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[Podfic] Cold read of: Don't your rules say not to make assumptions? by KizuKatana

Summary:

The Cloud Recesses Guest Lectures were held every three years for disciples between the ages of fifteen and eighteen. They had three purposes.

The first (and the reason it was hosted by the Lan) was to provide a shared baseline understanding of the core cultivation topics that underpinned every sect while not divulging clan-specific approaches.

The second was to create opportunities for friendships and alliances that would reduce the chance of war between the clans.

The third, and most important, was for the clans to replenish their bloodline by finding compatible mates with strong cultivation skills. In the last month of the lectures, challenges to test compatibility could be issued.

Wei Wuxian challenges Lan Wangji, sure that they are compatible mates. The Lan refuse to allow the Challenge.

They come to regret it.

Podfic of Don't your rules say not to make assumptions? by KizuKatana.

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Author Notes:

This is for the WangXian Against ICE event, spreading awareness and supporting the legal defense of people being unlawfully arrested and assaulted.

Thank you, humancorn, for participating and for this prompt!  Original prompt: SFW or NSFW, creator's choice, omega!Wei Wuxian & alpha!Lan Wangji get together during the cloud recesses study arc

In the universe, I set it during the canon time period, but made this a ‘no war’ universe, where clans are more concerned about concentrating power by enhancing their bloodlines to produce powerful cultivators rather than killing each other off. Since this universe has different political dynamics, and since Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng did not present in the same designation, this reduced the competitive pressure between them making their relationship better. I also feel like the specificity of scents would make the fact that Wei Wuxian was not blood related to JFM very clear, which would also have helped a lot and changed things significantly. Since Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are 15 here, this story will be SFW (which LWJ will decidedly be displeased about).  I hope you like it!

Thank you to ZazGeek and Charming for beta'ing this monster so quickly for me. Happy Valentine's Day to WangXian! Have a True Mate story to celebrate. LOL

Podficcer's Notes:

I've been hoping to read a KizuKatana fic at some point, and well, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to read this one. This is an unedited cold read with noise and commentary throughout. I tried really, really hard to keep it to a minimum outside of scene breaks.

Again, thank you to our Anonymous donor for the WangXian Gotcha for Gaza, who allowed others to pick what they wanted.

Even though the event is over, if you still want to donate to help those in need, please visit the @Wangxian-action blog on Tumblr to find charities you can support. A huge thank you to the organizers who put the event together.

Finally, 谢谢 KizuKatana for having blanket permission and writing such fantastic stories. I hope I did your story justice.

A fantastic listener (@Serinah) let me know that the music was way too loud in the initial audio (above). I took some time to convert it to an MP3 and run it through Audacity (learning experience!) to make the sound more consistent throughout the podfic. You can now listen to the optimized audio below.

Download or stream the podfic here (177 MB/3 Hours 3 minutes).

 

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