#[ ooc // i cannot believe you do this; on the day of my son's wedding. ]

[wangxianficfinder]

Fic Finder

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1. hello! i am searching for a fic where su she pretends to be lwj to trick wwx? i believe he traps lwj in a closet at one point. please help!

FOUND? seeds by antebunny (G, 3k, WangXian, SS & LWJ, Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Identity Porn, Dramatic Irony, identity theft, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, the Inherent Romance of Being Known, BAMF WWX, protective boyfriend!wwx, simp!lwj)

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2. Hi, this is about the last anon ask y'all shared. The one about the missing fic 2 no 31. I think i was searching for the same fic. I remember a one shot where LXC and LWJ were going for food or coffee and they saw XXC and WWX on the sidewalk, and LWJ was jealous of how much WWX was touching XXC as they walked until he realized WWX was guiding him bc he was blind.

If it isn't the same, I would appreciate y'all helping me find it. Thanks for your wonderful work for the fandom!

FOUND? A sip of vinegar by Aki_no_hikari (G, 1k, WangXian, Modern AU, Pining, One-Sided Attraction, or so lwj thinks)

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3. Hey, I’m looking for a post-canon fic where there’s an assassination attempt on WWX with poison and LWJ is super protective and has to find the culprit. Thanks so much!

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4. Hi! Love the blog so much!!! Do you remember the name of the fic (from LWJ POV) where LWJ is in the airport on a dating app and swipes away from WWX who is (coincidentally) sat next to him and remarks on it? TIA xxx

FOUND? Ticket to Ride by mistresscurvy (E, 18k, wangxian, modern, online dating, road trips, service top, phone sex, dick pics, wedding banquet)

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5. Hey, I hope you guys are doing well. Please help me find this fic ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

So I just remember a tiny part of it :

WWX is accused of giving away war intel to the Wen by YZY in front of everyone. She pulls out some letters i think? Then to help the former, NHS brings in a handwriting specialist and it turns out to be YZY who wrote the letters. @utxqia

FOUND? Lessons relearned by Iamnotawriter (T, 44k, WangXian, LQR & WWX, Not YZY Friendly, Time Travel Fix-It, Angst with a Happy Ending, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Inventor WWX, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, No Golden Core Transfer, YZY Bashing)

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6. Hi, I hope you can help me find a fic! It's an abo one I think, where teen wwx is pregnant. The story is LQR pov where he overhears WWX tell LWJ and is really supportive! I think WWX was kicked out my Madam Yu, but I'm not sure?

FOUND? In which Lan Qiren eavesdrops and gets a new nephew (and grandnephew) out of it by h0peless_oblivion (M, 64k, WIP, WangXian, Modern AU, High School, A/B/O Dynamics, Alpha LWJ, Omega WWX, Mpreg, Teen Pregnancy, Shotgun Wedding, Good Uncle LQR, Madam Yu's A+ Parenting, Fluff and Angst, Family Feels, Unspecified Setting, Probably ooc, WWX Has ADHD, A-Yuan is Wangxian's son, Pregnant WWX, Humor, non-graphic birth, Family Drama, The Lans love wwx, Male Lactation, Mild Smut in later chapters, wangxian's canonical breeding kink, Tooth-Rotting Fluff)

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7. hello, i hope you're well. i love your blog and i read it often and now I have an ask to make ;) Do you happen to know a fic where WWX and LWY "pretend to visit a women in sleep and make them pregnant" in order to explain unwanted pregnancies and save a women's honor?

It is a crack fic but it has a lot of heart.

I read it maybe a couple of months ago, but i cannot find it anymore. I hope it's not deleted.

💕 谢谢，再见 @amrame​

FOUND! Taking Responsibility by deliciousblizzardshark (T, 6k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Getting Together, Trope Subversion/Inversion, Pretend mpreg, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Fluff and Crack)

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8. I want to know ff name in which wei Ying is a female and he is going to live with male lan wangi, as he is her sister friend. In ff there is a line like " i am a man Wei Ying ". @yizhan12

FOUND? tell me what’s your motive by sweetlolixo (E, 7k, wangxian, modern, fem WWX, smut, size difference, older LWJ)

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9. hiii~! hope u all are having wonderful days! I'm looking for a fic that i think is cql centric? Anyways it's one where wwx and lwj start cultivating together? Like there are multiple scenes that suggest that they try to combine using cultivation. If that's too vague as a description there's this one scene where lan wangji finds his mother's letters and how she kills herself (?) and goes missing in the nighttime?

Sorry for the vagueness... it's been so long since i read it! 😅

FOUND! ❤️ Gentians in bloom by teawater (M, 251k, wangxian, Canon Divergence, AU after cold spring, Political Marriage, Dysfunctional Family, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Fix-It, Hurt/Comfort, LQR bashing (not really), POV Multiple, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Eventual Happy Ending, BAMF WWX, JC is actually a lot better than canon, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, YZY bashing (again not completely) )

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10. Hello hello! I really want to read this fic again and I’ve given up on searching for it. It’s post-cql and a very fluffy fic. Wwx and Lwj share hazelnut cakes. They roam in Caiyi and meet a vendor lady selling combs and she tries to matchmake Wwx and her daughter. She tells them that they should buy combs for their beloved and I'm pretty sure Lwj was considering buying a comb. Please help! This has been bugging me quite a lot. Thank you and have a great day!

FOUND? I hope that you will come and meet me by feyburner (M, 28k, wangxian, post-canon, getting together, love letters, hurt/comfort, cuddling & snuggling, literal sleeping together, intimacy, first time)

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11. Hello mods, looking for this awesome AU I was reading where Wen Xu takes LWJ as his warprize at CR and makes him go through some horrible things. WWX tries to help him at the Wen lectures and LWJ refuses but they kind of get together after fighting the Tortoise. but then Wen Chao attacks the Jiangs and captures WWX. LWJ is NOT a courtesan and WWX isn't either, and the Wens don't have a whole harem or anything.

tysm for your help, been looking all over and I rly want to finish reading!!!

NOT FOUND! tarnish, lustre, gold by iliacquer (E, 22k, wangxian, LWJ/WX, graphic depictions of violence, rape/non-con, ABO, mpreg, forced marriage, forced/coerced pregnancy, infidelity, alpha WWX, omega LWJ, alpha WX, bottom LWJ, reproductive coercion, mating cycles/in heat, knotting, YLLZ WWX, domestic violence, whump, misgendering, happy ending)

FOUND! 忍辱负重 | to bear the burden of humiliation by dragongirlG (E, 106k, wangxian, LWJ/WX, WWX/other(s), WWX/WC, graphic depictions of violence, rape/non-con, sexual slavery, domestic violence, wen indoctrination, xuanwu cave, prisoner of war, warprize, humiliation, non-con bondage, non-con body modification, golden core destruction/melting, dual cultivation, revenge, whump, hurt little comfort, protective LWJ & WWX, hopeful ending)

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12. Hello, I'm looking for two specific fanfics.

A) The first one is about WangXian having an arranged marriage and Wei Ying in the beginning tries to get along with Lan Zhan but then when he notices that he's not very responsive he ends up being kind of like cold to him but in the end they do realize that they love each other also Wei Ying is mostly a stay at home husband and there are no original characters in this one. I'm pretty sure it has multiple chapters but I may be wrong.

B) The second one is a case fic one where WangXian go to this town where apparently the Yiling laozu is terrorizing but it turns out to be Jin Zixuns son who he himself has possessed and they solve it. The juniors were in there I think at least I remember Jin Ling was. Thank you so much in advance! @amaraxoxo98���

12A)

FOUND? A Marriage Story by DeviyudeThoolika (E, 38k, WangXian, Sex is complicated, Angst, Pining while fucking, Mature elements., Mutual Pining, Arranged Marriage, Sort Of, Misunderstandings, of epic proportions)

12B)

FOUND? Don't Turn Your Heart by sami (T, 29k, wangxian, WQ/JC/LXC, JYL/JZX, XY/MXY, hurt/comfort, family, shenanigans, some violence)

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13. For your next fic finder... I've suddenly remembered this elusive fic. I'm pretty sure it was a canon era BDSM AU (in that people have inherent dom/sub dynamics), and WWX was a sub that had been raised/socialized as a dom by the Jiang sect. The fic was set during the CR study arc, and IIRC something happened in the library that caused WWX to drop hard, revealing the truth to everybody. It's not The Hilt Lies Well In Hand by HeavenlySkyfarer, or A Gesture of Companionship by Khashana. Help?

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14. Helloo I would like to request to find this fic in which I remember there was wei wuxian who had owned a diner? And it was like open until the wee hours of morning. I think he also had some eating problems? And sleeping problems? I also remember that he had cut contact with everyone except wen qing and wen ning who he had met after he moved away... I'm pretty sure lan zhan finds him first but the memory is a bit hazy since I haven't read it in a long time and I can't find it anymore 😭.

FOUND? ❤️ 不晚 | a lovely light by seagaze (T, 62k, wangxian, modern, midnight diner au, CW for eating and sleeping disorders, happy ending)

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15. Hi I was wondering if you could please help me find a fic? Basically the story starts off as this shadow always hunting wy so the whole Jiang dynamics changes as their protective of wy, later on come to find out that shadow following wy is his future self trying to kill him so he doesn’t “ruin the jiangs” or something along those lines, hoping u can help me as I’ve been trying so long to find this fic again 😭

FOUND? Beyond the Darkness by ULTIOcean (T, 73k, WangXian, WWX-centric, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Pining, Oblivious WWX, A sprinkle of horror here and there, injuries, Blood, Canon Divergence, Different Beginnings, OOC for some characters, Mainly WWX JC and JZX, Follows the Donghua's events, Mystery, Copious amounts of affection, jc's dogs, Time Skips, WWX POV)

FOUND? Building a home by R95irth (T, 586k, CSSR/WCZ, JFM/YZY, wangxian, JC/WQ, JYL/JZX, 3zun, BSSR/LY, MS/Sisi, canon divergence, time travel fix-it, everyone lives au, angst w happy ending, horror, nightmares, family fluff, found family, babies)

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16. Hi, for the next fic finder I need help finding 2 fics that I read on AO3. A) During the first siege Wei Ying uses the Soul Summoning Ritual to bring back Jiang Yanli's soul in his body and the Yanli runs to Jiang Cheng and says something like "A-Cheng it's me.". B) During the Wen Settlement days one morning Wen Qing walks into Wei Ying’s cave and finds him dead on his bed. I think he died due to an illness and Wen Qing wasn't suprised to find him dead. Thank you for your help. @bluekittenfire

16A)

FOUND! A Final Sacrifice by FrozenHawFlakes (T, <1k, major character death, Angst, Protective Siblings, Family Feels, family love, everything is worse off for everyone, except maybe JL, but he has another set of problems, What-If, Canon Divergence)

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17. Hi, could you possibly help me find a Lan Wangji x Wei Wuxian fanfiction? I had read it, but now that I am trying to look for it, I can't find it anymore. It was in a modern setting. Wangxian were already married but had many misunderstandings. Wuxian believed that Lan Wangji was in love with someone else named 'William Williamson'. Other characters that appeared were Lan Xichen, Lan Qiren, Nie Huaisang, Jiang Cheng. Lan Xichen had a whole thing going on with his relation issues too. Thank you.

FOUND? A Marriage Story by DeviyudeThoolika (E, 38k, WangXian, Sex is complicated, Angst, Pining while fucking, Mature elements., Mutual Pining, Arranged Marriage, Sort Of, Misunderstandings, of epic proportions)

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18. I can't find a fic where Wei Ying died at canon and woke up from coma in modern world where everyone is alive and good. And they think Wei Ying is dreaming. Wei Ying is also confused. Everyone is good even madam yu and fengmin. And he's also lan zhans husband there. Thank u

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19. Hello! I'm trying to find a fic that I read a little while ago. wwx is a dm and is writing a chinese inspired homebrew campaign and lwj is a publisher. wwx has a fox spirit npc and adds a dragonji character when he starts to fall in love with lwj. The story ends with lwj helping wwx to publish his system. Thanks! @worlds-of-else​

FOUND? 🧡 Where’s Your Emergency? by trippednfell (M, 64k, WangXian, 911 Dispatcher WWX, Single dad LWJ, Kid fic, Modern AU, D&D Games, Angst with a happy ending)

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20. hii!!!! im looking for a fic in which wwx is badly hurt, and the lan doctor tells him that the only way he can survive is through dual cultivation. lwj immediately goes to do the deed because he can't stand wwx in pain. they get together in the end! but it has a little of angst! their first time is a little sad because wwx is very hurt but they love each other a lot and get quicly together! thank you

FOUND? as amber of ember glows by occultings (microcomets) (E, 11k, WangXian, Sex Pollen, Marathon Sex, Multiple Orgasms, Mutual Pining, First Time, Miscommunication, Aphrodisiacs, pining for the person you're fucking, Getting Together, mostly) sounds like one of occulting's fics, maybe 'as amber of ember glows' but there are several along this line so I can't be certain?

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[bitterroyalty-blog]

SO UM. I finally decided to give Regis and Clarus their own blogs. I just got the muses back and I’m excited to be writing again!! I don’t know if I’ll give Cor his own yet but I might. I will keep this blog up as an archive. I also have a new OC I’m super happy about! So check him out!

[kittykatknits]

So I read a "post" saying Sansa running WF successfully is ooc. I disagree. Sansa's the defacto lady of the Vale and she's doing a good job. Besides innately being smart she's also getting training for being a lady,administrator, diplomat and in politics. She has natural acumen for organization,logistics,hardwork,knows how to run a household well She's learning to gauge others' motivation&how to maneuver them successfully. Also she'll have advisors to help her. I see her as a very successful 1/2

ruler/Lady of WF or when ruling the North/looking after its daily workings/governing/managing it; I dont think it’s ooc for Sansa to be a capable ruler/administrator/and dispatch the duties that come w/ being Lady of WF/looking after the North at all. That’s where her book arc&training montage is leading her. What do you think? 2/2

In short, I largely agree with you. 

I’m loathe to think of fandom as a single identity but there has been a general trend with Sansa as a character over the years (at least based upon my unique experiences). Long ago, when only two books were available in the series, Sansa Stark was largely defined by two things: (1) the events on the Trident and subsequent deaths of Lady/Mycah and (2) the betrayal/execution of her father. Then, the third book was released in 2000 and fandom decided Sansa should also be defined by her feelings, or lack thereof, towards Tyrion Lannister. Oy, I am forever sick of those debates. Opinions changed, somewhat, after aFfC was released in 2005. Twelve years later and we are still waiting to see how fandom reacts to her in the next book. 

It’s funny in a way. Seventeen years and, for the most part, the discussion around Sansa is almost exactly the same, “Starkness”, killed her wolf, cruel to her sister, cruel to Jon, snob, got her father killed, not truly north like, and so on. Well, no, it’s not funny, it’s frustrating because it seems like there is a growing trend of throwing power hungry into the mix although I think that’s fed largely by the show than by the book’s version of the character 

For the most part, Sansa has never been a popular character, ever. The trend I’ve seen is not so much that she’s received less negativity over time, because she hasn’t, but that her actual fan base has grown. There was an explosion of Sansa fans after the first season of Game of Thrones aired and then again after the second. 

So, anyways, to get to the point, the fact that you saw a post like that, isn’t particularly new or surprising. It’s shallow and inaccurate, but not a surprise. To be honest, I actually blame Martin for some of it. For the most part, he’s done a great job at world building and is fairly consistent when it comes to enforcing the rules. Cat mentions her Ladies once and…that’s it. Cersei is the queen and has no women at court. Martin doesn’t really show us the lives of women in ordinary circumstances, he’s pretty bad at it. We get Marg and her cousins in the third book some and Cersei finally gains a friend (who is also a spy…) in the fourth. There is a lot of work telling us how men are educated, think of the memories of both Jaime and Jon. We even see it with Bran as he functions as the Stark in WF. Heck, the first chapter is showing Ned raising his sons. But, the women, it doesn’t happen to nearly the same degree. Readers need to work at it so much more than they do with the male characters. 

To me, I compare Sansa’s interactions with Measter Colemon in the Vale to those of Bran with Luwin. Colemon speaks with and takes guidance from Sansa in the same way Maester Luwin did with Ned/Cat, but much less so with Bran. 

And let’s look at this:

Maddy and Gretchel were waiting outside with Maester Colemon. The maester had washed the night soil from his hair and changed his robe. Robert’s squires had turned up as well. Terrance and Gyles could always sniff out trouble.“Lord Robert is feeling stronger,” Alayne told the serving women. “Fetch hot water for his bath, but see you don’t scald him. And do not pull on his hair when you brush out the tangles, he hates that.” One of the squires sniggered, until she said, “Terrance, lay out his lordship’s riding clothes and his warmest cloak. Gyles, you may clean up that broken chamber pot.”

- Alayne II, aFfC

The household is taking orders from Sansa here too. And when her authority is questioned:

Gyles Grafton made a face. “I’m no scrubwoman.“Do as Lady Alayne commands, or Lothor Brune will hear of it,” said Maester Colemon. He followed her along the hallway and down the twisting stairs. “I am grateful for your intercession, my lady. You have a way with him.” He hesitated. “Did you observe any shaking while you were with him?”

- Alayne II, aFfC

This chapter shows Sansa shutting down the Eyrie and preparing for the entire household to take up residence in the gates of the moon. It’s exactly what would be expected of the Lady of the Vale. 

And if there is any further doubt, the first Alayne chapter is one long bit of political theater:

“She did indeed. She saw to the mulling of the wine first, found a suitable wheel of sharp white cheese, and commanded the cook to bake bread enough for twenty, in case the Lords Declarant brought more men than expected. Once they eat our bread and salt they are our guests and cannot harm us. The Freys had broken all the laws of hospitality when they’d murdered her lady mother and her brother at the Twins, but she could not believe that a lord as noble as Yohn Royce would ever stoop to do the same.The solar next. Its floor was covered by a Myrish carpet, so there was no need to lay down rushes. Alayne asked two serving men to erect the trestle table and bring up eight of the heavy oak-and-leather chairs. For a feast she would have placed one at the head of the table, one at the foot, and three along each side, but this was no feast. She had the men arrange six chairs on one side of the table, two on the other. By now the Lords Declarant might have climbed as far as Snow. It took most of a day to make the climb, even on muleback. Afoot, most men took several days.It might be that the lords would talk late into the night. They would need fresh candles. After Maddy laid the fire, she sent her down to find the scented beeswax candles Lord Waxley had given Lady Lysa when he sought to win her hand. Then she visited the kitchens once again, to make certain of the wine and bread. All seemed well in hand, and there was still time enough for her to bathe and wash her hair and change.”

- Alayne I, aFfC

This isn’t GRRM being overly verbose here or falling in love with his food descriptions. It’s Sansa setting up a stage, thinking through everything from guest right to the type of table and chairs and their placement. Remember, these are not random guests, these are six individuals that are contesting LF’s hold on SR and the Vale. Everything matters. 

It’s no different than the Lannisters in the throne room after the Battle of the BW. That’s one long bit of political theatre too, with the rehearsed scene between Joffrey and Loras or Tywin riding in atop his horse. It’s presentation and Sansa is doing a really good job here of setting everything up to their advantage. 

After this, Sansa dresses herself: 

“There was a gown of purple silk that gave her pause, and another of dark blue velvet slashed with silver that would have woken all the color in her eyes, but in the end she remembered that Alayne was after all a bastard, and must not presume to dress above her station. The dress she picked was lambswool, dark brown and simply cut, with leaves and vines embroidered around the bodice, sleeves, and hem in golden thread. It was modest and becoming, though scarce richer than something a serving girl might wear. Petyr had given her all of Lady Lysa’s jewels as well, and she tried on several necklaces, but they all seemed ostentatious. In the end she chose a simple velvet ribbon in autumn gold.”

- Alayne I, aFfC

Again, it’s more of the same. This isn’t Sansa obsessed with clothes (although what’s wrong with that if she is?) It’s the image she wants to present, it’s the same reasons the Tyrells drape themselves in gold and green. 

Sansa’s chapters are swimming with this stuff and it tends to get dismissed. This stuff matters and it matters a lot. This theater and pageantry is present in every wedding and clothing choice. It’s present in the food (remember the poor fare offered at the RW?). It’s reflected in seat placement at both the WF feast and the PW. And Sansa is really good at it, like really damn good.  

Heck, even Tyrion picks up on her skills:

“She is good at this, he thought, as he watched her tell Lord Gyles that his cough was sounding better, compliment Elinor Tyrell on her gown, and question Jalabhar Xho about wedding customs in the Summer Isles. His cousin Ser Lancel had been brought down by Ser Kevan, the first time he’d left his sickbed since the battle. He looks ghastly. Lancel’s hair had turned white and brittle, and he was thin as a stick. Without his father beside him holding him up, he would surely have collapsed. Yet when Sansa praised his valor and said how good it was to see him getting strong again, both Lancel and Ser Kevan beamed. She would have made Joffrey a good queen and a better wife if he’d had the sense to love her.”

- Tyrion VIII, Sos

But, as important as all of this is throughout the entire series, it has always tended to be overlooked and dismissed which is really disappointing. I don’t claim to know her ending, whether Hand, queen, Lady of WF, or something else. But, I guarantee all of the above is going somewhere and it isn’t just to take out LF or rebuild after. I suspect it will be incredibly important come the war for the dawn too. 

This has gone on for a long time though, so I will stop now. But, hopefully, I answered your question…at least some.

Thank you anon for letting me talk about my girl!! I love Sansa so much. :)

[ghostbustermelanieking]

xf fic write-in drabbles

so these are the things i came up with in last night’s fic write-in, hosted by @lepus-arcticus (thank you for hosting btw, i had a ton of fun!). there’s three drabbles under the cut, all based off of prompts that were part of the challenge. (more details at @txf-fic-write-in )

keep in mind that this stuff was written fast, is unedited, and was written while i was very tired. none of them make much sense, and #2 is pure crack and probably wildly ooc. it’s wildly scary and fun to post something i haven’t plotted, nor meticulously reread or edited. 

prompt #1: one word prompt - diner (written in 15 minutes)

The lights of the diner wash out her face. She looks worn out, drawn with a stubbly pencil with smudged edges. Like she could easily disappear. He’s catching her at the end of a shift at the hospital, exhausted, hair slipping out of her ponytail.

“I ordered your coffee the way you like it,” he tells her.

“Thank you.” She rubs her eyes with two fingers as she sits down. “It’s good to see you.”

“You too.” He pushes the mug across the table towards her. It’s grown cold in the waiting. They agreed on eight o’clock and it’s eight thirty. She takes a sip and winces at the temperature.

“I’ve missed you,” he says.

She fiddles with the box of Sweet’n’Lows. “Don’t.”

“I think I need to. It hasn’t been the same without you. I’ve been lonely.”

“I’ve been lonely, too. But you know it has to be this way.”

He huffs out a sigh, annoyed. “Because you needed space?”

“Because I was trapped in that house, Mulder, and there was no clear way out. I was suffocating. I needed to breathe.”

“Are you breathing now?” His voice is low. His fingers tap frantically on the plastic-y table top. It’s sticky with the remnants of a thousand breakfasts.

She breathes out. “I don’t know.”

The light catches her at an odd angle, and her hair falls across her face like filtered sunlight. Before he can stop himself, he reaches across the table and tucks the loose strands behind her ear. She stares into the coffee, unblinking.

“Come home,” he says. “One night. Just one.” What he doesn’t say is that he’s hoping that one night will be enough to get her to stay.

“Mulder, I can’t.” Her fingernails are gnawed to the quick. She hasn’t chewed her nails in years; or maybe he just hasn’t noticed.

“Scully,” he says. Her name tumbles out of his mouth, loose and tangled in the air.

There’s a pause of some sort between them. She opens her mouth, closes it. He slides his hand across the table to touch hers.

She stands, so fast that her knees hit the bottom of the table. “I can’t do this, Mulder. I have to go. I’ll see you later.”

“Scully.”

Her mug tips over, making a sharp clanking sound against the table, brown liquid sloshing like a flood towards the ketchup bottle. The old man at the end of the counter turns to look at them.

Scully blinks hard, looking at the ground. “I have to go,” she repeats. “I love you. I’ll see you later.”

“Scully…”

She cups his cheek, beard stubble under her hands, and kisses him. “I love you,” she repeats, before turning and leaving. Her car is parked out front; Mulder watches her leave from the giant window he is sitting by. He grabs a pile of napkins and mops up the coffee. He looks at the top of the table until it doesn’t look like anything anymore. He tries not to think of her, reply her I love you in his mind over and over again.  

The waitress asks him if he wants anything else. He orders another coffee. It’s an all-night diner and there doesn’t seem to be much point in going home.

prompt #2: trope challenge - skinner ships it (written in 30 minutes)

Walter Skinner may or may not be slightly drunk. He’s also on a mission.

Another teamwork seminar, another wine and cheese reception. And there are Agents Mulder and Scully, sitting together just like he expected. Mulder’s leaned halfway back in his chair, tearing a slice of cheese into two, four, six, and sandwiching it between crackers like a wobbly skyscraper. Scully’s sipping politely at wine, ankles crossed, mouth moving like she’s saying something too softly for anyone to hear. Mulder grins like an idiot, his hand brushing her elbow. They think they’re so clever.

“Sir,” Scully says, startled, when he appears out of nowhere. Mulder’s chair legs hit the floor hard as he turns to look at Skinner.

“You two think you’re so clever,” he tells them.

Wary, Mulder mouths, What did I do now? to Scully. She looks just as confused as he does, mouth hanging slightly open. “Sir, I don’t know what you…”

“I can see right through you, you know.” He points at them. “You’re very obvious with your… looks. And every few weeks one of you shows up in my office whining about how the other has disappeared and is in mortal danger and you need me to hunt them down. You’re very obvious.”

Scully’s mouth is all the way open in astonishment. Mulder looks like he’s trying very hard not to laugh or scream or one of the two. He also looks extraordinarily uncomfortable. Good.

“Sir…” Scully says cautiously. “I’m not sure what you mean.”

“I know that you two are lovers.”

Mulder chokes on a cracker. Scully’s face flushes. Skinner concludes that he is more than slightly drunk. But the mission still stands.

“Sir, I can assure we haven’t…” says Mulder, at the same time Scully says, “I have no idea what you’re getting this from!”

He’s almost disappointed. “You… you really haven’t?”

They’re both blushing and studiously not looking at each other. They both slowly shake their heads.

“Never a date or a-a kiss or anything?”

Scully is staring a hole in the ground. Mulder shakes his head again.

“Oh.” Skinner feels very disappointed. “You should, you know. That Bureau policy stuff is bullshit. And besides that, I’ve seen you two looking at each other.”

Scully is pressing her palms together so hard that her knuckles whiten. They both look like they’d rather be somewhere else. Slowly, Mulder says, “How we… look at each other?”

“Sure. Like you’re in love.” Skinner shrugs. “It’s kind of adorable, you know. You look like an old married couple. Like me and Sharon. And everyone calls you the Spookies.”

Scully coughs, tucking her chin so close to her chest that it makes it look like she’s about to disappear.

Skinner lowers his voice. “Agent Mulder? Will you make sure I get invited to the wedding?”

Mulder fiddles with a pen in his suit pocket. “Of course, sir. I’ll even make sure you give a speech.”

“Thank you, Agent.” He feels some fatherly impulse to pat their heads, so he does. “You two are my favorites, you know. Even though you’re both pains in the ass.”

“Thank you, sir,” Scully mumbles behind clenched teeth.

He pats their heads again before leaving.

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Walter Skinner wakes up the next morning with a raging headache and enough embarrassment to fuel a small nation. His bosses are not happy. He’s relieved that the seminar doesn’t officially start until today.

He writes out a very dignified apology on his laptop and prints two copies of it to shove under Agent Mulder and Agent Scully’s doors. He’s almost too embarrassed to face them. Twenty minutes later, he receives a post-it note in Mulder’s handwriting that says, You’re paying for the wedding, sir.

prompt #3: msr from another character’s perspective - csm (written in 15 minutes)

He’s been watching them for years.

Since the moment Agent Scully came into Blevin’s office, looking nervous and eager on the other side of his cloud of cigarette smoke. Since he listened to their first meeting over the crackling wiretap. Since his son came to his home and pointed a gun at him, demanding to know why she’d been taken instead of him.

He knows that Agent Mulder loves her, has known since that night. He is protective, a charging bullet when she is gone. His men reported him spending his nights on Skyland Mountain, searching, waiting. He ordered that Agent Scully be brought back. He feels some kind of off-kilter sympathy for his son, his searching. And to his credit, he never believes that Agent Scully loves him back.

Sure, she follows him, but is it all in the name of duty? Diana loves him more visibly, in a clear and fierce way. She stays by his bedside during the surgery. But still, Scully comes for him afterwards, his spies inform him. Months later, and his spies are telling him that Agent Scully is sharing his son’s bed. He takes a long drag of the cigarette, unsure of how, exactly, to process this information. “It could be a useful match,” he says, finally.

He weaves, manipulates, makes sure everything falls into place. Alex Krycek dumps him down the stairs and someone picks him up and carries him away. A few days later, his loyal spies fill him in. Agent Scully is pregnant. Agent Mulder is gone. Good.

Like his father, Agent Mulder dies, and like his other father, Agent Mulder doesn’t stay dead. He is a wavering ghost, hovering by Scully’s side until the threat grows too great. More spies attend the birth of his grandchild. A healthy boy, William. More reports come: the boy has powers. Agent Mulder is gone. He smokes and he waits. He knows his only grandchild will come someday, seeking answers to questions he doesn’t know how to ask. His son comes instead, Agent Scully trailing behind him. Everything points to the fact that she does love him. One little ray of sunshine in his life.

His son leaves and missiles rain down. Someone else finds him, carries him away again. He cannot die. The plague is coming, and he will not die. And as one last punishment to his son, he will make sure that his beloved Scully can’t, either.

The plague will come. His grandson will come. And Agent Scully will not die. It feels like a fitting end, all things considered.

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Accepted - Severus Snape

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OOC Information:

Name/Age/Timezone- Nat / 25 / EST

Activity Level- I’ll say an 8 for this month since I’m working from home. Usually a solid six due to working three jobs. Two of them do not exist for the time being so the extra free time has me going nah I know I’ll be on at least once daily. Maybe a break in between of days spent posting replies but I’ll be available to plot in between virtual meetings for my full-time position.

Disclaimer: Hi, I’m chronically ill and sometimes may require a few days of being absent if I am in too much pain to function. That being said I am usually good about communicating that and can say it doesn’t happen frequently.

Ships: Severus/M, Severus/Happiness

Anti-Ships: *makes a face* I’m anti-Snily but will happily write Severus awkwardly missing their friendship and him not knowing how to express that in a positive way. That said, if things ever came down to him having to harm Lily he would 100% hesitate in that and likely blow his cover.

Did you read the rules? Yes!

IC Information:

Character Name: Severus Snape

Age: 20 (willing to play him at age 19 if y'all would prefer)

Occupation: Potion Apprentice at Diagon Alley’s Apothecary

Traits: + Clever - Stubborn + Loyal to those he’s decided he can trust - Blunt + Ambitious - Stoic

Faceclaim: Richard Harmon, Aneurin Barnard, Adam Driver

Key Points:

- Severus did not have a happy childhood. His father was abusive and his mother tried to show she loved him but those moments were always ruined by Tobias. If given the chance, he would happily torture his father and not have any second thoughts about it. He tries to visit his mother once a week but doesn’t go anywhere near his old home if Tobias is there.

- Severus worked every summer from his fourth through seventh year of Hogwarts and saved up to be able to get a rundown flat in Diagon Alley. He didn’t return home and doesn’t talk about his living situation since the place isn’t the best. Having his own space and not needing to worry about his family trying to control him made getting the small space worth it.

- Sarcasm is a defense technique. Severus struggles with picking up on social cues and often cannot differentiate between someone joking or being serious. He finds it easiest to snap out a rude remark instead of taking the time to read between the lines

- Severus’ newest project is the wolfsbane potion. He is trying to adapt it and see if there is a way to make a stronger and more cost-effective potion than the one that is currently available. He isn’t a werewolf sympathizer and is tackling the potion because he is curious and believes the current practice is outdated.

- His only companion is a one-eyed cat he saved from the streets. He will totally deny being attached to the mangy creature but the two have become inseparable when he is at home.

Biography:

The pregnancy was a mistake. The mother was secretly overjoyed and the father was enraged that the teen said she was keeping it. She was newly seventeen when she mumbled about her period being late. Tobias did something he rarely did - he prayed. Prayer after prayer that Eileen was lying or had somehow miscounted the weeks and that the test was a false positive. Luck was not on his side though and he quickly decided the child was something sinister. He was no help to Eileen and became enraged when her parents insisted the two wed so the baby wasn’t born as a bastard. Tobias had just enough savings to get a rundown home for the three of them. Fake smiles got them through the small ceremony and Eileen quickly learned just how horrible her husband was.

The baby was born on a dreary day in January. She only had a medi-witch at her side and delivered the boy on her own, giving him the name Severus Tobias in the hope that might make her husband learn to like him. Tobias was too busy drinking to care about the arrival of his son.

Severus had an unhappy childhood. His mother was constantly working to support the rundown home the three shared and make sure food was on the table. His father spent his time blowing their savings on the bar. He accepted that Tobias wanted nothing to do with him at age three. The man came home drunk one evening and found Severus out of bed when he should have been sleeping. The rage and punches that flew down on the toddler’s form were just the beginning of a childhood spent in anguish. Severus was taught it was best to keep out of sight and stay quiet. His mother’s presence in the home was brief since she was always picking up odd jobs, but it was enough to let Severus know that someone cared about him.

The early years of his life were spent avoiding being home as much as he could. It was easy enough to wander but there was no escaping the fact that the other people who lived near him looked down on him and his family. His hair was too long and unkempt, his clothes barely fit him, and he had a negative attitude that caused other children to ignore him. The loneliness changed on a day when he met the redheaded girl that would serve as the only beacon of hope in his life.

The two became friends and both got accepted at Hogwarts. The arrival there put a strain on their friendship since she was sorted into Gryffindor and he was placed in Slytherin. It was quickly made clear that his housemates did not approve of his friendship with Lily.

Classes with the Gryffindors were Severus’ personal hell. He became a target of James Potter and his friends and only ever reacted by lashing out at them. They were ruthless and he couldn’t do anything to get them to leave him alone. The struggle in dealing with them and his growing frustration caused a few upperclassmen to take an interest in him. He didn’t think much of the so-called “friendships” with the purebloods in his house until the day he slipped up and used the word “mud-blood.” The devastating blow fractured his friendship with Lily and left him feeling as though a piece of himself was missing.

His final year at Hogwarts was full of hatred and resentment. The Slytherin paid more attention to his housemates than ever. An offer to join the death eaters was something he quickly took, managing to earn his mark just weeks after graduating. He wanted to prove he wasn’t as worthless as everyone said and would whatever it took to make it to the top. The Death Eaters gave him a sense of belonging and his working at the potions shop gave him a leg up on the other recruits - he was better connected and had access to a shop in Diagon Alley.

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when you cave and make a clarus video and then cry because you could only edit 27 seconds.

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i don’t understand why bella, sam and arcadia are ganging up on my feelings tonight bUT APPARENTLY ITS HURT KATIE NIGHT.

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sobs all i wanted was to write angst and smut and now my blog is a shitpost. not that it has shitpost things on it it just is one.

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you carry heavens in your eyes like one of those greek tragedies and i’d call you altus but he wasn’t given a choice to hold the stars you were. yet still you break your back by holding the sky in your palms ( insp. )

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angelic-din-mortem replied to your post: The ruins of Insomnia. The Crown City.[[MOR]...

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IS THIS GOOD OR BAD.

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tumblr user @shieldandcrown is BANNED.

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amicililium replied to your post: why does my music player play thIS SONG IM

as someone who discovered this song two days ago and immediately went ‘i wish a pitched down version existed’ i thank you.

i literally forgot that nightcore was a thing until my sister sent me some links to a couple songs and i was like ‘OH YEAH I FORGOT THIS IS GREAT’ you are welcome ;3

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why does my music player play thIS SONG IM

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regisluciicaelum replied to your post: “this just in @regisluciicaelum is thir st y ”:

I FEEL SO ATTACKED RIGHT NOW

U BROUGHT THIS ON UR SELF 

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moralbrand replied to your post: “moralbrand replied to your post: The ruins of...”:

it's a good screech. a very good screech. i approve of this drabble and that is such an asshole thing of ardyn to do.

ah this is good i am glad.

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