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[whimsycore]

having awkwafina in the new little mermaid is an actiual hatecrime to the black community

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[writing-reference-redux]

I felt like sharing my collection of Latin phrases that may make good fanfic or fanart titles or inspiration. Some of the translations may be off, so you might want to double-check them before use. Also, I used capitalization liberally so you might also want to check where capitalization is actually indicated.

Ab Intra (From Within)

Acta Est Fabula (The play has been performed)

Acta Sancti ___ (The Deeds of Saint ___)

Ad Undas (to the waves / to hell)

Advocatus Diaboli (Devil's advocate)

Aegri Somnia (a sick man's dreams / troubled dreams)

Alea Iacta Est (the die has been cast / point of no return)

Apologia Pro Vita Sua (defense of one's life)

Caetera Desunt (the rest is missing)

Cedere Nescio (I know not how to yield)

Damnatio Memoriae (damnation of memory / denying someone ever lived)

De Nobis Fabula Narratur (their story is our story)

Decessit Vita Patris (died before their father)

Diem Perdidi (I have lost the day)

Dies Tenebrosa Sicut Nox (a day as dark as night)

Dolor Hic Tibi Proderit Olim (some day this pain will be useful to you)

Dulce Est Desipere In Loco (It is sweet on occasion to play the fool)

Dum Vivimus, Vivamus (while we live, let us live)

Dux Bellorum (war leader)

Ex Umbra In Solem (from the shadow into the light)

Festina Lente (hurry slowly)

Fortis Cadere, Cedere Non Potest (the brave may fall, but can not yield)

Fui Quod Es, Eris Quod Sum (I once was what you are, you will be what I am)

Graviora Manent (heavier things remain / the worst is yet to come)

Haec Olim Meminisse Iuvabit (one day, this will be pleasing to remember)

Hic Mortui Vivunt (here the dead speak)

Hinc Illae Lacrimae (hence those tears)

Hodie Mihi, Cras Tibi (Today it's me, tomorrow it will be you - of death)

In Ictu Oculi (in the blink of an eye)

In Somnis Veritas (in dreams there is truth)

Inter Spem Et Metum (between hope and fear)

Lapsus Memoriae (slip of memory)

Luctor, Non Mergor (I struggle, but am not overwhelmed)

Lux Ex Tenebris (light from darkness)

Media Vita In Morte Sumus (In the midst of our lives we die)

Memento Mori (remember that you will die)

Memento Vivere (remember to live)

Morior Invictus (I die unvanquished / death before defeat)

Mundus Senescit (the world grows old)

Nemini Parco (I spare no one - death)

Nitimur In Vetitum (we strive for the forbidden)

Non Ducor, Duco (I am not led; I lead)

Non Omnis Moriar (I shall not all die / part of me will survive beyond death)

Nunc Scio Quid Sit Amor (now I know what love is)

Oderint Dum Metuant (let them hate, so long as they fear)

Omnia Mutantur (everything changes)

Onus Probandi (burden of proof)

Opera Posthuma (posthumous works)

Ophidia In Herba (a snake in the grass)

Pax Aeterna (eternal peace - a common epitaph)

Primum Non Nocere (first do no harm)

Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus (we are dust and shadow)

Quis Leget Haec? (who will read this?)

Quod Periit, Periit (what Is gone is gone)

Res, Non Verba (deeds, not words)

Respice Finem (consider the end)

Scientia Et Sapientia (knowledge and wisdom)

Seculo Seculorum (forever and ever)

Sed Terrae Graviora Manent (but on earth, worse things await)

Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (if you want peace, prepare for war)

Sic Infit (so it begins)

Sic Vita Est (such is life)

Silentium Est Aureum (silence is golden)

Sine Nomine (without a name / author unknown)

Sola Dosis Facit Venemum (the dose makes the poison)

Solvitur Ambulando (it is solved by walking / simple tests find solutions)

Stamus Contra Malum (we stand against evil)

Succisa Virescit (cut down, we grow back stronger)

Sum Quod Eris (I am what you will be - of death)

Summum Bonum (the supreme good)

Summum Malum (the supreme evil)

Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (there are tears for things)

Sunt Omnes Unum (they are all one)

Tabula Rasa (blank slate)

Transire Benefaciendo (to travel along while doing good)

Tu Fui Ego Eris (I was you; you will be me - of death)

Ubi Amor, Ibi Dolor (where there is love, there is pain)

Ultima Forsan (perhaps the last / sundial quote "perhaps your last hour")

Usque Ad Finem (until the end / fight to the death)

Vacate Et Scire (Be still and know)

Vi Et Animo (with heart and soul)

Victoria Aut Mors (victory or death)

Vincit Qui Patitur (he conquers who endures)

Vita Ante Acta (a life done before - of reincarnation)

Vivere Militare Est (to live is to fight)

Vox Clamantis In Deserto (the voice of one crying in the wilderness)

There are also some longer ones that may not make good titles because of their length, but are still worth inclusion:

Aut Simul Stabunt Aut Simul Cadent (they will either stand together or fall together)

Flectere Si Nequeo Superos, Acheronta Movebo (if I can not reach Heaven I will raise Hell)

Forsan Et Haec Olim Meminisse Iuvabit (perhaps even these things will be good to remember one day)

Igitur Qui Desiderat Pacem, Praeparet Bellum (therefore whoever desires peace, let him prepare for war)

In Regione Caecorum Rex Est Luscus (in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king)

Minus Malum Toleratur Ut Maius Tollat (choose the lesser evil so a greater evil may be averted)

Quem Deus Vult Perdere, Dementat Prius (whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad)

Ubi Sunt, Qui Ante Nos Fuerunt? (Where are they, those who have gone before us?)

Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit (that which virtue unites, let not death separate)

[brujahinaskirt]

I will never shut up about how Kingdom Come: Deliverance is the most tenderly written game served to the most loutish horde of jackasses. I think it is possibly one of the greatest pieces of popular fiction made about feudalism in recent history, even if it's not always the most historically accurate.

And that's because the whole damn thing is about the profound, authority-enforced inhumanity that self-propels feudal order... but this time, it's written from the perspective of, for lack of better word, "humanity undermines, and humanity wins."

Love wins, if you want to be cheeky.

This was originally meant to be a reply to @feelinungry's excellent post on the subject, but it outgrew itself and got super bloated, so I'm plopping it in its own post to not be obnoxious...

KINGDOM COME: DELIVERANCE MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW

And the reason all this about humanity and love is so important to the core of the story, to the very backbone of the narrative (even beyond the plot), is that it exists in opposition and to the impairment of the feudal system. Kingdom Come: Deliverance means to teach us, by way of deeply dramatic plots following individuals, how feudalism works and why it worked the way it did. And why and how that system fails.

The vehicle by which the game does this is by showing us, over and over, how the stratification of feudal class is eroded and sometimes outright dissolved (either in general, as with Henry and Hans, or when it matters most, as with Radzig and Henry) by plain and simple love.

Feudalism, like most class-stratified systems, relies upon 1. dehumanization of those beneath one's appointed status; 2. fealty (mock-love) to those above one's status, their title-appointer class; and 3. the maintenance of a deep separation between these artificially bestowed statuses, as enforced by church (as in word of clergy, not word of god) & state (legal rules and law). Those words and laws existed to propel the system by divide-and-maintain (of the workforce populace, placing it firmly below the next class in line, etc.) in the service of unify-and-profit (for the ruling class).

Sigismund & his invading army are wholly separated and adherent to the feudal theory, even if they have flouted codes of warfare & inheritance; they are presented to us as the main dehumanizing force of the story world, a wave of Order that indiscriminately burns opposition flat rather than an individual leading a royal coup, a cyclical destruction that paves the way for the next flavor of rule to continue the feudal system ad infinitum. They're thoroughly separated from the story even when they are burning down a village in front of our eyes and generally move as one, with Markvart occasionally stepping out of that mass of Feudalism and its antihuman nature to give it a face. They're more a force of nature than an individual as far as the narrative goes.

And we are meant to understand that in sharp contrast to the "close" story, the cast we get to know and watch as they attempt to answer this force of nature. And the second we see these characters get close enough to each other, by raw proximity, to poke a pin into the wineskin of feudal order as dictated to them by authority, it bleeds--everywhere. Not in the sense of ruination but in the sense that a tiny wedge of empathy cracks open the dam and leads, yep, to rehumanization--and love, the most human driving force there is.

And that changes everything, for everyone. Not just internally, as with a character's personal development arc (i.e., Hans learning why his duties, which he resented and viewed as an impingement on his freedom when dictated to him by authority, are incredibly important for real people who experience pain) but externally as well (as @feelinungry so elegantly points out in the original post).

Over and over, at every stage of the story, it's the rehumanization of and by these decision-makers (at a family level, at a community level, at a regional level, at a national level) that cracks the feudal cycle, even if in very small ways. Hans really brings this back home in a petri dish in late game, after the siege, when he complains to Henry about the noble's code (letting Istvan go) potentially leading to pain and disaster for the common people Istvan's machinations are likely to harm in the future. He chafes--and we chafe, and so does Radzig, and so does Divish--against feudal stratification because he has learned a general empathy through loving an individual, and that has in turn reshaped the way he sees the world.

And that's exactly why and when feudalism begins to fail, and why it thrashed itself the way it did, from the enforcement of sexual mores (though this wasn't exactly like it is in movies) and gender law to terror upon its own populations.

And it's the crucial understanding I think we begin to forget after being exposed to so much Hollywoodification of history, where the oppression always exists for cruelty's sake alone rather than in active and deliberate service to a political construct.

And I think it's why we've "lost the plot" so horribly when it comes to understanding that people in history were still people, not monolithic one-mind entities (as the feudal system demanded they be). And why we somehow forgot that such people fall in love, in all kinds of love, in a way that has never given a damn about authority. And that this in turn undermines supposedly supreme authority, even divine authority, and will always continue to do so, as long as people are people.

This is what it always comes back to. Always. From Henry's parents and their mysterious bond with Radzig informing the protagonist's journey from "the past"--to Henry & Hans falling into stupidly fierce soulmatehood with each other in the present--from Istvan & Erik's destructive fuck-the-world romantic love on the "enemy" side--to Divish's humbling, humanizing realization that he loves Stephanie in some way, he really does, despite the chasm of age/gender enforced upon them by their adherence to feudal order that doomed their romantic love to failure.

People will always love each other, even when the world orders them not to, even when faced with death and worse. People will always, given proximity and shared experiences, learn to see each other as human again. KCD reminds us of that. It's why the "slow" storyline exists and why it works.

And that is why this game is so fucking fantastic, and why the genpop fandom has utterly failed it.

[wangxianficfinder]

In the mood for...

Apr 24th

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1. Hellooo! For the next itmf I was wondering If you had any fanfics that a) explored other adults finding Madame Yu's abuse and them trying to help him (especially if the adults are LQR or NMJ), If they are modern AUs better but if not that's okay ofc or b) a fanfic with focus on wwx's fear of dogs in a not so comedic way (preferably set during the CRA)

I'm okay with both os and multichapter ffs! Thank you ♡!!! @menimimimeni

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Come Around and Stay by trippednfell (M, 160k, wangxian, modern, slow burn, kid fic, found family, it gets worse before it gets better, PTSD, blood and injury,   dissociation, trauma, angst w happy ending, musicals, alternating pov, JC & WWX reconciliation, hurt/comfort, panic attacks)

Where is home? by SpicyRamen_10969 (M, 80k, WIP, WangXian, Modern AU, High School, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Coming Out, Not Jiang Family Friendly, Supportive LQR, Good Sibling LXC, Fluff, Angst with a Happy Ending, JC Being an Asshole, Possible Smut?)

🔒 To Speak Up by Vrishchika (M, 7k, WangXian, Modern, Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Not Jiang Clan Friendly, Not YZY Friendly, Not JC Friendly)

🔒 The Second Hand Unwinds by trulywicked (E, 56k, WangXian, JYL/JZX, WIP, Time Travel Fix-It, Not JC Friendly, Not Yunmeng Jiang Sect Friendly, Not Jiāng Family Friendly, Not YZY Friendly, Time Travelling LWJ, Protective LWJ, Fluff, Minor Angst, Minor Character Death, JGS is his own warning, Wooing, LWJ is romantic af, Inventor WWX, Genius WWX, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Protective Gusu Lan Sect, Supportive LXC, Good Uncle LQR, WWX Protection Squad)

🔒 Warming up (to him) by barisan (T, 9k, LQR & WWX, WangXian, Hypothermia, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, Temporary Character Death, Medical Inaccuracies, YZY Abuses WWX, JFM Bashing, pre-wangxian, Good Uncle LQR, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort)

🧡 To have and to hold by Moominmammashandbag (M, 78k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Major character injury, CQL verse, Happy Ending)

💙 Holding shreds by barisan (T, 5k, WangXian, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, No Sunshot Campaign, Body Swap, Not for sexy shenanigans, Chronic Pain, Hurt WWX, Hurt LWJ, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Abusive YZY, Bad Parent YZY, Bad Parent JFM, Good Uncle LQR, Hurt/Comfort, Medical Inaccuracies, POV WWX, Angst with a Happy Ending, Not Jiāng Family Friendly, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Getting Together, Smart WWX)

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2. Hi, I'm ITMF juniors fics, I'm looking for mainly lsz x ljy fics that also contain jrl and ozz as characters. Most fics I don't include ozz so please help. Also I don't mind any relationship btw the juniors except lsz x jrl cos they're kinda cousins. I'd just prefer lsz x ljy. I've read all the junior fics by emmagrant01 already. Thanks! @purplefuzzypickle

Chosen Not Fated by useless_slytherclaw (E, 131k, LSZ/LJY, JL/OYZZ, WIP, Heavy Angst, Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Canon Universe, Minor canon divergence, Friends to Lovers, Mutual Pining, Angst with a Happy Ending, Trope Subversion/Inversion, Defied Trope, Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, First Time, Making Love, Canon-Typical Violence, Politics, Night Hunts) this author is lsz/ljy focused in general if you want other works but this one definitely has the four playing major roles

Between the Candle and the Sun by Legume_Shadow (T, 304k, LSZ/LJY, WangXian, JL/OYZZ, JC/LXC, JYL/JZX, LJY & JL & OYZZ & LSZ, Angst, Friendship, Slow Burn, Falling In Love, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Only Endgame Pairings Tagged, Mian-Mian is a Badass, WN is a Badass, Protective WQ, Most people live, Ensemble Cast, Gūsū Lán Forehead Ribbon, Demonic Cultivation, Action/Adventure, Juniors on an Adventure, Alternate Universe, Inspired by “The Long Ballad | 长歌行”) is more plot-centric than shippy but the romances are there

anyway, here’s wuji by kakikaeru (T, 18k, ZhuiYi, WangXian, Post-Canon, Canon-Typical Violence)

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3. For the next itmf: Do you have any ff with wwx mourning his parents? Or talking about how he only knows the bad things and no one tells him the good things?

🧡 Stunted, Starving Juvenility by TomatenMark (E, 786k, WangXian, WIP, Fix-it of sorts, Talisman master WWX, Not JFM Friendly, Study Arc, Getting together, Fluff and Angst, Engagement) (link in #10) Has a bit early on where WWX comments to LQR how little he knows about his parents & LQR tells him stories about them

Melancholy by MissCellophane (G, 2k, WangXian, LWJ & WWX, Grief/Mourning, Melancholy, i guess this could be considered, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, Pre-Relationship, Canon Compliant, In a way, Based on a Tumblr Post)

🔒 places under the sky by narie (T, 17k, WangXian, Background Relationships, Canonical Character Death, let WWX have some closure!, ,Family, Found Family, literally but also metaphorically, Funerary Rites, WWX has a family even if he doesn't like thinking about it, Post-Canon, Family Dynamics, Grief/Mourning)

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4. Hii!! for the next itmf can i please request fics with wwx/wq mad scientist duo besties vibes?? i just love them so much!! also, an additional request of yunmeng pride dynamics, and brotherly feels <33 thank u so muchhh!!! @flexibleracoon

💖 do not envy the roots that hold you down by eccentrick for rianitida (T, 12k, WangXian, Reincarnation, WQ is a Lan, Canon Divergence, Emotional Hurt/Comfort) Wei Wuxian doesn't show up until 2/3 of the way through but it has best friend vibes.

With Absolute Splendor by Lise (T, 43k, WangXian, JC & WWX, Post-Canon, Wedding planning, Yunmeng Bros Reconciliation, Complicated Relationships, Angst with a happy ending)

The Twin Blades of Yunmeng by GhostySword & ofmindelans (T, 89k, JC & WWX, wangxian, JC/NHS, canon divergence, JC & WWX, reconciliation, BAMF JC, protective LWJ, golden core reveal, angst w/ happy ending, slow burn, sect leader QS)

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5. not sure if you already answered this but is there a lwj yiling laozu au?

Until The World Embraces Me Home by azri (T, 5k, WIP, WangXian, Canon Divergence, YLLZ LWJ, LWJ Has No Golden Core, Role Reversal, Not LXC Friendly, Not JC Friendly, Not cultivation world friendly overall tbh, Sunshot Campaign, Friends to Lovers, Temporary Character Death, WangXian Get a Happy Ending)

stay, fury, your wrist wrapped in silk by spookykingdomstarlight (E, 228k, WangXian, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Canon Divergence, YLLZ LWJ, LWJ loses his golden core, yiling wei sect, Hurt/Comfort, Heavy Angst, Major Character Injury, Injury Recovery, Temporary Character Death, War Crimes, Wen Remnant, WangXian Get a Happy Ending, Revenge, LWJ goes dark for a while, WWX has a hard time with the bad shit going on around him, JGS is a bastard, Protracted Sunshot Campaign, War is war and hell is hell and of the two war is a lot worse, temporary impotence, growing intimacy, LWJ & WWX and the Wen Remnant live in the Burial Mounds together, WWX travels with LWJ and stays at his side post-Sunshot, Spanish Translation)

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6. this is for itmf ^^ do u have any favorite long fics where cssr and wcz is alive? thank you!

We Meet at the Thousandth Step by Admiranda, Rynne (T, 288k, WangXian, CSSR/WCZ, WIP, Canon Divergence, No Sunshot Campaign, CSSR & WCZ Live, Rogue Cultivator WWX, Different First Meeting, Night Hunts, Genius WWX, Inventor WWX, Plot, Romance, Drama, Fluff, Strangers to married, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Romantic Tension, Everyone Lives AU, Developing Relationship, Minor Violence, Case Fic, Mystery, Flirting, WWX's Canon-Typical Flower Flirting, Arson, There Was Only One Bed, Getting Together, First Kiss, Meeting the Parents, Resolved Sexual Tension, Resolved Romantic Tension, WWX Is a Good Big Brother, New Relationship Bliss, Chinese Mythology & Folklore, Blood and Injury, Yiling siblings, Married WangXian, Honeymoon, Wangxian's Baby Fever)

Cartwheels In Cloud Recesses Series by ShanaStoryteller (Not Rated, 23k, WangXian, CSSR/WCZ, CSSR and WCZ Live, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, Cloud Recesses Shenanigans)

Wújī by FairyTaleDreams (M, 43k, WIP, WangXian, Canon Divergence, WCZ & CSSR Lives, Rouge cultivator WWX)

Building a home by R95irth (T, 586k, WCZ/CS, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Time Travel Fix-it, Angst with a happy ending, Family fluff) Focuses on the "adults" of mdzs and has so much wcz and cssr! Explores their backstory and family history as well!!

🔒 the world wags on by justdoityoufucker (orphan_account) (T, 5k, WCZ & WWX, WCZ & LQR, LQR/WCZ, Canon Divergence, Pre-Canon, Not Everyone Dies AU, Not Jiang Clan Friendly, Past Child Abuse, Canon Jiang Family Relationships, Parent-Child Relationship, Pre-Relationship, Not for Madam Yu fans) wcz only

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7. any jealous lan wangji fics? thanks for ur work!

Snow Burns and Fire Falls by Liebing (T, 12k, wangxian, Fluff, Fox WWX, fox LWJ, snow fox LWJ, red fox WWX, Childhood Friends, Orphans, LXC is 8 years older than LWJ, LWJ and WWX are besties, LXC is the best big brother, WWX is adopted by the Lan clan, Happy Ending, Sweet, soft, Cute, Fluffy, Jealous LWJ, WWX has the whole of cloud recesses in love with him… baby LWJ is pouty, LQR loves WWX, Literally everyone loves WWX, The entire Lan clan: we would die for little WWX, Thwarted dog attack, LQR trying to arrange marriages, Time jump forward, No one is harmed in the dog attack not even the dog, Clan leader LXC, Jealous WWX, Oblivious WWX, love at first kiss, Wangxian fox babies) link in #11

Unavoidable by diamondbruise (T, 18k, WangXian, Post-Canon, Amnesia, Jealousy, lwj just is like that idk what to tell you, Misunderstandings, Falling In Love, Again, Happy Ending, it’s that thing where they’re married but lwj can’t remember wwx and they meet again)

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8. in the mood for any funny or crack fics of wangxian or even the juniors? thank you!

Losing My Mind by pupeez4eva (T, 6k, wangxian, JC & WWX, Humor, Protective JC, JC drinks a potion that lets him hear people’s lustful thoughts, Teenage LWJ has a lot of feelings, Canon Divergence, Cloud Recesses study arc) JC drinks a potion that allows him to hear people's horny thoughts & has to deal with Wangxian's whole deal

❤️ The One-Body Problem by metisket (T, 29k, LJY & WWX, LJY & LSZ, wangxian, possession, cohabitation, Mojo’s bookmark)

Jiang Cheng the Virgin by x_los (T, 2k, WangXian, JC & WWX, JC & WWX Reconciliation, Mpreg, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Crack, Galaxy Brain Shit)

Transcend by covalentbonds (Not Rated, 7k, WIP, WangXian, Post-Canon, Fluff and Humor, Smut)

Help, My Dad Is Fucking Someone My Age!! by sweetlolixo (T, 3k, WangXian, LSZ & LWJ, Canon Divergence, Humor, Crack, Fluff, Romance)

The Chase by JiangChengLotus (T, 2k, JC & LWJ, WangXian, LXC/JC, Humor, Chaos, Light-Hearted, Crack, Family Dynamics, LJY is JC & LXC's Child, LWJ and JC sharing one braincell, Bickering, LWJ is lazy)

只羡鸳鸯不羡仙 by RoseThorne (T, 1k, wangxian, animal transformation, ducks, crack)

ridiculous future bullshit Series by sami (T, 61k, WangXian, XiChengQing, Future Fic, in theory it follows on from an au, specifically The Same Moon Shines Series, in actuality I'm not committing to this that hard, Humour, immortals through history, Modern AU, Sort Of, University, outsider pov, Pride, Chaos Gremlin WWX)

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9. ITMF - Do you have any fics where a modern AU Wangxian meets canon Wangxian? Or any AU meets canon, really.

Key Differences by pupeez4eva (T, 5k, WangXian, Humor, Dimension Travel, Crossover, Drama!WWX meets Novel!WWX, Public Confessions, Post-Canon) not modern AUs but some dimensional time travel ones

River Stones by littlesystems (M, 18k, WangXian, Time Travel, Post-Canon, Cloud Recesses Study arc, Junior Quartet, Oblivious WWX, Suffering LWJ, Voyeurism)

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10. Hello, can you all recommend me some fanfic, long as possible (100k+) no modern pls I'm desperate 😭 @lanwuxian0725

🧡 Stunted, Starving Juvenility by TomatenMark (E, 786k, WangXian, WIP, Fix-it of sorts, Talisman master WWX, Not JFM Friendly, Study Arc, Getting together, Fluff and Angst, Engagement)

💖🔒 love, in fire and blood by cicer (E, 360k, wangxian, Canon Divergence, YLLZ WWX, Arranged Marriage, political scheming, Gratuitous Domesticity, Mutual Pining, EXTREME SLOWBURN, the inherent eroticism of the forehead ribbon, The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known, neither wwx nor lwj want to be Perceived, but sorry kids! it’s gonna happen!, rated E but the the NSFW stuff doesn’t begin until chapter 19!, bottom LWJ in chapter 20 and 27)

💖 Magical Marriage Ribbons Series by starandrea (Varies, 1m, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Accidental Marriage, Fluff, Happy Ending, Telepathic bond, Kink Negotiation, Family Drama, Magical Pregnancy, Dual Cultivation, Shapeshifters, Modern with Magic, Immortality, Yilling Wei Sect) there's a modern part in part 20 and part 35 onwards according the tags but otherwise should be in the canon times, I think. It's been a while since I read this

The Scarlet Lotus by rainbowninja167 (M, 137k, WangXian, Marriage of Convenience, Secret Identity, Fix-It, Angst with a Happy Ending, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, Canon-Typical Violence, canon-typical war crimes, Yunmeng Bros, the mortifying ordeal of getting seduced by your own husband, nonlinear chronology we die like cql, just kidding nobody dies in this fic, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Miscommunication)

Teen Project to Change the World by animeloverhomura (Not rated, 810k, WangXian, watching the series, BAMF WWX, Fix-It, JGS is his own warning, Attractive WWX, Homophobia, disturbing imagery, WIP)

🔒 Share Your Silence by Terri Botta (Isilwath) (E, 138k, WangXian, Romance, Everybody Lives AU, Canon Divergence, LWJ Has Feelings, Protective LWJ, Burial Mounds Settlement Days, LWJ Stays at the Burial Mounds, Burial Mounds Ensemble as Family, WangXian in Love, YLLZ WWX, Lan Clan Elders are Assholes, Minor Transgender Character, Qiongqi Path Divergence, LWJ loves his bunnies, Explicit Sexual Content, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Burial Mounds, Original Character(s), Drama, NMJ Qi Deviation, Awesome WQ, The Wen Twins, Wen JunZhu | MinYue (OMC), Wen YanJeng | MinYi (OMC), Fluff and Humor, Fluff, WWX Has Feelings, Original Female Character(s), Lotus Pier, mention of non-con roleplay, Sexual Roleplay, NMJ Needs a Hug, Nie clan sabers, Unclean Realm, Protective NHS)

❤️ Tragedy is Not the End by Hobbsy3 (T, 358k, wangxian, Time Travel, Torture, Hurt/Comfort, Golden Core Reveal, Canon Divergence from Qiongqi Pass, Angst with a Happy Ending, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Yunmeng sibling bonding, good dad wwx, good dad lwj, JZX Lives, JYL Lives, Junior Quartet Dynamics)

the same moon shines series by sami (M, 799k, wangxian, time travel) check individual tags from the works

The most dangerous thing is to love by KatAnni (E, 113k, wangxian, JYL & WWX & JC, WWX & WQ, JYL/JZX, JC/WQ, golden core reveal, fix it, everyone lives au, angst w/ happy ending, hurt WWX, found family, implied/referenced torture, implied/referenced cannibalism, PTSD, golden core transfer Fix-It, major character injury, WWX has a new golden core, asexual JC, whump, marriage proposal, wedding night)

Cultivating immortality by KizuKatana (E, 231k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Rogue Cultivator WWX, Mutual Pining, BAMF WWX, BAMF LWJ, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, unreliable narrator, Found Family, First Time, novel canon relationship dynamics)

❤️ 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))

A Narrow Bridge by FrameofMind, Jo Lasalle (Jo_Lasalle) (E, 700k, wangxian, time travel fix-it, slow burn, getting together, first time, pining, pining while fucking, burial mounds settlement days, angst w happy ending)

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11. Y'all give me LIFE! Thank you for all your hard work! I saw a fanart on tumblr of bb!LWJ and it put me in the mood for any stories featuring the baby!Jades which are NOT de-aged stories. Just wee lil' boys being cute? Bite-y A'Zhan? 🙏 @kimboo-york

💖 An Unexpected Visitor by Hauntcats (G, 8k, QHJ/Madam Lan, wangxian, fix-it of sorts, not Jiang friendly, not jin friendly, happy ending)

When we were small by deliciousblizzardshark (T, 7k, LXC & LQR & LWJ, LQR & WWX, LQR & JFM, implied WangXian, Modern, Kid Fic, Good Uncle LQR, Neurodivergent LWJ, Baby LWJ, Baby WWX, Parenthood, Homophobia, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, POV LQR, Implied/Referenced Underage Sex, Grief/Mourning, Emotional Hurt/Comfort)

🔒 Life is Like a Stranger by through_shadows_falling (T, 69k, wangxian, Kid Fic, Child LWJ, Child WWX, First Meetings, Canon Divergence, Cute Kids, Orphan WWX, Autism Spectrum, Fix-It, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Canon, POV LWJ, Growing Up Together, WWX raised at Cloud Recesses, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Puberty, Growing Up, Coming Out, teenage angst, Wet Dream, Pining, This fic gets a little raunchier as the kids become teens, But it won't get too explicit, Slow Burn, Friends to Lovers, Spanish Translation, Brief mentions/moments of WWX kissing others in chapter 22 but only on the cheek, also characters kiss WWX on the cheek in chapter 23, but his real first kiss is with LWJ, Перевод на русский | Translation in Russian)

Tiny Little Boy by Dyapaya (G, 2k, Age Regression/De-Aging, Kid Fic, Cute, Fluff, No Plot/Plotless, just cute, LWJ bites people, Nobody is Dead, Everyone Lives AU)

🔒 Natural Communication by salakavala (G, 2k, LXC & WWX, Modern, LXC's pov, Kid LWJ and kid WWX, Fluff, Biting, LWJ bites)

藍色的花，紅色的蘭 {Lan se de hua, hongse de lan} by Admiranda, AshayaTReldai (M, 45k, WIP, WangXian, Orphan WWX, Friends to Lovers, Childhood Friends, wwx raised in the lan clan, softer lqr, Good Uncle LQR, Good lan clan, Good Older Sibling LXC)

A Baby Dragon’s Guide To Seducing Your Huli Jing by sweetlolixo (M, 102k, wangxian, Fantasy, But still in the Cultivation World, Dragon LWJ, Fox WWX, Younger LWJ, Older WWX, Fluff, Humor, Eventual mpreg, Angst with a Happy Ending, Best Boy A-Yuan)

🔒 Hope series by RoseThorne (M, 61k, wangxian, WIP, Transmigration, Time Travel Fix-It, Illnesses, Family, Scars, Memory Loss, Angst, Crying, Music, Nosebleed, Fear, Recovery, Nightmares, Sharing a Bed, Flirting, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Good Parent YZY, Referenced Sexual Slavery, Blood and Gore, Monsters, Sexual Tension, betrothal, Arranged Marriage, Adoption, POV Third Person, POV Alternating, Implied/Referenced Abuse, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Good Parent LQR, Clairvoyance, Butterfly Effect, Kid Fic, Epistolary, Food, Secrets, Resentful Energy, Cultivation Sect Politics, Character Death, Resentment, Anger, Explosions, Yīn Iron, Grief/Mourning, POV WWX)

Snow Burns and Fire Falls by Liebing (T, 12k, wangxian, Fluff, Fox WWX, fox LWJ, snow fox LWJ, red fox WWX, Childhood Friends, Orphans, LXC is 8 years older than LWJ, LWJ and WWX are besties, LXC is the best big brother, WWX is adopted by the Lan clan, Happy Ending, Sweet, soft, Cute, Fluffy, Jealous LWJ, WWX has the whole of cloud recesses in love with him… baby LWJ is pouty, LQR loves WWX, Literally everyone loves WWX, The entire Lan clan: we would die for little WWX, Thwarted dog attack, LQR trying to arrange marriages, Time jump forward, No one is harmed in the dog attack not even the dog, Clan leader LXC, Jealous WWX, Oblivious WWX, love at first kiss, Wangxian fox babies)

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12. Do you guys know of any fics where Wei Wuxian gets to act a little insane, you know as a treat? (Like when he's pretending to be Mo Xuanyu) (Also thank you for all these posts, y'all are amazing!)

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13. ITMF! I was wondering if anyone has something focused on how most adults in wwx's life have failed him? Like, it could be post canon or during cr study arc, I just want it to hurt but to have a good ending (the larger the word count the better!)

Thanks!

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14. Hello! ITMF wangxian harry potter au fics please? 🥹 Thank you so much for your hard work!

Unheard Voices, Open Ears by vamprav (M, 50k, wangxian, HP Fusion, YLLZ WWX, Ghost Cedric Diggory, HP Gets Therapy, Trauma, Healing, Rituals, Horcrux Destruction, HP is a Horcrux, HP Has Nightmares, HP Has a Crush, Immortal LWJ, Immortal WWX, WWX Has No Golden Core, Sentient Burial Mounds, Nonbinary MXY, MXY Lives)

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15. itmf for fics like the stone-filled sea? thanks <3

Not quite sure what #15* is specifically looking for, but if it’s juniors having feelings about wwx being demonized, I recommend:

Proximity To Knowledge by ChilianXianzi (T, 7k, wangxian, Post-Canon, Married Wangxian, Chief Cultivator LWJ, Teacher WWX, Inventor WWX, And his research assistant Lan ducklings, LQR is not a good educator, the kids are alright, WWX did online learning before it was cool)

Rotten Work by ShanaStoryteller (Not rated, 63k, wangxian, JL & WWX, post-canon, Protective WWX, Protective JL, POV JL, JC & WWX Reconciliation, eventually, Reluctant Matchmaker JL, this kid is doing his best, Pre-JL/LJY if you squint)

❤️ The One-Body Problem by metisket (T, 29k, LJY & WWX, LJY & LSZ, wangxian, possession, cohabitation, Mojo’s bookmark) link in #8

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16. Do you know if there are any fics where JC and LWJ bond over looking for WWX while he is missing/dead. Then they break-up when WWX returns and hide their past relationship from WWX (end pairing LWJ/WWX) @bunnyanon

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17. Hi wonderful people here! You are doing a stellar job with this blog so thank you very much! I'm in the mood for fluffy modern WangXian, just happy stuff. Especially if either WY or LZ are nannies, that would be great! Thanks so much in advance! @nebuluscharlie

spoke like we meant it by BlackWiresOnHerHead (T, 10k, WangXian, Modern, 5+1, Fluff, oh my god they were roommates, Friends to Lovers, Getting Together, Pining, Cuddling, Accidental Confession, Humor, Abandonment Issues, Light Angst) I don't have any nanny fics, but some great, fluffy modern fics

whiskey neat (you're too sweet) by mercurygirlwt (M, 1k, WangXian, Husbands, Established Relationship, Implied Sexual Content, Body Worship, Sort Of, No actual sex, Domestic Fluff, Fluff, WWX's general battle with insomnia, Teasing, date night :))

Contingency Plan by krispy_kream (M, 8k, WangXian, Fluff, Getting Together, Friends to Lovers, Friends to Husbands to Lovers, Hand Jobs, Mutual Pining, Marriage of Convenience, (the convenience is that they're in love), Podfic, Podfic Length: 1-1.5 Hours, Podfic Available)

Covered in Bees by ScarlettStorm (T, 8k, WangXian, Modern, Beekeeping AU, Meet-Cute, Comedy, Fluff, Bees, come for the flirting, stay for the bee facts, and the bee puns, kinkmeme fill, no actual kink)

without your new eyes by anaphoricae (E, 66k, WangXian, Modern, Didn't Know They Were Dating, Sexuality Discovery, Self-Discovery, Literal Sleeping Together, (there is so much sleeping in this fic), mentions of WWX/others and LWJ/others, Drunk LWJ, Teacher LWJ, WWX is a… throws dart… computer scientist, No Angst, Jealous WWX, Flirty WWX, Eventual Smut, Bottom LWJ, Fluff, Non-Sexual Intimacy, WXW's Love Language is Physical Touch, Guess what: even more non-sexual sleeping together, the plot of the fic is just… co-sleeping, call it the Nap Fic ™, Podfic Available, WWX isn't so much 'oblivious' as he is wilfully blocking some feelings subconsciously, WWX 'idk how I feel' to 'I'm gonna marry him' pipeline) no nannies but it so so warm and fluffy and well written !!!!

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If you didn’t get an answer to your ask here, don’t forget to make use of @mdzs-kinkmeme and MDZS KINK MEME on Dreamwidth. Authors actually do use them for ideas. You may get what you order!***Your prompt doesn’t have to be kink! Fluff, crack, whatever - it’s all good!***

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DOCORONPA R

CHAPTER TWO

[Daily Life]

The solemn walk back to the camp grounds felt like an eternity, the horrors they just witnessed in the "courtroom" replaying in their heads over and over.

Not a word was spoken amongst the campers until they reached the cabins, where they exchanged hollow goodnights before awkwardly dispersing.

Back in the cabin, Drummer maintained her silence. As if she wasn't there at all, her roommates slowly began to unpack the events of the past 24 hours.

Bartender led the conversation with a self-righteous fury, her anger at the situation had seemingly completely been focused in on Ice Skater. It was clear Bartender was not ready to let her live this betrayal down.

The other two hesitantly backed her up, subliminally trying to talk her down from her fiery rant. Their words seemed to bounce right off of the girl, she only got more riled up with every sentence.

After nearly an hour of enduring Bartender's ranting, Drummer was at a breaking point.

Drummer jutted out from her bottom bunk. She stammered out and interrupted Bartender mid-sentence, bluntly asking if they could wrap this up.

Bartender, clearly offended, sneered down at Drummer. Luckily, before Bartender could get in a nasty retort, Social Star spoke up:

"She's right, it is pretty late."

.....

The next morning Drummer was awoken by a gentle tap on her shoulder. Her eyes fluttered open, Social Star's angelic face slowly coming into focus.

The beautiful girl let Drummer know that Bartender had already left for breakfast in a huff and that they were getting ready to catch up with her.

Drummer, struck by Social Star's soft inflection, agreed to get up and hurry after Bartender.

Approaching the Craft Hall from outside, Bartender's screams could already be heard echoing from within.

Inside they found the scene they had pretty much expected. Bartender and Ice Skater stood tall on opposing sides of the room, hurling petty insults at one another.

This isn't what caught Drummer's attention however, she was much more focused on a different detail of this scene.

Just as Drummer had feared, Marine Biologist was still siding with the traitor. She sat silently beside Ice Skater as the verbal assault unfolded. She kept her head low.

Social Star and PT rushed to subdue Bartender. The tirade ended with a promise from the ferocious red head:

"You'll get what you deserve, I can swear on that."

The rest of the meal was spent in an awkward silence. It took until the end of the meal for anybody to notice that Daredevil wasn't in attendance.

Panic set in, everyone suddenly springing to action to search for the missing stuntman. After the events of the past week, the group wasn't ready to find another body.

The cast hastily began to plan their search Daredevil, divvying up teams to comb the campgrounds. This hasty planning was only interuppted by the unceremonious entrance of Daredevil himself.

The boy wore a wide grin and an even wider gash on his forehead. Blood still rushing down his face, he happily announced to the shocked room that he had made a discovery:

"We got a zip line!"

Before any his injuries could be called into question, Sailor shot up with a roar of excitement. The giant grabbed an anxious Ghost Hunter by the collar and galavanted to join Daredevil in potential injury.

With that matter settling itself, the cast agreed to go their separate ways until lunch.

The girls had a semi-quiet morning, enjoying some time on the dock. Most of their time was spent helping Bartender doing her best to not fume over her hatred for Ice Skater, but it could be worse.

It wasn't long before they had to leave to reassembled with the group for another meal.

...

Lunch went considerably smoother than breakfast, with Ice Skater and Bartender both keeping their distance.

The cast slowly trickled in and got their fix, enjoying their first real moment of peace after the class trial.

BOOM!

The entire building shook following the massive crash on the building's right wall. Whatever had hit that wall had been heavy.

The group rushed outside to the scene of the crime, finding Daredevil and Ghost Hunter in a mangled pile beside the Craft Hall. Both were out cold with bleeding and visible bruising.

Drummer sighed a quiet sigh of relief after enough seconds had passed with no BDA.

As the group moved in to help their brutally injured peers, Sailor came sprinting from the brush in a panic.

"JESUS FUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"

The massive man arrived to them beet red and panting. He breathily explained that the two had tried to ride the same zip line at once. Their combined weight had proven too much for the cheap equipment to handle.

The handle had apparently snapped clean off after the boys had reached high enough velocity, sending them careening all the way to the Craft Hall.

As this explanation unfolded, several monotmaton's entered from a different end of woods. Their adorable, plush paws carrying out a stretcher for each injured camper.

The stuffed quadrant reached the group just as Sailor finished his tall tale. Each MonoMaton silently grabbed a limb and dragged the boys off of eachother, revealing a horrific detail:

Ghost Hunter's leg contorted unnaturally as he was lifted to the gurney. The poor man had several visible fractures.

After the boys had both been wheeled off, the cast's attention turned back to Sailor. Bartender once again led the witchhunt, cursing out the giant for being so careless.

Sailor, clearly not used to confrontation, grew terribly irritated by this tirade. Though with guilt on his conscious, he could only muster petty insults and angrily tell the diva to "shut it."

Social Star and Welder did their best to talk down the dueling narcissists. Unfortunately, their efforts were in vain. The group split, leaving them to their cat fight.

...

Drummer, Social Star, and PT spent the rest of their day trying their best to relax. Without Bartender's toxic rants this was almost a successful venture, but they all knew what they'd be returning back to.

As the sun set behind the pines, the girls retreated back to their cabin. As they approached the entrance, they all braced for the fury that awaited them on the other side.

To all of their surprise, Bartender had done a complete 180 since they'd left her. Honestly, they'd never seen the girl so happy.

Social Star was the only one daring enough to poke the beast, hesitantly asking the girl how her argument with Sailor went.

Bartender, being strangely vague, calmly explained that the two had come to an agreement by the end of their "discussion."

Social Star and PT began a barrage of questions, Bartender dodging each with precision. All they knew was that the two had clearly made amends.

...

The next day had a strange air to it.

Breakfast was quiet. Everyone largely kept to themselves, except Sailor and Bartender.

Bartender had abandoned her cabin's table, moving to Daredevil's empty seat next to Sailor. Even from across the room this new dynamic was entirely clear.

Using the giant as a prop, Bartender would whisper in his ear as she mean-mugged the room. He'd nod along in drunken anger. She'd found her perfect bodyguard.

The rest of the campers did their best to ignore this uncomfortable development. The cast dispersed as soon as their meals were finished, smelling trouble brewing.

The girls once again spent the afternoon without their fiery roommate, silently dreading whatever that girl could be planning. The hours crawled by, their anxiety weighing them down.

Even still, lunch came too soon.

The girls returned to the craft hall, finding that Bartender and Sailor had already made themselves at home. Both had clearly spent the afternoon drinking.

The girls did their best to ignore them, which became an unbearable task as soon as Ice Skater finally arrived.

Upon the woman's entrance, viscous insults were already being hurled her way from the gruesome twosome. Ice Skater didn't flinch once at this childish display.

Nobody came to her defense. The barrage continued for the entirety of lunch, both Ice Skater and Marine Biologist keeping their heads down as they ate.

For the first time, the group was happy to see the stuffed sheep enter. MonoMaton cheerily announced to the room that Daredevil and Ghost Hunter were finally ready for visitors!

Sailor sprung forward with drunken excitement, sending the table with him.

MonoMaton took a head count of who would be attending, the outliers being: Rebel, Streamer, Ice Skater and Marine Biologist

With that decided, the participating followed MonoMaton out of the craft hall.

....

The group followed Monomaton through the brush, seemingly completely off trail. On the outskirts of camp, they finally reached their destination.

A beaten down old shed stood in front of them, "MEDIC" labeled down the side in chipping white paint. Outside of this abomination stood a gleeful, and completely healthy looking Daredevil.

Even from a far it was clear the damage was completely minimal, his divine luck once again sparing him any serious injury. Ghost Hunter didn't share this talent unfortunately.

The group found him inside on a dingy medical bed. His leg was elevated, a thick cast stretched from his hip to his foot. He could barely greet the group with the painkillers in his system.

Even so, the entire cast spent their afternoon there. All conflict took a backseat for a brief moment as they comforted the fallen camper.

MonoMaton was even "kind" enough to have the campers dinner's delivered to the Medic tent.

As the sun began to set, the cast said their weary goodbyes to the half-conscious Ghost Hunter.

Daredevil attempted to join the group in their return for dinner, only to be halted by MonoMaton. Daredevil was given strict orders to stay in the medic tent until further notice, the "doctors" still fearing "internal injury."

The cast departed without him back to the Craft Hall, where a horrific scene awaited them.

...

The sun had fully set by the time they reached the Craft Hall. As they made their way to the entrance the group felt a strange uneasiness about entering the building.

The Craft Hall, which usually stayed lit at all hours, was enshrouded in complete darkness. All the lights inside had been shut off, but by who?

Cowboy led the charge. His strong hand reached for the doorknob, only to halt in place. A voice weakly gurgled from within:

"H-help me.."

Cowboy thrust the door open, ready to face whatever awaited him. He charged into the dark room, the group gathering in the doorway behind him.

Even in the shadows the Craft Hall was visibly in shambles, tables and chairs thrown haphazardly about. One thing stuck out much more to the group though:

A tall, broad, foreboding, silhouette stood toward the back of the room, completely unmoving. It was only made visible by the moonlight tracing it's intimidating silhouette.

The whispers had completely stopped after they'd entered, the room falling into a complete silence until Trucker finally broke:

"Who the fuck is back there?"

Cowboy, ignoring Trucker's screams, continued silently approaching the stranger. Trucker followed closely behind, feudally threatening the figure with shaky breath.

As they grew closer, a black hockey mask could be made out in the moonlight. With sweat now collecting on his forehead, Cowboy only stopped when he heard Trucker fall to the floor behind him followed by a terrified squeal.

Trucker had seemingly tripped over a corpse. Though hard to make out in the dark, it could only be one person-

Trucker, almost driven to tears with terror, laid uncomfortably over a ketchup-covered Streamer. The undignified girl stifled laughter as she pretend to lay dead.

Spinning around, Cowboy could now recognize the figure was clearly the deranged girl's creation. A lumpy tower of fabric adorning a black hockey mask stood unevenly in the back of the room.

Streamer couldn't hold her laughter in for a second longer, clearly so pleased with this incredibly strange and unfunny "practical joke."

She began to gloat the crowd as she rose from the floor, eating up the negative attention. While nobody else in the room felt any humor in the situation, they weren't nearly as aggravated as Trucker was.

The stout man rose up in a fury, grabbing Streamer by the arm and spinning her to meet his gaze. Without speaking a word, Trucker wound a fist backward and-

CRACK!

BOOM!

Trucker hit the floor with a thud. The crowd watched in shock as Cowboy turned from the unconscious man to face them.

"Everybody good?"

TO BE CONTINUED....

[mikodrawnnarratives]

OK

Before I talk a LOT (I'm not joking, A LOT)

About this au, how I stumbled upon the idea, story and all in a rushed format,

APPRECIATE THIS

TOOK FOREVER

COMPLETELY out of my general comfort zone in art BUT OH WELL LOOK AT IT :DDDDDDDD

Also serves as a good hook for what this post is about mehehehehehehehe

CUT TO RAMBLINGS

Oh I have your attention?

Excellent.

It started with me thinking and wondering about a specific fic that is unrelated to this post, frankly different fandom, and I was wondering how it would play out in a movie format, but seeing as the fic in question currently is unfinished and won't be for a while I decided to direct my attention to other fandoms, got to DCA fandom, came up with a few cute ideas i didn't write down for unfinished fics, for the record I do think it would be interesting if Solar Lunacy was a musical just saying, and then I started to think about ok what fics ARE fini-

SLEUTH JESTERS HECK YEAH

Unfortunately at the moment I don't have any digital sketches to share for some of these points and the sketches I do have are pretty messy SO I'LL JUST RAMBLE cause I already wrote down a lot of these separately

Firstly, I imagine this kind of musical being in universe kind of au. Possibly an extension of the Actor AU where the original media (tv show? movie?) got so popular it got a musical adaptation

I imagine the actual music, whether the songs or just sound track, would be heavily inspired by Jazz or smthn. Like, the genre of music most popular during the time period Sleuth Jesters is in ish. It would still be musical-like but you can tell the genre they are going for

And before continuing, to get around not actually saying "y/n" on stage cause that might be a little awkward MAYBE there could be some kind of special sound affect for the actors mics that the audience knows is y/n's name?? Half baked tho

COSTUMES

Sun, Moon and Eclipse (at least) would have highly decorated masks to match the original just added onto because they are on stage. Masks, so that there are more options for who to cast. To make up for this, the actors have to make it clear in their body language to make up for lack of expression

in productions with higher budget mayhaps one function could be the eyes have options for what emotion they could express

In most productions there will be sound effects in the background that mimic the noise that Sun Moon and Eclipse make as they move. Or at least be incorporated into the sound track ooooo

Y/n's clothes would have an easy to notice difference in quality compared to the DCAs, which makes the bell and ribbons much more noticeable on stage

Smaller note but I think y/n's make up could be kind of fun with how they show the y and n on their face

Would probably have a wig colored various shades of silver but not required

FIRST SONG FIRST SONG FIRST SONG

Would be the introduction (of course) and depict the first chapter and likely have something to do with "Until Next Time". I think possibly it would have little breaks in the song to fit in the dialogue

Honestly, in an adaptation there might just be more scenes added between the earlier chapters to fill in points in time or smthn

OR (the answer I like better) The first act uses time between chapters to fill in reader watcher on backstories or past's of characters

Actually yeah little hints would be packed in the first half

Any other songs could be filled in for the boys or y/n that could have the potential to return as a Reprise

Now listen Mandatory Eclipse Villain song(s)

this is not optional

Duets Duets DUETS

One duet could be between characters that are foils or mirror each other but it's one of those duets that have different lyrics that still match up musically

Particularly I think the latter could be used for Sun and Moon's complicated relationship with Eclipse but not completely sure where that would be, probably second half, speaking of which...

ACT ONE ends in the chapter that Y/N has to return the favor to Eclipse, where he crashes the party and they go with him, reassuring Sun and Moon that they allways can wiggle out of situations

REPRISE OF THE FIRST SONGGGGGG

Until Next Time Reprise

Which will have a moment of silence after, showing their mutual understanding yet make it perfectly clear sun and moon don't want to do resort to this

Doesn't last to long as it proceeds with the sound track DROPPING in tone as Eclipse stuffs y/n into the car, that is actually just a prop that leads to the back stage

FADE TO BLACK INTERMISSION

ACT TWO (any major costume changes or forever hold your piece) I think would start off with Sun and Moon's dilemmas first before getting back to y/n

WHICH would likely cut to y/n maybe already in the burgundy shirt but meh that's not solid

I think the way Eclipse gives them the burgundy ribbon and bell could be changed in an adaptation of the story since it would be easier I imagine to show it later than in a car set piece

(Admittedly I have to reread these specific chapters to know specifically the order) But when Eclipse drops the bombshell he knows their past, and I think he leaves them alone for a bit after that, SONG TIME (though song could still happen with him there honestly)

Something similar to the theme "I thought I burned everything" and would just

And after that likely more backstory could be cut to depending on what it is and how relevant it is at that point. WOuld be much grimmer in tone but hey it's the second act.

Though if this opportunity is taken, this could be reprised later when Y/N proposes to the boys, with the necklaces to show being more comfortable with their past

More song opportunities with Y/N's trust issues, Sun and Moon's brother issues, etc

Final act-ish, where y/n first runs away after Sun and Moon "find out" and from there would have more focus on the score than any songs that could be fit into that small frame.

My thoughts went kind of to Heather's Dead Girl Walking Reprise and then Veronica and JD's tussle toward the end if songs got implemented there

AND OF COURSE The moment of Eclipse's death is really what makes me think this would be adapted into a musical in universe

Because it does kind of fit the bill for being tragic

You feel bad enough for what could have been

But also remember "Nah that bitch deserves it"

But also.. it's sad

PERFECT FOR MUSICAL ENDING

ish

After proposal, there is possibility to do a QUICK little glance into the future at the end, not unlike Dear Evan Hansen's ending, but maybe not

Ok now Applause section!!

Freddie and Gregory would bow together

I forgot to mention earlier, but the character that is revealed to be a spy for Eclipse at the police station I'd imagine would have hints on their clothing (like burgundy) that would foreshadow their side

Eclipse would bow by himself, flaunty as ever, yet you can still kind of tell the actor is kind of a sweetheart

Sun and Moon would enter, bow together and then welcome Y/n

Who would get to bow on their own, then with Sun and Moon

Then the rest of the cast is welcomed

How the arrangement would go from left to right I was thinking

Law Enforcement and basic background cast making up crowds, Freddy, Gregory, Sun, Y/N, Moon, Eclipse, Michael, Other Aftons and Spy, rest of Law Enforcement and basic background cast making up crowds

AAAAAaaand thats what I've got.

@naffeclipse did you catch all of that?

and @sunnys-aesthetic for their detective au! :3

[stuck-in-2012]

Spidey body swap take 4

Peter squinted his eyes at the fluorescent light. Ah, the tricarrier medbay. Went down in a fight... hmmm, the last thing he remembered was… Mesmero. “Aw, cra- crap!” that was not his voice. That was…

“Ugh what happened... what the... what the!?”

“No. Not you.”

“What did you do?! This- this is wrong. This is so wro- ugh, how do you turn the sticky off.”

“Oh, no… did you guys…” Ava droned. After the Loki incident it wasn’t hard to guess what had happened.

Peter sighed before sliding off the cot, the metal of the nova suit feeling annoyingly heavy. “You don’t ‘turn it off’, you relax.” He walked over to help Sam unstick from the bed sheet but flinched back.

“Ok! Geeze, you don’t have to yell. I haven’t had spider powers before.”

“I didn’t-” Peter was cut off by the teams laughing, Luke clapping in his amusement.

Sam flinched at the sound, dropping the sheet and covering his ears. When he went to meet gazes to tell the team to shut up he couldn’t get his eyes open more than a sliver before squinting and curling over.

“P- uh, Sam? Are you alright?” Danny asked gently and reached out to comfort. Sam flinched and slapped Danny’s hand away. A loud crack resounded in the infirmary followed by Danny’s yell of pain. Iron fist cradled his now broken wrist as Sam began hyperventilating.

“Wha- oh cr- sorry, I- oh gods.”

The team jumped into ready stances as Fury and Coulson reached for their guns. Spiderman was very powerful and if he went off the rails it was a big deal. Connors guided Danny to sit down and begin casting his wrist. Sam’s panic swelled as firearms were pointed in his direction. Realization hit Peter like the jougernaut as he rushed over to turn off the lights and guided everyone to stand down.

“What are you-”

“Shhh!” Peter cut Fury off with splayed arms. The room sat quiet as Sam’s breathing slowed. He hesitantly opened his eye’s to see his own terse, concerned face looking back.

“What. Was that.” Sam said glaring at Peter.

“I have enhanced senses. Sounds are louder, light is brighter. You get used to it but take it easy.”

“I can’t believe this.” Sam swung his arm for emphasis. The action reminding him of his earlier action. “Danny! Oh crap, I’m so sorry, I-” Sam looked at his hands, peters hands. He had superstrength. Sam did too when he used his helmet but he could always feel the Nova force around him when he used it. Now, he didn’t even feel strong, everything just felt fragile. Breaking Danny’s hand had been like cracking a pretzel.

“How do you…”

“A lot of trial and error. Lucky for you, I can help you skip the error part.”

  [continue?]

[thisnameisfalse]

FOOL!!!

Wizard be upon ye!!!

He is pondering his orb from his Cra-Z-Boy recliner after a long day of casting spells.

[mademoiselle-red]

Crazy Rich Asians and Grandma Young

A few years ago, when I saw CRA in theaters, I remember being charmed by the extravagant costumes and setting, the concept of all Asian cast in a Hollywood romcom, and the Asian-American protagonist, Rachel Chu. Her fish out of water experiences among her fiancé’s Peranakan Chinese family in Singapore were very relatable. She is ethnic Chinese like them, but from a very different culture and country. I’ve had very similar experiences when visiting my relatives in China as a teenager: I was born in China but grew up in the US (since age 5), and all my aunties, uncles, and grandparents took every opportunity to bemoan my foreign mannerisms and cultural attitudes (despite the fact that I spoke and read Chinese fluently).

Sometime in high school and during college, I developed an academic interest in Chinese culture and diaspora history and did a lot of independent studying on the subject. And because of this knowledge, my immersion in CRA broke as soon as Rachel entered her boyfriend’s family home and I started watching a completely different movie.

We are told the boyfriend’s family, the Young family are among the oldest Singaporean families, emigrating from southern China in the 1800s. This makes them Peranankan, a community of people spanning Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia descended from Chinese merchants who settled there between the 1600s and 1800s and assimilated into malay culture, speaking a malay language as their native tongue. When the independent nation of Singapore was created in 1965, Peranankans were classified as ethnic Chinese along with the Southern Chinese immigrants of the 1900s, who spoke Hokkien (~70% of the Chinese immigrant population), Cantonese (the language spoken by Nick’s mother), Hainanese, Teochew, and Hakka as their native language. Mandarin was introduced to Singapore in 1920 through Chinese schools founded by immigrant teachers from the Republic of China (which chose mandarin as its official language) and slowly gained population among the educated classes in the Chinese immigrant and Peranankan community. Widespread fluency in mandarin did not happen until after Singaporean independence (1965), when mandarin was chosen as a “mother tongue” for all ethnic Chinese Singaporeans and mandarin classes became required in school.

But Nick’s grandmother speaks mandarin with a Beijing accent and makes northern Chinese dumplings! As soon as I heard the accent and saw the dumplings, I stopped paying attention to Rachel’s story and started to imagine the fascinating life Nick’s grandmother must have lived (I have not read the books and thus am working only with how she is depicted in the movie). She was probably born into a Beijing family, thus growing up with that strong Beijing accent and a fondness for northern Chinese dumplings. Her family probably gathered around the table to make dumplings to celebrate various holidays like Chinese New Year and Winter Solstice (a cultural tradition unique to northern China), so when they immigrated to Singapore in the late 1930s (sometime before World War Two, before the Japanese occupation of Beijing), she was in for a culture shock.

In the late 1930s, barely anyone outside her tiny northern Chinese refugee community would have spoken fluent mandarin, and as a young woman marrying into a wealthy and influential Peranankan family in the 1940s or 50s, she would have had to learn Malay (to speak to her elders), Hokkien (to speak to other women in the merchant class), and English (as was expected of an upper class lady, because of the British colonial legacy) in order to get by. English and Malay are in completely different language families. Her native Mandarin and the southern Chinese languages like Hokkien and Cantonese are part of the same language family and share a written script, but are as different as Spanish and Romanian. And their cultures, etiquette, customs, and cuisines were equally as different as Spanish and Romanian. The only dish she and her husband’s family shared in common was plain white rice. Peranankan and southern Chinese dishes would have been completely foreign food to this Beijing woman (especially in the 1940s and 50s, before globalization and cultural homogenization within China). No one in her husband’s family would have eaten northern Chinese dumplings as a comfort food. If they had never traveled to China for work or study abroad, she would have been the first to introduce them to this foreign comfort food. She would also have had to learn the foreign customs, culture, and etiquette of this perenankan family and the customs and cultures of the southern Chinese people who made up a majority of Singapore’s ethnic Chinese community.

By the time we meet her as an old lady in 2017, she is now the matriarch and Singapore has had decades of mandatory mandarin education, so everyone around her can speak mandarin to her and eat dumplings as a comfort food. But when she arrived in the Young family as a young bride, she was just as foreign to them as Rachel Chu.

(The casting of a Beijing mandarin speaker in the role of Nick’s grandmother may have been an unintentional mistake on part of the production, since the movie seems more interested in emphasizing the Chinese aspects of the Yeong family over their Singaporean / Peranankan heritage)

[tkblythofficial]

tarot red here. i will explain myself a little bit better about the past reading

T will be famous though, but he will have hard phases. also the ego thing can ruin him or just be perceived in a bad light. he will have good projects, but since he’s always hoping for the best, this won’t be enough for him. he needs to be careful and understand that to build something times is a necessity. for what i saw in the present he’s having problems finding himself and what focus he wants to give his career. also maybe the projects he has been handed aren’t what he expected, but he will make it work. it’s just he will feel stressed a little bit and perhaps seeing what others have and maybe comparing himself to them. and scandals, well, women just that. it won’t be perfect, but he will make it work

for R is about bad and deceiving people can really slow her down and people might take advantage of her. also she needs to control herself in the way she speaks and what she says. personality wise she’s okay, people will like working with her and she’s really joyful and very passionate. also i see her working with big people so maybe that’s why she’s slowing down with her projects, she will try to work with people that are already well known (maybe cast mates, director or writers). also what i saw big was her making sacrifices for others and this can slow down her career (so maybe not working in some projects to help someone else or to spend time with them), but it doesn’t look that bad. won’t be perfect, but i see her in the spotlight for a long time

i’ll try to an update reading soon, for now i’m quite busy <3

Hey Red! finally this went through!

“T will be famous though, but he will have hard phases.”

I’m going to be honest, Red lol. I think this is the first reading where I genuinely don’t see this 😭 like at all. I know actors have rough phases but I think T will find great projects next year and beyond.

This is why I compare him to Cillian Murphy. Or maybe even Mathew McConaughey.

“also the ego thing can ruin him or just be perceived in a bad light.”

Don’t get this vibe either 😭

“he will have good projects, but since he’s always hoping for the best, this won’t be enough for him.”

He seems like a perfectionist

“he needs to be careful and understand that to build something times is a necessity.”

I think he’s building organically imo

“for what i saw in the present he’s having problems finding himself and what focus he wants to give his career.”

I can see this tbh he wants to achieve a LOT so he’s putting pressure on himself

“also maybe the projects he has been handed aren’t what he expected, but he will make it work. it’s just he will feel stressed a little bit and perhaps seeing what others have and maybe comparing himself to them.”

I agree with this! I think most people compare themselves to others in their age group and career path.

“and scandals, well, women just that. it won’t be perfect, but he will make it work”

Make it work? 👀

“for R is about bad and deceiving people can really slow her down and people might take advantage of her.”

I agree!

“also she needs to control herself in the way she speaks and what she says”

Yeah, sometimes things are better left unsaid. I don’t think her message is the problem but her tone/deliver and over explaining herself / responding to trolls hurts her.

“personality wise she’s okay, people will like working with her and she’s really joyful and very passionate.”

Yes, I think she’s the type you have to meet to like lol and people say to themselves “oh she’s not bad once you get to know her”. If people judge based on her social media… I see why they may not like her at first.

“also i see her working with big people so maybe that’s why she’s slowing down with her projects, she will try to work with people that are already well known (maybe cast mates, director or writers).”

OK I can see this too actually. I’m hoping she works with a female director and gets more critically acclaimed projects. It’s crazy how she’s not on the young rising stars list. She should be.

“also what i saw big was her making sacrifices for others and this can slow down her career (so maybe not working in some projects to help someone else or to spend time with them),”

Ughhhh

“but it doesn’t look that bad. won’t be perfect, but i see her in the spotlight for a long time”

It looks bad! 😭 it’s bad now so if this continues, it’s only going to look worse.

Thanks for the reading :)

[mynameistakensadtimes]

My Pronouns!

I'm posting my Pronouns because why not! I'm sorry it's long

★- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -★ Basic He/him/his They/them/theirs ★- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -★ Neos

↳ It/its Void/voidself

Creepy

↳ bloo/blood/blood/bloods/bloodself bo/bon/bons/bons/boneself cor/corpse/corpself dae/daem/daeself de/dea/dath/death/deathself de/dem/demon’s/demself dead/deads/deadself dem/demon/demonself dulla/han/dulls/dulls/dullself, dullaself, or dullahanself ecto/ects/ectself en/tombed/tombs/tombs/tombself, tombedself, or entombedself fran/franke/franken/frankenself gar/goyle/gars/gars/garself gheist/gheists/gheistself gho/ghos/ghostself ghost/ghosts/ghostself ghou/ghoul/ghous/ghouls/ghoulself go/gor/gors/goreself gore/gores/goreself gri/grim/grime/grimeself grime/grimes/grimeself gro/gore/gross/gross/goreself gro/gross/grosself haun/haunts/hauntself hell/hound/hells/hounds/houndself hell/hund/hells/hunds/hundself li/lich/lis/lichs/lichself necro/necrom/necself nyc/nycto/nyctos/nyctoself py/pyre/(pyr/pyre)/pyres/pyreself rake/rake’s/rakeself rie/eer/eri/erie/eeriself sin/sins/sinself ske/skel/skels/skeleself slud/sludge/sludges/sludges/sludgeself spir/spirit/spiritself spiri/spirs/spirself vam/vamp/vampself wer/weres/wereself wi/wight/wis/wighs/wightself wit/wits/witchself wit/witch/witchself (coined for witches) zo/zom/zos/zombself zom/zomb/zom’s/zombi/zombself

Magical

↳ magic/magic/magics/magics/magicself wand/wand/wands/wands/wandself mage/mage/mages/mages/mageself spell/spell/spells/spells/spellself myth/myth/myths/myths/mythself mystic/mystic/mystics/mystics/mysticself potion/potion/potions/potions/potionself wiz/wizard/wizards/wizards/wizardself mag/magic/magics/magics/magicself magic/magical/magicals/magicals/magicalself conjure/conjure/conjures/conjures/conjureself cast/cast/casts/casts/castself mystic/mystical/mysticals/mysticals/mysticalself fairy/fairy/fairys/fairys/fairyself elf/elf/elfs/elfs/elfself charm/charm/charms/charms/charmself hex/hex/hexs/hexs/hexself

Ocean

↳ ma/mar/marine/marines/marineself bri/brine/brine/brines/brineself se/sea/sea/seas/seaself she/shell/shell/shells/shellself sea/shell/seashell/seashells/seashellself cra/crab/crab/crabs/crabself kri/krill/krill/krills/krillself oce/ocea/ocean/oceans/oceanself lo/loch/loch/lochs/lochself squ/squid/squid/squids/squidself oct/octo/octopus/octopi/octopuself shrim/shrimp/shrimp/shrimps/shrimpself nau/naut/nautical/nauticals/nauticalself al/alg/algae/algaes/algaeself ke/kelp/kelp/kelps/kelpself co/cor/coral/corals/coralself co/coa/coast/coasts/coastself jelly/fish/jellyfish/jellyfishes/jellyfishself mo/mol/mollusk/mollusks/molluskself ur/urch/urchin/urchins/urchinself dri/drift/drift/drifts/driftself wa/wave/wave/waves/waveself

Nature

↳ Rot/Rots/Rotself Mush/Mushs/Mushself! Dirt/Dirty/Dirtself! Forest/Forests/Forestself! Oak/Oaks/Oakself! Rock/Rocks/Rockself Pebble/Pebbles/Pebbleself

Cute

↳ Baa/baaself Bun/bunself Plush/plushself Squish/squishself Candy/candyself Sweet/sweetself Fuzz/fuzzy/fuzzyself Fuzzy/fuzzies/fuzzieself Prince/prince/princeself Princess/princess/princesself Pop/poppy/poppyself Yarn/yarns/yarnself Bunny/bunny/bunnyself Pup/puppy/puppyself Teddy/teddies/teddyself Ted/teddy/teddyself Fluff/fluffy/fluffself or fluffyself Cot/cotton/cottonself Pink/pinky/pinkyself Hug/hugs/hugself Toy/toys/cotton-self Berry/berries/berryself Cram/cranberry/cranberryself Flor/flora/floraself Kitty/kittens/kittyself

Space

↳ sun/sun/suns/sunself moon/moon/moons/moonself star/star/stars/starself planet/planet/planets/planetself mercury/mercury/mercurys/mercuryself venus/venus/venuses/venusself mars/mars/marses/marsself jupiter/jupiter/jupiters/jupiterself satur/saturn/saturns/saturnself uranus/uranus/uranuses/uranusself neptune/neptune/neptunes/neptuneself pluto/pluto/plutos/plutoself galaxy/galaxy/galaxys/galaxyself comet/comet/comets/cometself rocket/rocket/rockets/rocketself dust/dust/dusts/dustself solar/solar/solars/solarself lunar/lunar/lunars/lunarself asteroid/asteroid/asteroids/asteroidself eclipse/eclipse/eclipses/eclipseself orbit/orbit/orbits/orbitself satellite/satellite/satellites/satelliteself universe/universe/universes/universeself sky/sky/skys/skyself nebula/nebula/nebulas/nebulaself constellation/constellation/constellations/constellationself cosmos/cosmos/cosmoses/cosmoself

Science

↳ ali/alien/aliens/alienself alu/minum/aluminum/alumiself astro/astro/astros/astros/astroself astro/astronomy/astronomies/astronomyself atom/atoms/atomself bea/beaker/beakerself bio/biology/biologies/biologyself bot/botany/botanies/botanyself chem/chemistry/chemself ear/earth/earthself elec/tricity/electriself ento/entomology/entos/entomologyself ex/experi/ment/ments/experimentself flask/flasks/flaskself geo/geos/geoself geo/logy/geology/geoself grav/gravity/gravityself gravity/gravityself hy/hypo/hypotheses/hypoself lab/labs/labself lab/labaratory/labaratories/labaratoryself paleo/paleontology/paleos/paleoself sci/science/scienceself space/spaces/spaceself spa/spark/sparks/sparkself theo/theory/theoryself

FNAF

↳ cupcake/cupcake/cupcakeself Cake/cakes/cakeself haunted/haunts/hauntedself horror/horrors/horrorself terror/terrors/terrorself fox/foxs/foxself blood/bloods/bloodself haunt/haunts/hauntself robot/robots/robotself bear/bears/bearself Balloon/balloons/balloonself Bonbon/bonbons/bonnieself Bonnie/ bonnies/bonnieself Chica/chicas/chicaself Ennard/ennards/ennardself Foxy/foxys/foxyself Fred/bear/fredbears/fredbearself Freddy/freddys/freddyself Glitchtrap/glitchtraps/glitchtrapself Mangle/mangles/mangleself Minireena/minireenas/minireenaself Springbonnie/springbonnies/springbonnieself Toybonnie/toybonnies/toybonnieself Toychica/toychicas/toychicaself Toyfreddy/toyfreddys/toyfreddyself ai/ais/aiself death/deaths/deathself Bite/Bites/Biteself Food/Foods/Foodself Mask/Masks/Maskself

Fantasy

↳ dra/dragon/dragon's elf/elf's hobbit/hobbit's orc/orc's witch/witch's magic/magic's magician/magician's goblin/goblin's forestelf/forestelf's fantasy/fantasy's dwarf/dwarf's centaur/centaur's werewolf/werewolf's fairy/fairy's arkenstone/arkenstone's unicorn/unicorn's Phoenix/phoenix's Cat

↳ fe/fel/feline/felines/felineself fel/feli/felis/felis/feliself cat/cats/catself mew/meow/rowr/rowrs/meowself purr/purrs/purrself whisker/whiskers/whiskerself wi/whisk/whisker/whiskers/whiskerself kit/kits/kitself kit/cat/kits/cats/kitself kit/kit/kitty/kittys/kitself claw/claws/clawself

[mail-me-a-snail]

related to the previous post i hate crazy rich asians for that honestly. you could say it's a great movie for asian representation but it's incredibly disheartening that the only Filipinos/asians of color in the movie are maids for the richer, paler chinese characters.

and the filipinas they cast as the maids in question are famous actresses here. our movies may be shit but these actresses were front and center in quite a lot of them. and they're just. maids in CRA.

hell one of our former presidents was in the movie and it was an incredibly big deal...only she didn't play a filipina/herself; she played a malaysian princess. she is noticeably more pale than the other Filipinos in the movie. and they made her malaysian, anyway.

[plamglam]

Here's an UNFINISHED TWDG story that I used to work on. I don't feel like working on it anymore, but I'm still somewhat proud of it so I thought I might share it here so that it doesn't get lost somewhere in my files.

The whole thing was supposed to be a warm, wholesome story about AJ making a prosthetic leg for Clementine with some help of other Ericsson kids.

x days left

-I think it’s time! I shouldn’t be pro…pro..cra…. waiting! I shouldn’t be waiting any longer! I’ve got a mission!-

Even though with each passing day, it got colder, the Sun and its rays were just as pleasant as they always were. Warm colored leaves slowly beginning to detach and fall from the trees on the ground wasn’t a sad view at all. It wasn’t a sign of hard times coming, for the first time in years, it was nothing but a tranquil event to enjoy. With each leaf fallen, and each sun ray aired, two silhouette shadows would become more and more apparent, one slightly taller than the other. They were both calm, sitting almost still amidst falling leaves and balmy sunshine. What once used to be a stressful, frightening chore now is merely a remnant of what it used to be. After almost six months spent at Ericson Boarding School, nowadays better known as Texas Two, Clementine is well used to her daily routine. Patrolling every morning, getting ready just before the first sun beam casted was now an integral part of her life. Even despite her left leg missing, she’d make sure to never miss it. Every dawn, Violet would help Clem climb onto the tall wall, help her take her seat, and just before she’d have to go take care of other things, she’d accompany her significant other. They’re almost always tight on time, but she always tries to squeeze in a little bit of time for her. At Least until the others wake up and it’s time to go.

-Uhm, thanks!- grunted Clementine while falling onto her slightly corroded deck chair after Vi stopped supporting her weight.

-Don’t thank me- said Vi while picking up the other nearby chair and putting it closer to the other girl’s seat- You got all you need? Your hat, bow, water, your bell?- she asked.

-Got it all- Clem smirked while putting her big, round wicker hat on - What’s your plan for today, Vi?-

-Well, You know, just the usual. I promised Ruby to help her with the garden work a little. - she answered wtih a slightly tiresome expression on her face- When was the last time you’ve seen a walker, Clem?-

-It’s been quite a while now, really. Look how peaceful it is out there- exclaimed Clementine - Maybe Tenn was right about The Walker Era?

-Maybe he was. I’d like to believe it- Vi concluded with a slight smile rising on her face.

Not much further into the conversation the sun has gone high enough to lighten up the window of AJ’s and Clementine’s dorm. Bright reflection shining in the glass sparked up the spirits of both girls even further.

-I think he should be getting up by now.- said Clem while turning her side to a big building behind her. Can you please go check on him?-

-You got it.

Clementine turned away from Violet, sharing one last smile before the two split up. She gazed into the woods, looking out for any potential danger, as she always does. Ever since she had lost her leg she was afraid of being a liability to other kids, making it more difficult for everyone, but even despite this, she manages to make herself as useful as it’s only possible by patrolling everyday when almost everyone is still asleep. At this moment she is reminded of lee. His words echoed in her mind, and with it came a dull pain in her chest. “If Lee managed to save me with an arm missing, I can also help, even without a part of my leg.”- she thinks to herself everyday. She struggles a lot, every day she needs the help of Vi or someone else to get all set up, but that’s her life now. Despite all the pain she still goes through, she keeps on pushing. The wound has healed up by now and she’s getting better and better at walking using crutches. You don’t just end it ’cause it’s hard. You stick around and you help the folks you care about.

While Clementine was left on the tower to do her job, Violet went down on the ground. The staircase is something relatively new, as it was made a few months ago, when their crippled friend was finally able to get back up. Before that, the kids simply used a ladder. Or, just climbed on it like a monkey, if you’re Willy. The makeshift stairs aren’t perfect, at times it feels like they’re about to collapse and it lacks any stair railing (which someone like Clem would really, really appreciate) but it does the job relatively well. The word “stairs'' would be a little too generous for what it really is, although it served an identical purpose so they stuck to it nevertheless. What it really is is a bunch of boxes, bricks and barrels all put in chronological order, from smallest to biggest, so that you can walk up on them. They’re all tied together with plenty of ropes, nails and clay so that it stays together. E pluribus unum.

Just before Violet opened the big, majestic doors leading to the inside of the main school building, she looked at how Clementine was doing one last time, just to check on her. Clementine looked very calm, almost as if she finally found peace. Few seconds later, Clem turned around, almost as if she also wanted to double check on her friend, and then she waved to Vi while smiling, showing that everything was okay. Reassured blonde opened the big door a bit, which made a big squeak. The doors were getting old and rotten, but that didn’t bother her in the slightest. Compared to what they’ve gone through, it really is just a trifle. They will handle it, just as they handled everything before.

The hallways of the building that once used to be a school were long and tall enough for a slight echo to bounce between the walls. Despite the occasional creepiness, especially for the younger residents of Ericson, it had become their home. The steep and intimidating corridors, initially a source of uneasiness, gradually transformed into a familiar place as each day passed. The kids did their best to make the space feel like home; they adorned the walls with posters and drawings, kept it clean, and ensured that light freely entered through the windows.

As Violet walked through the corridors, she searched for AJ's and Clementine's room. Despite spending a considerable amount of time here, navigating the complex layout of rooms and corridors remained challenging. Many would have wondered why the kids couldn't live next to each other without empty rooms in between. The answer lay in the memories—the burning recollections of those who had left them. Regardless of the passage of time, the memories of Tennessee, Mitch, Brody, or even Marlon, Minerva, and Sophie remained vivid. Every child unanimously agreed that their rooms should be left untouched, serving as memorials. Regardless of how their lives unfolded or the negative memories some of them might have caused, they were deeply beloved at one point in this shared space and therefore, their dorms shall remain untouched.

[fluffycat-wizard]

btw,

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[phanfictioncatalogue]

(TW) Grief Masterlist

before/after (ao3) - katesofheaven

Summary: Dan and Phil have a dying daughter and they deal with it in different ways, both before and after she goes.

Blood Will Spill (ao3) - RooLlamaBlue28

Summary: London is not a safe city. Creatures lurk in the shadows. Creatures like Dan, a monstrous vampire with the insatiable thirst for fresh, human blood. Phil is his boyfriend and roommate, living with the demon that could kill him at anytime. The tension between an all powerful vampire and an innocent human is thick, both not able to comprehend how their relationship works. They both know that Phil will not live forever. A single bite could change all of that. Phil has to make a decision. One that will change his life for eternity.

(Vampire! Dan and Innocent Human! Phil)

breaking bones (ao3) - A1R0

Summary: what do you do when you lose your life?

what do you do when you fall so hard into depression your jaw breaks?

what do you do when the world keeps spinning, moving on, when the days get longer and longer without you?

you die, dan thinks in may.

clean the kitchen (ao3) - angelmichelangelo

Summary: after a tragedy destroys everything he had, dan finds himself living a life far from what he had once expected.

everything seems like a huge mess, and all he can do is do his best to clean it up, piece by piece, little by little.

Don't Wait For Me (ao3) - SweetDreamsDarling

Summary: Phil's taken ill suddenly, and no one knows what's really going on inside.

Dan tries to be an optimist.

Phil knows he's dying.

Dan doesn't. But Dan needs to learn how to live again.

Falling, A Phanfiction (ao3) - mychemicalliteratureclub

Summary: Phil remembers Dan's death, and goes on a trip through his memory.

finding light in the dark places. (ao3) - commonemergency

Summary: They’re all connected in some way. All have their own stories to tell. If Dan were a better person he’d get to know them more but he always feels like something is holding him back. So they just continue to work in each others spaces, creating things out of dough and making better things with icing. Donna’s slogan is that everything was made with love but he thinks that’s just because she made this thing—they’re just the hands that give it out to other people. One day, Dan thinks, he’ll hope to feel that passionate about something again. Or a story about grief and loss, found family, donuts, and first love.

Goodnight Misery (ao3) - DeadMilitia

Summary: Three years after Dan's suicide, Phil discovers a letter adressed to him from Dan.

Home is Where the Heart Is (ao3) - goldenrose95

Summary: Dan learns the true meaning of home only after he loses it.

linger on (ao3) - dizzy, waveydnp

Summary: A recent loss has ground Phil's life to a halt. At 33, he's static in his grief and living in the house he grew up in - until his mother kicks him out.

In a fit of indignation and with nothing to lose, he answers the first listing he finds for a room to rent in London... a listing posted by a guy named Dan.

Lonely in Conflict, Cast as a Convict (ao3) - andthenshesaid-write (ladyknight1512)

Summary: Dan is a vampire who can’t remember how it feels not to be lonely. Phil is a vampire hunter living in his brother’s shadow.

When they meet, they find acceptance in each other that they don’t find anywhere else, but there are secrets and other forces at play trying to keep them apart.

night, love you (ao3) - howelllesters

Summary: saying goodnight through the years

Red Like Roses (ao3) - your_starless_eyes

Summary: Red like roses fills my dreams and takes me to the place you rest...

Sharing Is Caring (ao3) - irphanfic

Summary: Dan and Phil have been going out for almost a year and Dan is wondering why Phil hasn’t already introduced him to his family yet. What will happen when he ‘pressures’ Phil to do it and sees what his boyfriend was hiding?

Stars Are Gonna Shine Tonight (ao3) - starrywrite

Summary: AU! When young Dan first heard the story of Sadako Sasaki and A Thousand Paper Cranes, he decided that he didn't need to fold a thousand paper cranes in return for a wish, because his greatest wish he never made has already come true: he has a friend like Phil Lester. Dan and Phil have been best friends for as long as Dan can remember (and maybe Dan’s been a little in love with Phil for as long as he can remember as well), and everything is nothing short of perfect for Dan Howell. But then all it takes is three words to shatter Dan’s entire world, and he decides that maybe wishes aren't as overrated as he thought - if a wish could save Phil's life, that is.

Symphony of Destruction (ao3) - Nefertiti1052 (Succubusphan)

Summary: When Phil falls terminally ill Dan vows to do anything necessary to save him and a mysterious stranger offers his help. Dan should have known not to trust a deal too good to be true, now Phil has to find a way to fix his mistakes.

The Roles We Play (ao3) - adorkablephil (kimberly_a)

Summary: Dan Howell and Phil Lester work together as voice actors for BBC radio dramas in the late 1930s, but slowly begin to develop “inappropriate” feelings for each other. (No characters die *in* this story, but there is some grief and sadness related to their deaths in the past.)

There Is No Guide To Losing Your Soul (ao3) - krissyxlove

Summary: It wasn't supposed to be like this.

trying to keep warm when you’re the sun (ao3) - jackiednp

Summary: dan’s nan dies and phil is the only one who can comfort him

Until Death Do Us Part (ao3) - WhatIsTheSkyWithoutSomeClouds

Summary: The dynamic duo, separated by the Grim Reaper. Overwhelmed by the might of despair, how will Phil Lester cope?

Will he?

When a heart shatters (ao3) - Phantasticpheels

Summary: When your heart shatters, its all at once. Then slow and over and over again.

Breaking a heart is easy but it takes a special kind of person to pick up the pieces.

Phil learns by experience.