Thousands of people have gathered at the site of Renee Good’s murder by Trump regime ICE troops. Crowd still growing. #3E

@auntieiroh.bsky.social did an amazing job with this podfic!!! The main story is now done if you wanted to check it out!

I think it's funny that the opposite of "Just the tip" is "all in" and lwj means that both literally and figuratively when he's with wwx

I really wish I were better at writing short stories. I have so many wips in my gdocs, often inspired by a specific scene in my head. If I could just write a short piece to encapsulate those parts rather than making them all into super long, full-blown sagas, I would be able to get them out. 😭

Whether it's true love's happily ever after, a marriage of convenience, or a messy divorce — join us for an art, fic, and podfic exchange for marriage tropes of all kinds! #MDZSMarriageMayhem archiveofourown.org/collections/...

I always roll my eyes when people leave comments on a fic complaining about a character who didn't appear in the story when that character WAS NOT IN THE LIST of characters tagged to the fic. Like... if you like character X, then make sure you read fics where they appear. Read the tags. 😑

I really love the head canon of lwj only wearing silk against his skin. boxers, pajamas, button-downs... silk-lined suits and coats... so whenever wwx slides his arms inside lwj's clothing to touch his skin, there's always this contrast of hard (lwj's body) and soft (lwj's clothing & skin) 😌

ok, this song is giving Meng Yao so much. Is it just me??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUEj...

I FINALLY FINISHED IT!!! The last chapter of "Joke's on Me" is up! And if you were wondering which story I was referring to in my discussion about E vs M ratings, this is it 😂 Please note that the rating is, in fact, E. 😏 archiveofourown.org/works/483620...

ok, question for my readers on how they feel about ratings. I am not fully clear about the distinction between M and E rated fics, so I usually just go with E for pretty much anything that has sex in it but I don't want to false advertise for people who search on E tags.

Happy New Year! I've been burned too many times to say 'can't wait for 2026' but I guess at least I can say 'we survived 2025' so that's something to celebrate!!

I think the one of these I see the most is 'flush out' instead of 'flesh out' and it always makes me wince since it means something so completely different. ig if people are engage more in spoken discourse rather than reading, the homonyms are trickier. Introverts for the win????

I've been daydreaming about (more) medical drama au wangxian. Surgeons often have playlists that this listen to during long surgeries (there are some hilarious TikTok videos on this) and I imagine trauma surgeon wwx listening to like... cupcakke or sth and neuro surgeon lwj listening to classical

I'm so glad I left that shithole.

Holidays can be stressful. Be gentle with yourself. Nothing has to be perfect. Being late isn't the end of the world. If you feel overwhelmed by either too many or too few people around you right now, that's ok and you are not the only one who feels that way. 💜💜💜

Happy Winter Solstice to all my Pagan chums.

I can't believe it's the middle of December and it is 55 degrees F with a thunderstorm by my home. And 2 days ago it was like 13 F. Insanity. But I do love thunderstorms! ⛈️⚡

When we all get imprisoned for posting I’m definitely gonna be going around the yard asking what y’all said that got you locked up & it better be a banger because that’s how we’ll be establishing our hierarchy

I am now in 'work decompression mode' where every hour or so I get jump scared that I haven't been productive and I feel this compulsion to check my work email to make sure everything is ok. Which is ridiculous since it's not like I cure cancer in my day job. Conditioned by the daily grind 🫠

I'm DONE!!!! 😭🥂🛏️

today is my last day of work before the holidays. I just need to get through 5 meetings and 4 more documents and about 30 emails and I am FREE for the next 2 weeks!!! 😭🫠 I am trying to decide when is the absolute earliest that I can put my out-of-office notification on my email.

uuuggghhhh I only have a few more days of work before I am off on holiday and I am DYING!!! I have 3 articles and 1 research paper that I need to get submitted to the editor before I leave and I love math and econ but I want to write something fun. I am hoping I have time to focus on fic again!!!

@raitalarai.bsky.social just posted the final installment of her amazing podfic of Rule Number One. She did an amazing job reading this. It was so fun to listen to!

warning: author's rambling Ok, so I've been playing around with a fic where wwx is not as traumatized (modern cultivation a/b/o) so he doesn't have the extreme low sense of self-esteem/self-worth that he does in canon. I'm enjoying separating out his canon high self-confidence vs low self-worth.

I love reading murder mysteries and always wanted to write one. But the problem with doing a fanfic mystery is that everyone already 'knows' who the good guys and the bad guys are, so either I would need to break canon or I'd need to be predictable, and that's not fun for this genre. Boo.

ok, I was chatting with one of my fandom friends and she said that every time she listens to Gangsta by Kehlani she thinks of wwx in Rule Number One, and now I can't stop laughing because... yeah. Not wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIo4...

I struggle whenever I read a version of Lan Wangji where he uses contractions. 😅

I love this so much. Fictional narratives are the best way to grieve/process. This is why so many of my stories are so angsty but this works. sometimes you just really need that 1 degree of separation from what just happened.

The most unrealistic thing in the C-dramas I've been binging is that the male lead is able to get across Beijing or Hong Kong in 5 minutes to rescue the female lead when needed. Sometimes before the villain has even finished their sentence.

OMG!! @auntieiroh.bsky.social is so amazing at these. Please check it out!!!

Hot/Crazy matrix - make it wangxian I am very confident in my placement of Wei Wuxian (esp yllz wwx). Do you agree with where I placed Lan Wangji?

I have to travel for work tomorrow and i reeeaally don't like getting on planes anymore. Between the fact that we have things like the plague back again (yay anti-science ppl), issues with air traffic control, software updates, & random arrests in airports, it is not my first choice. Or 65th choice.

uggghhh I am so tired of religious dogma and anti-science idiots and greedy oligarchs fucking everything up. Like... we tried that in the Dark Ages. No need to re-run the experiment! The world is so exhausting.

Conservative commentator Brian Griffiths on Turning Point USA's religious-discrimination claim against the University of Oklahoma: "if you read Fulnecky’s essay, you will see that...the essay is really pathetic and bad. Nor did it meet the basic instructions set out for the assignment."

New chapter of (Re)Making history is up! The seeds of a plan are planted here. I finally know where I want to take this story. 😊⚔️🕵️‍♀️ archiveofourown.org/works/671690...

I need a new perfume but I'm super sensitive to scents. So I went scent shopping yesterday after some friends/relatives gave me some advice on things to try. 2 of them smelled great on the card, so I sprayed 1 on each wrist to test. One smelled chokingly bad on my skin and the other I loved.

Update: my laptop is dead. RIP. Luckily, it is sale season here in the US and I had already ordered a new one which is arriving tomorrow. I was so close to finishing the next chapter of (Re)making history, but I suck at editing things on my phone 😅

nooo!! My laptop is dying. About 30% of the time the screen flickers like a strobe light then goes black for like 10 seconds before coming back to life. Last time this happened it went that way for ~2 weeks before completely dying. Fingers crossed there are good sales in the next couple of days.

@auntieiroh.bsky.social was the first podfic'er that I listened to (she is fabulous!), and I will be eternally grateful to her for introducing me to podfics! I hadn't appreciated how interesting it would be to hear someone else's version of a story, how they interpreted tone and mood. It's so fun!

Morning daydream: Emperor!LWJ who is a total hardass and isn't influenced by any of the toadies who suck up to him to try to get benefits for their families or districts. wwx is a minor advisor who earned his way into the Imperial court by acing the national exams even though he was just

First thing I did this morning was disable the "smart features" in my gmail accounts since I have no interest in letting my personal emails train Google's AI. Now I guess I need to find another email service, which will be annoying but is probably overdue. Fuck these guys

Flip your goddamn hair Zohran!

facts.

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

Really enjoying Raitala's podfic of this. She's at the cliffhanger part, which I am going to go to listen to! 😂

Yep. This is what i was talking about. It was normalized from the top down, and institutionalized in our courts and police. Any woman who's called the cops due to a domestic violence or sexual assault knows how this plays out. And it's even worse if it makes it to court. Fuck all of these guys

Sending hugs and strength to any of my readers who are also victims of rape/sexual assault, whether as a child or adult. The news is really tough right now. I've been having nightmares that I haven't had in years. But we're not alone. Please talk to someone if you need help.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Powerful.

uuggghh... when you're reading a fic and then realize you missed a very important tag within the long list and it is one that you Did Not Want. And it is 100% my fault bc the author totally tagged it 😅🫠