#it’s a tgcf fic btw

[yeyayeya]

Can’t get over the fact that when I search for a fanfic to read, it always focuses on the main pairing and of course it’s more romance than anything (either one-shots or really long slow burns, no in between)

Yet my fav fic (that I literally just found last year) to which I just go back and read every 2 weeks, doesn’t have romance as the main focus at all and mainly focuses on the weird ass platonic relationship of the 3 main characters is so weird to me. Yes, it has 3 ships tagged and they have stuff for them sprinkled in the fic, but all in all it’s just mainly platonic and I just can’t get over it

Some platonic ships just hit harder than romantic ones wtf

I am still insane over that fic I love it so much ugh I need to rant about it

[lazycranberrydoodles]

modern AU where they meet again at the fast food place Xie Lian works at and Hua Cheng has to figure out how to romance a customer service employee

[everytimewetouch-dot-mp3]

inspired by the art i just reblogged: CONSIDER. tgcf ballet au where each of the four famous tales is a ballet.

(update: …this took longer and got bigger than i expected lmaooo)

at only seventeen, xie lian the principal dancer for the national ballet. xie lian danced like water, like the wind, with once-in-a-generation fluidity and grace. he was incredible, and he inspired a generation of dancers, especially young boys, to take up the art.

things turned bad, though. injured dancers (never xie lian, though) faulty flying rigs (never xie lian’s, though). damaged equipment and safety hazards and all manner of things that xie lian notices. he tries to fix them. he’s always too late. rumors start to spread. hadn’t he gotten into an argument with this dancer last week? hadn’t that dancer taken his preferred warmup spot the week before?

when xie lian catches the saboteur, no one believes him. how could they, when he’s blaming the artistic director himself?

it comes to a head on opening night of The Ballad of Wuyong. the show that rocketed the artistic director to fame, back in his performing days. xie lian plays prince wuyong now. he is terrified.

in the second act, one of the lights malfunctions. the artistic director looks him dead in the eyes and grins.

the light falls.

xie lian isn’t injured, of course. he never is when these things happen around him. why would he be, when he’s the one behind it all. that’s what everyone says. the dancers whose careers were ended that night, the theater damaged in the fire, the audience members who feared for their lives. it was xie lian’s fault. he’s been sabotaging the show from the start.

no one believes him. he retires, fading into obscurity. three years later, he teaches ballet in a small town. he knows he will never see the stage again.

hua cheng is a young firebrand with earth-shattering skill. he dances like fire, like the roar of racing blood, like passion incarnate. he is arrogant and cold as a member of the national ballet, and then he starts his own company. still arrogant, still cold, but after two years, he’s proven that his arrogance is well deserved.

he and two friends have written (choreographed and composed??) a ballet. well. they’ve got complete concepts for three. the other one is a work in progress. each is based on an epic that everyone and their mothers had to read parts of in school (a la the odyssey/the iliad). the four famous tales, the tetrad of classical legends that have been the subject of television and film retellings, novelizations and operas. it has been performed as a ballet before. hua cheng will do it better.

he xuan has composed the first three and is working through the fourth. hua cheng has taken on the ambitious role of second lead while assisting yushi huang in her role as artistic (co-) director. the role of the primary lead is vacant. hua cheng is arrogant and stubborn and he will not budge on one point: the role was created for xie lian. if he can’t convince xie lian to return and fill the role, the show will never see the stage.

(the entire creative team is furious with him, but…he pays their bills. he xuan owns his music; if the ballet falls through, he can still take his compositions to stage or write an opera or some shit. hua cheng doesn’t care.)

so hua cheng embarks on a mission to retrieve his ballet idol, the man who inspired him to keep dancing when he was ready to quit, the man whose performances changed his life again and again.

xie lian teaches twelve-year-olds. he hasn’t performed in five years. hua cheng doesn’t care; he can help xl get back into performing shape.

xie lian isn’t familiar with the show. hua cheng laughs, tells him nobody knows the show yet.

xie lian is…xie lian. his reputation is what it is, and after burning his former company to the ground as he did (because maybe it was his fault after all; so many people couldn’t all be wrong. they all agreed, didn’t they? it was his fault), he’s terrified of doing it to someone else’s.

hua cheng doesn’t care. he knows it wasn’t xie lian’s fault. hua cheng was in that show as a fifteen-year-old boy, a part of the corps de ballet at such a young age. xie lian wanted the show to succeed. xie lian bruised and cried and bled for that role. he pricked his fingers darning his flats; he was always first in and last out to rehearsals. he read the ballad of wuyong in an effort to understand his role better. he lost sleep, skipped meals, ran himself ragged for that role. the company spit in his face, shoving all the blame on him instead of investigating properly. hua cheng will not swallow their lies. this role was created for xie lian. he will not have anyone else.

no one has ever defended xie lian like this. no one believed him. his co-stars, his closest friends, his family. but here is this man, so famously skilled that xie lian’s students babble about him in class, more beautiful than the sun and just as bright, saying that he refuses to believe what even xie lian has grown to accept. he is not an ill omen. he is not a curse to the stage.

his students’ final performance of the season is saturday evening. sunday morning, he follows hua cheng to beijing.

[the-golden-mango-of-discord]

i needdd fengqing fics that actually deal with their complex psychosexual issues about each other stemming from their own self-hatred and regret and fundamentally opposing perceptions of the world and not just petty toothless squabbles with no larger context. folks pls remember that fengqing are about seeing urself in the other yet being so exhaustingly different and bringing out the worst versions of each other yet also needing the other to define ur very being. cmon yall throw in some actual flavor to the supposedly spicy explosive tgcf ship here

[youz-ink]

When my fic hits 420 kudos I will draw He Xuan and Shi Qingxuan smoking a blunt together

[evadingreallife]

DISCLAIMER: i have my own opinions but mainly i just enjoy stirring up chaos. Tell me in the tags what you all think!!✨

Reblog for sample size etc etc you know it

ps. Yeah thats not a walrus emoji but its the closest i had cmooon cut me some slack guys

pps. bts as in BEHIND THE SCENES dont come @ me talking about BTS the group yall (<-actual mistake i have done. multiple times. yay.)

[skygemspeaks]

Becoming intimately aware of the fact that i am not the target audience for tgcf because no matter how beautifully the main couple are written and how intricate the plot is, it all rings just a little hollow to me because none of the platonic relationships are fleshed out nearly to the degree of hualian's relationship and where normally i would turn to fanfic for an exploration of the platonic dynamics in a fandom, the tgcf fandom also is mostly interested in the romance and i always end up feeling just a little bit lonely because of it

[darke-faerie]

New fic! Ahh I seem to really love modern au HuaLian hooking up in a nightclub?! ^.^

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hua Cheng/Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu) Characters: Hua Cheng (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - College/University, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, One Night Stands, Well - Freeform, Maybe more - Freeform, Friendship, Blow Jobs, Nightclub, Bars and Pubs, Semi-Public Sex, Confident Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Rich Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Crushes, Exhibitionism, Coming Untouched, Coming In Pants, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Smut, Fluff, Jealousy Summary:

Hua Cheng see's a beautiful man dancing sensually to the music, and is surprised to see it's his friend turned crush Xie Lian

A dance together quickly turns into something more in the dark corners of the club...

[finisnihil]

Doc is reading a TGCF fic I sent her and she's catching up to me so I made a joke and she immediately began explaining how the joke was wrong and told me to pay more attention to exposition.

Like girl I have read the actual books, watched the donghua, AND i've already read past this part the hell are you doin danmei-splaining to me of all people 😭🫵

[myriadebleue]

What can a ghost do while he waits to be allowed back to his beloved's side, with nothing but wildflowers and his bothersome feelings for company?

[illuminatedferret]

I'm currently writing an extremely fun little scene that's probably going to be near the very end of Chapter 5 of Dearly Departed (gotta capitalize on momentum, yeah?). Unfortunately I cannot share it because it would spoil basically everything about my plans for Xie Lian's time as Guoshi Fangxin, so have some notes I drew up trying to figure out Xie Lian's responsibilities during my brainstorming session instead.

[lazycranberrydoodles]

Can I see hualesbians. Please. They are everything to me I’ve read every fic in the tag and if they lose I need some consolation

so i cheated on these and did them in procreate !!!! cause!!

[chandiewashere]

i just read the most heartwarming warm and fuzzy fic on ao3 and i am so unwell over it

read : i didn't know i was craving a fluffy soft found family moment until suddenly i was

[inkats]

If tgcf was in hua chengs perspective it’d be him being an ass periodically interrupted by him sobbing crying about Xie lian.

[piosplayhouse]

I don't know if you'll answer but I need to know the lore behind sexy times with Wangxian, like is it a fanfic? why do people hate the author??

It was the longest mdzs fic posted during its time in 2021 and gained extreme notoriety for its absurdly long tag list, frequent update schedule that consistently forced anyone scrolling any of its tags to see it at the top of their page, and escalating poor, racist, and trolling authorial behavior that ultimately culminated in the author virtual1979 being suspended from ao3 for a month because she posting an author's note saying she hoped that all her haters would contract covid and die. She deleted the fic from ao3 a little while after this happened, ig bc she wasn't getting enough attention anymore, but allegedly the thing's still up on dreamwidth under strict friendslock. The fan lore article goes pretty in depth about it:

The best summary for why it pissed people off so much is really just showing you these screenshots of what the fic looked like towards the end of its life on desktop and mobile (be warned opening the full image):

From my personal experience:

from 2019 up until around 2021 the fic really was just a normal-ish, if very strangely written and kinky, wangxian porn fic about them basically just fucking around post canon and enjoying day to day life. It updated pretty frequently and had a fair amount of tags because the author was literally just tagging anything that she wrote. But like the first few hundred, maybe even a thousand tags were pretty accurate to what the fic was because of that, and were relatively manageable for the first few years that it didn't pick up any attention really.

At some point in 2021 when cql was really starting to blow up online and the tag count was starting to pile up to the point of annoyance, the fic started receiving some comments that were just like "hey can you try to cut down on tags, I don't think it's necessary to be so specific as to tag 'Korean food' or 'eggs' or whatnot". The author did not share this idea, evidently, and instead built a grudge against commenters who would tell her to delete tags, subsequently adding more and more as time went on.

As the tag count and updates increased, the content of the fic did too-- it got a lot, lot weirder. I'm sure someone's saved it all somewhere but for reference it spun out into what I can only describe as like if Rick and Morty's plot was cut to be just the parts of the show with underage/incest plotlines with All Tomorrows level sex dystopian world building exclusively to elicit the most visceral audience reaction possible. Around this time is when more people started to notice the fic and its escalating tag issues, leading them to leaving more comments complaining about it, leading to the attention seeking author spitefully adding more tags. Around this time is when she also started adding fake tags that didn't apply to the story whatsoever (sorry to disappoint, "talking vagina" was one of those. I did check) just to boost the count, take up more space on people's screens, and bait people into commenting hate for attention.

By this time, it had become a fandom-wide annoyance as she had begun to tag entirely unrelated ships, therefore putting the near-daily updating titanic of a fic at the top of any mdzs-related tag. People were outraged about this, and calls came for ao3 to step in. Ao3 waffled around for a bit as there was no official rule at the time that imposed a tag limit, so there wasn't established ground to ban virtual1979 (who btw many people suspected of being 40 whole years old due to the username and allegedly some other internet sleuthing on Facebook or something). Meanwhile, she began to tag other fandoms-- tgcf, svsss, BTS, basically anything that would get a lot of attention and draw hate with the advent of The Monstrosity suddenly drowning out all other recently updated fics of the targeted fandoms.

People had been trying to retaliate without ao3 action, though, by coding their own themes/skins that would allow someone to block a user or work and other fic writers made their own parody, the "bland times with wangxian" collection, which were minimally tagged sfw shortfics typically featuring wangxian just doing laundry or things like that. A good amount of them were actually like just fics where wwx would explain to lwj how to install custom ao3 themes and block fics that were taking up too much space on his screen. Imo it was pretty funny, but these also sparked some controversy as people disagreed with fighting annoyance with more annoyance to people trying to find content.

Either shortly before or after ao3 staff said they'd step in due to an insane amount of reports and backlash, I forgot which atp, virtual1979 began perhaps the worst tagging spree of the fic's life by changing the title, many of the tags, and the summary to a slew of racial slurs, sexually explicit imagery, and other generally offensive statements. I'm pretty sure this came after the fic was temporarily hidden once, as this update gained considerably less attention than the rest of the tagging saga, but people were still rightfully pissed about it. Ultimately, like I mentioned before, the author was then suspended for a month for wishing covid and death on her haters, and attention seemed to die down during this time to the point where she didn't really fight much more when her suspension ended and deleted her account and the work shortly after. Again she seems to have moved to dreamwidth, but most have forgotten her and I'm not sure if her presence is public at all on there. But that's the story of the worst mdzs fic ever written

[stardust137fnafidiot137]

the urge to write a tgcf au where its reincarnation but they soon get their memories back but not at first like it starts out as a normal modern au except like maybe peapole who were friends in tgcf aren't and stuff like that (also where beefleaf is canon) so yeah and then they all get them memories back and are like wait a second wtf. especially if they get them powers back too. but they don't remember everything and the rest of the fic is them trying to figure out how they all died and who reincarnated them because its not a coincidence if they all died and all got reincarnated at the same time and all found each other. also the beef leaf angst of them remembering what they did to each other in their past lives

my ao3 is on my profile btw also if anybody actually is interested in this imma make it wont be very good though but I'm gonna try with hep of my friend who knows way more than me