WIP Titles Meme

[elenothar]

 Teyla introduced the meme and it sounds like fun, so here we are.

Meme:

"Here's a list of my WIPs (exact title of the documents, no fibbing) and you can ask about the ones you're curious about.
Pick any you're interested in, and I'll tell you about them and post a snippet!"


This proved a good excuse for me to realise just how many WIPs in various fandoms I've got lying around. Some of them I'm not very likely at all to ever finish/post,  and my titling is all over the place, but if anyone wants any snippets anyway...

Roughly by order of how likely I am to finish:

Guardian

Learning Abilities fic
Weilan barrier fic
Shen Wei is always himself
Accidental Marriage AU


Lost Tomb Reboot

Wu Xie feels


Tolkien

Second Finrod fic

boromir AU


Tortall

rekindling sequel


Star Trek AOS

pike and mccoy


Star Wars

Cassian and Bail
sw au satellite temples
poe hates this ice planet

mortis au

OT3 fantasy AU

no sith au
most of the time being a force ghost is a major pain in the ass


BBC Musketeers

musketeers alphabet

dragonshifter athos

Stargate SG-1

SG-1 trees


Fantastic Beasts
 

graves unicorn

selkie fic
 

 

NCIS

a week in touch

palmer and gibbs

florist AU

Comments

[elenothar]

I'm pretty sure I'll finish all the Guardian fics on the list, tbh. The muse is still going strong there.

That said the accidental marriage Guardian AU is what will one day be the long fix-it everyone seems to end up writing for this fandom at some point. I've only got a couple hundred words written for it, but I've done a lot of outlining, thus discovering that this, uh, won't be short. The premise is that Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan get accidentally married while together in Dixing for the first time (ep 16 ish). Also featuring lots and lots of Dixing worldbuilding.

This is the only bit that's written, as of yet:

Whatever Zhao Yunlan had expected from mythical Dixing, it hadn’t been grey dimness, empty streets, dust and dirt and a watchful silence that sends prickling warning shivers down his back. With a lot of squinting one could imagine splendour of ages past behind the peeling paints and ragged edges, the remnants of once proud architecture imaginable in the stonework and high arches.

If only there were light.

Zhao Yunlan’s eyes flicker to Shen Wei, striding next to him in his Hei Pao Shi outfit, bearing even stiffer than usual as he listens to the Regent prattling on. The few times Shen Wei has let himself be coaxed into talking about Dixing, there’d been something desperately bleak curling around the edges of his expression and Zhao Yunlan is starting to understand why.

Earlier grandstanding aside – which had only been aimed at getting to come along anyway – the creeping sense that he’s really out of his depth is starting to unsettle him. He’s beginning to understand just how little he knows about Dixing; how little any Haixingren knows about Dixing. Not that that would have stopped him from inveigling himself onto this trip to find the missing Dijun Booklet. Zhao Yunlan has never been in the habit of denying his own curiosity.

[trobadora]

Ooh, fascinating start!

[elenothar]

Thanks! And I didn't even get to the accidental marriage bit yet - that's just in the two pages of outline languishing in my notebook. My muse is procrastinating with other fic because it knows this'll be a long one.

[tinny]

what will one day be the long fix-it everyone seems to end up writing for this fandom at some point

*nods*

And I haven't seen one with a serious accidental marriage premise before, either, so you're off to a great start there! \o/

the creeping sense that he’s really out of his depth is starting to unsettle him. [...] Not that that would have stopped him

Muahahah! :D Yup! Sounds like him.

[trickytricky]

Oh, this premise sounds fascinating, I'd definitely be excited to read this one!

(If you ever want a sounding board for ideas, second set of eyes for a beta, or cheerleading for writing mojo, feel free to hit me up. Happy to help with fic!)

[elenothar]

Thank you! I might well take you up on that for this fic (or others tbh) because a) I need the motivation to write something longer and b) worldbuilding discussions!! This particular fic is mostly a lot of ideas floating around in my head, so having someone to bounce the ideas off of would be very helpful. Do you prefer Discord or DW (or something else) for those kinds of discussions?

[trickytricky]

Sounds great! I shot you a message on discord.

Helping to provide motivation for awesome fic-writing and getting to engage in fascinating world-building conversations sounds like, as all the cool kids like to say, a 'win-win' to me. :)