lookitmychickenNov 29, 2022
#MDZS challenge by Elenir
1. Adaptation you experienced first
2. Favorite version
3. Favorite character
4. Sect you would choose
5. Best fight scene
6. Favorite quote
7. Best dressed character
8. Favorite jnr
9. Best villain
10. Favorite ship
11. Favorite weapon
12. Overrated character
13. Underrated character
14. Best Clan residence to live at
15. Most heartbreaking scene
16. Funniest moment
17. Worst parental figure
18. Who should have lived
19. Most underrated moment
20. Favorite cast member
Show threadlookitmychickenDec 3, 2022

19. Most underrated moment
Hmm ... Maybe the sex scenes in the novel? Because they're not that good at sex, at least not to start with. And at first it seems kind of cringy & ridiculous.

But over time, I've grown quite fond of them. Because they're not good at it, but they love each other so much anyway.

(I'm choosing to believe that they practice a lot & get much better over time.)

Show threadArboreousDec 3, 2022
@lookitmychicken Wow sorry, I skipped some of my thought process there - that comment followed me thinking in response to your post "yes those are some good scenes and I also like to think that they figure some things out over time like you know lube and oh that reminds me of a fic where..."
Show threadJuliaDec 3, 2022
@arboreous @lookitmychicken That's interesting, it has never occurred to me to see the sex scenes in the novel as they don't know how do to it better and will improve with time. I read them as intentionally kinky. There was no indication e.g. from lwj that he's taking notes on how to cause wwx less pain next time around... Or am I misunderstanding you? Of course a fic author might just pretend that's why their sex was like that and fix it in their AU :)
Show threadJuliaDec 3, 2022
@arboreous @lookitmychicken Also this fic sounds interesting, I don't think I know it! Could it be a sequel of Paper moon? I've read the long one but no sequels.
Show threadlookitmychickenDec 3, 2022

@thalassa @arboreous oh yes it could be paper moon! I tend to only rec completed works, & I think paper moon is still a WIP.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1654885

The Same Moon Shines - sami, Winterstar1412 - myself really, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Show threadlookitmychickenDec 3, 2022

@thalassa @arboreous

I stopped reading WIPs a year or so ago (because my leaky brain couldn't hold multiple ongoing plots in between published instalments). But I read a lot of the paper moon series before making that call.

Show threadJuliaDec 3, 2022
@lookitmychicken @arboreous Ah I don't read WIPs either but this is a long finished fic and I'm not sure I even noticed that there were more parts in the series at the time :D That's why I still haven't read any further.
Show threadlookitmychickenDec 3, 2022

@thalassa @arboreous oh the series shows as incomplete when I look at the series page.

I know a lot of authors don't mark their series as complete even when they are, which frustrates me a bit.

I have my 'unread' list filtered to show only works & series that are marked as complete, so if an author never marks their series as complete, it won't show up on my unread list.

Show threadBias 🔞
@lookitmychicken Yes, I've accidentally kept my series as "incomplete" even when they're not. Unfortunately, AO3 sets them to "incomplete" by default, and it's just... kind of out-of-the-way, I guess? Changing it to "complete" isn't intuitive - some people probably don't even know there's a complete/incomplete toggle on series. :(
Dec 4, 2022 at 10:29amWeb