#hua cheng is trans in this one he told me himself

[illuminatedferret]

One-Word Ficlet Prompt: Binoculars

for @beekindish

Fun fact! Writing first on paper means I have no real way of tracking how long these ficlets get. I suppose there are some benefits to writing while test proctoring...

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Xie Lian had an eye for beautiful things. He couldn’t do much more than eye them, but he still appreciated the beauty of the world. And this... this may have been the most beautiful of all.

“-you see, gege?”

Hua Cheng’s vibrant voice roused Xie Lian from his daze. Blinking, he refocused on that breathtakingly handsome, grinning face, and realized that the man had raised a hand between them, holding a freshly-emerged butterfly up for Xie Lian to see.

“Ah!” Xie Lian said, examining the fascinating meld of beauty and fragility, the shriveled yet eye-catching wings of a being still reintroducing itself to the world. “It’s beautiful, San Lang.”

He was being genuine, but Hua Cheng had clearly noticed his distraction, for with a soft smile, he said, “it’s alright if gege is bored. I told you this wasn’t so exciting.”

‘This’ being a special visit to the butterfly house that Hua Cheng sponsored- a philanthropic investment from younger days, when Hua Cheng sought the good PR that came with ‘solidarity amongst beings who cast off old bodies in anticipation of new ones.’ A full-day excursion to a massive network of rooms, equipped with anything a butterfly-watcher might need: water, sturdy boots, fruit slices, binoculars, you name it. Hua Cheng had restored endangered species with his resources, and now he was watching Xie Lian with understanding that hurt his heart to see. He’d been thrilled Hua Cheng wanted to share this experience with him- he couldn’t bear the thought of him thinking anything else.

“No!” Xie Lian hurriedly said. “No, no, San Lang, it’s interesting, I promise! It’s fascinating! I just...” He bit his lip for a moment. “...I’ve never seen you so excited before,” he admitted, a little shyly. “I’m really happy you’re sharing this with me.”

He was. There were many beautiful things in this world. But the smile on Hua Cheng’s face as he shared one of his passions with him was Xie Lian’s favorite.

Hua Cheng, unprepared for such sentiment, blinked. Then, he coughed.

“Well, of course I’m happy,” he said, turning to gently prompt the butterfly on his hand to crawl onto a nearby leaf. “I’m with gege, after all. Shall we keep going?”

Xie Lian smiled and nodded. But when Hua Cheng stood to direct them further in, his eyes dropped to the large, strong hand that had just held a nascent butterfly so carefully.

Despite himself, Xie Lian’s fingers twitched. But by the time Hua Cheng had turned to look back at him, he’d already clasped his hands together, a cheap substitute of what he really wanted.

[theircrazyfandoms]

Well, here’s another late post because finals were keeping me too busy.

Starting Monday (4th) I have finals so this week I haven’t been reading as much because of the amount of homework and studying I have to do. Luckily, I’m going to have a couple weeks free before I start my summer classes.

BBC’s SHERLOCK

🔹️ 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙃𝙀𝘼𝙍𝙏 𝙊𝙉 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙎𝙇𝙀𝙀𝙑𝙀 [AO3] by 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙬𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙢𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙩 [AO3]

𝘗𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎: Sherlock Holmes x John Watson 𝘛𝘈𝘎𝘚: Complete | Teen | 1 Chapter | 5.4K Words

𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘠: Sherlock stared at the imperfect circle on his left wrist in horror, then sat down on his bed with a bit of a thump. After over thirty years, his heartmark was finally showing activity. This was not good.

𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘚: I’ve really found myself falling for fics where Sherlock falls for John first and thinks its unrequited but it’s actually not. It’s oddly specific but one of my favorite types of fics.

🔹️ 𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉 𝙏𝙊𝙉𝙂𝙐𝙀𝙎: 𝙐𝙉𝘼𝙎𝙎𝙐𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝘽𝙍𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙄𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙀 [AO3] by 𝙟𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙡 [AO3]

𝘗𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎: Sherlock Holmes x John Watson 𝘛𝘈𝘎𝘚: Complete | Explicit | 11 Chapters | 41.2K Words

𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘠: John may be predictably average in most things, but there are a handful of areas in which he knows he is uncommonly skilled. He can make a great cup of tea, for one. He’s also good at patching folks up, putting bullets precisely where he wants them, and listening.

The one skill that John is perhaps most exceptonal in, though, is language. John is a polyglot.

𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘚: I LOVED this! Especially because John assumes he is average but *suprise* he knows way too many languages. 

🔹️ 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘿𝙀𝙏𝙀𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙋𝙄𝙉-𝙐𝙋 [AO3] by 𝙓𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡𝘼𝙣𝙜𝙨𝙩 [Tumblr] [AO3]

𝘗𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎: Sherlock Holmes x John Watson 𝘛𝘈𝘎𝘚: Complete | Teen | 10 Chapters | 15.7K Words

𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘠: Sally Donovan discovers an old secret John Watson considered long buried - a ten-year old “Men of the Armed Forces” calendar, which has John as a very enticing pin-up for August. The image of John might just change the way everyone sees the unassuming sidekick, even Sherlock Holmes. 

𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘚: A hilarious fic that had me laughing the entire time. John was in a pin-up calendar several years ago and it now comes back to haunt him.

🔹️ 𝙋𝘼𝘾𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙃𝙀𝘼𝙏 [AO3] by 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙞𝙣 [Tumblr] [AO3] 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙞𝙣221 [Twitter]

𝘗𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎: Sherlock Holmes x John Watson  𝘛𝘈𝘎𝘚: Complete | Explicit | 1 Chapter | 4.3K Words | Trans!John

𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘠: John braced for the cutting deduction the day they met at Bart’s and Sherlock said “Afghanistan or Iraq?” Six months on, it still hasn't come.

𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘚: I didn’t know a trans!John was what I needed until reading this fic but now I wish there were more!

🔹️ 𝘼 𝙂𝙄𝙍𝙇'𝙎 𝙉𝘼𝙈𝙀 [AO3] by 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙮-𝘾𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙮 [Tumblr] 𝘾𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙮𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 [AO3]

𝘗𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎: Sherlock Holmes x John Watson 𝘛𝘈𝘎𝘚: Complete | Teen | 1 Chapter | 3.5K Words | Trans!Sherlock 

𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘠: He could leave John with a piece of himself. He could give John a secret. He could come clean about the one other thing he hadn’t told his best friend, the thing that didn’t matter to anyone but Sherlock now.

“Sherlock is actually a girl’s name.”

𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘚: After reading the fic above about trans!John I searched for more trans fics in this fandom and stumbled upon this one. A beautiful read!

TEEN WOLF

🔹️ 𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙎𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙎 𝙊𝙑𝙀𝙍 𝘾𝙄𝙂𝘼𝙍𝙀𝙏𝙏𝙀𝙎 [AO3] by 𝙍𝙚𝙙𝙍𝙞𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙎𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙨 [AO3]

𝘗𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎: Derek Hale x Stiles Stilinski 𝘛𝘈𝘎𝘚: Complete | Mature | 1 Chapter | 10.6K Words

𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘠: “You guys are really cute together, how long have you been married?” Ryan questions, Derek frowns at the question, why would he think Stiles and him were married? 

“What?” Derek asks, his brow turned down in confusion.

“Oh have you guys tied the knot yet? I just assumed since the page you showed us of your work earlier said Hale.” Rya replies with a shrug.

“We’re not...together. I’m adopted, the Hales took me in which I was like five. Derek’s my best friend.” Stiles explains with a frown.

“Really? But the way you two talk and touch each other...and you live together. You smell exactly the same too, like you’ve rolled around in each others scent. You’ve been inseparable since you got here even. I just thought...” Ryan trails off with a look of disbelief, his cigarette forgotten in his hand.

𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘚: First off, we basically got a punk!Stiles especially with a bunch of tattoos! Second, who doesn’t love fics where the main pairing is thought to be in a relationship when they aren’t? 

MARVEL

🔹️ (𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘾𝘼𝙉’𝙏 𝘾𝙃𝙊𝙊𝙎𝙀) 𝙒𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙔𝙎 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙒𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙁𝘼𝘿𝙀𝙎 𝘼𝙒𝘼𝙔 [AO3] by 𝙏𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚_𝙞𝙨_𝙎��𝙚𝙚𝙩 [AO3]

𝘗𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎: James 'Bucky' Barnes/Winter Soldier x Steven 'Steve' Rogers/Captain America 𝘛𝘈𝘎𝘚: Complete | General | 1 Chapter | 3.3K Words | Soulmate AU

𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘠: At some point in everyone’s life, the first words their soulmate will ever say to them will appear in deep black writing on their skin.

The words fade to light grey when a soulmate dies.

Sometimes new words replace them, whether they’re wanted or not.

(These were the words Steve was was born with, running in a messy, uneven line across his skinny little chest, beneath both his collar bones: You okay pal? Those jerks didn’t hurt ya too bad, did they?

Steve woke up from the ice in 2011 with the words, Who the hell is Bucky? circling his heart, in printing so precise it barely looked human.

Steve hated them.)

𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘚: I loved this fic (as I am clearly a sucker for soulmate aus)! What as really interesting to me was how the author portrayed soulmarks and what happens to them during Steve and Bucky’s lives.

Heaven Official’s Blessing (Tian Guan Ci Fu)

🔹️ 𝙄 𝙒𝙍𝙊𝙏𝙀 𝘼𝙉𝙊𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 𝙃𝙐𝘼𝙇𝙄𝘼𝙉 𝙁𝙄𝘾 [AO3] by 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙩𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩 [AO3]

𝘗𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎: Hua Cheng/San Lang x Xie Lian 𝘛𝘈𝘎𝘚: Complete | Teen | 1 Chapter | 7.5K Words

𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘠: Xie Lian’s soulmate died a long time ago, he grieved and mourned, cried and screamed. Its really too unfortunate how he falls in love with someone still waiting for their soulmate to come back.

Or. Soulmate AU where you feel your soulmates pain and hualian have a bit of a miscommunication going on.

𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘚: I don’t know why I love miscommunication fics so much. The angst kills me but the reunions are always so beautiful!