30 Days of Guardian

(Sunday Six/general writing update coming up later today)

13. Favorite main villain
Ye Zun without question! He is unhinged and wants to make the whole world burn to make it pay for the suffering he's undergone. He was also subjected to inhumane conditions (10 000 years confined to a pillar? WTF, Hallows) and raised by an abusive xenophobe, so my personal inclination is to place him in a secure psychiatric facility so he can deal with his shit and reform.

I didn't appreciate him on the first watch (beyond critique of Dixing's prison system), but then I got to episode 40, where he reveals exactly why he hated his gege and – this is the important bit – when told the truth, accepts it, and doesn't try to argue against it or claim he wasn't wrong. (I would be more annoyed at the entire thing being solvable had they spoken to each other, but given that Shen Wei is terrible at communicating anything, Ye Zun's monologues weren't exactly informative, and misplaced revenge was an entire theme of the show, I can let it go.) That, plus the frankly terrible life, means I really want to see him realize he was wrong before he starts blowing up the world. (It would also be hilarious if the SID went on a heist to free Ye Zun from his pillar because Chief Zhao wanted his boyfriend the Envoy to be happy. Plotbunny free to good home!)

He's also very expressive! He keeps smiling, shows his (adorable) teeth, and pouts adorably. Someone give him a cuddle and headpats.

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Sunday Six? Writing? Words?

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:

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(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?