MXTX Remix reveals! There’s a first time for everything, and this was my first time writing accidental baby acquisition! I wrote “if time is my vessel” for Yevie, in which A-Yuan is found by Xue Yang and brought back to Jinlintai — and because it was for Jonah, it had to be in space!
Thank you to @tragicsonglan for the beta, and the mods for being so excellent when I panicked at the last minute about the whole thing!
Well... Today instead of just BTS killing me my other fandom decided to join in.
I give to you mother fucking Gong Jun... Fark. I might have barked.
These are just four of the gazillion GQ pics posted today. :blobastonished: :artsweats: :apartyblobcat: :blobcatsweats: :ablobcatwobble: :ablobcatgooglymlem: :ablobcatbongopost: :blobcatfearful: #gongjun#lld#cdrama#woh
Just saw the hashtag #FicRecFebruary and you know what, it’s only the third, I can catch up! I kind of made things too complicated for myself with #DecRecs, so I’m going to try to keep this one very simple. 😅 @Forestofglory you might also be interested in this!
Hi, hello, did you know I love rarepairs? Zhuzhi lang is so bright and cheerful and just a little bit odd, here, and Liu Qingge comes to realise* just how lucky he is there was a heavenly snake demon around when he needed one. A delightful little piece!
Look at that, I managed a whole month (and mostly within the month, too). Thanks to @clachnaben for making #FicRecFebruary happen! This was really fun. :ablobcatheart:
Sidenote: yesterday I realised that, now I've read Qi Ye and am halfway-ish through Tian Ya Ke, bladedweapons' AO3 back catalogue is now mostly accessible to me, and—if this isn't nice, what is? 🥰
#TGCF, modern AU, genderbend + lots of gender in general
Retired boxer Xie Lian meets clearly-a-mafiosa Hua Cheng, amongst a bright ensemble cast. There's a very good beefleaf here, and a good Quan Yizhen, too. (I often don’t like fics with lots of gender, but this one worked really well for me.)
The one where Vegas wants to give Pete a piercing, and ends up getting an apprenticeship and, with Pete and Macau, rebuilding their whole lives together. I don't even know how to describe how much more this fic is than it sounds! I had to take breaks reading it to breathe and recover. (I also got new piercings partly because of it.)
#FicRecFebruary no.17: reclaim the rising (series) by curiositykilled
#TGCF, canon-compliant, #hualian and others, character studies
A gorgeously-written look at various parts of canon—the first fic looks at Xie Lian's relationship with death, the second is about Hua Cheng making his way through the world after Mount Tonglu, and the rest is just as captivating.
Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian, and the canoe they built together as juniors. Lyrical, boisterous, melancholy and hopeful; plus, you will totally learn how to build a boat!
This is one of my all-time favourite MDZS fics—please give yourself the treat of reading it.
Wei Wuxian, fine art restorer, has a new client. Lan Wangji, musician, has an heirloom portrait with a mysterious history. The restoration process is a satisfyingly detailed backbone to this fic, but never feels forced; wangxian's emotional connection builds to a perfect conclusion. A beautiful fic!
Wen-era Xue Yang looks at Wen Zhuliu and sees someone who could really fuck him up. Wen Zhuliu has no interest in that, until it turns out he does.
(Yes it's porn but) I love fic that delves into WZL's core-melting abilities in a new context, and this is a technicolor exploration of just what they might be like, on both sides.
#FicRecFebruary no.28: building a fantastic set of wings, by lickrish
#MDZS, #YiCity, modern AU with cultivation, demonic cultivation, blood and sex rituals
Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen are researching the near-legendary Hanguang Jun. Xue Yang is studying the Yiling Laozu. Things are going to go inevitably, painfully, bloodily wrong.
The emotional tension, chill of foreboding and slow, ambiguous reveal of this fic are as masterful as it's sensorily detailed. Marvellous!
#FicRecFebruary no.27: fuori dal mondo, by bladedweaponsandswishycoats
#QiYe, #xiyuan and some JBY/ZZS, canon divergence, also the sable is here
Look, this is Qi Ye except that Jing Beiyuan sometimes turns into an indescribable eldritch horror, and I think we can all agree on how magnificent and visionary this is, right? I know my audience. Go read it! <3
Sisi and Nie Huaisang watch a broom star (彗星 huixing) from the roof of the Unclean Realm. The quietest of romance: love as infodumping and love as asking somebody to infodump at you. Plus: the FOOTNOTES, oh my gosh, the footnotes! ☄️
An imagining of how Yu Ziyuan and Wen Zhuliu might have known one another that is so specific and somehow almost dream-logical, while capturing the essence of these two distinctive characters, that it feels all the more true for being so surprising. Beautifully written, with a stinging last line.
Anyone else watching #ALeagueOfNobleman? I saw episode one tonight and I’ve promised my irl cdrama friend to watch the whole thing, so she has an audience of at least one for her rewrite of the ending. 😅
Thoughts so far: they clearly used the entire budget on cheekbones and eyebrows for the leads (I’m fine with this); it’s so good to see Guo Cheng in a new show!
Important #wuxia news! Lone Crane has begun the translation of Soaring Swallows Startle Dragons《飛燕驚龍》by #WolongSheng 臥龍生. This is one of the most influential novels in the genre, and now it’s coming to English. 🎉
This is my irregular appeal for more #CQL fics that capture the energy of the Wen Ning vs. Song Lan fight in Yi City (including the fact that one of the parties involved was not fully conscious and controlled by Xue Yang’s skull-nails and tiger seal).
