520 Days Reverse Exchange

[miss_ingno]

Ahhhh, I'm finally off work OTL I'm so excited to delve further into the sid_guardian's Fourth Annual Interdimensional Haixing-Dixing 520 Day Reverse Exchange collection and enjoy all these lovely new works. I've only had time to check out my own gift, the fanart and two shorter fics so far, I'm excited! The summaries and tags are 👀👌

First of all, big shout-out to china_shop who wrote me an utterly incredible story that hits all of my favourite things about this scenario on the nail and provided me with even more fodder for thought. Ngl while I loved all the ads I chose to request for, this one was definitely the one I was secretly hoping would get picked because I'm a sucker for political worldbuilding and group dynamics, and the political tension + mentor vibes china_shop managed to pack into this are superb. Nevermind the incredible Weilan dynamic, both as a team and as finally, finally getting their shit together and kissing. Go check it out if you haven't yet, it's absolutely worth it!

Twenty-Four Hours in New Dixing by china_shop

I'm also very happy with how my gift for the amazing elenothar turned out. Ngl, I was surprised and pleased to get her as a giftee, I feel I have a pretty good grasp of what she likes and I'm always happy to write more Shen Wei's students, even if I'm often stumped on what plot to work with in that regard. So this was a great excuse to explore the direct aftermath of a potential fix-it and how it affects Shen Wei's civilian identity as a professor :D (shout-out to ishipallthings for the beta <3)

Keep On Going by missingnowrites

I could probably write a whole post of the ups and downs of writing this fic, and I might even do it later. I have... like four outtakes I will post into my outtakes collection at some point, too lmao because this fic kept changing on me. I'm not used to pantsing this much! But it turned out alright, and the response so far has been reassuring, too <3 (plus the important thing was of course that Elenothar likes it, so it's a success!)

(also I gotta admit I'm unbearably curious who else requested for my ad lmao but I understand why it's anonymous. If you're out there and reading this, feel free to let me know! Only if you're comfortable with it, though <3)

Comments

[elenothar]

I was surprised and pleased to get her as a giftee, I feel I have a pretty good grasp of what she likes

🥰🥰🥰 you do have a good grasp, yes! much to my advantage ;)

[velithya]

The whole collection is really great! Everyone did such top-notch work :3 :3 :3

The implications and consequences of what happens post-canon (with or without a fix it!) are such fertile territory for telling stories! I don't think I mentioned this in my comment but I liked that it wasn't "Professor Shen is Heipaoshi" it was just "Professor Shen is Dixingren" so it was common fear and prejudice working against him rather than any fear of him specifically!

(I'm also curious about who requested for my ad but also... the ads are anonymous so short of shouting my number from the rooftops I'm not sure how to tell! ^^;; I know that one of the people I requested was almost certainly Elenothar and obvs my actual gifter was the second one but the third one ??? no idea!)

[china_shop]

*beams like a lighthouse* <3 <3 <3

(I'm getting through the collection soooo sloooowly... :-)