#pearl bao

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Some Pearl doodles among other doodles in my sketchbook and a gift postcard design in one of the corners :}

Been sketching a lot more in my paper sketchbooks this year so I will continue posting some of the Jade Armor doodles I've been doing!

[aaghht]

Published my first piece of Jade Armor fanfic! I had many other ideas but this one just kept writing itself.

"A Different Kind of Friendship" [+ comic]

Relationships: Pearl/Lan Jun, Pearl & Lan Jun, Pearl Bao & Zi Ling Bao

Characters: Pearl Bao, Lan Jun Ye, Mrs. Bao, Chen Bao

Summary: Pearl has never had time for "just" friends, but finds herself at an exception after returning to Bản Tăng.

[aces-of-jade]

"Presentation de Personnages" - Lan Jun + Family and Friends - instagram post covers for Jade Armor promo videos! (in french)

[neopuff]

pearl/lan jun // weird around you

[gemville]

Amethyst, Diamond and Pearl Ice Cream Cone Pendant by Bao Bao Wan

Source: thejewelleryeditor.com

[wheredostarsgowhenyoudie]

So I was looking for tags on the cdrama "The Mermaid's Pearl" but could not find one. I wonder why is that?

Admittedly, this one is not on par with most dramas I watch. The rating on the internet is also low. I think I know why.

But if you're looking for cuteness and fluff with scenes that make you smile like hot chocolate and if you don't care much about actresses crying without tears (aka not so great acting) and bad directing skills and cuts, this could be just it.

On to how I found this. So I was looking for a quick cdrama to binge. When too tired afterwork, I have this guilty pleasure of reading through plots, watching the first few eps. Then when I get the gist, I'll leisurely fast forward or move eps looking for cute or fun scenes. You know, like living leisurely through the characters (for the sake of feeling things and pretending you got a life outside work and home).

Plot wise, tbh, I skipped a lot on this one. The plot itself is pretty simple. Mermaid girl (FL) left water to look for her kidnapped father. The ML is a rich young man who is known as a detective. He is also sick and they believe finding a mermaid will help cure him. She agreed because he has a lot of food (being rich and all) and he also might be able to help her find her dad.

Suspecting she's a mermaid (kinda hard not to) when she literally threw her pearls at him when they first met, he decided to keep her by his side.

So murder mysteries happen along the way and the guy has a fangirl/fiancee who wants to marry him. The emperor is also looking for a way to live abnormally long and orders people to go on expeditions to look for mermaids to aid that quest.

That is basically the whole gist of it.

Cuteness wise, can I just say I love and adore how the ML cares for the FL? Like, she's like a fluffy bunny and he's the master who takes care of her. They are so cute together and he also is sensitive to his own feelings so there's not much waiting. Their scenes make me laugh and just smile, thinking I want to be loved the way he loves her. : ) 🩷 Plus, it's comedy XD

At first he was telling her to stay away from him because she has no boundaries. But all too soon, he just came to accept how trusting and comfortable she is with him. He also gets jealous easily lol.

In this scene for instance, she literally just fell asleep using his hand as a pillow (like a cat) and he lets her. #Fluff

Acting wise, the ML actor, Shi An, is actually pretty good. It's just that the cuts and the scenes they were acting in are really like you're watching students' made film where quality is not the focus. So tbh, I blame the director and writer and producers more than the actors. Or maybe, that is indeed their goal? Idk. If it is then they succeeded.

Watch it if you dare, but as I said, a lot of things about it are pretty crappy. So don't expect too much.

But bottomline, I still very much enjoyed the very short cute fluff scenes between the ML and FL. :) I even replay them (just the cute scenes) when I need a pick-me-up. So it isn't so bad. At least not for me.

[brittle-doughie]

https://x.com/CRKingdomEN/status/1811520917203210610?s=19

This is a funny situation thinking of Y/N trying to choose a seat meanwhile the others trying to invite the cookie to sit with them somehow also why Devisisters makes Pure Vanilla suffer like this stuck 8 hours with the shadow clown 🤣

Almost all of those seats looks chaotic except for Peach Blossom and Matcha maybe

This is fine. Long live Peach Blossom who will share his baos with you.

Kinda fine, if you’re alright with Matcha’s demeanor and tendencies. Words of encouragement might just perk her up.

Kyu-kyu or a poo-poo.

Next to Pitaya as they’re loudly eating and drinking, YOU’RE TRYING TO SLEEP-

Look at Red Velvet’s cakehound photos while Black Pearl flirts with you on the other side.

Cookies of Darkness recruitment speedrun.

One believes it was fate that led you to this spot, another will want to barter with you to make sure you STAY in this spot.

Pure Vanilla being the world’s most non-official protective BF while Shadow Milk tries hard to get you to laugh.

You’re getting smothered, help-

Mystic Flour just kills everyone and just so happens to now have an open seat for you.

[hongluboobs]

ok i was cooking up another hong lu analysis thing bc i noticed SEVERAL things in his base id art the other day and wanted to share with the class but they just dropped a new one in the canto V trailer and i have some stuff i wanna talk about that one:)

My Hong Lu knowledge and interpretation is very heavily influenced by reading Dream of the Red Chamber, which may not be the best because I don’t know how much Limbus will pull from the book because it’s Long as fuck but I think it’s given me a deeper knowledge of Hong Lu.

Keep in mind this ego is NOT out yet so i could be totally off base depending on what the full animation/corrosion/sin affinities are like and this is totally theorizing but I wanted to have a go at anyway!! And this got totally out of hand so reading is appreciated :)

One of the first things I noticed here is this Hong Lu seems VERY Bao-yu. We still don’t know for sure what Hong Lu is within the context of Red Chamber (i don’t think it’ll be straightforward considering how that book works) but it’s important to note!

He has this little hat on (this is the best pic i can get atm to show it’s not a fancy hair tie, unfortunately the footage we have rn is a little scuffed)

and Bao-yu is ALWAYS depicted with a hat like this.

This could just be because that’s the appropriate outfit for Chinese nobility (I unfortunately have little to no reference point here, feel free to correct me, but from some quick searches hats aren’t ubiquitous and ESPECIALLY not ones of this style.) I think it’s worth noting because it comes up in nearly all modern depictions of Bao-yu.

There’s also the pearl Hong Lu is wearing on his neck/chest area, which is where Bao-yu wears the magic jade he was born with. His jade is translated into Limbus as Hong Lu’s jade eye, but this plus his hat and the abno’s themes REALLY makes me think we are dealing with some Bao-Yu stuff here.

Speaking of the Abno’s themes, now i can actually go over them! All we have for Walking Pearl right now is the MD event (as well as general observation), but there’s a few things that are relevant.

Just based off design, the abnormality seems to be mostly about the precious (the pearl) and the filth (the muck) intermixing. which makes sense with the EGO being named “Effervescent Corrosion” and our holders being Hong Lu and Rodya.

There’s some symbolism around greed/wealth (the offspring filled muck desiring the pearl and fighting for which one will earn it? the muck tarnishing the pearl? ) and I think we should read into that because it’s Hong Lu and Rodya who have this one and they’re both very tied to their financial status. Those two sharing an ego makes me insane for a bunch of reasons but that’s probably for another analysis piece! But duality is REALLY important for those guys and that’s a theme they’re emphasizing here with both the pearl and muck within the clam.

There’s also some elements of shelter/protection/potentially entrapment with the clam’s shell which are HUGE for Hong Lu, especially with his egos so I think those may come up.

But mostly it’s about the mixing of the precious (likely “wealth” here) and the unsavory, which works very well with what we know of the Jia family. The design likely referencing Bao-yu and thematically dealing with the Jia family makes me think each of those individual readings are more likely because they’re deeply tied together!

And now onto the MD event! I did not write this in order so I may repeat stuff here but. I realized I had to cover the design first so here we are!

First thing that stuck out of me is this portion when you choose to sample some of the clam’s slime.

Sibling/family infighting is very Jia family. It reminds me a lot of this line base Hong Lu says.

You could take this a step further because the clam is something that would typically offer shelter from the rest of the world, and even though it protects, its offspring continue to kill and eat each other.

It seems fine, the offspring have this lovely shell for protection, and they have the precious pearl held within, but even as they are sheltered and wealthy. They are still getting killed and eaten by one another! Reminds me of someone I know:)

It reminds me of some bits in the later half of Red Chamber, where family members more obviously start acting behind each other’s backs or turning on each other, some even killing other family members.

Another part of the MD event that I got something out of was the beginning portion.

using specifically jade as the color for the seawater is a Hong Lu thing. I may be reaching with this bc it’s more than likely just flavor text BUT when taking this color with the fact that there’s nothing in the water it makes me think of an important scene in Red Chamber where Bao-Yu is described as an empty shell, so I wanted to mention it. We know Hong Lu has TONS of water motifs, especially when relating to his family (see his base ego)

The main reason I brought up this section of the MD event is because of the question brought up by the last portion.

If you take one thing from Dream Of The Red Chamber into your perception of Hong Lu as a character, it should be the themes of ambiguity, duality, and being between binaries. Because he sure as hell does that a lot!!! (and i’m not just talking about his gender) He is both genuinely curious and sheltered with an urge to learn as much as he can, but he also plays dumb frequently, backpedals and asks a lot of stupid questions on purpose to maintain others’ perceptions of him. He is CONSTANTLY walking the line between truth and illusion and it can be hard to tell which is which and precisely how much is fake or real, which is why I find him such an interesting character to think about.

Tangent about Hong Lu's characterization aside, it's really easy to read this line as about his family's perceptions of him.

Hong Lu (or rather, Bao-yu) can be read as being the source of the contamination in that he is the heir of the Jia family who is just an absolute fucking failure of everything you’d want in an heir for that time period.

The clam containing the filth can be read as Hong Lu’s lies (whether conscious lies or otherwise) to himself and others about the true “filth” of his family. Really good example of this is with another bit of window dialogue, but these lies and half truths come up quite a bit if you know where to look. (what happened to cohort of kin looking to stab each other in the back at every turn???)

We already have Hong Lu’s assorted water motifs (his feet make ripples on the water in his base id, land of illusion has so much water theming and shows the Jia mansion is surrounded by water) so I think this is a reasonable analysis to make :)

There’s some other sections to the MD event, but there’s nothing of note that triggered the Hong Lu sleeper agent in my brain & also this has gone on long enough that I wanna talk about predicting some stuff for the ego!

I am manifesting Gluttony/Gloom/Wrath for this ego!!

Gluttony and gloom are in the MD event’s skill check already and I think tie in nicely with the themes. Gluttony works with the offspring in the muck killing and eating each other and themes of greed with the pearl (plus the ego is primarily green and that’s a pretty good clue) and then gloom comes up a LOT with Hong Lu’s family (Liu Hong Lu, the only one that remarks on his jade eye, is also the only Hong Lu with gloom. land of illusion requires 5 gloom resources and also relates a lot to red chamber/his family) Gloom’s also generally a stand-in for water which exists here.

Wrath in Hong Lu generally manifests in him going “yeah, maybe my family was a little fucked up actually” internally, instead of manifesting as taking direct action about the fucked up things like it works for most other sinners, and acknowledging that his family was at least partially filth and killing and eating eachother (metaphorically. maybe literally) works for that

i am not an expert on sin analysis but i wanted to take a prediction bc it’s fun :)

I have a couple of predictions for corrosion and i’ll be real they are the main reason i wrote this thing because i LOVE when bad things happen to Hong Lu!!

Since this ego seems to be referencing Bao-yu so much i can pull stuff from Red Chamber too which makes it more fun :)

First one I came up with is Hong Lu taking the place of the pearl within the clam and getting locked in there! A bunch of his egos have to do with being controlled/trapped so i think it works and it also can work as a parallel for Bao-yu’s treatment by his family. Bao-yu’s name means precious jade, and he’s often treated more like his namesake than a person, heavily controlled and never allowed to leave the Jia mansion (or, in this case, the clam.) I just think it’d be fun!

My other concept has to do with more Red Chamber stuff, notably what happens when Bao-yu loses his jade. I’m not quite there yet in the text, but from what i’ve heard he becomes incredibly unstable and essentially loses his mind. This sets the Jia family’s downfall into even faster motion and from that point things get REALLY fucked up. Since the pearl here parallels Bao-yu’s jade, I think having a reference to that part of the book would be really fucking crazy for all 5 people who have read 1800+ pages of red chanber to get to chapter 94 where he loses that thing. Also i just want to see Hong Lu lose his mind i KNOW it would be terrifying and chilling. but they may be saving that for his distortion (manifesting)

In my skimming Red Chamber table of contents to find when Bao-yu loses his jade i just found a chapter where Bao-yu’s father admires a pearl but we will just ignore that for now bc this has taken long enough to type already and that is several chapters off. but there may be more analysis when this thing actually comes out!

Thank you for reading this far!! I hope you enjoyed me looking far too deep into an unreleased ego we know next to nothing about for fun! this took WAY longer than expected to type out but i’m glad I did because I loveee telling people about Hong Lu!

There is a very real chance very little of my analysis and prediction is reflected in canon BUT please remember that truth becomes fiction when the fiction’s true and even if this doesn’t turn out to be correct now u know a little more about Hong Lu and the themes he plays with :)

[yyh4ever]

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do u see my vision (@ ing the only 2 Jade Armor fans I know, @neopuff and @anshiel and @ every other JA fan on tumblr who still exists 😂)

(2 versions bc i forgot to resize the first drawing lol)

[aces-of-jade]

Villains (and accomplices) official character profiles!

The Crimson Lord 🔸🪣 and Will 🧹 BLACK TIGER (Mrs Bao) and Pearl (Blue Linx)

[wangxianficfinder]

Fic Finder

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1. hello! ive been looking for this fic. (for weeks) but cant find it. i happen to found ur account and i hope u can help me. so the story is like this:

- its a time travel. i forgot if its mpreg or adoption but wangxian has bunch of kids (youngest is still a baby). i forgot the other pairings but i think its nie x lan, jin x jiang and jiang x wen. their kids landed the time when wwx is still in the burial mounds, and landed in the burial mound's entrance(?). their parents/future wwx decided to brought them to the past because their present is kinda mess (too much killings) and they want to save their children. i think its about jin guangyao or whoever.

that's the only things i can recall. i want to find it again but i cant. thankyouuu in advance!

Its not on the four fics. I think the children im talking about are not the juniors, i remember that there's an oc (kids). one or two of them were kid/s of wq and jc, nie x lan. when their parents (in the future) decided to sent them back in the past, they expect them not to return (i think) because the killer will kill them if ever so wwx (in the burial mounds) thinks that sending them back is not a choice. theres also a scene where the kids cried/worried/ that they're not going to see their "real" parents again (their parents in the future).

anyway, thank youuu for responding! i hope u all have a great 2023!!! pls take care always and stay hydrated!!

could the op be thinking of 2 separate fics? In a sec im gonna look for the links, but to me it feels like that fic where there are 3 or 4 wangxian kids that land in the past in the cr (with the smallest called a-bao) because they were messing with wwx's talismans, and the second should be that fic where jgy traps wangxian, jc, lxc and nhs after the guanyin temple and wwx has a talisman to send the kids to the past (where they meet burial mounds era wwx)

not FOUND The Trouble with Talismans: a Treatise on Time-Travel by Young Master Lan Xiaohui (Age 6) by stiltonbasket (G, 26k, wangxian, Time Travel, Parenthood, Developing Relationship, Getting Together, Happy ending, Accidental Baby Acquisition) and ❤️ nevermore, nevermore by agloeian (T, 120k, lan sizhui & everyone, wangxian, canon divergence, time travel fix-it, hurt/comfort, fluff, angst w/ happy ending)

not FOUND❤️ 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) there's also Tragedy is not the end even if it's about the juniors instead of wangxian kids

SIMILAR! The Future of Your Past by moonlitsentence (T, 19k, WIP, WangXian, WangXian Get a Happy Ending, YL WWX, Soft LWJ, Married WangXian Have Children, Tooth-Rotting Fluff)

FOUND! Feeling The Warmth Again by mxtx_disciple13 (T, 33k, wangxian, burial mounds settlement days, wangxian are LSZ’s parents, golden core reveal, OOC, family fluff, not everyone dies au, happy ending, time travel, family bonding, WIP)

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2. Hi there! I remember a fic I once read, it was about the cultivation world after Wei wuxian’s death. They used something called the ‘Du jie pearl’ or something of the like to look into his past. It was 14 chapters long and I would really love to read it again. Thank you and have a good day!

FOUND? Misunderstood by Silver_Flame_2724 (M, 250k, WIP, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Heavy Angst, Suicidal Thoughts, Canon-Typical Violence, Self-Worth Issues)

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3. I read this fanfic on AO3. Don't remember title. Basically Lan Zhan and Jingyi are left behind when Sizhui leaves to travel with Wen Ning and Wei Ying goes away adventuring. Jingyi and Lan Zhan bond after curfew, in the rabbit meadow and jingyi helps him with his correspondence. At one point, jingyi says he wants to send this letter to zehzin and tell him to hit his father over the head. Eventually Sizhui returns, things are awkward. Jingyi worries that Sizhui is upset with him and wonders if it was because he ate his candy stash. Jingyi kept changing Sizhui 's sheets because he wanted to make sure it was ready for him @andyousaidtruelovedidntexsist

FOUND? anyway, here's wuji by kakikaeru (T, 18k, ZhuiYi, WangXian, LingZhen, Post-Canon)

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4. Hiya, got two fics I'm going crazy looking for!

A) One has Jin Ling going robe shopping for Wei Wuxian and buying a maroon one that Jiang Cheng told him Wei Wuxian used to admire when theu were younger.

B) The second was sort of like By Any Other Name, but I think only one chapter was written. It had Wei Wuxian running straight to Lotus Pier after being resurrected, and ends with Lan Xichen welcoming the trio to Cloud Recesses.

Thank you as always!

FOUND? crushed ceramic by doyeorem (pomellogranate) (T, 10k, JC & WWX & JL, yunmeng siblings feels, twin prides of yunmeng, family feels, genderqueer WWX, fluff, hurt/comfort, misunderstandings, disguise, crossdressing, whump, bonding) I think 4 could be one story. It says it's inspired by By Any Other Name, though it doesn't appear on that fic, but the robe appears and it's a oneshot.

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5. Hello there! I hope everything is going great for you. I was wondering if you could help me find a fic modern soulmates au where lan zhan and Wei ying only remember each other and their past lives when they see each other again. But this time they’re in their late 30’s and lan zhan is already married. I’ve been looking all over and I can’t find it. (p.s. if this might help, I think it was in a collection of soulmate one shots). Thank you again!!! @bittersweet-loveliness

FOUND? the sum of us by baobeijuns (T, 4k, WIP, Wangxian, LWJ/OC, Angst, Modern AU, Fashion AU, Reincarnation, Ficlet Collection, Pet Store, Animals, Fluff, Crack, Soulmates)

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6. Hey! I’m so happy this blog exists! ❤️

I’ve been looking for a fic for a while and haven’t been able to find it myself, so I thought I’d come on here and ask for help. What I know is this: it’s a time travel fic, Lan Xichen is the one travelling through time; he sets out to try and change Meng Yao’s path and choices because he assumes all Meng Yao’s actions were influenced by his bad childhood and poor treatment by his father/the cultivation world, but Meng Yao still chooses evil/bad decisions. This is one of those “JGY was inherently evil” fics. 🙏🏼 @mrri

FOUND? Alternative Choices by StarClearWaters (Readoutloud) (T, 20k, wangxian, LXC/WQ, time travel, LXC pov, butterfly effect, protective LXC, temporary character death, panic attacks, mpreg)

FOUND? Into the Oubliette by Ruixx (M, 118k, wangxian, JYL/JZX, growing up, fix-it of sorts, time travel, arranged marriage, sibling bonding, adopted sibling relationship, light bdsm, sunshot campaign, war, politics, hostage JYL, visions, LXC redemption, good uncle LQR, empire building, WIP)

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7. Hi! I'm looking for a canon divergence fic where the following scene happens.

Once during the 13 years LWJ was mourning for WWX, he goes to a discussion conference at jinlintai with LXC. JGY arranges acrobatic performaces for his guests and employs a particular man to seduce LWJ. LWJ is interested in all the ways the acrobat's body twists and JGY smiles seeing his interest. LWJ is uncomfortable and leaves the hall only for this acrobat -named meng something - to go after him and prance on him.

This Meng guy tries to make LWJ give into him, says he saw the way LWJ was looking at him while he was bending his body, says he can bend his body in may other ways. It goes into assault territory since LWJ is not interested in looking this guy the way he used to look at WWX eventhough he clearly feels aroused. He tells the guy as much, that he doesn't want to fuck the meng-guy and the meng guy leaves him alone.

Turns out, JGY drugged both LXC and LWJ with some aphrodisiac. JGY made advances on LXC and succeeded. And he made the meng guy seduce LWJ but the meng guy failed.

The fic is in LWJ and is quite angsty.

FOUND! 💙 The Price of Old Wishes by SoManyJacks (E, 67k, WangXian, Minor canon divergence, Angst, POV LWJ, Depression, Suicidal Thoughts, Eventual Happy Ending, Eventual Smut, Slow Burn, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, semi-verbal!LWJ, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Implied/Referenced Suicide) a detail the querent leaves out is that the acrobat was another of JGY’s bastard brothers, chosen for his resemblance to Mo Xuanyu; his routine included winding himself up in white ribbons.

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8. Hey i hope I can text you here..I looking for a wangxian fic which I already read bit forgot the name..it was about Lotus Pier being destroyed and wei ying being sold at an auction..lan zhan buys him to save him ..at first wei ying is quite,refuses to talk to lan zhan because he thinks that he is the same as others who just wanted to bed him.. but slowly he learns to trust him and falls in love ..apart from that there is also plot ..it was an already completed work..I hope you can help me @smarti97

FOUND? a little closer (to you) by krizzlesandblues (E, 88k, wangxian, historical, romance, pining, courtesan WWX, royalty LWJ, eventual smut, Sunshot Campaign, implied/referenced torture)

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9. Hello!!! I’m looking for a fic that I vaguely remember reading that takes place when WWX first goes to cloud recesses. Him and LWJ end up sleeping together and WWX doesn’t want him to feel bad or responsible for taking his virginity so he tells LWJ that he sleeps with a lot of people. LWJ gets jealous and they start sneaking around to sleep together. Eventually they are caught and they both find out they have feelings for each other.

FOUND? Straight at the Sun by diamondbruise (E, 33k, WangXian, Canon Universe, no war though, Mutual Pining, Pining while fucking, Misunderstandings, First Time, Anal Sex, Miscommunication, Jealousy, in abundance, Happy Ending)

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10. Hi, I genuinely cannot remember if I have already asked this, so if I have - Sorry! I'm looking for an au fic set during the Sunshot Campaign (mostly. I think) where WWX is hiding his identity by dressing as a woman? At one stage in the fic he ends up getting dressed up by female ghosts/fierce corpses and the people there are all sort of stunned because he's actually really pretty?? (I think NMJ was there?) Also I think there's a scene where outsiders assume that Fem!Looking WWX and LWJ are a-yuan's biological parents. Thank you!!

FOUND? Third Time's the Charm by Kyerian, Lily (LadyLilyAnne) (E, 117k, WangXian, Major Spoilers, Crossdressing, Happy Ending, Time Travel, Fix-It, Fluff and Angst, Minor Character Death, Mentions of self-harm, Romance, Weddings, kinky smut, Family Bonding)

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11. Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening to Mods! I'm not sure if it's appropriate to ask a fic I'm looking for right now but if so, I'm looking for this fic that I've been halting to read for years now 😭 and it's about an AU where WWX was saved from being thrown in the Burial Mounds, to be specific. I believe it's either both LWJ and JC or just LWJ who saved him and the fanfic starts in WWX waking up at the Yiling Supervisory Office feeling bad then that's it... And as far as I also remember in the tags, the author mentioned that the “Self-Harm” tag was about WWX not wanting to be help, hopefully this detailed description helps since I know there's another famous fanfic is similar to the fanfic I'm looking for. Thank you!

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12. Thanks for all your hard work! ♥️

I don't have a lot of information about the fic I'm looking for, but I'm pretty sure it's in the Jiang cheng, or yunmeng Jiang bashing area. The main point I'm remembering is how during the xuanwu cave, the one to get branded by the wen branding iron was Jiang yanli. Pretty sure it was her face

Sorry that this is all I have 😅

FOUND? A Star Fell by CordialCoroner (CordialCrow) (M, 71k, WIP, WangXian, Canon Divergence, No Golden Core Transfer, POV Multiple, Bad Parent YZY, Bad Parent JFM, Not JC Friendly, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Slow Burn, Sunshot Campaign, WWX becomes a medic, Mutual Pining) It’s a not Jiang friendly fic and tagged so, where Wei Wuxian is whipped so badly by YZY he’s permanently disabled, but it’s Mianmian who gets branded on her face in the cave, not Jiang Yanli.

FOUND? httpskaixx: Hello! Im scrolling on your feed when I read about the fic finder #12 something about jiang bashing then jiang yanli got her face burned with the wen iron in the cave [Ch34]. Sadly, the ao3 author's account (A_flower_in_the_snow) got deleted but someone posted the fic on wattpad with the author's consent. You can find the fic on this wattpad account: -NieHuaisang (yes, with dash) then title of the fic: OOC!

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13. Hello! Do you happen to know a fic where wwx books an appointment with professional Dom lwj? I think it started out with wwx waking up with a hangover and finding a confirmation text/email. I can remember vague details like it being set in modern day, wwx being a disaster (and maybe struggling with alcohol), lwj going to wwx’s apartment for the first meet-up, and I think wwx entering sub-space from having his hair brushed. Lwj had wwx be still and silent for Day 1

FOUND! A New Kind of Thrill by doukeshiA (E, 27k, WIP, WangXian, Modern AU, Pro-dom LWJ, Dom/sub, Light Bondage, Spanking, Vibrators, Masturbation, Orgasm Denial, Orgasm Control, Subspace, BDSM, Coming Untouched, Anal Play, Anal Plug, Crying, Master/Pet, Come Eating, Mirror Sex)

NOT FOUND! Down On Bended Knee by cyclamental (E, 14k, WangXian, Power Bottom LWJ, Sex Worker LWJ, Dom/sub, Undernegotiated Kink, handjobs, Blowjobs, Anal Sex, Unsafe Sex, Gentle Dominant LWJ, Submissive WWX, Praise Kink, Modern: No Powers, Engineer WWX, salty LWJ, Bottom LWJ, Edging, Angst-free Queer Awakening)

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14. hello i need y'all's help again. this fic im looking for has a kind of possessed wwx? by a demon or a dragon or smth else??? i forget. but he gets sealed in the cold cave in cloud recesses and lwj locks himself in with wwx as well. that's about what i remember :(((( id appreciate the help thank youuuu

FOUND! Breathing Firestorm by ladyshadowdrake (M, 110k, wangxian, angst, fluff, captivity, creepy WRH, dream sharing, politics, mystical creature WWX, canon-typical violence, happy ending)

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15. Hi i tried going through tags but still coulf not find it so i need help. Its a wangxian fic on ao3. Lwj keeps visits wwx then he decides to run away from the lan clan with the money he stored and replaced it with rocks. I remember huisang took the bunnies to lwj without anyone knowing. It also has like a sequal or chapter when the lan clan and lxc saw wangji in yiling with wuxian selling inventions and other things and getting hair decorated by the kids. By the end lxc asked for rabbits for cloud recesses. I think by the end lwj bid lxc goodbye and mist covered him with wwx. Thats all thank you i hope you find it

FOUND? Unpack Your Heart by Terri Botta (Isilwath) (T, 22k, wangxian, everyone lives au, romance, burial mounds settlement days, protective LWJ, LWJ stays at the BM, YLLZ WWX, not friendly for lan elders)

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[neptoons1998]

Black Pearls

A/N: I did the thing. Just a disclaimer I know Mami Wata is more of a water spirit than a demon. and I am just a translator for Yucatec Mayan so take it with a grain of salt. But if y'all don't like that please let me know because I'm not trying to be mean.

Summary: Every child in Wakanda knows about the water demon. The demon takes misbehaving children and forces them to open thousands of clams. Okoye being a curious child went into the cave, and instead of being greeted water demon, she meet a strange blue boy.

There are many folktales that are woven in Wakanda. A young Okoye loved and valued each story that was passed down to her. To the young girl, it felt like she was learning more about her ancestors which gave young girl strength. But there was one story that gave Okoye nightmares Mami Wata. 

The water demon.

“You don’t want Mami Wata to get you,” Her uncle told her one day when she walking far too close to the river’s edge. That scared Okoye into not walking too close to the rivers. Every child in Wakanda knows about the deadly water demon that would drag misbehaving children into her underwater cave and make them open millions of clams to find the water demon’s missing eye.

“Wait why does she have a missing eye?” Nakia asked. Ayo and Okoye were telling the girl about the Mami Wata. The group was making their way to school.

“That’s just an old wive’s tail,” Okoye said to Nakia, who was a little shaken about Mami Wata. Ayo shook her head as her beads shook, “Nuh-huh. She’s real and I know where she lives.”

“Sh-she’s r-real?” Nakia repeated as she wrapped herself around Okoye’s body with bao constrictors’ strength. 

Ayo nodded, “Yes, and she appears when you say her name three times.”

“No, she’s not,” Okoye repeated freeing herself from Nakia’s grip. “Ayo just likes to spin tall tales.”

“Fine if you think I’m lying. Then I double dare you!” Ayo exclaimed stopping Okoye in her tracks. “Aneka told me that Mami Wata lives in the creepy crave not even crocodiles would sleep there.”

“Not the double dare,” Nakia mumbled as she watch the pair argue. Okoye eyes Ayo, “It sounds to me like you’re scared.”

Ayo puffed up her chest folding her arms, “No I’m not scared. I just want proof that I am right like always.”

“Well then you go,” Okoye said to her. Ayo shook her head, “That’s not how a dare works.”

Before Okoye could make her argument know the school bell rang, “Fine, I’ll go. Once I come back I’ll show you that is just a stupid wise tale.”

During the whole day, Okoye felt the dread that sunk like a heavy stone in her stomach. She wished she could take back on doing this stupid dare. Once the final bell rang Okoye knew it was time. She walked to the entrance like a death march, her eyes saw Ayo standing there with a smirk on her face. Tiny Nakia looked concerned for her friend, one thing about Okoye she doesn’t give up. Not even for a dare; the trio walked to the outskirt of the river where Mami Wata resides in.

“Well,” Ayo announced crossing her arms. Nakia put her hands over her eyes as if it would stop the dare.“Go on.”

Okoye pressed her lips as she walked down the slope. She walked past the scattered trees that lined up on the water’s edge, Okoye’s feet stopped when she made it to the entrance of the cave. Mami Wata’s cave, she thought as she balled up her fist. If she was going to be the future head of the Dora Mija she couldn’t be scared of some childish tale. She was nine years old now!

Once she stepped into the stone floor of the cave. She smelt the stale air as she ran her hands across the bumpy sharp stone. In the middle of the humidity cave was water, Okoye came close to it. She could see her reflection, the young girl took a deep breath.

All I have to do is say Mami Wata three times and run, Okoye said to herself. She was the fastest runner in her class and now it was time to put it to good use. 

“Mami Wata,” She said. Something in the young girl’s spirit felt like something wasn’t right, she couldn’t explain it. Okoye chest tighten but she pressed on. The young girl refused to be seen as a coward, “Mami Wata.”

“Ma-” Before Okoye could say the last word, she looked closer at her reflection in the water. Why does it look so different? As Okoye lend closer a creature popped his head out of the water.

“Ah!” Okoye screamed causing her to fall backward. Okoye quickly scrambled to get up, she had to make a run now before Mami Wata takes her. As she tried to make a break for it a cold clammy hand took her wrist, “No, let go!”

“Juntéen! Pa'atik,” The water demon spoke. Okoye finally opens her eyes to see not a creature but a boy. 

“W-who are you? And why are you blue?” Okoye shouted at the boy.”D-did Mami Wata force you to open clams?”

 The boy only tilted his head to the side, before giving her a grin. Okoye no longer scared was now annoyed with the boy, “Hello, I just asked you a question.”

“Jach chichanech utia'al junp'éel k'iin. Namora nojoch asab u teech.,” the blue boy spoke as sat back down into the water. Okoye leads over the rocky side to watch her new friend. 

“Huh?” Okoye asked. “No, you don’t understand Wakandian. I definitely don’t speak yours.”

The boy continued to look at Okoye, unblinking. This boy is weird, Okoye thought. Okoye shook her head, Well on the bright side Mami Wata isn’t real. So I guess I can go home. The young girl slides off the rock as her feet meet with the ground, “Bye.”

The blue boy launched out of the water standing in front of the girl. He touched Okoye’s hands as if he didn’t want to let the young girl go. His wet hair clung to his forehead, “K'a'abet a beel le k'iino'?”

“OKOYE,” Ayo’s screamed out to her. Causing the pair to split apart Okoye quickly turned her head to the entrance of the cave, “YOU BETTER NOT BE DEAD! HURRY UP AND COME OUT ALREADY!”

Okoye let go of the boy’s hand and quickly ran away from the strange blue boy.

Translation:

K'a'abet a beel le k'iino'? : You must be the sun

Juntéen! Pa'atik,: Hey! wait

Jach chichanech utia'al junp'éel k'iin. Namora nojoch asab u teech.: You are too small to be a sun. Namora is bigger than you.

[lisagiaandrews]

Shanghai Bucket List: 20 Epic Things to Do in Shanghai, China

Take a night walk along the west bank of the Huangpu River or take a night cruise to admire the stunning city lights of The Bund.

Climb up iconic skyscrapers such as the Shanghai Tower or the Oriental Pearl TV Tower for a panoramic view of the city.

Visit the Shanghai Museum in Huangpu to learn about ancient Chinese art and history. The museum has a large collection of exquisite bronzes, ceramics, paintings and other cultural relics.

Explore the French Concession area to experience local life and uncover hidden historical treasures.

Explore the world of science at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, which is especially suitable for learning and entertainment with children.

Visit City God Temple, in addition to Yu Garden, the surrounding City God Temple is also a popular place for tourists, where there are many traditional arts and crafts shops and food stalls.

Experience the nightlife of Xintiandi and enjoy a night out in Shanghai at the bars and clubs in the area.

Experience the alley culture of old Shanghai in Tianzifang. This is an old alley converted into an art and shopping area, full of literary atmosphere.

Visit Disneyland for a family-friendly trip and a day of theme park fun.

Go to the shopping paradise - Nanjing Road, where you can choose from a variety of products.

Taste the authentic Shanghai food, such as Xiaolongbao, Sheng Jian bao, crab bean curd, etc., to feel the food culture of Shanghai.

Walk along the Suzhou River, where the renovation shows the renewal and development of Shanghai. There are art installations and leisure Spaces along the river.

Watch a Peking Opera or Yue Opera performance and feel the charm of Chinese opera in a traditional theater.

Ride the maglev train, the world's fastest commercially operated train, from Pudong Airport to the city in just a few minutes.

Visit the Shanghai Grand Theatre in People's Square, a modern building that is one of Shanghai's iconic cultural facilities and regularly hosts world-class shows and concerts.

Visit Xujiahui, one of Shanghai's commercial centers, which is home not only to modern shopping malls, but also to historic Catholic churches and museums.

Visit the Expo site. Although the Expo has ended, many national pavilions have been converted into museums and exhibition halls and are still worth seeing.

Visit the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium: Located in Lujiazui, it displays Marine life from all over the world and is especially suitable for families.

Take a day trip to Zhujiajiao, a water town near Shanghai, to admire its canals, ancient Bridges and classical architecture.

Ride or walk around Chongming Island to enjoy the natural scenery and get away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

[polteashop]

(asktheisle) Nat: "I haven't had a bubble tea in what feels like ages, bit of an interesting spot to open a shop is it?"

They paused and looked at the surroundings with curiosity before turning back to the Polteageist with a polite smile.

"Oh! Right, the order-is it possible to get a brown sugar tea with boba pearls? A bao too, if it isn't much trouble!"

Hibiscus takes a moment to calm down and collect herself. "Sorry for getting so excited," the Polteageist apologizes, looking around. "I actually get a quite a few customers here! These woods may look empty, but all sorts of Pokèmon live here! You just need to know where to look- most hide when humans like you are around, you see. That's actually part of why I set up my shop around here; there's not many stores and other stuff like that outside of Bellonlea, and many Pokèmon avoid it out of fear of getting caught- so now the Pokemon living in the wood can treat themselves to a nice cup of bubble tea without having to worry about that, you know?"

"Oh dear- sorry, I was rambling again," Hibiscus sheepishly rubs the back of her head with an arm. "Here's your order!" The Polteageist stretches two of her arms out to Nat, giving them the tea and bao they had ordered. Once that was taken care of, Hibiscus turned to Destino to address them.

"Poison? I can assure you, nothing we sell here is poisoned! That's just ridiculous...." the Polteageist seems midly offended at the Absol's suggestion. "As for a recommendation, my own personal favorite is the Rawst Tea with Zeckrom Boba Pearls! So, perhaps try that?"

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Featuring Nat from @asktheisle and Destino from @ask-the-royal-absol!

[hongluboobs]

what's the debt of tears and what's this about cutting bao-yu open ?? also how does this relate to hong lu? i don't have the context to ask anything more specific but i need to know this.. . please

(ask in reference to this post )

Hi Anon! Apologies this took a bit, i got distracted with some projects and didn't have the energy to answer this right away, hopefully you're still here to see this :)

First off, Bao-yu is Hong Lu's book equivalent. I don't know if you already knew this, but I made the diagram with the assumption people knew this and it kind of blew up way bigger than intended on both here and twitter 😅

The debt of tears is a really big concept in Red Chamber surrounding the fates of Bao-yu and Dai-yu. Bao-yu was originally a piece of jade that the goddess was using to create the sky, but he ended up unused and cast onto the earth. From there, he ended up finding the Crimson Pearl Flower, which he watered every day. Eventually, the flower ended up transforming into a fairy (Dai-yu) due to the care with which he watered her. Dai-yu thinks on how she could repay him for this and settles on “The only way in which I could perhaps repay him would be with the tears shed during the whole of a mortal lifetime if he and I were ever to be reborn as humans in the world below.”

And wouldn't you believe it! They do end up reincarnated as humans in the world below. Bao-yu and Dai-yu are very close throughout their mortal lives, but the debt of tears comes back into the picture during Bao-yu's wedding. He believes he is getting married to Dai-yu as his family told him (because he wouldn't agree to marriage otherwise), but it isn't until the wedding starts he discovers this isn't the case and the family chose for him to marry someone else with a higher social standing. Dai-yu thinks Bao-yu was willingly deceiving her with this and is so distraught about it that she cries until she dies (she is very sickly pretty much constantly and this book is written like a soap opera) which fulfills the Debt of Tears.

As you can imagine, this really messes up Bao-yu. His mental state degrades throughout the book, but that's the nail in the coffin for it all. The debt of tears and the wedding is the emotional climax of the book, and I cannot imagine limbus's adaptation of the story not doing something with it.

The thing about cutting Bao-yu open happens in a dream, and is also related to the debt of tears/ Bao-yu and Dai-yu's relationship actually!

It happens in a dream Dai-yu has in chapter 82 where she's chosen as a second wife for a man and has to leave the Jias. She does Not Want this at all and is unable to do anything in order to stop it. Eventually, she finds Bao-yu and this scene plays out (this next section is words taken directly from the book. because im really normal about it. theres a tldr at the bottom if you aren't reading all that) :

Suddenly she thought: ‘Why haven’t I seen Bao-yu today? He might still know of a way out.’ And as the thought entered her mind, she looked up and sure enough, there, standing right in front of her, all laughter and smiles, was Bao-yu himself. ‘My warmest congratulations, coz!’ This was too much for Dai-yu. Her last vestige of maidenly reserve vanished. She clutched hold of him and cried out: ‘Now I know how heartless and cruel you really are, Bao-yu!’ ‘No, you are wrong,’ he replied. ‘But if you have a husband to go to, then we must go our separate ways.’ Dai-yu listened in despair as this, her very last hope, was taken from her. Clinging to him helplessly, she gave a feverish cry: ‘Oh Bao! I’ve no separate way to go! How could you say such a thing!’ ‘If you don’t want to go, then stay here,’ he replied calmly. ‘You were originally engaged to me. That’s why you came to live here. Has it never occurred to you how specially I’ve always treated you? Haven’t you noticed?’ Suddenly it all seemed clear. She really was engaged to Bao-yu after all. Of course she was! In an instant her despair changed to joy. ‘My mind is made up once and for ever! But you must give me the word. Am I to go? Or am I to stay?’ ‘I’ve told you, stay here with me. If you still don’t trust me, look at my heart.’ With these words he took out a small knife and brought it down across his chest. Blood came spurting out. Terrified out of her wits, Dai-yu tried to staunch the flow with her hand, crying out: ‘How could you? You should have killed me first!’ ‘Don’t worry,’ said Bao-yu. ‘I’m going to show you my heart.’ He fumbled about inside the gaping flesh, while Dai-yu, shaking convulsively, afraid someone might burst in on them at any moment, pressed him to her tightly and wept bitterly. ‘Oh no!’ said Bao-yu. ‘It’s not there any more! My time has come!’ His eyes flickered and he fell with a dull thud to the floor.

tl;dr Bao-yu reassures Dai-yu that there's a way out of her new engagement because she was originally brought to the jia house to be engaged to Bao-yu. Dai-yu is unsure of this and Bao-yu decides to show her his heart to convince her he's telling the truth. he does this by physically cutting his chest open to pull out his heart, but he lacks a heart within his chest to find.

Red Chamber isn't free of violence by any means, but this scene always fucking Got me. its so shocking out of nowhere and its such a potent image, i've drawn something akin to it before because it Got Me so much.

I brought it up in the diagram because his lack of heart reminded me of how the gloom peccatuli contain organs within them, but do not appear to be living organisms, or play part in biological activities. We know Hong Lu has his jade eye, which is probably either prosthetic or a Secret Third (non-normal human eye) Thing, so what's to say he doesn't have other inhuman oddities to him.

It also connects "truth" to physical exposure, in this case exposure not stopping at the skin and going deeper to the organ level. The intertwining of truth and fiction is a HUGE thing in red chamber and this would be really cool if the hypothetical Hong Lu distortion had elements from the gloom peccatulum for this as well (false organs exposed through transparent skin would be both true and false. Really cool)

There's also the concept of "seeing with the eyes" versus "seeing with the heart" which would go crazy when combining all of this. I don't think i can go into that there but tldr is this quote from the little prince

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

And with Hong Lu's eye connection... do you see what im putting down