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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Characters: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, background Lan and Jiang siblings Additional Tags: Modern AU, Grief, Loss, Messy break-up, “what am I to you?”, Lan Zhan is cursed to suffer, Second person POV, there are ghosts and haunting here alright but not literally Summary:

“He hugged you goodbye, suddenly, and his hands flat on your shoulder blades felt like the sprouting of wings, carrying you up and up and up. The surprise of it pulled your breath in sharply for a moment of a moment and his fingers flexed. Your eyes and his, in a shimmering circuit, told you he knew something had shifted too.”

Wei Ying is gone. Lan Zhan grieves and remembers what they did and didn’t have together.

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no! healthy relationship will kill the character! he needs an unhealthy codependent romance with a side of power imbalance to live

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The 2025 WIP Big Bang & WIP Reverse Bang Are Open For Sign-Ups!

Welcome to a new round! We're bringing back the OG WIP Big Bang, which is for finishing fic and getting art to go with it, and introducing the first full round of the WIP Reverse Bang, which is for finishing artwork and getting fic to go with it. All fandoms/ratings/ships are welcome, including original works!

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lan Jingyi/Lan Yuan | Lan Sizhui Characters: Lan Jingyi, Lan Yuan | Lan Sizhui Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Interstitial Scene, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, mostly - Freeform, Romantic misunderstandings, Mencius, Confucianism, Excessive philosophy, Getting Together, Chekhov’s Cold Pond, Lan Jingyi is not a total disaster but he has his moments Series: Part 2 of We Sail Again: compasses lost at sea Summary:

“No, we have no debts,” he agrees. “A debt is a heavy weight, you could never be that.” He tempers his impulse to grasp and cling, “A debt can be discharged. But an obligation?”

Sizhui snaps back, as close to offended as Jingyi ever heard him,“Are we to speak of debt and obligation, of profit and loss, as if haggling over last year’s rice at market?”

Jingyi finds Sizhui and considers the classics.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lan Huan | Lan Xichen & Lan Qiren Characters: Lan Huan | Lan Xichen, Lan Qiren, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: postcanon, Location: Cloud Recesses (Módào Zǔshī), Injury, Family Dynamics, Recovery, Lan Huan | Lan Xichen in Seclusion, kinda sorta, he is coming out a bit but You Know, Good Uncle Lan Qiren, Lan Qiren did his best, Reciprocity, this is a bit of a mini-treatise on decline, Family is complicated, yes I have added yet another OC, they can’t stop me Summary:

He recalls in one awful moment his young Huan-zhizi’s face then, contorted with pain as he fought through the night, slowly expelling the dread shadow whose claws had sunk deep and, even now, snagged in the great net of his fears. It occurs to him that a-Huan’s healing has never truly ended, that what he had learnt from the multiple mortal dangers of his youth had been caution, and a deep fear of sudden and terrible loss.

No wonder the blows of his adult years had brought him so low.

A little after their return from Yunping’s Guanyin Temple, it is Lan Qiren who now needs to heal, and his nephew who must help him.

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worlds slowest fanfic author tries really really hard

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"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

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Qiu Haitang thinking her family had taken Shen Jiu in to save him, then having her world view completely torn apart until she was wishing for death when she found out the truth... oh Haitang they could never make me hate you

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its healthy for your paragraphs to vary in size, good for the ecodiversity of your doc

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Yeah so, we’re all out here trying to survive under capitalism, but monetising fandom really isn’t going to save anyone and would probably wreck fandom as we now know it.

It’s sharing or nothing, kids.

The rest of the thread is here.

tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids.  You won’t like what happens next.

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egg toast

30 min study

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controversial opinion below the cut!

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re: my latest reblog (sorry for doing this twice in like 10 minutes) and my tag commentary about ambiguity around jin guangyao

i think there is a big difference between trying to absolve or condemn jin guangyao regarding jin rusong in fandom discourse, and taking a position on that topic for the purpose of writing fic or some other creative interpretation of the story.

the story as it has been published and translated is the story.* we are never going to figure out whether jin guangyao actually killed jin rusong or not because the story is not going to miraculously extrude new details on this subject into the universe, unless mxtx decides to write a sequel (please don’t) and chooses to make solving the mystery of jin rusong’s death a key component of that sequel. jin guangyao fans who assert that his death is ambiguous aren’t sneakily trying to insist that jin guangyao couldn’t possibly have done this awful thing. we’re just working to highlight what the text actually shows us—and what it shows us is contradictory information, and no means of reconciling those contradictions in the text.

in fic or art or whatever else, that’s where the transformative component of transformative work comes in: you’re absolutely allowed—encouraged!—to take a firm position on narrative details that have been left nebulous or unclear, intentionally or otherwise. because when it comes to writing fic, unless the ambiguity is part of the conceit of what you’re writing, you probably need to decide what jin guangyao is or isn’t guilty of for the purposes of your story so that it remains internally coherent and has a structure that makes sense.

okay that’s it 👋

* insert screed on treating translations as unique works unto themselves here, i’m not smart enough to write it but someone else definitely is.

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Jin Guang Yao

Happy Birthday 20/2

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So I was thinking about how fun Mdzs would be, if my boy Jin Guangyao was the protagonist.

Then I realised, that already exists:

Shen Lanzhou is Jin Guangyao with protagonist privilege.

Allow me to explain:

Both are the sons of prostitutes and men from prominent clans/families (Jin Guangshan and Shen Wei respectively).

Both are shameless social climbers who will do whatever it takes and are equally clever schemers.

Both are super creative in the way they kill the people who’ve wronged them.

Jin Guangyao literally had prostitutes who were mean to his mother fuck his father to death, whilst Shen Lanzhou chose to skin a man alive.

Both are completely besotted with boys from well established, good families.

Of course I’m talking Lan Xichen and Xiao Chiye. Xiyao is canon. Fight me.

Finally, both have a running motif, Jiggy consistently gets pushed down stairs, Lanzhou gets railed.

Tl;dr Social climbing son’s of prostitutes are my new favourite danmei trope. I may love them more than Shizun fuckers.

Also I guess if you love Jin Guangyao and you haven’t read Ballad of Sword and Wine yet, you should get on that.

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I was prompted to post these a bit ago bc of my madness posting abt the Xiyao laundry audioextra upload someone posted like last week and I think there is really a lot there in the Xiyao laundry thing in general (hashtag release the Yunping tapes) and not all of it is smth I see ~talked abt as much as I think it deserves SO . Collected thoughts on Xiyao laundry

OK so like Yeah they're cute. I absolutely get why people's primary reaction to this is that it's cute and I think this is not even wrong. The politics of uselessness r complicated and I Will be returning to this but a legitimate angle of this is that LXC, who has spent his life largely defined by the fact that he pretty much excels at everything expected of him, has nothing expected of him and gets to be incompetent at something he ~feels obligated to do and have that not actually be a fail state, still get offered the same kindness regardless of his ability to be exceedingly capable/responsible etc.; meanwhile MY, who historically has had pretty much no one ever gaf about whether he's struggling or overworked or generally about him as a person (and the audiodrama extra version even has a bit where MY's coworkers are shit talking him including talking abt how he's probably not even actually doing any work), has someone earnestly caring about that, if ineffectually, and materially recognizing his workload as important and effortful and trying to help him with it. That is I think legitimately kind of sweet! Especially if one interprets the "he didn't even know who I was" line as true and as in the audiodrama extra this is set b4 MY figures it out! They appreciate each other in ways they don't usually get to be appreciated and it's nontransactional in this way and ;x;

HOWEVER. #Nuance. There's Other Angles.

I've talked abt this before inc on my blog but I do kind of never get tired of thinking abt it: there's a reason LXC is incapable of doing laundry and it's not just inexperience it's that he is physically incapable of the task bc of his cultivator strength!!!!! And the disparity of cultivation level is explicitly a class thing w/ JGY wrt 3zun especially!!! No matter his intention Zewu-jun CANNOT SULLY HIS HANDS WITH THE TASK bangs my head against a wall. It's such an innocuous detail yet it captures how from even this early on in their relationship and in this context it's not ignorable how much LXC is in fact a nobleman where JGY is not and this is a literal physical difference and it's in his very flesh and it has explicitly destructive results. See again vampire AU posting

And going off that it's notable how this does in fact also end up creating more work and while MY doesn't begrudge that in the moment and it's pettier here and arguably inextricable with the first point (LXC is not only incapable here he's actively bad at something, he actively makes smth worse and he's forgiven for it and that's genuinely kind of nice) it's it's also worth noting more grimly given how their relationship ends. It's not just destructive it's destructive to MY specifically

And on the notes of "inextricable from first point but also tragic" – it's sweet tht LXC gets no external consequences for this (yet lol) but is that really something he can Accept. It is an arguably underexamined element of Sunshot Xiyao how fucking miserable LXC is; he might be in an environment where this isn't fucking him up but he did bring his complexes here and you don't suddenly know how to accept that kind of grace yknow – and, and this is tangentially related to the stuff I was posting earlier today, this is one of the first of several kinds of vulnerability that LXC's almost only able to experience with MY/JGY. Considering how much that's arguably a running theme for them and considering where that leads that's also quite Foreshadowing Dismal!!

This is an audio drama exclusive but the way in the audiodrama extra ver that MY realizes who LXC is here and then ~lies about it is also crunchy as helllllll

AND between the coworkers thing in the audiodrama extra and the added scenes in the donghua and this and the notion in general (which comes from MXTX's post) that it's important they do the laundry themselves bc the robes would give LXC away it's a highlight of how genuinely precarious this is for MY which is another thing that both makes it more sweet and more. Despair.

It's just so lovely how it is both indicative of how genuinely good they are to and for each other, the ways in which they're meaningfully and significantly compassionate and helpful to one another, and also of the ways in which their situation here is precarious and high-stress and dangerous as fuck, AND also the ways in which they hurt each other so so bad, and how all of those things are largely different facets of the same qualities and the same significances. And That's My Post. Stream Apple Pie by the Scary Jokes

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xue yang: yeah my sword is called Making Disasters Happen

jgy: mine is called Hating Life <3

sms:

sms: ᵐᶦⁿᵉ ᶦˢ ᶜᵃˡˡᵉᵈ ᶠᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ˢʸˢᵗᵉᵐ

xy: sorry. what.

sms: mine is called 'fight the system'

xy: ...

jgy: ...

jgy: minshan I kind of need the system to advance my -

sms: well I'm not going to do it now!