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Today’s Wangxian thought:

Wei Wuxian is the type who would turn his favourite song up whenever it comes on. Does he do it consciously? Not always, it really depends on the situation. Sometimes, if he’s actively listening to the music (like in a car) he’s like “oh I love this song!” and cranks it up.

Most times though he just does it without thinking about it, humming along while concentrating of something else. Never obnoxiously loud, just louder.

Lan Wangji asks him about it one day. Wei Wuxian tells Lan Wangji that it’s a rule that if your favourite song comes on you have to turn it up. No he doesn’t know where it the rule came from, it’s just one that everybody knows about and follows. Lan Wangji has never heard of this rule before but accepts it. Rules are rules after all.

So he starts doing it himself. It takes a while. At first he has to consciously do it every time his favourite song comes on, but after a while he starts doing it without realizing it.

One day Lan Wangji does it in front of Lan Xichen, who asks him about it. Lan Wangji explains the rule about how if your favourite song comes on you have to turn it up, and it’s something everyone knows about.

So Lan Xichen starts doing it too. Eventually they even get Lan Qiren doing it because rules are rules after all.

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hands!

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Hey!

Not sure how many people might see this here or if anyone's interested hehehe, but I opened flash pre orders for some of the items I made for my last P4P, and might've added a HuaLian keychain in there too as well... 👉🏻👈🏻

How you can help me share, please! 🥺✨

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Today’s WangXian thought:

Wei Wuxian loves spending time with his son Wei Yuan creating intricate Lego builds. They like building the kits sure, and even have some of their favourites on display, but the best part is taking those kits and seeing what else they can be turned into. What they can build with a random assortment of bricks and just their imagination.

So, when his son tells him about a Lego building competition that he wants to enter where the prize is a rare exclusive set, well that’s an immediate yes.

What he doesn’t know is that his brother in law Jin Zixuan is also a fan of Lego. It’s something he does to relax, and he doesn’t like to talk about it. He prefers making the kits and meticulously planning out his builds over just winging it. He has also heard about the competition, and has entered himself and his son (Jiang Yanli may had to convince Jin Ling who is not much of a fan “You know how much it’ll mean to your father if you join him, plus knowing him everything will be planned out and you won’t have to do much”)

Amongst the judges for the competition is Lan Wangji, a structural engineer. He’s doing it partly as a favour and partly because he’s intrigued by the idea and is interested in seeing what the contestants come up with.

The theme for their builds is Adventure, and all bricks will be provided. The Weis have discussed ideas but both have decided to just see how the bricks speak to them the day of. The Jin’s (mostly Jin Zixuan) have their build planned down to the last brick, with a detailed list of how much of each size and colour they’ll need.

Day of the competition and of course Wei Wuxian is placed next to his brother in law. He’s absolutely delighted about it. He didn’t know that both his nephew and his brother in law are also really into Lego. He has so many questions, and so much teasing to catch up on.

Jin Zixuan is less happy about things, especially once he finds out that Wei Wuxian prefers to 'wing it' with his builds. Jin Ling for the most part just wants to ignore things, but once he finds out his uncle and his cousin are here, well now it’s game on. There’s no way their team is losing to them.

Once time starts the two teams immediately get down to business. The Jin’s collect all the pieces from their list, while the Wei’s just grab whatever catches their fancy. There’s some mild teasing, like when Jin Ling is trying to ask his father something and Wei Wuxian just happens to (loudly) dig through the barrel of bricks nearest to them every time he starts talking, but overall everyone is just quietly working on their builds. Well, mostly.

Wei Wuxian can’t help but express his enthusiasm and delight with how their build is going to his son, nor can he help praising other's builds and encouraging them as well.

Lan Wangji is surprised at how much fun he’s having just watching. Yes he is looking at everything with a critical eye, he is a judge after all. But watching the wide variety of people and concepts is fascinating. And speaking of fascinating, there is one duo that his eyes keep coming back to. The father is so handsome and vivacious that he can’t help but be drawn to them.

Wei Wuxian has noticed the drop dead gorgeous judge, and he can’t help but flirt every time the man stops by their table to check up on things as he makes his rounds. Thankfully it’s not that often or he would never get any work done at all. When the man is around he practically forgets whatever it was he was trying to do.

Wei Yuan is a very bright child. He sees how his father acts around this judge, and vice versa. He can tell there’s a mutual something going on there, so he does what anyone would do, and makes sure to let the man know that why yes his father is single, and yes he would love to go out with you.

Anyways, 10 hours later the competition is done, and the winner announced. Both the Wei’s and the Jin’s builds fulfill the theme beautifully and they place in the top five. Wei Wuxian comes in one place higher than his brother in law, which he uses to tease the other, claiming that 'winging it' is the superior style after all.

While he didn’t win the competition, Wei Wuxian got the best prize anyways, Lan Wangji. Lan Wangji can’t help but disagree with him. While he wasn’t in the competition he seems to have gotten the best prize, Wei Wuxian and his son.

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Some minor notes:

Luo Qingyang and her daughter are the ones who won the competition.

Jin Zixuan won’t admit it but he does think that what WWX came up with is actually really nice and totally deserves to have beaten his design.

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Other half 🪞

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Lan Zhan goes to a Jin fundraiser for bestie Jin Zixuan. He's bored and he's lonely and he's only there to support his best friend. He's counting down the minutes until leaving is deemed socially acceptable, when he hears a loud crash in the middle of the room. One of the servers walked into a column hard enough to knock himself onto the floor. He's bright red, both from the wine he was carrying and from embarrassment. He's sitting there completely soaked, and trying to clean it up with the little napkins he has.

It's at this point that Lan Zhan decides to help the man…

…and that said man, aka Wei Ying, goes into a panic. Because the super hot man he had been staring at is coming over.

Honestly, he doesn't even know how this happened.

He was just out here, minding his own business. Asking people if they wanted a drink with one of his winning (fake) smiles. Biding his time until the whole event was over and he could go home…and then BAM.

He's taking on a pillar.

And he SWEARS the column wasn't there a minute ago!!! And now he's covered in wet stuff! And now the really hot guy is COMING OVER TO HIM...and he just wishes the ground would open up and swallow him.

"Are you alright?"

"Ah…ha…yeah…Thanks. Nothing worse than a ruined shirt and a bruised ego. I hope you didn't want any of this because I'm fresh out of wine."

Hot man looks at him for a long moment then reaches into his front pocket to remove a pocket square, wiping some of the spilled liquid of Wei Ying's cheek.

"I suppose it's fortunate I don't drink."

"Really? Nothing? But how am I supposed to make up ruining your pocket square?"

Hot man hums thoughtfully to himself, then says, "You could make it up to me with tea."

In Lan Zhan's mind. He thinks he just asked Wei Ying out for tea.

In Wei Ying's mind, Lan Zhan just asked him for a cup of tea.

And I just think it would be funny if Wei Ying spent the rest of the night looking for tea for Lan Zhan, and Lan Zhan still trying to get Wei Ying's number so they can coordinate after the event.

(That's it. I just want the /vibes/.)

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These are from the back of the postcards (and one sticker) included in the volume 5 bundle. Too precious

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Wangxian inspired bunny blanket. I made the pattern and used corner-to-corner (c2c) crochet to make it.

It’s also 100% cat approved. 😉

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Say hello to Hazel, my Hedge Bard in my Humblewood game.

Many thanks to @musicme-tc who did an absolutely amazing job bringing her to life for me. I cannot recommend her highly enough.

Character Backstory:

Owner, along with her husband Aspen, of The Touchy Fungi a tavern in the Trunk Market section of Alderheart. She was the barkeep, while he was the chef. The tavern was taken over by thier daughter Willow after Hazel and her husband decided to retire.

They moved to Meadowfen to help their son Linden out with running a farm and taking care of their grandchildren. After her husband passed away Hazel was encouraged to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a bard by her children. She had always been fond of playing music and telling stories, and used to run and participate in “Story Hour” at The Touchy Fungi.

Now she travels with a party of adventurers, performing at the inns and taverns in the towns they come across and trading stories with the various folk she meets along the way.

Design Elements:

The bracelets she wears were made by her husband. The twisted one is made from wood from the hazel & aspen trees, and was a wedding gift. The second bracelet is made of wood from the linden tree carved with linden leaves, to celebrate the birth of their son, while the third is made of willow wood carved with willow leaves to celebrate the birth of their daughter.

The beaded necklace is also a gift from her husband. Every year on their wedding anniversary a new bead would be added, carved with reminders of events and special moments that had occurred throughout that year. The necklace has 45 beads.

The lute was a gift from her children after she decided to start adventuring and was decorated by her three grandchildren.

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Art I comissioned from @musicme-tc that inspired me to write and post my first Wangxian fic.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45667678

She's an amazing artist! Super sweet and such a delight to work with. All of her art is so cute, you should totally check out her other stuff as well.

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Might as well make my first post here of my adorable kitty 💜