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lao zhao you have a pakige

a what

pakige

packag

SHUT UP YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

cracking open a cold one (it's a boy!!)
Part of the 520 Day Reverse Exchange, for plingo_kat!
Rating: G
Length: 1.7k words
Summary:

Zhao Yunlan puts his ~~detective skills~~ ~~elite squad~~ delegation skills to good(?) use.

Because it's just been that kind of week. Many thoughts head empty would like to become one with the nearest sofa cushion except it's too hot lately for that, etc. I haven't even gotten around to last weekend's 天赐 episode yet, except for that absolutely feral 算你狠 performance (though to be fair, I have watched it… well, a lot more than once……)

Also, I do need to get my gif folder under control at some point, that pest is reaching almost 30GB at this point because I refuse to delete my PSDs. (Fortunately I do have the storage to spare on my laptop, but still.)

In the meantime, various bits and bobs from earlier this week:

Re-bearified version of the banner I made for the 520 reverse exchange at sid_guardian, because Bears.

GIF of Shen Wei showing a sketch of a bear over video call, with the flashing subtitle text: hashtag BEARS in all caps

Zhou Shen gifset ft. blue gradient and overlays for week 3 of the March gif challenges – technically my first time Doing Colours On Purpose, and of course I had to make my own life difficult by trying to coherently combine gifs from 5 wildly-different-colouring videos. See comparison ( under the cut )

I don't often do draft versions of gifs these days, short of extremely elaborate layouts (…so basically that CM intro set), but it was called for in this case. (Tangentially, a fun read on the topic of white balance and colouring!)

On-the-commute-home-phonefic (or the opening three paragraphs thereof) owing to discussions on the Guardian server, which I have since realised could fill the DCU square on my bingo card if I could trap writing!brain back long enough to finish it out:

( snippet: aw, shen wei, no )

Current Music: Aeons by Mark Petrie/Andrew Prahlow

Because it has been raining all day here – a positive thing, in my book! Except for the laundry problem it creates.

Anyway, a(nother?) go at several-things-make-a-post-ing, miscellaneous life updates edition…

Won't make a full Zhou Shen post this week because my attention span is in short supply, but I'll probably end up posting about his new song anyway because it's so good! On a related note, I shared my 380-videos-long playlist with a fellow fan on Tumblr and they actually finished listening to the whole thing, wow. Even I haven't done that in a while! It's really long!!
Spent some time last evening reading through old(ish) fics off an AO3 kudos email, which is always fun between the fact that I forget fics once I'm done posting them and said fics being obviously tailored to my own interests. Highlights: Pokemon fic, all three ATLA fics, a whole bunch of fics for FMAB (the one where I fail to cut Alphonse a break and the one where I do it again) and FMA 03/CoS (this 3-sentence-ish collection, a brief crossover with the MCU because SSR!Elrics, and not actually a crossover but Ed as the Man in the Tan Jacket), post-series fic for ink-splotch's Leagues and Legends trilogy, and the TPN timetravel AU that I never quite finished but still like a lot.
So many interesting comments on the translation post! Replies to come once my brain returns back online and functional, but I'm also tangentially entertained by the realisation that I've actually never quite engaged with translation meta/theory as a thing in itself? Which is atypical of the way I usually approach things (i.e. search the stuffing out of it) but then again I didn't actually start out intending to Do Translation, so. Wouldn't even be inaccurate to say I started doing it by accident, really.
Guardian-related: Three fics done at fan_flashworks (and my own tag, yay!), a small scene discussion idea rattling around the back of my brain, and the extremely vague "what if Zhao Yunlan walked into the vibes of FMA 03's ending" concept lurking even further into the shadows.
Devoted several hours today just whacking away at technical exercises for the data visualisation software we use at work, which was a refreshing challenge because I only get to use it for routine stuff at work 90% of the time despite being for all intents and purposes the subject matter expert in my division.
Very non-committal watchlist: 大侦探 S7 now that it's started airing, these two math videos, the mini-episodes for Project Sekai and In/Spectre… and I still haven't gotten around to more of Reset…

Current Music: 烟花易冷 by Zhou Shen

A KNIFE!! On a Roomba! Because why not. The adventures of Stabby deserve to exist in all possible universes, space or otherwise, and you can't tell me Zhao Yunlan would not like to cause chaos in this way.

automation, the perils of
(Also on AO3!)
Rating: G
Length: 1.7k words
Prompt: "foot" on fan_flashworks / "Snake Tribe" on guardianbingo
Summary:

Zhao Yunlan's newest purchase gets underfoot.

(Or, the adventures of Stabby the ~~Space~~ SID Roomba.)

Current Music: 阿刁 by Angela Chang

Suits	Snacks	Hair	Crow Tribe	Longevity Dial
Action / Adventure	Sang Zan	Dragon City University	Snake Tribe	Dijun Booklet
The Regent	Home	Free Square	Undercover	Awakening
Misunder- standings	Cooking	Motorcycle	Black-Cloaked Envoy	Mystery
Zhao Yunlan	Zhao Xinci	Legends	Case Fic	Happy Ending

[ lighter squares: fics | darker squares: gifs ]

[ card from guardianbingo | code insp girlrock ]

Undiluted Weilan fluff for fan_flashworks (second entry so far!), and also the first fill for my Guardian bingo card.

Definitely inspired in part by CNY-related discussions with elenothar, and so further doubles as a happy Lunar New Year card to everyone celebrating! 新年快乐! 🧨

new are the days before us
Rating: G
Length: 468 words
Prompt: "joke" on fan_flashworks / "cooking" on guardianbingo
Summary:

So maybe Zhao Yunlan should order that Kiss The Cook apron he'd seen online, not that he actually needs the encouragement.

ETA: Now crossposted to AO3!

Current Mood: amused

Yet more prompt fills from today's 3 Sentence Ficathon harvest, previous archive posts here and here!

A half-sized batch of four ficlets this time, all Guardian… and all from wildly different AUs! Including yet another crack crossover, because nobody stopped me least of all myself. Please fasten your seat belts when the captain turns the light on, et cetera.

GUARDIAN

( ficlet: daemon au )

( ficlet: canon-but-apocalypse au )

( ficlet: SID but timey-wimey, the au )

GUARDIAN / WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE

( ficlet: surprise crossover! ta-daaaa )

Current Mood: satisfied

Guardian fic for the prompt "current" over at fan_flashworks, now crossposted to AO3!

(Also: the two-part compilation of the sixteen(!!) prompt fills done so far for the 3 Sentence Ficathon, if you haven't seen them yet!)

cause love, we're like fire
Rating: G
Length: 2530 words
Prompt: "current" on fan_flashworks
Summary:

When he said there was a current between them Zhao Yunlan had never meant it this literally.

Current Mood: accomplished

Another eight prompt fills freshly archived from the 3 Sentence Ficathon, continued from the first set posted here!

(*slaps lid of three sentences* you could fit so many genres in here)

GUARDIAN
( ficlets, again in roughly increasing order of Angst™ )

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DISCWORLD / FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST
( yes, you read that correctly )

Current Mood: giddy
Current Music: The Broken Ones by Dia Frampton

I know this wasn't actually tailor-made to my interests, obviously, but it certainly feels like it is. Prompt open season, yay!

Anyway! ~~I'll tidy this up later (read: when not on my phone mid-commute to work) but~~ 3 Sentence Ficathon is ongoing and I figure I should archive my fills somewhere before I lose them like my marbles.

ETA: Collected all eight(!) fills so far with links below the cut, enjoy!

ETA 2: ~~More new fills linked in the comments!~~ Second set of fills now compiled here! All Guardian except one… surprise crossover, let's just say.

GUARDIAN

( ficlets, in roughly increasing order of Angst™ )

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PERSON OF INTEREST

( ficlet, aka shaw my beloved )

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MURDERBOT

( ficlet, or: two machine intelligences walk into a bar )

Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: 化身孤岛的鲸 by Zhou Shen

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of ice covered tree branches and falling snowflakes on a blue background. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

Challenge #6

In your own space, Create something. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Decided to put those subscriptions to fic prompt comms to use by doing a Guardian drabble for

100words, linked below!

A lot of what I write is in the several-hundred-words range by default, but it's been a long while since I really restricted myself to exactly 100 words so this was a nice challenge. I'm definitely out of practice at sticking to a particular word count – this idea kept wanting to expand into the 200-word range even while I was beating it down with a mallet. Behave, you gremlin.

(Admittedly I also had a more recent run of writing one-tweet-length (i.e. 280 character) fics during my stint in The Promised Neverland fandom, but I'd argue writing that sort of micro-fic is its own kind of beast entirely.

And come to think of it, the last time I did drabbles regularly was on

100wordstories when I was exploring around LJ, so it's nice to come full circle I guess? Definitely an instructive experience, judging by how I do semi-often get comments about how much story and/or worldbuilding I've managed to cram into the little amount of fic real estate I use.)

( fic: look at your life, zhao yunlan, look at your choices )

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Oh No! by Marina and the Diamonds

…I may actually convince the anxiously spinning top constituting 85% of my brain to regain some measure of sensibility, i.e. stop refusing to write fic anywhere besides Tumblr drafts or Discord messages. Neither of which actually has an auto-save function, with a bonus very very short character limit on the latter just to spice things up, but alas. The meatsack does what it wants.

On the other hand, all that rattling around did actually give me a long(ish) idea to work with for once, which is nice for a change! And I got enough of it drafted on the train to and back from work that I'm actually hopeful on the odds of finishing it maybe this weekend. Once I paper enough of this over for a semi-hanging-together-plot, at least…

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( snippet: local chief found cathandling deputy (for a good cause) )

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ETA: Hilariously I may have accidentally thought of a brilliant solution to this – i.e. changing Atom's colours to match Discord's. It's definitely a fresh feel, let's see how well it works…

ETA 2: Finished fic now posted here on

fan_flashworks!

Current Mood: optimistic
Current Music: 起风了 by Zhou Shen

Or: surprise, turns out your secret identity (unknown to even yourself) is literally the sentient manifestation of Dragon City itself! Pretty cool actually.

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( part 1: in which professor shen tries Logic™ï¸ )

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( part 2: in which zhao yunlan is himself (*shen wei sneezes offscreen*) )

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: marie by Aimer

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of skier kicking up snow on a snow white background. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

Challenge #3

In your own space, put some favorite characters into an AU, fuse some favorite canons together, talk about your favorite AU/fusion tropes, or tell us why AU/fusions aren’t your cup of tea. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Really, you might as well ask if the sun likes to rise. Admittedly much-earlier me used to do only the occasional canon-divergence back when I cared more about complying to canon, but these days literally anything goes. Pretty much the only kinds of AU concepts that I'm "eh" about are cases where the setting is overly specific in a way I don't care for (solid pass on college or high school AU, doubly so if it's extremely Americanised) or that I simply don't see the point of (as someone who's been known to question what difference an otherwise-canon-ish soulmate AU makes). For crossovers, I tend to prefer some kind of fusion between the universes rather than straight up mashing all the characters together. Unless it's a crack scenario, in which case collide away.

Anyway. Highlights of variously-implausible AU things I have committed in full seriousness:

MCU!AU of Detective Conan that started out just from CA:TWS and spiralled from there
also literally all of the DC/MK fic in this series
Murderbot!AU snippets of Guardian and Heaven Official's Blessing, respectively
MDZS!AU of FMA because zombie Hawkeye, so why not
modern day FMA where Alphonse is [redacted for spoilers]
Welcome to ~~Night Vale~~ Resembool
Nirvana in Fire wingfic
The Mentalist but spookier
modern day MDZS because – once again – necromancer detective Wei Wuxian, why not
multiple ones for Murderbot: MedUnit AU, building AU, and (possibly most bizarrely, if only because of my unfamiliarity with the subject matter) figure skating AU
and also ATLA: bodyswap Toph and Zuko, and zombie apocalypse AU taken 100% in seriousness despite how it might sound

…and that's nowhere near an exhaustive list, just the more recent ones. I write a lot of AU, to put it mildly.

And a final obligatory mention to my longstanding vendetta against coffeeshop AU. Anyone's guess how much in jest that is by this point.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Guardian OST

Which was always bound to happen once I finished the show, given… pretty much everything about it, but in typical brain-pinball fashion this also means the neurons have gotten overexcited and zoomed off in too many directions at once. Not great for actually finishing anything, tbh, but hopefully recording bits of it down will straighten things out at least.

Also that "maybe" is technically inaccurate since I've already posted these two ficlets of Murderbot AU and literal-spirit-of-the-city!ZYL respectively, the further adventures of which are also *gestures vaguely* somewhere in this brainsoup.

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( snippet: weilan fluff )

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( snippet: murderbot au pt. 2 )

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( snippet: drama-compliant post-canon (sorry) )

Current Mood: restless

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*record scratch* *freeze frame*
behind on replies to: basically Everything™️
雨纷纷 ☔️
let me see what you have!
guardian bingo!
so my hand slipped?
3SF ficlets, part 3! (AU galore edition)
everytime we touch i get this feeling (ow)
3SF ficlets, part 2!
3SF ficlets!
drabble time!
one of these days…
literal city boy zhao yunlan, the au
like sugar on butter on toast
so maybe i write guardian fic now

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Entries tagged with fic

record scratch freeze frame

behind on replies to: basically Everything™️

雨纷纷 ☔️

let me see what you have!

guardian bingo!

so my hand slipped?

3SF ficlets, part 3! (AU galore edition)

everytime we touch i get this feeling (ow)

3SF ficlets, part 2!

3SF ficlets!

drabble time!

one of these days…

literal city boy zhao yunlan, the au

like sugar on butter on toast

so maybe i write guardian fic now

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