Everything We Are

Description

The year is 1980, and Yixing has been invited to join the Seattle Ballet's summer programme as an exchange student from the Beijing Dance Academy. Baekhyun is a Korean-Canadian-American soloist with a wide smile and a reckless enthusiasm for life, dance, and Yixing's jetés. The language barrier is the least of their worries.

Foreword

I'm so excited to finally cross-post my entry for the 2018 Timeline EXOpress fic fest! 

This is basically a Mao's Last Dancer AU. If you've read the book or seen the movie... this is essentially the gay version of it. (If you've read the book or seen the movie, you'll also know who Mr. Peterson is in real life.)

A huge thanks to Rey (capyshota) and Sacha (BabyBlueBoy) for being incredible beta readers, bouncing ideas and helping me brainstorm and picking up on my non-American ways of phrasing and wording things. This story couldn't have happened without your help and encouragement.

UPDATE 19/2/2019: Here's a little epilogue! (Just in case you wanted to know how it all ends.)

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hzhfobsessed #1
Chapter 10: omg holy ing I can't even deal

i've actually been struggling with a 1920s fic dealing with racism and homouality, and another one in 1970s with just homouality, but holy hell this puts everything in such a marvellous way

it struck deep, the prejudice, and it feels like you weren't trying to focus on the bad, but it was impactful nonetheless, and hell you even incorporated the political thing seamlessly

i hate reading about controversial like this because it makes me uncomfortable, but man this was just great ;;;; i honestly have no words
kimkaaaaaa_ #2
Chapter 10: This was put together so well, i wonder why there isn’t more attention??? IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL (sorry for yelling) but it deserves that TT. this story has all my hearts (lol). thank you for this masterpiece
prettykidinyellow #3
I've given kudos to this story in ao3 and I'm giving you an upvote here. Thank you again for writing this masterpiece ❤
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