10 Works by thistleghost
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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
30 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.
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idle and blessed by thistleghost
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
20 Jul 2023
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"Lan Zhan,” Wei Ying says, “you know I would, like, eat you if I could. Right?”
“Mn.” Lan Zhan says. He touches Wei Ying’s soft cheek, presses a fingertip to the corner of Wei Ying’s lips, slips it into his wet hot mouth. The familiar touch is soothing to him—here is the Wei Ying he knows, the Wei Ying he has learned so carefully.
Wei Ying’s lips part, a sweet yielding, and Lan Zhan pushes the pad of his finger into the edge of Wei Ying’s canine.
“Sharp teeth,” he says.
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Lan Zhan and Wei Ying go away to a house in the country. They are in love.
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pantone 657 by thistleghost
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
01 Apr 2023
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Wei Ying chokes out a strangled laugh. She clicks her phone off and pulls her legs up to her chest. She sits in the middle of her half-made bed, her tangled comforter bunched up under her.
She isn’t horny, Wei Ying thinks. She doesn’t need to get laid. She…takes care of things! She’s self-sufficient!
Huaisang is projecting, probably. Wei Ying should ignore them. She has a flu, that’s all. What else could explain the dull ache in her muscles, the twitchiness, the leaping flame of her temper, the squirminess, the longing for touch, the…oh. Oh.
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as fearless as by thistleghost
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
19 Apr 2021
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Lan Zhan is tired of talking about soap, of hearing about Meng Yao’s gracious shower jelly demonstrations.
Lan Zhan wants to talk about Wei Ying. He always wants to talk about Wei Ying. Even now, on this noisy and crowded street, he can feel it rising up inside of him, lighter than air. A truth bigger than the sky.
He could just do it. I fell in love with someone, he could say. With a boy. With Wei Ying.
That would quiet Lan Huan, surely.
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Lan Zhan wants to come out to his brother before he confesses to Wei Ying. Lan Huan just wants to take Lan Zhan to a particularly terrible soap shop.
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coming up lavender by thistleghost
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
02 Jan 2021
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It is easier not to talk. There is the hollow space behind Song Lan's teeth, the raw taste where his wound is still healing, will always be healing. Will never be properly healed. Even if Song Lan could speak, it would be better not to. If they don't talk about what happened in the time they spent apart, they can pretend nothing has changed between them. They are good at pretending, good at slipping back into their old selves. They still wander from wild place to wild place. At night they still sleep under the stars, in open fields and in forests and sometimes in abandoned towns, between the walls of houses that no longer have roofs.
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Xiao Xingchen survives Yi City. Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen relearn each other.
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give up your shape to the falling snow by thistleghost
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
30 Dec 2020
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Lan Zhan's hands are twitching in his lap, his long pale fingers curling into his palms, uncurling.
A part of Wei Ying wants to take Lan Zhan by the shoulders and shake him as hard as he can. Tell him that he doesn’t get to look so sad about this, about a bus that didn’t even kill Wei Ying, only could have. A meaner part of Wei Ying wants to say the words caught at the back of his throat, sharp like little pieces of glass. He wonders a lot of things about Lan Zhan, but this especially. How far his patience can stretch, how far Wei Ying can push before Lan Zhan gives up on him.
I wish it had hit me, he thinks about saying.