Apr 18, 2024
Wip Wednesday
It's STILL wip wednesday somewhere, so today I offer you Xichen's grown up kids:
I just! think! grown up siblings are so important! anyway.
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Wip Wednesday
It's STILL wip wednesday somewhere, so today I offer you Xichen's grown up kids:
I just! think! grown up siblings are so important! anyway.
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chapter 5/12 of griefverse is done! Yay! It's also WIP wednesday today, so I will share:
a character I don't think we've seen talked about a lot before! Ningning's Da-shixiong, Shang Zhangwei.
my favorite version of NHS is absolutely "causes problems on fucking purpose" and he's a delight.
this little man is so maladjusted and he's doing this on purpose! what a delightful little guy.
Hey, I just wanted to drop by and say that I am really excited for your OFC/LXC fic!! Ningning feels so fleshed out even in these snippets, and Xichen is just...such an exhausted depressed mess of a man trying to move forward. The pervasive grief is really palpable even again in just out of context snippets. I can't wait to read the whole thing!!(Btw, have you read Heartwood Coffin by Zeebie? It's got some of the same vibes)
Aww thank you so much, Nonny! This fic definitely is a thesis on intergenerational trauma and grief (kind of like most of my fics π ) and I'm glad that the Ningning and Xichen feel like they have dimension in the fic snippets!
For Xichen, I've written meta about how I see his post canon and where his arc might go after Guanyin Temple before, so I won't get too into it, but for Ningning, she really grew out of this idea of like "well, if the Lan Elders picked Xichen's arranged marriage wife, they'd obviously go for someone they think is Perfect." And that brought up the questions of like "what is a perfect woman in this sort of society?" and "why is she perfect? Why has she made herself this way?" and then "if she, being human, was imperfect, how would that impact things?" which lead to the creation of Ningning! This small unwell woman can fit so much trauma into her!
I especially love parallels, so Xichen's whole thing is ALSO that he is. Perfect, essentially. Mr. Jianghu's Hottest Bachelor, widely respected and admired as Zewu-jun, but like! he's human! he has fault lines!
Which is how we ended up with this liar4liar relationship where these two, despite being good people, set off each other's traumas repeatedly in really hurtful ways until they can figure themselves out. This is a topic that really interests me, so I'm glad that it's interesting to other people too!
:D Thanks for the ask!
writing,,,,, hard. Dislike.
Why must I write in order to have this fic.
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it is STILL wip wednesday so I am here to say that I have hit Xichen like the pinata and he is not recovered very good.
this man can fit so much unwellness in him tbh.
chewing over the context of this line, but I am providing it to you without any context whatsoever:
She believes this too serious man who told her once, without a hint of guile, that his noblewoman mother played the pipa and loved gardenia flowers just as she does.
anyway the children from the Ningningverse as adults are extraordinarily interesting.
did my end of month tally for griefverse and hmmm.
compared to this post published mid december, (the 18th to be specific), it looks like I've only written like, 12k for this project since then.
I'm hoping to have this wip done by June so I can finally work on any of my other longform wips, so... in that case based on the word count estimates, I need to pick it up and be writing something closer to 20k for this project in the next five months.
I.... do not think that is quite possible given my other commitments but never say never! Lolsob I just want to be able to post chapters on ao3 and also work on any of my 23175315 other writing projects.
/goes off to grump about this 'needs more words' problem.