#Untamable Queue

[twistedappletree]

[incorrectuntamedmodaozushiquotes]

[thatswhatsushesaid]

be careful, xue-gongzi. you know what they say about misery

[sinfulpatata]

lightweight

drunk lwj is such a silly little guy

[purplephloxpress]

Another year, another Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day!!!! If you are a writer of fanfic, please know just how appreciated you are!! Fandom would be such a different space without your creativity and labors of love. 💜

Holidays are all about making traditions, and the bookbinding friends with @renegadeguild once again came together to bind copies of fics for their authors as a show of our appreciation. This year I had the absolute joy of binding Emergency Help Wanted by the wonderful @piyo-13 and even got to collaborate with her on some of the design elements! It's a Modern AU Jiang Cheng/Lan Xichen fic that starts with a "help wanted" ad.

EMERGENCY HELP WANTED

I lied when I got my job. I told them I had a kid so I could leave early from work to pick him up from daycare, take him to doctor's appointments, and occasionally miss a day when he's sick. Long story short, I'm in too deep. I didn't think it through. Looking to rent a kid for bring your child to work day. Must be a boy ages four to six, longish dark hair, likes soccer. Must also be artistic as the macaroni noodle paintings I made seem a little advanced for his age. Also, I will pay extra for someone willing to play the role of husband when dropping him off. He's a prosecuting attorney who often brings his work home. Message me for further details. Serious inquiries only.

Ok. So. I may have gone a little feral with this one. Online "help wanted" ad spiraled into loading wheel scene dividers, spiraled into fake Google search result headers, spiraled into FULLY committing to those authentic looking text messages. In full color. (There are so many. I typeset in MS Word. It was SO worth it, but god what a struggle at some points.) And don't forget the "recent searches" title page! Or the computer cutout on the cover! (It's bluescreening, just like Lan Xichen through this entire fic!) Also that cover/title page image that I just kept adding details to. (It's supposed to be Lan Xichen's desk, so it simply didn't feel right until it had sticky notes on the computer, #1 dad on the mug, scissors and measuring tape, scribbles on the sticky notes) Did I have a ton of fun designing this one? Perhaps. Couldn't say. Maybe just a tad. (This is a lie I had an ABSOLUTE BLAST!)

Historically, I've waited until I finish at least the typeset before reaching out to the author, but not so with this one! I got the idea for the fake google search results from Piyo's authors notes, teasing the contents of the next chapter. But! Those didn't start until about chapter 4! So I reached out and asked if we could collaborate and I'm forever glad I did! Not only does this have teasers for each chapter, I also got to bounce design ideas off of her, including what shade of blue and purple for the text messages. Because my friends, that is a serious matter and changed SEVERAL times throughout the process.

Also shoutout to all my Renegade friends who gave input and encouragement over the past year while I worked on this (what endpages to use? how to make this shade of green perfectly Nie Huaisang? how do we feel about this text message design? or how about this one?) - I love you all dearly and appreciate you so much for putting up with my nonsense at all times.

Binding details below the cut!

Fandom: The Untamed/Mo Dao Zu Shi

Pairing: Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin / Lan Huan | Lan Xichen

Bookcloth: Aqua/Purple Dubletta from Colophon Book Arts

Endpapers: Craft Consortium Ink Drops - Ocean pack

Textblock paper: short grain cream from Church Paper

Titling: We R Memory Keepers foil quill

Endbands: leather cording core, DMC embroidery floss for the bands

Body Font: EB Garamond

Title Font: Berlin Sans FB

Text Messages: Roboto

Additional fonts: Times New Roman, Kunstler Script, Magis Authentic

Title page image from Rawpixel and designed in Canva

Various computer graphics from The Noun Project

Tumblr insists on eating and doubling text in this section at its own whim, so if there's something missing that you're curious about, feel free to DM me an ask!

[sandushengshou]

[insp]

[sandontshengshou]

The whole ‘being blacklisted by the matchmakers’ thing really baffles me.

Either 1. Jiang Cheng is so abominably rude to these maidens that they don’t want him despite his wealth and status in the jianghu (why would he do that, he knows how to conduct himself in front of outsiders)

2. He’s so rizzless and bad at talking to women that even his aforementioned status isn’t enough to save him (worse than Jin Zixuan post-sunshot??? damn.)

3. The rumours are just rumours that someone made up to clown on Sandu Shengshou, who already has a… reputation.

To me, option 3 is the most plausible. People clown on him a lot, from not using his courtesy name to those tales about him torturing demonic cultivators to death.

I mean, the chances of someone who he was a dick to going “see, this is why he doesn’t get any. He probably got blacklisted by the matchmakers because he’s just that much of an asshole!’ is very high imo!

That rumour probably didn’t do much for his marriage prospects, I imagine. Oh, Jiang Cheng :,)

[uncorrectintamed]

Jiang Cheng: [Bursting into Wuxian's room] Wei Wuxian!

Wei Wuxian: I HAVE AN ALIBI

[inalandofsadclowns]

I think the reason xiyao wasn't mdzs's main pairing is that JGY and LXC had cleared their mutual feelings up so fast, it wasn't yaoi-friendly anymore. They just sat down and communicated instead of suffering for ages. Like some psychos.

[yumemiruuuu]

I come bearing sustenance 😞💅✨

off-topic but imagine if huaisang got drafted into war

[twistedappletree]

[incorrectuntamedmodaozushiquotes]

Lan Wangji, sighing: You know, I've never had a real friend before? Wei Wuxian: I'll be your friend! Lan Wangji: Lan Wangji: You know, I've never had a boyfriend before.

[thatswhatsushesaid]

reblog to smuggle su minshan back into olive garden

[sinfulpatata]

tranquil

+closeups

[bebemoon]

look man i don’t have time to explain romance to you. just watch the untamed and you’ll get it

[naysaltysalmon]

Words: 3,943 Genre: Drama/suspense Rating: NR (tr*nsphobia, body dysmorphia)

Pairing: NieYao Characters: Meng Yao/Jin Guangyao, Nie Mingjue, Jin Guangshan, Meng Shi

Part of NieYao Week 2024! @nieyaoevents Day 2: Scars – voyeurism

Summary:

“A girl—”

Jin Guangyao’s face immediately broke out in pink blotches, breaths coming fast and ragged.

“—posing as a man is not permitted in Jinlintai. I thought I made myself clear upon our first meeting. But perhaps you are a eunuch after all, given your unmatured voice and effeminate appearance—”

To witness someone musing so casually about his body, as if he wasn’t in the room, was too much to bear. Jin Guangyao started hyperventilating, though he willed himself not to show it.

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To prove his loyalty, Jin Guangyao must seduce Clan Leader Nie and refute Jin Guangshan’s suspicions about his body.