When I'm with acquaintances, I feel like fog, like if I just stay hazy enough, unobtrusive enough, if I fill any container I'm presented, then I might do something right.
When I'm alone, I feel like I could fly away into the sky, and it could be beautiful or freezing or lung-air-stealing, but it would still all be like staring up with nothing earth-solid in my view, just dizzying blue, or black and glitter.
When I'm with my friends, it's as if I've condensed into liquid. I know I could splash and make a mess and it would be okay.
#random writing#spilled ink#all of my mutuals are on twitter#and idk how to be active on more than one platform lol#but there's some things I want to post that feel weird to post on twitter#god i miss you tumblr#i want to write more than one paragraph#i want my pictures to be optimized#i want to rant in the tags with just enough possibility of someone seeing it#so I can feel like I'm expressing outwardly#but hidden enough that I don't have to worry about taking up space#oh my god and i want to be able to edit typos in my messages#oh the sweet sweet edit button#how ive missed you
Hualian Whumptober complete!
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The 12 fics ended up being over 20K words total, which I'm really proud of! (1-2K per fic)
Summaries:
#1: XL is held hostage and there's a gun pointed at his head
#2: XL and HC are trapped together in a collapsed building. There's a pole in XL's abdomen
#3: Xie Lian is trapped in a never-ending labyrinth
#4: HC is branded again and again while XL is forced to watch
#5: HC is suspended midair by his broken arms
#6: A ghost uses XL's body to rape HC
#7: XL's chronic chest pain brings him to his knees in front of FX and MQ
#8: XL and the now human SQX are trapped in a desert with no food and water
#9: XL sees hallucinations of his parents on the first anniversary of their deaths
#10: XL is hit with a memory-erasing curse on a mission with FX and MQ and wakes up as post-100 swords XL
#11: HC is prescribed bed rest after being poisoned
#12: After XL is trampled during battle, HC finds him on the side of a river
Hualian Whumptober! (Fic #2/13)
Xie Lian and Hua Cheng are trapped together in a collapsed building. There's a pole in Xie Lian's abdomen and he's not quite sure what to do about it. Luckily, Hua Cheng has dedicated his life to getting His Highness out of tight situations.
Prompts: Collapsed Building // Blood Loss
Warnings: blood, serious injury
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After the world finished tumbling and crashing around him, Xie Lian blinked his eyes open to dust settling in the dim light. He heaved in a breath and froze, vision whiting out from pain. Xie Lian reached down with one hand to feel for the injury.
Ah. There in his abdomen was a large metal rod. No wonder breathing was so painful. Every movement of his lungs shifted his muscles around the pole. Blood dribbled out, but thankfully most of it was stunted by the rod itself.
Xie Lian’s fingers slipped messily around the wound as he assessed it. He groaned softly when he had to twist his arm under him to feel his back— Yes, it seemed to have gone straight through his abdomen.
Xie Lian closed his eyes, trying to get control of the pain. When he opened his eyes he called out, “San Lang?” The building had collapsed so suddenly he hadn’t had the chance to brace himself or grab onto Hua Cheng. Luckily they’d been standing next to each other, so it was likely that Hua Cheng wasn’t too far away.
Sure enough, there was a soft moan and then Hua Cheng’s voice called back frantically. “Gege! Gege are you hurt?”
“Just a little,” Xie Lian said. He looked around him, trying to locate Hua Cheng’s voice. It sounded close.
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