hey! i was catching up on your blog a bit and i noticed a recent ask game you reblogged. firstly, all of your wip ideas sound really interesting!
and secondly, i hope it's not too late to ask, but i was wondering if you could talk more about 'the pictures of yuxi hao' and 'the second brightest radiance,' since no one has mentioned them yet? thank you
absolutely, i'm very flattered by this! :) [link to original post for reference]
in the pictures of yuxi hao, recent college grad meiting lives with her best friend kit in NYC and believes she's moved on from the suicide of her college girlfriend, yuxi—at least until yuxi's disembodied hand appears in her apartment one night. yuxi was not only her girlfriend but also her muse, and now meiting finds the dozens of drawings she's made of yuxi coming to life and trying to kill her.
this one is not developed enough yet for me to really have an excerpt i want to share. hopefully someday!
in the world of the second brightest radiance, people train to become radiances—soldiers with the power to manipulate light—to battle back the plague of decay that's consuming the island, the only home mir has ever known. kore has always been the pride & joy of the island, the hero prophesized to defeat the decay forever, but when kore vanishes, it's up to mir, her long-time rival and closest thing to a friend, to find her and bring her back—even if kore might no longer be on their side.
“No, I won’t,” Mir gasped, batting away Chi’s hand as she fell to her knees. “I’ll never get into a good school. I’m just going to marry Lord Liu’s stupid smirking son and have developed these toned legs for nothing except carrying his sandals over to him when he gets home. Decay is going to destroy Liyuan and the most important thing I’ll be doing while rampaging bears descend on our town is dress shopping with my maids. I’m going to pop out so many babies that I’ll never be able to walk anywhere on my own, and all I’ll worry about is convincing Lee to name our children after my brothers instead of his. I’ll have to go back to taking violin lessons with that dreadful hag who lives with the carpenter. Do you know how stupid it is that people keep making violins when we barely have any trees anymore that aren’t poisonous? Do you fucking understand how inane it is when we could be using wood for anything else? Do you know how much we waste every year on violins and velvet and that vile shit our aunt puts in her perfume?” She only stopped because she could no longer draw breath. Chi did not laugh at her like Xiu would have, or told her that if that buffoon Xiu could get into Yixua, so could she, like Min would have. He patted her on the back until she could breathe again and said, “Let’s go on a run.”
