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Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, artist Lan Zhan, tattoo artist Wei Ying, past angst, Getting Together, emotionally significant art installations, Soulmates

Word count: 5k

Summary:

Wei Ying tips his head to indicate the roped-off room. “What’s going on over there?”

A Bird In The Hand

by sysrae (AO3)

Pairing: Derek Hale x Stiles Stilinski

Oneshot

Word count: 4k

Rating: General Audiences

Summary: Derek and Stiles have been dating for two months, but Laura is still suspicious.

Read Here!

Word Count: 28,253

Summary: Castiel Novak is a poor kid from a bad neighbourhood. Dean Winchester is a rich jock who maybe cares a bit more about Cas than he's willing to admit. You know how it goes.

teen and up audiences

no archive warnings apply

1 987 words

completed

caitlin farmer/chris chow

the future haunts the past

by sysrae (@fozmeadows)

G, <1k, Wangxian

Summary: in which feelings about the parallels between Wei Wuxian and Madam Lan produced a poetry-adjacent chatfic Kay's comments: Sysrae is back with another banger! The way I screamed when I got a notification that sysrae posted a new work and they just don't miss. This is a short one exploring the parallels between Wei Wuxian and Madam Lan and once again made me feel so glad that Lan Wangji got to have his happy ending with Wei Wuxian. Excerpt: POV: You are Lan Zhan, and you're five, and you love your mother even though you're not supposed to, even though she's locked away for ruining your father. And then she dies, and her death is celebrated by those who feared and hated her, but you don't see her body; you're not even allowed to mourn.

pov lan wangji, canon compliant, character study, lan family feels, grief/mourning, canonical character death, sad with a happy ending, poetry

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misunderstood 'verse

by sysrae

M, 7k, wangxian, 2 works, series in progress

Summary:  Lan Wangji has known Wei Ying for a fortnight, the first time he sees him get hit by a car.

My comments:  Oh, what a delicious little morsel (2 works so far). In which wwx keeps getting hit by cars, and lwj, who notices everything about wwx, makes an observation that leads to a life-changing epiphany and a lot of things slot into place after that.

modern au, college/university au, roommates, emotional hurt/comfort, car accidents, past child abuse, partial hearing loss, deaf wei wuxian, HoH wei wuxian, getting together, friends to lovers, deafness, @fozmeadows

*I found this picture today and so I made a quick alternative cover because EAR:

❤️save a sword, ride a socialist

by sysrae

E, 33k, wangxian, and also lan wangji & jin zixuan

Summary:  In which Lan Qiren and Jin Guangshao are conspicuously terrible, Lan Wangji decides to fake-date Wei Wuxian about it, and literally no braincells are consulted.

Excerpt 1:  “Okay.” Jin Zixuan leans forward, elbows braced on his knees, chin resting on his fists. “Your brother’s birthday is coming up, right? Big party at Cloud Recesses, all cultivators invited. And Zewu-Jun has control of the guest list, correct?”

“He does,” says Lan Wangji, not quite liking where this is going.

“Perfect. So, here’s the plan: I bring Qin Su, Mo Xuanyu and Meng Yao as my guests, to show my father I’m willing to acknowledge them all even if he won’t. Mianmain brings a partner of her choosing to kiss in public, to show her parents that she and I aren’t dating, and you bring an extremely disreputable boyfriend, to show your uncle that, if he’s not going to be supportive, then you’re not going to bother dating socially appropriate men. Not an actual boyfriend, obviously,” he adds, as Lan Wangji opens his mouth to protest this detail. “You find a fake date, someone who’ll have steam coming out of Lan Qiren’s ears, so that when you finally do bring a nice boy home, he’ll be so relieved at the nice part that he’ll forget to be so hung up about the boy.”

It’s a terrible plan: an absolute social catastrophe waiting to happen.... “I do not like your plan,” says Lan Wangji, on principle. He waits a beat, "… I think I know exactly who to bring.”

An awed, delighted, thoroughly devious expression creeps over Jin Zixuan’s face. “Chaos gremlin,” he breathes. “Finally, a good use for Wei Wuxian!”

Excerpt 2:  “Hypothetically,” Jin Zixuan says flatly, after a long and extremely judgmental silence.

“Hypothetically, yes.”

“Hypothetically – no, I’m sorry, I can’t do this. You’re telling me that Wei Wuxian – Wei Wuxian, professional chaos gremlin – is a fucking single father?”

Lan Wangji winces. “He… adopted a child? Who is four? Which is why he’s not enrolled this year?”

“He what?”

Lan Wangji makes a tortured noise and slides down the couch a little. “He adopted a child, Jin Zixuan. A small, adorable orphan who had nowhere else to go. He just… adopted him, and is now a father.”

“Wangji,” says Jin Zixuan, “I’ve always said you have a weird domesticity kink for a guy who never actually dates, but for fuck’s sake.”

“Do not,” says Lan Wangji, “kinkshame me in my hour of need.”

“Your hour of need is directly caused by your stupid kink!” shouts Jin Zixuan. He makes an exasperated noise, then affects the drawling monotone that means he’s pretending to be Lan Wangji. “‘Hello, my name is Hanguang-Jun, and I’m attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. Yesterday Wei Wuxian told me he adopted an orphan even though he’s a single idiot in his early twenties, and now I dream of kissing him under the moonlight.’ You’re my friend and I love you, Wangji, but – from the bottom of my heart – why are you like this?”

“Because I’m an idiot, apparently,” Lan Wangji says, morosely. “I didn’t realise I wanted him, because I didn’t think it was something I could have, but now –”

modern au, modern with magic, humor, college/university au, fake/pretend relationship, single parent wei wuxian, homophobia, lan qiren’s A+ parenting, emotional hurt/comfort, family drama, light angst, idiots to lovers, fluff, modern cultivator au, coming out, arranged marriage, (or an attempt at it anyway), domestic, adorable with an icing of angst (just the way I like it), @fozmeadows​