Scenes from Zhang Yixing Is a Girl, cont'd

[warmboys]

My Favorite Movie
Luhan/Lay
~900 words
PG
Yixing gets a tattoo. Lu Han doesn't ponder its significance.

Following up on

Comments

[jaerotic]

there was nothing fancy with this but i enjoyed it.
i'm really liking these "Zhang Yixing Is a Girl" ficlets from you (nvm that i love genderswitch in general lol).

[warmboys]

I'm glad you're enjoying them :D writing them is like a brain massage for me, very calming, a good destressor :) Thanks for reading!

[allegorein]

i'm giving up on you, zyx. maybe in another lifetime.

SCREAMS

[warmboys]

not*

never*

[allegorein]

i love how you instantly get this comment...and for correcting my typo*

[warmboys]

:D special part of my brain reserved for them and you

[one_if_by_land]

I reallyyy like this! I love how you managed to preserve the essence of layhan's dynamic within the genderswap (the easy joking around & equal parts push and pull & yixing indulging and humoring lu han) but you still made girl!yixing distinct, interesting. the passage with the beach memories was particularly lovely, especially with the way you referenced the two of them growing up and how their friendship changed from the first year to the second. and the part with lu han playing in the sand with yixing holding his foot captive and tickling it with the mercilessness of a teenage girl with her best friend’s heart in her hands - this hit me in all the right places, because I always wonder if their closeness causes their friendship to have an element of carelessness where they maybe let down their guards with each other just a little too much. the last line made me sad, though :(( zhang yixing, pls stop fronting :((

[warmboys]

Thanks for this thoughtful read! if their closeness causes their friendship to have an element of carelessness where they maybe let down their guards with each other just a little too much. I wonder about this, too, because it's easy to take that familiarity for granted and go "too far" without realizing it... and then, having built your relationship partly around/upon that carelessness, you can't exactly talk about it either. Sigh, they're so interesting to think about ;_;

[shirahimejj]

How so adorable?? *flails*

The dynamics of the genderswap are so fascinating, it makes for interesting scenarios. The bittersweet tinge here is very wrenching. I think you've been writing really great things with them.

I feel I should have more praise for the careful structuring of the story, but 4am... coherency is lacking... ^^;;;

[warmboys]

Aw thank you! :D I'm glad you enjoyed it! <333

[kenkabu]

godDAMMIT it started out so happily and then a few hundred words later i'm actually in pain, what is this!!!

This is the most adorable thing. Lu Han's smitten-ness (is this a word?) with Yixing, omg PROPOSING TO HER! ON THE STREET! AT FOURTEEN!!! WITH A FAMILY RING!!!!!!!! i have to say i am happy that yixing shut that shit down but holy shit, lu han, can you get any more adorable??

I also really like these moments of time you've shared, like the foot thing at the beach (also this part made me laugh a lot), which are completely random and silly but somehow when you put them all together, it's really beautiful. And you have these punchy lines like The days when Lu Han could look past Yixing and into the water, at the bright and uneven waves, the seagulls cawing overhead, sections of his vision distorted by sunlight, were the days he felt most like an adult. which are, gosh ;A; just amazinggggggg because in the space of one sentence, you see this isn't a slice-of-life fic, it's a fic about growing up and saying goodbye to childhood

[warmboys]

This is such an insightful comment omg ;;;; I feel like you've made this so much more than it is/what I wish it were, esp the part about growing up :( aaaghh

The ZYX thing came about after I misread “I’m giving up on you, WQY; maybe in the next lifetime.” as "I'm never giving up on you, ZYX" TT__TT and then it stuck!

Thanks so much for reading <333 and leaving this wonderful comment *___*