This script is sort of inspired by watching a few episodes of Oh My General, this Chinese web drama about a deadly female warrior forced into marriage with a famously beautiful and useless princeling. I ended up not finishing it because it was moving too slowly and the princeling was not beautiful enough for how irritating and whiny he was--apparently he gets an upgrade but the upgrade was taking entirely too long. The secondary love interest was hotter and respected her more, anyway. (A bunch of my friends have gotten into Cdramas recently, is how I ended up watching it, though mostly The Untamed, which appears to involve a lot of tragic lads in lacefronts with demon problems. Apparently it's very good but I have chronic "tits or gtfo" disease wrt media, if there's no women don't @ me I will sleep through it.)

What was I saying. Yes. Sort of inspired by that, but actually this basic scenario is an idea I've had for a while. I have a lot of porny ideas that only exist in my head or in a few straggly little paragraphs in scraps documents--before GWA I seldom wrote porn. No market, you know, can't sell noncon on kindle, and there's very little audience for free original self-pubbed porn, so why? Just imagine your stories, less effort. Very strange and satisfying to find there is a market for my niche, too-narrative filth.

I feel like, wrt GWA, there's a pretty decent demand for fantasy-type scripts, that's why I put that tag in the title, though there's little fantastical other than a vague reference to "potions". Pity I don't have a lot of sexy sf/f ideas. But anyway, this idea has lived on in some neglected corner of my mind since Mulan or Tortall, the female warrior and the man who takes vicious and shameless advantage. Oh My General just reminded me, when I was listlessly poking at my WiPs. I wrote all this in a tear over two days, tapping into that old fantasy. This guy speaks in a much more formal register than I've been writing lately, that voice was fun to slip into for a while. Nose so high in the air he's going to trip over something, honestly pretty entertaining to write, though I finished it up with libido.ex firmly offline. My room is the hottest one in the house, and not just because I'm in there. Still, I know myself well enough to know what would be sexy to me, if I weren't melting.

I added a few words to the prequel and sequel to Frying Pan/Fire, though I do not think either of those are likely to see the light of day anytime soon, the prequel got weirdly personal and idk, the sequel has not been sparking joy lately. I've mostly been producing disconnected incoherent paragraphs. That's the usual way of things. Spend a week or too adding a few sentences here and there to random scripts, until hyperfocus grabs the scruff of my neck and says this one, I'm tired of looking at it and I say damn bitch cool out okay I'm typing I'm typing. What I want to write is more spy shit, but I don't have any particular ideas for it.

Here is a snippet of something, for sitting through all of this:

You're always being tested. In the obvious ways, like how good a shot you are, how good you are with languages, how you stand up during the interrogation training, but also... Have you made friends in your cohort? Have you made allies? Have you made enemies? When you're tied up, how long do you try to free yourself before you start looking for other options? Which instructors do you try to please the most? What upsets you more, a punishment that denies you food, or liberty? Certain traits will get you earmarked for watching.

Can you guess what yours were?