SGDLR Exchange Letter

(Experimenting with using dreamwidth to host my letter for the 1st time so pls bear with me 😓)

Hello dear creator! I’m Moonie. You can find me on ao3 as Moondal or on tumblr as moondal514

General likes (a non-exhaustive list): historical au’s, slow burn, childhood friends to lovers, character and relationship studies, hurt/comfort, comedy, inevitable tragedy, angst, ambiguous relationships, pining, pretty prose, messing with time and space, and ships being vers

A note on historical au’s: I only like them when the country of origin of the characters is kept in mind. Like pls don’t randomly write a 1920s America au without properly considering and addressing what it would mean for Chinese characters to be in the US at that time period, you know? But the other side of that is if you want to write a wuxia au, by all means go ham

DNWs: 1st person pov, character bashing, eating disorders or any sort of angst related to a character’s weight or diet, non-canonical nicknames or pet names, pregnancy, voyeurism, exhibitionism, pet play, water sports, scat, infidelity, non-canonical rape/non-con, unrequested non-canonical pairings, and shiguang smut

A note on not wanting to see shiguang smut: I tend to headcanon shiguang as being a ship that falls somewhere on the sex averse ace-spectrum so as a result I tend to prefer to not read sexual content of them. You obviously don’t have to portray them with the sexual orientation I headcanon them to be, but I do ask that you respect my request and don’t write me sexual content for them (unless you wish to do so in a way that’s exploring ace-spectrum sexual orientations. I will say I’m enthusiastic about reading shiguang smut in those situations but that’s about it 😅).

But with that said, I’m totally chill with reading sexual content of any kind (excepting the stuff on my DNWs of course) for VeinFei, so if you want to write crazy sex for them, by all means go wild

In general I have a wide and varied taste (which you can tell by seeing all the fandoms I write and read for 😂) and I’m very open-minded with the media I appreciate. Please by all means feel free to ignore, combine, or partially use anything I’ve listed here (except the DNW list, pls don’t ignore that lol). I also love any type of ending, so feel free to give me something that ends happily, terribly, tragically, bittersweet, open-ended, or anything in between and I will love it

Now I will elaborate a little bit on the character/relationships and additional tags I’ve chosen

Character/Relationships: Cheng Xiaoshi/Lu Guang, Cheng Xiaoshi & Lu Guang, Vein/Xia Fei, Vein & Xia Fei, Lu Guang (solo)

You may have noticed that I have chosen both “/“ and “&” tags for ShiGuang and VeinFei. This is because with both relationships I’m happy to see a romantic, platonic, both, or qpr interpretation of them.

Link Click, more than any other fandom I’m in, is one I appreciate for the ways in which it doesn’t really matter to me how the relationships between characters are defined, that all that’s important to me is the ways in which it’s clear that characters love and care about each other, and for me this is especially true of ShiGuang. It doesn’t matter to me if they’re platonic or romantic, neither, or both, what matters to me is that they have this immense love, trust, and devotion for each other (and they’re breaking time and space as a result, go gays!)

For VeinFei specifically, I enjoy seeing them stuck in this liminal kind of pre-slash space where they dance on the potential of turning their relationship romantic/sexual but hold back because of neuroses/hr violations/fear of exploitation/whatever

When it comes to Lu Guang, I’m mostly interested in what he’s thinking. What’s going on with this guy? What motivates him? Why does he make the choices that he does? How much does he really know about shit? What is his background? How many times has he looped really? What kind of relationship does he have with HOTHH that made him act like Cheng Xiaoshi’s jealous boyfriend in Yingdu? And so on

Additional tags: angst, canon-divergence/what if?, missing scene, pining, canon speculation, character study

I’m very happy to have any of these tags used for any of the character/relationships I have requested for this event. But let me take these one at a time to explain what about them exactly that I like

Obviously I’m a lover of angst or I wouldn’t be in this fandom 😂. Link Click’s specific brand of angst as it connects to grief, abandonment, and difficulties within families is especially up my alley, but really I love all brands of angst (except for the ones listed in my DNWs). If this is the additional tag you choose, by all means pls go ham with the pain

Canon-divergence and canon speculation I’m going to group in the same category cuz until season 3 comes out there’s a lot of headcanons that could be or become canon 😂. I’m particularly preoccupied with what it would mean for Cheng Xiaoshi to dive into the past to save Lu Guang, or just finding out about Lu Guang’s time looping (is Lu Guang time looping? That seems to be up in the air in canon) in general, in the context of Shao Yuanyuan. What would it mean for Cheng Xiaoshi to throw away both Lu Guang’s rules and his own mother’s request he not mess with time so that she can save his father if he decided to dive into the past anyways? This is extra juicy to me if this scenario happens in an au where Li Tianchen really did kill Lu Guang with that stabbing. 

This sort of bleeds into the character study tag, but I also in general have great interest in the concept of Lu Guang trapping himself in a self-imposed time loop (which you can tell because I’ve written that fic twice already 😂). I just always love the concept of gays breaking the world and trapping themselves in a time loop in effort to save their loved one, and I love that Link Click implies that this is happening with 2 different characters. I will say, canon is very vague right now about how many times Lu Guang has gone into the past, so I’d love to see your interpretation of this. How many times has Lu Guang time looped? And how are things different? Or the same? And how do you think Cheng Xiaoshi will react to this knowledge? Or even find out? And so on. (Mild tangent: I personally think Yingdu is the furthest back Lu Guang has ever gone, which is why he seems so off-guard and stressed for a lot of it, so that’s another thing to think about if this is the prompt you use)

For missing scenes, this can apply to literally any part of canon that has room for it, but I will say I’m particularly interested in Xia Fei and exactly how he dropped out of university (did he drop out of university?) and started modeling/doing sus stuff for Liu Xiao and the development of his and Vein’s relationship as we see it in canon. I’m also interested in Shiguang’s university days and the formal establishment of their whole photo diving business

Pining I feel is kind of self-explanatory lol. I will say I especially like this tag when it’s used in conjunction with other tags

For character study, I’m most specifically interested in something that looks at any of these characters’ motivations. I want to know why they do the things they do and what they think of other characters and so on

As a general note, for Link Click I tend to be most interested in canonverse, as you can see from my rambling mess of prompts above 😂, but do feel free do ignore all of that and write whatever your heart desires.

I hope you find this letter helpful and I look forward to reading whatever it is you write for me!

Best,
Moonie