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Fanart: can anyone translate this domestic scene? A laughing happy sketch.
In yesterday's meltdown over Zhu Yilong's ReFa ads, people might've missed out on these lovely pics of Bai Yu.
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naye and jo_lasalle . I hope to be able to make the others in the next couple weeks. This week's dump on cm.net.
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This is it, friends, this is how I died. (along with most of my Twitter feed)
Fanart: I'm not sure what's going on, but I'm here for it. Because of my unfortunate exposure to Mannerism at a difficult time of my life* I'm not a fan of elongated limbs, etc., but this kiss is so tender I can't not share it.
*Okay that's a complete lie. I just hate it. HATE Mannerism. Absolutely my least favorite style of ~realistic~ art and it physically pains me that it took place during what is otherwise my favorite art period (Renaissance and Southern Baroque FTW). I would rather spend a semester studying Picasso and/or Dali than *shudder* Mannerism. and that's saying something.
Untamed:
I love all the Nie Huaisang fake interviews.
bonibaru for retweeting general fandom things like:mckitterick asked me why I didn't think it counted as a slow burn and I was like, well, it's thirty thousand words, but it's only been like three and a half days in story time. I'm just really putting the guys through it. Poor Shen Wei!bonibaru lilly_the_kid is asking for vids that convinced you to watch a show. Go pitch your recruitment vids!How much do I want to be at Escapade, basking in the energy of people jumping into Guardian and History 3 Trapped? A LOT. I want it A LOT.
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Fanart: Chibi Brady Bunch. Zhao Yunlan pulls a Hey Sailor on Hei Lao Ge.
Why oh why didn't I write Ghost Story's Zhao Yunlan with glasses? If I could change ONE thing about the story, that would be it.
Zhu Yilong, sir, this look is a good look.
I don't share the Henry Cavill thirst, but I'm loving the tweets of people who are questioning their sexuality because of him.
ALERT ALERT there's a new dS vid from sisabet that will rip out your heart in the most beautifully horrible way.
Put off reading Brianne Benness's TED talk/essay about chronic illness until I felt I could deal with it. Turns out I still can't--not enough to respond to it yet, anyway, but it's good and important and if you know anyone with a chronic illness (or, unfortunately, have one yourself), I can't recommend it enough. "Many chronic illnesses are unlikely to take your life but incredibly likely to take you away from the life you love." Truth fuckin' hurts, yo. Ooof.
Onto happier things (which... pretty telling when "happier things" include a hurt/comfort fic that is nearly 29k words already and pretty darn sparse on the comfort). Ugh. Anyway. Not as momentous as last week's THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED snippet, but Shen Wei is SITTING ON IT at least:
Untamed:
My Baby Boy.
For my Jiang Cheng loving friends.
Somehow I always forget Wei Wuxian actually says this. omg Lan Zhan's look.
I love this Horny/Tender/Feral Venn diagram for astrological houses even though it's absolutely wrong for me (Aquarius). *insert joke about not having a tender bone in my body* I think other Aquarians agree with me because there's not a single reply that mentions Aquarius (as of this posting anyway).
Found the Arab trap station on Spotify and am... really missing bellydance right now. Love that western dancers have such readily available sources of appropriate performance music, now, though. GOOD FOR THEM!
This LitHub piece makes me...ugh, idk. I hate being a hater, but otoh I'm an asshole by nature and this made me roll my eyes so hard:
Have you ever listened to one of your favorite albums on repeat, gotten lost in the sweeping, cinematic feel of it, knew it so well that you began picturing it as a narrative, filled in the details missing from the music, and then realized the story you were telling was almost fully independent of the album that sparked it, and then wrote that story down and published it?
It's called songfic, y'all. And certain populations have been doing it for free for a long time. But of course, you know, it's just fanfic. *hrmf*
I will be over this (and myself) tomorrow, but today I am tired and grumpy because I did something I wanted to do (poured lotion bars) in addition to what I had to do (grocery shopping and food prep) and now I am crashed on the couch for the rest of the day.
glymr an email... *rubs hands as energetically as possible under the circumstances*
glymr gifted me with a Mechanic AU tweetfic (ThreadReader option). This fic, I'm telling you, THIS FIC. I read a bit of it while I was taking a lunch break from my own Porn Day project and even though they hadn't yet got down to business, I was hooked. Finally got to read the whole thing after I sent my fic for a quick SPAG check (thanks, kazoogrrl, you're a gem!) and IT WAS SO GOOD. Just, go, go! *shoos* Read it! Immediately, of course, I had a headcanon for the Envoy character and I'm going to be writing that up and sending it to glymr in hopes of inspiring her to write more. Or maybe co-write? idk! the idea is tantalizing, but... *looks at bunny pile* Anyway. I've been wanting that Mechanic AU for ages, now, and this was just lovely and so unexpected!glymr for organizing Porn Day and giving me a gift for it! Makes me VERY happy I decided to go for it and submit my own piece for the day. mckitterick, whom I must give credit for encouraging me to go for it, as well as allowing me the financial resources to, you know, not be employed so I could actually pull this off, pushed back on my firm stance to not revise it. If I find a typo, sure, but I know there are some wording choices I might not have kept, and some things I definitely would have added, given more time to cultivate the story. But I like the freedom of leaving it as is. A sort of testament to what I accomplished in 24 hours. That said, if anyone ever podfics it, I'd like to provide them a version that at least doesn't have things like the same word used too many times too close together, etc. Maybe I should mention that in the story notes...Twitter:
This back view is so... tender?
Fanart: Bite marks! Kissing/cuddling manips! No idea what's going on here, but I still laughed!
Don't know what fandom this is and it really doesn't matter (although enlighten me if you wanna) because hot boys lighting up over a shared flame YES PLEASE.
yantantether! mckitterick and he was all Well Why Aren't You and I was like Er, Fatigue Brain? and he came back with Well You Could At Least Try. So now I'm 2k into my first go at an edging fic but they just? now? are finally getting down to business? and there's only (checks countdown) ten hours left. So I'm not sure I'm gonna make the deadline. My brain tends to run out of steam after 1.5k in a day and I can feel the gears slowing even though I'm finally to The Good Stuff. Is there gonna be an amnesty option for this challenge? /o\ranalore wrote me the most incredible Untamed fic for a birthday present. I mentioned in a comment yesterday how I wasn't really reading much Wei Wuxian/Lan Zhan fic and BOY HOWDY now I don't need to read any more because this fic is so fuckin' amazing. It packs an incredible amount of heat and feels into fewer than 2k and absolutely rocked my world. naye because she might be able to read it during what's her afternoon is A Thing, now. <3
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