#mdzs rbb 2023

[raine-hearts-art]

Reverse Big Bang posting time is here! I’m super excited to share my piece for the @mdzsrbb featuring Lan Wangji as Mew Sandalwood and Wei Wuxian as the mysterious Red Knight. Many thanks to @schwamb for writing this incredibly niche, insanely delightful Tokyo Mew Mew fusion featuring teenaged Wangxian, aliens, and frilly costumes!

Mew Dao Zu Shi can be found on ao3.

Our heroes include:

Lan Wangji as Mew Sandalwood 🐆

Wen Ning as Mew Fir 🐾

Meng Yao as Mew Osmanthus 🐍

Nie Huaisang as Mew Mulberry 🪶

Jin Zixuan as Mew Peony 🦚

Also featuring Wen Qing and Jiang Yanli as ethically dubious scientists/ cafe owners.

[aoxue]

Some 3chen 🤍🖤💙 for this year's @mdzsrbb! Which @mdzs-rabbithole brought to life beautifully.

Song Zichen stands on a small, residential path in Cloud Recesses. The sunlight glints off of the crossed swords he wears, and Lan Xichen’s heart pangs with sympathetic grief. When their eyes meet across the bursting pink garden, the man’s expressionless face still somehow conveys concern. --- Lan Xichen is still in seclusion when he begins an unlikely friendship with Song Lan and the teenaged ghost who walks beside him.

Piece By Agonizing Piece on AO3

[buriedbybooks]

I’m thoroughly excited to be able to share what I’ve been working on for the last few months!

I had a phenomenal time collaborating with the magnificent Magpie during the @mdzsrbb for 2023! We have an illustrated fic to share with you all, featuring two lonely and hurting cultivators taking care of a couple of orphaned children. There's angst, and feelings, and found family. We hope you enjoy!!

Just so there are no spoilers; here's the inspiration piece of Jiang Cheng with A Yuan and Jin Ling done in papercraft and watercolor:

And the rest of the illustrations are below the cut :)

You all know what to do! Show Magpie and her fic some love <3

Chapter 1: A worn down Lan Wangji carrying a bundle (baby A Yuan) and holding his sword up defensively

Chapter 2: Jiang Cheng carrying an unconscious Lan Wangji on his back while he holds a feverish A Yuan close.

Chapter 3: A Yuan gets a baozi in Lotus Pier.

Chapter 4: A Yuan learning to help Lan Wangji with his ribbon.

Chapter 5: Two Jiang juniors carrying a heavy chest.

Chapter 6: A serious discussion between Lan Wangji and Lan Xichen

Chapter 7: Jin Ling being angry and fighting with his safety rope.

Chapter 8: Jiang Cheng talking with Jin Ling.

Chapter 9: A Yuan, Jiang Cheng, and Lan Wangji kneeling and lighting incense.

Chapter 10: Lan Wangji presses his forehead against Jiang Cheng's; Jiang Cheng looks confused.

Chapter 11: Jin Ling runs off with Fairy.

Chapter 12: Lan Sizhui hugs Jin Ling

Chapter 13: Lan Wangji and Jiang Cheng in their finery

Chapter 14: Jiang Cheng takes out a dam with Zidian.

Chapter 15: Jin Ling helps Jiang Cheng get ready for a ceremony.

[jaimebluesq]

Reverse Big Bang Day #3 - Sworn Sisters

For the last of my 3 artworks for the Reverse Big Bang, I went with my favourite female character - Yu Ziyuan - and the lovely Madam Jin. I left the interpretation open for the author who claimed it whether to make it platonic or romantic.

The accompanying fic is "Then Maybe I'd Make It Alive" by Tavina - it's a wonderful fic and exploration of Yu Ziyuan's and Madam Jin's lives before canon, with some Zhao Zhuliu added in. Please go give them some love!

[jedistranger]

My art for the MDZS RBB 2023!

link to the fic on ao3 here, thanks to my partner amordeus!

Really happy with how this turned out - I used Rebelle and Flamepainter for it, and it was super fun to learn those tools! The glow effect in particular was a lot of fun

click the image for better quality!

[mdzs-rabbithole]

Song of the River Rain

My Merxian x FarmerJi fic for the 2023 MDZS Reverse Big Bang @mdzsrbb is now up on ao3!

Enemies to friends to lovers!

Rated: E

Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence

Preview:

Springing from the riverbank, Wei Wuxian tackles the farmer, who makes a small, startled sound as Wei Wuxian knocks him toward the water. The small meal goes flying into the grasses as the farmer falls.

The man’s legs catch on the dock, and Wei Wuxian pins him down in the shallows as the drizzle condenses into proper rainfall.

“Jiaoren,” the man breathes, his voice soft and his golden eyes wide. Those strange eyes dart over Wei Wuxian’s sharp ears and nails before lingering on the bloody red of his tail.

“Human,” Wei Wuxian sneers. “You should have fled when you had the chance.”

Head on over to ao3 for read the rest and enjoy the gorgeous Merxian artwork from my partner, who can be found @IcyRiverLuo on Twitter ❤️💙🧜🏼‍♂️🧑🏻‍🌾💙❤️

[secretlyaraven]

This was the art piece I made for the MDZs RBB!

WWX surrounded by fragments of memories from his past lives.

@dragongirlg-fics wrote an amazing fic to accompany this, it was such a joy to read each update and I was gripped by many emotions.

LINK TO FIC

"Five times Wei Wuxian died in the jianghu, and one time he lived.

Or: An exploration of the term "jianghu" centered around Wei Wuxian's rebirths and deaths in various jianghu settings."

[travelingneuritis]

art for the 2023 MDZS RBB! the wildly talented @sugarbunbie wrote a deliciously heartwrenching, horny & healing story for this piece, the late hum by the river, in which the partly-successful core transfer kills wei wuxian, leaving a grief-stricken and core-sick jiang cheng to find a way to go on living. what kind of physician would wen qing be if she left him to struggle alone?

all the thanks in the world, bunnie, you’re amazing, kind, funny, smart and incredibly talented!!!!!! your fic made me so so so upset (complimentary). Also thanks to the mods and community of the RBB, who were so wonderful and gracious and full of secret knowledges!!

art is colored pencil on bristol board.

[sugarbunbie]

Please have my 2023 MDZS RBB fic inspired by @travelingneuritis's gorgeous, unforgettable art and deliciously angsty prompt --

the late hum by the river

WWX dies mid-golden core transfer

JC/WQ have sex for medical purposes

Rated E, wc 23k

Expect: angst, grief, humour, healing

CW: gore, blood, viscera, dubcon, multiple character deaths, violence, etc. (mind tags)

[scarlettohairdye]

NEW FIC ALERT!

you can always find me here | 15.5k | E

☀️Written for the 2023 MDZS RBB! ☀️Cis woman Wei Ying ☀️Trans woman Lan Zhan ☀️Post-canon night hunt wanderings ☀️The gentle, inevitable journey toward getting together ☀️Realistic, tender tgirl sex

[aoxue]

She is alone. As she knew she would be. It is one of the reasons why she has been avoiding opening her eyes until now, allowing herself to stay in that comforting nothingness that Wen Qing’s tranquilizing powder had provided. A still quiet dark space where she doesn’t have to face the fact that A-Xian had deliberately deceived her and A-Cheng had willingly helped carry her into this carriage, to see that they had chosen to send her away, even though they were all she had left.. the darkness tugs at her, pulling her deeper into the depths where her mind was quieter in its grief. “A-Li. Listen carefully and no one dies.”

The first of my art contributions for the 2023 MDZS Reverse Big Bang! @mdzsrbb I've always wondered what the Yanli + Song Lan Lanling Roadtrip might have looked like, and kaminikaku brought a lovely story to life!

Read Journey to Koi Tower now....

[buriedbybooks]

It's @mdzsrbb time again!!! @mockedspace and I have a fic for any dragon-noodle fans or fans of Jiang Cheng and Lan Xichen! Please go give mockedspace and her fic some love <3

I had a great deal of fun with this partnership. I got to pull out my watercolor landscapes again and paint tiny JC. I'd say he's a giant in the first painting at a hair over 2cm tall from boots to bun, but...

Then I painted this one, and both Dragon Xichen and Jiang Cheng are *big*. JC (from waist to the top of his bun) is 2.9 cm.

[jaimebluesq]

Reverse Big Bang Day #2 - The Not-So-Venerated Triad

My second art piece to post, but the first one I actually completed for the event. Sadly there is no accompanying fic, but I still wanted to share my work.

Description of piece: Jiang Cheng, Wei Wuxian, and Nie Huaisang kneeling together, facing away from the viewer, their weapons (and fan) at their sides as they make a vow of brotherhood.

Acrylic paint on canvas. Completed March/2023

[mdzsrbb]

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[roseclaw]

Hold Me Like a Grudge

Link: Hold Me Like a Grudge

Pairing: JC/NHS

Rating: T

Word Count: 15k

Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Trapped In Elevator, Diabetes, Hurt/Comfort, They're the ones hurting each other emotionally, But NHS does have some medical issues as well, Hypoglycemia, based on art, Second Chances            

Summary:  Jiang Cheng is ready to give his big presentation at work. He left his apartment prepared for almost anything the world could throw at him. Almost anything. He was not prepared for his ex appearing out of nowhere to catch the same elevator as him.

This is based on art by @angie-s-g for the 2023 MDZS RBB!

[secretlyaraven]

My second piece for the MDZS RBB

The concept was WWX having been raised by BSSR and meeting LWJ. LINK TO FIC

"He pulled the door open smoothly, leaving the noisemaker with their fist still raised mid-knock.  He could glimpse white robes underneath a thick and practical-looking travel cloak, but surely no member of his sect would think to barge in upon him in such a way.

“Hello!” the interloper exclaimed, a bright smile coming into view as he lifted the sopping veils away to one side. “Would you happen to know how to reach the Cloud Recesses?”

Or, a teenage Wei Wuxian arrives at the Lan sect as a (mostly) respected disciple of the Immortal Baoshan Sanren instead of the well-known troublemaker of Yunmeng Jiang. Lan Wangji learns to come to terms with this (eventually)."