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not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

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May Trope Mayhem day 04 @duckprintspress

Modern Au with power/magic  story in Mo Dao Zu Shi

Lan Wangji wake-up in a strange place, soon noticing that he was tied to a chair by his arms and legs.

The last thing he remembered was that he just finished his usual patrol and was turning in for the night when some black shadow surrounded him.

Then he awaked

He couldn't see much but it looked like some kind of warehouse, and it was empty for what he could sense. So he started trying to see if he could break the ties binding him, not much luck with his legs but his arms were a possibility.

But when he was going to try freeing himself the shadows around the warehouse started moving.

“I wouldn't do it if I were you”. A melodic voice sings songs behind him. “It's rude to free oneself before we have the chance to talk.”

Straightening his back, Lan Wangji didn't give the other the pleasure of seeing him try to find where the voice was coming from, instead he kept looking forward.

“Who are you?” He asked his captor. 

“Oh? I’am pretty sure you know who I am, Hanguang-Jun” The voice came close to him, the shadow thickening and darking. “I know how the league of heroes have being trying to find me, and that you was one of those who are looking”

The last part was whispered close to his ear.

Indeed he was one of the heroes responsible to track and locate one villain that was breaking in the Jin’s research facilities, destroying all the datas and sometimes attacking researchers. The League didn't identify his motives or affiliations, but know that he is using shadows and other abilities and for that they start calling him by one name.

“The Yiling Patriarch” He stated.

“See? Not so difficult.” The smile was clear on his voice. The shadows are dancing around him until they part right in front of him to reveal a tall man, using dark and red traditional clothes with long sleeves, long hair that obscure his face.

Lan Wangji kept silent, staring right ahead, not even bothering to look into the villain's eyes.

“What?” The Yiling Patriarch asked, tilting his head a little. “Nothing to say?”

Lan Wangji just looked at him for a moment, then looked away unimpressed.

“So silence or Hanguang-Jun” the man mused. “That's a shame, handsome but not even a smile.”

Lan Wangji frowned, that get him angry. He turned to the man again, ready to chastised the man for the improper conduct when he sees a little head peeking from behind the man legs.

“Whites ge-ge is very pretty!” confirmed the little voice, surprising the Yiling Patriarch that jumped with wide eyes, shadows clearing instantanly from the warehouse.

“A-Yuan!!!” cries in a much more high voice than when he was talking before, making the child giggle. “What you doing here? I told you to stay in the living room.”

“But the coach is on fire.” The boy stated smiling innocent, no even noticing the serious of the hole situation. The eyes of the man get wide a second time and he flies to somewhere behind were Lan Wangji was sitting.

A door banged loud somewhere.

What was happening? Lan Wangji asked to himself.

He was kidnap by the villan that he was tracking, how apparently have a take a children hostage and was keeping them in a dangerous place that was susceptible to fire.

His contemplations was interrupted when something, or more someone hugged his leg that was still bonded to the chair. Looking down, he sees the boy grinning to him.

“HI! My names A-Yuan!!” The boy chirped.

“Hello A-Yuan, I am Hanguang-Jun.” Lan Wangji says. Normally kids would jump when hearing his hero's name mut the boy just smiled again and stay happily hugging his leg.

He was just to ask the kid if he was alright and what the Yiling Patriarch was doing with him when he heard the said man returning.

“Everything safe! The fire extinction talisman worked” he said apparently to no one in expecific. Then, praisingthe boy he said. “A-Yuan was very smart in come get me, well done”

Then he notice that the boy was hugging Lan Wangji and hunffs.

“Aya, A-Yuan!!” putting his hands in his waist he reprimanded. “What I said about hugging people legs?”

“But I like White ge-ge!!” The boy declared.

“That doesn't make it alright…” the Yiling Patriarch grumbled. Then he picket the kid and hold him sitting in his waist. “What a do with you, uhm?”

“You should give him back to his parents.” Lan Wangji interrupted and the man blinked to him looking like he forgot that he had him hostage.

“Oh? But a birth him myself.” The other replied innocent, and Lan Wangji scolded himself for assuming, until the Yiling Patriarch started laughing. “Ah! You believed! It's a joke…”

A sneeze from A-Yuan cut his speech, then a fire started in his sleeve.

“Oh shit!!” The man jumped and then shadows muffled the flames erasing it. It was quick but was obviously the ability of the child, the problem was:

“He is too young to already have powers.” Lan Wangji state, it's supossed to be a accusation but then the Yiling Patriarch says.

“Indeed, he is.” He's angry. “To young, but the league was using him as a test subject from their research.”

Lan Wangji esitedd. He didn't know about this, the Jin’s were responsible about the research in the league…

“Tell me, Hanguang-Jun.” The Yiling Patriarch challenges. “How can one call yourself a hero when they do this with children?”

“I didn't know nothing about this.” He assured him. “But I swear that I will find the true about it.”

The Patriarch looks him in the eyes for a moment, then probably believe him, because he says.

“Then make sure you do.” He gesture with the hand and the shadows engulfed Lan Wangji again.

He awake in his apartment. Getting up he calls his brother, there's a job to do.

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May Trope MAYHEM Day 03 @duckprintspress

Mo Dao Zu Shi story

“NO!!!!” A shrill cry of a child could be heard by all of Carp Tower. “JIU JIU!!! I GO WHIT JIUJIU!!!”

Jiang Cheng sees that his nephew will make him deaf with how loud he could be with his tantrums. At least he has Good lungs.

“A-Ling.” His Jie chastised her son. “We talked about this. Your Jiu-Jiu needs to go back home and you can't go with him.”

But the young boy wasn't having that, he proceeded crying and thrashing in his father's arms trying to reach his uncle. His nephew’s pup howled in sympathy with his owner's emotions.

“A-Li, I don't think this is working…” Jin Zixuan said, grimacing at how loud his son was being. “Why don't I bring him back to our quarters so he can calm down in his room?”

Jiang Yanli sighed, then nodded agreeing.

“It's better.” She looked at her son and said in reproven calm voice. “A-Ling shouldn't behave this way. He made me and Jiu-Jiu very sad.”

The kid hiccup, stopping screaming and thrashing a moment, looking to his uncle as if to see if he was really sad. Jiang Cheng tried very hard to look like he was, and it must have worked because Jin Ling sniffed and started crying again but this time more lower.

“I'm sorry Jiu-Jiu…” his nephew cried.

“It's alright.” Jiang Cheng assured him. “but you need to listen to your parents, ok?”

“Ok…” came the mumbled answer.

“Ok, as we calm ourselves, why don't we let a-niang and Jiu-Jiu say goodbye,  mn?” Jin Zixuan talked with his son kindly. And when the kid nodded he prompted: “Now, say bye to Jiu-Jiu?”

“Bye-bye Jiu-Jiu…” Jin Ling sniffed.

And noticing how close his son was to crying again, Jin Zixuan quickly took him away and disappeared in the Carp Tower before another wave of crying.

“I am so sorry, a-Cheng” His sister's voice broke his stare in the direction his nephew was taking.

“It's alright Jie-Jie.” He assured his sister. “I'm used to it, besides a-Ling isn't worse than Wei Wuxian when he needs to be separated from that husband of him.”

His sister's hide a laugh behind her sleeve.

--//--

In the Sect Leader's quarters, Jin Zixuan was just putting his son in bed when a knock came.

It was one of his secretaries with some urgent problem to resolve.

Meanwhile, Jin Ling was hugging Fairy and his favorite blanket, the one purple and fluff that his Jiu-Jiu gift to him when he was really small. The one that always cheered him up when he was sad…

Oh! Jiu-Jiu was sad before.

Jiu-Jiu can't be sad. So Jin Ling decided to bring his blanket to him so he would not be sad anymore! And Fairy, because his Jiu-Jiu is always happy when he sees Fairy unlike his Da-Jiu that cries when seeing her.

Jin Ling knows he needs to be quick because Jiu-Jiu was leaving… feeling his bottom lips trembling at the thought, he takes deep breaths like A-niang showed him when teaching how to calm down when he feels big emotions.

More calm, he runs to the secret ways, it's the best way to go if he needs to be quickly. His Shu-Shu showed it to him and said if someone scary goes after him he should use it to hide in their hiding place.

This time, Jin Ling used it to go to the entrance, but then Jiu-Jiu wasn't there anymore. He heard earlier that his uncle was going to go back with a boat so Jin Ling went back to the hid ways so he could run to the Pier.

He smiled as he saw that the boat with a Lotus was still there. Being very careful to not disturb the people working, he gets in the boat just like how his Da-Jiu showed him in the summer.

Knowing that his Jiu-Jiu has a room in the boat, Jin Ling goes there but his uncle wasn't there either… Deciding to wait for him there, Jin Ling sat in the bed with his blanket and Fairy.

--//--

Jiang Cheng sighed. He loves seeing his sister's and nephew, but the goodbyes were always difficult and especially harder to Jin Ling.

Seeing Lanling disappear in the distance, he decides to go to his cabin and rest a little once he always has a lot of work waiting for him when he goes home.

But there was something in his bed.

He noticed the little lump in his sheets, first recognizing the tiny blanket he got for Jin Ling sometime ago. Then he sees the wag tail of the pup and finally the black silky hair peeking from under the blanket.

Forget resting.

For some goddammit reason his nephew decided to become a stowaway in his ship, and now he needed to go back in his sword to deliver his little runaway.

With a deep sigh he gets to the bed, receiving a little excited bark of hello from the pup. This wake-up his nephew, who’s beaming when he sees him.

“Jiu-Jiu!!” Jin Ling made grabbing hands to him, and Jiang Cheng took him in his arms. The kid rested his head on his uncle and hugged his blanket letting out a “I brought blanket” before sleeping again.

“I see…” Jiang Cheng grumbled, asking himself why the blanket was important, while his nephew snores peacefully in his arms.

The kid stayed asleep all the way to the Carp Tower, and Jiang Cheng swore that the servant that received him almost cried when he saw the kid.

Being guided to his sister, he ended up seeing his brother-in-law panicking, saying it's his fault that a-Ling disappeared. Taking pity on him, he announced his presence.

“He's was it me” he said, and Jiang Yanli ran to take her child in her arms. The parents were thanking him but Jiang Cheng wanted to go quickly before his nephew awake…

“Jiu-Jiu is going away?” Jin Ling started crying.

Too late, Jiang Cheng thought.

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May Trope MAYHEM Day 02 @duckprintspress

Bachelor Auction - Modern with magic Mo Dao Zu Shi story. - hint of NieLan, WangXian, XianLi and ChengQing.

Sometimes, Nie Mingjue asked himself how his brother managed to get away with things like this.

The Clan union was organizing the annual charity event and normally it's a ball but this year, because of an anonymous suggestion, it's a Bachelor Auction.

The whole thing is a waste in his opinion. If they want to donate something they should just do it directly, not waste money in doing an event.

And he is totally sure that the so-called anonymous suggestion was his brother sniffing where it's not his business.

At least he managed to get away by not being one of the Bachelors, as a sect leader he was banned from participating for some reason and he thanked whoever put this rule.

But Xichen didn't have the same luck.

He and his brother were convinced by the committee to participate because of the charity they are raising money for, more like guilt tripped, and now the Lan table for the main family has only Lan Qiren and for some reason Lan Yi, Xichen great-aunt.

The event started with a dinner like always, but then the stage was light and Meng Yao stepped in as the host. Nie Mingjue knew him since the days he worked in the union office in Qinghe and since then the little guy has gone far.

He started thanking everyone for coming and presenting the objective of the event, just the formalities that needed to be said. Then the auction really began.

The first Bachelor was Jin Zixuan, even though he already had a fiance, and judging by the faces of Madam Jin and Madam Yu they didn't know. And for the face of the Jin heir, he didn't want to be there either.

It starts with Meng Yao asking the Bachelor what would be the date with the victorious, and then stating the initial bid, but then it becomes a war. It looks like every girl wanted a chance, and a lot of old women too.

But the surprise was when a very high bid came for no one other than Jiang Fengmian himself. 

“For my daughter.” The Yumeng sect leader clarified when asked to go on stage and receive his “prize”.

Said daughter blushed and went to the stage herself.

After that came some other candidates, then his brother. Huaisang was smiling and describing an elaborate date, but his party was spoiled well after when their cousins started bidding very low to mess with him.

“Da-ge don't you dare!!” Nie Huaisang cried when he threatened to do a bidding himself. But then, one of their aunts took pity on him and made a higher bid. Then the younger Nie went to cry in her arms of how unfair his cousins were.

When it was Wei Wuxian's turn everyone was surprised that Lan Yi won after fighting tooth and nail with some older women that were charmed by him.

The older woman just patted him on the cheek when he got to the Lan table so she didn't need to get up. 

The reason for the older woman bids were explained just some turns later when one of the Lan’s young ladies won Lan Wangji, and this one Nie Mingjue knew was Lan Xichen requests so his brother could avoid being overwhelmed by the winner. 

The second young master Lan passed by the main family table and thanked his grand-aunt, who just patted his head when he bowed.

Another commotion started when it was Jiang Wanyin's turn.

This time was practically a fight between his cousins in the Jiang side and his cousin's from Meishan Yu,  the bids going higher and higher. Even Jiang Yanli decided to give a bid, making her brother red as a tomato and Wei Wuxian laughed very loudly.

But things were interrupted when Wen Chao declared that Wen Qing wanted a bid as well. Before the young woman could deny, her uncle asked:

“Oh? A-Qing, do you like this one?” He said amused and without waiting for an answer he turned to the stage again. “Tell me young Meng, What is the highest bid?”

“The committee didn't put a maximum.” Meng Yao answered, polite as ever.

With that, the Wen sect leader gives a high bid, just some higher than Jiang Fengmian had given earlier that evening.

Nie Mingjue just could see that as a way of showing himself, Wen Ruohan probably didn't care much who his niece liked or not.

When the night was coming to an end it was Xichen's turn. 

Obviously the committee decided to leave for the end the most eligible bachelor. Poor Meng Yao barely had a chance to say the initial bid when they started screaming price after price. Nie Mingjue was just watching, a little amused by his friend's popularity and a little afraid of the woman's ferocity. 

But then Wen Xu said his bid.

And that, Nie Mingjue wouldn't permit. The Wen heir was a detest thing in Lan Xichen life, always disturbing him and saying lewd things.

So, for the first time that night, he did a bid.

He would fight for his friend until the end, making bid after bid he and Wen Xu were the last fighting when Wen Ruohan told his son to just let go.

“He is his father's son.” Wen Ruohan grumbled remembering his late friend. “There's no way to out stubborn a Nie”

Nie Mingjue growled low at hearing that, but got up to make his way to Xichen. Who just smiled at him, whispering a quiet “thank you” to him when taking his hand.

“You don't need to thank me,” Nie Mingjue told him, taking him to his table. “We are friends, we have other backs.”

“Of course,” Lan Xichen hummed. “And now we have a date to look forward to!”

“What?” Nie Mingjue jumped, and quickly tried to assure the other “Oh! That… you don't need to…”

“On the contrary.” Lan Xichen laughed, “I want to.”

He want… oh. Oh! 

Nie Mingjue gulped.

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May Trope Mayhem day 01 @duckprintspress

WangXian a Cinderella story in Mo Dao Zu Shi

The second jade of Lan would be looking for a partner to marry in this year's banquet.

The news reached every clan, big or small, in matters of days, it soon became the most expected event of the year, and every mother was looking for a chance to marry their children with the second young master of the Lans.

But it did have nothing to do with Wei Wuxian, as he was not going anyway, even if this was supposed to be his first year's participation. But, Madam Yu didn't want a repeat of what he did in the Jin heir birthday party two years ago.

Well, the peacock did deserve to get punched, he made Shijie cry.

The Jiangs left this morning for Qishan where the banquet was held. Jiang Yanli asking again if he was alright staying behind and Jiang Cheng telling him to not get in trouble while he was away.

But fate has other plans, or more precisely, Jiang Yanli has other plans.

“My name is Wen Qing, I am here at the request of Jiang Yanli.” a woman came in the evening.

“Shijie?” He perks at his sister's name. “She just left…”

“I know. She said in her mensagem that she would leave this morning. And that's why I should come in the evening.” Wen Qing explained. “She asked me to take you to Qishan.”

It's locked like his Shijie have planned in secret to take him to Qishan in another way. She asked Wen Qing, whom she meeted in the last year's banquet and keeped exchanging letters, to take him to Qishan as her guest.

“Wait!! But if Madam Yu recognizes me?” Wei Wuxian panicked when they were already in the carriage on the way.

“W-We tough about th-this” Wen Ning, Wen Qing younger brother assured him. “The ban-banquet was a masquerade.”

Then, with a spell in his mask, no one could recognize him. And how funny it was to talk with Jiang Cheng without him knowing who he was,  and see his brother trying desperately to remember.

But then he sees him.

The stranger boy was dressed in whites and blues, so serious to someone that was in a place so festive.

Wei Wuxian watched the boy for a while, it was obvious that he didn't want to be there. sitting in a separate corner, scaring anyone trying to get closer to him.

Well, not everyone.

One Jin cousin was going in his direction. And it was obviously Jin even with the mask, as he was using golden robes with so many ornaments that it was ugly.

The angry face of the boy in white just got more angry but Jin did not seem to notice because he started going about a toast. 

He heard some people gossiping about how rude the second master Jin was, because the boy, as a Lan, can't drink.

How sad to be prohibited from drinking because of stupid laws.

Seeing that no one would go to save the poor Lan disciple, Wei Wuxian decided to step in.

“I will drink for him then.” He said taking the cup from Jin's hands  and drowning in one go.

He didn't notice the surprised face Lan made at him, but when he put the cup down he saw the annoyed face of the Jin boy.

The Jin second master was ready to make a scene for his idea of a prank being interrupted when a shadow fell on him. Wei Wuxian didn't know who was the mountain of a man that decided to intervene but he wouldn't miss the chance to escape.

After all, he should be discreet.

So he takes the hand of the Lan disciple and runs away, only stopping when they arrive in the gardens.

“Ah! What an asshole!” Wei Wuxian complained with a huff. Then beaming, he turned to the other. “And you? Are you alright? That idiot shouldn't have kept insisting when you obviously didn't want to.”

The other stayed silent for a moment, until Wei Wuxian noticed that they were still holding hands. Oops!

Releasing the Lan boy hand with an awkward laugh, Wei Wuxian tried again.

“So, my name is Wei Ying!” and he shouldn't have said that, he was supposed to be anonymous damnit.

“Lan Zhan.” The other said, and oh! He had a beautiful voice. “I appreciate your help before.”

“Oh? Uhn…” Wei Wuxian blushed with how sincere the boy was. He never knew what to do when someone thanked him.

Desespering looking around for a reply, Wei Wuxian has a ideia to invite the other to stroll in the garden like some people are doing, so they can escape the crowd banquet for a moment and any annoyed Jin.

They stayed there all night walking and talking, well most of the talk was Wei Wuxian but the others did contribute some. He even smiled, a little discreet one but it felt like winning for Wei Wuxian that couldn’t stop beaming after.

It was just after, when Wei Wuxian was already in bed in the Wen siblings' private quarters that he noticed that he never told Lan Zhan from where he was, or agreed to exchanging letters…

He stayed sad for a moment when the thought of never meeting Lan Zhan again passed his mind. 

But, he did know that the other boy was from the Lan Clan, and Jiang Fengmian said before that he planned to send him and Jiang Cheng there for this year's lecturers. So he will meet Lan Zhan again this summer!!

Then, Wei Wuxian sleeps with a smile on his face. Thinking about a summer with his new friend.

Unknown to him, in the Lan quarters. Lan Wangji couldn't stop thinking about the boy in a fox mask with a brilliant smile. They parted without having a means of meeting again, but a red ribbon that Wei Ying left behind.

Lan Wangji was certain that he had met his soulmate tonight.

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MAY TROPE MAYHEM Prompt List Text Version:

Fairy Tale Fusion

Bachelor Auction

Stowaway

Superhero x Supervillain

Inherited Blessing or Curse

Tiny Adorable Eldritch Horror

Love Triangle to Polyamory

Wardrobe Malfunction

Body Guard Character

Fake Dating

Ghost Love Interest

Idiots to Lovers

Unresolved Sexual Tension* (*resolved)

“Who did this to you?”

Character is Conveniently Unrecognizable in Glasses

Breaking the 4th Wall

Time Loop

Wing Grooming

Accidental Summoning

Language Barrier

The House is Alive

Pet Acquisition

A+ Parenting

Mentor and Mentee

Amnesia

Body Swap

Royal x Knight

Second Chance with a Former Love

Identity Porn

Accidental Baby Acquisition

Magical Familiar

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The corporate dictatorship in Brazil cannot be erased from memory. The film I'm Still Here exposes horrors that many want to sweep under the rug. Our fight is against oblivion! Fernanda Torres the greatest!!!!

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The never ending struggle

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Ainda Estou Aqui is already the winner of this whole awards season for being the only movie that managed to have indigenous people performing rituals for their Oscars win, mothers including Fernanda’s name in the blessings requests of Sunday’s mass and a massive Fernanda doll in the Olinda Carnival

There are flags with Fernanda Torres’ face on it, drawings of the two Fernandas on walls and homages being painted on buildings:

Now that’s what I call being a national pride <3

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É NOSSOOOOOOOO!!!! É DO BRASIL 💚💛

"I'M STILL HERE" BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

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If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

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THE BLACK WATER ARC (BOOK 3) illustrations by @/anteikovich from the official TGCF russian edition

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Post em português pq TRIO MXTX VEM PRO BR CAMBADA🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

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A breakdown of medieval armor, since a lot of pieces are required to create a full suit.

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I love Queijo Minas, simple and delicious yet can be enhanced with a variety of flavors!!

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