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blue (always in first draft hell)
@perpetualwips.bsky.social
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a place to spew my love and for XZ, WYB, yizhan, and yizhan-adjacent ships

https://archiveofourown.org/users/blue_ondine
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It’s still Wednesday where I am and I picked up an old yizhan WIP (Word says I created the doc in June of 2024) based on Cut’s “exes play truth or drink” videos

…I can promise a happy ending, if it helps
Text: What is your relationship now? (yb) "Colleagues," Yibo says. "Colleagues," Xiao Zhan agrees. "We don't get much opportunity to talk anymore. And Yibo doesn't like to stay friends with his exes." "What's wrong with that?" "No, no, there's nothing wrong. It's just your preference." Does that mean you would have wanted to stay friends? the producer asks from behind the camera. "Ah?" Xiao Zhan's eyes go wide, and he brushes a strand of hair off his forehead. "I- um. Yes. Yes, I think I would have. But wanting something and being able to do it are I mean, wanting something isn't always enough to no." He clears his throat. "I wanted to. But I don't think I would have been able to. So, really, Yibo's method was probably the best thing for us in the end." Across the table, Yibo watches him and swallows visibly, but he doesn't comment.
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Have I mentioned lately that I love him
Closeup of Wang Yibo in a dark blue windbreaker and white helmet, smiling a little goofily at the camera
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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In the past couple years I have actually, finally, learned to crochet, and my one regret with this cardigan is that I only had one square wooden button (would’ve liked to add two more)
A cardigan made of granny squares in blues, greens, greys, and browns; all connected by black yarn
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I started this WIP a while ago, but it was this hair that made me want to get back to it. Curlybo is too powerful
Wang Yibo wearing a black and white tweed jacket over a white lace blouse, a flying bird brooch pinned to the jacket. His hair is in loose, soft curls, blowing slightly in the wind
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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It’s been a while since I talked about Zhang Jingyi here but rest assured she still manages to make my heart do that little flippy thing
Zhang Jingyi in a strapless gown with a black skirt, rose-colored bust, and rose-colored train that sweep down around the skirt. Her hair is in a huge bun and she’s wearing elbow-length black gloves, posing elegantly between a set of double doors like an actress from the Golden Age of Hollywood Jingyi in a fuzzy blue cardigan, pale lavender bra, and white pants, one arm behind her head as she looks at the camera Jingyi, barefaced, in a green tshirt, her hand beside her face in a playful claw pose Jingyi in a sleeveless black mock neck, hair artfully tousled, pouting her lips as she stares at something off camera
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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My mom, sister, and I settled on the 1995 Pride and Prejudice as our current evening watch, and it’s fantastic and so much fun, and also in a truly expected fashion, I’m delighted to see the party musicians playing period instruments (no chinrest & shorter fingerboard on the violin, longer bow tip)
Three men in early-1800s clothing play (from left to right) a cello, violin, and wooden flute
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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For wip Wednesday, have some Yibot backstory from the space laundromat sequel #yizhan
Text: Then: It took Yibo three days to break back into the lab's network without tripping an alarm. He'd learned his lesson last time and didn't make himself known as he eavesdropped. The researchers were still scrambling to solve "the problem," even putting their other projects on hold. That was a real problem, because the lab's sole purpose was the creation of sentient robots. As far as Yibo could tell, there were no official plans beyond that, although in the many correspondences and articles he'd read, there were phrases like, "don't need to pay a robot," and "Yeah, but like, aren't you curious what it's like to fuck one?" One interview with a major donor of the lab went into "transhumanism" and how "uploading your consciousness into an immortal body" could become a reality soon. Yibo imagined his own consciousness being scrubbed to make way for that man, imagined someone else piloting his body and using his face, and had to take a break from the network for a day, wracked with a revulsion so strong that a nervous-looking junior researcher came with two armed guards to check up on him. He quickly learned that those who didn't covet him, feared him. Almost no one felt any kind of sympathy or understanding. Maybe it does have a point, he found Shen Lu writing once, and had allowed himself a brief moment of hope. If it's truly sentient then it must have its own thoughts. Machines, Dr. Wei had written back, are made to fulfill a function.
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I don’t have anything new written for him today, so have an old work from my other account

archiveofourown.org/works/54233425
Text: Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: 陈情令 I The Untamed （TV）. Relationship: Lan Zhan / Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Characters: Lan Zhan I Lan Wangji, Wei Ying Wei Wuxian Additional Tags: Post-Canon, CQL Verse, Making Out Language: English Series: < Previous Work • Part 3 of an archive in case twitter burns down • Next Work → Stats: Published: 2024-03-03 Words: 984 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 4 Kudos: 61 Bookmarks: 2 Hits: 450 wild thing mini_moth (Noctuelles) Summary: Sometimes, Wei Ying needs help quieting his mind. (cross-posted from twitter)
October 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Periodically I think about Yibo’s reaction to being described as sexually frigid
Wang Yibo, eyes bugging out of his head in shock Yibo standing with another man in front of a cartoony background, speaking into a mic. Subtitle reads: “Because I’m a Leo, I’m probably more uhm… more uhm... Okay, I'll shut up now.
October 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Been going for more walks and enjoying nature more recently, so there’s that
Marshland, its grasses turning yellow, and colorful autumnal trees. Bright sunlight falls on the marsh, contrasting with dark clouds overhead A leaf-covered trail through the woods, hemmed by foliage turning bright yellows, oranges, and reds Three small, light brown, capped mushrooms and large chunky gravel wedged in a crack in a rail tie Bright red crabapples hang off a branch with turning foliage
October 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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It officially feels like autumn here
A dead fallen leaf as wrapped around the stem of a dead plant. Out if focus in the background, purple asters bloom amongst green and yellow foliage An orange flowers, some purple asters, and some dried up black-eyed susans A milkweed pod, its fluffy white seeds bursting out against the brown stalk of a dead plant, surrounded by still-green foliage Orange and blue flowers by the roadside
October 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Oh so he picked the red seat on the bf’s birthday huh I see I see— [gets dragged offstage]
Wang Yibo in a white t shirt and black cap, sitting in a red seat at a tennis match. The seat to his right is green, and the one to his left is blue
October 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Happy birthday to this lovely inspiring man, may he continue to feel both lucky and happy
Xiao Zhan with his chin resting on his hand, laughing. His hair is tousled and he is wearing gold wire rim glasses and a pale periwinkle button up with a brown pocket.
October 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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It’s goldenrod and aster season, aka my favorite time of year
Small sprays of goldenrod and pale purple asters with a stone wall in the background A large spread of wild asters
October 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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His little face 🥹
Wang Yibo in a throng of people, smiling with his cheeks all puffed up, wearing a green shirt with an extremely bright yellow sweater tied around his shoulders
October 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Trying to take joy in small simple things right now: BIG MUSHROOM

I don’t know my mushrooms very well but I’m almost positive it’s a giant puffball
Very large, round, white mushroom with my hand, which is just a little smaller, for scale
September 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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The premise was newly-sentient robot yb x twelve-faced god xz whose appearance and powers change depending on what the people praying to him need, and gosh I hope I can pull it off! 🤞

Anyway, have a little snippet from the bit I did write last year #yizhan
Screenshot of text: Sand rasps under his shoes and the haze hides the sky and the edges of the battlefield, and Seungyoun is out there somewhere and Yibo cannot even look for him until the battleship leaves and the dust settles, and so he stumbles on, and on, and on. TURN BACK - RETREAT IN EFFECT. The burn marks on this old factory reach twice his height. His automated death count is in the thousands. His stabilizers struggle between the soft sand and rubble. His rear sensors are on such high alert that he startles at every shift in the air, waiting for the inevitability of search drones, and— He rounds a crumbling wall, and there, only nine meters away, stands the god. The only reason he knows this creature is the war god is that his systems note the same unknown, tingling energy as before. But gone are the armor and sword; the humanoid thing bent over half a corpse is shrouded in liquid shadow that pools at its feet like a black hole. It presses a pale thumb to the corpse's brow, and the corpse shudders once before sighing faintly. And then the god straightens up and stares right at him, eyes dark behind a gossamer veil of shadows, and Yibo freezes. His danger alarms rise to a cacophony, but there's nowhere to run. The crumbling wall can't save him now that he's been seen. He rests a shaking hand on the plasma gun at his hip, and the god cocks an eyebrow. The meaning is clear: you think you can kill a god? Of course he can't. Yibo lifts his chin and clutches the gun tighter anyways.
August 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Hey now, no one should look this good in a giant puffer jacket, who gave him the right
Wang Yibo in a beige and brown-grey puffer jacket and a white knit hat that pushes his wavy hair down around his face, looking just beyond the camera with a faint smirk
August 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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#yizhan space AU, in which normal guy xz briefly gets himself involved in the problems of a fugitive android
Screenshot from ao3: Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen, M/M Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) RPF Relationships: Wang Yi Bo & Xiao Zhan | Sean, Wang Yi Bo/Xiao Zhan I Sean Characters: Xiao Zhan I Sean, Wang Yi Bo, Original Characters Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Space, Alternate Universe - Robots & Androids, Vibot!, Space Laundromat, or as a friend once put it, liminal space...IN SPACE, Burnout recovery, also hiding from bad guys, platonic but can also be read as pre-relationship Language: English Stats: Published: 2025-08-18 Words: 6,285 Chapters: 1/1 Hits: 0 do i dare disturb the universe? blue_ondine Summary: Xiao Zhan is just trying to do his laundry and hopefully start a new career. Encountering an on-the-run android is the last thing he'd expected.
August 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Wow an actual, complete rough draft of the space laundromat fic! Which took 6 months for 6k words 🫠 how to write faster (tbf I did scrap a lot and start over at one point)

Maybe posting in a week-ish? I definitely absolutely need to revise. Meanwhile: have some sillies (I love yibot)

#yizhan
Screenshot of text: Yibo, apparently, takes "free to go wherever you want" to mean "follow Xiao Zhan back to the laundromat like an overeager puppy." He jumps out of the airlock and skips a little down the dock and hold the door for Xiao Zhan, chattering all the while. He hadn't realized he was being tracked until he noticed a ship following him through hyperspace; the company had attached the tracker to the exterior shell of his internal cleaner, which doesn't have sensors, so he couldn't feel it and had to search for it manually. Then some part of his hyperdrive jammed—yes, he figured out how to make a light, compact hyperdrive, he's a very advanced model, why else would the company want him back so badly?—and landed here to fix it. He's lucky Xiao Zhan was willing to help him. Won't his savior tell him his name, so Yibo can thank him properly? Screenshot part two: "You were so quiet and cautious when I first met you," Xiao Zhan says with a shake of his head as he pulls a shirt out of the dryer and begins folding it. "What happened?" Yibo just laughs. Full and loud, head thrown back. Anyone would smile upon seeing such easy joy. "I learned that Zhan-ge is kind and trustworthy and brave. The most brave. No one can compare—" Xiao Zhan throws a sock at him, which he dodges and throws right back. "Go fix your...whatever it was," Xiao Zhan says. "СВМ rotor." "Go fix your CBM rotor and let me fold my laundry in peace."
August 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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ITS HERE ITS HERE AHHHHH
A square box with a 3/4 closeup on Xiao Zhan’s face beside a red balloon Shiny transparent red album cover featuring hands holding a square, with the letters WM overlaid in script
August 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The way my mouth went dry
Zhang Jingyi in red lipstick, a gold necklace, and a black sleeveless gown with a deep V cut, leaning against a cream wall with a pale yellow moulding. Her hair is loose over one shouldet, her arm is stretched out along a wall, and she’s looking pensively at a vague spot on the floor.
August 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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A small #wangxian offering

archiveofourown.org/works/68742511
Screenshot of ao3 tags, title, and summary: Rating: Mature Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV） Relationship: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying I Wei Wuxian Characters: Lan Zhan I Lan Wangii, Wei Ying I Wei Wuxian Additional Tags: Experimental Style, list story, POV Second Person, Trauma, Food, Implied/Referenced Cannibalism, Hurt/Comfort Language: English Stats: Hits: 0 Published: 2025-08-05 Words: 486 Chapters: 1/1 How to Feed Your Lover blue_ondine Summary: Wei Wuxian and food, a guide by Lan Wangji
August 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Happy birthday sweetie, thanks for inspiring me to work harder towards my own interests and showing me that you don’t have to limit yourself to one thing if you don’t want to. Keep doing what you love and being yourself 💚
Head and shoulders shot of Wang Yibo in the water, looking excited as he holds up a crab he found Upper body shot of Yibo under pinkish lighting, wearing a black Chanel jacket and holding a microphone, head tilted as he smiles wide
August 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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That being said, the other half of my feelings…

(It’s not yet but it’s coming and I’m not ready)
Two-panel comic. In the first, a person reaches for a round yellow balloon. The person is labeled “me” and the balloon is labeled “Yibo’s 28th birthday” In the second panel, a large pink creature labeled “my 28th birthday” wraps its arms around the now-nervously sweating person
August 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM