#pandelion fic

[rose-tinted-vision]

Rose's Cdrama fic rec list

(in no particular order, and not very recent)

Mysterious Lotus Casebook

Fanghua

In this dream, there is a lover to share this life with by coreoftheabyss

来日方长 | the days ahead are long by mimosaeyes

Both past and present by Lukaji

Difanghua

it was you all the way down by acrobats

far from the shore by willowcatkin

Step by Step by the20sbard

and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart by sarahyyy

Guardian

I thought it was you by spinningthreads

In the customary manner by teaotter

some stars fall home by frith_in_thorns

How to lose a black cloaked envoy in 10 days by qikiqtarjuaq

Purple (Like the Open Fields) by anecdotalist

Secret Identities and the Friends that keep them by MeridianGrimm

Gen

Keep me in your heart by surreality

Secret identities and the friends that keep them by MeridianGrimm

Hikaru no Go

The future that I missed by liuet

Invisible by Neery

The Anniversary by chapatifordays

Friends don't let friends play Weiqi with Strangers alone by Bookgrotto

The Blood of Youth

mending bridges (we'll build them together) by marquisguyun

grieving by ThebanSacredBand

win three, lose one by plingo_kat (Xiao Se/Tang Lian)

The Yin Yang Master: Dream of Eternity

Ask me no questions (and I'll tell you no lies) by Momokai

And tell me will love be there by Desdemon

in vino veritas by Pandelion

no atheists in a foxhole by Pandelion

[katvonbirb]

20 questions writer meme

Trying to get back into putting words onto a page, so why not do a bit of retrospective? Can't hurt, at least, lmao.

For anyone that isn't aware or would like to browse tags and summaries before clicking the direct links below, I am Pandelion on Ao3. My answers below are based on my Ao3 fics, for the most part. 1. How many works do you have on AO3? 35

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 207,935 (arguably, only 150k are mine due to cowritten fic)

3. What fandoms do you write for? Bleach and Yin Yang Master most recently, but I've previously written for SPN, MCU, Teen Wolf, LoTR and a number of other fandoms over the last almost twenty years.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1. Begins A New Beginning (Teen Wolf, 3.2k words, alternate canon)

2. The Captain And The Dragon (Avengers, 600 words, fantasy AU ficlet)

3. kiss with a fist (better than none) (Bleach, 5.5k words, canon divergent post-Aizen)

4. Here There Be Dragons (Vikings, 6.4k words, alt. canon, dragon!Athelstan)

5. Making It Work (Avengers, 5.2k words, daemon AU where Phil Coulson is Fury's daemon)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? I try to and I absolutely read every single comment I get, but answering them doesn't always happen for one reason or another.

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I enjoy a good spot of angst, but I rarely end on it. That said, i will not replace (what i lost in you) and it's sequel hands shaking with regret (i've held this dream) for the Yin Yang Master fandom is probably the winner.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Hmm, probably 'neath the love-light gleam, which was written for a Bleach Secret Santa gift exchange and is almost entirely fluff.

8. Do you get hate on fics? Haven't yet!

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? The kind that doesn't get posted in public fics lmao. Honestly, I think only 2 or 3 of the fics I've posted to Ao3 even have sexual content beyond like, kissing and holding hands. The one fic that is actually marked as Explicit is probably surprisingly non-vanilla-ish for being the only one I've posted? But yeah, most of my explicit writing happens outside of Ao3.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? I was going to say yes, but then realized that I haven't written an actual crossover since my LJ days. I usually write AUs based on other existing media, such as daemon AUs (His Dark Materials) or something like my rewriting of The Mummy (1999) with Bleach characters. That said, I once wrote a SPN/Gundam Wing crossover, that's probably the craziest one I've written.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I'm aware of!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? I have! One of my fics was translated into Polish last year. I don't read Polish, so I haven't been able to read it, but I'm super thrilled that someone liked it enough to do so!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? I have one fic listed as co-written on Ao3, so technically yes, but I'm really on there more as part of the back-end development side, as my cowriter has done the vast majority of the actual writing. I love to rp, but actually co-writing is more difficult, in a way.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship? Oh man, um. I'm going to say Grimmjow/Ichigo from Bleach, since their dynamic keeps pulling me back in, but honestly there are so many pairings that I gravitate back to again and again.

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? There are so many WIPs in my gdocs that will never see the light of day, honestly. So many snippets of ideas and concepts that won't get fleshed out. I have two WIPs currently posted and I'm praying to get the inspiration/ability to finish them, so hopefully they won't join the list of never to be finished fics.

16. What are your writing strengths? World-building, for sure. I love settings, I love developing and establishing a world in a fic. And not in the, like, writing down all the details of the world sort of way, but in the broad strokes of character actions and interactions. I've also been told that my general style of writing is pretty great, but that might have been from a biased source lmao.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Pacing, most likely. Plot of any real sort. If you look at my Ao3, the vast majority of my fics are 5k or under, usually under 3k or so. I have such a hard time with long form fic, I have no idea how to properly pace things, I don't use outlines much at all, and constructing a plot is hard lmao. I much prefer to give little oneshots of a concept or something, leave the bigger plot implied and waiting in the wings.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? So hard! Doing a direct translation works for some things, but other stuff can be way too tangled up in the messiness of real language. I'd definitely prefer to have a native speaker that I can consult about it if I were to do anything with more than a phrase or two.

19. First fandom you wrote for? So, way back before I knew about ff.net or LiveJournal, way before Ao3 was a thing, I wrote what was effectively Dragonrider of Pern fic. After that, probably Rurouni Kenshin or Yu Yu Hakusho.

20. Favorite fic you've written? and the stars led me back to you (Bleach, 4.4k words, Grimmjow/Ichigo, space!au). I love all my fics, of course, but this one was just so good, very much a case of me writing something with myself as the intended audience. I reread it fairly often. kiss with a fist (better than none) is probably a fairly close runner-up, though, I am still so pleased with some of the dialogue and dynamics in that.

[grimmichi-ao3-feed]

[New AO3 Fic!] how hollow heart

by Pandelion

Grimmjow knows the very instant that someone touches his heart. He can feel it like a physical touch, under his skin and impossibly cold.

Words: 2634, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Bleach (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Grimmjow Jaegerjaques, Kurosaki Ichigo, Urahara Kisuke

Relationships: Grimmjow Jaegerjaques/Kurosaki Ichigo

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence, it's almost canon but not quite, Pre-Relationship, obedience geas

Read it now on AO3!

[inimitablereel]

2022 Fic Fanwork Recs

Saw someone doing end of year fic recs and I decided I wanted to talk about fics. And then I started going through my ao3 bookmarks and realized I had a lot of vids I really loved in there. So under the cut (because even limiting to not too many per fandom and only things published this year this got long) are some things I've liked this year!

DMBJ

So Beat the Drum Slowly by Thimblerig gen: Wu Xie goes to A Ning's funeral I am the center of the target audience for this fic. I love A Ning and this gave me some actual closure over her death.

Wish Your Bed was Already Made by ilgaksu Wu Xie+Heihua I love ilgaksu's version of heihua always. Would recommend this fic for fans of all the times in Ultimate Note where Wu Xie is forced to third wheel them and for everyone who assumed Hei Xiazi put a tracker on Xiao Hua in the heihua movie.

Practical Applications of a Formal Education by Pandelion gen: 5+1 snippets of tomb adventures This is about the most important character in dmbj (Wu Xie's architecture degree). Fun tomb moments and character dynamics for everyone.

Pépito is Out by ladysisyphus iron triangle ot3: snippets of post-reboot hanging out I love the iron triangle and I love most of the ot3 hanging out being retired fics. This one also has a lot of cute visiting reboot characters and a very cryptid Xiaoge.

With Water and a Star by afrikate Hei Xiazi/Xiao Hua/Huo Xiuxiu (mind the metadata: this is the only tomb show fic I've linked that's rated m and not super short) The rare tomb show fic that's mostly about the politics of running mob families (tbh it's rare in canon too except for sand sea so maybe there's a lot of this in fics I haven't read for spoilers reasons): Huo Xiuxiu takes over the Huo family! Love to see her getting to actually be badass. I was skeptical of the ship going in, but this is a getting together fic for all the sides except heihua and it really sold me on the various dynamics.

vid: spike the punch by stellarer Ultimate Note. heihua vid!! this vid really gives you the sense that these weirdos like each other so much and is just really joyful to watch

vid: you're a 10 I'm a four leaf clover by absternr also UN, also a heihua vid!!! they're so weird and they flirt so weirdly <3 and this vid does a great job conveying that

vid: Still Not Dead by teyla multi-tomb show. Honestly if you're in the dmbj fandom and you haven't gone and watched all of teyla's multi vids, congrats, you're gonna have a good day today, go watch all their vids they're all great. This one is a bop but also a good thing to watch if you want to think really hard about Wu Xie as a character.

vid: I'm not your friend by absternr UN. My reclist so I'm gonna rec a little Ultimate Note A Ning vid where she gets to be hot and badass and not dead.

The Untamed/MDZS I've been in this fandom for over 2 years now, so my untamed fic recs are all things that are a little different from a lot of the stuff I've already read. If you're just kind of looking for a wangxian fic there's a lot of new good ones that I am not mentioning here.

the fair and the good and the brave must die by Lise wangxian... kind of. canon-era, during the 13 years Lan Wangji finds Wei Wuxian's angry resentful ghost and has to deal with that. This fic is upsetting and I love that.

grandmaster ranked in demonic cultivation by tshirt Jin Ling centric (Jin Ling & Jiang Cheng among others): modern ...league of legends au? as in they play league I know nothing abut league but this fic author clearly does and I love to read a niche au. Funny and also really really good characterization for both Jin Ling and Jiang Cheng.

年年有虞 | Sweet, but not too sweet by frostferox Jiang Cheng centric: modern au - elementary school Jiang Cheng has a bake sale Okay so you can tell who my favorite untamed boy is from this list :p but this is a really interesting take on what all the Jiang family relationships look like without the big stressors of canon. Also a fic about being first gen kid in a US elementary school.

vid: Fixer Upper by absternr Burial mounds vid! Lots of Wens (+ Wei Wuxian) feels about trying to build a home when everyone wants to kill you. This made me cry.

Nirvana in Fire

The Young Marshall's Ghost by ConvenientAlias gen: Mei Changsu solves a mystery After reading this I went back and read the rest of the series it's in, but given that I read it in this order, it obviously works as a standalone. Fun if you like to watch Mei Changsu be smart but framed more in a mystery way than a political drama way.

boiling point by caulkhead Lin Chen & Mei Changsu This should really have the exhausted character finally gets a nap tag. Lots of cleverness and friendship feels.

All the Distant Stars by BromeliadDreams Mei Changsu/Xiao Jingyan: scifi au This is one of the only setting aus that I've really liked in this fandom, but it's doing really cool things with how you come back different in a scifi setting. More running around having adventures and feelings vibes than political intrigue.

"The wise person avoids parties as far as possible" by Nemainofthewater Jingrui goes to a party (no not that one) choose your own adventure fic This is such a cool fic format and there are so many different possible endings

vid: Mei Changsu is climbing the mountain by sandalwoodbox general nif plot focus This is a remix of another vid (that is also excellent and you should watch) and it's a really cool tonal shift between the two vids. It's somewhere between saying something very serious about canon and doing something very silly.

vid: ...Baby One More Time by absternr Jingyan/Mei Changsu(or should I say Lin Shu?) Okay so I'm choosing the silly nif vids I guess but the thing about this vid is you go in being like haha a Brittney Spears song haha there were so many signs and you come out being like oh no Jingyan's lonliness is killing him I am so sad now every time. Which is the ideal nif vid experience imo, can't spell knife without nif, go have some feelings.

Misc Vids

Don't Worry Be Randall by lizardjay For Infinity Train but I'd rec it even if you haven't seen the show - it's just a charming animation of don't worry be happy

She Works Hard for the Money by teyla For Kinnporsche but you do not have to have seen the show. This is so funny, especially if you've ever seen any show that went hard on product placement. NSFW: don't watch it in public

So far by dirty_diana - fandom: Wheel of Time I saw this before I'd seen the show and then again after it - either way it's very atmospheric but having seen the show I also had a lot of feelings about friendships and the heroes journey and how you can't go home again.

And some ones where you do probably want to know the fandom

Satisfied by CherryIce - fandom: The Good Place Tahani character study! Lots of feelings about Tahani as a character and found family and bio family.

Bad Vibes by jonesandashes, pollyrepeat - fandom: Bridgerton (s2) Kate/Anthony I will admit I haven't seen any of Bridgerton s2 and am saying you should know the fandom on the strength of having read the books. But the real draw of this vid is it really gets that Anthony is a terrible awful garbage man but I love him and so does Kate unfortunately. Just a really fun time and a very iddy look at this generally very iddy ship.

[asukaskerian]

i am 30 pages into the madatobi tag and i still don't go here, but it's making me want to binge read the manga now even though i know i will be disappointed by how little screentime the founders likely get, but i wanted to let you know because it's all your fault.

DON’T DO IT D:

they have maybe. MAYBE thirty chapters tops of material.

out of seven hundred.

and it’s like fifteen chapters of straight up flashback surrounded by talk and tidbits of info strewn over the whole rest of the manga that you have to weave together into an actual coherent narrative and pretend very strongly that kishimoto knows what a timeline is.

do NOT do it. do not read the narutos just for the founders’s generation. you will die and then you will die again and you won’t even have reached sasuke sauntering back into the series wearing that godawful butt rope, never mind anything else. if you must then read the flashbacks but FAIR WARNING it’s hashirama pov and all about the hashimada. madara and tobirama’s canon interaction is basically “hashirama your brother stabbed my brother! i’mma get YOu to stab HIM!” and some sneering years later during the last fight. that’s about it. XD;;; it’s a super fanon pairing, really.

i mean, the possibilities...

but yeah. sadly.

(anyway yes no do not read the narutos for the founders’ generation.)

[hils79]

Monday Fic Recs

Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei

Dance in their Dark by dedougal

Zhao Yunlan had vanished out of his life with nothing more than a “see you” four years and three months ago. And when he comes back, he's bringing trouble. Secrets, survellance and his ex-boyfriend: what more of a case could Shen Wei be assigned.

I loved this! Such fun AU. Now I need a Weilan vid set to Taemin :D

However deep the Lake by elenothar

Zhao Yunlan finds out a lot earlier that the Envoy isn't as invulnerable as he seems.

A delightful amount of whump combined with an alternative identity reveal

Gen (The Lost Tomb)

Practical Applications Of A Formal Education by pandelion

Five times Wu Xie applies his architecture degree to a situation (even if any self-respecting architecture degree surely wouldn’t include so many electives across so many other disciplines) and one time he doesn't.

Okay, if you’ve read any of my DMBJ fics you’ll know that one of my favourite things in canon is Wu Xie using the fact that he has a degree in architecture to explain how he knows things that have absolutely nothing to do with architecture. This fic is an absolute delight. I was cackling through the whole thing.

Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling (The Lost Tomb)

Binding by vishcount

In Wu Xie’s world, the unthinkable happens. It leaves him drifting, only one thought persisting: This is not how everything ends. Without any other ideas to bring back those that have been lost, he returns to the Bronze Gate.

Please read the tags on this one. I loved it. It’s beautifully written. But I did spend a lot of the time I was reading sobbing :D 

[plunnies-n-shit]

Ten Fandoms, Ten Characters, Ten Tags

Thank you @deivorous for making me out myself like this

In no particular order:

Kurosaki Ichigo - Bleach

Desmond Miles - Assassin's Creed

Nara Shikamaru - Naruto

Aerith Gainsborough - Final Fantasy 7 (and related works)

Lifeline | Ajay Che - Apex Legends

Canach - Guild Wars 2

Nico - Devil May Cry

Vetra Nyx -Mass Effect Andromeda

Hawkeye | Clint Barton - MCU

Sypha Belnades - Castlevania

(It was so hard not to double-dip.....)

TAGGING:

@yoshifics @ceridwen-aine @perpetuallyangryromanian @pandelion-fic @slime-bro-shiro @senkirowolf @alaudez @icy-dragon-queen @karma11ama @13oddballbooks

[pacouro]

What a Librarian

@pandelion-fic​  inspired this with their fic: “The Mummy: Bleached Edition” that is in the key of GrimmIchi... 💙🧡 My liberal fan art interpretation of a movie still 🤣  all credit to the original makers of both, I’m just shoving them into costumes...

Go check out Pandelion's fic on AO3 👍https://archiveofourown.org/works/27997071

[pandelion-fic]

“ - truly the greatest loss we could have suffered,” the reporter says, dressed in sober black and standing in front of a crowd of people similarly attired. “His actions affected us all, over the years and there has been comparatively little we could do to pay him back.”

“Never wanted repayment,” Ichigo mutters from the couch.

New chapter! Sorry I went from posting once a week to two months between updates, but holidays and other fics happened and this one was fighting me. Hope you enjoy!

[grimmichi-ao3-feed]

[New AO3 Fic!] and old familiar carols play

by Pandelion

Grimmjow returns to Tokyo on December 23rd.

After four years, some things have changed. Others, though, have stayed the same.

Words: 3573, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Bleach (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Grimmjow Jaegerjaques, Kurosaki Ichigo, Tsukabishi Tessai

Relationships: Grimmjow Jaegerjaques/Kurosaki Ichigo

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Established Relationship, Getting Back Together, Tessai plays matchmaker, Tokyo's holiday illuminations

Read it now on AO3!

[asukaskerian]

so i was curious and clicked the archive link and was checking your gundam fics out because old loves die slow and now i'm reeling from being forcibly thrown back about 10-15 years because holy fuck /you/ wrote the garou fic??? i remember being bummed that it was never finished (i think i found it after it had been discontinued) because i loved the world of it and i'm just really glad you kept writing and that i get to enjoy your fics again. <3

i think it was the first longfic i ever did? at least on my own. i was twenty. it was eighteen years ago. jesus h christ.

i had so many ideas for the sequel, then they became an ofic, then the ofic tried to find its shape about three or four times and never managed. :(

post-war werewolf!heero trying to figure out 1. normal human people 2. normal werewolves and ending up saddled with an actual pack on top of the g-boys. the poor guy.

[pandelion-fic]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Bleach Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Grimmjow Jaegerjaques/Kurosaki Ichigo Characters: Grimmjow Jaegerjaques, Kurosaki Ichigo Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Xenophilia, Feral Behavior, Dub/non-con, Blood, questionable sentience, altered mental state

Summary:

There's something in here with him.

Grimmjow can't feel it - whatever the thing is, it's capable of hiding very well or it's too much for him to sense - but he keeps catching glimpses of something out of the corner of his eye. The barest flicker of a tail, the scratch of a claw. Once, the curve of what had to be a horn of some sort, disconcertingly far from the ground.

There is never anything there when he turns his flashlight to look.

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New fic! This one is for a Grimmichi Server Secret Santa, written for achanceofreign!

[pandelion-fic]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Bleach Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Grimmjow Jaegerjaques/Kurosaki Ichigo Characters: Grimmjow Jaegerjaques, Kurosaki Ichigo, Hollow Ichigo | Zangetsu Additional Tags: Space AU, Established Relationship, Getting Back Together, falling in love was never part of the mission Summary:

The last time he'd seen Kurosaki Ichigo, it had been through a hatch door window as his escape pod detached from Zangetsu, blood matting Ichigo's hair and streaming down his face, ruined wrist pressed against the transparasteel, eyes wide and betrayed and confused.

Starting the new year off with a new fic!

[pandelion-fic]

Fandom: Bleach Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Grimmjow Jaegerjaques, Tia Harribel, Nelliel Tu Oderschvank, Kurosaki Ichigo Additional Tags: Post-Canon, lack of tags is both intentional and also due to lack of content to tag for, note at the end for the tags i'm not including here Summary:

The whole of Hueco Mundo feels it. The sudden press of reiatsu too monstrous to be a menos making its way home. The bone-deep surety that there is a new predator on the scene.

Technically not Grimmichi, but new fic!

[pandelion-fic]

figured I have enough tabs open to various tumblrs these days that I should just make a tumblr for my fic profile, so I did. 

this is Pandelion from AO3, currently neck deep in Bleach and Ichigo/Grimmjow and honestly, I have no idea how I got to this point, but here we are. hopefully, I’ll be around for a while, writing fic and whatnot.

I make zero promises on how active I’ll be here, but drop me a line if you want to chat or something.