#meryao

[undistortedworld]

read @evilhasnever's wonderful meryao series last week and meryao has not left my mind since, i am obsessed with him!!!! the mental image of him peeking menacingly out of the bathtub is especially important to me sdnjhfshj

bonus lil sketch under the cut :3

[evilhasnever]

Happy Mermay! I've been dumping two years worth of old meryao sketches in this twitter thread, updating daily, if that's something you may be interested in!

(also a mandatory meryao fic link)

[takonxmz]

𝘔𝘦𝘳-𝘺𝘢𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘯 𝘘𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵. 𝘞𝘦𝘪 𝘞𝘶𝘹𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴. 𝘏𝘶𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯.

(𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘤𝘰𝘮, 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘸𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨)

Podfic of "Happy As A Clam" by Shiome aka @evilhasnever

Listen here! https://archiveofourown.org/works/45288079

[evilhasnever]

meryao got some!!! thank you, this is both fairytale-like and scandalous (like him) <3

A little gift for @evilhasnever and her wonderful fic :

I'm sure everyone here knows it, but if you don't, then go read it now, it's awesome <3 I really liked it an that last chapter was super hot :P

[ionshi-teiru]

shallow waters for fishboyfriend loving hours

[esmeraldablazingsky]

its been five days and im STILL thinking about fish eyes for gege.... a-yao's little fang🥰

a-yao deserves sharp teethies!!! little fangs!!! im glad u also appreciate him

[lansplaining]

I rlly liked your mdzs fic rant. Do you have any fic recs??

SO MANY i read too much fic. here are some!

canon compliant:

The Yunmeng Accords (series) by cafecliche. Featuring a gradual Yunmeng bros reconciliation and lots of contributions from the juniors.

Vagabond by xantissa. Sad and tricky case fic that helps Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian come together.

on the unfortunate termination of your proposal by Tepre. Lovely and sweet, grown-up Lan Sizhui and Jin Ling come to terms with their feelings.

pluck the stars by exoscopy. TGCF fusion (you don't need to have read it) that is post-canon canon, as far as I'm concerned.

Gathered Herbs & Sweet Grasses by hansbekhart. Lan Sizhui's life.

canon AU: Everyone Lives (With Knives) series by tucuxi. Pretty much what it says on the tin. One of the rare survival AUs that doesn't make everything simple and easy.

from the other side of sorrow by Sour_Idealist. Incredible and detailed AU that becomes an (almost) everybody lives AU.

Last Of Our Kind by Shiome. Lan Xichen lets Meng Yao escape to Dongying, but there are complications.

the weakness of falling in love by roquen. Jin Guangyao doesn't marry Qin Su, which changes a lot.

modern AU:

through a window softly by impossibletruths. Wei Wuxian flirts via duet with an unseen musician in his building.

so little time and i'm way off track by defractum. Wei Ying and Lan Zhan are reunited to hunt down a fake Yiling Wei sect. Also, they're lesbians.

The Greatest Catch (meryao) (series) by shiome. Meng Yao is a mermaid. It's great.

down by the water by astrolesbian. Amazing atmosphere of life in a small beach town. Wangxian, of course.

a study of the urban fridge deer by roquen. Meng Yao rescues Lan Xichen in modern day London.

The Simplest Way Forward by harriet_vane. I link this constantly but it's my go-to comfort fic, so. Wangxian get fake(?) married to raise A-Yuan.

The Right to Care by travelingneuritis. Lan Wangji is a musician, Wei Wuxian is a babysitter who is worried about his charge. It takes them a long time to work things out.

other AU:

midnight river by surething. Sci fi AU with lesbian wangxian, in which Wei Wuxian is an AI. Just go with it!!

[touchmycoat]

holy shit I just start seeing all these asks about a horny af mer fic with eggies..??? I am a bit a-scared to read it cause Bingge is a big scare but A+++ for fish porn

And naturally (you probs know who I am wink nudge) I am here to tell you I think a lot about qijiu and eggies and breeding kink and YQY being a big boi after reading a xiyao fic where lxc had to help massage eggs out of meryao, but also, nesting and tail twining lord let them have their little baby fish

;))) AYOOOOO wait can I have the xiyao fic please and thank you...

QIJIU BREEDING KINK /SOBS my instinct with breeding kink is to make it toxic but tbh qijiu deserves some not-fucked-up pregnancy-nesting tropes ;; gimme like, a minor plot where SJ spitefully tells YQY they're not his babies but YQY still very much loves and takes care of him and of course, they are his babies...I learned recently that some shark species can store sperm inside them and impregnate themselves at more opportune times if need be...qijiu had one fling years and years ago but only now is SJ pregnant by choice...

[esmeblaze]

fish eyes for gege :3

meryao (and a teeny tiny lxc) from Shiome’s fic Fish out of water, because I like it very much and he’s so adorable. (I will link in replies bc tumblr)

[id: a drawing of a-yao, a merperson, leaning over the edge of a white bathtub to offer up a pair of fish eyes in his palm. He has big, hopeful golden eyes and a shiny golden tail that is folded over itself behind him. His hands are slightly clawed, and one sharp tooth is visible. A small reverse speech bubble shows a chibi Lan Xichen, smiling but looking a little nervous and saying ‘er... thanks.’]

[grandmaster-of-gay-cultivation]

Self-care with meryao can be a bit... unnerving

Inspiration from Shiome merman AU

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[takonxmz]

I started listening to podfics while I draw or try to fall asleep. Which inspired me to also record podfics. It has been very enjoyable. 🥰 ...However, I will admit that I enjoy the recording process more than the *sharing* that comes in the end because I am still so new to this and I am feeling kinda shy about my inexperience ... 👉🏽👈🏽

Thank you @evilhasnever for letting me podfic Meryao 🥲🙏🏽✨️

Anyway, you can give a listen to it here (pls be nice to me lolgkfhshsj):

[evilhasnever]

Hi! If you still want to do prompts, is there anything meryao or ghostyao that you are inspired by lately? From your fic universes or new, I think everything you write is really neat!

Thank you anon! <3

visitor

A visitor is often seen walking up the mountain and towards the deepest forest of the Cloud Recesses, towards a hidden home nobody should know of. 

He wears rags and gold, and walks unhindered by even the strongest barriers. He stops for nothing, talks to no-one. When he crosses the gentian meadow he does not bend the flowers, and when snow covers the mountain he does not leave footprints into the soil.

Simple exorcisms do not get rid of it, and the Sect Leader has forbidden further attempts. 

The disciples wonder if it will ever reach the one he is seeking and finally go away. They started following it when they spot it drifting across the forest, each of them hoping to be the one to witness the day it does. What a story it would be!

But every time, when the ghost puts its hand on the door of the little cottage, he vanishes without a trace. 

[evilhasnever]

Rules: Share the first line of ten of your most recent fanfics and then tag ten people. Don't have ten? Not to worry, just share what you have. Tagged by @lansplaining

SUPRISE they're all xiyao <3 Jump to n.7 if you've already seen all of the tumblr drabbles!

They say people know only one color in their life until they meet the One that opens their eyes. (soulmate AU drabble)

“I’ve been thinking we should pick up a new hobby. Something we can do together.” (swing dancing drabble)

Meng Yao was thirteen when the first bleeding came. (Fallow Fields backstory drabble)

“Do you come here often?” (strangers roleplay drabble)

When Meng Yao found the snake, the mother-of-pearl luster of its scales was largely concealed by mud and caked blood, but Meng Yao had always had an eye for treasure. (noodle Lan drabble)

“What is that?” Wen Ruohan asks, pointing at Meng Yao’s glittering necklace. (Wen Yao & dragons drabble)

Since he was a child, Lan Xichen could see ghosts before he ever began his cultivational training, which, he later came to understand, was not the norm. ("Sweet dreams (are made of this)" - 12k oneshot, canonverse, ghost!meng yao changes the story.)

It is in Jin Guangyao’s nature to never resign himself to death no matter how dire the circumstances, to fight against inevitability even if it means garnering pity and scorn. ("Fallow Fields", multichapter/ complete, guanyin temple canon divergence, trans jgy)

Lan Xichen has known about the painting for a long time. ("Apocryphal", modern AU oneshot, that "meeting in front of a painting depicting you in a past life" prompt)

Lan Xichen had always thought himself simply too busy for romantic entanglement. ("Fish Husbandry", meryao egg sequel, romcom and horny!!!)

not the rec-list I'd come up with for my own work but you know what... it works.

tagging @fox-fic-and-ink, @r95irth, @threephasebird if you'd like to do it!

[evilhasnever]

Fpr the question game thing, can I request your answer to question 19 with the Merman Meng Yao fic?

19. If you wrote a spin-off of [insert fic], what would it involve?

I have considered a few different things in the past, but never had the time to pursue them! One idea was to have long lost clutch-mate Xue Yang barge in to create chaos (but he’d be too dangerous for the eggs, let’s be real… and I’m not particularly interested in writing lots of XY.)

Another was to have Huaisang babysit the carnivorous Ponyo-style tadpoles that will hatch from those ;) note that he cannot swim, still…

The other idea was just pwp (i.e. the actual baby making) and I really don’t have the stamina for that!

A few commenters asked for a wangxian spin-off/backstory - but as much as I enjoyed writing Octoying, I don’t have any spoons for wangxian-centric fics. (So the wangxian plot bunny is up for adoption, hmu 🐙)

A cheeky meryao link!

[takonxmz]

Reblogging this in celebration of podficcing BOTH of these fics these passed few months! ☺️✨️

Tender Tentacle Tribulations by Shiome

Podfic length is 57:57, audio format mp3

The Greatest Catch series by Shiome

FIsh out of water | 03:43:56, audio format mp3

Happy as a clam | 01:03:00, audio format mp3

Fish Husbandry | 01:13:07, audio format mp3

Happy listening!

Hi hello hey I drew some fishy things for the 2023 xiyao calendar 😂😌 Here’s my page of the xiyao 2023 calendar (month of August) that I'm posting for yalls personal use (pls do not sell or repost anywhere)!

I love both meryao and squidchen AUs, which are fics you should check out on ao3 🍣🤲🏽✨️ Here is the meryao fic archiveofourown.org/works/32896249/ 👀🧜‍��️ archiveofourown.org/works/35011888 aaaaand the squichen fic 🦑✨️