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clevermanka ([personal profile] clevermanka) wrote2019-11-15 10:23 am

Friday Update

From Twitter:
Fanart of sweet, sleepy Zhao Yunlan next to Shen Wei on the couch.
Zhu Yilong is too pretty for my own good.
Bai Yu licking white frosting off his lips. Repeatedly. There is no way in any universe that this man doesn't know exactly what his mouth does to people.
Super fuckin' cute (and SFW!) domestic Shen Wei and flirty Zhao Yunlan chibis.
Someone else made unintentional art for Ghost Story! Thank you, [personal profile] naye, for the heads-up. I follow them on Tumblr but hadn't seen that one (and now I follow them on Twitter, too).
I interpret this as very sweet, post-sex Weilan snuggles. (I do not understand the caption so am going with what I saw for myself)
While scrolling through these gorgeous pics of Shen Wei (go through to the original Weibo post--worth it), I literally whispered "oh fuck off" and had to look away for a moment.
Not Guardian!
Hacking the Comic Sans trick
for writing (it's not the font)

I don't care if you're a Guardian fan or if you even know what the show is. Hie thee over to Portal, a drabble by [personal profile] lannamichaels . It's 100 words, you can spare the time. Substitute just about any artificial separation of people for Haixing/Dixing and it still works, beautifully. They also managed to fit so many knives into another 100 words with Masks so many knives.

Fic writers--how many times per emotional and/or sexy scene do you have to go back and figure out if someone has already closed their eyes? I swear I have to do it at least twice, more if the scene lasts more than 1k words. So annoying.

I'm close to finishing Ghost Story, y'all. So. Close. Also I might've found a title in a song lyric? I was recently reminded of this stellar heart-wrencher with the perfect line "life's waiting to begin" and I was like ahhhhhhhh! So, maybe this poor beast will actually get a name besides Ghost Story. But at this point I'm kind of attached to calling it Ghost Story? IDK. Guess it doesn't matter until I finish, anyway! 


[personal profile] mckitterick got back on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. Going through his photos, I came across this, taken during one of the big presentations at the convention. It was a slideshow of notable recent Chinese SF shows. Here's the full-size pic.

Y'all, I screamed. He hadn't even noticed! Didn't see it on the screen at the time, didn't realize he'd gotten a picture. Total luck, and how awesome! Look, there's our SID! It made me (maybe?) unreasonably happy.

Alas, he was not able to secure the Harper's Bazaar magazine. Apparently it's difficult to locate magazines in China? He said none of the stores carry them and the only newsstands are roadside things that he saw only as he was zooming somewhere in a taxi. BUT! He did locate water transfer decals of Zhu Yilong! When he handed them to me I honest to dogs slid off the couch, Tina Belcher style (I am 2% Tina, the rest of me is all Louise). Here I am with my gift:

If it looks like my eyelids are wet that's because I was literally crying I laughed so hard. There's six sheets, and they each have 5-10 photos of him from shows, photo shoots, production stills, ads. Better than a magazine! I don't think I'll ever actually use them, but I love them. I'm not a sentimental person and it's a rare thing that makes me go "I'm glad I have this just because I want to have it." I'm thrilled to have these.


Okay time to finish writing the last sex scene!

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[personal profile] khellekson 2019-11-17 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
McKitterick is AWESOME! Glad he made you happy!