Femslash February: Week 4

[extrapenguin]

Only 6 more fics to write! *tries very hard not to die*


Week 1
01: Prettier than the Rivers, M, Xiao Rufeng/Ye Xiaoqi
02: Gone in the Morning, T, Wang Zheng/Zhu Hong

Week 2
03: Deepest Desires, T, Li Qian/Sha Ya
04: Welcome, Spring, G, Ya Qing/Ying Chun
05: Aid, T, Lin Xia/Xiaoxiao
06: Strong as the Raging Storm, G, Xiao Rufeng/Ye Xiaoqi
07: Open, E, Xiao Rufeng/Ye Xiaoqi
08: The Reckoning Begins, E (rape), Yu Ziyuan/Wang Lingjiao
09: Self-Defense (Won't Protect the Heart), G, Wang Zheng/Zhu Hong

Week 3
10: Darkness Brings, T, Cangse Sanren/Yu Ziyuan
11: Enthrall you, M (dubcon), Wen Qing/Jiang Yanli
12: No Resistance, M (dubcon), Wen Qing/Jiang Yanli
13: Falling Flowers Reflected on the River, T, Baoshan Sanren/Lan Yi
14: Still on My Heart, T (death), Yu Ziyuan/Madam Jin
15: Throw Away the Cold, T, Baoshan Sanren/Lan Yi
16: Far Too Long the Sound Was Mute, Cangse Sanren/Madam Lan (also some Cangse Sanren/Wei Changze)

Week 4
17: Time for That Time, G, Wang Yike/Zhang Ruonan
18: Towards the Golden Sky, G, Li Qian/Sha Ya
19: Falling for You, G, Cheng Xinyan/Zhu Hong
20: Past the Fence of Expectation, T, Cangse Sanren/Yu Ziyuan
21: Dance to the Dawn, T, Great Star Nest Portia/Bianca
22: Suddenly, Science, T, Li Qian/Sha Ya
23: Can One Switch the Dawn and Dusk?, T (grief-ish), Dong Nan/Li Qian

Notes:
- I will not be repeating this next year! I am currently so inspiration-drained that I'm even suffering from a desire to write some het, which never happens. Also questioning whether anything I've ever written actually qualifies as shipfic. I think I need to refresh my mind with new ideas – I have A Memory Called Empire and Pushing Ice out in the ready for a reread; let's see which one I start with. Might also pick Dragon's Egg into that pile, actually.
- Inspirational background music choices: 18 was Chushu, 20 was Yushui (a day late, but eh, if I was inspired by other things, I was inspired), and 23 was Xiaoshu.

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Have a poem with a cool format about pandemics and mass panic. what has truly gone viral is fear itself.

Via exhaled-spiders

Nonsense can be made to make sense by supposing some alternative context for it. At the start of his revolutionary work Syntactic Structures (1957), Noam Chomsky cooked up a nonsense sentence in order to explain what he saw as the fundamental difference between a meaningful sentence and a grammatical one. “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” was proposed as a fully grammatical sentence that had no possible meaning at all.

Within a few months, witty students devised ways of proving Chomsky wrong, and at Stanford they were soon running competitions for texts in which “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” would be not just a grammatical sentence, but a meaningful expression as well. Here’s one of the prize-winning entries:

It can only be the thought of verdure to come, which prompts us in the autumn to buy these dormant white lumps of vegetable matter covered by a brown papery skin, and lovingly to plant them and care for them. It is a marvel to me that under this cover they are labouring unseen at such a rate within to give us the sudden awesome beauty of spring flowering bulbs. While winter reigns the earth reposes but these colourless green ideas sleep furiously.

– David Bellos, Translation and the Meaning of Everything

I really love the metaphor of a pale bulb as an idea, sleeping furiously beneath the frost until spring comes. I find it impactful that nature sleeps with fury. IDK.

Comments

[china_shop]

- I will not be repeating this next year! I am currently so inspiration-drained that I'm even suffering from a desire to write some het, which never happens.

Hee! *cheers you on for the final week*

It can only be the thought of verdure to come, which prompts us in the autumn to buy these dormant white lumps of vegetable matter covered by a brown papery skin, and lovingly to plant them and care for them. It is a marvel to me that under this cover they are labouring unseen at such a rate within to give us the sudden awesome beauty of spring flowering bulbs. While winter reigns the earth reposes but these colourless green ideas sleep furiously.

Ohhh, that's fantastic!

[extrapenguin]

My latest book delivery has arrived! Let's see if they will inspire me... Not that I'll have time to read them. Maybe one on Saturday. But yeah, expect more gen than usual for March.