#orsenna

[robininthelabyrinth]

hi, i love your new fic, nie mingjue's da-ge energy is simply too strong to be contained! how old is everyone when the story begins?

Wen Xu is 18, Nie Mingjue is 14 (very close to 15), Wen Qing is 10, Wen Chao is 9, Wen Ning and Nie Huaisang are 7-8 (Wen Ning is older by three weeks)

[baoshan-sanren]

i just caught up to your emperor wei wuxian fic and now i think i understand the tumblr user who learnt to bind books by hand just to have her favourite fics available in book format

[guqin-and-flute]

@orsenna AHHH THANK YOU!! hfjdkeooe it's such a kid thing like that to call out grown up niceties like

Nie Mingjue: [kisses Xichen's cheek] Love you, have a safe flight.

Nie Mingjue: [kisses A-Fu's cheek] Love you, child, have a safe flight.

A-Fu: I don't know why you're telling me, I can't do anything about it! If Blue-die decides to drop me or crash, I'll just die!

All the adults: ......

Huaisang: ...He has a point

Lan Xichen: Then I suppose...I'll have to promise not to do that.

A-Fu: [cheerfully] I guess it will be a safe flight, then!

[july-19th-club]

could you do nie mingjue? your post about him being a boxer in your future podcast fic lives in my mind rent free btw

well friend i WILL write at length about nie mingjue you do not have to ask twice

1. How Do I Feel About Him:

a) he lives in my head rent free all versions all canons all AUs (except the animated tv show because i think he is ugly there lmao) b) eldest sibling handshake emotion at all times c) my hand in marriage d) holy shit

my love for mingjue is not complicated only deep and wide

2. Romantic Ships And That:

i’m a nielans bitch through and through. two people who appear to be paragons but who are in fact all too human and fallible looking out for one another, sharing a lifelong friendship, and probably having all kinds of sex that i dont know about. nothing but net on that one baby

i’ll be honest, there’s only one specific treatment of this story that compels me to indulge in a full 3zun because if you do it by canon its just an extremely unhealthy dynamic for everybody involved BUT if xichen was a lawyer in the 1870s in sacramento and mingjue was a cowboy on the range in the same setting and meng yao was a railroad union man and their adventures took them into one another’s paths then i think i could gladly 3zun

bro i told you it was specific

3. Non-Romantic Relationships that Hit Just Right:

first of all the Brothers Nie i cry every day and also it makes me think about my sister in a different way than jiang cheng makes me think about my sister, because she is my ONLY little sister and she’s eight years younger than me and sometimes we barely comprehend each other but her happiness is important to me no matter how frustrating she frequently is second of all the intense complexity of who he and meng yao were to each other in the days when meng yao was meng yao and what each of them might in their furthest hearts miss about those days (and maybe it was romantic after all who am i to say?)

4. Unpopular Opinion:

i’m camp nie mingjue DOES have self-awareness and IS capable of self-reflection and DOES know what he has and hasn’t done right but crucially, he’s also very bad at conveying it because he has a terminal condition that is eroding his ability to regulate and express his emotions! i cannot fault him or criticize him for that. i am no monster. and yes, he did punt jin guangyao down the stairs that one time and call him a bastard and a whore’s son, but a) he was pretty ill at the time and b) he seemed to have figured out a large portion of jin guangyao’s many crimes and therefore was perhaps more focused on that than on policing his language. and i would also point out to the court that this is the only occasion in their entire fraught history during which nie mingjue plays that card, and he spent the rest of that history being one of three people who never counted meng yao’s past or upbringing against him (the other two being xichen and qin su who deserved so, so much better). so the defense rests.

5. Something I Wish We’d Gotten In Canon:

🥺 wish he was alive bro :(

[flo-nelja]

26 & 27 pour tma :)

26. Most shippable character? Oooh good question. Probably Tim. But Elias has potential, with his long life and his 19th century harem. 

27. Least shippable character? I don't ship Amherst. Sorry people who ship him. I just don't want to.

[ronbegleyformayor]

Not the anon from before, but I have similar feelings about Lily. She totally outed Sammy- just not deliberately and not directly. I mean Frickard basically says she's the reason he knew in the first place, and Sammy confirms this after the call with Frickard, I don't remember his exact quote but it's something like "they all must know, they've probably been tittering away about it." She didn't say anything outright, but she didn't leave a lot of room for interpretation either.

both of these are about the same ask so I figure I’d answer them both at the same time

listen I don’t mean to take a hard line on this one, but lily did not out sammy. she calls into the station in episode 66 but she never implies that sammy and jack are anything more than friends. the only reason that she calls at all is because sammy had called her a quitter a few episodes previous and it had gotten under her skin

I also want to point out that there is absolutely no way gr*g figured this out himself–there was definitely some himinist bullshit theory going on that sammy was gay, and this was just the final piece in the puzzle.

I’m not denying that lily’s call was the catalyst. sammy himself says this to lily, but he also says in the same sentence that he’s glad that it’s out in the open now. and I think that’s because sammy knew that one way or another he was going to be outed. I think it was only a matter of time. 

[self-c-o-n-t-r-o-l]

Vertrauen ist gefährlich, besonders wenn es zu Bequemlichkeit führt.

Tan Gee Paw

[incorrectpodcastquotes]

I could get killed. Or even worse. Donovan might give me a lecture on responsibility again.

Dr Sally Grissom