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

[tinny]

Oh but your titles are awesome! I love the Star Wars titles!

I very much hope you'll finish the Wu Xie fic! <3

But I'll ask about the barrier fic for now. Sounds intriguing!

[elenothar]

My titles are either blandly descriptive or some kind of unholy running commentary (I literally could not remember what the 'poe hates this ice planet' fic was even about, gave it a quick glance and went, well, what it says on the tin, pretty much).

The Wu Xie fic will definitely get finished (though this one probably won't be all that long) - actually I can get back to that now that I've got a working draft of the exchange fic...

Right, Weilan barrier fic. That's the one I was writing before I got distracted by the exes fic. I've got 1.7k of it already, so this one's got a good chance of getting finished, too. Here's the first bit of it, which doesn't quite get to the central conceit (Shen Wei is caught on one side of a barrier and is slowly depleting himself to stop it from causing harm, Zhao Yunlan is on the other) yet, but hey.

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Shen Wei is in the middle of an explaining an example of mutation bias to one of his third year classes, when a change in the air around him hums through his bones. The sudden charged power in the air is almost enough to vibrate his teeth, the fine hairs on his arms standing up in protest.

The hand holding the chalk to the blackboard drops to his side. He’s distantly aware how strange he must appear to his students, speech arrested mid-sentence in a way entirely uncharacteristic of composed, self-assured Professor Shen, but the sense that something is wrong has sunk deep under his skin, prickling along nerves that have only just relaxed into this new era of peace.

“Excuse me for a moment,” he says, abrupt enough that even the student in the backrow who’d been dozing jerks upright, even though Shen Wei keeps his voice quiet and calm. Jia Jia is watching him with worried eyes from the corner with her laptop – while he would prefer to teach only with a blackboard and his voice, some of the computer models really are useful for visualisation purposes, and this way his graduate student can get a few more hours of paid work each week – more attuned to his tells than his less regular students.

Not alerting his students to any strangeness is already a lost cause, so Shen Wei steps over to the largest window to look out, ignoring their stares on his back. He’d half hoped he wouldn’t see anything, despite the wrongness in the air, but as soon as his gaze focuses the anomaly becomes clear – there’s some kind of veil shimmering in the air at the edge of campus, turning it bluer than it should be, interrupted by tiny flashes of light.

This, Shen Wei reflects with some tiredness, has the potential to be very troubling indeed.

He turns back to his class. Every pair of eyes is rivetted on him. He smiles blandly and says, “A situation seems to be developing. Class is adjourned for today, but I suggest you stay put until the issue is resolved.”

Shen Wei doesn’t wait for the inevitable questions, which he would currently be unable to answer, and protests, which he doesn’t have time to answer, and makes his way out of the lecture room with swift strides. He leaves his bag – there’s nothing in there that would be likely to help him.

As soon as he steps out of the biology faculty building, any hope that this is going be a small matter to resolve fades into a probability so small it’s not even worth considering. Charged air tickles over his skin, ruffling his hair as he stares at the shimmering blue dome that encases the entire campus, cutting it off from the outside world.

That would be alarming enough, but he’s almost certain that the wall of energy is moving. Shrinking, in fact.

[achray]

oh, I like this, very intriguing, I hope you finish it!

What's the accidental marriage Guardian AU?

[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. :)

[trobadora]

This looks excellent! :D

[elenothar]

Thank you! Now I just need to actually finish a WIP...

[tinny]

Ooooh, sounds fun!

prickling along nerves that have only just relaxed into this new era of peace.

Ooof! <3<3<3

I also love the small details about his lecture, about his grad students, and Jiajia in particular.

[elenothar]

Watch me desperately google 'third year biology topics'... Would've been so much easier for me if they'd kept him as a literature Professor like in the book. Those can at least branch out into linguistics.

I'm going to manage to shoehorn Shen Wei's named students into every single thing I write, so help me :P