A Side Of Reconciliation

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Draco Malfoy and the Journal of Dreadful Things chapters 6 and 7 are now up!

Chapter six: Dreadful Detentions & Dire Decisions

Chapter seven: Foolish Gryffindor Behaviour

That's right, I've decided to post both the penultimate and final chapters at once!🤗💓

Come and find the whole of first year ✨️here✨️

bingyuan beach episode

Do y'all ever read a fic so good that it makes you want to elevate your own craft and also befriend the writer? It's almost like, "Hi! You write so well that you've inspired me to embark on a creative training arc. Also, can I yell about the character in your dms because you get it?"

Genuinely hate when older people at the high school mistake me for a student. You’ve had full conversations with me in the faculty lunch room and you thought I was a student?!

MR: Shizun, I'm gonna come in!

CWN: Shameless!!

MR: no problem, shizun, I'm gonna come in unannounced next time :D

Luo Binghe opens his mouth-- 

--and he wants to howl what is wrong with you, what the FUCK is the matter with you, why do you keep doing this, why do you keep surrendering without even a fight, why do you give up right from the start, don’t you care? don’t you want to keep the things you love? why are you giving them all to ME? what’s going to be left for you?--

--and he says, “Oh, it’s really not like that between us, Gongyi-shixiong. You don’t need to worry.” 

I had to draw a scene from @primtheamazing 's AMAZING FIC "Tarnished Gold" I could have drawn some of the other amazing scenes, but Binghe spoke to me in this scene. Cause I would have reacted the exact same way, what the fuck is wrong with you gongyi-shiziong--

yi city trio musician au? what genres would they be in, what would their fandoms be like?

Awww yeah, love a musician AU!

I have thought about the Yi City quartet as a literal string quartet before: Xiao Xingchen on first violin, A-Qing on second, Song Lan on cello, and Xue Yang on viola (lol). But in terms of more popular music?

Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan made a name for themselves as a duo, playing melody-driven indie pop/rock with poetic but thoughtful and socially conscious lyrics. Their later work included more love songs. Xiao Xingchen plays synths and does most of the lead vocals, and he tends to bring a dreamy, almost shoegazey quality to the music, but he also is known for artful, complex electric guitar work. Song Lan also plays guitar, as well as bass and other string instruments as necessary; favorites are erhu and cello. He'll sing backup with the occasional feature vocal, but they also have a fair number of solid instrumental tracks.

They got quite famous (at least within their genre) but refused to sign to a major label. Fans actually ranged a fair amount in age. The most vocal fans did skew younger, and the most annoying of these were the hipster crowd and music snobs ("they're so intelligent/progressive/underrated," "they were better before they got popular") as well as the obsessive, borderline stalkerish ones who also loudly shipped them. (Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen were a romantic item eventually, but that was not public knowledge.)

Unfortunately, they had a messy personal and professional breakup, and they both sort of dropped off the map for a while, to an honestly impressive degree. Song Lan went back to school and would occasionally put out a stripped back, broody single on his personal page with zero promotion, but Xiao Xingchen disappeared.

Xue Yang, meanwhile, works thousands of miles away, and he's an underdog, loud punk rocker, guided less by any political philosophy and more just stirring up a reaction. Main instrument is electric guitar. He's performed with a handful of other artists over the years, but the stints tend to be short. His fanbase is small but dedicated, including a lot of angry young people who resonate with his "message" and/or his looks.

And then, he has a new band, and they're putting out music that is a little less screaming, a little more melodic, with a more consistent, left-leaning message? Sometimes? The drummer is an energetic teenage girl who was busking with a set of buckets on the street before the bassist/guitarist took her under his wing and they both eventually joined Xue Yang's act. The guy hangs around at the back of the stage, sunglasses indoors and mostly not facing the audience, playing bass to complement Xue Yang's guitar most of the time -- and Xue Yang and A-Qing have enough stage presence that he can fade into the background just a little. But especially when he's on guitar, shredding a fancy solo, he's impossible to overlook, and the rumors that Xiao Xingchen is playing seedy clubs with a punk group begin to seem less and less like conspiracy theories....

AU ask game

some spoilers to erha's ending, be carefull

one more 2ha gotcha prompt – txj/chu feinyan for anon! (@2haaction)

aka txj expering the average cat owner’s struggles on the one (1) day of the month he leaves his bedchambers