Kay-gongzi! It’s an honor and a pleasure to make your acquaintance; thank you so much for taking over the Fan-Enabling Cave That Mama Mojo Built! To break the ice: what are your own tastes in MDZS fic, and what are some of your favorite fics?
It is an honour and a pleasure for me as well!
I've been thinking about this and I think my tastes change from week-to-week and really depend on my own mood. I can be super picky or just read whatever I stumble upon that day and still have a good time.
For MDZS, I prefer it if the fics are wangxian-centric, either as a couple or as individuals. I enjoy reading canon-divergence stories a lot and I love stories that feature angst with a happy ending! I also really like it when authors get creative with the setting, e.g. if it's a modern au with cultivation then I love to read world-building heavy stories. But really, my likes and dislikes are not very static and change a lot.
As for my favourite stories, here are some of them:
this river runs to you by sundiscus (T, 50k, wangxian, modern with magic, dragons, tender wound tending) (Mojo's post)
the soft animal of your body by sysrae (T, 15k, wangxian, modern with magic, hurt/comfort, animal transformation)
The River Brought You Here by ChilianXianzi (Not Rated, 11k, wangxian, WWX & original female characters, JC & WWX, canon-divergence, pov outsider, amnesia, past abuse, found family, recovery, permanent injury side effects)
Just as the Snow Melts by draechaeli (T, 66k, wangxian, xuanli, songxiao, everybody lives, canon-divergence, the wens leave the burial mounds and integrate into yiling) (Mojo's Post)
The Price of Old Wishes by SoManyJacks (E, 67k, wangxian, background xiyao, pov LWJ, depression, eventual happy ending, selective mutism, hurt/comfort, eventual smut, a retelling of the events of the novel from the perspective of LWJ)
And They Have Escaped The Weight of Darkness by cosmicmilktea (T, 10k, wangxian, canon-divergence, amnesia, grief/mourning, screw the cultivation world, angst and hurt/comfort, social justice boyfriends wangxian, falling in love) (Mojo's Post)
I will probably make my own recs in the future, but for now, as I learn the ropes of being a mod here, I'll post more of Mojo's recs!
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Picks up directly after my DCBB24 fic Marriage of Heaven, Hell, & Humanity. Sam is on board with Demon!Dean and Dean is back at the Bunker; however, Cas is not with Dean, as he still needs to work with the angels getting everyone on board with the ceasefire with Hell. Will the angels agree to the ceasefire? Will the Mark behave until the ceasefire is signed? Will it even be possible to have a ceasefire once Lucifer gets out of the cage? And will Dean and Cas finally be able to settle down into the apple pie life with 5.5 kids and a dog?
Words: 18309, Chapters: 4/27, Language: English
Series: Part 2 of Heaven, Hell, & Humanity
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M
Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel (Supernatural), Sam Winchester, Eileen Leahy, Charlie Bradbury, Gilda (Supernatural), Jody Mills, Claire Novak, Kaia Nieves, Alex Jones (Supernatural), Donna Hanscum, Garth Fitzgerald IV, Bess Myers, Krissy Chambers, Josephine Barnes, Aidan (Supernatural: Freaks and Geeks), Crowley (Supernatural), Jesse Turner (Supernatural), Jesse Cuevas, Cesar Cuevas, Missouri Moseley, James Turner (Supernatural), Patience Turner, Emma (Supernatural: Slice Girls), Benny Lafitte, Adina (Supernatural), Daniel (Supernatural: Black)
Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester, Donna Hanscum/Jody Mills, Kaia Nieves/Claire Novak, Garth Fitzgerald IV/Bess Myers, Gabriel/Kali (Supernatural), Cesar Cuevas/Jesse Cuevas, Charlie Bradbury/Gilda, Adina/Daniel (Supernatural: Black), Angel in Bar & Demon in Bar (Supernatural: The Bad Seed), Implied Michael/Adam Milligan - Relationship, implied Jesse Turner/Aidan, implied Alfie/OC Demon
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Demon Dean Winchester, Temporary Character Death, John Winchester’s A+ parenting, everyone ships it, Found Family, Dean Cooks, Mpreg | Male Pregnancy, Established Relationship, Dean/Cas Big Bang
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Stiles wasn’t sure how he had gotten here, he also wasn’t really sure where ‘here’ was, but he had taken to calling it ‘The Upside Down’ because he binge watched Stranger Things a week before he was taken by The Hunt and because it felt like what The Upside Down probably felt like. It was a mirror image of Beacon Hills, filled with people he didn’t even know he had forgotten.
He had woken up and the first thing he realized was there were new memories, or more accurately, there were old memories that he had forgotten, flooding into his head. How had they forgotten about Kira? About Isaac? About Derek? Except there wasn’t a ‘they’ anymore, it was just him in this new world of forgotten things.
But Stiles wasn’t the kind of person to sit around wallowing in self pity, no sir. So he started looking for more familiar faces. “Stiles, I didn’t think I’d see you here,” Peter Hale said as Stiles walked passed him on Main Street, or what would have been Main Street if he were still in Beacon Hills.
“You couldn’t have stayed forgotten,” Stiles said, walking passed him without stopping, but he caught up with him, “What do you want Peter?”
“Just thought I’d say hello,” Peter said with a little wave of his hand and a twisted smile, “See if you’d run into anyone else from the old days.”
“I just got here.”
“Well when you find them, tell them I say hello.”
“Fuck off Peter.”
“You wound me.”
Stiles rolled his eyes and kept walked. He wasn’t sure where his feet were taking him until he looked up and realized that he was outside what used to be Derek’s loft. He took a deep breath and walked inside, his heart racing. “He won’t be here,” Stiles said out loud to no one but himself.
It was exactly the same as the loft had been, but backwards. It was a mirror image of the world Stiles had known, but it still felt like home. “Stiles?’
“Isaac?” Stiles said, voice rough, “How the hell did we forget about you?”
“I ask myself that question every day,” Isaac said, his voice sarcastic and Stiles couldn’t help but smile. “You smell like Peter.”
“He was the first person I saw,” Stiles said, walking further into the loft and flopping onto the couch, “Anyone else around?”
“Everyone’s around.”
“Derek?”
Isaac rolled his eyes, a look that Stiles knew well and hadn’t realized that he missed it until it happened again, “Of course Derek. He’ll be sad to see you here though.”
That stung, “Then he won’t have to see me here.”
“No, he will.”
“Who will what?” the familiar voice of Derek Hale said from the doorway. Stiles spun on his heel to see Derek standing in the door, his eyes wide and his face conveying nothing but shock. “You’re not suppose to be here.”
“I can leave,” Stiles said, standing up and moving toward Derek, his voice steady but he knew they could hear how his heart was pounding in his chest.
“No!” Derek almost yelled, stepping into Stiles path, “I just meant, you were suppose to be safe.”
“I feel a hell of a lot safer here than I did in Beacon Hills the last year,” Stile said, half hoping Derek picked up on what that meant, half hoping he didn’t, because their relationship had never been one of openly admitting they needed the other, it had always been one of saving each other without verbal thanks, it had been animosity that eventually turned into something else.
“This place is Beacon Hills,” Isaac said unhelpfully.
“Is everyone here?” Stiles asked, ignoring Isaac.
“Kira, Jackson, Boyd, Erica, Cora, Isaac, Danny, Allison, myself, even Peter,” Derek said with a little smile, like he still wasn’t used to having everyone back, “And now you.”
“And now me,” Stiles said, giving Derek a little smile, “Any idea how we get back?”
“I don’t think there’s a way back,” Derek admitted, taking a step closer to Stiles, like he knew a panic attack was coming, and he probably did with the way Stiles’ heart was racing, “Hey, hey calm down.”
“You calm down,” Stiles managed to choke out, and then Derek’s hand was over his heart and his was being placed over Derek’s.
“Come on, breathe with me,” Derek said, voice softer than Stiles had ever heard it. He matched his breathes with Derek’s comforted by the steady beat of Derek’s heart under his hand and slowly, very slowly his heart rate and breathing went back to normal.
“They’re in Beacon Hills, no one there is safe,” Stiles said, then realized that he was on the floor of the loft, Derek’s arms around him, holding him as he shook slightly.
“That’s true,” Isaac piped up again, and Derek turned and growled at him. Isaac just smirked and said, “I’m gonna go let the rest of the pack know Stiles is here.”
When Isaac left Stiles extracted himself from Derek and asked, “How long have you been here?”
“About a year,” Derek said, lowering himself onto the couch and nodding his head toward the empty space, a clear invitation for Stiles to sit down, “The Hunt got me right after I split with Braeden, Cora, Allison, Boyd, and Erica were already here. I think Danny was too but we didn’t find him until Jackson showed up.”
“Wow,” Stiles said, running a hand through his hair, “And it’s really still Beacon Hills?”
“Just less dangerous,” Derek said, “We haven’t had a single supernatural incident since I got here. You can crash here for a bit, until you get settled in somewhere else.”
“Oh, thanks,” Stiles said, suddenly aware of how exhausted he was. “I actually might crash now, if that’s okay.”
“Take the bed upstairs, I’ll sleep down here,” Derek offered, and Stiles nodded before walking up the spiral staircase to the bedroom of the loft. He flopped onto the mattress and fell asleep almost instantly and for the first time in a long time he didn’t have a single dream.
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Time passed in about the same way in the Upside Down, and before Stiles knew it he had been here for over a month, most of his time spent with Derek and the pack. He was still living at the loft, though he had offered to find his own place Derek didn’t seem to mind that he was still here, “Roanoke disappeared entirely, do you think that’ll happen to Beacon Hills?”
Kira had asked the question one afternoon while she, Stiles, and Derek hung out in the loft, one of Kira’s feet tapped like she couldn’t sit still, that was something she and Stiles had in common.
“It might,” Stiles said, looking up from the book he was reading, it didn’t have any real information in it anyway. “More and more people from Beacon Hills keep showing up here, so it really might.”
“We should do something for Christmas,” Kira said suddenly, her eyes bright.
“Do you even celebrate Christmas,” Stiles asked, leaning back on the couch and looking at her.
“I like the decorations,” Kira said with a small smile, “Plus, it would be nice to get the whole pack together to celebrate. You and Derek can host!”
“Me and Derek?”
“Yeah, you guys pretty much have the pack house.”
“I’m only crashing here for a little,” Stiles said, eyes darting to Derek who snorted, “Oh come on, it’s only been a few weeks.”
“It’s been over a month,” Derek said, but he was smiling and his eyes were bright. “You know I like having you here, just admit that you live here.
“Fine, I live here,” Stiles said with a huff, “And we can host a pack Christmas, we could use all the family we can get right now.”
Derek rested his hand on Stiles’ neck and squeezed, he knew how much trouble Stiles was having adjusting to live without his Dad. He had been searching for a way back for everyone, but all he had found was a lot of nothing.
“Great!” Kira said, her smile bright and enthusiastic. She jumped off the couch and walked toward the door, “I’ll start planning now since we all know you guys won’t do it.”
“I can’t believe it’s almost Christmas,” Stiles said, resting back against the couch, “It’s my first one without my dad.”
“At least we have each other,” Derek said, and Stiles knew him well enough to know that though the words sounded sarcastic and a little cynical, he meant them.
“Yeah, we do,” Stiles said, leaning against Derek in a now familiar motion. The contact helped calm him and he thought that it might help Derek too, but they hadn’t really talked about what they meant to each other just yet.
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“Merry Christmas!” Kira said with a smile as she walked into the loft on Christmas Eve, her arms were full of presents and behind her Jackson and Danny also had gifts, Isaac and Boyd had food, and Erica had two bottles of whiskey and a wicked smile. Ten minutes later Allison showed up with two trays of cookies and a smile to match Kira’s, Cora on her heels looking a little flushed.
And it was a Merry Christmas. Stiles was shocked by how happy he was, by how light he felt, and it wasn’t just the whiskey. These people, they were the closest thing he had to family and it was starting to feel like home here in the Upside Down.
“Hey,” Derek said quietly while everyone threw wrapping paper at each other, he was close to Stiles, the kind of close that came with familiarity and comfort. “How you holding up?”
“Better than expected,” Stiles said honestly, letting himself rest against Derek, “This feels a lot like home now.”
“You’ve always felt like home,” Derek admitted quietly, putting his arms tentatively around Stiles’ waist and Stiles fell into his chest, his head on Derek’s shoulder, “From the beginning, even when I was shoving you against walls and being a dick.”
“Aww were you scared of you feelings?”
“And of the fact that there was a rogue alpha, a newly bitten wolf, and a 16 year old little shit who always seemed to be where I needed him to be,” Derek said with a little smile.
Stiles looked at Derek, his eyes soft, “And now, what are you scared of now?”
“That you’re not real,” Derek said, running his nose up Stiles’ neck to his jaw, “That you won’t want me the way I want you.”
“Don’t act like you didn’t know how bad I wanted you since the day I met you,” Stiles said, a shiver going down his spine, “Don’t act like you didn’t know how into you I was.”
“Sure, you wanted me, but that was for my body,” Derek said and then Stiles understood.
“Derek, I don’t just want you for your body, hell you could be 300 pounds and had no hair,” Stiles said, cupping Derek’s face, “It’s all about who you are in here.”
He felt Derek’s heart skip a beat under the hand he had just placed over it, “Yeah?”
“Hell yeah,” Stiles said, and then they were kissing and it was everything Stiles had ever wanted in his life. It was home.
And then suddenly they weren’t kissing anymore and there was cheering behind them, “Get out,” Derek growled, but everyone knew that his growls were all showboating these days.
“You owe me a case of wolfsbane laced beer,” Stiles heard Erica say and he groaned to himself, but then he was laughing.
But the laugh was smothered by Derek’s lips on his and Stiles felt himself melt into Derek. This was what kissing was suppose to be, this was what he and Derek should have been doing since the day they met. Derek Hale was his home.
“Are you crying? Is something wrong?” Derek asked, pulling away and wiping a tear off Stiles’ cheek.
“I think I’m just happy,” Stiles said, “I feel like I’m home.”
“You are,” Derek muttered into Stiles temple, kissing him there, “You always have a home here with me.”
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Stiles woke up warm on Christmas morning, Derek’s arm slung around his waist and his breath on his neck, “Morning.”
“Morning,” Stiles said rolling over and kissing him on the lips, smiling as he did because he finally could kiss him.
“There’s someone at the door,” Derek said, looking a lot more alert than he had a moment before, “Stiles, I think it’s your dad.”
Suddenly there was a knock at the door and Stiles sat bolt upright, before he jumped out of the bed and tugged on a pair of sweatpants that were on the floor and ran to the door, then pulled it open, his heart racing.
John Stilinski saw on the other side, a worried look on his face until his eyes fell on Stiles, “I’m so sorry I forgot you son.”
“Dad,” Stiles said, putting his arms around his dad’s neck and hugging him tightly, tears falling freely, “I missed you so much.”
Stiles heard Derek move behind them and felt his dad lift his arms from around him, “Come in here kid, you’ve taken care of Stiles more times than I can count, you might as well be family.”
And then there was a body pressed up against Stiles’ back and Derek was hugging both of them, “Stiles takes care of me too.”
“I know he does.”
“Hey guys,” Stiles said, extracting himself from the hug so that he could look at both of them with a big smile on his face, “Merry Christmas.”
John wrapped his arm around Stiles’ neck, “You too kiddo.” Then he looked between Derek and Stiles with a smirk, “Did you two finally get together?”
“Shut up,” Stiles muttered.
“I’m just mad that Melissa isn’t here, she’d owe me 20$.”
Stiles glared at his father while Derek laughed and wrapped an arm around Stiles’ waist. It wasn’t the perfect Christmas, it was better than that. Stiles and his dad laughed and caught up while Derek fried bacon and eggs for Christmas breakfast. This upside down version of Beacon Hills wasn’t that bad at all.
I was telling you that, more to give you hope for your ship becoming cannon (one of my best Trekker friends ships McCoy/Spock, so I'm not saying one over the other those are just the examples I know). and don't forget in Into the Darkness they did do the through the glass vulcan kiss like in tos. But seriously think about how sad that would be if writers in the 20th century (at a time when homosexuality was really not shown), wrote bi characters but 21st century writers won't.
ah sorry i assumed you were continuing what the anon was getting at. it is very sad, the whole reboot seems to be a few steps backwards in the progressiveness that the original series showed, which i think is the biggest disappointment in it. if they did make jim bi i don't think i'd even be mad if he went out with men who weren't bones cuz i'd be so pleased they were actually doing it. (also can you imagine the unrequited love angsty fic? i want it rly bad now)
So you mentioned in the answer to one of your asks that Kirk is clearly a 'ladies man' but Gene Roddenberry has said that Kirk and Spock's relationship is like Alexander and Hephaestion's relationship (so pretty much an open relationship). so vocally (since it was the 1960s) Kirk was a ladies man but as it was/is/will be the 23rd century the context (Vulcan kissing in the Motion Picture and Wrath of Khan) they are Bi. So Kirk/McCoy may not happen but not because Kirk is straight.
That may be true for TOS characters but i was mostly talking about the reboot. i’m pretty sure these writers would pass out at the idea of having a bi male lead of the film. I’m really not an expert at star trek i’ve only see the original series and the reboot so i don’t claim to have a superior knowledge of it, but from what i have seen of the reboot (which may i just say is a completely different verse from TOS) they haven’t shown any hint of jim’s character being queer. Its been shown explicitly and repeatedly that jim likes the ladies, but never even hinted that he likes men.
If they did go down this route i would love it and i would be 100% behind it as bi ppl need more representation, but i highly doubt they will. Regardless, if you’ll see my reply after that one i stated my reasons why i prefer jim and bones’ relationship to jim and spock’s. I’m not saying ppl can’t ship spock/jim, and bones/jim is the only true ship, i’m just stating my personal reasons for shipping it :)
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just out of curiosity you like Janeway and Tasha Yar? Those are usually the ones that people even when they like them are still on the bottom of the list.
thanks for bringing this up! i didn't think to mention any other star trek franchises since i primarily blog about tos/aos, but yeah, they're both great in my books. i think they're both massively important characters in terms of trek history. tasha paved the way for strong lady characters in trek, so i would never say a word against her. i think it goes without saying how fucking amazing it was to finally get a woman captain with janeway.
although i must admit i was always more into TOS/DS9, so i've only seen a handful voyager episodes. i've liked her in what i've seen.
I had a really deep tarot reading for my bestie Remus. I love when that happens. I love when I connect with the people I love through tarot. Another teacher here wants a reading. I need to give her one before I leave.
For some reason, most Chinese people we meet assumes Remus and I are dating. I don't know if it's because we're both foreign. I do know that it gets annoying lol I mean Chinese couples hold hands like American couples. The same thing happens when Remus is with his other female friend, Charly.
Originally, I thought it could be due to friendships between the opposite sex being strange in Chinese culture. I asked Tom and Liz if it was weird for guys and girls to be friends in China. I know that in Japan it's not common. Tom assured me that it was okay.
This didn't help me at all. I didn't figure it out until I met Kim. She is one of Remus' students. She asked Remus to ask me if I wanted to hang out with them. Remus informed me that she wanted to go shopping with him, but she felt uncomfortable going if it was only going to be the two of them. And then it hit me! It's okay for guys and girls to hang out in groups, but not one on one! Suddenly everything made sense! But still you would think us NOT holding hands would have them catch a clue.
It's really funny when a girl is interested in Remus and she ask one of our Chinese friends if I'm his girlfriend thinking I don't understand what she's saying. It's even funnier when our Chinese friends yell at them that I have a boyfriend hahaha Dean, Tom, Liz, and Daisy always look so shocked at the person. The students on his campus will have a big surprise when Boba gets here hahaha
