Galadhir has finished Visitation. Nobody liked that.
(This is a lie. I liked it, so I'm glad to have written it, and I'll enjoy having it there to read again once I've had time to forget it a little.)
In which Lan Xichen, in seclusion, experiences a moment of consolation, makes his mind up about some things and comes out swinging.
Because you know Jin Guangyao did not save him just for him to waste away in heartbroken regret.
It's very odd how it always seems to go this way: You write what you think is one of your best fics ever, and it gets absolute silence from readers. You write a throwaway thing that you don't think is much good, and it gets more comments than you could have imagined.
I'm currently doing the first thing of those. I think 'Visitation' is really good. And more than that, I'm actually enjoying writing it to the extent that I am excited about it and rotating it in my head like I used to do with stories back when I was a proper writer. But I post it and... crickets.
Meanwhile I've just come off what I thought was a rather pointless piece of kid-fic, and that was getting twenty comments per chapter.
And it wouldn't matter so much if I had any idea what made one more popular than the other. Is it just that this one is in Xichen's pov instead of Jin Guangyao's? Is it that JGY is dead in this one, and it might take him a few years to come back? IDK. I cannot have become a worse writer in the space of the two weeks between one fic and the next, so it must be the subject matter and not me, but it is a bit baffling and discouraging.
Never mind. Visitation is for me, so I'm going to continue to write it for me. Whether I continue to post it or not is another matter.
Gosh there are now so many people posting over here that it took me several hours to get to the bottom of my Reading Page! How cool! The more people talking over here, the less need there is to go anywhere else :)
Hello to everyone I've added today! It's great to have you on board.
Finished and posted chapter two of my Untamed fic Wedded Bliss, which is itself a tie in to my previous Untamed fic the same last name and the same coloured eyes.. After ten years of writing a minimum of 2000 words a day, followed by about five years of total writing block, I'm now finding a pace of 500 words a day doable and enjoyable.
The long term plan is to write a new novel, but for now getting my writing muscles working again by fanfic seems like a gentle way to get back into the swing of things.
Fandom: MDZS/The Untamed
We're on the penultimate chapter by now, in which JGY and JZX's plot against Jin Guangshan comes to its fruition, and - under some pressure - JGS does the best thing he has ever done in his life.
So I have not been on DW recently because I've been trying to write and podfic and practice my signwriting all at the same time and I had no energy left over. However, I do really feel like I'm back in the swing of writing (God willing) because here is another chapter of my Jin bros fic.
the same last name and the same colour eyes, Chapter three
In which Jin Guangyao attempts to lure Wei Wuxian over to the Jin side by the nefarious means of offering him a pardon and paying for the Wens to make it through the winter. Meanwhile, of course Jin Zixuan has eyes for nobody but Jiang Yanli.
Chapter Two of the same last name and the same colour eyes is up on Ao3 here
In which, following Jin Zixuan's unexpected expression of brotherly feelings, Jin Guangyao finds himself with a second person in the Jin family whom he wishes to please. This changes things.
In which Yanli teaches her husband to make dumplings, learns that he can dance, and gets delightfully drunk.
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makamu did an amazing vid rec post here and challenged me to do one too. So here it is :)
I will also start with a multifandom one. I watch almost exclusively science fiction and fantasy canons, and I come back to this one often for the sheer high adrenaline white knuckle joy that it provides.
Starships - a multifandom space vid by bironic
and having said that I watch mostly SF/F, I do have an occasional foray into Jane Austen, and I couldn't leave this video out. A multifandom costume drama vid set to 'It's Raining Men'
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Now that I'm spending most of my social media time here instead of on Tumblr, I figured it was time to support DW with a paid subscription. As a result, I have lots more icon slots. Hurray!
So it was time to make more icons. And as ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
your_favourites were running a competition with a theme of 'favourite hairstyles' I thought I would combine icon making with taking part in a community for a change. But I also thought I'd post them here for anyone who wasn't part of that community.
Two buzzcuts sported by Colonel Young and Lieutenant Scott of Stargate SGU. And two different ways to wear Nie braids, by Meng Yao and Nie Mingjue.
bluedreaming@fandom.ink sent me a meme saying "Get rid of the breaths! We can't let people know we breathe!" Which is now my new motto
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