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“What, a few months away and suddenly you’re a stranger?” he says. “What do you mean, what am I doing here?”
“You know that’s not what I meant.” Wei Ying rubs, hard, at the spot between his eyebrows. All of a sudden, he’s looking very tired again. “If your mother finds out you’re here—”
“Let me worry about my own mother,” Jiang Cheng snaps back. “If you’re so anxious to get me out the door, I’m happy to oblige. Just tell me what the Lans have on you so that I can fix it.”
Wei Ying has shifted slightly out of Lan Zhan’s line of sight again. But Lan Zhan can imagine the face he’s making from the sound of his voice.
“Uh,” Wei Ying says. “What?”
(Or: a few months into exorcist Lan Zhan's partnership with medium Wei Ying, Jiang Cheng quite literally comes crashing into their lives. A sequel to 'when I look over my shoulder.')
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- Part 2 of conjuring AU
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combine well, stir by cafecliche
Fandoms: 余污 - 肉包不吃肉 | Remnants of Filth - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat
26 Dec 2023
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At the stony look on Mo Xi’s face, Murong Lian’s lips take on a sly tilt. “There’s no need to worry. Even when he prefers my cooking, he won’t be any less besotted with you.”
Mo Xi does not miss the key word, there: when. “What does that mean?” he asks.
“Nothing at all,” Murong Lian says as he slides a stock pot onto the stove, next to Mo Xi’s bubbling porridge. “Just that there’s no shame in being a spoiled young master. It’s not as if you can help it, Xihe-jun. It’s how you were raised.”
Mo Xi is grateful, as he so often is, that the boil of his spiritual power has settled since he was a child. Gu Mang loves this kitchen. It would be a shame to burn any of it.
(Or: when Gu Mang falls ill, Mo Xi and Murong Lian take it upon themselves to cook for him. A few insecurities boil themselves to the surface along the way.)
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Wei Ying can read Lan Wangji better than anyone, now. He’s bound to catch the flicker of a frown that crosses Lan Wangji’s mind, if not his face.
You shall keep your home tidy and free of clutter.
(Or: Lan Wangji likes to keep every gift Wei Wuxian gives him. The problem is, Wei Wuxian likes to give him a lot of gifts.)
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after me comes the flood by cafecliche
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
02 Dec 2022
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Da-ge would have been the first to tell everyone in the hall that not everyone is from so genteel a family to afford a soul-calming ceremony. Not everyone is born the same way.
Not everyone leaves the same way, either.
(Or: in the days after his brother's death, Nie Huaisang searches for answers. Written for the Night Haunt Horror Zine.)
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an observer's guide to lovestruck cultivators by cafecliche for perilously
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
01 Feb 2022
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Chen Wo isn’t worried when Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian disappear into the lower fields, following the growls of a fierce corpse.
Or rather, Qingyang isn’t worried, so there’s no reason he should be, either. Even after five years of marriage, Chen Wo still feels, most days, like he doesn’t know very much at all about Qingyang’s former world. But he knows his wife. She points the way, and he follows. It’s the simplest thing there is.
(Or: Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji make one more stop at Luo Qingyang's home before their journey to the Burial Mounds, and her husband reflects on the world she left behind.)
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conjuring AU by cafecliche
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
29 Apr 2024
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the yunmeng accords by cafecliche
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
01 Jul 2020
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Notes from a reconciliation.
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nowhere left for us to go but heaven by everythingeverything (yiqie)
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
18 May 2023
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“I won’t lie to you, Spikey. I’m curious about it too. But I’d never ask. Not until you do.”
“You?”
“Yeah. Why wouldn’t I be? Ain’t never seen one of those…tall brown things.”
Vash goggled at him. Then, “Trees?”
// A brochure comes in the mail advertising the hiking trails of Blue Ember Valley, a strange, haunted forest that has grown in the crater of July.
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Bookmarked by cafecliche
19 May 2023
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“Still, if I knew you were coming I’d have put something on.” Wei Ying rolled his shoulders back. He had tied up his hair, but a curl of it escaped and clung to his damp neck. “This is no way to greet the chief cultivator. Sometimes I bring a shirt if I expect to run into impressionable maidens, but most days it’s just me and Little Apple.”
Five odd jobs Wei Wuxian took during his post-canon wandering, the people he met, and how he returned in the end.
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12 Oct 2022
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Occultation by Geese_In_Flight, pineapplesquid
Fandoms: Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell
28 Feb 2022
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Kiem Tegnar, prince of Iskat, has always tried to do his duty as a treaty representative.
Count Jainan nav Adessari is an engineering professor, not a politician or a diplomat. But when he’s chosen to replace the recently deceased representative from Thea, he knows he will have to do his best for his planet and his new partner.
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- Part 1 of Occultation
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19 Jun 2022
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cast your bitterness into the sea by Kilerkki for aubreyli
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
20 Jun 2021
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“So she may be a hideous fratricidal tyrant,” Wei Wuxian concluded, “but… possibly a good sect leader?”
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman who has just overthrown her megalomaniac brother and taken control of his sect, must be in want of a husband.
Jiang Cheng, fifth on the list of the Cultivation World’s Most Eligible Bachelors, did not expect that husband to be him.
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17 Feb 2022
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It's ridiculous that they had sex; how is this real? "Ah," Wei Wuxian says. Whatever words were going to follow are cut off by Lan Zhan stroking her face, thumb pausing warm and rough on her cheekbone. Her heart stops beating in her chest.
"I love you so much," Lan Zhan says in her devastating early morning growl, and Wei Wuxian's brain whites out entirely. Lan Zhan is leaning in to kiss her and Wei Wuxian is somehow stuck here, living through it, because her body is refusing to evaporate into its component molecules.
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17 Feb 2022