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Caits, 28, any pronouns! Current hyperfixation = Ji Chong x Xie Yun!! I write fic!! 📝 This is also now a blog tracking my chronic illnesses and near-daily moods and attempts to look after myself and still try to enjoy life. To avoid these posts, block tag: #🌸 rest. I'm going to be okay 🌸 Icon thanks to my amazingly talented friend @hearteyeswangji 🌜🌝 P.S. I'm still obsessed with The Untamed and, as always, series 5 TJLC 🐘

[failed221b-chill]

You'd Look Good in Red

Updated 1 June 2025 - Ch 27/? - 442k+

Chapter 27, G____ M___

Now Posted on AO3!

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Ji Chong, the runaway prince turned bounty hunter, is hired to capture a mysterious bounty: the once-famous composer musician, Xie Yun, who offended the Magistrate of the town of XiWang(Hope) enough for him to ban all perfomances and rename the town AnJing(Silence).

Gradually, Ji Chong and Xie Yun reveal (and help each other heal from) deep traumas. They also fall ridiculously in love and take forever to kiss about it.

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Plot includes: fluffy playful flirting; the importance of respect; many queer and/or trans characters; angsty separations (which allow for mutual pining and joyous reunions); major consequences from a minor character death; violent women with one-track minds; supportive found families; innocent bed-sharing; romantic fishing; identity reveals; wlw subplot; and, more than one villainous town leader to confront.

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This is an EXTREME SLOWBURN, hopepunk fantasy love story crossover that borrows some aspects, ensemble characters, and locations from both canons, set in ancient fantasy China, and full of silliness, symbolism, and survival.

Can be read without any knowledge of canon. AO3 tags and other info under the cut.

Teen and up audience.

No archive warnings apply.

Romance - Slow Burn - Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence - Crossover - Flirting - Fairytale elements - Angst with a Happy Ending - Mutual Pining - Mutual Understanding - Plot - Hurt/Comfort - Trauma Recovery - Canon-Typical Violence - Worth Re-Reading - Can be read without knowing any canon

EXTREME SLOWBURN

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There's also an Easy Read Version which has the same content but in shorter chapter length divisions 3-6k per chapter (instead of the original, linked in this post's title, which is averaging 17k a chapter)

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[theartofmadeline]

happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3

[fantasiees]

“You never reply to messages” I am just one person okay I am understaffed

[nyancrimew]

blue raspberry is fucked up cause it doesn't make sense but then u taste it and it Does taste like if a raspberry was blue

[decomposedmaw]

someone used to wait here

[sorrrowfull]

instagram

[tabris-the-seventeenth-angel]

HEARTBREAKING: friends who i should be going to the movies and playing dnd and watching anime and cosplaying and going to the mall and having sleepovers and exploring the woods with live one hundred trillion miles away

[basingstokemercury]

"character deserved better" (but they were never going to get it that's the stuff great tragedies are made of) vs "character deserved better" (but the writers really blew it)

[30awg-catgirl]

the should make a glasses that are comfy to wear while cuddling a girl

no i will not wear contacts i am firmly a glasses girl

[mermaidenmystic]

They Sing To Remember by Scottish artist Lucy Campbell

[sidneypagget]

'There has been some debate as to whether the Adventures of Holmes, or the narrative powers of Watson, declined with the passage of the years. When the same string is still harped upon, however cunningly one may vary the melody, there is still the danger of monotony. The mind of the reader is less fresh and responsive, which may unjustly prejudice him against the writer. To compare great things to small, Scott in his autobiographical notes has remarked that each of Voltaire's later pamphlets was declared to be a declension from the last one, and yet when the collected works were assembled they were found to be among the most brilliant. Scott also was depreciated by critics for some of his most solid work. Therefore, with such illustrious examples before one, let me preserve the hope that he who in days to come may read my series backwards will not find that his impressions are very different from those of his neighbour who reads them forwards.'

'Mr Sherlock Holmes to his Readers', STRAND magazine, March 1927, and deleted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when he used the essay as the Preface to THE CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.

Never stop believing in the good/gay secret Sherlock ending!!! ✌🏻💕🌎

[prokopetz]

I understand that you were aiming for a morally grey protagonist, but in practice what you've ended up with is more of a moral beige.

[prokopetz]

@ancient-tree-with-deathwish replied:

how do you distinguish grey from other colours beyond black and wite?

Distinguishing features of moral beige:

The protagonist is constantly agonising over Hard Choices; however, circumstances always conspire to prevent them from actually having to make those choices, so in practice they're just angsting over stuff they might have done.

The text exhibits a recurring pattern whereby the protagonist seems to to have made a Hard Choice, but new information is reliably revealed shortly thereafter which retroactively establishes that whatever they did was the morally upright course after all.

The protagonist's moral impulses are straightforwardly heroic, except in one specific context which lacks any clear real-world analogue; for example, being prejudiced against telepaths.

The protagonist's actions are consistently reasonable based on the information available to them – they're merely operating on bad information basically all the time due to a bizarre conspiracy and/or a series of increasingly implausible misunderstandings.

The protagonist always ends up doing the right thing (for some fuzzy value of "right"), but, like, they're really grumpy about it.

[vale-gaai]

[yms1]

this blog may contain sensitive content (its me im sensitive)

[oh-good]

this is a Christmas post for you to like and unlike over and over to see the little snowy animation they have rn

[rapidlydecayingcorpse]

“what’s your aesthetic” it’s super niche actually it’s called clothes i like. hope this helps

[elbiotipo]

The whole field of photometry is based on using certain functions to find how "bright" different kinds of EM waves (light) are to the human eye. But are these functions even that accurate? Like, are all human eyes even similar enough to each other for these formulas to have a chance? Radiometry seems a lot more objective.....

I really have no idea so I'll just post the relevant xkcd

[vendetta06]

merry yaoimas and happy new yuri