December fanworks round-up post!

[china_shop]

This is the fanworks round-up post for December! Please link in the comments to any Guardian (or related fandoms) fanworks you created or enjoyed last month.

• all kinds of fanworks are welcome – fic, art, vids, picspams, etc. - including those made for exchanges and events
• new chapters of WIPs count
• meta or discussion posts, too
• whether or not you've already linked these in a post of their own, we still want them here!
• And if you've posted your own fanworks round-up/meme/review for the year and it includes Guardian or related-fandoms works, drop us link to that too!

If you're linking to fanworks you didn't create yourself, please clearly mark these "REC", so there's no confusion about authorship/creatorship.

(And please still do link your fanworks, meta, etc. separately, in their own post, at any time!)

So ... what Guardian and related fandoms works did you create or enjoy in December?

Comments

[china_shop]

I posted a commentfic inspired by the picspam series and a couple of flashfics for fan_flashworks:

- learning to lead - 313 words, Zhao Yunlan & Chu Shuzhi, pre-canon
- Officially endorsed - 857 words, Chu Shuzhi & Zhao Yunlan, when Shen Wei is announced as a SID consultant
- How to map the heart - 1,352 words, Mirror Girl in Dixing, angst with a hopeful ending

And two picspams:

- Zhao Yunlan's lollipops
- Zhu Hong & Lin Jing

And a romcom/casefic:

A Hot Stove, A Sharp Knife, and These Tips Mean Success (38,624 words) by china_shop
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Da Qing & Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei (Guardian), Da Qing (Guardian)
Additional Tags: pre-identity reveal, Dating, First time (for one of them), Zhao Yunlan is a domestic disaster, like seriously, failing to adult, Compensation, food and cooking, Episode 8, Case Fic, A variety of attitudes to Dixingren, Background SID Team - Freeform, Background F/F OCs, Cat Tribe Best Tribe
Summary: Shen Wei turns to him, calm, devastatingly hot, and so adult he makes Zhao Yunlan feel about fifteen. Fifteen and desperate.

“Compensation?”

“Absolutely,” says Zhao Yunlan. “Whatever you want.”

OR: Zhao Yunlan vs cooking.

[trobadora]

Fabulous stuff! Yay for posting the long fic, and also for all the smaller things!

[china_shop]

Thanks, you!! I'm so happy to have finished and posted the compensation fic. :D

[amedia]

Yay for so many things--so many *good* things!

[china_shop]

Thank youu! :DDD

[miss_ingno]

so much goodness to look forward to! I've been meaning to get to your cooking fic for weeks, fingers crossed I'll find some time soon :D

[china_shop]

♥ ♥ ♥ I hope you enjoy it, once you get the chance! :D

[shadaras]

Parallel World | West Out of Yu Men is a related fandom, though the Yuletide fic I wrote for it has nothing to do with Bai Yu's character. :) Young Scorpions, 1.3k, Ye Liuxi & Jiang Zhan. A bit of worldbuilding + backstory.

I also wrote a short review/rec post about watching Lost in the Stars (a movie starring Zhu Yilong and Ni Ni), which has probably more content in the comments than in the actual post. <3

I also just posted a fic roundup for 2023 that includes two Guardian fics.

[trobadora]

It all counts! Yay for smaller related fandoms getting some love. :)

[shadaras]

Yes! :D I love all my tiny fandoms. <3

[china_shop]

Yay for things! :D

[amedia]

Yay for everything - and your review/rec post is now making me want to watch Lost in the Stars!!!

[shadaras]

Yay! :D And yes! You should! It's a really cool movie, and definitely worth watching if it sounds interesting to you. <3

[miss_ingno]

The round-up post was very helpful :D I've got both Lost in the Stars and West Out of Yumen on my to watch list, hopefully there'll be a bit of free time for it soon!

[shadaras]

Yay, I'm glad to hear it! I hope you enjoy both the show and the movie when you get a chance to watch them. :)

[trobadora]

All I have for December is yesterday's post:

Picspam/Quiz: Whose shoes?

[china_shop]

Best picspam! A really clever idea, excellently executed! :D

[trobadora]

♥ ♥ ♥

Thank you! :)

[amedia]

Ha, perfect icon for this response! *high fives china_shop*

[china_shop]

:D :D :D :D :D

[amedia]

So cool and fun!!! I'm still puzzling over a bunch of them!

[trobadora]

Hee! Glad you're having fun! :D

[miss_ingno]

What a fun exercise! :D I'm sure I got several right, it's interesting to realize which shoes stuck in my head (I don't tend to look at feet all that much lol!)

[trobadora]

You did get several right, and yes, that's super fascinating! I never paid much attention either, but some are just instantly recognisable, aren't they? :D

[miss_ingno]

One fic I wrote! Though I finished it back in October, it feels weird to only share it now x'D

Title: Gossip Mango
Ship: Weilan & Shen Wei's students
Tags: Social Media, Episode Related (1, 2, 3 & 8), Canon Compliant, mentions of canonical suicidal ideation & murders
Summary: Not only does Dragon City university have a great and sophisticated study program for many different majors, it also has a flourishing social media site for students to discuss their studies social activities recent events.

REC
Title: Feedback for NFG Conference 2023 by Nemainofthewater
Ship: Professor Zhou & Shen Wei & Li Qian & SCIENCE!
A funny Outsider PoV e-mail regarding a scientific conference Shen Wei & co attended, and about all the shenanigans they got into :D

REC
Title: A Guardian Secret Santa Logic Grid Puzzle by BookKeep
Characters: SID Team ensemble
A fun (and decently hard to solve!) puzzle in figuring out which of the SID members gifted their coworkers what for the team's secret santa. Adorably in character!

[trobadora]

Woohoo! Great stuff all, I love all these unconventional works!

[miss_ingno]

different styles are so much fun to experiment with!

[china_shop]

Ooh, awesome! :D :D :D

[miss_ingno]

💖

[shadaras]

Oh, big mood on FiaB posting times. <3 And yes! I also loved those two works you recced. :)

[miss_ingno]

exchanges can be so confusing, just because you a) have to wait for work reveals and then b) for creator reveals! xD but it's been fun joining the exchange scene this last year, even if it confuses me that people only now see works I feel are quite old hat :')

[amedia]

Ooh, yay! I'm behind on commenting, but Gossip Mango was so much fun and I look forward to the other two!

[miss_ingno]

Take your time! :D and I'm happy you liked it, I'm sure you'll have fun with the others, too <3

[amedia]

While practicing for the Firewhiskey challenge, I wrote one more entry in my crackfic Guardian/due South series "WeiLan on the Planet They Call Earth." Called A Three-Way with Two Rays, it's set after WeiLan successfully return to Seastar. The dS characters discuss them briefly, including the possibility of WeiLanZun:

Fraser [snip]: “The pretty one apparently has an identical twin with long silver hair.”
All three of them were silent for a second until Vecchio said, “Damn, that’s hot.” They all raised their glasses.

I wrote one Guardian ficlet for the actual Firewhiskey Fic Challenge: Affirmation - ChuGuo, 395 words, mostly fluff.

I also made (completely sober) a gen Guardian songvid to a Wizard Rock song, about all the dangerous things that happen in bathrooms in the drama: Never Going to the Bathroom Again.

[china_shop]

Haha, what a great collection of things! Go you!! :D

[amedia]

Eeeee, thank you! (also cheering for your very appropriate icon!)

[trobadora]

Yay, lots of fun stuff! :D

[amedia]

:-D ♥

[mumblemumble]

I made a few things in December to fill my Bingo card. Thank god for holidays. :-D

- Attempted to make vaguely Shen Wei-inspired mooncakes, with middling success. Edible, though!

- Wrote a drabble collection about Zhao Yunlan's bed, with a bit of angst and a happy ending. \o/

- Put together a Dragon City University rec list, including the "give Shen Wei friends!" agenda and student body shenanigans.

- Shared a zip file of Shen Wei promo images together with a little picspam, because I forgot that this post with all the official Weibo pics already exists. Oops, but also, always good to look at Shen Wei!

- Posted a bit of post-canon Weilan fluff on New Year's Eve! 🎆

Happy New Year, everyone! 🥳 This fandom brought me so much joy in 2023 again. 🫶

[china_shop]

What an amazing haul -- and your fics are so gorgeous! ♥

[mumblemumble]

Thank you! <3 <3 <3

[trobadora]

♥ ♥ ♥

This fandom brings me so much joy every year, too. Thanks for being a part of it!

[mumblemumble]

😊😊😊🫶🫶🫶

[awanderingcoyote]

I made a fic and art :D

Story!
Spoiler Alert: They Kissed - Rating T, ChuGuo, spoilers for Love Between Fairy and Devil within the fic.

Art!
ChuGuo Art - This was a screen redraw in the freezer episode :D (There's also a Mingcheng from The Untamed in that post too :D)

ChuGuo Artie Frames - A companion piece to the HPS and ZYL ones I did at the end of November :D

[china_shop]

Yayay! What lovely things you have made! :D :D :D

[awanderingcoyote]

Thank you!! :heartheartheart:!!

[trobadora]

Woohoo!

[awanderingcoyote]

:heartheart:!!