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(...but what if I was?)

Li Lianhua / Li Xiangyi | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023)

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Is anyone else sad because Fang Duobing has a "Waiting For Li Lianhua On the Beach" outfit?

(On the left is the outfit in episode 40 after reading Li Lianhua's letter. On the right is the outfit in the special episode when he and Di Feisheng show up on the donghai beach to look for him 3 months later.)

While we're on the subject of costumes, @the-surreptitious-albatross and I just realized how different this outfit of Fang Duobing's is from his earlier outfits.

Here are some examples of a normal FDB outfit:

He prefers pastels, and his belts and wrist guards are often the same color as the pastel or a slightly darker version (and here, they have gold decorations).

Zooming in shows that he prefers his embroidery designs to be swirly and his hair accessories to be braided and color-matched or elaborate and silver (but still on the delicate side).

But check out this outfit: the embroidery is more angular and less swirly, as is the hair piece, and it and the belt and wrist guards are black with silver instead of matching the pastel of his outfit or being a slightly darker shade of it.

You know whose style he's echoing with all these changes? Who else tends to favor black wrist guards and belts with more angular designs?

Di Feisheng.

The images below make it a bit clearer: DFS's belt has gold decorations compared FDB's silver, and the shape is different, but you can see the similarities in the wrist guard design in particular.

It's not obvious how much their costumes are tying them together in this scene because we don't ever see them in the same frame; the camera constantly keeps them apart, as does the blocking of the scene, since DFS is on the rocks and FDB is on the beach.

That changes in the special episode when they both arrive on the beach at the same time, and DFS is wear his sect leader robes.

Here they are, in the same frame at last, and side by side, and you can see even more clearly with this DFS outfit how much the style of FDB's belt, wrist guards, and hair accessory is echoing his. The wrist guard pattern looks almost the same in these pictures! And the cut of the outer sleeveless robe is also very similar, which visually pairs them even more.

All this to say, FDB's clothing style shifts, the gentle swirls sharpened into points by his worry and grief for Li Lianhua, and it breaks my heart.

But the fact that he's visually echoing Di Feisheng now, that they're slowly becoming a matched set, is starting to put the pieces back together again.

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Pairing: Katarina x Maria Title: The Gilded Cage

Written before the Inevitable Katarina Patch of the Mysterious Lovers DLC is released, because we all know it's coming.

"Do you think that any of those boys would let you go where you pleased, little albatross?" Katarina asked her casually, as if they were casual acquaintances, as if she weren't currently toying with a white bishop on the chess set between them in Maria's secret room in the Academy kitchen, placed there by the Magier architect hired by one of the Sorcierian kings of old with more pride than wisdom, "Do you think they wouldn't be interested in keeping possession of a pirate so dear to their hearts, spy or not?"

"And you care because...?" Maria prompted, trying to figure out the brunette's angle as she surreptitiously reached for the throwing knife up her sleeve in case of foul play.

"Loyalty to the rightful king of the seas, and belief in a lady's freedom. I would sooner sink my ship than trap you in a cage" She replied cockily, and in that moment, Maria realized why Katarina Claes sent out so many letters and seemed to have an endless supply of bandages and a steamer trunk that was never opened...

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I Hate Rock & Roll

Tracey Grimson / On the Street 09.05.1995

As the Jesus & Mary Chain's machine of fuzz and feedback arrives in Sydney, Jim Reid explains how most folk have got his little sect all wrong. "It seems like everything we do that doesn't have screeching feedback on it, people come out asking, Where's the feedback?'. We can't get away from it." The Jesus & Mary Chain's Jim Reid is discussing that ol' albatross called "noise" which has been suspended around the neck of he and brother William since the album Psychocandy was released and justifiably lauded way back in late 1985. At the time, the record was highly regarded for its surreptitious fuzz power and its crafty take on the pop form, developing a new sound which came in the wake of the Brit punk scene but which arrived bearing just as much power, at the same time sparking a scene which the Mary Chain could claim as its own. Retrospectively, Psychocandy is regarded as one of the most important records of the 80s and, gleaned together with Darklands, Automatic and their various singles, EPs and B-side collections, the Mary Chain have come to be touted as one of the most influencial outfits of the period. But did punters have a problem with their interpretation of the Mary Chain when the feedback gave way, as on their latest long-player Stoned and Dethroned, to more upfront acoustic renditions of songs, a clearer pop ideal? "People focussed too much on the guitar side, the noise, the volume of the thing," says Reid, "and didn't really go too far into it to discover that there were good songs underneath. Although I'm talking about critics I suppose when you go out there and you meet people who buy your records, people do get the point. Unfortunately the people who seem to write for - particularly - the British music press don't." When it comes to the "softer" Mary Chain of the mid-'90s, Reid concedes that Psychocandy may be a blight on the face of the group in the long run, especially as "people judge you by your debut in the music business". However, having an album hanging from your belt which is so broadly regarded as a benchmark isn't entirely problematic, especially when it means that "a lot of people get to hear about the band that otherwise wouldn't. "But obviously it can also be a drawback," Reid continues. "It's like everything you do ten years after the record's out, people still compare to your first album. It's a bit of a pain sometimes. "The problem with Psychocandy," he goes on, "is that it was the first album that came out to be that noisy and hard to ignore. If it had been album three or album four, I don't think we'd have had this problem. The fact that our first album was so extreme and was out in that particular musical climate, I think that's the problem." When one considers Stoned and Dethroned in the light of Psychocandy, it's hard to imagine the same band producing both records - except, of course, for the songwriting sensibility which is at the forefront of each. But then again, Stoned probably sits perfectly in the Mary Chain's history. They are, as is the case with most bands which exist for long enough to actually "grow up", simply more accessible these days, and you don't have to be a teenaged, gothed-up punk to acceptably label yourself a fan. Anyone who tells you that a lover of Psychocandy couldn't possibly get into Stoned and Dethroned has, unlike the Jesus & Mary Chain itself, stayed put in the mid-80s. And probably has the tragic haircut to prove it. As William Reid has been quoted as stating in the past, "The best groups don't follow their audience, their audience follows them." "I think it was just that these batch of songs wouldn't have suited screeching noise guitar," says Jim of the context of the most recent record. "But we're not finished with noise. We like to do different types of sounds. The acoustic side has always been just as important to us as feedback and loud guitar. During the whole career of the band, if you look at each album, there's always somewhere represented as a slow, mellow, acoustic, ballad type." When it comes to ballads, the Jesus & Mary Chain offered up one of the best pop numbers of last year with their first single from Stoned, Jim's duet with Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval, "Sometimes Always". The track was a melodic high, telling the age old story of boy-meeting-girl, girl-leaving-boy, girl-returning-to-boy, and everyone lives happily ever after. "When we met in 1987," Reid says of his relationship with Sandoval, "she was in a band called Opal which was basically Mazzy Star with a different name; pretty much the whole band was there I think. It was weird - we were on tour with Opal and at the beginning of that tour Kendra [Smith] was singing, and then during the tour of America - a week or two into the tour - the band broke up and reformed with Hope on vocals. So that was where we met her." Reid says that the reception in the UK to "Sometimes Always" was mixed: "I think a lot of people there weren't really sure what to make of it," Reid offers. At the suggestion of his brother joining him for the duet on their current Australian tour, Reid laughs. "Obviously Hope isn't with us, so we won't be doing that song." The Reid brothers have extablished a notorious reputation for themselves as indulgent little monsters when it comes to the areas of booze and drugs. When questioned on the topic, Reid has been known to give responses along the lines of, "When you're on tour, you tend to over-indulge in stuff like bad food and too much drink and whatever drugs anybody wants to give you." This constant obsession with getting "fucked up" seems to comfortably match that non-guitar punk scene which blew out of all proportion in the UK in the late-80s - namely, the acid house/rave movement. As surprising as it may be, the Mary Chain have done their own tinkering in the techno-related. "I got into it a few years back when everyone else did," Reid explains. "But I kind of went off it, for various reasons. At first it seemed to be quite exciting and now, looking back, it seems to be making the same kind of mistakes that rock & roll was making, if you know what I mean. Too formularised. I like the Prodigy - I think they're really good. But the thing that I like about the Prodigy that's lacking in most other dance music is they've got some attitude in their music. There seems to be a kind of darkness that you don't get otherwise. A lot of the dance records that you hear either don't have lyrics of have stupid lyrics. Things like the title Music For a Jilted Generation, that's a good thing to say." Reid confirms that there have been "occasional remixes" of Jesus & Mary Chain tracks, most notable being a re-working of the Honey's Dead track "Reverence", courtesy of the engineer from the KLF. "But," adds Reid, "that's pretty much it when it comes to our dabbling in dance music." Regardless of the music they make or listen to however, it's fair to say that the Jesus & Mary Chain will always enjoy a taste of drink and drugs. Enter Shane MacGowan, rock's most public alcoholic, and the provider of vocals on one of the Stoned and Dethroned's highlights, "God Help Me". "We'd never met him before," Reid explains, "so it's not like he was a personal friend. It's quite simple - we always listened to the Pogues, we always liked his voice, we thought he had a great voice, and we just thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to get Shane to sing on a Mary Chain song?'. You just ask people if they want to sing on your song and if they say no you've lost nothing. I think it worked out pretty well. "We'd been told that he was into the Mary Chain," he continues, "and we kind of expected that he would do it. And I think the Pogues have done - or they did it once or twice at least - 'Darklands'; they used to do it live." Reid is obviously pleased at MacGowan's slot on the record and of the Pogues' cover, just as he accepts as a total compliment any group giving a Mary Chain song their own rendering. It's especially flattering, he says, when he is an upstanding fan of a group beforehand, as with the Pixies who covered "Head On" on Trompe Le Monde. "It was as much a surprise to us as it was to anybody else. We'd kind of heard just before it was released that they were doing it, but it was a wild card. But I've always liked them so it was even more flattering - a cover by a band that you actually respect anyway. Anybody doing a cover is flattering - any-body; it can only be a compliment. But when it's by a band that you've already bought their records, it's even moreso." What must also surely be an accolade for the band is that their B-side and out-take offerings (notably Barbed Wire Kisses and Sound of Speed) have been as critically praised and as well-received by fans as a new Mary Chain album. "The reason we do those B-sides records," Reid explains, "is that we don't really think of the songs that go on the B-sides as B songs. Do you know what I mean? Some of those songs are just as important to us as album tracks or single A-sides. They are kind of raw, rougher, because you can set yourself a target and get maybe five songs done in two days. They come out kind of jagged and rough but I think that's the appeal." And for anyone who's concerned that the Reids may be performing in something akin to acoustic mode on the tour to coincide with the mood of Stoned and Dethroned, never fear: The show will still be "loud and noisy, even though the album isn't", the band bringing their OTT collection of guitars along for the ride. And, in keeping with their subversive style and pain-in-the-ass personalities, there will be a suitably-named tour EP released to coincide with the visit. Reid's voice suggests a smug Scottish grin as he offers up the title. "I Hate Rock & Roll," he says. God bless the Jesus & Mary Chain.

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the-surreptitious-albatrosssaid: Haha, I’m with you there! It seems like every time I finish a gene project, I end up with another one. He’s got some interesting potential, so I look forwards to seeing what you do with him. :)

One day I will figure out how to reply to replies directly but it is not this day! I know it's terrible but you feel so good after getting one gened up perfectly it's kinda addicting lol. If you have any suggestions for what I should do with him I would love to hear them :) 

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Hi! I'd like to reserve Ame Warashi and Kudakitsune/Mugetsu from xxxHolic. Today is the 25th of September, and this is my personal account. :)

Alrighty then, reserved for you!

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WIP Wednesday, Part 2

Thanks for the enthusiastic response to my previous WIP Wednesday post! This is the immediate continuation of my Mysterious Lotus Casebook Post-Beach Fic where Li Lianhua's Shiniang tried and failed to sacrifice herself to save him, and he's fled to the beach and collapsed. (Don't worry, the lotus trio will have a happy ending, ultimately!) Here's Fang Duobing's section! (Cw/tw: suicide attempt)

Despite chanting “please be alive” under his breath every second of the mad gallop to the donghai beach, Fang Duobing had dreaded but expected the scene the beggar had described to him: a slim, bedraggled corpse in a fur coat, tossed up by the waves. 

Not the man himself, alive and standing, staring out to sea. 

It was Li Lianhua. Fang Duobing knew that back by heart—how could he not, after all the times he’d watched Li Lianhua leave him behind—so somehow, that ridiculous man had done the impossible and brought one more person—himself this time—back from the dead. 

He should have known. The beggar’s comment must have had more clues hidden in it than he had realized.

Well, it didn’t matter. As long as Li Lianhua was alive, he would not begrudge him the sleepless nights of searching, or nightmares about less positive outcomes. Not much, at least. Anyway, Lao Di would probably growl about it enough for the both of them.

And speaking of the devil of the jianghu, there he was, a streak of bright red tearing across the beach, his eyes fixed on Li Lianhua as though he’d disappear if he blinked. Wuyan must have sent the message about the beggar to him instantly for him to get here that fast.

Fang Duobing hopped off his horse moments behind Lao Di, Huli Jing trailing behind, tail happily wagging.

They were finally together again. All of them. And any minute now, Li Lianhua would turn around and greet them. He’d scratch that spot by his nose just under his eye, then fling a causal pointed finger at him, saying “Xiaobao, what took you so long? You call yourself a detective? Baichuan’s standards are really slipping,” a clear invitation to run over and hug their old fox and cry, or maybe just whack him on the arm several times for everything he put them through, or maybe both. 

Oh, and Lao Di would definitely throw Shaoshi’s remains at Li Lianhua, and grumble something about how Li Xiangyi should be more careful with his own things.

And then, together, they’d all go back to the Lotus Tower. 

Home. 

And it would all begin any second now.

Fang Duobing waited. 

Nothing changed. 

Li Lianhua kept facing the sea.

What was happening? This didn’t make any sense. Had Li Lianhua not heard them arrive? They hadn’t exactly been quiet, what with yelling the horses onward while riding at full speed. Had Li Lianhua lost his hearing? Was he still poisoned?

Something was wrong. They shouldn’t just wait for him anymore, they had to do something, move towards him, call his name, anything but this—

–With a quiet rustle, the cloak fell to the ground. Li Lianhua took a step toward the waves. 

“Li Lianhua?” Fang Duobing whispered, suddenly growing cold.

Time slowed. 

Lao Di gathered his qi. Fang Duobing echoed him automatically.

Li Lianhua wavered, then crumpled toward the sand. 

“XIAOHUA’ER!” Fang Duobing screamed. Lao Di grabbed his shoulder and yanked him, airborne, towards the water.

They caught him in their arms before his head hit the sand.

(Thanks to @slangerogkatter, @kingsandbastardz, @shamera, @sufficientlylargen, @the-surreptitious-albatross, and @howdaretrashships for looking at drafts of this and talking about it with me! Y'all are amazing! <3 )

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Ok, changed my url. Yeah, it`s a bit random. I was reading a Terry Pratchett book ("Snuff"), and there's this bird they talk about called the surreptitious albatross, that looks like an albatross but it actually a bird of prey. I thought the name was funny, plus I've always liked albatrosses. So, yeah, that's me now. :P

(formerly "indigoprincess")

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WIP Wednesday (MLC)

Happy WIP Wednesday! Today's excerpt from my Mysterious Lotus Casebook fic, in which LLH's shiniang tried and failed to sacrifice herself to cure him, is from LLH's POV.

He's finally awake, and he's getting called out on being a lying liar who lies (affectionate) (mostly).

To catch up–although it’s not necessary to follow this– you can follow these links to read part 1 (LLH), part 2 (FDB), part 3 (DFS), part 4 (DFS), or part 5 (FDB)

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Li Lianhua dug a nail into his palm to try to focus on the pain and not let the memory show on his face. He nodded, took a deep breath to pretend he was collecting his words and not trying not to hyperventilate, and willed his voice to be steady. There was nothing he could do about his spiking heart rate, but the only person who could feel that was him. “Ah, about that. There was another villain I had to stop. I disappeared to lure him out of hiding. But don’t worry, I taught him a lesson. He definitely won’t live to cause more problems.” 

Next to him, a-Fei went as still as a statue. Was he even breathing? Why–

“–Nice try, but that doesn’t make any sense or answer the questions,” Xiaobao said, arms crossed over his chest. “Why would pretending to be dead lure him out? And you didn’t have any qi left, so how could you fight him on your own? Why would you even try? Didn’t we do a good job of protecting you over the last year? Why wouldn’t you let us try this time?”

Li Lianhua’s treacherous pulse spiked again. At least, in a certain light, this answer had a sheen of truth to it. “I didn’t want to get you involved. There are some enemies that you can’t fight.” Death, for instance. 

“Bullshit,” Xiaobao spat. “I don’t care if it’s Bicha poisoning, another political conspiracy, a long-lost enemy come back to life, or the emperor himself: we’re in this together, no matter the risk. So stop trying to face everything alone, and just let us help, alright?” He paused, his eyes shining with tears. “Please, Li Lianhua?” 

His own eyes threatened rain and he blinked repeatedly to clear them. This ridiculous child. “Ah, Xiaobao. Not everything can be solved by willpower and swords.” 

Xiaobao set his jaw, his face darkening like an eclipse. “Watch me.”

Li Lianhua huffed out a laugh. How did Xiaobao have enough heart and stubbornness for five people put together?  “Alright, alright,” he said, leaning forward to pat his hand before he did something unforgivable like agreeing to stay. “Consider your shifu suitably lectured.” Xiaobao’s hardened expression crumbled into ashes and he slumped. “He’s hiding something,” he said, turning to a-Fei, tears in his voice and on his face. “He only calls himself my shifu if he’s lying or saying goodbye. Or both.”

“Wh-what?” Li Lianhua managed, his heart rate racing, “I don’t – that’s not–”

“–I know,” a-Fei said, his voice  . . . shaking? What was happening?

“You try, then,” Xiaobao said, wiping his face with an angry flick of his hand. He grabbed Erya from his lap and crossed his arms over his chest, hugging his sword to his heart.

(Thanks to @the-surreptitious-albatross and @momosandlemonsoda for helping me figure out which excerpt to include!)

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9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better:

Thanks for the tag, @eirenical!

3 Ships You Like: Only 3?! Decisions decisions! Well, Feihua (and difanghua) have to be included, obviously, and I guess Wangxian should be there, too. I can’t decide who to list for the 3rd spot, so here are the main contenders: Horatio Hornblower/Archie Kennedy (and also with William Bush), Hualian, and Weilan.

First Ship Ever: I was weirdly late to shipping, or at least contemporary pop culture shipping? I was pretty invested in Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy and also Elinor Dashwood and Edward Ferrars in middle school, but it didn’t really devour my brain the way ships do now. Honestly, I think it was Horatio Hornblower and Archie Kennedy back in college, although it took some friends explaining to me why they read it as romantic (laughing and smh at past!me), and a rewatch of the entire series wearing my new shipping goggles for me to go “OH!” like they do in fic, lol. I didn’t get into fic until much later (thanks, @bifilthatonthatseson!) 

Last Song You Heard: Heather Dale’s “The Hunter” has been playing on loop in my head since I woke up this morning, but I just put on The Amazing Devil’s “Inkpot Gods,” so I guess I’ll list both. :D 

Favourite Childhood Book: I passionately loved the Ramona Quimby books when I was little, but I don’t really remember anything about them anymore, and Matilda was probably the other most important kid’s book for me growing up. (It all felt very relatable to young me, and I kept waiting for my powers to come in. Pity it doesn’t work like that!) If YA books read in adulthood count, I’d have to say the Song of the Lioness series; I read it in grad school (thanks for this, too, @bifilthatonthatseson) and it rewired my brain in INCREDIBLY important ways.

Currently Reading: I’m in between books right now, but I most recently finished Freya Marske’s A Power Unbound (volume 3 of the “Last Binding” Trilogy) and it was INCREDIBLE. Next up is Xiran Jay Zhao’s Iron Widow, which I’m very excited about. 

Currently watching: I’m in the middle of The Lost Tomb 2; I temporarily petered out because it’s been awhile since Wu Xie and Xiaoge were in the same scene and I am very much watching it for them (and Xiaohua, who also hasn’t been on screen in awhile), but I’m going to go back to it soon. Other than that, I’m rewatching “I am Nobody” with @sufficientlylargen, “The Untamed” with @sufficientlylargen, @loryer496 and another non-Tumblr friend, “Destined” with @fionatlux and a different non-Tumblr friend, and watching “Luoyang” for the first time with the latter non-Tumblr friend. :D 

Currently consuming: Nothing atm, but I’m about to make some of the lavender tea that @slangerogkatter recommended! It’s very good!

Currently craving: Bubble tea and a croissant. (But tragically, I’m not near any gluten-free bakeries, so no croissant for me! I could probably do something about the bubble tea, though!)

Tagging:

@the-surreptitious-albatross @howdaretrashships @momosandlemonsoda @enbysaurus-rex @wuxia-vanlifer @thesilversun @fealiniel @nutcasewithaknife @helendamnationx

(But no pressure if you don't want to do it! Also, anyone who wants to should consider themselves tagged!)

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For the fic writers ask meme: 17 and/or 37

Thanks for the asks, @the-surreptitious-albatross , and sorry it has taken me some time to respond!

17. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

I usually write the scenes in order, from start to finish. The closest I come to doing things out of order is that sometimes I will jump ahead and do a detailed outline of a later chapter if I think of ways I want it to be in conversation with an earlier one (eg. if there are interesting parallelism, or thematic commonalities), and often my outlines start with bullet points and then end up basically being very rough drafts, complete with pages of dialogue and the emotional beats or notes on where to add descriptions. And I guess with my current long MLC fic, I wrote a few drafts of the first few chapters, then did 15k of outlines/incredibly rough drafts for later chapters, and then the other day realized what was bugging me about how I had written the first chapter, so I went back and completely rewrote it. So I guess in that regard, I jump around, because I might go back and totally reconceive of a chapter based on something I want to do with character development later. (This is why I don’t post fics on AO3 until they’re done; I do a truly absurd amount of rewriting.)

37: Talk about your current wips.

I’m honored that you want to hear about it! I actually have 4 for Mysterious Lotus Casebook fics (3 with absurdly detailed outlines, but only one that I’m actively drafting), so for now, I’ll just talk about the one I’ve worked the most on. 

Post-canon (OT3) Beach fic:

tw/cw: suicide attempt, off-page non-consensual medical procedure

When Li Lianhua’s shiniang tried and failed to sacrifice herself to save Li Lianhua against his will, he fled to the Donghai beach, intending to die before she could catch up with him because he can’t endure the idea that someone else he cared about might die for him. Di Feisheng and Fang Duobing find him first and save his life for the moment, but are horrified to discover the truth that Li Lianhua can’t lie his way out of: that the damage from the survivor’s guilt of everything he’s been through is just as dangerous as the damage from Bicha poisoning. With each of them reeling from the traumas of the past year (Li Lianhua from Shan Gudao’s betrayal and now medical PTSD from his shiniang’s procedure, Fang Duobing from almost losing Li Lianhua and being terrified to let him out of his sight in case he goes straight back to the water, and Di Feisheng from the abuse at the hands of Jiao Liqiao), they have to figure out how to face everything they pushed aside to save the country, and in the process, learn that the hardest battles aren’t fought with swords.

To read an excerpt, follow this link: (x)

I was going to write up synopses for the others, but I’m out of energy (and don’t want to sit on this ask for another week or so to write them out), so I’ll just do quick teaser/keyword summaries for the others:

Missing Scene Fic: Di Feisheng’s first night in Lotus Tower (featuring him finding the Yinzhou armor being used as a potholder, his feelings on having his meridians and qi blocked, and helping LLH after a nightmare so it doesn’t wake up FDB and give away his identity.)

Pre-Canon: Yinzhou armor backstory, Sigu sect waterfall spars, and LXY/DFS first time; set the evening after Shan Gudao resigned from the Sigu Sect

5+1: FDB and DFS sharing the Lotus Tower guest bed (from FDB’s POV, covering the entire show + post canon)

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WIP Title Game

Thanks for the tag, @xthelastknownsurvivorx, and for the suggestion of including meta!

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

[I’m assuming this is for exclusively fanfic and meta as opposed to original fiction, and also that we shouldn’t include titles of planning documents (for example, the multiple outlines I have for the different aspects of the MLC fic that contain several chapters’ worth of dialogue because I got carried away, or all the separate drafts I have of each chapter, etc), so for now, I’ll just include the active, current versions of the documents/chapters for fics and metas, and ignore my original novel.] 

And I guess I should probably include Untamed and Hornblower WIPs, even though they’ve been abandoned for the foreseeable future.

So, here we go, including meta:

Mysterious Lotus Casebook:

DFS and Dissociation meta 

DFS violence and emotional regulation meta 

Yin Leaves meta

MLC Long fic:

Active mlc chapt 2 with nightmare (DFS pov)

Mlc Chpt 3, active: FDB to lotus tower

DFS after immobilization FDB After Healing 

LLH Wakes post nightmare 

DFS and LLH talk (finally)

DFS LXY first night together

DFS Lotus Tower first night

FDB 5+1

Untamed:

WWX DID Orchestra AU

Body Swap AU 

Hornblower: 

Sequel

 (. . . I just realized that “Sequel” is 40k. Dang. Well, maybe some day I’ll finish it.)

Tagging a person for each WIP is a lot, so, since I have separate docs for separate chapters of my MLC long fic, I’ll just count them all as 1.

@eirenical @howdaretrashships @the-surreptitious-albatross @kingsandbastardz @momosandlemonsoda @enbysaurus-rex @shamera @thesilversun @the-wintry-mizzenmast @nutcasewithaknife

And of course, no pressure if you don't want to do this, and anyone who isn't tagged but wants to do it should go for it!