Upon moving into a new apartment, Xiao Xingchen decides to purchase a plant from the local garden center. The only problem is that, and Song Lan's attempts to mitigate Xiao Xingchen's black thumb, leads them both to circumstances they weren't expecting.
A modern AU that's based on my fic 'from silence to home' but works as a standalone.
Chapters: 37/37
Word Count: 88268
Fandom: the untamed/ 陈情令
Rating: general audience
Warnings: suicide attempt, implied/referenced child abuse
Relationships: songxiao/songxiaolin
additional notes and tags under the cut:
additional tags:
Hurt/Comfort, xue yang is involved in this fic but i didn't want to use the character tag, there's actually a few characters that make minor appearances, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Polyamory, songxiao, M/M/F relationship, Angst with a Happy Ending, background wangxian, background lan yi/baoshan sanren, no beta we die like men, Fluff
author notes:
first and foremost, thank you for clicking on this. i wrote this fic during probably the worst months of my life. i put a lot of heart and love into it but because of personal situations, it's not perfect. half of it was written in the hospital and things have been rough enough that if i didn't publish it now, i never would, so i wasn't able to edit it the way i would've liked. i'm hoping everything else makes up for that.
second, since there's no sects, i used family terms in the fic along with a few others. when using terms, i try to explain it via context.
third, since lin ming is selectively mute, any of her dialogue using text, sign language, or lip reading is denoted like this: << Example. >>
finally, a lot of characters make an appearance in this fic or are mentioned but i didn't tag them, including xue yang. i try to keep the tags uncluttered from things people searching for that character might not want to see. other characters include: wei wuxian, lan wangji, jiang cheng, lan sizhui, wen ning and nie huaisang.
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i don’t know exactly how to say this in a way that comes across clearly, but i am obsessed with the idea of depicting m/f relationships in a way where the hype isn’t all on the man’s love of the woman, and how swoonworthy it is and how powerful. (this has been on my mind an awful lot lately because lost loves to lean on this, especially in season six. it’s also something that often grates on me about the office’s depiction of jim and pam even though i’m very fond of jim and pam.) i really want to see women being active in the relationship too, rather than just being the object to be pursued or worshiped or cherished or whatever the heck! not in a way that depicts women going out of their way for men who don’t reciprocate, which i think is always the go-to assumption when you talk about this kind of portrayal of a relationship. but i love the idea of women being able to make romantic gestures and acts of great love toward their male love interests in a way that is, like, considered cool and iconic in the way that so many male characters’ romantic actions toward their ladies are cool and iconic. idk how to say it. like, something that goes beyond ‘is this woman being honored nobly enough by her man, which is the sum total of all romance?’ i want the women participating tooooooooo! WHY NOT!
i cant speak for other polyam people but being in a triad/throuple relationship in real life is just inherently funny. show up to the family function with two guys and everyone else has one guy. just seems like a power move every time even though we're just living our lives. hilarious. i recommend this for comedic value alone
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[id: a tweet that reads “one time at a party i kissed someone’s girlfriend and to make sure he wasn’t mad about it i just kissed him too...i blacked out and woke up to a text in a groupchat with both of them that said “did u make it home safe baby? ❤️”. The user has been blacked out. /end id]
I wrote a college paper once about gender dynamics in Disney films, and part dealt with the emphasis of androgyny in this film. Mulan is an outsider and unsure of her position of the world when she is adhering to both a total feminine role (the matchmaking scene) and a total masculine role (disguised as a male soldier) and it’s only when she’s able to embrace both sides that she is able to fully showcase her abilities and ultimately save the day.
The entire climax, from climbing the poles using sashes, counting on Shan Yu’s complete dismissal of women to get the Emperor to safety, to this scene where she literally uses a symbol of womanhood (within the movie at least) to disarm the villain of his symbol of masculinity and beat him at his own game, shows Mulan relying on the aspects of her femininity that she has grown up adhering to and adapting the tactical knowledge and fighting skills that she learned disguised as a male soldier to those aspects. The result is a unique and innovative view of the world and her course of action that leads her to save the day when the male soldiers failed and the women wouldn’t even have been allowed to try.
This commentary is so curious to me because it’s such an excellent example of white/western cultural bias in portrayals of other cultures. Because fans by themselves are a gender neutral object in Ancient China, especially the large type that Mulan uses in this particular scene is actually masculine if you must code it historically, and in Chinese hands would be used as a tool to support her masculinity and not the other way around. These paper fans are used in general by (male) scholars and artists who decorate its surface with art and calligraphy. It is a symbol of (masculine) intellectual power and the intellectual elite. And if you look to Asian martial arts films, they are a common and almost exclusive weapon of men.
Yet the movie takes this deeply cultural object and either willingly or ignorantly makes it an object of womanhood or femininity. To the extent of my knowledge, this is mostly reflective of western social history. And draws from the coquettish ways Georgian? Ladies would use the fan to signal their romantic interest and all the history and influence around it. The equivalent object for the Chinese lady would in fact be the handkerchief, or a hairstick if you want something pointy.
And it’s all the more curious because at the end of the day it’s a western depiction of a foreign story made for western consumption. It is not a story made by and for Chinese little girls, but to empower and inspire those in the West. Which provides the context for the above (excellent) analysis. It does not need to fully take Chinese history into context because it was never made for us, despite being explicitly about us.
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My favorite ship dynamic is "they're both extremely stupid in completely different ways and extremely smart in completely different ways, but rarely is any of that useful because they just get extra double stupid when together"
imagine having a little garden where you grow strawberries for your cakes and cucumbers for your sandwiches and you have tea with your partner every midmorning. you plant each other’s favorite flowers and give each other bouquets. thats the life.
This website provides information about the movements of various poets (mostly of the Tang and Song era) in China and along the Silk Road. This is a very cool project, because traditional Chinese poetry often cannot be understood without a detailed context - what happened, where the poet was and what he was doing. That is why prefaces to poems are often much longer than the poem itself.
For example, here is the map of Li Bai’s travels throughout his life:
“for some reason, song lan’s face was extremely pale. he stared at the door of the coffin home, as if he would rush inside if he could, but was too scared to do so. the aloof look that he had was completely gone.”
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