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Does your account accept gifts? Yes
Medium Likes: fic, art (including icons, graphics, gifsets ...), meta, resources, recs (as prompted), vids, fan crafts
Medium DNWs: audio-only media
General Likes: I love these canons, and particularly anything that looks at their details or jumps off from some detail.
For fic/art/etc. I prefer settings close to canon - canon-compliant or canon divergence. I love ensemble/team things as much as a focus on just one or two people.
types of fic/art/etc. content: missing scenes, codas, romance, porn (including porny plots/plotty porn), canon-related angst, canon divergence, action-adventure, canon-typical cases/plots, nonlinear narratives, in-universe documents, post-canon settings, getting together, established relationship ...
favourite tropes: (should-be-)enemies to friends/lovers; found/chosen family; (mutual) protectiveness, (unexpected) gestures of loyalty; amnesia; time travel do-over; forced to work together/rely on each other; trapped together; hurt/comfort (especially if stoic characters remain stoic throughout); (unexpected) competence; BAMF characters; redemption ...
favourite themes: strange bedfellows; unlikely heroes; unlikely allies or friends or lovers; trust/friendship/alliances/relationships being tested; conflicting loyalties; making difficult choices; overcoming seemingly insurmountable differences or difficulties; worldbuilding and cultural differences; willingness to sacrifice; against-all-odds relationships (particularly ones that shouldn't work out but somehow do) ...
for porn in particular: I like improvised/unnegotiated/under-negotiated BDSM and explorations of power dynamics, but entirely vanilla is great, too. I'm generally looking for emotional intensity and a sense of connection more than particular sex acts or kinks.
for art in particular: I love art that focuses on one tiny moment in canon and puts it in the spotlight, AU moments of what might have been, or missing scenes. Action or domestic, romantic or angsty or both. Characters touching, or looking at each other. I also love portraits, or for worldbuilding, depictions of scenery, objects, maps ... Or more symbolic artwork that doesn't depict any particular scene. Or art for my Guardian/adjacent fic!
With icons, I especially love ones that can be used both within Guardian fandom and without - icons to express general moods or reactions. Text on icons is great, including bilingual Chinese/English text.
for vids in particular: I love vids that really showcase a character or relationship or something else about canon! But in addition to my usual likes, I also have a huge fondness for constructed reality vids that build something completely different with the same footage.
for meta in particular: I love anything that looks at canon details and their implications, or how various elements fit together, pointing out small overlooked elements, or possible points where things might have gone differently. Also anything involving cultural context/background, or translation-related things!
General DNWs: permanent death of requested characters; partner betrayal; unrequested pairings for requested characters; humiliation; noncon; woobification; mundane AUs and other unrequested changes to the canon setting or premise; unrequited pining; fake dating (except for Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan); soulmates (except in the zhiji sense); mpreg; omegaverse; nonhuman characters becoming human/immortals becoming mortal; permanent separation of requested ships; unhappy endings (the Guardian ending isn't unhappy to me!); first or second person; in longer pieces, unmitigated fluff where all the characters' problems don't exist.
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (drama)
Fandom-specific DNWs: novel worldbuilding or characterisation; reincarnation; a focus on pining; depowered or otherwise powerless Shen Wei or Ya Qing, Shen Wei being passive, naïve, submissive, shy and/or totally out of his depth (even in his youth), dom Zhu Hong or Zhao Yunlan; exclusive bottom Shen Wei.
Oh, and should the canonical time loop come up, I'm convinced Shen Wei figured out it was a time loop before he found Zhao Yunlan, so please nothing that contradicts this. Thank you! ♥
Generally: I love the Haixing vs. Dixing conflict, the cases of the week, the found family of the SID team, the worldbuilding (aliens, yes!), the themes around bigotry and prejudice and immigration, secrets and secrets and lies, trust and loyalty, misdirected blame/vengeance, self-sacrifice, etc. Anything that plays with any of these would be awesome!
Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan: I love how intense and weird these two are about each other, Shen Wei being BAMF, Zhao Yunlan being clever, both of them being competent and smart. Their time loop relationship and the way they both help shape the person they already met. Their mutual protectiveness.
An assortment or random things I would love:
For h/c, I like it when there's a focus on the characters' resilience and ability to keep doing what needs doing regardless.
Shen Wei & others: Shen Wei interacting with people other than Zhao Yunlan - Ye Zun, Chu Shuzhi, Da Qing, Li Qian, Zhang Ruonan, Jiajia, OCs, anyone. Something about parts of his life that aren't about Zhao Yunlan.
Some ideas:
Ya Qing, Ya Qing/Zhu Hong: I love Ya Qing in all her proud, prickly, well-intentioned-but-wrongheaded glory. I'd love more about her and what drives her, what fuelled her bad decisions, her last-minute realisation that led to her changing sides, and its aftermath. And I'd love to see more of how her story converges with Zhu Hong's as Zhu Hong comes into her own as Yashou High Chief.
Some things I'd love:
For porn, if you're playing with power dynamics I'd prefer Ya Qing to be the more dominant partner.
Worldbuilding: Dixing worldbuilding, especially good things about Dixing!
Some ideas:
Other random Guardian things I would love:
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian RPF
Fandom-specific DNWs: bottom or sub Zhu Yilong.
I only really have one request for Zhu Yilong/Bai Yu: every time someone says "secret sex god Zhu Yilong" I say YES PLEASE. So, that? Please?
Interpret this however you like - I was originally thinking mundane, but if you wanted to make Zhu Yilong a literal sex god I'd be so here for this.
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Also: dom Zhu Yilong, and Bai Yu being "???", then "!!!", then "<3 <3 <3" about it. :D
Fandom: 绅探 | Detective L
Fandom-specific DNWs: sub or exclusive bottom Huo Wensi, unrequited interest between Luo Fei/Huo Wensi
Luo Fei & Huo Wensi, Luo Fei/Huo Wensi: I love how weird Luo Fei is about Huo Wensi, and the reactions Huo Wensi brings out in him - and their dynamic doesn't even change after Dr Huo is in prison. I'd love anything about them being weird and intense at and about each other. (My theory is that these two are exes who had a bad break-up!)
Random ideas:
And I'd particularly love some icons for this fandom! A group icon, or ones that can be used both as Detective L icons and in general to express moods or reactions. Textless or with text (including bilingual Chinese/English where it fits).
Other random Detective L things I would love:
Fandom: L'Oreal Time Engraver crossovers with Guardian, Detective L
Canon links: 2019 commercial | 2020 commercial
Fandom-specific DNWs: sub or exclusive bottom Time Engraver.
Ideas:
Other random Time Engraver things I would love:
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trobadoraAO3 Username:
Does your account accept gifts? Yes
Medium Likes: fic, art (including icons, graphics, gifsets ...), meta, resources, recs (as prompted), vids, fan crafts
Medium DNWs: audio-only media
General Likes: I love these canons, and particularly anything that looks at their details or jumps off from some detail.
For fic/art/etc. I prefer settings close to canon - canon-compliant or canon divergence. I love ensemble/team things as much as a focus on just one or two people.
types of fic/art/etc. content: missing scenes, codas, romance, porn (including porny plots/plotty porn), canon-related angst, canon divergence, action-adventure, canon-typical cases/plots, nonlinear narratives, in-universe documents, post-canon settings, getting together, established relationship ...
favourite tropes: (should-be-)enemies to friends/lovers; found/chosen family; (mutual) protectiveness, (unexpected) gestures of loyalty; amnesia; time travel do-over; forced to work together/rely on each other; trapped together; hurt/comfort (especially if stoic characters remain stoic throughout); (unexpected) competence; BAMF characters; redemption ...
favourite themes: strange bedfellows; unlikely heroes; unlikely allies or friends or lovers; trust/friendship/alliances/relationships being tested; conflicting loyalties; making difficult choices; overcoming seemingly insurmountable differences or difficulties; worldbuilding and cultural differences; willingness to sacrifice; against-all-odds relationships (particularly ones that shouldn't work out but somehow do) ...
for porn in particular: I like improvised/unnegotiated/under-negotiated BDSM and explorations of power dynamics, but entirely vanilla is great, too. I'm generally looking for emotional intensity and a sense of connection more than particular sex acts or kinks.
for art in particular: I love art that focuses on one tiny moment in canon and puts it in the spotlight, AU moments of what might have been, or missing scenes. Action or domestic, romantic or angsty or both. Characters touching, or looking at each other. I also love portraits, or for worldbuilding, depictions of scenery, objects, maps ... Or more symbolic artwork that doesn't depict any particular scene. Or art for my Guardian/adjacent fic!
With icons, I especially love ones that can be used both within Guardian fandom and without - icons to express general moods or reactions. Text on icons is great, including bilingual Chinese/English text.
for vids in particular: I love vids that really showcase a character or relationship or something else about canon! But in addition to my usual likes, I also have a huge fondness for constructed reality vids that build something completely different with the same footage.
for meta in particular: I love anything that looks at canon details and their implications, or how various elements fit together, pointing out small overlooked elements, or possible points where things might have gone differently. Also anything involving cultural context/background, or translation-related things!
General DNWs: permanent death of requested characters; partner betrayal; unrequested pairings for requested characters; humiliation; noncon; woobification; mundane AUs and other unrequested changes to the canon setting or premise; unrequited pining; fake dating (except for Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan); soulmates (except in the zhiji sense); mpreg; omegaverse; nonhuman characters becoming human/immortals becoming mortal; permanent separation of requested ships; unhappy endings (the Guardian ending isn't unhappy to me!); first or second person; in longer pieces, unmitigated fluff where all the characters' problems don't exist.
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (drama)
Fandom-specific DNWs: novel worldbuilding or characterisation; reincarnation; a focus on pining; depowered or otherwise powerless Shen Wei or Ya Qing, Shen Wei being passive, naïve, submissive, shy and/or totally out of his depth (even in his youth), dom Zhu Hong or Zhao Yunlan; exclusive bottom Shen Wei.
Oh, and should the canonical time loop come up, I'm convinced Shen Wei figured out it was a time loop before he found Zhao Yunlan, so please nothing that contradicts this. Thank you! ♥
Generally: I love the Haixing vs. Dixing conflict, the cases of the week, the found family of the SID team, the worldbuilding (aliens, yes!), the themes around bigotry and prejudice and immigration, secrets and secrets and lies, trust and loyalty, misdirected blame/vengeance, self-sacrifice, etc. Anything that plays with any of these would be awesome!
Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan: I love how intense and weird these two are about each other, Shen Wei being BAMF, Zhao Yunlan being clever, both of them being competent and smart. Their time loop relationship and the way they both help shape the person they already met. Their mutual protectiveness.
An assortment or random things I would love:
- UST early in canon, navigating an established relationship during canon, getting together late in canon, during or after the blindness arc, or even post canon
- canon divergence where Zhao Yunlan gets closer to the Envoy before he knows he's Shen Wei
- the aftermath of the canonical Envoy reveal (when Zhao Yunlan finds out, or when others do), or different ways it could have happened
- early canon divergence where Zhao Yunlan finds proof that Shen Wei is Dixingren, with less time to first adjust his thinking about Dixing
- Shen Wei aggressively taking care of Zhao Yunlan
- something post-finale where they find each other again - maybe including Zhao Yunlan having to deal with Ye Zun being part of Shen Wei's life now
- Shen Wei subtly trolling people
- anything about the time loop and the way they both help shape the person they already met
- working together on Dixing-related cases, or the aftermath of one
- quiet moments (domestic or otherwise) in between
- anything involving Shen Wei's Envoy robes or his dao or black energy
- anything involving Shen Wei's pendant
- anything that engages with the ending somehow - it's really meaningful to me; see my comments in this discussion
- time travel with a chance for a do-over
For h/c, I like it when there's a focus on the characters' resilience and ability to keep doing what needs doing regardless.
Shen Wei & others: Shen Wei interacting with people other than Zhao Yunlan - Ye Zun, Chu Shuzhi, Da Qing, Li Qian, Zhang Ruonan, Jiajia, OCs, anyone. Something about parts of his life that aren't about Zhao Yunlan.
Some ideas:
- Chu Shuzhi and his immense loyalty to the Envoy: what's it like, getting to know Shen Wei a person rather than a distant authority figure? Late in canon, what's it like for him to wrap his head about actually being worried about the Envoy's safety?
- Shen Wei and Ye Zun, and anything that might derail Ye Zun's self-destructive quest of vengeance against entirely the wrong person, or the aftermath of their reconciliation
- Da Qing and his missing/regained memories of his time with Kunlun and the young Envoy - or what if he recovered his memories earlier? what if he never lost them to begin with?
- Shen Wei and his mentor Professor Zhou, or his academic colleagues - how do they react to finding out he's also the Black-Cloaked Envoy?
- Dixing scholars: do they know the Envoy is a scientist, or are they shocked when they discover it?
- Shen Wei's students and their perspective on what happens during and after canon
- any random Dixingren's perspective on the Envoy as a legend and a person, whether they meet him in Haixing during a SID case or in Dixing
- Ya Qing and Shen Wei after the Envoy nearly kills her that one time!
- I love seeing Shen Wei Envoying in his professor suit - but how about him Professoring in his Envoy robes? :D
Ya Qing, Ya Qing/Zhu Hong: I love Ya Qing in all her proud, prickly, well-intentioned-but-wrongheaded glory. I'd love more about her and what drives her, what fuelled her bad decisions, her last-minute realisation that led to her changing sides, and its aftermath. And I'd love to see more of how her story converges with Zhu Hong's as Zhu Hong comes into her own as Yashou High Chief.
Some things I'd love:
- post-canon: the Crow Tribe leader and the Yashou High Chief - how do they deal with each other, politically, personally? how do they win each other's trust?
- ending up in bed together in an ill-advised moment before they actually trust each other, and then having to deal with the aftermath
- time travel do-over - what if post-canon Ya Qing got the chance to go back and do things differently?
- canon divergence: what could change Ya Qing's path earlier?
- AU where Ya Qing never works with Ye Zun, but is trying to find the Hallows for her own tribe
- Yashou powers and the sexy use thereof!
For porn, if you're playing with power dynamics I'd prefer Ya Qing to be the more dominant partner.
Worldbuilding: Dixing worldbuilding, especially good things about Dixing!
Some ideas:
- Dixing history or post-canon future, or parts of Dixing we didn't see on screen (how large is it? I'd totally be here for a map!)
- Haixingren in Dixing! Are there any during the canon period? Were there ones living there in ages past? There must be ones post-canon, after the portals open again and Dixing-Haixing relations settle down. What is it like for them, what made them choose to live there, what do they like/dislike/miss? And if not Haixingren, what about Yashou?
- Dixingren returning to Dixing after living in Haixing for a long time, or even having grown up there (like Wu Xiaojun), whether they're taken back to Dixing by the Envoy or return due to other circumstances - what is it like for them? do they have a support group in Dixing?
- ordinary Dixing life
- Dixing radio! the old-fashioned radio in the Dixing bedroom made me wonder about it, and we've had absolutely brilliant fic already, but give me more - give anything about what it might be like!
- how black energy works (Dixing science would be great!), how Dixing powers work - can they be taught to any degree? How about the general use of black energy?
- more about Dixing/Haixing relations pre-and post-canon
- something about the ancestors of Dixingren and Yashou and the spaceship they arrived in
Other random Guardian things I would love:
- meta/discussion of random background details or overlooked moments
- recs for fic in Chinese
- language-related meta - what doesn't quite come across in translation?
- fanart recs! especially for Ya Qing, BAMF!Shen Wei, or anything involving Shen Wei's pendant
- a Ya Qing/Zhu Hong icon
- a while back velithya wrote a brilliant Guardian/SG-1 crossover, and it's made me want more crossovers with the Stargate 'verse, especially with SGA (McShep was my main fandom for a long time) ...
- an icon of Zhao Yunlan with the Black-Cloaked Envoy
- an icon involving Shen Wei's pendant
- meta/speculation about the SID clock wall
- meta about potential canon divergence moments (tell me about your favourite ones!)
- on the trip to the Hanga mountains, it turns out that with the way people switch cars, Lao-Chu and Da Qing must have had a a car all to themselves for at least one leg - and I would love to hear what those two have to say to each other!
- Resources: I'd love a list of moments where a specific day/month/etc. or hour or duration is explicitly mentioned or seen on screen!
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian RPF
Fandom-specific DNWs: bottom or sub Zhu Yilong.
I only really have one request for Zhu Yilong/Bai Yu: every time someone says "secret sex god Zhu Yilong" I say YES PLEASE. So, that? Please?
Interpret this however you like - I was originally thinking mundane, but if you wanted to make Zhu Yilong a literal sex god I'd be so here for this.
`
Also: dom Zhu Yilong, and Bai Yu being "???", then "!!!", then "<3 <3 <3" about it. :D
Fandom: 绅探 | Detective L
Fandom-specific DNWs: sub or exclusive bottom Huo Wensi, unrequited interest between Luo Fei/Huo Wensi
Luo Fei & Huo Wensi, Luo Fei/Huo Wensi: I love how weird Luo Fei is about Huo Wensi, and the reactions Huo Wensi brings out in him - and their dynamic doesn't even change after Dr Huo is in prison. I'd love anything about them being weird and intense at and about each other. (My theory is that these two are exes who had a bad break-up!)
Random ideas:
- backstory! why is Luo Fei like that about Huo Wensi? If they're exes, how did they break up?
- anything playing with the parallels between them, the way they solve the same cases from the same clues, etc.
- anything about the attraction between them, whether it's sexual or not - what pulls them towards each other and what holds them apart
- for that matter, porn. porn is always good, especially when there's intense personal feelings and ulterior motives all mixed into it
- post-canon cat-and-mouse push-and-pull between them
- anything about the ending and what really happened. Has Huo Wensi really lost control of his plan, or is this still what he intended to happen? And was Captain really faking all this time? How? Luo Fei and Huo Wensi reluctantly teaming up against Captain would be brilliant - whether earlier or post-canon!
And I'd particularly love some icons for this fandom! A group icon, or ones that can be used both as Detective L icons and in general to express moods or reactions. Textless or with text (including bilingual Chinese/English where it fits).
Other random Detective L things I would love:
- links to BTS or promo videos/pics/interviews
- fanart recs
- recs for fic in Chinese
- a timeline, or a partial timeline, of events in the show, or what we know of Luo Fei's backstory, or Dr Huo's
- ANY characterisation or character relationship meta, for any of the main or side characters
- suggestions for references that might be useful for writing Detective L fic (such as '30s Shanghai, or '30s psychology)
- screencaps/a picspam of Huo Wensi
Fandom: L'Oreal Time Engraver crossovers with Guardian, Detective L
Canon links: 2019 commercial | 2020 commercial
Fandom-specific DNWs: sub or exclusive bottom Time Engraver.
Ideas:
- a Guardian AU where Shen Wei is the Time Engraver rather than the Black-Cloaked Envoy!
- a Time Engraver take on the Guardian time loop (with thanks to laireshi for the brilliant idea) - what if, a long time ago in the past, the Time Engraver encountered someone who, impossibly, recognised him? And then that person vanished - but here he is again, except he doesn't know him yet ...
- a Detective L AU where Luo Fei, who really doesn't like mysteries he can't solve, is confronted with something that can't be solved with real-world logic?
- a fantasy AU where the Time Engraver's existence is generally known, but Luo Fei never expected to encounter such a figure ...
Other random Time Engraver things I would love:
- fanart recs
- recs for fic in Chinese
- speculation about why the Time Engraver's domain looks so different in the two commercials
- any kind of fanwork based on my Time Engraver/The Long Night crossover fic Metal, Stone, Heart
- any kind of thought, meta, squee about these commercials
Comment below to leave a gift for this wishlist! Gift comments can be anonymous or signed in. Comments are screened until reveals on 29 September (Reunion Festival).
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This is utterly amazing! I'll comment properly on AO3 later, but OMG I love this. You wrote me Haixingren in Dixing, and you picked Zhou Weiwei!!!!!! I didn't know how much I wanted an "original!Zhou Weiwei in Dixing" fic until I read this, and it's just fantastic, thank you so much! :D
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but in case that doesn’t work, here is the plain url:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/50304337
cheers, I hope you like it!
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Happy Reunion Festival! ♥ ♥ ♥