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(I only just realized your askbox was also open to trick-or-treaters oops)

Welcome!!! Haha yess, I issued an open invitation for trick-or-treaters several days/weeks before halloween, it was possible to miss it :D Thank you for sending one in and I'm sorry for the late response! I have a very short snippet for you from a qijiu-esque Yue Qingyuan piece.

This one takes place post-canon. Yue Qingyuan is having his fated-person fortune read by Madam Meiyin. There's some confusion in what Yue Qingyuan's fate shows vs. what Yue Qingyuan thinks he knows of Shen Qingqiu's death(s).

“Sect Leader Yue,” Madam Meiyin says, purposefully making her voice gentle, “your beloved has indeed passed away, but they never awoke again.”

Yue Qingyuan freezes.

“Perhaps,” she continues, “you have never met your—”

“No.”

The refusal seems to surprise him as much as her. They stare at each other in silence.

Yue Qingyuan, finally, ducks his head. “No,” he repeats, softer. “I have met him. It could never be anyone else.”

ahhh thank you so much, that’s so kind of you

I know, right? c’: I realised that very thing when rewatching yoi last month. I’ve never noticed it before and then I paused the episode at that moment and oh god. We’ve seen Victor smile when skating before, yeah, but it always looked strained, for show, the “it will look good on camera and it goes well with the theme of the program” kind. He does the same when he shows Yuuri what he prepared for him for the Eros routine - it’s not a content smile but a suggestive smirk

aaand then they go and skate to Stammi Vicino together and Victor can’t stop smiling and doesn’t look away from Yuuri for more than three seconds and

those boys are trying to kill me i swear 

also romance is NOT my strong suit so I hope it’s what you wanted!

Calum is always a romantic guy, but Paris brings out the worst of it. 

Usually your brand of romance is more the “babe I stopped at the gas station so I picked up M&Ms for you because they’re your favourite” type. Calum loves to take time for you, he loves to surprise you, but in small ways that make everyday seem a little special. 

But in Paris he is dangerous. 

It’s your first trip as a couple, but you already know you’re going to remember it forever. This is only partly due to the fact that Paris is wonderful; you’ve been outside your hotel for three minutes and Cal’s taken approximately twenty pictures of you in that time. You’re looking out at the Seine when you see the camera flash in your peripherals. 

Make that twenty-one.

Honestly, I think they’re actually really similar! I got diagnosed with autism first, but after a while with both my physical diagnosis and the help of the online neurodivergent community, I realised I had a lot of symptoms that didn’t quite fit just with autism. I looked into common co-morbid disorders and realised I had almost every common indicator of ADHD, and actually I fit the typical profile of someone with ADHD far better than I fit the typical profile of an autistic person, I’m really surprised that nobody picked up on it earlier in my life. If you’re finding you have some symptoms that feel more autism-related than ADHD it’s definitely worth looking into, especially because there are so many more symptoms of autism that the ones that are usually talked about. Autism can present in so many different ways, and if you have questions I’ve found that the autistic community on Tumblr are one of the most helpful and friendly groups of people I’ve been involved with. I asked a lot of questions back when I was going through the diagnostic process and I found a lot of great help and resources through people on here.

I’ll direct you first to my friend @strangerdarkerbetter and their amazing masterpost on questioning and self-diagnosis, a really well-organised post detailing a huge amount of resources you might find helpful. Secondly, @askanautistic is one of my favourite blogs for these kinds of topics and they happen to have a lot of posts about the co-morbidity of autism and ADHD that you can probably relate to. Last but by no means least, Amythest of @neurowonderful has a ton of autism-related posts on their blog and videos on their YouTube channel if that’s something you’d find easier to process.

Sometimes 'almost' is enough 😌 This one is a Yue Qingyuan-focused piece. It's a rough draft that I really hope to make nicer and polish up enough to post!

Fandom context, since we don't have that one in common <3 In the novel (Scum Villain's Self-Saving System), Yue Qingyuan (by the name of Yue Qi) and Shen Jiu used to be street children and they got separated when Shen Jiu was bought as a slave by a young master who was both rich and sadistic. Yue Qi left the town with a promise to Shen Jiu to find a cultivation sect to train and get stronger at, and then come back to get him out of that place. Unfortunately, due to plot happening, he comes back way too late when the master's manor is burnt to the ground (Shen Jiu killed the master and many men serving there, set fire to the manor, and ran away). It's implied that Yue Qi believed Shen Jiu died in that event.

This WIP is inspired by this tumblr post by @happypeachsludgeflower (which imagines that Yue Qi comes back to the manor much earlier—but that he's still late by mere hours - he comes back almost in time to make true on his promise).

In this snippet, Yue Qi has just run into what's left of the building in hope that he can still save his friend.

cw for death and mention of burnt corpses below the cut

Thank you for playing <333

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Yayyy, hi Marron, thank you! I had to double check I didn't send you these parts 😂 If you have seen them, let me know and I'll DM you some others! Both are from svsss.

"Ghost" is Shen Qingqiu (Jiu)-centric with a focus on qijiu. The concept is: after Shen Yuan transmigrates and wakes up in Shen Qingqiu's body, Shen Qingqiu's soul actually stays behind, unnoticed by anybody. I shared the very first excerpt of that WIP here.

The context for this snippet is this: Shen Qingqiu, in his incorporeal glory, hangs around Yue Qingyuan in the sect leader's quarters. During one such time, an accident happens.

“Zhangmen-shixiong should really put more effort into relaxing,” Mu Qingfang scolds in a tone that’s a mix between that of a healer and a friend. “Sleep through the nights. Meditate. Calm your mind before bedtime.” Yue Qingyuan placates him with a smile. Shen Qingqiu wants to strangle him like he hasn’t in years. It’s a startling thought. When they were disciples, Yue Qingyuan chattering away and finding newer and newer conversation topics brought him to white-hot frustration. Only the awareness that his every step was watched stopped Shen Qingqiu from physically shutting him up. This compliant silence grates at every part of Shen Qingqiu’s incorporeal but very much still-there being. Just before the first rays of the rising sun, Yue Qingyuan fell into a qi deviation, right at his table, moping over the sect paperwork, with Shen Qingqiu settled nearby in a meditative pose. Yue Qingyuan fell into a qi deviation, and Shen Qingqiu’s trembling palms passed right through his back. His touch didn’t land. His calls went unanswered. His alarm didn’t alert anybody. Only when the Qiong Ding head disciple arrived with a new letter did anybody realise what was happening. At that moment, that ordinary disciple whose core wasn’t all that special had more agency than Shen Qingqiu.

The "Root" WIP also started as a fill for the nihitober challenge. I wrote only a very short piece for it before I moved to the next prompt, but I think the idea has potential. It's Shen Yuan waking up in his replacement mushroom body, deep in the dirt, and it's—what can I say, I compare the moment of him having to dig himself out to birth from the baby's perspective.

cw for mentions of pregnancy below the cut

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Hi hi hi, happy halloween! Since we share love for tgcf, I'll share a snippet from an angsty/hurt to eventual comfort(?) hualian/hua cheng-pov fic. I started it for all ships week but the idea got away from me so it's still unfinished 😅

The premise: Hua Cheng ends up in the past, back in Xianle era and, this time having his ghost king powers, he wants to ease Xie Lian's suffering whenever possible. In this snippet, he's watching the Shangyuan Heavenly Ceremonial Procession in his full 800+ year old glory, with full knowledge of what's about to happen.

He remembers it all even now, but doesn’t look toward the city wall to check if his past self is already there. It’s too far. What he does instead, is look at the tower his god will descend from any moment now.

There he is.

Xie Lian, dressed in heavy layers of the God-Pleasing Warrior’s robes, a well-crafted mask resting on his face, a sword at the ready, stands at the top of the tower, waiting, observing. The sun paints his silhouette in thick strokes of gold, favoured by the heavens yet still unnoticed by the mortals. He radiates divinity even now, mere seventeen years of age.

When he leaps, Hua Cheng’s heart seems to thrum in tune with the shouts of the crowd.

The god has descended. He fights the demon. The demon’s blade shoots out of its hand. The world is about to be saved.

A child falls, and Hua Cheng’s heart drops with it.

Time slows down.

For centuries, he’d believed this was the beginning of the Crowned Prince’s fall. A rescued child; a good deed rewarded with the curse of misfortune. For just a moment, his muscles tense up, intent to rush forward and reach his own self before he stains the pristine royal robes.

I wouldn’t have met His Highness if not for this.

He takes too long. The moment passes.

The child is caught.

Xianle is doomed.

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