"I'm a leaf on the wind...

I meant to share this here last week but my internet browser refused to load DW so here it is now, a little over a week after I posted this on AO3:

Time Enough (9702 words) by anecdotalist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Lín Shū | Méi Chángsū | Sū Zhé & Xiāo Jǐngyǎn, Lín Shū | Méi Chángsū | Sū Zhé/Xiāo Jǐngyǎn
Characters: Lín Shū | Méi Chángsū | Sū Zhé, Xiāo Jǐngyǎn
Additional Tags: Time Loop, characters dying repeatedly (because time loop), Mentions of Beheading, Canon-Typical Violence, Identity Reveal, Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:

Mei Changsu dies at the age of thirty-three on the fields of Meiling, as a military strategist for Commander General Meng Zhi of Da Liang who is leading the war against Da Yu.

He wakes up on the fields of Meiling, wearing battle armor that's over a decade old and surrounded by men who have long since died, killed in an unjust battle for a crime they didn't commit.

This is also a fill for my trope_bingo square "Locked In."

I wrote two fics for a small gift exchange I did with friends and they've been de-anon'd today so here we go:

My very first foray into writing in Merlin fandom: (also my first time writing a fic with a goose in it....I was not planning on writing about geese but I guess that's the nature of geese - they just come in and cause chaos lol)

A goose, an elk, and a knight (3556 words) by anecdotalist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Merlin (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gwaine/Merlin (Merlin), Gwaine & Merlin (Merlin)
Characters: Merlin (Merlin), Gwaine (Merlin)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Animal Transformation, Pre-Slash
Summary: Merlin wakes up to a goose on his bed and, well, his day just gets better from there.



Smile, breathe, and go slowly (5823 words) by anecdotalist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Xiāo Jǐngyǎn/Xiāo Jǐngruì, Xiāo Jǐngruì & Xiāo Jǐngyǎn, Lín Shū | Méi Chángsū | Sū Zhé & Xiāo Jǐngyǎn, Lín Shū | Méi Chángsū | Sū Zhé & Xiāo Jǐngruì
Characters: Xiāo Jǐngruì, Xiāo Jǐngyǎn
Additional Tags: hints of past Lín Shū | Méi Chángsū | Sū Zhé/Xiāo Jǐngyǎn, Canonical Character Death, Canon Compliant, set before the final montage in episode 54
Summary:

Two people finding solace in each other and moving on together, after everything.

I'm counting the second one for trope_bingo as well (which, quick update - I did not manage to get a bingo but I will be continuing to work on for this next round which luckily is a general amnesty round).

If it seems like I'm writing a lot of NiF, it's because 1) I'm kinda obsessed with it and 2) I'm trying really hard to finish trope_bingo which is now in its amnesty period (and sadly, it's not going super well but more on that in another post). This is for the trope_bingo square 'Fix-It'


The Sweetness of Truth (6291 words) by anecdotalist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lín Shū | Méi Chángsū | Sū Zhé & Xiāo Jǐngyǎn
Characters: Xiāo Jǐngyǎn, Lín Shū | Méi Chángsū | Sū Zhé
Additional Tags: Jingyan figures things out, Fix-It of Sorts, in that i'm fixing the lying, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Jingyan and MCS actually talk, Fluff and Angst, (angst first), i'm gonna call this, Pre-Slash, Just to be safe
Series: Part 5 of Trope_Bingo Round 13
Summary: Jingyan becomes suspicious about the sudden lack of hazelnut treats from his mother and puts two and two together. But letting himself consider the possibility that Mei Changsu and Xiao Shu are one and the same brings its own share of heartbreak.

So basically I've disappeared because I was busy writing like a fiend. I had this idea for a NiF Pacific Rim AU and it wouldn't leave me alone (I adore Pacific Rim AUs, fyi). Anyway, it's finally done and I just posted the first part today (the prequel).

I'm also counting this for trope_bingo's Against All Odds square.



The Universe In Your Eyes (2361 words) by anecdotalist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Lín Shū | Méi Chángsū | Sū Zhé/Xiāo Jǐngyǎn
Characters: Lín Shū | Méi Chángsū | Sū Zhé, Xiāo Jǐngyǎn, Nirvana in Fire Ensemble
Additional Tags: Minor Character Death, Alternate Universe - Pacific Rim Fusion
Series: Part 1 of Against Impossible Odds, Part 3 of Trope_Bingo Round 13
Summary:

Jingyan and Lin Shu were Jaeger pilots, two of the most promising ones to have graduated from the Academy. But victories were never guaranteed against enemies like the Kaiju.

I've just realized that I've been terribly remiss in pimping out some a couple of art and fic treats that I've gotten over the last couple of weeks. I'M SO SORRY. Anyway, without further ado:

ART
Illustrations of scenes from Chrysanthemum Flowers and Jade Daggers by mekare, my WIPbigbang art partner.
These illustrations are PERFECT. Mekare really captured the atmosphere of the scenes and I absolutely love them. Please go check them out and show them some love.

A Tumblr picspam edit for Chrysanthemum Flowers and Jade Daggers by kickassfu 
This is SO PRETTY. I love the choice of pics and the color palette and I'm just *flails*

FIC
The Purple Cup by ConvenientAlias
NiF, MCS|Lin Shu/Jingyan, truth serum. I got this in the Writing Rainbow: Purple exchange and I loooovvveeee it. It's got a scheming Prince Yu, a smart Jingyan, love confessions! And a little knife, of course, because it's NiF.

Wild Wings and Hearts by draconicsockpuppet
Merlin, Gwaine/Merlin, accidental (dragon) baby acquisition. Oh, man. What a treat this one was! Gwaine/Merlin is one of my favorite rarepairs and combined with my other love (dragons), this was perfect. Super fun to read and made me want to go back and rewatch the show (or at least, the part of the show where Gwaine and Merlin meet).

Wow, I knew I'd kinda gone missing on DW but I didn't realize it's been a whole month. Oops? (Anyone who knows me from tumblr knows that I occasionally will drop off the map for awhile and then come back but to all the rest, uh, yeah, that's a thing for me.) So....part of the reason I disappeared is that I got sucked in Nirvana in Fire - binged the show, started reading the novel, joined the DW community, considered going back onto tumblr to reblog pretty gifs, started plotting out fic, started writing fic. Yeah....

Anyway, onto the Sunday Six! So, the reason I haven't been posting these snippets is because I've been almost exclusively writing my fic for wipbigbang, and it's gotten to the point that I'm worried about either spoiling it too much or that the snippets I can post are kinda boring on their own, because they're from scenes that serve as more worldbuilding and plot connecting than anything really exciting. (Also I'm not entirely sure I can post snippets from this fic before the bang ends? Shhh, nobody tell the mods.)

So instead, here are 6 7 lines from a MCS/Jingyan NiF fic that may or may not ever get fully written. 

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A realization leaves him shaken to his core: Jingyan’s changed. He’s not the Jingyan that Lin Shu had known all those years ago, the one who was bright in soul and pure of heart, who made a promise to find an impossible pearl for a friend. He hasn’t been that Jingyan in probably the entire time that Mei Changsu has known him. But he hadn't seen that. He’d looked at Jingyan and seen only his old best friend, who he would tease and pull into pranks, who would go along with anything and everything he’d suggested with a good-natured huff and a roll of his eyes, who’d always say “only because it’s you, xiao-Shu.”

He can’t bring himself to look at Jingyan as Meng-dage comes to help support him down the steps of the Palace. He doesn’t want to see what Jingyan thinks of him now—of Mei Changsu, of Lin Shu. He hadn’t ever wanted Jingyan to find out, but especially not in this way. He thinks that he might just shatter to pieces if Jingyan hates him, and he must, because his childhood friend has become the very thing that he hates: someone who manipulates and uses people for their own purpose.