#obsessionality

For @obsessionality. I'm not part of the Deaf or hard of hearing community, but I've studied it - please correct me if I've made any glaring errors!This story was inspired by a scene where I imagined Deaf music teacher Lan Zhan coming home to Wei Ying and A-Yuan, his beautiful family. My giftee said they like fluff, happy endings, and idiots in love so I figured I might as well bring this idea to life!I hope you enjoy this sweet story!

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A Worthy Celebration

Lan Zhan waved farewell to his high school students as they piled out of the music room, already signing excitedly with each other about the upcoming vacation weekend. He hoped some of them would deign to practice their instruments, but he couldn’t fault them if they didn’t. The Gusu School for the Deaf was renowned for its rigor and high academic standards, so they’d been working hard all semester—they deserved a break.

His own excitement fueled his movements as he swept through the rows of chairs to straighten music stands and collect any forgotten sheet music. Tonight was his tenth anniversary, and his husband had promised a worthy celebration for the occasion. Lan Zhan wasn’t sure what constituted ‘worthy’ in Wei Ying’s mind, as there’d been no clues indicating what he’d planned. The only thing Lan Zhan knew was that Wei Ying’s brother was coming to watch their six-year-old son for the night.

In the clarinet section, Lan Zhan found an electric tuner left behind on a chair. He was just about to ponder whose seat it was when movement caught his eye. He whirled around to face Anne, one of his students. She smiled apologetically and tucked her clarinet case under her arm so she could sign.

“I knew I’d forgotten something. Thank you!”

I’m cracking up at the looks on their faces - what song is this a riff of?

It’s to the chorus of Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts”. They are very unimpressed by my rendition :D 

underanothername replied to your photo “Me, singing in the kitchen: Why cats great till they gotta be...”

Wow, they look like Real Adult Cats now!

They do look so grown up! Still tiny, but unmistakably adults now. 

lupin5th replied to your post “I made a fairly comprehensive to-do list in Google Tasks and I’ve been...”

congrats! =) and good hunting for the new clock! that`s often very dependent on luck so I wish lots of that! =)

I found one! I was looking for something either googie-style or midcentury modern, and I found this cool institutional-lab-in-a-50s-scifi-film looking one: 

melayneseahawk replied to your photo “Me, singing in the kitchen: Why cats great till they gotta be...”

Sam, why are you awake? I know there's a time zone difference, but whenever I see your early-morning posts on my feed, I know I'm up about two hours too late.

The cats, like me, are morning people :D 

shirokou replied to your post “I made a fairly comprehensive to-do list in Google Tasks and I’ve been...”

THE MYSTERIOUS FIST BUMP IS JUST A TITLE LIKE THE DOCTOR. (and yay! Ghost came with you!)

IDK she might have done it before I moved :D 

LOL the Doctor, the Master, and the Fistbump. Sounds about right. 

elsajeni replied to your post “Sam, do the Cryptids ever try to climb up your leg while you're up and...”

maybe she's concerned that you also aren't allowed on the counters and you're going to get in trouble

LOL very possible! They seem to think the counters in the kitchen are physically impossible to get onto, and I have not disabused them of this notion. 

spaci1701 replied to your post “I made a fairly comprehensive to-do list in Google Tasks and I’ve been...”

Why not get a clock motor and build your own custom clock? You can use anything you want - maybe pics of the sisters and such the hands for paws?

Read it here: AO3 link

...have you tried Due South yet? And I got hooked on NCIS when I got stuck in the hospital for a month when I was five months pregnant. It was on the only channel that I could get the closed captioning to work on (I’m deaf without my hearing aids in) and had the added bonus of showing 4+ episodes every day.

So you had the same weird sped-up experience I did! It’s really surreal, isn’t it?

I watched Due South when it originally aired, but back then it was airing at like midnight on Saturday nights. I was allowed to stay up and watch it, but because it was so late and I am so not a night owl, the second season in particular has a weird dream-ballet quality to it that I kind of want to retain. 

(Also I tried to watch the first few episodes and weirdly couldn’t re-engage, so I’m preserving the rest in my memory. :D)

chibifukurou replied to your post “NCIS and Beyond”

POI and Elementary are my go to binges. But if you don't want to end up sobbing I'd do friends

Oh, I know how POI ends -- though admittedly I refused to watch the episode itself :D 

obsessionality replied to your post “NCIS and Beyond”

Mr Badge, if you write a fic where dinozzo is a serial killer, I will give you not only my first born child, but also a kidney, and a lung if you need one. In all my guilt reading of various NCIS crossovers, I have NEVER come across a fic in which my FAVOURITE (dinozzo) is a serial killer and I LOVE THE IDEA

Oh, my sweet summer child. I already did :D Two, in fact:

Style -- a Dexter crossover where Dexter meets DiNozzo.  Good Boy -- this is based on the ideas in Style but you don’t have to have read that one. It’s more directly about DiNozzo.

Anyone else clicking, please be aware they’re pretty graphic! 

memprime replied to your post “NCIS and Beyond”

If you could stream person of interest on the weekends, that would be awesome!

Read it here: AO3 link