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SVSSS FICS VII
Nov. 15th, 2022 08:40 pmPart I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V and Part VI.
The last of these, for the present.
22. Incident Log for the June, 1927 Seattle-Bound Voyage of the “President McKinley”
E; 2.1k; "Sailors traditionally consider an omega going into heat during a voyage a disastrous omen. To Luo Binghe, however, it's an entirely unexpected opportunity."
These are all Miscellany ficlets that were too big for the collection, so I don't have much to say about them. This one is, yet again, an ABO that weasels out of serving full-on ABO goodness. Maybe I need to actually write out my longer outlined ABO project? If the problem is that I'm worried about poaching a better story’s content, maybe I should just realise that story. Then ensuing ficlets in the same genre could have more breathing room.
I like a 'trapped on a boat together' sort of setting. It'd make a good premise for a slow, tense, atmospheric fic. This isn’t one, because it was surprisingly difficult to find information about this journey. I might well have gone in on the details and opted for a more lingering pace if I'd been able to get more sensory information on this sort of vessel and run.
23. Bounded in a Nutshell, King of Infinite Space
M; 4k; "Luo Binghe intends to sulk in the Endless Abyss until the man who cast him down into it repents.''
Apparently Spanish also has a version of a "Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me, Guess I'll Go Eat Worms" song—that's what I learned from the comments on this. A mood piece I don't think particularly successful (I don't know that I buy the pacing of the ending turn/resolution), but people enjoyed the throne blow-job and the mood, and that's both what it has to offer and about as much as I can hope for, in terms of readers vibing with a piece.
It got some very good fanart, as well. The person also kindly offered to draw me a cover for a fic in future, but I can't really see myself taking her up on that because I don't quite know how to use that kind of thing. I mean no, I literally don't know how to embed it in a fic, for one, and I don't do promo, but more--I'd have to decide that a given story was worth someone going to all that effort for, and I’d also have to wait after finishing the story for an artist to work on a cover before i could post. That could be what, weeks? And I don't know that I'd know that a fic was good and therefor worth a cover, before people told me.
Idk, I'm in a weird mood this week and wondering whether I should turn fic comments off for a bit on forthcoming projects. There have been some very odd comments in the past months, and dealing with them takes more energy than a run of the mill pleasant response gives me. Usually I decide against this because I don't think I'd write fic if not for comments, so I know that actually what I'd probably be committing to is not writing, when I think like this. But it's odd that in teeny-tiny fandoms, I get the same level of actually committed, engaged comments as I do in this (comparatively) huge fandom. It's largely just the emoji-comments and the batshit comments that swell, with overall fandom size. And you can't eat heart emojis.
24. For A Gu'd Time, Call
E; 4.7k; "They're calling HDF a miracle cure.
Shen Yuan could really use a miracle."
I don't know if people got that the titular joke is about blood gu? I might have made that clearer by foregrounding the use of the gu. This one is weird because I know nothing at all about medicine, but I know a fair amount about weird governmental and corporate bullshit. Someone in the comments said this was like, an SFF dystopia? Buddy. It's. It's pretty 1:1, just plus Heavenly Demon Fluid.
25. Prize of War
E; 5.5k; "Luo Binghe is eleven when he is given to Cang Qiong as a present for the young, new-made lord of Qing Jing.
Luo Binghe is twenty-one when he wins Shen Qingqiu for himself."
This has a problem where the lyrical (over-wrought) atmosphere of the intro isn't harmonising with the jokey end. I should have wrapped that mood around to bookend it or kept this more tonally consistent, but I didn't exactly see how to. So many of these are just 'the baby was lopsided, but I didn't know what to do about it, so I sent it out into the world anyway. Better out than in.' I feel like I'm slipping on an editorial front lately, idk.
The last of these, for the present.
22. Incident Log for the June, 1927 Seattle-Bound Voyage of the “President McKinley”
E; 2.1k; "Sailors traditionally consider an omega going into heat during a voyage a disastrous omen. To Luo Binghe, however, it's an entirely unexpected opportunity."
These are all Miscellany ficlets that were too big for the collection, so I don't have much to say about them. This one is, yet again, an ABO that weasels out of serving full-on ABO goodness. Maybe I need to actually write out my longer outlined ABO project? If the problem is that I'm worried about poaching a better story’s content, maybe I should just realise that story. Then ensuing ficlets in the same genre could have more breathing room.
I like a 'trapped on a boat together' sort of setting. It'd make a good premise for a slow, tense, atmospheric fic. This isn’t one, because it was surprisingly difficult to find information about this journey. I might well have gone in on the details and opted for a more lingering pace if I'd been able to get more sensory information on this sort of vessel and run.
23. Bounded in a Nutshell, King of Infinite Space
M; 4k; "Luo Binghe intends to sulk in the Endless Abyss until the man who cast him down into it repents.''
Apparently Spanish also has a version of a "Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me, Guess I'll Go Eat Worms" song—that's what I learned from the comments on this. A mood piece I don't think particularly successful (I don't know that I buy the pacing of the ending turn/resolution), but people enjoyed the throne blow-job and the mood, and that's both what it has to offer and about as much as I can hope for, in terms of readers vibing with a piece.
It got some very good fanart, as well. The person also kindly offered to draw me a cover for a fic in future, but I can't really see myself taking her up on that because I don't quite know how to use that kind of thing. I mean no, I literally don't know how to embed it in a fic, for one, and I don't do promo, but more--I'd have to decide that a given story was worth someone going to all that effort for, and I’d also have to wait after finishing the story for an artist to work on a cover before i could post. That could be what, weeks? And I don't know that I'd know that a fic was good and therefor worth a cover, before people told me.
Idk, I'm in a weird mood this week and wondering whether I should turn fic comments off for a bit on forthcoming projects. There have been some very odd comments in the past months, and dealing with them takes more energy than a run of the mill pleasant response gives me. Usually I decide against this because I don't think I'd write fic if not for comments, so I know that actually what I'd probably be committing to is not writing, when I think like this. But it's odd that in teeny-tiny fandoms, I get the same level of actually committed, engaged comments as I do in this (comparatively) huge fandom. It's largely just the emoji-comments and the batshit comments that swell, with overall fandom size. And you can't eat heart emojis.
24. For A Gu'd Time, Call
E; 4.7k; "They're calling HDF a miracle cure.
Shen Yuan could really use a miracle."
I don't know if people got that the titular joke is about blood gu? I might have made that clearer by foregrounding the use of the gu. This one is weird because I know nothing at all about medicine, but I know a fair amount about weird governmental and corporate bullshit. Someone in the comments said this was like, an SFF dystopia? Buddy. It's. It's pretty 1:1, just plus Heavenly Demon Fluid.
25. Prize of War
E; 5.5k; "Luo Binghe is eleven when he is given to Cang Qiong as a present for the young, new-made lord of Qing Jing.
Luo Binghe is twenty-one when he wins Shen Qingqiu for himself."
This has a problem where the lyrical (over-wrought) atmosphere of the intro isn't harmonising with the jokey end. I should have wrapped that mood around to bookend it or kept this more tonally consistent, but I didn't exactly see how to. So many of these are just 'the baby was lopsided, but I didn't know what to do about it, so I sent it out into the world anyway. Better out than in.' I feel like I'm slipping on an editorial front lately, idk.
