Crossover fic for intoabar and for @guardianbingo 2026, prompt investigation. :D
Out of Place, Out of Time (562 words) by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 绅探 | Detective L (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lin Jing & Luo Fei
Characters: Lin Jing, Luo Fei, Qin Xiaoman, Ben Jieming
Additional Tags: Crossover, Time Travel, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Mistaken Identity, POV Lin Jing, Minor Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Community: intoabar, Guardian Bingo
Summary:
"And you are?" he asks.
Lin Jing stammers for a moment, and then leans forward to give Chief Zhao a better view, pointing to himself with both hands. "I'm… me? Lin Jing."
He gets a curious stare in response. Maybe the time travel is affecting Chief Zhao's memory? He has never felt particularly well after interacting with the Hallows.
I was also going to ask 9 and 1 for the wip meme, because I'm predictable af (and because I don't know any of the other fandoms lol, feel free to tell me how much I'm missing out!), but hey, "the horror of our love" sounds like A VIBE, so that one? :D
thats fair lol guardian and jitd are definitely the more popular options on my list at least in the circles i hang out in haha
putting this one under a cut bc its... definitely not one for everyone 😅
ok so! since you arent familiar with sfh i will give an explanation of that first so you can have some context:
sfh is a korean horror show about an aspiring crime fiction writer (yoon jongwoo) who moves to seoul to start his new job as an intern at his university "friend"s company (the quotations are there bc the guy fucking sucks and is a manipulative condescending dick to jongwoo all the time) but due to an incident while getting into the city he no longer has enough money to afford a good place and ends up in what is probably the worst dormitory to ever exist bc not only is it filthy and cramped and just all around in a really bad state it also turns out to be home to a group of literal cannibal serial killers! yay! where the one who seems to be somewhat the leader of the pack (seo moonjo, a respectable seeming dentist who is actually a complete freak (very hannibal lecter tbqh) i say this both derogatorily and affectionately bc unfortunately i do adore him) immediately develops some sort of psychosexual obsession with jongwoo and decides to torment him into a psychotic break about it so they can be murder husbands together (im like. not even kidding. at all. moonjo wants him so bad its kinda pathetic) and thus begins jongwoo's absolutely miserable spiral into madness! between the residents tormenting him and his awful boss and insufferable coworker and his crumbling relationship and sanity poor jongwoo is having a very very very bad time.
(for the sake of my own sanity i am obligated to say that the toxic yaoi shenanigans in this show are not at all The Point Of The Story and if you'd like to know more about The Point i have a long ranty rambling spoiler filled mess talking about it in this post. ok cool)
alright so now that you know the basics of the story we can move on to the fic lol
so The Horror of Our Love is basically playing with the idea of moonjo as some sort of supernatural creature that latches on to jongwoo and drives him mad. im a huge fan of creature moonjo (especially as an It instead of a he bc i find it fun to use it/its as an it/he myself) i think its a lot of fun and wanted to take my turn playing in the sandbox lol. now this fic is... gonna be pretty fucked up bc i realized how much i miss writing horror and i wanna try it out again so this is Not going to be a pleasant time for our dear jongwoo but honestly nothing ever really is (poor guy)
now i dont have a whole lot of this fic figured out yet but i do know several things:
1. im going to slightly alter the incident that results in jongwoo ending up in the dormitory bc i want to somewhat separate him from the other residents outside of moonjo (tho i have not decided yet if i will remove them completely or not) so i can really isolate the two of them together
2. i want to keep it intentionally unclear What exactly moonjo is partly bc i really enjoy that kind of horror but also bc i dont want to box myself in to any specific mythology or lore and keep it so im free to make whatever rules i want about how It functions
3. i wanna play with loss of autonomy/control and possession or possession-adjacent topics. this is very much going to be horror and... quite possibly not well received by the fandom which is sad but i still want to write it
4. i want to play with perceptions of reality. its something thats done in the show that was really interesting to me and i wanna keep going with it. possibly something with dreams that turn out to not be dreams or be less dream than they were believed to be
5. despite the title this is not romantic. there will likely be sexual situations but i do not view their relationship as romantic and i want to stay true to that bc quite frankly i think its more interesting that way
6. corruption arc babeyyyyy lets goooooo!! i dont know what exactly the end result of this will be but you better believe im gonna twist this boy into something new by the time we get there
aaaand finally i do have to admit that the title is a song lmao this song bc i think it fits moonjo's side of their relationship
ok that was rambly its almost 4am im shutting up now but if you ever wanna know more about the show let me know! (perhaps with caution bc i may start talking and just not stop)
OMG GUARDIAN FIC FROM FISHY !! please say more about winter nights are never quite as cold with you ???
hidey!!! of course my dear <3
ok so that one is my drama-verse chuguo fic that i wanted to use to explore the lingering effects of nearly freezing to death on them, or rather on gcc since he took the worst of the cold. im always a bit sad that we just brushed past that and moved on bc it was SO !!!!!!!!! and thats not the kind of thing one just moves on from!! so i wanted to play around with 1. how gcc reacts with feeling cold afterwards and 2. the potential comfort he would find in csz and how that progresses through their relationship. its sorta a 3 +1 situation but im kinda considering changing that idk we'll see how i feel about it when i can actually read what i have written again
this is partially inspired by my own issues with the feeling of being cold and not being able to get warm due to a very unpleasant winter a few years ago. i started writing it on a day i was kinda losing it about that haha
Can I ask about more than one for the WIP ask game? 1 and 9 if you'd be so kind!
you absolutely can ask about more than one!!! i talked about 1 here with hidey if you'd like to see that <3
9. fei du vs blood phobia vs saving the love of his life is an admittedly silly temporary title for my fic where i really just wanted torment fei du some more (terrible i know)
basically its about how things might go if lwz was injured and bleeding out and fei du is the only one around to prevent him from dying until help arrives and what that would be like for him to have to fight to stay both conscious and functional enough to help while covered in lwz's blood. this is admittedly similar to that one scene fei du had with the zhou brothers but iiiiii wanted to make it worse akdnsjdnfj so this time instead of it being someone he's sorta(?) friends with why not have it be his husband! especially since the last time this happened it ended badly and they were right outside the hospital then! not further out somewhere else. alone like they are now. where so many more things could go wrong.
evil i know. im sorry in advance for the torment i intend to inflict on people through this story and others. i simply enjoy doing this akdbdj
Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: M/M; Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 57 words; 26:47
Content Notes: No AO3 Warnings Apply; winter weather as relentless atmosphere and adversary; public transportation as a liminal zone; possible unreality—the situation is open to interpretation.
Creator Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Podfic, Podfic Length: 20-30 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending
Creator Links: (AO3) flamingwell, (Tumblr) flamingwell
Theme: Journey & Travel, Hurt/Comfort, Inspired Work, Modern AU, Non-Fic Recs: Fanart, Non-Fic Recs: Podfics
[See the post at Dreamwidth for additional content, including the podfic cover and image description, and flamingwell's creator's notes.]
Summary: When he came to, the bus was on the freeway. The windows were dewed with drops of melted snow that shone with captured light. Outside, traffic was at a standstill. Dingy slush covered the roads, gradually accumulating as snow drifted down from the woolen sky, the flakes picked out in sharp contrast where they plunged into the light of streetlamps and headlights. Wei WuXian laughed softly to see it. When he turned away from the window, he saw that the beautiful man from earlier was still sitting next to him, watching him with an expression that might, optimistically, be called inquisitive.
“The snow,” Wei WuXian said, gesturing outside. “It looks like champagne bubbles, only going the wrong way.” He laughed again, and rubbed his head. “Have you ever felt drunk, but been pretty sure you weren't drinking? Haha, no, never mind me. I'm just tired.” He rubbed a hand over his face, wanting desperately to sleep.
Podfic of Night Bus by Suspicious_Popsicle.
Reccer's Notes: Suspicious_Popsicle’s tale of an encounter between a sore-pressed traveler and a mysterious benefactor in an isolated and enveloping environment, with the ambiguity of possible supernature in play and a twist ending that leaves room for continuing speculation, has many of the elements of a classic Old-Time Radio drama, in the fashion of Quiet, Please or Lights Out!
flamingwell understood the assignment. Her delicate and hushed narrative voice is a perfect vehicle for the subject, animated by Wei Wuxian’s nervous chatter—gradually devolving from restless to febrile to fading—and punctuated by Lan Wangji’s dark temple-bell solemnity.
Fanwork Links: [Podfic] Night Bus, by flamingwell
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@fishy-lava tagged me, tyyyyy! ♡♡♡
1. last song: Every time I answer this question, there's about 80% chance that it's going to be the Guardian intro song because it's the main song on my going-for-a-walk playlist. :D And yep, that's the case right now too! ♡
2. favorite colours: Yellow and pink mainly, and any vibrant version of any color is wonderful. :D
3. currently watching: The last two episodes of Detective L! (And re-watching Guardian always. :D)
4. currently reading: SVSSS, because I was so curious what the hype was about! (And re-reading Guardian always, hah. :D)
5. current obsession: Zhubai, not even a question. ♡♡♡
6. currently working on: My Sunflower Auction drawing (nearly there!! *bounces* :D), and two Guardian fics, one novelverse and one dramaverse, which I can't say anything more about for now because they're for exchanges. And a bunch of random wips as always. :D
7. last google search: The artist from the question below (didn't find anything, alas).
8. current desktop picture: My desktop is a rotation of my Zhubai folder (3k+ pictures lol), changing every 10 minutes. The most recent change was from this:
to this:
(I cropped out the rest of the desktop, the pictures are in the middle on a black background.)
(The art is not mine. There's a credit tag at the bottom, but I looked up the artist right now and couldn't find anything.)
... And right before I posted it changed to this, so have a Zhubai longpost I guess. xD
Tagging @tinypinkmouse, @thepointlessmasterpiece, @echo-ph0enix, @senmutthebuilder, @shentancypher, @theworldisabrokenbonebutitishome, @hideyseek ... idk how many people we're tagging, but this is a lot of people already. xD As always feel free to completely ignore it if you don't feel like doing this for any reason - zero pressure!! :) ♡ (And if you do feel like doing this, consider yourself tagged! :D)
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