#i also want to find a fic where mo xuanyu stuffs up and gets wwx in his head and both of them end up with lwj

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Help? There's two fics where Qin Su does the soul sacrifice ritual that I've been thinking about lately but can't remember the titles of.

In one of them Qin Su brings back Jiang Yanli, but because she didn't have any particular target for revenge Qin Su is just like hanging in the back of what is now Jiang Yanli's head. Together they trick Xue Yang into performing the ritual to bring Wei Wuxian back in his body, and because Xue Yang is full of grudges it works properly and he goes and it's just Wei Wuxian in his body. I don't remember many other details apart from Xue Yang having to be talked out of putting Sect Leader Yao on his hitlist and Qin Su eventually getting a puppet body made by Wei Wuxian so she can have her own life. (Edit: this one has been found. It's called the problem with authority.)

In the other Qin Su ritual fic, Qin Su brings back Wei Wuxian herself (leaving a letter for him?) and he runs off to... Have adventures? Mo Xuanyu summoned Jin Zixuan back rather than Wei Wuxian and Jin Zixuan is travelling with Lan Wangji. Upon meeting Qin Su!Wei Wuxian and realising there's something between her/him and Lan Wangji, Jin Zixuan tries to be a chaperoning brother person to no one's impressment.

If anyone can help me find these fics, it would be greatly appreciated!

[whetstonefires]

hey I was the one who asked about ao3 I'm sorry if the question came off as odd, I love your takes on mdzs and was wondering if you ever wrote any fics because you have really great diction on your posts and I thought 'This person could make really great fics' so I thought id ask, that's all

it's fine! lmao it just really looked like i was potentially getting set up for some weird anon hate game.

thank you! and the answer is i do have an AO3--i used to link it here a lot--but it's only got two mdzs fics on it. despite my having struggled to focus on any fandom besides mdzs for like two years.

because what happened when i got stuck in this fandom like a suction cup directly to the brain is, i wound up reading a lot more smut than i usually tolerate, because of the nature of the novel and how their relationships with sex are meaningfully integrated with their characterization and development as people and relative to one another. so a lot of the smut in this fandom has substance in a way i care about.

and my writing always reflects my reading material in a 'ooh i could do that like this' kinda way, so i started generating my own fic concepts with a sex element that i wanted to explore.

and then i got really invested in this new form and its tricks and affordances, so the only fics in this fandom i've actually been finishing are E-rated, because i'm inspired by the learning process.

(also because it turns out this shit is so easy to write, like you can cheap out on so many structural and narrative elements if you put sex in there, i'm so mad about this still. cheap!!!)

and having finished them i want to share, you know?

so i got a different ao3 for that, since mostly i like and write gen stuff, and i didn't wish to subject my existing subscribers to my learning to porn. i'm not sharing it here though, sorry, because everyone i've shared it with (upon request) has been weird about it.

the fic isn't even particularly outre! i'm remixing stuff that's done a lot in the fandom, according to my own artistic sensibilities! i do not know what the Weird is and what private conclusions are being made about me as a person on the basis of my very ace sex pollen remixes and shit. but it makes me anxious so i will Not be doing it anymore.

anyway as a reward or something for the guts to come back with your name out and take another shot and for the compliments <3, which of these not-sexy mdzs fic concepts do you vote i thwack into a postable form over the next month or so, and put on my main?

post-canon wwx gets amnesia back to the yiling laozu in burial mounds era and his current life explained very badly by lan jingyi, and concludes the lan have coerced him into a very creepy situation

funny wangxian modern au incorporating the height thing i was talking about earlier this week, where the main plot is ripped off from an autobiographical anecdote the singer told at a concert i went to and i was like, this would make a great one of those modern aus people keep writing. oh no now i want to.

time travel fixit outside pov, where wwx and wen ning get physically catapulted back from the qiongqi pass to before the war, and go and intervene just before lotus pier can be destroyed, wearing a mask and spooky cloak so no one will know the yiling laozu is wei wuxian (and a weimao so no one notices the ghost general is wen ning but let's be real that was less likely to happen for several reasons)

thing where the misunderstandings go off in a different direction early on, and wwx thinks lan wangji and mo xuanyu were actually an item and his impersonation has been tragically successful. very funny dramatic irony concept that is in execution going to be like 70% angst. some of it very funny angst though. (this one is the least developed because it doesn't really suggest its own plot.)

find what already exists at Kieron_ODuibhir lmao.

[wangxianficrecs]

FIc Finder

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1. Hey Mojo! All kneels before your greatness! [heeheehee] I was looking for a fic, it was like VERY long. Probably 500k. It was a canon divergence where Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze live but cangse is paralysed(?) from waist down. And the three went live at Lotus Pier. I also remember that cangse and madam Yu became sworn sisters at some point. Thank you in advance❤️

FOUND!  Building a home by R95irth (G, 586k, wei parents, jiang parents, wangxian

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2. Hi, i just wanted to ask if anyone could tell me a fic where (a modern) wei wuxian and 20ish other characters ( inc JC, NMJ, NHS, and LWJ) were dropped into a ice world where these snowmen were hunting them and it was some weird tv broadcast death/adventure show, in the past before the fic started they had kidnapped other people Inc Mo Xuanyu and they had all died in a previous version of the show people didn't realize was live

FOUND!   and from our own/live to ourselves by betweentheheavesofstorm (m, 75K, WANGXIAN, wip)

NOT!   and so my heart beats wildly by lily_winterwood (E, 106k, wangxian, my post)

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3. Hello! I was wondering if your find a fic is still open? (New to the blog and really love your stuff btw!) [Fic Finder is a regular thing, usually about 1x/week] I was hoping if you could help find this fic in which Wei Wuxian was kinda su*cidal and Lan Qiren saw his arms with signs of it was like 'Oh no not again, Brother! ' cause madam Lan was apperantly kinda suicidal in that fic too? Qingheng jun was also there and helped Qiren take WWX to cloud recesses where they have a sort of mental facility hidden away? (sorry for my bad english this is my first time doing this > < ) [Your english is fantastic!]

FOUND!  Silent Goodbyes Taste Bitter by Starlight1395 (not rated, 26k, wangxian)

FOUND!  We Can See a New Start by preciousbunnynoiz (M, 128k, wangxian, xicheng)  - I think they were describing a scene that starts halfway through chapter 33 ending in 34 or so.

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4. Hi! I’ve been looking for a wangxian fanfic wherein lan zhan is gravely injured and lan xichen becomes angry with wei wuxian. Lxc brings lz to lanling for him to heal, but told wwx that lan zhan died. So wwx became depressed about it and realized his feelings, then he discovered months later that lan zhan is still alive. Pls help me look for it, if you know it! 😭😭😭 I can’t find it on ao3, and I deleted my downloaded copy accidentally! Would appreciate the help. Thank you so much!

FOUND!  bloom into the ground by tattletold (M, 58k, wangxian, my post)

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5. Hey Mojo! First of all, I love this blog so much. I use it constantly to get my wangxian fix! [Ah, thank you!] I was hoping you or someone could help me find a fic! I remember it's a modern gender bent AU, where Wei Ying ends up moving in with Lan Zhan? And they're university students? I remember specifics like Lan Zhan leaving her door open for Wei Ying to come in an cuddle, and Jiang Cheng ending up yelling at Wei Ying in a park? Thanks for the help! ~ @ohbrilliant-1​

FOUND!   And they were roommates... by harriet_vane (M, 41k, wangxian)

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6. Hi I was hoping that you could help me find a fic!! I remember that it was a modern au and wwx and lwj dated in high school but then broke up afterward. Wwx was broke in college but started a fashion channel on YouTube which blew up and now he’s kinda rich and part of the fashion community. He comes back to his home town for a reunion or smth and lwj is so happy about it and they manage to talk during the reunion. Lwj ends up kissing wwx but then wen chao walks in on them and accuses wwx of stealing his date bc lwj was forced to go to the party with wc. Everyone hears and gets mad at wwx, who gets pissed at lwj before running off. When Nhs finds out he chastised lwj for being an idiot. Uhh that’s all I remember! I think it was only a few chapters in when I read it tho…. Any help would be much appreciated 🙏🙏🙏

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7. Hey Mojo! I love your blog and thank you so much for doing this!! [you're welcome!] I was looking for this fic which has lan Zhan marrying wei Ying (I don't remember if that's the whole fucking or just a part of it) and he has lwj has to do all these tasks. One of the tasks had the end result of let finding a small vial in the bell of the youngest disciple of the jiang sect which it turned out every disciple had. And the last task turned out that lwj had to fight jyl, jc, and jfm I think. Thanks!

FOUND!   Let's Switch Spots by Cinder46231 (G, 13k, wangxian)

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8. Hey Mojo! I am looking for a fic where Jin Ling grows up with the ghosts of the wen remnants in lotus pier. I think it had a sentence somewhere along the lines of wwx was hated by the whole world except the people of lotus pier (and maybe JC) cause they remembered the young smiling boy.

FOUND?  Could be a mashup of these two, one with Wen ghosts kind of commenting on all the living and nurturing the juniors; and the other with WWX as the smiling boy in ghost echoes.

like the setting sun by silversshadow (T, 60k, wangxian, my post)

❤️scatter and sunder by silversshadow (T, 16k, wangxian, my post)

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9. Hi wonderful mojo! Thanks so much for all you do. Could you please help me find a fic where lwj leaves the Lans cuz lxc is gonna give A-Yuan over to the Jins and he winds up in Song Lan/Xiao Xingchen's sect? LXC is v regretful and constantly trying to make amends. I THINK it's a WIP but I'm not sure.

FOUND!   You in me, you are mine, my everything by BriaPia (M, 25k, wangxian)

NOT  ❤️And Miles To Go Before I Sleep by Glitterbombshell (T, 24k, wangxian, WIP, my bookmark) -  has lxc deciding to hand over a-yuan to the jins part and lwj running away part but not that sect of song lan and xiao xinchen part

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10. Hey Momjo, I love your blog so much and I have fun reading all the fics that you post, Is there a way you can find this fic for me , it about that Wei ying created like a time machine and ayuan uses it and goes back to the future as a child, to where they are having classes and then talk about the future etc. until Wei ying has to come and get him and act all civilized and confuses everyone I think this is how it goes.

FOUND!  Baby Of Mine by pupeez4eva ( not rated (I’d say G), 3k, wangxian, my post)

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11. look. i have been trying to find this fic for AN HOUR NOW. and i don't even know which tags to use because i only remember the summary a bit. basically i think it's written from lwj's pov? a modern au i suppose? something about "there was wei ying, teaching art, on the screen"???? i think they knew each other (maybe where together idk) and lost contact or something and yeah. the only thing i really remember is that line about wwx teaching something, which i think was art, and it was like on a screen which is why i think it was a modern au. i haven't read it yet but i wanted to !! i swear i put it on my to read list and even opened the first chapter but i can't find it?? and i don't remember the author or title either ahhhh this is making me go crazy

FOUND!   Ink Lines by ShenWeiLightning (M, 57k, wangxian, WIP)

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FOUND!   How to Draw Clouds, a Guide by Little Apple's Emotional Support Human by sweetiejelly (M, 7k, wangxian)

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12. Hello there. Hope this finds you in radiant health. [That's so positive! Thank you.] I would like some help finding a fic. It's a fic that centered on madam yu, where she and JFM died and got sent back to the time when their children is still babies. I think WWX is their biological child and in the first life (also in the first fic, I recall it's a continuation from a fic which centered on wangxian) they failed their children (they hate their parents and press charges?) and in this fic they're redeeming themselves by loving their children. Can you help me? And thank you for your help, you're the best!

FOUND!   Purple, Red and Golden by DonCielo (M, 33k, jiang parents, jiang family, wangxian, WIP)

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13. Hi! This site is so amazing and I have found so many interesting fanfics from your recommendations. [Yay!] I am looking for a fic where Wei Ying gets taken in by a sect and is related to the current sect leader. That sect uses crystals/gems as their power source? There are a lot of OC characters who are hybrids/shape shifters and are all very beautiful so they need to wear veils and the current leader of that sect is blind and keeps bumping into doorways. Many thanks!

FOUND? In The Mountains of Xianxia by ThePathUntaken (T, 74k, wangxian, fix-it, fluff, hurt/comfort, angst, everyone lives au, mythical beasts, implied mpreg, panic attacks, WIP)

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14. Hi there! Love the work you do, I've been trying for days to find this work. Its a Wangxian wedding fic that takes place is Gusu, but the focus is on Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng's reconciliation. I know there's quite a few of those out there but this one is from Wei Wuxian's POV, and there's a particular scene where Jiang Cheng unknowingly accuses Lan Wangi of stealing Wei Wiccan away like his father did his mother. Hope thats enough, and thank you ❤❤

FOUND!   the only way out by cafecliche (T, 12k, wangxian, my post for the series) -  in which Jiang Cheng is in Gusu to plan a discussion conference and eventually accuses LWJ of forcing wwx to be “the perfect gusu bride” or something

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15. Hi so am looking for a modern au were Wie ying is a sex worker on onlyfans and Nie huinsang is non binary . Pls help me find it 🥺 ~ @astralruby186

FOUND! See all this and more for just ten dollars a month! by ScarlettStorm  (E, 344k, wangxian, series in progress)

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16. Hi Mojo thank you for everything that you’re doing for the MDZS fandom! [I have so much fun here!] I was wondering if you could help me find two fics that I can’t seem to find no matter how hard I try. I would be so grateful if anyone knows which fics these are! Thank you so much!😊

16a. I remember this one being told from an outsider perspective, a random female cultivator comes across WangXian in the words while they’re having sex. She ends up watching them from a tree keeping herself concealed with a talisman. After watching their interactions with one another she comes to several conclusions about her own romantic relationship with her husband.

FOUND!   Countless Roads by SunBlueSun (E, 6k, wangxian)

16b. I remember last details about the second one but I do remember one key part of it was that I think it’s some sort of canon divergence as Jiang Yanli and Lan Xichen end up exchanging letters after the lectures at cloud recesses since they realize their little brothers have feelings towards one another. And I think WangXian relationship is more positive than the one in canon as WWX ends up taking several apprenticeships after the lectures to learn more skills and he ends up sending LWJ a pair of gloves made from white dragons scales…

FOUND!    Instead of rabbits, I'll give you this by Bloodcoral (T, 95k, wangxian, xicheng, WIP)

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Since I’m just as obsessed with yarn craft (making it and dyeing it and using it) as I am with fandom, I just feel that y’all should know, in every modern AU I make where Lan Wangji has bunnies, they’re all angora and he raises them for not only being precious, but also he steals their wool. I’m making an AU where it’s a 3zun sorta fic (they all technically live separately with their houses next to each other in a triangle and knocked down their fences so they would have one massive garden) and LWJ was obsessed with bunnies when he was little but Lan Xichen really liked to knit so he was all ‘hey, let’s get angora rabbits’ and now Lan Qiren spins their fiber into yarn and when LWJ is like 9, Wei Wuxian shows up cause the Jiang’s bought the lakehouse across the street from them and so now they show up for holidays and school breaks and LWJ got an instant crush on him and crocheted him a beanie because WWX has never seen snow before (y’all this bitch out here while it’s snowing in shorts and a tee shirt LWJ is afraid he’s gonna DIE) and WWX falls in love instantly and it’s cute. Also WWX is trans. And Meng Yao raises Mo Xuanyu and later on Rusong (not his kid, Qin Su showed up saying she couldn’t handle getting rid of it but she couldn’t keep it either so MY was all ‘okay, I’ll take it’ and that’s that) and later on after WWX gives birth to A-Yuan (yeah I went there, deal with it, it was an accident tho, WWX is told he should get rid of it cause he’s too young for being pregnant but he’s all ‘nope, going through with it, then I’m getting those parts removed’ cause oooof) LXC suddenly gets surprise custody of their little cousin 6month old Lan Jingyi and he’s all ‘Ahh shit’ and so there’s like. So many toddlers running around the garden at all times. Jin Zixuan meets Jiang Yanli when he’s visiting one day and she’s over having tea with LXC while they watch the kids roll around like a bunch of idiots in the garden and it’s cute. They like each other. Jiang Cheng gets sick when he’s around sixteen and ends up getting an organ transplant (or maybe bone marrow? I was looking up transplant stuff but apparently if you get a donated kidney you’re only expected to live another 20 years at most before you need another transplant??? IF you can get another??? And liver would be much more rare I guess for a 16 year old. But if he had some sort of cancer or a disease involving bone marrow transplant as a treatment, it could work) and WWX is the one that gives the transplant. Why??? Because you need some angst in somewhere and tbh I kinda want 16 year olds JC and WWX to spend a while in the lakehouse doing homeschooling (with LWJ because LQR homeschools him cause of his fear of crowds and Jiang Fengmian was all ‘hey, can you just... teach them for a year?? They’re too tired to cause much trouble anyways and they can’t go to school and hanging out with LWJ night cheer them up) and Nie Huaisang takes that as permission to get homeschooled for a year (Nie Mingjue originally refused him because he was a little shit and wouldn’t stop bothering him when he didn’t have people to chat with all day but now he’ll have JC and WWX to chat with) and now LQR is stuck with them all for a year before JC and WWX go back to their hometown school. It’s long enough for LWJ and WWX to start a budding romance and for JC to realize that he thinks relationships are nasty and kissing is gross. Actually, they probably just stay there till they’re all graduated because why the heck not. Yanli is dating JZX and uses that as an excuse to visit him often (well, she’s also spoiling baby bro’s, but if she can get some flirting in while it’s happening, why not) and YZY and JFM tend to travel a lot so they don’t see an issue with them all staying there while they can. It’s been helpful to WWX cause there’s still some issues with bullying back in their hometown (and in a town where not everyone sees him as the ‘weird tomboy girl who thinks she’s a boy’ here, he gets into less fights) and this has been really helpful.

I wanted to make the worlds longest paragraph ever but tumblr said no. So anyways. JC is still in recovery for a while so it’s best at the Lakehouse instead of a city, and he can chill out on the porch in the warmer months and get cozy inside next to the fireplace with a million blankets and hot cocoa when it’s cold out. He’s. So. Cozy. Also JFM got him a service cat because WWX still can’t be near dogs. He wishes his bro could get a dog and feels bad about it, but tbh they keep forgetting that for all JC would like a dog, he’s basically a slut for any cute animal ever. He hangs out in the 3zun garden across the street a lot. NHS has like 15 birds and NMJ has like four cats (who are Not allowed in the atrium lol) and LWJ has all those rabbits and MY has like a million kids and those are basically wild animals so they count. (Seriously tho family members keep dropping kids off with 3zun and not coming back for them but??? It’s okay??? Cause they’re all ‘single’ -not living together- gay men and so none of them can get on an adoption list for shit anyways. Lol so many kiddos running around.) LQR is ready to murder WWX by the time the kiddos all graduate and he’s all ‘oh thank god now I don’t have to see him all the time’ but then WWX shows up at the house one day (him and LWJ have been dating for like a year and a half now) and he’s all ‘hey. I’m. Pregnant.’ And LQR is all ‘...ahhhh shit now I gotta deal with him even more’ and it’s. Amazing.

WWX pretty much moves in with them after that (WWX is all ‘we can get an apartment or something’ and 3zun is all ‘sure, okay’ but then always find a way to distract them cause they’re all ‘yeah, we like our space’ but then they’re all ‘if a single sibling/child of ours moves out we’ll get instant empty-nest syndrome and die’ and so they’re like. Really possessive over their kiddos. LQR is mostly there cause he’s the only adult that bothered to stay in LXC and LWJ’s lives when they were growing up and he’s great.

A year after A-Yuan is born, they get Lan Jingyi (he gets dropped off with LXC and just never picked up again wild) and then Jin Ling is born (and he gets dropped on Meng Yao a lot cause JZX has watched him with kids before and knows his brother genuinely loves babies) and then Qin Su (their half sibling) shows up one day all ‘hey, so, I’m pregnant and I’m not keeping it but it’s too late to get rid of, you like kids, you want one?’ And MY is all ‘...yes...’ and she stays with them till little Rusong is born and then heads off to live her life and MY gets the joy of taking care of an infant that he hasn’t gotten to experience since MXY was little which was like 13 years ago. Lol MXY isn’t all that enthused with his new baby bro but Baba says he’ll get less ugly when he’s older and stops looking like a potato. MXY does NOT agree that he once looked like a potato himself, how dare you, Baba!

They have a greenhouse and LXC is definitely growing pot in it.

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MXTX exchange info (sorry not a meta)

A version of the dear creator letter for gifters. (Sorry, I do not have another good anonymous way to post a link so this is going in my mostly-unused extra tumblr...)

Ships requested:

Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn,

Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Mò Xuányǔ/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn,

Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén/Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī,

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Likes (where relevant): wwx being a demonic cultivator, magic sex/sex supplemented with magic, humans having tentacles/wings/etc hybrid qualities, shape shifters, vampires, canon or canon adjacent or canon divergent stories, modern future of canon (ie if wangxian are immortal cultivators or reincarnated with their memories intact), wangxian being kinky - especially their consensual non-consent kink, kink with lots of aftercare, kink that emphasizes the trust aspect, kink negotiation, hurt/comfort, telepathic bonds, soul bonds, time travel, time travel with outsider pov, good communication, complicated grief, reflecting on wwx's canonical suicide, identity reveals, yiling laozu kink, sex that messes with resentful energy, characters having switchy dynamics in bed (although I am fine with both top/bottom options on their own too)

Dislikes: babyfic, kidfic, pregnancy, modern AUs (not counting modern-with-magic as future of canon, those I do like), no magic/all human AUs, amnesia or reincarnation fics where one partner does not get all their memories of the other partner back, the main ship characters growing old, wwx being overly oblivious, lwj being extremely insecure, main ship characters dying or being permanently de-powered/injured beyond what is canon (wwx remaining with no golden core is fine as long as he is still allowed demonic cultivation), jealousy, infidelity/cheating scenarios or kinks

Specific to ships/prompts:

Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian:

Either or both wangxian reflecting on their feelings about traumatic stuff in their past, like wwx's suicide or lwj's punishment. Somehow this comes about during/as a result of sexy times they are enjoying but that brings something to mind and then they discuss and/or process with sex or cuddling of some sort. Or, for a lighter option, something where sex leads to some kind of identity reveal of a special power/ability/trait (ie one of them being a shifter/having wings/tentacles/other abilities).

Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian/Mo Xuanyu:

In general: Mo Xuanyu being saved somehow but WWX still coming back, Mo Xuanyu getting to be demonic cultivator buddies with WWX and being awesome at it, maybe body-sharing with WWX at first but ideally with at least the potential for getting a body (or fic could be left open-ended on that front), LWJ loving both of them and them staying as an OT3, Wangxian caring for MXY and making him feel loved. For prompts, feel free to not do any of these but just some ideas - possibly skipping over how MXY gets saved and in his own body, but then showing him getting adopted and brought in and loved and well-fucked by wangxian? Or could focus on WWX and MXY being demonic cultivators together (or MXY as his student?). Or the process of MXY and WWX sharing a body and adapting? Anyway basically I just want good things for MXY and I feel like Wangxian should be good at giving them.

Lan Wangji/Lan Xichen:

Likes: Jadecest can be a get-together or it can be an established relationship. Does not cancel out their other relationships (although others could be incorporated in with them, or they just aren't mentioned). Enthusiastic and not guilty on both their parts (although it is fine if there is uncertainty/concern about how the other feels as they are getting together). Could be either growing up or during the time-skip or post-canon (it is not a tag but I also LOVE Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji/Lan Xichen, so if you feel like adding WWX in too, that is fine. WWX finding out about them and joining also fun!). Possible scenarios could be the Jades being soft and comforting each other in a sexy way in the face of their sect's harsh and isolating expectations of them (especially of LWJ having to be a perfect model and LXC having to be a sect leader), could be therapeutic for LWJ during the time-skip or for LXC post-canon. Definitely can be kinky, D/s dynamics or cnc. I like the unexpected so switching things up with dom LXC is good (I feel like that is less commonly shown?), although I like any configuration. Basically I just love the Jades and love versions of them where they understand each other really well and in ways no one else does and are really close and take care of each other, plus also: hot as fuck.

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MDZS fic ideas

Things I’d love to see in Mo Doa Zu Shi fanfiction. These are my notes for things I have told myself I am not allowed to write. I’ve read...so many fics for this fandom, like most of the archive, and I’m sad that I’m pretty much at the point of rereading/waiting for updates. These ideas have been swimming around in my head that I have no time to write, so PLEASE someone take them and gimme some new words to read, I beg you.  Of course, end goal should be wangxian in some way, because otherwise WHAT IS THE POINT, but I don’t have time to write these, so...here you go. Please let me know if you use them. I wanna read these, but I don’t have time to write them, so maybe someone else will want to.

*Time Travel AU in which WWX goes back and for some reason tells Madame Yu all the bullshit that’s gonna happen, so they team up and fix all the things. I just...really want Mama Yu to like WWX thanks. And dear god, LET JC BE HAPPY! I need so much more resolution on that front. Even the book did not satisfy me. I WANT MY BOYS TO GET ALONG! And I want Mama Yu to not be awful and abusive to WWX! I mean she had reasons for being salty but uh that is NOT good justification for the shit she pulled with WWX. Also, hell, let Jiang Fengmian get his core melted and have Madame Yu run the sect. WE NEED FEMALE REP.

*Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze live so WWX gets to grow up with his parents. He meets LWJ as a rogue cultivator or something idk. This would make a fun oneshot.

*LWJ’s mother lives! Honestly, I just want happy Lan-fam. Can I get that please? Just how much would it change the dynamic of the story if LWJ’s father led the sect properly and his mother wasn’t locked away in a goddamn building and actually got to spend more time with her kids? I am forever salty that we’ll never know why Mama Lan killed her hubby’s teacher or w/e. Somebody GIVE ME SOME REASONING.

*WWX gets taken in and claimed as heir by Wen Ruohan...and WWX doesn’t learn that their ways are wrong until he’s at least a teen (perhaps when sent to train at the Cloud Recesses?) and realizes how the other Sects really feel about them. Give him some convoluted morals that he has to unlearn. Make Wen Xu and Wen Chao hate him for being chosen over them. Change Wei Wuxian/Wei Ying into Wen Ying/Wen Wuxian and have it be a secret that he’s not actually a Wen. Have WWX actually not want the Wen Sect destroyed because despite how messed up its people are, not all of them are bad--mostly just those in power (it still baffles me that the other clans just DESTROYED an entire sect, like I know the Wens burned Lotus Pier but DAMN that’s cold!) Even some kind of variation where WWX influences Wen Ruohan and his children’s evil mindset would be really interesting. Otherwise, can you imagine WWX with Chenqing on the Wen side? Ouch. Also, this sticks WWX with Wen Ning and Wen Qing early on and I LOVE THEM, so there’s that.

*WWX doesn’t come back after his first death, and LWJ achieves immortality because he’s stubbornly still looking/waiting for WWX. Two centuries pass (we’re going to ignore any technological advancements and replace them with cultivation advancements or something) and LWJ ends up befriending a nice lady cultivator who falls for him, and even though he only considers her a friend, he agrees to marry her. They have 1 very stubborn gay daughter (only from consummation sex which brings up a boatload of other problems) who somehow stumbles across a reborn!WWX with all his memories--daughter is hella bitter that her father clearly does not return her mother’s affections and that he is apparently pining for someone who is so long dead that people don’t actually remember his name (ie - people remember Yiling Laozu but not that his name was Wei Wuxian). But without knowing who he is, the daughter ends up liking WWX until she finds out the truth about who he is and drama ensues. Can you tell I’ve wanted to write this one so badly? I mean I could just about draft an outline, but I HAVE TO FOCUS ON MY ORIGINAL NOVEL I’M SORRY.

*Time Travel AU in which Yanli alone gets a do-over with all the future knowledge and fixes everything just by being her amazing self. I feel like she’d be a really keen manipulator.

*The story from NHS’s pov. I wanna read all his manipulations and him putting them into place. Is there anything like this out there? Because oh my GOD I wanna know what’s going through his head sometimes. I really, really do!

*Jiang Cheng/Wen Ning - AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THIS WOULD BE AN ENTERTAINING SHIP? Just...I sort of tolerate the JC/LXC and JC/NHS pairings because they’re commonly used, but honestly, I’m not crazy about either one. However, WN is such a sweetheart and JC is such a hothead and there is so much opportunity for drama there. Also, in some cases depending on timeline...WN is, yunno, a corpse--a fixable thing if you weave in WWX’s involvement and make him and JC get along again. GIVE ME THAT. Like I don’t read much other than wangxian focused fic, but I would read the hell out of this (also you could easily balance those two pairings).

*Somewhere in the waiting gap, LWJ is given three tasks by a deity of some sort who promises to bring WWX back if he completes him...but these tasks have to UTTERLY go against LWJ’s character and completely destroy his reputation as Hanguang Jun. Honestly, this could go cracky or painfully dark.

*No idea how, but Mo Xuanyu manages to bring WWX back fully in-tact and they both get to live. WWX of course takes MXY under his wing, and together they avoid the notice of even LWJ for a lot longer than WWX did in canon. I would love to see them figuring out the whole JGY plot in the background and LWJ tailing them around just a little too late to the party each time a major event goes down until finding out in some kind of dramatic finale that WWX has been back for a while. I have yet to see characterization for MXY that I really like. Most people make him either ridiculously whiny or so much like WWX that they may as well be the same character. :/ So, uh, maybe a different approach? I mean MXY is allowed some complaints, he’s had a rough time of things, but come ON.

*Lan Wanji never finds Wen Yuan and poor widdle Shizui manages to survive into adolescence living on his own in the burial mounds...accompanied by the fragmented ghost of his Xian-gege who very slowly is pieced back together by A-Yuan, who has sort of naturally started using demonic cultivation and somehow develops a heroic reputation as a rogue cultivator. Why? Because he’s Shizui, and Shizui is SO PURE OK? Maybe he has a fascination with LWJ, even though his memories of Rich Gege are kind of fuzzy. Shizui matchmakes his two ridiculous dads. Oh and inquiry doesn’t work on WWX cuz his soul is shrouded by the resentful energy in the burial mounds.

*The Wen clan burns the Cloud Recesses to the ground around the same time WWX has lost his parents, but LWJ somehow escapes. Reportedly, everyone in GusuLan is now dead, but he somehow ends up in the same town as WWX. They meet and bond immediately. Maybe LWJ saves WWX from the dogs. Anyway, JFM never finds WWX, so he and LWJ grow up together in poverty, eventually teaching themselves cultivation and night hunting, until their fame grows so much that they catch the attention of the Wen clan (or something). Have them ridiculously dedicated to each other, already in love and thinking of themselves as cultivation partners. I want their bond to straight-up shock people. LET THEM BE SHAMELESS. LWJ would have to have a fake name and wear something other than white.

*LWJ and WWX figure out their relationship stuff a lot sooner and end up building a proper sect in the burial mounds. I want LWJ wearing WWX’s colors. I want demonic cultivation to work hand-in-hand with regular cultivation. I want them to find artifacts or books or something in the burial mounds indicating a civilization used to be there that also studied demonic cultivation, or maybe they actually find some long forgotten god/dess of demonic cultivation who empowers them in exchange for worship.

*LWJ was not whipped for protecting WWX, he was imprisoned for life, not in GusuLan, but in some godforsaken prison that is so intense no one in the clans really likes to talk about it. I want him flung into some hellprison with ghosts and demons, where only his cultivation keeps him alive (and relatively sane) for that decade-ish gap until WWX’s fragmented ghost somehow finds him. Of course, WWX realizes LWJ loves him, which triggers in WWX a want to finally come back to life. He finds a way back to the living world and rains hell upon the people who decided it was a good idea to imprison LWJ until someone finally tells him how to get to the prison. He frees LWJ and helps him recover while all the JGY stuff is going on the background. Wangxian returns to the cultivation world in time to stop that catastrophe. (Before LWJ is imprisoned, he makes LXC promise to take care of A-Yuan of course!)

*WWX gets flung into the burial mounds and embraces demonic cultivation, but realizes he has somehow bound himself to the awful place and can’t leave. Over time, he lures stragglers and refugees to the mounds, where he welcomes them to stay and live safely. Outside, the Sunshot Campaign is a failure and what remains of the sects bow in subservience to the Wen clan. Inflicted with some permanent disabilities from the war and left to run GusuLan now that his brother and uncle are dead (sorry Xichen), Lan Wanji never gets the chance to go looking for WWX. Thirteen years pass and WWX has absorbed so much resentful energy from the burial mounds that he is practically a part of it. Finally, he is able to leave, but the world he finds is much different from the one he remembers, and his health fades fast when he is outside of the mounds. Somehow, WWX figures out that demonic cultivation doesn’t damage the body/soul/temperament if somehow counterbalanced properly with a golden core--and since he doesn’t have one, he and LWJ do a soulbond thing so that their cores (WWX: demonic and LWJ: golden) balance each other. Then he can take on the Wens.

I could literally whip out ideas nonstop, but these are the big ones that have been just...beating on the walls of skull trying to get out. Of course, they don’t always account for everything, so more thought is needed. Anyway, if you write any of these, please let me know so I can read them, and of course a shoutout would be nice. c: My username on ao3 is the same as here. Enjoy~!