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wangxianficrecs · 1 year

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take me back to a time by DizziDreams

take me back to a time

by DizziDreams

T, 143k, wangxian

Summary: Wei Ying has a lot on his plate right now. It’s finals week -- which isn’t so bad. He’s never had to study much to do well in classes. But that just means that things are that much more tense with Jiang Cheng, who, as far as Wei Ying can tell, only takes study breaks long enough to glare at Wei Ying where he sits on the couch playing video games. It’s not studies that have Wei Ying stressed out. It’s everything else. It’s the recruitment for the research trial he’s coordinating. It’s jiejie and her impending marriage to His Royal Douchebag Jin Zixuan. It’s the volunteer work at the palliative care facility. It’s Wen Ning’s worsening condition. It’s Wen Qing working herself thin to care for her brother and Wen Yuan. It’s the way Wen Yuan never seems to have enough food. So, yeah. There’s enough on Wei Ying’s plate already, meaning it’s not entirely welcome when he comes home and finds a man standing in his bedroom. A man in extravagant white robes, a ribbon tied around his forehead, long hair gathered into a topknot, fist clutching a sword at his side, who asks him, “Where am I?”

Mojo's comments: Wei Ying tells himself, there’s no way that he has done something as stupid as fallen for a time-travelling, dimension-hopping wizard in just two weeks of acquaintance. It’s unthinkable. Wei Ying might be stupid, but even he’s not that stupid. Narrator's voice: Wei Ying apparently IS that stupid. … This is an epic story in which canon lwj appears in a modern wwx's room one night. Wwx is a down-on-his-luck college student slipping into even harder times and intrigue, but he's got a heart of gold and immediately sets about helping this strange (and very attractive) wizard. (He can fly, omg!!!) The story's focus is on both their growing relationship (oh, the tension! the slow burn!) and on the mysteries that keep being revealed in both worlds, like tips of icebergs. Author notes that this is not a fix it, which is probably to prepare you for copious amounts of angst and bad choices and misunderstandings (although at least no one is dead for 13 years!). A whole new story, with dimension travel and a strategically striking qi-stealing illness is cleverly woven in with plot points from canon to create something both recognizable and fresh.

college/university, canon-divergence, modern setting, time travel, modern with magic, time travelling lan wangji, sharing a bed, fish out of water, angst with a happy ending, man out of time, slow burn, character death, angst, reference to abuse, canonical character death, canonical abuse, canon-typical violence, mutual pining, chronic illness, not exactly a fix-it, podfic available, implied 3zun, college student wei wuxian, genius wei wuxian, found family, pov alternating, @dizzi-dreams

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winterwells · 10 months

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Art and Fic by winterwells

Muggle-Born Chapter 26: Bonjour, Mother Fucker -The gang gets together for some wonderful chaos

Rated M on AO3. Draco coming of age, Dramione Hogwarts era AU

It was an elaborate scheme with many moving parts, but with all the floos monitored by the Ministry, they couldn't risk raising any suspicion.

"Alright," said Draco as he gripped the broomstick. "Time to aid and abet a murder."

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galarfiend · 2 years

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Allister, Marnie, and the protag twins in the magical powers au

#pokemon allister #gym leader allister #pokemon swsh #pokemon swsh au #magical powers au #family guy death pose #i burst out laughing multiple times while drawing this #i didnt know i needed allister in the family guy death pose until just now #rival marnie #pokemon marnie #pokemon gloria #pokemon victor #victor is a boyscout and he always loses the pinewood derby bc he accidentally slows down his car every time

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wolfstarshipping · 10 months

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Step & Repeat (62.744 words) by @theresthesnitch Rating: Mature Relationships: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

modern AU, muggle AU, fake dating

Summary: Step & Repeat: 1. A banner with a repeating motif or picture that is used as a backdrop for pictures, like for a red carpet. 2. The act of actually falling in love with your celebrity best friend while being his fake boyfriend on said red carpet while the whole world thinks you’re already in love. Or, at least, that’s how it happened to Remus.

Comment: Fake dating is one of my favorite tropes, and this fic had absolutely everything I could wish for: lots and lots of mutual pining and totally platonic cuddling, so much domestic fluff, Sirius as a movie star, Remus as a writer, did I mention the mutual pining?? I'm sad I missed it when it was still a WIP because following along the social media posts on tumblr sounds so fun, but I'm so glad I read it now, because it was such a great fic, and the media content in between chapters makes the experience even more immersive, I highly recommend checking it out if you haven't already read it!

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fluffypotatey · 6 months

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*thrashing against the lmk authorities* hey…hey y’all *struggling to grasp the door back to the teen wolf thiam fandom* hey i just had this great thiam au— *they pull me back*

#thiam royalty au say what 👀#monarch and knight dynamic #I blame thirty seconds to mars for this idea #btw Theo is the prince and Liam is the knight in this scenario #Theo is a part of the new ruling kingdom (or empire idk yet) that took over after invading the old one (which was ruled over by Scott)#Liam was the old kingdom’s prince and as a way to keep the enemy close but also humiliate the new ruling king/emperor placed him to be #Prince Theo’s knight and he is forcibly sworn into a magically binding contract in order to not betray his lord and kill him #meanwhile Scott is assembling an army to fight back & keeps in contact with Liam is still personally loyal to Scott NOT Theo #which Theo is aware of but doesn’t tell his rulers bc he has his own personal agenda #but this is literally all I have #bare bones #of course it’s a slow burn romance multi chapter fic ideas because I’m so predictable and love placing huge projects at my feet 🤧#thiam #thiam au #thiam royalty au #must quickly make my leave before i am sucked back into lmk

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lilac-udon · 8 months

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#mythical au #wip #i might change it #Aubrey has magic to support her speed and attacks #sunny is slow he can be fast he just lazy #slowly floating #survival rate is based on ending with mari awaked endings #her survival rate is high

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rottencake06 · 2 years

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hey! here is my art for the @kaishinbigbang It would make me very happy if you check out the fic that @alleymichaelis wrote for this piece.

Read it here

We really put a lot of effort creating this collaboration so we would be very grateful if you read it.

Also, don't forget to check the collection in Ao3 to see the other works.

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bonkalore · 14 days

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📆 (for the OC ask game)

📅 If your OC had one day left to live, how would they spend it?

Oof, gosh... Technically this also kind of happens within the story towards the end. 😅 Comes down to him just wanting to be with his loved ones and for them to know undeniably that he loves them. There are too many things he wishes he could cram in and do with them, almost to the point of paralysis, so he'd just focus on what he can do in the moment and that's just spending time with them while he can. Wants to be physically close with them. Definitely would want to have sex at least one more time if possible lol He'd pass on what he can and try to make peace with his loved ones.

#Bleeding Magic AU #Jayce Chinda #bonka replies #aalinaaaaaa #there are too many times he has faced his potential demise (one time he did lol)#they usually are pretty sudden... but at the end of the story he definitely feels more like slow leading up to it sadly

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fruitrindz · 19 days

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Lodgeverse Anti-Harem Niche (Pt. 2)

Briefly put, I got into the anti-harem niche through @rosescries work There's Still Magic, which led me down a rabbit hole of other works and a few of the repetitive tropes I've seen are (1) reader-insert is down on their luck and gets contacted by former associate (can't even say friend most of the time) who is slightly obsessive of them because of how meek or easily manipulated they are; (2) Reader-insert is only staying at the Lodge for a semester, or a limited period of time, while they get a degree and in the mean time are swamped with work and school and volunteer stuff, which the love-interest of the Lodge skeletons (with the exception of Mutt {Swapfell Papyrus} usually since he is usually uninterested or uncomfortable with them) takes full advantage of to make themselves look good; (3) The Lodge (again, usually excluding Mutt) do their best to make reader insert as uncomfortable as possible, be it with jabs or threats, etc. They are not kind because they are either (1) 'defending' love insert, (2) 'correcting' reader insert mistakes, (3) don't like humans (other than love insert, which is hypocritical), or some mix of the three; (4) Those outside of the Lodge (with the exception of Mutt {Swapfell Papyrus} since he doesn't blindly follow the love interest, who the rest of the lodge is dating or on the verge of dating) can see through them to a degree where they aren't immediately tricked.

That being said, I love this archetype, but it also made me want to explore how it could get so bad and the after effects of living through the trauma of being in a hostile environment for a long period of time and suddenly being able to get away from it all.

Constantly placating people in hopes of avoiding a confrontation is exhasting, so it's easy to imagine how reader insert (let's call them Aconite) is constantly using their school/volunteering/work as a form of escapism and any where that isn't their room or away from the Lodge is treated like a mine field. Aconite is constantly on thier tip toes to avoid setting the skeletons off, or worse. the love interest who could set off a chain reaction to set off the skeletons.

I could see the aftermath of them leaving the Lodge (as far as money could get them) and having to unlearn the paranoia and people pleasing tendencies they've had to learn to basically survive their experience at the Lodge.

As for everyone else there, I could imagine that things don't get better when Aconite leave, in fact I think they would get significantly worse since a majority of the bonding that occured would be from 'a common enemy' - and since there isn't an enemy for them to bond over, i.e., the love interest and the skeletons, things get sour pretty quickly as things don't line up now that there isn't anyone to blame.

Lodgeverse Anti-Harem Niche (Pt. 1)

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klutzymaiden123 · 21 days

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Hints for Chapter 25

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ceiling-karasu · 1 month

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Update on the future AUs I'm writing. Since I am only a few chapters away from finishing Lily Bell in the Thorn Thicket, I was thinking this was the right time.

When I started, I expected maybe three people to read Lily Bell in the Thorn Thicket, so I am glad other people have been enjoying it!

AU Based on Episode 32: The way it ended still angers me.

The next story will focus on Geumsaegi after the cliffhanger in Episode 32. Season two does mention that while Dr. Huinjogjebi is in charge, Commander Jogjebi's brother is gathering a lot of support to get rid of him and take over the army himself, so this is a viable plotline close to canon I would think. Plus Dr. Huinjogjebi seems like he would be fun to write.

I want to have a civil war power struggle within many groups of the surviving weasel army (the rebels of mount rock, wolfspider cave, surviving Tokgasi, Mulmangcho, ect), with Geumsaegi being one of the prizes. As the former guard commander/special envoy/special aide, he knows a massive amount of the old codes, intel, supply cache locations, and other information, so anyone who convinces him to join gets most of the power. He can use the disorder to his advantage.

I have not seen the supposed episodes 33 and 34, nor have I seen the rumored AU stories about them from people who claimed they did see it. However, as I have said in a previous post long ago, this series tended to end episodes on cliffhangers showing the worst possible situation, only to fix them in favor of Flower Hill in the first few minutes of the next episode. So, I plan to go that route in the style of the show.

I'll finish this one before getting to any others.

White Ermine Nurse AU: Treading into OCs, but still using canon characters and ideas

This would be a shorter story. A white ermine nurse (the same one that briefly appeared in the current story? Who knows? Certainly not me yet) from Flower Hill visiting relatives outside of Flower Hill gets conscripted by the weasel army because they are a nurse, and she has to play along. She recognizes Geumsaegi years later, and tries to covertly ask for help, but comes off like the coroner/medical examiner lady in MIB, leading everyone to think she has romantic feelings for Geumsaegi when she does not, and neither does he. Eventually she witnesses the downfall of the weasel army.

I still have to think of a name, but it will probably follow Flower Hill naming conventions so Snowy = Nunsong or Frost =Seoli. The nurses and female mice in the show are forced to act flirtatiously to the males, so having a nurse who gets the reputation as an ice queen seems kind of fun.

Hyena Army AU: Still treading into OCs, and the Hedgehog Waitress and Rabbit Guide will be instrumental along with Geumsaegi and the Commanders in Cherry Valley

Another short story, The Wolf Unit brings in a unit of Hyenas to help crush Flower Hill. These hyenas are huge, larger than wolves, and extremely ferocious. The hyena village has actually been very close friends with Flower Hill for generations, but the weasel army has taken their families hostage to force them to fight for them, and were promised they would not have to fight their traditional allies. Commander Seungnyangi doesn't know that.

They aren't sure if they should honor historical edicts and forgo their families by destroying the weasel army, or try and fight Flower Hill and break the pacts. Maybe this includes an alternate episode 32 AU, where one of the hyenas working as a prison warden/interrogator is given the unconscious trio and has to make the final decision.

The concept of a flag flown upside down is a distress signal will be an important plot line or maybe even a joke.

Honestly I could put the white ermine nurse and the hyena unit into the Geumsaegi focused AU as some kind of intertwining story, but I don't know yet. It could be great for the plot, but I also feel like I would prefer keeping close to canon on that one.

The Kidnapped Research Scientists AU: This one will require a lot of work into studying Research Scientists and connecting it with what the Weasel Army would want exactly.

I've mentioned this one in another post. A group of scientists and young civilians from Flower Hill get kidnapped while everyone is distracted with Fowl Village, and get slowly convinced to work for the Weasel Army with the idea that they aren't directly hurting Flower Hill, and their work will also help Flower Hill in the long run. Half serious, half humor.

There is a plotline in the beach episode where the Weasel Army discusses kidnapping other scientists, so that can work with canon as well. RIP the disguise artist, but sabotage does not work when a random like Mulmangcho can casually create a better disguise than what you provide.

I feel like the famous Skippy's List might show up here, although with it being used by the hostages to undermine the Weasel Army from within. I'm just going to have some fun with it until I get Geumsaegi into the mix as coming for an inspection, along with interactions of other canon characters from both sides.

Cage of Eden AU: The Fun One

Years ago I really liked an old story called Cage of Eden, so I was thrilled that they recently produced an ending. I don't think one needs to actually read that series to read the AU though.

Probably going to be a mix of a lot of canon characters and OC characters here. Honestly I kind of want an excuse to write more Dr. Huinjogjebi, because again, he seems like he would be fun to work with and write about. Also the sturgeons.

A group of Weasel Army and a group of Flower Hill go to peace talks in a third, neutral, country, and go back on a jumbo jet filled with supposed civilians. Something mysterious happens, and the plane crashes on a suspiciously large island and everyone gets separated. Mystery animals are still non sentient on the island.

Except instead of the ending to Cage of Eden, more like The Forest where the plane was deliberately brought down, but not like the ending of The Forest either. I don't like mixing alien god time travel magic relic stuff into other fandoms that don't have it, but there are several plausible ways in the Squirrel and Hedgehog universe to solve the ending and escape.

Ideas being:

the Weasel Army smuggled a group of solar powered Sturgeon robots onboard, which is not hard since they can fold up like briefcases in the show

The Weasel Army also smuggled weapons bio-coded to weasels and mice onto the plane

Flower Hill squirrel soldier who went to a foreign university accidentally legally married a mouse during a drama club performance, but they both got drafted when they went back to Flower Hill to explain the situation and have yet to explain. This is revealed by a former classmate who also happens to be there.

Someone, possibly Bamsaegi, is scouting the area around the plane crash using a hanglider, only to get caught up in a strange wind that whips him all the way to the residential area, where he is injured enough to have to stay and investigate all the skeletons and apparent failed evacuations.

Neither Flower Hill nor the Weasel Army are going to put up with Nishikiori's antics. I'm seeing him as a White-Naped crane.

Going off of the discussion on the international community, and laws discussed in 'Pangulggot Reports,' I can come to the idea that medics are not supposed to fight the enemy unless the enemy is non sentient and/or actively trying to kill them. Using this logic, the weasel army captures a Flower Hill field medic/surgeon with the idea that medics are extremely important to have in such a situation, who goes with them since there are creatures in the woods, they can't find anyone from their squad, and the weasel's weapons are bio-coded, and they can also glean important information. The medic become the team dad/mom/voice of reason while shenanigans happen.

Instead of the Mina plotline, a third party spy group disguises themselves as members of Flower Hill. Their intentions are mysterious, even to me because I have not yet decided if they are hostile or not.

Mainly going to follow the plot of Cage of Eden, I think, but undergone with more soldiers and survivalists than high school kids.

Mistaken Identity Hedgehog AU: The one Least Likely to be written at all, since there would be few if any canon characters

A hedgehog living in some kind of integrating Ainu style village in another small country near Flower Hill. Traditionally they speak in a kind of mountain dialect/mountain language that is shared within a few villages, but the new village leader forbids it and wants everyone to speak the common tongue. Maybe the hedgehog does not have a given name other than the identifier Goseumdochi yet since children are raised communally. Apparently, not allowing girls to have given names was actually a thing in some Korean and Chinese cultures.

Their area gets destroyed in the crossfire between Flower Hill and the Weasel Army, and when the village tries to escape, Flower Hill mistakes them for a group trying to escape conscription, and since they cannot give names, and are forced into the army to train. Eventually, after several years, and most of that village dying. the lone hedgehog breaks down and says some things at a gathering. A nearby military investigator recognizes a faint accent and starts a military investigation, whereupon they realize they have no records of these hedgehogs. And if the story is true, that's an international incident where they are at fault, so they send them to some allied islands/coastal country to hold them while they figure it out.

I was reading the plot of Barakamon (came across my dash) and remembering the old series Useless Ponko while thinking of this, so peaceful village life, except instead of calligraphy it will be the hedgehog learning that not everything has to be bad, and they are not some sort of representation of the child from Omelas. Except these islanders speak a similar dialect/language to the mountain people, so they start learning that to fit in.

Planning some romance and eventual marriage with the locals, and harassing officials from the mainland who want everyone to have special IDs but don't even speak the local language. So maybe a bit of a dark story going into humor later on.

Unfortunately, some other people have posted ideas about suspected spies being arrested, as well as the idea of 'mountain languages' that military investigators do not like, so I may have to alter or drop that idea.

However, this idea for a plot originally came from when I watched the new Murder on the Orient Express and then played TMOSTH right after. It consisted of a drunk Flower Hill hedgehog despairing over being accidentally conscripted years ago to the bartender, and the story making it back to everyone on the train, becoming a key part of the investigation. Was not sure why a group of Flower Hill soldiers are on this train.

In this version, I had two ideas. She was either a laboratory scientist, and willingly sneaks off with a group of soldiers from the weasel army who would stand to gain a life changing amount of reward money for acquiring a scientist like that, or joins an idol/performance group/the private investigator Poirot character of some kind where they have to wear a disguise. Adventures happen while avoiding secret scouts and investigative agents from Flower Hill looking for deserters and weasel army looking for soldiers.

Random Short Stories Collection: Small stories, shorter than the ermine and hyenas

I have some one shot ideas. Very short stories, maybe rewrites of other chapters where things go differently but not enough to change the plot.

Whatever loose ends I miss in Lily Bell in the Thorn Thicket, because wow do I have quite a bit to clean up

Earlier or different rescue in Lily Bell in the Thorn Thicket

More fluff scenes

Actual Scooby-Doo-esque shenanigans with Commander Jogjebi in the background

A tufted ground squirrel scientist visits Flower Hill with a hyena bodyguard. Turns out the roles are the opposite

'Nope' parody, but I don't know if I want it to be a Weasel Army weapon or not

Jinro the Jindo dog is probably going to drift in and out of stories, making delicious food and then get everyone drunk on his special soju so he can escape being conscripted as a cook.

Names for non canon characters:

I'm just having fun with these AUs. I'll think up some names as I go along, although I will probably have to hunt down other AUs and old fanfictions (there's years old stories on here including Hanahaki fics) from across the internet to look for OC names, because I don't want to use a name someone else has already used. Unless it fits really really well and is generic enough.

Really kind of liking the idea of naming characters after trees and flowers, but I'll have to rewatch the show again to make sure I fully understand Flower Hill naming conventions. Also I think I love the name Nunsong (or Nunsongi) from a visual perspective.

#squirrel and hedgehog #lily bell in the thorn thicket #I got a taste of writing and decided I liked it #I think it's getting out of hand though I may need to slow down #yeah the other AUs after the episode 32 AU are going to be pretty self indulgent but still close to canon as I can make it #except maybe the mistaken identity AU #I like writing close to canon it is fun for some reason #sah #screaming into the void #cage of eden #no sir no relic magic here just the improbable science that fascinates and annoys Dr. Huiniogiebi #love me some sturgeons I want to study them #If an idea comes from a book or movie I will mention it in the comments of the chapter #otherwise it is mostly stuff I just think up at random and see if I can integrate #wow this is long sorry about that

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