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Stumbling in late without Starbucks, but I really should gather up my gifts somewhere. I adored the previous wishlist event, and this one was just as joyful! This fandom is so generous and produces so many amazing fanworks.

My wishlist got me a ton of helpful information for organizing my Zhu Yilong picture collection, as well as many adorable baby Long-ge photos! 🥺 Many thanks to sakana17 and tinny for the sleuthing and the picspams! sef1029 made a super lovely podfic of one of my little Kissathon fills. elenothar wrote me an adorable science kink snippet set in the Higher Education verse, and a mysterious benefactor made me an amazing Weilan fanmix!

Such riches! This fandom is the best.

I also made a few things!

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A Weilan fic for trobadora in which Zhao Yunlan is working through some stuff, which is not great for Shen Wei's heart. There's a happy ending, obviously.

      » grow into a greater want, 8700 words, rated E

The lovely lunarriviera has written an exquisite companion piece from Shen Wei's POV, which you should absolutely read as well. (The poor guy, I'm so sorry.)

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Also, my very first Zhubai fic that isn't set in the extended (quiet place) universe! Written for OcasioCat, because I couldn't resist that snow prompt.

      » the place where your heart, 2100 words, rated T

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I also got to put my picture collection to good use! It was great fun to make a Zhu Yilong with sweater paws! picspam for marycrawford, and a Zhubai and Jewelry! picspam for sakana17. 🥰

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And lastly, I shared some of my favorite Weilan songs with awanderingcoyote!

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Whee, this fandom! ❤️

A while ago I wrote a little post-canon ficlet that combined Shen Wei's love for science with Zhao Yunlan's special brand of horniness, which in my mind grew into a whole verse where Shen Wei got to be a professor like he always wanted. So now there's a sequel!


tangled up in you (3,561 words) by A
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei (Guardian), Da Qing (Guardian)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Fix-It, Kissing, Food, Education, Domesticity, A Hint of Trauma Recovery
Series: Part 2 of Higher Education
Summary: It feels nice, having friends and acquaintances and family members he's newly on speaking terms with, all scattered around Dragon City. Like his world needed to shrink down to a blinding, painful flicker of light before it could expand and breathe and grow beyond the SID.


The whole thing was partly inspired by eirenical's beautiful Tumblr post about all the things Shen Wei didn't get to keep 💔 (which elenothar helped me find again!) and attempts to right some of those wrongs.

I had a look at the post again after I had finished the fic, and! Either this part had lodged itself deep in my subconscious:

"He deserved to be able to research and learn about anything and everything he wanted to and then to geek out over those things over dinner while Zhao Yunlan’s eyes clouded over with that special fondness"

--or we both independently arrived at the idea of Yunlan letting Shen Wei talk about science over dinner, because he LOVES HIM and he WOULD. *draws little hearts around them both*

In conclusion, I'm already thinking about part three, in which I guess I will have to explain some things >.>

I already did a little round-up over at sid_guardian, but putting this here as well for housekeeping purposes. It's also nice to look at while I'm struggling to work on something new from the ideas pile. /o\

Series I've somehow managed to cobble together so far:

knew it would get dark
» Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
» soft tent sex in YOH and even softer bed sex after their reunion
» (they're so in love)
» 2 works, ~5,000 words, M
» complete (might be fun to read part two first, maybe?)

(a quiet place)
» Zhu Yilong/Bai Yu, getting together on set and deepening their relationship over the year that follows
» kink exploration, D/s themes, softness, really quite a bit of pillow talk
» 5 works, ~38,000 words, mostly E-rated
» can be considered complete

Savior Complex
» Luo Fusheng/Han Chen
» crossover AU in which Han Chen is a rival gang leader instead of a cop
» enemies with benefits (at first), clandestine meetings, bickering (so much bickering), vague D/s vibes
» 4 works, ~12,000 words, mostly E-rated
» more to be added (I hope!)

I finished the Shen Wei mix! Which I started collecting songs for, oh, five episodes in? The remaining pile is still 30 songs and counting, because I have a lot of feelings about Shen Wei and his feelings for Zhao Yunlan.

AO3 | Apple Music | Spotify

Usually I just post these to AO3 and hope for a kudos or two, but hey, now that I'm back on DW I can actually ramble on about the process~ here. \o/

Which in this case was super fun once I started putting some songs in order and found it was mostly female singers, so then it had to be *all* female singers, obviously. (I like to make things harder for myself.) I really wanted it to be all pretty and soaring and actually kind of uniform sounding? In contrast, I'm trying to make the ZYL counterpart a little more rock/pop and varied and playful. Also, it has to be all male voices now. So that's going great.

(I once managed to put together a soundtrack for the whole Captive Prince trilogy in which all the Laurent songs were female voices and all the Damen songs were male. Otherwise it's kind of hard to signify POV changes when it's so many songs, so now I kind of think about POV in those terms.)

Another thing that happens is that I find a song that I think is perfect for the character or ship and then try to build the whole fanmix around it, in terms of mood and genre of music and such. I'd say in this case it was "Back to the Sky" (track 2), which is so unspeakably sad and so beautiful. You know, like Shen Wei.

(I also try, for shippy mixes, to find a track that works as The Sex Song, and I think this one really works. So that was also happy-making.)

A million thanks to aurum for yanking me into this PIT OF EMOTIONS fandom and also giving the mix a beta listen, and to kernezelda for the screencaps I used for the cover. That would have taken me ages otherwise!