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wandering-bitch · 4 years
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Annotations on Falling in Love with Love (Again) pt 1
Falling in Love is my 3zun Cinderella/Qin Su Solidarity Fixit fic. It’s got some dumb angst, but i promise every ch with Angst (tm) has at least some soft gentle fluff with it. 
It’s structured like cinderella (servant gets surprised with the clothes + disguise for the ball, falls in love, runs away but leaves behind a trinket, gets found out later and happily ever after), but really it’s About recognizing the growth you’ve gone through, and uh. falling in love again. It’s also, to a lesser degree, about how important Qin Su is.
Notes on writing the first third of this below the cut
Every chapter title is a riff on a song lyric from Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (which you might remember as the Brandy and Whitney Houston movie from 1997). Title is “falling in love with love,” the BITCHIN ballad from the stepmother
i keep stumbling on cinderella aus from parts of 3zun and i never like them bc im picky so i started thinking about this and now im HERE, writing thousands of words and thinking about social shit
in this house we love qin su, by the way
Don’t Believe in Sensible Rules
this chapter was called “Enter the Fairy Godmother” in my outline
writing this fic made me like jin zixuan pfffff
look im not saying that qin su is fucking vital BUT
having qin su know that she’s meng yao’s sister means that he has someone who can empathize with wanting but hating jin guangshan’s attention, and so someone who can remind him that jin guangshan’s respect isn’t worth the effort
aka qin su being actively meng yao’s sister fucking stops him from making terrible choices aka this is my fixit.
originally i just was hand-waving away “it’s a good au bc i said so” but as i built the timeline more, i realized that it all comes down to qin su
which is valid!! because yeah, the middle and end of the fic are about qin su
anyway back to this first chapter
i know in canon qin su is probably younger than meng yao but counterpoint i wanted her to have more respect built into her role
what’s up with meng yao’s makeup? it’s a combination of opera + tang dynasty makeup!! 
you know that promo image of zzj playing an opera performer for a movie next year???  this one??? it’s basically this but on crack
if you’re not thinking about that promo image twice a week then i highly recommend u do it bc it certainly brings me joy and serotonin 
oh hmmm meng yao is wearing a fancy emotionally important accessory??? i wonder what might happen
You’ll Never Know a Finer Night
”a lovely night, a lovely night/ a finer night you know you’ll never see”
qin su + meng yao rights!!!
qin su + meng yao rights!!!
the mengyin han sect is something my spouse came up with for their Nie Parents fic that they’re never gonna write.
you should bug @isimplydonotvibewithjgy to write it. why???
it’s about happy healthy nie parent polyamory!!! 
nie huaisang is named in part after nie mingjue’s mother’s sword
meng yao is only a little bit kidding about stealing a baby for qin su. qin su, in turn, is only a little bit kidding about stealing a baby for meng yao
meng yao fucking with wangxian is very important to me, a bitch
Back In the Past, lan xichen wasn’t so much Jealous as he was frustrated with himself for not saying anything for so long (so long was barely a few months)
“second daughter of a third rate sect” is the type of dumb meng yao shit i love
qin!!!! su!!!! rights!!!!!!!
Most Entrancing Sight Of All
from “the greatest love,” the first song from the brandy version
i actually hate this song whoops
i lov every time i get to write meng yao being clever
it is very convenient for me that im writing the entire fic from his perspective
it’s sword content!!!! hooray!!!!
i looked up so much sword dancing for this it made me so happy
swords!!! good!!!
i do wish i had been better at figuring out ways meng yao could eat li bolin alive, but i wrote it, it’s done, im never editing it again
sword! content!!
The Sweet Invention of a Lover’s Dream
AWWW YEAH my favorite chapter because the xiyao troll showed up and said “oh so meng yao’s a selfish little slut now then” and i think about that every fucking day
the title is from “do i love you” 
the breakup was hard to write bc like. neither’s in the Wrong, sometimes u just don’t fit, and that sucks
like it wasn’t Hard emotionally, but it was hard to balance properly
“Eat Wen Xu Alive” -- meng yao
in my early draft, meng yao + qin su had an agreement to check on each other every hour. i scrapped that but u can see 
“time to meddle”
i had fun learning about azaleas + azalea poisoning
i spent SO LONG trying to decide who meng yao would pin the poisoning on but settled on the li sect being complicit in wen imperialism
nie mingjue is here because nie huaisang whined about it. lan xichen is here because he wants to date someone to move on from meng yao
what’s that? he’s dating nie mingjue? that’s not enough to move on? no, actually, it isn’t
sorry lan xichen the way to move on is just time, not dating
to be clear it’s not that lan xichen is greedy or nie mingjue Isn’t Enough, it’s just that there’s an ache still in lxc’s heart
(there’s an ache still in nmj’s heart)
we’ll actually go over all of this in an auxiliary chapter where nmj + lxc snuggle in the middle of the night
healthy polyamory rights
in case it’s somehow not Obvious, the song lxc is distracted by reminds him of meng yao. 
lxc is one hundred percent that friend who doesn’t let u say anything slightly mean about urself
my one ex specifically wouldn’t let me say i wasn’t smart enough to talk about a sociological issue/socialism thing. it was so sweet honestly
like she would let me not have an opinion but i couldn’t say i wasn’t smart enough
lxc is so proud of himself for that “tell me what this song is about” line and he SHOULD be. it WAS sexy it WAS polite it WAS a good line!!!
im not tooting my own horn im just talking about lxc being a polite, sexy hunk
never forget: so meng yao is just a selfish little slut then lol ok
come back next time for ch 5-8 where we see boys being cute and together and also where qin su gets many more rights
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