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So I started reading A Matter of Conscience, a historical novel about Henry VIII. Which means, first, that I am back on ONE of my bullshits, as they say. The bullshit that took up a LOT of my leisure time for the years when I wasn't actively participating in fandom (in shippy, talk to people online, ready and maybe write fanfic way).

Given how I'm tearing through the book, and given my general meh feeling about fandom (or THIS fandom?) right now, I wonder if it signals that a shift is finally happening.

Probably premature to think so...

In most of my fandoms, I seldom write fic, and I only do short little fics when the mood strikes, generally that can be finished in one day, or 2 or 3 at most. MDZS has been different. I've probably written more sangcheng fics than I've written any other fics in total.

However, for awhile now, the well has been running dry. It's a combination of losing spaces where I can discuss the ship (which is probably what fueled the fic writing in the first place) and real life being busy (not in a bad way).

Anyway, I feel like it's now been over a year that I've been wanting to get back in the mood for it, because I do love to live with a story for the ship I like, to be plotting and writing, and I miss it. But on the other hand... I don't know if it's time to just accept the urge to write is either disappearing or has already done so, and just... move on.

Any links to comms or accounts with nice layouts? Yes, I'm a web designer, but I'm too lazy to figure out DW's classes...

I used to find it so effortless to post (shitpost?) on LJ. And I WANT to post on here more but somehow making posts seems like more of an effort, not sure what it is. Like I need to MAKE time to think and do it, instead of just... posting whatever at the drop of a hat. Not sure why it is. Anyway. Which it didn't feel like that.

Because I wanted more sangcheng fic, I decided to organize a prompt meme for Qixi. Reveals were yesterday and I'm very happy to say there are now 26 new sangcheng works! I wasn't sure how it would go, and I'm thrilled about so many people participated.

Here is the SangCheng Qixi AO3 collection.

And here is the fic, one my own site: One kiss, two memories. 💜💚

Years after their first kiss at the Cloud Recesses, which Jiang Cheng remembers as having gone terribly, he and Nie Huaisang reminisce about the past over drinks and finally talk about it. It turns out Nie Huaisang felt very differently about the experience from what Jiang Cheng assumed all these years.

(The AO3 version is linked from my site too, if you prefer, but I think my sangcheng shrine is prettier than AO3)

I'm not sure I'm going to finish this WoT reread. There's more parts annoying me more than ever before.

Kinda sad about it, tbh. WoT has been with me since I was 14 (admittedly with a 10 year gap because of The Slog).

Raitala's #SVSSS fan reading is complete! It's excellent, I highly recommend it 💚

https://www.tumblr.com/raitala/754890458291961856

I'm running a sangcheng romcom themed prompt fest for Qixi 💜💚

Info at the SangCheng Comm

💚 Existing prompts
💜 Submit your prompt!

I've just been too busy lately T___T

I wanted to post a chapter of my betrohtal AU for his birthday, but didn't edit in time. I also have an idea for a short sangchengxian birthday fic, we'll see if I can fuck off and not work the rest of the day in order to write...

However! I am that I'll be running a sangcheng prompt meme for Qixi! Open for prompts soon! (Next coupel of weeks)

Line drawings over watercolor background. Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang standing face to face in front of a full moon. In front, a flock of birds fly in arc, by their feet.

Line drawings over watercolor background. Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang standing face to face in front of a full moon. In front, a flock of birds fly in arc, by their feet.

Actually remembering to save my threads somewhere!

Watching the MDZS audio drama, season 3 ep9:

Sisi says her story happened 11 years ago, and I promptly go "wait, did the novel also say 11 years?"

I go to check. As always when I wonder if something in the audio drama was that way in the novel... it is 😂

So hard timeline fact: JGS was killed 2 years after WWX's death

Also now that I know more about cultivation beliefs and genre tropes, it seems to me it wasn't simply make an old man have sex so his heart gives out (what I thought when I first read this). The point was probably a version of making him a human cauldron and somehow having all the women suck out his yang energy, despite not being cultivators.

The thing about JGS's death is that it's pretty sadistic. If JGY merely wanted to kill him, he could have chosen a different way. So the point was to do it like THAT.

Sisi says he looked sick to the point of dying (also that he looked 30 to 40, which is probably an under estimate what with him being a cultivator, but still: a man who looked to be in his prime). We don't hear about him being sick any time before this, including when the argument with Nie Mingjue over Xue Yang happens.

Which leads me to conclude it wasn't a natural sickness. JGY could have been poisoning him. But given the thing with HOW he died and the yang energy/human cauldron angle, I think it's more likely this was not the first time JGY procured women for his father. Maybe it was even JGS's idea the first time and JGY figured out how to use that to kill him. Or more likely had XY figure it. I think it's very telling that XY is there.

I'm thinking about it as sort of the equivalent of While in Lotus Pier, it will be about them coming together in the Cloud Recesses, when Nie Huaisang is there during the Sunshot Campaign. I doubt it will be done by Huaisang's birthday, but it'd be great if it was.

This is the start, unedited, autocorrect may have made fun word switches.

( Jiang Cheng looked different. )

From what I call my betrothal au, Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang finally kiss. It's only going to be chapter 8. Or maybe 9.

( They're saying goodbye (for now) in Bujingshi )

( Kind of whining, I suppose )

Kinda tired of my layout...

I believe I’d mentioned planning to go back to university to study ceramics. Well, I am. Since I am pretty busy, I enrolled in only two classes.

Today I had my first intro to clay class and it was lovely and I can tell it will be almost therapeutic to go every week.

On the other hand, I ended up deciding to unenroll from intro to anthropology. It sounded super interesting, but there was also going to be a lot of reading. Which… I like reading. But the fact is, I’m still going to be relatively busy with work a couple more months before certain things end and I can ease off a little, and I also have chinese class, and the idea is for taking university classes to be fun, not add to my stress level.

Something that has happened in the past 9 months of near burn out is I want to just... not be on my computer.

Which means I am working less on my sites, and on fics, because while I do write first drafts on phone, I haven't gotten used to revising on phone or ipad.

And that's kind of a shame, I want to do more of that, but I really am developing this UGH response at the idea of being my computer on weekends or after I'm done working.

(This is not a fic, just the start of one, and then me talking about what would happen in it. Crossposted from mastodon.)

Yu Ziyuan lay dying.

It wasn’t the first time. She’d been here two times before, bleeding out on the ground of Lotus Pier, coreless, her husband’s lifeless body almost close enough to touch.

No matter how hard she’d tried to avoid it, she still ended up like this in all three of her lives.

At least this time it was just her and Jiang Fengmian. At least she hadn’t had to see her son tortured, his golden core melted, before the Wen dogs slit his throat before her eyes.

No, this time it had been like the first time: she’d put him on a boat with Cangse Sanren’s son, Zidian binding them. She had no way to know what would happen to him, what had happened to him the first time. But he hadn’t died before her. He had a chance.

( Read more... )

I'm trying to get in the habit of posting here more. So, this is the fic that I've been writing for... most of the year? It's about Jiang Cheng accidentally being engaged to Nie Huaisang. It's a canon divergence, Yu Ziyuan survived the attack on Lotus Pier and Jiang Cheng never lost his core. But the point is Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang are engaged!

The latest chapter is a Wei Wuxian point of view chapter, which was a ton of fun to write. It's fun to see this whole mess through his eyes.

You can read it on my fic site, where you can leave comments and subscribe to followups.

Or on AO3, if you want. But I really like my site, I worked hard on it.

I’ve watching Love Like the Galaxy and I really like it! I’m glad I tried it, because frankly I had yet to enjoy a cdrama focused mainly on a het relationship. This has shown me it is possible for me to like them. The characters are compelling and fun to watch and the story is interesting.

Another thing LLtG has that I find interesting is the focus getting married. Here’s the thing: my entire life, I have had no interest in marriage and weddings, either in real life or as the endgame of a story. I just never cared. But for some reason, in the context of shipping Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang I’m fascinated by the idea, to the point where I have two wips that are about them becoming engaged to be married (and a modern fake marriage au, but that’s a different beast and actually more in line with my usual attitude).

( Talk about plans for my sangcheng betrothal au )

Pretty sure I haven't posted about this here... I've built myself a site to archive my fics. There's still a lot to bring over (a lot of my sangcheng fics are there already, except for roommates AU and yoga AU), but I've enabled comments on it. So I'm thinking I'll try and post there before AO3, see how it goes.

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