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and when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance by tunnelOFdawn
Fandoms: 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV)
02 Feb 2021
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He falls.
“Young Marshall, Young Marshall, Young Marshall...Xiao Shu, Xiao Shu, Xiao Shu...my son, my son, my son,” voices whisper through him. It is the sigh of the wind through barren trees, and the hollowness it forcefully conveys empties him out. Blood leaks out of him, as if he is naught but a burst waterskin. His skin is no longer his skin.
Or wherein Lin Shu becomes the Chiyan Army.
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his love, in abundance by tunnelOFdawn
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
15 Nov 2020
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Wangxian in love in modernity.
Their love story is cinematic—painted in broad strokes within the conventions of the romance (horror) genre. Childhood friends, Wei Ying will crow to his rapt audience (Lan Zhan will think quietly to himself). Neighbors that grew up together and attended all of the same schools until Wei Ying got kicked out of Cloud Recesses Prep. And then, the sad (unbearable) distance of a few years spent apart as they grew into themselves away from (towards) each other and their families. A coincidental (engineered) reunion at a café (Wei Ying’s favorite), their hands curled around steaming mugs of tea and the detritus of too many sweets on their table.
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the shadow his love casts by tunnelOFdawn
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)
01 Nov 2020
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“We of the Cloud Recesses do not believe in worldly desires. That which we cannot see we cannot covet,” Lan Qiren says in the first lecture to the visiting disciples.
Wei Ying shudders beneath his blindfolded gaze, stricken with the sense that Lan Qiren can still see.
How does a sect defined by righteousness and willful blindness love?
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A-Yuan in the Cloud Recesses for thirteen years as a ghost that does not know he is a ghost.
There are little boys in the Cloud Recesses like A-Yuan. They are disciples and they go to class but they look like little mantou dressed up in their white, white robes and round faces. The Cloud Recesses doesn’t have a lot of color and if there is color, it’s in soft, washed-out blues that don’t feel right. In his home before he came with Rich-gege, the colors were all dark and dusty. In the end, there was red but he never knew where it came from—just red, hot and wet.
It’s alright. A-Yuan is waiting and soon, everything will be good and happy.
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- Part 2 of butterfly
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the mutability of survival by tunnelOFdawn
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
09 Oct 2020
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All the ways Lan Zhan, Wei Ying, and Jiang Cheng could have died in canon.
“Just...just hold me...please...” Lan Zhan says. His words trail off, almost indistinct. He does not speak again despite Wei Ying’s sharp protests. He wants to die with his eyes wide open. Dying is almost acceptable—dying in Wei Ying’s arms with Wei Ying as the last imprint in his eyes.
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“Xiong…zhang,” Lan Zhan breathes out.
“I was told,” Lan Huan says, mouth dry and voice low, “that you have chosen not to heal. That your core rejects all energy. That your body rejects all medicine.”
“I…am…already…dead,” Lan Zhan says.
In this moment, Lan Huan knows hate with a fierceness that burns him inside-out. His mouth firms up and lines settle on his face. All this for Wei Wuxian—a dead man who had bitten the hands that fed him. Wei Wuxian is unworthy of Lan Zhan’s love and of Lan Zhan’s life.
Or, an exploration of the whipping with a few changes.
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Lan Zhan and Lan Yuan deal with the aftermath of Wei Ying's death.
A-Yuan pats urgently at Lan Zhan’s shoulders. “Wanna see Xian-gege,” he repeats.
As if Lan Zhan did not hear him the first time—the first time today, the first time yesterday, and the first time many days before. This must be what his uncle had dealt with when his mother had died. The lack of understanding is painful because the answer can never change. In a way, he does not want A-Yuan to understand. Grief is transformative.
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the enormity of love by tunnelOFdawn
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
01 Oct 2020
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Uncle is not an entirely lonely man, but there is certainly an emptiness by his side that needs filling. He needs more than a friend after all these years, and well, Uncle is rather stubborn about change. He has never liked change, too content with the structure of the Cloud Recesses to fathom living outside of it. The rules keep him company in place of a human companion. This, of course, raises the question of who is fit for his uncle.
What would Lan Huan do in the name of love for his family?
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thread of pearls by tunnelOFdawn
Fandoms: Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends
18 Aug 2020
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Like a set of binary stars, they revolve together around the world of the exorcists. When they get too close, they distort each other in ways that Shinju does not know how to process. The anger comes easily even if her eyes can never quite leave Seiju’s form.
Seiju still comes close.
She does not care.
Or she cares in a way that Shinju does not understand.
In which Matoba Seiju and Natori Shinju grow up together as women in the world of exorcists.
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caged bird, sing for me by tunnelOFdawn
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon)
08 Aug 2020
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The problem with Lan Zhan is that he loves too much. He never stops loving. It is not romantic. It is obsessive. So, it is no surprise that when he cuts through the tides of time, he comes back wrong. His past mind and his future mind cannot reconcile the love they experienced, experience, and will experience.
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In which Lan Yuan grows up in the Cloud Recesses.
[A-Yuan raises his other sticky hand to his mouth.
Lan Zhan ignores A-Yuan’s low whines when he grasps that hand too. “Hands are not for eating,” Lan Zhan says sternly. “And hands must be kept clean.”
“A-Yuan saved candy! A-Yuan is—is thrifty.”]
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In which Lan Qiren raises two children amidst a nontraditional family arrangement.
[“A-Zhan, it’s time for your nap,” Lan Qiren says. He holds out a hand for Lan Zhan to take. The boy had wandered away from his caretakers in favor of latching onto his older brother.
Lan Zhan continues to cling insistently to Lan Huan’s leg. The seat of his white robes dirties from his sitting place on the ground. Solemnly, Lan Zhan shakes his head. His chubby cheeks wobble, and his mouth purses in a pout. “Dada not sleeping,” he insists.
Lan Huan sighs. “I’m too big for naps, didi,” he says.]
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Is it so terrible for Lan Huan to take care of his family? The means will be unconventional but unconventional means are needed for such a stubborn man. Lan Qiren is too preoccupied with Lan propriety to even dare to think of himself. He rejects bodily needs but not even his level of cultivation can sever the connection between mind and body.
In which Lan Huan assiduously applies himself to the task of taking care of his poor, stressed uncle.
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for whom do you bloom? by tunnelOFdawn
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
12 Jun 2020
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Yue Qingyuan wonders when his lotus will learn to look past the mud.
[Sunny days and the garden in full bloom—plants twisting and twining around each other. Plants know greed. They want to live and to thrive. How eagerly they absorb the nutrients in the soil, and how they yearn for sunlight. Flowerheads tilted upwards at each and every angle, all for the sun. And so it is the first rays of dawn that awaken Yue Qingyuan.
His lungs wake him up.]
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the caterpillar's patience by tunnelOFdawn
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
25 May 2020
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[All of the Wens die and the world calls it justice. The Yiling Patriarch dies and the world rejoices. His soul responds to neither summoning nor Inquiry. A shattered soul, not enough to linger. The war is finally over—history rewritten.
And Lan Huan wants to retch as he watches the ghost of a Wen boy follow his brother into the Cloud Recesses.]
Or: A-Yuan in the Cloud Recesses for thirteen years as a ghost.
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- Part 1 of butterfly
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An exploration of Wen/Lan Yuan in the Burial Mounds and in the Cloud Recesses.
[Xian-gege spoons meat and broth into his mouth, and A-Yuan squirms happily. Some of the broth trails down his chin, and Xian-gege sighs as he uses the corner of his sleeve to wipe A-Yuan clean. A-Yuan likes it like this—him and Xian-gege, alone but not really because A-Yuan feels so, so warm inside. There are voices speaking, but they are not A-Yuan’s or Xian-gege’s.]
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An exploration of how Fujiwara Touko (and her husband) deals with the loss of her son and learns to recover.
[Fujiwara Touko plants her love deep into the earth, where no man or animal can dig it up. From her hands, a dizzying array of seeds of all sizes and colors scatter. The earth greedily swallows all that which she offers. The earth knows greed but it, too, knows when to nourish and so these seeds crack open and sprout.
She reveres the garden.]
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- Part 3 of spring
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an exploration in love, reverent and profane by tunnelOFdawn
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
21 Apr 2020
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In all worlds, Lan Zhan and Wei Ying find each other.
A collection of Wangxian Week 2020 filled prompts.
Day 1 - Time Travel
Day 2 - Emperor's Smile, Royalty AU
Day 3 - Celebrity AU
Day 4 - Chains
Day 5 - Mythology AU
Day 6 - Sacrifices, Devotion
Day 7 - Soulmate AU
Day 8 - Wingfic, Eldritch[The light that blinds—how they revere Hanguang-jun. Man in white holding a shining sword, he slices through armies with mechanical precision and efficiency. With every life he takes, he offers up a prayer to his god—to his beloved lord of death. His sacrilegious prayers speak to a god he calls “Wei Ying”.]
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- Part 2 of Wangxian Week
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moonlight casting shadows by tunnelOFdawn for VelveteenPrince
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
19 Apr 2020
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Xiao Xingchen comforts Song Lan after a nightmare.
[Xiao Xingchen hastily covers one of Song Lan’s hands with his own. He holds it close to his chest. “I’m here,” he says. There is something so awfully lonely in Song Lan’s face that Xiao Xingchen cannot help the way his heart twists in his chest and the way his throat tightens. Who could stand the sight of pain on their beloved?]
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heresy of the sun by tunnelOFdawn
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon)
20 Mar 2020
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The time period of Nie Huaisang's love for Wei Ying is not finite and that is the problem. From their time at the Cloud Recesses to the events at the Guanyin Temple, Nie Huaisang loves.
[“Wei-xiong,” Nie Huaisang breathes out. He watches the curve of Wei Wuxian’s full mouth and the lines around his smiling eyes. There are no other words to say, only this base acknowledgement. He yearns.
“Ahh, I must look a mess if you’re staring so much!” Wei Wuxian exclaims.
Wei Wuxian looks perfect.]