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
dear everyone, hello, it is i, captain zheng bei of the halan public safety bureau anti-narcotics task force. things are going well however there have been a few challenges this winter so i thought i would take this opportunity to update you on our progress here in halan.
first of all there's xiaoguang and nan nan. everyone is really happy that xiaoguang sat up again and started talking and getting better, me most of all. i might have cried a little and i definitely hit him. the weird thing is he speaks exclusively cantonese now and we're not sure why but hopefully nan nan's cantonese will get better so they can communicate. gu yiran says it doesn't really matter because they could never actually communicate in the first place and i don't want to say gu yiran is right but just in this one specific instance he might have a point. anyway nan nan seems happy and they sing a lot. and make other noises as well but we aren't going to talk about those.
zhang xueyao is also doing well, she has some kind of boyfriend but she won't let us meet him and i find that somewhat distressing. i'm worried if he is ugly or maybe has two heads. or what if he's really tiny. maybe he's only like 150 cm tall and she just beats him up all the time, something that would not be good for a police officer to do. on the other hand she seems a lot calmer and doesn't chase guozhu around the office anymore trying to kick him, so i guess it's been good for her. again gu yiran claims that the boyfriend is probably completely normal and just afraid of us but i don't know why that would be true. we're only cops, there's nothing scary about any of us?
ding guozhu has not changed in any way whatsoever, he has knitted eight sweaters this winter and at this rate the only one of us who doesn't have a sweater is me. that's because i don't wear sweaters because i never get cold. i only wear t-shirts even when it's -30ºC which it is right now. gu yiran on the other hand is wearing three sweaters at this very moment in his lab but i can still hear him bitching. i told him when he wears three sweaters at once he looks fat and he told me my head is fat. i told him his head is stupid and he looks stupid and then he told me i am an unmitigated idiot and then we wound up in a supply closet in the hallway and then some other stuff happened. when we came out of the supply closet somehow i was wearing one of guozhu's sweaters. surprisingly it is very soft and kind of nice, and guozhu made it red, my favorite color, and tried to give it to me so maybe i will keep it after all.
then there's uncle. he went on vacation with his granddaughter to hangzhou and they never came back. i think he likes it there, he keeps sending us photos of them by the lake eating sugar pastry in shirt sleeves and smiling. we have all started using email now and uncle likes it the most because he says he doesn't have to waste money on postage anymore. gu yiran tried to explain to him that electricity and telephone usage also cost money but uncle says he's already paid for those so it doesn't count. anyway he keeps sending very large photos that clog up the office inbox for several hours while they download. sometimes there's a lady in the photos, i keep asking him who that is but he never answers. gu yiran says when he feels like telling us about her, he will. here's an old picture of him with gu yiran because it's how i like to think of him, still here with us.
ma and ba are fine and nan nan finally talked them into closing the restaurant one day a week to take some rest. they are saying they might go visit uncle in the spring, or go to shanghai. they are a little bit upset that gu yiran and i moved out, but they also like having nan nan out of their apartment so that worked out okay after all.
i guess that's the big news, that gu yiran and i moved to a new place. it was sad to leave the building but after the incident with the wall we figured it was probably time. i explained to ma and ba how the hole was only an accident but it was still a very big hole so they were right to be upset, we all worked very hard one weekend to tear the wall down and replace it with a better one. the hole wouldn't even have happened if gu yiran and i hadn't had a fight, but we did, and then we weren't speaking so he went home to do his experiment in the apartment instead of in the lab, and there was sort of an explosion. but it was really my fault, because if i hadn't called him an arrogant cocksucker we wouldn't have fought. on the other hand if he hadn't gone after six drug dealers in the chicken van by himself with nothing but a baseball bat and some sock bombs then i probably wouldn't have called him that. so i guess maybe we were both to blame.
the good news is our new apartment is very solid and sturdy, we found this out on the first night when we walked in the front door and gu yiran threw me bodily up against the wall and proceeded to [redacted] me. he says that as a true scientist he has to keep conducting ongoing tests to ensure the structural integrity of our domicile and i'm not entirely sure what that means but as long as he keeps slamming me up against things honestly does it really matter.
here he is studying and looking very handsome and also cute. when he catches me taking photos of him studying, he hits me and tries to get the camera away from me, i don't mind because when he starts hitting me it's sort of funny and also easy to tickle him. it turns out gu yiran is very ticklish, and when he starts laughing and his glasses fall off and his hair gets messed up he looks even cuter and then we usually forget about studying or taking pictures or hitting or tickling.
well that's about all the news from halan. there are always new drugs and new dealers trying to make money off them so we stay pretty busy. director gao says i can't say anymore about that because it's official police business but i will tell you that even though we have a new office and a bunch of new recruits from the academy, i still miss the old cafeteria, and uncle bringing noodles and bao for the team.
PS gu yiran says he wants to get a cat. at first i wasn't sure it was a good idea considering his track record with houseplants, but then i thought about it and decided i don't mind being the one who mostly takes care of the cat. after all i do a pretty good job with xiao ran.
HH OMG RUNNING!!!!!! INTO HERE TO HEAR MORE ABT linglingling铃声一响 !!! 👀👀👀
wip ask game here.
thank you for the ask, hidey!! this stupid teachers AU lsdjdhsf my winner of the Most Plot Overhauls award. the world’s biggest headache. if only we weren’t madly in love 🤚
i first had the idea to write this fic at the end of 2024. i tried, wrote abt 3k, and decided that it wasn’t sparking joy! so i dropped it. wrote a couple of other fics, picked this one back up, got distracted and wrote a couple more fics, etc. but we’re here now and i swear i’m finishing it this time (i’m abt ⅔ of the way through at the moment! ~30k)!!! as i mentioned in the ask game post, it’s a wt23 fic ^^ it was either wt23 or c21, but wt23 won because it had a) a mentor cast w pairings that were more attractive to me b) the useful position of being *after* c21, which allowed me to reference c21 itself for plot reasons c) women.
the fic will be a combination of 4 storylines across 5 POVs ^^ those POVs being zs’, jackson’s, and the POVs of 3 of their students. i’m having lots of fun writing outsider POV for zs and jackson’s relationship (the nature of which is a running gag ahdshas) + each of the students have their own arc that parallels, catalyses, or contrasts the main one!!! they also allow me to explore more aspects of school life and thus make this fic highly personal 😊 soooo much of myself and my own experiences
a small excerpt for you ^^
“周老师，王副校长来了……”
Everything snaps forward in an instant: Zhou-laoshi’s head whips to the door and Vice-Principal Wang’s face flits to blank. Huang Yubo squeals a little, high in his throat. Zhou-laoshi and Vice-Principal Wang look at each other like they’ve both been caught doing something they shouldn’t have— and Lyly understands.
So they’re, like, gay married. Okay.
one of the student POVs! Lyly 🥰🥰there will be quite a number of embedded TLs for the Chinese in this fic as well; my ballboy AU was just practice. writing zs’ chinese dialogue is a lot of pressure ahhda however it has improved how i approach his english dialogue!! and i feel that i’ve learned (am learning) so much from all the (long.. stressful..) restructuring and revisions. it’s a big departure from my normal work!!! but this felt like the only way to tell the story i wanted to tell. i’m using it to explore my thoughts on zs’ work schedule, what it means when falling in love, and what it means to take (or not to take) a better option. there’s an entire student storyline about sending an email. etc. my them hashtag #mythem!!! very excited to share!!!!!
ooooh for the wip game will u say more about "almost on time (a promise almost kept), 'almost' is a failure dressed in good intentions"! or "catyuan" if the first has already been asked?
Hi Hidey! "catyuan" wasn't asked yet so I'll start with this one~ It's a canon divergent AU of Scum Villain's Self-Saving System where Shen Yuan still dies and wakes up in the body of Shen Qingqiu—except SQQ has upon his Qi deviation turned into a cat right before the transmigration occurred. I keep the tone light and humorous - the idea started with one cracky thought of 'cat instincts would make the novel even funnier' c:
Fandom context: Scum Villain is a transmigration novel. Before his death, Shen Yuan reads a male power fantasy web novel (written by the author Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky) and flames it for its lost potential, only to wake up in the body of its main villain - the teacher of the novel's protagonist, Shen Qingqiu, doomed to be tortured and murdered for his sins by his student (Luo Binghe). The controlled objective given to him is to fill in the plot holes he complained so much about in his life and make a stellar work out of this 'dumbfuck novel' without changing the important story beats. There are punishments for failure, and one of them very well may result in permanent death. (Good luck, Shen Yuan!)
In this excerpt, cat!Shen Yuan - now calling himself Shen Qingqiu - finds the wounded protagonist in the woodshed where he was locked up by his master and shixiong, and brings him medicine.
From that point on, Luo Binghe took over, from time to time looking at the cat's form carefully.
“Is this Master a spiritual beast?” he asked. Ah, so polite! And he didn't even know that he was talking to Shen Qingqiu, he must have been locked in this shed for—well, long enough to miss the news of the Peak Lord’s new affliction. Such a little lamb, not yet touched by a wolf’s instincts!
…could Shen Qingqiu be considered a spiritual beast? In all fairness, the sect's healer confirmed that he had spiritual energy still, but whether he could access it was a different matter.
He answered with a non-committal chirp.
…Like cats do. Really, Airplane?
“This one's name is Luo Binghe's,” the boy said, corking the jar shut and handing it to Shen Qingqiu, who only pawed it back to him. Binghe hesitated only for a moment and hid it behind his sleeping place. Which was not even a straw mat. It was just straw!
Shen Qingqiu was so dead!
As for the 'almost' wip, I wrote a little bit about it here, but I can share another snippet, taking place a little bit after the one in the other reply! (I included fandom context for the characters from Scum Villain's Self-Saving System in there, too.)
Context for this snippet is: Yue Qi finds yet another body in the burnt manor, but this time it's not so clear it doesn't belong to the one he's looking for.
cw for (implied) burnt corpses below the cut
Thank you for sending an ask 💕
send me a wip title and i'll reply with a snippet
His eyes are wide open. He can’t force himself to blink even if he wanted to. He doesn’t.
Any second now, he’ll find a detail, he’ll notice something so clearly not-Shen Jiu, he’ll feel the relief again.
Any moment now.
…
…He can’t find one.
Is it—? Could it be him—?
Yue Qi falls onto his knees.
He can’t tell.
Gods, he can’t tell.
6, 27, 26 for the aging tumblr userbase asks if u want hehe 🥰
6. what's your go-to recipe when you want to make something that requires minimal effort?
I have a couple!
tomyum soup in a saucepan, which is just veggie or chicken stock + Mae Ploy tomyum paste + throw in whatever you want and let the soup cook it. I usually add sliced tomatoes, broccoli, mushrooms, bird's eye chili, and (if I or someone wants seafood) prawn, squid rings, or white fish. I season with fish sauce, a little light soy sauce, lime juice, dashi powder, and cilantro. made this once for a potluck and a friend went "recipe please? 🤲"
1 pot rice cooker chicken rice
smashed avocado on toast, with either lemon juice/cayenne pepper/paprika/chili flakes or balsamic vinegar.
26. do you make a list before going to the grocery store or just wing it?
I generally make a list. getting groceries delivered online helps, and this is where living with another person makes a big difference because it would not make sense if I were living alone
27. what's your favourite household chore?
laundry laundry laundry. I got really into the science & chemistry of removing stains in 2025. not an expert but I've been told I'm decent at troubleshooting stain removal.
5, 12, 17, and 22 for the fic writer's asks, if you'd like!
hiii! this got long so under the cut it goes
(5) How do you know when you’re finished writing a fic? At what point do you call it done?
My writing process is generally:
idea -> outline -> rough draft -> editing -> incorporate beta feedback -> another round of editing -> final readthrough. i have a bad habit of not letting stories rest before posting them, i think in the ideal world i'd get thru editing, let the story rest, and then revisit it with fresh eyes, but like. i havent done that yet, so, lmao. So, usually when the final readthrough is done? i actually really like the editing process because i feel like my rough draft is just getting the shape of the idea out and the editing is what refines it and makes it more like how it appears in my head. its challenging but rewarding, too.
(12)
Do you write in order, jump around the draft, or a mix? Something else?
usually i have to write in chronological order, with the exception of if i want to get the general shape of a later scene down while the story is still an outline. i find a lot of details usually change by the time i get to a specific scene so i'd need to edit it anyway - its important to me that the tone of a scene fits the overall narrative rather than just Sounding Good, you know what i mean? but no yeah i think i like writing in chronological order because it helps me like, follow the story threads, if that makes sense? and its fun to finally get to a scene i was excited to write.
re: outlines, I was recently inspired by beck @dallasgallant 's outlines to do like, dialogue in script format instead of writing out a whole scene if i'm trying to get the feel for the beats of a conversation - for example, the disabled au i'm working on, one of the scenes is outlined like this:
* j and d sit in silence for a moment
* dally: "so?"
* johnny: "why do i gotta be the one who talk first?"
* "(shrug) youre the one who's mad"
* "you're the one who's - buying me off."
* (offended) "wh - i'm not -"
* "really? cause thats sure what it looks like."
* (softly, lights a cigarette) he starting to think maybe he fucked up. "that aint what it is."
* "then what is it?"
* "you know."
* "no, man, i dont! and you know what else, no one will tell me! they all look at me like - like they feel sorry for me, and nobody will tell me why!" (quiet, takes drag)
* "what do you want me to say? i'm - i'm doin' it to help you, man."
* "sure dont feel like it." he sighs, and out of the corner of his eye dally watches him pick his leg up under the knee and cross his ankle across his lap. "thats what i’m talkin’ about, man, you can’t even look at me," johnny mutters. “what the fuck happened?”
* dally blinks, taken aback. he'd thought - but of course johnny noticed that. johnny notices everything. so, dally sighs, and for the first time in months, he looks at him.
* his scrawny legs, unnaturally still in the footwell. his hands fisting around the hem of his shirt in his lap. his dark eyes, the ones that have always reminded dally of a baby cow's, although he'd kill himself before he let anyone know it. those stupidly beautiful, brown eyes are blinking back years.
* yeah, okay, maybe he fucked up.
* he reaches over and plucks the cigarette from between johnny's lips, taking a lingering drag of his own.
* "you - collapsed or somethin', man, i don't know..." (flashback to dal’s suicide attempt)
obviously this is a very rough draft and will be polished when i (eventually) get to writing the scene, but those are like the basic beats.
(17)When you get a new fic idea, what does that look like in your mind? Does it play out like a film? Do you imagine lines of dialogue or a certain moment? Does a character just sit there staring at you?
depends! with my fatigue so bad, i spend a lot of time in Idea Purgatory, where i can't actually write or draw but i can think of ideas, so i tend to do that a lot just to keep myself entertained. i'll usually think up a concept (like, "randy and pony spending a week at randys family vacation house", "darry and ponyboy taking care of a reluctant sodapop", etc.) and figure out a basic flow for how the story would go. if i'm particularly inspired it'll be a lot easier, like i'll have a specific scene or line of dialogue come to me clearly. sometimes i have to work backwards, like "oh i want darry to say *this* during an argument and then ponyboy will say *that* but i don't know what they're arguing about".
(22) Do you have a fixed writing routine, or do you write when you have time? Is there a time of day when you prefer to write?
My actual ability to write is very dependent on my fatigue - I'm currently stuck in Idea Purgatory and have been for a few months, so i'm mostly just rotating ideas right now and jotting down notes and outlines when i don't want to forget something.
When I'm able to write I like doing it early in the morning because that's when I have the most brainpower, but i can't work so my schedule is pretty open.
