From @/thisonethereader on BlueSky:
I’ve been following treasure hunting in the clouds and am stoked for your next chapter ^_^ where did your inspo come from? So many airports for poor Gege 😭. (Also sincerely hope you’ve never been THAT effed over by flights <3)
The seed of that entire AU is this tweet, which reads:
@/eddy_sarah: Had a new experience tonight: on hour one of a six-hour flight, I got up to use the bathroom and when I came back the guy beside me was wearing my sweatshirt
I found it hysterical and shared it on Puqi Shrine, the TGCF Discord server where I spend most of my time, elaborating on the spot with some clever and funny interventions of other members. Later that day, my good friend @tiiracotta told me on DMs that they found the idea hilarious as well, and we brainstormed some more—we decided together that Xie Lian would mudlark in his free time, for example. Tiira ended up making the animation featured in the fic as a birthday present to me, which gave me the final push to write!
I'm happy to say that, although I've gone through my fair share of airport misadventures, it's never been as bad as Xie Lian's experience in this fic. I keep putting this poor man through the exaggerated, horrible version of everything that happens to me, hahaha.
I'm determined to post the end of the fic before Christmas. I'm glad to know you're looking forward to it, and thanks for asking!
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Back to WIP game main post.
ABCDMXTX - Day 16: Pei Ming.
This one is based on the fic No Paths Are Bound by Evie.
List of prompts.
ABCDMXTX - Day 8: Hua Cheng.
He's thinking about gege~
List of prompts.
Consider: TGCF... but metal.
Written by: Yabanned. Art by: Tiiracotta. Beta-read by: Leonidskies.
Read Withering Lotus (part 1 of 3) on AO3.
Summary:
Xie Lian is a talented multi-instrumentalist who had a meteoric rise as a metal star when his band, White Lotus, released their first EP and got the attention of the prestigious label Immortal Records. When he became the youngest artist to sign with them at the age of 17, he felt that he had the world in the palm of his hand. Three years later, though, a song he wrote tore everything down: he lost his contract, his career, his friends and his family. Vetoed and blacklisted, he was forced to live on the move, as far away from the offices of his old record label as possible, picking little odd jobs related to music in order to survive.
After eight years, a bureaucratic nightmare forces Xie Lian to come back to the capital. He tries his best to go unnoticed, yet he receives two unsettling requests upon arrival: a man in red wants his permission to cover a song he wrote, and a man in white wants him to inherit his mask.
Part of the TGCF Minibang 2022.
@boomchickfanfiction changed a meme that consisted of sharing the first lines of ten fics for one of sharing the first lines of ten fic WIPs, which suits me wonderfully because it's the only way many of these texts are ever going to see the light, lol. 1 to 7 are TGCF, 8 is MDZS, 9 is Hades and 10 is BotW.
"Ghost, ghost! How can you say that I'm not dead? How would I be able to see you again, if I weren't?"
Hua Cheng seemed to toss the dice casually, but the two little cubes dented the skull of the last demon standing like stones shot from a powerful slingshot, nailing it to the bloody floor. Two sixes.
Neither gods nor ghosts needed to sleep. The fact that they didn’t need to, though, didn’t mean that they didn’t do it.
Tap. Tap. Tap. Hua Cheng didn’t know if that was the best of the worst day of his afterlife.
Upon waking up, the first thing Xie Lian noticed was the unusual warmth. Yawning, he pushed the blanket away and supported himself on his elbows, blinking hard in the darkness.
Despite the generalised hatred its inhabitants felt against the sun, Ghost City did have days and nights.
“Cheng’er is too old to share beds with grown-ups, you are going to spoil him.”
When the only sound coming from Wei Ying arriving to the Cloud Recesses was the clapping of Little Apple’s hooves against the stone road, Lan Zhan knew something had gone wrong.
The waters of the river Styx were warm, and their bitter flavour managed to get inside his mouth as it always did, no matter how tightly he kept his mouth shut.
The sunset made their secret lake glow with an orange hue. Link sat at the shore and splashed the water with his feet, which made Sidon smile.
Feel free to join if you want!
Modern TGCF
I've tried to make a little comic of modern hualian ♥
It was quite long to draw, I'm way too perfectionist T-T
English isn't my native language. I apologize for any mistake.
(Sorry for the late post here. Tumblr became so quite lately. I've migrated to Twitter and Instagram ;-; I'll try to keep posting things here as long as there're people following me.)
Tagged by: @citronverveine
Last song: Unbesiegt by Equilibrium, which sounds like La Lambada and has me extremely confused
Favorite color: Forest green
Last movie: Chungking Express (1994) by Wong Kar-wai
Last TV show: Centaurworld by Megan Nicole Dong
Sweet/spicy/savory: Savoury
Relationship status: Awaiting the sweet embrace of death (but as a friend)
Last thing I googled: "meat tenderizer" deutsch
Current obsession: Wintersun (again)
Looking forward to: Leipzig Book Fair
Tagging whoever wants to do it.
ABCDMXTX - Day 6: Feng Xin.
My little angry hyacinth~
I based his clothes on the donghua design.
List of prompts.
My archaic ass refuses to use a proper image hosting service, so given that I have to move my dumb fic memes once again, I'll try to host them here.
Isn't that my cat?
Grow on me
Didi
Heavenly Damnation:
Treasure Hunting in the Clouds:
my crazy ass is drawing hualian as sidlink now oh girl help
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