frith_in_thorns: Liu Sang crouched on a beach listening to the ground (LTR Liu Sang beach)
I'm still in my "I love Liu Sang all the time" phase.

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He worked on the map as they went, the others stopping and waiting obediently when he asked them to. The shape of the place was a definite spiral, and they moved steadily down its loops. All the time, the faint drumbeat of whatever mechanism waited at the bottom grew louder.

Louder, but the effect was more than an increasing volume — it was beginning to shake an unpleasant vibration through him. Liu Sang only really noticed when they stopped for a break and realised how tense he was even while sitting down.

He looked up to find Zhang Qiling's eyes on him. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah," Liu Sang said. He pressed a thumb against his breast-bone, but the vibration wasn't physical. It was only inside his head that it was lodged.

"That noise is really getting on my nerves," Pangzi said. "Anyone else finding it annoying?"
frith_in_thorns: Liu Sang with some hair blown over his face (LTR Liu Sang hair)
Subterfuge (2536 words) by frith_in_thorns
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei, 盗墓笔记重启 | The Lost Tomb Reboot (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Liu Sang, Wang Pangzi, Wu Xie (DMBJ Series)
Additional Tags: Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Iron Triangle shenanigans, drugged, Calling for help, Post-Canon, Platonic Bed Sharing
Summary:


"It's me," Liu Sang said, and then realised he hadn't considered at all how to actually go about this surreptitiously. Probably Wu Xie had tons of secret signals to use in this sort of circumstance, but that wasn't the type of thing Liu Sang thought of arranging ahead of time.


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It's the one my last Sunday Snippet was from. I wrote it as a birthday present for Morgan -- he'd actually asked for Suffering™, but my brain got sidetracked onto comedy. I'm still working on the Suffering™ fic, so hopefully that'll follow before too much longer.

I've been really delighted by the response to this and my previous fic -- I'm so pleased that there's an audience for gen Liu Sang h/c!
frith_in_thorns: Unfortunately, you'll also all blow up. (W359 Unfortunately)
This is the first Sunday Snippet I've had in ages, as I'm actually writing and not just for an imminent fest!! Apparently I imprinted on Liu Sang way harder than I realised (was definitely helped by writing the 9k POV fic for him) and I'm now in the writing stage of "rehash all my favourite and well-trodden fic tropes*, only with this NEW character". This one is done but not edited, and then I have two more longer oneshots currently in the pipeline. (I do think this is likely to be a oneshot sort of fandom. Unlike with Guardian, I'm not really thinking of *plot* so much, and also there's not the obligation to work out "how does this very intelligent and high-powered character get into this situation in the first place?" given that Tomb Show is very much the OPPOSITE of that problem.)

Except, usually when I do this I'm in a new fandom with a brand new audience, and I think probably most of the people reading my Liu Sang fics will also have read my Shen Wei ones, whoops XD

(*By "fic tropes" I actually mean "hurt/comfort tropes", I'm sure no one's surprised to hear that. Also everything's back to being gen, which is something of A Relief to my brain.)

(I need some Liu Sang icons.)

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"It's me," Liu Sang said, and then realised he hadn't considered how to play this. Probably Wu Xie had tons of secret signals to use in this sort of circumstance, but that wasn't the type of thing Liu Sang thought of arranging ahead of time. "I, uh —"

"What?" Wu Xie asked, and then began to sound amused. His bedsprings creaked as he rolled over. "Liu Sang, are you drunk-dialling me?"

That was a way in, and Liu Sang seized it. "Yes!" he said, almost frantically. "Yes, I am. I miss you, baby. We should get back together."

Wu Xie snorted with laughter, but he was also sitting up, his breath catching as he focused. "Liu Sang, are you in trouble? If you are, say that you love me more than Xiaoge."

Sundial!

Feb. 15th, 2021 12:20 am
frith_in_thorns: (.Flail)
Well, the Sundial Exchange went live on Friday, with 169 fanworks! Which was pretty amazing - we had just over 60 last year - and nearly 70 participants. I really love how our little fandom is still going strong, and also branching out into new avenues like Tomb Show, which had quite a lot of works of its own in the exchange this year.

From my end, this was an absolute pleasure of an exchange to run, and I very much hope to do so again next year! The matching and everything seemed to go well, and we had SO MANY people make treats, it was absolutely delightful.

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This year I decided to ask primarily for fanart! And I got FOUR pieces of art, which was amazing.

Bite by [archiveofourown.org profile] zvaize
During the mission in a cave Zhao Yunlan is attacked by a stray Youchu.
This is an entire GRAPHIC STORY and it's fantastic! Beautiful art, full of tiny details, and a great story, and the character drawings and expressions are just so good. I really can't believe I got something so excellent made for me!

Aftermath by [personal profile] rlyqueer
Zhao Yunlan embraces Shen Wei as they sit on the floor together. His expression is pinched, while Shen Wei appears bashful—yet unrepentant—and covered in minor wounds that have been treated with a first aid kit.
A sweet bit of caretaking between the two of them! I love how they're so curled around each other and I love Shen Wei in casual clothing, this is lovely!

Up among the clouds, down among the trees by [personal profile] naye
Art for The Cloudfarers
These two pieces made me smile so much! Naye used some of her own photos and turned them into illustrations for my story -- the sky-ship sailing into the sunset, and the GIANT CENTIPEDE FIGHT. So much fun!

In Need of Saving Still by [personal profile] teyla
There'll never be a time when Pangzi and Wu Xie won't need saving.
A lovely moment of Pangzi and Wu Xie with their heads pressed together, depending on each other. A redraw of an awesome scene in Ultimate Note with LTR actors - as Teyla points out, that sort of situation does happen to them a lot!!

Also, [personal profile] tinypinkmouse made a podfic of The Cloudfarers. Yes, all five hours of it :O

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I made two things for the exchange myself! I was planning on doing more, but my main gift was a fic that when I started writing I expected to be... 2k maybe? A missing scene? Except then it developed MORE scenes, and MORE drama, and ended up 9k, mostly written in 200-words-a-day increments XD (It's by far the longest thing I've written in 6 months, I'm very happy!) It was for [personal profile] hils, with whom I have previously commiserated about the sad lack of Liu Sang hurt/comfort, so I just poured allllll of my feelings about him into this fic. (I kept saying "but surely this is too much melodrama?" but fortunately I was only reassured that there is no such thing in this fandom.)

All the maps were wrong, Gen, Liu Sang h/c and team
On the way back from Thunder City, Liu Sang is struggling more than he wants to admit.


And also, while trying to get unstuck on a bit of the above fic, I randomly decided to do some art and painted a scene from [personal profile] naye's fic State of Matter that I have had such a vivid image of in my head since reading it. I still definitely hold a vision of myself as Bad At Art, so it was quite scary to do a non-abstract painting and share it! But I was really pleased with how it came out.

Transformation
That had been tons and tons of water and ice that Shen Wei had somehow vaporized. He'd turned an entire lake into a cloud.



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I'm now going through the collection! This year as a mod I was VERY GOOD and didn't do much peeking at all, even though I was doing the completeness/accessibility checks :> I've still only seen a fraction of the fanworks, but I am keeping a Sundial recs thread on twitter here. (I finally cracked and made an unlocked twitter [twitter.com profile] frithinthorns so that I can join in conversations and post my fanworks publically there, although its main purpose is really to point people to my locked [twitter.com profile] couldbeadragon one.) Anyway, I'm going to keep adding to that thread as I move through the collection.

Thank you so much everyone for playing!
frith_in_thorns: (SS Codex)
I STILL haven't finished Nirvana in Fire, and have finally pinned down my reluctance to do so.

Kinda squee-harshing, definitely hype backlash, no plot content or spoilers )

[Edit: Comments now full of spoilers]
frith_in_thorns: (LTU Trio car)
I had a great time watching this and do recommend it. With some caveats, omfg XD

Mild spoilers for the entire show )
frith_in_thorns: (DL FeiBen table)
I haven't been good at keeping my journal up to date with fics I've been writing, so here goes!

Yuletide
I meant to sign up to Yuletide again this year... then I forgot. But I did write two treats anyway!

Outreach - Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher's White Rat series (Swordheart, Paladin's Grace etc)
Gen, 2155 words, Bishop Beartongue
Tags: Slice of Life, Strange problems people hope the White Rat will fix, , Field trips, Tree Law
"We don't generally assess the… cursédness… of objects, trees or otherwise," Beartongue said.

I think you probably don't really need to know canon for this one? All you need to know is that the Temple of the White Rat is a religious order staffed mainly by lawyers who exist to solve problems. Bishop Beartongue is a secondary character in the books and she is AMAZE. I wrote this for [personal profile] raven who is also an amaze lawyer.

True Love's (Gen) Kiss - Lost Tomb Reboot/Sound of the Providence
Gen, 1053 words, Iron Triangle and Liu Sang
Tags: cracky tomb curses, Iron Triangle shenanigans, ace Wu Xie, Liu Sang didn't sign up for the TMI, endless banter, Sexual Humour, gen kissing, bros bros bros
"I forbid you to tell this story to Xiao-Bai," Wu Xie said, quickly.
Liu Sang made an agonised noise. "I forbid you to tell it to me!"


This was for [personal profile] nnozomi entirely because of her saying in a post about how she would read a gen sex pollen story for these three dorks. So yeah, I wrote this.

Other stuff

Perhaps a Misjudgement - Guardian
WeiLan, 2510 words
Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Poisoning, mostly comfort, Alcohol
The poisoning was maybe something Shen Wei should have mentioned.

This is a follow-up to [personal profile] xparrot's lovely fic with Shen Wei and Da Qing. I wanted more comfort so I sneaked up and wrote it.

Nothing - Guardian
WeiLan, 3083 words
Tags: Sexual Assult, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, non-graphic, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Protective Shen Wei, drugged
This is wrong — this sliding confusion, in his mind and body both. Like he's been —
"Fuck," Zhao Yunlan whispers, and hears his voice come out mumbled. "Fuck, fuck."
He's been dosed.


Yeahhhh this one's still anon on the archive, I might undo that eventually.

Oh, and I finished posting The Cloudfarers some time ago but never made an entry here to say that I'd done so. Final word count is 46,877 over 19 chapters!

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Other news: if you're participating in [community profile] sundial_exchange and you haven't already checked in about whether you're still participating, we would very much appreciate it!

Also [community profile] merit_brush_recs is holding a poll about community participation. They're inviting comments and discussion, with the mods holding off from jumping in until next week.
frith_in_thorns: Whales swimming against a watercolour space background (art Space Whales)
End of year meme, real life edition

Me in 2020 )
frith_in_thorns: (GD WeiLan shoulder)
Fandom meme from [personal profile] naye!

Name: [personal profile] frith_in_thorns

Fandoms: Guardian and Tomb Nonsense are my current fandoms.

Where you post: AO3 these days. I usually remember to link on twitter. These days I don't so much remember to link on here, honestly - I should maybe do that more? Does anyone rely on that?

Most popular multi-chapter fic: I had to go to my stats page to have a look, and I'm slightly surprised that by kudos it's Silence Sharp as Blades, a 3-chapter Guardian fic. I think in relative terms, We're not pure of heart, but we're sure of aim (Wolf 359) deserves a mention as it did really well for being in a tiny fandom.

Favorite story you’ve written so far: The answer to this question is usually the most recent long fic I wrote. In this case it's The Cloudfarers, which I do believe is objectively pretty good!

Fic you were nervous to post: Haaaaaa, that's what anon posting is for ;) Ok, so probably Consent (which did in fact initially post anon) and Goblin Fruit, which is still very much wtf did I write there.

How you choose your titles: Either I choose like one word which kinda matches the fic or I go to my scriv page which is song lyrics that have good title potential and use one of those. Very occasionally I think of an actually good title on my own.

Do you outline: Nope. I start at the beginning and work my way through to the end. I like to throw in cliffhangers to keep myself motivated and trust I'll be able to write myself out of the hole...

Complete: Lots

In progress: I have a couple of Guardian and Lost Tomb fics which have about 600 words each. Will they progress? Who knows...

Coming soon/not yet started: Is not the universe made of these

Do you accept prompts: Always! Sometimes it takes me months to get to them, but I always genuinely love receiving them, and writing for other people!

Upcoming story you are most excited to write: More sky pirates? I don't really have a plot yet, but I re-read Fionavar and that made me remember how much I love the extremely niche trope of tree sacrifices. Which I think could work really well.

Tagging: I think lots of my tags are hilarious. But then I often think I'm hilarious in general. Audience perception may differ.
frith_in_thorns: (Christmas - fabric trees)
December meme! I'm writing posts this month on topics requested by friends. If you have an idea for something you'd like to hear me talk about, request it here!

[personal profile] sholio asked me to talk about wrapping presents with no tape. So here we go!

Instructions inside! )



I hope this was entertaining and useful!
frith_in_thorns: (GD WeiLan festival)
Hello, Sundial Exchange person!

I've requested art, fic, and any other non-audio mediums for both my requests.

Guardian, Lost Tomb Reboot, and some general likes )
frith_in_thorns: Better Butter Bugs for a Brighter Barrayar! (V Butter bugs)
December meme! I'm writing posts this month on topics requested by friends. If you have an idea for something you'd like to hear me talk about, request it here!

Today's topic isn't from the comment section, but from a discussion with Ellie: spelling mnemonics!

Read more... )
frith_in_thorns: Sign reading "Really really dangerous don't touch - McKay" (SGA Danger sign)
December meme! I'm writing posts this month on topics requested by friends. If you have an idea for something you'd like to hear me talk about, request it here!

First up, a request from [personal profile] naye: What's some first aid stuff you think everyone should know for real life?

Read more... )
frith_in_thorns: Tilly fixing a panel, mid-explosion (STD Tilly fixing)
I've seen the December meme going around again, where people give you a topic to write about. Since I want to make more posts but have a complete dearth of inspiration for what to actually say, I thought I might as well give it a go. So, ask me anything in the comments which you would be interested in seeing a post on! (Disclaimer: I set no post minimum.)

Topics which I know a fair amount and/or have misplaced confidence in my ability to talk about: knitting (you need to ask a specific question here if you want to ask about knitting, this is a subject in which I do count myself as expert and it's an extremely broad topic), crochet, autism, teaching, teaching children with disabilities, various fandoms, DIY, very amateur gardening, baking, wrapping presents with no sellotape, things babies like doing, adventures in babywearing and cloth nappies, how much I hate sewing but do it anyway, video games I had time to play in pre-baby life, writing, indoor bunnies.

But, you know, you're welcome to ask my thoughts on anything and I shall do my best!
frith_in_thorns: Watercolour painting of a sailing ship in space (art Starship)
After many months, The Cloudfarers, my Guardian sky-ship AU, is finally complete! 19 chapters, with an illustration for each. I'm really proud of it and had such a lot of fun. (There may eventually be a sequel...)

Title: The Cloudfarers (Guardian | 镇魂)
Author: [personal profile] frith_in_thorns
Word count: 46,877
Characters/Pairing: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, SID team
Content/Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Sky Pirates, Illustrations, Action/Adventure, Hurt/Comfort, Secret Identity, First Meetings, Developing Relationship, Slow Burn, Fade to Black, Wholesale rewriting of canon, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, Eventual Happy Ending, Different magic system, Swordfights, Peril

Summary: Zhao Yunlan is the captain of the sky-ship Guardian. More accustomed to trading runs, he and his crew are given a mission -- to track down the stolen Hallows, with the assistance of Shen Wei, a seemingly-innocuous clerk from Dragon City...

Chapter 1/19 on AO3






And, in other fandom news, [community profile] sundial_exchange is running again, and is currently open for sign ups! This is a Guardian-and-related-fandoms multimedia exchange, with hand matching and no anon period. "Related fandoms" means literally anything with one of the main Guardian actors in, including RPF. It does not mean The Untamed, please don't submit Untamed sign-ups. You may laugh but we had multiple of them last year.

Another thing we're trialing in our format is an opt-out, as last year due to the nature of tiny fandoms we inadvertantly matched a couple of writer-beta pairs (they liked all the same things! XD) and then had to scramble to reassign them. So this year we've included a field where you can ask not to be matched with one or more people, completely confidentially and with no justification wanted. Likewise, we've got a field for opting out of specific fanwork mediums, again with no justification. Everyone likes different things and that's fine!

So, if you're thinking of signing up, I'd encourage you to go for it! We all had a great time last year, with around 50 fanworks being produced. You can offer and request fic, any kind of traditional or digital art, audio things, vids, artwork and remixes for your or your match's existing works, interactive fiction, crafts... anything you can think of!

LNY Sundial Exchange

A Lunar New Year multi-fanwork exchange at [community profile] sundial_exchange. For Guardian and Guardian-related canons.
frith_in_thorns: Hardcover books standing upright (.Books)
I've just finished re-reading The Fionavar Tapestry, for the first time in several years. I still love it, without question! However, I also have Some Issues. Mostly these boil down to how Kay clearly prides himself on his Strong Female Characters™, but this is not the same as being actually good at writing women.

Saddest of all the long tales told = patriarchy )
frith_in_thorns: Sign reading "Really really dangerous don't touch - McKay" (SGA Danger sign)
I'm so glad there were more Tomb Show episodes today because everything else is awful.

Anyway, uh, the plot has taken a turn!!

I haven't really sorted out my reactions yet )
frith_in_thorns: (LTR Wu Xie match)
What on EARTH is this show.

I love it. But WHAT.

[personal profile] naye also has a good screaming post for ep 16, btw!

Reactions )

Edited to add A THEORY )

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