Selenay's Ramblings

AKA the Wangxian Strictly AU :D

Week 3: Samba

This fic is so much fun to post. And editing it is much more fun than I expected, even when I'm having to rewrite entire scenes to make them suck less 😂

Last week's Strictly was also movie week, and I had so many feelings about the group dance and John and Johannes dancing a paso to Pirates of the Caribbean. It should have been awkward and awful, camp in a way that didn't suit the dance at all, AND IT WAS NOT. It was scorching. Brilliant. It tipped them over into being my favourite couple. I shall riot if they don't make it to the final.

Ahem.

In other fic news, I wrote the final words on the first draft of my MXTX Big Bang fic. It's just shy of 64k words and I'm feeling pretty good about it. I've got six weeks to tear it apart and get it into posting quality, so that's a nice bit of breathing space.

Also, I saw one of the pieces of art for it this morning and I'm blown away. It's going to be so exciting getting to share the fic and art with everyone - I really hope everyone loves the art as much as I do!

Hello, yes, I'm actually having a good fic writing year. Thank you, Untamed fandom.

Falling to the Rhythm (7609 words) by Selenay
Chapters: 1/14
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern: No Powers, Alternate Universe - Dance, Alternate Universe - Strictly Come Dancing Fusion, Ballroom Dancing, Dancer!Wèi Wúxiàn, Violinist Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Pining While Dancing, Oblivious Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Gratuitous Costume Descriptions, Gratuitous dancing descriptions, Slow Burn, Rating applies to later chapters, The unbearable romance of being cared for
Summary:

"So it's a bet?" Jiang Cheng said. "Dance the showcase if you get him, fancy coffee machine if you don't?"

Wei Wuxian considered the machine. "Fine. You're on. I want it in red."

"Don't start planning your caffeine overdose yet."

"It's in the bag," Wei Wuxian said cheerfully. "There's no way they'll match me with someone like Lan Wangji."

 

Teaching Lan Wangji to dance in front of the nation for twelve weeks, how hard can that be? Wei Wuxian is about to find out.

If I could explain the meeting I had today in a public arena, it would be an EPIC thing. I just...it's several hours later and I'm not over it.

(Not in an "OMG my company is terrible" way. It was just...both hilarious and awful, but the further away from it I get, the more hilarious it is.)

(It's days like this that I wish my job were interesting enough to write an AU fic about, because this little gem would have been comedy gold.)

In other comedy gold, my sister told me a story from her NCT group that had me lying on my side laughing for five minutes during Sunday Skype. So, er, if I ever write a kidfic then I need there to be at least one section with a baby just so I can use that.

The Untamed fandom is lovely and the comments on my fic have been great. Phew! How did I start off vowing not to write anything because it looked intimidating to write for and now have one fic posted and two WIPs? How?

Also, how has this fandom got so much absolutely amazing fic?

Not that a bucketload of amazing fic is a complaint :D

Should I start writing up lists of excellent fic I've found?

It is sticky and warm here and I am not happy about this, but apparently it's going to be less sticky soon. This is good because my office is the warmest room in the house and both cats are currently doing Very Dramatic Flopping everywhere, which is both tragic and hilarious.

My brain is in five hundred places at once this afternoon. I blame the combination of the hilariously awful meeting and an intense discussion of Xiao Zhan's new haircut in one of my group chats. Probably time to turn off the laptop and swan dive back into fic.

It's entirely possible that I'll be writing a lot of follow-up posts because this has captured my brain, but here is my first set of thoughts after a few days of settling into it.

They may still be incoherent thoughts, but OH WELL. Just have to live with it :D

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I was not as exhausted last night after nephew-wrangling, so I watched an episode!

(I accidentally put Sprog to sleep at one point. Apparently I’m very soothing. My heart did a thing when I realised I had a sleeping baby on my shoulder. Please excuse me if I end up writing a kidfic at some point this year to work through my nephew feelings.)

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Bank holiday! So I have done several hours of gardening, including almost losing my gloves to a rose bush, and now I have noodle arms but I can write this.

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There will be no Untamed tonight because it's extended family Zoom night. As is traditional, everyone will talk about the exceedingly erudite and intellectual things they're reading and watching and I'll just nod quietly because my C-dramas and fic aren't exactly family-compatible media consumption.

There may also be a lot of discussion of poo, because two of the families have babies right now. Poo and opinions on the BBC Proms. It's always an interesting night.