I mentioned on Twitter that I've been looking for The Untamed icons that fit my ~vibe~ but still haven't found anything I like as much as this photo of Yu Ziyuan bloody and exhausted on the steps of Sword Hall, for which SOMEDAY I'll write an AU where Yu Ziyuan lives and leads the Sunshot Campaign. A couple people did volunteer to try their hand at iconing the image after I promised the first three paragraphs of the AU. And, well.

300 words is pretty much the same as three paragraphs, right?

( ride the winds westward )

Ending it there for now, before I get too carried away with myself; I've got Chapter 8 of cast your bitterness into the sea still awaiting completion soon, and it's entirely too nice a day to spend entirely inside!

(The title, btw, is altered from Yilin Wang’s translation of Qiu Jin’s poem, which begins ‘don’t speak of how women can’t become heroes')

( and here's the photo itself for your inspirational needs )