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“Zhan-jie,” Wei Ying whines, and Lan Zhan is appalled to realize that the sound sends a shiver down her spine. She wants to shut Wei Ying’s stupid mouth. She wants to tie Wei Ying’s hands behind her back and tell her exactly what she is and is not allowed to do. She. Hm.
“Explain,” Lan Zhan commands her, voice going dark and heavy, and the startled look that Wei Ying gives her sends another zip through each and every one of Lan Zhan’s nerve endings.
Hm, Lan Zhan thinks, again.
“Well,” Wei Ying mumbles, darting glances at Lan Zhan, “well, the thing is, Baby sort of — it’s not her fault, but she, when she ran away, she sort of. She, uh. Well, she had a passenger.”
“A passenger.”
“The dinosaur took my nephew,” Wei Ying says, and Lan Zhan lays her forehead against the wheel and ignores the horn as it sounds.
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OR: Lan Zhan, sensible museum curator and paleontologist, gets robbed, gets arrested, gets a headache, gets a wife.
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and having a marvelous time by varnes
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
17 Aug 2021
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Wen Qing relaxes minutely, scrutinizing him. “Then,” she asks, “why are you here, Lan-er-gongzi?”
He thinks of seven children, living here, surrounded by ghosts, fathered — fathered? — by the one who harnesses resentment to command the dead. Children he has named, inexplicably, Lan. Wen Qionglin is a fierce corpse, and yet he apparently talks and thinks and makes his own decisions. The children call him jiujiu. The children climb on his lap and ignore his instructions and say things like “he’s dead” with a careless lilt in their voices.
Whatever the Yiling Patriarch is doing, whatever Wei Wuxian wants, Lan Wangji does not think it is an act of war.
So he does not say, “I am here to neutralize the Yiling Patriarch.”
He does not say, “Sentiment is gathering against you.”
He does not say, “First liberate, second suppress, third eliminate.”
Lying is forbidden, so Lan Wangji bows his head and says something true: “The Lan sect has very recently learned of seven disciples living in Yiling. I have come to attend their education.”
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OR: It's a Sound of Music AU. Sort of.
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some lovely, perilous thing by varnes for shipyrds
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
11 Jul 2021
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Jingyi makes a sympathetic sound. “I’ve got a buddy in one of the Hefei labs, and he says there’s some evidence to suggest that people stuck in limbo develop, like, whole new neural pathways. And you go in and out of it all the time, right, so who knows what your brain is up to.” His eyes light up. “Oh man, would you let me — ”
“Obviously no,” Wei Ying says, voice flat. “But you’re close enough to right. I can keep you all safely in the level, but it’s tiring. I can’t be both dreamer and extractor.”
“I’ll do it,” Lan Zhan cuts in, before Jingyi can protest or Wen Yuan can ask any further questions. “It’s not a problem.”
“Are you sure?” Wen Yuan asks, brow furrowing. “If your sub-security picks up that Xian-gege doesn’t belong — ”
“They won’t.”
Wei Ying frowns. “Not for nothing, ge,” he says slowly, “but the last time we were in your dream together, I fell off a cliff.”
Lan Zhan looks up and over at him. There is something in his eyes that Wei Ying can’t quite read: something fierce, and faraway. “I remember,” he says, voice quiet. “Do you?”
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Wei Ying takes a dream heist job with an old friend.
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Lan Zhan likes him like this. Lan Zhan liked him before, too. With his core. Without it. Lan Zhan says the body he is doesn’t matter; it is only set dressing. The Wei Ying of him can play out across the trellis of any body’s bones. The Wei Ying of him is not in his hands or his mouth or his feet, it is in what he laughs at. It is in what he doesn’t laugh at.
Wei Wuxian doesn’t know. Does he laugh at the same things? Would anyone be able to tell, if he didn’t?
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OR: Wei Wuxian, and Mo Xuanyu.
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in the blossom season (in the pouring rain) by varnes for azurewaxwing
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
07 Mar 2021
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“A-Yuan,” he says, carefully, “did—did you make the flowers grow like this?”
A-Yuan shakes his head in exasperation. “Baba, I said. Doctor Flowers did it.”
“Doctor Flowers,” Lan Zhan repeats, pointing at the tiny plum tree, just to confirm that his son is suggesting a magical tree named Doctor Flowers sprouted overnight and made their tame family project turn into a verdant jungle.
A-Yuan nods. “Doctor Flowers,” he confirms. “He’s funny! I like him.”-
A mysterious garden blooms on Lan Zhan's rooftop. His internet forum pen pal gives great gardening advice but never seems to sleep. The man who works at the florist, who keeps reviving the plants that Lan Zhan can't seem to keep alive, has a beautiful smile.
These things are related.
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live from new york: an snl au by varnes
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
14 Feb 2021
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The one where they all work at SNL. That's right, I said SNL.
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play2gether: a universe by varnes
Fandom: เพราะเราคู่กัน | 2gether: The Series (Thailand TV), เพราะเราคู่กัน | 2gether: The Series (TV)
27 Jan 2021
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like pressure points by perilously for phnelt
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
28 Nov 2021
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There are times when Lan Zhan pictures the version of himself that is human. Fist-sized muscle beating in his chest, the precarious architecture of a skeleton, wet muscle and visceral organs. He sees that Lan Zhan swallowing and setting his jaw, although the real Lan Zhan does not make those motions. The movement of his mouth is only a formality, a quirk of programming to soften the strangeness of his existence, as he says, “You weren’t here.”
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28 Nov 2021
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In Our Likeness by Boomchick for tomowowo
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
14 Sep 2021
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A spell designed to destroy spiritual weapons locks E-Ming and Ruoye in mortal bodies. But anyone (especially Xie Lian) could have told you that those were no ordinary weapons.
With E-Ming and Ruoye both doing their best in their strange, new bodies, Xie Lian and Hua Cheng find some unpleasant reminders of the past rearing their heads...
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29 Sep 2021
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The Subtle Art of Trying to F*ck by firesandpixies
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
19 Aug 2021
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Shang Qinghua has been harbouring a crush on his ex-roommate and current boss, Mobei-Jun, for the past eight years. He has tried every method in the book short of standing in front of Mobei-Jun stark naked with a banner that says “Would you like to fuck?”, but Mobei-Jun remains oblivious to his very homosexual feelings. Having enough of an unrequited love, Shang Qinghua decides to give up on his CEO and revive his lacklustre acting career instead. But why does it seem the more Shang Qinghua tries to distance himself from Mobei-Jun, the clingier that man becomes!?
Mobei-Jun aren’t you the CEO of a talent agency!? Why are you appearing on the set of every show I’m on!? Why are you rejecting every screenplay with kissing scenes in them!? What are you posting on your Weibo!?
In short:Entertainment Industry AU whereby Mobei-Jun is an acclaimed actor and CEO of a talent management company, and Shang Qinghua is a C-tier actor too busy trying to seduce said CEO to build his career.
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16 Sep 2021
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Save Point by Neery
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
26 Aug 2021
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"Shang Qinghua. You are safe. You are mine. You were given a poison that affects your memory. Dual cultivation will cure the effects. We will wait until you are ready for it. Do you have any questions?"
Shang Qinghua wakes up to find that not only has he transmigrated, he's also lost his memory. And for some reason, neither the world of PIDW nor Mobei Jun are quite how he remembers writing them...
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14 Sep 2021
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watching the moon at midnight by haysel
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
01 Jul 2021
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“I have been patient in waiting for an heir,” Shang Qinghua's father said. “And I would be content to wait longer, if that is what it took for you to find someone you wanted. But I cannot be patient for this. You will marry Wei Changying.”
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Shang Qinghua is the crown prince, Mobei Jun is his bodyguard, and he is not subtle in his efforts to thwart all courtship meetings between Shang Qinghua and his suitors. However, when tensions rise with the North, Mobei Jun's efforts are no longer enough. Shang Qinghua will marry and it will not be to Mobei Jun.
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13 Sep 2021