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Just like last year, I used Nano as an incentive to edit the Guardian novel faster than I otherwise would have.

It worked even better this year than last - mostly because all the tricky and time-consuming mythological stuff was already done last year. :D

But this meant I got more words this year: I edited 7 chapters (98 to 104) and over 25K words this November! \o/



Here's the detailed wordcount: https://fangirlishness.dreamwidth.org/33633.html

I still have almost two chapters to do and then some cleanup jobs and then we'll be done with the whole novel! \o/
fangirlishness: Guardian - Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei (Default)
Like last year, I am going to reinterpret Nano for my own purposes and attempt to edit an insane amount of words on the Guardian novel. :D

I still need to edit about 30K words (in 9 chapters), and last year I managed 18K (in 7 chapters). I don't think I can do all 30K, but I really need to do almost that if I want to finish the whole novel this year as planned. So I will set my goal to 25K.

Wish me luck!

25306 of 25000 words


date, chapter, and word count per day:
1. 98 1060
2. 98 1035
3. 98  350
4. 98  466
5. 99  635
6. 99 1344
7. 99 1345
8. 100  545
9. 100  917
10.100  286
11.100  631
12.100 1113
12.101  327
13.101  306
14.101  645
15.101 1240
16.101  953
16.102  160
17.102  580
18.102  708
20.102  945
21.102  954
22.103  459
22.103  619
23.103  855
24.103 1252
25.103  751
28.103  290
28.104 1845
29.104 1540
30.105 1060


Chapters 98-106, i.e. 9 chapters:



I did it! \o/
fangirlishness: Guardian - Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei (Default)
Magic Cock (4088 words) by Fangirlishness

Beta: [personal profile] glymr, [personal profile] elenothar, [personal profile] achray
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Experimentation, Body Modification, Size Kink, Anal Fisting, Multiple Betas - we die like fen
Summary:

When Shen Wei tells him that one of his powers allows him to transform his own body, Zhao Yunlan has a few ideas about how to use this power for good. And by good he means sex.

fangirlishness: The Librarians - a book growing tentacles (write every day)
I decided to work on the Guardian novel editing and call that Nano. :D

I planned on finishing the chapter 71-80 document, and I did it! It ended up being 17758 words, 1500 of which were newly added in. Last night, I was already done with the challenge proper, but I did a few hundred words on chapter 81, bringing me over 18K.

I kept track in this post here. (but there's not much to see right now, except that I finished. :D)

So here's the paper version, for a better overview:



To sum it up: it was very annoying to be forced to work on one single thing all month. I would have loved to write something, myself, or do more viki subs, or watch some cdramas, or any of the thousand other things I do, but had no time. So I definitely don't want to do that again anytime soon. But for now, it was a good boost for the novel and a nice accomplishment for me. \o/

Nanowrimo

Oct. 30th, 2020 07:53 am
fangirlishness: The Librarians - a book growing tentacles (write every day)
I never participated in Nanowrimo before, because deadlines actively hinder me in my writing, and I don't need to make my life harder.

This year, I've decided to use the Nanowrimo momentum to help me work on the Guardian novel editing. So my goal is to make the novel my top priority for November.

Usually, I edit two chapters per month. My Nanowrimo goal is six chapters. I have gotten up to mid-chapter 74 and I want to finish the 71-80 document, which means editing 16169 words.

(This may not sound like much, but it's slow going. What we do is look at the original Chinese and put it through an automatic translator to check if the existing translation is missing anything. The existing translation is not usually *wrong*, just missing a lot of details, and occasionally whole sentences. So the work consists of comparing the translations, then manually translating what's missing and adding it back in.)

17758 of 17758 words + 430 words extra
+


Chapters 74-80: Chapter 80 finished


p.s.: Because that is always a point of contention when talking about translation: of course we have help from Chinese native speakers. If we can't figure out the translation on our own, we leave comments for them to finish it up. So rest assured, the translation is good. (I just mentioned this here because it's important to say. It doesn't really make a difference for my wordcount or speed.)

p.p.s.: I didn't realize that the fact that there are details missing would lead to a steadily increasing wordcount. The initial wordcount was 16169 words. In the end, I ended up with: 17758.

p.p.p.s.: I also didn't realize that three of those chapters were a retelling/reinvention of the Chinese creation myth, and I spent about two thirds of my time researching that instead of/in preparation for editing. /o\ I posted a summary here: https://sid-guardian.dreamwidth.org/324988.html

---

Result: I did it! I finished the 71-80 document, and managed a few (430) words into chapter 81. Success! \o/
fangirlishness: Guardian - Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei (guardian)
Fools Rush In (2926 words) by Fangirlishness
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian - priest, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shěn Wēi/Zhào Yúnlán
Additional Tags: First Time, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Semi-Public Sex, Guardian Week 2020 (Guardian priest Book & TV 2018), Guardian Week Theme: Smut, Guardian Week Theme: First Time, No Dialogue
Summary:
When Zhao Yunlan woke up, he checked his watch. It was around 4am, and everything was quiet. Shen Wei was finally asleep on the mat next to his.
Or… not?

During their excursion into the mountains, Zhao Yunlan finally jumps on his chance to seduce Shen Wei. Little does he know that Shen Wei doesn't need to be seduced at all.


--

I didn't think I had anything to post for Guardian Week, but then I stumbled across an almost-finished fic that I had lying around for over a year, and suddenly I wanted to finish it and post it. I spent all day - with immense help from [personal profile] solo and additional beta from [personal profile] laireshi - and managed to post it! \o/

I wrote it for novel canon, but it can work for drama as well if you squint.

Happy Guardian Week!
fangirlishness: Guardian - Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei (guardian)
So ineffablebfs made this beautiful drawing of Kunlun and Shen Wei, and mentioned that we're welcome to color it. So I did!


Weilan - Colored Drawing by ineffablebfs

drawn by [twitter.com profile] ineffablebfs, colored by me


It was a lot of fun to color! I really love the composition with the plum blossoms. Hair is always a slog, but it looks so pretty afterwards. :D I am especially happy how I managed to make their hair and skin shades slightly different. Success!
fangirlishness: Guardian - Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei (guardian)
I betaed this, and it's a delight from start to finish. Delicious slow burn! Gaming in-jokes! Memes! Team shenanigans!

Read it here:

ready, set, game on (89505 words) by synonemous
Chapters: 19/19
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV), 镇魂 | Guardian - priest
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shěn Wēi/Zhào Yúnlán, Minor or Background Relationship(s)
Characters: Zhào Yúnlán, Shěn Wēi, Dà Qìng, Zhù Hóng, Lín Jìng, Guō Chángchéng, Lǐ Qiàn, Yè Zūn, Chǔ Shùzhī, Yā Qīng, Yíng Chūn, Shā Yà, Zhào Yúnlán's Mother, Zhào Xīncí, Wāng Zhēng, Sāng Zàn
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe – Modern Setting, Gamer/Streamer AU, Zhao "What Even IS Your Waist?!" Yunlan, Shen "What A Voice" Wei, Cat AND Human Da Qing, Good!Ye Zun, Though He’s Still a Brat, Spot That Game!, Zhao Yunlan is a danger to EVERYONE, But Especially Shen Wei, How Many Times Can I Write "Daddy" Without Having to Add the Daddy-kink Tag?, so much thirst, You’ll Never Guess Who From!, Mentions of Escaping an Abusive Household, Mentions of a Character Going to Therapy, Mentions of LGBTQIA+ Issues, Mentions of Selective Mutism, Jokes About Shipping, Jokes About Sugar Daddy/Sugar Baby Situations, Jokes About A/B/O-Dynamics, Slow Burn, Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei both Ship Themselves Together, Crack Treated Semi-Seriously, Getting Together, Mild Smut, Happy Ending, Don’t copy to another site
Series: Part 1 of searching, connection established
Summary:

“Boss, wait –”

Hei Lao-ge, the post on Zhao Yunlan's Weibo reads, thankfully still sitting in his drafts, slide into my DMs if you’re watching.

Zhao Yunlan lowers his phone. “Seriously?”

“Before you delete it,” Da Qing says, not even looking remotely sorry, “I’m just trying to help you.”

“Help me,” Zhao Yunlan echoes in disbelief. “With what, exactly?”

“Scoring your internet crush!”

fangirlishness: Guardian - Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei (guardian)
So we were talking about which was the "funniest" Guardian fic we've read. And this stumped me.

I don't rate fic by how funny it is, but by how hot it is. So I came up with lots of fic in the "hottest" category. (I'll save those for the next rec post.)

But I did remember some funny ones after all:

1) Lin Jing self-cest

spoilers don't do as they're told (3153 words) by Teaotter
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Humor, Guō Chángchéng POV, Timey-Wimey, Lín Jìng POV, non-explicit sexual innuendo and content between versions of the same person, For Science!, Zhù Hóng POV
Summary:

Wherein a second Chief Zhao arrives via wormhole just as the team summons Hei Pao Shi, and things get very, very confusing.



2) The story that made me laugh the most this year
(Note that I am not impartial about this fic. Because I liked it so much, I offered to beta it 8 chapters in, and she took me up on it. <3)

ready, set, game on (62524 words) by synonemous
Chapters: 14/19 WIP!
Additional Tags (a selection): Alternate Universe – Modern Setting, Gamer/Streamer AU, How Many Times Can I Write "Daddy" Without Having to Add the Daddy-kink Tag?, Slow Burn, Happy Ending
Summary:

“Boss, wait –”

Hei Lao-ge, the post on Zhao Yunlan's Weibo reads, thankfully still sitting in his drafts, slide into my DMs if you’re watching.

Zhao Yunlan lowers his phone. “Seriously?”

“Before you delete it,” Da Qing says, not even looking remotely sorry, “I’m just trying to help you.”

“Help me,” Zhao Yunlan echoes in disbelief. “With what, exactly?”

“Scoring your internet crush!”




3) THE Chef AU - staple of the fandom

my heart broke loose on the wind (6246 words) by sarahyyy
Rating: Mature
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Chefs, Social Media, Pining, First Kiss, Getting Together, team shenanigans, ye zun/lin jing tagteam 神助攻 lbr
Summary:

If Yunlan is going to learn how to make actual food that requires more effort than just boiling water and putting hot water into stuff, he’s going to have to take all the notes.

“Right,” he says to himself. “How hard can it be?”

He watches all twenty-two minutes and fourteen seconds of Chef Shen's video without fast-forwarding. When it comes to an end, he clicks on the replay button.

He ends up taking zero notes, and the only thing he manages to learn from the whole exercise is that Chef Shen -Shen Wei- is really fucking beautiful when he smiles.



4) Cracky self-rec

Easter (1170 words) by Fangirlishness
Rating: Explicit
Additional Tags: Fluff and Crack, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Established Relationship
Summary:

Zhao Yunlan paints Shen Wei.



5) Da Qing plays matchmaker

Mission: Matchmaking (18063 words) by TimeTravelFreak
Rating: Not Rated
Additional Tags (a selection): Alternate Universe - No Powers, though there are still animals who can shift into human form, Alcohol, Family Fluff, Horrible Puns, Slow Burn
Summary:

Da Qing is looking for a mom wants to find a new lover for Zhao Yunlan, who is depressed after a bad break up.

Only Zhao Yunlan won’t cooperate, so what else is a cat to do but to matchmake?

It’s been three days since Zhao Yunlan was dumped and he’s still in an awful mood. Usually Da Qing would stay with him and snark at him until he snaps out of it, but Zhao Yunlan’s temper has been so bad that not even Da Qing can take it anymore.

After the first day Zhu Hong took leave because of “personal reasons” but Da Qing rather doubts that’s actually true. She probably didn’t have the patience to deal with their Chief throwing a tantrum, not that Da Qing can blame her.

fangirlishness: Guardian - Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei (guardian)
A lot of people have been leaving correction comments on the Guardian novel.

I am delighted about that. \o/ Thank you all!

I spent a lot of time on the novel over the last few days, and managed to edit five whole chapters and add their summaries to the wiki. Yay!
fangirlishness: Guardian - Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei (guardian)
[archiveofourown.org profile] mabyn wrote a wonderful Chinese Opera AU:

The Singer (Chinese Opera AU) (29625 words) by mabyn
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shěn Wēi/Zhào Yúnlán
Characters: Shěn Wēi, Zhào Yúnlán
Additional Tags: Chinese Opera, Chinese Countryside, Factory workers, Bathhouses, Romance, building family, Heteronormativity, HEA, Alternate Universe, Angst, Anonymous Sex, 1990s, Sneaking Around, References to the Cultural Revolution, Semi-canonical violent past deaths of parents, Chinese New Year
Summary:

The one where Shen Wei is a Chinese opera performer and Zhao Yunlan is a smitten factory worker from the countryside.





And I wrote a remix from Shen Wei's POV, incidentally adding some porn:

The Farmer (2918 words) by Fangirlishness
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei
Additional Tags: Remix, Unreliable Narrator, Chinese Opera, Alternate Universe, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, all the plot is in the original fic, for more tags see the original fic
Summary:


When he runs into him at the baths, purely by chance, the first thing Shen Wei notices about him is how gracefully he moves, and he tells himself not to stare. But Shen Wei is alone in the dark doorway leading from the showers to the pools—all the other bathers have come earlier than Shen Wei—so there’s nobody to see him, and he can’t quite restrain himself.

Remix of the first three chapters of mabyn's 'The Singer' from Shen Wei's POV.




Only my third Guardian fic, and the second remix. Apparently I love writing remixes. Surprise! :D I'm very happy that this fandom is so accommodating and that the authors allow me to remix their ideas.

This was the fastest story over 1000 words that I ever wrote.
fangirlishness: Guardian - Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei (guardian)


The editing of the Guardian Novel translation is finished. The complete novel, including all the extras except for Shen San, is available for reading

on googledocs here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1J7rTcFYHt71SbwCzkBO2BPmriX-RprCb

and in ebook format here:
https://mega.nz/file/XqokmZia#QvGm2G69R2Rxf58JMSrdDB8l9_hudmQCwTH2CmVKmEs

Shen San in ebook format here:
https://sid-guardian.dreamwidth.org/403244.html

Thank you very much to everyone who helped, first of all [personal profile] solo, who spent an enormous amount of time on the novel with me over the last two years, but also everyone else who gave advice, found mistakes, helped with Chinese or English, and supported us along the way. Thank you!

If you find any mistakes, please feel free to let me know, and I'll fix them.



ETA: Current state (January 2022) : Chapters 1-106 edit complete! \o/ Extras in progress.

ETA: Current state (March 2022) : Edit complete, [personal profile] foxghost's extras added.

ETA: Current state (June 2022) : Shen San extra still missing. We're waiting for the translator to finish it so we can add it to the ebook.

ETA: Current state (September 2022) : I've given up waiting, and am now linking solo's translation of the Shen San extra instead. An official translation of the novel has been licensed, but we haven't gotten the order to take our translation down yet. As long as that's the case, I'll keep it up here.
fangirlishness: Guardian - Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei (guardian)
[personal profile] starandrea wrote a beautiful story in which Shen Wei has wings:

Learn the Light (3341 words) by starandrea
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shěn Wēi/Zhào Yúnlán
Characters: Zhào Yúnlán, Dà Qìng, Shěn Wēi
Additional Tags: Wingfic
Series: Part 1 of Dragon Wings
Summary:

Shen Wei hasn't been home in three days, and Zhao Yunlan wants to know why.




And I wrote some porn for it:

Still Learning (1500 words) by Fangirlishness
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei
Additional Tags: Remix, Interrupted Sex
Summary:

He’s pounding away into Shen Wei, who is on his hands and knees, pushing back wantonly every time Zhao Yunlan pushes forward. Sweat is dripping into his eyes, and the bed is creaking, and the rhythm is perfect. Shen Wei is making the most wonderful noises, loud in his ears even through the sound of his own gasping breaths. Zhao Yunlan bites his lip, trying to hold out just a little longer.
Suddenly Shen Wei tenses and shouts, “Wings! Wings!”

fangirlishness: Guardian - Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei (guardian)
My first Weilan fic! And it's crack inspired by Easter egg painting:

Easter (1170 words) by Fangirlishness
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei
Additional Tags: Fluff and Crack, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot
Summary:

Zhao Yunlan paints Shen Wei.

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