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three sentences of jiang cheng and jin guangyao's co-parenting adventures :)

(“three sentences”. yeah, well, there sure are three sentences here. and then a bunch more sentences. I guess you could consider the extra sentences like interest for the wait time? :’D I don’t know what I’m doing with myself any more. oh well, I hope the disaster grape pov is enjoyable (’:)

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Even though it would’ve been perfectly acceptable to receive Clan Leader Jin at the gates to Lotus Pier proper, Jiang Cheng had decided today to take advantage of the lack of other guests arriving at all hours to meet Lianfang-zun and their nephew down at the docks in the town, instead.

He doesn’t have to wait long; the boat carrying the Jin clan retainers comes into sight on the river within a quarter shichen, and is soon unloading a stream of pale gold out into the lakefront market stalls. Lianfang-zun is one of the last out onto the pier, but Jin Ling rushes past much quicker – the child clambering out through the benches and onto the dock, then turning back to peer in over the railing. He calls an impatient “xiao-shushu!” into the boat, trying to wave him further along without letting go of the ornate, adult-sized sword he held clasped in both hands.

A moment later, he’s apparently given up waiting for his other uncle and flung himself toward Jiang Cheng instead, skidding to a halt and almost overbalancing a few feet in front of him, where he then nods into a perfunctory bow that’s maimed from the start by the way he keeps the sword hugged to his chest. “Uncle Jiang-zongzhu.”

Jiang Cheng feels a small stone at the pit of his stomach, remembering how last time it had simply been jiujiu (when they were in private, he reminds himself, just the three of them that were his remaining family, without all the rest of these disciples and townspeople around) – but he nods anyway, eyeing the sword. Jin Ling scurries around to his side, and Jiang Cheng drops an arm around his shoulders, pulling him in tightly.

It’s a familiar sword, moreso in its spiritual aura than the profile of the hilt and sheath which runs toward the sort of Jin gaudiness whose distinctions he’s never made a particularly intent study of – oh. He understands, abruptly, why Jin Ling must be clinging to it so tightly.

He glances up to where Lianfang-zun is finally emerging from the boat, holding the train of his robe up in one hand and the proffered arm of a Jin disciple in the other. Throughout the elegance of his arrival, he seems to spare a few soft glances at Jin Ling – until he straightens up on flat ground, and the expression melts off his face with a keen fleck of his eyes up toward Jiang Cheng.

“Xiandu.”

“Jiang-zongzhu.” His greeting is effortless and graceful in all the ways Jin Ling’s was not; and afterwards, his mouth quirks in an amused smile for the seven-year-old currently leaning into Jiang Cheng’s side. “I recall you mentioning a desire to show me Lotus Pier’s marketplace in your last message – but it seems a-Ling perhaps has other ideas?”

“I wanna go watch the sword practise,” Jin Ling confirms, burrowing his head and shoulder further in toward Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng looks down at him. His hair is studded with tiny ornaments and tied up into a pale embroidered gold Jin ribbon. He holds Suihua (where had he gotten it from?), and cajoles two uncles in place of a mother and father.

(Had Jiang Cheng ever clung to Yanli like this, when they were children? Of course he had. The recognition tears something unsettling in his throat.)

“You can have one of the senior disciples take you to watch the drills, and then Jin-zongzhu and I will come see how well you’ve learned once we’re done here,” he says – a passable enough recovery of his usual authority, he hopes. He turns and beckons one of his own seniors in Jiang blues with a nod of his chin.

Jin Ling looks back at Jin Guangyao when the Jiang disciple leans down to take his hand. “It’s okay to go ahead?”

Jin Guangyao smiles again, the broad one that crinkles his eyes and dimples his cheeks and always makes Jiang Cheng feel irritatingly patronized, or seen through, or… something. All he knows is it gives him an unsettling clench in his gut half the time he sees it, even if it’s not directed at him.

“While you’re at Lotus Pier, you’re free to do whatever you please within Jiang-zongzhu’s guidance,” he says to Jin Ling, before ending with a glance up, meeting Jiang Cheng’s own gaze with the same smile on his mouth but a different look entirely in his eyes.

That’s a premonition of a conversation to come, Jiang Cheng figures. He’s only been Jin-zongzhu for less than a year by now, but Jiang Cheng’s been met with enough looks amidst discussions with the previous clan leader, followed by Jin Guangyao catching his sleeve after he’s left for running another variation on the topic without his father present, to understand the same one now.

Whatever. He’ll deal with it whenever Lianfang-zun decides to make it his problem and no sooner. If he doesn’t like Jiang Cheng using his own authority with his own nephew in his own sect, he can bring it up on his own time.

Once Jin Ling and most of the disciples have gone ahead to the main complex, though, Jiang Cheng ends up reminding himself of exactly why Jin Guangyao has a tendency to be pleasant company. He asks after the relationships Jiang Cheng has been overseeing with the minor sects in the region, and offers up a couple suggestions for other contacts outside Yunmeng that he might be able to offer them to ease some of their trade problems. He listens to the impromptu tour Jiang Cheng gives of the Lotus Pier market, as he introduces the various familiar faces he’s looked at with a certain pride of responsibility ever since they’d been waving at him as the sect’s young master; as well as the newer faces he’s come to know in the rebuilding process, as they brought in replacements for the pieces of Lotus Pier’s foundation that had been lost during the war.

He asks just the right questions to let Jiang Cheng segue into a topic he can feel genuine pride at, and manages to look genuinely interested in the answers. When they stop to speak with the stall owners, he smiles at all the aunties and uncles and grandfathers oh so charmingly, and compliments their wares as if he’d been shopping in Lotus Pier his whole life.

(“Oh, and here I’d been hoping you might serve some of that delicious wuchang fish you had prepared during the last cultivation conference while I was here again,” he’d exclaimed when they came across one of the fishermen hauling in the day’s catch from a nearby lake. “I remember it being sliced so beautifully as well – but one could hardly expect anything else in Yunmeng, could they?”)

And Jin Guangyao is indeed such a flawless conversationalist, that after another half-shichen in his company, Jiang Cheng has begun to find it almost grating. He’s got a pinched feeling in the base of his stomach that’s only grown as they’ve wound their way back up to the Jiang sect’s compound, vaguely listening to Jin Guangyao update him on recent news from other corners of the cultivation world.

They’re almost to the gates when the sound of sword drills reaches Jiang Cheng’s ears, and he remembers in a sudden rush back of emotion the thing he’d been meaning to get answers on before they rejoined the rest of their sects.

“Lianfang-zun,” he interrupts, unable to help the tension he can feel creasing his brow from taking up its usual home in his face. No use trying to be delicate about it – he’d see through it anyway, and then Jiang Cheng would just feel like a fool again for having tried. He squares his shoulders and refuses to be moved to apology by the questioning surprise in Jin Guangyao’s glance.

“Jin Ling was carrying Jin Zixuan’s sword when you arrived here,” he says. He tries at least to make it sound less like an accusation than it feels. “You gave it to him?”

In return, Jin Guangyao smiles at him briefly. “I did. Not for practicing with, of course – not until he’s older and his core has formed properly.” He’s using a soothing tone of voice, Jiang Cheng can recognise – as if he himself is the yet-coreless child who needs to be reassured that way. He bites the inside of his lip.

“It’s merely… I’ve been intending on installing honors for my elder brother within Golden Scale Tower recently as well, since presumably this position would’ve been his if not for… well. But it seems the renewed discussion of Zixuan-ge has gotten a-Ling missing his father, and I thought giving him something he had so treasured during his lifetime might provide a small comfort for what I can’t replace. And he has been working quite diligently on his sword forms, so it seemed fitting.”

Jin Guangyao is looking up at him, while Jiang Cheng is trying to sort out what his feelings are doing and keep the reflexive scowl off his face, and – it’s almost astounding how a person can manage to look both apologetic and thoroughly unwilling to give any ground away at the same time. He glances down to where Jin Guangyao has clasped his fingers together, almost hidden beneath the sturdy silk of his sleeves, and then breaks away entirely.

“Oh, well. If that’s what it is, then good. He should have something of his father’s to remember him by.”

The people at Golden Scale Tower still tell plenty of stories of Jin Zixuan, Jiang Cheng knows – he’s heard some personally on visit, and also about them, via Jin Ling’s resultant questions and boasts, as reported to him by none other than Jin Guangyao himself. But he wonders how many people still left there knew Jin Zixuan in the way a child ought to know his father, instead of as a distant figure worthy of gossip now and again because he’s the sect leader’s only (acknowledged) child.

He wonders whether anyone at all has seen fit to tell Jin Ling anything meaningful about his mother whatsoever.

Around the hilt of Sandu, his knuckles clench white and painful, as he tries to make himself stop letting that line of thought grow, before it can take over and loom over his head entirely. A stupid waste of effort, usually, but if there’s one thing he doesn’t want, it’s letting his emotions so obviously getting the better of him in front of Jin-zongzhu, Lianfang-zun, ever-accommodating perfect host Jin Guangyao.

Jiang Cheng takes a couple of hopefully-understated breaths to try and steady himself, and then scowls despite it all when it only does about as much good as ever – but he lets the last out audibly through his nose, and then turns back to look at his guest beside him. Waiting patiently, as always.

“Well? Let’s go, then. If he’s been practicing his sword forms as much as you say, he should’ve picked up something passable here by now since we’ve been gone.”

Jin Guangyao only inclined his head politely, and follows Jiang Cheng inside to where the rest of their disciples – along with their shared nephew – are waiting.

As he enters the main courtyard, he hopes for the first time in a while, childishly and without much real conviction, that if his sister is watching over any of them, himself or Jin Ling most of all – that she will grant him the strength missing from his heart these past several years, to make part any of this easier for him. Even just a little bit would help.

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isn’t this what you want from every fandom (which is very valid to be clear)

okay, fair, you’re not wrong. 

it’s not my fault all my favorite characters are wrestling with horrible trauma and I want to read about them wrestling with it even more!!!!

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[wombathos]

Sylvie and Loki have escaped Lamentis-1 with a cruiser not fit for purpose and a few fellow survivors they probably cannot save. As they wait for the TVA to show up, they air their grievances, try not to sink into despair and get to know each other in new and surprising ways.

I realised I didn’t share this on tumblr last night when I posted the second (and final) chapter so... here it is. spoilers up to episode 3 only, the end of which is the canon divergence point

[ao3feed-johnnylawrence]

there's a new tomorrow

by wombathos

*Season 3 Cobra Kai spoilers*

Daniel and Johnny confront Kreese. Then they open a dojo together. This is what happens in between. Missing scenes for 3x10.

Words: 4754, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Cobra Kai (Web Series)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Johnny Lawrence, Daniel LaRusso, and the general cobra kai ensemble cast

Relationships: Daniel LaRusso & Johnny Lawrence, Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence

Additional Tags: Missing Scene, can be read as either platonic or romantic, Canon Compliant, Cobra Kai (Web Series) Spoilers, Introspection, Hurt/Comfort

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/28517226

[reylofanfictionanthology]

Welcome to the 2020 Reylo Fanfiction Anthology: To Rapture the Earth and the Seas

Dear writers,

We’re so excited to have all of you as part of this year’s Anthology, To Rapture the Earth and the Seas!  Please note that while we post on various social media platforms with updates, we use email for all communication and our emails will have information not found in our social posting. If you didn’t receive an email from us, please let us know!

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As a reminder, here’s our schedule:

Anthology Timeline

Sign ups:  March 13 - 27

Welcome email/Official sign ups announcement: March 29

Outlines due: April 19

First submission deadline: June 28

Second submission deadline: August 23

Final and AO3 upload deadline: October 18

Final publication: October 24

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Finally, below is the list of this year’s writers, organized by element, with Tumblr URLs and/or AO3 usernames. If your information is wrong or something needs to be changed, please email us and let us know.

Aurora borealis

@goodboysweatertm | goodboysweatertm

Avalanche

@shelikespretties | Vivien

Bespin

ReyNimanSolo

Bioluminescence

LilyandLeather

Blizzard

@cobwebbing | cuddlesome

Rikachan101

Blooming

@fangirlintheforest | FangirlintheForest

@miss-stealyourgirl-lister | itsnotillegal

bugs_not_bunny

Blooming Flowers

@radioactivesaltghoul | radioactivesaltghoul

Changing leaves

@venetum | venetum

@jgoose13 | JGoose13

Changing seasons

@my-jedi-life | MyJediLife

@januarywren | Januarywren

msbutterfingers

Continental Drift

Zrofyre

Cosmic Force

chagrins

Crystallization

@laser-swords | duckindisguise

Cyclone

@thirddeadlysin | ishie

Dead Sea

adhocpeacock

Decay

@nuanceismyjam | walkingsaladshooter

@transpogrrl | Zabeta

Desert Rain

@han-not-solo | madeupgirl

Dormant Growth

@ceallaigheirinn | Ceallaigh

Drought

@politicalpadme | politicalpadme

@themoonxii | babythalasiren

@reylotrashcompactor | Reylotrashcompactor

Earth's rotation

@flyinglowdown | MahoganyDoodles

Earthquake

@ludopstudio | ludopstudio

@fangirlabbie08 | abbytheatre08

@tiaraofsapphires | Tiara_of_Sapphires

Electromagnetic Winds

@shadowrenwrites | ShadowRen

Entropy

@Fingertipstrembling | misszeldasayre

Erosion

@halfwaythroughit | HalfwayThrough

Fire

@thehobbem | thehobbem

Hellyjellybean

@starcrossreylo | starcrossreylo

Flood

@reyloner | Dalzo

@supremeprince-bensolo | immortalpramheda

@informalmajesty | InFormalMajesty

Force Cave

@wombathos | wombathos

Force lightning

@maq-moon | maq_moon

@kuresoto | kuresoto

Frost

@forcebondedreylo | iamladyloki

Genesis

@misscoppelia | misscoppelia

Glacier

@apisa-b | apisa_b

Gravitational Force

@darksideofme-reylo | DarkSideOfMe

@writergenie | Writergenie

Gravity

@clock-work-crow | ClockworkCrow

CoinToYourWitcher

@sarah-todd115 | FoxAnomalie

Growth

@wantisamlindyla | wantisamlindyla

Heat Wave

@orkindofamazing | VeriLee

@ladyofdragonstone | ladyofdragonstone

Hoth

@pandoraspocksao3 | Pandora_Spocks

Hurricane

@jadeddiva | jadeddiva

@obversa | Obversa

@fangirl-outlet-very-much-needed | Fangirl_outlet

Impact Event

@omfgreylo | starfleetjedi

Jakku

@therealther | Thereorhere

Kamino

@hellomelusine | Melusine11

Lava

@cellar-darlings | cellardarlings

Lightning

@finalfantasyx | RedPaladin465

@kitsushel | KitsuShel

@z3phryn | Zephryn

Magnetosphere

@a-nerd-obsessed | aNerdObsessed

Metamorphosis

@qotsisajakk | qotsisajakk

sphaerae

Meteor Showers

@womp-rat-fever | LonelyLavenderBones

Mistral

Bombastique

Monsoon

@hauscrashburn | Elywyngirlie

@hoperebel9 | hoperebel

@reylo-targaryen | reylo-targaryen

Mountain

@thekesselrun | La_Catrina

Mustafar

@politicalmamaduck | politicalmamaduck

Nature Reclamation

@bastetwrites | bastetwrites

Oceans

@reylotrash711 | reylotrash711

@luminoustico | OccasionallyCreative

@biekewieke | Biekewieke

Phototropism

midwinterspring

Polarity

@crimsonalchemistress | crimson_alchemistress

Pollination

@dankobah | dankobah

Radiation

@yourstrulycommandershepard | Yours_Truly_Commander_Shepard

Rain

jaxink

@okpianist | okaypianist

@shruggyben | shruggyben

Rainstorm

@tmwillson3 | tmwillson3

@trashqueenkyloren | SymmetryLocked

@allthatandacupofcoffee | lovingdriver

River

@persimonne | persimonne

Rough Seas

@niennathegrey | niennathegrey

Sandstorm

@mnemehoshiko | bittersnake

LRRH17

@bensolosredemption | bensolosredemption

Sinkhole

@inthegrayworld | inthegrayworld

Snowstorms

@athelise | Athelise

@the-reylo-void | the-reylo-void

Solar storm

@ursaminors | ursaminors

Sparks

@shmisolo | crossingwinter

Twisted_Mirror

Tempest

@takekurabehime | Takekurabehime

Thunder

@cosmicforces | dearly

@lasthopesolo | punkeraa

Thundersnow

@greyrey-lo | greyrey-lo

Thunderstorm

@abstractragedy | addictedtoacertainlifestyle

@thegeekypoet | thegeekypoet

@thewayofthetrashcompactor | Thewayofthetrashcompactor

Tidal Force

@shipperofdarkness | shipperofdarkness

@Thewitchofthesouthwest | Apricot

Tidal Wave

artistgirl623

@dark-mage-13 | DarkMage13

@fantasyherondales | fantasyherondales

Tides

@lindsiloowho | LindsilooWho

Tornado

@spottytonguedog | crysania

AQuill2Thrill

Tsunami

@geekymoviemom | geekymoviemom

@leofgyth | QueenOfCarrotFlowers

Vernal equinox

@pixelsteve | pixelsteve

Volcanic Fissures

@starlit-dyad | lightningpelt

Volcanoes

@lizardbeths | lizardbeth

TristenCrone

Waves

@starxfighter | StarxFighter

Waterfall

@lilia-ula | lilia_ula

Whirlpool

Destini

Wildfire

@sand-its-everywhere | SpaceWaffleHouseTM

Wind

@chthonya | Chthonia

@wickedbamf | thewickedlady

@vamillepudding | Vamillepudding

World Between Worlds

@drnucleus | drnucleus

shiera

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, July 22 - Thursday, July 23

BUFFY: Everybody knows their jobs. Remember, the ritual starts, we all die. And I'll kill anyone who comes near Dawn. Buffy turns and walks off. Willow turns to the open door and leaves. Angle on Giles and Spike. Giles is clutching his side where he was speared in "Spiral." Spike glances at Giles, then back in the direction Buffy went. SPIKE: Well, not exactly the St. Crispin's Day speech, was it? GILES: We few... Giles goes past Spike as Spike gathers up the bag of weapons. GILES: ...we happy few. SPIKE: We band of buggered.

~~The Gift~~

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things you said with my lips on your neck (Jenny/Giles, not rated) by sevens-evan

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Could Buffy, And All Slayers, Be Immortal? by white avenger, AlphaFoxtrot, DeadlyDuo

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[ao3feed-mcufemslash]

don't you know I've planned your death

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Va7C9k

by wombathos

Neither of them ever quite forget their first meeting. Perhaps they even grow a little obsessed with each other.

Or: Sylvie and Ravonna's relationship over the years, as told from both sides: from their first meeting on Asgard to their confrontation in the time keeper's chambers.

Words: 11314, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Loki (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F

Characters: Sylvie, Ravonna Lexus Renslayer, Sylvie Laufeydottir

Relationships: Ravonna Lexus Renslayer & Sylvie, Ravonna Lexus Renslayer/Sylvie, Mobius M. Mobius & Ravonna Lexus Renslayer, Sylvie/Original Female Character(s)

Additional Tags: Loki (2021) Episode 4 Spoilers, written after episode 4 so not canon compliant for episode 5 (I assume), parallel narratives, POV Sylvie, POV Ravonna, Mind Manipulation, Mildly Dubious Consent, not between the two mains, Obsession, Masturbation, Identity Issues, Character Study, renvie, is the ship tag I've decided, this fic is admittedly kinda weird

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Va7C9k

[veliseraptor]

wombathos replied to your post: hippodameia8527 replied to your photo: ...

“abusive” and “toxic” also come to mind if your villain is unlucky enough to exist at the crossroads of the ‘villain apologist’ and 'unhealthy relationships’ discourses

hooo boy yeah. those are both also on the list of “buzzwords I cannot trust fandom’s usage of.” my (incomplete) list at this point goes like: fascist, genocide, abusive, toxic, gaslighting, and pedophile, though I’m almost certainly forgetting a few. 

this not including the words like “woobify” and “apologist” that just make my eye twitch because they are big old villain police alerts with hilariously nebulous definitions basically meaning, in both cases, “people interacting with a character in ways that I, personally, don’t like”

be in fandom long enough and you start side-eyeing a lot of things, is what I’m saying here

[ao3feed-lokiangst]

we're stars, you and I (but the show's almost over)

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3qyvrmS

by wombathos

Sylvie and Loki have escaped Lamentis-1 with a cruiser not fit for purpose and a few fellow survivors they probably cannot save. As they wait for the TVA to show up, they air their grievances, try not to sink into despair and get to know each other in new and surprising ways.

Words: 3611, Chapters: 1/2, Language: English

Fandoms: Loki (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Other

Characters: Loki (Marvel), Sylvie

Relationships: Loki & Sylvie, Loki/Sylvie, Loki/Loki (Marvel)

Additional Tags: Loki (2021) Episode 3 Spoilers, canon compliant until episode 3 but presumably jossed in like three hours, Identity Issues, Introspection, Hurt/Comfort, bit of a weird approach to the comfort but it's loki so what do you expect really, Self-cest, feel like that's kind of obvious but it's still fun to tag, Alcohol, Scars, Cunnilingus, POV Loki (Marvel), POV Sylvie (Marvel)

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3qyvrmS

[wombathos]

It's not just a single moment that makes a man want to kill his father.

Or: five times Jin Guangyao wanted to kill his father and one time he actually did, aka a mostly canon-compliant exploration of moments that led up to patricide

pretty much what it says on the tin. this was inspired partly by this post as well as my own speculation about jgy’s patricide, from when he first began considering it to when he decided on it to why he went about it the way he did. based on a mix of untamed/mdzs canon and so... uh, content warning for all of canon

[arkaniist]

stole from @wombathos, tier yours here and tag me if u want... :3c

[wombathos]

After the discussion conference at Koi Tower, Jin Guangyao knows he doesn't have much time left with Lan Xichen.

I wanted to write something sweet-ish for a-yao’s birthday and instead wrote something... uh, mostly just sad.

[wombathos]

On their way to Guanyin Temple, Jin Guangyao and Lan Xichen have a conversation about their sworn brother.

or my best guess on how that fun pre-guanyin temple conversation went. the events surrounding nmj’s death follow untamed-canon, everything else is a bit of a mix

[wombathos]

Neither of them ever quite forget their first meeting. Perhaps they even grow a little obsessed with each other.

Or: Sylvie and Ravonna's relationship over the years, as told from both sides: from their first meeting on Asgard to their confrontation in the time keepers’ chambers.

here’s some episode 4-based kind of weird ravonna/sylvie, which doubles as 11k-words worth of exploring the characters involved

[veliseraptor]

First Line Tag Meme

since apparently I’m doing memes instead of writing here’s a meme about writing - tagged by the lovely @gawain-in-green

Rules: share the first line of your work, and tag as many writeblrs as there are words in the line also 5 people because there are too many words here. 

So, Xue Yang said conversationally, Jiangzai resting over one shoulder, lips tilted in that near-constant smirk, this is how it’s going to be. 

I tag @stripedroseandsketchpads, @bereft-of-frogs, @dumbledorably, @jaggedcliffs, and @wombathos.