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  1. Summary

    LanLan AU set in the criminal underworld of Shanghai, in the first half of the 20th century.

     

    Pulse of the great city,
    surge of life,
    beating, panting, roaring,
    spurting, flying, leaping,
    the whole sky covered with a pall of smoke:
    my heart is ready to leap from my mouth.
    Hills, roofs, surge on,
    wave after wave they well up before me.
    Symphony of myriad sounds,
    marriage of man and Nature.
    The curve of the bay might be Cupid's bow,
    man's life his arrow, shot over the sea.
    Dark and misty coastline, steamers at anchor,
    steamers in motion, steamers unnumbered,
    funnel upon funnel bearing its black peony.
    Ah! Emblem of the Twentieth Century!
    Stern mother of modern civilization!

    --"Panorama from Fudetate Yama," Guo Moruo (trans. Jong Lester and A.C. Barnes)

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    After Evermore, Jean's relationship with language is complicated. Sometimes, he is nonverbal. Sometimes, he only speaks in French. Jeremy meets him where he is, every time.

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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    Five times Zhou Zishu poisoned his lovers, and one time they poisoned him instead.

    A story about trust.

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    13 Aug 2023

  2. Public Bookmark 4

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    Zhou Zishu snorts, immediately understanding what Han Ying hasn’t said aloud. “Don’t worry about Lao Wen. He’s going to be impossible no matter what we decide, but he’ll settle once Gu Xiang does. He’s still worried about factions.”

    “Can I help?” Han Ying isn’t sure he fully believes what Zhou Zishu had said about the warriors taking their cues from him, but he wants the colony to thrive. If there’s a chance he can influence them, he’s willing to try.

    Zhou Zishu eyes him speculatively. “Not just yet,” he says finally. “I’ll let you know.”

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    03 Aug 2023

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    I love this fic so much the whole world is so cool it's so neat how the characters fit in it

  3. Public Bookmark 8

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    It's something he wants to work through. It's something she can give him-- or at least, try to give him.

    Title from Crystals by Of Monsters and Men.

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    03 May 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 15

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    The one where Jiang Cheng and Wen Qing fuck because of xenobotanical sex pollen and are unbearably tender about it.

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    03 May 2023

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    Breakdowns of what everyone’s wearing, from Tang Fan’s formal robes and Sui Zhou’s uniforms to Ming dynasty underwear and, yes, the “Mama Cui” outfit. Includes Dong’er, Wang Zhi and Ding Rong, Dr. Pei, Tang Yu, the Emperor, the Noble Consort, and many, many hats. This is by no means definitive or exhaustive, but it’ll give you something to describe in your fic beyond “a buncha robes.”*

    *Which I have done. Sorry, Lan Zhan.

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