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xparrotNo Sunday Snippet, but a followup to my last Snippet that I was so embarrassed about -- I went ahead and posted it anyway. It is in turn a sequel to a fic I did for my h/c comment-fest:
Out of Focus features Zhao Yunlan dealing with an accidentally hopelessly inebriated Shen Wei, thanks to the world's most contrived plot device.
Focus Pull doubles down on this with a deliberately but (eventually) just as hopelessly drunk Shen Wei, with bonus drunk Zhao Yunlan...for 20K words of lightly humorous fluff, which is the sticking point that had me hiding under my figurative bed. Characters getting trashed is its own genre of fic, but not for this long? Because most stories need, like, an actual plot to reach that wordcount? Or else a lot of porn? ^^;
My filename for this fic was literally "just for me," but bothnaye and frith_in_thorns told me it was cute enough to be worth reading, and other people asked for more from the first story and snippet, so I went and posted it -- and people have been enjoying it, I'm getting absolutely lovely comments! Which is just making my day, even as I'm slightly flabbergasted that anyone is reading it all the way through? So yeah, I'm definitely not the only one who wants to see Shen Wei just a little tiny infinitesimal bit smashed.
The thing that really has me so needlessly embarrassed about this is that I don't know why I like the drunk-fic trope so much? I mean, I love altered states in h/c; a mind-altering fictional drug was the plot of the first fanfic I ever posted online, and I've been finding ways to get characters out of their heads ever since. But this story isn't even h/c; it is one of the most purely fluffy fics I've ever written (they don't even get hangovers because of actual magic!) And recreational drug-use in fic is a lot more hit or miss for me...but this fic is all my personal hits. While it's not actually h/c it plays on some of the same strings -- vulnerability and caring, intimacy and trust developing through exposure -- and somehow is one of my favorite things? Especially with a character like Shen Wei, who is so painfully self-controlled, emphasis on "painful"...
...The other reason I'm so embarrassed is that I feel vaguely like an imposter -- like writing porn, this is something out of my personal wheelhouse; I don't drink. (I hate the taste of alcohol, possibly related to having some kind of sensitivity to it that means I go directly from "mildly tipsy" to "vomiting for hours" with no fun drunk times in between...) So there's this odd level of...vicarious entertainment? Writing characters drunk to me is more fun (and more possible!) than actually getting drunk (though I did write most of this while sleep-deprived from insomnia, which is...not an unrelated state of mind, perhaps...)
In conclusion...people should write more drunk Shen Wei! (You might think after this I'd have it out of my system. You would be wrong...)
Out of Focus features Zhao Yunlan dealing with an accidentally hopelessly inebriated Shen Wei, thanks to the world's most contrived plot device.
Focus Pull doubles down on this with a deliberately but (eventually) just as hopelessly drunk Shen Wei, with bonus drunk Zhao Yunlan...for 20K words of lightly humorous fluff, which is the sticking point that had me hiding under my figurative bed. Characters getting trashed is its own genre of fic, but not for this long? Because most stories need, like, an actual plot to reach that wordcount? Or else a lot of porn? ^^;
My filename for this fic was literally "just for me," but both
naye and frith_in_thorns told me it was cute enough to be worth reading, and other people asked for more from the first story and snippet, so I went and posted it -- and people have been enjoying it, I'm getting absolutely lovely comments! Which is just making my day, even as I'm slightly flabbergasted that anyone is reading it all the way through? So yeah, I'm definitely not the only one who wants to see Shen Wei just a little tiny infinitesimal bit smashed.The thing that really has me so needlessly embarrassed about this is that I don't know why I like the drunk-fic trope so much? I mean, I love altered states in h/c; a mind-altering fictional drug was the plot of the first fanfic I ever posted online, and I've been finding ways to get characters out of their heads ever since. But this story isn't even h/c; it is one of the most purely fluffy fics I've ever written (they don't even get hangovers because of actual magic!) And recreational drug-use in fic is a lot more hit or miss for me...but this fic is all my personal hits. While it's not actually h/c it plays on some of the same strings -- vulnerability and caring, intimacy and trust developing through exposure -- and somehow is one of my favorite things? Especially with a character like Shen Wei, who is so painfully self-controlled, emphasis on "painful"...
...The other reason I'm so embarrassed is that I feel vaguely like an imposter -- like writing porn, this is something out of my personal wheelhouse; I don't drink. (I hate the taste of alcohol, possibly related to having some kind of sensitivity to it that means I go directly from "mildly tipsy" to "vomiting for hours" with no fun drunk times in between...) So there's this odd level of...vicarious entertainment? Writing characters drunk to me is more fun (and more possible!) than actually getting drunk (though I did write most of this while sleep-deprived from insomnia, which is...not an unrelated state of mind, perhaps...)
In conclusion...people should write more drunk Shen Wei! (You might think after this I'd have it out of my system. You would be wrong...)
