#marsdiogenes

[mdzsao3]

lots of metaphors about trees

[ao3 link]

[roseclaw]

Out of Context WIPs

Rules: Pick a bunch of your WIPs and summarize them as badly as possible, then ask your followers to vote on which one they’d be most likely to read. Multiple/all/none options are completely optional.

Tagged by: @jaimebluesq

Tagging: @elliekayy, @marsdiogenes, @tinywriterfairy, and anyone else who wants to play :D

[dilbobloggins]

"put a song for every letter in your url and tag the amount of people in your url"

Tagged by @victortalkingmachine. thanks for the tag I think things like this are rly cute :D

D — Destroya — My Chemical Romance

I — I Never Told You… — My chemical Romance

L — Love, Me Normally — Will Wood

B — Babooshka — Kate Bush

O — Ocean Song — Bikini Kill

B — Black Madonna — Cage The Elephant

L — Leaving Home — Jebediah

O — Of All the Gin Joints… — Fall Out Boy

G — Grinding Halt — The Cure

G — Getting Down The Germs — Gerard Way

I — Is She Weird — The Pixies

N — Night of the Swallow — Kate Bush

S — Still Ill — the Smiths

a pleasant amount of my favourite songs managed to fit in quite nicely :)

im supposed to tag 13 people but that seems like a lot so here’s 7 random mutuals from my notifs: @ozdramaqueen @jilyisthebest @americanboygirldoll @qthewhatever @beastonallfours @marsdiogenes @luvdrunk

(feel no pressure to actually do this lol)

[jaggededges123]

14, 23, 30!

14. Recommend something hurt/comfort!

(mdzs) for this one, i'll recommend marsdiogenes' beautiful wangsang paperbark. it's a really lovely fic about grief and connection and restoring bonsais (and, in a sense, legacies) that are nearly dead, written by a chinese diaspora fan.

23. Recommend a fic with amazing dialogue!

(tlt) definitely have to shout out moscca's latest, where thou goest, because it has this absolutely magical blend of like, victorian-era dialogue and absolutely delightful silas and colum characterization. they absolutely would say that, i know it! it almost feels like cheating to recommend such a recent fic, but it's really just that good.

30. Recommend an AU fic!

(mdzs) i'll give you i light up when you call my name by iristigerlily which was written for me for last july's folger's flash! it's an incredibly lovely niecest omegaverse fic that hits a lot of my favorite sub-tropes, like omegas being prized and cherished and pampered. the characterization is brilliant and it's both scorching and heart-meltingly tender, so please give it a try!

ask me for some fic recs! (or, reblog the post yourself and let me ask you for some recs instead!)

[fortune-maiden]

Writing patterns

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

Thank you @jaimebluesq for the tag! :D

Jin Guangyao was having a week. (Other Modes of Control)

In the eighteenth year of the reign of Xuanzheng, two armies met in the mountains of Qiongqi Path. (Lengths We Go To)

“What do you make of this?” Nie Mingjue asks casually, gesturing to the newly hanged scroll in his office. (The Way of the Nie)

“Fei Liu, you need to drink this,” Mei Changsu says, holding up the cup. (Two vs. One)

Banyue knew it was strange, but she felt happy when Pei Xiu invited her to hunt bandits on his day off. (Day Off)

He finds Ming’guang in the very first temple, the two pieces displayed on the altar in place of a statue. (Revenge Before Reason. And Also After It)

There’s a new hobby in Heaven. (Commiseration)

Nie Huaisang was the unluckiest person in the world. (And Forward, Though We Cannot See)

“So did it really happen like that?” Rong Guang asks, splayed out across the sofa. (Pei Ming Week Drabbles)

There are over 1000 contacts saved in Shi Qingxuan’s phone. (Last Resort Backup Plan)

As for patterns... I think I either start with dialogue or some kind of exaggeration. Or getting directly into it in the case of the drabbles.

Incidentally the fic I started earlier today is also more on the exaggerated dramatics side xD

Tagging @plotdesigner @pbaintthetb @fennel9 @myheartismadeofstars @thebiscuiteternal @mikkeneko @marsdiogenes

[veraverorum]

Tagged by @newyearknwwme in doing this cute picrew~💕

Oddly enough I actually own all of this stuff in different shades of white or pink

You're welcome to do or not, as you prefer~

@lacertae-dreamscape @randomingoftherandomness @llaevateinn @the-sill-of-all-sills @marsdiogenes @braidedribbon

[sugarbunbie]

Ten First Lines Game

Saw this among my followed tags and was soo intrigued! Feel free to also play with this if you see it.

Rules: post the first sentence of your last ten fics. If you haven’t written ten fics, share as many first-sentences as you have.

Jin Ling, westernized name Kevin, had many, many uncles. the curse of the kevins, MDZS/CQL, gen

Lan Wangji walks sedately towards the Jingshi, a tray laden with food in his arms. softer eyes on a softer world, MDZS/CQL, Wangxian

Wei Ying is, objectively, having a good time at college. Am I Gay? Questions to Ask Yourself, MDZS/CQL, Wangxian

In the summer, Xichen leaves for university in Beijing. wildflowers in autumn, MDZS/CQL, Wangxian

The phone rings, tinny and persistent by his bedside table. midnight love, MDZS/CQL, Sangxian (WWX/NHS)

In the years after Wei Wuxian’s death, the ghost of him follows Jiang Cheng around. for years and years, MDZS/CQL, vaguely Chengxian

Pete doesn’t remember how the brawl started. i'll promise you impossible things, Kinnporsche, Vegaspete

There is something about mornings that is quiet and peaceful and fuzzy around the edges. like the edge of a blade, Kinnporsche, Vegaspete

Sleep has never come easily to Eddy. in the ribs of the singer, Twoset Violin RPF, Breddy

It was five in the morning, and Eddy was awake for no goddamned reason. Prelude to Love, Twoset Violin RPF, Breddy

Well, that was a fun activity lol. Most of my fics seem to start with either a setting + mood, or a character doing something. The thing is though, in "wildflowers in autumn" Xichen isn't even there for most of it, which I find absolutely hilarious because Xichen both starts and ends the fic in a borderline hero's journey that you only hear about through his absence in the fic :D

Just goes to show there isn't any one way to start a fic I guess! Super grateful to have the chance to show off some of my more recent babies, which I think deserve more love 🥺 surprise of surprises, I don't singularly write for wangxian even though it feels like it sometimes :D

Let me know which lines were your favourite/were most intriguing for you! Happy reading <3

Oh right almost forgot to tag! @elliekayy @marsdiogenes @nattyontherun @sparkly-butthole-on-ao3

[the-sill-of-all-sills]

8 Shows to know you

Tagged by: @fortune-maiden thanks!

Tagging: @marsdiogenes @veraverorum @dangermousie @endrega23

Ah this is hard but I will try

1. Avatar the last Airbender.

I remember when nickelodeon would air the complete series on a weekend every now and again and that was how I originally watched it. Then it was on Netflix and I rewatched it again. And again and again. This is THE show to me.

2. Monk - in which a germophobe is a detective

This show aired the same year I was born so I'm kinda going to be biased. Rewatching some of the episodes in 2023 I didn't expect to find out that my brand of humor apparently originates from an early 2000s show but it certainly appears so!

3. Shadow Hunters

Did I drop this show after catching up with the books and being so frustrated at how they adapted things? Yes. Do I even care about the books anymore? Not really. BUT this show (or rather Malec) is what originally got me into shipping so I think I still need to mention it.

4. Stranger - A kdrama about a man without emotions suffering with chronic pain having to solve a murder and making friends along the way

Living my life I never saw a character that made me go "oh I feel represented by them! I can relate to them!" That was until the Male Lead of Stranger came along. Instead of the show being about his disability it's about a murder that needs to be solved. It's about him solving this murder and navigating through it with his disability. It's about friendship. This show probably has one of my favorite female leads. And even if I'm not much into crime dramas anymore this show is so so dear to me.

5. The disastrous life of Saiki K - in which the anime protagonist has all the powers in the world that he doesn't want. He just wants a peaceful afternoon is that so much to ask!

Not much to say about this show except this is also one that nailed my brand of humor.

6. Tom and Jerry

A special shout-out to it because as a child I was obsessed with it.

7. Mr. Queen - In which a womanizing star cook from modern times transmigrates and now he is the queen of joseon. Political court intrigue on the menu as well.

Everything about this show was almost tailer made for me. The humor that never fades even into the late episodes. The characters and their complexity. The romance between two people who started as enemies. The drama, the intrigue! Perfect! Amazing! Wonderf- WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS IS THE ENDING

Mr Queen managed to give me the worst ending I have possibly ever seen and still managed to become my favorite kdrama. Because even if the last episode is a crime everything before that really is just too well done.

8. Love between fairy and devil - in which the most powerful man is the universe is forced to take care of a plant

My feelings with this show and Mr queen are pretty similar except that with Lbfad while maybe not the best paced at the end the ending didn't suck. The couple just has so much love and respect for each other. And the emotions ahhh. So many emotional moments!

[elliekayy]

Ten Songs Tag

tagged by: @mortallynuttyqueen, thanks for the tag! <3

rules: list the last ten songs that you listened to & then tag ten people

Blind and Frozen - Beast in Black

Κόψε και μοίρασε - Eleonora Zouganeli

Prelude Op. 28 - Chopin

Forever Now - Green Day

Θυμός - Paola

Murder Song - AURORA

Nocturne No. 20 in C-sharp Minor - Chopin

Gymnopedie No. 1: Erik Satie

Numb Little Bug - Em Beihold

L'Assasymphonie - from the Mozart Opera Rock musical

tagging: @sugarbunbie @marsdiogenes @roseclaw @tate-lin @forever-and-almost-always @mochibrokenheart @tinywriterfairy @dragongirlg-fics @syolen @paljuresji (as always, no pressure <3)

[wangxianficfinder]

Hey! I saw that ask about other ship requests and it made me wonder, what are the mods' favorite pairings other than WangXian and what are your favorite fics for those pairings?

Hello~~ Other than WangXian, I would have to say my favorites are WangXianSang, XiCheng, XiSang, ChengSang, ZhuiLing, XueXiao, MianQing and QingLi. I'm sure I am forgetting one or two but those are off the top of my head.

Though I will admit the only ones I would actually go out of my way to read as a main pairing would be WangXianSang, ZhuiLing, XueXiao, and on occasion, XiCheng. But I still adore the others as side pairings ^^

As for my favorite fics for those pairings? I'm not sure, I'll have to check my bookmarks/memory lol 😅

A few fics I remember I enjoyed reading -

Of Dolls and Bowerbirds by Ibijau (T, 9k, XueXiao, XiSang, WangXian, Crack, Modern AU, Museums, Humor, Out of Character, Paris, Dolls)

Carry Me Home by MarsDiogenes (T, 1k, WangXianSang, Post-Canon, Established Relationship, of a sort, they're working it out still, Hurt/Comfort)

Misalignment by Kasasagi (M, 118k, XueXiao, Time Travel, Modern AU, Hurt/Comfort, Fix-It, amnesia of sorts, Angst and Humor, Slow Burn, Psychological Drama, Mental Health Issues, Domestic, Post-Canon, Fix-It, Pining, Jealousy, Falling In Love, Fluff, Healing, Redemption, Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort)

- Mod C

~~

I honestly do not seek out many fics with different pairing, mostly stumble upon them if they're side pairing 😂

I have a certain fondness for WangXianNing if I come across it. I have read a few LXC/NHS and LXC/NMJ that I have liked, and WQ/MianMian or WQ/JYL have been good. I also like JYL/NHS though that's a rarer one.

I couldn’t find the WangXianNing fic that I remember liking but for other pairings:

from the other side of sorrow series by Sour_Idealist (E, 127k, JYL & WWX & JC, JC/WQ, wangxian, JYL/NHS, canon divergence, golden core fix-it, torture, secondary character death, smut, sect leader JYL, JYL pov, sect leader WQ, spiritual weapons, sunshot campaign, politics, trauma, reconciliation)

I Married A Snake! by Ibijau (G, LXC/NHS, comic, modern w/ magic, animal transformation, fluff, romance, marriage, body image)

For LXC/NMJ I really like stiltonbasket ‘s fics for them. Much of the other fics I have they’re a side pairing OR y’know canonical  :’)

Book Club by Anonyma (T; 48k, WWX & WC & MM, wangxian, MM/WQ, canon divergence, fluff, family bonding)

The Yiling Matriarchs by mercyandmagic (T, 17k, JYL/WQ, JYL/JZX, wangxian, canon divergence)

~Mod L

[ibijau]

tagged by @marsdiogenes (I... can’t tag u for some reason, rip)

Post the following:

- top 5 works you’re most proud of that you released in 2022 (not necessarily your most popular)

-your top 4 current WIPs that you’re excited to release in the new year

-your top 3 biggest improvements in your writing over the past year

-your top 2 resolutions (ways you wish to improve your writing/blog) for the new year

-and your number 1 favorite line you’ve written this (last) year!

tagging @veraverorum @silliam-hill @robininthelabyrinth and hh anyone feeling like doing tbh I suck at thinking who to tag rip me prz

5 most proud of works (rip me, I barely wrote anything in 2022)

Worse Than Strangers  PERSUASION AU FTW I had so much fun writing this, trying to give it an Austen vibe and all

How to woo a Lan the nhs and jl friendship fic bc that concept is SO important to me, I want them to be friends

A Gift of Trust : trans woman lxc in canon era, need I say more. trans lxc is so, so dear to me, and it’s probably not, like, the best fic ever, but I just loved writing it

Nie Huaisang VS the very bad porn retelling  the title says it all loool it was fun to write too

100 shades of xisang  still can’t believe I did that, finding all the prompts and somehow filling them. Glad I did it, never doing it again looo

4 Current wips I’m excited about:

fake dating to real marriage pipeline (modern au, lxc gets dumped by jgy, nhs offers to fake date as revenge, it gets out of hand)

trans nhs arranged marriage (lxc and nhs are engaged, lxc is very happy about it, nhs is terrified the lan sect will force him to detransition)

that’s it. I have other wips, but I’m not slightly excited about them orz like at most I’d like to finish the second persuasion au but whether that happens or not is gonna be a mystery. Honestly, even the two wips mentionned here will probably never be posted, even though they’re both several K longs already

3 biggest improvements

I don’t... think I’ve improved? At all? If anything, my writing in 2022 felt less good than what I wrote in 2021.

2 resolutions for 2023

find joy in creating again

work on “original” stuff maybe

1 favourite line

“ Pettiness solved nothing but it was amusing, and he deserved a little fun sometimes. “ - From This Day On 

[roseclaw]

Last Sentence Tag Game

thanks to the lovely @jaimebluesq for the tag!

The rules: Post the last sentence you wrote and tag as many people as there are words.

It made him cranky.

How's that for ambiguity XD And I will tag: @angie-s-g, @marsdiogenes, @elliekayy, and anyone else who wants to play :D

[elliekayy]

Tagged by @jasmineflower9! Thanks for the tag <3

Last song: Το παράπονο by Eleftheria Arvanitaki! A lovely greek classic about ending up so far from where you intended in life and no matter how hard you try, it's always going to be too late for all the things you planned QAQ

Favourite colour: Blue and purple! The darker hues especially!

Last movie/TV show: The Heaven Official's Blessing donghua! Finally caught up with the second season and kjfksjdfk it's so fucking pretty!

Sweet/Spicy/Savoury: Sweet in the winter, savoury and sour in the summer! I'm too baby for spice sadly T_T

Last thing I googled: "how to write a letter of interest" 🥲

Current obsession: Currently I'm inbetween obsessions tbh, waiting for the next big hyperfixation. ORV still has me in a bit of a chokehold though.

Tag nine people: (no pressure as always) @roseclaw @marsdiogenes @valiantbarnes @sugarbunbie @nattyontherun @genovianxprince and anyone else who wants to do this!

Nine people I'd like to get to know better

Tagged by @meghawhopp <33

Last song: Down by the River by Borislav Slavov from the Baldur’s Gate 3 Soundtrack (or more specifically the cover of Down by the River by Nerissa Ravencroft)

Favorite color: Blue and purple!

Last movie/TV show: Seinfeld, I’m currently on season four!

Sweet/spicy/savory?: I have a huge sweet tooth, so sweet things

Relationship status: Single

Last thing I googled: I searched up the show “Arthur” because I was trying to find that one meme where Buster was like “You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and spread lies?”

Current obsession: Fragaria memories and tears of themis mostly^^

Tag Nine People: @kyaruun @xinieeee @deadmansbistro @florapot @hunita812 @scuffle-with-spirals @rexonalapis @maxellera @manicpixiedoomedgirl

[fortune-maiden]

Ten First Lines game!

tagged by @marsdiogenes (who I can never tag correctly T_T)

Thank you <33

Rules: post the first sentence of your last ten fics. If you haven’t written ten fics, share as many first-sentences as you have.

1. “I… I don’t know when exactly this began…” 

Notes from the God of Love, TGCF, Banyue/Pei Xiu

2. If there was one thing that could make Nie Huaisang’s mood go from “happy and relaxed” to “fearing for his life”, it was his brother’s face as he loomed over his bedside. 

Repercussions, MDZS, Nie Brothers

3. “Nope, nope, nope! Absolutely not!” 

In the Name of the Red Blade Master, MDZS, Sangcheng

(i want to write more of this au ;w;)

4. In Nie Huaisang’s defense, he thought it would be funny. 

Lying Tells, MDZS, Xisang

5. To have Jin Ling at Lotus Pier was Jiang Wanyin’s dream. 

A Wish Fulfilled, MDZS, Jiang Cheng & Jin Guangyao

6. It started with a giant pile of leaves dropped onto the Palace of Ming Guang. 

The Prank War, TGCF, Ling Wen vs. Pei Ming & Shi Qingxuan

7. To say that Jiang Cheng was excited to meet his nephew was like saying the sky is blue. 

Jiang Cheng and the Baby, MDZS, Jiang Cheng & the baby & XuanLi

8. Song-daozhang might have been the most beautiful man Mo Xuanyu had ever seen. 

A Different Path, MDZS, Mo Xuanyu & Song Lan

9. Shi Wudu’s nightmares start out no different from his dreams. 

Truancy, TGCF, Shiblings

10. "Zixuan-xiong,” Nie Huaisang sang out cheerily with the most guileless grin on his round pudgy face as he stood outside Jin Zixuan’s room as though he belonged there. 

Reading Buddies, TGCF, NHS & JZX

I think I definitely favor quotes as opening lines, but also I try to be funny.

Honestly the real takeaway here though is that I should not be allowed to title things. #3 is the only title I don’t hate here. And it’s just a Sailor Moon reference orz

tagging @jaimebluesq, @tavina-writes, @plotdesigner, @the-sill-of-all-sills, @factorialsfandoms, @rosyjskikefirek, @siverwrites, @azurefishnets, @pbaintthetb

[veraverorum]

Rules: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people. No skipping!

1 - Andrà tutto bene - Levante

2 - Sayonara - Rettore

3 - Lean on - Major Lazer & DJ Snake feat. Mo

4 - Verð Mín - Eivør

5 - Falene - Michele Bravi feat. Sophie and the Giants

6 - Big big world - Emilia

7 - Il mondo prima - Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti

8 - Got love - Tove Lo

9 - Cuori d'artificio - Levante

10 - Box - zalagasper

(I only have 133 songs on my phone, so uh the choice was kind of reduced XD)

Tagged by @newyearknwwme thank you~💕

And tagging @randomingoftherandomness @marsdiogenes @silliam-hill @lacertae-dreamscape @ibijau @braidedribbon and whoever feels like doing it~ (aka yes yes do tag me I'm always down to listen to new music)

[shenergyx]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Niè Huáisāng, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Niè Huáisāng/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Niè Huáisāng/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Niè Huáisāng, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Established Relationship, of a sort, they're working it out still, Hurt/Comfort Series: Part 5 of wangsang tumblr ficlets Summary:

Nie Huaisang gets hurt while trying to handle something on his own.

Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are not happy about that at all.