Sunday Six

[clevermanka]

Started what I hope will be the piece I finish in time for teaotter 's Getting Together Challenge. I'm proposing a late-series get-together--post wormhole! That tiny window of time between the internet broadcast and meeting up with the SID and Nightmare Dude's entourage the next day.

“So. Time travel. That was interesting. I see why you couldn’t talk about that.”

A slight twitch turned up the corner of Shen Wei’s mouth. Relieved, he leaned back, propping himself up on his elbows.

“Any other secrets about your past, well, our past, that you can’t share?”

Shen Wei turned to face him, eyes tracking up his sprawled body, a visible swallow.

“I believe the timeline is safe now.”

How do people count these six, anyway? For the two I've done, I counted a line of dialogue as one line and the other sentences separately.

I am tired, though, and massively distracted by a particular gif that qikiqtarjuaq posted in the latest Guardian Body Language post.

So there's this, which (for those few poor souls still reading me here who aren't fans) happens in the show:


and then there's this fanedit:

which I have watched loop approximately twenty thousand times so far today.

I...just...uhhhhhh....no wording no brain.

Comments

[thetimesink]

Darn you...

I'm cis, but I can abstract out what you are seeing...

[clevermanka]

I mean...I'm cis, too, and it's pretty obvious from where I'm sitting! =D

[starandrea]

That tiny window of time between the internet broadcast and meeting up with the SID and Nightmare Dude's entourage the next day.

Yay! I love it! And your six!

Also, I don't know if you're a Supernatural fan? But Sam has a great quote that totally made sense in context but A) sounds ridiculously obvious otherwise and B) has become fandom slang for fade-to-black, aka "what happened overnight?!" The quote being, "It was night and now it's day!" (Said in exactly the earnestly "shocked" way you might imagine.) Guardian has So Many of these great time-skips-that-are-treated-as-continuous-moments, and I'm v. excited to see what happens in this one! :D

(My sister and I were watching the episodes in the past and I'm pretty sure we both said it, unprompted, when the scene switches from Daqing talking to Shen Wei and Kunlun on the cliff at night to all of them running up behind the rebels during the day. "It was night and now it's day!")

[clevermanka]

Glad you like my six! I wrote those about ten minutes before posting... =D

I am SPN fan-adjacent! My partner mckitterick has dutifully watched every season and I watched (I think?) the first five with him. Also, we live in Lawrence, Kansas, which makes the show extra special for us. I think I remember that episode. Was it Mystery Spot? or was it the one where they fall into the universe where they're the actors in the show?

It really is a very relevant crossover quote for Guardian.

Sometimes I wonder if the show creators did all that stuff on purpose to allow for people to play in the sandbox. It just seems like it happens a lot for a show that's only 40 episodes. I suppose this is where Watsonian vs. Doylist conversations could be helpful.

[starandrea]

Aha! So you have all the foundational knowledge! :D It's from the end of season 6, when Sam is trapped in his head with two other versions of himself, trying to figure out what reality is. He's driving along a road at night with someone else, when out in the real world Dean shines a flashlight in his eyes. Inside Sam's head, there's a bright light and night turns into day. He stops the car and jumps out, and his passenger gets out too and asks him what's wrong. "It was night!" he says, "and now it's day!" (His passenger says, "It was always day," and he's like, "No it wasn't!")

So sort of like the censors for Guardian, I guess.

Censors: "It was always a brotherhood!"
Fans: "It was literally never a brotherhood!"

It just seems like it happens a lot for a show that's only 40 episodes.

It sure covers a lot of time relative to how much we actually see on-screen! ♥

[clevermanka]

So sort of like the censors for Guardian, I guess.

[demitas]

I am SUCH a sucker for late-series getting together, once everything is out in the open (except the endgame secret that I like to handwave away lol). It allows for the whole series of UST and near-misses and getting comfortable with each other so that when it DOES happen they both know exactly what they're getting into ♥

(sorry about the extra notif, apparently I leaned on some keyboard shortcut that posted before I was done lol)

[clevermanka]

Who doesn't like to handwave away that endgame? =D I mean, I'm sure there are some and I've read some lovely fix-its that don't handwave, but...yeah. Here's to handwaves! *clink!*

Hope this one turns out well! I'm trying not to feel ~pressured~ by the deadline and the fact that I'm also writing it for jo_lasalle who needs more Weilan fics that aren't AUs but also don't have any bb!SW boinking.

Also I feel like I edit about half the comments I post so no worries!

[frith_in_thorns]

For Sunday Six I believe almost no one actually counts the sentences. We just post a small bit of text that feels about right and coincidentally contains the entire part we want to include.

I also like getting-together at that point when pretty much everything is finally out in the open :)

[clevermanka]

We just post a small bit of text that feels about right and coincidentally contains the entire part we want to include.
Oh, excellent, thank you! That gives me a lot more leeway to choose different sections. BUT! Limiting myself to six sentences means I made myself chop an unnecessary line from what I posted, so hurray for forced self-editing?

pretty much everything is finally out in the open
Yeah, what I'm working on right now is definitely the least angsty sex I've written. It's...actually kinda tough? *laugh-cry emoji*

[khellekson]

I checked out the challenge but I can't write First Time with this pairing because my head!canon indicates that FT will not be mutual and will be confusing thanks to, you know, time travel. Unless that counts?

[clevermanka]

HA! That's basically the set-up for First Time that I posted Saturday.

But it totally counts, IMO. In the details for the challenge, teaotter says "You get to choose what "committed relationship" means. It doesn't have to be sexual or romantic. It doesn't have to happen for both of them at the same time."