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aramley sat me down when I visited over Thanksgiving and showed me a series of youtube videos with the stated intention of tripping me so I'd fall down the kpop hole, but it's all good, we're having a great time down here! I'm contemplating the ideal sequence of videos with which to spread the kpop brain infection to others, but in the meantime, I really need to compile a list of fics that I want to be able to find again, so here we are. Maybe these will tempt you to also get incredibly invested in the singing and dancing career of a bunch of infants? We'll see!

( list of dramatis personae, if you want one! )

Not K-Pop Idols

can you kiss me more? by werelino (Seungmin/Minho): I don't even like university AUs but the relationship conflict in this one is just DEVASTATING and legitimately made me cry, two thumbs up.

Amongst the Flock by Mntsnflrs (Minho/Jisung): for that special moment when you're in the mood for some bananapants whump in which boys cry and their boyfriends go feral, please enjoy this completely over-the-top AU in which depressed shut-in rich boy Jisung falls in love with the bodyguard his abusive mother has hired to watch him. this is technically the second story in the series but I highly recommend starting here, then doubling back to read the Chan/Felix story that precedes it and continuing on to the Changbin/Hyunjin story afterward.

heaven calling in the distance by chajatta (Chan/Felix): really fun urban fantasy AU in which Felix (a sun elf) gets set up with Chan (a werewolf). definitely definitely read the second fic in the series as well!

oh, you kissed me just to kiss me by natigail (Minho/Jisung): REALLY fascinating sex work AU; Jisung, an anxious touch-starved asexual, hires Minho to cuddle him.

marginal, hereditary by harrowsong (Changbin/Hyunjin): space AU! also omegaverse! one of the most creative concepts I've ever read, and also REALLY adorable.

cross my mind by noonwitching (Chan/Felix): alternate universe where Chan washed out of idol training and doesn't quite realize how much the psychological scarring is still affecting him until he's trying to define his relationship with Felix, even to himself.

on the road to divorce by meloncafe (Seungmin/Minho): Minho sends Seungmin divorce papers, so he shows up at Minho's door to try to win him back.

now I got you in my space by LetMeDown (Chan/Felix): this is genuinely just 45k of a/b/o universe mutual pining while fucking through Felix's heat so like. please know going in that there is zero trope subversion, it's exactly what it says on the tin, but frankly it's a pretty good translation of the extremely vanilla normcore "picket fence and a dog" vibes that Chan and Felix give off in real life and it's very sweet!

the book of us: electricity by orphan_account (Seungmin/Hyunjin): look I don't really read many high school AUs so when I say that this one transformed my brain chemistry, trust me, I mean it.

hand over hand by afterthedisco (Seungmin/Minho): Seungmin has a lot of issues, and Minho falls in love with him anyway. (warning for disordered eating and what I would consider to be self-harm through excessive exercise)

LMCat_98 has joined the chat by foxiyeny (Minho/Jisung): minsung sex work AU 2: electric boogaloo! Minho is a camboy and Jisung wins a giveaway for a private stream

puppy love by hyunnies (Seungmin/Hyunjin, eventual Seungmin/Jeongin/Hyunjin): puppy play: the fic. that's it! Hyunjin is mean in an extremely loving way and it's overall just super soft. (you may need the context that the Stray Kids all have officially designated animalsonas and Seungmin's is a puppy.)

back to my heart by gorgonforhire (Minho/Jisung): exes Minho and Jisung run into each other at a party and immediately pick up where they left off. extremely soft bondage, yay!

ksm, virgo disaster by werelino (Seungmin/Minho): short and truly adorable college AU in which Seungmin is determined not to date Minho until he's closer to his best self (and Minho, obviously, thinks his current self is more than good enough)

we're so lucky by anoymous (Changbin/Hyunjin): omegaverse where Hyunjin is pregnant with Changbin's baby, played completely straight: NONE of this is anything I'm especially into, but this fic is so good and so funny and Changbin is absolutely pitch-perfect as the adoring dad-to-be going along with Hyunjin's every whim

here by me by skzinger (Minho/Jisung): Minho, Jisung's emergency contact, gets a terrifying phone call summoning him to the hospital after a bad accident. this is LONG and satisfyingly soapy, and the slow reveal of what happened to cause the catastrophic break-up before the beginning of the story is really well done.

the blood on your lies by inkin_brushes (Chan/Felix, Minho/Jeongin, Changbin/Seungmin, Hyunjin/Jisung): incredibly long and incredibly dramatic gang AU that perfectly scratches the itch for a soapy good time; the platonic devotion between Felix and Hyunjin is worth the price of admission completely on its own

we have to keep trying by ockleibi (Changbin/Hyunjin): screamingly funny and very sweet story set in the regular non-mpreg world where Hyunjin abruptly and inexplicably gets obsessed with trying to get Changbin pregnant

Take It Easy by theproblematique (Chan/Felix): cockwarming: the fic

guard my heart by LetMeDown (Chan/Felix): bodyguard AU! Felix is still Felix and Chan is is his bodyguard in France

Yes K-Pop Idols

Multistable Perception by scheherazaade (Seungmin/Minho): this story makes me want to SCREAM, I read it four times in a single day. a masterwork in limited perspective! (you may require the context that Minho and Seungmin's on-camera relationship concept is "divorced".)

break in case of emergency by martyrsdaughter (Minho/Jisung): slight scifi AU where Minho is a bodyguard instead of being in Stray Kids and he's telepathically bonded to Jisung to help him manage his anxiety.

i'll wait for you, my sweet by chajatta (Changbin/Hyunjin): Changbin takes Hyunjin to get his fortune told. this read on the conflict between Hyunjin wanting to be open to love and being scared of getting hurt again by being vulnerable absolutely opened my third eye!

Just look at me, baby by AlphabetMinusQ (Minho/Jisung): a really interesting take on being idols in an a/b/o universe and not matching gender stereotypes, maybe a bit less polished but I enjoyed it!

merry christmas, 자기야 by bulletbulletbullet (Chan/Young K): Chan is now the super-responsible leader of Stray Kids but once upon a time he was the cute beloved baby of a bunch of older idols-in-training at his company including Brian Kang aka Young K and sometimes! it's just nice! to think about him getting spoiled by someone who loves him and wants him to have nice things!

at the end of the maze (find me) by firemblem (Changbin/Hyunjin): I will admit to being biased but the contrast between Changbin's constant flirting with Hyunjin on-camera and Hyunjin's frankly irrational insecurity makes me insane, and I feel like this fic gets that better than most! watch the clips in the author's note for fun additional context.

cracks by Anonymous (Chan/Felix): Felix develops an eating disorder and none of the other kids really knows what to do or how to help; very heavy but also cathartic.

push through, break through by sunnyskies (cassiopeihwa) (Seungmin/Minho): Minho discovers that Seungmin doesn't know how to finger himself and decides to remedy the situation.

strike gently by cryptonomica (Hyunjin/Jeongin): Jeongin feels awkward about not having had his first kiss yet, and Hyunjin offers to help him out.

split seam by tandembike (Seungmin/Minho): Seungmin and Minho are dating, but they seem to have radically different ideas about how committed Minho is to the whole thing. SUCH good pangs!

He Loves Me Not by nuttinonice (Chan/Felix): Chan forgets an important date and makes Felix cry :( which then makes Chan cry! this fandom is so good if you enjoy crying!

Whatever Else by Mntsnflrs (Minho/Jisung): the first time Jisung has sex goes badly. Minho tries to give him a better experience. the confession scene is incredible and makes me want to howl at the moon!

rare devotion by gorgonforhire, thereisnoreality (Changbin/Hyunjin): the eternal stalemate of Hyunjin going out of his mind because he wants to be loved versus Changbin trying and failing to make him believe that he does love him already. this is technically the sequel to a story about Hyunjin hooking up with Minho and Felix but I think you could get everything you need from context clues if that doesn't sound appealing.

waiting for us by dandyboy (smartlove) (Seungmin/Jeongin): Seungmin keeps writing songs about Jeongin, and Jeongin has no idea.

Maybe New York by eternal_octopus (Jisung/Hyunjin): Hyunjin and Jisung start hooking up on tour, and Jisung isn't sure what it will mean for their relationship when they go home.

count on me by kamsangi (Chan/Young K): accidental sugar baby Chan is such a good concept, two enthusiastic thumbs up.

can't read your mind (can read your playlists) by MindelanWolf (Changbin/Chan): EXTREMELY cute story about Changbin monitoring Chan's emotional state via the medium of Chan's Spotify activity

April 10th by MindelanWolf (Seungmin/Minho): possibly the only "Minho fell first" story I've ever read, but while I was reading, I was convinced! also, this fic is correct and grocery shopping together is the absolute pinnacle of romance. (the previous story in the series is Chan/Felix and also very cute!)

you should be (loving someone) by sharpa (Chan/Felix): really lovely and somewhat melancholy story about Chan and Felix deciding not to be together in the present day, but still trying to reassure each other that they're committed to an indefinite future where they can be.

all the ways you say my name by hyvnin (Minho/Hyunjin): the most delightful pangs always come from two people trying to express their love in a form the other one doesn't understand! the confession scene is perfect.

maximum accident by martyrsdaughter (Chan/Felix): FAKE DATING FAKE DATING FAKE DATING

i love you, i love you, i love you by ockleibi (Changbin/Hyunjin): ockleibi just GETS this ship, the perfect push-pull between Hyunjin's ever-changing needs and Changbin's steady willingness to meet him wherever he is, without making it heavy at all

Little Beast by realfriends (Chan/Felix): Felix starts wearing skirts occasionally and Chan's guilt complex about being attracted to him goes into overdrive

roses by gorgonforhire (Changbin/Hyunjin): set in a nebulous post-Stray Kids future where they've mostly finished their military service, Changbin hooks up with Hyunjin and then Hyunjin stops talking to him. So much of the dynamic for this ship is based on the game they're always playing in public where Changbin chases and Hyunjin runs away, and I really appreciate this story for asking what would happen if Hyunjin ever hurt Changbin for real.

feel the light by thereisnoreality (Chan/Seungmin): AU where Chan is older and became a producer instead of an idol, and the rest of the group wasn't as successful without him; Seungmin is recording a solo album, Chan is working with him on it, and the lure of a sexy older man is just so irresistible

make this house a home by thereisnoreality (Changbin/Hyunjin): ok so for context in 2024 Hyunjin and Changbin moved into an apartment together and promptly started publicly referring to each other as "wife" and I'm a little obsessed with it, and this series is a delightful exploration of all that domestic wife-ness

little world fallin’ apart by sinkingmyships (Chan/Felix): Chan's lack of self-worth and compulsive desire to protect the rest of the kids (especially Felix) starts manifesting as lycanthropy

Bug Like an Angel by realfriends (Minho/Jisung): Minho (atheist) falls in love with Jisung (Catholic) and has a religious crisis about it

Pro Re Nata by theproblematique (OT8): DO NOT click on this unless you're down with some pretty nasty omegaverse shenanigans, but tragically I am into the nasty omegaverse shenanigans and Chan as the lone omega in an otherwise all-alpha pack who DESPERATELY wants to be passed around like a party favor yet is cockblocking himself because he can't bring himself to express any personal desires is so tasty to me

to be just friends, you're too beautiful by babbyleeknow (Hyunjin/Changbin): I would read about Hyunjin and Changbin finally consummating seven years of sexual tension in their new marital dorm infinite times, and Changbin's POV is so delightfully oblivious

anyone can be anything (you can be everything) by babbyleeknow (Minho/Jisung): a really good exploration of acespec Jisung! After he and Minho confess their feelings for each other, Jisung experiences sexual attraction for the first time and proceeds to lose his mind (in a good way and then, unfortunately, in a less-good way)

bone marrow by LetMeDown (OT8): ...ok so just remember what I said about nasty omegaverse shenanigans. But the pack dynamics are so good!

inside the bright fields by torigates (Chan/Felix): Felix finally calls Chan out for isolating himself rather than asking for help

cover you by skzinger (Minho/Jisung/Chan): Minho and Jisung team up to fuck the brainworms out of Chan

unravel by halloflino (Chan/Felix): Chan and Felix semi-independently invent a D/s dynamic, which given Chan's raging lack of self-worth does not go well

no more than usual by torigates (Chan/Felix): someone hits Felix with a spell that makes everyone fall in love with him! ...everyone except Chan.

Happy Halloween and thank you in advance for writing for me! I really hope you'll have fun. This post has some prompts and general info about my preferences, but Optional Details Are Optional and also you can only fit so much in 300 words, so if you already have an idea you want to write about the characters/ships I've requested, don't worry about sticking too close to my prompts: write the story you're into! So long as you respect my DNWs I'm sure I'll love it if you loved writing it. I'm meretricula on the AO3 (and Tumblr), if you need to find me!

( General Preferences )

This year I have requested...

( Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty - Tang Fan, Sui Zhou )

( Legend of Fei - Li Yan/Yang Jin/Ying Hecong )

( The Prince of Tennis (2019 Chinese live-action) - He Xinglong/Lu Xia )

( The Cabots series by Cat Sebastian - Tommy Cabot/Everett Sloane )

Happy Yuletide and thank you in advance for writing for me! I really hope you'll have fun. This post has some prompts and general info about my preferences, but Optional Details Are Optional so if there's a story of your heart that you've been waiting to write about the characters I've requested, don't worry about sticking too close to my prompts: write the story you're into! So long as you respect my DNWs I'm sure I'll love it if you loved writing it. I'm meretricula on the AO3 (and Tumblr), if you need to find me!

Yes, Please!

-Happiness. I want everybody to be happy or at least not overtly miserable at the end of the fic. They can suffer and be angsty in the beginning or middle but please please please let the ending be sunshine and rainbows or the promise of sunshine and rainbows on the not-too-distant horizon. I'm also happy to get a fic that's 100% fluffy sunshine and rainbows all the way through.

-Characters having lots of feelings about each other. I'm a big fan of tropes where characters have a lot of history between them -- friends to lovers, childhood sweethearts, best frenemies, sibling relationships, etc. I'm not a big fan of porn for porn's sake but if you want to write about people expressing their feelings via sex, that's great! If you don't want to write shipfic, something focusing on friendship or family bonds is great too.

-Gen, het, slash, femslash and poly (including poly relationships where A is romantically involved with both B and C but B and C are not romantically interested in each other) are all good with me.

-tropes and cliches (if you want to write "snowed in at the hotel and there's ONLY ONE BED", sedoretu, unexpected baby acquisition, genderswap, somebody inexplicably has wings, etc., but are worried that it wasn't specifically prompted, please know that I love that kind of stuff and follow where your muse leads you -- only exceptions are I'm not too keen on soulmarks and A/B/O when they're done straight)

-subverted/inverted tropes and cliches (including soulmarks and A/B/O if they strike your fancy)

-lots of dialogue; limited third person POV; epistolary/mixed media/documentation fic

-canon settings (feel free to throw in some worldbuilding!)

-canon divergences (i.e. fork in the road AUs)

-alternate universes (the wackier the better; personal faves include Regency settings, Star Trek or similar space settings, magic, and "bring your fandom to work" AUs; it is TOTALLY OKAY to give me an AU even if I didn't ask for one specifically)

-food; competence; found families

No, Thanks!

-unhappy endings

-unrequited love

-major character death (as in, this character is gone and not coming back; death followed by resurrection or altered form of existence is fine so long as the character is still around)

-humiliation; intense angst; graphic violence and gore

-noncon and dubcon; kink involving bathroom functions or vore

-first and second person POV, with the exception of Shadows (where the canon is written in first person and I'd be totally fine with fic being written the same)

-fics that center around dealing with discrimination or identity issues (it's fine if these things are addressed in the course of the narrative but I don't want it to be the point of the story)

-AUs that change the nature of characters' backstory together (e.g. if two people have known each other since childhood I'd rather not have an AU where they meet for the first time as adults, and if they've been best friends their whole lives I'd rather not read an AU where they're enemies instead)

-writing my requested characters in relationships with other, unrequested characters (if you don't vibe with my ships, please just write friendship fic!)

-I seriously doubt that this will be an issue for these fandoms, but just as a note, I spent many years of my life studying Latin, so please don't throw random Google-translated Latin into the fic or use it for a title.

This year I have requested...

( Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku - Momose Narumi, Nifuji Hirotaka )

( Gotham Academy - Mia 'Maps' Mizoguchi, Olive Silverlock )

( Shadows - Maggie, Takahiro )

( Prince of Tennis (2019) - Lu Xia, He Xinglong )

I have now watched The Untamed all the way through (and I'm even rewatching it with

tabacoychanel! thanks for tolerating the way I yell every time Dimples appears onscreen, mi amor!) so I'm ready to make some additions to my initial recommendations. I remain deeply invested in Sunshine getting a happy ending, Grumpy's tragic adoration of him, and their son being a Very Good Boy, but now I'm also ready to cut someone on behalf of Wen Ning, furious about EVERY SINGLE DEAD LADY, and fully on Meng Yao's side for a solid, like 50% of the murders he committed. Maybe up to 75%. That one tumblr post about how his descent into the dark side is completely understandable for anyone who's worked in customer service? Yeah. Just! Appreciate! His! Work! And! Let! Him! Hold! The! Baby!

I'm also really excited because now I understand the vids!!!! Some of my favorites so far:

a love that won't sit still - lovely and mostly linear, so it's easy to follow. Stray Italian Greyhound is a popular song for vids but it really is perfect for Lan Wangji.

NFWMB - iconic!!!! I loved this even before I watched the show, but man, "give your heart and soul to charity" sure hits differently when you know what Wei Wuxian is about to give to Jiang Cheng.

Heaven - not even remotely linear but if you want to scream about how Lan Wangji loves Wei Wuxian so much that he had to realign his entire worldview, watch this vid and then come back and I'll join you.

Daylight - for whatever reason most of the vids I've seen are Lan Wangji-centric but this one is all about Wei Wuxian and I feel like it really captures something fundamental about his character. He's been through a lot but he keeps smiling. (And also, he loves Lan Wangji.)

The Phoenix & the Ash - a darker (but still ultimately optimistic) look at Wei Wuxian's character arc. Unlike the previous vid, not really filtered through a romantic lens. (I mean, Lan Wangji is definitely still there, it's just not about him or Wei Wuxian's feelings for him.)

True Love - set during their teenage pre-death years so it's more cute than harrowing. Truly, baby Lan Wangji was so mad about having a crush.

Death By A Thousand Cuts - by contrast, extremely harrowing! Lan Wangji has to say goodbye to Wei Wuxian so many times and it's causing me emotional distress! The fast cuts over the bridge are so good, though, I keep rewatching even though I know it's going to hurt me.

make it holy - I just! Love Meng Yao!! So much!!! Ugh, he loves Lan Xichen and it doesn't redeem him but he really does. Gorgeous and agonizing.

if we live to see the other side of this - speaking of agonizing! The character study of Wei Wuxian and Meng Yao's parallel arcs that we deserve. There are so many amazing moments but "now you see me, now you don't" on that iconic "Wei Wuxian!" scene, followed by "now you say you love me, pretty soon you won't" and the blood spreading across the floor after Meng Yao executed the Wen civilians... damn. (That final half-verse recap with Nie Huaisang: DAMN.)

Nothing In This World I Wouldn't Do - is this vid perfect? No. Some of the long clips are just too long, the transitions especially could use work, and the fadeouts in the first few seconds are unfortunate. But if you have any feelings about siblings in The Untamed, you should stick with it, because wow, this vid is a real kick in the heart. That long shot of Nie Huaisang bowing on "nothing in this world I wouldn't do" gets me every single time.

Sharp-Dressed Men - and this one is just plain fun. The costumes are so pretty! For both the ladies and the gents, title notwithstanding.

Hold On, I'm Coming - Lan Wangji protec, he attac, and most importantly: he loves his boyfriend very much and wants to pamper him and keep him safe forever. The slow intro sequence of Lan Zhan's many faces of being desperately in love and completely feral with it because he wants to protect Wei Ying and can't is incredible, and the motion and cuts once the bass kicks in... phew.

Ready For It - will I ever not be screaming into the abyss about my feelings regarding Meng Yao? Unclear, but either way, that day is not today. The comparisons this vid sets up about his relationships with Nei Mingjue and Lan Xichen (and his dad, I guess, I just don't care about Jin Guangshan) are breathtaking. I'm ready to die on the "Meng Yao genuinely loved Nie Mingjue and felt just as betrayed by Nie Mingjue not taking his side when he murdered a Nie soldier as Nie Mingjue did by the whole murder thing" hill so the first time the tonal shift of the "in my dreams" chorus hits is... oof.

The Crooked Wens - it's always a great day to sob your eyes out over Wen Ning! I love the slow build of this vid. A beautiful, introspective tribute to Wen Ning and Wen Qing and their heritage, and then their legacy.

For lack of a better system, I'm still adding fic recs to my first Untamed post, but I may do another one for rare pairs later. It's been a long time since I was so deep in fandom hell, but so far I'm enjoying it! If you wish to be dragged in as well, I will happily hand-select you a sample platter of fanworks before you decide whether you want to invest in 50 episodes of television. Come yell with me about Meng Yao's dimples and unfortunate lack of morals and Lan Wangji's tragic, beautiful face.

Hi friends! It has been... a while. (Significantly longer if you don't count "Dear Yulegoat" letters.) I'm doing okay; I've been working from home for the past seven weeks and nobody in my family is sick. It's lonely, I want to hang out with my friends, I hate conference calls, I don't like being cooped up with my younger brother nonstop and I miss hugs. I'm grateful that that's as much as I can complain about.

My attention span has been absolutely shot (not that it was much to write home about before) and I've been having some trouble sticking with books -- unfortunately, since this is my big chance to read through my absolutely massive TBR pile! I did get my paws on advance copies of the upcoming Cat Sebastian, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Naomi Novik books, all of which I managed to get into and thoroughly enjoyed. But mostly I just keep taking books off the shelf, reading the first page, and putting them back down again. It feels like my best coping mechanism has been taken away from me.

At this psychologically delicate moment, as you can probably tell, I decided that it was time to try reading some fanfic for this Chinese costume drama all my friends were yelling about. In the spirit of experimentation, I went through the entirety of the Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian pairing tag (Complete, English, Words > 10000) without having seen the show and documented my "safe to enjoy without any canon knowledge" recs. Incredibly (at least to me, since I don't think I've managed to watch 50 episodes of anything since college) I did eventually watch The Untamed and I kept adding things to the post here, so the Dreamwidth version got some significant structural changes but the original "no canon, no problem" version is still up on tumblr if you want it!

Anyway, without further ado, have a bunch of fic recs for The Untamed! I also have a vid rec post, and I'll do a rarepair post as soon as I have time.

Modern AUs

The Simplest Way Forward - they're student musicians in the same orchestra who get green card married so that they can adopt the kid who gets ditched at Wei Wuxian's door; I know everyone has recced this fic already but on the off chance that you haven't read it already, YES, it's that good
Window Shopping - they're quarantined in apartments opposite each other and A-Yuan wants to see Lan Wangji's pet rabbits. Comes with a sequel about the shenanigans in Lan Xichen's apartment that you can read or skip depending on your opinions about 3zun and then a very cathartic conclusion about what happens when quarantine is lifted and they can finally meet in person (includes a fairly detailed description of a panic attack, FYI)
Unstrictly Ballroom - they're competitive ballroom dancers but Wei Wuxian was unjustly banned from competition years ago and Lan Wangji has finally found him working in a strip club; I know it sounds cheesy but it is AGONIZING
A Keen Rabbit Lover - they are both women and grad school students and pining disgustingly for each other when everything gets disrupted by Wei Wuxian VERY BADLY misinterpreting Lan Wangji's drunken confession that she "likes rabbits"
your heartbeat, across the grass - Lan Wangji is a soccer superstar and A-Yuan wants to go to a game! I rec this with the caveat that if you know anything about professional soccer the bits about professional soccer are massively unrealistic
Year Of Night Call - they're extremely codependent trauma surgeons who share an on-call bed
And they were roommates... - they're both women and grad students and wind up living together after the Jiangs throw Wei Wuxian out
Out of the Bin and Into Your Heart - Wei Wuxian comes up with a ridiculous fake-dating scheme to throw off their admirers at the Chinese cultural center. Lan Wangji plays along for reasons that are blatantly obvious to everyone except Wei Wuxian
"Congratulations, Get Rich" - Wei Wuxian tries to start a tradition of kissing at midnight on Chinese New Year so he'll have an excuse to kiss Lan Wangji
one good thing - Wei Wuxian is a ghost haunting Lan Wangji's house and Lan Wangji just happens to come from a long family line of exorcists
Lifelong Confidant - Wei Wuxian has a happy, normal life as a barista-slash-music-teacher and two roommates he loves, except for the tragic past he never talks about -- which is obviously about to make a dramatic reappearance in the person of Lan Wangji, one of the judges of a celebrity baking show his roommates watch
how to fall in love with a catfish: a guide by wei wuxian (disaster rat) - college RA and all-around human disaster Wei Wuxian develops an improbable chat relationship with Lan Wangji, who he assumes is catfishing him by using a moderately famous actor's photos on Tinder but -- obviously -- actually is a moderately famous actor. I don't normally like college AUs but this one is solid and VERY funny
you've ruined my life (by not being mine) - Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji met during a study abroad program in China and start texting when they're back in the States but on opposite sides of the country. I also don't normally like high school AUs but this is ADORABLE, if you can stand an excruciatingly slow burn
the best of you - I am honestly on the fence about whether this fic can be considered "good" but if you're ever in the mood for some truly god-tier whump about Wei Wuxian getting physically and emotionally abused at every turn while Lan Wangji absolutely loses his mind over not being able to protect him, I guarantee this will hit the spot
walk my days on a wire - they're rival software developers who have a long history of kinky anonymous hotel-room hookups; they have both caught feels and this is uncovered in the course of some very intense pregnancy role-play so if that's too much don't click but if you're down to go where it's leading it is truly delicious! Now comes with a tooth-rottingly sweet and still very kinky sequel about them getting married and making a baby for real
i’ll be your girl - a deeply hilarious tale of queer board game nights and gender confusion in which Wei Wuxian thinks that Lan Wangji is straight and only hooked up with him because he was dressed as Britney Spears for a costume party, while Lan Wangji thinks that Wei Wuxian's insistence on dressing up in drag every time they have sex is maybe Wei Wuxian trying to tell him something
Give me your wild - fem!Lan Wangji tops the shit out of Wei Wuxian and then tells him that he's a good boy, that's it, that's the story, it's extremely hot
only missed midnight - short and surprisingly cathartic: Wei Wuxian has a minor meltdown over missing the ball drop on NYE but really over a lot of other things, Lan Wangji uses his words and also cuddles to make it better (the author has taken this fic down but hopefully it'll return later!)
underweight - Lan Wangji, dismayed by Wei Wuxian's poor eating and sleeping habits, somewhat accidentally -- but consensually! -- winds up taking control both in bed and out of it
Ticket to Ride - Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are stuck at the airport and Wei Wuxian catches Lan Wangji perusing his Grindr profile, from which romantic beginning springs a madcap and surprisingly sweet rescue mission to get Wei Wuxian home in time for his sister's wedding
puzzle pieces - oh my god, they were roommates! A cute little piece of tropey fluff that lives up to its premise
Two Unlucky Guys - Wei Wuxian, in possession of exactly one braincell, proposes that he and Lan Wangji have sex so that they can get losing their virginity out of the way before college. Lan Wangji, desperately in love with him and in possession of ZERO braincells, goes along with this stellar plan
your love is thick and it swallowed me whole - Wei Wuxian goes to a sex party for the first time and is shocked to encounter Lan Wangji, more shocked that Lan Wangji is a regular, and kind of overwhelmed when Lan Wangji offers to let him suck him off on the sofa. Sex tears and a very soft happy ending await!
After the Final Rose - Lan Wangji, much against his better judgment, helps out his brother's boyfriend by going on The Bachelor and falls for his cameraman instead of any of the actual suitors; the obligatory misunderstanding is AGONIZING but the catharsis is so heartwarming and I love all the side characters
oh, these are real things - a very soft and loving story about kink exploration, talking through your weird feelings about sex and your body, and Lan Wangji trying his very best to make Wei Wuxian cry in bed
baby let's take the long way home - Wei Wuxian needs an abortion, the nearest clinic that will take his insurance is an 8 hour drive away, and Lan Wangji (his work nemesis) has a car. There is so much going on in the background of this story -- magical academia! birth control in a world where (some) men can get pregnant! the subtle cultural distinctions between being Chinese in America and being Chinese American! -- but at its heart it's such a tender story about, like, being kind and decent to each other
speeding up my heartbeat - Lan Wangji does yoga at the same gym where Wei Wuxian plays basketball. Normally I prefer my fics to have a certain minimum of agonized pining and tragic misunderstanding but this one is just an immense amount of dressing increasingly sluttily for workouts and thirsting over each other in the gym locker room, followed by a lot of hot sex. And that's okay!
some impulse of delight - kissing lessons kissing lessons kissing lessons also there's an illegal bunny rabbit
say it's here where our pieces fall in place - do you want a simultaneously Soft and Incredibly Painful reading experience about Wei Wuxian falling in love with the man who adopted the foster child Wei Wuxian was absolutely devastated not to be able to adopt himself? Would you perhaps enjoy wallowing in how much Wei Wuxian is loved by the people around him, but unable to accept that love because he is 20 pounds of low self-esteem and abandonment issues stuffed into a 10-pound sack? Do you love domesticity and kidfic and perhaps a bit of background 3zun being adorable committed partners, as a treat? HAVE FUN
My Zhiji's On Broadway - Lan Wangji accidentally gets drunk at a conference in Seattle and Wei Wuxian spends the evening babysitting him through a series of impulsive adventures while pining his little heart out (yes, Lan Wangji is obviously pining too; yes, they're going to figure it out eventually)
(our friendship) up against the ropes - Wei Wuxian finds out that Lan Wangji, his best friend since high school, is not only sexually active but a legend on the NYC gay hookup app scene, and proceeds to lose his tiny little mind. The recurring motif of the feature film version of Pride & Prejudice (Wei Wuxian's favorite movie, with which Lan Wangji has comforted him through various breakups) was unexpected, but cute!
with your arms outstretched to me - Lan Wangji takes Wei Wuxian hiking on their first date, and Wei Wuxian sprains an ankle. Luckily, Lan Wangji has not skipped Arm Day once in his life, so he's able to carry Wei Wuxian back down. This is just soft soft SOFT and extremely cute!
For A Good Time, Call - Lan Wangji, who has been faithfully pining over Wei Wuxian for ten years, accidentally finds out that his best friend/secret crush makes (solo) porn, and makes a number of decisions that seem logical at the time. This is a very long and extremely self-indulgent story -- Lan Wangji getting together with the love of his life after ludicrous amounts of angst and mutual pining is obviously part of it, but there's also a big focus on exploring his gender, coming to terms with his sexuality, and getting a lot of therapy -- which I enjoyed a lot but have to be in the right mood for. Your mileage may vary!
Worship you till morning comes - a short and sweet meet-cute, followed by a truly adorable love-at-first-sight first date
live from new york - it's an AU where they all work for Saturday Night Live, yes, even Lan Wangji, yes, it works, yes, it made me cry (definitely also read the sequel where they decide to get married: swiss cheese theory) (DEFINITELY also read the AU where they're both women: wake up all in tangles)
a life in your shape - Lan Wangji overhears something he isn't supposed to and interprets it in exactly the wrong way. If you enjoy agonizing over painful misunderstandings but only for about 5k words instead of 50k, this is the fic for you!
Grace and a tender hand - Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian go on a disastrous first date (but don't worry, it's all going to turn out okay)
Oh, The Weather Outside is Frightful - winter sports AU in which Lan Wangji is an Olympic medalist in skiing and Wei Wuxian is a professional snowboarder and they are jointly coaching the ducklings! There is huddling for warmth.
a baby rabbit is called a kitten and other fun facts - fluff fluff fluffy fluff in which Wei Wuxian is a single dad whose son is obsessed with Lan Wangji's YouTube channel about bunny care
Almost Lover - Lan Wangji, tragically pining for his best friend with benefits with zero plans to actually say anything about it, gets the wakeup call of a lifetime when Wei Wuxian is nearly killed in a car accident. Click for that sweet sweet caretaking and hurt/comfort content!
Love Cats - the cutest of all possible meet-cutes: Lan Wangji helps Wei Wuxian rescue a cat that's stuck in a tree
Our Eyes on the Road - ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP and the consummation of god only knows how many years of sexual tension
请兔子吃晚饭; treating a bunny to dinner - Wei Wuxian takes Lan Wangji out for Korean barbecue on their first date! They have a great time! One small problem: Lan Wangji is a vegetarian.
Chef's kiss - Lan Wangji is a chef, Wei Wuxian is a law student, they have a lot of scorching hot lesbian sex
can you feel it - this is a shockingly sweet story considering that the premise is "here's why you should never use a toy without a flared base for anal insertion"
my dreams are playing softer now - Lan Wangji gets drunk at a conference and Lan Xichen dumps him on Wei Wuxian for babysitting duties
new york, i love you - Gossip Girl AU :D :D :D
总有一天; a place to hide (can’t find one near) - Wei Wuxian tries to kill himself. He doesn't succeed, but the fic is obviously pretty heavy and the suicide attempt is pretty graphic, so take care of yourself and don't click if that's not something you feel okay to read! It's also VERY long and slow-paced, and the writing is a bit flowery for me in places, but when I'm in the right mood for slow burn hurt/comfort it hits the spot.
i didn't choose the van life (the van life chose me) - Wei Wuxian has a near brush with homelessness and an ongoing struggle with the soullessness of late capitalism, and consequently gets really into the idea of tiny houses and modding his van so he can live in it. That sounds kind of heavy but no bad things actually happen in this fic! He's going to be okay and so is Lan Wangji and they're going to live happily ever after in a tiny house by the sea!
i could bite my tongue - the first time lesbians Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian try to have sex goes badly, and they cuddle about it (follow-up in which the second time they try to have sex goes slightly better: wrap your arms around me)
on your marks, get set, bake! - Wei Wuxian is a contestant on GBBO and the college students he RAs for are absolutely losing their little minds watching the competition
Come Out and Level Up - Lan Wangji comes out to Wei Wuxian, who subsequently figures out that his own history of attraction is maybe not typical for straight people. If you don't like ace headcanons for these characters, don't click, but I found it adorable and very relatable!
dreaming and getting a glimmer - Wei Wuxian has a sexuality crisis in college over 1) an amateur porn site streamer, username wangji2397, whose face he has never seen 2) the guy he repeatedly sucked off through a glory hole in a bar bathroom, ditto, and 3) the very beautiful classmate who is helping him outline his paper on gender roles in the Song dynasty. There is a LOT of dirty talk in this one, including some pretty heavy humiliation, but it never feels mean -- only that Lan Wangji is maybe a little ahead of Wei Wuxian on the learning curve of "what gets Wei Wuxian off".
rainfall - Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji decide to try out 24/7 D/s
say all that you're feeling - slow burn rule 63 in which Lan Wangji (butch and very comfortable with it) is waiting for Wei Wuxian (baby butch and new on the scene) to sort herself out
Let's take a ride round the curves of desire - no plot only first time sex in a heat wave featuring extensive cunnilingus
Many happy returns. - they meet cute and fall in love and they're gonna spend their lives together, that's it, that's the fic, there's not really a whole lot of "plot" going on here.
Pull out game weak - rule 63 in which they start messaging on a hookup app. Lan Wangji is very toppy and mean both over text and during sex, which Wei Wuxian is definitely into but isn't explicitly negotiated, just FYI. I really enjoyed the twist halfway through the fic! (spin-off that goes AU from the twist and is definitely also worth reading: Extra Time)
hey girl (you are what i've been looking for) - SHENANIGANS at Mo Xuanyu's houseparty that Wei Wuxian didn't even want to go to but on the bright side she is maybe making progress on getting the very hot girl she just met to like her (make sure to read the sequel too!)
because you’re mine (i walk the line) - Lan Wangji tells Wei Wuxian he's not allowed to touch himself and Wei Wuxian proceeds to lose his mind thinking about what will happen if he disobeys. (warning for canon-typical consensual nonconsent)
today was a smoking sky - this is, I am not joking, a Princess Diaries 2 AU, but it works! significantly kinkier than the original plot source, just FYI.
Scenery Is Changing (The Jigglypuff Remix) - pining idiot best friends are brought together at last by the joys of Pokemon Go
fuck around and find out - extremely spicy lesbian PWP (painplay, sex tears, Wei Wuxian says no when she means yes)
petal-soft - very very very soft painkink & orgasm denial where Wei Wuxian plays with Lan Wangji’s nipple piercings to make her cry and tells her she’s a good girl throughout
Step right up! - they are dumbass teenagers and Wei Wuxian persuades Lan Wangji to go down to the boardwalk instead of practicing for their science class presentation and it's just. so cute.
like the paradise found - does “Lan Wangji finds her long-lost love working as a (very athletic and artistic) stripper” really need further context? I think not! We are not here to have deep thoughts, only to enjoy delicious tropey fluff.
ready to run - Wei Wuxian runs for president of the students' union at a university with a suspicious resemblance to Oxford. I am very very very picky about Oxford AUs but this one is great, and also features a lovely "Wei Wuxian unlearns compulsive heterosexuality" plotline.
all that and more - Wei Wuxian texts Lan Wangji to send nudes on a dare and unleashes the sexuality crisis of a lifetime

Canon Universe

my age has never made me wise - Wei Wuxian wanders off without either of them declaring their feelings and proceeds to pine GROSSLY when he hears gossip that Lan Wangji is planning a wedding
A Civil Combpaign - Jin Ling decides he wants to marry Lan Sizhui for "diplomatic reasons"; hilarity ensues
Content Warning: Romance - Wei Wuxian is easily embarrassed by praise, so Lan Wangji ties him up and tells him how wonderful he is. You will never look at praise kink the same again
the hidden source is the watchful heart - after a year of wandering on his own after the end of the show, Wei Wuxian finally comes home, and Lan Wangji has to wrestle with whether he can stand to let him go again
seldom all they seem - mild canon divergence in which Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are betrothed as children; definitely also read the sequel about Lan Wangji's beautiful kind-hearted fairy tale prince of a brother and the amoral scheming political mastermind who unfortunately adores him
The Absolutely True Story of the Yiling Patriarch: A Manifesto in Many Parts - Jingyi and the rest of the juniors publish a very popular romance about Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji in an attempt to rehabilitate Wei Wuxian's reputation, which is not unwelcome but is somewhat puzzling to Wei Wuxian since he is not actually in a relationship with Lan Wangji
Linger in the Sun - Wei Wuxian joins Lan Wangji on an educational school field trip investigating a series of hilarious curses, which becomes only slightly less hilarious when Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are the latest victims
come home to my heart - it can have a little bodyswap. as a treat.
anyway, here's wuji - a delightfully over-the-top and melodramatic story about Lan Jingyi watching Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian eventually get their HEA, and falling in love along the way
hunters seeking solid ground - Wei Wuxian, suffering from years of PTSD nightmares so bad that he may actually be dying of sleep deprivation, finally lets Lan Wangji give him what he needs and deserves. If you just want to read about someone Suffering, A Lot, so that someone who loves him can make it better, this is the fic and the catharsis is WORTH IT
Grand Pianos Crash Together - uncomplicated post-series get-together fic that's very charming and well done and features an unexpectedly hot first time
My Leaves Reach Ever for the Sun - canon divergence in which Wei Wuxian comes up with a madcap crossdressing scheme in order to attend Jin Ling's christening and inevitably ropes Lan Wangji in. This story really needs a beta but there are such sweet and lovely moments in it that I keep coming back to reread it anyway
A Crying Shame - canon divergence in which A-Yuan cries so much at Lan Wangji leaving them in the Burial Mounds that he just gives up and stays
grow - adorable genfic about Wei Wuxian getting de-aged and Sizhui and the juniors taking care of him
A Lot of Edges Called Perhaps - another sweet "Wei Wuxian finally comes home to Lan Wangji" story, only in this one Lan Wangji has managed to get himself badly injured and Wei Wuxian has to nurse him back to health while they both marinate in their unresolved sexual tension
Senseless - a variation on the "Wei Wuxian goes wandering" theme: Wei Wuxian realizes he's being a moron and comes right back
your horizon to chase - another variation: Wei Wuxian runs into Lan Wangji while he's on his walkabout and is finally persuaded to come home for good
no kiss, no gentle word - Wei Wuxian's new methods of using magic have extremely dire side-effects; Lan Wangji refuses to let them drive him away
With Absolute Splendor - several years after the dust settles, Jiang Cheng insists on planning Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji's wedding, which is complicated since he and Lan Wangji absolutely can't stand each other
Attempting the Impossible - Jiang Cheng pays Wei Wuxian a visit in an attempt to reconcile with him, only to discover that Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji have been very busy expanding their family
Red Flower With One Hundred Petals; Smoke Carried on the Blue Dusk Air - canon divergence in which Lan Xichen successfully persuades an extremely traumatized Wei Wuxian to come back to Lan Wangji after the war. I think the latter half of this fic is a little weak compared to the opening but if you're in it for the hurt/comfort, the first half is a dream come true!
I hope that you will come and meet me - an extremely soft and gentle story about Wei Wuxian coming home to Lan Wangji and realizing Lan Wangji wants him to stay
It's Only Time - Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji write each other letters while they're apart; it's very sweet and VERY cute
build me no shrines - sometimes a girl just wants to read long plotty post-canon casefic in which Wei Wuxian gets badly whumped and Lan Wangji goes absolutely feral, and that's valid
Pigtail Pulling - short and adorable: Lan Xichen explains that Wei Wuxian is constantly pestering him because he wants Lan Wangji's attention, so Lan Wangji tries to get him to stop by... paying attention to him
you are my delightful intruder - post-canon, Lan Wangji has a PTSD-induced meltdown after waking up to find Wei Wuxian gone. Wei Wuxian comforts him and then comforts him if you know what I mean
Then There's No One There - mostly canon-compliant Lan Wangji POV of the three days Wei Wuxian was unconscious after the end of the Sunshot Campaign that packs a bittersweet wallop. Honestly most of the devastation is the author's note at the end telling you that the tiny bit of canon divergence is not going to be enough to change anything.
You, Asleep and Dreaming - post-canon, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian cuddle their way into a relationship. It's hard to describe this fic because the central structure isn't super visible -- it took me so long to clock that it was a "five things" fic -- but it's really darling and the alternation between understated humor and gut-punching anguish just gets me!
Yeah I Know How You Like It - Wei Wuxian accidentally acquires the ability to read Lan Wangji's thoughts, and is surprisingly (even to himself!) unsettled to learn that his husband thinks about fucking him constantly
Coming Back to Yourself - Lan Wangji gets cursed with a different genital configuration than he's used to. All he needs to do to get back to normal is achieve orgasm... except he doesn't know how. (Wei Wuxian also does not know how but he at least has some educated guesses.) Also comes with a lovely expanded/slightly alternate scene that you should make sure not to miss: Save a Sword
rather cruelly used and rather reserved - missing scene/very slight canon divergence set in the Cloud Recesses right after the Yi City arc, in which Wei Wuxian takes advantage of his down time to explore Lan Wangji's home and inadvertently learns more about what Lan Wangji got up to while he was dead
little days - Lan Wangji periodically regresses (mentally, not physically) to childhood when stressed; Lan Xichen and eventually Wei Wuxian take care of him. This is completely nonsexual and extremely soft
Give You What You Like - canon divergence in which Wen Chao figures out a great way to kill two birds with one stone during the dungeon scene at the Wen indoctrination camp, and Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji have go forward with the rest of the plot while trying to deal with the trauma of what they were forced to do to each other. This is heavy even for "something made them do it" so please be aware of that going in
Teach Me The Ways - canon divergence in which Wei Wuxian ran away from Lotus Pier at age 13 to become a rogue cultivator and Lan Wangji is in the middle of preparing for an arranged marriage: Lan Wangji is worried he won't know how to satisfy his future spouse in bed and goes to Sexy Rogue Cultivator Wei Wuxian for lessons. Wei Wuxian's reputation is VASTLY exaggerated but luckily for both of them he's good at making things up as he goes along!
so full of love i could barely eat - a/b/o universe, Lan Wangji runs into Wei Wuxian and a clearly underfed A-Yuan in Yiling and (to his own mortification) starts spontaneously lactating. Obviously if you're not down with a lot of explicit descriptions of breastfeeding and/or the concept of a/b/o, with the implied fixation on pregnancy/fertility and gender essentialism, don't click, but I really loved this story! It's also the only one I've encountered so far that uses Chinese terminology rather than alpha/beta/omega, if you're curious
out to get you (to get you) - fairly major canon divergence in which the Wen attack about a decade earlier, completely changing the political landscape and destroying several clans, including the Lan and Jiang. Lan Wangji, an assassin posing as a courtesan, has been sent to eliminate the Yiling Patriarch. I loved the slow unfolding of what happened to Lan Wangji to put him on his current path, and the inevitable catching of feels for his target is exactly the right level of dramatic
can i look the other way - a sweet little post-canon story in which Wei Wuxian gets it into his head that he's taking up too much space in Lan Wangji's house, and decides to do the polite thing and move out
Strange Darling - after parting with Song Lan in Yi City, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji finally have a conversation about what Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen represented to them
Something Good - due to various forks in the road, Wei Wuxian has wound up as a servant in Cloud Recesses in punishment for turning to demonic cultivation, and is assigned the job of caring for eleven rambunctious orphans. That's right, folks, it's a Sound of Music AU!
the river and the sea - Lan Wangji meets his soulmate when he's six years old, and promptly loses him. I don't normally like soulmate AUs but this one is very sweet
watch the slow door - Lan Wangji arrives at Dafan Mountain just a little bit later, and doesn't hear Wei Wuxian play the flute, and thus spends the next several days losing his mind as he tries to figure out who Mo Xuanyu is. Brief but packed full of delicious (ultimately resolved) angst!
And I Will Call You Home - plotty casefic where Lan Wangji gets whumped and Wei Wuxian goes feral, for a nice change! The pining is extremely *chef's kiss*
Standing Engagement - canon divergence in which Lan Wangji assumes that there's an unspoken betrothal agreement when he and Wei Wuxian get out of the turtle's cave -- and then he accidentally spills the news to Jiang Cheng while Wei Wuxian is missing
every road leads back to you - just barely over 2k words of Wei Wuxian coming home to Lan Wangji and there's SO MANY FEELINGS packed in there
your problem as a mountain. - canon divergence in which the war never happens, Nie Huaisang and Wei Wuxian strike up a lively long-distance book club to discuss porn, and eventually start writing their own. Wei Wuxian's fantasies are super vanilla but they always seem to star a beautiful fellow cultivator with golden eyes and a ribbon, weird! Not that he puts any thought into this... until a mix-up with the mail means that all of his smutty letters get delivered to Lan Wangji instead.
Crack me open, pour you out - Lan Wangji gets cursed to say everything that goes through his head out loud, which is a problem when there's things that he's trying not to say to Wei Wuxian
the benefits of patience - post-canon rule 63 Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian engage in some mutually enjoyable orgasm delay/denial. Hot but also sweet!
The dreamers. - the telepathic bond in the turtle cave doesn't wear off as planned. This certainly isn't the only take on that concept but it's my favorite so far! Be warned that the fic takes a VERY sharp left turn in the third act, but if you like psychic bonds and dreamsharing the first two thirds are definitely worth it regardless of what you think of the twist.
The Rain in Gusu - sometimes I just want to hurt my own feelings and then wallow in them thinking about how Wei Wuxian doesn't know that Lan Wangji loves him and wants him to stay!!!
with intent - Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji get stuck in Cold Pond Cave and there is huddling for warmth
An Elegant Solution - extremely convoluted but very fun canon divergence in which Jiang Cheng arranges for Wei Wuxian to marry Nie Mingjue in order to rehabilitate his reputation and Lan Wangji gets stuck "chaperoning" his One True Love as he gets to know his future husband (eventual OT3 with Nie Mingjue, everyone is going to be happy about who they married!)

Not Modern, Not Canon

all your life you'll dream of this - vaguely canon universe but with some fairy tale elements, specifically Cinderella -- no, really! I swear it's good! Lan Wangji is Cinderella!
debt of a knife - Lan Wangji is a warlord who has just claimed Wei Wuxian as his captive bride; the premise sounds kind of dubcon-y but all the sex is consensual
turn towards the sun - Kushiel's Chosen AU in which Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are BDSM study buddies
let me hold it lightly - is it magical realism if the canon has magic already? Anyway, Wei Wuxian cuts out his own heart and gives it to Lan Wangji for safekeeping
the stars in the hazy heaven tremble above you - did we get blessed with a second glorious Cinderella AU? We sure did! This time Wei Wuxian is Cinderella!
this river runs to you - a delicious urban fantasy story in which Wei Wuxian is an underpaid curse worker with a canon-typical tragic backstory and Lan Wangji is his mysterious new assistant
hold me fast, fear me not - for variety's sake, a fairy tale AU that isn't Cinderella: Tam Lin AU in which Wei Wuxian (as the Yiling Laozu, with the Burial Mounds standing in for the Fairy Queen) is Tam Lin and Lan Wangji is Janet
If You Love Someone - Princess Bride AU heck yeah! Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are both women and Lan Wangji thinks the Yiling Patriarch killed Wei Wuxian. Needs a quick beta scrub but come on, lesbian Princess Bride
The Terminus of Gravity - space opera! Wei Wuxian is on the run, and Lan Wangji is hopelessly pining over his audio transmissions
The Lives of Lan Wangji - Chronicles of Chrestomanci fusion in which Lan Wangji travels between the worlds in search of a cat and ends up finding Wei Wuxian
the best good thing - time to have some feelings about Lan Wangji stranded all by himself in a broken spaceship at the end of the world getting rescued by human sunshine aka Wei Wuxian
a ghost is just a memory you haven't met yet - Wei Wuxian is a ghost haunting the library where Lan Wangji is doing research. Creepy but cute!
you're a bird in the water / i'm a fish on the ground - Wei Wuxian is a mermaid and after six whole months of marriage to Lan Wangji, he figures out they might be sexually compatible after all. Even if you don't normally read xeno, the "alien" perspective of mermaid!Wei Wuxian trying to figure out human genitalia is screamingly funny, and surprisingly sweet!
if you go chasing rabbits - adorable urban fantasy in which Wei Wuxian is a disgraced witch and Lan Wangji shows up on his doorstep one day asking to become his familiar
I feel like I win when I lose - cultivation is a competitive sport (kind of like magical dueling?) and Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are archrivals, also someone is trying to sabotage Wei Wuxian
tearing into me without teeth - a Queen's Thief fusion, which, if you've ever read Queen of Attolia, you'll expect to be just as agonizing as it is
Restraint and Revelation: or, The Necromancer of Yiling - I must confess I had never considered the gothic romance novel as a possible plot device to get Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji together, but you know what? Bring it on, Northanger Abbey AUs for everyone! Lan Wangji squirming as everyone tells him he should read the novel he wrote anonymously in order to cope with his feelings for Wei Wuxian is amazing and I commend the author for getting the register of the language just right.
spawn - monsterfucking in space! Lan Wangji is one of the last survivors of an alien species and Wei Wuxian is a volunteer member of the repopulation effort.
1931 - very interesting AU set in 1930s Shanghai. The timeline skips around, so it requires a little more brain power than usual to understand what's happening, at least for me!
bloody mary - uhhhhhhh Lan Wangji is a vampire and Wei Wuxian is on her period and it goes exactly where you think it will

Threadfics

I hope you will enjoy these as much as I did! My methodical progression through the tag on AO3 is keeping me sane these days. I've also been trying to back up my vid collection as AO3 bookmarks, but I've gotten too far back in time and now it's very hard to find the vids online anywhere. Fics full of agonizing mutual pining are much more relaxing!

Happy Yuletide and thank you in advance for writing for me! I really hope you'll have fun. This post has some prompts and general info about my preferences, but Optional Details Are Optional so if there's a story of your heart that you've been waiting to write about the characters I've requested, don't worry about sticking too close to my prompts: write the story you're into! So long as you respect my DNWs I'm sure I'll love it if you loved writing it. I'm meretricula on the AO3 (and Tumblr), if you need to find me!

Yes, Please!

-Happiness. I want everybody to be happy or at least not overtly miserable at the end of the fic. They can suffer and be angsty in the beginning or middle but please please please let the ending be sunshine and rainbows or the promise of sunshine and rainbows on the not-too-distant horizon. I'm also happy to get a fic that's 100% fluffy sunshine and rainbows all the way through.

-Characters having lots of feelings about each other. I'm a big fan of tropes where characters have a lot of history between them -- friends to lovers, childhood sweethearts, best frenemies, sibling relationships, etc. I'm not a big fan of porn for porn's sake but if you want to write about people expressing their feelings via sex, that's great! If you don't want to write shipfic, something focusing on friendship or family bonds is great too.

-Gen, het, slash, femslash and poly (including poly relationships where A is romantically involved with both B and C but B and C are not romantically interested in each other) are all good with me.

-tropes and cliches (if you want to write "snowed in at the hotel and there's ONLY ONE BED", sedoretu, unexpected baby acquisition, genderswap, somebody inexplicably has wings, etc., but are worried that it wasn't specifically prompted, please know that I love that kind of stuff and follow where your muse leads you -- only exceptions are I'm not too keen on soulmarks and A/B/O when they're done straight)

-subverted/inverted tropes and cliches (including soulmarks and A/B/O if they strike your fancy)

-lots of dialogue; limited third person POV; epistolary/mixed media/documentation fic

-canon settings (feel free to throw in some worldbuilding!)

-canon divergences (i.e. fork in the road AUs)

-alternate universes (the wackier the better; personal faves include Regency settings, Star Trek or similar space settings, magic, and "bring your fandom to work" AUs)

-food; competence; found families

No, Thanks!

-unhappy endings

-unrequited love

-major character death (as in, this character is gone and not coming back; death followed by resurrection or altered form of existence is fine so long as the character is still around)

-humiliation; intense angst; graphic violence and gore

-noncon and dubcon; kink involving bathroom functions or vore

-first and second person POV, with the exception of Shadows (where the canon is written in first person and I'd be totally fine with fic being written the same)

-fics that center around dealing with discrimination or identity issues (it's fine if these things are addressed in the course of the narrative but I don't want it to be the point of the story)

-AUs that change the nature of characters' backstory together (e.g. if two people have known each other since childhood I'd rather not have an AU where they meet for the first time as adults, and if they've been best friends their whole lives I'd rather not read an AU where they're enemies instead)

-I seriously doubt that this will be an issue for these fandoms, but just as a note, I spent many years of my life studying Latin, so please don't throw random Google-translated Latin into the fic or use it for a title.

...And on to this year's fandoms!

( Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku - Momose Narumi, Nifuji Hirotaka )

( A Countess Below Stairs - Susie Rabinovitch, Tom Byrne )

( Shadows - Maggie, Takahiro )

Happy Chocolate Box and thank you in advance for writing for me! I really hope you'll have fun. This post has some prompts and general info about my preferences, but Optional Details Are Optional so if there's a story of your heart that you've been waiting to write about the characters I've requested, don't worry about sticking too close to my prompts: write the story you're into! So long as you respect my DNWs I'm sure I'll love it if you loved writing it. (Just FYI, fanart is totally cool for treats if you should be so motivated, but I would prefer to receive fic for my assigned gift.) I'm meretricula on the AO3 (and Tumblr), if you need to find me!

Yes, Please!

-Happiness. I want everybody to be happy or at least not overtly miserable at the end of the fic. They can suffer and be angsty in the beginning or middle but please please please let the ending be sunshine and rainbows or the promise of sunshine and rainbows on the not-too-distant horizon. I'm also happy to get a fic that's 100% fluffy sunshine and rainbows all the way through.

-Characters having lots of feelings about each other. I'm a big fan of tropes where characters have a lot of history between them -- friends to lovers, childhood sweethearts, best frenemies, sibling relationships, etc. I'm not a big fan of porn for porn's sake but if you want to write about people expressing their feelings via sex, that's great! If you don't want to write shipfic, something focusing on friendship or family bonds is great too.

-Gen, het, slash, femslash and poly (including poly relationships where A is romantically involved with both B and C but B and C are not romantically interested in each other) are all good with me.

-tropes and cliches (if you want to write "snowed in at the hotel and there's ONLY ONE BED", sedoretu, unexpected baby acquisition, genderswap, somebody inexplicably has wings, etc., but are worried that it wasn't specifically prompted, please know that I love that kind of stuff and follow where your muse leads you -- only exceptions are I'm not too keen on soulmarks and A/B/O when they're done straight)

-subverted/inverted tropes and cliches (including soulmarks and A/B/O if they strike your fancy)

-lots of dialogue; limited third person POV; epistolary/mixed media/documentation fic

-canon settings (feel free to throw in some worldbuilding!)

-canon divergences (i.e. fork in the road AUs)

-alternate universes (the wackier the better; personal faves include Regency settings, Star Trek or similar space settings, magic, and "bring your fandom to work" AUs)

-food; competence; found families

No, Thanks!

-unhappy endings

-unrequited love

-major character death (as in, this character is gone and not coming back; death followed by resurrection or altered form of existence is fine so long as the character is still around)

-humiliation; intense angst; graphic violence and gore

-noncon and dubcon; kink involving bathroom functions or vore

-first and second person POV

-fics that center around dealing with discrimination or identity issues (it's fine if these things are addressed in the course of the narrative but I don't want it to be the point of the story)

-AUs that change the nature of characters' backstory together (e.g. if two people have known each other since childhood I'd rather not have an AU where they meet for the first time as adults, and if they've been best friends their whole lives I'd rather not read an AU where they're enemies instead)

-I seriously doubt that this will be an issue for these fandoms, but just as a note, I spent many years of my life studying Latin, so please don't throw random Google-translated Latin into the fic or use it for a title.

...And on to the fandoms!

( Bombshells (Comics) - Tim Drake/Jason Todd )

( DCU (Comics) - Mia 'Maps' Mizoguchi/Olive Silverlock )

( Wotakoi: Love Is Hard For Otaku (Manga) - Momose Narumi/Nifuji Hirotaka )

( You Could Make a Life - David Chapman/Kirill 'Kiro' Volkov, David Chapman/Kirill 'Kiro' Volkov/Emily Ross )

( Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong - Nate Harding/Charlie Nolan )

Hey dreamwidth friends! Long time no post (except for the annual "Dear Yulegoat" letter), but I come bearing gifts, so please excuse the intrusion.

I may be the last person on the internet who still listens to CDs and creates playlists using .mp3s rather than Spotify, but you'll pry my iPod Shuffle out of my cold dead hands (it is over five years old and still works! it goes for days without being charged! it clips onto my clothes! there are no ads between songs!) so that's my preferred music consumption method. I make a big mishmash playlist every season of the songs I've gotten into, and it's kind of fun for me to look back at a year's worth of music. Maybe it'll be fun for you, too! My musical taste veers between "I heard this song on a fanvid and I liked it enough to look up the CD," "this is so popular even I've heard of it" and "random shit I found on Noisetrade and downloaded because it had a pretty album cover" so uh, be forewarned.

( Winter 2018 )
( Spring 2018 )
( Summer 2018 )
( Autumn 2018 )

Also, in the spirit of the season, if you'd like me to make you a mix, just let me know! I really enjoy doing it.

Happy Yuletide and thank you in advance for writing for me! I really hope you'll have fun. This post has some prompts and general info about my preferences, but Optional Details Are Optional so if there's a story of your heart that you've been waiting to write about the characters I've requested, don't worry about sticking too close to my prompts: write the story you're into! So long as you respect my DNWs I'm sure I'll love it if you loved writing it. I'm meretricula on the AO3 (and Tumblr), if you need to find me!

Yes, Please!

-Happiness. I want everybody to be happy or at least not overtly miserable at the end of the fic. They can suffer and be angsty in the beginning or middle but please please please let the ending be sunshine and rainbows or the promise of sunshine and rainbows on the not-too-distant horizon. I'm also happy to get a fic that's 100% fluffy sunshine and rainbows all the way through.

-Characters having lots of feelings about each other. I'm a big fan of tropes where characters have a lot of history between them -- friends to lovers, childhood sweethearts, best frenemies, sibling relationships, etc. I'm not a big fan of porn for porn's sake but if you want to write about people expressing their feelings via sex, that's great! If you don't want to write shipfic, something focusing on friendship or family bonds is great too.

-Gen, het, slash, femslash and poly (including poly relationships where A is romantically involved with both B and C but B and C are not romantically interested in each other) are all good with me.

-tropes and cliches (if you want to write "snowed in at the hotel and there's ONLY ONE BED", sedoretu, unexpected baby acquisition, genderswap, somebody inexplicably has wings, etc., but are worried that it wasn't specifically prompted, please know that I love that kind of stuff and follow where your muse leads you -- only exceptions are I'm not too keen on soulmarks and A/B/O when they're done straight)

-subverted/inverted tropes and cliches (including soulmarks and A/B/O if they strike your fancy)

-lots of dialogue; limited third person POV; epistolary/mixed media/documentation fic

-canon settings (feel free to throw in some worldbuilding!)

-canon divergences (i.e. fork in the road AUs)

-alternate universes (the wackier the better; personal faves include Regency settings, Star Trek or similar space settings, magic, and "bring your fandom to work" AUs)

-food; competence; found families

No, Thanks!

-unhappy endings

-unrequited love

-major character death (as in, this character is gone and not coming back; death followed by resurrection or altered form of existence is fine so long as the character is still around)

-humiliation; intense angst; graphic violence and gore

-noncon and dubcon; kink involving bathroom functions or vore

-first and second person POV

-fics that center around dealing with discrimination or identity issues (it's fine if these things are addressed in the course of the narrative but I don't want it to be the point of the story)

-AUs that change the nature of characters' backstory together (e.g. if two people have known each other since childhood I'd rather not have an AU where they meet for the first time as adults, and if they've been best friends their whole lives I'd rather not read an AU where they're enemies instead)

-I seriously doubt that this will be an issue for these fandoms, but just as a note, I spent many years of my life studying Latin, so please don't throw random Google-translated Latin into the fic or use it for a title.

...And on to this year's fandoms!

( Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku - Momose Narumi, Nifuji Hirotaka )

( The Grand Sophy - Sancia | La Marquesa de Villacañas, Sir Vincent Talgarth, Augustus Fawnhope )

( Tennis RPF - Andrea Petkovic, Courtney Nguyen )

( You Could Make A Life - David Chapman, Kiro Volkov )

Happy New Year, everybody! May we all be healthy and happy and able to afford the books we want to buy in 2018.

Yuletide reveals are up! I received two lovely stories, a character study for Elliot and Luke from In Other Lands and get-together fic for Nate and Charlie (with background Joanna/Holly!) from Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong. I'm still very very slowly reading my way through the collection, but I've also really enjoyed this slow-burn romance for Gavin and Sezin from Integrate (I haven't read the canon but I could figure it out from the fic), this extremely weird epistolary thing about the Vantablack pigment feud, and this political space opera featuring Scipio Africanus and Hannibal of Punic War fame.

I wrote four stories this year including my assignment, which I think is actually the longest fic I've ever completed in my life. Both in order of posting and descending word count:

Sorcery & Sebastian, or A Most Magical Season (16437 words) by meretricula
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kate and Cecelia - Caroline Stevermer & Patricia Wrede
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kate Schofield/Thomas Schofield, Cecelia Tarleton/James Tarleton
Characters: Kate Schofield, Cecelia Tarleton, Thomas Schofield (Kate and Cecelia), James Tarleton
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Always a Different Sex, Epistolary
Summary:

Two cousins and former comrades in arms -- one in London to accompany his sister through her first Season, the other convalescing at home in Essex -- must re-acclimatize to civilian life as they encounter Polite Society, a plot to murder a marchioness, and, most dangerously of all, romance.

To Say Nothing of the Goat (6244 words) by meretricula
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kate and Cecelia - Caroline Stevermer & Patricia Wrede
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kate Schofield/Thomas Schofield, Cecelia Tarleton/James Tarleton
Characters: Kate Schofield, Thomas Schofield (Kate and Cecelia), Cecelia Tarleton, James Tarleton
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Alternate Universe - Temeraire Fusion, Alternate Universe - Star Trek Fusion, Alternate Universe - Fans & Fandom, Epistolary
Summary:

Whether in the future, the past, or the present, Kate and Cecelia are destined to have a very interesting correspondence.

until we strike soundings (1727 words) by meretricula
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alemi/Elgion (Dragonriders of Pern)
Characters: Alemi (Dragonriders of Pern), Elgion (Dragonriders of Pern)
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

While Menolly was off Impressing fire lizards and living holdless, it might have surprised her to learn that her brother and Half-Circle's new Harper were falling in love.

It's A Wonderful Life, Charlie Nolan (780 words) by meretricula
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong (Graphic Novel)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nate Harding/Charlie Nolan
Characters: Nate Harding, Charlie Nolan
Additional Tags: Coming Out, Christmas Eve
Summary:

Coming out to Charlie's parents goes about as well as expected.

I don't normally go in for New Year's resolutions, but I am hoping that this year I'll be able to write a little more in the Protector of the Small series I started last year! I miss Kel being part of Yuletide. And I want to be better about replying to comments, so I'll wrap this up here and get started on beginning as I mean to go on!

Happy Yuletide and thank you in advance for writing for me! I really hope you'll have fun. This post has some prompts and general info about my preferences, but (a) I'm pretty easy to please and (b) Optional Details Are Optional, so if there's a story of your heart that you've been waiting for write, don't worry about sticking too close to my requests: write the story you're into! I'm sure I'll love it if you loved writing it. (I mean, I do still want a story in one of the fandoms I requested and about the characters I picked, but you know what I mean.) The purpose of this letter is to make things easier for you -- you don't even need to keep reading if you don't want. If what you got in the assignment email is enough for you to start writing, go for it! Conversely, if this letter doesn't have enough info and you want to know more about the stuff I'm into, I can be found under the name meretricula on tumblr and the AO3 as well.

Yes, Please!

-Happiness. I want everybody to be happy or at least not overtly miserable at the end of the fic. They can suffer and be angsty in the beginning or middle but please please please let the ending be sunshine and rainbows or the promise of sunshine and rainbows on the not-too-distant horizon. I'm also happy to get a fic that's 100% fluffy sunshine and rainbows all the way through.

-Characters having lots of feelings about each other. I'm a big fan of tropes where characters have a lot of history between them -- friends to lovers, childhood sweethearts, best frenemies, sibling relationships, etc. I'm not a big fan of porn for porn's sake but if you want to write about people expressing their feelings via sex, that's great! If you don't want to write shipfic, something focusing on friendship or family bonds is great too.

-Gen, het, slash, femslash and poly (including poly relationships where A is romantically involved with both B and C but B and C are not romantically interested in each other) are all good with me.

-tropes and cliches (if you want to write A/B/O, sedoretu, unexpected baby acquisition, genderswap, etc., but are worried that it wasn't specifically prompted, please know that I love that kind of stuff and follow where your muse leads you)

-subverted/inverted tropes and cliches

-lots of dialogue; limited third person POV; mixed media/documentation fic

-canon settings (feel free to throw in some worldbuilding!)

-canon divergences (i.e. fork in the road AUs)

-alternate universes (the wackier the better; personal faves include Regency settings, Star Trek or similar space settings, magic, and "bring your fandom to work" AUs)

-food; competence; found families

No, Thanks!

-major character death (as in, this character is gone and not coming back; death followed by resurrection or altered form of existence is fine so long as the character is still around)

-humiliation; intense angst; graphic violence and gore

-noncon and dubcon; kink involving bathroom functions or vore

-first and second person POV

-fics that center around dealing with discrimination or identity issues (it's fine if these things are addressed in the course of the narrative but I don't want it to be the point of the story)

-AUs that change the nature of characters' backstory together (e.g. if two people have known each other since childhood I'd rather not have an AU where they meet for the first time as adults, and if they've been best friends their whole lives I'd rather not read an AU where they're enemies instead)

-I seriously doubt that this will be an issue for these fandoms, but just as a note, I spent many years of my life studying Latin, so please don't throw random Google-translated Latin into the fic or use it for a title.

And now, on to the fandom-specific prompts!

( In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan )

( Bruno & Boots (Movies) )

( Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong (Graphic Novel) )

( Questionable Content (Webcomic) )

( Temeraire - Naomi Novik )

( Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold )

Happy writing!

Happy Yuletide and thank you in advance for writing for me! I really hope you'll have fun. This post has some prompts and general info about my preferences, but (a) I'm pretty easy to please and (b) Optional Details Are Optional, so if there's a story of your heart that you've been waiting for write, don't worry about sticking too close to my requests: write the story you're into! I'm sure I'll love it if you loved writing it. (I mean, I do still want a story in one of the fandoms I requested and about the characters I picked, but you know what I mean.) The purpose of this letter is to make things easier for you -- you don't even need to keep reading if you don't want. If what you got in the assignment email is enough for you to start writing, go for it! Conversely, if this letter doesn't have enough info and you want to know more about the stuff I'm into, I can be found under the name meretricula on tumblr and the AO3 as well.

Likes: Happiness. I want everybody to be happy or at least not overtly miserable at the end of the fic. They can suffer and be angsty in the beginning or middle but please please please let the ending be sunshine and rainbows or the promise of sunshine and rainbows on the not-too-distant horizon. I'm also happy to get a fic that's 100% fluffy sunshine and rainbows all the way through. I'm a big fan of tropes where characters have a lot of history between them -- friends to lovers, childhood sweethearts, best frenemies, sibling relationships, etc. -- and you'll see those popping up a lot in my prompts. Basically I'm ALL ABOUT THE FEELINGS. I'm not a big fan of porn for porn's sake but if you're happier writing about people expressing their feelings via sex, that's great too! Gen, het, slash, femslash and poly are all good with me.

I also like: lots of background detail; tropes and cliches; subverted/inverted tropes and cliches; lots of dialogue; limited third person POV; canon settings, canon divergences AND alternate universes; food; competence; found families; mixed media/documentation fic.

Dislikes: major character death (as in, this character is gone and not coming back; death followed by resurrection or altered form of existence is fine so long as the character is still around); humiliation; intense angst; graphic violence and gore; noncon and dubcon; first and second person POV; AUs that change the nature of characters' backstory together (e.g. if two people have known each other since childhood I'd rather not have an AU where they meet for the first time as adults, and if they've been best friends their whole lives I'd rather not read an AU where they're enemies instead)

( Bride Quartet - Nora Roberts )

( The Bourne Legacy (2012) )

( A Countess Below Stairs - Eva Ibbotson )

( Three Sisters Island Trilogy - Nora Roberts )

Thank you again, dear yulegoat! Happy writing!

Hi there! I've never done

trickortreatex before, so hopefully I'm doing this right. I'm really excited for Halloween this year, and I hope you are too! This post has some extra information about what I like/don't like, but standard disclaimer: if you prefer to just go from the prompts, you don't have to read any of this. I want you to write the story you want to write. If there is ever a question in your heart as to whether you should fulfill some nitpicking optional detail in my request or write the story you have dreamed of writing since you offered the fandom, go with the story of your dreams, because if you love writing it, I'm sure I'll love reading it! The purpose of this post is to make your life easier, not harder. Also, my prompts tend to be very shippy, but if we only matched on one character or you just aren't feeling the romance, that's totally fine! Write the character you signed up for, don't worry about the prompt.

(If you want even more information about me, which I don't think anyone would but I know some people like to read their recipient's blog, I'm meretricula everywhere -- AO3, LJ, DW, and Tumblr. I'm somewhat more active on Tumblr these days than anywhere else.)

Likes: Happiness. I want everybody to be happy or at least not overtly miserable at the end of the fic. They can suffer and be angsty in the beginning or middle but please please please let the ending be sunshine and rainbows or the promise of sunshine and rainbows on the not-too-distant horizon. I'm also happy to get a fic that's 100% fluffy sunshine and rainbows all the way through. I'm a big fan of tropes where characters have a lot of history between them -- friends to lovers, childhood sweethearts, best frenemies, sibling relationships, etc. -- and you'll see those popping up a lot in my prompts. Basically I'm ALL ABOUT THE FEELINGS. I'm not a big fan of porn for porn's sake but if you're happier writing about people expressing their feelings via sex, that's great too!

I also like: lots of background detail; tropes and cliches; subverted/inverted tropes and cliches; lots of dialogue; limited third person POV; canon settings, canon divergences AND alternate universes; food; competence; found families; mixed media/documentation fic.

Dislikes: major character death (as in, this character is gone and not coming back; death followed by resurrection or altered form of existence is fine so long as the character is still around); humiliation; intense angst; graphic violence and gore; noncon and dubcon; first and second person POV; AUs that change the nature of characters' backstory together (e.g. if two people have known each other since childhood I'd rather not have an AU where they meet for the first time as adults, but an AU where they meet under different circumstances but around the same point in their lives is fine).

Trick or Treat preference: well, I like happy stuff, so treats are good! But I also love love love stories with monsters and magic and the supernatural, so I'm 100% down for trick fic so long as it ends happily.

Fanfic/Fanart preference: I'm not a very visual person, so I generally prefer words over pictures.

( Anime & Manga: Free! and Kuroko no Basket )

( Cartoons & Comics & Graphic Novels: Penny & Aggie and Questionable Content )

( Books & Literature: Emelan )

( TV Shows: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell )

( Movies: Fast & Furious )

( Celebrities & Real People: Tennis RPF )

Hi, friend! Thank you so much for offering one of my tiny fandoms -- I am so excited to read whatever you write, and I hope you will have a wonderful time writing for me! This post has some general information about stuff I like/don't like, because I prefer it when my recipient gives me extra stuff to go on, but if you prefer to just go from the prompts, you don't have to read any of this. I want you to write the story you want to write. If there is ever a question in your heart as to whether you should fulfill some nitpicking optional detail in my request or write the story you have dreamed of writing since you offered the fandom, go with the story of your dreams, because if you love writing it, I'm sure I'll love reading it! The purpose of this post is to make your life easier, not harder. (If you want even more information about me, which I don't think anyone would but I know some people like to read their recipient's blog, I'm meretricula everywhere -- AO3, LJ, DW, and Tumblr. I'm somewhat more active on Tumblr these days than anywhere else.)

Likes: Happiness. I want everybody to be happy or at least not overtly miserable at the end of the fic. They can suffer and be angsty in the beginning or middle but please please please let the ending be sunshine and rainbows or the promise of sunshine and rainbows on the not-too-distant horizon. I'm also happy to get a fic that's 100% fluffy sunshine and rainbows all the way through. I'm a big fan of tropes where characters have a lot of history between them -- friends to lovers, childhood sweethearts, best frenemies, sibling relationships, etc. -- and you'll see those popping up a lot in my prompts. Basically I'm ALL ABOUT THE FEELINGS. I'm not a big fan of porn for porn's sake but if you're happier writing about people expressing their feelings via sex, that's great too! Some of the canons I've requested lend themselves more to sexy feels than others; I've indicated the ones where I'm not comfortable receiving adult content.

I also like: lots of background detail; tropes and cliches; subverted/inverted tropes and cliches; lots of dialogue; limited third person POV; canon settings, canon divergences AND alternate universes; food; competence; found families; mixed media/documentation fic.

Dislikes: major character death; humiliation; intense angst; graphic violence and gore; noncon and dubcon; first and second person POV; experimental grammar and formatting.

( Shadows - Robin McKinley (Maggie, Takahiro) )

( A Countess Below Stairs - Eva Ibbotson (Susie Rabinovitch, Tom Byrne) )

( Three Sisters Island Trilogy - Nora Roberts (Mia Devlin, Ripley Todd) )

( Tennis RPF (Dinara Safina, Marat Safin) )

Happy Yuletiding, friend! It truly is the best time of the year. :)

So about a million years ago

stickmarionette prompted me to do a Baby Dream Team fanmix on tumblr, and I promptly failed to do much of anything except vaguely think about suitably tragic song lyrics (sorry I'm the worst) until I was finally impelled by a nostalgic trip through my football tag and my intense Baby Dream Team Feels (tm) about the song Laughter Lines by Bastille to finish the mix and make a cover and even write a drabble to go along with it? This productivity feels very strange. Anyway, I hope you like/don't hate this, Lee! I'm very out of practice with everything, including feeling things. \o/

( in the future, when we're older )

First things first! THANK YOU, WONDERFUL WRITER, FOR OFFERING ONE OF MY TINY BELOVED FANDOMS. I am so excited to read whatever you write, and I hope you will have a wonderful time writing for me! This post has some general information about stuff I like/don't like, because I prefer it when my recipient gives me extra stuff to go on, but if you prefer to just go from the prompts, you don't have to read any of this! I want you to write the story you want to write. If there is ever a question in your heart as to whether you should fulfill some nitpicking optional detail in my request or write the story you have dreamed of writing since you offered the fandom, go with the story of your dreams, because if you love writing it, I'm sure I'll love reading it! The purpose of this post is to make your life easier, not harder. (If you want even more information about me, which I don't think anyone would but I know some people like to read their recipient's blog, I'm meretricula on tumblr as well, and more active over there.)

( optional details are optional! )

( Some Girls (Amber Dean and Saz Kaur) )

( Blurred Lines Sexy Boys Parody (Caela Bailey, Sexy Boy With Long Hair | Trojan Original, Sexy Boy With Shaved Head | The Luminous Pariah, and Sexy Boy With Short Hair | Paris Original) )

( Tennis RPF (Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova) )

( A Countess Below Stairs (Susie Rabinovitch and Tom Byrne) )

( The Outlaws of Sherwood (Cecily and Little John) )

Happy yuletide!

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