Tuesday collection, et. al.

[clevermanka]

Today's another Guardian collection on my Tumblr, if you wanna check that out.

Guardian and Guardian-adjacent on Twitter:
Fanart: Zhao Yunlan with Shen Wei's glasses. Battle couple! 
More ReFa stuff: Hands. Chibi fanart (with a close up of hands). And let's just...watch the ad again, shall we? 
Rehearsal for the Guardian Premiere Press Conference. How do I still want to bang Bai Yu even with those slippers and bucket hat?

There's a fic about Zhao Yunlan dancing for Shen Wei and I'm so sorry I don't remember who wrote it or the title but there was discussion (or maybe this was someone's post? sorry, apparently I'm high) about what idol choreography he'd memorized and I suggested (I think) Taemin's Press Your Number (I know it was something by Taemin bc omg Taemin's choreographies) but uh, I'd like to revise that.

Am becoming less inclined to write my own sex worker AU as I see more great stuff coming out from other people. I'm relieved that none of the ones I've read yet do the sex work is shameful/incompatible with being in love thing. This clears one plot bunny off my farm and makes it more likely I'll actually get to the Garage Mechanic AU which I have now decided is going to be Zhubai instead of Weilan. Partially because of glymr 's delightful fic and also because I kinda wanna smash together Bai Yu's mechanic photo shoot with spoiled rich playboy Zhu Yilong from the ReFa ads. That might be my next fic after Deconstruction. And after my History 3 fic which will be my focus the next week or so. Wanna post that by the end of the month if possible, so I can hop on this challenge

Comments

[wrote_and_writ]

ASTRO! I love them and I had not seen that video, so thank you!

[clevermanka]

You're welcome!

[yantantether]

I think the dancing fic is probably Xparrot's brilliant Focus Pull?

And I'm *incredibly* excited to hear about the prospective ZhuBai mechanic AU! 🥰

[clevermanka]

YES THAT'S IT THANK YOU! Such a good story (and yes, it was Press Your Number that I suggested in the comments).

Hurray! This also means I'm gonna unload all my other ideas for the Guardian AU on glymr for potential use in that. Clean slate yay!

eta: You still up for beta-ing the History 3 fic? That was you, yes?

[yantantether]

Ooooh YES!

[clevermanka]

Cool, thank you. I'm writing the Hong Ye post today and hope to get the fic to you sometime next week. If, that is, my possible solution to the plot/character crisis actually works...

[yantantether]

Fab! I'll DM you my email in case you need it

[xparrot]

I was going to say, I think that was mine -- and yes, the Press Your Number routine was perfectly it, but I will very happily accept this revision! (holy moly what are those pants even made of!?)

[clevermanka]

what are those pants even made of
The frustrated dreams of my id.

[naye]

ReFa. *sobs*

I'm glad you're enjoying the sex worker AUs around! I have found them delightful. ALSO this Garage Mechanic AU sounds terribly intriguing~! :D

[clevermanka]

The sex worker AUs have been such a relief, seriously. I have friends who have worked or are still working in the sex industry and while I'm here for a Pretty Woman-esque story, the whole "oh I can't keep doing this because I finally found love" narrative is Just Awful.

I'm thrilled to have figured out how much I enjoy RPF AUs. They're basically original fiction, but I'm already emotionally invested in the characters!

[tinny]

I love how this fandom can do anything, RPF and FPF, there's no difference, and we're just picking and choosing characters willy-nilly carefully for optimal compatibility from Bai Yu's mechanic photoshoot. :D

That mechanic character is getting almost as popular as the time engraver!


I only remember one fic where Zhu Yilong dances for Bai Yu, and there were music lyrics in the fic, but it was not Kpop. (And it was a little too embarrassment squicky for me, so I didn't bookmark it. But it should be easy to find, the RPF tag isn't that huge after all.)

[clevermanka]

It's a Weilan fic, not ZhuBai, and Yan found it! Focus, Pull by Xparrot.

[tinny]

Ah, yes, I know that one, of course. The dancing did not feature most prominently in my memory of it. (The auras did.)