Dear Sundial Exchange person

Hi! I'm ExtraPenguin, and this is my sundial_exchange letter! It is Long. It's got general likes, DNWs, prompts both general and character/ship-based, but feel free to mix and match! Belated note: I know I selected Smut and Gen as the genre categories, but don't sweat it too much. If it seems like something I'd enjoy, go for it.

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The Untamed

So I decided to sign up for sundial_exchange after all! (December will be busy, and I wasn't sure of January, but then I realized the minimum was only 500 words.) I think I sort of figured out how fill in the form? Eh, if I screwed up, I'm sure the mods will contact me. :P

In other news, I've watched the first four episodes of The Untamed, and while I do have my issues with it (the CGI is sort of uncanny valley, the juniors kept overextending their elbows in a manner I found really squicky, some stuff that works in text pings my embarrassment squick in live action, Lan Wangji makes Guo Changcheng look hot and well-acted), I have enjoyed it! The changes to plot and misc stuff have so far been intriguing rather than infuriating. As for the main relationship, I can intellectually notice that they've made the thing a whole lot more understandable and also palatable to me so far, but I'm not sure if I can actually ship it, given my baggage from the novel and the novel fandom. The one thing I do ship so far is Lan Xichen/Meng Yao – I'm pretty sure letting Meng Yao leave like that was forbidden under the rules of the Cloud Recesses; Lan Xichen should've just dicked him then and there.

(Note: while I've read the novel and have osmosed things about the drama and its emotional stuff etc, please no spoilers, especially on plot points! I'm actually intrigued by the yin metal and the whole mystery of Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji sealing the dancing goddess statue, and I'd rather be less spoiled for the drama than I was for the novel.)