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spocks-kaathyra · 7 months
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best thing abt being a student is FREE PHOTOSHOP had to christen the new drawing software w a lil doodle of my blorbo of all time Song Zichen
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also pretty much a redraw of my first drawing on my phone from march! definitely have more of a grasp on digital drawing now jdhfkjhk
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This all started because I was pondering on what motive Xue Yang had to make Xiao Xingchen a “bad” man. We could talk about his revenge towards Xiao Xingchen but with this I think Wei Wuxian makes a good point. He asks Xue Yang who he really was taking revenge for. If it was for himself, why did he dig out Chang Ping’s eyes? Why did he torture him to death? Who was he really trying to repay? Wei Wuxian is, of course, alluding to the idea that Xue Yang was doing it to avenge Xiao Xingchen. With this being said, I don’t think Xue Yang made Xiao Xingchen commit crimes for “revenge” if the whole reason he even committed a brutal crime was for Xiao Xingchen.
The real motive was this: Xue Yang had to bring Xiao Xingchen down to his level. He had to make him a killer just like Xue Yang because Xue Yang couldn't come up. He didn’t want to become “better” because he saw it as pointless and unfruitful. Xue Yang couldn’t become the ethereal and kind being Xiao Xingchen was to him. He didn't have it in him to be kind and selfless like Xiao Xingchen but he still wanted them to be equals. He wanted to walk in Xiao Xingchen's company as an equal, a real friend, someone to be needed. However, Xiao Xingchen, wonderful and gentle and generous Xiao Xingchen, would never need- never want- a murderer, even if Xue Yang murdered for Xiao Xingchen. He was upset because the very thing Xiao Xingchen hated him for was supposed to be a good gesture. It was a sign of protection, of undying loyalty. Xiao Xingchen was "too good," in Xue Yang's words, for him. He was too righteous to see that someone could do evil things for good reasons, to avenge someone who would never do it themself.
So it’s this vicious cycle where Xiao Xingchen was an enemy, then an obsession, someone to be respected. Under a new identity, Xiao Xingchen even became his friend. Xiao Xingchen gave him freedom from the burden of his reputation. For years, Xue Yang behaved (to Xiao Xingchen’s knowledge) but even with that knowledge, with that tangible experience, Xiao Xingchen immediately wants to fight him, to remove Xue Yang from his life. How hard must that have been? To have been someone loved and needed in one moment and cast to the side for your past actions in another? Again, this is all bearing in mind that Xiao Xingchen does not know what the audience knows yet. Xiao Xingchen only knows that this man makes him laugh every day, that he goes to the market for him and A-Qing, that he makes animals from apples. He leaves Xue Yang candy! Yet, as soon as it is revealed that he is Xue Yang, none of that seems to matter anymore.
What would have happened if Song Lan never showed up? What if A-Qing had never told Xiao Xingchen about Xue Yang’s true identity? What if they kept on as they were? Xue Yang didn’t bring up Xiao Xingchen’s “crimes” until Xiao Xingchen turned on him (in his mind) and made him feel as less than. If he was really trying to torture Xiao Xingchen, then why wait years to reveal what Xue Yang made him do? I think Xue Yang was trying to create his own ideal world- one where Xiao Xingchen came down to his level, was humanized, and in a city where no one could reveal that he was actually Xiao Xingcehn’s mortal enemy (killing all of the villagers with an alternative motive besides just “make Xiao Xingchen commit crimes.”) He was setting up a home, in a twisted way, where he could keep an eye on everything, continuing to be the puppet master in this grand scheme where the ultimate goal was to have something akin to family. 
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propertyofwicked · 2 days
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BREATHE - LN
based on this request - (absolutely obsessed with this concept, i hope i did it justice)
sooo i caugh myself thinking about lando's huuuge neck and him probably having kind of a choking kink but on himself ykwym? like reader riding him and putting her hands on his neck without realizing and he's just enjoying it and eventually asks her to choke him a bit harder maybe... idk 😭 could you write something based on this? -anon
warnings: smut! MDNI! riding, choking, unprotected sex, not proofread so apologise for any mistakes!
SONG CHOICE: breathe by bby
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her legs were thrown either side of lando’s, straddling his waist tightly as she ground herself down his cock. his hands rested on her hips, pulling her body to move back and forth on his length. the veins running down his arms enlarged slightly as he used his strength to hold her still for a moment, forcing himself as deep as physically possible inside her.
y/n could feel every movement below her - his hips rolling up into hers, his legs spasming up slightly every time she moaned out his name, his fingers digging into the skin of her thighs, nails scraping the flesh as he did.
“fuck, angel,” he grunted, “so good f’me.”
her head rolled back at his praise, choking out a moan when his hips lifted into her once again, her walls tightening around him as she did. her body fell forward at the feeling, hands moving to rest on his chest for stability. her legs had grown tired ages ago, but the feeling of lando’s cock sliding in and out of her heat as she bounced lightly consumed her every thought, she couldn’t fathom the possibility of this feeling ending.
his hand left her hip, snaking between the two of them to toy with her clit, using the slick coating his cock to allow his fingers to circle it seamlessly. her pleasure intensified, an icy tingle running through her entire body as her grip on his chest slipped. she fell into him further, her hands the only thing stopping her from folding into his chest completely when they landed on the base of his neck. she looked at the man as he lay beneath her, his lips had parted, heavy breaths filling the room, head rolled back into the pillow as a bead of sweat rolled down his forehead.
“fuck, lan, just like that,” she said, encouraging the way his hips jutted into her at the loss of her own movement. lando’s thrusting was faster than her own bouncing, his length hitting new angles as his pushed himself up into her. the feeling had her tightening around not only his cock, but also his neck, her hands sporadically gripping either side. she noticed his breathing hastening again, his assault on her clit faltering slightly.
she tried to push herself back up again to continue grinding down on him, causing the pressure of her body weight to press into lando’s neck again. his head remained still, but the muscles in his neck flexed beneath her hands, a low grumble escaping his throat as she applied more pressure to his airway.
y/n assumed she’d hurt him, despite her hands looking so small and weak compared to his neck. lando moaned out beneath her, choking out her name as he did.
“sorry,” she panted, loosening her grip on his neck, noticing the way their sweat coated her palms slightly. he didn’t respond. instead, his head shot up to look in her eyes, his gaze intense as he shook his head.
“do it again,” lando begged, yet his tone holding a sense of something sinister. a tone that only showed when the roles were reversed. a tone he unintentionally reserved for the times one of his hands was wrapped around her neck, squeezing at her airways.
“are you sure?” she questioned, her fingers running along his jaw as she searched his face for any sign of hesitation.
“angel, please,” he continued to beg her, moving his hand from her clit to hold hers, trailing it slowly down the tanned skin of his face, settling it on his neck. her fingers spread across his throat, pushing the cold metal of his necklace away from the area, her hips pushed her lower body down his cock once more, the feeling of being stretched around him overriding any doubt swimming through her mind.
y/n’s hand tightened apprehensively around his neck once more, using her grip to stabilise the rest of her body as she ground down on him. lando mumbled something incoherent, his words merging into one as he struggled to contain himself.
“is this ok?” she asked him, her eyes softening in her concern.
“y/n, angel,” he replied reassuringly, his tone momentarily soft, “you weren’t even close to hurting me with both hands on my neck. just pl- please, choke me.”
his borderline begging spurred her on, her fingers flat on his neck, thumb on the base of his jaw as she deepened her grip. this was a new experience for the two of them, usually lando being the one to lavish in her begging, hands gripped around her throat as he fucked into her.
and yet, whilst their roles were reversed, lando kept his control over her. his hips now moving in time with hers, hands returning to their grip on her waist, pushing her body down on him. he was her only thought. the way his moaning intensified, the sound filling her brain till she was dumb. excitement filling her veins at the way he fell apart beneath her, more vocal at her every move. and despite the way their position made him look submissive, the control she had of his breathing, fingers squeezing tighter with every thrust, his fingers ran circles around her clit, pinching it lightly when she paused her bouncing - she knew who was in charge.
lando looked at the sight in front of him, at his cock, enamoured by the way y/n sunk down on him, any thoughts wiped away immediately at the sight of his length disappearing inside of her fully, and reappearing covered in her slick. he loved how wet she got for him, even after years together. no matter how many times they did this, she was always ready for him, ready to take everything he had to offer her.
his mouth opened to praise her, trailing his eyes up her body. but the words got caught in his mouth - he didn’t know if it was her tight grip around his neck, the feeling of her skin on his, or the way her breasts moved as she forced his cock into her again. his eyes never got round to meeting hers, as he felt waves of pleasure running through his entire body, his hips thrust up into her suddenly, taking her by surprise, hand falling to the side of him leaving her clit unattended. she started to whine at the loss of contact but with no warning, lando had climaxed, his cum spilling from his tip, filling his girl, leaking out of her as she took him in fully again. her movements haltered at the sudden feeling of his cum spewing into her, her grip on his neck loosened, his large hand subconsciously rocking her hips into his to ride out his own high.
lando took in a deep breathe, heat rising to his face in a mix of shock and embarrassment at how quickly he came undone with her hand around his throat.
“fuck i-” he breathed out, chest shaking as he did. his eyes finally met hers, he noted the way her pupils were blown, and the way her hair fell in front of her face, strands sticking to her cheek. she was ruined, and all because of him. he cupped her face, kissing her softly before tucking her hair behind her ear, “so good for me, love you,” he panted.
“lan, please,” she moaned out, ignoring his words, grinding her hips down on his softening cock. in his shock, he’d momentarily forgotten about her. she was so close, but her orgasm was moving further away from her grasp as time passed.
“i know, baby,” lando cooed at her, feeling somewhat guilty for her predicament, arms wrapping around her and rolling the two of them over so that she laid on her back beneath him. his necklace dangled around her lips, taunting her.
“gonna make you feel so good, yeah? such a good girl,” he mumbled in her ear, pressing a kiss to her jaw before sliding down her body, settling between her legs before pulling them over his shoulder. she was exposed to him, his eyes staring at the way his cum leaked from her. the flesh was red, overstimulated and sore from the stretch of his cock. he let out a breathe, the air blowing on her sensitivity causing her hips to shoot upwards.
“patience, angel. wanna take my time with you.”
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mickyschumacher · 1 month
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𝐆𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐎𝐔𝐒  .ೃ࿐
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𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘: you were in love with f1's beloved honey badger and you had been for almost year. but why in the world had you instead fallen for his teammate? or in which infidelity has laid it's sticky little hands on you.
𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒: slight angst, infidelity naturally, falling out of love, steamy makeout sesh, suggestive content, pining, sad boy hours for daniel, lando being kind of a sneaky bastard, age-gap between reader and boys (8 years for dan and 2 years for lan), reader born in australia, set in 2020/2021, false or incorrect marine biology lingo and protocols lol, mention of crossiant horner, poor explanation of f1, mentions of insecurity, proof-read...ish
𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆: daniel ricciardo x marine biologist!female reader, lando norris x marine biologist!female reader
𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓: 4k+
𝐀/𝐍: i felt bad for not posting so here's me digging into my reserves! written when i did more song-based fics!! i wish life wasn't so busy 🤧 i have started a few thingsssssss but it's definitely going to be a while before i post them sorry 😣
𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓
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You, honestly, were a normal girl. Mundane as mundane gets. Never once had you imagined of cameras, headlines and the need for a PR specialist in your life.
But it's what you had gotten. That's what Daniel Ricciardo came with.
You had met the Australian on pure accident. It was late 2020 and the season had just come an end. Hamilton was a six-times World Champion and Daniel had his last season with Renault. He hadn't got the result he wanted but he was optimistic about his future with McLaren. So eventually, he headed home to Australia for the Christmas holidays.
Now you would like to consider yourself a well-versed Australian. Especially considering you were born there. Robert Irwin was the most beloved Australian for years to come and Margot Robbie and Chris Hemsworth were your Aussie reps in America.
Somehow, however, you had never really got F1 or Formula One. That's not to say you hadn't heard of it. Honestly, for the past few years it was difficult to pass Albert Park in the summer of March without it flashing in front of your eyes. But if someone were to ask you anything about it, you would blink blankly and apologise.
Which is exactly what you did in early December. You were out having lunch with your closest friends at a local cafe, catching up on the year in the fresh yet skin-damaging Aussie sun.
You were in midst conversation when a brunette girl politely interrupted you. "Hi, sorry. This is going to sound really weird. I'm doing this on a bet. But do all three of you know that man over there? In the hat?”
You looked over to her table full of people. It seemed like she was with her family and friends. You and your friends zoned on the man in the hat, a guy who was trying to not make it obvious that he was aware of what was going on.
You scrutinised him carefully and unsurprisingly, you didn’t know him. Surprisingly, you did find that he was attractive. The curly hair, the scruff… you wondered whether he was actually Australian because no men in Australia looked like that.
Your two friends nodded while confirming with one another. “It’s Daniel, right? The driver?” One of them asked.
Your other friend hummed in agreement.
The brunette looked over at you. You blinked at her as your face slowly morphed into an apologetic expression. “I’m sorry. I don’t know.”
The brunette, which you expected to be somewhat sad about it, ended up smiling while your friends’ faces dropped.
“Thank you! Oh my god. You have no idea what you’ve just done!” The brunette laughed loudly, capturing the attention of her table. She pointed at the man in the hat, clutching her stomach. “She doesn’t know who you are, Danny. Take that!”
Similarly to your friends, the male’s face dropped. He looked at you and tilted his head.
When Daniel actually saw you for the first time, he was in shock. Not the type of shock of an Aussie not knowing who he was. But rather the shock of being in the presence as someone as beautiful as you.
Your eyes were tantalising and your apologetic expression was cute.
He waved a hand in dismissal. “It’s okay. I’m just an F1 driver.”
You nodded in slow understanding. Maybe you had in fact seen his posters in Albert Park. Honestly, you couldn’t be sure. Life as a marine biologist was busy and all over the place. Recognising celebrities or athletes was kind of the last thing on your mind.
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That day you went home with the expectation of a normal tomorrow. One where you were out at the ocean and exploring the waters you had loved so much.
You wish you could say it came as a shock to see that same curly haired man on the wharf, but given the current temperatures that heavily contrasted your winter, it was reasonable as any other Aussie here.
What you didn’t expect was you passing him to get to your boat and then hearing a voice enter the air. “Hey! Excuse me. Sorry. You’re the girl from yesterday, right?”
You turned to the man, hand over your eyes to protect yourself from the harsh rays and take a closer look at him. Just in case it wasn’t him.
“Uh, yeah? You’re the driver, right?”
Daniel gave a wide smile, extending out his hand. “I’m Daniel. Daniel Ricciardo.”
Oh my. What a smile he had. The type to make you feel happy just by looking at it. You couldn’t even help but smile in response. You reached out to shake his hand, not ready to feel a weird sort of spark between the two of you.
“I... I’m Y/N. Nice to meet you.”
Daniel slowly removed his hand from yours, grabbing any last second he could. He eyed the briefcase and scuba gear in your hands. “You diving?”
You looked at your equipment. “Well, testing. I’m a marine biologist. Although, I guess I’m still diving.”
Daniel pursed his lips. Now he had to get to know you. You were beautiful and a marine biologist. An Aussie dream.
“Oh yeah? What are you testing?” He queried with a raised brow,
“Oh! Uh, currently things like the local fish populations in decline. Their habitat. Whether they’re safe or not. Algae growth. Predators. pH levels. All the fun stuff...” You sheepishly trailed off once you realised you began rambling.
You didn’t know but in that moment Daniel was in awe of you. The twinkle in your eyes that rose once you talked about your work. Like your work was your passion. That’s how he felt about F1.
You watched Daniel nod as if he were actually interested. “Do you mind if I come with? I won’t contaminate anything. Promise.”
You mended your brows together. It wasn’t uncommon for people to ask to join. But the way Daniel said it… like it was something he had to do or he would regret it for the rest of his life, you couldn’t help feel compelled. “Um, yeah. Do you not have to be on the road or something though? ‘Cause your a driver?”
“Oh F1 only goes between March and November. We’re on holiday at the moment. Well sort of.”
“Oh,” you mumbled out cluelessly. Your cheeks burned with a tinge of embarrassment. How had you managed to get through all these years of living and not known about this?
Daniel laughed lightly at the reddening of your cheeks. Just when he though he could find you any cuter. “Don’t worry. I’ll teach you F1. And you can teach me the ocean.”
So the two of you went into your boat. The sun beat down onto you so harshly that for most of it, you had retreated to driving the vessel in the shade as Daniel sat next to you.
It had gone so well that this, whatever it was, became a regular occurrence after you exchanged numbers that day.
You were learning a lot about him and his job. He was actually Italian-Australian. He started this passion with go-karting. You found out F1 wasn’t just racing but it was racing to another extreme. 300 kph. God, getting your car to 100 kph for the open road was thrill enough for you.
That made Daniel wheeze with laughter and promise he would take you for a drive in a sports car to get a taste of the speed he craved for.
Apparently F1 had 10 teams, each with 2 drivers. In each of the teams, the drivers had the same car to drive, cars that were constructed originally by each team. The point of the races were for two championships. The Driver’s World Championship, the title the driver wanted to win, and the Constructors’ Championship, the title everyone from the driver to the team strategist wanted to win. They were calculated by the amount of points received by the drivers in the races.
All the races were settled through a long weekend of sorts. Fridays were for practices to see how the car was on the track as they had different conditions per track. Saturdays were for qualifying. Here, Daniel would push the car to its limits to get the fastest lap time as the drivers were ranked to then get a position for the actual race tomorrow. Sundays were where they raced for points.
All of it was slightly complex, especially with the penalties and rules that they followed. Buy you seemed to get the gist of it.
Daniel had learnt that you had grown up in Australia and like him had to travel a lot for your work. Weirdly, some times his race dates would match up with your travelling. Daniel chose to take that as a sign. You were 8 years younger than him, taking him by a slight surprise. You were 23 and he was 31. But it didn’t seem like it mattered to you. Communication between the two of you was a smooth sail.
Daniel even opened up about his time with Red Bull. A whirl of bad and annoying memories. But when you had said that you would like to see Christian Horner step on to your boat and throw him overboard into a tank of piranhas, only for thirty seconds of course, Daniel had never laughed harder.
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By the billionth time you had hung out, the sun was setting in the evening, providing a refreshing cold breeze to match the heat. Christmas was close soon. And Daniel was aching to ask you out.
He had to go into this next season of driving knowing he had you by his side. Even his own family was pushing him to ask. Especially his sister, Michelle, who had dubbed herself the cupid as she was the very brunette who had technically introduced you two, or so she claimed.
The both of you had finished a dive and were heading to Daniel's car. You were supposed to have dinner with his family on this fine evening.
"You good, Danny?" You looked over to the man. Daniel, for the loud and outgoing person he was, was being rather quiet today. You couldn't really put your finger on why either. You took pride in being able to read people. But it looked like his mind was at some sort of battle.
He gave an idle hum, getting into the driver's seat.
You raised a brow, closing the door on the passenger side shut. Your hand reached out to his thigh, making him break his trance and flicker his eyes towards you.
"Listen, I don't know what it is or what's going on. But I'm all ears if you want," You smiled, patting his thigh. You went to remove your hand but Daniel placed his hand over yours, keeping you there.
Daniel's heart was in his throat. He was not normally a nervous man. He was the epitome of confidence. But you seemed to tear that down, in the nicest way, quite easily.
Daniel absorbed your curious eyes before releasing a shaky breath. "Uh," he awkwardly chuckled, scratching the back of his head. "I'm not normally like this. I can't really explain it... but these past few weeks, I... I haven't felt like this in a really long time. With you I feel free... happy... I guess what I'm trying to say is that I really like you. And even if I'm ancient, I would really like to be with you. You know. Together. If that wasn't clear."
The smile on your face the moment you realised what was going on hadn't stopped growing. You watches his eyes dart around, looking for a signal of anything. A yes. A no.
You looked down at your hands. The warmth of his spread among your one. You turned your hand to intertwine them with his and squeezed his hand, looking back up at him. "I think you took the words right out my mouth. I like you too, Danny. A lot. Even as an 'old ass man.'"
An odd silence settled within the car as Daniel simply stared at you, honey brown eyes hold your own.
"Danny? Are you okay?"
Daniel's eyes turned into crescents while his infamous wide smile sprawled onto your face. "Can I kiss you?"
You stilled in the passenger seat. Your eyes flickered to his lips before meeting his eyes once again. You weren't sure if you could trust your voice at the moment so you gave a curt nod.
Daniel smiled softly at the flustered expression you sported. Instead of leaning his head in like you expected to, he reached over to your seat and lifted you out of it. You released a small yelp before landing onto his lap, straddling his crotch as you faced towards him.
Daniel's fingers played with the slightly dampened tresses that had fallen around your face and pushed them behind your ears. His fingers trailed down to your heated cheeks and to your jaw. Bringing you closer to him, he leaned his head towards you.
Daniel's lips fell into yours. His hands soon fell to your back as your arms snaked his neck. The world... your surroundings were all gone. All you could feel was each other. His fingers sneaking past the hem of your shirt and grazing your bare skin. The action sent a wave of heat within you.
You let out a small muffled moan causing Daniel to adjust himself in his seat. A bulge had formed in his pants, aching at your touch. You released yourself from him for a gasp of air, which fell into further pleasurable gasps as Daniel's swollen lips had found your neck, leaving a trail of small sloppy kisses.
Daniel rested his chin onto your shoulder before pulling back to look at you. He grinned at your dazed expression. "As much as I would like to continue this in such a fitting setting like a car, I would rather our first time in an actual bed."
You let out a small laugh, feeling yourself fluster even further while you gave him a tight hug.
And that's how your relationship had started. Since then, it had been almost a year. In that year, you had gotten impossibly closer. You had visited his races without telling him because you were scared. You were scared of distracting him and scared for him. The first F1 race you went to matched up to your meetings with other marine biologists and techs in Spain. God, you didn't know cars could even go that fast. The occasional toss of a car to the side sent fear coursing through you.
Eventually, Daniel had found out and reassured you that you being there wouldn't harm anything. In fact, the thought of it calmed him down and encouraged him. He had even introduced you to some of the team and whispered in your ear when he pointed to Red Bull's team principal.
"Oh... so that's the man going overboard. That's a shame. You didn't tell me he look like a sea otter. Sea otters are supposed look cute. I'll just pretend he's plant plankton."
Daniel had never laughed harder at something. Just when he thought he couldn't love you more. God, you were a sight to behold. He would never understand how you managed to be who you were.
You had felt the same.
Well, at least that was until when you met his new teammate in McLaren, Lando Norris.
Lando was two years younger than you and what some people called the British Ricciardo. He was constantly smiling and cracking jokes. He was the moodmaker.
The vibe he had was like an annoying little brother of a sort.
But people obviously didn't feel attracted to someone if they truly thought of them like that.
You shouldn't feel this way. It was wrong. You had a boyfriend. A boyfriend who adored you. You had tried to keep yourself occupied with your job to avoid having to attend too many races and meet the McLaren team, in fear of meeting Lando.
But of course, how were you going to refuse to celebrate Lando's 2nd podium of the year in Monaco when Daniel asked?
So here you were. In a club dressed in a cream coloured set: a long sleeved bralette and a long skirt starting from your waist, ending just before your heels with a slit in the middle.
The compliment you had received in your ear from Daniel made you wish you could say you were dressed for him in the first place. But it would be a lie to say that.
You had navigated yourself around the club to drown yourself in some alcohol. You needed a distraction and you felt that being some what drunk and out of it would've helped.
you should take it as a compliment that i got drunk and made fun of the way you talk. you should think about the consequence of your magnetic field being a little too strong. and i got a boyfriend, he's older than us he's in the club doing, i don't know what you're so cool, it makes me hate you so much.
You were out of it for sure. Because sober you did not have the guts you had right now. The guts to not only sit at the same table as Lando but next to him and make fun of his British accent with Carlos.
"No, Carlos. I'm pretty sure he sounded like 'No no no... you ruined my ice cream,'" You laughed lightly as the Spaniard refused to agree with you.
"No he has bit of a weird sound at the 'ruined' part. He sound like those kids in the UK... on the road? What are they again..."
Lando's face burst with amusement. He laughed so hard, he had to prevent his cup from falling out of his hand. "Do you mean..." He gasped for air, "Roadmen?"
Jesus. Carlos Sainz discussing roadmen was the funniest thing that had happened so far.
You weren't sure where Daniel was even. All you knew he was probably talking to some other team member of McLaren. You were rather preoccupied and entranced by the British male next to you.
You couldn't explain it but it was as if there was a magnetic field around him and you, like an element, were simply attracted to him. As if there was no other path to go. He made you laugh differently. Feel differently. He was also a looker. That boyish charm that simply pulled you in. It made you wonder how strong his magnetic field was.
The science of it was simple. You may be a marine biologist but you hadn't flunked physics. The stronger the intensity of a field, the further the magnet, Lando, will be able to attract elements, like you. All you knew was that he was strong enough to inexplicably take you attention away from your own boyfriend.
you're so gorgeous i can't say anything to your face 'cause look at your face. and i'm so furious at you for making me feel this way but what can i say? you're gorgeous.
This attraction you felt to Lando what ridiculous in itself. But you had felt it from when you first met him and you felt it now. Lando was simply gorgeous. His smile was breathtaking. His laugh felt pretty.
And it infuriated you. You wanted to yell at him, tell him to stop. These feelings, this flutter, this tingle... make it all stop, you wanted to say.
But you could never say that to his face. How could you? Those same things came back every time you looked at him.
The smile. The flutter. The tingle.
You wondered whether he had even looked at himself in the mirror. You wondered whether ever had felt insecure about the way he looked and that if he did, you wished he hadn't.
Everything thing about him was simply enticing. A delightful view... from the arms of Daniel.
you should take it as a compliment that i'm talking to everyone here but you. and you should think about the consequence of you touching my hand in a darkened room. if you've got a girlfriend, i'm jealous of her. but if you're single that's honestly worse. 'cause you're so gorgeous it actually hurts.
This feeling... this infatuation was overwhelming for you. You were a taken girl. You had even made it was to the multiple Instagram F1 'WAGs' accounts and were met with the most glorious welcomes by fans.
You needed to get a grip on yourself for Christ's sake. Lando was also taken. Even if he was single, which if you were being honest was an insult to romance itself, you didn't have a chance let alone now. No matter how jealous you were, you had to be realistic. You paled in comparison to the fame Portuguese models that F1 drivers often found themselves with.
Of course, you had to admit they were beautiful. You had no conflict with them. They weren't your classic mean girls. They were impossibly nice and you even found yourself in some interesting conversations. But at the end of the day, you were simply a marine biologist.
So in the darkness of the club, you had managed to isolate yourself from Lando, who had gone with Pierre somewhere, and made the struggling and gruelling effort to talk to anyone else but him. You had conversed with Carlos before he had gone somewhere with his girlfriend. You had settle for Charles as a distraction.
Charles was a pleasure to talk to. As always, he was also so kind and sweet with his words. The type you were sure that when you looked at the, you knew that their mother raised them right.
Daniel had finally found his way to you, mentioning that Zak Brown had just pulled him aside for a talking to. You asked if he was okay, in which he responded with a smile and said: "Now that I'm with you, yes."
You managed to give him a soft and believable smile. Daniel was standing behind you, joining in your conversation with Charles. It wasn't until you were in the midst of a conversation about life in Monaco that you felt a hand on yours.
You smiled gently, expecting it to be Daniel's but instead it was Lando's.
ocean blue eyes looking in mine. i feel like i might sink and drown and die.
Your eyes snapped up to meet Lando's face. His blue eyes bore into yours.
Those goddamn eyes of his would be the end of you. The similarity of them to the oceans you had travelled and the beautiful creatures you had seen was uncanny.
Your heart paced furiously against your chest. He must've been drunk or tipsy to the very least to stumble onto you. There was no way he had purposely wanted you to drown in his eyes.
You sucked in a quiet sharp breath and edged to removed your hand. But as quickly as you had made that decision, the gnawing feeling at your heart had grown more intense and taunted you. Lando's hand hurried to grab yours and place it back where it was.
Your eyes shook with awe and lingered with a dangerous thrill. You could feel his fingers rub the back of your hand gently before intertwining them.
You looked blankly at the table in front of you while Lando had joined in the conversation so casually, like nothing was even going on. You had to thank your stars that the club was able to be as dark as it was.
A lot of the noise around you had turned into white noise and blurs of sound. Charles must've complimented you as you had managed to capture some mention of fish and coral reefs from your boyfriend.
you make me so happy it turns back to sad. there's nothing i hate more than what i can't have and you are so gorgeous, it makes me so mad. you make me so happy it turns back to sad. there's nothing i hate more than what i can't have and guess i'll just stumble on home to my cats alone unless, you wanna come along?
It was Daniel kissing your cheek fondly and Lando's hand grazing your knee under the table that had brought you back to reality.
The happiness and adrenaline you felt was wrong. You knew with every crevice and fibre of your body that this had to stop. This attraction and sickly sweet infatuation with Lando. God, he just made you so fuzzy. You could barely think straight.
You were stuck in between two men who had their touch on you. It wasn't right. As much as you liked Lando, he angered your entire being. He had simply waltzed into your life. He was playing along with your feelings.
Lando's damning eyes averted to you when he felt your hand slip away from him forcefully.
You hoped the guilt in your eyes shone as much as they could in this darkness.
You were going to have to break up with a man who would give you everything. You would have to leave all of... this... and get away from here.
You needed everything to return to normal. You had no idea how exactly you were going to explain a sudden return home without inflicting any suspicion.
All you knew now was that you had to make a lengthy apology to a man you had not realised you had fallen out of love with.
You supposed that was love.
Love was a bittersweet feeling. It was beautiful and fluttering but brought a lot of tragedy and strife along with it.
That was love: simply gorgeous.
© 𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐘𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑
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asksythe · 11 months
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Ah? What do you mean mpreg is built into the setting of MDZS?
I mean exactly what I said. It's part of the setting. Mpreg is part of MDZS setting.
Or rather, mpreg is part of any and all xianxia or Chinese fantasy settings. Mpreg is not impossible... or even truly rare... in xianxia setting. There are at least three different regular ways for men to get pregnant in this kind of setting, even for low xianxia like MDZS.
Xianxia is Chinese fantasy. Cultivators cultivate until immortality. The upper level of cultivation, an immortal becomes a facet of reality and bends the world to their will. Some can even create an entirely new world wholesale. What's getting pregnant compared to that?
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Sure, the setting of MDZS is low xianxia. But we know at the very least a lot of MDZS cultivators are at the Jindan stage. Do you know which stage comes right after the Jindan stage?
元婴 Yuanying. The common English translation for this stage is Nascent Soul. But its real meaning is nascent / origin child/baby/infant.
How does yuanying come about? Well, a cultivator at the end of Jindan stage will go through tribulation. If they pass through tribulation successfully, the jindan (golden core) in their belly will collapse and out comes a baby. This baby then takes over the task of the jindan, circulating the cultivator's chi and feeding off of it. The baby will grow alongside the cultivator's progress, eventually maturing and potentially becoming a separate person should the parent allows it.
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(Game interface from a Chinese cultivation game)
This stage is very well documented in actual real-world ancient texts by Wu Liupai, dating back to the 16th century. It's not a modern concept made up for entertainment. It's part of actual real-world Daoist practices and beliefs.
...And xianxia is the brought up to eleventh fantasy version of real-world Daoism. Think about it.
So in truth, every single high-level Jindan stage cultivator in MDZS is just one stage and one successful tribulation away from getting preggo whether they want to or not. (Yes. Every single one of them. Not just Wei Ying or Lan Wangji, but also Jiang Cheng, Lan Qiren, Lan Xichen, Xiu Xingchen, Song Lan, Nie Mingjue... if he didn't die, etc... Not Jin Guangyao, though. He's too weak to get pregnant. Jin Zixuan, maybe)
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You don't even have to be a cultivator or in a xianxia setting to get pregnant (whether you are male or female or whatever). Artificially induced pregnancy has been a thing in Chinese folklore since the Summer and Autumn period (BCE). Several different classics mention a fruit called 孕果 yunguo (Lit. Pregnant Fruit). This fruit bestows the ability to get pregnant to anyone who eats it, regardless of gender. Sexual activity with a man is still required, though. Can't make something out of nothing.
And the most famous and widely known in Chinese folklore: water from the River of Mother and Child 子母河. Anyone who drinks this water becomes pregnant, regardless of gender (or even species, actually). You know the most famous person who drank it? The monk Tan Sanzang... and his disciple Zhu Bajie (a male pig), and Sha Wujing (a male fish). It's been made into several TV series and movies. In one of those movie adaptations, Tang Sanzang even carried the pregnancy to term as he wasn't willing to terminate a life and saw this as an opportunity to experience the female side of life.
In the same story, Journey to the West, a rock was pregnant with Son Wukong and gave birth to him.
You have to remember this. Ancient Chinese didn't really think of pregnancy as a biological process requiring sperm and eggs like we do today. They thought of it as a concentration and condensation of qi (breath of the world) until the 'mother body' was saturated with fetal qi and gave birth.
Real-world folklore texts are chockful of such instances where things got pregnant with the breath of the world and gave birth. And that's just regular folklore, not the brought-up-to-eleven version that is xianxia.
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essekknits · 3 months
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“Realisations” Jiang Yuan would have along the way in the AU
- his dad, who he only has vague memories of, all of them incredibly kind and gentle, is the man that killed his cousin’s parents. Jin Ling and him grow up together for the younger boy’s entire life. They love one another like brothers. Jin Ling admires him. And then they both find out his dad killed Jin Ling’s parents.
They find out when they’re a bit older, and suddenly realise that while they hear about Jiang Yanli - not a lot, because it hurts their uncle to talk about, but at least something - no one ever mentioned their uncle had a brother. They go digging around, and I’m pretty sure it would be Lan Xichen that tells them
- his uncle, who raised him and cared for him as if he was his own son, who taught him to swim and fight and everything he knows… is the man who killed his father. The father he remembers as being kind and gentle, who buried him in the radish field so he can grow big and strong, who fed him from his own plate, who played him songs to help him fall asleep when he was too cold or too hungry.
He finds out right after Lan Wangji finds out who he is. Because Lan Wangji, upon finding out, is enraged. He spent years, possibly a whole decade, believing everything was gone. Believing the son of the man he loved was also slaughtered alongside him. He spent a decade in mourning for Wei Wuxian, but also for his son. And then he finds out that son was taken in by the man he blames for Wei Wuxian’s murder. Taken by someone he believes hates the boy’s father. So Lan Wangji storms Lotus Pier ready for a fight. And he yells, that the boy shouldn’t have been raised by his father’s murderer.
Needless to say, Jiang Yuan is having A Time.
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f1letters · 1 year
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bejeweled | ln4
"and I miss you, but I miss sparkling"
summary: after a triple-header where they couldn't see each other, things got even stranger when her boyfriend seemed totally uninterested in spending time with her. so, she took matters into her own hands
warning: a little bit of angst, but fluff ending, mentions of a long-distance relationship, Lando being an uninterested boyfriend, reader feeling ignored and worthless, reader being petty, mentions of alcohol, swearing, reader trying to make Lando jealous, mentions of McLaren's bad 2022 season and Danny leaving the team (crying 😭), not proofread
pairing: lando norris x reader
word count: 2.7k
note: everything in bold are song references and in italic are thoughts, which includes memories from the past.
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Baby love, I think I've been a little too kind
Didn't notice you walkin' all over my peace of mind
In the shoes I gave you as a present
Puttin' someone first only works when you're in their top five
And by the way, I'm goin' out tonight
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.'
Y/N couldn't keep count of the number of times she had heard this phrase being said during the past two years. 
She prayed that people were right. That distance would make their relationship stronger, their time together more special, their appreciation for each other bigger.
She hoped her heart would mend every time he came back home but in all honesty, she just felt... lonely.
From: babe
only a few more days and the torture is over, can't wait to kiss you again gorgeous, miss you 🧡
Y/N read Lando's text over and over again, daydreaming about their reunion after so long apart, as the driver had three races in a row at Spa, Zandvoort and Monza.
It didn't matter how many times Lando called or texted. How many times he expressed how much he missed her. How many times he said how excited he was to see her again.
In the end, it was exhausting spending her days simply waiting for him to be there.
Best believe I'm still bejeweled
When I walk in the room
I can still make the whole place shimmer
And when I meet the band
They ask, "Do you have a man?"
I could still say, "I don't remember"
Suddenly, the jingling of keys on the other side of the door caught her attention. Y/N turned towards the entrance where she saw the image of her boyfriend appear through the darkness of the night that filled the apartment.
Quickly getting back on her feet, the girl rushed to him, hugging the boy desperate to return to her arms. His body relaxed as soon as it made contact with hers and Lando let him pull her as close to him as possible.
"Fuck," Lando whispered against his girlfriend's forehead, whose tears of relief now streamed freely down her cheeks. "I can't believe I'm finally back home."
"God, I swear it was the worst weeks ever." The girl confessed, although it was common to be apart for a long time since her work did not allow her to follow him most of the time. "I've missed you so much, Lan. So much."
Grabbing her gently by the sides of her neck, the driver looked straight into her bright, tired eyes. "Me too, baby. But now we have two weeks to ourselves."
For a moment everything fell into place. But it was only a matter of time before it all came crashing down again.
Familiarity breeds contempt
Don't put me in the basement
When I want the penthouse of your heart
Diamonds in my eyes
I polish up real, I polish up real nice
After spending the night lying next to the boy she loved, Y/N couldn't control all the excitement she felt inside her chest.
Very early in the morning, the young woman got out of bed, leaving the sleeping man behind, and headed to the kitchen where she went all out to celebrate his first morning back in Monaco.
With the utmost care and love, she cooked just about everything: scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, you name it. And as soon as everything was ready, Y/N returned to the room and jumped on top of the British man, now awake on his phone.
"Good morning, sunshine!" The girl said, as she hugged his hips and laid her head on his stomach. "I made the best breakfast ever just for you, baby. So you better be hungry." 
Her laughter was quickly interrupted by the boy's surprising coolness towards her. "Good morning, but I think I'll pass. I still feel super tired from the flight, so I'm going to stay in bed a little longer." Lando set his phone back on the bedside table and, running a hand over the top of her head as an act of apology, continued. "I hope you don't mind, love. It's just for today."
It's just for today, he said.
The next day, still under the wave of happiness, Y/N tried her luck again and decided to approach her boyfriend again to make plans, now that he was already feeling more energetic and recharged.
Lando spent the morning jumping around the house, so when Y/N saw him walk back into the room, she dropped to her knees in her seat, turned around and leaned on the back of the couch.
"Lan, what if we went out to dinner at that Thai place we went to last month?" She asked, her head turning slightly as she remembered their meal. "I swear I'm still thinking about that Pad Thai."
Lando continued his way to the kitchen, opening the fridge to get some water. "Hmm, maybe another time. Don't feel like going out."
And with only a few words, he disappeared again into another room of the house.
On day 3, the girl was caught off guard when she saw her boyfriend with a backpack on his back and his hand on the doorknob.
"Hey, where are you going?" She questioned, curious.
"Just going to the gym with Carlos." He replied, eyes on the phone in his other hand.
"I thought you were tired." She blurted out. At that moment, the persistent girl decided to be direct and confront him. "Is there something wrong? You've been so distant lately."
She had barely seen him even though the two of them shared the same house. It was getting embarrassing how much she tried to engage in conversation with him, only to get rejected every single time.
The driver just spat out a string of words, including 'busy with business' and 'training', but nothing soothed the uneasiness she felt in the pit of her stomach.
Baby boy, I think I've been too good of a girl
Did all the extra credit, then got graded on a curve
I think it's time to teach some lessons
I made you my world, have you heard?
I can reclaim the land
And I miss you
But I miss sparklin'
It just didn't make any sense.
What happened to the 'week to ourselves? To all the 'I miss you' and 'I can't wait to see you' he said?
It got to the point where she was even starting to question every time he told her he loved her.
A week passed, and in a last attempt, Y/N walked up to her boyfriend and placed her hands on his shoulders, placing a small kiss on his cheek.
"How about we watch a movie, cuddled a bit on the couch…?" She suggested, whispering close to his ear.
Lando placed a hand over one of his girlfriend's hands, looking back to meet her gaze. "Sorry babe, but I'm going to stream with the guys now. Maybe later."
Maybe another time. Maybe later.
She had been a little too kind and she was done playing nice.
It was time to teach him some lessons.
Best believe I'm still bejeweled
When I walk in the room
I can still make the whole place shimmer
And when I meet the band
They ask, "Do you have a man?"
I could still say, "I don't remember"
Y/N entered her room and confidently walked to her closet. She knew exactly the garment she was looking for and as soon as she laid eyes on her shiny bejeweled dress, she picked it up.
Leaving the clothes she wore behind on the floor, she changed into the stunning dress and sat in front of her mirror, curling her hair and doing her makeup.
Her eyes ended up dark and smoky, perfectly adorning the determined and vengeful look on her face.
Grabbing her small Prada bag, Y/N walked to the room where Lando was already streaming, catching the driver's attention.
"Hey, I'm already live." He warned her, as he turned to see his girlfriend. Laying his eyes on his girlfriend all dressed up, a nervous shiver ran down his spine. "Where are you going looking all polished up?"
"Don't wait for me for dinner," She answered coldly, even though she knew the people in the comments were going to have a field day with this. "And by the way, I'm going out tonight."
Familiarity breeds contempt
Don't put me in the basement
When I want the penthouse of your heart
Diamonds in my eyes
I polish up real, I polish up real nice
As soon as she walked into the room, she made the whole place stop with the shimmer of her dress under the spotlight.
If Lando wasn't going to give her the love and attention she deserved, she sure as hell was going to give it to herself.
Y/N was finally done with letting her worth be determined by a man, even if he was supposed to be the love of her life.
Sapphire tears on my face
Sadness became my whole sky
But some guy said my aura's moonstone
Just 'cause he was high
Walking towards the bar, the young woman couldn't help noticing the eyes that fell on the fascinating and beautiful image that she was.
At that moment, although she missed him and the good times of their relationship, she was reminded of how much she missed sparkling.
Y/N ordered two tequila shots and drank them without missing a second. She now felt prepared to start the night, leaving her problems behind.
Dancing as she made her way to the middle of the floor, the girl began to sway her hips to the music, between the hot bodies glued together in the room.
Tonight was all about her.
And we're dancin' all night
And you can try to change my mind
But you might have to wait in line
What's a girl gonna do?
A diamond's gotta shine
Back home, Lando couldn't shake the feeling of apprehension and anxiety that gripped him.
As much as he tried to keep his good spirits and attention on his friends, his followers and the game, his mind was elsewhere: her.
His eyes roamed the chat as he interacted with some of his fans until one of them made his heart stop beating for a second.
teamlandofewtrell: have you guys seen Y/N photos clubbing? I smell trouble in paradise lol
The man cleared his throat, trying to maintain his posture. "Guys, I have to go now, but I'll see you very soon!"
Without further explanation, Lando grabbed his coat and the keys to his McLaren and headed towards her.
And as soon as he entered the club, he immediately found her.
The furious boy walked over to her, grabbed her arm and pulled her to a more sheltered corner, only to find her surprised and upset eyes.
"What the fuck were you thinking?!" He shouted over the music, unconcerned by prying ears. "First you make me look like an idiot on stream, then I find out you're alone in a club doing who knows what. Are you all right in the head, Y/N?!"
"You're worried now, are you?" The girl laughed sarcastically. "That's fucking rich."
"You have to be fucking kidding me. It has to be." Lando ran his restless hands through his hair nervously. "All because I didn't want to see a movie with you today? That's it?"
"Today, of course. The problem is from today." She continued her ironic tone. "You know what, Lando? It's about time you realized that just because I made you my world doesn't mean I can't claim the land."
Best believe I'm still bejeweled
When I walk in the room
I can still make the whole place shimmer
And when I meet the band
They ask, "Do you have a man?"
I could still say, "I don't remember"
Lando was shocked by her confrontational words, as it was a side she rarely showed.
"Stop this nonsense, Y/N." Lando snapped, gripping her arm with some force. "Let's go home now, and tomorrow we'll talk when you come to your senses."
Out of nowhere, a man approached the couple. "Hey, is everything okay here? Do you need some help, babe?" He asked her.
Y/N recognized him as the vocalist of the band that was performing when she first arrived at the scene.
"It's okay, thanks." She replied, freeing her arm from her boyfriend's hold and letting her burning eyes lay on Lando's face. "This man was about to leave."
"If you need to come with me, feel free to join, gorgeous." The singer said, looking her up and down. "Do you have a man? 'Cause if you don't, I sure could be yours for tonight."
Even though she was uninterested in the man's suggestive proposition, she couldn't pass up an opportunity to entice the driver. "I don't remember."
"She has a fucking man, now get the fuck off." Lando spoke out aggressively, having no patience left for her foolishness.
Familiarity breeds contempt
Don't put me in the basement
When I want the penthouse of your heart
Diamonds in my eyes
I polish up real, I polish up real nice
"You have the nerve to show up here playing the role of the victim when all you did this whole week was ignore me," Y/N yelled, losing her mind. "Day after day, I made a fool of myself and tried to approach you, to make plans with you, to do the things I know you like to see if you would change your shitty attitude but nothing."
"From the second you arrived, the only thing I got from you was a cold shoulder and indifference. And honestly, I'm fed up, fed up with your behaviour when all I did was wait for you, all alone and miserable, while you fulfilled your dreams."
Lando remained glued to the ground, unable to move as he tried to assimilate all the angry words she spat in his direction.
"So if you have anything else to say to try and ruin my night, you might have to wait in line because I don't have the time to do so right now."
And we're dancin' all night
And you can try to change my mind
But you might have to wait in line
What's a girl gonna do? What's a girl gonna do?
I polish up nice
Eyes to the floor in embarrassment, the driver gently grabbed her hand. "You're right, I'm so sorry, love."
"What?" She blurted out, not believing the sudden change in him.
"You're right, I've been an absolute prick to you lately," The boy looked into her eyes, his gaze filled with regret and sorrow. "Those last three weeks weren't just bad because I was away from you. It was bad news after bad news and I just ended up taking it out on you unfairly."
"Lan, you know you can talk to me about anything." She softened and stroked his hand. "What's wrong?"
"Everything, honestly." He sighed, saddened. "The car is shit most of the time, I can't seem to get out of 7th place ever, Danny is leaving the team next season and, as if it couldn't get any worse, I spent all weekend getting asked about it like I had some power over the matter."
Y/N knew her partner was feeling especially down over losing yet again another teammate he really cared about, so Lando's anguish came as no surprise.
"I'm sorry, Y/N, really." Lando apologized again. "You didn't deserve all of this."
"Baby, I'm here for you. Always. Through thick and thin." Y/N brought her lips to his, letting her hands grip his curly hair as she leaned into his kiss. "Let's have some fun, dance a little, and make up for lost time, what do you think?"
"Lead the way, gorgeous." Lando kissed her again before she led him to the centre of the floor.
Gathered in their bubble of love again, Y/N, who once shone like a jewel, now shone like a true diamond with the light of her life reflecting on her side.
Best believe I'm still bejeweled
When I walk in the room
I can still make the whole place shimmer
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tbgkaru-woh · 7 months
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So I've been listening to Santiano lately and it occurred to me: would you ever draw them as pirates? Liekedeeler, johnny boy, es gibt nur Wasser Wasser Wasser überall, are some good songs of santiano if you need inspiration. Imagine Wangxian singing vergiss mein nicht as a duet. Wei Wuxian would sing the Oonagh part ofc.
I've been listening to shanties since I was a child and love pirate themese a whole lot, often make an AU in any fandom i enter :D I did a mini pirate AU with the Nies being pirates and the Lans being merfolk, Nhs dropping overboard during a storm and Nmj jumping after him but not being able to find him in the waves so he went back to his ship, trying to keep it together, when a beautiful creature he thought to be a myth (mermaid Lxc) brought Nhs back to him. Since then he's been going back to the same port from every route he took just to meet him again. I've had two-picture series of this but always wanted to do a whole comic ♥
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Other AU was about Xue Yang who lived in an abandoned ship wreck left on a remote island away from the mainland, and while fishing on his boat he found a curious playful creature that showed himself to him. He lured it in with smiles and silver tongue and ended up imprisoning it in his water tank on his shipwreck. Turns out this creature is XXC, a mermaid, and he's not fearing men because he's been getting better at trusting them through a kind man (Song Lan). There's also a fat reward for whoever catches the creature because the Jins learned that its blood is the key to "eternal youth". Xue Yang is currently deciding if he'd like all that money or if the imprisoned creature is too fun to have a round.
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both of these are NOT PROPER pirate AUs but it's of similiar note something I've done in the past, perhaps I could just expand on it and make more of the clans oppositing pirate factions (Wens, Nies, Jiangs), some transfered to others (WN,WQ), some creatures of the sea (Lans+XXC), some regular folk (XY,SL,SMS), some being a land-based power owning the shores as far as eye can see (Jins)
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Getting into the song
"Oh! My! God!" Evan cried out in amazement over the whirring of fans. Him and his lifelong friend Joel were in Evans basement room, reviving the tradition of their yearly LAN party after a hiatus of several years.
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Of course, there was no real need for physical presence anymore, now that internet connections were stable and cheap enough. Still, Evan was a bit of a traditionalist and had begged his best friend until he had finally caved. They had already played for one and a half day, and currently, both nerds were tired and taking a break, surfing the internet.
Joel, the way bigger one of them both, turned around with his hand in the bag of chips and looked at him quizzically.
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"What is it?" he asked.
"Starblush is releasing a new album next month!" Evan said excitedly.
"Star...blush" Joel repeated. "That's some kind of band I suppose?"
Evan frowned. "It's not 'some kind of band'. It's *the* very best band on earth!"
Joel had quickly googled the name and rolled his eyes.
"Oh god, I think I remember. Is that this Japanese boyband you're so obsessed about? With that idiot front man?"
"Komori Yoshitora" came the answer at once. "And he is not an idiot, he is just the most wonderful man - on. Earth. He has such a good voice, and his lyrics touch your heart, and..."
"Ookay." Joel raised his arms, with some crumbs falling to the floor in the process. "I admit I overlooked something very important in my opinion. That you are obviously utterly and deeply in love with that guy. Seriously, do you think he writes those songs himself? I wouldn't even count on him singing himself. It's a fricking boyband. The target audience are 12 year old girls!"
Evan was slowly getting agitated. "It doesn't matter if he writes the songs himself. He sings them, yes, no playback, and he just gives the words so much... soul! Why would I care about the target audience? Also, I'm not gay, but that guy is so ridiculously good looking that I would give him a blowjob any day."
Evan turned up his speakers and went to YouTube. "Here, I'm gonna show you one of their tracks. Once you heard it, you are going to love it, I'm sure!"
With that, he started a music video featuring the charismatic Japanese lead singer along with the rest of his boyband, singing a Japanese pop song on stage.
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Only a few seconds in, Joel interrupted the singing: "Do you even understand what he's singing? Do you speak Japanese? Because I don't."
"No, I don't *speak* Japanese." Evan replied. "You have to look up the translated lyrics of course!"
Joel shook his head. He did have to admit that the soft, sensual voice of the lead singer didn't sound too bad, although he couldn't understand the meaning of the words. As the track ended, he said: "It's okay, I guess. Still a boyband." After a short hesitation, he added: "Show me another track."
Evan grinned in triumph and started the next song. This one was a bit faster, and the lead singer moved around more on stage.
Joel found himself really digging the rhythm. At first, he only tapped his foot to the song, but quickly found himself moving his massive body to the electronic music, doing something similar to dancing.
Although Joel hated every kind of body movement, getting into the rhythm came surprisingly easy, as if he had heard the song a hundred times before, not right now for the first time. A gurgling noise came from his belly, as his body mass slowly vanished. Before long, he had to hold up his pants or they would fall down. Evan didn't notice, too glued were his eyed to the music video.
It didn't take another request from Joel to start up the next song after this one ended. Between the videos, however, Joel had to get rid of his glasses, because his vision was getting blurry with them on. They were too big anyway, as his face was getting smoother and smaller. Moving his slim body had become easy, natural even. As he moved to the beat of this new song, slowly all body hair, including his beard silently fell from his body, sinking to the ground like snow.
There came the bridge, then another chorus. As the chorus began, Joel started to sing along. He knew the lyrics by heart and closed his eyes while singing, putting all his soul into the words.
As Evan heard the singing, he turned around, only to freeze with his mouth open. There, in his mom's basement, singing and dancing was... not Joel anymore. No, that was Komori Yoshitora, himself! The last few details changed along the last notes of the song. Komori's hair became night black, and his facial features turned delicate and well groomed, with a slight smile on it.
There was a long moment of silence between the two before Komori spoke first in broken English: "So, did I hear that right? You would give me a blowjob any day?"
As Evan nodded, still speechless and still with his mouth open, Komori smiled again and removed his shirt. "Good. I love fans like you that aren't 12 year old girls."
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lgbtlunaverse · 9 months
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Wildly veering into the realm of headcanon here but I think jgy has, like, deeply embarassing and intense fantasies about nie mingjue being courteous to his mom.
He has them about everyone to some extend it's his favorite way to calm down. Close your eyes, imagine your mom decked out in gold, her hair bound up, everyone bowing to her. It's how he gets through meetings without murdering everyone. But I think nie mingiue in particular is a very common solo target for these.
Lan Xichen gets his own special edition too, but it's not the same. Because he has a very clear and realistic picture of what he'd actually do. They don't talk about his mom that much but whenever she comes up xichen is always like well she sounds like a kind woman trying to make the best of her situation 😊 and everytime he thinks about them interacting there's a risk of it getting sad because oh if only...
Jin guangshan? Complete opposite end of the spectrum. It's very gratifying to imagine his mom getting everything she wanted but it's also too unrealistic. Even when still desperate for approval he knows what his father is like. He indulges in them from time to time but it's like the whole time there's an alarm flashing red overhead and going "out of character! Out of character!"
But Nie mingjue. Ohhhhh. Perfectly in the middle. Possible, but improbable enough it be exiting. Sure, he's an honourable man who didn't judge him for his background but he judged him for a whole lot of other things. Did he not discard jin guangyao just like his father threw away his mother when he got bored of her? He's both so easy to admire and so easy to be angry at and it's tantalizing.
He imagines himself walking arm in arm with his mom, in better health than she's ever been, dressed more luxuriously than even the wives of sect leaders on their wedding days, and Nie Mingjue comes up and bowes to her deeper than any sect leader should bow to anyone. Maybe even takes her hand and kisses it and dream!jgy gasps because that is so improper for any unmarried man to do to a woman not of his family!! But Nie Mingjue just looks confused because why shouldn't he pay Meng Shi the respect she so clearly deserves? If people interpret it wrongly that is their problem. Not even er-ge would do that. Would avoid inappropiate touches as a proper lan should but Nie Mingjue? Mingjue doesn't care about those things, if he wants to tell jin guangyao's mother she is the most elegant and radiant woman he's seen in the entire jianghu he will do so because he means it, dammit.
You can't call them horny exactly but they are carnal. This is a deep base desire he's satisfying here and oh does nie mingjue do his job well.
I think he has them, like, almost every day. I think he wakes up from them blushing I think he daydreams about it every single time he and Nie Mingjue talk. Even if it went bad. Especially if it went bad.
I think after the stairs incident the dreams mortifyingly increase dramatically for a few days. He sees it play out behind his eyelids everytime he so much as blinks. Imagines Nie Mingjue down on his knees kowtowing, apologizing to his mother, imagines him being outraged at his real self's words. Dishonourable, unfair, he would never say that. He closes his eyes when he first plays the song of turmoil for nie mingjue and imagines it the entire time. And when he's done he takes a deep breath and then he fucking beats the thought to death and stuffs it away with all the other feelings he's repressing and then never thinks about it again.
Nothing else is ever that satisfying but sometimes sacrifices must be made.
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hannigramislife · 4 months
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<-accidentally gets mad at lan xichen for not being totally ruined over nie mingjue's death
man, i love lan xichen, i really do, he's great. but also... what the fuck, bro???
I honestly think it's because he thought Nie Mingjue's death was a natural one. During seclusion, I'd imagine Lan Xichen finds himself thinking about Nie Mingjue often. How he had dismissed his warnings of Jin Guangyao's character, how Lan Xichen taught Jin Guangyao the song that he would use to lead Nie Mingjue to a painful death, how he had provided all the means for him to do so when he gave Jin Guangyao the jade token. And then, of course, he suspected no foul play.
Lan Xichen was stuck between two dear friends fighting each other. He did care for Jin Guangyao more, so of course, his death would hit harder, but it wasn't just that - it was the crushing weight of everything he had missed, and how that shook his trust in himself, in his very ability to decide anything that had Lan Xichen go in seclusion. Jin Guangyao's true colors coming to light showed Lan Xichen how utterly blind he had been for years, so how could he trust his judgment now?
He was too kind, and too trusting, and while it is not a flaw, it had consequences, the weight of which he now has to bear on his own.
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I've noticed that, probably due to a desire to alleviate the grim nature of the original, many xuexiao fanfic writers opt to focus on (twisted or fluffy) romantic feelings of the characters. The emphasis ends up being on their romantic / platonic / sexual attraction rather than their incredibly juicy ideological contest and the antagonistic tension mixed with intrigue that Xue Yang shows towards Xiao Xingchen. Basically, there is too much 'lovers / froends' and not enough 'enemies' in their enemies - to - lovers / friends story. (I'm not criticising that. I'm a sucker for their mushier side too. But I'm equally a sucker for a good brutal battle of creeds.)
So let me fill this gap by describing how DELICIOUS the exploration of the 'you're my enemy and u SUCK and your worldview is RIDICULOUS but I LOVE rotating you in the microwave testing the limits of your resolve' aspect is or can be. I'll use some moments from the show / novel that I find striking in this regard.
XXC is very kind but lacks the worldly experience to be spot - on empathetic (as others have pointed out). He's also rigid to a fault. This is a VERY unpopular interpretation of mine but I believe he can be selfish / negligent in his goodness - he sheds caution about possible repercussions on his near ones in his mission to fight evil. He was smart enough to figure out the Chang massacre and trace it to XY. He knows XY is incredibly vengeful and creative in his vengeance. He's had experience with powerful people who will obstruct justice. Yet he goes ahead with prosecuting XY even when Jin Guangshan acts shady and uncooperative. Didn't he consider that this might put a target on his well - known partner Song Lan ?
Welp, then the Baixue bloodbath happens and XXC very understandably blames himself. I know we like to say it wasn't his fault, and of course it technically wasn't, but he did commit a grave error in not thinking through the consequences. It could be a miscalculation, negligence or even cavalier tunnel - vision, depending on your opinion. But anyway, XXC's morale is shattered and as others (like ameliarating) have said, he determined to never end up harming others in his quest for righteousness again.
XY wiped out Baixue for revenge, but also to kill XXC's hopes and vision, again also mentioned by others. May be a stretch, but it could be XY's way of saying 'hah, you don't care to understand why the world is as awful as it is, and then blame ME for doing shitty things to live it up in a shitty world. So let me show you how things actually work, and why my existence and lifestyle are valid.' It's like a really fucked up method of self - affirmation for XY. (Just in case - I am neutral on XY's actions. The novel doesn't give us much insight into his thoughts, so I'll withhold judgement on the nature vs. nurture debate about XY. But he's definitely an interesting character).
Then XY starts infiltrating XXC's life in Yi City. Why does he stick around after healing ? I like to think it's initially because he's a) taking advantage of XXC's generous freebies cuz why not and b) wants to torment him, yes, but he's also very very curious about XXC. Maybe it's because XXC's still out here trying to do good when many people would've either quit and hardened their hearts, or been broken irreparably. So XY think's he'll get both schadenfreude and try to find out why this dumbass saved a highly suspicious dying man and continued on his goody goody quest instead of learning his lesson. The lesson XY tried to teach him. Maybe XXC's whole deal makes XY wonder how his life would be if he'd acted nicer and more socially acceptable. Would it have saved him any pain ? Would he have had true allies then ? Did he choose a life of callous crime because he is weak - willed and 'inferior' unlike the seemingly unbreakable superiority of XXC ?
So he makes XXC kill on 'night - hunts'. Perhaps to prove that XXC got manipulated into doing harm cuz he's dumb or full of hubris and refuses to wisen up, refuses to become more cynical and wary of people. This ties back into Baixue too. Also I think the book mentions the victims are residents who mocked / cheated XXC ? If that's true, it's like XY is 'introducing' XXC to taking bloody revenge just like XY did on the Chang clan and others who crossed him / his pals. Like he's enacting teaching XXC 'look, if you keep up the good deeds, eventually you'll meet someone who ruins you so you destroy that hope for humanity and become just like me. Your way will always end in disaster, and therefore I'm justified in living like I do.'
Of course, in the end XY realises that XXC's drive to better society was his way of coping with the harsh reality of humans, especially after being ousted from BSSR's mountain. XXC didn't want to live in a sordid world. Meanwhile XY's coping mechanism was to extort the sordid world for all he wanted.
There's a tiny moment in CQL where, after the fake night hunt slaughter, XXC walks past a smirking XY and his arm brushes XY's sleeve, whose grin grows larger. It's like XY's relishing in XXC so casually touching and hanging about him totally unawares. Also he's horny for XXC's combat skills.
So yeah. Antagonist obsessed with corrupting his enemy, wrapping him around his finger, but not willing to let go. He ended up being totally down to bask in XXC's obstinate kindness despite that being the very thing he wanted to disprove and destroy.
XXC hesitates to kill XY after the reveal. What does he get from XY? Maybe it was reassuring that someone as hard - hearted and self - centred as his friend was willing to stick around in no man's land with him. It's soothing because it makes it seem like the world isn't that cruel, that perhaps the potential for good exists in people, hence helping XXC cope with his existential anxiety. He has to hold on to that hope even as his friend's identity is revealed, else there's nothing left for him since he can't bear to live in a world of evil and exploitation.
Why didn't XY move on after XXC's suicide ? If all he wanted was acceptance and shelter, he could've found so many other options. No, he was obsessed with XXC cuz he thought that if someone perfectly willing to kill him in the past over morals hesitated to kill him in the end, it must be an actual stable love. Where else, he thinks, would be find someone who loved him enough to not kill him despite them being such hostile opposites by character and circumstance ? Lots of people could love him cuz they agreed with his worldview or found it / him expedient. Who would love him even when their entire identity and misery opposed it ?
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So I Was Thinking About SongXiao After Watching the Yi City Episode of the Donghua...
Whenever I think about Song Lan losing his eyesight and accidentally taking his grief out on XXC, I think of the phrase "I would have been happy never seeing you again" which is easily miscommunicated as "I never want to see you again". I think Song Lan would have been happy even if he had never been able to see XXC's face again, so long as they remained together.
Song Lan searched for him for YEARS, because he still loved him no matter what. He only wanted to apologize to him, and to love him again. He explicitly says that Xue Yang is taking advantage of XXC's blindness, so clearly he still worries and cares about him. He still loves him. He still loves him and urhgughagughgugh. And when they finally meet again, it's because Xiao Xingchen, mistakenly led to kill him, has stabbed him in the back (literally). He can't even say anything to him anymore, because Xue Yang has torn them apart - wants them to stay apart, probably so he can have XXC to himself - so much that he cut out SL's tongue and put corpse poison on him so XXCwould be lead to stab him.
Xiao Xingchen is so distraught after learning about this that he slices his own throat rather than stay in the presence of a man who made him kill his own closest friend and confidant. The animation says it was two years that they were living together in a lie, but the novel makes it sound like it was so much longer. And Song Lan was still searching for him all that time. While Xiao Xingchen was being LIED to by the person he hated most in the world. the animation doesn't say it, but Xue Yang was actively disguising his voice from XXC so he wouldn't be able to recognize him, so the deception ran deep.
iIt was not Xiao Xingchen's blindness that Xue Yang took advantage of, but his kindness. His trust. And then he took his only friend, his first friend, his closest friend, the friend that he loved more than anything, right from him, by his own hand.
And yet Song Lan still doesn't hate him. In the end, he just wants to be with him again. He's not angry with Xiao Xingchen for killing him, he doesn't hate him for technically being the reason that his entire temple was burned and he was originally blinded. (Xiao Xingchen gave his own eyes so Song Lan would be able to see again, giving up his pride to return a place that the rules said he could never return to, just so he could beg for his friend's life.)
All song lan has to say is: "I will roam this world and exorcise evil with Xingchen. When he wakes, I will tell him... 'I'm sorry, it was not your fault'" He just wants to be with him again. He wants to be in love again.
I just want them to be happy, man.
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AU where MY doesn't fight in the sunshot campaign but JGS sees the use of a bastard who's eager to please him and employs him as a spy/assassin for himself. JGS still wants NMJ dead but without the Lan songs or any previous ties NMJ proves to be a man that's annoyingly hard to kill (some 3zun or Nieyao would be nice) (🐨🐨)
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Jin Guangyao didn’t kid himself that he’d be able to defeat Chifeng-zun in any fair combat.
He’d been trained, yes, and trained well, in every sword move and poison and dirty trick there was, everything an assassin needed to know – he’d killed dozens on his father’s orders by now, and plenty of them were very powerful cultivators, talented warriors, clever and cunning. But Chifeng-zun was a war hero, a general, the man who’d somehow defeated the near-god mad tyrant Wen Ruohan himself, even if no one knew exactly how, and he practically crackled with power.
If Jin Guangyao was going to kill him, he was going to have to be smart about it.
He started by playing nice. It wasn’t hard, given his role as Jin Guangshan’s not-quite acknowledged bastard son taken in out of the supposed kindness of his father’s heart; he was in charge of many things at Jinlin Tower, and that included managing the servants and greeting the guests. There were plenty of opportunities to smoothly interject himself into Chifeng-zun’s company – at first by carefully orchestrated ‘mistake’, and then through presuming on intimacy in what was a little bit of an overreach, albeit one equally carefully calculated.
He'd planned it all out in advance. He’d observed that Chifeng-zun was the sort of person to appreciate straightforwardness in others and to pity the weak. It wasn’t too hard to make sure some of his more virtuous and verifiable acts came to his ears, and then to show proof that they were in fact true. Sure enough, Chifeng-zun had looked at him with friendlier eyes in their subsequent meetings, and when Jin Guangyao had finally made his slightly daring move, he had been open to accepting it as if Jin Guangyao really were his peer.
It was…unsettlingly pleasant, actually, to be treated with the respect he’d always known he deserved.
Not just by Chifeng-zun, either – there was Zewu-jun alongside him, too, the number one most desirable young master in the cultivation world, and he’d immediately followed Chifeng-zun’s lead, sending Jin Guangyao a sparkling smile and treating him not only as a brother, but even, perhaps, as a friend.
If Jin Guangyao had been anyone else, he might’ve been tempted to drag his feet on his plan to murder Chifeng-zun simply in order to enjoy that moment of belonging and acceptance for just a little longer. But Jin Guangyao knew his place, after all these years; he knew, too, that the stiff-necked rigid morality of Chifeng-zun and Zewu-jun would never allow for them to treat him this well if they knew what he’d been up to at his father’s behest these past few years. That had been the trap his father had set for him, all that time ago: he’d traded him the Jin surname for ‘a few small tasks’, then informed him when the tasks were done that they had been so dire that the cultivation world would absolutely reject him at once if they ever heard about it. If Jin Guangyao wanted to remain in that world, he would need to continue to obey his father’s every word – or else…
Jin Guangyao knew better, anyway. There was no point in stalling. He wasn’t spending time with Chifeng-zun and Zewu-jun because he liked them. He was doing it to find the inexorable Chifeng-zun’s weakness.
That was all.
Chifeng-zun didn’t make it easy on him, either. He was disinterested in whoring, drank shit wine and only in moderation, ate to fuel his body rather than to enrich his soul, had no eye for art and was practically tone-deaf…
For a moment, Jin Guangyao thought that that might be the way to get at him – he was quite good at music himself, and he’d used musical cultivation as a tool of assassination before – but a moment later dismissed the thought: there was no way Chifeng-zun would ever tolerate accepting musical treatment from anyone other than Zewu-jun. And why would he? However good Jin Guangyao was, the First Jade of Lan was undoubtedly the superior musician…
It took Jin Guangyao quite a while to figure out what Chifeng-zun’s weakness actually was, and when he did he wanted to slap himself – it had been obvious as anything, staring him right in the face the entire time and smiling broadly as it did, too.
Chifeng-zun’s sole weakness was…Zewu-jun himself.
They were lovers, devoted ones, which Jin Guangyao supposed explained their disinterest in whores. More relevantly for his purposes, in his role as the Nie sect leader, Chifeng-zun was entitled to a bedroom that his sect protected to the fullest extent with arrays and talismans and the like, even in Jinlin Tower; it was completely impassable even for the finest assassin alive. But that room was surrounded by his own men, and that made it an exceedingly awkward place for secret lovers to meet. As a result, during the discussion conferences held with startling frequency following the fall of the Wen sect, Chifeng-zun would invariably find some reason to leave his highly guarded chambers, just as Zewu-jun would leave his own, and they would find themselves a vacant room somewhere in the vicinity, typically at some mortal inn in the area, whiling away the hours together there instead.
It was the perfect opportunity.
If Jin Guangyao felt a momentary regret that getting rid of Chifeng-zun meant, inevitably, getting rid of Zewu-jun as well, the two of them perfect scapegoats of a mutual murder…well, it was too late for regret.
Far too late.
He arranged it all for the next discussion conference at Jinlin Tower: Chifeng-zun’s rooms were further away than usual from Zewu-jun’s, to discourage them to visit each other; the rooms at Jinlin Tower were all completely taken; and in all the local vicinity there was only a single inn that still had a sign suggesting that there were rooms. That inn, naturally, was manned by Jin Guangyao’s people, who turned away anyone asking about it until an extremely distinctive and tall form came in, wrapped in a cloak that did nothing to really disguise his identity, and inquired about it.
Jin Guangyao readied himself. He had reported on his plan to his father in advance, as required, and his father had approved it, identifying only one thing to change – Jin Guangyao had intended to strike when Chifeng-zun was leaving, counting on his sated exhaustion to distract him enough to get the job done, but his father had recommended doing it while he was busy engaged in the act itself.
(“But Zewu-jun will be there, too,” Jin Guangyao had protested, initially thinking only about his given task, and his fathers had given him a look as if he were stupid.
“That’s the point,” he said, ruthlessly indifferent in a way that Jin Guangyao could not match no matter how jaded his assassinations had made him. “Kill them both, knock down both Lan and Nie, and there will be nothing between me and complete dominion over the cultivation world.”)
He waited, watching through a hole in the wall until they were busy under the covers, laughing and murmuring to each other – he firmly rejected any notion of jealousy, which would be absurd – and then, when he judged the moment was right, let himself in and attacked in a swift, silent movement.
Just before his blade struck, Chifeng-zun moved.
Jin Guangyao had enough presence of mind to note to himself that it was a beautiful move, smooth and calculated and perfectly timed – Chifeng-zun rolled over to the side and Zewu-jun was there to reach out and grab Jin Guangyao’s wrist, pulling him forward and taking advantage of the momentum of his own thrust to destabilize him. He was smaller than either of them, less muscular, and there was no hope of escape once they had him in their grasp.
Jin Guangyao resigned himself to his fate. If he was lucky, they would kill him directly. If they chose to arrest him instead, his father would disclaim everything he had done, disgrace him, strip him of his hard-won name, and then kill him anyway, just to make sure all those secrets he held were never used against the Jin sect. He would make it slow, too – far better, he thought, a little wistfully, that the stern but righteous Chifeng-zun and the merciful Zewu-jun do it.
They didn’t kill him.
Nor did they seem particularly intent on doing…anything else, either.
“See, I told you,” Zewu-jun said to Chifeng-zun in the tone of someone continuing a long-established and well-trodden conversation. “He’s cute!”
“He’s evil,” Chifeng-zun said dryly. “He just tried to kill us.”
“Still cute,” Zewu-jun insisted. “Anyway, what was he supposed to do? Tell that dreadful father of his no? At what cost?”
Jin Guangyao blinked at both of them. That did not sound as if they were planning on killing him or arresting him.
“And you have to admit, it was both well-planned and well set up,” Zewu-jun argued, and Jin Guangyao bemusedly realized that he was complimenting the assassination attempt. “It both maximizes his chances of success and avoids harming innocents as much as possible.”
“Mm, I suppose,” Chifeng-zun said, resting his head on the hand that was not holding Jin Guangyao down and making himself comfortable. “And I do always like competence in a person.”
“See? I told you: cute.”
Jin Guangyao cleared his throat.
When they both looked at him, trapped as he was between their bodies, he asked, “What are you planning on doing with me?”
“Well, that depends on you, doesn’t it?” Chifeng-zun said, and chuckled, moving the hand that had been holding him down over to rest on Jin Guangyao’s hip. He put almost no pressure on him, but it somehow felt as if his hip had concentrated all his nerve endings; it was as if his body were abruptly alight.
“You see, we’ve gotten rather fond of you these past months,” Zewu-jun said, and smiled at him. “If you were inclined to give up on the assassination attempts, we’d be interested in seeing if you’d be inclined to – well, to join us.”
He put his hand on Jin Guangyao’s side, just above Chifeng-zun.
Jin Guangyao swallowed.
He’d never wanted anything more.
“It’s not that simple,” he croaked. “I can’t just – the things I’ve done in the past…”
“At your father’s orders,” Chifeng-zun pointed out, voice steel. “He took you in when you had nothing, no backing and no protection, and abused his power over you to trap you and force you into his service – as Zewu-jun said, what were you supposed to do? But it can be different, now.”
“…can it?”
“We can protect you,” Zewu-jun said. “And that offer applies regardless of whether you accept our other offer.”
“The other offer being…”
“Joining us in our bed,” Chifeng-zun said, blunt as ever. “But we’d settle for our sects, instead.”
Jin Guangyao could use this, if he wanted to. He could turn this missed opportunity into an ‘in’, making himself the perfect spy, continue working for his father from one step removed. His father might even forgive him for having failed to kill them if he did that. He might even approve.
Of course, if he did, what would he really get? His father had already made Jin Guangyao’s position clear – he would never change, never give him the respect or the real acknowledgement he deserved. He would still think all those awful things about his mother, about him, no matter what he might pretend. Whereas respect was something both Chifeng-zun and Zewu-jun offered freely, even before they’d offered their gorgeous bodies to him as well…
Jin Guangyao smiled.
Who was he kidding?
He already knew what his decision was going to be.
“I think,” he said, “that we can work something out.”
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the poison in your bones sounds really interesting!!
the basic premise for this one was "song lan's haunted" and then I started writing it and while that's still the basic premise I realized recently that I wanted to go somewhere else with the ending. and I think I'm happy with where I'm going with the ending though I'm a bit worried it's kind of cliche. but oh well we'll see how it goes, hopefully my beloved beta will let me know if it doesn't work and in the meantime I'm having fun writing xue yang's ghost fucking with (a very miserable) song lan
The man was a pestilence. Gone and yet traces lingered in the air, in Song Lan’s unmoving lungs, in his mouth empty of a tongue. As though somehow he still owned a part of Song Lan that would never be free again. Bound together, master and slave, murderer and - murderer, a soft voice whispered in Song Lan’s thoughts, and he tried to let it go. It hadn’t been his choice or his will. His hands and his sword, but he was no more responsible than Fuxue was responsible for Song Lan’s own actions. Perhaps given time he would find that argument more convincing. When dreams of Xingchen did come, in some ways they were worse. He wept bloody tears, begging for Song Lan to speak, but no matter how hard he tried no words came out. He turned his back on Song Lan and walked away, and Song Lan watched him go, screaming at himself to stop him but only standing there unmoving until he vanished. Xiao Xingchen in the coffin, untouched by time, looking almost as though he might open his eyes and wake.  Once, in dreams, he did, and smiled, and Song Lan woke weeping, his grief as raw as flayed skin.  It would - not fade, he knew, but ease, with time. A wound healing to a scar that would always be tender, but not with the immediacy of the pain when it was fresh. He would grow accustomed to bearing it. It would become familiar, known, a part of him - or rather, an absence in him. Like empty eye sockets, lids stitched closed. Like a missing finger.
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"send me a character" shockingly: jiang cheng, jiang wanyin, sandu shengshou, jiang-zongzhu, jin ling's jiujiu
Wow wonder what about me and my blog made you think of him 🤔
Favourite thing about them: I expected him to have a massive meltdown wayyyy earlier than he did, so yay! (Not sure how much of that is down to the fact that I was actively reading posts about the show that contained loads of spoilers and very heavy biases against him before I finished the show for the first time so I was just waiting for him to turn the way people were saying he did. Spoiler! He never did). This man raised a Sect from the brink of near extinction in about 3 months and at the age of what, seventeen?? And then rebuilt it all on his own?? This man is incredible, someone get him a celebratory twister ice-lolly
Least favourite thing about them: He got rid of his slut strand
Favourite line:
From the book (paraphrasing) - "you would certainly be a mark of shame on his entire teaching career"
From cql, it's either - "Who is this famous and talented Cultivator? Could you please introduce him to me?"
Or - "If I remember it right, that talking kid is your son, right? He's so good at talking"
brOTP: Him and Qin Su as friends intrigues me (I also kinda ship it, but that's irrelevant right now) cause she was most likely the only maternal figure in Jin Ling's life and Jiang Cheng is not an idiot, he knows that Jin Ling needs that kind of influence. He's basically the mother of the child whose father got remarried after the divorce and who then strikes up a friendship with the new wife in order to raise the child more efficiently. Co parenting 🫶
OTP: Jiang Cheng x Peace and Happiness (jk it's chengxian, but I also fw chengxuan, chengsu, and chengqing)
nOTP: fucking Xich*ng, got mad beef with Xich*ng
Random headcanon: is incredibly good with numbers, like the opposite of discalculus. Good for tax and trade negotiations. We love a highly efficient, overly capable King 🫶🫶
Unpopular opinion: He has every right to be fucking pissed at Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji
Song I associate with them: The entire album "Laurel Hell" by Mitski. Like the whole thing. Also, "Are You There Sweeheart?" by Kate Nash, and "911" by Lady Gaga
Favourite picture of them: This one makes me have a wee giggle whenever I see it
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