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Jan. 1st, 2020 12:01 am
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Current projects
scum villain Shen twins AU
scum villain bingqiu casual intimacy project
Upcoming Projects

SCUM VILLAIN: Bingge project (4 parts)

HYPMIC: jakuramu fusion (oneshot: 5.000-10.000 words)



code: transilience
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The good: I finished my [community profile] getyourwordsout Habit Pledge (120 Days) early in August, and I managed to get back on track with writing! October was a very productive month for me creatively, but it wasn't easy in the slightest. I assigned myself a Project and that was the goal I was working towards. I more or less managed it, but I had to take a break afterwards because I got a bit too overwhelmed. I wanted to do a repeat of it in December but got sidetracked by IRL so now it's a winter project instead of a December one. I fell very deep into a new fandom, a currently in publishing series, and I had/am having a lot of fun with doing research for it, my hobby-academic to-read list is getting a bit too long.

The bad: pandemic am I right :')

Words written: 23302
Words written (overall): 34084
Fic finished: 18 (24)
Fic published: nope
Fandoms written: 2

Things I've learned in this period of the year
  • self-indulgence, self-indulgence, self-indulgence
  • having yourself as your sole audience is the absolute best

Writing goals for next year
  • continue with the self-indulgent little things!!!
  • finish the WIPs for old(er) fandoms I still want to write

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The good: I started very self indulgent short projects that I'm never planning on publishing because they're too personal and sometimes what you need is writing for yourself and only yourself, fandom be damned. I've started to have fun with writing again and I rejoined [community profile] getyourwordsout with a Habit Pledge and I've been on track for finishing so far! Forgot a check-in, though.

The bad: pandemic am I right :')

Words written: 10782
Words written (overall): 10782
Fic finished: 6
Fic published: 0
Fandoms written: 1

Things I've learned in this period of the year
  • burnout is still Very Very Not Good
  • I'm still incredibly predictable with faves
  • rarepair hell? rarepair hell
  • having yourself as your sole audience is very good when you're stuck and feel like maybe you should stop writing fanfiction

Writing goals for next period
  • don't stress about writing too much and take your time
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Pandemic am I right ;;

The good: [community profile] getyourwordsout let us alter our goals so I switched to Habit Pledge from a Word Count Pledge, and this way I managed to complete it at 143 days.

The bad: my writers block from last year stayed and I felt like I forgot how to write. Looking at my WIPs was painful and nothing truly interested me until I read Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint during the summer, but even then I was struggling. I took the whole year off from social media.

Words written: stopped counting in June at 12495
Words written (overall): around 16k (guesstimate)
Fic finished: 2
Fic published: 0
Fandoms written: Promare, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint

Things I've learned this year
  • burnout is still Very Not Good

Writing goals for next year
  • try to get over that annoying writers block but don't stress about it too much


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The good: I resurrected an old collaborative writing project with a group of friends and I've had a lot of fun working on it! I also launched my casual intimacy project which in the end I ended up writing solely for bingqiu instead of multiple ships in multiple fandoms. One of my priorities next year is to slowly finish this ficlet collection, I'm already 4 ficlets in out of 20!! (I shuffled the prompts around from the initial 24)

The bad: fan events were a Mistake. I didn't get to join [x.com profile] MTXTX_ladiesweek even though I had a WIP for it, and I really wanted to do [x.com profile] bingheweek because the whole prompt list was super fun and Luo Binghe is my favorite character, but I couldn't. I didn't submit my entry for [community profile] hp_nextgen_fest in the end (it was a hard choice to make) and there was also the MXTX Reverse Bang which is my biggest regret of the year. None of this was my fault but it's very hard not to blame myself for failing.

I guess what I need to do next year is to take things one step (project) at a time, and not joining any more fan events. The only thing I'm allowing myself is [community profile] chocolateboxcomm because it's such a low pressure exchange and even then I'm not sure if I'll sign up, I haven't nominated anything.

Words written: 18179
Words written (overall): 62151
Fic published: 2 (1905 words)
Fandoms written: 4 (Scum Villain, hypmic, Harry Potter, Promare)

Things I've learned in this period of the year
  • stop!! joining!! fan events!!
  • writing with friends is fun
  • P-P-PROMARE
  • I'm still incredibly predictable with faves
  • burnout is Not Good

Writing goals for next year

[TBD]
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Fandom: Scum Villain's Self Saving System
Relationships: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan
Rating: T
Warnings: none
Tags: angst and hurt/comfort, mental health issues, developing relationship (post main story, pre-extras)

ON AO3

Notes

This fic is basically my love letter to Luo Binghe, my son, whom I love very much. I'm not above admitting some parts of my motivation in writing this fic was all the hate he gets which is something that irritates me not because he's my favorite character but because he's very neurodivergent coded and some people go so far in their hate it's straight up ableist. I read Luo Binghe as having a not quite diagnosable personality disorder with borderline traits, and I wanted to explore some of this. It was a hard fic to write but I wrote it in 2 sittings, cursing myself because if it hurts the reader it hurts me, the writer, more :')

Unloved characters and/or abuse survivors finding their happiness is super important to me. A happy Luo Binghe is Everything.
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Fandom: Scum Villain's Self Saving System
Relationships: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Tags: fluff without plot, casual intimacy, developing & established relationship, post-canon, alternating POV

ON AO3

Notes

I've been collecting prompts for this theme (casual intimacy) for a long time and I really needed to write plotless fluff so I decided to launch the Project™. I'm planning on slowly updating 2-3 mini chapters a time. The chapter titles are not the actual prompts, but I'll release the full list after I'm done!

The title is very deliberately terribad, I had a good title and a fun one (= the bad one) and I chose the latter because if it's self-indulgent fluff then let's signal I have it That Bad for my otp.

Chapter updates

09/08, 2019
Chapter 1: morning cuddles
Chapter 2: sometimes paperwork is not all bad

10/15, 2019
Chapter 3: hair brushing
Chapter 4: mid-afternoon naps

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The good: I published the first chapter of my first real longfic project!!!! And I had a fanweek (BingQiu Week) I successfully participated in!!

The bad: after April's big tick up in productivity May and especially June was a disappointment, and I only got back to writing for real for the fanweek of my otp. I had two fan events: [community profile] sportsfest (from which I had to drop out of) and [x.com profile] mxtxexchange organized on ao3 and twitter, the exchange I successfully participated in. There were 2 fanweeks I had plans (WIPs) for but I didn't get to join (qijiu, moshang). August was dreadful overall.

Words written: 17194
Words written (overall): 42425
Fic published: 6 (10853 words)
Fandoms written: 4 (Scum Villain, haikyuu, Daiya no Ace, hypmic)

Things I've learned in this period of the year
  • if you love your otp enough you can write a Lot
  • longfics are very fun but when your attention span is short they're Hard
  • I still miss writing female characters
  • my brain is still an idea factory and I need someone to pull the breaks

Writing goals for the next 4 months (September-December)
  • finish up the bingqiu week multichap (Carmilla fusion)
  • TWINS AU TWINS AU TWINS AU
  • reverse? bang??
  • don't join any more exchanges no femslashex and no Yuletide
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Part 1 was originally written for BingQiu Week 2019; I was supposed to finish the moshang & qijiu installments for their respective fanweeks but that clearly didn't happen. So far I only have plans for Scum Villain but the full universe features the other two MXTX novels as well. I more or less worldbuilt what I could, I'm assuming I'll have to adjust a few things once I actually read TGCF.


Part 1: Until Eternity (bingqiu)

Rating: T
Warnings: none
Tags: soulmates, royalty, Shen twins AU, first meetings

Summary
When the crown prince of the Demon Realm is born, his soulmate string leads up towards the human realm.

ON AO3


[next installments TBA]

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I adore fanweeks and now that I have a main fandom again I get to participate in them! I wasn't as active as I initially planned to—or wanted to—be, but I still managed to write a few entries. Sadly I had to skip QiJiu Week, though. Hopefully I'll get back to participating properly with Moshang Week!

Fics planned: 5
Fics published: 3 (+1)


Day 2: Longing

Rating: T
Warnings: none
Tags: angst, grief, multiple POV. Abyss fic

Summary
A glimpse into the Endless Abyss—and beyond.

ON AO3


Day 3: Dreams

Rating: T
Warnings: none
Tags: post-canon, domestic, fluff, let Shizun initiate affection 2k19

Summary
Luo Binghe’s duties as the Demon Sovereign ran a bit longer than he had expected.

ON AO3


Day 5: Crossover — Carmilla fusion
Rating: T
Warnings: none
Tags: modern college AU, vampires. minor moshang & qijiu

Summary
Shen Yuan didn’t sign up for any weird shit when he had applied for a year-long scholarship to Huan Hua University—a university where, as it turned out, supernatural occurrences and encounters with monsters were such a regular part of student life that no one seemed to bat an eye at them. A couple of weeks after his roommate had dropped out without further notice, Shen Yuan got assigned a new one, and everything slowly went south after the strange first year had shown up.

ON AO3
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Introduction post to the series

Part 1: our pasts and presents intertwine

Relationships: Shen Yuan & Luo Binghe, Shen Yuan & Shen Jiu
Rating: T
Warnings: Graphic Violence
Tags: twins AU, time travel fix-it

Summary:

After transferring all his spiritual energy to Luo Binghe in Huayue City, Shen Yuan didn’t get to wake up in the plant body as he had planned with Shang Qinghua, because why would anything ever have gone smoothly in his life. Still, Shen Yuan was sure this was somehow the fault of Great God Airplane.

(Or: There was a glitch in the System.)


ON AO3

Individual chapter notes

Chapter 1

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Chapter rating: T
Chapter warnings: none

Chapter notes

This chapter required some coding, but bless ao3 for natively supporting all the monospace html so I didn't have to code a work skin for the System's messages. I actually considered going all out with the System stuff and doing a clickable choose-your-adventure thing with anchor links but I decided against it. (Maybe one day I'll code a dating sim fic, I had a WIP for DDLC but I never finished it.)

I got a little help with the terms of addresses, though not from someone who is familiar with Scum Villain, that's why I really, really need a SV fan to help me. Hopefully someone will like my fic enough to volunteer!

As for Liu Qingge and Mu Qingfang, I know the more common variant is Liu Qingge having sect seniority but since I don't mind either way I asked my tl even though barely anyone knows what I'm talking about whenever I mention Scum Villain, and this is what they decided on.

Image


Masterpost     |     Notes for Chapter 2

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The twins AU is my favorite Scum Villain canon divergent setting so naturally I wanted to take a stab at it. I think the setting has so much potential, and there are quite a few content creators who have been writing/drawing it and I love every single one! Scum Villain in general is great from a transformative fandom perspective, with the canon parallel universes and multiple versions of the characters and whatnot. MXTX gave us so much power; I'm right in the middle of MDZS (even though I started the donghua in August, I was an early second gen convert) and I'm not reading TGCF yet, but I still think as a fic writer Scum Villain is going to be my overall favorite MXTX novel to write for. I have Plans for the other two but I want to enjoy my time as a SV writer so they have to wait.

While we have several twins AUs, no one has written it in the way I wanted: approaching it as a fix-it, and a fix-it for 4 different characters. That's the core of my fic series, Shen Yuan deep down knowing how many things he did wrong and wanting to fix that (or at least trying to redo as much as he can), and entangling the frustrating and painful miscommunication mess that's Shen Jiu and Yue Qingyuan. In the second part I'll get to add a couple of very self-indulgent tropes, I'm looking forward to writing them! Hopefully other people too will enjoy this fic series.

I can't reveal the real title of the series yet because it's the title of the second story, but for easier organizing the acronym is ISAFWY. I don't think I'll get to do a title drop (I always wanted to!! title drops are so cool, my first thought is always the famous and beloved drarry fic Turn) but I believe it's fitting for the character arcs for both bingqiu and qijiu.

This series is the first actual longfic I've published, I've had multiple fics / fic series in the 10-20k range, but they are mostly failed attempts (due to utter frustration with the story itself or frustration with the fandom then quitting the fandom altogether). I honestly can't see this happening with this series, I'm that smitten with Scum Villain and this AU setting, I haven't felt this since my early times in the Haikyuu fandom.

I'm planning on recording my thoughts about this series here on this journal as I write it, mainly for myself, but maybe there might be readers who will find this interesting!
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In the beginning of the year I was struggling a lot with my writing, then way too many sad irl things happened so I developed a huge writer's block which made me unable to finish my hypmic big bang fic. I still adore the idea and I want to finish it, but I don't know if I'm allowed to, it depends on the other people involved. We'll see.

In January I gained a new main fandom so with hypmic now I have two: the Chinese historical fantasy BL/danmei novel Scum Villain's Self Saving System. Its metanovel nature makes it super fun to play with as a content creator: you can put any trope into a canonverse fic (very much like bnha) and you can make any AU canonesque with the transmigration aspect. I'm so smitten with this fandom I've started working on a two part canon divergent series and a post-canon fic, with a possible post-canon prequel for that (I'm still considering whether to run with a minor detail that sometimes gets mentioned in passing and making that as a main theme), but I have multiple ficlet WIPs.

I had two exchanges: [community profile] chocolateboxcomm  and [community profile] worldbuildingex , I greatly enjoyed writing for both.

Words written: 25231
Fic published: 3 (3477 words)
Fandoms written: 4 (Hypmic, Natsume Yuujinchou, Scum Villain, BNHA)

Things I've learned in the first 4 months of the year
  • stop doubting yourself too much, fandom is not a competition, it's self-indulgent by nature and it should stay like that
  • if you develop a big enough writer crush, that can be quite inspiring
  • writing for NatsuYuu is really fun
  • I missed writing for a fandom that takes all kinds of tropes well
  • even with my complicated feelings on the fandom I missed writing for BNHA, but I'm never going back
  • I NEED A SIDE FEMSLASH FANDOM, I MISS WRITING FEMALE CHARACTERS

Writing goals for the next 4 months (May-August)
  • revisit my unpublished fills for last year's [community profile] sportsfest and finally post them!! (kiyoyachi, alisae, kousawa definitely; potentially: kagehina, the iwaoi & kagehina xxxHolic AU)
  • finish the entire first installment of my first Scum Villain longfic (self-imposed deadline: end of July)
  • finish the first installment of my hypmic fusion AU
  • a few ficlets of a multifandom project (Hypmic, Daiya no Ace, potentially Scum Villain) involving a common theme
  • join [community profile] sportsfest as a grandstander
  • write for the ship day of my main Daiya ship (kousawa)
  • join the bingqiu and qijiu fanweeks (finally I'll get to participate in fanweeks again!! not having a main fandom in 2018 dampened this)
  • try not to start too many new WIPs (as if that's a realistic goal)

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Fandom: Scum Villain's Self Saving System
Relationships: Shen Jiu/Yue Qingyuan
Rating: M
Warnings: Major Character Death
Tags: time loop, angst

ON AO3

Notes

I usually start a fandom with either a rarepair or a PWP, this time it's a rarepair :') I was never supposed to write this pairing (or like them) but about a month ago one day at 2 am I randomly thought of that first line and I just rolled with it. Since then these two practically consumed my life. I'm not really complaining but one day I would love to fall for a pairing that's not tragic? Like I love moshang but they're not the one who ate all my free time (even though that's what I expected in the beginning) it's these two miserable childhood friends ;;

The fic I'm posting is Version 2.5, I rewrote it (originally it was in second person) then edited 5 times, every time I sat down to edit I not-so-lowkey hated my past self, writing heavy angst is like if it's not hurting you (the writer) then what's the point.
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General fic goals for 2019
  • write more femslash
  • try to write faster
  • finish at least 3 fics in the 10-15k range
  • finish 2 multichapter fics
  • actually work on not!fic

Longer term writing plans

Hypnosis Mic Big Bang: 2018 September – 2019 March. If there's another one (hopefully a reverse bang) I'll probably join.

Exchanges:  [community profile] chocolateboxcomm (nominated!), [community profile] worldbuildingex, [community profile] femslashex (depends on what they do with the nonbinary characters issue), and [community profile] yuletide if I'll have 4 microfandoms (most likely will)

Multichapter plans:
  • hypmic werewolf AU
  • a fusion type of crossover for hypmic
  • kagehina superhero AU, but it might end up as a ~15k long oneshot
  • one HP nextgen fic (7 chapters)
  • bnha soulmates AU (3 chapters)

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Fandom: Hypnosis Mic
Relationships: Hifumi/Doppo
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Tags: mundane magic, slice of life, pre-slash

ON AO3

Notes

There's this tumblr post (I believe OP is the author of A Breach Of Trust) that talks about how you can make an angst or a fluff writer consider prompts of the opposite tone but they’ll still end up writing angst and fluff respectively. The two examples were "death" and "sunlight" or "sunshine" I think? This fic is exactly that, except it’s SFF writers and contemporary slice of life / introspective pieces, I seem to be incapable of writing the latter. I feel the most comfortable with writing SFF, no matter what kind of fics I've published on ao3. I write canonverse fics a lot since generally I prefer those even though I have a couple of fandoms where I like AUs an canonverse fics equally, but those are my sports animanga fandoms. With hypmic I prefer canonverse but AUs are great as well!

Initially I wanted to write something super domestic, sort of aiming for getting out of my comfort zone, but I've been thinking about Fukigenna Mononokean a lot lately since S2 is coming soon, and sentient buildings is a trope I adore! The first time I've read it in fanfiction was in the Harry Potter fandom, Grimmauld Place-is-sentient definitely features in quite a lot of fics, and I've been wanting to try writing it for a while. I'm definitely revisiting this trope later, potentially in a longer fic! I'm almost sure I'm going to end up writing for this universe again, it was fun, and I did a bunch of worldbuilding that never made it into the fic.

That LINE skin is definitely unfinished but I wanted to incorporate the cute stickers so this has to do until I finish coding it, then I'll edit the fic. HIfumi's LINE is definitely not how it should look, him having the default background is totally OOC and I'm aware of this, but in a fic it has to be different than, say, in a fanart/fancomic, because we have to work with less visual clues than artists. Also I don't have transparent versions on the stickers, those are my own screenshots because a good friend of mine has them!

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The song which I named this journal after:


[also on spotify but I can't embed that here]

Back when 8tracks was popular and still usable (I know it's usable again for North Americans) and fanmixes were popular, I randomly stumbled upon an excellent instrumental playlist for the Star Wars ship stormpilot (Finn and Poe from The Force Awakens) and this was the first track—I immediately fell in love. I adore soundtracks and epic music and related genres so it was exactly My Type of music!
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