Words of Wood

Trick Or Treat went live, and I received TWO fics! Guardian and Vorkosigan, I am extremely happy and loved both :D

Rising Tide (4041 words) Vorkosigan, gen
Tags: Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan, Simon Illyan, Piotr Pierre Vorkosigan, Miles Vorkosigan, Barrayaran politics, Storms And Floods, Hurt/Comfort
Cordelia deals with the aftermath of a violent protest.

vacancy (5057 words) Guardian| 镇魂, WeiLan
Tags: Zhào Yúnlán, Shěn Wēi, Trick or Treat: Treat, Post-Canon, Hurt/Comfort, Pining, Intoxication, Injury, Dubcon Cuddling, Kissing, Future Fic, Handwaving
“Is that it?” Zhao Yunlan asked. “You thank me for showing you the most basic degree of courtesy and we go on as we have?”

I only wrote one fic for the exchange, which is a lot less than I'd meant to do, and I'm also not massively happy with it? Argh. Mostly the problem is that I'm not good at breaking out of writing a long-fic when it's eating my brain. I have at least one half-finished which I might try and finish before reveals?

...on that note, I started posting Goblin Fruit. It's posting in chapters not really for my enjoyment of cliffhangers this time but because the angst quotient in this is literally overwhelming. I actually stopped writing it to write another Jiajia fic because I needed a break. Ellie read halfway through it after it was posted and went, "Katherine are you still cross about the plasterboard?" YES I AM.

Then I also had to stop writing because I got a message from the Yuletide mods Thursday morning saying that because I'd defaulted in 2014 I'd been blacklisted and should write a pinch hit this year to be able to participate again. SO THAT WAS FUN. I queried whether there was anything I could do *this* year and was told if I could write a 1k fic to post to the collection filling a letter from last year before sign-ups closed then I could keep my sign-up. So I did that but it was definitely stress I could have done without.

Anyway, here are three fics from me.

Goblin Fruit Chapter 1 (3500 words) Guardian| 镇魂, WeiLan
Tags: Shěn Wēi, Zhào Yúnlán, Lín Jìng, Chǔ Shùzhī, Dà Qìng, Zhù Hóng, Wāng Zhēng, teamfic, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Really so much angst I'm not kidding, Eventual Happy Ending, Magical drug addiction, Caretaking, handwavy post-canon, They live in a house now, Extra warnings inside, Slightly bullshit magic science
"It grows barely at all in Dixing," Shen Wei said. "The drug's always been too rare to cause more than very occasional issues."
"I'd love to strangle whoever thought to bring some up to Haixing," Zhao Yunlan said, grimly.

Low Statistical Significance (2133 words) Guardian| 镇魂, gen
Tags: Jiājiā, Zhào Yúnlán, Shěn Wēi, Fluff, Slice of Life, Burglary, Mild boundary crossing which would be stressful IRL, but this is fiction so it's all good, Zhao Yunlan cannot do DIY, nor can Shen Wei but he cheats
"Oh," Jiajia said, surprised. "The SID deals with burglaries?"
Chief Zhao grinned, a bit sheepishly. "Not usually," he said. "Shen Wei called and said I needed to help you out."

Negative Spaces (1101 words) Guardian| 镇魂, WeiLan
Tags: Shěn Wēi, Zhào Yúnlán, Post-Canon, Assumes a fixit happened, Angst, Imperfect endings
It's not enough, sometimes, not really. But it has to be.

So "Shen Wei takes Jiajia as his newest grad student post-canon" is now a series! The unofficial newsletter of Dragon City University (BioEng Dept). And here is a second fic for it.

Title: Please refer to the list of ingredients (Guardian | 镇魂)
Word count: 3200 words
Characters/Pairing: Jiajia, Li Qian, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Content/Tags: Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Established Relationship, Awkward university functions, Accidental Alcohol
Summary: Jiajia, Professor Shen's newest grad student, is nervous at her first faculty-and-guests function at the university. But really, what could go wrong?
On AO3
For the "trust issues" square on my hc_bingo card

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30 Days of Guardian Day 2: Favourite case

The one with the ultrasound noises and the little girl and the wedding and the mind-control... good thing this question isn't "most coherent case" XD But it facilitates so many excellent scenes, including Shen Wei being super badass, Zhao Yunlan being clever, super awkward conversations, and Shen Wei coughing blood.

Also I really liked it for Zhao Yunlan being unhappy with both Shen Wei and the Envoy for different reasons (even though he was pretty sure by then that they were the same person). He really didn't want the Envoy to arrest the little girl and it was *such* a relief (for him and the audience) to afterwards know that mercy was being shown.

Also! This case arc had Zhao Yunlan touching the Awl and then swooning in Shen Wei's arms *and* Shen Wei being unhelpful to the cause of science by messing up Lin Jing's scan. Which weren't really related to the case I guess other than Zhu Jiu being related to the case in a very nebulous sort of way. It's a good job I wasn't watching this show for the cases, really.

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