Avenge the Living, Heal the Dead
Xie Lian has made his report. His plan for the rest of the night is to go home and sleep - and he'll get to do just that. Except there is this one little thing ...
(Note: I also posted the epilogue already, so we are, officially, finished!)
A mental exercise to purge concern.
Reblogging and signing. Conversion therapy is a terror on the face of the world. One I nearly lost a very dear person to due to suicide. It's evil, and I never use that word lightly.
Tagging this with gay fandoms sorry
There's currently a European proposition to ban conversion practice in Europe
If you're European please sign it
If you're not please reblog
Edit 1: Just in case the previous link doesn't bring you where you need here
Edit 2: It's EU not Europe sorry
Nothing Sweeter Than His Peace
I threatened to post a Huaibao fic, didn't I? Well, my lovely beta returned it to me, so here we go: One canon-compliant oneshot.
Avenge the Living, Heal the Dead
How should a mortal deal with a furious ghost? Shi Qingxuan may not know the answer to that, but he'll try anyway. Even if he has to accept help he doesn't feel he deserves - or wants.
(I'm posting this about 32 hours earlier than I normally would, but I'll be busy later and probably won't remember, and I'm out tomorrow, so there we are. Between now or mid-Saturday, I'm choosing now.)
For the record, she's 70, I'm 40. I introduced her to the Donghua because I knew she'd love it.
"I think your husband* has a few screws loose." (About Shi Qingxuan trying to turn Xie Lian into a woman.)
"Be nicer to him. I'd drop you at once." (About the Earth Master being rescued, then carried.)
"Are you sure this is your husband?" I confirmed this. "Oh honey, I think your husband is gay." (Same as above, pretty much only a blink later.)
She had an eye-rolling contest with Mu Qing when he and Feng Xin fought while Xie Lian was under arrest. She would have won.
"Oh, but he's whipped." (About Hua Cheng helping to free the prisoners in Qi Rong's lair. She believes he might not have bothered. I'm a bit on the fence about this, knowing how he made Eming - and more to the point, how he did not. But I can hardly tell her that.)
There was no verbal response to Qi Rong aside from an exhausted "Pitiful." She observed him with the same expression she might use on a particularly slow dog.
"Now there's a guy you know never got laid." (She said this when Shi Qingxuan threw her breasts at Feng Xin. I was howling with laughter, she thinks it was in agreement, but it was obviously a bit more hysteria-tinged.) She also noted my husband is a brat. I can't argue with that.
She asked me if Xie Lian killed that guy at the end. I told her if she wants to know that she'll either have to be VERY patient until season 3 comes - or be moderately patient and read the books where that answer doesn't come at once, either.
*I told her that on the fuck - marry - kill list Shi Qingxuan is number two. I told her that fuck is Pei Ming because that man has experience. The way Xuan Ji clings to him, he must have some skill, too. Kill is Shi Wudu, but I did not say that to her, just that it's a character she hasn't met. She knows I dislike the Water Master, but she doesn't know how much. I didn't give that answer lightly, in my defence. There are very few characters I resent enough in TGCF, if any, but I had to name someone.)
Cackles in "my mom has a lower jaw bone she snatched from a graveyard (!) because she reckons it's her grandfather's (!?) and it's on broad display with some pretty seashells (!!!)."
Okay, listen. I never read WiPs because I got invested in too many of them before they were discontinued. I have no idea what possessed me to open this one first BUT I AM SO GLAD I DID and you should, too.
This fic takes a somewhat different direction regarding what will happen with Shi Qingxuan after canon, and it's believable and brilliantly executed.
Go on. If you like Beefleaf and slow burn and HELL I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW THIS IS GOING TO END but I think it'll be fine because if it isn't I'll cry ... Anyway, if you like those things, then read it.
Check out the 100k+ word, still-in-progress story now!
Soon We'll Be Found - Chapter 1 - bluberryblurays - 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]
http://www.wattpad.com/story/359906100-soon-we%27ll-be-found-tgcf-beefleaf
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