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how lucky are we, to have so much to lose? by thistleghost
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
26 May 2025
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“Don’t look, Lan Zhan,” Wei Ying says.
Lan Zhan closes his eyes. He hears Wei Ying take the last few steps, and then there is a sound of heavy canvas being ripped apart, and when he opens them again, Wei Ying is in the painting—falling through grasping tendrils of black smoke, his hair whipping around his face and lashed across his neck, his limbs outstretched, his red robes tangled around his ankles. His mouth is curved into a thin smile, blood-smeared, determined and vicious.
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Wei Ying spends his days trapped in a painting and his nights wandering Paris, trying to feel alive. Lan Zhan is his guard and keeper, tasked with returning him to his museum before it opens each morning. This is how they fall in love, in the moments between sunrise and opening hour.
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a spark, a star; a fire, the sun by thistleghost for Wonderlandian_Geek
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
18 Mar 2025
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“Did you know him?” Sizhui asks. “My real dad?”
Hanguang Jun finishes the braid and rests his fingertips on Sizhui’s shoulders. He is silent for a long time; long enough that Sizhui’s chest starts to feel tight with the cruelty of his own words. His real dad, he had said. But Hanguang Jun is Sizhui’s real dad, even if he doesn’t call him that.
“I knew him,” Hanguang Jun says softly. “For a short while. I wish it had been longer.”
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spring swallows the air/birds sing by thistleghost
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
01 Jan 2025
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Someone said she smelled like mangoes, someone else like honey, rice candy in the sun, yuzu jam—such a sweet scent it was sticky! Such a sweet scent ants would come and crawl to her if she didn’t watch out!
All the people at Zixuan’s party wanted Wei Ying to be grateful about the comments, bashful, like they were compliments. It was good to smell nice to others. It was flattering to be told she smelled sweet. But Wei Ying could not quite get the hang of being flattered. The best she could do was make a joke of it all.
“I never knew I was an omega,” she said to everyone she met. “Isn’t that wild? Isn’t that crazy? I’m so bad at it, haha! I’m so lost! I don’t know what I’m doing!”
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the same path, for all eternity by thistleghost for Alwritey87
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
09 Jul 2024
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People say sect leader Jiang has become reclusive, that he spends his days lurking around the docks of Lotus Pier instead of performing his usual duties, that he orders eerie music to be played for him at all hours of the night.
And, most oddly, that he has fallen in love with a giant carp.
When Lan Zhan hears this last peculiar claim, he cannot stop himself from interrupting the storyteller making it.
“A carp?” he says, and the storyteller glares at him and says, snidely, “Yes, a carp. A carp as long as a person, with scales like jewels.”
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Lan Zhan leaves the Cloud Recesses and follows a path of chaos all the way to Yunmeng.
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to walk inside a midnight by thistleghost for moratorium
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
29 Mar 2024
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Once he had been a boy on a mountain covered in whispering green grasses, and his teacher had told him that every person was born with darkness inside them, as well as light. When he had asked why, she had said there was no why—there was only what was good in him: the bright flare of his seedling core, and what was evil: the dark poison that would try to choke it out.
To be a cultivator was to be strong enough, to be good enough, to beat back the dark again and again. To meet it with light whenever it rose. To spend a life at war with all the wicked parts of yourself.
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Xiao Xingchen tries to be good.