Fics to finish

[athousandwinds]

I have about a dozen stories on the go that I really do mean to finish, honest...I've been writing a lot more recently (last couple of weeks) and I intend to stick at it as long as I can.

But for accountability:

- The Observable Universe (Keith/Shiro, the Kerberos mission goes fine, semi-epistolary)
- for one brief shining moment (Ecthelion/Glorfindel, Tuor arrives in Gondolin)
- A Murky Pond (Sect Leader Jiang Yanli)
- White Lotus (sequel to Sect Leader Jiang Yanli, Yaoli and Xiyao)
- sequel to the sequel of Sect Leader Jiang Yanli (WWX returns to a...not-as-happy-as-expected reunion, maybe Xiyaoli?)
- Shanghai 1920s AU (Xiyao, former spy Meng Yao, years after his escape from prison, meets an old lover in difficult circumstances)
- 1930s noir/reincarnation AU (Xiyao, up-and-coming bootlegger Meng Yao scores a shockingly good deal with shipping heir Lan Xichen)
- Ghost Marriage (Xiyao, Martin Guerre AU)
- after 100 years has passed, Lan Xichen goes to open the coffin (heavily disguised 5 times + 1 fic)
- Lan Xichen is captured by the Wen and handed over to Meng Yao for...torture (lengthy fuck-or-die fic, basically, gdi I will learn how to write porn)
- One Less Variation (7KPP, my wholly self-indulgent Mary Sue fic)

Seeing it listed out...maybe I have written quite a lot this year after all.

Comments

[littledust]

I am very 👀 emoji at so many of these! Shanghai 1920s miiiight be my favorite but I must also support SECT LEADER JIANG YANLI.

[athousandwinds]

Sect Leader Jiang Yanli was the first idea I had for this fandom! I posted a bit of it anon a couple of years ago but never quite finished it. It's such an interesting canon divergence idea - my version goes from the massacre at the Nightless City, where Jiang Cheng dies instead of Yanli, and how that might change her. I don't think it would do to her exactly what it did to Jiang Cheng, but trauma can manifest in a bunch of different ways and mapping out what might happen to her afterwards in terms of plot was very knotty. For one thing, I couldn't see her joining in the siege of Burial Mounds, but trying to reconcile that with what would likely happen to YunmengJiang if they didn't was more complicated than I anticipated.