#sundiscus

Authour: @vinelark (sundiscus)

Subfandom: Batman, Superman, Young Justice

Media: All Media Types

Relationships: Shippy (Tim Drake/Kon-El)

Year: 2022

Summary:

He takes a long, slow breath. Ignores the glares from the other students. “Superboy,” he murmurs. “It’s me. If you’re listening, I could use some help.” Or: 5 times Superboy saves Tim Drake, and one time Tim Drake saves Superboy.

Submitted by anon

Submitter's comment:

modern hauntings are weird (chp. 1)

this river runs to you by sundiscus (AO3) Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed – Mature – Lan Zhan/Wei Wuxian #Alternate Universe #Modern with Magic #Mutual Pining #Dragons #Literal Sleeping Together #Tender wound tending #Canon-Typical Violence #Canon-Typical Tragic Backstory aspect

Framed by the soft morning light, sleek hair swept back and pale blue robes not even slightly rumpled, he looks almost inhuman.

He looks like the last person who should be knocking on Wei Wuxian’s door.

💙 hear the monsters calling home

by sundiscus

M, 8k, Wangxian

Summary: He breaks off, grimacing and covering his nose. “Sorry, that’s really a lot of blood.” When he drops his hand, Lan Wangji catches a flash of a sharp, white fang. In which Lan Wangji is investigating a string of strange deaths and Wei Wuxian is a vampire he can’t seem to kill. [threadfic cross-posted from twitter]

My comments: One of my favourite thread fics of all time and I just found out that it's on AO3 too! I adore this story. Modern setting with cultivation where Lan Wangji is a cultivator who encounters cultivator-turned-vampire Wei Wuxian during a night-hunt and finds himself working together with him to solve a mystery. Of course, they end up growing closer as well and slowly but surely, Wei Wuxian finds a home in the Cloud Recesses. Fer's flavour of Wei Wuxian is something I always enjoy. There's just something so sad about him, that makes me want to huddle him in a blanket, but he doesn't let it weigh him down and he always moves forward, no matter how painful it is and I really like that. Lan Wangji too is just so soft and I love how he goes from "vampires are evil creatures and cannot be trusted" to "feed directly from me, Wei Ying, there's no one I trust like you."

Excerpt: For a moment Lan Wangji thinks, wildly, that this means Wei Ying has been working with the trap-layers this whole time. That Lan Wangji was a fool to keep letting Wei Ying find him, and for letting him go each time. (He also thinks about how close they are—closer than they were that first night when Wei Ying dragged him from the array. Like this, with Wei Ying collapsed on top of him, his fangs are centimeters from Lan Wangji’s throat.) Then Lan Wangji sees the dagger sticking out of Wei Ying’s shoulder. In the few seconds it takes for Wei Ying to stir and push himself up—hissing in pain as he does—Lan Wangji understands. Wei Ying saw the dagger coming. If Wei Ying hadn’t pushed him, it would’ve landed squarely in Lan Wangji’s chest. “Ahh,” Wei Ying is saying. There’s another hiss, a slick sound, and then Wei Ying is holding the bloody dagger in his lap. “Do you want this? For research, or something? Better wrap it up if so, I think—it’s poisoned. Ow.” Lan Wangji doesn’t scramble up—scramble is not something he does—but he gets himself upright very fast. “Poisoned,” he says. “Yeah. So good thing it hit me, huh?” Wei Ying sways a bit as he speaks.

pov lan wangji, pov wei wuxian, modern setting, modern with magic, vampires, vampire wei wuxian, vampire wen ning, misunderstandings, blood drinking, angst with a happy ending, implied sexual content, getting to know each other, getting together, domestic fluff

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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)

Additional Tags: 

Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Established Relationship, Marriage Proposal, fluff with a sprinkling of angst (for flavor)

Word count: 5k

Summary:

“I’m so sorry,” Wei Ying says, all in a rush. “That was meant for Nie-xiong, I swear.”

A tiny line appears between Lan Zhan’s eyebrows. “You meant to propose to Nie Huaisang?”

“Propose to—no! No, I meant to propose to you, obviously, but not like that.”

Wei Wuxian is not a morning person (chp. 1)

this river runs to you by sundiscus (AO3) Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed – Mature – Lan Zhan/Wei Wuxian #Alternate Universe #Modern with Magic #Mutual Pining #Dragons #Literal Sleeping Together #Tender wound tending #Canon-Typical Violence #Canon-Typical Tragic Backstory aspect

Framed by the soft morning light, sleek hair swept back and pale blue robes not even slightly rumpled, he looks almost inhuman.

He looks like the last person who should be knocking on Wei Wuxian’s door.