#not totally in association with Meng Yao

[greenandhazy]

okay this is random but I find it really funny how neatly my favorite MDZS/CQL ships fit into a very distinct pattern and I got curious about, like, broader fandom opinions.

So. there are TWO instances in canon where you have a trio of people--Person A is widely considered to be very kind and just, and basically his main/only flaw is trusting the wrong people. Person B is his longterm friend, who is a little grumpier/angrier/slightly more judgmental, but also fundamentally good, and equal to him in power (and fairly close in height). Person C is a Villain with a traumatic childhood past marked by rejection and physical injuries, associated with the Wen and later the Jin. He is devoted to(/obsessed with) Person A more so than anyone else in his personal storyline, and he murders Person B via tricky means and conceals that fact from Person A. (And then, depending on the 'verse, C is also then murdered by B's fierce corpse.)

I filtered for the relationships on AO3 and got some fun results. In both cases, the most popular two-person ship from these trios are A/C, followed by A/B, and only then by B/C--although, interestingly, A/B/C is the least popular combination when it comes to 3zun, whereas SongXueXiao is in third place, being more popular than SongXue.

Statistics!! as of 5/26/2023

Lan Xichen/Nie Mingjue/Meng Yao:

there are 4,115 fics tagged for Lan Xichen/Meng Yao

if you exclude 3zun as an additional ship tag, that drops to 3,808

92.5% of XiYao fics lack the 3zun tag (which makes it the most "independent" of any of the ships mentioned in this post)

there are 1,969 fics tagged for Lan Xichen/Nie Mingjue

if you exclude 3zun, that drops to 1,718

87% of NieLan fics lack the 3zun tag

there are 1,581 fics tagged for Nie Mingjue/Meng Yao

if you exclude 3zun, that drops to 1,286

81% of NieYao fics lack the 3zun tag

in total, there are 1,002 fics tagged for 3zun, compared to 6,812 fics that feature some combination of the three but not all of them, a 6.8 to 1 ratio. (although I didn't filter for fics that featured all three 2-person ship tags without also featuring the 3-person ship tag because... idk, seemed like a pain.)

Xiao Xingchen/Song Lan/Xue Yang:

there are 2,817 fics tagged for Xiao Xingchen/Xue Yang

if you exclude SXX, that drops to 2,367

84% of XueXiao fics lack the SXX tag

there are 2,328 fics tagged for Xiao Xingchen/Song Lan

if you exclude SXX, that drops to 1,897

81% of SongXiao fics lack the SXX tag

there are 744 fics tagged for Song Lan/Xue Yang

if you exclude SXX, that drops to 313

42% of SongXue fics lack the SXX tag (which makes it the least "independent" of any of these ships by a LOT. XiYao is only 8% ahead of the next most-independent ship, while SongXue is 39% behind the next most-dependent ships.)

in total, there are 1,015 fics tagged for SXX, compared to 4,577 fics that feature various combinations between them, a 4.5 to 1 ratio.

I think it's really interesting looking at the ways these break down similarly and differently! like, for 3zun, there is a VERY big gap between the most popular pairing and the second most popular one, with 2nd and 3rd place being very close, whereas for SongXueXiao, there is a muuuuch narrower margin between between the two most popular ships, and then the greatest gap is between the second-most-popular duo and the least popular duo.

I also think it's noteworthy that I've been in fandom for half my life and have never managed to have the strongest feelings about the most popular ships for my favorite characters lol, but there's no fun statistics for that.

#3zun #songxuexiao #xiyao #nieyao #nielan #songxue #xuexiao #songxiao #the untamed

[the-pudding-is-a-lie]

oh! oh! (> w <) for your summer doodle time you should make something that has to do with a fair! where i live, summer time is always associated with fair time! the rides, the food, the totally rigged fair games! lol! so many cute scenes and scenarios to work with!!! <3 happy summer vacay!!!

Ohman this was such a fun prompt, thank you so much! I had at least 7 different ideas for this but decided to go with modern au Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan taking there son out for a happy day because these three did get done dirty in canon and deserve happiness! ;_;

(Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian are probably there as well, fighting over the last bit of cotton candy just around the corner. Mingjue is asleep on a bench, guarded by Meng Yao while Huaisang is dragging the Lan bros around from one ride to another.)

#xuanli #zixuanli #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #cql #fanart #pudding answers #jiang yanli #jin zixuan #jin lin #summer break doodles #modern au

[lansplaining]

Putting the characters in jars and gently shaking them anon again-

Gotcha. Very good points. How about we just off asshole in chief Jin Guangshan while his kids are still young? Does his wife have enough and quietly poison him? Does he do something dumb on a night hunt and get his ass eaten? Does he simply not chew his food enough time and choke on chicken? Who knows! As long as he’s pushing up daisies, pretty much everyone is happier.

JGY still makes it to Koi Tower because his mama wants him to have his birth right, and instead of going the wrong way on the stairs, he meets his half brother and his half brother’s mother (who I imagine as having had time to calm tf down as regent with douche in chief out of the picture and no longer causing her shame all over the place). No associated trauma from actually meeting his dad and finding out how much he sucks.

Jin Zixuan definitely gives off ‘would’ve liked to have grown up with siblings’ vibes, and I have a special fondness for fics where authors lean into the ‘yay! a brother!’ of it all. He’s got a boat load of nasty cousins, and then someone who can actually be nice shows up? Hell, he’d probably let his half brother carry the summer school present and bow to flirt with the Lan sect heir still, too.

Meng Yao still becomes Jin Guangyao, just starts on a totally different foot.

9 out 10 dentists agree that killing Jin Guangshan early improves a lot of people's lives

but i am............. unconvinced that anything we know about Madam Jin suggests she is going to be welcoming her dead husband's bastards with open arms in any circumstances. in fact, him being dead pretty nearly frees her from any obligation to have anything to do with them at all

#ask answered

[mcnamara84scarborough]

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[deliciousscaloppine]

Sorry but Meng Yao usurped the apprehension of Xue Yang. He was really That Bitch. He came in like, hello thank you for all your hard work, I am taking over now and you are all coming back to Qinghe with us.

#also to me Huaisang following around Wei Wuxian and Lan Wandji was not so innocent #he was trying to get them to Qinghe too #I think he was doing a very light level of spying for Mingjue #not totally in association with Meng Yao #but not completely unrelated either #more like as official and unofficial agents of Unclean Realm #I was like Qinghe is starting to feel like a really shady place #but no being at the border of Qishan they were managing the whole war #that's why the Jin were so concerned Mingjue would try to take over #they were in position to do so and become the next chief cultivator clan #they had the military might #the intelligence #lan wangji

[littlesmartart]

DRAWTOBER #20 - Meng Yao vs. the Board of the Homeowner’s Association by Ariaste

Two gremlins, their husbands, and the horrible HOA board. As long as nobody gets arrested for arson or murder, we're gonna call it a win.

if you enjoy xiyao, wangxian, think the concept of Meng Yao and Wei Wuxian as brothers-in-law is excellent, and you haven’t read this amazing series... what are you doing??? DROP EVERYTHING AND GO READ IT NOW. everyone who has read it will tell you that it’s honestly one of the greatest, funniest, most brilliant modern AUs in the fandom. it follows the lives of the two gremlins who are definitely totally not actually friends as they work together to destroy Horrible Susan, the head of the HOA - there are plots! schemes! clandestine midnight burger runs! maybe kind of illegal hacking of personal home devices! secretive midnight alcohol consumed under a ceasefire! tragic parental backstory revelations! and as illustrated above, in both the prison and the open hand (bells on low, on high) Wei Wuxian maaaaaaybe accidentally lets slip a little bit of family news 👀

#drawtober #xiyao #wangxian #the untamed #lan xichen #meng yao #wei wuxian #lan wangji

[mysticalmusicwhispers]

lovers’ dreams

Summary: “A day fit for a spring dream.” And then he kisses Roshan, and they become lost in each other.

Characters: India (Aditya), China, Iran/Persia (Roshan, genderfluid). Human names used. Indran, Churan, and Indchu for ships!

Notes: 100% distilled surrealism! This was supposed to be a writing exercise that ran away from me rip. There are many footnotes that explain Many things. Enjoy!

also on AO3! (there are bonus thoughts and explanations there for anyone who’s interested or slightly confused 😅. everything necessary for you to understand the story is here too but I ramble about my thoughts going into the piece on AO3 lol)

———

The willow’s drooping branches hide Yao’s face like a beaded curtain, a bride’s sheer red veil. The spring breeze snakes through the tree, and the sound of wedding suona—sorna rings through the silence. A flutter of phoenix wings brushes past their ear, a whisper on the wind. Roshan walks languidly until they are in front of Yao; it takes a minute—it takes a month. Yao’s face is sharp and his eyes glint, like the jade in his belt. But the kiss is soft when they take his lips in theirs, and it tastes of the rose’s tender petals. The clean sweetness of flowers is warm against Roshan’s face and the fragrance of tea drifts into their nostrils. 

Yao pulls away, and Roshan opens their eyes to polished jade thorns sprouting up from the earth around them—crisp green, sharp-tipped; elegant, dangerous. So these are the fruits of our love. It is fitting. They lean to kiss Yao again, and this time, a laugh peals through the air when they part. It is not Roshan’s, and it isn’t Yao’s. But it is clear as spring water and tinkles like a bell, a joyous sound, and it makes Yao smile—a smile that is gentle, calculating; sweet, dangerous. A copper coin hides in the corner of his lips. “A day fit for a spring dream.” And then he kisses Roshan, and they become lost in each other.

When Roshan opens their eyes again, Yao is gone. They are standing in nothingness, a shell of a dream. A liminal plane. A wedding song echoes in the empty space, loud and cheerful, although there are no musicians to be seen playing the dohol, the sorna. Then sprung from the air, a mirror of fate, Aayeneh-ye Bakh, with its customary candelabras flanking it, and with their dots of golden light—miniature suns, sparkling stars. Its face shimmers, clear and gleaming: a pond on a full moon night—and in it, Yao stands, his reflection bright, splendid robes shimmering like gold scales and fine silk. Roshan reaches out a hand, and pulls him into a kiss.

“Welcome back, my dear.”

———

It is sunset, and a chill brushes past Yao’s shoulders and winds through his hair. The sky burns red, and fork tongued flames lick at the sun. A world bathed in fire, on the cusp of night. A lotus pond sits before him, and a figure is at its edge—Aditya, adorned in gold, the perfect figure of a prince. He, a dream of glittering palaces and beady emeralds, bright against the glow of the setting sun, sharp against the bloody sky. He holds a lotus blossom out, and Yao takes it. It is pure, tender in his calloused hands. A drop of blood drips from a petal. He lets it float into the water, and Aditya watches with him as the peach pink petals drop before their eyes—the lotus head balloons, then falls with the weight of seeds; it withers, a shell of its fruit. Divine beauty is short lived—seasons turn with the winds of change.  

Aditya loops an arm around him, bare skin on bare skin, the warmth of the sun hanging around them like a curtain. Their lips meet. The kiss is long, and lingers even after Yao pulls away; it is slightly bitter, but how could it not be? Aditya’s eyes are like black tea, and Yao tastes acrid lily bulbs. The sky has faded into burnt orange, the aftermath of a blaze. Autumn leaves fall from ginkgo trees, golden yellow, bright with memories of the past. Aditya closes his eyes, and Yao watches him sink into a dream.

The scene shifts before his eyes. The lotus pond morphs into a giant chessboard, and they are on opposite sides. Aditya plays white. Cream colored pawns meet chocolate brown knights, and they watch as kings rise and fall, as steady as the spinning of the world. Chariots race and elephants trumpet; the cavalry fight with long swords and bows, and the peasants use polearms, raised fists. Yao meets Aditya’s eyes, warm but gleaming with an ambition that has never gone away. He nods to his neighbor to the west, to his rival, lover, partner, equal. Aditya smiles.

“So we meet again.”

———

It is afternoon, and the sun is warm on his face. Roshan sits on a bench in the courtyard, holding a cup of coffee in one hand, a pomegranate in the other. Aditya nestles into their side, and they give him a feather light cheek kiss, gift him a wisp of air. They hold out the pomegranate, offers it, and Aditya takes a bite. Roshan takes the other half. They watch as the fruit regrows, seeds become jewels, glittering rubies in folds of red fabric. Roshan holds one up to the light with a critical eye. They spread tawny wings, amber eagle eyes alight with the pride of the past present future. A lion and the sun. The wings disappear—a trick of the light, reality fallen away. Then they hold up the cup of coffee.

“For you.” Aditya smiles, and offers a cup of black tea in return.

We have shared many things, and fought over equally many. How will it be in the future? He takes a sip, and falls through the cup.

A cemetery of swords surrounds them, a memory of things gone by. Afternoon sunlight filters through the trees, winds into Roshan’s hair. Idly peaceful. Flowers sprout through the earth; wither; climb up the rusted metal once again. A vine of roses twists around the hilt of a ceremonial spear, supple and full against cool, glinting steel. The leaves flicker, green yellow dead green again. Its blossom is still fresh red, like passion, like their love, pooling around them like a million memories, a still night in the river of time. Aditya looks at Roshan, different yet the same, a reflection of what they once were. Familiar, always, despite the changing tides and shifting dreams.

———

Notes

this part might actually be longer than the fic itself rip 😔 reminder that there’s extra rambling on ao3 lol

Suona/sorna: suona (唢呐) is a traditional wind instrument often played at wedding and funeral processions in northern China! (also used in Southeast China + Taiwan) It’s very loud and has a super brassy sound, but personally I think it sounds alright! The instrument came from Central Asia and is also used at weddings in Iran (where it’s spelled sorna/sarna), where it’s played with a dohol, a large cylindrical drum.

Phoenixes: wedding imagery in China, where a dragon symbolizes the groom and the phoenix the bride. There’s also an analogue to the phoenix in Persian mythology, a simurgh, which is a benevolent creature that is said to purify the land, roosts in the Tree of Knowledge, and apparently has seen the world be destroyed 3 times. Can symbolize healing, divinity, wisdom, and life. (the simurgh symbolism doesn't have much relevance to the fic but I thought it was incredibly interesting to read about lol)

Spring dream: very loosely referencing the Chinese phrase 一场春梦 (yi chang chun meng), which literally translates to an episode of a spring dream. It means the feeling that past predictions or events were actually totally wrong and fruitless, like you expected something (probably really good), but then woke up to reality not being up to your expectations? I can’t translate 😔

Mirror of Fate: In traditional Iranian weddings, a large, elaborate table with flowers and food and different spices is set up (sofreh aghd). A mirror of fate and 2 candelabras are also placed in the center of the table. The mirror represents how fate brought the bride and groom together, and the candelabras represent light and fire. The mirror is there so that when the groom looks into it, the first thing he should see is his betrothed's reflection.

Lotus blossoms: in China and India and many other parts of Asia, lotuses represent purity (they grow from dark mud but the flowers are pure white/pink), the divine, elegance, spiritual promise, the good part of humanity. so, a lotus with a drop of blood in Yao’s hands would be interesting.

Lily bulbs: this is purely self projection but lily bulbs (baihe) are used in Chinese medicine and I despise them. They're not super bitter but they taste starchy, bland, and off. Also lilies and lotuses are pretty similar and I thought that would be interesting :>

Chess: idk if I need a note for this but chess originated as an Indian game called Chaturanga and spread over to China and Iran, among many other places in Asia.

Tea and Coffee: nothing really special about this besides that Iranians Really Like tea. Decided to make India drink coffee instead for contrast; realistically he’d also be drinking tea lol

Eagle eyes: the Iranian/Persian symbol of the Faravahar, from Zoroastrianism has wings that are supposed to be eagle wings (I think? correct me if it’s just unspecified). You’ve probably seen it; it depicts a man with spread wings, half kneeling in a side view. Nowadays it’s also a symbol of Iranian culture, history, and national pride, besides being representative of Zoroastrianism.

Rose: national flower of Iran, and obv I don’t need to explain the other rose connotations. Also I’ve fully adopted the hc that Roshan and all their stuff smells like roses so that’s there too.

Lion and the sun: getting lazy with the explanations, but the short version is that it was a very important Iranian national symbol for many reasons, moreso tied to the state than culture (imo); it was also on the national flag up till the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Although I’m still debating how much Roshan is associated with the state, I also think sun and lion imagery fits them (glory, golden days, pride and courage). It’s super interesting, go search it up if you wanna read more!

This whole fic was somewhat inspired by this one, and the indchu bit was also somewhat inspired by this fanart.

If you made it down here, you have all my gratitude. Feedback is welcome and appreciated! Thanks for reading <3

#fic musings #the three sections *can* represent specific historical time periods; even if it's very vague; however my original intention was to just have #them kiss in a surrealist painting's landscape; so you can really read it however you want. there are more thoughts on ao3 tho! :> #aph india #aph china #aph persia #musings #aph iran #hws india #hws china #hws persia #hws iran #indran #indchu #churan #hetalia fanfiction #hetalia #aph #hws #hetalia fanfic #hetalia fic #aph china fic #aph india fic #indran fic #indchu fic #churan fic

[jianqzai]

In honor that this semester of hell finally ended and that I was able to make it alive thanks to podfics, here is a rec list of my favorite ones. 

Just a heads up that all of them are long, because that’s what I needed to keep myself engaged in my assignments, sorry if that might not be your thing, maybe I will make one with shorter ones later.

beneath six layers of silk 

Written by: darkredloveknot 

Read by: Rhea314 (Rhea)

Length: 1 hr 36 min

Rating: E

Summary: While exorcising a haunting, Lan Wangji gets cursed with a brand of honesty, and is forced to speak his every thought out loud.

(I love all Rhea podfics, but this is definitely my favorite so far, the narration was so good that for a couple of minutes I totally forgot that only one person was reading)

all your life you'll dream of this

Written by: Attila

Read by: esbielle

Length: 2 hrs 42 min

Rating: T

Summary: A very loose Cinderella AU, featuring Lan Wangji as Cinderella, Wei Wuxian as Prince Charming, Lan Xichen as fairy godmother, the forehead ribbon as glass slipper, and GusuLan bedtime as midnight.

(Wangji is the oblivious one here for a change, so that’s refreshing. I love the change in intonation they use with each different character)

the stars in the hazy heaven tremble above you

Written by: cicer

Read by: rivendellion

Length: 6 hrs 20 min

Rating: G

Summary: (In which Wei Ying, a fugitive from justice, sneaks into the palace, steals from the imperial family, and eats his words.

AKA, yet another Cinderella AU.)

(I also love the change in character voices. Their narration is also amazingly engaging in action scenes, I couldn’t sleep until I listened to the end of one of them)

Seasons of Falling Flowers

Written by: merakily

Read by: Spinifex

Length: 4 hrs 40 min

Rating: G

Summary: Over the seasons, Lan Qiren slowly pieces back together his relationship with Wangji and learns to like Wei Wuxian in the process.

(Look, I never thought that I would ever sympathize with Lan Qiren but then this fic happened. It was an amazing experience, and the narration was amazing as well)

Let the Streetlights Guide You Home 

Written by: tellthemstories

Read by: jellyfishfire

Length: 4 hrs 20 min

Rating: M

Summary: Wei Wuxian was the most infamous street racer of his generation. They still speak of him now, the stuff of legend: the reckless abandon, the hair pin turns, midnight races over dangerous tracks. His death, racing through the streets of Nightless City with his sister in the passenger seat, the moment when his luck finally ran out.

10 years later, Mo Xuanyu enters his first street race.

(I also love all of jellyfishfire podfics but this is my fav, because it was already sexy when I read it, but listening to it with the music and noise effects? Yeah)

To be of use

Written by: Erisette

Read by: isweedan

Length: 7 hrs 03 min

Rating: G

Summary: Love was not forbidden in the Cloud Recesses, despite what was whispered by the common people and, often, even by the other great sects.

(Or: how Lan Wangji became both a father and the object of worship to a generation of juniors in 13 easy steps 13 long years)

(I haven’t finished this one but so far I am melting, everything is so soft)

Meng Yao vs. the Board of the Homeowners' Association

Written by: Ariaste

Read by: Rionaa

Length: N/A

Rating: M

Summary: Two gremlins, their husbands, and the horrible HOA board. As long as nobody gets arrested for arson or murder, we're gonna call it a win. Wei Ying & Jin Guangyao friendship.

(I give all the kudos to them because they don’t laugh at all, you don’t even listen to their voice waver, and that is the most amazing accomplishment because this fic is so hilarious. Also, this is a series and each fic has a different length time, so that’s why I didn’t list a general one)

You, Asleep and Dreaming

Written by: etymologyplayground

Read by: knight_tracer

Length: 1 hrs 07 min

Rating: M

Summary: Wei Wuxian moves into the Jingshi. They sleep together.

(I love the cadence of their voice, it works amazingly well with this fic specifically. The amount of Yearning this fic made me feel, I had to stop because I really thought I was going to start crying on the middle of my project, lol)

live from new york

Written by: varnes 

Read by: siriliyi

Length: 8 hrs 45 min

Rating: E

Summary: the one where they all work at SNL, Yanli's ex-boyfriend is hosting, and that's just the beginning of everybody's problems.

(This is weirdly specific but I just LOVE the way they pronounce "Lan Zhan" with Wei YIng’s voice, it's the best)

#mdzs #the untamed #wangxian #podfic #fic rec #m posts

[revoleotion]

This was hard to pick, but I'd love to hear about 🌝, 💻 and 🍰!

<3

🌝 Who is one character you haven’t yet written for that you would like to?

I really want to try out writing Tarkin one day! Also Wrath Pair because I love them both a lot. Once I get my pirate OC for the post-Empire Era sorted out, I'd also have to learn how to write Eleodie (from aftermath). There's probably more but those are on my list right now!

💻 Do you do research for your fics? What’s the deepest dive you’ve done?

I did a few very deep dives but my favorite was looking for an international supermarket in Tokyo for a servamp fic, to the point of finding it on Google Maps? And then I went to your DMs to ask for the Alicein home address, so I could find out how to get to the supermarket from there.

I still have the supermarket marked on maps but I obviously couldn't plan the route.

🍰 Name one of your fave comfort fics (doesn’t have to be your all time fave).

(I totally overread that I'm only supposed to name one fic and now this looks very stupid but I won't delete it anyway)

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to mention my own or other people's, so you get both! There's more but those are the ones I currently go back to. I might spam you with more recommendations via DM if you need some!

Apple (A Good Omens fic that just makes me very happy to read)

Meng Yao vs. the Board of Homeowners Association (there might still be spoilers for Meng Yao's backstory, so if you haven't gotten to it yet, maybe wait on that one!)

and a recent addition that I keep coming back to: I wonder if I ever cross your mind (because my new genre of comfort is Yukio surviving and dealing with his depression)

A Future (Lokius fluff. That's all.)

Now for my own comfort fics? That brought me comfort writing and re-reading:

Deep Dive (idk, I just like the vibe. And "That meeting could've been an email :D")

Does your mother know

Tasteless memory (I know it's angsty but it was very cathartic to write. Is that the word? I'm a writer, i don't know words.)

also every single fic I wrote about Master & Apprentice

#ask game #fanfic rec

[hamaon]

Okay I know I already asked but if you feel like allowing another request, Lan Xichen?

Lan Xichen, oh Lan Xichen.

How I feel about this character No thoughts, feelings only. Flute swirl cute. Fingers? Cute. Gnawable. So elegant and conducts himself so gracefully. What a good boy. What a joy to the eye. Someone should kiss him a lot.

He’s so consciously good to everyone all the time. He’s so invested in being fair and he thinks about the world and how people and he himself relates to it so much. (“If there was no one but you in this world, Young Master Wei, you could do anything at all you wanted, but no man’s an island and we live in a society.”)

Massively fucked up about him always. It’s so fucking unfair. It’s, oh no. Canon gives him no path to recovery. I talked about cathartic negative emotions before, but this one feels too raw. From a shipping perspective it is a pretty satisfying note to end on ngl, but my mind still shies away from such total devastation. I can handle Jin Guangyao passing away, apparently, but letting myself think about Lan Xichen having to deal with the circumstances that led to that for the rest of his life is how I end up with fifty bazillion post-canon scenarios where there’s some closure because fuck that, actually.

All the people I ship romantically with this character Just the one guy. This is now a xiyao free space.

People have probably pointed this out before, but it really struck me the other day that the clothes Jin Guangyao is wearing when he first gets legitimized have the Jin sigil on the damn shoulder area like everyone was wearing as wee baby students during the Cloud Recesses lectures. During those episodes post-Sunshot, he’s not even a proper Jin. He’s a Jin pupil. He’s on PROBATION.

Meanwhile Lan Xichen is wearing the biggest, fanciest clothes he does in the show (I guess you could make an argument for the costume in the Empathy flashback), this is absolutely a man with power. Put them next to each other and look at them for a little while and you have like the largest possible gap in social standing they can have while being recognized gentry.

And this discrepancy was all that I could concentrate on while watching the episodes with that one Jin gathering where Wei Wuxian downs Lan Wangji’s drink and throws his weight around. Lan Xichen waits for the cup-slapping feat. Jin Guangshan to be over and quickly goes through the motions with the end-of-event niceties as a Lan representative and then, in his heavy-ass robe, hurries after just-an-intern Jin Guangyao like wait honey here’s a napkin (handkerchief) from my purse (sleeve) and oh man, he does not personally experience the person that is Jin Guangyao in terms of their social standing.

...Then they stand shoulder-to-shoulder in these fits in later episodes/scenes and pass opinions back and forth without either one being a particularly dominant voice in the conversation, generally sharing an outlook. Cute.

...End of xiyao free space.

My non-romantic OTP for this character Wei Wuxian! Okay, not really, but I do find all of their scenes together and their varying levels of tensity entertaining. I love Lan Xichen’s moments of gentle trolling in the show, whether or not they’re out of any particular personal fondness. Wei Wuxian shows a certain carefulness around Lan Xichen, I think. It’s a fascinating relationship in all of its iterations.

I should answer Lan Wangji, probably, in that he’s the actually close non-Jin Guangyao relationship Lan Xichen has that I’m most about but, hm. You know how sometimes people ship things in a way where [character A] is the one they’re actually invested in, and [character B] is merely a convenient vessel to make whatever they want to happen with [character A] happen? That’s pretty similar to my feelings on the twin jades.

I like Lan Xichen’s devotion to his brother, and how you can read a whole lot personal sacrifice into it (you will never convince me that the baby brother wasn’t their mother’s darling), but that’s about Lan Xichen, not the both of them. The small gestures of concern from Lan Wangji’s side do make me feel some emotion about them as a unit, but it’s, as has been pointed out, a very uneven relationship. That’s not really a bad thing, and it’s really what you would expect considering everything from their birth order to their family situation, but I don’t feel particularly strongly about Lan Wangji, who necessarily is the main focus both in canon and fandom because of that, so yeah.

My unpopular opinion about this character I suppose there are the usual opinions regarding ignorance, intelligence and passivity. That last one is what I dislike personally; basically every scene Lan Xichen is in he is doing some sort of complex situation management. Unfortunate that a character so resistant to the textual bad guy of the story (mob mentality lol) is such a joke to the fans at times.

However, I’m not here to talk about any of that. I’m here to talk about Lan Xichen and force! Used against people, but also in general. Because I’ve often seen expressed the wish that he should “get” to kick ass more and oh man, I don’t think Lan Xichen should fight, not more.

Okay, let me back up a little, it’s not that it’s a horrible thing that he, like, was very effective and active in a war most of the cast fought in, or goes on night hunts occasionally. But it doesn’t seem like it’s of a particular interest to him, either.

There’s this promo picture for the Untamed that I love where all the other Lan are posing with their swords (not Lan Yi, we’re not counting Lan Yi), but Lan Xichen’s is nowhere in sight and he has his flute, instead. It’s not that it’s not a weapon, also, but it’s so much more than that, and even when wielded as one it has a much wider variety of uses than purely destructive ones. The Lan have their music, but Lan Xichen seems particularly associated with his instrument over his sword.

Or take the live action scene where he blocks Nie Mingjue and people love to focus on that one part, but he... never draws the blade, the scene starts with him standing to the side, because he understands that it would be better if the two more relevant parties in this conflict managed to sort their differences organically between themselves, and ends with him standing aside again, because Meng Yao indicates he wants to take the lead. The bulk of the defending/persuading he’s doing is purely verbal (and eloquent!) and he raises his scabbard only when it’s literally the one thing that’s stopping Meng Yao from being cut in half. It’s the final option.

I like it when characters have “obvious” in-born traits (big, strong) that would seem to lead them down a certain path, but do not in fact suit them particularly well in reality, and when they are allowed to be recognized for qualities they themselves feel more connected to, which to me in Lan Xichen’s case is diplomacy and de-escalation. It can be an interesting reminder every now and then that, yeah, he could probably take control of a scene within seconds if he felt like it, but really only because it underlines how he’s... not doing that. When Zewu-jun has to actually go on the offensive, it feels like a loss. That’s not what this person is here for, fundamentally.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon The eyes-closing thing is nice, it says to me that he often finds the goings-on stressful, and that the way he recharges is by checking out for a moment. He’s worked hard, he should get to do that! Permanently. Let Lan Xichen walk out of society for good.

...Oh no, he kind of did.

#tägäämätön #xiyao-feels

[unexpected-readings-of-poetry]

i want the storm inside you awoken now (i want your warm bright eyes) [Podfic]

Meng Yao is 99.999% certain that absolutely no one from the HOA (and specifically none of the board members) will even be aware of tonight's event, let alone in attendance. Thus, the extremely rare opportunity to enact a particular gremlin move (as Wei Wuxian would call it) that he has been sitting on for some time.

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Two gremlins, having muttered conversations in the back seat of the car, five feet apart cause they're totally not friends.

Part 2 of Meng Yao vs. the Board of the Homeowners’ Association by @ariaste​, a The Untamed fanfiction, read by Rionaa

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[kathleenseiber]

US COVID cases could reach 20 million by January’s end

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases are likely to increase to 20 million by the end of January, nearly doubling the current level of 11.4 million cases, a new COVID-19 forecasting model predicts.

Meng Liu, Raphael Thomadsen, and Song Yao of the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, developed the model, which accurately forecasted the rate of COVID-19 growth over the summer of 2020. Their new paper presenting the model and its forecasts appears in Scientific Reports.

The evolution of COVID-19 depends on how much we, as a country, continue to social distance or return back to normal levels of interaction. This chart shows forecasted cases in the U.S. through the end of January 2021 based on our current social distancing levels, as well as less and more social distancing. (Credit: Washington U. in St. Louis)

“One of the key reasons for the increased accuracy of this model over other COVID-19 forecasts is that this model accounts for the fact that people live in interconnected social networks rather than interacting mostly with random groups of strangers,” says Thomadsen, a professor of marketing. “This allows the model to forecast that growth will not continue at exponential rates for long periods of time, as classic COVID-19 forecasts predict.”

An interactive online version of the model also allows users to observe the impact different levels of social distancing will have on the spread of COVID-19. The current social distancing reflects an approximate 60% return to normalcy, as compared with the level of social distancing before the pandemic. If we continue, as a nation, at the current level of social distancing, the model forecasts that we are likely to reach 20 million cases before the end of January 2021.

“Even small increases in social distancing can have a large effect on the number of cases we observe in the next two and a half months,” Thomadsen says. “Going back to a 50% return to normalcy, which was the average level of distancing in early August, would likely result in 5 million fewer cases by the end of January.

“We could effectively squash out the COVID growth within a few weeks if we went back to the levels of social distancing we experienced in April,” he says.

The researchers caution; however, the predictions are likely a conservative estimate due to increased testing and the upcoming holidays.

“In our model, we assume that only 10% of cases are ever diagnosed, meaning that we will start to hit saturation,” says coauthor Song Yao, associate professor of marketing. “However, more recently, testing has increased, and probably more like 25% of cases are diagnosed. In that case, total COVID cases would increase beyond 20 million in the next few months unless we, as a society, engage in more social distancing.”

“The upcoming holiday season will present a great deal of uncertainty to the outlook of the pandemic as people travel more at the end of the year. This will likely make our forecast an optimistic one,” says coauthor Meng Liu, assistant professor of marketing.

Source: Washington University in St. Louis

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[lintingchun-blog]

-Name: Lin Ting-Chun 

-CV

NAME : Ting-Chun Lin

SEX : Male

DATE OF BIRTH : Apr 10,1980

PLACE OF BIRTH : Tainan, Taiwan

CITIZENSHIP : Tainan, Taiwan.

Office Address: Department of Neurology, Taipei Medical University Hospital

No. 252, Wu-Hsing Street, Taipei 110, Taiwan

Tel: [phone] ext 8257

Email: [email protected]

Physician certificate No.:040467

LANGUAGE : Chinese, Taiwanese, English, Japanese.

EDUCATION :

1999-2006, Doctor of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.

POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION :

1.    Research Exchange of The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA), Jul, 2005-Aug, 2005, Croatia.

2.    2007-2011, Neurology Residency & Fellowship;

           Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan.

3.    National Taiwan University, College of Medicine, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine. PhD program.

EMPLOYMENTS :

 Aug, 2013-now: Attending Staff, Department of Neurology,

                                   Taipei Medical University Hospital

 Aug, 2012- Aug, 2013: Attending Staff, Department of Neurology,

                                               Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Jiayi, Taiwan

 Aug, 2011- Aug, 2012: Fellowship, Department of Neurology,

                                               Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Jiayi, Taiwan

 Aug, 2007- Aug, 2011: Resident Physician, Department of Neurology,

                                               Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan

BOARD CERTIFICATION: Oct, 2012, Specialist in Neurology, Certification No.: 0967

MEDICAL LICENSE : Taiwan License No. 040467

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS :

1.     Neurological Society, Taiwan

2.     Formosan Medical Association, Taiwan

3.     Taiwan Stroke Association, Taiwan

4.     American Academy of Neurology, USA

5.     American Heart Association, USA

RESEARCH INTEREST :

1.    Cerebrovascular disease.

2.    Thrombolytic therapy in stroke.

3.    Neural stem Cell therapy.

PUBLICATIONS :

1.     Treatment of neuropathic pain in acute intermittent porphyria with gabapentin

Ting-Chun Lin, Shiao-Lin Lai, Shih-Pin Hsu, and Long-Sun Ro

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association. (SCI), 2013 Sep;112(9):578-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jfma.2013.04.011. Epub 2013 Jun 2.

2.     The impact of intracranial carotid artery calcification on the development of thrombolysis-induced intracerebral hemorrhage

*Ting-Chun Lin, MD; *Tzu-Hao Chao, MD; Yao Shieh, Prof.; Tsong-Hai Lee, MD, Prof.; Yeu-Jhy Chang, MD; Jiann-Der Lee, MD; Tsung-I Peng, MD, Prof.; Ku-Chou Chang, MD; Ting-Yu Chang, MD; Chien-Hung ChangMD, MS. *These authors contributed equally to this article.

Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases (SCI), Volume 22, Issue 8, November 2013, Pages e455–e462

3.     Intracerebral hemorrhage after thrombolytic therapy in acute ischemic stroke patients with renal dysfunction

*Ting-Chun Lin, *Tzu-Hao Chao, Tsong Hai Lee, Yeu Jhy Chang, Yao Shieh, Jiann-Der Lee, Tsung-I Peng, Ku-Chou Chang, Hsiang Yao Hsieh, Chien Hung Chang. *These authors contributed equally to this article.

European Neurology (SCI), 2013;70(5-6):316-21. doi: 10.1159/000353296. Epub 2013 Sep 27.

4.     Bilateral Paramedian Thalamic Infarction Presenting as Status Epilepticus: A Case Report and Review of the Literatures.

Sheng-Feng Lin, Ting-Chun Lin, Han-Hwa Hu, Chin-I Chen

Acta Neurol Taiwan 2015;24:125-130

5.    Timing of symptomatic infarct swelling following intravenous thrombolysis in acute middle cerebral artery infarction: a case control study

Ting-Chun Lin, MD; Jiann-Der Lee, MD; Ya-Hui Lin, MD; Rey-Yue Yuan, MD; Hsu-Huei Weng, MD, MPH, PhD; Ying-Chih Huang, MD; Meng Lee, MD; Chih-Ying Wu, MD; Huan-Lin Hsu, MD, Chia-Yu Hsu, MD, Tsong-Hai Lee, MD, PhD; Shan-Jin Liu, MD;Yeu-Jhy Chang, MD;Chien-Hung Chang, MD; Tsung-I Peng, MD, PhD; Chia-Wei Liou, MD;Ku-Chou Chang, MD;Yi-Ting Pan, MD;Yen-Chu Huang, MD.

Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis2016 Jul 21. pii: 1076029616659693. [Epub ahead of print]

-Research Plan

Title: The long-term care in Taiwan.

The advantage of medical care improve the life expectancy worldwide and the care system for aging papulation is a big issue gradually. In 1993, more than 7% of the population in Taiwan was 65 years old or older and it is estimated that by 2018 Taiwan will cross the threshold into an aged society. In the near future by 2025, Taiwan will enter the era of a super-aged society. Like other countries, there are national policies for the long-term care systems, however, in Taiwan an integrated system is still under constructed. My plan might focus on the long-term care system that is established for the fragile seniors.

Developed countries have seen a steep rise in chronic conditions, and the trend will continue. A rise in chronic conditions and functional limitations will create a growing demand for long-term care services in the developing world as well. Although medical care boost the life expectancy, the number of seniors who suffered from several chronic degenerative diseases, such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease and other comorbidities, increases. The estimated number of people with dementia in Taiwan in 2012 was approximately four times that in 1992, increasing from 50,970 (3.6%) to 208,012 (8.0%). According to the Taiwan Ministry of Interior and the epidemiological study of dementia published in 2014, more than 130,000 older adults in Taiwan are suffering from mild to severe dementia. The elderly, people 65 years of age or older, are the primary clients of long-term care. Therefore, a comprehensive care system for the elderly including the long-term care system cannot be overlooked. There is no straightforward definition that can fully capture the nature of long-term care. This is because a broad range of clients and services are involved. Yet, certain characteristics are common to all long-term care services. Long-term care can be defined as a variety of individualized and well-coordinated total care services that promote the maximum possible independence for people with functional limitations and that are provided over an extended period of time, using appropriate current technology and available evidence-based practices, in accordance with a holistic approach while maximizing both the quality of clinical care and the individual’s quality of life. The long-term care delivery system has three major components, the informal system, the community-based system and the institutional system. The goal of long-term care is to enable the individual to maintain functional independence to the maximum level practicable. In addition,the idea of community-based support system or aging inplace is emphasized, in Japan as well as Taiwan, not only because of the cultural considerations but also concernabout the increasing number of fragile seniors. On the other hand, a rapidly declining fertility rate also aids the speedy aging in Taiwan. According to the Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare 2014, in the end of 2013, average life expectancy was 79.9 years (76.7 years for men and 83.3 years for women) and the fertility rate in 2013 was only 1.1. How to relieve the burden of family caregivers has become a major challenge. The primary policy of the long-term care system is the 10-Year Long-Term Care Program that was proposed in 2007. In 2008, in response to a rapidly aging society and a labor shortage, the The Minister of the Interior (2008) released White Paper of Population Policy: Policies for pro-natal, aging, and migration. Furthermore, in 2009, the Taiwan government released Program of Friendly Care for Senior Service on the health of older adults, which highlighted three themes to guide the action plans: active aging, aging friendly, and intergenerational cohesion. Currently, the Ministry of Health and Welfare is drafting White Paper for Aged Society, which plans to collaborate with private sectors in Taiwan to provide community-based of prevention in primary care for older adults in an aged society. However, aging issues still seem a subfield in most academic disciplines and industries. In contrast with the Japan, there is no national institute concentrating on aging study in Taiwan. The research projects on aging are conducted at various public and private institutions, including universities. This might contribute to overlap and lack of coordination between research projects and services. To balance the medical care and long-term care system would be challenging.

Today, many countries such as Germany and Japan have universal, comprehensive long-term care systems based on social insurance. Japan have developed public universal long-term care insurance systems that are operated by the government. Nonetheless, both countries have trouble coordinating services between medical care and long-term care. Quality control is always a concern: Germany has stressed building quality into contracts between insurers and providers, while Japan emphasizes training. The German and Japanese governments both hoped, along with gerontologists around the world, that improving care in the community would lower nursing home usage and spending. However, this has not occurred. In Germany, the proportion of beneficiaries who receive institutional care has been increasing, from 27 percent in 1997 to 31.5 percent by 2005, including many who require only low levels of care. In Japan, demand for nursing homes exploded with the new program. The long-term care delivery system cannot function independently of other health care services. Hence, the long-term care system must be rationally linked to the rest of the healthcare delivery system. Lon-term care patients, regardless of where they may be residing, frequently require a variety of services along the health care continuum, dictated by the changes in the patient’s condition and episodes that occur over time.

-Social Issues and the Research

Many countries introduced comprehensive long-term care system because their frail older populations were growing; their traditional resources for care were declining; and their existing fragmented long-term care programs were increasingly seen as costly, inefficient, and unfair. The situation in the Taiwan today is similar, if not worse. Currently, the policies on long-term care in Taiwan are tied to the concepts of aging in place and community care services. The primary policy of the long-term care system in Taiwan was released in 2007. The second version is revising now. The primary challenge facing the long-term care system is the lack of both family and paid caregivers and their lack of professional training. In addition, too few potential recipients have requested long-term government services because services are not flexible enough, and some needy recipients do not meet the official qualifications. Although the complex of the long-term care program, I would investigate this object to comprehend the long-term care system and make it locally practicable in Taiwan.

- GCL plan in 2018

1) complete the long-term care program. 

2) school myself with Japanese and English. 

3) make a good collaboration with GCL members.