Guardian Bingo!

[mumblemumble]

Here's my original card. I replaced the "Shen San" square with the February bonus prompt ("Tiger"), the "Yashou Market" square with the November bonus prompt ("Short and Sweet"), and crossed the Free Square twice. Chill vibes!

The whole challenge has been super lovely and low-stress, and all the badges have been beautifully crafted. Many thanks to tehfanglyfish, highlynerdy, and sasamelons!

First line

Spring

A smol YouTube playlist for elenothar's beautiful fic The Spring of Experience, which gently contemplates Shen Wei's learning powers in the past and (post-canon) present. The picture for the cover was taken in the Lingering Garden, back when travel was still a thing.

(I feel the need to clarify that I understand the difference between spring(🌷) and spring(💧), but the mods said we could interpret the prompts any way we like, so!)

Memories

» i felt you in my legs (before i ever met you)
📋 Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei, 2900 words, rated E
🏷️ Post-Canon, PWP, Kissing, Roleplay, (unnegotiated), Age Play, (of sorts), Anal Sex, (wildly successful)
ℹ️ Some impromptu roleplay leads to an excess of feelings, because Weilan.

Free Square

A little rec list centering on the blindness arc (episodes 21 and 22). So much h/c, so much bickering, so much kneeling in the rain!

Tiger

(See below.)

Winter

For the Winter square I made myself sad with a photo set over on Tumblr. 😔

it is not love
I am asking

love comes from years
of breathing
skin to skin
tangled in each other's dreams
until each night
weaves another thread
in the same web
of blood and sleep

and I have only
passed through you quickly
like light--

Second line

Breaking and Entering

» (and form a new heart in me)
📋 Time Engraver/Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, 6200 words, rated T
🏷️ POV Second Person, Crossover, Worldbuilding, Post-Canon, Mortality, Happy Ending
ℹ️ Time's domain is infinite and inhabited only by her children. Nobody's ever heard of guests here.

Short and Sweet

(See below.)

Free Square

» clean shirt, new shoes
📋 Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei, 1400 words, rated T
🏷️ Post-Canon, Fluff, Suit Kink, Lollipops, Academia
ℹ️ "You like it?" Yunlan grins, taking the lollipop out of his mouth to do a little twirl. "You have to like it, I'm not getting changed."

Lies

» Five Times Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei Didn't Fuck, and One Time They Did
📋 Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei, 6500 words, rated E
🏷️ Remix, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, 5+1 Things, Secrets, IDENTITY SHENANIGANS, Forgiveness, Kissing, Anal Sex
ℹ️ For the 520 Day Guardian Reverse Exchange 2022, I remixed chaosmanor's pre-reveal canon AU with D/s hookups into post-reveal feels & shenanigans with kisses, which was a lot of fun! (There's also some light D/s at the end, as a treat.)

Noodles

For the Noodles square on my card, I gathered up all the noodle pics Bai Yu took after his photo shoots in 2021 and early 2022. (Thank you, BY Studio!)

One Year of Noods! ✨

Six bonus prompts

Tiger

Made a little mood board for the bonus prompt for February: Chu-ge and Xiao Guo celebrating Lunar New Year together! ❤️

Birthday

» Every day is the best day in the year
📋 Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei, 1600 words, rated T
🏷️ Post-Canon, Fluff, Banter, Birthday, Prompt Fic
ℹ️ The softest, fluffiest sequel to elenothar's Nameday, written for the bonus prompt for April.

Meeting Again

Interpreting the bonus prompt for July to mean "as other people", so here's a rec list featuring a small selection of Weilan derivatives!

Trying Something New

» The heart opens, closes, opens
📋 Chu Shizhu/Shen Wei, 3000 words, rated E
🏷️ Post-Canon, References to Temporary Character Death, References to Polyamory Negotiations, Rough Sex, Breathplay, Prompt Fic
ℹ️ "I want to ask something of you," the Lord Envoy had said. (Written for the bonus prompt for September.)

Short and Sweet

For the bonus prompt for November, I made Guardian-themed shortbread cookies, with semi-sweet, white, and ruby chocolate decorations. 🍪

(The original idea was to make larger, rectangular cookie slabs and sculpt the lollipop/pendant spheres onto the surface, then add details with chocolate after baking. However, this would have clearly ended in tears, so I just baked some circles to play with, and cut the rest of the dough into simple shortbread fingers. Tasty either way!)

Keep On Going

» i will find you (here inside the dark)
📋 Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, 3700 words, rated M
🏷️ Post-Canon, Domesticity, Science (kinky), Kinky Use of Dark Energy, Death, Trauma Recovery, A Hint of Ye Zun Redemption
ℹ️ Grading hell. Science banter. Working through some stuff (in bed). Finally, a conversation. Part 7 of a series, for the bonus prompt for December.

Badges

• One Fill – Longevity Dial
• One Line – Mountain-River Awl
• Two Lines – Unlit Guardian Lantern
• Five Bonus Fills – Merit Brush

Comments

[bethctg]

This is so cool! I really love your moodboard.

[mumblemumble]

Thank you! 😊