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Wei Wuxian Rarepair Fest Ships + Prompt Reveal!

Happy Wei Wuxian day, everyone! And with his birthday, comes the opportunity to drag him kicking screaming and give him happy endings with everyone! So buckle up because Wei Wuxian Rarepair Fest Prompts are here along with the rules and approved ship list for art and fic entries!

Be sure to read the rules. Happy creating, we can't wait to see your masterpieces 🔥

General as well as Substitute Prompts for each day under the cut!

The prompts in the first graphic are the general themes/main prompts. If your fic idea falls in the broad category of the main prompts, you're good to go! Otherwise the substitute prompts for each day are here to inspire!

*Fantasy includes all sort of creatures and themes including (but not limited to): Jiaoren/Merfolk, Huli Jing/Kitsunes, Dragons, Phoenixes, Tengu, Shuutendoji, Vikings, Pirates, Witches, Selkie, Succubi/Incubi, Angels, Demons, etc in all sorts of dynamics (creature/creature, creature/human, interspecies romance, etc!)

*Any trope and dynamic as long as its set in ancient China without cultivation or anywhere in the world without cultivation.

*Any internet dynamics including fic writer/beta, thirst account/celeb, only fans AUs, social media/textfics/fics written in social media or messaging format, online rivals, etc.

*Anything set in the workplace regardless of friends or rivals or place of employment works. People with the same position in the same company as well as people with the same position in rival companies works too! Rivals on the same task can be defined as coworkers/people from different firms getting stuck together working on the same thing, to reach the same end result.

*Some random ideas in case none of the prompts above inspired! Additionally you can also take the ship into a different danmei/anime-verse! So many possibilities, as our special Birthday Boy deserves!

If you have any questions, please DM the event pages on your preferred social media. You can also reach out to us if you want to join our rarepair-centric discord server! Please follow all the rules and post on the date mentioned in prompt graphics that inspire your work! Happy creating!!

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[danmeiconfession]

I like the way that SVSSS give us way more fanfic material than your avarage Danmei. Or the lack of it.

Like, SVSSS must be one of the only Danmei that I know that has fanfics with Self-Inserts, Reincarnation, Transmigration, Fucking Omegaverse, Characther who's a god and less than 20% of them feel "cringe".

Because we basically don't have any Side Characther, Sects, Plants, We don't have shit set in stone. A SVSSS fanfic could be literally like "Shen Yuan takes Shen Qingqiu Body's when Sqq just burned down the Qiu's and now Sqq souls is in (Insert some Binghe's Wife relative or Creature with "amazing" name) as he remembers his past life and is out for blood from Lbg/Hua Hua Palace" And can be the most out of pocket thing and most random stuff that I've ever read and I'll eat that shit up with no complains.

Like, there's no rules. Want to create a Original species? Go ahead, nobody will really care and it fits the Worldbuilding. Original Chatacthers? If you've wrote more than 2 fanfics for svsss then you have at least two. Because you simply can. Because there's a shit ton of unamed side characthers. Want Self-Insert to be Best Friends with SY or any other Characther? You can be a Peak Lord, a Head Disciple, a Demon, nobody will bat an eye because it fits perfectly within the world.

I'm not saying that other Danmei's fanfictions don't gave those or Can't have those, but with Svsss it just comes naturally because there's so many open things in the novel you basically have no bounds. Because Svsss on itself is "Cringe", it's fucking satire.

Just read Shen Yuan internal monalogue throughout the whole novel.

Svsss fanfic authors have a complete different take when writing Omegaverse, I've yet to see a traditional omega verse fic. Compare it to a Mdzs or TGFC abo fanfic it feels totally different.

Like one of the Ship names that is very love is Cumplane. Fucking Cumplane. Svsss fans have no bound because svsss does not have bounds and it's fun. You don't even have to beat yourself up to come with cool and interesting names when there's a incurable poison called "No cure" and a minor characther called "Six Balls".

And if there's Plot holes, something amiss, something that doesn't make sense, way too strong protagonist halo, what do we do?

It's Airplane bro's fault. And the system's fault.

Like the whole "Shen Yuan as Xin Mo" fic is so amazing and it builds up so well, so many oc's, the pacing is amazing.

Now if you came to me with a "Wei Wuxian as Bichen" or "Hua Cheng as Fang Xin" I am ru ning and you all know very well why-

(Once again sorry for any english mistake, not my First lenguage.)

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[pakhnokh]

this is quite random but have you read this fic?

a star called sun: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26929630

(tw: wei ying loses his hand)

it's pretty cool. your dark lwj art sort of reminded me of it! it is cql verse and madam yu does cut off his hand and canon goes on, but the remnants of his hand and the yin iron forge together in a strange prosthetic and he forms the yilling wei sect along with xiao xingcheng, song lan and wen qing (who defects early) and later it grows and sect leader wwx with hanguang-jun as his right hand man just had me ><

No I didn't, I haven't read fics in a long time since my life is so busy :( BUT THAT SOUNDS SO INTERESTING!

[noodlehaku]

Fascinated by your Avatar AU but I'm curious about something! I've heard Airbenders are usually more on the defensive side and you put WWX as one (who's pretty offensive overall), was it at random or you have something else in mind? Much love xoxo

Good question! I think that as a well-rounded and multifaceted character, you could justify Wei Wuxian’s propensity for any element. Taking into account the environment of his upbringing, his personality, his personal beliefs and moral compass, his flaws and weaknesses, as well as his martial skills and creative way of problem-solving, you could come to different conclusions as to which element he would be best suited. For example:

WWX is steadfast and stubborn in defending his beliefs and pursuing justice; qualities which are often found in earth benders. His fighting style is heavy on offensive and his mastery of swordsmanship lends itself to advanced, complex maneuvers which are characteristic of the flamboyant fire bending style. Let’s also not forget that WWX was raised in an area surrounded by lakes and waterways, and is an incredibly adept swimmer. His father was also from the area, so it wouldn’t be a stretch to imagine him as a water bender. Personality-wise, WWX is a fundamentally free, generous and fun-loving individual, traits we know to be valued in air nomad culture.

Similarly, you could make arguments against his compatibility to any element. Even within the ATLA verse, every character is an individual before anything else; take Tenzin, Aang’s eldest child. Grumpy, anything but carefree, not naturally spiritual… he’s an air bender by lineage, education and ability but not so much in personality. Similar observations could be made about Iroh, master Pakku, and other members of the ATLA cast.

Though I initially struggled with which element to assign WWX, I ended up designating him an air bender both because of his previously stated fundamental personality traits, and for the sake of my personal ATLA-MDZS fusion world building & storyline. I wrote a post which goes into a little more detail about it in an answer to a previous ask.

I hope this somewhat answered your question! Truthfully I’d be happy to see WWX bend any element or even be cast as the avatar ;) This is just the way I happened to go about it!

[gomoryscamel]

Nick and Norah´s infinite playlist. (Movie vs. Book).

Cuando tenía como quince años (quizá menos) me topé con una película que me gustó mucho. Es una comedia romántica protagonizada por Michael Cera (LOL) y Kat Dennings (mi despertar sexual lésbico) en la que Nick (Cera) es el único integrante hetero de una banda queercore conformada por él y dos amigos llamada The Jerk Offs; por otro lado Norah (Dennings) es la hija de un importante productor musical que asiste a una escuela privada católica solo para chicas con su mejor amiga Caroline y su ex amiga Tris.

Nick está deprimido porque Tris terminó con él y este wey se la pasa quemándole CDs con canciones de ruptura porque la extraña mucho. Una noche, durante uno de los shows de The Jerk Offs, Nick se da cuenta de que Tris está en el público con otro vato y es ahí donde vale madre. Después del show, desesperada por no verse como una perdedora frente a su enemiga, Norah le pide a Nick que sea su novio falso por cinco minutos, entonces se dan su primer beso.

Norah necesita ayuda de alguien con carro para poder llevar a su amiga Caroline a casa porque se puso bien peda y no quiere que se acueste con algún random, entonces Nick acepta llevarlas para seguir el juego del noviazgo frente a Tris.

Conforme se desarrolla la película nos damos cuenta de que Nick y Norah son geeks musicales super cringe. Ya que la película se desarrolla en los 2000 las pláticas giran al rededor de los scene kids y todas esas cosas dosmileñas.

Norah también tiene conflictos amorosos, Tal es un vato con el que ella anda y termina, anda y termina, anda y termina, etc. Ve en Nick una oportunidad para salir de ese circulo vicioso.

En esta película Nick y Norah se enamoran en una noche, superan a sus ex y huyen de la loca de Tris quien en un ataque de celos decide que quiere regresar con Nick. Caroline se pierde y tienen que buscarla por toda la ciudad mientras un concierto sorpresa de su banda favorita es anunciado con algunas pistas para descubrir dónde se llevará a cabo.

Esta película me gustó mucho porque tiene un guión muy ingenioso y chistoso (aunque la cara de Michael Cera aporta mucho a la gracia).

Anoche decidí leer el libro homónimo y me gustó mucho más que la película porque además de profundizar más en el desarrollo de sus personalidades, tiene algunos cambios fundamentales que mejoran la trama.

Es Nick quien pide a Norah ser novios por cinco minutos porque quiere evitar la humillación de conversar con Tris y su novio nuevo.

Norah acepta porque asume que Nick tiene una van para mover los instrumentos de la banda y quiere raite para Caroline.

Tris nunca demuestra interés por regresar con Nick, tampoco celos de Norah.

La banda de Nick se llama The FuckOffs.

El ex de Norah, Tal, tiene una personalidad más desarrollada: super woke, intelectual, vegano y en búsqueda constante de que Norah cambie para estar a su altura.

Caroline no se pierde, solo se la pasa incosciente y brilla por su ausencia.

Tris es mejor amiga para Norah que la misma Caroline, pues es ella quien incita a Nick a buscarla.

Tris es una mujer super sorora que ayudó a Norah cuando esta, en el pasado, pensó que estaba embarazada de Tal.

Tris se besa con Norah en el baño de mujeres para enseñarle unas técnicas de besos para usar en Nick ya que Norah se considera inexperta.

Nick y Norah fajan en la habitación de hielo de un hotel a falta de un lugar privado (en la película lo hacen en un estudio de grabación).

Tris explica que a sus 18 años no estaba lista para un "te amo" y que dejó a Nick porque ella solo quería divertirse.

Nick compone algunos versos hermosos:

The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing The way your touch turns into arcs The way you slide into the dark The beating of my open heart You don't know But I'm noticing

Creo que la versión Hollywoodense de la historia dejó muy mal parada a Tris, quien es por mucho el mejor personaje de la historia.

[cynical-harlequin]

trying to motivate myself into writing again via WIP Wednesday, here's one of the more recent snippets I've written for a future Lingchi chapter, featuring Chengxian and the rumors around Wei Wuxian in that verse

Out of all the many things Wei Wuxian was infamous for, one of the most random and thus amusing things was that he was known for the gruesome murder of Jiang Cheng’s would-be concubines. Jiang Cheng, it had to be said, did not have any concubines, nor any would-be concubines, nor was he interested in ever taking any. Wei Wuxian, accordingly, had never so much as touched a hair on the head of the five murdered rivals publicly accredited to him. This wasn’t to say that Wei Wuxian wouldn’t commit murder before he let someone get between Jiang Cheng and him, because obviously he would, but it was just… It was a ludicrous thought. Wei Wuxian was known to do far worse than the murders accredited to him when desperation and grief drove him to madness, but that Jiang Cheng would drive him to such a state because he put

[bookclub4m]

Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry

This episode we’re talking about the format of Lyric Poetry! We talk about reading poetry out loud, translation, French Canadian dialects, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

Entre Rive and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier

Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr

Ledger: Poems by Jane Hirshfield

Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy

Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith 

Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith 

Alive At The End Of The World by Saeed Jones

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on by Franny Choi 

No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay 

White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales by Rachel McCrum

The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón

The Arkansas Testament by Derek Walcott 

Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones

Other Media We Mentioned

The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin

19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: With More Ways by Eliot Weinberger

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop

When We Were Very Young by A. A Milne

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein  

The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Pinsky

All Def Poetry 

milk and honey by rupi kaur

One Piece by Eiichiro Oda

Trailer for Netflix show

“Poetry Is Not a Luxury” by Audre Lorde (pdf)

Links, Articles, and Things

Lyric poetry (Wikipedia)

The Writer's Block

The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry

Chiac (Wikipedia)

Plasco Building (Wikipedia)

30 Recent Poetry Collections by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

This booklist features books from BIPOC poets published in the past three years.

Chrome Valley by Mahogany L. Browne

Feast by Ina Cariño

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

Girls That Never Die: Poems by Safia Elhillo

Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi

I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry edited by Joy Harjo

Song of my Softening by Omotara James

Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead / Mamaht́wisiwin, Pakos̊yimow, Nikihci-́niskot́ṕn : Poems by Wanda John-Kehewin

Burning Like Her Own Planet by Vandana Khanna

Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi

Bianca by Eugenia Leigh

Finna by Nate Marshall

Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry: The Condor and the Eagle Meet edited by Jennifer Murrin

God Themselves by Jae Nichelle

You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead by Morgan Harper Nichols

I’m Always So Serious by Karisma Price

Homie by Danez Smith

Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik

Promises of Gold/Promesas de Oro by José Olivarez with translation by David Ruano

That Was Now, This is Then by Vijay Seshadri

it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson

Dark Testament by Crystal Simone Smith

Unshuttered: Poems by Patricia Smith

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

Find Her. Keep Her. by Renaada Williams

Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie

From From by Monica Youn

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[deutoplasmic]

good morning i hope your sleep was good 🫡 and THANK YOU FOR FEEDING ME WITH THE REBLOG 😩🩷 the intrigue of astrology fengfan 👀 fengfan does suit a modern fantasy setting so well tbh

omg poor masaya hes just there for a good time LMAO 😭 i’m sure fengfan wouldnt start anything tho,,, not unless you bring masaya over to meet him. although i think fengfan would just be like a cat and glare at him from across the room while masaya happily admires the 小红书 aesthetic (this is also completely random but if you know the chinese actor wei daxun. he looks like masaya to me. especially when he smiles)

and also omg my toxic trait is thinking i could convert you into liking mooncakes,,, NOT TO BRAG BUT we make these awesome tasting ones in my family and it makes all the other mooncakes taste mid when i try them,,, we’re making them again for 中秋节 this year im excited

IT WAS GOOD i woke up and wasn't struggling like a half alive bug on a windowsill which is generally how i feel. so thank you LOL i hope whenever your sleep is, it's good too!!!!!!

i KNOW he's such a versatile guy. hell i could even put him in a 仙侠 au and it would make sense.... witch au fengfan would be funny too you go to a kind of run down wooden shack at the edges of the forest that looks one gust of wind away from collapse to find the solitary owner of it to just be a young guy

someone free him lol.... but tbf he really does just get dirty looks and whilst he IS taken aback he also is mentally secure enough to just not take it to heart that much. omfg organising a play date between the two is objectively a bad idea but SUBJECTIVELY??? funniest thing ever. masaya awkwardly tries to initiate contact and fengfan just nods at him... if they saw past their differences (fengfan forgets that you went to his stall) they would probably be good friends LMAO

ok i can't lie i'm so poorly versed with the chinese entertainment world. i know all the big singers like 周杰伦张学友李建等等 and like. tfboys and 时代少年团. but my actor knowledge is so not there i know 肖战 and 王一博 and like the main cast of 奔跑吧兄弟 but that's IT. my friend is the go to c drama watcher so i tend to just ask her for help when it comes to this........ what about you?? you seem like you actually know what's going on but ANYWAYS i searched him up and you're. you're right. oh my days you're right

AHHHHHH i WISH i could try one omg.... what type of mooncake filling do you guys use? do you make the traditional pastry mooncake?? wait do you actually like. make everything from scratch that is so much effort kudos to your family 🙏 most of the time my family just gets those boxed ones and calls it a day LOL

[tewwor-moving]

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SEND 🎰 FOR ME TO PUT OUR MUSES INTO A RANDOM LIST GENERATOR THEN POST THE FIRST FIVE AS POTENTIAL SHIPS! ( accepting )

dalilah & verse

caleb & jaime ( new test muse )

alice & seiko

santiago & beatrice

dante & wei ( new test muse )

doing something a little different by listing out who i pulled / going into dms to plot!

[djinmer4]

Finally got around to watching MDZS Season 3

How did Xue Yang know Wei Wuxian was back?  Jin Guangyao didn’t know, Nie Huaisang wouldn’t have told him, no one in Yi City would know either.

A-Qing is weirdly busty for a teenage beggar.

The timeline for the donghua is so f-ed up, if I didn’t know the plot already I’d have a hard time understanding what’s going on.

Lan Zhan has absolutely no thoughts in his head while drunk.

“Just don’t antagonize anyone.” Lan Zhan knew WWX could not follow that for even 5 minutes and probably not even 1 minute.

Probably not the first time someone tried to convince Qin Su that her husband was responsible for Rusong’s death.  I wonder what Bicao either mentioned or wrote that convinced her.  Or why she already had doubts about Jin Guangyao that made her believe the letter.

Still can’t figure out how we’re supposed to believe Meng Yao killed Wen Ruohan without help. 

(Random thought: Wen Qing was helping Meng Yao poison Wen Ruohan and the reason the Dafan Wen ended up in the worst of the Jin concentration camps was because he was trying to deliberately silence her.)

Can’t see why Nie Mingjue went ahead with the sworn brothers thing either.  Meng Yao definitely bought his life with his actions but I don’t see why they would want to associate with each other ever again.  (Well, Meng Yao’s motivation is clear, ambition and access to power, but Nie Mingjue’s is not.)

Is WWX and LWJ dyeing their clothes red supposed to be romantic?

Xichen being the one who sent Sisi and Bicao to be witnesses puts an interesting spin on things.

Getting Sisi’s memories through Inquiry does seem more credible than just having two witnesses just show up to give testimony.

NHS, you really went out of your way to get caught, didn’t you?

No one expects Jin Ling, do they?

Xichen, NHS didn’t even get hit in this adaptation, why are you giving him medicine?

This one’s not very nice to Xichen’s character, he really does look like a fool.

From a Doyalist perspective, NHS is the only candidate for mastermind, given that he’s the only surviving Nie with screentime and NMJ being the severed corpse.  But from a Watsonian perspective it could be anyone who admired NMJ or hated JGY.  I would not want to prove a case against NHS.

WWX’s discretion is all over the place.  He can’t last 5 minutes in the conference without antagonizing everyone else, but knows better than to let NHS know that he knows about the plot, then breaks into the Lotus Pier Ancestral Hall when he hasn’t been part of the Jiang sect since his first life.

It really is supposed to be a marriage isn’t it?

Why did WWX think that giving LWJ alcohol would go any better this time?

I guess the change in the timeline explains why JWY went into seclusion, he no longer has JGY’s death to distract him from the revelations.

NHS had an easy time becoming Chief Cultivator in this verse.

Where’s Mianmian at the end?

[alluringempress-blog]

♬♫; savantis ;♫♬

” Mm? have another person attracted to my melody? ”inquired glancing at unfamiliar face, deadly empress so far had some interest. Yet intensest comes and goes so quickly so hopefully he’d keep her entertained.

[qilingxiong]

Hello.....What do you think are the occupations of your fav MDZS characters in modern AU? Sorry for the random ask (and if you've already answered before)....

I know I've talked about Modern AU careers for characters before, but I don't think I've made a specific post about it, so thanks for the opportunity!

Jiang Cheng - Either a lawyer, a wedding planner, or a fashion designer. I made up an AU for that first one last year (it is Chengning btw) because I thought his sharpness and directness with words would serve him well in a courtroom. I never considered the second option until I read about wedding planner!JC in ScarlettStorm's OnlyFans AU-verse, at which point I had to take a second to just go 'Why did I not think of this before?'. It's about the schedules and the hyperfocused planning, which fits him well. I haven't read any fics with JC as a fashion designer yet but it's just something I've felt in my bones since my first watch of CQL ever. Look at this man's wardrobe. I'm half-convinced JC canonically draws the designs for his own robes.

Wen Ning - I like to picture him most as a vet, honestly. Parallels his family being healers/doctors, and I love the image of him working with animals and handling them gently. It might be soothing for him. That being said, I believe I've also read a fic or two where he's a child counselor or something along those lines, and that's another path I like for him.

Wen Qing - I really cannot see her as anything but a doctor or a surgeon. It's her pride and her priority to save people, so I will leave her to her job. She's fantastic at it in any universe.

Wei Wuxian - He's either an engineer where he can invent and put together all the things he wants all day long, or he's an artist of some sort. Maybe he has a studio. Or, tattoo artist!WWX is an image I enjoy very much.

Jin Ling & Lan Jingyi - As far as I'm concerned the juniors are teenagers or children in Modern AUs. They don't need to worry about career stuff yet. However I think both these two would go into the STEM side of things. (For the record, Sizhui is a humanities/social sciences kid even though I don't know what specialization, and I believe in English major Ouyang Zizhen.)

Thanks for the ask!

[lansplaining]

Could you give your character song thoughts?

I'D LOVE TO

first things first, all of my opinions are owed to @hunxi-guilai's amazing translations, without which i'd have no thoughts

(the fact that i only entered this fandom just as hunxi was leaving is a source of endless sorrow to me but that's another point)

i find them SO fascinating as a piece of, like, semi-official meta, and i have so many questions about who writes these and how they're produced and how this tradition emerged etc. the fact that the actors don't speak in their own voices as the characters, but do sing as them!!! wild. i also know there's a lot of weirdness about, like, agents and studios dictating who performs on the album and who doesn't, but that's also a fascinating breakdown on a meta level.

but anyway, here are my top five, in track order:

Qu Jin Chen Qing: lyrically and musically this captures Wei Wuxian's energy so so well, and I think Xiao Zhan is not only probably the best pop singer in the cast, his voice really suits the character. I love the lyrics of both the Lan brothers' songs (especially Xichen's), but they both have these very breathy voices that I personally dislike, but also I think are so totally unsuited for the characters. get some baritones!

Hen Bie: The song (along with Xichen's) that epitomizes my questions about who writes these, and how much they can be taken as the actor or production team or whoever's view on a character. A song that says Justice For Jiang Cheng Stans as we imagine Jiang Cheng drinking alone at night being sad. Wang Zhoucheng clearly comes from a different vocal training than anyone else and he sounds great. That said, I wish they'd let him sing in the lower register that clearly suits his voice better, and I think could have been really fitting for Jiang Cheng as a character as well.

Qing He Jue: I've definitely seen meta about like... which of the Nie brothers is singing this? Or which verses belong to which of them? I don't particularly love the lyrics, but I find it fun to listen to. The really ballad-y chorus is great.

Gu Cheng: A slightly random one, maybe!! I really liked the sound of this one initially-- I find the harmony sections really pleasing to listen to in purely aesthetic terms. And then I read Hunxi's translation suggesting that the singers are A-Qing and Song Lan and the fact that THESE characters would get a song brings me SUCH JOY. There is something so haunting and perfect about them singing about Xiao Xingcheng rather than him getting to sing for himself, and also Justice For Song Lan and A-Qing, hell yes they deserve a song. As a semi-confessed Xue Yang-disliker (he's fine idk), I like the change of pace of a perspective on the Yi City arc that's purely Xiao Xingchen (and the singers') tragedy.

Duo Hen Sheng: I gotta. What a goddamn weird song. Musically completely different from literally everything else, lyrically fascinating in that it offers a way more complex accounting of Jin Guangyao's thoughts and motivations than the show actually does. Do we take this as the creative team tipping their hand about the perspective they couldn't include in the show? Or just a songwriter who needed enough narrative tension to sustain lyrics? Also there just aren't a lot of relatively high-tempo songs on the album, so I like the change of (literal) pace.

(The last three songs are all done by non-cast professionals, so obviously vocally they're all great.)

Honorable mention: Zui Shi Shao Nian Bu Ke Qi. It just makes me laugh. The lyrics are so self-serious, and I just picture the juniors absolutely going for it in some really dramatic music video whenever I listen.

[stiltonbasket]

wwx accidentally got pregnant via spiritual energy overload in your verse. if parentage is determined based on spiritual energy, how does one not get accidentally impregnated accidentally via some random person? like...if some generous jin helped wwx after his ankle incident instead of lwj. or just any healer helping their patient via energy transfer

This was expanded upon more clearly in the TMAAF verse, but Wei Wuxian began working with the water in the Cold Pond Cave as an ingredient to create new healing talismans shortly after moving to Gusu. The water was incredibly rich with the same kind of spiritual energy Lan Xichen has (the healing/creative kind, which is why Lan disciples often went there to meditate or heal injuries/sickness) and Wei Wuxian was overexposed to it due to both being partially submerged in the water for long periods of time and drinking it when he got thirsty instead of carrying normal water with him.

The water had also absorbed Lan Yi’s life force over the hundreds of years she spent guarding the Yin Iron there (since TMAAF follows CQL canon) so the energy essentially gained its own consciousness after percolating in WWX’s empty lower dantian for a while and decided that it wanted to be a person. This was only possible because Wei Wuxian a) spent so much time touching/drinking Very Magic Water, b) had a working set of spiritual veins from his time as a cultivator, c) had an empty dantian for the energy to collect in, and d) wanted another child. He was convinced that having a third child would tie Lan Wangji to him for longer than necessary, but he did want one, so the new spirit just hanging out in his dantian sensed that and decided to become a child to make him happy.

However, A-Lan’s physical development still needed a touch of normal spiritual energy to kick itself into motion, and Lan Wangji provided that when he passed spiritual energy to Wei Wuxian to heal his sprained ankle. Wei Shuilan actually being Lan Wangji’s daughter is a result of Wei Wuxian’s love for him, and A-Lan’s spirit recognizing how much her parents cared about each other--her spirit made an active decision to integrate Lan Wangji’s spiritual energy rather than just using it, which is why Lan Wangji and Wei Shuilan are in fact biological father and daughter in the renouncement verse.

If anyone else had healed WWX’s ankle or given him spiritual energy, A-Lan would still have been born, but probably at a later date. She was aware that Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian were in love with each other, and would have chosen to wait for Lan Wangji’s spiritual energy so that she could truly be “their” child rather than being related only to Wei Wuxian.

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Wei Ying slowly opened his eyes. They widened at the sight of several small floating orbs of water passing by his face before merging back into the water on the other side of Lan Wangji. He blinked at Lan Wangji for several moments then sat upright.

“You can control water?” he exclaimed, the force of his movement almost breaking Lan Wangji’s concentration keeping them steady on the water. He wobbled astride Lan Wangji’s tail and had to grab at his sides to steady himself.

“Mn,” Lan Wangji said, drinking in the pure joy and awe in Wei Ying’s expression.

He was always so easily delighted by the things Lan Wangji could do with his jiaoren spiritual energy.

“Lan Zhan, that’s...”

Lan Wangji reached for the energies flowing through the water again, closing his eyes to concentrate better. He had managed much more than little balls of water when he had been practising alone, but Wei Ying was such a distraction he wasn’t sure he could manage more if he could see Wei Ying looking at him with such wonder.

- A Charming Distraction

This has been a collab looong in the making. @fleetofshippyships and I decided that she would write a drabble, and I would draw for it as a joint kind of thing, and it was such a fun thing to do!  It’s all based on a joke about someone mentioning a whale in her main merfolk series...so there might be more random whales making random appearances in the future.

This whole story verse she’s conjuring up with her Merman Lan Wangji AU has my whole heart, and I will never tire drawing for it, no matter if it is as a collaboration, or if it’s just me reading her fics and screaming “I WANNA DRAW THIS” after every single damn scene. XD

Thank you so much for wanting to collab with me on this, love! :D

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Random Guardian thought that's been plaguing me again

I wonder if drama-verse Shen Wei ever got to the point where he just didn't want to continue anymore; the weight on his shoulders and his own grief, self-blame and longing got too much for him.

Of course, as Zhao Yunlan had said to Ye Zun, Shen Wei would never worry about whether or not the sacrifices he makes are worth it or not because his sense of duty is too strong. So no matter how heavy the weight of his responsibilities got and how hard things were, he wouldn't even think of abandoning everything and committing suicide. But I believe, until some point in between episode 24 and episode 35, Shen Wei was looking for that final purpose he could serve that would mark the end of his responsibilities and pain.

I do believe that after meeting Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei became happier. But it doesn't make sense for all those 10,000+ years (dormant or no) of suffering and duty before and after Kunlun to be completely wiped away without a trace and replaced by the few months, a year or two at most, he spent with Zhao Yunlan as Kunlun and as himself. So when he was with Zhao Yunlan, his primary concern became ensuring Zhao Yunlan's happiness and health, duty to Dixing-Haixing citizens taking the backseat, and still his own happiness and future with Zhao Yunlan having not even entered the car. He didn't think he had the privilege to expect such things, so his silent suffering continued and the subconscious want of that final purpose did too.

Then came Ye Zun, and Zhao Yunlan went blind. I don't think for a moment that Shen Wei trading his life for Zhao Yunlan's health with the Sundial by exchanging their ailments and becoming a walking bomb was a calculated move (episode 22 - 23). Shen Wei has duty towards Zhao Yunlan and peace, duty he can't fulfill if dead. He was desperate and guilty, all logic be damned. But once the damage was done, he found a way to utilise his end and serve the final purpose, rather than let it go to waste and kind of unintentionally pinning it all on Zhao Yunlan, hope that makes sense. He didn't feel too bad about the part that involves him dying, he probably felt bad about becoming weaker and increasing the possibility of people around him being hurt and him being unable to protect them properly.

Then things start to change from episode 24 onwards, where essentially Zhao Yunlan tells him that he wants Shen Wei by his side through thick or thin. And eventually Shen Wei starts to have a change of heart, and starts to want to live. He starts to want to live for himself and for the possibility of a future with Zhao Yunlan that's beyond his duties. But by then he had already kind of traded it away. Of course, his sense of duty is still too strong, and although this new wanting-to-live thing makes it harder for him, it also gives him added strength in the last moment to carry outwhat he must do to protect the symbol of all that's good in his life, Zhao Yunlan, and the citizens of Dixing and Haixing.

Unfortunately, the moment Shen Wei left, Zhao Yunlan ties up some loose ends he could tie up because his sense of responsibilities compels him, drops everything like a pile of dirty laundry, and yeets himself into the damn Guardian Lantern because he would rather do that then be in a reality without Shen Wei by his side.

Then, post-canon-fix-it fanfics may take the wheel because this is too freaking sad. ;-;

(This is from a youtube comment I made over a year ago under a Guardian FMV about Shen Wei being suicidal. I stumbled upon it today and thought it should go on my blog, with some edits lol. ^^)