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[clevermanka]

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I cannot sufficiently articulate how absolutely unprepared I was for A-line shirt wearing long hair Bai Yu.
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Fanart: Pop-art style. Kisses! Chibi kisses! Caught kissing on the lawn! Shen Wei past and present.
King of the slow blink.

The art of acting like a spoiled child. (this is actually a brilliant cultural technique and short but educational)

More heartbreaking thoughts on Dr. Li Wenliang, who defied authorities to let people know about the coronavirus. People continuing to try to help their fellows makes me feel better about humanity.

According to the Guardian prologue, the planet where the story takes place is called Seastar (in the subtitles I remember, anyway), and I understood that term to be separate from Haixing which is (as I interpreted it) the word for the China-nation equivalent. Is this an accepted standard? McKitterick thought Haixing was the name of the planet which, once he said it, doesn't seem an unreasonable assumption. Where does fandom stand on this? It's kind of important for how I phrase things in Deconstruction.

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[clevermanka]

This is making my life more difficult and I am highly annoyed at all the decisions that led it being the case.

[naye]

The fact that I've never figured out what the difference between the world/nation is... Yeeeahhhhhh. I usually gloss over it? You could make a case for a world called Haixing full of nation-states, except for how you have the Haixing Ministry. And you could make a case for Haixing being a country in a world also called Haixing because of ~reasons~. You can also make a case for Haixing being the only nation in the world and so everything is Haixing. But that's not helpful at all, is it?

[clevermanka]

So when I started Ghost Story, I was all "woo! figuring out the ghost sex is gonna be so fun" and then I realized It Was Actually Not All That Fun in fact It Was Kind Of Exhausting and now I'm looking at my "woo! figuring out how to write a Canadian Shack fic for Guardian's gonna be so fun" and I realize I'm a complete fucking idiot and waaaaaay more of an unconscious masochist than I ever dreamed.

I've always said my tombstone will read "It Seemed Like Such A Good Idea At The Time."