#but MOVING ON

[j0kers-light]

SO! Instead of wallowing in self misery.. I’m going to DoorDash my fav food and bust open up my laptop. Hopefully I get some words on the board in my blah mental state.

Who knows? I might finish up a scene or two!

#thanks for being patient #chaos doesn’t know what she’s doing #men are trash #but moving on #his lighthouse

[domesticatedmeatpig]

animal jam masterpiece for an art trade! i think we need to speak about how despicably evil the ajpw painting game layout is though

#in a usual art program you would click once to color pick #just right click #but in ajpw? #SEVEN TIMES #its ontologically evil #but moving on #furry #furry art #animal jam

[trenchcoat-full-of-recs]

Favourite fics of 2023

Now that the year is over, I figured I'd cast my eye back over the previous year to see what were my favourite fics I discovered that year. Notably, they may not have been published last year--just the ones that I read during that time period.

I have absolutely no idea what they will be, so I'm curious to dive into my bookmarks...

MDZS/CQL

Stunted, Starving Juvenility by TomatenMark -- oooh, apparently it was last year that I consumed this. It's a behemoth of a story at over 700k words; it's a slowly sprawling tale, and I read and reread it during the same year. And it's been one of the rare WIPs that I have been following faithfully. It's an AU in which WWX and LWJ, early on during the Gusu lectures, have the extra-canonical chapters' dreams about each other (that's to say, the ravishing in the library and the peaceful domesticity) and this triggers them realizing their feelings, which in turn changes rather a lot of things. This sounds underwhelming, but the fic really is very good and rather epic in scope! I have appreciated how it depicts WWX--intensely intelligent, precocious, but in need of guidance; and he and LWJ are darling together. I only hope it keeps being this good for the next 700k words or however much it takes!

You'll See Me Again by anon -- oh man, I loved this one. It's sadly a short-ish WIP (12k> words), but the concept is brilliant: it's NHS, who's time-travelled back and is determined to fix everything by getting WWX as his younger brother, and it's told from NMJ's baffled point of view. It's very good! I just wish it were longer.

Mourning Dove by jaemyun - a WIP featuring a dark LWJ who's very fed up with the hypocrisy of the cultivation world. Hasn't updated in a while, though...

SVSSS

This was the year I read SVSSS! Boy, did I ever love it. This naturally unlocked a new fandom for me, so here are some of my favourite fics:

A Transmigrator and a Time Traveler Walk Into the Bamboo House by VeryCharismaticDragon - this is super lovely! This is Binghe who time-travels from after SQQ's self-destruction to the start of the story. And he's determined to change things, even as he's trying to understand them. The whole thing is great.

The More You Don't Know by Neery - this is sweet and angsty in just the right way. Binghe is convinced SQQ only loves him because he doesn't realize he's a demon, and does his best to hide. (There's also a canon divergence in there.)

The Peace Between Divine Pec- ah-hm sorry - uh…Peaks by AceOfDivineChlorophyll - I need to catch up with the latest chapters of this, but I have it bookmarked as "absolutely love it, mega oblivious SQQ thinks he's LBH's advisor and not realizing that he's effectively the empress (something everyone around him sees) and of course not realizing also that he's super in love with LBH."

Particular by thehoyden - a very sweet SQQ/LBH a/b/o!

The King's Avatar

This is also the year when I consumed this canon!

Born of Fire (We Shall Not Fall) by TheDefenestrator - I loved this fic so much. So much. It's my favourite take on omegaverse I've ever seen in any fic, ever. It's got a super lovely Ye Xiu/Han Wenqing slowburn and Ye Xiu joining Tyranny, but it's also set in this universe which brings this omegaverse context into everything and makes it extra delicious. It's so well done. I just hope it updates one day.

here in search of your glory by Synoshian - I also adored this long slowburn long slowburn Ye Xiu/Han Wenqing WIP where Ye Xiu joins Tyranny.

Bond/Q

a bloodless coup by Ark - scorchingly hot, great characterisations, very well done.

There's a lot more fics that I read and enjoyed last year, but these were in my bookmarks as absolute faves, so I figure it's fair enough to end it here!

#apparently 2023 was also my year of getting into cnovels #and actually looking at this list--all these are for chinese canons except bond/q #anyway if anyone wants cnovel recs I hugely recommend Married Thrice to Salted Fish and After I Married the Disabled War God as My Concubin #but moving on #fic recs #mdzs #cql #the untamed #wwx/lwj #bond/q #svsss #sqq/lbh #the king's avatar #ye xiu/han wenqing #i actually really fell into the king's avatar rabbit hole this year #it dominated my brain for weeks if not months #i had Feelings about the whole thing #but that omegaverse fic is what i'm the most feral about #2023 fic wrapup

[the-fandom-hopping-mage]

lookit the way their ears peek out from under the mask omygod theyre so cutteeeeee my babies

#also eda #I SWEAR YOUR SKIN IS LITERALLY THE COLOR OF PAPER #HOW #but moving on #THEM <3<3<3 #raeda #raine whispers #eda clawthorne #toh #the owl house

[inkykeiji]

good morning this alhaitham piece is killing me

#i have 6000 words left to edit #._. #bf and kitty are both sleeping beside me #tw vent #i feel kinda sad today but it’s alright i’m gonna get through it #once i finish this piece i’m going to try and put more effort into being more active in the community #i miss having friends LOL #i have like two friends on this site #the thought of putting myself out there again genuinely fills me with so much panic #but i know that if i continue to allow it to scare me then it’ll signal to my brain that it IS something to be afraid of #which like #it technically isn’t #i want to believe in the good of people and see the good in people and give everyone the benefit of the doubt #i shouldn’t have to suffer just because one person turned out to be super shitty #anyway~ sorry for this #ugh being vulnerable on main ick #i feel like touya nii LMAOOOOO #like ew what i’m being vulnerable IN PUBLIC????????? oh god #but moving on #please have a lovely wednesday today <3 #i might get sushi!!!!! #clari chatters

[the-geek-librarian]

Lady's and gentleman / gentalthings,

I really, really wanna rempule and go off abt my Lolopechka bullsht HeadCanons so pls by all means, ask away

#black clover #lolopechka #pls im begging #And im desperate #But moving on

[footballandfiasco]

btw, one of my first really formative football memories is how pissed ballack was after the dfb decided lahm would stay captain of the national team when ballack returned from injury. idk why

#maybe because i never liked ballack #but moving on #chitchat

[niceboyeds]

going through all my socials and changing my last name so i’m not associated with him anymore🥰

#good for the soul #grieving my childhood #but moving on #finally coming to terms with it #this is healing #lys’ nonsense

[diffrentobseesion]

Steph curry you are the greatest of all time, i love you dude you did everything you could!! And even though i am angry i love the rest of the team as well! I love my team

#i cant believe how did they play #i am angry as hell #but moving on #i hope lakers get swept #idc

[j-a-nuary]

#blah blah blah #i already know Sapro is the update this weekend #but moving on #polls #talking to my six followers like im a big blog 🥰

[randomalistic]

Selfshippers who ship with weird/unappealing characters. I love you. Like hell yeah you go get with Mr Crocker. Go get with lord faarquad

#I get it. #EMBRACE THAT SHIT #it’s such a fucking power move and I gain so much respect for u #also I’d like to add I selfship with spamton neo and king candybug #if that makes you feel any better #selfship #txt #1k

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

#'your moon is here' things that make me explode like a supernova #UGHHHHHHH what if i was perpetually in your orbit. influencing the tides. protecting you from asteroids. and slowly drifting further away. #then you stopped moving and i was only pulse to your dead heart. orbiting you. right where ive been left. and so you started turning again. #ria.txt #personal #space opera au #(<- not about what you think is about) #hiiii this is gaining traction so glad we're all going insane :D your moon is here is SO fucked up. so good. #xkcd #randall munroe #space #moon #anyways xkcd comics are so good. entertaining witty and informative. check em out!

[cadaverette]

#trying to kill time after work and i found a huge beautiful graveyard #this one in particular really moved me #diary

[inkykeiji]

good day friends last night i dreamt that my boyfriend and i were dating billionaire tomura who drove us around in fancy expensive cars and lived atop a hill in a mansion full of gothic architecture

#it was very interesting #he also took us to play tennis in the middle of the night #like he was kinda creepy but in a very endearing way #if that makes sense LMAO #tbh i think that only makes sense for tomura HAHAHA #anyway i still have a wicked headache and sore legs from anime north but it was all so worth it aaaaah #oh and then after this dream i had a nightmare :( #very scary i woke up feeling extremely Not Good #but moving on #please have a lovely monday!!!!!!! kisses for u ♡(˃͈ દ ˂͈ ༶ )

[cemeterything]

the thing that bothers me about dragon riders is that the dragon absolutely does not have to let you climb on its back. your ability to 'ride' the dragon is entirely dependent on the dragon allowing you to do that. it could fly just fine without you sitting there. which means you are not a dragon rider, not really. that beast is not your pet. you're the dragon's pet. you're its trophy wife.

#🐉 #[heard the words 'dragons pet' and got so hard i cant move] i think i hauve covid

[ageae]

Clothing representing the 11,500 Palestinian and 36 Israeli children who have been killed in Gaza were laid out on Bournemouth beach this week.

The 5km line of second-hand clothes was created by activists were laid out to illustrate the scale of child deaths in Gaza.

Each set of clothing represents a child who had been killed.

So urce

#real fucking art!!!! #protest #Bournemouth #UK #GAZA #CEASEFIRE #this honestly moved me so much