Professionally Sleepless

she/her, old enough to be your mother, mostly danmei, a few beloved anime, come say hi!

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Danmei every day

You think it's Zhou Zishu's shoulder blades?

No

It's Wen Kexing's Zhou Zishu's shoulder blades

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Just discovered this artist, and I adore their work. Helps me in my slump after finishing my huge wenzhou fic!

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Blood & Bone I've started posting a new long woh/shl/tyk fic if anyone is interested. Some real life, some magical realism, and lots of wenzhou being stupidly in love! <3

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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I Want my Wei Ying Back, with apologies to Jon Klassen.

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This is so precious! <3

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Word of Honor as The Onion News headlines part 1 (-> part 2)

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These are all great XD

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TYK Audio Book!

Man it's been a long time since I've posted on here - feel free to tell me if I'm forgetting anything! Some of you already know this, but I wanted to put out the info more generally: I'm currently working with lovely fan translator lianzi to make an audio book of Tian Ya Ke. Qi Ye hopefully to follow, or I might even do them in tandem if I'm feeling really brave! There are three audio chapters up already and I'm aiming to produce one a week, posting on Sundays. You can find all the info you need here:

TYK by lianzi

A Tian Ya Ke translation.

I'm happy to chat about this project any time!

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CHOMP!

Welcome to WenZhou Chomp Week 2023, where we gather to celebrate Priest’s characters Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu and the act of chomping. Be it biting, gnawing, nipping, nomming, or any other act of taking the flesh of another into one’s oral cavity, we have prompts to whet all types of appetite.

Prompt reveal: August 16th

Chomp Week: September 4th to 10th

How to participate:

Between the prompt reveal and Chomp Week, use the prompts to stimulate your creativity and create mouthwatering fan works. (Feel free to use the prompts as you wish: just one, all of them, or mix and match.) Fanarts, fanfics, edits, pictures, cakes, doodles, drabbles - anything that would get you inspired is welcome!

Additionally/alternatively, enjoy and promote others’ fan works during Chomp Week. Don’t forget to show your appreciation to the creators of the feast by liking, commenting, etc.

Although this event focuses on Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu, please feel free to create fan works around other pairings and characters from Qi Ye, Tian Ya Ke, and Shan He Ling (Word of Honor)!

This event will be hosted on Twitter and Tumblr. (Edit: We are now also on Mastodon!)

This event is NSFW-friendly.

You can find the event Carrd here!

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A Light On You: A Qi Ye + Tian Ya Ke Zine

Information and resources pertaining to the 2023-2024 Qi Ye (Lord Seventh) and Tian Ya Ke (Faraway Wanderers) zine project "A Light On You."

We regret that we are stopping production on this Zine. Please see our Carrd, linked here, for an explanation of our reasons for this difficult decision. 

Apologies and sincere thanks to all who applied or expressed interest over the past few weeks.

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Yes, it's time! Applications are officially open until August 25. 

Bring us your Tian Ya Ke and Qi Ye fic ideas and art! We can't wait to see what you have to share.  🎨 Artist Application | ✍️ Writer Application

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The mod team is so excited to open applications - can’t wait to see what all of you make for this project!

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New Zine!

So despite my promising the fam I wouldn’t do another zine...well okay, I lied! I’m heading what will probably be a pair of companion zines for tyk and qy - strictly novel canon! You can find more info here: https://www.tumblr.com/lightonyouzine/723579067525365760/coming-soon-a-qi-ye-tian-ya-ke-zine?source=share or: https://twitter.com/LightOnYouZine/status/1682854635646640130 I am so excited for this! I hope you all are too, and please pass on the info to friends who might also be keen!

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The Fatal Rose

Hey there - so I’ve been beyond awful at updating here, but for any of you who are here because of my fic “The Fatal Rose”, I want to make sure you get this memo! Last year the novel based on this fic found a home with Evernight Teen, a cool Canadian Indie press you can visit here: https://www.evernightteen.com/ And the novel’s ebook release is next week, on June 3! You can pre-order it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2D2KNKP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=10Y109QPHNI4Y&keywords=the+fatal+rose+sarah+bryant&qid=1653536302&sprefix=the+fatal+rose+sarah+bryant%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-1 Eventually it will be available from other outlets and in paperback, but digital-first is how this publisher rolls. All of this is great news - but....well, there’s a but. As anticipated, I’m going to have to make the fic private for the time being so that it’s not in competition with the novel. But I don’t intend to orphan it or take it down - if nothing else, all of your comments mean too much to me to do that. I will be putting up a page on Ao3 w the same title, to explain why the fic is currently unavailable.  You can always message me to chat about it here, on twitter at glittercracker1, on Evernight’s website. If you want more information about this or my other novels, please message me directly here or on twitter. And if there’s interest, I’ll make a separate page for the novel, too.

Finally - I want to thank all of you who’ve read and commented and even just clicked on this fic. I’m still astounded and so very grateful for the love it’s received. Tak care and stay well! <3 glitter 

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New Novel!!!

I am thrilled to announce that my next book, "The Fatal Rose" has just been bought by Evernight Teen! If the title sounds familiar, or if we've chatted before: yes, this is the novel that's based on my 2019 fic of the same name, which you can find here:

  https://archiveofourown.org/works/18727783/chapters/44421136 I’ll try to post updates on the publication timeline here, but since there are only so many hours in the day, if you want to know what’s going on with this, or want info on my other books, you’re best following me on twitter, where my handle is @glittercracker1 Since this is pretty much hot off the press (or email, such as it is) I don't know yet what the contract terms will be, so I don't know whether the publisher will allow me to leave the fic up or not. So if you love it, save it! And if the publisher will let me, I'll be acknowledging every single one of you who's left me comments on this fic. They're honestly among the nicest accolades I've had in two decades of writing. Thank you all for being the first to love this story! <3

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WOH zine preorders open!

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BUNDLE ANNOUNCEMENTS!

We are thrilled to reveal our four bundles for Four Seasons: A Word of Honor Zine!

SUMMER BUNDLE

Physical Zine

PDF Zine

AUTUMN BUNDLE

Physical Zine

PDF Zine

4 diecut stickers

4 prints

WINTER BUNDLE

Physical Zine 

PDF Zine 

4 diecut stickers

4 prints

1 reversible keychain

1 enamel pin

SPRING BUNDLE

Physical Zine

PDF Zine

4 diecut stickers

4 prints 

2 keychains

1 enamel pin 

10 meters of washi tape 

1 acrylic standee

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One of the most beautiful zines I’ve ever seen, let alone worked on! Check it out - preorders open soon!

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CONTRIBUTOR APPLICATIONS OPEN

FOUR SEASONS: A WORD OF HONOR ZINE is happy to announce that we are opening artist, writer, and merch artist applications. All applications will close on SUNDAY, JUNE 20TH at 1:00 PM PDT (8:00 PM GMT). You can apply at the links below. These links are also available on the homepage of our Tumblr desktop website. We appreciate reblogs to spread the word!

ARTIST APPLICATION

WRITER APPLICATION

MERCH ARTIST APPLICATION

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Word of Honor zine!! 

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Just passing by to let you know that I read The Deepest Secret and found it absolutely heartwarming. I'm very attached to those characters, and you definitely did them justice with a mature and coherent portrayal. So thank you for giving me a few hours of distraction! I'm not really into AUs, otherwise I would jump right into The Fatal Rose. I might still do at some point. But in the meantime, if you have any suggestion for post-canon, reunion fics I'd gladly read them! Wish you all the best.

Aww, thank you, that is a really sweet comment! And I do understand about the AU - I actually never saw myself writing one, I like post-canon fics, but I was stuck a third of a way into a novel (I write and edit professionally) and my daughter had the idea of busting through the block by turning it into a fic. I shouldn’t really have been surprised that it turned out to be a brilliant idea. She is brilliant! So I have to say, while I still love HxH I wouldn’t really put myself int the fandom anymore so my info will be a little out of date. But probably my all-time favorite post-canon fic is “The Predatory Wasp” by SilverCisterns. There are some great ones by Murder_Baby but mind the tags, not all of it is for everyone. Fireolin is a stunning writer and her masterpiece imo is “Sea Torn Hearts” but it’s another folk-tale AU. So, so good though! I also can’t quite remember who has written what in terms of canon compliant, but some of my other favorite HxH writers are Xyliane, DecemberCamie, DriftingGlass, AutumnPen. Losing Sanity Fast writes good stuff too but mostl AUs I think? And if you like Leopika then look for zenelly, Caprichoso, and Necey. Necey’s haunted house one is particularly wonderful, as is Zanelly’s “Shimmer in Your Shine” though again, both AUs and both have Leopika as the main love interest. Hope that gives you some fodder! xGlitter

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Update on “The Fatal Rose”

I'm not entirely sure where to put this to ensure that people will see it, but I'm hoping that you find it here if this fic matters to you!

So, as many of you know, I'm a professional writer and editor as well as a lover and writer of fanfic. What many of you probably don't know is that my HxH fic, “The Fatal Rose,” began its life as an original novel. When I hit a block in writing the first draft, I decided to write the rest as fanfic on my daughter's suggestion, also to fulfill a promise to write for the 2019 HXH BB.

Well, it went better than I thought, and now it looks like this book, in its original form, could end up published as a novel! If it does, I will likely have to take the fic down (it's considered a conflict of interest to most publishers since AO3 is free.) But I have been so touched by the love this fic has garnered, and all the kind comments readers have sent in the last year and a bit. So I want to tell you now that it may disappear (at least for a while!) from this site and give you time to save it if it's important to you. Please know that I WILL put updates on here if I take it down, re the publication as a novel. And hopefully, someday, it will do well enough that I'll be able to put it back up, if all of this happens.

Stay well!

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[neenya]

[fall out boy’s ‘immortals’ playing in the background]

sometimes tipsy!wwx is overwhelmed

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A little sweetness on a bitter day!