Summary: “Hello?” She answered, expecting a telemarketer.
“Hello,” a polite voice replied. “Is this the residence of Wei Ying?”
Jiang Yanli’s her grip on the receiver tightened. “It is,” she replied calmly, waving at Wei Ying to get his phone out. “This is his sister. May I ask who is calling?”
“I suspect you know the answer to that,” the man said. His voice, though smooth and pleasant, sounded tired.
“Lan Zhan?” She guessed, turning to see Wei Ying staring at her instead of calling the police. She tried to urge him with her expression.
“No,” the man replied. “I am afraid my younger brother is in no position to make phone calls, or perform illegal spellwork for that matter.” He didn’t just sound tired, she realised. He sounded… heartbroken. “He has been in a coma for some time, and the doctors do not believe he will last the night.”
After his brother's core is destroyed—a fatal injury—Lan Huan seeks out Lan Zhan's soulmate. Wei Ying agrees to share his spiritual energy with this beautiful stranger over the course of several weeks in order to save his life.
They don't stay strangers for long.
Kay's comments: A wonderful modern AU with a nice flavour of magical realism and soulmates. After Lan Zhan's core gets damaged, Lan Huan makes use of a forbidden ritual to find his soulmate - the only one who can heal him. Luckily, Wei Wuxian doesn't press charges and instead immediately takes the next flight to save Lan Zhan's life. They fall in love. Lots of domestic fluff in this story and only minor angst.
Excerpt: Wei Ying eyed his brother for another moment before shrugging to himself. He turned back to Lan Zhan, his smile reappearing. "I'm really here for you!"
Whatever Lan Zhan had expected him to say, it had not been that. "For me?"
"Yeah! What are you supposed to do when a handsome prince falls into a cursed sleep?" Wei Ying laughed, eyes glittering. "Bring his true love to kiss him awake, of course!" The man pointed to himself with both thumbs.
The man's meaning struck Lan Zhan in the gut. He turned to his brother in horror, only to find him looking back, chin high. Lan Zhan's eyes widened in shocked anger.
"It was the only way to save you, little brother."
modern setting, modern with magic, magical realism, set in australia, pov wei wuxian, pov lan wangji, soulmates, musician lan wangji, scientist wei wuxian, strangers to lovers, getting together, getting to know each other, good sibling lan xichen, good sibling jiang yanli, bad parent lan qiren, hurt/comfort, angst with a happy ending, angst and hurt/comfort, hospitals, hurt lan wangji, recovery, sharing a bed, hair washing, marriage proposal, sibling bonding
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Square 5 Prompt "Free Space" | Square 2 Prompt "Write the longest existing fic for a ship" | Square 5 Prompt "Location: your country"
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Ava Paige was a particular woman, Mary came to realise. She never switched up her order, always arrived at the exact same time, and looked exactly how she wanted to: perfect. She didn’t change, and that was Mary’s type of woman; someone who would stay in the box she had set for them. At least, that was what Mary had thought, before Ava Paige had to go and ruin it all.
The Case of the Emigrant Niece (Major Gask Mysteries #1) by David Cairns of Finavon - mystery set in 1860s Melbourne
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The Case of the Emigrant Niece is an interesting and easy mystery set in 1860s Melbourne with some interesting historical facts and details.
The Case of the Emigrant Niece: Enter Findo Gask and Erroll Rait (Major Gask Mysteries Book 1) by David Cairns of Finavon
Publication Date : December 1st,2022
Publisher : Finavon Press
Read Date : February 15th, 2022
Genre : Historical Fiction /…
using both fahrenheit and celsius to determine temperature is wild because you’ll be thinking in one measurement unit and someone will say some alarming number and then you calm down when you realize they meant they’re baking their recipe at 350° fahrenheit
it’s like the artful dodger (2023) was MADE for tumblr. thomas brodie-sangster and flowy bloody sleeves. delightfully gory victorian surgery. period romance that is way hotter than it should be. period costuming that is FOR ONCE not referred to as ‘stifling’ or ‘torture’ by the spunky lady lead (this one’s for the historical dress community). anti-authoritarian. crime shenaniganry. young upstart tempted to their old ways. banger guy-ritchie-sherlock-holmes -2009-esque soundtrack. lovely lighting direction. what more could you possibly want.
I think what attracts people to humans are space orcs stories is not the inherent idea that humans are evolutionarily aberrant in the universe. Rather, it is the solution to the existential crisis of what if we are not alone in the universe. If we are alone in the universe, we are unique and able to make our mark on the universe unhindered.
But if we are not alone, if there are countless other species, each identically unique, what is there to set humanity apart? How do we make the universe remember us after we have gone extinct. If all species are exactly like us, have things that make them unique and memorable, each grew up on a deathworld, each views themselves as a space orc, each has attributes about them but are multifaceted species, what difference does the existence of humanity make on the universe? Earth having evolved life will matter for the surrounding star systems and any individuals that come in contact with earthlings, but in a million years, will anyone care? Will we make a mark upon the universe, do anything to make the cosmos take notice of us?
And so in a universe of space orcs, what is it that humanity can do to separate ourselves? Space orc is not a prophecy, it is a promise to the stars. The only fear we have is not that we are not alone, it is that we are not unique.
just had a bizarre dipnpip dream where dan uploaded a video of him proposing to phil but dan filmed the entire thing himself (like, holding the camera) so the video was from his perspective and the camera was WAY too close to phil’s face the entire time?? the video was called “how to impress people with only 3 coins” and for some reason his big proposal speech involved him throwing 3 different american pennies off a dock? then the next day phil uploaded a scripted funny skit video where their characters were husbands so the phandom was having Major Discourse over if dans video was a skit too because it was Such A Bad Proposal and dipnpip had to be like “yall plz we were serious”