#treemaidengeek

Thank you ! I'm going to take the opportunity for a permanent answer post to this question since I've given the pattern in dozens of comments ever since I started posting about the project, but obviously that isn't a convenient way for people to find the information !

Tracery Vest by Kathleen Sperling aka Wipinsanity on Ravelry and on her own website

As you can see the shape of the garment itself is a bit different from what I did. The ribbing in the original makes for a nice fitted silhouette, but I'm quite short in the burst and not hourglass shaped at all, so I made some alterations. I reduced the corrugated ribbing to half of its length, and added a few rows of colourwork to close the ribbing lines into an archway pattern. Then, I added one repetition of the windows at the bottom of the pattern chart, before returning to the pattern instructions as if I'd just finished the ribbing section. I also changed the bind-off in pattern into a stretchy bind off in order to keep the armholes and neckline a little looser. I also added a central double decrease every other row for the vneck.

There you go ! Def more info than you asked for but I hope you don't mind me using your ask as a jumping-off point.

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it.

Tagged by @treemaidengeek (THANK!! 😃)

This was difficult, I kept not wanting to put a thing down because they were just a one line concept or title but it's in the rules, so I do the thing!! THIS GOT SO LONG HOLY SHIT I'M PUTTING IT UNDER READ MORE

TAGGING: @january-summers @madtomedgar @little-smartass & anyone who wants to because my brain is melted 🫠

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The Haven New Year’s Rec List

This year has been truly godawful, but we wrote some great fanfiction this year, so here is a partial year in review from a collection of writers on Haven.

Authors

AshayaTReldai | @ashayatreldai, capitola | @capitola, Chrome | @catalists​, firefright | @firefrightfic, flammablehat | @flammablehat, fruitjuicer, giraffeter | @giraffeter, Handwritten | @ibovaryyou, InTheMidnightHour, julomaiboulomai | @motherfuckingnazgul, KmacKatie | @kmackatie, ladyofrosefire | @ladyofrosefire, nonwal | @nonwal, NotAFicWriter | @notaficwriter, Operafloozy | @operafloozy, Pippin | @smalliinsaneone, ritualist | @jelenedra, songofwizardry | @songofwizardry, stardust_and_sunlight | @of-stardust-and-sunlight, treemaidengeek | @treemaidengeek, wtgw | @wtgw-fic​

Fandoms

The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty

Critical Role

Guardian (Priest)

The Untamed/Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

All For the Game

Les Misérables

So... I have a pretty good idea of how JGY would come after XXC if he decided that was necessary. He's got a many skilled men as money can buy and/or as can be manipulated into doing his bidding. And the Yi City Happy Family is very alone.

But how would XY come after LXC? LXC is an incredibly strong cultivator & head of his sect. Would it be as simple (though PLENTY painful) as sharing some choice secrets about his precious A-Yao? Or would he try something more his style, that is to say violent?

so hello! I'm answering this ask approximately forever later!

I had so much fun with that fic and I'm amazed it worked out as well as it did for coming out of a pretty off-the-wall idea that required not insignificant wrangling to make work. and yeah! part of why Xue Yang is so on edge is because he is acutely aware of how very easy it would be for Jin Guangyao to Tie Up That Loose End if he wanted, and there are a lot of ways he could do so! He wouldn't even necessarily have to hurt Xiao Xingchen (physically) to do it, and I think would rather not despite his threats to Xue Yang (Xiao Xingchen hasn't done anything to him); he could very easily just make sure Xiao Xingchen finds out who he's living with (also wouldn't be that hard) and let that fall out how it would.

Jin Guangyao knows Xue Yang well enough to know that he doesn't take upsets or surprises well. Even if Xiao Xingchen doesn't react as expected, Xue Yang is still likely to react poorly if not violently in a way that will escalate rather than deescalate the situation. He is right about this.

As far as Xue Yang goes...yeah, that's a harder one, and Xue Yang knows that, too, which is the flip side of why he's so on edge about this whole situation, because he's at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to hitting back, same as he always has been. With Jin Guangyao on his own he has the advantage (by virtue of being a stronger cultivator and a stronger fighter in general), but he loses that advantage pretty fast when there's any question of societal influence.

However, Xue Yang isn't a bad actor when he wants to be. And while I think in a situation where he was hitting back after his nice pretend family fell apart (and he knew it was Jin Guangyao's doing in one way or another) that there's a distinct possibility that he would just make a fury-charged beeline for Lan Xichen with the goal of murdering him and/or anyone else who gets in his way that Lan Xichen might care about, given a short time to think...

A poor, wounded cultivator with a good reputation stumbling into Cloud Recesses with a sad story that points Lan Xichen in all the right directions...he wouldn't want to believe, but he might listen just enough to investigate. The fact that he had a very strange dinner with Xiao Xingchen (and it is Xiao Xingchen) lends him a little more authority - maybe enough. And if Jin Guangyao knows how Xue Yang reacts to bad situations (with aggression), the reverse is also true (with anxiety). And an anxious Jin Guangyao is a Jin Guangyao likely to make mistakes. It's risky and far from foolproof, but it's not like Xue Yang is exactly averse to risk.

Thank you for sharing your stuff! I love the bits of wenzhou being romantic, protecting each other (that lil sketch of ZZS half-carrying a bloodied WKX took me out), & messing with each other are all delightful. The splash pic of cinnamon roll Tsao Wenning hiding behind badass Gu Xiang is just

(ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ

Untamed

They wrote letters to each other, despite living in the same house.

Lan Xichen would find a note tucked into his hand in the morning, wishing him a pleasant and productive day; he would leave one in the washroom, responding in kind and reminding his guest to wash behind his ears. They would eat breakfast together, and when Lan Xichen returned after gathering up the dishes to be washed, there would often be a letter sitting where his plate had been. He often spent the rest of the morning responding to it.

It was not exactly how seclusion was supposed to happen.

(2nd & last question XD) Same fic: elderly couple who runs a teashop in Gusu that's a favorite for disciples including LXC. Names I've tentatively got are wife Tian Hualing 田华昤 & husband Shen Chunli 莘春俐. Are those viable? I'm unattached to the particular meanings here if swapping a character makes a more viable name. @fineillsignup thought LXC might refer to them as laoban/laobanniang or Old Shen/Old Tian. They're long friendly acquaintances but not friends. What's appropriate? Thanks! ^_^

Hi friend, 

1. If I could make a suggestion, you don’t need to give these characters full names. Assassins, servants, peasants, especially if they’re not the main character are often not written with full names. I really like Nizhen 倪珍 or 妮珍, but Gong Nizhen sounds kind of off. You really don’t need a last name. 

2. Same rule applies for elderly characters. There’s a reason why Grandma Wen is just known as Popo in the show. Because when they’re seniors, it’s actually rude for a younger person to call them by their name, so again, their full name is unnecessary for the narrative. Both names you’ve suggested work just fine. Also, “laoban” or “laoban’niang” work, but for Lan Xichen, if you want him to sound a little more.. friendly with them, you could use Shen-laobo, and Tian-dashen. “laobo” = old uncle, and “dashen” = old auntie.  

Out of all the sect leaders that try to recruit them, Lan Xichen is the nicest: he’s not really expecting a yes, definitely never pressures them, and seems more inclined to talk about philosophy with them over tea than anything else.

“You remember when we said we’d find someone to experiment with?” Xiao Xingchen asks Song Lan in an undertone while Lan Xichen is off to get them more tea. “Do you think -”