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clevermanka) wrote2019-12-01 08:15 am
clevermanka) wrote2019-12-01 08:15 am
Sunday Snippet
One Guardian Twitter find:
"I Wish to Lie to Get Out of Trouble But I Can't Lie to Someone This Hot" Scroll up to start at the top of the thread tho.
And one Untamed Tumblr find:
Someone read and wrote down all those Lan Clan rules.
I'm waaaay too many words into the fic currently titled Voyeur (working title but I kinda dig it). Exposition! Exposition as far as the eye can see /o\ I mean, it's a tricky thing to avoid in a story that contains only one person and no dialogue, but 2k words of it? Ha ha ha ha ha NO. I'll be culling that, but here's a paragraph that'll probably stay:
Caught in the too-familiar conflict between his desires and his duties, he groaned into the empty apartment. He was so tired of fighting—fighting to conceal his identity, fighting his own people, fighting his desires. He stepped back toward the bed and flexed his hands, knowing what he was going to do, regardless of ethics or morality. It was wrong, it was a violation—a betrayal of trust. But too many years, too many instances of denial, too much loneliness and loss made him weak. Kneeling on the mattress, he reached for the pillow in the middle of bed, sunk his hands into it, and greedily pulled the memories into his mind.
While I was cleaning art space this weekend, I found transcriptions of the magnetic poetry I wrote on my fridge in the beloved old apartment (the one I used as a base for Ghost Story). Twenty-something me was not all that much different from nearly-fifty me for rolling around in The Feels. I might post those tomorrow.
"I Wish to Lie to Get Out of Trouble But I Can't Lie to Someone This Hot" Scroll up to start at the top of the thread tho.
And one Untamed Tumblr find:
Someone read and wrote down all those Lan Clan rules.
I'm waaaay too many words into the fic currently titled Voyeur (working title but I kinda dig it). Exposition! Exposition as far as the eye can see /o\ I mean, it's a tricky thing to avoid in a story that contains only one person and no dialogue, but 2k words of it? Ha ha ha ha ha NO. I'll be culling that, but here's a paragraph that'll probably stay:
Caught in the too-familiar conflict between his desires and his duties, he groaned into the empty apartment. He was so tired of fighting—fighting to conceal his identity, fighting his own people, fighting his desires. He stepped back toward the bed and flexed his hands, knowing what he was going to do, regardless of ethics or morality. It was wrong, it was a violation—a betrayal of trust. But too many years, too many instances of denial, too much loneliness and loss made him weak. Kneeling on the mattress, he reached for the pillow in the middle of bed, sunk his hands into it, and greedily pulled the memories into his mind.
While I was cleaning art space this weekend, I found transcriptions of the magnetic poetry I wrote on my fridge in the beloved old apartment (the one I used as a base for Ghost Story). Twenty-something me was not all that much different from nearly-fifty me for rolling around in The Feels. I might post those tomorrow.
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TBH I think a lot of this word vomit is my being just so damned happy to be writing his POV again.
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Is it weird that even though Shen Wei is hands-down my favourite character in the drama, and also has a spot in my "top 10 fav characters ever" list, I prefer ZYL's POV? I want SW to be in the story all the time, obviously, but I just...like perving on him through ZYL's eyes I suppose, haha.
That being said, this snippet is beautifully written and heartbreaking, and if the rest of it is anything like it I'm with
But too many years, too many instances of denial, too much loneliness and loss made him weak.
*Pats him endlessly while wiping away my tears*
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I'm glad you liked the snippet, thank you! It's gonna seem kinda anticlimactic (snort) tho, when the actual porny part is, like, only three paragraphs. oops. Guess maybe that means I should just cram some more porn in there...
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*looks nervously at 90k words of Ghost Story*
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But I want more ZYL pining! It's so unfair that he gets less of it in fic!
(Yay Ghost Story!)
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(None of this applies to Ghost Story, obviously. As you both know, I'm 100% here for it!)
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It's not spoiler-y to tell you that the ZYL of Ghost Story has some handy aspects of emotional intelligence thanks largely to growing up BFFs with Zhu Hong.
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But to +1
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Hee! That is an amazing thread. :D
Is it really exposition, or is it more introspection like in your sample paragraph? Because 2k of introspection like thatare totally fine with me. *g*
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Although, I mean, like...I don't have a job? So that frees up, you know, eight hours a day. *laugh-cry emoji*
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There is that! ^_^
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