the space between wor(l)ds

Nancy Friedland, Can I Tell You About It?, 2022 

reason 1 million why i love zukka: how extra insane it makes hakoda's family tree

'In his true form, He Xuan stood taller than Hua Xie, but not as broad. Though you wouldn’t know it by looking at him (Hua Xie looked like a stiff breeze could take him out), his servant carried with him a truly stupendous strength. Whatever he had done with his life before finding his way into He Xuan’s sea, it had made him as strong as an ox and with it came the sort of muscles that made the slender cut of He Xuan’s robes sit poorly across his shoulders.

“It’ll do,” He Xuan ultimately decided, because even ill-fitted robes were better than looking like something that had been recently butchered. Where they were going, someone might take that as an invitation. “Put this on.”

Hua Xie caught the mask He Xuan tossed at him, turning it over in his hands. It was a simple thing, a coalescence of He Xuan’s own ghostly qi shaped to look like a black koi. Once Hua Xie had tied it into place, He Xuan stalked around him critically. Between the robes and the ghost qi mask, any scent of human was all but eliminated, everything about him bristled with He Xuan’s own essence. That should be enough to mark Hua Xie as his and keep any bold ghosts from making a grab at his servant.'

How Many Coincidences In A Conspiracy? - BenevolentErrancy

on survival

Commission for @tk-duveraun ! Based on @cherrichou fanfic "Courting Disaster" !

Fandom: SVSSS Relationship: Shen Yuan/Shen Jiu Rating: Mature Key Tags: Omegaverse, Alpha!SY/Omega!SJ, Disciple Shen Yuan Chapters: 5/5 Word Count: 23.5k

Summary:

Shen Yuan’s smugness lasted up until Shen Qingqiu whisked him off to the Bamboo House, where Shen Yuan was meant to brew and serve his shizun his first pot of tea as official head disciple. Shen Qingqiu didn’t dump it on his head, thankfully, but he did give Shen Yuan a rather unnerving warning: “If you have the nerve to present qianyuan in the future, this master will make sure you regret it for the rest of your life.” Yikes! What the hell was someone supposed to say to that? Got it, I’ll make sure to control this completely uncontrollable fact of nature? Talk about unfair!

Shen Yuan transmigrates into a cannon-fodder NPC in an omegaverse version of PIDW. He tries his best to make the most of it—with a few stumbling blocks along the way.

Look, he doesn’t need to know all the ins and outs of omegaverse customs, right?

Just say you loved reading it - “I am sure that you will not think it an impertinence if I write to tell you how very much I have enjoyed reading Dracula.”

Comment on a detail of the craft or structure that impressed you - “It is really wonderful how with so much exciting interest over so long a book there is never an anticlimax.“

Comment on how it emotionally affected you - “It holds you from the very start and grows more and more engrossing until it is quite painfully vivid.”

SHARE YOUR BLORBO FEELINGS - “The old Professor is most excellent and so are the two girls.”

Show appreciation for them as an author - “I congratulate you with all my heart for having written so fine a book.”