For #DecRecs today I want rec a fic about friendship!
"then maybe I'd make it alive" by Tavina
This is a pre-canon Madam Jīn & Wēn Zhúliú & Yú Zǐyuān fic! The relationship between the three of them is so intense and complicated! Plus this has lot of great worldbuilding in terms of sect politics by an author who is very familiar with wuxia
Wen Qing/Qin Su canon divergence fic! joining forces along with Meng Yao to spy on the Wens :)))
Qin Su is a character who I always love to see being given more scope for complexities and personhood and decisions than we get to see in canon and this fic delivers
also it really lets itself inhabit that period where Wen Qing is working for Wen Ruohan and everything that means
the subtleties of how the relationships between Qin Su and Wen Qing and Meng Yao are portrayed in this fic are soooo good
I can't remember if I've done an intro post before, but regardless, here's one for #SnowflakeChallenge2024!
I'm Lauren & I go by Lirazel most places online except for Tumblr where I'm queenofattolia. I will answer to Lirazel, Lauren, or Ren.
I'm a queer ace USAmerican cis lady who was raised evangelical & is now converting to Judaism.
In real life, I am an archivist. In fannish life, I am that person who has fanfic for over 60 fandoms dating back to the early 2000s posted on my AO3.
At the moment my main fandom is #CQL/The Untamed, but I am always writing for other fandoms for exchanges. Fandom is my fandom as well--love talking about fandom history, culture, etc.
I hang out a lot on Dreamwidth & Tumblr as well as here, since each site fulfills different needs.
I am super interested in literature, television in any language, history, religion/faith, ace stuff, feminism, unions, anarchism, my never-ending quest to figure out what gender is actually, & other people's passions.
Does anyone have saved the thread of CQL cast as kitchen appliances? When Ning was a cast iron pan and LXC was an all-in-one breakfast station that fails in everything. I seem to have misplaced it and my google-fu skills are lacking.
🌠 CQL is my fandom
🌠 For a $10 bid, I'll write you a 5-10k fic for Wangxian
🌠 For a $5 bid, I'll write you 1-5k fic for anything to do with Madam Lan; Sect Leader Jiang Yanli; Wei Wuxian & Lan Qiren bonding gen; Wen Qing-centric gen; or Wen Qing/Jiang Cheng or Wen Qing/Jiang Yanli
🌠 You donate to any of the organizations on FTH's list
🌠 Bidding opens March 5
I recommend this really delightful #sff addicts #podcast / video with @marthawells! She talks about reading and writing, her older and newer book series including Murderbot, her new novel Witch King and how it's inspired by #TheUntamed , all the upcoming works... 👀 It was really fun listening, lots of thoughtful questions by the hosts and candid answers.
More random old #wangxian#fanart, reposting on the schedule of "whenever the mood takes me": I needed a "lwj dresses a barely conscious wwx's wounds" scene in my life #TheUntamed#cql
“Do you have a problem, Chengmei?” Jin Guangyao asked.
Xue Yang slammed down his stirring rod. The gritty substance on it sprayed across the cluttered bench. “Yes, I have a problem!” he snapped. “There’s no fucking point following the formula if I don’t have pure enough ingredients. What the hell is this cinnabar cut with? Your father’s dead, no one’s checking your account book any more!”
Jin Guangyao only gave a faint smile, leaning back on the bier that held the body of Xiao Xingchen. “True, my father is dead,” he said. “That means I don’t have to support your work here; it’s a personal favour. Think on that, perhaps.”
FIVE EPISODES CHALLENGE.
Post a single image from a television episode that had an effect on you every day for 5 days, and describe how it made you feel.
It's SO hard to pick a #CQL episode because this show makes me feel all the feelings, but I'm picking this one because it's all about my two favorite relationships on the show, the ones with so much depth and intensity that I will be thinking about them on my deathbed. This is both such a good, angsty, shippy episode for Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, but it is ALSO such an intense episode for Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng and I just remember being overcome with emotions! [insert troy_barnes_my_emotions.gif here]
ALSO BECAUSE WE WAITED SO DAMN LONG FOR THAT REVEAL AND IT WAS SO WORTH IT.
#Introduction I'm here to listen to you gush about your passions!! These days I'm into #Symphogear, #IdolAnime, and #Yuri (#LGBT anything, tbh). I also really like #TheUntamed/#CQL, #DanMei, #WuXia, and will get around to reading all of #MXTX one of these days. I'm also a language student, mainly #Mandarin and #Japanese atm. Oh I'm also probably the biggest fan of "#Ojou" type characters in #Anime that you know...a little weird/niche but hey, that's why we're on this instance, right?!?!
I'll start with this fic by Ariaste about @wangxian as ballroom dancers. Lwj is a dance teacher (juniors!), wwx became an outcast because of erotic dancing. The yearning & sexual tension in this #fic go through the roof. There's a misunderstanding, clever parallels to canon, events culminate at a dance competition. https://archiveofourown.org/works/23105470