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It's that time again when I round up all the stuff I've written in the past year and reminisce over it. ;) I've been doing this same fic meme for years, haha. This time, I'm also borrowing some questions from GYWO and taking out some old questions to change things up a bit.

(Previous years: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006)

( fic written in 2019 )


( fic meme )

Look what showed up more than three years after Part 1? :'D I was revising a DE chapter for PR! and felt in the mood to tidy up Part 2 of this fic.

Title: Dàgē's Illegitimate Child Part 2
Fandom: Dominion's End
Words: 1,370
Summary: When Shuyu finally reunites with his family, he is accompanied by a new member—Jiang Xiaotian. AU.
Notes: This was the scene that made me want to write the story in the first place. :'D

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Been some time since I rounded up my stuff. ;)


Legend of Sun Knight new edition v7 and v8, GOD new edition v4, Human Doll Contract manhua v2 and v3, JU artbook, Dominion's End doujinshi by ICICLE + stickers, Kill No More keychains, and Dominion's End keychains by Wu Ling.

( Dominions End stuff )

( Human Doll Contract and Kill No More stuff )

( LSK stuff )

( GOD stuff )

( misc )

Dominion's End doujinshi by ICICLE. (blog entry with more info) She's currently selling the doujinshi and does ship overseas, so I bought directly from her~.


The doujinshi is titled "That Jiang family is a little unlucky?" Shuyu laments over their misfortune quite a lot. :') The Jiang family has everything except luck~

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Bought myself Human Doll Contract v1 (manhua version) and Dominion's End V4. I got HDC earlier in the month. DEv4 arrived on Thursday. Will put pics up. I thought they would get shipped together after DE got released, but they shipped HDC to me separately.

Cai Hong Zhong, the artist of HDC, sounds so tired and burned out! He also recently fell sick, so there was no new chapter published in December's magazine. I wish him good health. He has an autograph session during February's convention on Feb 14. Pics of the autograph board. I'm amused that the illustration for the body pillow of Ziya was used for the autograph board as well. :'D

I finished reading Dominion's End V4 in three hours. Oops.

Dominion's End V4 was much more relaxing and lighthearted compared to V3. V3 was all the feels. V3 felt like a conclusion. V4 is pretty much the start of another chapter in their lives, building from the ground up. A very transitional volume too. Yu Wo even says that she wants to attempt to write a long story. She's aiming for 15+ volumes. :OOOO As a result, there can be volumes like V3 and V4 where we spend entire volumes away from characters I thought were main characters. Instead, Shuyu spends the majority of the volumes by himself, with side characters, and new characters. The cast is going to be huge. Like, we met a new character in V2 that I thought would be fairly prominent, and they haven't shown up again yet in 2 volumes. We met a new character in V3 that seems fairly important too, but they didn't have a single scene in V4, except for the side story at the end. We're in for a long, long ride.

Recently, I also finished reading Key of the Sunken Moon season 2 volumes 1-2. The new character, Jin Shi, is pretty cute. There's a huge sidestory printed at the end of v2 that's dedicated to his backstory. It paints him in a very different light. At first, I was disappointed that it was a side story and not a continuation of V2. It was seriously a huge chunk of the novel! But as I read the side story, I grew more and more interested in Jin Shi and also the world he came from.

Apparently, Shui Quan's other novel, 異願洛恩斯, is related to Key of the Sunken Moon. It details a world that is connected to Fan Tong's world but separated and can't be reached. One of the characters is even the younger brother of Puhahaha. I went and read everything of what Shui Quan has posted in her blog. She usually posts the beginning of each volume. So, I read the beginning chapters of all 9 volumes. :'D

...I have the general story, but I'm sure missing all the climaxes. In the end, I bought the series. Hoping to be able to read it next week. Same artist as Sunken Moon's artist. Such pretty art~.

I bought some cute pins from kyuutan. They arrived yesterday, and ahhhhhh, kyuutan even included a drawing of Sun Santa! /swoons. This truly puts me in a holiday mood. :DDD



Dominion's End V4 is going to be published on January 11, 2016. Pre-orders open on December 28. This is what the cover will look like. Xiao Sha is on the cover this time. Extras for buying the book right away include a clearfile of the girls, and the special edition includes a bag featuring Shuyu and Xiao Tian, as well as the clearfile. Even Xiao Rong (the banyan tree sapling) is featured on the picture of the bag. :DDD Too bad that it's a bag... it'll really affect the image quality. I'll probably order it along with volume 1 of the Human Doll Contract manhua. (BTW, amazingly enough, Ziya has been featured on a body pillow! He's on the very right. I never thought Jiang Ziya would be the first to be featured on a body pillow, out of all of Yu Wo's characters, lol.)

The facebook page for the LSK mobile game has been posting pics of characters from the game and having people guess who they are. Adair was just posted! But... why does he have red hair???? :O He looks like a mix of Earth and Blaze. :'D (Are we sure this isn't Earth? Or Ed. Or someone else. Adair... ;___;)

Adair
Neo (So dark XD)
Aivis (I like how he looks!)
Pink
Aldrizzt
Grisia

I started a Chinese translation of the fic~

♥ 大哥的私生子

What was funny was that I ended up elaborating a bit more (hey, hey, this isn't a translation anymore), so I was sort of editing the story again. Anyway, I went back to the English version and made some revisions to reflect the changes I made in the Chinese version. The Chinese and the English don't match very well, whoops.

And then I received a comment from weixin saying they haven't even gotten V3 yet. XD;; Ahhhh, even in Chinese fandom, V3 is elusive!!

By the way, here's a gorgeous Legend of Sun Knight fan comic drawn by 12HolyKnights called "The sound of piano - A tender feeling." I highly recommend it!

I came home to Dominion's End waiting at my door~. Finished reading it before bed. Fights after fights. Lots of characters dying, as well as a fairly major character death. D: There always was a death flag, so I'm not surprised. But I'm still sad. Narrative-wise, I'm glad there are very real consequences, and this turn of events makes a lot of sense. (But I'm still going to go off and dream of fanfic situations where the character is still alive. XDDD)


The special bundle came with a towel of the Ice Emperor. What to do with it... Hang the towel on my wall...? XD;

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( very spoilerish commentary )

Finished reading Dominion's End v1. It was basically content that Yu Wo had already plurked! She wasn't kidding that she'd written a volume's worth of content already in her plurks. I wondered if we would get a bit more of the story in the printed version, but nope. Still, I reread what was written and got sucked right back in. Tried to ponder why (sometimes Yu Wo's stories start out a bit slow, such as GOD and Kill No More. Even LSK for me. And No Hero too... So actually, most of her stories, in my opinion!). My conclusion? It's because this is a thriller. XD; Very much a page-turner, full of battles, life and death situations, and some mystery. While most of Yu Wo's series start with slow world-building and character introductions, this one dumps us right into the action without being confusing. It's definitely more of a react first, think later type of story. I suppose end of the world scenarios call for that, haha.

It makes for a nice change, and it's a much easier read than Gong Hua (a bit shorter and way less nerve-wracking). Despite this being an end of the world scenario, our main character has such a good chance this time around that things are actually fairly lighthearted. There is some identity angst, some cynicism and self doubt, along with fierce protectiveness over family. Jiang Shuyu, you win. You have all the qualities of being a favorite main character of mine. XD; I understand your protectiveness over your new family. They are super cute.

There are tons of fight scenes, way more than LSK (then again, Grisia doesn't really fight. He schemes, haha). Usually battle scenes don't do much for me, but it's fun seeing Shuyu experiment with his powers (and basically kick ass). There is an allure to powerful characters, isn't there... Shuyu's excuse being that he's been through this before. (time traveling and dimensional hopping = huge advantage for the Jiang family)

Regarding the powers revealed in this first volume, I will never stop being amused that ( Read more... )

Dominion's End seems to be slated for at least 7~8 volumes. Volumes are not really self-contained at all, unlike LSK where each volume has its own mini conclusion. V1 of Dominion's End kind of just ended right in the middle of the action. D: Anyway, V2 is scheduled to be released this December. I hope that indeed happens. :3;; But it sounds like we'll be getting No Hero V9 before that! September is Yu Wo's prediction.

Autograph session for Dominion's End v1 (Haha, there was a No Hero cosplayer there~~ of Ji Luo Chu. And wow, someone already cosplayed Jiang Shuyu! The readers are all so young~~~)

J.U.'s version of Awaitsun. The detail on his armor, ahhhh. The wings for Silent Eagle! So novel!Awaitsun has dark hair. *___* (I still can't get over manhua!Awaitsun having white hair)

(Text says: His son's eyes. The color is the same as his!)

Ahhhhh, Shuis!!!! ♥

I preordered the first book of 終疆 (promotion video, Yu Wo's post, promotion page). The promotion page has profiles for the siblings. Dage is 27. Shuyu is 18 (but his soul is that of a 35 year old girl). Shujun is 15. Haha, Shuyu's profile... Body is siscon, soul is brocon. Yup, that sums Shuyu up. These three siblings will really do me in. XD Shutian (Dage) is a little like Ri Xiang Yan from Eclipse Hunter/No Hero, though he's... a bit nicer? XD;

ETA: I AM DONE WRITING THE LAST CHAPTER OF BITTERSWEET SWEETNESS, AHHHHHH. (Now to edit) BUT DONE. Expect to see the last chapter sometime within a week, hopefully. XD;