six sentence (s)tuesday
tagged by @vinelark!!!
rules: post 6 sentences of an unfinished work and tag 6 people
Mulder shrugs a little, then. “Maybe it is—but you still came.”
“Well.” Scully clicks on her flashlight, pans it in a slow, bright arc across the little living room, the throat of the hallway, the ruffled, faraway back of Mulder’s dark head. The easy answer here is: Of course I did, because someone needs to make sure you stay out of trouble.
She doesn’t know how to say: Coming was my only option. It has been for a while.
tagging @tantai-jin @dcyiyou @feyburner @uhuraisgay @fruitdaze @microcomets if yall wish to participate <3
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Header and Icon credit and IDs
Icon is by @thetransguard
[ID: an icon of Quynh from The Old Guard. She is in her flashback outfit from the fight scene with Andy. She is shown from the waist up. Her body is slightly tilted away from the audience. She is looking at something off into the distance. In one hand she is holding her bow and the other one is relaxed and near her chest. Behind her is the lesbian flag. END ID]
Header is by @nilefreemans
[ID: a gif header of Andy and Quynh from The Old Guard. They are in their flashback outfits. They are shown from the waist up and their bodies are slightly turned away from the audience. Andy is looking at the audience with a focused expression on her face. Quynh is looking at Andy. Behind them is a magenta colored background with some white flower drawings. END ID]
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fic writer meme
thank u @fruitdaze @uhuraisgay @cairoscene @englishsub for tagging me!
How many works do you have on Ao3?
44 currently! double 4s? during MY lunar new year? i gotta change that up quick
2. What's your total Ao3 word count?
315,042 words
3. What fandoms do you write for?
my most written-for fandom is mdzs, but i don't really write for it anymore...if you look at my ao3 profile u can kinda tell i'm a sporadic one-and-done type when it comes to fic hehe no one can predict where i'll go next. my latest fandom is jujutsu kaisen!
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
so you've been robbed by a musuem
the stone-filled sea
the family-dodging bathroom-dwellers association
and his wanting grows teeth
diving blind
it's like a wangxian sweep except for the last sambucky lol
5. Do you respond to comments?
i am trying to get better at that! sometimes i don't have the energy to go through and respond to every single one but trust me when i say that seeing the wonderful comments people leave truly makes my day
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
tbh i don't think i've ever written straight-up angsty endings (or at least the way i see straight up angst). every 'bad' ending has a ray of hope in it, or at least an acceptance that like...yes, this is the way it was meant to be, and to reject the outcome would be to reject everything that came before it. sometimes things were meant to go to shit. there was no other way to go. we were doomed but at least we loved each other. i will suffer but at least i can remember you. so on so forth.
with all that said, it's a toss up between the longest journey (di feijing & lei chun), or all things in pain (wen ning character study). 'angsty' endings, if only in the way i described above
7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
a lot of my happy endings aren't super-sweet happy endings per se, but rather a promise or hope that things will get better. idk what that says about me lol like maybe i have more interest in the "how to become happy" part than the actual happiness itself...? but ANYWAY i'd say the sappiest ending is i have is uhhhh feel like a brand new person (msr take edibles together) because 1) their mutual attraction is finally acknowledged 2) they're making out 3) they're high as balls. what's better than this
8. Do you get hate on fics?
not any time recently! i've rarely had negative comments before and all of them have been of such a ridiculous nature that my only response was like "lmfao ok"
9. Do you write smut?
nope! not yet, at least. maybe some time in the future i'll feel like it
10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you have written?
haven't written any, don't really read them either! i keep my blorbos locked up in their separate cages. siloed.
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
yes! kind of. if this counts, a couple years ago someone on wattpad stole over 100 wangxian fics (including mine) from ao3 and reposted them onto their own account without credit. we got their account taken down tho so all is well...but this is why i say in my ao3 profile that i do not allow reposts. please tell me if u ever see my work reposted anywhere........
i've also come across a fic in a diff fandom that was VERY clearly "inspired" by one of mine (lifting certain scenes and lines beat for beat) and gave no credit. so there's that as well.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
yes! it's always an honor when someone wants to translate my work :)
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
nope! my creative process is so erratic that i feel like i'd be a nightmare to co-write with, so this is probably for the better
14. What's your all time favorite ship?
this is a hard question to answer. i don't have an ultimate favorite that always stays at the top of the pile, cuz my interests change all the time! right now i'm really enjoying platonic yuuji & megumi & nobara & gojo. in terms of what i go to most often when i want a comfort re-read...finnpoe.
15. What is a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
omg. you want a DEEP CUT? i have a wip for a rarepair in an already sparse fandom...yeongshin/seobi from kingdom on netflix (the historical korean zombie drama). i LOOOOVE that show i comfort re-watch it all the time. i love their bonded-thru-trauma-frenemies healer/warrior dynamic and i have this wip going for yeongshin getting bitten and seobi developing a zombification-reversal cure through sheer willpower and spite alone........there's maybe 2k written and i was relying on a season renewal announcement to motivate me enough to get the rest of it out but uh. fellow kingdom warriors if you're out there. i think we may be losing this battle............kingdom season 3 announcement save me..............
16. What are your writing strengths?
as a haver-of-siblings, i think i do general family dynamics pretty well! someone has told me in the past that i am good at packing meaning into very few words. i also think i'm good at angsty emotional beats (i sure like writing them, at least)
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
bro if there is any action scene in my work, writing it is like pulling teeth. what do you mean he's getting hit. what do you mean i have to think of an interesting way to describe punch #1 and punch #2 and punch #3. STOPPPPPPPP I CANT DO THIS.
in terms of technique i used to struggle with this thing where i NEED to perfect the writing i'm working on before i can move on. like i'd waste huge amounts of time rewriting a three sentence paragraph over and over and over again until it was perfect before i could move onto the next scene. i'm getting a lot better with that tho!
18. Thoughts of writing dialogue in another language in fics?
i've never done it myself, like, full on written-in-a-diff-lang dialogue, but i think it's cool as long as context clues/some form of translation is provided. and if proper research is done if the writer isn't a native speaker
19. First fandom you wrote for?
the man from uncle (2015). lol. napollya could have won in an alternate universe where armie h@mmer wasn't a piece of shit
20. Favorite fic you have written?
HOO. i gotta say it's my sambucky ghost fic the boy who cried ghost. it's by far my longest fic (even tho it isn't actually very long compared to others ive seen LOLLLL) and it took me AGES to write and ended up being quite personal!! part of the reason it took me so long to finish was bc i couldn't bear to write about sam struggling with grief/guilt when i was also going through something similar, so when i finally got around to writing the moment of catharsis i kinda felt like i was helping myself, too! which was a very interesting experience, and definitely served to lodge this fic in my heart forever and ever. it's not exactly popular but i'm proud of it :)
tagging @tantai-jin @bluecrystalrainingdaggers @vinelark and anyone else who wants to participate!
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look, listen, im emotional about this rn i dont think you understand that lehky has a second shot at the stanley cup in two years after his career in montreal. like imagine being him. youre a middle 6 forward drafted in the 2nd round and finishing off your seasons in the shl where youve learned to up your defensive prowess and you make it to the big league. you play six years for a team thats streaky enough to make the playoffs half the time but never good enough to make anything out of it. fans of that team say youre overpaid and overrated, they say you dont put up enough points to justify your contract. they say forget middle 6, you’re nothing more than a bottom 6 grinder. you put your head down and work. you do your best to ignore the calls for your trade and any trade talks surrounding you that drag on for years and years. it’s easy, you joke, because you don’t speak french.
you score the overtime game winning goal to send your team to the cup final for the first time in nearly three decades and the city will eternalise you as such and its still not enough. its not enough to keep your name out of trade talks when you you have a coach that loves you and a general manager that very nearly promised you that you wouldn’t get traded and you learn that almost-promises are just that: almost.
you get traded anyways and he’s sorry to see you go but the offer’s too good to pass up. he asks you this: if you were to go somewhere else, where would it be? colorado, you say, it would be colorado. you ship out to colorado and you still keep your head down. and you work hard and you find yourself slotting into the team’s top 2 lines and youre scoring goals and making plays and nothings changed but everything’s different.
you score the overtime game winning goal to send your team to the cup final for the first time in nearly two decades. natemac is so happy that he lifts you on the skates and the ice rushes up to kiss your face as you both fall. youre screaming and yelling and you cant stop smiling. still, you keep your head down and work because its not over yet.
you get your second chance with your dad, who was supposed to cover the scf last year but couldn’t make the trip because of a global pandemic and you thought you’d lost that chance forever, only to be gifted this opportunity. you think youd love to stay in this city, with this team, with these players. youve got a second chance and youre determined to win it all this time.
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i hate when it hurts
it's stupid when something can affect us so much. as much as i love writing abt how it is human to feel, i am often bothered by how human i am, and how deep the wounds are. i can't wish for the emotions to cease, or for the memories to be erased; i can't regret any of those moments spent with you, whether good or bad. it's a difficult situation where you can't do much except sit and let it pass. watch as they grow more distant, as the gap widens, as your shell chips further and you've run out of plaster to seal it back shut. watch as they offer others what was once yours, and live through it long enough to turn the hurt into something artistic and beautiful one day.
i can't stand the idea of finding more reasons to live, of knowing this is what we wanted and yet it's impossible to attain. i no longer want a pulse, for i wish i could give it to you to strengthen your heart instead, and because i no longer find it easy to be here.
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