I'm going to do the same thing you did with my post and go "wow, you wrote very long fics for the Untamed". :D It is noticeable that those two are much longer than the fics you wrote for Guardian or DMBJ. :)
Hmm, yes, different fandoms, different approach/vibes. For one thing, those are the only Untamed fics I ever wrote, and the longer one took me six months and shorter one was for a Big Bang (you may notice that I only just scraped the minimum wordcount for that one). I hesitated a lot longer to write fic at all in that fandom, partly because it was my first cdrama fandom and I was very afraid of messing up, and partly because I wasn't inundated by plot bunnies the way I was/am with Guardian. I basically just had the one long fixit idea, and it took 50k to write that.
Otoh, I'm sort of back to working on the weilan accidental marriage canon divergence fixit monster, which I suspect will be quite long.
O_O What how?
I think I came up with this idea when you were super busy, so I must have not spewed it all over you yet (music feels!). Let me find a post on tumblr that tries to explain what the hell I was thinking:
"I may or may not have been obsessed with this concept since it came up on the Guardian Discord server.
The original idea was just HPS on stage, singing like Dimash, i.e. with a super huge vocal range. That could’ve easily been made into some sort of modern AU, but no, my brain goes ‘ok, so what do we need to change in canon to make this as canon-adjacent as possible while still keeping the premise even remotely believable?’.
The answer: a present day Dragon City where Haixingren and Dixingren live together peacefully, making HPS’s role as the arbiter of justice mostly redundant when he wakes up. So if the original treaty didn’t insist on harsh separation between the two peoples and we’ve got 10k years of ways the cultural relationships could grow…
Now, the singing. In this AU, I’ve decided that Shen Wei’s mother used to sing and that singing was much more of a standard communal activity in ye olde dixing, so he learnt early (before tragedy befell). The events of YOHE still mostly happen as in the show, except that Kunlun advocates for a more inclusive treaty because that’s how things are when he’s from, and there’s a lot more singing (around the campfire, while marching into battle, when *cough* wooing the beguiling general who sauntered into camp…) than we see in canon.
When Shen Wei wakes again in present day Haixing, he still helps out the SID with the occasional dixingren offender, but mostly everyone is living together peacefully, so he has more time to pursue other things. He still studies biology at university, but also does a bit of music on the side because he misses it. One thing leads to another, and once Dixingren music scholars catch wind of his expertise, they back him into a 'you’re the only one who still remembers the songs from 10k years ago, these are important cultural artefacts!’ corner. He agrees to do a small concert for them and - things snowball. As they do.
TLDR: Shen Wei now has three identities - Professor Shen, HPS the Dixing ambassador/mythical hero and HPS the singer.
Zhao Yunlan is VERY CONFUSED. Especially since somehow these songs keep… speaking to him? Even though he doesn’t usually care about music beyond it being boppable to?"
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Hmm, yes, different fandoms, different approach/vibes. For one thing, those are the only Untamed fics I ever wrote, and the longer one took me six months and shorter one was for a Big Bang (you may notice that I only just scraped the minimum wordcount for that one). I hesitated a lot longer to write fic at all in that fandom, partly because it was my first cdrama fandom and I was very afraid of messing up, and partly because I wasn't inundated by plot bunnies the way I was/am with Guardian. I basically just had the one long fixit idea, and it took 50k to write that.
Otoh, I'm sort of back to working on the weilan accidental marriage canon divergence fixit monster, which I suspect will be quite long.
O_O What how?
I think I came up with this idea when you were super busy, so I must have not spewed it all over you yet (music feels!). Let me find a post on tumblr that tries to explain what the hell I was thinking:
"I may or may not have been obsessed with this concept since it came up on the Guardian Discord server.
The original idea was just HPS on stage, singing like Dimash, i.e. with a super huge vocal range. That could’ve easily been made into some sort of modern AU, but no, my brain goes ‘ok, so what do we need to change in canon to make this as canon-adjacent as possible while still keeping the premise even remotely believable?’.
The answer: a present day Dragon City where Haixingren and Dixingren live together peacefully, making HPS’s role as the arbiter of justice mostly redundant when he wakes up. So if the original treaty didn’t insist on harsh separation between the two peoples and we’ve got 10k years of ways the cultural relationships could grow…
Now, the singing. In this AU, I’ve decided that Shen Wei’s mother used to sing and that singing was much more of a standard communal activity in ye olde dixing, so he learnt early (before tragedy befell). The events of YOHE still mostly happen as in the show, except that Kunlun advocates for a more inclusive treaty because that’s how things are when he’s from, and there’s a lot more singing (around the campfire, while marching into battle, when *cough* wooing the beguiling general who sauntered into camp…) than we see in canon.
When Shen Wei wakes again in present day Haixing, he still helps out the SID with the occasional dixingren offender, but mostly everyone is living together peacefully, so he has more time to pursue other things. He still studies biology at university, but also does a bit of music on the side because he misses it. One thing leads to another, and once Dixingren music scholars catch wind of his expertise, they back him into a 'you’re the only one who still remembers the songs from 10k years ago, these are important cultural artefacts!’ corner. He agrees to do a small concert for them and - things snowball. As they do.
TLDR: Shen Wei now has three identities - Professor Shen, HPS the Dixing ambassador/mythical hero and HPS the singer.
Zhao Yunlan is VERY CONFUSED. Especially since somehow these songs keep… speaking to him? Even though he doesn’t usually care about music beyond it being boppable to?"