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Follower Recs

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Hi! First of all, thank you so much for running this blog, It's become one of three reasons why I haven't yet committed arson (I jest but the Feeling is true). [Hee, hee, hee.] I have a rec for you! It's called "wholesome life usurp immediately" by comfect on ao3 and it's. So good. It's unfinished but the author updates it literally every other day if not faster! It's a lovely fic, I hope you enjoy it. 🌻

Wholesome Life Usurp Immediately

by Comfect (T, 55k, yunmeng sibs, qingli, wangxian, WIP)

Summary: Wen Qing examines Jiang Yanli at Cloud Recesses and has a cure for her poor cultivation.

Now there are Three Prides of Yunmeng.

Everything kind of fixes itself from there.

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hello mojo!! I would really like to recommend standing still (but we keep going) by lwjromantics!! it's really good!!

standing still (but we keep going)

by lwjromantics (justfantaestic) (T, 5k, wangxian)

Summary: Lan Wangji supposed that if having to take care of little A-Yuan and Mo Xuanyu and having to look at the reminders of Wei Ying in their habits and mannerisms was punishment for his actions, he would willingly take it and flay his own back open.

— There are children in the Burial Mounds.

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hii mojo! I just read this cute fic and I loved it so I wanted to rec it :) 

Word Up, Talk the Talk

by Larryissocute (G, 2k, wangxian)

Summary:  It wouldn’t have been a problem (it really wouldn’t) if they weren’t best friends. Wei Wuxian doesn’t know what good deeds he did in his past life to be blessed with Lan Wangji as a friend nor does he know what evil things he did to be cursed with being only a friend to Lan Wangji.

Or the one where Wei Wuxian kisses Lan Wangji and then runs away.

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Hey! Love your account — and proud of you for taking the hiatus you needed.  [Lol - it was really nice!]  Idk if you take fic recommendations, but I'd love to rec Roots by ardenrabbit. Fantastic characterization, I really love it!

Roots

by ardenrabbit (E, 46k, wangxian, WIP)

Summary:  After Wei Wuxian's duel with Jiang Cheng, he finds that stab wounds aren't so trivial when he doesn't have a core to heal them. He wakes to find Lan Zhan in the Burial Mounds with him, already beloved by the Wens and making himself at home. When Lan Zhan tells him that he wants to stay and offers more help than Wei Wuxian knows how to accept, he fears that it's only too good to be true.

Lan Wangji knows that Wei Ying is doing the right thing, and he couldn't live with himself if he let him do it alone. For everything Wei Ying has sacrificed, Lan Wangji is determined to give something back to him.

Hanguang-Jun has turned his back on the clans to join the Yiling Wens and their demonic cultivator leader, and every clan has a different opinion on the matter.

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Hello! I wanted to rec a fic on ao3 called "Restoration" by jelenedra. It's complete, an alternate universe of the sunshot campaign told nonlinearly. It has strong fairy tale and fae elements, with a touch of mystery. Bit of a fix it. Some delightful one liners, and the final ending imagery is just LOVELY. The fic deserves much more love. There's also some YilingWei, wwx not raised by Jiang, and sentient Burial Mounds elements. Enchanting read that keeps you enthralled and curious and intrigued.

Restoration

by jelenedra (M, 85k, wangxian)

Summary:  They say he was thrown into Luanzang Gang by the man who killed his parents; they say that he is an immortal cultivator who had been in a deep trance until the Wen sect disturbed his rest and incurred his wrath; they say that he is the fierce corpse of a cultivator who had somehow regained his mind and his spiritual powers.

When Lan Wangji sees him for the first time, he understands why people talk.

Meng Yao wants safety. Xue Yang wants vengeance. The Sunshot Campaign wants victory. Yiling Laozu provides, for a price.

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I usually read all your recommendations. Thanks for gathering all good recs of wangxian. I am in love with every single story your recommend especially the favorites. [I’m so glad!]  I just wanted to suggest a fic i came across while searching for phoenix!wwx. Its a new story I think as author has published it today. The first chapter was very interesting that i thought ill recommend it you and know your opinion. The legendary phoenix and his dragon -Devipriya and Hidden Path to Love by ShadowTenshiV

Hidden Path to Love

by ShadowTenshiV (G, 78k, wangxian)

Summary:  Wei Ying is a servant working at the Gusu Lan castle. One day he enters through a secret passage way connected to the library where he meets a Lan for the first time. He may have left quite an impression, gaining the other´s attention and slowly becoming friends. They would like to become something more, but a servant can´t be with a prince, but maybe his secret can change that.

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hello mojo! i was wondering if I could make a fic rec? it’s called “and the calm is deep where the quiet waters flow” by izanyas. it used to be on ao3 but the author has since moved it to eir own website and has started posting updates there. i was wondering if this could also act as a signal boost bc some old readers on ao3 might not have known that it is now on another website.   Author's been through a tough time so I think it deserves a lot more love.

For new readers, please mind the warnings in the prologue and the beginning of each chapter! it’s omegaverse and a very heavy read as it deals with (possible spoiler) off-screen rape that results in an unwanted pregnancy, as well as secondary gender oppression which runs deep, but for people who can bear it the writing, worldbuilding, and emotions are truly spectacular.

and the calm is deep where the quiet waters flow

by izanyas (E, 270k, wangxian, WIP, link is to WordPress rather than AO3)

Summary: Cangse Sanren was the first of her kind to become a cultivator. Talented, passionate, free-spirited, she bested everything that ever came her way until the very end.

Jiang Fengmian refuses to see her son deprived of that same freedom.

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Hello Mojo! I dunno if this's been recced before, but here's another ficrec for you? It's complete, on ao3, "The Third Young Master of Qishan Wen" by KouriArashi. It's 'if wwx was raised by dafan wen, but gets recognized as 3rd heir due to his skill' scenario. Some really nice banter and characterization. Wwx and lz get together before the sunshot campaign. Story follows the live action but diverges into au, and does some cool callbacks to original canon. Love Meng Yao in this!  [Oh, I know KouriArashi from my last fandom, I love her works!]

❤️The Third Young Master of the Qishan Wen

by KouriArashi (T, 139k, wangxian, my post)

Summary:  The fic where Wei Wuxian is adopted by the Dafan Mountain Wens instead of the Yunmeng Jiang.

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Hi Mojo! I can count the number of times I’ve spoken on Tumblr on one hand (I’m shy heh) but I found this fic that I think you and others would really like? I’m a sucker for emotional hurt/comfort and this was just too sweet for me not to share (did I go through 20 pages of bookmarks just to make sure you don’t already have it? Maybe …) [Aww, you can do a sidebar search in the bookmarks for the author’s name.  But I hope you found other good fics by carding through the whole catalog!]  It’s “Close Your Soft Eyes” by timetoboldlygo! I also wanna say thank you for all the hard work you put into this blog! It’s a treasure beyond compare. :D [Thank you so much!]

Close Your Soft Eyes

by timetoboldlygo (G, 12k, wangxian)

Summary:  When Lan Wangji woke, the first thing he noticed was the slip of paper, folded and tucked between his index and middle fingers, not Wei Wuxian’s absence. His fingers trembled as he unfurled the paper. A donkey with a little smile beamed down at him.

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On the nights that Wei Wuxian was gone, Lan Wangji woke to gifts on his pillow.

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Hey Mojo! I love your blog it is beyond awesome! [Thank you!]  I was wondering if you would consider reading JaenysBloodcourt series "A Bond to Takes us home"? The summary is weird but I like the fics and would love to hear your opinion on LWJ POV (it's part 2). Part one is Mingxian but part two (Wangxian) reads as a standalone for the most part. Anyways, thank you for all your hard work! <3 [I’ll put it on my list!]

A Bond to Take Us Home

by JaenysBloodcourt (T, 10k, mingxian - nmj/wwx, wangxian, series in progress)

Summary:  Wei Wuxian has two soulmarks. He has two soulmates that seem to be the opposite of him. During his first life he meets both of them, loves only one and longs for the other. In his second life, the one he loved first is dead, and the one he pined after is pining after him.

These are the many tales of his soulmates and the raucous they made across the cultivation world.

Some are dark, some are light. Beware.

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I forgot to send this in for Mother's Day a few weeks ago, but have you read dragongirlG's "into the light of a dark black night"? It's a short canon divergence where Mama Lan escapes the Cloud Recesses after spending one last, heartbreaking night with her sons. It's so beautiful and bittersweet! [Oh, ouch.  I just read this author’s time travelling juniors au, but hadn’t seen this one.]

into the light of a dark black night

by dragongirlG (T, 3k, Madam Lan & sons)

Summary:  The night that Wu Yuhua, formerly known as Madam Lan, plans to escape from the Cloud Recesses, she runs into an unexpected complication.

That complication comes in the form of her younger son A-Zhan running up to her door and kneeling in front of it, hushed whimpers escaping from his throat.

Wu Yuhua knows it's not the full moon, knows that it's not the one day a month she's allowed to see her children—but like hell is she going to leave her six-year-old son out there trying to stifle sobs in the snow.

She opens the door. "A-Zhan," she says, bending down and reaching out a hand. "Come in, my sweet boy."

On a snowy night in the dead of winter, Wu Yuhua, formerly known as Madam Lan, unexpectedly spends one last night with her sons before escaping from the Cloud Recesses.

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Hello queen I’d like to recommend for ur follower rec posts Avatar: The Untamed Waterbender by KouriArashi. Banger of an ATLA au, def the best one I’ve seen. It’s a WIP but the author updates pretty regularly and it’s all around an A+ fic [Oh, yes, I’ve been waiting for this one to finish before I jump in.]

Avatar: The Untamed Waterbender

by KouriArashi (T, 123k, wangxian, WIP)

Summary:  You know the drill. Long ago, the four nations lived in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

100 years later, Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli find Wei Wuxian sealed in an iceberg.

Featuring: avatar WWX, waterbending JC, firebending Wens, airbending Lans, earthbending Nies and Jins, Jiang Yanli in possession of the brain cell, et cetera.

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[My ko-fi.]

[ahnsael]

So...we’ve got this new guy in town, just moved here from California (I don’t say that to disparage him -- a lot of locals in rural Nevada don’t like Californians moving here, but while I moved here from Washington, I’m a native Californian).

I met him yesterday morning at work, where (a) he told me that he was spending the first of his two nights in a motel across the street while waiting for the property he bought (on which he intends to raise cattle) goes through, (b) kept wanting to talk politics (he has yet to accept what I told him, that politics and religion are no-go topics in casinos), (c) told me his “real name” (he goes by Joe, but it’s actually Kenneth and I forget the middle and last names which is lucky for him because I’d be googling him to see if he’s been up to no good and needs to be reported because I do not like him and the reason I don’t like him is because:) (d) he mentioned the BLM protest we had in town a few weeks ago and threatened violence if I had any black people I wanted him to “take care of” (hence the reason I’d be googling his name to see if he needs to be reported), (e) spends more time walking around and talking to people who would rather not be bothered than he does playing, (f) refers to this area as the “wild west” on a constant basis, (g) told me this morning that he was penniless but also told me he won more money (at another local casino) than he ever thought possible and was giving money to random people -- he’s like a reverse panhandler -- but he gave me a $1 coin good at the tables at that other casino, but later asked to buy it back from me for $1 (this dude is QUICKLY going to become a gambling addict and destroy his life), and (h) after telling me he was penniless, asked if I would allow him to take a nap in the casino.

Oh, and (i) he keeps pulling his bandanna that he uses as a facemask (and with his cowboy hat he TOTALLY looks like an old-time train robber) to talk, and I keep having to tell him that he’s defeating the purpose of the face covering, since a person lets out more aerosols when speaking than when just breathing. And I’m TIRED of fighting people over masks, so I have very little patience for people who try to get around the mandate that Nevada has in place (we had a guy come in this morning holding a paper towel over his mouth and thought that was good enough -- I had him out the door in less than 30 seconds when he refused to buy an actual mask for $1).

I didn’t ask the wannabe cowboy Joe about the second night in the motel that he had mentioned yesterday when he asked if I would let him camp out in the casino to sleep. I just told him that if anyone tries to use our casino as a rest stop to catch some ZZZ’s, we throw them out. Then he told me that all his belongings were next to our dumpsters, and I had to tell him that we are not a storage facility, and that he couldn’t just stash his belongings here (at this point I’m guessing the motel threw him out). I then showed him the door, and he spent some time sitting on the edge of the highway. The next time I checked around the area (to make sure he wasn’t sleeping in some corner of our property), his stuff was there, but he wasn’t. The next time I took a look around, his stuff was gone. The last time I had a character like this, the guy won a taxable jackpot but I could not pay him because he said he didn’t have any ID. I can’t process a taxable jackpot without verifying identification. Well, that guy ended up getting arrested for Arson after burning down a historical train depot.

I get the same vibe off this new guy.

I’m hospitable to him (to a point) because that’s my job. But it seems that after his first meeting with me, he’s decided that I’m his best friend in town, and is now looking to take advantage of our casino’s hospitality.

I do answer his questions honestly, though. If I don’t want to answer someone, I say so. And this wasn’t politics, it was a legal question (and I made it clear that I’m not a lawyer and to take my advice with a grain of salt). He asked about marijuana in Nevada and I told him it’s legal in a home, but not in public, but that a deputy also told me that it’s okay to smoke it in your car if the keys aren’t in the ignition and you aren’t operating it (he told me he smokes it all day every day and I fought the urge to say “I know, you smell like you do that”). But when he told be that he stepped outside the casino to smoke some on the sidewalk, I honestly told him that if a deputy would have noticed it, he would have been in trouble. Our deputies are even more “by the book” on law than I am on casino regulations.

(Don’t get me wrong -- while I haven’t smoked it in many years, I did used to, so I get it and I don’t judge him for it, but it’s just not my scene anymore; I just wanted to be honest to the guy who is new in town and hasn’t met our deputies yet, which I have -- on most occasions pleasant conversations but I did have that one thing some of you know about where my interaction didn’t end well for me because I was in the wrong).

I am probably going to have to “unfriend” this guy soon and 86 him if he keeps coming around. The only thing that worries me is the fact that he threatened violence against black people if they cross him (he mentioned taking them to an abandoned silver mine -- of which we have plenty in this part of Nevada -- and “either they jump voluntarily or I kick them in”) so I already know he has violent tendencies.

And I need to make sure our other guests (who he is trying to be too friendly with too soon (I had to turn him away from someone last night that I KNOW doesn’t liked to be talked to [any more than a “hello” the first time I see them that night] when they play, because I saw him approaching her). When he asked if he could talk to people, I told him to “read them” to see if they were open. He obviously isn’t reading the room well. So...it’s a choice of “do I 86 this new guy who seems to really like our casino, or do I let him be and make him a fan?” or “do I let this guy possibly alienate this guy to ensure the safety and comfort of our other guests?” I think I need to try to convince him to get a player’s card. That way I can watch his play levels. He bragged about winning $40 at our casino yesterday. Then, this morning, he bragged about winning more than he thought possible at another casino, but told me he was broke. If this is one of those guys who spends $1 and hopes it lasts him hours, I will have a MUCH shorter leash than if he gambles hundreds or thousands (a person can start with $20, never put any more money in, and we see that they’ve gambled “thousands” if they win enough to keep their initial stake going for a long time, because everything they win and put back in counts towards what they have wagered). And my bosses look at those numbers when we 86 someone. So I could 86 this guy and they have no record of him, and I’m in the clear...but if I get him to get a player’s card, and his play is low, it strengthens my case with the owner on getting this guy PERMANENTLY 86′d. Because as much as our owner loves every opportunity he can get to make money, even he has a point where he will approve a permanent trespass notice (I can only trespass someone for up to 72 hours).