Alone at last

[ratbones]

I have been required to interact with humans, in my own home, for the past twelve days. Everyone who stayed at my house was a perfectly lovely guest; they're all people I genuinely like, and whom I had not seen in a long time, and I had fun spending time with them. But. I am. so tired. I really thought I'd manage to get a little writing done, even if it wasn't the 5k-a-week thing, but I didn't. I filled in some plot holes and plans in my notes, but I only wrote maybe a few hundred words the whole time. I just had no brainspace for it. I've also gotten behind on reading and been a bit of a flake with commenting and replies and stuff, at least compared to normal. I've been operating at about 20% of my standard neural capacity and had limited free time. It's been weird.

On the bright side, I think I seduced one of my guests into watching Guardian. Risks of staying at my house include: getting cat hair on your clothes, being ruined by WeiLan. Have I done a bad thing? I already had them pretty well convinced, and then I showed them some screencaps. Their reaction to Shen Wei's face was "Baby!! He's a GOOD BOY. My son!" and so the doe eyes claimed another victim. (For some reason, they had trouble believing Zhao Yunlan was also the goodest boy. Why would anyone think that face was anything less than perfectly innocent?)

I've now spent about 24 hours not talking to anyone, and during that time I've eaten a large quantity of mac & cheese and gotten some good sleep, so I'm feeling a lot less scattered and more myself. I expect to get back to working on the WIP tonight. Not writing has provoked some weird anxiety, and now I'm a bit daunted by the prospect of jumping in where I left off, but I'll figure it out. Writing scenes out of order wouldn't be anything new. I can go back and tackle the tricky part once I've ground the rust off my gears. Okay, at this point I'm only still typing to reassure myself, so I should probably just bite the bullet and go type some fic instead.

Comments

[winter_blossom]

There were people who didn't realise Shen Wei was the Envoy before the reveal? O_o Okay, come on, I knew the moment I saw the OP for the first time, never having watched a single episode or even a clip (and I was completely unspoiled for the plot, too), because that walking/fighting side-by-side thing was a dead giveaway!

[ratbones]

Yes, but we've established that you have preternatural powers of plot precognition, so that's hardly a fair comparison :P The rest of us at least need hints!

[qikiqtarjuaq]

Well, I've only met two, and one of them was face-blind, so it was somewhat understandable! I think if you don't link the two together, the initial deceit in the first few episodes (the creepy opening smile in Ep1, the trolling during the interrogations) was to mislead the viewer into thinking Shen Wei was one of the bad guys. Not that it worked all that well, hahahaa.

[ratbones]

Yeah, I can see how if I had trouble recognizing faces, that would have made the connection a lot harder to draw. But I really cannot see Shen Wei's secrecy and covert snark as sinister -- I mean, I can see how they were going for that, in theory, but noooo Shen Wei is a peach and there's no hiding it. :D