Meng Yao vs. the Board of the Homeowner's Association
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used to want you dead (now i only want you gone) by Ariaste
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
20 Nov 2020
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“It is not a coup,” Meng Yao says, which he has said at every weekly covert cheeseburger assignation since they began doing them. “A coup is, quote: a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. Unquote.”
“The HOA counts as a governing body. Trying to take it over is a coup.”
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Two gremlins, eating cheeseburgers in the car in a parking lot at 1am, five feet apart because they're not friends.
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i want the storm inside you awoken now (i want your warm bright eyes) by Ariaste
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
21 Nov 2020
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Meng Yao is 99.999% certain that absolutely no one from the HOA (and specifically none of the board members) will even be aware of tonight's event, let alone in attendance. Thus, the extremely rare opportunity to enact a particular gremlin move (as Wei Wuxian would call it) that he has been sitting on for some time.
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Two gremlins, having muttered conversations in the back seat of the car, five feet apart cause they're totally not friends.
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and here I am, softer than a shower (and here I am, to garland you with flowers) by Ariaste
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
23 Nov 2020
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“Imagine that you are a powerful and mysterious stage magician, right. In this metaphor, I suppose Lan-dage is your glamorous assistant, which--ok, that’d be a very good look for him. No jobs or responsibilities except to stand around looking beautiful and occasionally gesturing at you in a ‘Look how magnificent, have you ever seen anything so spectacular’ sort of way.”
Meng Yao allows Wei Wuxian to see the slightest hint of a smile, because this image does rather please him. “But you have come into my kitchen to complain about being in the audience.”
“I have come into the kitchen to tell the great and powerful wizard that I have a master’s degree in engineering and I’m fully capable of operating any number of levers and trapdoors and hidden mirrors and flamethrowers, if the wizard would be so kind as to allow me step behind the curtain.”
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Two gremlins, sitting through a tense family dinner, flirting with their husbands as emotional aftercare.
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both the prison and the open hand (bells on low, on high) by Ariaste
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
25 Nov 2020
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“Did you bring wine?” Huan-ge asks, trying terribly hard to be stern.
“No, ge,” Meng Yao says, wide-eyed.
“Vodka?”
“No, ge.”
“Whiskey?”
“Of course not, ge.”
”A-Yao, you know the rule.”
“Alcohol is forbidden,” Meng Yao recites obediently. “I know, gege.”
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Two gremlins, agreeing to a cease-fire and forming a pact to survive Lunar New Year at the Lan ancestral home, smuggling in an astonishing amount of alcohol because they're not optimists.
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blow the candles out (i don't even wanna see your face no more) by Ariaste
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
27 Nov 2020
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The doorbell goes off at the most inopportune time Meng Yao could have possibly imagined, short of actively being in the middle of penetrative sex.
Huan-ge stops right in the middle of the poem he is reading aloud from the now very battered and well-loved book Meng Yao had given him for his eighteenth birthday. “Ah...”
Meng Yao sighs and sinks lower in the bubble bath. “I take it by your expression that either you ordered me another birthday gift that you forgot about until just now, or that we are being interrupted.”
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Two gremlins, chilling in a bathroom; one of them brought a birthday gift because he thinks they're friends.
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all those signs were arrows (pointing me to you) by Ariaste
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
03 Apr 2021
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Meng Yao has a plan. He has a strategy. He has no intention of letting emotion get in the way, because emotion means weakness, and the weak do not survive.
He is sixteen years, five months, and twenty days old when he enters the front doors of the high school, and he has not yet learned the rule that the gods laugh in the face of plans.
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Scenes from a courtship, or: One gremlin, meeting the love of his life on the third day of school, five feet apart because Lan Qiren's sex ed sucks.
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ding dong the witch is dead (i know now i'm not feeling sad) by Ariaste
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
03 Dec 2020
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“I’m in,” Wei Wuxian says in a weird voice, then coughs lightly and clears his throat. “Shit, let me try again. I’m in--fuck, nope, that’s not it either.”
Meng Yao stops typing and looks up at him, perplexed. “I beg your pardon?”
“I’m trying to do my hacker voice.”
“Your what?”
“Like in the movies? When somebody’s hacking into the Pentagon, and then they crack the firewall or whatever and they’re like I’m in?”
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Two gremlins, hacking someone's smarthome device, four and a half feet apart because maybe they're a little bit friends.
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a constant satellite of your blazing sun (i obey your law of gravity) by Ariaste
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
07 Dec 2020
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“Next year,” Huan-ge says, forbiddingly, “no intoxicants of any kind.”
“Yep,” says Wei Wuxian. “Yep, that seems fair. Very, very fair.”
“A-Yao?”
Ugh. Why does Huan-ge only bring out the stern voice for things like this? Why not in bed? Why can’t Meng Yao get a little of that in a sexy context, as a treat? “Yes, ge,” he grumbles. “I do want to emphasize the fact that none of this was my fault. At all.”
Lan Qiren, who has been staring catatonic at the wall since the Incident, makes a small creaking noise.
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Two gremlins, bringing a different kind of intoxicant to Lunar New Year, having hysterics on the ground because they accidentally unlocked some primo lore about a third gremlin.
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i'm just a loner, baby (and now you've gotten in my way) by Ariaste
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
13 Dec 2020
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Meng Yao: Please stop cluttering the group chat, @mr sexy science goggles wei
Meng Yao set mr sexy science goggles wei’s name to Wei Wuxian
Wei Wuxian: GASP. THE TRAITOR REVEALS HIMSELF
Wei Wuxian set his nickname to wei yEET
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Two gremlins, bickering in a groupchat, aggressively Perceiving each other even though they're definitely not even a little bit friends.
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