So, I have some fan works that I feel uncomfortable posting on AO3 because the fandom is too active and the comments (even though they're minimal compared to the comments on better works) are enough to trigger my social phobia.
After thinking about it, I've decided to post them here instead. Using pages instead of blog posts because if I use blog posts it'll go backwards (sort of) and also I would have no control over things like content warnings.
At least, for the moment that's all that's planned for this page; I might add other stuff later. I'm starting out with the Mo Dao Zu Shi fanfic that I just deleted from AO3 (only the first four chapters had gone up yet), and I'll probably post future MDZS fics here, as well, just to keep from getting any more anxiety over it, but to allow me to still pretend I'm sharing them with people. (I can't help it that my preferred form of communication is "screaming into the void." I have too many anxieties and phobias, and the void typically does not answer.)
(On second thought, I probably won't add much more in the way of MDZS fanfic on here, unless it's really short or feels too problematic for AO3. Because it turns out that it's a lot of really tedious work trying to get a long piece transferred onto the blog like this; all the cross-links between chapters and the table of contents have to be done manually, y'know? For something with 29 chapters, that's a lot more work than I had expected it would be!)
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The Work(s)
A Hidden Road - A canon divergence AU fanfiction (novel canon) in which the only way Lan Wangji can think of to protect Wei Wuxian from the consequences of his actions is to kidnap him and contain him within a remote area of Cloud Recesses. (And then a lot of other things happen; the fic covers about three years.) Starts just after Lan Wangji's visit to the Burial Mounds.
The work is in three distinct parts, with rather awkward tone shifts between them. (Especially between the first and second part. The other two have less of a tone shift.) There is a tiny amount of cross-over with Heaven Official's Blessing in it, but it's an AU version of Heaven Official's Blessing where the status quo at the end of the Banyue arc became the permanent status quo. (Probably. Technically, it's not really clear or even totally relevant exactly where things stalled out? But as of the time of writing this parenthetical aside, the official translation is only up to volume 6 out of 8, so it's literally impossible for me to have it be post-canon for Heaven Official's Blessing, 'cause I don't know how it ends! (And I do not want any more spoilers than I've already gotten from browsing Etsy...))
Content/Trigger Warnings: mostly, anything and everything that's in the original novel will either show up or be referenced. There is swearing, and while there isn't any smut, there are a few scenes that sort of flirt with the idea. Fewer people die than in canon, but some do still die. However, despite the way it sounds from the description, it's actually fairly fluffy overall, with a happy ending. It's also very shallow, because I write for escapism, so my writing tends to shy away from anything too heavy, even when the subject matter really requires it. (This is unfortunately a mental issue, so I don't think there's much I can do about it.) The plot summary I originally posted to AO3 may have made it sound like this is a "dark Lan Zhan" fic, but it really isn't: he's actually only a hair worse than in canon.
Additional Warning: I'm still trying to wrap my head around things like qi/spiritual energy and general cultivation magic, so some of it is likely deeply wrong. Characterization is also likely off in many ways, especially for Wei Wuxian. (Admittedly, there's a hefty chunk of part 1 where his characterization is even more off than in the rest of it, but that part is intentional and eventually explained.) Also, I write in very close third person POV, so it's not uncommon for a chapter (or many chapters) to have an unreliable narrator.
One last minor warning: my use of transliterated Chinese relationship terms and their English equivalents may seem arbitrary at first, but I have been trying to use them in a consistent way. Basically, whenever it's in the form of an address--any time when in English we might use the person's name (ie WWX addressing JYL as "shijie" or his POV saying things like "shijie smiled warmly") then I used the transliterated term, but if it's a case where we wouldn't use the name in English then I used the translated term (ie "I will ask my brother" not "I will ask my xiongzhang"). The major exception to this is where cousins are concerned: there are way too many terms and I did not want to have to both figure out which term I needed and research what the term was. (I mean, canon will have set up what level of cousins JZX and JZxun were, but as a non-Chinese speaker finding out what term was used in canon might be pretty difficult. I was not putting in that kind of effort over JZxun. Blecch.) I've also largely preferred keeping honorifics as-is rather than using their English equivalent, even in cases where the official translation used the equivalent: I prefer Lan-zongzhu to Sect Leader Lan.
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While I'm at it, I should probably provide links to my writing elsewhere, just to be doing. My AO3 account can be found here, and my itch.io can be found here. (The 'games' on itch.io include two novels that I've given minimal interactivity to in order to excuse posting them on itch. Though the text-only versions of said novels are also on AO3, so... 🤷🏻♀️ Anyway, everything I've posted to itch.io is totally free; I'm only doing any of this as a hobby to keep my brain from entirely seizing up.)
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