Focus on Characters – that’s a wrap!

[china_shop]

We’ve had four rounds of character discussions – that’s THIRTY POSTS, covering ROUND ONE Chu Shuzhi, Da Qing, Guo Changcheng, Lin Jing, Sang Zan, Wang Zheng, Ye Zun, Zhu Hong; ROUNDS TWO TO FOUR Bai Suxia & Wang Xiangyang, Cheng Xinyan, the Dixing bartender, Dong Nan, Fourth Uncle, Fu You, Guo Ying & Yu Jinlan, Ji Xiaobai & both Zhou Weiweis, Lao Li, Li Qian, Mi Lu, Minister Gao, Professor Zhou, the Rebel Leader, the Regent, Tan Xiao & Zheng Yi, Ya Qing, Ye Huo, Ying Chun, Zhang Shi, Zhao Xinci, and Zhu Jiu!!

Ten thousand years of thanks to everyone who participated in the discussions, and especially to extrapenguin, lannamichaels, maggie33, nnozomi, sakana17, solo, starandrea, teaotter, thevetia, trobadora, waterscroll, and china_shop who put so much time and love into writing such awesome meta posts and hosting the conversations they sparked. ♥ ♥ ♥

We hope the posts and discussions will continue to be a useful resource. All discussions remain open, and comments are always welcome. Keep linking your fanworks!

We've decided to leave the regularly scheduled Focus on Supporting Characters programme there, but we're thrilled with how it's gone, and of course, anyone can write meta about any character at any time. If you want to focus on one of the characters not yet addressed, leave a link in the comments here, and we'll gladly add your post to the index.

And going forward, we have a few ideas for other ways to keep Guardian meta discussions popping up on your reading list, so watch this space!

some recent news (yes, news!)

[trobadora]

1. There's been a rumour that Zhu Yilong and Bai Yu filmed a scene together, and it looks like it's true!
   
   Here's hoping we'll get actual confirmation some time in the foreseeable future, but I'm seriously delighted because I didn't expect that to happen any time soon, if at all.


2. Over a year ago, there was news about a Guardian webmovie that was supposed to film soon. Well, looks like it's actually happening now! Except that rather than wuxia, it seems to be Republican era ...?
   
   (Who knows! And either way, can't wait to see what comes of it.)

Fic: stir, settle

[plingo_kat]

Title: stir, settle (link to AO3)
Word count:1,500 exactly, I'm pleased by this nice number.
Pairing: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Rating: Explicit
A/N: Last in the acespec ZYL series. *wipes forehead* Whew. That was a productive week, I guess.

Summary:
“I won’t be bothering you?” Shen Wei can’t help but ask even when Zhao Yunlan has answered him before. Like so many things about their relationship, he doesn’t understand -- why Zhao Yunlan loves him, what he gets out of Shen Wei’s prurient interest in his body, a hundred thousand little things about living in this modern day Haixing. Usually this uncertainty doesn’t concern him, but usually he doesn’t care about other people’s opinions as much as he does Zhao Yunlan’s.