#ancient china!au

[shakslove]

not the svsss hyperfixation hitting a full year after i first read it....

[eunuchboy]

[igotthis-egg]

Tentative Fae Tikki design! I’m thinking of naming her Tianshu, 天 (tiān) meaning "sky, heaven, celestial" and 淑 (shū) meaning "kind and gentle" (this is according to the website behind the name so please correct me if I’m wrong). I’ll be making a full fae form drawing as well!

[samishin]

My @dbh-bb2023 art for chapter 1 of "Dream in passages, Dream in Rhyme" by Rogue_Caeruleum

Everything about this work is beautiful, I cannot recommend it enough💖

There's such an air of romance in the way Connor's music paints the most gorgeous images for poet Hank😩💙 it gives me these colorful mental images that really make this such a joy to read✨Thank you for working with me, it's been a pleasure😊

Please read it here!

[undertheredhood]

Doctor Elise Qi Rong AU

in which shortly after dying in canon (i know that since his ashes weren’t destroyed that he’s probably still alive but please bear with me), qi rong finds himself reincarnated in the modern world and decides that in this life he's going to become someone that guzi would proudly call his father (nevermind the fact that the kid loves him just the way he is), and decides that in order for that to happen, he’s going to become a doctor and save lives and he ends up becoming a super accomplished surgeon with an extremely high success rate.

unfortunately while on his way home from a hospital shift, he ends up getting hit by a truck (you know i had to include truck-kun in this au!) and when he wakes up, he’s in his bedroom back when he was still prince xiao jing of xianle.

the good news is that he can be reunited with guzi again, the bad news is that he’s going to have to wait 800 years before the reunion can happen.

so because he can't really do anything but wait, qi rong decides that he's going to continue his work as a doctor and he ends up accidentally single-handedly revolutionizing ancient china's world of medicine along the way.

[taempteng]

【 Avallum Delusion 】 Xianxia/Ancient China AU

Gale is an emperor, wearing all gold and a mianguan atop his crown. His wardrobe contains a vast range of outfit. From the finest silk for indoor casualness, to the domineering armour of war discussions

He sits upon his throne with a smug expression on his face, overlooking his subjects that bow beneath his feet

Zander is a concubine. As the emperor’s favourite, he dons purple attire to stand out among the harem. Though not scantily dressed, he shows just enough skin to make any onlooker drool with desire

He’s a beauty to never act upon lest they incur the emperor’s wrath

Cassian is a xian, known far and wide for his benevolence and prowess. Though qualified to be an immortal, he chose to remain in the mortal realm to help the poor and weak

His entirely white attire only further establishes his status as a divine immortal, pure and righteous

Lucien is the master of a demonic sect. Despised by all, yet never laid a finger upon, for they feel equal amounts of fear

His dark attire exudes danger, while the splashes of red warns opponents. His paleness only adds to his supernatural aura, beautiful but deadly

Rosco is a commoner, wearing duan da clothes for easier work manoeuvre. His job is to bring farm goods to the town centrals, selling them at good prices

He’s an easy-going and carefree boy, preferring to sunbathe while chewing on a straw. He’s friendly and loves to banter

[rarepears]

Shen Yuan and the ancient hairdresser

Ok, so fun fact about Ancient China: there were professional commercial hairdressers.

No, not for cutting hair. They washed and combed hair.

In the Song dynasty commercial hairdressers began to appear in significant numbers. Known as “tweezers workers (镊工)” or “comb workers (栉工),” these craftsmen could earn a decent living. Writer Zhang Duanyi (张端义) recorded in his Gui’er Ji (《贵耳集》), a book collecting anecdotes of the Song dynasty, that the infamously corrupt chancellor Qin Hui (秦桧) once paid 5,000 wen for a haircut, enough to buy about 120 kilograms of rice at that time.

So... who has access to that kind of ungodly amount of money for such luxuries and would spend that kind of money? Shen Qingqiu.

Not Shen Jiu, mind you. He is more than aware of the value of each coin and copper. He'd know where to go find a valuable bargain... if he could even bare to allow someone near his neck like that other than courtesans. He probably had courtesans combing his hair in fact.

Now Shen Yuan on the other hand has no concept of ancient money. Well, even if he did, he would lack the common sense coming from a rich background.

(Shen Yuan: What could a banana cost? 10 bucks? Pft, that's cheap. Shang Qinghua: Bro...)

And even if he knew how much it cost... a freshly transmigrated Shen Yuan would consist it a worthy investment because he doesn't want to do it, he has to stay in character and Shen Qingqiu was known for his Pristine Appearance. It's not like the original goods had any servants on hand and Shen Yuan couldn't very well have a disciple do it! Plus the original goods had plenty of money laying around (and plenty more letters of rich nobles offering sky high prices for calligraphy and painting commissions that Shen Yuan didn't have to even complete - he just had to find something from Shen Jiu's piles of practice sheets from years prior to ship out.)

So Shen Yuan heads into town (following the helpful google map instructions of the system) to find a hairdressing artist to do his hair. And he gets into the habit of going down every week for a lovely comb and washing. It's great! The guy is good looking and a great conversationalist. A+++ service!

(Historical note: In Lin’an, the capital of the Southern Song dynasty (1127 – 1279), the hairdressers even formed an industrial association, called the “hair-dressing community (净发社).” The members of the association, known as “hairdressing artists (净发艺人),” established an industry guidebook, which was titled “Instructions on Hairdressing (《净发须知》).” The guidebook listed 10 requirements for hairdressers, not only calling for them to have excellent professional skills, but also to be good-looking, intelligent, eloquent, and easygoing, so that they could provide good service.)

Hence, even after Luo Binghe moves into the bamboo cottage and offers to help comb his shizun's hair, Shen Yuan still goes down every week to visit his go-to hairdresser, unaware of the fuming jealous little sheep he leaves behind each time. He's also totally unaware of the fact that the rest of the sect thinks he's sneaking off to the brothels with each trip too (since that's where the original goods got his hair washed and combed at.)

[tobaitfishwith]

恭喜太子哥，贺喜太子哥

[not-a-real-fan]

Plotting a DCxAsoiaf crossover primarily to feed my Jason Todd obsession loosely inspired by details within the three references below.

My heart just wants to give my oc someone to arch her back and Jason needs someone to get his too. Im playing with the idea of Lazarus pits being gateways between worlds or realities and instead of being pulled out of the pit by Talia Jason is lost in the ruins of Old Valyria. This occurs at the point of my ocs timeline where she just happens to be in Valyria and coincidentally they stumble upon each other while sheltering from remnants of the Doom. There’s some scavenging and many allusions to the Bloodraven and such. Set in Westeros/Essos before the events of the book 266Ac-280Ac ish. I haven’t decided if I want to dive into the original plot or not but GRRM set up a massive world to explore and there’s plenty of story potential outside the primary locations.

Inspired by:

[scalpelandrose]

Thank you so much @norei01 for making this super adorable & blessed surprise gift for my birthday!!! 🥺❤️🌹🏮l am so grateful to have gotten to know you & become friends! (also please check out her art, it’s gorgeously sumptuous down to the details)

[cynicalmusings]

HI I HAVE LIKE SO MANY XIAO BRAINROTS BC OF ME RECENTLY GETTING BIM SO HERE HAVE ONE OF MG DYNASTY AUS (i also posted another brainrot of him on mu page)

Perhaps during the archon war, as reader and the other yakshas were fighting different monsters , a mysterious portal had appeared sucking in the yakshas including reader teleporting them to our modern times but strangely enough they popped in at different timings (ex. 2013, 2016 etc) .

All of the yakshas memories of each other were gone but each of them kept of receiving dreams of their past life when in the dynasty era (courtesy of a certain dendro archon) , though all of them first pass it off as a dream they can't deny it made them slightly freak out with how familiar fighting was.

Of course, reader and yakshas met when they entered college. As the group finally reunites, would they be able to find out who really is the mastermind behind all of this?

Would Xiao and Reader finally confess their love for each other or would they fail to do that just like in their previous era?

Small holes in the story bc im still tryna figure sone things out 😭

this is a cool idea because it has so much potential for found family dynamics and deja vu between the characters; for example, somehow knowing their names despite never having met them before, recognising their face, being able to talk to each other like they’ve known each other for years…

and regarding xiao and the reader, no doubt it’s a sort of love-at-first-sight-but-i’m-sure-we’ve-met-somewhere-before interaction… like, you lock eyes randomly while passing through a hallway and both do a double take.

good things about being in the modern day is that the yakshas don’t have to worry about their karmic debt anymore, or days full of slaughter and bloody battle. however, everyone does get nightmares. graphic nightmares about being in a body that’s their own but not quite, and holding weapons and channelling magic that could never exist in real life but feel so right in their hands. soon after, they start sharing dreams, and find their classmates fighting alongside them. it’s probably these dreams that bring them together.

as disturbing as these nightmares may be, because they’re not real, it does mean that pursuing certain things— namely romance, in your and xiao’s cases— is much easier when you don’t have to worry about the other dying at any given moment. you probably skirt around each other for a while, both drawn in and put off by the familiarity you feel when around each other, but slowly allow yourselves to indulge in your feelings more and more…

also… modern au!xiao. i love him.

[angstandhappiness]

GORGEOUS

The Lord of the Rings  by Leia Ham

1. Frodo in Hobbiton

2. the armor of Middle-Earth: Gondor, Rohan, Rivendell

3-4. Arwen & Aragorn

5. Argonath

6. in LothLorien

7. Eowyn & Theoden in Meduseld

8.  Eowyn (I am no man!)

[rarepears]

Are you implying that we get an Irish peaklord because a 10-year-old redhead got drunk, brawled their way through the demon and fae realms rather than face their mam’s wrath, got lost, somehow ended up at Cang Qiong. And THEN, since they’re there they thought they ‘might as well’ dig a giant hole in the dirt for hours under the blazing sun (while hungover, mind you)? And that then someone OTHER than the alcohol peak looked at this gremlin and says “Him, I want him.”?

Yes.

[More in #if Cang Qiong had an Irish peak lord AU]

[mayvnwrites]

Just a weird au i have to unload from my head or else I'll never get anything done.

The System screws up and sticks SY in the wrong qi-deviating Peak Lord, freaks out and tried to undo it, and x number of svsss shenanigans later, there are two Qi Qingqis staring at each other from their sickbed.

SY promptly freaks out and outs himself as a dude in a lady's body, which QQQ is understandably pissed as all hell about ... until SY's very modern politically correct upbringing starts freaking out about how it's a betrayal to the girls on xian shu peak if he's allowed in it and how absolutely disrespectful this is to QQQ that some dude can see a perfect copy of her body etc etc ... and then she's like, oh no, he's *pathetic* and it's *adorable*.

SY is QQQ's didi now, but he still has to be rigorously tested for demonization and is declared to be just a poor wandering soul that got yoinked into a weird situation thanks to QQQ's qi deviation. MQF tries various things to help SY adapt to the body, but SY is all female all the way now, which, when he finds out he can avoid periods bc cultivator, he's all for since QQQ's body is way better than his prev one. The tincture that tries to meld body and soul does at least reduce his breast size, which thank GODS bc holy hell jiejie, how do you even deal with these?

SJ is his normal bitchy self... except he can't help but be a little curious about what it's like being a woman, and having been there for SY's freak out he feels... the slightest bit of a kindred spirit to a man who holds women in such high regard (bc ancient china). Also SY is a woman now, although he still calls himself a didi instead of a meimei, so... anyway, SJ's walls are slowly torn down and it ends in Shenbros somehow, with SJ and QQQ competing for title of best elder sibling. (SJ is aroace in this au.)

No one tells LQG about the two QQQ's for the longest time, and he is extremely confused at the softer(in personality) vers and why her boob size keeps fluctuating. He is very torn between his "just bros" sparring buddy (QQQ) and the... one who makes him feel... things (SY) and is not-gay panicking like crazy.

The System blocked SY's knowledge of PIDW and fked off in terror of the Main System finding out about its screw up, so SY didn't realize anything until LBH appears and his memory is unlocked (bc deus ex binghe), but by then he's invested in Cang Qiong and the Peak Lords' wellbeings, Jiu-ge is a lot more well-adjusted, and all the Xianshu ladies are addicted to trashy romance novels and have no time for rl pretty boys so...

[liramic]

Scara and Nahida in an ancient China AU where Nahida's the young princess who snuck out of the palace to see the world and Scara was tasked to bring her back but he's just coming with her instead lmao. Just maybe helping her have a better disguise (aka wear a hat l;jkasdf)

(also up on my sh✧p as a print!)

[szynkaaa]

This is my first time asking but I'm going to ask anyway (and English is not my native language) I'm curious to know how your OC and the destined one met (I mean how was their first interaction)

hi hi! thank you so much for your ask, this is the first time I have received one about my OC <3

probably something like this (read right-to-left)

Gonna use this chance to talk a bit more about my AU lol

Wrote in a separate post here that Oz has met Sun Wukong before when she was a child and he was buried under the mountain.

So when she got whisked back into fantasy ancient China, she landed where Yuan Shoucheng aka Gourd Grandpa (the old man carrying a big gourd on his back) was already waiting there for her. He foresaw her arriva. The vague gist of my AU is that the the reason why this Destined One succeeds in retrieving all artifacts and becomes SWK is because he is also sort of the manifestation of that childish promise 5-years-old Oz made that she will save SWK one day (from under the mountain but clearly that didn't happen lol). But also since her ancestor is from this world, her descendants were fated to return back here one day.

Gourd grandpa updates her on her ancestors and their roles in the Celestial Court and the shitstorm that happened that ultimately let to the clan being massacred and one person escaping to "our" world, where magic doesn't exist and all those people are just characters from myths and stories. But also her ancestor isn't the only person that traversed through the two worlds - over the centuries more have come and gone. This is also why people in her world have those myths and deities. In my AU Wu Cheng'en also escaped from fantasy ancient China into her world and then wrote Journey to the West. He took artistic liberty to change some things for his novel, hence some things in BMW are different than in JTTW (like the ZBJ and violet spider love story or how SWK had a romance with White Bone Demon).

Anywayyy, Oz task on the adventure is to document their journey together, and she is responsible for using the magical gourd to suck in the will of the defeated bosses in.

And 2-3 days later the Destined One shows up. I don't think Oz was very happy about leaving gourd grandpa and join the Destined One on his travel, but if he is her best chance to find a way back home to see Taylor Swift live, then she will do it.

The Destined One is indifferent to mildly annoyed about this, but doesn't protest too much, as long as she doesn't slow him down yadda yadda. I do think that DO did feel some sort of special connection to her, because he is sort of a manifestation of that promise. it doesn't really take long for him to get used to her and also to care for her. One of Sun Wukong's massive core trait is that he cares so much for his loved ones and does not hesitate to do the impossible for them, and I like to imagine that even though SWK senses have been split into 6 different parts, the caring part stayed with each Destined One reincarnation.