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Harry hates Mondays.
When he gets on the bus, the only reasonable seat choice is by a boy with brown hair, listening to his music and drowning out everything else around him.
Harry walks over to the seat and the boy looks up when he sees someone standing off to the side. He has black rectangular glasses and Harry can spot multiple piercings on his face. There’s an eyebrow piercing (two silver barbells in the left eyebrow right next to each other) and a Marilyn Monroe piercing. His short brown hair framed his face nicely and Harry could spot a ear gage in each ear the size of his pinky with two other studs in the left ear lobe and the right boasting three others.
“Can I sit here?” Harry asks...
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You Went to School (and Found Out You're Dumb) by et2zarry
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
02 Jun 2013
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In which One Direction aren't really One Direction, but five guys who live in Wisconsin in the 1970's and they get themselves into a lot of trouble.
A/N: This is absolutely terrible and I'm probably never going to finish it but I don't want to delete it so...I warned you.
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John is nearing the end of his 12-hour shift in the local ER when an overdose comes in. Little does he know that saving this patient will change the course of the rest of his life.
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When Sirius is called away to fight in the war, Regulus is not happy.
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Alternate time line. Ranma is sent to a private boarding academy. [AU]
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Fate keeping her careful eye on them and wait for the right moment to play her next move on the strangers who were getting closer by the second.
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a drabble about harry and louis meeting at a basketball game and fate has plans for the boys to get closer involving a kiss camTitle from:- We Found Love by Rihanna
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‘You’re a distraction, love,’ the greaser had chuckled, his hair slicked back and hands in his leather jacket. ‘I’d get shot trying to protect you.’
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Jack The Ripper AU. 1940's America.
Dipper Pines is a journalist, set on the case to write about the recent mass killings of prostitutes. Civilians call this murderer The Copycat Of Jack The Ripper, and Dipper is determined tto find out who it is. But, with the stress of it all messes with his mind, will his inner demon's take over?
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louis works at his family's diner in roswell, new mexico and when a near death experience changes his life, he learns of who zayn malik is.
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Harry is a lawyer. Louis is a Louis that is 'in between jobs.' Louis actually has a job, he just doesn't really tell people it, because what's the point?
If you read my old 'Daddy' before this one, I guarantee that this one is better than the first one. I didn't like the first one at all, which is why I deleted it. This one is actually good and I'm proud of it so far. Also, this is set in America. :)
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Money makes the world go round by WhereistheLarry
Fandoms: One Direction (Band), Zayn Malik (Musician)
31 May 2016
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Louise and her gang are trying to rob a bank. Their new recruitment, Harriet, is something more than she expected.
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Louise doesn't realise that she's the one for her. Maybe it's her shyness or the way she seems to be a bit flustered around her.
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Brothers Stick Together by 221b_ee
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
07 Dec 2016
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Foster home au. In short, John is perfect and adjusts, Mycroft remains reserved but slowly begins to adjust, and unsurprisingly Sherlock plainly refuses to adjust. Then, drumroll, disaster strikes and there is emotional trauma and whatnot. And this was the last foster home that would take all three of them too... how sad.
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The (Mildly) Serious Incident of Arthur's Windowboxes by aceofairships for sircarolyn
Fandoms: Cabin Pressure
05 Aug 2016
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This is the first part of my fic for @sircarolyn, who requested someone write about the time Arthur tried to water the windowboxes on GERT-I
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Louis Tomlinson, twenty five and in the process of healing from a traumatic event, needs change. That’s why he’s moved across the country, taking a teaching position in a small high school located in the middle of nowhere, in the cold and snowy state of Maine.
What were the odds that he'd wind up teaching at the very same school as Harry Styles, the boy who rejected Louis’ prom proposal at the end of their senior year?
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Mystery Work
Part of privated works by hoax
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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Hitchhiker AU
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde
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High school seniors venture across the country together, not quite ready to separate for college yet.
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Jun and Minghao tie the knot after years of being together.
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Yuuri Katsuki has been a doctor for 5 years. Now, he's been assigned a few interns to train into doctors, one of whom is rather attractive. With the help of his friends around the hospital, like Yuri Plisetsky, JJ Leroy and Mila Babicheva, he plans to teach these interns about life, love, death and, above all, how to be good doctors.
Doctor/Hospital! AU
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Seokjin is a food critic and a nosy waiter with blindingly, gummy smile at a fine dining restaurant intrigues him.
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“Jimin,” Taehyung says. He doesn’t want to think about what his face is doing, whether or not it shows that his heart is breaking all over again.
“Hey Tae,” Jimin says weakly. “Long time no see.”
“You guys know each other?” Namjoon asks.
Jimin opens his mouth to answer, and Taehyung really doesn’t want to know what he’s going to say, so he cuts him off. “We knew each other in high school.”
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many fox given by defractum
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
19 Dec 2020
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Lan Zhan is glaring at him. That's probably fair.
The last time they'd seen each other, Wei Ying had been digging through Lan Zhan's garbage. They'd made eye contact over the shredded bags, the week's trash scattered around him like stinky, oversized Lego.
Lan Zhan's eyes had been wide with horror, and Wei Ying's had been equally wide with feigned innocence. He'd reached out slowly, maintaining the eye contact, and then flipped over the food waste bin full of onion peel and carrot skin as a distraction and slunk off into the night. Probably not his finest moment.
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Modern AU dragon!LWJ meets fox!WWX.
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❤️many fox given
by defractum (nyargles)
Wangxianficrecs post here. (Archived.)Well, now, this was a hoot and a ride. I loved it.
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There are teeny tiny alarm bells going off in the back of Wei Ying's brain, and the longer he stands there, the more of them start ringing. Like a little cacophonous orchestra of miniature alarm bells. A veritable army of them. A whole ocean of fucking alarm bells jangling merrily away.
Because – because all this time, Wei Ying had thought that this was just a fun game. A quirky weird thing that he and Lan Zhan did, fucked with each other on the lunar moons and ignored each other for the rest of the time. Lan Zhan fed him an obscene amount of chicken and got him high, and Wei Ying destroyed his trash. Just you know, two relative strangers engaging in mutually petty and weird behaviour for shits and giggles.
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take me back to a time by DizziDreams
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
15 May 2021
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Wei Ying has a lot on his plate right now.
It’s finals week -- which isn’t so bad. He’s never had to study much to do well in classes. But that just means that things are that much more tense with Jiang Cheng, who, as far as Wei Ying can tell, only takes study breaks long enough to glare at Wei Ying where he sits on the couch playing video games.
It’s not studies that have Wei Ying stressed out. It’s everything else. It’s the recruitment for the research trial he’s coordinating. It’s jiejie and her impending marriage to His Royal Douchebag Jin Zixuan. It’s the volunteer work at the palliative care facility. It’s Wen Ning’s worsening condition. It’s Wen Qing working herself thin to care for her brother and Wen Yuan. It’s the way Wen Yuan never seems to have enough food.
So, yeah. There’s enough on Wei Ying’s plate already, meaning it’s not entirely welcome when he comes home and finds a man standing in his bedroom. A man in extravagant white robes, a ribbon tied around his forehead, long hair gathered into a topknot, fist clutching a sword at his side, who asks him, “Where am I?”
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*Wei Ying tells himself, there’s no way that he has done something as stupid as fallen for a time-travelling, dimension-hopping wizard in just two weeks of acquaintance. It’s unthinkable. Wei Ying might be stupid, but even he’s not that stupid.*
Narrator's voice: Wei Ying apparently IS that stupid.
... This is an epic story in which canon lwj appears in a modern wwx's room one night. Wwx is a down-on-his-luck college student slipping into even harder times and intrigue, but he's got a heart of gold and immediately sets about helping this strange (and very attractive) wizard. (He can fly, omg!!!) The story's focus is on both their growing relationship (oh, the tension! the slow burn!) and on the mysteries that keep being revealed in both worlds, like tips of icebergs.
Author notes that this is not a fix it, which is probably to prepare you for copious amounts of angst and bad choices and misunderstandings (although at least no one is dead for 13 years!). A whole new story, with dimension travel and a strategically striking qi-stealing illness is cleverly woven in with plot points from canon to create something both recognizable and fresh.
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something so flawed and free by verseau
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
22 Jan 2022
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Lan Zhan places his left hand on Wei Ying’s thigh. He hopes this will make Wei Ying remember he’s in public, rephrase his wording to something other than a blatant death threat, but Wei Ying stops speaking altogether. / Sometimes, Wei Ying wants to be taken cared of.
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💙 something so flawed and free
by verseau
Wangxianficrecs post here. (Archived.)
E, 59k, WangxianSummary: Lan Zhan places his left hand on Wei Ying’s thigh. He hopes this will make Wei Ying remember he’s in public, rephrase his wording to something other than a blatant death threat, but Wei Ying stops speaking altogether. / Sometimes, Wei Ying wants to be taken cared of.
My comments: It's been a hot minute since I read this story, because it makes me feel things. When it comes to modern setting dom/sub stories though, I feel like this one is a must-read. Lan Zhan is experienced in the area and slowly but surely him and Wei Wuxian fall into a dom/sub relationship, featuring some very explicit kink negotiation and some incredible kink scenes. It's a very cathartic story and I can't even put into words how much I adore it and I feel like it's peeled my ribcage open in the way it deals with mental health issues and kink. So. Yes. Very much yes.
Excerpt: “Is this okay? ‘M sorry for this, I really am kinda unbearable,” and he laughs breathlessly. “Just a few more minutes, if that’s okay, Lan Zhan, and I’ll stop bothering you.”
Lan Zhan palms the back of Wei Ying’s neck, thumb firm on his erratic pulse point, and curls his left hand in Wei Ying’s hair. He pets Wei Ying’s hair, same as he did in the gym, and he tracks responses with his thumb.
“You are not unbearable,” Lan Zhan says. He scratches right above Wei Ying’s ear, and Wei Ying’s pulse spikes high, higher still when Lan Zhan digs his other hand tighter into the thin and vulnerable skin at Wei Ying’s neck.
“I’m insane,” Wei Ying says. Lan Zhan hates how certain he is when he says this; as if he did the research and came to this natural conclusion. That’s how Wei Ying talks about himself. Wei Ying knows he’s smart, the smartest person in their cohort, likely in the department, and he’s not afraid or ashamed to speak plainly about that, no matter the people in their seminars who pretend they can’t understand Wei Ying even when he speaks with clear midwest inflection, who call him condescending and confrontational. Wei Ying always just laughs, and by the end of class, humiliates them so thoroughly they won’t look at him for a week. Wei Ying knows he’s smart, and that’s where his self-awareness ends. “I’ve never felt less in control than I do right now, Lan Zhan, I, I didn’t think I’d crash so fast, I swear it’s not because of the chair, I’m just fucking--like--I feel like I’m losing my mind.”
“Close your eyes,” Lan Zhan says. He can’t see Wei Ying’s face, but he knows they’re open, probably wide and wild. Wei Ying’s mania usually lasts longer before he crashes. Has it been around? Did Lan Zhan fail to notice?
“I don’t like who I am,” Wei Ying says.
Lan Zhan knows.
“Close your eyes,” he says again. “Focus on my hands. Tell me where I’m touching you.”
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Across the street to another life by danegen
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
01 Apr 2023
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Wangji stays on the piano bench as they’re closing up. Wei Ying chews his lip, knowing what he’s going to do but horrified at himself. But what’s the alternative: kick the guy out and find him sleeping beside the dumpster in the morning? And that’s if the cops don’t take him in for vagrancy.
“Wangji?”
Wangji looks up.
Please don’t be a serial killer. “So, we’re closing up for the night, but A-Yuan and I live upstairs. Do you want to join us for dinner?”
Wangji blinks. His head bobs in what’s probably a yes.
“Great!”
Fuck.
Or a ragged monosyllabic man wearing a collar shows up at Wei Ying's music store. Wei Ying and A-Yuan ask, is anyone going to adopt this guy? And then they don't wait for an answer.
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Across the street to another life
by danegen
Wangxianficrecs post here. (Archived.)
M, 99k, WangxianSummary: Wangji stays on the piano bench as they’re closing up. Wei Ying chews his lip, knowing what he’s going to do but horrified at himself. But what’s the alternative: kick the guy out and find him sleeping beside the dumpster in the morning? And that’s if the cops don’t take him in for vagrancy.
“Wangji?”
Wangji looks up.
Please don’t be a serial killer. “So, we’re closing up for the night, but A-Yuan and I live upstairs. Do you want to join us for dinner?”
Wangji blinks. His head bobs in what’s probably a yes.
“Great!”
Fuck.
Or a ragged monosyllabic man wearing a collar shows up at Wei Ying's music store. Wei Ying and A-Yuan ask, is anyone going to adopt this guy? And then they don't wait for an answer.
My comments: This story really had me hooked and I could hardly wait for each new chapter. It's a modern AU set in America based on the movie Unleashed. I didn't know the movie and thankfully, that didn't matter, because no knowledge is needed!
Wen Ruohan is a crime boss here and Lan Wangji is his top-fighter that he keeps in a cage and collared and uses to commit violence on his enemies and to win illegal fights (he gave me Winter Soldier vibes!). One day, Lan Wangji manages to escape and he gets taken in by Wei Wuxian and his son A-Yua. Cue lots of hurt/comfort, some drama, family feels, tragic pasts, Wangxian getting together and having to deal with Wen Ruohan. Lots of angst and a well-deserved happy ending.
Despite the author warning that Lan Wangji is way out of character here, it didn't really feel that way for me. Like, it totally made sense given his circumstances. I really loved the character dynamics in this story. The Jiang parents are divorced for example and now Yu Ziyuan is trying to be a less shitty parent and mostly doing it by bribing her grandchildren with gifts and one of my favourite parts, though he doesn't play that much of a role, is what the author made of Wen Zhuliu, because I'm really weak for him! I also really loved the slow thawing of Lan Wangji and him growing into his new life and finding a place for himself.
Excerpt: “Was that woman your mother?”
Wei Ying’s smile falls. His mouth opens in a pretty O. “Oh, you mean Yu Ziyuan? The one who picked A-Yuan up?”
Wangji nods.
“No. Well, not really. My mother died when I was about A-Yuan’s age. My father, too. Yu Ziyuan and her husband—well, ex-husband now—raised me after that. More or less.”
Wangji nods like he understands and stares down at the counter. He doesn’t know what to call a woman who is sort of a mother but not really.
“Where are your parents?” Wei Ying asks. His voice is soft, like he isn’t sure he wants Wangji to hear.
“Dead.” He doesn’t remember his parents, but when Wangji was younger, Wen Ruohan told him that he had taken Wangji in after they died.
“Oh. I’m sorry.”
Wangji doesn’t understand why Wei Ying would apologize. He’s afraid to ask why.
“A-Yuan’s mother died, too,” Wei Ying says. When Wangji peeks up at him, Wei Ying has gone back to staring at the computer screen. He isn’t smiling. “She died when he was a baby.”
It hadn’t occurred to Wangji that Wei Yuan must have a mother. He knows about mothers, but he’s never actually met one. He doesn’t know what to say, so he says what Wei Ying said: “I’m sorry.”
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Once-body by ByCandlelight
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
10 May 2023
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Years after he was disowned by the Jiangs, Wei Ying lives a quiet life working at a funeral home. Then he reencounters his former high school classmate Lan Zhan, who is planning his father’s cremation. Wei Ying won’t pass up the chance to get closer to his former crush, but first he has to hide all the brains in his freezer.
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Once-body
by ByCandlelight
Wangxianficrecs post here. (Archived.)
M, 10k, WangxianSummary: Years after he was disowned by the Jiangs, Wei Ying lives a quiet life working at a funeral home. Then he reencounters his former high school classmate Lan Zhan, who is planning his father’s cremation. Wei Ying won’t pass up the chance to get closer to his former crush, but first he has to hide all the brains in his freezer.
My comments: So, this story is based on iZombie, which I haven't seen personally, but the important thing to note about this story is it contains casual cannibalism, because Wei Ying, amongst others, has the abbility to get a dead persons' abbilities, if he snacks on their brains. So! Super interesting premise, very unfortunate for him when he gets charged with a corpse desecration felony and gets kicked out by the Jiangs after helping out the Wen siblings. Ten years later, him and the Wen siblings are working in a funeral home and one day, Lan Zhan, his high school crush, walks in and wants his father's body cremated. Lots of family drama, found family, Wangxian being cute together and Wen Ning being the best bean! I really enjoyed this one!
Excerpt: Then he saw the newcomer and his thought process derailed completely.
It was Lan Zhan.
Wei Ying had known he lived in the city of course. That was the sort of knowledge of his high school crush that he couldn’t help but seek out. Did that factor into Wei Ying’s decision to move to Milwaukee when he needed a fresh start? Maybe. Who cared if it was kind of pathetic–no one else had to know.
Lan Xichen had taken over running the family owned biotech company, whereas Lan Zhan had gotten a PHD in biomedical engineering, and worked as a researcher at that same company.
Wei Ying was sure he was good at it. Wei Ying hoped it made him happy. And none of this information told him what to say to the man he saw in front of him.
“Lan Zhan,” he said, with real affection. “It’s been so long.”
Then he remembered where he worked, and shame colored his face. “Oh god, sorry. I’m sorry for your loss–or if you’re planning ahead…” he trailed off, “I was just surprised to see you.”
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"Well, I bet I’ll be seeing more of you in the future then, huh? But hopefully soon it’ll be me watching you on stage," Tetsurou tells him.
Something flickers across Kenma’s face - something like bright, childlike hope. “D’you actually think so?"
“Call me crazy,” Tetsurou says, grinning a stupid grin that shows all his teeth, “but I’d be willing to bet on it." // Tetsurou Kuroo, the lead singer of alternative band Neko, meets Kenma Kozume, aspiring musician, at one of his shows, a meeting that sets into motion a series of events that change their lives - and the alternative music scene - forever. Or, the early 2000s pop punk band AU.
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The Peanut Butter Jar AU by ScarlettStorm
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
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💙 The Peanut Butter Jar AU
by ScarlettStormE, Series, 76k, Wangxian
Summary part one: So there was this jar, and it had so much peanut butter still in it, and when his fox nose scented it and didn’t catch any poison or spoilage, what was he supposed to do? Not avail himself of this gift? No. He shoved his delicate little snout right in there and got to licking, but, you know… Elegantly. Definitely not snarfing and making horrible little fox sounds and rolling around on the ground while he went ham on the jar. Sure, he had to work a little bit to get at the last of it, but anything good is worth working for, right? So finally, triumphant, no longer starving, and maybe a little thirsty now from eating half a cup of peanut butter in about two minutes, he’d tried to remove his head from the jar.
Operative word tried.
Or: Wei Ying gets stuck. Lan Zhan helps.
My comments: Hehe, another one of Scarlett's delightful modern Wangxian stories! Here we have modern with magic, which is my favourite flavour, so I was even more delighted to read it. Featuring Foxxian who's kinda living a rough life and forraging for some food, because his job doesn't pay him well enough for regular filling meals when he discovers a peanut butter jar and promptly gets his head stuck in it. Thankfully, animal rescue worker and touch empath Lan Zhan comes to his rescue! I love the ND flavour of Wangxian that Scarlett always delivers on and I love how it's portrayed how Wei Ying's fox brain and his human brain are not always cooperating.
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The F-Word by raspberrymocha
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
14 Jun 2020
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“We get it, already. If you keep talking like that, people are gonna think you’re in love with the guy or something.”
“I, for one, think it’s very kind of your friend to let you stay with him.”
Strange things to say, considering Wei Ying and Lan Zhan have been dating for a whole year and a half, and are, in fact, madly in love.
Or: five times Wei Ying and Lan Zhan were Very Good Friends, and one time they were fiancés.
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💙 The F-Word
by raspberrymocha
Wangxianficrecs post here. (Archived.)
M, 10k, WangxianSummary: “We get it, already. If you keep talking like that, people are gonna think you’re in love with the guy or something.”
“I, for one, think it’s very kind of your friend to let you stay with him.”
Strange things to say, considering Wei Ying and Lan Zhan have been dating for a whole year and a half, and are, in fact, madly in love.
Or: five times Wei Ying and Lan Zhan were Very Good Friends, and one time they were fiancés.
My comments: This story is so funny and ah, I really feel for Wei Ying and I totally get his frustration. Sometimes, you just gonna come out again and again and maybe one day you're family will finally get the hint that you and your boyfriend are in fact not just good friends. I love the way Wangxian's relationship is portratrayed here and the light angst is hitting all the right spots too, which makes the big reveal even more satisfying.
Excerpt: “Well, anyway. I’ve decided not to renew it, and I’ll be moving into Lan Zhan’s place instead.”
He waits. Drums his fingers on the table. And waits some more.
Jiang Cheng fixes him with the sort of flat, blank stare Wei Ying has only ever seen on his boyfriend before. “How is that at all the same thing?”
Willful ignorance is all well and good, but that’s a little hurtful. After all, while he and Lan Zhan aren’t getting married (he would very much like to marry Lan Zhan, but they’re just not… there yet), this is still a big step. It’s earth shattering, groundbreaking news, and should be treated as such. If only Jiang Cheng had a romantic bone in his body. He turns to Yanli, who’s much more inclined to understand these things, but all he gets is a mild, patient smile, the kind that says she’s too used to Wei Ying’s antics to be fazed by this newest development.
“Be nice, A-Cheng,” she says, ever the saint. “I, for one, think it’s very kind of your friend to let you stay with him.”
The smile slips off Wei Ying’s face. “Lan Zhan isn’t-“
He cuts himself off, looking from Jiang Cheng’s furrowed brow to Yanli’s indulgent smile. Wei Ying is the prankster of the family, but he has the feeling that he’s the butt of the joke this time. Shame curls in his gut, hollowing him out bit by bit. He shouldn’t have said anything. It was stupid, and selfish of him to take attention away from Yanli’s engagement.
“Never mind,” he says, returning his attention to his dinner. “So, when’s the wedding supposed to be? Tell me everything!”
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Underpainting by DizziDreams
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04 Apr 2024
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underpainting:
To apply a layer of paint to your canvas, acting as a blueprint of what you intend to create.then.
Lan Zhan is 18, and he has everything he could want. He feels lucky beyond reason, happy, and the future ahead of him is bright and beautiful.
Soon, he'll be attending university in another city, living in the dorms, creating the life he has dreamed of. A perfect future, all because he has everything he could want. He has Wei Ying.Until he doesn't.
now.
It is his 34th birthday, and Lan Xichen is throwing him a party.
Lan Wangji hates his birthday, but he goes because his brother asked.
Lan Wangji has nothing else.Bookmarked by thelastdboy
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Update: Completed on 04.05.2024
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Underpainting
by DizziDreams (@dizzi-dreams)
Wangxianficrecs post here. (Archived.)
E, WIP, 26k, WangxianSummary: underpainting:
To apply a layer of paint to your canvas, acting as a blueprint of what you intend to create.then.
Lan Zhan is 18, and he has everything he could want. He feels lucky beyond reason, happy, and the future ahead of him is bright and beautiful.
Soon, he'll be attending university in another city, living in the dorms, creating the life he has dreamed of. A perfect future, all because he has everything he could want. He has Wei Ying.Until he doesn't.
now.
It is his 34th birthday, and Lan Xichen is throwing him a party.
Lan Wangji hates his birthday, but he goes because his brother asked.
Lan Wangji has nothing else.My comments: This story was recced as a Follower Rec before and I'm so happy it was, because that's how I found it and I immediately binged it, it was such a delightful story and had me completely hooked. Every time I rec a story with a non-linear narrative, you know it has to be good, because I usually don't really vibes with those stories, and this one is really well done! In which we jump from past go present, from a Lan Zhan and Wei Ying first meeting and breaking up to the present where they meet again, though now Wei Ying uses Mo Xuanyu as an alias. Slowly, we discover what happened back then as Wangxian find their way back towards each other, though Wei Ying still attempts to run again... Featuring Nie Huaisang being the absolute captain of the ship.
Excerpt: Later, Wei Ying shoves a gift at Lan Zhan. It is wrapped in blue paper and tied with a red ribbon. “Don’t open it now, it’s too embarrassing!”
Lan Zhan can’t help but lean over and kiss him on the cheek right in front of everyone. Wei Ying squeals, turning even redder when Nie Huaisang wolf whistles. Lan Zhan loves him.
Lan Zhan waits until the party is over and everyone has gone home before he opens the gift.
It is a sketchbook. Inside is page after page of Wei Ying’s art. Drawings of their friends and their school. The bunnies that live in Shufu's rose bushes. And Lan Zhan. Page after page of his own face, drawn with such affection that it shines about at him. How could he ever have doubted?Wei Ying loves him.
now.
Lan Wangji places the sketchbook back on the shelf.
He doesn’t let himself look at it often. Partially because it hurts too much. Partially, because he’s scared to handle it. It feels delicate, too precious to touch after 16 years.
But he’s feeling melancholy tonight, though, so he looks. He looks and remembers and aches.