hunter, Hua Wuxie is the little demon who has been following him for the past three days, watching him sleep, leaving him food

- DMBJ: Pingxie: Wu Xie doesn’t take care of himself, but everyone around him insists

- DMBJ: Pingxie: reincarnation AU where this time it’s Xiaoge who remembers and Wu Xie who doesn’t

- DMBJ: Pingxie, Kan Jian/Liu Sang: Qing Ya Ji AU with Kan Jian/Liu Sang as Qingming/Boya and Wu Xie/Xiaoge as Zhongxing/Fangyue. i’ve honestly done a stupid amount of work/put a stupid amount of time into this already but it’s just [shrugs]

- Qing Ya Ji: Qingya: Pacific Rim AU which i have also written the rough draft for already but [shrugs harder]

- Qing Ya Ji: Qingya: urban fantasy AU where Qingming is a fairy and Boya is a human and the portal that Qingming uses to pass planes only shows up during autumn. they meet, fall in love, and navigate a little extra complicated relationship

callouts @ me: it’s for you, it’s for the people who are good and kind and respectful of the source material. it’s for the love of the story that made you feel things. it’s for fun. you learn and you improve, it’s not “cringe” to not be super jazzed about every single thing you’ve posted in the past.

best writing traits: i feel like i do “dreamy” pretty well and i’m pretty good at painting an environment/making a feeling that kind of clings to the room clear. yearning maybe???

spicy tangential opinion: you are not entitled to anything except basic respect and human decency. just saying that you tried means nothing if it’s obvious that “trying” means “i have done as much as is convenient to me”, and “trying” is not a shield from all blame when someone tells you “hey, this is insensitive”. maybe this is hella spicy but not all Asian cultures are interchangeable, i know i just woke up and chose violence today. yeah, it’s obvious when you’re just fetishizing people for their race and just because you’re not white it doesn’t mean you don’t have yellow fever i am going to have to quarantine you goodbye.

tagging: no pressure at all to do this if you don’t want to!!! also i’m sorry if i didn’t tag you, please feel free to pretend that i did because i did in my heart. @vishcount @sillyfanturtle @lqcoups @a-universe-of-almosts @annadream

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xcziel · 3 years

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rules: answer the questions and tag nine people you want to get to know better/catch up with! Tagged by @hesayshesgotboyfriend and @aurawolfgirl2000 💖💖💖!

Three ships: only three? ummm, can I say Liu Sang/caring relationships? okay okay I guess my main reading is pingxiesang right now, bc the dmbj liu sang writers just keep turning out the good good stuff (but like, a multishipper is gonna ship, yo)

previous ship: cql wangxian, otp of course, i'm still reading a lot in untamed/mdzs fandom, though it's kind of migrated to all mxtx fandoms now, especially svsss

perennial ship: i have so many, but i'd say cherik? x-men is a forever fandom but more specifically X-men First Class cherik bc god they really made it as shippy as the comics. one of the pure otps, i don't really ship either one with anyone else

Last Song: In the Air Tonight, Phil Collins bc i had the radio on driving home from getting groceries

Last Movie: re-watched Venom in honor of the new trailer

Currently Watching: still making my snailway through Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, Reboot season 2 now that i have a vip pass, and re-watching Leverage to get in the mood for 2.0

Currently Reading: re-reading Smoke & Mirrors by Tanya Huff, probably gonna re-read the rest in the series too. sometimes you just need a story about an ex-street kid turned production assistant for a low-budget vampire tv-show, with a gay crush on the second lead, filming in a literal haunted house, and oh yeah, he might be a wizard?

(i don't know why more people don't rec Tanya Huff bc i've loved just about everything she's published, from full fantasy to urban fantasy to space marines and more. i was reading Tanya Huff before i discovered fan-fiction and when i did i realized it felt familiar. everyone who's like "where can i find adult books that have that fanfiction feel?" should give her series a try. seriously: gay wizard on a shoestring early 00s Vancouver tv set (anybody remember Forever Knight?), trying to wrangle possessed actors, shadow-demon invasions, hit-and-run possible goddesses? and his cranky protective vampire ex-patron. if you're looking for a new read that has that comforting fanfic feel and isn't gonna rip your heart out I cannot recommend this series enough (you might end up wanting to read the precursor series, the Blood vampire/werewolf detective series that Tony Foster is a side character from, but you don't need to))

Tagging anyone who's in the mood bc I don't know who all hasn't been tagged - @xia-xueyi @mage-pie @traineecryptid @heymeowmao @mejomonster @mojoflower @epicwalrus if y'all feel like playing? 😘

#i'm doing way more comfort media now that i'm vaccinated than when we were under full pandemic shutdown #sort of the opposite of how it was supposed to be?#during quarantine i was jumping into new fandoms and media like crazy and enjoying it #but idk maybe it's the health insurance kerfuffle i just am looking at stuff i've read/watched before #of course part of it is sequels coming out - watching the originals to get prepped for the new content isn't that strange

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merinnan · 3 years

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Another fic from me and @xantissa!

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandom: 盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei

Relationship: Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling

Characters: Wu Xie (DMBJ Series), Zhang Qiling

Additional Tags: First Time, Mistaken Identity, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Summary: Wu Xie was having a bad day. A terrible day. The worst day. On top of disasters, traffic jams, and meetings, the last thing he needed was for Xiao Hua to 'helpfully' send him an escort. That is, until the handsome stranger matching Xiao Hua's description saves him from an accident, so perhaps the day isn't as bad as he thought, after all.

Sitting in leather seats in sopping wet clothes wasn’t exactly the most comfortable thing, and the heater that Kanjian turned on to try to help dry them off only succeeded in making the inside of the car humid and overheated.

Wu Xie’s nerves were long past fraying when his phone began to ring. He was half relieved that the thing hadn’t been drowned in the heavy rainfall he’d been standing in, and half wanted to just throw the damn thing out the window so that he didn’t have to speak to anyone. Instead, he gritted his teeth and jabbed at the phone’s screen to accept the call without even looking to see who it was.

“Yes?” he snapped.

“Hello to you, too,” Xiao Hua said. “I heard about the break in. And the traffic jam. And the weather.”

“You heard a lot,” Wu Xie said, not pleased at having his adventures so widely known. He wondered who babbled, and if he could afford to rip their tongue out.

“The weather and the traffic jam are both all over the news,” Xiao Hua said, sounding far too amused, the bastard. Wu Xie wondered for a moment if he should just rip Xiao Hua’s tongue out, instead. No, he definitely couldn’t afford that. “And it’s not hard to know that you’d have to drive through it to get from Wushanju to the newest location. How are the renovations at Wushanju going, by the way?”

“Let's say it like this,” Wu Xie forced between his clenched teeth. “I might be forced to decorate Wushanju’s outside walls by hanging corpses of the contractors on them.”

“Ah, I see you’re thinking of going extremely old-fashioned with the decorating, then,” Xiao Hua replied. “Make sure you behead them first so you don’t risk zombies.”

“Have I told you recently that I hate you?” Wu Xie asked, saccharine sweet.

“You wound me.” Xiao Hua even had the nerve to laugh, and Wu Xie hated him even more at that moment. “And I even got you a present to make you feel better.”

“Is that present going to come and bite me in the ass?” Wu Xie asked tiredly. He looked at the time. It was barely ten in the morning. God knew what might still happen in the remaining hours.

“Only if you ask,” Xiao Hua said with another laugh, and Wu Xie had to pull the phone away from his ear and look down at the screen in confusion.

“What?” he asked, bringing the phone back up to his ear.

“I hired a very pretty specialist for you,” Xiao Hua said. “I was assured he is the best at what he does, he certainly has the best reviews in the company. And he’s exactly your type. Tall, dark haired, and in possession of striking looks.”

“Is he a new manager? Or a contractor?” Wu Xie asked, his mind still firmly on business.

“Neither. He’s a specialist,” Xiao Hua repeated patiently. “To help you unwind, loosen up, and get rid of some of that tension you’ve had for months. To be blunt, Wu Xie, you need to get laid.”

Read the rest on AO3

#pingxie #wu xie #zhang qiling #dmbj #daomu biji #the lost tomb #fanfic #xantissa #baoshan-sanren gifs

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hils79 · 1 year

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This is almost certainly a sign I need to go to bed instead of whining on Tumblr. What's that saying about not listening to your brain after a certain point in the evening? But whining is what Tumblr is for, right? I'll probably delete it in the morning while feeling embarrassed.

I'm thinking about my weekly rec posts.

This is something I've done for literally years. It's started way back in my early days of the Supernatural fandom where an LJ friend (RIP Donna) and I decided to read all the SPN J2 Big Bang fics and post weekly recs of our favourites.

I just stuck with it from there and branched out to include any fic in any fandom that I enjoyed, and I never really thought about it much beyond me sharing fics I liked until today.

There's a DMBJ comm on DW that has started doing weekly recs with different themes and tonight I had a poke around. I agreed with just about everything that was recced but, not going to lie, not seeing anything of mine listed even in the themes that are common in my fics stung a bit.

Now this isn't a 'Hils guilts people into reccing her fics' post. I am well aware of the limitations of my own writing and, in all honesty, once I've posted them I tend to forget about them myself too. So I certainly don't expect other people to remember them when it comes to reccing. The pleasure, for me, is the writing of the story. It's a nice way for me to lose myself in something I'm creating for 20 mins when I do a sprint after I get home from work.

But this got me thinking. While it's fun for me to share fics I've enjoyed, in a small fandom like DMBJ am I upsetting people by not including them? The last thing I want to do is make anyone feel sad, or bad about their writing.

I don't know it's something for me to ponder, I guess.

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