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suspiciouspopsicle · 2 months
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tagged by @mondengel2 <3
This is good timing. A friend and I are on a little writing retreat at the moment. On that note, tagging @bad0mens =)
(all of these are MDZS, specifically wangxian)
-The Lady and the Artificer--femslash wangxian set in a mishmash of sci fi and regency trappings very similar to Gankutsuou. The setting is a lot of fun to play with, and I know how it's meant to end, I just need to get it there. [The story thus far.]
-untitled hanahaki project--I have ideas for a unique twist to the whole hanahaki thing, and a very, very loose framework, but haven't even gotten so far as trying to find out what the Chinese term for hanahaki would be, if there is one.
-a fairy tale vibes no war alt canon dealing with wwx attempting to cleanse the Burial Mounds during periods of time when Madam Yu's temper makes it better for him to be away from Lotus Pier. [opening bit posted here]
-crack fic based on a sort of joke that unfortunately doesn't work in Chinese like it does in English, so although I find it amusing, it's pretty low on my priorities.
-a sci fi au where lwj is from a...normally somewhat qilin-shaped species which has the ability to shapeshift, and wwx is a sentient cloud of nanites now. (previously abandoned in a fit of pique when the mood didn't go where I wanted it to)
-femslash fantasy short where lwj is a snow maiden, and wwx is...something else. (hiatus due to characterization issues)
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mikkeneko · 2 years
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hi for yet another writing ask, 1, 21, and 39?
Which of your fics would you keep the basic plot of but rewrite completely?
Ouch. Am I allowed to say... I don’t think I would agree to rewrite any of my fics? Just, my philosophy is very, I wrote the thing and now I’m moving on to do something else! If I have a new idea, I’d rather write a new fic. And if I don’t have a new idea... why would I write it again?
That being said, if  I had to pick one I might say THE LUCKY ONES , since I always felt like I didn’t quite nail that one. I think having Anders be in a relationship with mhawke there didn’t contribute towards story in any useful narrative way, it was just that all my DA fics were mhanders so this one was too.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Can you accurately predict how long your fics are going to be? If you can, what’s your secret?
I’d say by now I can predict how long fics are going to be within a magnitude. As in, I can consider a fic idea and estimate that it will be a <5k idea, a 5-10k idea, a 30k idea, or what. For instance, I knew going in that  So You Accidentally Kidnapped A Qilin would be somewhere in the 50k-100k range, but only if I took the time to write out the first three chapters (WWX being raised as a Jiang) because without that segment it probably wouldn’t make 50k. And that was more or less correct.
As for the secret... I don’t know that I have a secret. It’s really just experience. I have a sense by now of how many words it takes me to get through X plot points, as well as how much padding to leave space for things that will come up as I write.
Wildest AU scenario you have written?
Probably  Never Gonna Tell a Lie and Never Gonna Tell A Lie 2: Angsty Blond Wizard Boogaloo qualify here. There’s really no explanation for how characters from four wildly different settings/timelines ended up in a bar drinking, they just are.
Yet another writing ask
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mikkeneko · 2 years
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So You Accidentally Kidnapped A Qilin!  - Twelve Kingdoms Fusion - Pairing: WangXian - Fandom: The Untamed - Rating: T - Chapters: 12 - Word Count: 83130
(Link in first reblog)
Welcome to the project that has devoured my fandom time and attention for the last six months, hah! This story was written for the MXTX Big Bang, in partnership with the lovely and inestimable Sixlayerhouse as the artist!
Things you can expect this fic to contain:
Wei Wuxian's kind heart and devotion to noble ideals
plenty of Yunmeng Sibs feels
Lan Wangji being an enormous sap about Wei Ying
...and vice versa
lots of qilin-specific worldbuilding
the Qishan Wen being jerks to everybody else
This fic will NOT really contain:
most of Wei Wuxian's darker side
the Wen Remnants
the juniors, including a-yuan -- you won't see Wangxian Dads here
much of the Nie siblings
the Jins, even as bad guys. I have plenty of the Jins and JGS being shitheads in other stories, I don't feel the need to surface that here as well.
much in the way of side pairings. There's some BSSR/Lan Yi in the prologue, Wei Wuxian's parents, and a bit of hinted-at Song Lan/Xiao Xingchen later on. But the fic really isn't going to focus on romance besides WangXian.
Since this work is a bit of a monster all being dropped at once: if you decide to read this fic, please occasionally take breaks to get water and maybe even sleep between some of these chapters! (And of course, if you feel like leaving your thoughts on each chapter along the way, that would be greatly appreciated! No need at all to wait till the end... ;)
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mikkeneko · 2 years
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I hadn’t planned to continue my qilin-verse any further than one sequel, but now I sort of have a half-planned out version of the Yi City Arc wherein a group of nefarious bandits (led by xue yang? idk what his motivations could be but this seems up his alley) kill the king of Yue and blind Xiao Xingchen specifically because he identifies the new king by sight. 
so now what are they gonna do? they either have to live without a king or let Xiao Xingchen die so they can wait sixteen years for a new qilin. meanwhile song lan cracks his knuckles and says time to cut the gordian knot bitch I got two eyes and no scruples 
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mikkeneko · 3 years
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my big bang artist: I am including this detail in my sketch because it is cool and visually interesting and consistent with this character’s overall aesthetic
me: nice! looks good
me: ...
me: ...but what if there was an in-story reason for that detail, which is plot-relevant and super sad --
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mikkeneko · 2 years
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putting this fic snippet here because i kind of liked it, but i think i’m going to do something else
Behind Wei Ying's head, silhouetted against the dimming sky, Lan Wangji could just see the stark outline of the tian mu,  the tree with no leaves or flowers or fruit. So there was nothing to obscure it when it began to glow.
The light first swelled at the tips of the twigs, as though new leaves were budding and bursting into bloom all in a minute -- and then the branches burst into light, pale golden flames unfurling from each twig and branch in a coruscating aura of energy. White flame flowers, curling blades of golden leaves, a spring and summer all in an instant -- and as the golden light burst from the tree, it called an answering surge of light from within Wei Ying.
He felt it first in his palm, a warning tingle -- and then the hurricane burst into him through his hand, surging down his arm in a raging torrent, bursting into his chest, flooding every bone. For an instant he thought he could see his meridians with his naked eyes, picked out in coursing rivers of light in his skin -- and the power surged, swirled, poured back down his other arm, and back out into Wei Ying. Back through Wei Ying into the holy tree, and back away to nowhere.
It was gone again. It was just the two of them, tangled in a heap on the ground in the barren ring of stones littered with Wen corpses. And Lan Wangji...
He could breathe again. The sword-thrust that had pierced him front to back, the jagged channel that steel had carved through his body, was whole once more.
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mikkeneko · 2 years
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hi for the fanfic ask meme, I, K, and N?
K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?
(Assuming we're keeping it to current fandom, which I'd prefer to do so as not to get caught in overthinking spiral) Probably the one where Lan Wangji starts having nightmares after Wei Wuxian's death/his punishment and hallucinates Wei Wuxian being tormented in hell and thinks there's nothing he can do to stop it.
N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?
Hmm. I think that what I kind of wish for rather than finishing for me, is someone either 1) writing a sequel that expands the concept or 2) just taking the basic concept of the fic and doing it in more depth than I could find the motivation for. There are a couple of fics that I'd almost consider 'stubs' in that way -- I thought the concept was cool, but didn't really have a lot to say, usually because it focused on either a character or a situation that I'm not good with.
Fics I'd file under this one would be A) the time-travel Wen Ning fic, B) the fic where Mo Xuanyu goes on a murder roadtrip with Xue Yang, or C) an actual sequel to So You Accidentally Adopted A Halfling feat. Lan Wangji, Qilin Wei Wuxian and Bunny Son A-Yuan. I know, I wrote it, but I'm just not good enough with either small children or domestic bliss to really do it justice.
Somebody else asked for I, so I'll do that one there!
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mikkeneko · 3 years
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wip guess: sun
He could infer, too, that the man and woman who traveled with him were his mother and father. That wasn't really something you ever learned, was it? It was something you just always knew. And it wasn't like he could remember a time before them -- the laughing woman with the reddish hair that captured the setting rays of sun in her curls, the dark-skinned man with the quiet manner and the smile that he always wore.
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