#ask lan

[seokmingiggles]

I have reread your teacup collection so so many times and I cannot even begin to explain how much comfort it has provided me throughout some really tough times. I specifically love the seungcheol, minghao and soonyoung fics in that collection (I'm a bit biased sorry haha).

I've also read the seungcheol one in your masterlist and I was devastated to see that you haven't written more coups fics. Please write more!! You write his character so beautifully, he's just a big ball of comfort. I love him. And I love you.

I hope you have the greatest week ever!! <3

hey hey hey what the heck!!! anon i’m literally 🥺☹️ because of this message.

first of all, hearing that my series has helped to comfort you means more to me than i could ever express through words. (i’m a very biased person too, but soonhao’s are also a couple of my favourites from that collection 😆) i cannot stress enough that messages/feedback like this can quite literally make the difference between someone quitting and continuing to write stories for the public. i’m sure most of us have seen those posts that explain the value of interacting with creators beyond solely using the like button, and your message to me, anonymous or not, means the world to me. thank you, truly (& ily2).

the first iteration of my teacup collection was written in haste, with more effort and motivation put into some fics over others. the series was written during a time when i was somewhat taking a semester off from uni (which still happened to be three online classes during lockdown), and i wanted to challenge myself by writing and posting on a schedule—something i hadn’t done before. the result was a plan of posting two fics per week, and despite my frantic state of mind for some of them, i was elated with the challenge and amount of traction the fics garnered during that time. i knew as soon as i posted all thirteen that i wanted to write a second season of the teacup collection at some point, and that sentiment hasn’t left my mind since, regardless of my current hiatus from writing. with that said, i don’t have any preparations for reviving the teacup collection anytime soon. i don’t think i’m fully ready to return to writing about domesticity yet, and even if i was, i’m extremely busy with the (fingers crossed!) final semester of my undergrad currently. i do know, however, that i would want to spend more care on each fic, as scheduled posting is definitely not for me.

i know this is a long reply to one message, anon, but know that feedback like this is rare for many writers on tumblr, so i want to respond to all aspects of your post! as for my cheol fics, ah, og orange pekoe fan @cheolbooluvr has expressed to me to write more for him too LOL. again, i don’t think i have anything specific planned for him anytime soon, but i’ll keep this message in mind when the time comes! i’m sure many fic writers feel the same way when i say some people are easier to write for than others (for me, seokmin is obviously the one i feel most comfortable writing about, and oddly enough, chan is one of the most challenging for me despite him as one of my other faves?? LOL)—seungcheol stands somewhere in the middle where if i don’t have something specific in mind, he can be difficult to depict. i agree though, he’s definitely a big ball of comfort!

once again, i need to make sure you know how treasured this message is to me. i can’t thank you enough for taking time out of your day not only to read my fics but also to write me this beautiful message that i’ll treasure for a long time.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The girls are back (from the grave)

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[anoant]

Pictochat!

[lazycranberrydoodles]

jin ling's slightly less homophobic arc (masterpost here!)

[akakumoeteru]

"Have you chosen a name yet?" "Lan Yuan. Lan Sizhui."

[itscherryterry-again]

1000000k dollars and I'll finish this WIP from last year

[wangxian-the-zhijis]

The ship:

The shippers:

The anti:

The legendary third wheel:

[qourmet]

open for a surprise

[ next ]

[neo-kid-funk]

Your CEO Lan Wangji is gorgeous!! Now we need the genius new employee sweeping Gege off his feet!

I think I got carried away drawing a Modern AU Wei Ying;;; In my brain modern au Wei Ying is a total fashionista that wears whatever he wants and absolutely does not care 😵‍💫🤧 I also replaced his hair ribbon w red streaks in his hair!! Thanks for the ask 💖💖

[mios-art]

Sketches part 2

[q1ngqve]

wolf! gallagher who eats you out any chance he’s got because you just taste so so sooooo good???? he can’t believe how intoxicating your are

wolf! gallagher who chuckles when you squirm from his stubble, his arms coming up to your hips to press you down onto the mattress

wolf! gallagher who spends hours between your legs, doesn’t care if you’re overstimulated at this point! all he cares about is making you cum / squirt on his mouth again and again and again

[seokmingiggles]

The follow up for the "brick moment"

https://youtu.be/OxN06GomUCs

I saw it in a compilation but I found it separately as well! Please enjoy this hilarious moment 🥰😅

~ Flurry

OMG i definitely haven’t seen this before, but thank you for enlightening me LDKSFJSDL part of me is surprised that it was vernon who agreed to say it rather than shua??? seems like it would fit his gentle sexy persona but i suppose not 🤦‍♀️

[sunderwight]

Nie Huaisang pulling a Jaskier where somehow everyone thinks he's physically tiny, because of how he tailors his clothes and the way he moves and acts and refers to himself, but in actuality he's almost the same height and shoulder width as Nie Mingjue and the impression of him as "just a little guy" is a carefully crafted illusion that would shatter if the main cast all lined up naked together.

[bonesblubs]

OH NOW THAT YOU'VE FINISHED READING TGCF I have to know . . . what are your thoughts on the whole Feng Xin and Jian Lan plot and how it ended?

TBH I don’t have a LOT of thoughts at the moment- that’s going to be something I’ll be thinking retroactively about, but I like it a lot as a Feng Xin story- he’s been so consistently rejected by the people he loves, the people he’d do anything for, and each and every one of them has purposefully pushed him away in order to “protect” him in one way or another. Whether they were right to do this, I think it’s a tragedy of his life that I’m glad to see slowly turning around. We get to see that even though paths diverge, he has never closed any doors to any of them, and in fact stubbornly holds them open even when the person on the other side is trying to turn the lock

[asksythe]

Is there any deeper meaning to Lan Wangji stealing the fragrance pouch Mian Mian gave to Wei Wuxian?

Well, yes.

He's jealous of that Mianmian hussy and wants Wei Wuxian to marry him and not her.

Hahahahaha!

Ahem. Let me explain. Flower or fragrant pouches are one among the 12 proposal gifts of ancient China.

Here it is, number 7 among the 12.

The meaning behind the flower satchel is 寄情寄思 (lit. to entrust my love and longing). So a woman giving a man a flower satchel she made in ancient times means, 'Marry me, dude!' And if a man asks for a satchel made by the woman's own hands, it means he's saying, 'You so hot, baby! Marry me!'

The flower/fragrance satchels as a token of great love and promise are most known through two separate legends:

1.Yang Guifei and Emperor Tang Xuanzhong. In which, after Yang Guifei died during wartime, only her flower satchel was reclaimed. The rest of her body was reduced to shattered bones. When he was given this satchel, Emperor Tang Xuanzhong cried and kept it in his sleeves for the rest of his life. This legend was made into a poem 太真香囊子 (The Pouch is steeped in Fragrance) by the poet Zhang Hu.

2. The Book of Jin Jia Wu recorded Jia Chong's youngest daughter Jia Wu falling in love with his lowly aide Han Shou. To discreetly confess her love, Jia Wu made a satchel and gifted it to Han Shou. When Jia Wu detected the familiar scent of his daughter's fragrance recipe on Han Shou's body, he immediately cottoned onto their feelings. Luckily for the pair, Jia Chong was a considerably open-minded man for the time, so he blessed their love despite the gap in social stations and allowed the two to wed.

So Wei Wuxian asking Mianmian for a fragrance sachet is tantamount to asking her to marry him in the eyes of many, and at least very, very flirtatious. That's why Mianmian reacted the way she did.

And this was in front of Lan Wangji.... Imagine how Lan Wangji felt. So it wasn't without reason (other than the fact Lan Wangji was at a very low point in his life then) that Lan Wangji reacted like he did.

So Lan Wangji stealing WWX's fragrance pouch and keeping it on his body for decades after is equivalent to saying, 'You will not marry her. You will marry me!' without actually saying it.

That is to say, Hanguang Jun might not look like it, but he would fit right at home in one of those scandalous, overly dramatic telenovelas where the love rivals duke it out by bitchslapping each other. You just need to speak his language (of actions) to see this.

[benevolenterrancy]

i really do love that lan wangji is secretly an enormous bitch to jiang cheng specifically it's seriously too funny