extrapenguin: Woman in pre-Tang Dynasty official's garb reads officially. (xia dong reads)
I read it today and yesterday, all 106 chapters, and ... idk. I guess I'm suffering from hype backlash?

thus today I complain about everything save the weather )
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[personal profile] writingrainbow had its make-up round author reveals yesterday my time. I managed to write 3 fics, so that I'd written two fics per color! (The basic concept is that for each Writing Rainbow round, one has to write a fic where the round's color is included in the title.) So, all 14 fics, in order of the original rainbow round (2nd stories for orange, red, and robot done for the makeup round):

Blue
Abluent of the Mind (T, Guardian) Ye Zun decides to try his mind control powers on Zhao Yunlan the moment he gets out of the pillar. It does not quite go as planned.
Drowning Depths Blazing Blue (T, MDZS) Yu Ziyuan's husband has left her to deal with the newest menace alone – again. Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian have just received their swords, however, and have a desire to prove themselves and the skills to sneak out.

Purple
Purple Wisps of Greyish Mist (T, Guardian) Instead of quitting, Li Qian takes a month's break and returns to Professor Shen's care. She's glad she's there, as Professor Shen has started to be more and more stressed with all the duties piled on him. And that greyish smoke occasionally poking at him can't be a good omen, either.
A Wrong Turn Left at the Purple Forbidden Enclosure (T, Guardian) Zhao Yunlan wishes he were in a world where it all went differently. The Guardian Lantern sends him somewhere unexpected. (Ye Zun/Zhao Yunlan)

Orange
Orange Alert (T, Guardian) Zhao Yunlan was innocently contemplating the Hallows when Shen Wei strode in. Then the Hallows started playing mood music, and the world became a lot more confusing. (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Ye Zun/Zhao Yunlan)
Comes the Orange Dawn (T, Guardian) The Black-Cloaked Envoy's inaugural tour of this new Dixing is perhaps much too late in the coming, but hey, that just means that Zhu Jiu can be his tour guide! Even if he has no clue what to show the Lord Envoy, oops.

Green
Once, there was a story, written in green (T, Guardian) ...and the story was based on the truth as its teller knew her. And as each story is told to an audience, the audience can discover the discrepancies in the truths presented.
My Mother is a Goose, Honking in the Green (T, Guardian) Zhao Yunlan is accosted by the villainous trio. Proceedings are interrupted by a goose falling from the skies, the plot is derailed with honking, and Zhao Yunlan discovers a deep-seated loathing of goose poop.

Yellow
Yellow Carp's Maw (T, Nan Chan) Jing Lin dares Cang Ji to eat him.
A Smile (Warm Like the Yellow Sun) (T, Sect Leader/Shimei) After their reunion in the Shuzhou town, Xiao Rufeng brings Ye Xiaoqi to the demonic sect's compound. Alas, on the way, Ye Xiaoqi ends up falling into a lake. What is Xiao Rufeng to do but remove all her clothes?

Red
Caught Red-Handed (T, MDZS) Wei Wuxian challenges Lan Wangji to a friendly duel. Then Lan Wangji's relatives turn up and congratulate them on their nuptials. WTF?
Bruises Rage-Red (E, Guardian) The Rebel Leader returns from a successful battle. Ye Zun bears the brunt of the celebrations. (Archive warning: rape/noncon)

Robot Rainbow (with AI-generated colors)
The Future Pester Pink (T, Guardian) Shen Wei and Li Qian are invited to Professor Zhou's new lab. It is not what they expected.
not so shy bather (T, MDZS) Just after waking up in Mo Xuanyu's body, Wei Wuxian stops at an inn with its own hot springs. Unfortunately for him, he runs into Nie Huaisang.
(The colors used above are Pester Pink and shy bather. Full list (gdocs))

I've had fun! There's talk of going further, into colors like black, white, teal, grey, etc, and a flash exchange with silly tags is always enjoyable.
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coronavirus, sorry )

In fandom news, I wrote the last unwritten scene for For No Crade Lasts Forever! Tomorrow comes the last chapter proper, and the epilogue either on the weekend or early next week, depending on how I feel – I'm coming down with a cold, probably. My next longform project, Every Door a Death, is 3.2k long, and powered by the background music of 白月光 (White Moonlight) (translation).

I've also started a new cnovel, Golden Stage. It basically confirms that pining and slow burn are my anti-tropes; I'm much more into established relationship power couples, and this one delivers. (We do see the get-together, too, but it's a burn that smolders at a more tolerable rate than the usual glacially paced slow burns.) 79 chapters, 40 of which are translated so far. The romance is sweet and all misunderstanding tropes are solved with communication. The relationship hits a lot of the same notes as Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan for me, tbh. (Sha Po Lang, too, though that's more on the plot side.)
extrapenguin: A seated woman hugging another one, viewed from behind (femslash)
I posted my 200th work onto AO3 over the weekend for [personal profile] writingrainbow's yellow round! And also my 199th. Both were for small fandoms – #199 for Nan Chan (a webnovel with the best fish): Yellow Carp's Maw (yes, it's songfic; I partied like it was 2003); #200 for Sect Leader and Little Shimei's Story: A Smile (Warm Like the Yellow Sun) (tropey femslash with wet clothes!). There are now 4 works for 教主和小师妹的故事 | Sect Leader and Little Shimei's Story (2019). I am thrilled that the fandom is growing! So many things. <3

(Then I promptly followed it up with #201, which I actually wrote back in last October: Beneath Wintry Skies, my contibution to the MDZS Seasons Zine. It's technically novel canon, but it's set far enough pre-canon that I think it'd fit the adaptations as well, if anyone's interested in reading about Yu Ziyuan.)
extrapenguin: Northern lights in blue and purple above black horizon. (Default)
I wrote lots of stuff this year! Mostly for Guardian, since lots of people requested that, but also one fic for Sha Po Lang!

My main assignment:
The Darkest Hour (Brings the Dawn) (E, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, casefic, post-canon get-together) for [personal profile] jo_lasalle
One of the fun bits of Yuletide and other exchanges is tailoring a giftfic to as many of the recip's likes as possible. Having a prior acquaintance with [personal profile] jo_lasalle, I had a lot of material to go with, and stuffed as much as I could in there. This is also the longest fic I've written for Yuletide, and my first try at casefic proper! I'm pretty pleased with myself.

Then, the treats:
Start the Sex Cycle (E, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) for [personal profile] jo_lasalle
Because Jo has the best ideas and put them in a letter, I was consumed by the need to write the washing machine sex she'd prompted for. The title came to me in a fit of inspiration on the 24th.

No Tome Unturned (T, Ye Zun & Ya Qing, mind control and bookstores) for [personal profile] lannamichaels
I actually wrote this one during sign-ups but only posted later. What can I say? I love cracky prompts.

Reformation (G, Shen Wei & Ye Zun, Zhao Yunlan) for [personal profile] lannamichaels
I spotted Lanna make a comment along the lines of "damn, I wish I'd prompted for this in my Yuletide letter", so I wrote what is probably the least anonymous Madness treat. :P

Shaving Face (G, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, identity borrowing) for [personal profile] teaotter
When I went on a second dive through the letters, I came across a wonderful prompt for Zhao Yunlan impersonating the Envoy, so of course I had to deliver. In retrospect, it's obvious why this was the most popular of my Yulefics, though while writing I was too busy panicking about whether I'd written WHALING ISSUEFIC to realize that. :P

Storm-blind (E, Chang Geng/Gu Yun) for [personal profile] shadowsapiens
I got a bit tired of Guardian for a moment, and had just caught up with Sha Po Lang, so I went and looked at the SPL requests and wrote shadow some porn to order.

Recentre the Heart (T, Shen Wei & Ye Zun, hurt/comfort) for [personal profile] lynndyre
At this point, I was feeling a bit self-conscious about being, like, 20% of the fics for Guardian, so I set my spellchecker to British English in a fit of pre-Christmas panic.

Total: 17329 words across 7 stories. I think I can give myself a pat on the back, even if I didn't manage to write treats for all the people whose letters looked cool. *goes off to reply to more comments*

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