#junior quartet

even better if it’s a modern au where basically all of them are filthy rich (looking at jin ling and the lans rn), and they’re all in a fancy boarding school (cloud recesses school trust trust) and they’re all just being silly rich kids in boarding school yk?

silly rich kids in boarding school is actually my favorite genre regardless of whether it’s a fic

but even better if it’s my fave mdzs dynamics (the juniors being silly) and then some complicated drama happening in the background (wangxian)

even better if we get some cute xuanli snippets here and there bc they obviously wouldn’t be dead in a modern au and awwww jin ling’s parents are alive 🥹🥹🥹🥹

xuanli is lowk my favorite mdzs ship, especially when you think about the fact i only rewatched/reread it after vaguely remembering hey, i remember watching this show with this hella gorgeous girl i was obsessed with like 7 years back. lowk gotta watch it again, she was so cool and pretty and sweet. (the girl is jiang yanli)

i read one fic (operation old men on ao3) that’s basically this and i’m starving for more

also even better if we get meng yao helping his dad evade taxes because he would absolutely do that. i saw a tumblr post about it and i think of this everyday.

Fic in a Box is an exchange where you have to create 10k words (or equivalent) total, but there are like a million mediums to choose from plus you can swap out some of your assignment so that not all of the 10k has to go to the same person.

It's still in the anon period so I can't link to any of my works yet, but I wanted to show off the gifts I got because they're so cool! I actually didn't get a single fic in this exchange, which honestly is pretty neat.

Fandom: Supernatural

A Softer Supernatural - A Softer World style panels, with text from the original but graphics from SPN. Jack Kline-centric, these are so lovely and painful.

Fandom: The Magnus Archives

Field Notes on Survival for Victims of the Magnus Institute - This is so neat! It's in the style of a zine (you can even print it out and fold it), but it's an in-universe document, a pamphlet for Jon's victims when he was in his Hungry Archivist era. Including a QR code that links to the episode that inspired it (which I relistened to, so this was a cool multimedia experience) and some extra lore in the author's notes that you cannot miss, it makes it even better.

Fandom: The Untamed

Junior Quartet puzzle time - This person made me not one but TWO Untamed-themed logic puzzles! I guess it's not quite accurate to say I got no fic, because these do have stories as framing devices for why you need to solve the logic puzzles, which are adorable and perfect.

ETA: Oops, just realized the second puzzle didn't make it into the series! There are definitely two.

These are all things that I would never have looked for or expected, this exchange generates such cool stuff! I hope I can participate again next year! Please go give these some love.