Another Afghan, Some Recs, and a Resource Post Question
Two weeks of @recthething recs (all Untamed/MDZS fics)
grief; the stages of by synonemous (40k)
Summary: Wei WuXian opened his eyes to the sound of buzzing. (fascinating reimagining of (highlights of) the novel's events with a modern 2019 setting, i.e. modern cultivation plus cars and cellphones, etc)
I would rise free, and journey far away by psychomachia (9k)
Summary: Lan Xichen gets a correspondent in his seclusion. Nie Huaisang is just surprised he didn't set the first letter on fire. (a very interesting LXC-centric story told mostly through letters)
operation prison break (gone wrong) by bosbie (6k)
Summary: In the blighted depths of the Nightless City prison, the second prince of Gusu unlocks a cell door and opens it. It’s empty. The prisoner across the aisle is more than happy to tell him why-but not before being a shameless bastard about it. (Fascinating peek of a short royalty/spy AU)
Yúyīn 餘音 by riotintheheartt (18k)
Summary Snippet: It was winter, and Wei Wuxian felt it more in his soul than on his skin as he looked at the frozen surface of the lake. (interesting book!verse AU from 2018 with god!LWJ, ghost!A-Yuan and a despondent, hermit!WWX who lives in LWJ's temple)
Here With Me 'verse by iamwish (currently 3 works, 67k total, main story is 58k and side POV stories 2k and 7k)
Summary Snippet for main story: Wei Wuxian finds himself in the past, a few months before the Gusu Lan lectures, and decides that his best shot at hiding his trauma fixing the future is faking his own kidnapping and asking Wen Qing who all he needs to kill before she or someone she trusts is in charge of QishanWen. Clearly, he thought this through.
Or: Wei Wuxian creates a No War!AU, and then he has to live in it. (really well thought out time travel fix-it AU that does not shy away from showing how WWX's previous lives affected him. CW for period-typical homophobia and Yu Furen bashing)
The Chinese Garden Court by deliciousblizzardshark (5k)
Summary: Wei Ying has felt like he's been missing something his whole life. He finds what he'd lost at a museum. (Reincarnation + immortality AU)
I finished my newest afghan (made from yarn repurposed from an *incredibly* ugly sweater) but for three days have failed to take a non-cat occupied picture of it so have a sleeping Santini as well:
(it's about 48"x32" or 122cm x 81cm)
as an aside, this is the yarn from the afghan I had to pull out last month where I'd tried a tight pattern and 3/4 of the yarn made this, 42" long but only 14 wide (the color difference is due to sunshine vs lamps lighting)
And then onto the background for my question - when I first compiled my useful links posts I had a grand total of 300 some odd links and I came up with vague themes to sort them into posts. Now there's easily over 1600 links and while some of those posts have barely had anything added to them, others have doubled or even tripled in length. The "Random" and "History" posts in particular are now very big and I'm wondering if they've become unwieldly and hard to use. There's also other links and subjects I have complied to add, but I can't really decide where to put them.
I was thinking of starting a new post for the artist's resources, writers/artists 'guides to things' links that now are listed in the random post and adding some yet-to-be-posted NSFW writing links there. But I don't think adding in all the 'how to write X' links I have would work since I think people will look for the ones specifically about medical things and injuries in the 'injuries and treating them' post and the writing fight scenes/police/forensic links in the 'fighting, military, police etc' post and it'd be most helpful to keep all resources about those specific themes in their own posts. I'm really not sure if the 'Action/Sex scene descriptive words' links should move or stay in the 'Words' post, I guess it could go either way. If I do make a new post without those descriptive word links, it'd mean there'd be less than 50 links compiled for it, which seems kind of small though? (Even with them, it'll be only 60ish, which won't be the smallest post but is still fairly short.)
If you use those posts, how do you go about it? Just load up the entire useful links tag and ctrl-f? Go to a specific post you have bookmarked? Start on the masterpost and click from there? Do you have any suggestions on how to make them more navigable? (Just a reminder, the LJ versions of the posts are no longer updated, too many outgrew LJ's posts limits a while ago)
grief; the stages of by synonemous (40k)
Summary: Wei WuXian opened his eyes to the sound of buzzing. (fascinating reimagining of (highlights of) the novel's events with a modern 2019 setting, i.e. modern cultivation plus cars and cellphones, etc)
I would rise free, and journey far away by psychomachia (9k)
Summary: Lan Xichen gets a correspondent in his seclusion. Nie Huaisang is just surprised he didn't set the first letter on fire. (a very interesting LXC-centric story told mostly through letters)
operation prison break (gone wrong) by bosbie (6k)
Summary: In the blighted depths of the Nightless City prison, the second prince of Gusu unlocks a cell door and opens it. It’s empty. The prisoner across the aisle is more than happy to tell him why-but not before being a shameless bastard about it. (Fascinating peek of a short royalty/spy AU)
Yúyīn 餘音 by riotintheheartt (18k)
Summary Snippet: It was winter, and Wei Wuxian felt it more in his soul than on his skin as he looked at the frozen surface of the lake. (interesting book!verse AU from 2018 with god!LWJ, ghost!A-Yuan and a despondent, hermit!WWX who lives in LWJ's temple)
Here With Me 'verse by iamwish (currently 3 works, 67k total, main story is 58k and side POV stories 2k and 7k)
Summary Snippet for main story: Wei Wuxian finds himself in the past, a few months before the Gusu Lan lectures, and decides that his best shot at hiding his trauma fixing the future is faking his own kidnapping and asking Wen Qing who all he needs to kill before she or someone she trusts is in charge of QishanWen. Clearly, he thought this through.
Or: Wei Wuxian creates a No War!AU, and then he has to live in it. (really well thought out time travel fix-it AU that does not shy away from showing how WWX's previous lives affected him. CW for period-typical homophobia and Yu Furen bashing)
The Chinese Garden Court by deliciousblizzardshark (5k)
Summary: Wei Ying has felt like he's been missing something his whole life. He finds what he'd lost at a museum. (Reincarnation + immortality AU)
I finished my newest afghan (made from yarn repurposed from an *incredibly* ugly sweater) but for three days have failed to take a non-cat occupied picture of it so have a sleeping Santini as well:
(it's about 48"x32" or 122cm x 81cm)
as an aside, this is the yarn from the afghan I had to pull out last month where I'd tried a tight pattern and 3/4 of the yarn made this, 42" long but only 14 wide (the color difference is due to sunshine vs lamps lighting)
And then onto the background for my question - when I first compiled my useful links posts I had a grand total of 300 some odd links and I came up with vague themes to sort them into posts. Now there's easily over 1600 links and while some of those posts have barely had anything added to them, others have doubled or even tripled in length. The "Random" and "History" posts in particular are now very big and I'm wondering if they've become unwieldly and hard to use. There's also other links and subjects I have complied to add, but I can't really decide where to put them.
I was thinking of starting a new post for the artist's resources, writers/artists 'guides to things' links that now are listed in the random post and adding some yet-to-be-posted NSFW writing links there. But I don't think adding in all the 'how to write X' links I have would work since I think people will look for the ones specifically about medical things and injuries in the 'injuries and treating them' post and the writing fight scenes/police/forensic links in the 'fighting, military, police etc' post and it'd be most helpful to keep all resources about those specific themes in their own posts. I'm really not sure if the 'Action/Sex scene descriptive words' links should move or stay in the 'Words' post, I guess it could go either way. If I do make a new post without those descriptive word links, it'd mean there'd be less than 50 links compiled for it, which seems kind of small though? (Even with them, it'll be only 60ish, which won't be the smallest post but is still fairly short.)
If you use those posts, how do you go about it? Just load up the entire useful links tag and ctrl-f? Go to a specific post you have bookmarked? Start on the masterpost and click from there? Do you have any suggestions on how to make them more navigable? (Just a reminder, the LJ versions of the posts are no longer updated, too many outgrew LJ's posts limits a while ago)