Melanistic Moon

I am a writer and digital artist. I draw in MS Paint. My personal blog is Animollya.tumblr.com

[melanisticmoon]

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

Shen Qingqiu continues to investigate the E Tu Fortress Sect and the walls inside walls around its secrets.

[melanisticmoon]

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

Separated daemons in tow, Shen Qingqiu returns to the Warm Red Pavilion to return Zhu Yinlian’s lost soul before resolving to track down the sect that separated Xiao-Yue from the daemon’s girl. But this particular diplomacy between sects requires the purview of Qiong Ding and a consultation from the prodigy medical talents of Mu Qingfang.

[catinabed]

Hey! It's almost Christmas!

[melanisticmoon]

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

Shen Qingqiu, now Peak Lord of Qing Jing, goes on a personal mission to help a courtesan who lost something precious to her, uncovering a conspiracy that threatens to bring his own secrets to light.

[sanscest69]

I just realized that many many people have jobs

Rb with your job, wtf do you people do while offline???

[pillowspace]

It feels like this every time I write a fic

[fanonical]

spin this wheel for a length of fic. you have to write a fic that length

can you do it

FUCK YEAH

i...guess?

i really don't wanna

that's not gonna be easy

just kill me now

Voting ended onFeb 20, 2025

[melanisticmoon]

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

“A permanent twelve-pointed array was carved into the stone floor and recently filled in with cinnabar. He watched, heart in his throat, as the peak lords’ daemons entered the sunlit circle. A menagerie of birds, an ox, a snake, a dog all made a concentric circle like their own zodiac, each in their own equidistant point on the array.”

[melanisticmoon]

Writing the next chapter of Our Bodies and keeping getting snagged by Yue Qingyuan’s chronic inability to express his emotions (we love him for it but it presents an obstacle in interpersonal character development). Shang Qinghua stepped in to spill the beans but might have to axe that scene, too… feels a bit deus ex machina (literally).

[melanisticmoon]

Our bodies, possessed by light Ch. 6: The Image of the Heavenly Man

“Heavenly demons don’t even have daemons. That means they have no soul, Wu-shimei,” said the Sect Leader carefully. “Slaying them is more akin to killing a yaogaui than a man.”

[melanisticmoon]

Shen Jiu meeting the sword spirit "Xiu Ya" from chapter 4 of my daemon AU, Our bodies, possessed by light.

[biinaberry]

Yue Qi’s expression shuttered before cowering behind a mask of neutrality like a silhouette whose identity was hidden behind a paper folding screen. Shen Jiu hated it. He’d rather Yue Qi hit him than hide. Had it been so long separated that his human was now a stranger?

He truly would rather have a daemon of his own than be linked to such a person. -Our bodies, possessed by light by @melanisticmoon If you have not read this fic stop what you are doing right now. It is one of my favorite yue qi and shen jiu fics of all time. I love its concept and execution and I had to draw one of my favorite scenes. If you want a fun twist on the daemon concept look right here.

[melanisticmoon]

The best part of writing a Daemon AU is coming up with which daemons fit the characters. You can use animal behavioral cues, cultural symbolism, and really mess with preconceived notions people have about each other based on what animal their soul is.

[melanisticmoon]

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

"...sometimes he wondered if there was some fundamental element of his nature which betrayed him. The master only struck him with his own hand once; each time, thereafter, he resorted to tools or his boot to inflict his pain. “You’re a little beast,” he said, “and touching you is beneath this master.” 

But Shen Jiu never forgot the feeling of the man’s skin touching his. The pain from his punch was overwhelmed by the feel of his human hands touching Shen Jiu’s bare skin. He nearly passed out from the wave of revulsion like ants tearing free from every pore of his skin. He had felt shaky, sick, disgusted, incensed at the violation."

[rarepears]

Shen Jiu is Yue Qingyuan's daemon

PIDW Daemon idea where Shen Jiu is Yue Qingyuan's daemon. Shen Jiu took on a human form because Trauma (first he tried on a human form to beg for money and food because Yue Qingyuan was on the brink of starving to death and a monkey form wasn't cutting it), then they were separated unnaturally so by the Qiu family who had no idea that Shen Jiu was a daemon.

Then Shen Jiu pushes Yue Qi to escape the Qiu family to safety thinking that he would be able to shift forms - Yue Qi wasn't adult yet so surely Shen Jiu hadn't settled into the final form, right? - only for him to discover that

uh

he did settle in that form due to too many injuries the Young Master Qiu inflicted on him.

Who would have ever thought that the Qing Jing peak lord was a daemon, huh.

[melanisticmoon]

I was so captured by the implications of this prompt that I wrote a fic. Happy Qijiu week! https://archiveofourown.org/works/58765759/chapters/149757730

[sylvrndoodles]

this is really how i feel sometimes

[primarybufferpanel]

Fic in my case, but yeah

[melanisticmoon]

Star Wars, for the ask meme, let's goooooo!

Ooh, good choice! Ok, here we go:

Blorbo (favorite character): That’s so hard man, do you know how many SW characters there are?! But I think my top character probably is Hera Syndulla, the kickass but compassionate Twi’lek pilot from Star Wars: Rebels.

Scrunkly (“baby” character): Grogu is so baby we called him “baby yoda” until he got a name. I just want him and his dad and teacher and cohort of aunts and uncles to keep him happy and safe. <3

Scrimblo Bimblo (underrated fave): I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if scrimblo bimblo was a SW character name, haha. But I’m going with Finn. He was done so dirty by the sequel trilogy and all but swept under the rug of fandom in favor of a mass murderer who committed patricide (which I guess is fandom’s “poor little meow meow” but it still grinds my gears). Finn just has so much heart and potential in his character and deserves more attention.

Glup Shitto (obscure fave): Steela Gerrera, Saw Gerrera’s fridged, lesser known sister. She’s a true anarchist fighting for the people of Onderon. Doesn’t enjoy violence but actively takes initiative to free her planet from Separatist control.

Poor Little Meow Meow (problematic fave): Asajj Ventress was a Sith who did horrible, horrible things including sexual assault, torture, and mass murder and yet she is compelling as hell. Especially in the “canon” novel featuring her and Quinlan Vos.

Horse Plinko (character I would torment for fun): Oh you know it’s Obi-Wan Kenobi. The man is charming as hell but also so condescending and smarmy I just want to shove his face in mud. It’s so gratifying to see how much he can suffer (and still not give up hope).

Eeby Deeby (character I would send to superhell): General Krell. Anyone who’s watched the Umbara arc of The Clone Wars knows exactly why.