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clevermanka) wrote2022-07-31 11:28 am
clevermanka) wrote2022-07-31 11:28 am
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Sunday Snippet
Question: Other than his mentor do we ever see SW interact positively with a male friend or (academic/non-SID) co-worker? Even his two grad students are women.
Last night was annoying (hate it when I can't fall asleep until after midnight) so today is pretty rough but overall it was a better week than the two previous. Even got some writing done. Yesterday was a spanking scene I've been planning for months. It needs a lot of revision but the bones of it are on the page. Snippet is not from that scene:
Last night was annoying (hate it when I can't fall asleep until after midnight) so today is pretty rough but overall it was a better week than the two previous. Even got some writing done. Yesterday was a spanking scene I've been planning for months. It needs a lot of revision but the bones of it are on the page. Snippet is not from that scene:
Later, finally in bed and curled around a sleeping Shen Wei, Zhao Yunlan took a deep breath, pulling in his familiar and comforting scent. Unwilling to imagine the idea of never smelling it again, he risked pressing his nose into Shen Wei’s nape. They’d come a long way from Shen Wei being the one to sit vigil and the Zhao Yunlan who’d surrendered himself to the lantern no longer existed. Not really. Too much had changed, and his physical body was the least of it. He had an uncomfortable feeling that if he ever had to choose between saving the world or his husband, he wasn’t sure it would be the lantern that burned.
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I can't think of any!
He had an uncomfortable feeling that if he ever had to choose between saving the world or his husband, he wasn’t sure it would be the lantern that burned.
*melts* Ohhhh, lovely.
*hugs* I hope today is better.
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Thank you for commenting on the snippet! I think that would be A Thing both of them would grapple with from time to time. Like "I gave you up once and I am never. doing. that. again."
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Sounds about right to me. *weeps over them*
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Just... how much would it suck to realize loving a particular person actually, kinda, makes you a *worse* person? Or at least a person less willing to do whatever it took to save others? And would you ever admit that to the other person?
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It's so layered! There's the aspect of protecting that person no matter what, but it's also protecting your own heart, and that gets complicated for so many people--probably rarely in this stark a way, but all the caretaking professions deal with something in the same vein. There's always another child to teach, another patient to treat, etc. etc., and I'd like to think people with a sense of compassion understand why folks in those professions often have to leave.
Which is to say, it's a complex thing to think about!
(And then on the scale stories like Guardian deal with, when it's literally "save your loved one or the world", there's the brutal logic of "you may not feel like the world is worth it without the beloved person, but if the world is destroyed, do you both/all just die along with it anyway?)
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*wallows in the angst of it*
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Well, he has a male student (Xiao Quan) who comes on the Hanga trip along with Jiajia. And he and Zheng Yi's horrible stepfather appear to be on collegial terms (they talk about research, anyway).
Unwilling to imagine the idea of never smelling it again, he risked pressing his nose into Shen Wei’s nape.
<3 <3 <3 *sniff*
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