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prized above gold

by Deisderium

M, WIP, 9k, Wangxian

Part of WLW Wangxian Week 2022

Summary: Jin Guangshan has captured the Yiling Matriarch, and gives her to the Lan dragons as a war prize. Kay's comments: This story lives rent-free in my brain. WLW Wangxian featuring war prize Wei Wuxian and also foxxian and dragonji? Is it my birthday already? I absolutely love the character dynamics in this story and also the other canon divergence points, like Lan Xichen being Empress and Jiang Yanli being a sect leader. Jin Guangshan is being absolutely vile though, but thankfully, cursed shackles seems to be the worst he does to our beloved Foxxian. Due to these shackles, she can only transform into her human form at night and her powers are surpressed. The only way to undo the curse? Dual cultivation. Excerpt: As an enemy combatant and a war prize, though, Lan Wangji couldn't simply demand that she be freed. Lan Xichen might have come up with a more elegant solution, but elder sister wasn't here, and Lan Wangji could no more leave Wei Ying in that cage than she could cut her own hands off. "Open the cage," Lan Wangji said again. "I will take her parole." "Such a notorious huli jing as this," Jin Guangshan said silkily. "I almost kept her as a concubine myself. Who would have thought such a creature as this could tempt even one of the Lan?" One of the man's retainers unlocked the cage, and Wei Ying bounded out, running to Lan Wangji. Lan Wangji stooped and held out her arms. Wei Ying leapt into them, and Lan Wangji thought, At least she still trusts me this much. Something cold and hard among the soft silkiness of her fur bumped against Lan Wangji's wrists. Gold bands encircled Wei YIng’s forelegs, just above her front paws. The bands were stamped with peonies, and there was no obvious mechanism to release them. "What are these?" Lan Wangji asked. Wei Ying's fox form burrowed against her chest, trembling. She felt so small this way. "It didn't seem prudent to let a demonic cultivator and huli jing have access to all her abilities.” Jin Guangshan smiled.

pov lan wangji, pov wei wuxian, canon divergence, fox wei wuxian, dragon lan wangji, female lan wangji/female wei wuxian, rule 63, emperor lan xichen, female lan xichen, xiyao, lan xichen/jin guangyao, post-sunshot campaign, war prize wei wuxian, yiling matriach, captivity, cursed wei wuxian, hurt/comfort

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Bucky doesn't get more than a few paces further before the bright stars above him are blotted out by a very large dark shadow. He looks up, and even before they land, he can tell it isn't Steve. This dragon is bigger, for one thing, and a dark reddish orange. And then another shadow flies overhead, and another, and there are three dragons that Bucky doesn't know on the ridge in front of him. This means the path is awfully crowded, and Bucky is reminded that, vampire strength or not, he's a hell of a lot smaller than everyone else here.

for my favorite cryptid series - food for thot by @deisderium 🖤

New part: it’s the thot that matters - just posted!! 🐉

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The man blows out a breath. It's a surprisingly prosaic noise. "Let's start over," he decides. "I'm Bucky." He wraps Percy's leash around his left hand, leans down, and holds out his right. Steve takes it. It's warm and calloused, the skin a little rough. "Bucky Barnes." He tugs at Steve's hand and Steve lets himself be helped to his feet.

"Steve Rogers," Steve says. "What the fuck?"

Bucky laughs.

Steve has to make himself let go of Bucky's hand after what he hopes is a normal amount of time, not a creeper amount of time. Bucky's laugh is really nice. He thinks he'd like to hear it again. But first, there's the matter of the gryphon.

*****

In which Steve Rogers stumbles across the Barnes Exotic Animal Rescue for Magical Creatures, meets a witch named Bucky, accidentally adopts a unicorn, and never wants to leave.

Steve thinks back to a lifetime of very emphatically telling anyone who would listen that he has only one hard and fast dating rule and that rule is: absolutely, under no uncertain terms, will he ever, not once, ever, fuck a Republican.

OP, you just keep watching the movies in your head instead of the ones that actually got made because D A M N. If you figure out how to cross to the parallel word where this movie got made pls let me know for reasons.

Oooh, the Sunbeam one sounds cool. So does Priest Steve.

Good picks, pal! 

Sunbeams is my oft-spoken of and rarely worked on World War Threesome modern AU. There’s not a lot to it yet, outside of an outline and a general plot thread that I’ll be following, but it’s one of my favorite ideas and one I’m excited to (hopefully) write next year.

agkhad thank you! And also I am apparently physically incapable of doing just ONE sentence. 

So when Steve was 12, and Death hovered around him like a shroud, Bucky had clutched one of Steve’s hands in one of his own, pressed Steve’s hand to Bucky’s chest and his other to Steve’s, boney and sharp. He’d bent his head down, pressed their foreheads together and willed God and the universe and anything else that might be out there to listen with every ounce of stubbornness in his 13 year old body.

Bucky doesn't know quite what to expect from a dragon banquet, but he's game to find out. ("You can just say banquet, Bucky." "Yeah, I guess, but it's more fun to say dragon banquet. Look, I'm washing my hair in the dragon bathtub. Look, we're sleeping on the dragon bed. Look--mmph. Oh. Oh. Well, that's one way to shut me up, I guess.")

for my favorite cryptid series - food for thot by @deisderium 🖤

New part: it’s the thot that matters - just posted!! 🐉