this week's bai yu round-up is up!

[unrelaxing]

 
 

This week's Bai Yu round-up is... well, up! 

On the note of round-ups, the absence of the tri-monthly Giardian specific round-up is due to me attempting to include weekly Guardian content into my Bai Yu round-ups (considering he's in the show), so I'll be adding a Guardian section in the future! For now, I've just linked some lovely Guardian art I really enjoyed.

Hope you enjoy!

Guardian novel thoughts: chapters 61-70

[yantantether]

 Squee and thoughts (mostly squee!) are over at my journal.

Fic: A Fear So Acute (it cuts you deep) (Weilan)

[syriala]

So today is the birthday of the amazing green and you should all go over and wish her the very best day on earth! I decided to write some fic in her honour, and you all get to enjoy that, too!

Shen Wei is afraid.

He is used to that feeling; he still remembers being petrified on the battlefield, but he has never before been afraid of things that didn’t concern fighting. It’s there now, though and Shen Wei doesn’t know how he’ll ever manage this fear.

Read the rest here on AO3 or read it under the cut right here. It's around 2.3k long.

( A Fear So Acute (it cuts you deep )

Fic x2 & Art recs

[naye]

Posted today:
A constellation of two (9009 words) by naye
Chapters: 1/1
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationship: Shěn Wēi/Zhào Yúnlán
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Conversations, Porn with Feelings, set between episodes 18 & 19
Summary: 
"You know, I thought about you a lot," Zhao Yunlan said. "Back when I first met you."

Posted Friday:
Chapter 24/30 of With a Twist of the Kaleidoscope

Art:
Guardian Art Rec Post #4  at my journal!

Natural history and landscape of Haixing

[mecurtin]

I'm betaing a story set largely in Ye Old Haixing Era, which means the characters spend a lot of time moving in a natural landscape.

Because I'm an ecologist, natural historian, birdwatcher, and environmentalist, I may be going a ~teensy~ bit overboard in wanting "accurate" natural history details. Just a leetle.

First, does anyone recognize any of the forested locations in Guardian? Where did they shoot the Hanga scenes, the YOHE scenes, the Yashou scenes?

I note that, in contrast with e.g. Detective L (and most wuxia I've seen) we see no bamboo forests in Guardian. This may be just the way things worked out, but we can tie it into the way the drama uses Western (European/American) cultural elements to signal "this is SFF, it isn't China, nope". So we might legitimately make the landscape & nature history European or American, in both species and "look & feel" ... but that doesn't seem right to me, either.

Does anyone besides me care? Should I let my poor author be, and not sweat over what kind of tree Zhao Yunlan is leaning against? Would ZYL, even in YOHE, notice or care whether the tree is an oak or a pine or a ginkgo or something else?

If you were reading a story where the characters traveled out of Dragon City, would you expect to see: small, intensely farmed plots as in the Yangtze basin (mostly rice); ditto as in the Yellow River basin (mostly wheat), a less intense farming picture as Europe, or a much less intense picture as in the US?

For those who've read the novel in Chinese, do you have any impressions about what part of China it is set in? Does it "feel like" Yellow River provinces, lower Yangtze River provinces, Sichuan, Guangdong?