#actually kind of bewildered that i didn't put any of my mlc writing on this list

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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers (except me because obvs I have done it). Spread the self-love ❤

ahhhh thank you for this!! i haven't thought about some of these fics in quite a while, so it was fun to have reason go through them 💜

1. didn't want us to burn out (mdzs) - my chengxuan manifesto that i wrote over an absolute blur of ten days, a few years back. i consider it an important step forward in the development of my writing style and broadening the kinds of emotions i could write, and i'm proud of it as the representative tent i managed to pitch on this particular rarepair hill. it's also the longest fic i've managed to write since 2019 😭 but it's alright, i'm forgiving myself for that

2. write me willing, write me well (hamlet) - the singular fandom anomaly on my ao3 page! wrote this one in a day while putting off writing an actual paper on hamlet for class, and it was incredibly fun, especially writing in this character voice. it's also the only more epistolary-based fic i've attempted writing (or, well, it's centered around journal entries, whatever that counts for). this one is absolutely outside what i'm more known for writing, but i have such a soft spot for it

3. hold the word to its best (mdzs) - a short fic about immortal!jiang cheng, but it was a concept i'd been turning over in my head for a while by that point, and i liked the execution. this one apparently stuck with a lot of other people too, and that warms my heart, i won't lie <333

4. The War Is Over (And We Are Beginning) (mdzs) - the fic with the most traffic out of the ones i wrote for mdzs. i think it was the second fic i completed after returning to fic writing from a forced hiatus, due to some unpleasant events. i hadn't been sure then if i'd ever write fanfic again, but i did!! if i could revisit this fic there are things i would change now, but it represents something important for me, and i'm still happy with this as a jiang cheng and jin ling character study

5. all that you rely on, all that you can fake (dmbj) - i had so many big plans for dmbj fics before brainrot carried me to other places, but i really do like this short piece that i managed to complete, and huaxie is still such a fascinating character dynamic to me

thanks again for this ask!!!