#trickybonmot

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Characters: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin, Jiang Yanli, Nie Huaisang, Jin Zixuan, Lan Huan | Lan Xichen, Lan Qiren Additional Tags: Fluff, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Cloud Recesses (Módào Zǔshī), Cloud Recesses Shenanigans (Modao Zushi), Friends to Lovers, Romantic Comedy, Kissing, Fade to Black, Mild Sexual Content, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, No Sunshot No War AU, Everything's Beautiful and Nothing Hurts When There's No Sunshot Campaign, Falling In Love, Non-Graphic Violence, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Sparring, Harm to Animals, Don't Worry The Animal is Fine Wangji Makes Sure of That, Developing Friendships, Wangji Makes Friends At Summer School, None Of This Makes Sense Until You Remember They Are All Teenage Boys, teenagers in love, They're A Mess Your Honor (And I Love Every One Of Them), Hurt/Comfort, Mild Blood, First Time, Podfic, Podfic Length: 1.5-2 Hours Summary:

Wangji risks a glance across the aisle; Wei Ying’s gaze is tilted down to his book, a model of diligence. But he’s smiling as he writes, and when his eyes flick over to Wangji’s, just for a second, they’re alight with something beautiful.

This is love, Wangji realizes, right then. This is what it feels like. It's happening afresh even as it dawns on him.

He copies the next line wrong, and the next.

No Color In Itself

by trickybonmot

E, 2k, qingxian, (wen qing/wei wuxian) (wangxian endgame)

Summary:  An alternate ending to the Wen Remnants' dinner party in episode 29: Wei Ying and Wen Qing blow off some steam together.

My comments:  Such a beautiful and wrenching story (and I say this from the very bottom of my wangxian-shipping heart) I'm not quite sure if 'pwp' really encapsulates it.

It's beautiful. The descriptions are gorgeous (sometimes I honestly forget that het sex can be a Thing and there are body parts other than cocks), and the story itself is lovely and hot and tragic and tender all at once. My heart hurts, a little. I'm glad they have each other, for right now. They're lonely and sad and hurting and scared and their situation sucks so hard, but. They have each other, and neither is going to turn down the simple, animal comfort the other can provide.

That last sentence: I'm in tears.

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As a somewhat jarring aside, I've gotta say this Author's Note cracks me up: "The fic I've been reading: Lush nights in the jingshi, soaring love confessions, soulmates setting off together into eternity The fic I've been writing: Sad drunk idiot gets pegged ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

From my own tags:  #I'm so committed to wangxian #and this didn't make me feel like there was any betrayal at all #lwj would be GLAD they had this #i would actually call this a HEALTHY coping mechanism #I mean #their options are pretty limited

established qingxian, wen qing/wei wuxian, alcohol, background wangxian pining, pwp, unhealthy coping mechanisms, light dom/sub, under-negotiated k1nk, bisexual wei wuxian, toys, angst, feels, emotional hurt/comfort, @trickybonmot​

You're welcome! I enjoy translation work a lot.

The song is so pretty!! And somehow it was fairly straightforward to translate... So I'm grateful for that. It's very imagery heavy instead of being too allusion and idiom heavy. :)

Sometimes song lyrics can be really difficult. I haven't tried to translate wwx's character theme from cql even though I love it because I read it and get all these feels and then go, nope. So much. My brain and heart can't both hurt this much at once...

@giedd Ah, that’s a high compliment, thank you so much! I’m glad you liked it!

 @canghai-sangtian​ As a person who still does that occassionally (oops) I don’t think he will ever be able to fully shake that, especially since it’s kept him safe in many instances, poor guy. Yessss, the brotherly chest thumppp!! It hit me so clearly! 😁

@madtomedgar HO yes, for sure. I think the only thing that kept him from going straight to ‘Oh no, I have to leave right now immediately’ was the fact that it’s been a slow sort of crawl and there have been a lot of little bits of him going, ‘wait...am I allowed to enjoy this?’ because I reckon that this is a little over a year since he was first married. But if this had happened in the first few months? It probably would have been a total shut down and it would have been a while before he resurfaced again, emotionally or physically. 

Y E S. And, strangely, I get the feeling it’s going to be worse now that he’s been accepted. Like, at the beginning, if JC got pissed about something, he could be his regular diplomatic self and just accept that, hey, Jiang Wanyin is a little immature. But as soon as it’s at him? About something he did? After they said ‘hey we’re family’? He’s going to jump immediately to ‘oh great, knew this was fake and they actually hate me :) Perfect :) ' It will feel like immediate rejection and it will not be really detectable the first few times it happens because he’ll probably just cover for it so well that it looks like him dealing like it like he always has, but it will begin to compound. 

THANK YOU, I’M SO GLAD, I always try hard with that ;-;

@trickybonmot AH I’m glad it’s accurate! I’ve nannied before and there was a moment where I held this little newborn and was like ‘....oh god, one day, you’re going to die’ and it was Not A Great Feeling. 

@elenilote​ THANK YOUUU 😍

@dotsandfoxes I’m so glad that you liked it, thank you!!

@tenthcorner AHHH I would apologize, but that’s a big compliment, so I’ll just say THANKS 😁💜

@booksfoodmusic-minion​ Thank you so so muuhuhuch ;-; I can just see him thinking of love as being such a dangerous thing

[Are You Here to Stop Me fic replies]

@yellingintothelegalvoid HE’S GOT THIS, HELL YEAH! Ahh, I’m so glad you like it!!! More to come with this specific piece, and more besides, so please keep breathing 😂

@canghai-sangtian​ THANK YOU! Right??? He’s gonna be so good for them!

@gingersnapwolves​ SO HIGH TENSION, BUT HE’S MAKING DO!!

@sparklespiff​ There he go >:)

I actually really love the name Jasper for a boy for non-SU reasons, but my husband is against it. :-/

Johnlock Love Letters

(AKA - JL3 Declarations of Love from fan fiction) #941