Let's try updating, what.

[lady_ganesh]

I got a thing! WWX and JC being just. So weird about each other, for Amperslash Exchange. Just what I asked for!

(Im)Plausible Deniability, in which Nie Huaisang asks a (mostly) innocent question and pays the price. I fucking wheezed at this one.

I have been writing too many CQL contemporary AUs but in my defense sometimes I innocently go looking for pretty pictures on the Internet and read things like "modern Jiang Cheng would be redpilled" and my hand slips for a couple thousand words.

Who Can Explain the Thunder and Rain, reincarnation AU in which Jiang Wanyin keeps having extremely specific dreams.

ETA: Amperslash has been revealed so I'll say I also wrote Respite, MDZS with Wen Ning and Wei Wuxian.

Comments

[ymfaery]

oh hey there :)

When did you fall into CQL? Technically I didn't watch all of "The Untamed" and still debating about completing it.

[lady_ganesh]

hiiiiii! I'm doing the 'try to remember you have a dreamwidth' thing again, we'll see how this goes :D

Um, my first fic was late 2024, and I don't think it was too much after I finished the series.

What was working/not working for you?

[ymfaery]

Basically the whole "Chinese stories have huge casts of characters, of which 2/3 die in tragic ways if you're lucky," and who's left usually deals with buckets of trauma and angst related to the dead folks. I avoided Chinese media for a reason, dammit.

Then, of course, I came across promo pics of the Untamed, I have Netflix, and enough people I follow started writing fanfic. So I basically watch enough to get an idea of how people look and sound, then stick to either AUs or fix-its. :D What's funny is that one of my friends don't like Wang Yibo and thinks he sucks as Lan Wangji. XD

[lady_ganesh]

Aaah yeah, there's definitely not NOT a body count. I have definitely been writing a, um, relatively high number of AUs. "Borne by the River," the crossover Daegaer wrote, got me, so I was kind of already ready for a ton of people to go down, I think. It's very hard to play a character with one facial expression, I feel for him

[ymfaery]

It's more that she thinks Wangji shouldn't be played by someone who looks like he's in a boy band. Though, to be fair, it would have worked better if they had cast someone similar for Xichen.

[lady_ganesh]

Aaah, I see. He is very...boy band looking, though I don't think he's not supposed to be pretty af in the book tbf.

[ymfaery]

Oh, btw, have you read Vathara's crossover "A Long Road"? I had to read it out of sheer morbid curiosity. XD

[lady_ganesh]

I haven't! I haven't really read that deeply in the fandom and I tend to wander off and read side pairings. Like usual, hahah.

[ymfaery]

xover with Valdemar. So yeah, sheer WTF initially; of course Vathara makes it work. XD