#demonic shuangjie au

[gravitywonagain]

okay. so. @nyx4's amazing yunmeng siblings as demonic cultivators au kind of grabbed me today. (you might have noticed.) i asked if i could write something about it and ended up coming up with... idk the prequel? so here. have that. idk if i will write more, but i really really love this au, so i probably will. but first: some pain.

(this is a super fast first draft that is also a writing warmup, so don't judge me too hard, pls!)

[T?, 1.4k, 1/?, Yunmeng Siblings]

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The transfer fails. 

.

Wei Wuxian watches through a thick haze of pain and exhaustion as Wen Qing pulls the light from his body. Cold seeps in with a rush as the last connection is cut. And then, there, cupped between the palms of her hands, is a tiny sun. 

“Focus, Wei Wuxian,” she says, and he doesn’t understand. What is he supposed to focus on? But then he sees the light of that sun begin to waver, begin to fade. 

It’s harder now, without the familiar sensation of pulsing warmth, to hold his core together. He’s been doing it for hours -- maybe days. It’s why he couldn’t sleep. Why he couldn’t be numbed. He had to focus, to keep his core from spinning apart. He’s not entirely sure what he’s supposed to do, now that it’s outside of him, disconnected, removed. 

The light of it continues to dim. 

“Wei Wuxian!”

He can’t respond to her -- his jaw is still clenched around the roll of cotton she’d had Wen Ning shove in his mouth, his throat still ragged with the screams it absorbed. He can’t ask her, “What do you want me to do? What more can I possibly do?” 

On the table to his left, Jiang Cheng lies limp and pale. His body is cut open, too -- matching scars, they’ll have. Or maybe Jiang Cheng won't have a scar at all.

Wen Ning stands on the other side of that table, firelight flickering across his face, ready and waiting to help Wen Qing connect Wei Wuxian’s core to Jiang Cheng’s spiritual arteries. Three needles held between his gentle fingertips. His eyes follow the golden core as it nears. His brows furrow as he watches the light of it darken. 

“Wei-gongzi,” he says, without even the hint of a stutter, “you need to keep spinning it. Like it’s still inside you.”

Oh. 

Okay. 

Wei Wuxian can do that. Probably. 

His body feels like it’s on fire, but also like ice crystals must be forming along the empty, bloody parts of him. But he’s blocked out pain before. 

Yunmeng Jiang focuses on breathing exercises, possibly more than any other sect. They swim so deep and so far that they build their cultivation around their lungs. Holding breath can tax a core, or it can grow it; but breath is life. 

It’s easy to slip into those exercises now. To allow the memory of warm breeze and meandering rivers to coax his breath into meditation. Sitting in lotus pose with Jiang Cheng on the sun-drenched docks, wooden planks pressing the patterns of their heartwood against the soft silk of his first set of disciple robes. They closed their eyes together and allowed their breath to open the world to them in this other way. 

They’d built their cores together like this. 

Wei Wuxian doesn’t close his eyes this time -- he watches the light, now cradled in his brother’s body, with a desperation he cannot soothe. It flickers softly, like stars in the night sky do. 

“Good,” says Wen Ning. “Keep doing exactly that.” 

A kind of heat blooms in Wei Wuxian’s belly, melting the frostbite rime that must be crusting the whole of his torso, crawling up the open veins of his meridians. 

He ignores it all. 

He breathes. 

The tiny sun brightens, throwing horrible shadows against the walls, across the Wen siblings’ bloody hands. 

“You’re doing well, Wei-gongzi,” Wen Ning says, again. 

It’s difficult to say if the praise is helpful or not. If nothing else, at least it keeps him somewhat updated on whether or not what he’s doing is even working. 

He can’t feel it, is the thing. The purpose of this whole procedure is that Jiang Cheng will feel it. But Wei Wuxian won’t. So it’s not easy to know if his breathing is doing what he knows it should, or if he’s off in some unknowable way. 

Wen Ning’s hands are inside Jiang Cheng’s belly. His eyes shine with the light of Wei Wuxian’s core. 

Wei Wuxian can’t see Wen Qing, except the backlit silhouette of her back. He watches her arms move. Watches the way her hair has slowly come loose from its neat knot, flyaway strands diaphanous in the orange firelight to one side and brilliant gold to the other. 

“Good work, Wei--”

“Shit.”

Wen Qing’ voice is small -- so small, little more than a hissing exhale -- but it silences the room all the same. 

He tries to focus. Things go wrong all the time, it doesn’t mean they can’t figure it out. It doesn’t mean Wen Qing, of all people, will give up. 

And she doesn’t. 

Her voice is louder as she barks orders at Wen Ning that Wei Wuxian doesn’t understand. Not wanting to draw her focus in any way, Wei Wuxian keeps breathing, keeps spinning his core as best he can. 

The siblings work together, fast-moving but steady. Neither of them seem to fall into the frantic rush that Wei Wuxian’s heartbeat pounds out inside his chest. He tries to let that settle him just as much as he tries not to pay them any attention at all. He has only one job, now: keep his core spinning. 

It was helping, he realizes quickly, the near-constant reassurances from Wen Ning. Without them, he struggles to keep his breath, to keep the Yunmeng summer sun in his mind and lungs. 

Golden light still splashes against the Wens, the walls, and the ceiling. He turns his eyes up and doesn’t let himself think about the shadow-puppet shapes. He only cares about the light. About keeping that light from going out. 

Slowly, gradually, he lets the new tempo, the new tension in the room, resolve itself into something normal. A background. It seems to be working, whatever they’re doing -- the cursing has thinned, at least. The light has stayed strong, still outshining the lamps of flame. 

Wei Wuxian breathes and breathes and lets himself believe that this will work. He lets himself imagine meeting Jiang Cheng down in Yiling after. He never did figure out what he was going to say to his brother, how he might explain his own weakness. It doesn’t really matter in the end. Whether Jiang Cheng finds out and hates him for it, or whether Wei Wuxian can pull it off as simple exhaustion. He’ll figure it out as he goes. He always do--

“Fuck! A-Ning!”

Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.

“I don’t know, Jie.”

Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. 

“It’s not-- It’s not taking.” 

Exhale. Inhale. Exhale.

“It won’t merge. It won’t-- The core is being rejected by the host.” 

Wei Wuxian breathes. It’s all he can do. He doesn’t know what else to do. So he breathes. 

His eyes shut of their own accord. 

A tear slips from the corner, tracks its saltwater line across his temple, pools along with the sweat in his hair. 

The cotton in his mouth is eased free. 

He takes a stuttering breath in. Out. 

Wen Ning’s face is set with deep lines of guilt and grief, when Wei Wuxian opens his eyes again. 

Golden light still shines from somewhere on the table next to him. 

“It-t w-won’t take, W-Wei-gongzi.” 

The stutter in Wen Ning’s voice drags another tear from Wei Wuxian’s eye. Two. 

Wen Qing is much steadier than her brother. Her hands, held professionally in front of her chest, drip with red and gold, blood and liquid qi. 

“We can try to put it back inside you,” she says. But they’d discussed this before. They’d come up with contingencies. Or. A contingency. It was not to return the core to Wei Wuxian. 

“No,” he says, and his voice is barely more than a scratch of stones. 

He lets his eyes flick to the right. To the pouch he’d sewed while Wen Qing had studied. 

She follows his gaze, even though she doesn’t need to. Something sad and broken, like regret or defeat, flickers across her face. But she nods. 

“A-Ning, the pouch, please.”

Wen Ning hurries to grab it for her. 

“You will still need to focus on it,” she tells Wei Wuxian. “Your talismans will help, but they will need you to bolster them at least five times a day. I don’t know how long you can last like that.” 

He doesn’t know either. Only that it will be as long as he needs to find a new way. A new solution. 

He meets her eyes, doing his best to maintain his breathing even now, letting his own mettle shine out of him. 

He will do whatever it takes; she knows this. 

Her lips thin. But then she nods. “Fine.”

Wei Wuxian breathes. 

The golden light is swallowed by the modified Spirit Capture Pouch. 

Wen Qing places three quick needles and, finally, darkness consumes him.

[travalerray]

Yunmeng Shuangjie explore someplace creepy....what could go wrong

[truly-morgan]

[Cynophobia, overcoming fears]

Wei Wuxian | Mo Dao Zu Shi Modern AU 05-06-2021

[#shuangjie and dogs🐶]

wwx know jfm won't allow dog anymore because of his fear and he also know jc really wants one, he can see the longing in his eyes when he sees someone with theirs. Jc simply wants a furry (demon) companion by his side whenever wwx can, when he gives something to jc he tries to have it dog-themed. he keeps doing it in their teen years, even when jc complains that it looks childish (but he never misses those soft smile jc has anyway).

also, 95% of jc dog plushy collection comes from him. if jc cannot have a real one, wwx will find him cute plushies (even he can admit the plushies are cute) wwx also tries to look for a way to deal with this fear and quickly realise jfm won't be of any help ("Why do you need to overcome it? It's alright to have fears sometimes" yes, but not when it something as common as dog and your bro loves them).

it's yzy who approaches him with help after hearing her husband laugh at the idea. This is the first time in ever that they are able to have a somewhat pleasant conversation as she takes him to a therapist specialised in phobias (maybe it being for jc happiness helps a lot). The process is slow and he sometimes gets really frustrated with himself because he /knows/ his fear is irrational, but he can't help himself.

These are the time when yzy is actually very understanding and the rare time she encourages him so he doesn't give up ("it's normal to not be able to overcome fear in the bat of an eye")

I like to see it as the way they bond a tiny bit. sure, wwx is still an annoying kid and she hates how jfm keeps placing him higher than jc all the time, but her opinion of him softens a bit and it shows even at home (Everyone seems a bit puzzled as to where this comes from).

after all, it would be much easier to not try overcoming it than do so. She can see how much wwx cares about jc with how much he tries. wwx does tell jc after some time (He wanted to see a little bit of progress before giving him hope that he can overcome it) and he receives even more support in his mission. He's very thankful that jc doesn't seem to rush him when he stalls a bit.

but with months and months of hard work, he's getting somewhere. He knows he won't ever love a dog the same way jc does, but he's getting somewhere where he won't want to just bolt away the moment he sees a dog.

When he feels comfortable enough, he surprises jc near his brother's birthday by taking him to a dog cafe. Jc seems a bit unsure at first, but wwx assure him it was fine ("My therapist says I need more exposure to dogs" and he had also called the cafe to make sure the dog were small-sized. There only a handful who are medium-sized)

they have a good time and wwx enjoys watching jc having such a good time with all the dogs as he plays with them. wwx even get comfortable with the Teacup Shih Tzu that sits on his lap (It's small enough and calm enough for him to be perfectly comfortable). Jc also looks really happy that he can feel comfortable with that little dog.

after years of working on his fear, wwx is mostly fine with dogs. To be more comfortable around a dog he does need to know them more, but he doesn't freeze the same way he did before and doesn't feel like screaming for jc's help. He is still queasy with large dogs, but he feels like he got somewhere pretty good. He can even be a petsitter for jc when he needs it! (jc on the side always makes sure to adopt friendly dogs and breeds that are more commonly very friendly. all his dogs are big babies in his words).

Original

[the-forever-obsessed]

I could see Jiang Cheng taking in demonic cultivators and saving them, not out of the goodness of his heart, but out of spite.

Like every time he convinces someone to stop their demonic cultivation, he cackles, and says "Take that Wei Wuxian! Point 1 for me and point ???? for you. There's one less person being piece-of-shit demonic cultivator like you." with the added bonus of now having an additional cultivator in his ranks.

and then we get the angst of "if i can save these people, why couldn't i save you?"

[guqin-and-flute]

I feel like wwx would be a blood bender

Anonymous said: Waterbending prodigy wei wuxian inventing or learning blood bending the forbidden art when he's captured by fire prince wen chao 👀👀👀

Hell yeah, you guys are on the same wavelength and that definitely tracks. It makes it difficult to have a direct parallel between the core swapping WWX and JC does if he’s a firebender like anon earlier posited. Hmmm....

[ge]

just woke up... cant stop thinking about wn/wq kny au....

[korpikorppi]

FANFICS! Part Three

Here's part three of the list of links to the Untamed - Mo Dao Zu Shi fanfics I've read and enjoyed. As with the previous ones, I'll be adding to this post (and reblogging this) every once in a while, and as before, I will also move the previously posted content behind a cut at every update.

Part one - Part two (the links to these can also be found in my pinned post).

And as before, a couple of warnings: I tend to like stories that are long and plotty, and there will be no modern AUs here as those do not really interest me (ok, I may be persuaded to read some good reincarnation fics, perhaps). This list is also mostly Wangxian, but some other ships make appearences occasionally.

And further note for those who venture into the explicit territory: service top Lan Wangji my beloved, but in this house we also acknowledge Bottom Lan Wangji Rights.

So, without further ado!

*updated September 7th, 2023*

A Narrow Bridge by FrameofMind and Jo Lasalle

Wangxian, background Chengqing, explicit, words: 700 193, chapters: 58/58

time travel, fix-It, alternate universe - canon divergence, slow burn, getting together, first time, pining, pining while fucking, Burial Mounds settlement days, angst with a happy ending, CQL verse, almost everybody lives/almost nobody dies, epistolary-ish, canon-ish side pairings, radishes

Once, Lan Wangji made a choice to step aside. Ten years after Wei Ying’s death, he finds a way back to choose again.

We All Have A Hunger by through_shadows_falling

Yunmeng Shuangjie, Xicheng, teen and up, words: 56 668, chapters: 25/25

POV Jiang Cheng, curses, starvation, he's cursed to not be able to eat, it's bad for a while, angst and hurt/comfort, whump, post-canon, suicidal thoughts, suicide attempt, Jiang Cheng needs a hug, eventual Xicheng, Yunmeng shuangjie reconciliation, happy ending, no bashing - just characters with flaws, slow burn, demisexual Jiang Cheng, healing, therapy

Jiang Cheng was dying.

The healer was just one of many who’d arrived at the same conclusion—they had no idea how to break the starvation curse ravaging his system.

At first, Jiang Cheng had been furious, but as the weeks passed, profound relief washed over him. He'd never realized how tired he was. The thought of closing his eyes to rest and never having to wake up again seemed...peaceful. A quiet end to a life of anger and bitterness and guilt.

It was more than he deserved.

Menace by MnemonicMadness

Lan Qiren & Wei Wuxian, Wangxian, teen and up, words: 7 635, chapters: 1/1

hurt/comfort, hurt Wei Wuxian, BAMF Wei Wuxian, downplaying an Injury, character who is clearly not fine insists they are fine, self-sacrificing Wei Wuxian, awkward comforter LQR, reluctant matchmaker LQR, humor, pining Wei Wuxian, good uncle Lan Qiren, LQR just wants his nephew to be happy dammit, even if that means he needs to talk some sense into a demonic cultivator, POV Lan Qiren, LQR is stressed, and also secretly a softie, post-canon

Lan Qiren would like to not be in this situation. There are too many absurdities to contend with at the same time, and Lan Qiren is determined to blame every last one of them solely on Wei Wuxian. Among aforementioned absurdities, in no particular order, are:

A loudly braying donkey.

A surprisingly even louder Lan Jingyi, wrangling said donkey while making a valiant yet futile effort to avoid swearwords – both of which Lan Qiren intends to reprimand him for as soon as his life returns to some semblance of sanity.

The entire fact that said donkey requires wrangling in the first place due to the ill-advised end-goal being to transport the animal via sword.

The fact that this means that Lan Qiren is left to wrangle the demonic-cultivating, donkey-owning, exonerated menace of the entire cultivation world in general and Lan Qiren’s existence in particular, Wei Wuxian.

Yes, this is all Wei Wuxian’s fault.

Or: Wei Wuxian is injured on a night hunt, and Lan Qiren is stuck having to deal with it.

Some good mistakes by Lise

Jiang Cheng & Lan Wangji, Yunmeng Shuangjie, Wangxian, teen and up, words: 18 348, chapters: 1/1

road trips (terrible road trips), post-canon, POV Jiang Cheng, Lan Wangji and Jiang Cheng do not get along and they're not pretending they do, 'reluctant cooperation with person you don't like' is my favorite trope, rescue missions, hurt/comfort, awkward conversations, does a fic need to have a 'plot' can't it just be 'uncomfortable conversations', Yunmeng Shuangjie reconciliation, (ish they're working on it)

Wei Wuxian has been wandering alone for six months when he suddenly stops writing. This is deeply concerning to at least a few people. Jiang Cheng is not among them.

No, really, he's not.

(Or, the one where Wei Wuxian vanishes and Lan Wangji, reluctantly, asks for Jiang Cheng's help tracking him down.)

Cherry lingers on the stone by ThreePlums

Wangxian, mature, words: 26 857, chapters: 1/1

graphic depictions of violence, angst, hurt/comfort, curses, case fic, post-canon, established relationship, starvation, animal death, canon-typical violence, cannibalism, dom/sub undertones, PTSD, mild gore

Wei Wuxian plucks a steamed bun from the ceramic bowl at the center of the table. He raises an eyebrow at Lan Wangji as if to say see? I'm doing it which Lan Wangji meets with an unimpressed stare. He pouts, and finally brings the bun to his lips.

It vanishes.

***

Four cultivators enter a remote village to investigate four disappearances. A vanishing bun complicates things.

Hills and rivers are waiting by LtLj

Part 1 of Hills and rivers

Jin Ling & Wei Wuxian, Wangxian, general, words: 15 174, chapters: 2/2

CQL canon, post-canon, hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, fluff and angst, domestic fluff, domestic fluff and angst, family feels, canon-typical violence, the family that hunts demons together stays together, and doesn't murder each other, case fic, BAMF Wei Wuxian

As the two groups parted again and Jin Ling led his disciples back to pick up their packs, Jin Chan said, "So we're not going to murder him but did you consider that he might murder all of us?"

***

Word has it that the Yiling Patriarch is back up to his old tricks somewhere in the woods of Tingshan. But the truth is, it was Jin Ling's idea.

*posted July 28th, 2022*

Advisable Lan rules and other shenanigans by apathyinreverie

Wangxian, general, words: 4 253, chapters: 1/1

humor, alternate universe - canon divergence, fix-it, as in utterly unapologetic fix-it fluffiness, drunk Lan Wangji, exasperated Wei Wuxian, smitten Lan Wangji, soft Wei Wuxian, Gusu Lan Sect rules, possessive Lan Wangji, in vino veritas, drunk shenanigans, fluff

Maybe, Wei Ying thinks in exasperation, eyeing the utter chaos of the cheerfully chattering Lan contingent currently surrounding him. Maybe, that rule about no alcohol in the Cloud Recesses might just be a little more justified than I had admittedly assumed.

Or, someone spikes the Lans’ tea during that Nighthunt at Phoenix Mountain. Some truths come out.

Your Hand in Mine by cerbykerby

Wangxian, teen and up, words: 20 593, chapters: 1/1

humor, comedy, pining, cursed to hold hands, light angst, sharing a bed, first dates, embarrassment, fluff, bathing together, WWX is a menace to society, and LWJ suffers a lot, canon compliant

"Ooh, this is fascinating." Wei Wuxian lifts his hand and—Heavens help him—Lan Wangji's hand follows. Because they're stuck. They're stuck. Their fingers are interlaced, and they can't pull them apart. "You know, I wasn't expecting this, but isn't it odd? It's obviously a curse, but so far, it's not harmful."

Oh, it is harmful, Lan Wangji thinks through a spinning head as he feels Wei Wuxian twist their hands this way and that, testing the limits of the curse. It is most certainly harmful.

----------

A curse brings Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji together—literally.

(tl;dr a curse makes teen!wwx and teen!lwj hold hands. lwj, who is very much in denial about his feelings, tries his best not to panic and wwx decides that Operation: Make Lan Zhan My Best Friend is a GO. hilarity ensues)

Fanart that made me read the fic.

Out of the darkness, into the day by ilip13

Wangxian, explicit, words: 39 784, chapters: 4/4

post-canon, getting together, emotional hurt/comfort, slow burn, sharing a bed, kissing, intimacy, the slow loss of personal boundaries, bed-sharing as a form of trauma management, unreliable narrator (just a tiny bit, for flavor), healing, so much healing, all the healing, tenderness, no communication only cuddling, the cuddling IS the communication, first kiss, first time, hand jobs, anal sex

Wei Wuxian laughs again. "Lan Zhan. Lan Wangji. Hanguang-jun. What an honor it is, to be graced by your presence today. Have you come to take me back to the Cloud Recesses with you?"

He doesn’t say, please take me back. Doesn’t say, sometimes I wish you’d taken me back with you all those years ago.

But Lan Zhan shakes his head, small and deliberate, the tiniest, most devastating shift in the world. Wei Wuxian exhales audibly.

"Wei Ying. I have come to ask you to take me away with you."

*

Three years ago, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian saved the world. Now the world has moved on and they are left to pick themselves up and start anew. It takes them a while to figure it out. (A post-canon CQL getting together story.)

Sweet chaos by eachandeverydimension

Wangxian, Yunmeng siblings, general, words: 86 031, chapters: 17/17

alternate universe - arranged marriage, fluff, romance, light angst, canon-typical violence, falling in love, alternate universe - different first meeting, Qingheng-jun's A+ parenting, night hunts, Chinese language, good sibling Lan Huan, good sibling Jiang Yanli, POV Lan Wangji, getting together, love confessions, first kiss, Chinese culture, slow burn, alternate universe - no homophobia

Ever since you entered, my life, my dreams, my future, everything has changed.

Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian get betrothed at the age of fourteen, and it is decided that Lan Wangji will spend a year’s time in Yunmeng to get to know his fiancé. It is a difficult time for Lan Wangji, who is used to the regimented lifestyle of the Cloud Recesses. He meets Wei Wuxian, who grabs him by the wrist to drag him to fun places, or to row boats down the lazy summer river, or to shoot kites. He grows closer to Jiang Wanyin and Jiang Yanli, and learns of their charms.

Most of all, he learns about Wei Wuxian, who is thoughtful and bright and nothing like anyone else Lan Wangji has ever met before. He has a brilliant mind and a smile that rivals the sun, and Lan Wangji falls in love with him gradually, over bowls of too-spicy soup and lotus seeds.

Or, the one where Lan Wangji goes to Lotus Pier when he is fourteen in order to get to know his betrothed, Wei Wuxian.

The most dangerous thing is to love by KatAnni

Wangxian, Yunmeng siblings, mature (explicit), words: 113 269, chapters: 20/20

golden core reveal, fix-it, everybody lives, angst with a happy ending, hurt/comfort, alternate universe - canon divergence, Sunshot Campaign, let WWX be loved 2k21, Yunmeng siblings, hurt!Wei Wuxian, found family, implied/referenced torture, POV multiple, implied/referenced cannibalism, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder - PTSD, medical procedures, fainting, major character injury, blood and injury, graphic depictions of violence, asexual Jiang Cheng, homophobia doesn't exist here, marriage proposal, marriage, wedding night, anal sex, oral sex, only a little in the last chapter though, this is mainly plot driven, whump

After returning from the burial mounds and while being hugged by Jiang Cheng, Wei Wuxian suddenly collapses. Instead of having a tense confrontation with Lan Wangji, the direction of this meeting now goes down a very different route.

--

In which Wei Wuxian gets the love and care he deserves and the war goes differently because of it. Canon divergence after Wen Zhuliu's death. Canon-typical violence, implied severe bodily harm / torture. Found Family and Yunmeng Sibling shenanigans. Of course there's also Wangxian.

Teach Me The Ways by likeafox

Wangxian, explicit, words: 58 307, chapters: 4/4

alternate universe - canon divergence, the porn Is the plot, lots of banging in here folks [slaps side of fic], this baby can hold so much weird sex stuff in it, but also many many feelings

"I do not wish to leave my future spouse… dissatisfied with my intimate knowledge,” Lan Zhan says, very seriously. “I am hoping to find an instructor, to better prepare myself for such matters."

Wei Ying feels his mouth drop open. He's pretty sure the Second Jade of Lan just told him he's a virgin who wants to learn how to do sex good.

Rogue Cultivator Wei Wuxian is the stuff of local legends. Some of those legends are even true! The ones about his tremendous experience in bed, on the other hand, are not so true. Which becomes a problem when Lan Wangji, on the verge of an arranged marriage and worried he won’t know how to please his future spouse, enlists Wei Ying's help to teach him the art of love-making. Wei Ying's great at improvisation, though, and is pretty sure he's got this sex mentor thing under control. What could possibly go wrong?

The One-Body Problem by metisket

Wangxian, Lan Jingyi, teen and up, words: 28 689, chapters: 2/2

fun times with possession, wei wuxian has done a lot of terrible things but surely he doesn't deserve this, Lan Xichen is just a ball of stress wrapped in attractive robes, is it more possession or - freeform cohabitation, jury's still out, in the sense that Sizhui is the jury, and he's laughing too hard to decide, warnings for Wei Wuxian's mental state in general (he thinks he's fine obviously)

The good news is that Lan Jingyi has found a mentor, friend, and constant companion through the difficulties in life.

The bad news is that that’s because he’s been accidentally possessed by the Yiling Patriarch.

Obedient and Bellicose by thunderwear

Wangxian, teen and up, words: 19 953, chapters: 1/1

alternate universe - canon divergence, fix-it, cursed!LWJ, angst with a happy ending, emotional hurt/comfort, good brother Lan Xichen, Lan Qiren loves his nephews you cant change my mind, Lan Wangji crying, protective Lan Xichen, pining, first kiss, love confessions, brief depictions of violence, meaning at least one of the people you really want to get stabbed does in fact get stabbed

It took Lan Wangji a long time to realize he was cursed. Too long, really. Anyone else would have noticed so much sooner. The problem was, he liked following the rules.

Important distinctions by nagi_blue

The Juniors, background relationships, general, words: 5 395, chapters: 1/1

fluff and crack

Father arched an eyebrow and lifted his chin.

Jingyi said, “Hanguang-jun would like to respectfully state that he thinks you are a punk-ass bitch.”

“Lan Jingyi!” another Lan disciple hissed, horrified.

“He said it with his eyes,” Jingyi protested. “It’s Expression 321.”

Sizhui fished the book out of his qiankun pouch and flipped through it.

One of the Ouyang junior disciples sidled over to him and peered over his shoulder. “There really is a book.”

[wei-meddling-wuxian]

JC Centric Twitter threads

using twitter is a recent development so I’m leaving threads I like here so I don’t have to search through my likes or bookmarks everytime. btw this is gonna keep updating as I fall down the twitter rabbit hole

XICHENG

https://twitter.com/catharinathecat/status/1478883618202210305 secretary JC, ceo LXC, misunderstandings, mpreg, dark lxc

https://twitter.com/darkbluemint/status/1554922992517398528 drunk jc, ymj and jc, drunk proposals

https://twitter.com/Moon_bunsie/status/1553585715404873733 wwx tries the shovel talk, gets a jfm revelation instead

https://twitter.com/herapersona/status/1553623853678886913 jin ling askes about a college story where jc got someone fired - academia injustices

https://twitter.com/asagi_bluewrite/status/1553170228372471808 jc going to collect overdue taxes from immortal mountain dragon lxc

https://twitter.com/herapersona/status/1547185474481291265 drunk lxc simps over jc, established xicheng

SELF-INDULGENT

https://twitter.com/just_____jade/status/1554773130329337856 ymj teach jc to smile pretty - pretty jc

https://twitter.com/catharinathecat/status/1553833196889989120 jc is pei ming and yzy’s kid - latent abilities

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/JCxHappiness happiness for jc agenda

https://twitter.com/valkepm/status/1549844941496586242 jc and yzy, spirit summoning

https://twitter.com/catharinathecat/status/1549898905122471937 jc stops looking for jfm’s approval

CHENGXIAN/YMJ SHUANGJIE

https://twitter.com/Cedric_B7/status/1584533602301538306 ambiguous chengxian - wwx protective of his relationship with jc and disagrees with l/wj interfering 

https://twitter.com/abira_og/status/1554624475928449025 acts of service love language, post canon wwx eases himself back into ymj, [physical] hurt/comfort

https://twitter.com/_jiangwanyin/status/1553602813220900864 de-aged jc, smitten wwx, cuddles, fluff

https://twitter.com/_jiangwanyin/status/1553035790493446144 fluff, established and married chengxian with jiang furen wwx, worried jc, romantic wwx

https://twitter.com/jcmochiheart/status/1550776368165945345 modern au chengxian, jc goes abroad to study, reunion scene, cuckji (sorry l/wj)

https://twitter.com/nottheimp/status/1549305845934080001 soft, reconciliation, development

https://twitter.com/rikkainhaz/status/1519518445280260096 yunmeng shuangjie angst

https://twitter.com/rikkainhaz/status/1547162676090249216 pre-relationship, wwx talks about jc a lot

https://twitter.com/bananasonrye/status/1546373309675315200 modern au, gamer wwx

https://twitter.com/_jiangwanyin/status/1528841462091501568 unhinged wwx, pre-death

https://twitter.com/suddenlyapples/status/1409505884263260160 post-canon, feral yllz protective over injured jc

https://twitter.com/zyprexd/status/1530766667986378752 post-canon, jc assassination attempt, protective yllz, cuck lw/j (sorry 2x)

YMJ AND SECT LEADER JC

https://twitter.com/Moon_bunsie/status/1554395026305974272 ymj defenses, home alone edition

https://twitter.com/bananasonrye/status/1550741246464901120 ymj knows how to deal with bugs

https://twitter.com/dodoscreamb/status/1549356833747648512 ymj and the nine petals - ymj reputation

https://twitter.com/JadeLotus18/status/1549022328780009472 jc can go apeshit post canon bc he’s politically fine now vs the vt situation

META AND HEADCANON

https://twitter.com/JadeLotus18/status/1553754995995992065 on fierce corpses

https://twitter.com/jcmochiheart/status/1538515325050064898 jc sees himself as an heir and doesn’t have an identify outside of that

https://twitter.com/millialani/status/1535174947399553024 on hunting demonic cultivators

MINGCHENG

https://twitter.com/felidae_somni/status/1552879757271998464 not jiang fam friendly, loyal jc, supportive nie brothers, businessmen, 

SHORTPOSTS

https://twitter.com/cinnamoningroll/status/1552716072662736897 xicheng, crying during sex

https://twitter.com/bananasonrye/status/1547663174853226497 zhanchengxian - de aged jc being cute

JIN LING AND HIS JIUJIU

https://twitter.com/ThatClumsyB_Li/status/1551931311866413056 post jc-death, jl goes through his things and finds letters

THREADS ON THREADS

https://twitter.com/millialani/status/1550212381506019328 JC qi deviations and losing his mind

https://twitter.com/abira_og/status/1548715832800313345 au where jc doesn’t stay in the temple but just comes in to take jin ling out

https://twitter.com/dodoscreamb/status/1350032270166433799 JC teaches JL about being a sect leader

FANART

https://twitter.com/zeldacw/status/1549087818391072770 Sandu as a person, Shuoyue and Liebing

https://twitter.com/just_____jade/status/1545972144462774272 jc, wwx, jl on one sword

OTHER

https://twitter.com/suddenlygrapes/status/1549145206016000005 jc pretends to be yzy for a conference, shenanigans ensue 

https://twitter.com/BlaBlaBla__Me/status/1546055615273140225 jc death, the concept of soul residue and memories, soft

https://twitter.com/swampw1tch_/status/1516588434705596420 transmigration jc, who is too tired and jaded, so everyone’s concerned

ZHANCHENG

https://twitter.com/spearcolor/status/1547421731312537601 established zhancheng - jc gets so drunk he doesn’t recognize lwj and brags about his boyfriend lwj to lwj himself

[changyang-cloud]

Cloud’s Fics Masterpost

View all my works on ao3 !

Couple of Mirrors/Shuangjing

脸慢笑盈盈 相看无限情 - Ongoing, 2+ chapters - yiwei - 2155

fix-it, yiwei married with two kids endgame, li hongmei lives

MDZS/CQL

keep me in your clouded mind (set the fire and let it burn) - Completed, 1/1 Chapters - xueningyu - 4122

valentines day, gift-giving, extra for the skin im living in, mxy pov

a song that must be meaningful (Like Mother, Like Daughter) - Completed, 1/1 Chapters - xuanxian - 18442

arranged marriage, cisswap (jc, wwx, jl), body-sacrifice ritual x2, wwx pov

To Bear Responsibility (Like Mother, Like Daughter) - Completed, 9/9 Chapters - JC harem - 31115 words

fix-it, cisswap (jc), jc deserves a harem, jc pov

are we friends? - Completed, 1/1 Chapters - Wen and Jiang sibs - 12946 words

canon-divergence, age swap, fluff, sibling bonding, minor relationships

i’m sorry, i love you - Completed, Oneshot - qpr xianqing - 3167 words

canon-compliant, bad ending, wq pov, burial mounds era

to have and to hold - Completed, Oneshot - juniors ot5 - 1666 words

modern setting, trans jin ling & lan sizhui, nonbinary ouyang zizhen & lan jingyi, gnc a-qing, living together, cuddling, polyamory, lan sizhui pov

the skin i’m living in - Completed, Oneshot - Xueyu, Ningyu, Xueningyu - 6691 words

canon-divergence, fix-it, domestic fluff, cuddling, mostly mxy pov

can this be forever? (Like Mother, Like Daughter) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Yunmeng Shuangjie, Chengxian - 22462 words

canon-divergence, arranged marriage, cisswap (jc), mostly jc pov

fall in love with me again (MXTX Storm) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Ningyu - 646 words

canon-divergence, mxy pov

whistle through the trees to remember my old friend - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Sangyu, One-Sided Sangxian (past), Nie bros - 27699 words

canon-divergence, demonic cultivator nie huaisang, temporary character death, mostly nhs pov

when all is shaken - Completed, Oneshot - Chengsu - 7791 words

canon-divergence, jin rusong lives, marriage of convenience, qin su pov

falling to our demise - Completed, 3/3 Chapters - Sangyu - 7371 words

royalty au, time travel, tragic ending, somewhat unreliable narration, switching pov

living is enough (Like Mother, Like Daughter) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Zhancheng, Wangxian, Yunmeng Shuangjie - 23304 words

canon-divergence, marriage of convenience, queerplatonic relationships, jc-standard inferiority complex, cisswap (jc and wwx), varied pov

the corpse and his ghost - Completed, Oneshot - Ningyu - 4853 words

post-canon, soulmates, mxy pov

white is the colour of mourning - Completed, Oneshot - Wangxian - 5732 words

canon-compliant, mourning, colour theory, lwj pov

red silk and white jade for you (MXTX Storm) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Ningyu - 4471 words

canon-divergence, happy ending, switching pov

Cloud’s Asexual Awareness Week 2021 - QPRs

featuring wwx/wq, jc/qs, nhs/mxy, wn/jyl, lwj/lqy, ljy/lsz, wwx/lwj

obscured in the shade of the willow, bathed in the light of the moon (Write Our Names Verse) - Ongoing,  17+ chapters - Wangxian, Sangcheng - 43310 words

fix-it, yiling sect au, lots of baby acquisition, varied pov

Building A Family, Rebuilding A Home (Write Our Names Verse) - Ongoing, 3/4 chapters - Sangcheng - 8916 words

fix-it, mostly just fluff, accidental baby acquisition, nhs pov

sing me to sleep and hold me in your arms (MXTX Storm) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Ningyu - 1855 words

canon-divergence, mxy pov

lantern light at midnight (MXTX Storm) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Ningyu - 1863 words

canon-divergence, switching pov

more than one way to love a cat (MXTX Storm) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Ningyu - 2036 words

canon-divergence, switching pov

painting a rainbow to remind you of home (MXTX Storm) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Ningyu - 627 words

canon-divergence, jinlintai era ningyu, wn pov

if you love him, never let go - Completed, Oneshot - Wangxian - 2207 words

canon-compliant, 3-1 format, lwj-pov

[travalerray]

The tenth chapter of The Grandmaster of Accidental Time Travel is up!

[gravitywonagain]

WIP Game

(take 2!)

Thank you @loosingmoreletters for tagging me with this!! i love these games!!

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

since i already did this in full at the beginning of the year, i'll just link to that post, and on this one i'll put the ones i've been actively working on since then and all the new additions? i'll take questions on anything tho!!

Alone at Spring Festival? Mad at your dad?

Beating Like a Hammer

Boy Meets Sword

Fire in the Back of My Throat (Sunshot Band AU)

Hand in Hand with a Brother (Demonic Shuangjie AU)

High Fidelity

Inquiring Minds

Let Your Brain Run Wild (Everybody’s Nephew Band AU)

Let Yourself be Loved (Definitely Not a Queer Eye fic)

Under Streetlights

What Does the Huli Jing Say?

Words are Gonna Bleed from Me

plus a surprising amount of work on some original things? but not really any prose on those. just worldbuilding and character stuff.

Tagging: i'm not tagging *checks other post* fifty-seven people, except that whoever else wants to play, go for it! but for the standard 5: @dovebeast @amethyst-noir @intoxicatingimmediacy @odderancy @saiaisaiko if you feel like it <3

[gravitywonagain]

My Writing Masterpost

Here's a working list of all of the MDZS (mostly WangXian) fics I'm writing and am currently posting and have completed. Anything that makes it to this list has actual words in a google doc somewhere, I promise. (But there are also many google docs that haven't yet made it to this list. See here for all of that.)

~Series~

Starts with a Spark, Then it's a Wildfire (Modern Triad AU Series)

Words are Gonna Bleed from Me: [ao3] [excerpts]

My Friends are Degenerates (The Juniors): [ao3]

The Devil's Worst Nightmare (QingMian): [ao3] [excerpts]

The Killing Kind (A Prequel): [ao3] [excerpts]

[Spotify Playlist]

[Series ao3]

Sign Your Name Across My Body (Unrelated Porn Snapshots)

[Series ao3]

Hands: [ao3]

A Mess: [ao3]

Hit Me: [ao3]

*

~Chapter Fics~

Blackouts (Modern AU + Roofies): [ao3]

Breathing You In (I Don't Wanna Stop) (Cultivation Gym AU): [ao3] [1][2][3] [excerpts] [inspiration]

Can't Cheat Death While You're Digging Your Own Grave (NHS comes to the Burial Mounds prompt): [ao3] [1][2][3]

The Water's Right, It's Sinking In (Summer in Yunmeng AU): [ao3] [1][2][3][4][5][6]

Beating Like a Hammer (WLW Enemies to Lovers AU): [ao3] [1][2][3]

I Am Not a Vessel for Your Good Intent (Immortal WWX AU): [ao3] [1]

Fresh Powder in the Pine Trees (Ski Resort AU): [ao3] [masterlist] [excerpts]

Sympathy for the Devil (The Blacklist AU): [ao3] [1][2] [excerpts]

Hand in Hand with a Brother (Demonic Shuangjie AU): [ao3] [1] [inspiration]

Boy Meets Sword (MXY does Empathy on Suibian): [ao3] [1][ask]

*

~One Shots~

Hold You Like a Hand Grenade (a canon-divergent pain-relief fantasy): [ao3]

Power Over Me | 欢迎 (the repository for the purplest of my prose, also vampire/faerie au): [ao3] [excerpts]

Your Shadows in My Room (a qingxian moment in the burial mounds; aka Tombmates): [ao3]

Echoes, Feelings, Yet to Disappear (an exploration of wwx's thoughts about lwj's discipline whip scars): [ao3]

Thick Blood Warms Cold Strings (the first time lwj plays inquiry while still healing from his punishment): [ao3]

What You Hear is not Silence (there is a ghost in the burial mounds who hears music: [ao3]

Younger than the Sun (immortal lwj and undead wn sharing a moment centuries after their loved ones are dead): [ao3]

Inquiring Minds (core reveal because wwx gets compelled by inquiry during sunshot): [ao3]

Dreams Unwind (wei changze/cangse sanren meet cute ugly): [ao3]

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~Shorts and Drabbles and Other Stuff~

Gui Daifu | 鬼大夫

A Necessary Evil, WWX's POV, LWJ's POV | [ao3]

Frog!xian (double drabble) .🐸. [ao3]

Lan Yuan curses in front of his dad (4x drabble) .🤬. [ao3]

NHS and LWJ walk in on their brothers (4x drabble) .👀. [ao3]

[gilmore girls au nonsense]

[various musical inspiration]

#my-writing | #my-nonsense

[gravitywonagain]

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it.

hehehe... hahahahaha... oh this is gonna be... embarrassing, mostly, but also very fun!! thank you for tagging me @amethyst-noir <3<3<3

A Necessary Evil [wangxian]

All the Monsters Come Out at Night [wlw wangxian]

Alone on Lunar New Year? Mad at your dad? [wangxian fam]

Assassin's Creed AU [wangxian]

Beating Like a Hammer [wlw wangxian]

Boy Meets Sword [mxy&suibian]

Breathing You In (I Don't Wanna Stop) [wangxian]

Bury the Sunlight [burial mounds fam]

Caiyi Town (Gilmore Girls AU) [wangxian fam]

Can't Cheat Death While You're Digging Your Own Grave [nhs&wwx]

Control [beefleaf]

Do you like apples? [wangxian]

Dreaming in Red [wangxian]

Dresden AU [wangxian fam]

Edges that Scratch (and notes on the Expanded Monterey Genderverse) [wlw wangxian]

Fierce Corpse JYL [yunmeng siblings]

Fire in the Back of My Throat (Sunshot Band AU) [wangningxian]

Fresh Powder in the Pine Trees [wangxian]

Gui Daifu | 鬼大夫 [burial mounds siblings]

Gun Oil [sunny bees]

Hand in Hand with a Brother (Demonic Shuangjie AU) [yunmeng sibs]

High Fidelity [wangningxian]

Homeless AU (and a treatise on the US treatment of felons by librarian LWJ) [wangxian fam]

Hot for Teacher [wangxian]

I am Not a Vessel for Your Good Intent [wangxian]

I Got Dumped in Tokyo [wlw wangxian]

Immortals [lan wangji/&wen ning]

In the Parking Lot Between a Dairy Queen and a PL$ Check Cashers [junior quartet, zhuiyi]

Inquiring Minds [wangxian, wwx&jc]

Let Your Brain Run Wild (Everybody's Nephew Band AU) [junior quartet, zhuiyi]

Let Yourself be Loved (Definitely Not a Queer Eye fic) [wwx&fab5]

My Heart's Like Yours [wangxian fam]

Paint My Body Gold [wangxian]

Parker [leverage ot3]

Ramen House [wangxian]

Rope Burns [clexa]

Roses Don't Know When They're Dead [xuanli]

Sign Your Name Across My Body [wangxian]

Teal Eyes [fair game]

The Bar [thunderblink]

The Korrasami Sexcapades Playlist [korrasami]

The Too Personal AU [wangxian]

The Trashbag AU [korrasami]

The Water's Right, It's Sinking In [wangxian]

Turnt Up at the Club [sunny bees]

Under Streetlights [wangxian]

Undergrad Groupchat [wangxian]

Urban Fantasy AU (What Does the Huli Jing Say?) [wlw foxxian/dragonji]

WAGBFM: Can You Hear That (Whistle) -- A Nighthunt [junior quartet]

WAGBFM: Devil's Worst Nightmare -- A Rendezvous [mianqing]

WAGBFM: Nails in My Coffin -- A Marriage [songxiao]

WAGBFM: The Killing Kind -- A Prequel [wangxian]

Weird West AU [wangxian]

Words are Gonna Bleed from Me [wangxian]

WQ Soul Sacrifice Ritual AU [burial mounds siblings]

You Got Me Bloodshot [wangxian]

水 | Paradoxes [xue yang, yiling wei sect]

wow. okay. sure. at least 50 is a nice round number?

(i put the main focus in brackets when i start writing a thing, but sometimes that changes and i forget to update so... idk if all of those are super accurate or not? i guess we'll find out!)

Tagging: anyone who wants to do this! it's very fun! and also painful. but mostly fun! and i'm super excited for questions!

ask away! i'll answer whatever, whenever :)

ETA: still open. open forever. maybe i'll even try to keep it updated if people want that?