#xantissa

by Alxina, xantissa

Fandom: 大梦归离 | Fangs of Fortune (TV)  

Summary:

On the peak of Kunlun Mountain, the Baize Token was broken and Zhu Yan lost control over malicious energy because of the Blood Moon. There was no force powerful enough to stop Zhu Yan like this, but there was enough to change his course.

Set post token destroying.

Part 3 of the Unintentional Dream series by @xantissa and me!

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Liu Sang & Wang Pangzi, Wang Pangzi & Wu Xie, Wang Pangzi & Zhang Qiling

Characters: Wang Pangzi, Wu Xie, Liu Sang, Zhang Qiling

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Space, Alternate Universe - Space Opera, Space Opera, Psychic Abilities, Nightmares, Hurt/Comfort, ish, Spaceships

Series: Part 11 of Network of the Heart

Summary: Pangzi did not like the stowaway that Xiaoge and Tianzhen had decided to adopt. The brat was mouthy and suspicious, and Pangzi was sure he was up to something.

When Xiaoge left the three of them behind on the Yun Cai to go feed his ship and strange things happen, Pangzi knows exactly who to blame and he's not having any of it.

"Are you talking to Xiaoge?" Tianzhen asked, finally making an appearance on the flight deck and immediately stealing the entire bag of Pangzi's chips.

Pangzi nodded, leaning back in his chair again and putting his feet back up on the console. "I was. He reached the radiation field about 15 or 20 minutes ago, and his ship is feeding. He said he'll try not to be too long." He swiped the bag of chips back from Tianzhen. "Where's the jinx?"

"Do you have to call him that?" Tianzhen asked around a crunching mouthful of chips. "And Liu Sang is asleep. He wouldn't say why he was so anxious about Xiaoge making him stay behind on Yun Cai, even though I assured him it would only be for a few hours. I was afraid he was going to stress himself sick, so I convinced him to take some sedatives. He's in Xiaoge's cabin for now."

Pangzi just grunted at that. "Well, I don't think Xiaoge will mind, and I suppose there isn't anywhere else he could sleep," he allowed. Certainly not in his cabin, and Tianzhen needed his own in case he wanted to nap, too.

"No," Tianzhen agreed. "Not with him being a baby ship."

Pangzi levelled him with a look. "And what exactly is a fucking 'baby ship', Tianzhen? No weaselling out of it this time, there's just the two of us and all the time in the universe until Xiaoge gets back."

"Well, it's..." Tianzhen hesitated, then gave a brilliant, innocent smile. "I'm not exactly sure."

Pangzi heaved a deep sigh. Of fucking course Tianzhen didn't actually know, no matter how much he acted like he did.

"But I do have a theory," Tianzhen continued. "I think it means that Xiaoge thinks that Liu Sang might be from the same race as him. Or maybe the same race as his ship, and 'baby ship' means that ships like that start out being people-like when they're young, and grow into being more ship-like as they get older."

Pangzi closed his eyes and counted to ten before looking at Tianzhen again. "Tianzhen," he said patiently, "that has got to be the stupidest fucking theory I have ever heard in my life, and I've been travelling with you for several years by this point. A humanoid growing into a giant fucking ship like Xiaoge's? Impossible." He fished the last few chips out of the bag. "Xiaoge thinking Liu Sang is from his race, whoever they are, sounds a lot more likely, I guess. Even if they don't really look anything alike."

"Most humanoid races have a lot of variation," Tianzhen said. "Especially the ones that are really close to humans. Besides, they do have some similarities, like their fingers. Haven't you noticed before that they both have really long fingers? And they're both really pretty, too."

Pangzi side-eyed him hard at that. It was bad enough that he had to put up with Tianzhen's unacknowledged crush on Xiaoge, the last thing he needed was Tianzhen developing a crush on the brat as well. "Long fingers and pretty," he said flatly.

Tianzhen just nodded in agreement, as if he didn't come out with some of the most batshit insane things at times. "That's right. I know it's not much, but that's what I've got to go on right now, unless Xiaoge ever decides to be more forthcoming. Or we find out more about him and where he's from and what happened to him."

Pangzi grunted again, brushing crumbs off of his fingers. That went for both of them, to be honest - Xiaoge didn't remember anything from before he and Tianzhen had woken him up, and the brat was stubbornly close-lipped about his own past, other than a flat refusal to ever go back to Malaz."Well," he began, then stopped, grabbing hold of the console with a gasp as the uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach turned into a wave of overwhelming fear that almost blanked out his ability to see, leaving him panting and shaking once it passed. Beside him, Tianzhen was curled up on the ground, whimpering.

by @alxina @xantissa

Series: ← Previous Work Part 4 of the Between Dusk and Dawn series Next Work →

Characters: Wu Xie (DMBJ Series), Wang Can (DMBJ Series), Zhang Qiling

Relationships: Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling, Wang Can/Wu Xie (DMBJ Series)

Additional Tags: Spying, Revelations, Awkward Conversations, Relationship Negotiations, Angst, Humor

Summary:

When Wu Xie left Wushanju without telling him where he was going, Zhang Qiling followed, curious, and got to see Wu Xie with his… other lover, as odd as that sounded.

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Usually, Wu Xie was harder to follow. Zhang Qiling knew this because he’d made a game of trying to follow Wu Xie whenever he tried to slip away, and, the thing was, he’d found from this that Wu Xie had well over a sixty percent  chance to notice a tail. He checked back often and made lots of random direction changes to make the life of whoever was following him as difficult as possible.

But this time was different. Wu Xie had been pretty open about the fact that his other lover was going to be in town - and it was still so very awkward to hear that term; not just the ‘other’ part, but the ‘lover’ part, too - and Zhang Qiling had expected that the two of them would meet first. If this man was as fragile and as skittish as Wu Xie said, then it only seemed reasonable for Wu Xie to meet him in person first before trying to introduce him and Zhang Qiling. It made sense.

Zhang Qiling still couldn’t help his curiosity.

So, when Wu Xie had announced that he would be out for the evening and had mentioned no other plans for the next day, Zhang Qiling knew what to expect. After all, Wu Xie had told him everything regarding this.

But he still hadn’t expected the way Wu Xie had walked out without turning back even once, and then, halfway down the road, had realized that he was missing his phone and had come back, breathless, picking it up from the table where he had left it. It was definitely not the kind of behaviour Zhang Qiling associated with who Wu Xie was now, and it somehow startled him.

He gave it a good ten minutes after Wu Xie had come back and left again before he started strapping his bag around his shoulders, and then he waited for another five minutes just to be sure. He could always catch up, but he didn’t want to give himself away by going out too soon. He expected to have to take up to the roofs at some point, which was really the only way to get away from Wu Xie’s line of sight, but, since Wu Xie never bothered to check back, he didn’t have to after all.

Wu Xie didn’t take his car, which meant that he was either going somewhere close, or heading into the city center where parking was hard. He got onto a bus, and Zhang Qiling had no choice but to wait until the last moment and then get on with his cap tightly over his head and bulky headphones giving him as much of a student look as possible. He’d even abandoned his black hoodie for a tan, soft looking jacket, one that was very bulky and very much not anything he would usually wear.

My First Story Rec:  The Honeypot Series https://archiveofourown.org/series/581935

At some point, I’ll figure out how to archive my story recs together.  But I want to give each rec it’s moment to begin with.  The Honeypot series moves me.  Like, in my soul.  It’s gorgeous.

These stories captivate me in ALL the ways.  I just finished a re-read of them, and again, I’m just absolutely blown away by it.  The story is deep and incredibly moving.  There are scenes that leave me WRECKED - and I’m not even talking about the sex scenes.  

There’s a scene in the 1st fic that describes one of the characters so achingly perfect - they give him JUSTICE and character background that is so spot on and achingly accurate, that I have to stop mid-sentence and try again, because it hurts and is so good... It just nails all the feels in all the right places, OMG.  

There’s a scene in the 2nd story that is so realistic, so heartbreaking - I must re-read it over and over - it’s hauntingly and achingly gorgeous in all it’s angsty glory.  

There’s a scene in the 4th story that I can barely get through - just SOBBING my heart out.  The LOVE in this story is easily one of the best out there.  It’s real, it’s tangible, it’s gut-wrenching.  

The sex is AMAZE-BALLS, HOLY SHIT IT’S THE BEST THING EVER.  But the story is so much more.  

It’s more.  It’s everything a story should be.  And it leaves me breathless for more.  

Steve, Sasha, and Sai are perfect, and I will always need more of them, even if the authors say the series is complete.  I wish they would go back and explore these characters again.  

I fall in love with them over, and over again.  I’m utterly infatuated.

And seriously, could Sasha be ANY HOTTER?  

It’s one of those stories that I have to have repeated inner debates on whether or not to search out a new fic or just enjoy immersing myself yet again into this visceral and lush world, where everything just fits, like the perfect puzzle piece. It all is described in such detail, you can practically taste the air, and the characters feel foundational in a way most stories lack because they can’t see them so wholeheartedly, in both their strengths as well as their weaknesses.  

To me, this is a core fic.  If you want a story that completely fleshes out ALL the characters, plot, and storyline - this is the one for you.  It’s angsty, so much so that one physically aches for these characters, but in that angst, it’s so gorgeously done that despite how much it hurts, you need more.

What inspires me to write?  Stories like this one, where I can live and breathe these characters in a world that was created exactly and perfectly for them.

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OKAY BUT LISTEN LISTEN 

HAVE I

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TO THESE TWO

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BECAUSE

THIS IS ALL THAT’S HAPPENING ON AO3 RIGHT NOW

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Additional Tags: 

dub con, Dark Fantasy, AU, double identity porn, sub!Lan Zhan, what else can he be as a sacrifice to a demon king, Angst, Drama, Forced Orgasm, tiny bit of blood play, Prostate Massage, D/s themes, Falling In Love, Bunnies, mature Lan Zhan, Magic, multiple OC characters, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Porn, Identity Porn, Dubious Consent, Do not post to other sites, Trust, Happy Ending, Falling In Love Again

Word count: 61k

Summary:

It’s been sixteen years since Wei Wuxian’s death and the world has been slowly going insane ever since. It’s been ten years since the rains stopped coming, almost five since the rivers turned rusty red, the water thick and foul. The people are dying a slow painful death of starvation and disease and all Lan Zhan can do is watch over his dying clan.