Sunday Snippet, et. al.

[clevermanka]

Can someone please point me to the gif that has Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan walking down the street in the park and it fades to when they're walking together in Old Haixing? Or any gif that transitions between them in the modern day and Old Haixing. I found a Tumblr post that cries out for it.

To shake me out of this lethargic funk I've sunk into, I'm trying a checklist format to motivate myself. I do better with paper planner type things and I have several little field notebook things that a friend gave me years ago so I'm using one of those. Each day has three sections: Do Before Noon, Do Before 5, and then three options if I'm still feeling energetic/inspired. We'll see how this goes.

I'm hoping that putting "Internet shit" in the "Do Before Noon" section will keep me from obsessively checking my laptop for human contact all day. I'll do my usual Email/DW/Tumblr/Twitter in the morning and then leave it alone until I finish the rest of the stuff on the Do Before 5 list. I'll probably make exceptions for the rare Twitter pings I get, because human contact is still very much appreciated right now.

Inspired byplingo_kat's Twitter thread I started another Deconstruction missing scene fic. The first few paragraphs are all I've got so far, but it'll feature more shotgunning dope smoke (obvs) and sex-while-high (which I was sad to not write into the main fic but couldn't find a good spot for it so left it out).

In the weeks following Da Qing’s departure, Zhao Yunlan surprised himself with how rarely he was the one to initiate sex. Although their daily life hadn’t changed due to their married status, he’d expected some things to feel different— he just hadn’t expected that to be one of them. Granted, it was largely because all Zhao Yunlan had to do was grin in Shen Wei’s direction and his husband was on him like an octopus.

His husband. His husband! The fact still made him giddy with the joyful newness of it.

Shen Wei seemed to absolutely delight in married life. He smiled often—still softly, but he frequently held Zhao Yunlan’s gaze instead of looking away. And he was talking. They were talking. About their past, but also about Shen Wei's own. What he’d gone through, before Kunlun and after waking in this new world. It wasn't easy for him, but he was trying so hard.

Zhao Yunlan loved him so much.

Comments

[naye]

This makes me SO SOFT and SO HAPPY aaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Sounds like a good way of structuring up your day - good luck with the getting-things-done. ♥

[clevermanka]

Checked everything off by 4pm! 🌟🎉🍾

[naye]

AMAZING!!

[undeadrobins]

I hope the checklist planning works for you *hugs*

[clevermanka]

It did! Now let's see if I can make it two days in a row...

[elizacake]

I was trying to decide how to start my Guardian fic reading -- <10k words or long-ass fic. 😊

... It wasn't easy for him, but he was trying so hard.

Zhao Yunlan loved him so much.

Awwww! That's exactly the feeling I need to wallow in with these two. Long-ass fic it is.

[clevermanka]

That's exactly the feeling I need to wallow in with these two

[nnozomi]

will keep me from obsessively checking my laptop for human contact all day.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it...

...but he was trying so hard.
Oh Shen Wei ♡

[clevermanka]

I'm in this picture and I don't like it...
*sympathetic pat*

[umadoshi]

*delighted flail over the snippet* I'm so excited that you're writing this!

*rummages through Wakelet* A gif! Another gif!

[clevermanka]

Thank you! I, uh, I guess this means I need to finally figure out how to pull gifs off Twitter. 😆😬

[plingo_kat]

I'm so glad to inspire what I'm sure will be an excellent missing scene fic *g*

[clevermanka]

I appreciate the optimism, darling! 😚

[mekare]

Awwww lovely.

[clevermanka]

Thank you!

[wrote_and_writ]

UGH so cute! I love their married cuteness!

[clevermanka]

I was surprised with how much I enjoy writing them happy. WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME? (oh, right, solitary isolation and depression is what's happening to me 😂)

[khellekson]

I too am a paper person! I use Mead notebooks. It's mostly a scratch pad, but I also have been known to put things down just to check them off. And I save them, but I do not know why, as I rarely refer to them again.

[clevermanka]

*high fives fellow paper-person* I've tried digital planners and other task apps but I always wind up going back to paper. I miss the days I was busy enough I needed to have an Actual Calendar Planner!

[khellekson]

Two words: bullet journal!

https://bulletjournal.com/pages/learn

[clevermanka]

They're lovely and I enjoy looking at other people's but they're too... involved for me. I'm happy with my little list of five checkboxes. 😄

[tinny]

I have that gif, but I don't know where I have it from.



hao Yunlan surprised himself with how rarely he was the one to initiate sex.

Awwww that snippet is so wonderful. I love them being so in love.

[clevermanka]

Thank you!

I am so in love with their love. This one-shot is going to be full of fluffy happy in-love sex feels.