Currently writing fic that really no one will want to read, in an attempt to dispell the brainworms that have been distracting me all week. I feel like I should apologise in advance. 😅
Suddenly reminded of why I started off shipping Ningguang with Beidou and then got turned off because fanarts I see of them kept talking about how lesbian ships are purer and better
I have an account there at cohost too (mostly just to park my username there) but genuinely, this is not a sustainable way to go on (re: rich friend donation)
I am having such a wonderful time reading Zhang Gong’an, and it’s really fine that no one else is interested enough to read half a million words of MTL, but it would be fun to have more people to talk to about it.
I already talked myself out of editing the MTL and publishing it—I do NOT have the time. 😔
(Brain: but kinkytranslations.com posts a chapter a day! How much work can it be?
Me: do you know how much work we have to do, you fucker)
Maybe I should write a manifesto that will entice people…
@geraineon I mean, lions eat cabbage? That's more surprising. I think my fingers have just decided that if I'm typing an animal these days, 9/10 chance it's a dragon.
Tfw you're just happily writing down your little fic ideas and realise you have, once again, made a tragic canon even worse. Villainous friend, stop doing that!
LB: Coffee shop au inspiration. With added inheritance issues (maybe this coffee shop serves the best kaya toast using traditional methods of toasting over charcoal?)
@geraineon such dedication!!! I don’t eat that many eggs, but I could imagine eating a lot more if I had that kind of gadget. And then never being able to do without it
#ZhangGongAn: I am obsessed with the Lan Jue-Wang Yan-Gu Qingzhang (Shulin)-Liu Zhihui dynamics in the flashback scenes here; it’s even messier than in the show. (For one thing, instead of unnamed scholar friends on the periphery, it’s Liu Zhihui, a single troublesome dude getting involved.)
#ZhangGongAn: Also obsessed with Zhang Ping being every bit as autistic rep as in the show, and how much he infuriates Lan Jue, to the point where he feels himself regressing back to the old self who hadn’t spent ten years pretending to be refined and serene. 😂
LJ: “You don’t understand, I was just different from them, a different kind of person, and it was very hard for me!”
ZP: “All people are different from one another.”
LJ, sulking to himself: You’re different too! Why doesn’t it bother you?!?!
Meanwhile, Chen Chou, wandering through the snow in the gathering gloom, being directed to a place to shelter by an old woodcutter who then suddenly vanishes and discovering that it’s an old, abandoned temple full of cobwebs: Why do all the genre tropes have to happen to me?!
#ALeagueOfNobleman gave us so much and I would never complain, but it did hold back the scene where Lan Jue faints while being impeached in front of the Emperor* and wakes with his son howling at the bedside, officers from the Ministry of War turning his room upside down, and an expressionless** Wang Yan standing at the head of the bed to inform him he’s been… poisoned!
Then a messenger comes in to say that Dali Temple wants to take over the case from the Ministry of Justice because it’s so politically important and Wang Yan gets to tear his head off. 😄
it’s Wednesday
** I know, that’s what it says in the text, but we can all imagine his expression
