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frith_in_thornsAbove all shadows is almost done! It's at 27k and is all over bar the comfort. So when it's finished it will be as long as parts 1 and 2 put together, and that will be the Beneath the sun series DONE. It's definitely being posted in chapters, probably five of them. I'm... really proud of it? Although I really wish I'd realised while I was writing In darkness buried deep that it was going to be part 1 of a novella trilogy (haha that sounds so pretentious). I'd have done quite a few things differently. (Not things I can easily fix now, more the whole structure and tone of it. Especially compared to part 2, which was waaaaay more politics and plot than incredibly gratuitous h/c.)
I might actually start posting it quite soon. Then write the comfort and start getting on with some Trick Or Treat fics. Then GOBLIN FRUIT, I keep talking about that one withxparrot and getting more and more excited to write it. I also have two-maybe-three Jiajia fic ideas stacked up to write too.
(I'm really relieved to have all these things I'm desperate to write because I've been worried about writing something Too Long and then not having any more fic-feelings, as happened in Wolf 359 with my 52k post-canon wrap-up/fixit which I wrote and still love and then once it was finished I had no more things I felt like writing about. Thankfully this doesn't seem like it's about to happen with Guardian, even though if I add up my three parts of Beneath the sun they come to the longest thing I've ever written in my life to date!)
Also, sorry everyone who's left me an AO3 comment recently and not had a reply yet. I'm working my way through! I've been spending all my spare time writing, and have got way way behind so am trying to catch up one fic at a time. They are all super loved, it's just me being exhausted and short on time and disorganised. I'll get there!
And now, fic!
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"Just tell me whether the damn gun is safe to fire or not," Zhao Yunlan demanded.
"I don't know," Lin Jing said.
Zhao Yunlan glared at him. "Give me better than that."
Lin Jing raised his eyebrows. "Um. Probably?"
"Probably?"
"It probably won't explode and kill you. It might even shoot someone. But I can't tell you for certain yet." He lifted it out of the current scanner it was in and placed it down carefully. He'd done something to it — lines of solder ran down the barrel over the worst of the cracks.
Zhao Yunlan pursed his lips. "Would you fire it? Right now?"
Lin Jing looked at him. "No."
I might actually start posting it quite soon. Then write the comfort and start getting on with some Trick Or Treat fics. Then GOBLIN FRUIT, I keep talking about that one with
xparrot and getting more and more excited to write it. I also have two-maybe-three Jiajia fic ideas stacked up to write too.(I'm really relieved to have all these things I'm desperate to write because I've been worried about writing something Too Long and then not having any more fic-feelings, as happened in Wolf 359 with my 52k post-canon wrap-up/fixit which I wrote and still love and then once it was finished I had no more things I felt like writing about. Thankfully this doesn't seem like it's about to happen with Guardian, even though if I add up my three parts of Beneath the sun they come to the longest thing I've ever written in my life to date!)
Also, sorry everyone who's left me an AO3 comment recently and not had a reply yet. I'm working my way through! I've been spending all my spare time writing, and have got way way behind so am trying to catch up one fic at a time. They are all super loved, it's just me being exhausted and short on time and disorganised. I'll get there!
And now, fic!
--
"Just tell me whether the damn gun is safe to fire or not," Zhao Yunlan demanded.
"I don't know," Lin Jing said.
Zhao Yunlan glared at him. "Give me better than that."
Lin Jing raised his eyebrows. "Um. Probably?"
"Probably?"
"It probably won't explode and kill you. It might even shoot someone. But I can't tell you for certain yet." He lifted it out of the current scanner it was in and placed it down carefully. He'd done something to it — lines of solder ran down the barrel over the worst of the cracks.
Zhao Yunlan pursed his lips. "Would you fire it? Right now?"
Lin Jing looked at him. "No."
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Date: 2019-10-06 09:04 pm (UTC)Ahhhh, yeah, that's a very good point. Probably waiting until it's done so I can't give you bad advice like "but maybe he could drink juice instead?" is a good idea. (I think I'll def be able to read it - especially if it's in one go, and I'm ready for it!)