The Ink-Pot and the Palette

I have at least one friend who watched all of Detective L except for the last case, knowing that she'd be badly disappointed. I'm enough of a completist that I expect I will watch the whole thing once I get back to it, but I'm sad that the show had to deal with that. :(

My great hope for new dramas this year is that Zhu Yilong's Lost Tomb series will actually get released. (He finished shooting it not long before I fell into Guardian fandom last year, I think, and apparently this delay between production and airing is unusually long, so I know many, many people who're getting fidgety about it.) I haven't seen any of the other Lost Tomb series, but am hoping I'll be able to follow this one reasonably well. I gather his role (or all of the main roles?) is played by a different actor in every series in the franchise, which is interesting, but I have only a vague sense of how it works. (As is obvious, I imagine. ^^)

AFAIK, HIStory is a sort of BL anthology series? There's at least one other HIStory 3 besides Trapped, which I gather isn't as good/as satisfying.

Guardian fandom is bursting at the seams with amazing fic authors! *^^*

I'm going to point you at Archive of Dixing to start with, which is "a searchable directory listing of all English-language fanworks for the 镇魂 Guardian fandom"--very useful, given that there're a LOT of Chinese-language fics in there mislabeled as English.

Since you mentioned an AU, three other AUs I've especially loved have been Bonibaru's "The Crimson Lotus" (a Scarlet Pimpernel AU, and it also has some canonical side stories by no_detective), ratbones' "All-Consuming" (zombie AU, with minimal on-page zombie presence), and clevermanka's recent "Ghost Story" (which isn't PWP but has boatloads of well-done ghost sex).

But there's so much good stuff out there that can mostly point you to some writers I love. Just as a starting point, take a look at naye, frith_in_thorns, xparrot, marycrawford, starandrea, Trobadora, and rageprufrock.

(Seriously, that's not a remotely comprehensive list! And I'm underslept enough that even if I try to just name all of the great writers among people I know, I'll inevitably miss several and feel awful. ^^;)