#ryoulan

wip ask game here.

thanks for the ask! my VA AU!!!! tbh i’ve had the idea ever since i learned that zs originally wanted to be one, but never had any motivation to do anything with it 😅 however, it was revived lateish last year (thank you, marrow!) 🎉🎉🎉

i (like a lot of people) was socked in the face by ysqs during the latest yyyjh2 season. by episode 4 i was sweating by episode 5 i was resigned. actually, i’ve seen a lot of ysqs shows! everything they’ve been on together (iirc)! it’s a weird thing to look back on. i’ve seen them in yyyjh1/2, 中国唱将, kaitui, 我们的歌, 快乐大本营, and even mmcj3?? ugh. mmcj3. 

 once again, 宇水情深 is my personal ship name for lyn/zs ^^ their ‘official’ one (aka it's the most popular on lofter) is 宁静深远.

despite my dislike for the show itself, ysqs’ mmcj3 is where i drew my main VA AU insp. i really love making references to misc zstv in my work!! this is typically in the form of random zs knowledge, but i’ve made use of zs’ (and lyn’s) mmcj characters for both the VA AU and got it good. 

the reason both get the mmcj treatment is because both involve secret identities/identity porn. i loveeee identity porn. in the VA AU, zs moonlights as a phone sex operator 🥰🥰he was originally a VA for steamy danmei audiobooks, but quickly discovered that phone sex operation was a lott more monetarily viable; even so, his real calling is voice acting ^^ the fic starts with his first legit r15 VA job!! where he plays a side character in a shounen audio drama with established VA liu yuning!! who mayy or may not have just become the patron of a mysterious female phone sex operator 👍

what i like about a VA setup is that there’s an opportunity to not only work with troupes i like in the main story, but also in the story that zs and lyn are acting. i ❤️cliche story troupes etc.. in terms of themes, i wld love to explore zs’ relationship with gender in both his personal life and performances!! although as a shorter fic it won’t be tooo heavy

Leaning against the Hello Kitty headrest of her desk chair, Ella rubs her forehead. “Shen-shen… Didn’t anyone ever tell you not to date your coworkers? I thought, after the first time…” He— what! “I’m not dating anyone!” Zhou Shen cries, recoiling. “What!” Doesn't she know that Jackson’s dating Ningning?! “I’ve always said that you should start again,” Ella continues. What! No! “After a year or two, I told you, you should… But Jackson?” “We’re not dating! Why would we be dating!”

from this.

thanks for the ask!! (ask game here)

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction? 

taking ‘fanfiction’ here to mean ‘rpf (of c ent musician zhou shen charlie)’, and the answer would definitely have to be his and hu mengzhou’s 调查中 performance!! i was in the early stages of another fic (which i’m probably not going to be able to go back to) (for reasons unrelated to my rpf病), watched the performance, felt like i was going to throw up, and had springtime animals finished in about a fortnight. i don’t know, something was up with the number of closeups of his open mouth during that performance…

🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love

with a healthy dose of trepidation, i’d reccommend MARIAyu’s 萍水. this fic has one of the best zs characterisations i’ve ever read!!! unfortunately, MARIAyu uses that for evil!!!! every time it updates i feel a very very very intimate sort of terror but it is just an incredible piece of writing

🪐 ⇢ name three good things going on in your life right now

lately, i’ve finally had time to go out with friends! and i’m making good progress on my current multichap + going to see zs in shenzhen this december

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

hmmmm excluding non-rpf works, i wouldn’t say i’ve gotten up to anything incredibly weird? i did a lot of excess research into zs' music conservatory in L’viv for chasing spring, including into his living accomodations/fellow students, though! and used basically none of it 😑

🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

i really love getting ones from regulars!! the fact that i have regulars at all is still kind of wild to me; i never expected any of the sort when i published that first hmz/zs fic. i’m so happy that we’ve found each other!!!

commenters who quote parts of the fic that they liked are also my favourite (like you!). it’s the sort of feedback practically every author would kill for, you know?? i love love love hearing the specifics of what people enjoyed

☁️ ⇢ what made you choose your username?

at some point before deanoning, i realised that i should really sign all my works off with something. so everyone would know they were mine, you know? ahdhahs not that there were any other writers publishing in english alongside me at the time 😅😅 anyway, HH is a reference to my xhs handle! since i couldn’t think of anything better :pensive:

however, by complete coincidence (it was such a mad dash to get tickets that i only checked on their exact specs after buying them), i ended up sitting in row HH when i went to see zs in sydney this year! was it the universe okaying my rpf career???? honestly, these things keep happening…

Ghosts? In MY house?

author: ryoulan artist: Pame rating: General Audiences warnings: mentions of death, threat of violence summary: Everyone thinks there's a ghost in Shinichi's house. Everyone, that is, except him.