WIP Meme

[teyla]

There's a meme going around on Twitter where you post a list of your WIPs (exact title of your document, no fibbing) and people ask about the ones they're curious about.

I have a lot of WIPs, and no titling discipline, so this one was amusing to collate, and also far too long for Twitter. I am adding the fandom to be slightly less cryptic. This goes back at least to 2016; I dug up some stuff I'd completely forgotten about.

Pick any you're interested in, and I'll tell you about them, and post a snippet!


porn - Dirk Gently

billpotts - Doctor Who
naming ceremony - Doctor Who
untempered schism - Doctor Who

trans endeavour - Endeavour

baby zhao yunlan - Guardian
Dok1 - Guardian
dixing - Guardian
hc - Guardian
He shouldn - Guardian
state dinner - Guardian
undercoverguardian - Guardian

dipshits-in-a-barrel_v2.1_05112019 - King Falls AM
impact - King Falls AM
bsredux - King Falls AM
Doyle - King Falls AM
pwp - King Falls AM
deathfic - King Falls AM
london12 - King Falls AM
japan - King Falls AM
malaria - King Falls AM
journalist au - King Falls AM
lily drabbles - King Falls AM

that fake dating fic you'll never finish - Kingsman
that ww1 fic you'll never finish - Kingsman

a terrible boi - backup190618 - MCU

He - Nirvana in Fire

a piece of the action - Star Trek TOS (Reboot)

holmes - Sherlock Holmes (RDJ)

peralta - Brooklyn 99

Some men don - Black Sails

mary fix it - Sherlock
mylock - Sherlock

Document1 - old 2 - SPN
The Germans attack at night - SPN
dean smith old - SPN
Document1 - SPN
Hunting - SPN
kink - SPN
prompt snippet - SPN
prompt - SPN

kravitz - The Adventure Zone (Balance)
selfcest - The Adventure Zone (Balance)

newyt (2) - True Detective

longfic - DMBJ
post-triple-wu xie - DMBJ

blavklodge - Twin Peaks
kinsey - Twin Peaks
Seattle - Twin Peaks
tw2 - Twin Peaks
Vegas is a hellhole - Twin Peaks

monks - The Thick of It
malcolm - The Thick of It
mib - The Thick of It
sam - The Thick of It
tourists - The Thick of It
Malcolm has lived a long and eventful life - The Thick of It


(Sorry for just dropping a meme in here without interacting on anyone's posts or, well, anything. At some point in 2021 I will remember how interacting on the internet works. Until then, all I got is memes.)

Comments

[achray]

Tell me about the Nirvana in Fire one?

Nif Spoilers in this one!

[teyla]

I have to confess that I added this one without checking what the hell it even was, and now I've realized it's actually the Yuletide fic I finished and posted. Not a WiP! Just a very oddly named, finished fic.

However! I do have a NiF WiP. It's just called "nif", and it was my first attempt at Nirvana in Fire fic, when I realized that fandom is very difficult to write. My intention was to write a fix-it, so this starts with Mei Changsu et al in the mountains near Meiling after that battle he rides off to at the end of the show.

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Fei Liu watches as the mountain pass swallows the army.

The sky is clear today. It was clear yesterday, and the day before. The dark weather that made them set up camp has moved on, leaving behind a thick layer of snow that the Old Woman had to clear out of the courtyard. Meng Zhi told Fei Liu to help, but he didn't stay to make sure Fei Liu actually did it. Instead, he went to stay with Lin Chen in the room that smells of death.

Fei Liu doesn't like that room. He likes the mansion in the capital. He likes Shui Niu's garden, and most of all he likes Lang Zhou, a place he's becoming more and more certain he and Su-gege should have never left. Su-gege is too restless. Whenever they find a place that is good, before long Su-gege decides that it's time to leave. He takes them somewhere that is worse—from Lang Zhou to the mansion, from the mansion to the mountains—and he gets worse himself.

He's very sick now. Too sick to move on with the troops, which is something Lin Chen and Meng Zhi argued about when the snow was still falling. Meng Zhi said they would move more slowly, would use a carriage to bring Su-gege down the mountain to a warmer place where he could regain his health. He won't regain his health, Lin Chen said, loud and mean like he always is. He can stay in the Old Woman's guest house and die in the room that smells of death, or he can travel in Meng Zhi's carriage and die on the side of the mountain. Die he will either way. Do you really want to slow down the troops for that?

Fei Liu hit Lin Chen when he said that, but nobody cared. This morning, Meng Zhi gathered up the last of the men. From his perch on top of the guest house, Fei Liu spent two hours watching him lead them up the mountain along the winding path. All that's left now are their tracks, a wide furrow carved out in the snow. They will cross the pass and descend on the other side, make their way across the plains and bring the capital news of victory against Da Yu. They will also bring news of General Lin Shu's death. Like Lin Chen says, it's inevitable now.

Fei Liu waits until the mountain lies still before he slides to the edge of the roof and jumps down. The room that smells of death is in the back of the house, past the hall where the Old Woman serves food and tea. She gave them extra braziers and coal, so the room is hot and stuffy, except for patches of cold where the air seeps in through the walls.

Su-gege is in the bed, lying motionless under the furs. His lips are cracked and as pale as the rest of him. He stopped asking for Shui Niu last night and has been quiet since. Fei Liu kneels down next to Lin Chen, who fell asleep slumped against the side of the bed. Fei Liu wants to hit him again; you're supposed to keep watch, not sleep. He doesn't, though. Chances are Lin Chen would hit back.

Fei Liu knows what is going to happen. Many people think he doesn't. They think he only knows how to fight and grunt. It's not true. Su-gege took the Binxu pill. Fei Liu watched Lin Chen prepare it. He saw the snake, the poison dripping into the mixing bowl. Su-gege's body is weaker than ever after three months of harsh travels; he can't fight it. For all the plans he makes, all the smart words he knows, he's not good at defending himself.

That's okay, though. It's why he has Fei Liu.

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Re: Nif Spoilers in this one!

[achray]

ah, this is sad! I love your Fei Liu POV though, really excellent.

Re: Nif Spoilers in this one!

[teyla]

Thank you! And yes, sad, but it's a fix-it, so if I ever finish it, there will be a happy ending. xD