2021 in writing, a summary:
Dec. 31st, 2021 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
halcyonineso there's just about six hours left to 2022 in my area and now's a good a time as any to just... wonder where the hell the year disappeared to, I suppose. as a year this was totally productive! definitely produced more fic than expected and certainly don't expect it to be happening again (mitsukiri brainworms I'm looking at YOU) but like who knows what could happen if onmyo continues their plot, sp susabi my long-awaited.
already summarised up to june, so let's see...
the very tail end of july whacked me with a fill that in the end did not comply with the event because I completely forgot samsara is the opposite of a small team, but glory worldbuilding is always a fun exercise and I do think the fic would have been weaker if I wrote it from li xuan's perspective instead of jiang botao's, so un-STAFF it will remain. have considered swapping transliterations to translations for some dungeons though. it greatly features sushi, which a) comes from an as-yet-perhaps-ever-unwritten cerui headcanon, and b) reflects my own longing for sushi during lockdown. ah, lockdown... really wish the government would stop being stupid and implement another one, the cases doubled from yesterday again
then the start of august has the taishura! still one of my favourites, even though at least half of it was a struggle to write. first time I went and nailed down lines and vibes on discord instead of making it up as I go, and I think the discord formatting definitely helped with that because seeing planning is sometimes just so weird. should do that for the cerui maybe to inspire it along. canon taishura and netease really be wilding around the cn censors, but you know what's even more wild? the au taishuras. please netease never stop giving us the good content
october brought with it extreme procrastination for my thesis in the form of the 10k lanye demon/priest au, but I turned it into demon/exorcist for easier writing and shoved in about a lifetime's worth of cool tumblr ideas, cough shoelaces cough. the ending for that was absurdly difficult to find out, but thankfully I did before it turned out like my last big bang! still have regrets on how weak that one ended; still have no ideas how to fix it. and still need to watch the green knight in australian cinemas (cmon man just release it already I'm like 5 days away from a peg leg and a parrot)
october also brought my masq fic! which totally worked because I only got hit four times. writing a fic in literally a few hours is really easy if you're just pulling setting and plotlines from an existing work, as it happens. thank you golden stage, although I will probably never read you in my life because multichapter flashbacks are a great way for my eyes to glaze over and me skipping ahead, except I couldn't even do that bc the chapters right after flashback hell were all paid and idk if I want the investment. (I did have a look at the translated ending, and it... wasn't really my type of ending, alas) the mountains are low, of course, tugs from the lines 'the mountains are high and the emperor far away', only in this case the emperor is right there because they are in the capital and also hst wants to commit non-fatal murder. masq has maybe got some of my favourite lines this year, went a little bit ham with the imagery the way cnovels always go a little bit ham
november was just thesis hell but december brought TWO mitsukiri brainworms like ????? god I want to frame their fuckery on my wall. the first one was just me suddenly and very desperately needing onikiri in ropes, and - well, in a reconciled mitsukiri I just think yorimitsu would be very terribly careful if oni ever let him, almost (scared-not-scared, he doesn't get scared) to touch because what if it breaks the illusion, this trust that onikiri has offered him? and onikiri would be simultaneously hateful and accepting towards all that carefulness when he neither needs or wants it but yorimitsu coping with it still means something to him... the second was just SEX POLLEN announcing itself in my brain and being tuned down to one-person aphrodisiac instead. in some ways it was the opposite to the first fic bc the first one was oni placing his trust in yori, and this is yori returning his care... by staying conscious through an entire night of marathon sex despite the fact that he definitely no longer has that stamina and very much wants to pass out, yes. he wants to be good for onikiri, or they want to be kinder to each other, only that particular road is overgrown with thorns. but better to have thorns digging in than never stepping on the road at all
and of course the secret santa fic which has not been revealed yet but was fun indeed to write! had like 50 ideas but only one came out with a plot, smh. still it was great fun, everyone's frustration at their obliviousness a total joy to write. no yuletide this year (and no fandoms I particularly needed needed fics for, or prompts either tbh) but we'll see next year!
already summarised up to june, so let's see...
the very tail end of july whacked me with a fill that in the end did not comply with the event because I completely forgot samsara is the opposite of a small team, but glory worldbuilding is always a fun exercise and I do think the fic would have been weaker if I wrote it from li xuan's perspective instead of jiang botao's, so un-STAFF it will remain. have considered swapping transliterations to translations for some dungeons though. it greatly features sushi, which a) comes from an as-yet-perhaps-ever-unwritten cerui headcanon, and b) reflects my own longing for sushi during lockdown. ah, lockdown... really wish the government would stop being stupid and implement another one, the cases doubled from yesterday again
then the start of august has the taishura! still one of my favourites, even though at least half of it was a struggle to write. first time I went and nailed down lines and vibes on discord instead of making it up as I go, and I think the discord formatting definitely helped with that because seeing planning is sometimes just so weird. should do that for the cerui maybe to inspire it along. canon taishura and netease really be wilding around the cn censors, but you know what's even more wild? the au taishuras. please netease never stop giving us the good content
october brought with it extreme procrastination for my thesis in the form of the 10k lanye demon/priest au, but I turned it into demon/exorcist for easier writing and shoved in about a lifetime's worth of cool tumblr ideas, cough shoelaces cough. the ending for that was absurdly difficult to find out, but thankfully I did before it turned out like my last big bang! still have regrets on how weak that one ended; still have no ideas how to fix it. and still need to watch the green knight in australian cinemas (cmon man just release it already I'm like 5 days away from a peg leg and a parrot)
october also brought my masq fic! which totally worked because I only got hit four times. writing a fic in literally a few hours is really easy if you're just pulling setting and plotlines from an existing work, as it happens. thank you golden stage, although I will probably never read you in my life because multichapter flashbacks are a great way for my eyes to glaze over and me skipping ahead, except I couldn't even do that bc the chapters right after flashback hell were all paid and idk if I want the investment. (I did have a look at the translated ending, and it... wasn't really my type of ending, alas) the mountains are low, of course, tugs from the lines 'the mountains are high and the emperor far away', only in this case the emperor is right there because they are in the capital and also hst wants to commit non-fatal murder. masq has maybe got some of my favourite lines this year, went a little bit ham with the imagery the way cnovels always go a little bit ham
november was just thesis hell but december brought TWO mitsukiri brainworms like ????? god I want to frame their fuckery on my wall. the first one was just me suddenly and very desperately needing onikiri in ropes, and - well, in a reconciled mitsukiri I just think yorimitsu would be very terribly careful if oni ever let him, almost (scared-not-scared, he doesn't get scared) to touch because what if it breaks the illusion, this trust that onikiri has offered him? and onikiri would be simultaneously hateful and accepting towards all that carefulness when he neither needs or wants it but yorimitsu coping with it still means something to him... the second was just SEX POLLEN announcing itself in my brain and being tuned down to one-person aphrodisiac instead. in some ways it was the opposite to the first fic bc the first one was oni placing his trust in yori, and this is yori returning his care... by staying conscious through an entire night of marathon sex despite the fact that he definitely no longer has that stamina and very much wants to pass out, yes. he wants to be good for onikiri, or they want to be kinder to each other, only that particular road is overgrown with thorns. but better to have thorns digging in than never stepping on the road at all
and of course the secret santa fic which has not been revealed yet but was fun indeed to write! had like 50 ideas but only one came out with a plot, smh. still it was great fun, everyone's frustration at their obliviousness a total joy to write. no yuletide this year (and no fandoms I particularly needed needed fics for, or prompts either tbh) but we'll see next year!
