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I FOUND IT [x]

I HAD TO TRAWL THE DEPTHS OF MY MDZS TAG BUT I FOUND IT

I'll reblog it in a sec, too, for good measure. 2nd addition is my tag, preserved by my bestie. but yeah anyway - I don't know what possessed me, but it suddenly seemed very funny to me to have poor ZZL's spirit get sucked right out of the SVSSSverse into zidian, where he can idk feed off whatever demons or resentful energy JC is vanquishing with it, slowly regaining strength, until one day his spirit is strong enough to start talking to JC, who of course is freaked out beyond belief that his tragic family heirloom is TALKING TO HIM. it would develop from there.

A personal fave WIP of mine. This is an AU that takes place before DFQC is sealed away, with a slightly altered timeline and a char plopped into the Moon Tribe that wasn't there to begin with 😉. It's been tricky working the plot and all the details, so it's a slow writing process, but I really like it.

I'll give you an excerpt from the very beginning.

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17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

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finally getting to these asks days later whoops

What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work?

I mean, obviously it depends a little on fandom. I wouldn't immediately rec an MCU fic to just anyone, or an MDZS/CQL fic, etc. etc. But I guess if I were to just recommend a fic across the board to someone as, like, a sample of my work, it probably would be the backyard is full of bones both as one of my better works (though arguably it'd be better to do one of my more typical works, to set expectations) and as a work that deals with a lot of the themes/motifs that I frequently use in a lot of my other writing.

What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

oh boy. I feel like most of the AUs I have that I think about at least one other person I know would be interested in (this isn't meant to be a brag, just that I know people who are into the same things as I am, in sometimes very specific ways).

But I guess thinking about obscure AUs, I can think of two for smaller fandoms: one is the one that I've actually started writing with Mildmay traveling back in time and yanking a young Felix out of the Shining Tiger, and only belatedly going "ok what do I do now though" about it; the other of which is the one I actually wrote a short bit of which is the "Elan Morin Tedronai comes back to life (again) and ends up in a weird triangle with Min and Rand post-series where he's sort of trying to figure out what not being a Forsaken means in a world where things are going to not end forever, at least not in the near future" one.

Neither of these seems likely to have much of an audience, partly because they are both for small fandoms and for the latter in particular because they concern a very specific area of interest that, based on my experience, is not one that's broadly of interest in an already small fandom. The first one would also be a lot of "dealing with underage sexual trauma" which is probably not actually a dealbreaker for people who are already in the Doctrine of Labyrinths fandom but also might not exactly be appealing to read about either.

:D im impressed and mildly horrified you scrolled that far!

t'challasam — originally part of my "pessimistic avengers" series that i mostly wrote to cope with my dislike of CACW lol I don't really remember where I was going with it except that Wanda and Sam had apparently been on the run together post-airport fisticuffs and Steve sent them a jet to take to Wakanda....??? unclear what the vision was

“Fine,” he says. “Saying it isn’t Tony – which we don’t know – why should we trust it?” Wanda finally looks up at him, and he wishes she hadn’t. Eighteen months on the run hasn’t been kind to either of them. Her eyes are dull and exhausted. “I am done being a rat in the sewers,” she spits. He doesn’t flinch, but it’s close. Without Steve, leadership fell to Sam, but there isn’t much left to lead. Just him and Wanda, struggling from country to country with the leftover Avengers on their asses. The only reason they haven’t been caught, Sam’s sure, is because the Avengers don’t really care. Every player on the field is burnt out, fried to a crisp from the toll of being put through the wringer again and again and again. There isn’t a drop of anything but exhaustion in them.

and a random wild Sirion we're going with the most recent bc the others are too outdated to post lol this one is mostly just a free write noodling on Jemma and Sirion's parallels/contrasts in the specific context of coming from like. working/middle class backgrounds and marrying into nobility/royalty.

He pressed his lips together, a seed of bitterness tightening in his chest. “Because royal heirs don’t fall for the sons of weavers and blacksmiths?” he replied briskly. Jemma tilted her head slightly. Her lips sealed into a seam and she let out a slow breath through her nose. “They aren’t like us, you know,” she said, undaunted despite her irritation. “The expectations, the rules—they can love you and it will not make it easier.” He stared at her, struggling to find words around his growing frustration. When had he ever suggested he needed things to be easy? He had worked harder than half the Socorán to rise through the ranks, had trained harder and worked longer shifts, had clawed his way out of the muddy shallows of the Haent while still bleeding from the wounds of the ambush. He wasn’t going to fall apart now.

A glance around the gathered crowd told Zhao Zhuliu that the sensibilities of the common people would stretch to watching two cultivators kill each other in the street.

Nevertheless, he bowed to the ladies and drew on his lightness skill to leap to a rooftop.

From the peaked roof, he called down, "Lei gongzi, if you follow me, I will satisfy you."

Here’s my art for the @mdzsrbb with an amazing fic from @iamwestiec :D

12k of XiYao fake dating, it’s *everything*

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One of my modern MDZS AUs! That's a newer one that I'm having a ton of fun with, even if I lost the initial momentum

Fully inspired by talking to @the-pudding-is-a-lie lol

Here's a snippet! I haven't written the part where they get together yet, so this is building up to it.

WIP Files Ask Game post

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They fought more that year. Every tension and new feeling built up until it burst out at the Lunar New Year party, hosted by one of the aunties in the neighborhood. Jin Zixuan could hear his mother yelling his name, could hear Jiang Yanli telling them to stop even through her tears, tears he had caused, because he was a fuck up that couldn't do anything right, who deserved the punch that Wei Wuxian gave him, but a fuck up that would still fight back. Jiang Cheng pulled them apart. Something ripped in Jin Zixuan's chest as Jiang Cheng glared at him, holding his brother's arm. He shook off the hands that helped him to his feet and stormed to his mother's car. 

Jin Zixuan avoided the corners Jiang Cheng used to box him in to. That teasing was gone. He'd fucked up that relationship in his life, like everything else. He didn't need the reminders, nor any bruises that might come from it. 

The Jins moved away that summer, barely letting Jin Zixuan finish school. His father's business was relocating, so they were too. It was fine. He would managed, like he always did. 

He met Luo Qingyang on his first day at the new school. She showed him around the school, helped him find his classes, was overall very friendly. When he forgot her name for two weeks solid, she laughed and told him to call her Mianmian, if that was easier. It was. 

He also met his academic rival, Lan Zhan, who was his grade despite being a couple years younger than him. Lan Zhan, nephew to the principle, top of his class. Silent, condescending, know-it-all. Beautiful. 

It took the whole year to start to understand Lan Zhan. It took a too-honest conversation under the bleachers with his new friend to start to understand himself. 

Gay? What does that mean? What are you talking about? 

Praise be to the internet, that knew all things. 

Thank you so much!! To be honest, what i really wanted to explore with that short was LWJ and JC’s strange relationship - connected to each other bc of WWX but not really able to understand the others’ relationship dynamic, you know? But lately I have very limited writing time so I wrote what my heart always wants - soft and little bit bruised WWX being cared for by his simp husband <3