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wangxianficrecs · 14 days

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💙 Caught in 4k by KizuKatana

🔒💙 Caught in 4k

by KizuKatana (@kizukatana)

E, Series, WIP, 184k, Wangxian

Summary: A night-hunt goes wrong, and Wei Wuxian is scapegoated for the death of the Jiang Sect Leader and the destroyed core of the Jiang Sect Heir. As punishment, his core is taken and given to Jiang Cheng, and he is stripped of his cultivation credentials and expelled from the sect. What everyone forgot was that Wei Wuxian was wearing the standard issue body camera that each cultivator wore on training missions and high-risk night-hunts. Struggling to make ends meet, Wei Wuxian finds his way to Caiyi Town with the doctor who performed the surgery, a partial core still secretly in place. His application to work at Cloud Recesses is summarily rejected by the hard-edged Second Jade of Lan after an unfortunate initial encounter. But things change when someone hacks into the Jiang systems and releases the footage of what happened. Kay's comments: The series is still a WIP, but the main story is complete! I am so weak for Kizu's modern AUs with cultivation, they are great. Especially the world building and how the cultivation society might function in a modern AU shines in this story. Definitely not a story for fans of the Jiang family, but a story for everyone who wants to see some retribution for the things Wei Wuxian went through. Here, Jiang Fengmian dies during a night-hunt accident where Jiang Cheng's golden core gets destroyed and Madam Yu makes Wei Wuxian give his golden core to him, unfortunately for her, his body-cam is still filming everything. Wei Wuxian finds himself taken in by Wen Qing and her family and we get the sweetest found family and Dadxian vibes here and then meets Lan Wangji as well, who's highly judgemental at first but soon finds himself drawn to Wei Wuxian as well. This story really got it all, the drama, the horny, the softness, the restitution & humor. Excerpt: Still Wei Wuxian forced himself to at least try one last time. “You could also interview me. Have me talk to your best talisman experts,” Wei Wuxian said, forcing himself to keep the desperation out of his voice. “Interviews are scheduled based on receipt of proper credentials and references.” “I don’t have any, at least not right now. But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be a great teacher.” “No references, no interview.” “Come on. Look, ask me anything about talismans. You’re an experienced cultivator, right? So you must know enough to at least interview me to see if I know what I’m talking about.” “Simply ‘knowing about something’ is not sufficient. Our lecturers are renown cultivators, and masters in their fields. No references, no interview.” Wei Wuxian felt frustration well up in him, especially at the reminder that Lan Wangji didn’t see him as a cultivator. No one would, in his current condition. Why would they? He didn’t have a functional core, which was the main scale against which all cultivation efforts were measured. He thought he had done a good job of not getting his hopes up about the teaching position, but the suffocating feeling constricting his chest was calling him out for being a liar. He should have known better. Why did he never learn? Some people had luck on their said, but Wei Wuxian had never been one of them. “Right. Of course. Because it would be impossible for someone who wasn’t born to the fucking clan nobility to ever actually be good at something, and the cost of taking the mastery test makes sure that other people can’t do it!” Lan Wangji’s lips parted slightly, like he might say something, but his expression was as opaque and emotionless as before. Wei Wuxian didn’t need to sit around and listen to him defend the clan system. “Good to know that the Lan are just the same as all the other sects,” Wei Wuxian continued, his lips twisting into a sarcastic smile. “Thanks for making that clear.”

pov alternating, modern setting, modern with magic, yu ziyuan being an asshole, dysfunctional jiang family, jiang family bashing, canon divergence, golden core reveal, burial mounds ensemble as family, golden core transfer, golden core transfer fix-it, top lan wangji/bottom wei wuxian, dual cultivation, strangers to lovers, misunderstandings, meet ugly, families of choice, hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort

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noenvyy · 8 months

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"Lan Wangji has a carefully crafted morning routine, he wakes at 5, makes his breakfast, goes for a run, returns home and showers, spends some time looking after his rabbits, and then heads to work to get to the shop for 7 sharp to start caring for the plants and be ready to open for customers at 8am.

His evenings vary slightly, coming home after closing up the shop and allowing the rabbits to roam his apartment, cooking dinner for himself and on occasion eating with his brother or friends, and then otherwise winding down by meditating or reading until it is time to shower and prepare for sleep.

His only other indulgence is his music, playing his guqin or composing songs to send out to his friends for their various projects.

He rarely deviates, doesn't have a reason to, his life is full no matter what his brother says.

He isn't lonely."

An excerpt from chapter 1 of the adorable fic "Love in Bloom" by the lovely KikiDoesFanfic. I had the absolute pleasure of getting to draw this piece as a part of the WIP BIG Bang. I think my absolute favorite part of it was Lan Wangji's soft pining. He cooks for Wei Wuxian ya'll! He does all the little things that shows he cares. We have all these intimate little moments around family and food. If you love fluff, seeing Wangxian's burgeoning romance in a modern AU, single father Wei Wuxian and smitten florist Lan Wangji, tattooed hottie NMJ with a swooning LXC on the side then you gotta check out their fic!! To be finished soon!

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letteredlettered · 6 days

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arranged20??

This answer is also for @nanavn, who asked about the same thing!

This is a fic I really, really hope to finish writing. I wrote 44,293 already. I love it and I'm proud of it. But it's an MDZS/CQL fic, and my head is living in TGCF right now, and I also want to make time for original fic, so who knows when I will get to it?

This fic is wangxian. That's the only pairing, though I guess background LXC/NMJ.

In ancient China, marriage between men was a thing, the way it was in many ancient cultures, but I didn't really do a lot of research on that for the fic. One central premise of the fic, though, is that marriage between men is not unheard of and can be used for political alliances. Homophobia still exists in this world, because I actually think it's rather important to some of the premises of this book.

The fic is an AU after WWX dies at the burial mounds. Another basic premise is that JGS begins to realize JGY is a threat, so he watches closely and doesn't die in an orgy. In order to keep JGY in check, JGS recognizes Mo Xuanyu as Jin Xuanyu. Meanwhile, JGS is more careful about consolidation of power--for instance, JGY has not dared sabotage NMJ. Instead, the Jin Sect has slowly expanded such that the other sects can feel the heat, and everyone is waiting for things to boil over.

This is an arranged marriage fic. At the start of the fic, Jin Sect finally makes a move that will undermine and discredit the Lan Sect. Lan Xichen knows what JGS is looking for--to either chip away at Lan influence or gain Lan fealty. LXC feels that the only way to secure their position is to marry into the Jin Sect. LWJ refuses to let his brother throw himself away on a loveless marriage, because the man LXC loves is alive and also threatened (even without his qi being sabotaged, NMJ's qi is still unstable). Believing that WWX won't return, LWJ demands that he go through with the marriage himself, and because LWJ is super stubborn and LXC isn't great at standing up to him, LXC acquiesces.

The marriage is of course to Jin Xuanyu. LWJ doesn't really know Jin Xuanyu except for having met a few times in passing. On the day of their wedding, Jin Xuanyu excuses himself from the wedding feast, claiming to be ill.

Here is an excerpt, taking place when LWJ checks on Jin Xuanyu after the wedding banquet!

Lan Wangji nodded and entered the residence, where a strange odor assaulted his senses and Jin Xuanyu stood in the middle of the room, holding a thick sheaf of papers and a shocked expression. “Lan Zhan!” he exclaimed.

Lan Wangji looked at Jin Xuanyu’s arm, which was now behind Jin Xuanyu’s back, hiding the sheaf of papers. Deciding to prioritize, Lan Wangji didn’t ask about it. Jin Xuanyu was extremely pale. “Are you all right?”

“Me?” Jin Xuanyu said blankly. “Oh, I’m quite . . . oh, terrible.” He began to cough. “I’m terrible, Hanguang-jun.”

“I brought you food,” Lan Wangji said, moving farther into the room. The scent in the air was familiar, but Lan Wangji could not place it.

Jin Xuanyu had not moved. “Hanguang-jun,” he said. Then he said it again. “Hanguang-jun.”

Lan Wangji put the tray on the table and stood.

“I . . .” Jin Xuanyu seemed quite at a loss. Then he said, in a quiet voice, “Are we really married?”

Lan Wangji stared, at a loss as well.

“It’s just . . .” Jin Xuanyu made a helpless gesture with his hand.

Lan Wangji, speaking very carefully, said, “You were at the ceremony.”

Jin Xuanyu grimaced. “Right . . .” He made another face. “It’s just so . . .”

Jin Xuanyu stood there for so long, unspeaking, that Lan Wangji finally stepped toward him.

“Never mind, Hanguang-jun!” Speeding over to the table, keeping the papers behind his back, Jin Xuanyu looked down at the tray. “Is it from the wedding banquet?” he said quickly. “Is it something good?”

Lan Wangji eyed him warily, remembering the Jin plots he had considered earlier. “Plain soup.”

Jin Xuanyu’s face fell. “Really?”

“You were unwell,” Lan Wangji reminded him.

“Oh. Right.” Jin Xuanyu coughed a few times.

In spite of his pallor, the way Jin Xuanyu was coughing did not appear genuine, and he seemed otherwise well. Even if he was sick, his current condition did not seem poor enough to warrant desertion of his own wedding banquet, and no illness Lan Wangji could imagine would cause a person to post a guard outside the door.

Keeping the papers out of sight behind him, Jin Xuanyu leaned down, uncovering the bowl on the tray and taking a whiff. “Unf. It really is plain. There at least should be good food, considering what I’ve been through.”

Jin Xuanyu did not seem inclined to share what he had ‘been through,’ but the papers were obviously connected. “Shall I fetch something else?” Lan Wangji asked, keeping his tone polite.

Wincing, Jin Xuanyu straightened, then forced an uncomfortable little laugh. “No, Hanguang-jun, that’s . . . it’s fine.”

Unable to wait any longer for a reasonable explanation, Lan Wangji finally asked, “What are the papers?”

“Hm?”

Lan Wangji did not repeat himself. He thought that Jin Xuanyu had heard him very well.

“Oh.” Jin Xuanyu chuckled. “I suppose you mean these,” he said, whipping out the sheaf of paper from behind his back. “Well, let me tell you,” Jin Xuanyu went on, glancing at the papers himself. “These papers are . . . they’re . . . a diary,” he said suddenly. “Very private, Hanguang-jun. I’m going to burn them.”

The paper visible to Lan Wangji was covered in writing too small to read. Lan Wangji looked back to Jin Xuanyu. “I would not read your private writings.”

“I’m sure you wouldn’t, Hanguang-jun,” Jin Xuanyu said, setting the sheaf of papers on the floor, then sitting down on it, before the soup. “You’ve always been so honorable. One can never be too careful, though. Prying eyes, you know.” Picking up the bowl, Jin Xuanyu began to eat, as though nothing in his behavior could be deemed at all suspicious or unusual.

Lan Wangji looked down at him, trying to decide what to do. That Jin Xuanyu was hiding things from him was obvious, and yet, Lan Wangji had rarely witnessed a guilty person seem so unconcerned with being caught. If Jin Xuanyu had in fact planned with other Jin Sect members to annihilate the Lan Clan from within, or if some other nefarious scheme were in play, surely a more subtle subterfuge would have been employed.

No, this behavior seemed a result of Jin Xuanyu’s own eccentricities, of which Lan Wangji was rapidly becoming aware that there were many. When Jin Xuanyu had first joined the Jin Clan at Golden Carp Tower, Lan Wangji had heard that the man was odd, but almost all the rumors had seemed to center around Jin Xuanyu’s sexual preferences, as far as Lan Wangji had been able to tell.

Perhaps he should have conducted more research into the nature of Jin Xuanyu’s character, not in the least because Jin Xuanyu was now slurping his soup in a most aggravating manner. He had handled himself with adequate decorum at the tea ceremony that afternoon. Perhaps within the privacy of the Jingshi, with his new husband, Jin Xuanyu felt it permissible to forgo etiquette.

“If you would like a private place for the papers,” Lan Wangji said, “I can provide a case and show you how to construct a locking talisman.”

“Ah, are we still talking about that?” Jin Xuanyu said, not looking up at him. “I told you, I’m burning them.”

Lan Wangji watched his husband eat for another moment or two. He really should sit with him, but to do so felt like a concession that Jin Xuanyu’s meal was normal and nothing at all strange was happening, when the fact was that Jin Xuanyu had been doing something in this room, something with the papers that he did not want Lan Wangji to know about. Perhaps it really was as innocent as updating his supposed ‘diary,’ but Lan Wangji doubted this.

The smell alone was cause for concern. When Lan Wangji focused on it, memories of the Sunshot Campaign surfaced—battlefields. Death. Corpses. But the room didn’t smell like death or rotting flesh. The odor was faintly metallic.

Lan Wangji spotted the smudge on the floor at the same time as he identified the scent.

Blood.

Walking a few steps, Lan Wangji bent down to inspect the floorboards he had only recently repaired. The stain was fresh, smudged as though hastily wiped away. The rest of the floor was clean, but such a small amount of blood would never cause the scent to be so noticeable. Straightening, Lan Wangji looked back at Jin Xuanyu, who was looking back at him, eyes wide as he lowered the bowl from his mouth.

“Were you cut?” Lan Wangji asked.

“No?” Jin Xuanyu did not sound certain about this.

“There is blood.”

“Ah, how strange.” Jin Xuanyu remained where he was.

“I smell it.”

“Ah, Hanguang-jun, so impressive, able to scent blood. You know, I would not share this fact,” Jin Xuanyu said brightly, wagging a finger at him. “They say that certain monsters are able to scent blood; it’s a nefarious talent.”

“Jin Xuanyu.”

“What? Oh. Yes?”

Lan Wangji looked at the floor, then back up at Jin Xuanyu. He was still pale, Lan Wangji saw. Blood loss.

“Well, what makes you think it’s mine, Hanguang-jun?” Jin Xuanyu asked, sounding petulant. “It could be anyone’s blood! You should keep your place cleaner. And more secure! Anyone could just come in here and bleed.”

Lan Wangji walked back to the table, took Jin Xuanyu by the arm, then pulled up. Jin Xuanyu squawked a loud protest, but Lan Wangji was stronger, forcing Jin Xuanyu from where he sat to reveal the papers that had been under him. Lan Wangji reached for them, and they abruptly caught fire.

Whirling, Lan Wangji turned back to look at Jin Xuanyu, who was lowering his hand, having just made a hand seal for fire—not a very effective one, Lan Wangji saw, turning back to the flames. The fire was feeble, already petering out. Lan Wangji waved his hand, expending very little spiritual power to extinguish it, but Jin Xuanyu was already rushing back, gathering the burnt papers to his chest. “I told you!” he exclaimed. “They’re my diary! You wouldn’t read another man’s diary, would you, Hanguang-jun? I thought you were honorable!”

“Tell me,” said Lan Wangji, through gritted teeth, “what is going on.”

“I’m . . .” Jin Xuanyu’s shoulders slumped. “Well, if you must know . . .”

Lan Wangji, waiting, abruptly realized he was furious. He had not had the time to process everything that had happened so far, all the ways that Jin Xuanyu was lying to him, setting actual fires in the Jingshi, cutting himself, hiding it—and they were married. Lan Wangji had married this man this morning, and Lan Wangji could not fully comprehend it. He could not recall feeling so blindly angry since he’d been a teenager; the mixture of hurt and absolute confusion felt exactly the same.

It felt exactly the same, and Lan Wangji suddenly, powerfully wished that Wei Ying was here, if only for Wei Ying to hurt him and confuse him that way again. At least that was a pain that Lan Wangji understood, and it had come from someone he loved. That this stranger could hold such power over Lan Wangji was only a result of the fact that they were married, and Lan Wangji had had his hopes, and now they were meant to live together, side by side, when Jin Xuanyu obviously had so little respect for him. It felt intolerable. It felt unfair.

Lan Wangji took a deep breath, then let it go.

“I was trying to cast a spell,” said Jin Xuanyu.

“With blood,” said Lan Wangji.

“Well, you see . . . it wasn’t exactly a polite spell.”

Lan Wangji put out his hand.

Jin Xuanyu looked down at it.

“The papers,” said Lan Wangji.

“No!” Jin Xuanyu clutched them closer. “These are my . . . notes. On how to do the spell, but it didn’t work. I’m . . . such a poor cultivator, you see.” Jin Xuanyu lit up suddenly. “That’s why I was casting the spell! It’s this body. It’s weak! And . . . small. The—my golden core is just . . . nothing to speak of. I could also be far better looking, don’t you agree?”

Lan Wangji did not know what he was talking about.

#wangxian #my fics #wips

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alightbuthappypen · 2 months

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FINALLY putting those boys into Situations, my god it's only taken a month and 14,000 words

#my fic #I don't do wip wednesday I do wip whenever-I-write-something-I-can-bear-to-share #wip #wangxian

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kizukatana · 1 year

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Su She Eats His Heart Out (thread fic back-up)

Sue She eats his heart out companion fic to: The late but incendiary sexual awakening of Lan Zhan

Summary: Lan Zhan had never even acknowledged Su She’s existence except with the occasional, icy ‘You Are Not Qualified To Talk To Me’ glare. But it was fine. It wasn’t like Lan Zhan ever gave anyone else the time of day, either, other than his teachers.

The (bitter) third party pov of the epic college romance between Wei Ying and Lan Zhan

A new student transferred into the university in their second year, and Su She was gleeful to see how much Lan Zhan was irritated by him from the very first day that the student (Wei something) showed up late for class with a ratty hoodie pulled up over his head and proceeded to sleep through lecture. Finally, someone else would be the butt of everyone’s jokes as they watched Wei Ying constantly try and fail to get Lan Zhan’s attention. When midterm grades came out, Su She was expecting the guy to be humiliated.

That was… not what happened.

Worse still, Lan Zhan was now actually turning his head to look at the guy when he spoke. And... wait, was Lan Zhan… putting his hand on the guy’s leg?!

No. Su She does not accept this.

Su She hurried to his fluid mechanics class. It was one of three courses he shared with the department’s star student, Lan Zhan. He liked to be the first one to class, since some teachers recognized this as a sign of respect and a serious student. Sometimes, if he was effusive enough, his professors would grade him less harshly than his peers. Midterms were coming up in less than two weeks, so he wanted to have all the teachers as favorably disposed towards him as possible.

And if he happened to arrive before Lan Zhan, then that was just an added benefit. Su She liked the slightly put-out look that Lan Zhan had when Su She managed to get the seat that Lan Zhan usually took in all his classes: middle of the front row. Well, to be accurate, Lan Zhan’s expression never showed anything, but even though the man pretended to ignore him, Su She was sure that Lan Zhan would be rushing to the class to try to beat Su She to the seat.

Surely after 12 years of going to school together, with Su She constantly trying to one-up Lan Zhan in every class and student club he joined, Lan Zhan would start to see him as his equal. Lan Zhan never spoke with him, never asked about him… never even seemed to look at him, but that was just because he was trying to act superior. There was no way he did not see Su She as his rival!

And even on the small chance that Lan Zhan was too stuck up to admit their rivalry, then at least the other students would finally recognize Su She’s abilities and superiority instead of always talking about Lan Zhan: how talented he was, how smart he was, how beautiful he was.

It was ridiculous.

Su She always tried to find out which courses the Lan prodigy signed up for in advance, but was always unsuccessful. Lan Zhan ignored him when he’d asked, and no one else seemed to know, either. He knew what Lan Zhan’s majors were, so there were some courses that he would definitely be registered for. Su She always signed up to those right away.

As for any elective courses, students were allowed to switch classes up until the end of the first week. Su She tried to adjust his schedule if he needed to, but since he and Lan Zhan were both in the acoustical engineering department, at least their core classes like fluid mechanics would overlap. Lan Zhan was double majoring in music theory, but Su She had dropped the idea of trying to copy him in that path freshman year. You needed to have special permission from the dean of both the engineering school as well as the school of music to double-major, and Su She’s grades were not deemed sufficient.

Just another example of how Lan Zhan got special treatment. Su She might not have as good of grades, but that didn’t mean Lan Zhan was better. He had tried to get Lan Zhan to join a study group with him so he could see Lan Zhan’s answers and improve his scores a bit, but (as always), Lan Zhan had ignored him, thinking himself too good to offer to help a fellow student.

It was fine, though. Engineering had a lot of students, and a lot of them posted homework solutions online, so Su She was able to at least hold his own in those classes, especially where homework counted for a large portion of the grade. He didn’t need to copy from Lan Zhan. He would show the other student that he was just as talented when grades came out this term. He heard rumors that someone had found a way to hack into a few of the professors’ accounts, where the exams for the semester were kept. If other people got to see them, then Su She should, as well. Lan Zhan probably had friends in the department who let him see the tests in advance, since his uncle taught at the university in the school of fine arts.

Su She would be just as admired as Lan Zhan if he had those same advantages. Lan Zhan just didn’t like him because he wasn’t as wealthy as Lan Zhan’s family was. It was all just elitism.

Su She gritted his teeth when he entered the lecture room and saw Lan Zhan already seated, his notebook and pen neatly laid out on his desk. In every class since they had first met in the very exclusive grade school when they were 8 years old, Lan Zhan has sat in the middle seat in the front row of the class. In every class since they met, Lan Zhan was always the teacher’s favorite student, and always got the highest score (usually by quite a large margin) in the class.

Always.

It had continued in college. Even though the exam scores were always posted by student ID number, not the students’ names, everyone knew which number was Lan Zhan’s, because it was always the top score.

And as if that was not bad enough, Lan Zhan made it look effortless. He was never late, never tired, his clothing was always elegantly perfect, his long hair always without a strand out of place up in an elegant bun or in a smooth braid over his shoulder. Lan Zhan drew everyone’s gaze, wherever he was. And the guy didn’t even care. He would just walk right by, ignoring everyone.

He especially always ignored Su She.

Su She had watched Lan Zhan for years. When he had managed to (just barely) get into the same Engineering school as Lan Zhan, he had finally thought that he might have earned at least a ‘hello’ from Lan Zhan. But no matter what he did, Lan Zhan never looked twice at him. Never even acknowledged Su She’s existence except with the occasional haughty glare when someone accused Su She of cheating or not doing his portion of a group project..

But it was fine. It wasn’t like Lan Zhan ever gave anyone else the time of day, either, other than his teachers.

The professor had not yet entered the room, and many of the other students in the classroom were clustered in small groups, talking. While this was not an unusual event, the level of chatter was somewhat more animated than usual. Lan Wangji tried to tune it out, not interested in gossip, but they were speaking loud enough to make it impossible for at least some of their words to reach him.

“Do you know who he is?”

“I heard he’s a transfer student. I think he’s in the second year class.”

“He couldn’t be. My roommate said the guy is in his Quantum Field Theory class.”

“Your roommate has to be wrong. They don't allow undergraduates in that class. You have to like… get special permission from the Dean to do that, and I think it’s only happened, like, twice in the history of the school. This guy wouldn’t stand a chance.””

“They must really have lowered the standards for transfers if he got in.”

“Look at him! His sweatshirt has a hole in the sleeve!”

“So disrespectful.”

“He slept through the entire class!”

“I bet the teachers all hate him.”

“How did he even get in? Everyone is supposed to pass the admissions test. There’s no way he passed it.”

"I heard he was a simmer. Was it a sports thing?"

“Gusu doesn’t care about things like that! Admission is supposed to be on academic merit only.”

“Maybe his parents know someone on the board of admissions?”

“Are you kidding? Did you see how worn out his clothing was?”

“Then how do you explain it?”

The teacher walked in and conversation cut off.

It was about twenty minutes into the lecture when the door opened and a student wearing a faded red hoodie (with the hood pulled up) and ratty jeans walked in and slid into a desk in the back of the classroom.

The professor paused, but continued on with his lecture.

Su She assumed that this must be the transfer student that everyone had been gossiping about at the start of class. Students kept turning around to look at him, which only annoyed the professor further. Of course, Lan Zhan never turned to look once, facing the instructor and diligently taking notes in his expensive, leather bound notebook with his stupidly perfect penmanship, just to show how much better he was than everyone else.

“Since none of you seem to feel the need to listen to my lecture today, I will be posting an extra homework tonight on the topics focused on in class. It’s due by midnight.”

The class groaned, some of them looking back to glare at the new guy, but he appeared to have fallen asleep in his desk.

Su She smirked. He could already imagine how much the other students were going to hate the new guy.

When class ended, everyone stood to leave, but the new student was still asleep. Lan Zhan glanced back when he stood, his expression looking even more judgemental than usual. Lan Zhan glared briefly at the sleeping student, then turned and walked from the room. The professor was also glaring at the back row, and was stalking over, likely to wake the sleeping student up.

Su She looked back at him one more time. Was that duct tape holding his shoe together? Su She snorted out a laugh. He gave the guy two weeks before he flunked out. Whatever fluke had let him transfer mid-term, it was clearly a mistake. Someone should file a complaint with the admissions committee. Maybe he would copy his professor on his complaint, to see if it could earn him some brownie points.

Su She contemplated how best to go about that as he headed off to his next class.

Su She only had one class with the new student, but he heard enough about him from the others to know that the new student’s name is Wei Ying, and everyone is counting the days until he drops out and goes back to wherever he transferred from. Evidently he slept through or missed half of his classes (the ones where participation or attendance did not count as part of the grade).

The next day in class, Wei Ying wasn’t there at the start of class. The instructor began the class by saying that only two people in the entire class got a passing grade on the homework set he’d assigned last time.

“Lan Zhan. Excellent work, as always.”

The professor didn’t say who the other person was, and Su She wondered who it was. He usually had a pretty good sense of who the best people in the class to study with were. Lan Zhan, of course, thought he was too good to study with him, and said it was against the rules for a student to copy from another’s work. Which was ridiculous, because the professors said that students were allowed to work together. It wasn’t Su She’s fault that Lan Zhan always wanted to do all the work himself, and then not let anyone see what he’d done.

Su She would ask around and find out who the other person was. The instructor was an unfairly harsh grader on the homeworks, which was usually the part that carried Su She’s grade to make up for whatever he did on the exams.

Wei Ying came in late (though less late than the prior class), wearing another ratty, oversized hoodie (black, this time) and the instructor gave him an annoyed look.

“Wei Ying. So nice of you to finally join us. Since you were late last time, you might not have heard that midterms are in two weeks. I expect all of the assignments from the semester to date to be completed by then. I understand that this was the agreement you made with the Dean, so I expect you to be on time with your work. You will not be allowed extensions on the current assignments.”

Su She almost felt bad for the guy. Each assignment took at least four hours, some of them had taken Su She and his study group the entire night. They were already six weeks into the semester, and there had been a lot of assignments.

“Yeah. I submitted the first batch online last night, Professor Xang,” Wei Ying said, as he slouched down in his desk, already looking half asleep.

“Hm,” Professor Xang said skeptically, eying him narrowly. “Then I will look forward to grading your work.”

The sarcastic tone in his voice was unmistakable. Professor Xhang was a total hardass about grading work, always looking to take heavy points off even the tiniest of mistakes. Su She had tried to argue once that he shouldn’t lose nearly half the credit for just a minus sign and decimal point error, and Professor Xhang had said he hoped to never have the misfortune of using anything Su She designed in the future. If he already disliked Wei Ying, Professor Xhang was going to be even more brutal than usual. Su She wondered if someone should tell the newbie that it might not be worth his time to even submit them, with the number of points he was likely to get.

Su She snickered at the thought, and several people (including Lan Zhan), turned to glare at him, which was totally unfair. Su She was not the one being disrespectful wearing ratty clothes and sleeping through class. At the comment, Wei Ying looked up from where he was slouched. Su She realized it was the first time he’d ever gotten a good look at the guy’s face. Wei Ying had a crooked grin and a look that immediately set Su She’s teeth on edge. People who looked like that always thought they were so special. He’d heard one of the female students in the cafeteria talking about how the new guy was ‘so hot’. He’d rolled his eyes and ignored it at the time. Some people just liked to rebel by liking ‘bad boys’, regardless of their actual worth or skill. Well, she wouldn’t be thinking he’s so hot once Wei Ying failed his midterms.

“Then I’ll look forward to your thoughts, Professor Xhang. Thank you for instructing this one.”

Wei Ying’s tone was not exactly disrespectful, but it was definitely cocky. Professor Xhang narrowed his eyes but made no further comment. He would have the last laugh when he graded the transfer student’s work, and everyone knew it. Su She couldn’t wait for him to be taken down a peg.

Su She looked around the room, expecting to see Lan Zhan at least looking as annoyed as Su She felt. Wei Ying was everything Lan Zhan always hated: disrespectful, untidy, and lazy in his classes. He was surprised to see Lan Zhan looking at Wei Ying with… absolutely no expression at all.

Su She huffed. He supposed Lan Zhan thought the new guy wasn’t even worth glaring at. He was right. Su She would ignore Wei Ying as well. There would be no class next week except for study sessions, but the week after that would be the exam. Even though he, himself, was not feeling very confident about the upcoming test, he was looking forward to seeing the new guy bite it.

And hey, maybe it would even bring the curve down. They’d finally have someone to balance out Lan Zhan.

With that pleasing thought in mind, Su She returned to taking notes, in the new notebook he had found that was almost exactly like the one Lan Zhan was using.

#wangxian #wip fic #college AU

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oneeyedoctogod · 7 months

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I promised I'd share the notes I had on what happened after the end of my fic We'll Build A Dynasty (one the heavens can't shake) and since today is my birthday I thought it'd make a fun treat (for you and for me :P)

Under a read more because this is LONG. And I guess it has spoilers for the fic itself too, if that matters haha.

So here we go! These are the main "questions" I left unanswered on purpose.

Does Wei Wuxian ever let his practice of the ghost path become known again?

Yep. Honestly the way I see it, the only reason the sects had a problem with it in the first place was because Wei Wuxian was the son of a servant. They never had any problem reaping the benefits of his inventions (all of which were a result of his new cultivation) so since Wei Wuxian now has the legitimacy he lacked in his first life, they might grumble about it if they’re particularly uptight but he’ll never become the reviled Yiling Patriarch.

In any case I don’t see Wei Wuxian disregarding an entire path (and the very very useful things that come with it) just because he can use his sword again. He’ll just balance both because he is that good. The ghostly path will also seem a lot less powerful since Wei Wuxian doesn’t have a good reason to raise an entire army of the dead, and the Yin Tiger Tally never was created. So that's one less difficulty to face.

(there will always be rumors of course, but he’ll never confirm them one way or another and the Wen aren’t stupid enough to let such a secret out, both because it'll draw the ire of their new sect leader and because aside from a few stubborn Elders, they're not that confident they can win a war without Wen Ruohan around)

He might even take on thoroughly vetted disciples since it’ll attract less… questionable people (I'm not actually that sure on that point, it depends on the day.)

Do Jiang Yanli and Lan Xichen get married?

Yes they do. Sorry Jin Ling. </3 (although who knows, maybe the universe is nice enough to give them a son that for some reason will end up being a little prickly for a Lan and a love for dogs!)

I'm actually not overly fond of the Jin Zixuan/Jiang Yanli pairing and I liked the idea of Jiang Yanli and Wei Wuxian actually being related through their respective marriage. I hesitated with Nie Huaisang/Jiang Yanli at first but the Jiang Yanli/Lan Xichen really grew on me as I wrote the fic haha. They’re very very cute. Lan Xichen strikes me as an even bigger simp than Jin Zixuan ended up being in canon. He WILL talk to you about his wonderful wife if you let him.

What about Nie Huaisang and Wen Qing?

I'm not actually sure about those two. Maybe they get engaged and never marry, maybe they marry but only as friends, maybe they marry and fall in love (in that order, I don’t see Wen Qing falling in love at first sight), maybe they hate each other on sight and stay far, far away from each other, maybe they like each other just fine but don't marry anyway because Nie Huaisang is a romantic and wants to love his spouse romantically or because they know they’ll drive each other crazy within days, maybe they stay engaged because neither of them is interested in marriage and this helps them get their family off their back, maybe they marry and then Nie Huaisang gets a second wife they both fall in love with and they have a really healthy and happy polycule.

As you see, there are plenty of interesting possibilities. :P

Do Wangxian still adopt A-Yuan?

Yes. I’m not cruel enough to delete both Jin Ling and A-Yuan from existence. I’m not clear on what happens to A-Yuan’s birth parents (do they still die, do they give him up or is he adopted to be raised as a heir but they still participate in raising him? I am planning an extra with him in it so I'll have to decide soon but so far I HAVE NO IDEA haha), but yes, Wangxian get their son back, don’t worry.

What happens with Su She, Jin Zixun and Jin Guangshan?

Su She still eventually defects but since he doesn’t have Jin Guangyao sponsoring him, he never manages to become someone important enough to matter in the long run. He’s extremely bitter about it, like he’s bitter about everything else.

After his thorough public humiliation, Jin Zixun fancies himself the “rival” of Wei Wuxian once again. Wei Wuxian wouldn’t care except Wen Qing is very serious about any potential threats, even minor ones so she keeps him updated. They have fun about it. He might try something anyway but Jin Guangshan isn’t dumb enough to defend him so he just digs up his own grave and he eventually offends someone enough that he dies like a loser, like in canon.

As for Jin Guangshan… He’s a very serious threat, always was, but he lacks the political power he had in canon and this time Wei Wuxian has a much better support network who isn’t as easily manipulated into betraying him so things are much better on that front. Wei Wuxian never drops his guard obviously but he’s not vengeful enough to try and start his own conspiracy to get rid of him.

(Wen Qing, on the other hand, has absolutely no qualms about whispering some ideas in a few people’s ears. And because he is still a terrible person and quite a lot of his crimes haven't been erased by the time travel, Jin Guangshan dies quietly and painfully and though no one dares point fingers, Madam Jin looks just a little bit too smug while wearing the traditional white for it to be a coincidence and the family doctor mysteriously decides to retire right after the funeral).

What about Xue Yang, Jin Guangyao, etc.?

Honestly? Don’t know, don’t care. There’s no war so Meng Yao has no opportunity to get close to either Lan Xichen or Nie Mingjue. Maybe he still manages to join a sect as an outer disciple. If they meet, Nie Huaisang hates him on sight, though he can’t tell why. Because this is a kinder univser, both Meng Yao and Xue Yang probably get the opportunity to be better than they are in canon. Do they take that chance? Up to you. I haven’t thought about anyone else’s fate sorry but you can bet they probably have a much better life this time around (or, if they already had a happy life, then they get to be happy again).

And Jiang Cheng? Does he actually grow as a person? What about his mother?

Honestly, I like to think he does. I’m not a big fan of him but I think he’s still young enough here that he might choose differently, especially after being forced to face so many hard truths. At the very least, he never becomes the man willing to participate in a genocide or the serial killer he is in canon. He and Wei Wuxian will never be close again though — like in canon, Wei Wuxian is ready to let go of that relationship. But Jiang Cheng still has his sister and his father and both of them have had a pretty big hm… Wake-up call? I suppose?

Not in a bad way or anything like that but Wei Wuxian’s defection shook them both and since neither of them die anytime soon, they’re here to push Jiang Cheng to be better. It takes time and effort but who knows, maybe he does manage it (he tries at the very least, because if there’s one thing he craves, it’s his father’s approval).

AS FOR MADAM YU... She still blames Wei Wuxian for every little thing, she thinks it's his fault that her son's self-confidence visibly decreased after the lectures (L O L), she hates with a passion the fact that Jiang Fengmian accepted to let Lan Xichen court Jiang Yanli and didn't give yet another chance to Jin Zixuan... She started as a bitter woman and a bitter woman she'll stay.

How exactly did Wei Wuxian go back in time? Why does only Lan Wangji get to remember?

Because I wanted to. I don’t have a better explanation sorry. Maybe a mischievous god (me, the author) decided Wei Wuxian deserved to get a different second chance, that other people deserved to stay alive and so they did.

As for why only Lan Wangji got to remember, the romantic explanation is that they’re soulmates. The boring explanation is that I’m really bad at writing teenage Lan Wangji so I speedran his character development.

Why do some characters find themselves trusting Wei Wuxian when they just met him?

When it comes to Wen Qing and Wen Ning, it’s because they were dead and I like the idea that the dead have no concept of time so time travel doesn’t have an effect on them. Since in the new timeline Wen Qing and Wen Ning aren’t dead yet, they only have fragments of their memories (the dead of the Burial Mounds on the other hand, never forgot their Patriarch. It’s why it took so little time for Wei Wuxian to tame them this time. I expend on that a little more in the Wei Wuxian POV but since I have no idea if I’ll ever finish it, never mind publish it… You get the short explanation here haha). It's also why Wen Chao knew it was the dead of the Burial Mounds and why he was so scared. And Nie Huaisang… Maybe he just has really, really good instincts. Or maybe the “mischievous god” isn’t actually a god at all but him scheming behind the scenes like in canon. Who knows? Certainly not me. ;)

Oh dear, this got really long haha. I hope you enjoyed these explanations. If there are other things you'd like to know, hit me up with an ask, I'd love to talk some more about this universe hahaha.

#MDZS #MDZS fic #my writing #we'll build a dynasty wip #Wei Wuxian #Lan Wangji #Wangxian #Canon Jiang Cheng #Wen Qing #Lan Xichen #Nie Huaisang #Jiang Yanli #I'm always unsure of what to tag haha #And scared of spamming the tags #That should do it I think

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foxyyaoguai · 9 months

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Stuff in my WIPs Folder

Tagged by @eghfeithrean, thank you for tagging me! This looks fun. 🤭

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you asks with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Oh, oh god, here we go!! Some of these are almost done, others are just an outline. I hope to get to all of them eventually 🤭 pls beware I am terrible at naming things and some of these titles are very literal and almost all of them will have to be changed before posting 🤣

A Brush Dipped in Fate

Catcher of Nightmares & Pursuer of Dreams

ChengXian

ChengXian dogs

Moonlight in your eyes

Tentacle seclusion

Separation Hurts

Broken Swords and Cutesy Dates

Pretty Lan Wangji

Sweet, Rejuvenating Milk (yup)

Make A Wish

Run away with me

WangXiZhui Part 2

Claiming Him

Confessing on Repeat

Heart Deviation

To Buy a Slave

Jadecest + Sizhui Omegaverse

Jadecest Influencer AU

Accidental Stoner LWJ

A Flicker in Seungho’s Soul

LWJ is Eggpreg

Lwj has an oral fixation

Ohhh damn those are a lot more than I expected 😭 🤭

Tagging (if you feel like it!): @deathbyoctopi @foreheadkissesforzewu-jun @theindianghost @erotica-hooligan @jaggededges123 @jadedbirch @valkyrieshepard @kianspo @rx-mercury @likeaflamingkiss-consume @anaxandria-writes @iamwestiec @whoretsumu @veraverorum @omegaji @ck90

#mdzs #jadecest #the untamed #wangxian #mdzs fanfiction #mdzs fanfic #fanfic writing #my own fic #i have too many wips #WangXiZhui

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stiltonbasket · 1 year

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snippet time!

The next chapter of travelers through the empty gate is taking longer than I expected, so here’s part of a scrapped fic I abandoned sometime last summer, featuring anxious dad Lan Wangji and baby A-Lan. <3

When Wei Shuilan first came to live in the Cloud Recesses, Lan Wangji’s meager knowledge of babies would likely not have filled even a quarter of a single bamboo scroll.

He knew about little children, of course. Lan Wangji brought Sizhui and Xiaohui up from toddlerhood, and since Sizhui and Jingyi were always together, he and Lan Xichen had half-raised Jingyi, as well; and Lan Xichen proved to be a wonderful father when he adopted a baby girl, so Lan Wangji guessed that raising her could not be very different from raising a two-year-old Xiao-Yu.

But then Wei Ying found baby A-Lan, and brought her into the Cloud Recesses, and Lan Wangji learned very quickly that raising her would be different: for she was so delicate and small, relying on her parents for her very life, and she was a daughter.

Before she arrived, Lan Wangji never imagined that he would have a daughter. In fact, he knew practically nothing about small girls until Xichen adopted Jueying; and since the women of Lan Wangji’s generation were separated from their shixiongdi by the age of seven, he was never close to his cousins and sect sisters in the women’s compound. As a child, he was taught that women were to be kept at a respectful distance, unless they were one’s mother or sister, or eventually one’s wife or daughter.

Perhaps that was why Lan Wangji was so grateful for his sons. He remembers most of his own upbringing at his uncle’s hands, and Shufu was there to guide Wangji through his doubts with a young Sizhui; but until Shuilan came along, Lan Wangji believed that girls were vastly different from boys, delicate and precious in a way he could not understand, and he feared that his inadequate knowledge might put any daughter of his at a disadvantage.

“Did you really think all that, my Lan Zhan?” Wei Ying had asked, hopelessly tickled at the idea. “Oh, my darling—our Lan-bao isn’t so different from Yuan’er and A-Yu! You’ll love her just the same.”

“I know I will,” Lan Wangji replied. “I already do. But I am afraid of falling short, and that we, as two men, will not guide her as well as a mother would have done.”

“We have the aunties in the Baoshi for that,” Wei Ying reassured him. “And when Lan-bao is older, she’ll have all her shigu to help her, too.”

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On a cool, clear morning not long after Xiao-Yu’s sixth birthday, Lan Wangji finds himself spending a day alone in the Jingshi.

This was by no means unusual during the years before his wedding, but after Wei Ying and little A-Yu came to live in the Cloud Recesses, Lan Wangji’s days were rarely passed in solitude. Wei Ying spends most of his time between his workshop and the produce field, both close to the house, and A-Yu is still too small to be separated from his parents for long.

But Wei Ying has been supervising the building of a girls’ school two villages away from Caiyi, and he traveled there this morning to meet the intended teachers. Sizhui and Xiaohui went with him, while Lan Wangji remained behind to look after baby A-Lan.

#wangxian #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #twelve moons and a fortnight #my fic #i don't even remember where this fic was going lol #it's just been sitting in my wip folder for months and i doubt anything more will come of it #so here 'tis #enjoy!!#lan wangji #wei shuilan

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typicalopposite · 2 months

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W.I.P. Ask Game!

tagged by: @meraki-yao <3

Ask me anything about my WIPs! :)

(just like... be prepared... there's a lot... and I'm not even going to post them ALL! These are the ones I want to get up by 2025!)

Works Started

Shassie Fic

Psych fic! It's going to read like a 5+1 fic but with an added +2 lol! Just a chapter for each season starting with them pining and eventually getting together! Think the Shules timeline but Shassie instead... with some scene changes missing scenes episode swaps and all that! I swear I'll have a better summary when I post it!!!

you still haven't noticed (oh but baby, I have)

RWRB Fic. I have been sharing the snippets from lately. Another 5+1 fic (I love them ok!) about Alex noticing things about Henry through the their relationship. Gonna have a lil bit of angst because... well just because.

Happy Birthday to Me!

RWRB Fic. This was supposed to be written on my birthday... it didn't happen! but since their birthdays are in March... hopefully I get it up this month!

no one's more mystified than Shaan

RWRB Fic. ANOTHER 5+1 fic! Shaan POV. It's going to be part of the Zahraverse series, and will be kind of a parallel to the Zahra Deserves A Raise fic!

first rule of fight club

RWRB Fic. BAMF Henry! The jist? A guy punches Henry and Henry learns how to fight so it doesn't happen again.

Baby Mine

RWRB Fic. Kid fic. Henry and Ellen bond over baby June! :D very very cutesy very very fluffy as kid fics should be!

Three Nights

RWRB Fic. Sequel to Three Days!

Rewrite the Stars

RWRB Fic. Amnesia Henry! Amnesia takes place during the polo match.

Desperado

Destiel Fic. Fix it where Dean doesn't die and they retire. Of course Cas gets saved... what do you think I am a monster??

Kiss The Angel

Destiel Fic. Jack goes to the empty to save Castiel. Makes a deal with the Empty that Dean will reciprocate Cas love confession (with the catch of him not remembering Cas' confession) by the time the sun sets on the third day... or the Empty can have him too. Yes its a Little Mermaid themed fic :)

Make it Better

WangXian Fic. 5+1 fic. Five times LWJ uses WuJi on WWX and one time WWX uses it on LWJ! :)

Drunk XiChen Fic

WangXian Fic. Because one drunk Twin Jade of Lan is not enough apparently.

(boy, I am killing it with these summaries... I KNOW!)

Practical Cultivation

WangXian Fic. A Practical Magic themed fic! :)

Sympathy For the Devil's Spawn

Lucifer Fic. Season 6 fix it! Rory is stuck in a hell loop (the whole she goes back to confront her dad, makes him "abandon" her, rinse and repeat BS that was the series ending) but in reality he was there and a part of her life and HAPPY, but she thought she ruined his life by being born so she goes to hell to learn about him and gets trapped in a hell room :)

just a little while

Gallavich Fic. Gallavich take Liam after the series finale and are amazing uncles to Franny and Frank! its just a cute fic with some angst! I will finish it soon i SWEAR

IDEAS!

Arthur POV

RWRB Fic. probably will be a 5+1 of Arthur finding out about his cancer and spending time with his family up to the end. or something sappy shit like that!

The Puppy Trap

RWRB Fic. Yes another David fic with The Parent Trap theme!!

Henry and Oscar Fic

RWRB Fic. SOOOOOO what if they like bond over losing their dads.... that sounds bittersweet and delicious... right?? :)

Nutcracker Fic

RWRB Fic. @meraki-yao this one is for you! <3 and like... is self explainatory.

NoteBook Fic

RWRB Fic. Again self explanatory. Angst and angst and so much ANGST! but in a good way!

Practical Cultivation FirstPrince

RWRB Fic. I don't even know how to make this work... but I need to make this work!

Clap Your Hands If You Believe

WangXian Fic. Think how the kids bring Tinkerbell back to life... but make it WWX and restoring his golden core! :)

AAAND I think thats all... omg Imma have carpel tunnel from typing this!!!!

No Pressure Tagging: @onthewaytosomewhere @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @scripted-downfall and @taste-thewaste <3

#my wips #so many wips #like literally there's too many #i need to stop making more #rwrb #firstprince #supernatural #destiel #the untamed #wangxian #lucifer #deckerstar #shameless #gallavich #i have so many wips i didn't even add omg #and dont get me started on the fics of mine of which i dont talk about... LOL #that's another like 20 wips!#i clearly have a problem

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wangxianficrecs · 2 months

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Seven Seconds to the End by Admiranda & miixz

Seven Seconds to the End

by Admiranda (@admirableadmiranda) & miixz (@miixz)

T, WIP, 15k, Wangxian

Summary: Wei Wuxian has been alive for less than an hour, he has no plans for his future. But if there is one thing he knows, it’s that he wants to see Lan Zhan again. Wei Wuxian remembers all that happened at the end of his first life. He remembers that Lan Zhan stayed on his side until the very end, how he'd tried to save him before Jiang Cheng attempted to kill them both. When he fell, the last thing he saw was Lan Zhan's eyes, the last thing he heard was his cries. When he finds himself unexpectedly returned to life, he knows exactly who he can trust and where he needs to go. A Chen Qing Ling retelling. Kay's comments: The thing with CQL is that I love it dearly, but also, there are so many plotholes due to how it was adapted from the source material and I actually love those plotholes too, because that's where fanfic authors can make themselves comfortable and write so many creative stories. This story explores how CQL Wangxian's relationship is actually really great and it makes no sense for freshly-resurrected Wei Wuxian to run away from Lan Wangji when he appears in Mo village and I love this so much. The cherry on top is the fact that miixz and Admiranda are both really great writers that always draw me in and I'm excited to see how this story might continue! Excerpt: In the distance, Wei Wuxian hears the Lan juniors scramble to their feet, overhearing something about how they’ll be acting in the west courtyard tonight. It’s good to know where he can find them, but he doesn’t mind the loss of the rest of their conversation. Whatever they’ve come here for is definitely something to look into, but he’s in no hurry to learn about it. If their presence is somehow related to his return, he doubts any of them know it. No one would knowingly send a group of young cultivators anywhere near the scourge of the cultivation world. But for once, this works in his favor. For one thing, young cultivators are bound to be informed on the state of the world, and most importantly, these particular boys should know about the one he wants to meet. Just a little bit longer, he thinks, looking at the cuts in his wrist. I’ll see this through, then I’ll find my way back to you, Lan Zhan.

pov wei wuxian, canon divergence, the untamed compliant, canon rewrite, fluff, hurt/comfort, family feels, getting together, developing relationship, pining, friends to lovers, adopted lan sizhui, no jiang cheng & wei wuxian reconciliation, not jiang cheng friendly

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(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.)

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noenvyy · 9 months

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Rough sketch of my contribution to WIP Bang art for a lovely fic entitled "Love in Bloom" Link to the finished piece and fic below SON https://www.tumblr.com/noenvyy/728635665992056832/love-in-bloom-chapter-1-kikidoesfanfic-%E9%AD%94%E9%81%93%E7%A5%96%E5%B8%88?source=share

#wangxian #wangxian fanart #art wip #wip #mdzs #mdzs fanart #mdzs fan fic #the untamed #wei wuxian #wei ying #wei wuxian fanart #lan zhan #lan wangji fanart #lan wangji art #lan wangji #wei ying fanart #wei wing art #nonv art #nonv sketch practice

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letteredlettered · 5 days

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@yellowwallsbluesky asked about new Untamed end!

ahhhhh here is 27,745 words of wangxian that will never see the light of day. Thank you for asking!

I mentioned in my post about lwjwwx2 that I had a really hard time writing CQL fic partly because I just could not imagine WWX having any sex or even being particularly romantic. In CQL, he strikes me as very in love, but not in a romantic or sexual way. The problem was a little bigger than that, though, because I also could not imagine LWJ having sex. To be clear, I thought of LWJ as extremely romantic and sexual. But while LWJ's desire comes across as extremely intense, he's so hellbent on doing whatever WWX wants and whatever would make WWX comfortable, never pushing a single thing on WWX at all. In the second half of the show LWJ strikes me as extremely passive unless WWX needs him; he lets WWX get away with everything and expresses himself so little and so poorly that I just didn't see how these kids could get it together! That was 2020 - summer 2023. Then I was on the couch and thinking about them and could suddenly imagine it happening! So I started writing.

If this was a real fic I assume it would make some people extremely impatient. It takes place directly after CQL, and neither of them have any idea what they want from each other or what they can be to each other. I've seen plenty of people say it's unrealistic for them not to understand each other by then. But for me personally it makes sense that you could love someone with your whole heart and never once consider sex or romance, so to me CQL does not come across as romance but rather the prequel to one that is not necessary consummated (even with kisses) in the next scene after the end.

The premise is that after the end of CQL they go back to Cloud Recesses. LWJ knows that WWX arouses him and that he wants to be as close as humanly possible, but this doesn't really correlate in his mind to wanting to have sex and get married. He doesn't even think about sex. He just wants, all the time, a undefined longing that feels desperate and unstable to him. Meanwhile he's determined to do anything in his power to make WWX feel safe and comfortable and welcome.

It's not really a characterization of LWJ that makes sense to me now. I think I just needed to get it down to deal with idk, the way the censorship makes CQL so weird. I think the way I would read CQL!LWJ now is that he knows he wants WWX romantically and sexually but has difficulty communicating it with words and also does not want to impose, because people have asked so much of WWX and WWX is so willing to sacrifice himself for people he loves, and LWJ does not want WWX sacrificed. The reason this WIP is labelled "new" is that I went back and started changing the LWJ characterization so he was someone who knew what he was doing.

Meanwhile, the WWX is actually more knowing than I see him now. He comes back to Cloud Recesses with LWJ and feels restless and confused about his place there. He doesn't feel like he has a real role and even if LWJ really likes him, he doesn't understand what he could be here. But then LWJ just keeps giving and giving and giving, and WWX becomes very aware of what it looks like, from the outside. WWX has never been concerned about reputation for himself, but he is aware that reputation is a thing, and he cares about it for LWJ, so he notices. And when he notices that other people think they're a couple, he also realizes that it's what LWJ wants too. And WWX's reasoning is basically "well, why not? I'd give him anything; if he wants it, he can take it."

So he pushes and pushes on the boundary of friendship. It's obvious he's not doing it because he wants it because he thinks LWJ does. But it's also obvious he's not against it and that he doesn't know what he wants and that he would rather be something for LWJ than nothing at all. The idea was going to be that after they finally have sex, WWX grows addicted to the cuddling and intimacy that occurs afterwards and wants it all the time--because he doesn't really want it otherwise. He struggles to accept that kind of intimacy unless there's an act of service involved, because he doesn't really feel worth of it.

I actually think that this was the breakthrough for me. Once I realized that WWX would very much like to be held but doesn't really know how to let it happen unless there's a good reason for it, I finally felt like I could write him and write the whole wangxian dynamic. Of course, my WWX changed too; I am definitely more likely to write him now as not having a clue about what LWJ wants from him. That said, I read this fic, and I still buy that WWX could see that LWJ wants this from him and that his response is "sure, I'll do anything," even if he doesn't necessarily feel strong sexual attraction. That WWX gets off on service, which is still something I can buy.

Anyway I only got 25% of the way through shifting the LWJ characterization when I started writing Say More, and I realized I never really had a goal or end for this fic. It was just something I needed to write to get to know the characters--though I will say, I reread it to write this post, and I still really enjoy it!

#wangxian #wips #my fics

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