Fic Round-up, DMBJ Edition

» making anything last, keeping anything safe
📋 Reboot; Wu Xie/Bai Haotian, established Wu Xie/Xiaoge
🏷️ Post-Canon, Sex Pollen, Fuck Or Die, Consent Issues, First Time, Age Difference, Ambiguous Relationship
📊 7750 words, rated M

Didn't expect my first fic in the fandom to be age difference het porn, and then didn't expect anyone to actually read it, but somehow it got way more comments than the Pingxie fics. Go figure! This fic took so many turns in my head before I settled on a premise and a "plot" and a vibe, and I really like where it ended up. I think Xiao Bai deserved a better ending than she got, so this is my version of self-indulgently shoving my tomb blorbo at the Iron Triangle and being like, "Here! Be nice to her! No, nicer!" :-D


» a winding path, an empty page, a silhouette
📋 Ultimate Note; Xiaoge/Wu Xie
🏷️ Amnesia, Post-Episode 15, Kissing
📊 2500 words, rated T

» i think of loss and i can only think of you
📋 Ultimate Note; Xiaoge/Wu Xie
🏷️ Amnesia, Sharing a Bed, Episode Related, Episode 31
📊 2600 words, rated M

The original idea for this was some kind of five times fic, starting at the stupid lake where they should have kissed and ending the night before Xiaoge and Pangzi leave for Banai, with escalating acts of intimacy to make the goodbye even WORSE.

I rewatched the relevant bits of Ultimate Note a lot, looking for a hook, and then just kind of filled in the gaps I saw. I thought writing Xiaoge POV would be pretty much impossible, but once I got a handle on his amnesia and his disinclination to speak, the words just kind of kept flowing. (Then the fic ended with a kiss, so I had to write a sequel to escalate things, clearly.)