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.
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
🥚 #TheUntamed#MoDaoZuShi
🥚 #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
🥚 31k, rated Teen, modern with magic AU
🥚 Pheasant-yao WY has a tryst he can't clearly remember
🥚 Now he has an egg!
🥚 He must be a good father and provide for his child
🥚 So he goes to the big city to earn money
🥚 WY doesn't know much about humans but he has plenty of determination and self-belief
🥚 This story is a delight
🌱 #TheUntamed / #MoDaoZuShi
🌱 #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
🌱 18k, rated General, canon divergent
🌱 LWJ loses his core while defending WWX
🌱 He struggles to come to terms with it
🌱 WWX tries to help
🦋 #TheUntamed
🦋 #LanSizhui
🦋 #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
🦋 Duration 6:23
🦋 Music: "Persistence of Hope" by #TwelveTitansMusic
🦋 Music plus Chinese dialog, English subtitles
🦋 Emotional storytelling
🦋 Lan Sizhui is a very good boy with parents who love him a lot
💮 #TheUntamed#MoDaoZuShi
💮 #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
💮 27k, rated Teen, post canon
💮 Immortal LWJ & reincarnated WWX
💮 WWX can't understand why he seems to recognise the Immortal known as The Wanderer
💮 Love, grief, patience, more love
"Down by the water" (60k) by astrolesbian is an incredibly beautiful #WangXian surfer AU #fanfic. I felt like my chest was open & my heart exposed the entire time. Perfect characterization, insecure, awkward lwj pov & sun-like, hot wwx, told via effective time jumps, angst is all in the past.
"A clan of ghosts" (31k) by @twigofwillow is a lovely fix-it AU #cql#fanfic told from Wen Qing's pov. It diverges when wwx and the Wens get a warning from lqy about a trap, leading to wwx's Burial Mounds family expanding in surprising ways. Beautifully told, great characterization and dialogue, and the found family feels are strong. I was especially happy to see wq adopt new family & friends. This really touched me. https://archiveofourown.org/works/24024193 #DecRecs#TheUntamed#WangXian
Wishes inked beneath your skin (6k) by Suspicious_Popsicle is a sweet #WangXian modern AU #fanfic with wwx as brilliant cultivator/tattoo artist (very special tattoos) & lwj in love. Although relatively short it captures wwx's essence & lwj's feelings so incredibly well. There's a dash of sadness / a sense of loss (loving parents, wwx living in hiding) but it's a very positive fic. https://archiveofourown.org/works/23388628 #cql#TheUntamed#DecRecs
Come home to my heart (30k) by occultings is a canon divergent #WangXian#fanfic where our favorite oblivious boys suffer a body swap curse after the Sunshot campaign. Some shenanigans ensue (but no slapstick humor), the fic is funny, soft and lighthearted, with lots of tender, bittersweet pining that becomes mutual after an initially slightly obnoxious wwx has some revelations. https://archiveofourown.org/works/23720248 #cql#TheUntamed#DecRecs
You and me, babe, how about it? (8k) by ilip13 is a peaceful, happy alternate canon AU where wwx, hesitant before a major life decision, "kidnaps" a very willing lwj for his birthday. https://archiveofourown.org/works/34835872
My heart is dancing too (7k) by pink_fluff is a heart-meltingly adorable & cozy modern AU where WangXian get snowed in with 4 toddlers. Brilliant pov of overwhelmed & pining lwj. https://archiveofourown.org/works/29277765