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WangxianFicRecs - Rewind 2025

Here's part one of our fandom's beloved authors showing off their wonderful stories they published this year. Make sure to give them all the love they deserve and thank you for your hard work!

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A sweet and comfy little fic in which, to quote one of the comments, "Lan Wangji has had a Morning. A good one, but a Morning nonetheless." He also has an Evening first, but that, unfortunately, was claimed by the Emperor's Smile ;)

Thanks for assembling this list can't wait to see it ❤️🖤🩵🤍

Fair's Fair

by KingdomFlameVIII (@peebls)

E, 11k, Wangxian

Summary: "Are you ever going to kiss me?" Wei Ying demanded. or Wei Wuxian has had quite enough. Lan Wangji is all too happy to adapt.

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I want to submit this for the 2025 rewind to give it a little boost - one of the themes through the comments I've been getting has been that readers don't usually read a work like this, but were glad they did!

When Plums are Ripe (There Must Be a Road)

by somevariationofgay (@somevariationofgay)

E, 105k, Sangxian

Summary: When his army is defeated at the border, Wei Ying - a former General of Dazhi - is taken as a prize by the victor nation Beicui. He's resigned to a life of hard labor and an early death when a chance encounter alters his fate - he ends up in the manor of Prince Qing as a concubine instead. Wanting nothing to do with the fights of an inner courtyard, he takes pains to avoid the attention of the prince's legal wife and the other concubines. But all his efforts go to waste as the petty struggles for favor that consume the inner courtyard overflow, leaving death in their wake. Throwing himself headfirst into treacherous water, Wei Ying struggles against the current to create a future where he belongs and thrives, survive a present where danger hides in beauty, and tear down the powerful to get justice for the dead.

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This is the fourth and final fic in a series I started ages ago, but the final fic was written this year and features a WangXian wedding!

dive in the sea and you can seek the pearl

by RoseThorne (@rosethornewrites)

T, 3k, Wangxian

Summary: Wei Wuxian prepares for his wedding. Spanish translation available!

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I have written a story about an alternate outcome at the Xuanwu slaughter cave. It's still not completed but I am already pretty proud of what I have written :)

Thrown inside the Burial Mounds- Through thick and thin

by Suga_btsswap (@sugabtsswap)

Not rated, WIP, 23k, Wangxian

Summary: What happens if Jiang Cheng and Jin Zixuan weren’t fast enough to save Lan Zhan and Wei Ying inside the Xuanwu of slaughter cave? What if Wen Chao went back and captured them? What if not only Wei Ying but also Lan Zhan gets thrown inside the Burial Mounds? How would that change their fate?

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I just posted a fic titled, in which Qin Su finds out that she and Jin Guangyao are siblings before their wedding and goes to Lan Xichen for help.

A Resolute Pine

by stiltonbasket (@stiltonbasket)

T, 2k, Nielan & Wangxian

Summary: “This is what you heard?” Qin Su has never seen Lan Xichen lose his composure before. The corners of his eyes are scarlet, and his face is whiter than the snowy collar of his gown; and if the two of them were not seated, Qin Su suspects that he would have collapsed on the spot. She takes another sip of tea. “That is what he said.” Lan Xichen looks at her in desperation. “But—” “Do you think I would mistake the voice of my intended?” she asks quietly. “I heard him speaking with one of your former disciples—Su Minshan, I think. My child will be allowed only two or three years; though A-Yao said that he would reconsider if it learns to talk before its first birthday, as he did.” At the other end of the table, Zewu-jun makes another sound of anguish. (In which Lan Xichen hosts a hundred-day feast and a wedding, and Qin Su and Jin Rusong are spared by a timely stroke of luck.)

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Of course, dear!

The Witching Hour by KingdomFlameVIII

"Nevertheless, Serpent of Eden, let it be known that you are loved, that you deserve to be loved, and that none so ever has there existed a being that has been loved by an angel so much as you."

They stay up a little too late and Aziraphale decides to take a chance.

Rule 2: Answer the questions you were tagged on and make 11 new ones

Rule 3: Tag 11 new people and link them to your post

Rule 4: Let them know they were tagged

I was tagged by: screw-the-rules-i-love-castiel

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Questions I Got Asked:

1. How long have you been on tumblr?

 I've had my account for a year and a half, I've actually USED it for just under a year.

2. What’s your favourite video game? 

Final Fantasy VII

3. What’s your favourite song, and how often would you say you listen to it? 

Normally this would be a really hard question to answer but just yesterday I rediscovered a song I REALLY loved and completely forgot about so I'mma go with Each Step by Heather Dale

4. Do you have any celebrities, characters, or bands you fangirl/boy over? 

I try not to be super fangirly about real people but one can hardly help it when it comes to Misha Collins and David Tennant.  I dunno if you can call Max Brooks a celebrity but as I am rereading World War Z for the first time in like six years I'm famgirling over his brilliance pretty hard.  Character-wise, of course there's Charlie from Supernatural, Vincent Valentine fom FFVII, Marik Ishtar from YuGiOh, Aqua and Terra from Kingdom Hearts, Haldir from Lord of the Rings... and that's probably about it for people I will absolutely lose my mind over in a fangirlish manner.

5. What’s your proudest accomplishment?

Graduating college. 

6. Describe your most vivid dream for me? 

Okay, just to preface this... almost all of my dreams are what most people would probably classify as nightmares... but since I am a creepy person and a huge horror buff, I think they're actually pretty sweet.  So... one of my most vivid dreams took place at an old friend's house... a friend who conveniently actually lives in a mansion in the woods.  In the dream I was not myself, I was some other person... and this person and about twelve others were contestents in a new reality show where the premise was to recreate a diffrent genre of horror movie every episode, and the object was to survive.  On the first night, the genre was 'slasher' and the contestents were set loose in the woods with a chainsaw-wielding madman.  Any of the contestants who lived until dawn would make it to the next episode.  And here's where I prove wrong the theory that before you die in your dreams you always wake up because I died like FOUR TIMES in that dream... and everytime I did my 'consciousness' shot into another contestant's body.  Once I got run through when I was a derpbutt and tripped over a tree root while running.  Once I was trying to hide up on the roof of the porch and the chainsaw got shoved through it and took my feet off and I bled out.  Once I was trying to hide in a ditch that was actually full of mud and I got stuck and hacked to pieces...  fortunately, not ALL the contestants died and one of the ones whose body I 'inhabited' did make it through until morning.  But I didn't wake up yet.  We were all prepped for the next episode, which had the genre of 'bodysnatcher' and we got dropped off inside a large skyscraper.  For a while we just wandered around through halls and offices, climbing... unintentionally, we all split up... and I must have been on the 30th floor before I heard screaming up above.  Like an idiot, I went to investigate only to find a woman in classy business attire tackling an IT guy and shoving her fingers into his throat.  She was making a horrible gurgling sound and I noticed (before I got smart and ran the heck away) that there were what looked like worms dangling from her neck.  I started running back down, I think finally deciding that whatever the prize was for being on this show, it was totally not worth it.  I knew if I got to the ground floor I could escape into the city.  Unfortunately, all hell had already broken loose... I only got down a few floors before I reached one that was completely shot out.  Apparently the city had begun to target that building for attack, realizing that there was an infestation of alien creatures.  A helicopter was strafing the entire floor, trying to keep everyone from higher up from getting down.  Fortunately for me, after I took a bullet to the spine and died, I popped into the body of one of the other contestants who was already farther below.  For a little while I tried being altruistic, running around and trying to find other surviving contestants to take with me... I had a group of three when the third one in the back tackled the second one in a stair way, digging his hand into her throat to implant the parasite.  So I booked it the hell out of there real quick and didn't bother trying to find anybody else.  I actually made it to the bottom floor... I was running down the last set of stairs with a straight shot to the exit when I got tackled by the secretary and she dug her hands into my neck...  That was when I woke up, lying half off the bed with my face in the floor.  I actually got into bed again and tried to go back to sleep to continue the dream because I wanted to see the themes of the other levels... but it didn't work.

7. What’s your favourite TV show/ movie? 

TV Show - Supernatural, Movie - Sunshine

8. Video games vs. movies, which is better? 

WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME?!  OH MY GOD... OKAY... VIDEOGAMES, THERE I SAID IT.

9. What are your OTPs and NOTPs? 

Goddamnit there's so many... okay I'll try to stick to just one of each per fandom.  YuGiOh - Thiefshipping (OTP), Tendershipping (NOTP)... Kingdom Hearts - Terqua (OTP), AkuRoku (NOTP)... FFVII - Strifentine (OTP), Vincent/Shelke (NOTP)... Supernatural - Dean/Castiel (OTP), Sam/Amy (NOTP)... Doctor Who - Doctor/Rose (OTP), Doctor/River (NOTP)... Digimon - Taito (OTP), Taiora (NOTP)... Tron - Flynn/Ram (OTP), Quorra/Clu (NOTP)... 

10. Excuse me sir do you have a minute to discuss about our lord and savior Jesus Christ? 

Dude Jesus Christ is rad, it's not everybody who gets recognized as a boddhisatva and stuff.  It's just too bad that a lot of his followers are so damn stupid.

11. What’s your dream job?

ESL Teacher. -

Questions For You:

1. What is your favorite planet?  Fictional planets are acceptable here!

2. How many oceans have you been to, and which ones?

3. What's your favorite spice?

4. Have you ever worn a cape?  What was the occasion?  What kind of cape?

5. Describe your ideal engagement ring!

6. If you could live in the world of one of your fandoms, which fandom and why?  What would your place in that world be?

7. If you had to trade wardrobes with a fictional character, whose wardrobe would you want to wear?  Or would you want to trade to see them wearing your clothing?

8. Do you like fireworks?  Have you ever set off fireworks yourself?

9. Without naming it or any of the characters, pitch one of your favorite fandoms in a way that would make people want to watch/play/read it.

10. What is your favorite family tradition?