#MXTXGenWeek2020

[iamwestiec]

#MXTXGenWeek2020

Day 3: Friendship

And Green the Ground Below by @bromeliaddreams

🌱 Lan Xichen & Wen Ning Ning postcanon

🌿 growing things and healing

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27471106

Constellations Traced in Summer by @shadaras

🍑 Nie Huaisang & Lan Wangji

🌌 queer friendship, intimacy & the gift of understanding

(NB: the focus of this fic is on NHS & LWJ's friendship, though Wangxian is a b-plot)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26192248

Friendship Famous in Story and Song by @theleakypen

⚔ Juniors!

🎶 Ouyang Zizhen has 30 new best friends

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27430096

I Think the Knife Helps by @zylaa

🗡 Lan Xichen & Wen Ning

🍵 postcanon conversations with someone who understands

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23918092

and you could be my enemy by @ilgaksu

🐦 Nie Huaisang & Lan Wangji

✒ sometimes overtures of friendship are hard to believe

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26368666

An Unlikely Friendship by westiec (me!)

🍇 postcanon cultivation politics

☁️ Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji come to an understanding

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26017852

#MXTXGenWeek2020 #fic recs #mdzs #the untamed #cql #lan xichen #wen ning #nie huaisang #lan wangji #ouyang zizhen #mdzs juniors #jiang cheng

[iwhateveryou]

The boy was too thin. He looked younger than A-Cheng, though her father had told them that he was older. How many years had he been living alone on the streets of Yiling? And yet he had a ready smile on his face, an open countenance that seemed untouched by his unfairly difficult childhood. Jiang Yanli swore to herself that he would be looked after now. He had them, they would be his family. A-Cheng was upset about his dogs right now, but he would come around, she knew he would. For now, she would make them both some soup.

#mdzs #jyl #yunmeng siblings #mxtxgenweek2020 #outsider pov #childhood #drabble #this is literally the first fic I've ever posted #seriously this book has taken over my whole life

[iamwestiec]

#MXTXGenWeek2020

Day 5: War

War, Mother - a migrated fic from me and @theleakypen

💮 Outsider POV

💮 Jiang Yanli and Yu Ziyuan

💮 Preparations for a coming calamity

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27689486

At the Hour of Our Death by NevillesGran

🗡 canon divergence from the Pledge Conference at Nightless City

💔 Wei Wuxian is NOT letting Jiang Yanli die

This is the first in a series I HIGHLY recommend!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23798410

Ring the Bells (That Still Can Ring) by Shadaras

🔥 Wen Qing & Wen Ning intend to sacrifice themselves to avert war against Wei Wuxian, post-Qiongqi Dao

💮 Jiang Yanli has a better idea

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21828145/chapters/52092628

brave enough to breathe (and) to do whatever must be done by Sour_Idealist @souridealist

🗡 the fall of Lotus Pier goes differently

🔥 the Yunmeng Sibs go the war — behind Sect Leader Jiang Yanli

💜 twofer rec!

Do note that some of the other fics in the series are not gen. This is, however, one of the best Sunshot Era canon divergence stories I've had the pleasure to read, with EXCELLENT political maneuvering!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24230140

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24379930

the sun rises by tangerinechar (orphan_account)

💜 Jiang Cheng, at the start of war

⚡ introspection and character study

🗡 the bloody birth of Sandu Shengshou

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18321251

or podfic by @fensandmarshes here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/27272020

#MXTXGenWeek2020 #war #sunshot campaign #jiang yanli #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #fic recs

[iamwestiec]

Dunno if #MXTXGenWeek2020 is a thing on tumblr or just twitter, but I'm gonna repost my fic rec lists because who doesn't love fic recs? (These are all MDZS/CQL)

Day 1: Character Study

Wild by Deriliarch @guqin-and-flute

💙 pre-canon

🌌 Lan Xichen, flying and happy and free

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26621401

Phoenix Ashes by runningondreams @imaginaryelle

🔆 Lan Sizhui thinks about wearing red

🔴 post-canon, identity issues, family feels

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21806422

Noah Rothman's Reincarnation Blues by newredshoes @newredfic

🍬 OUTSTANDING modern reincarnation AU

🗡 finding out you're Xue Yang

✡ deciding what that means

Contains more ship content than some of the others, but the focus is on Noah/Xue Yang's experience: https://archiveofourown.org/works/27282373

Another Journey by july_19th_club @july-19th-club

🐦 Nie Huaisang, post-canon

💚 conversations, reflections, a life well-lived

🗻 one of the best character studies I've read in any fandom

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25386934

How Else Should I Go On? by theleakypen @theleakypen

🍜 Jiang Yanli, missing scene

💮 chronic illness, fatigue, grief, love

💜 short, but it packs such a punch

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27295579

dead doves: please eat by westiec (me!)

🍗 a shameless self rec

💚 Wen Camp missing scene

🕊 Nie Huaisang doing things he doesn't enjoy, because someone has to

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26666128

#MXTXGenWeek2020 #mdzs fic #fic recs #cql fic #the untamed fic #gen fic #character study #lan xichen #lan sizhui #nie huaisang #xue yang #jiang yanli #now with links that actually link dammit

[iwhateveryou]

There is a ghost at the gentian house. Lan Zhan knows this, although he does not know why nobody else seems to notice. Every month he visits her, kneels in the snow outside her house and loses himself in her warm embrace. He does not need to say anything. He doesn’t even need to move. He simply waits for her and she comes. He feels her arms around him, hears the soft sound of her voice as she says over and over my baby, my A-Zhan, I love you. A tear rolls down his cheek and lands on the snow.

#mdzs #mxtxgenweek2020 #lwj #mama lan #drabble #haunting/ghosts

[iamwestiec]

More #MXTXGenWeek2020 Rec List!

Day 2: Worldbuilding

There's a Baby Loose in the Burial Mounds! by ScarlettStorm @scarlettohairdye

👻 it takes a village, or at least a bunch of ghosts

🚼 that Lan Sizhui is such a polite young man

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26109631

Celebration by Quiet_Crash

👻 Burial Mounds again

❤ canon divergence - the Burial Mounds protect their own

🖤 haunted and absolutely beautiful

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22009546

Close by nirejseki @robininthelabyrinth

🗡 Nie Mingjue and Baxia

🔁 body swapping with your saber might be a little unorthodox, but hey, if it works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24899914

"Rolling Down to Old Maui" but it's the Five Great Sects Night Hunting by @theleakypen

🎶 Yes, this is a filk

🎶 why shouldn't there be a shanty about the joys of night hunting and missing home?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27145717

Dragon's Gall by @jelenedra

💠 brilliant, heartbreaking, gorgeously crafted "academic work"

🧵 the marriage of Madam Lan, in her own words

N.B. — This one deals with some heavier themes, please mind the tags.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27322342

#MXTXGenWeek2020 #fic recs #the untamed #mdzs #cql #gen fic #burial mounds #luanzang gang #lan sizhui #a yuan #wei wuxian #nie mingjue #baxia #madam lan #filks #worldbuilding