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Shelter in the Sun by Magpies_Trill
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
02 Oct 2021
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“Did Gege… want to try some of the things in those books?” he asks. Xie Lian swallows audibly.
“No,” he says quickly. Then, “Maybe.” He hears a soft chuckle and opens his eyes to pout down at Hua Cheng.
“Don’t laugh at me, San Lang!” he exclaims. Hua Cheng sits up. He cups Xie Lian’s cheek in his hand and presses their foreheads together.
“I would never laugh at you,” he says, and the sincerity in his voice makes Xie Lian flush harder.
“But I think that if Gege has found something he likes, something that interests him, this one would like to hear about it.”
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A god and a ghost are in hopelessly love, have sex, and talk about their feelings, not necessarily in that order.
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Midwinter, Deep and Dark by Magpies_Trill
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
09 Apr 2021
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“Gege has been… feeling a lot of things today.” There’s no judgement in his voice, only love and the slightest tinge of concern. Xie Lian looks down at their clasped hands and nods. Hua Cheng seems to be weighing his next words carefully, opening his mouth then shutting it again a few times. Finally, he says, “Whatever Gege needs, this one will gladly do.”
Xie Lian’s mind immediately snaps to no, don’t, you shouldn’t have to, I don’t deserve to get what I want. He closes his eyes and lets himself breath through it. He ties himself to the feeling of his hands in Hua Cheng’s, smooth skin and the lightest scratch of calluses. He can tell Hua Cheng isn’t finished, but that he won’t continue talking until Xie Lian is ready for him.
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Xie Lian has a bad day. They have sex about it.
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That year he’d waited for Hua Cheng, some nights he laid down on his simple bed and let his hands wander alongside his mind. He recalled how Hua Cheng’s hands had moved over his body, while his own feared to do much beyond clutch Hua Cheng’s shoulders. He wondered what he might do when Hua Cheng returned, imagined the puff of ghost breath on his bare skin, the cold fingers of the Ghost King skating down his limbs, and he shook under the weight of his imaginings, and each day he was filled with fresh tides of longing.
And now Hua Cheng had returned, and he felt butterflies rise in his stomach to choke his throat.
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After a year of waiting, Xie Lian is reunited with Hua Cheng.
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Shake loose what's left by Magpies_Trill
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
27 Nov 2020
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Ten years and two weeks ago, the Yiling Patriarch died.
Today, Wei Wuxian wakes up in a hospital with a new body, a husband, a teenage son, and no memories of the last three years of his past life.
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- Part 2 of The light that carries on
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Maybe I Need You by Magpies_Trill
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
05 Oct 2020
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Kissing Wei Ying is like this.
He’d thought about kissing Wei Ying a thousand times in a thousand ways before. In his dreams, certainly, but in his waking moments too, from stealing glances at Wei Ying writing lines in the library pavilion, to seeing Wei Ying’s face as he was escorted to the front row on the first day of the Wen Clan’s indoctrination, to every time between those, every time his eyes lingered a little too long, drank a little too deep, lost himself a little more in that smile.
Recent series
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The light that carries on by Magpies_Trill
Fandom 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
27 Nov 2020
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various comics, some using canon text from the book and some of my own writing!
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04 Mar 2026
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the most remarkable thing by silklace for nobirdstofly
Fandoms: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow - Natasha Pulley
04 Apr 2020
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1884 – 1890. Five times Thaniel knocks on Mori’s door and one time he doesn’t.
Bookmarked by Magpies_Trill
10 Nov 2025
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(no one else can) take me there by azurewaxwing for phnelt
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
28 Nov 2021
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In his recent article in Contemporary Theories of Cultivation, Lan (2019) sets out to study the correlation between instrument choice and outcomes in the liberation of spirits. While his main thesis appears sound, his decision to limit the study to the qin, dizi, xiao and pipa undermines his conclusions.
This decision falls prey to the fallacy that tradition cannot be questioned. It ignores, too, the fact that many practising cultivators will encounter spirits that will have no exposure to such “expectations.” In a small study comparing the use of a dizi with a theremin—undoubtedly a non-traditional choice—the theremin produced optimal outcomes in liberating spirits where: time since death was less than 6 months; spirit was younger than 25 and older than 17 at time of death; or spirit motivation included aspects of revenge. The conclusions reached in Lan (2019), while providing a foundation for future study, are therefore as yet incomplete.
Mo Xuanyu
Cultivation Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford UniversityLan Wangji, Wei Wuxian, and musical cultivation: a love story, told through academic articles, emails, texts, and videos.
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31 Oct 2025
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floodplain (silt) by astronicht
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon), 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
27 Sep 2020
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Wei Ying’s neck is twinged because he fell asleep on the sofa watching celebrity dance-offs. His left wrist is twinged because two days ago he tracked down a daolao gui in the underground metro. They throw off venomous darts, and Wei Ying caught one between the two bones of his forearm. Radius and ulna.
(Or, "I need you to come and get me")
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- Part 1 of silt, or scurvy
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28 Oct 2025
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swinger of birches by astronicht
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon), 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
29 Jan 2021
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Lan Zhan is a little witch in the house on the hill, whispering out a love curse. Wei Ying is a witch undead, undone.
(Or, a Practical Magic AU)
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23 Oct 2025