Sunday Six? Writing? Words?

[extrapenguin]

Spaceship rental news first: It's currently at over 46k, and based on scene count, will be over 60k. (Me: noooo) I've also sort of run out of oomph, in that I need to figure out something for Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei et al to do so the scene can end with Zhao Yunlan declaring that the kids will have to manage the weekend themselves, he's taking the weekend off as a staycation with Shen Wei and they'll stay in bed all day and all night (and might even catch some sleep). Then there's some scenes I actually have some direction for, though I probably need to brainstorm the order and way the separate arcs intertwine. Have a snippet, anyway:

"We've pulled through worse crises; we can work through this one." Zhao Yunlan's smile was so fond it made Shen Wei's heart hurt.

Shen Wei rose. He'd have to turn off his sound-blocking bubble soon, but before that, there was still some time. He reached out to Zhao Yunlan and leaned in with his face. Their mouths connected, and Shen Wei gave himself a few minutes of bliss slowly moving against Zhao Yunlan's mouth and gently nibbling on Zhao Yunlan's lower lip.

The bubble started requiring effort to maintain. Shen Wei pulled back his head and stepped away, Zhao Yunlan's hands falling from where they'd rested against the small of his back.

Shen Wei let the bubble fizzle out into nothing. It refracted the light prettily for a moment as it went. "Come, let's [redacted for spoilers]."

(I am hiding quite a bit of stuff from the fic. There are several things I want y'all to be surprised by, and one of them happens pretty early on. This makes picking snippets awkward.)

Some day I'll have to edit spaceship rental (which might be called Waiting in the Sky?) and I'll add in more Da Qing and Zhao Xinci for thematic reasons. And an impassioned speech on mutualism in there somewhere.

In brush_and_lantern monthly theme news, I have written about cottages (fluff) and courts (horror), and have ambitions of writing about caves (porn) this month for a trifecta and the world's tiniest crown of congrats.

In other news, I got accepted into mdzsseasonszine! I applied for winter, which was apparently the most coveted one for writers, and got in nevertheless! \o/ I have already written my zine submission. In fact, I have written three things that fit the requirements and need to pick which one to submit. /o\ chromemuffin plz halp? (I like all three ideas! Can I just unload all three onto the mods and then they can pick the one that best complements the other submissions in wordcount/content/tone/idk? *g*)

Total wordcount of this weekend: approx 3.5k. Yay me?