va'esse deireádh aep eigean, va'esse eigh faidh'ar

...is the correct past tense of 'pinch hit' don't @ me unless it's to agree with me that I'm correct. Anyway, I picked up two pinch hits in exchanges I didn't do, fandomgrowthexchange and unconventionalfanworkex

you can't take the fallout. jiàn yǔ | reign of assassins, ye zhanqing/xi yu. 2.5k words, rated teen. for echoslam / echoslam

And outside, there is Xi Yu, who is still too comfortable in her life as Zeng Jing, who has forgotten how to want to be Xi Yu. Outside is a woman abandoned, a woman you have grown, over the time of your confinement underground, to pity.

A woman you must save.

Ye Zhanqing learns the way of the Dark Stone, crawls out from the rubble, and finds that there is yet more in front of her, because in no universe am I not all over lady assassins a little too invested in other lady assassins that they are meant to kill. And it was a super fun challenge re: my ability to write action scenes!


chased by the sun. the southern reach trilogy, original female characters. 1.7k, for acequeenking / AceQueenKing

We crossed the border at the sixth stroke of the midnight leading into the linguist's birthday.

Even when I'm not thinking about the Southern Reach books I'm thinking about the Southern Reach books, yknow? This almost felt like cheating bc it was so easy to write. Nature horror is just v soothing, I think, especially when most of the horrific stuff is on the outside of a very tight pov. Let the trees chomp.