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The Serpent and the Songbird by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
24 Dec 2021
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Jin Guangyao is looking up again and grinning now, and he says, “And how does Nie Huaisang propose to protect me? With his saber?” He’s openly laughing at Nie Huaisang, and it fills Huaisang with a helpless, giddy fondness. Gentle Meng Yao, who flinches like a kicked dog at every low-level disciple, always with that polite strained smile, gets so vicious when he’s around Nie Huaisang. He’s like a bird with a broken wing. Nie Huaisang wants to tape him up and let him fly.
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Before Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli’s marriage and after Wei Wuxian’s flight to the burial mounds, Jin Guangyao is rapidly gaining power, which a strong marriage alliance would cement. Jin Guangyao likes taking care of people. Nie Huaisang wants to be a trophy husband. If you ignore literally everyone else in their lives, they’re a perfect couple. The first person that Nie Huaisang has to convince of this is Jin Guangyao.
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My roommate's a ghost ?!?!?! by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
22 Nov 2021
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"Hanguang-jun is a humanoid figure that has been seen by multiple people in either the library or the central room of the compound, the Jingshi. In appearance, he’s a male between his 20s and mid 30s, frequently seen wearing long white robes, with a silver circlet around his forehead.”
“White robes? Now that’s your classic ghost.”
"Like - like he wouldn’t be as good of a ghost if he were wearing sweats, is that what you’re saying?”
“Yeah exactly! You’re a ghost, you gotta, you gotta wear long sheets and go ‘oooo.’ Have some standards.”
“Hanguang-jun is primarily found between the hours of 5am to 8pm, but accounts from locals have described being violently accosted after hours if they’re carrying alcohol.”
“-Okay, okay, hang on. So this is a library ghost that has a curfew and hates teen drinking? Are we sure it’s not just a mean old man? Are we sure its not my brother?”
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Ghost believer Nie Huaisang is on a mission to convince his best friend and staunch skeptic, Wei Wuxian, of the existence of ghosts in their hit documentary series Buzzfeed Untamed. The next stop? The mysteriously destroyed Cloud Recesses.
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Flower Gazing by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
10 Aug 2021
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In the evening they will be rivals. Nie Mingjue is there to defend a trade agreement, one where either Gusu or Qinghe will prove the loser, and they will both fight for what is due to their own. They are each bound by duty to their sects, and bound to each other by their recognition of that duty, and so there is a pleasure even in the fight, and in the losing, to know that they are each acting exactly as they ought.
But that is in the evening. Now, Nie Mingjue has arrived early to Gusu, even though he has made the journey on many occasions and cannot claim that he simply misjudged the time. It is the same way that Lan Xichen carves out extra time before business when he travels to Qinghe, knowing that waiting there for him are hushed hours with Mingjue, where he does not have to carry all of Gusu into his private chambers.
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the landscape after cruelty, which is, of course, a garden by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
28 Jun 2021
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To his credit, Wei Wuxian looks a little abashed, holding his palms up to the bed. “Ah, many apologies, Wen-gongzi,” he says, bowing twice, “I hope this one hasn’t disturbed your rest.” From anyone else, the theatrics would be mockery. From Wei Wuxian, who the world casts in whatever role diminishes him most - servant, young master, upstart, hero - it is as close to honesty as he ever comes.
“If you’re not going to be useful, you can just leave,” says Wen Qing, folding her arms sourly, and turning her face away to hide her traitorously fond smile.
Some snapshots from the Burial Mounds days
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Make Me A Match by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
09 Jun 2021
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The cafe that the matchmaker had sent Jiang Cheng to was one of those sleek Tribeca joints that listed the same dishes as all the others of its kind, but with the sort of breathless thrill that implied that they had personally discovered the existence of roasted bell peppers. It’s aggressively modern and aggressively Caucasian, in a way that had made the choice of location feel intentional, like the aunties were trying to distance themselves from the old-world stain of arranged matches. Aunt Jingfei, Jiang Cheng’s mother’s second cousin’s wife’s friend who brokered the arrangement, had said “just like Bumble!” more than once, and laughed the same tinkling laugh every time. Jiang Cheng’s shirt is too small, his knees are bumping against the underside of the table, and a hot, miserable bead of sweat is wending its torturous way down his collar. He checks the clock again. His date - Immanuel: short, body type: slender, likes: music - is five minutes late, which is probably normal. Wei Wuxian would be five minutes late to a date. Or thirty minutes. If his date is in any way like Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng is going to crawl into the ocean and die there, like a lonely, celibate crab.
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Nie Huaisang reflects on a life lived, and makes plans for the future. Xichen comes along for the ride.
Bookmarked by Folderol
18 Dec 2021
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Reference for Modao Zushi Writers: Chinese terms by chaoticjoy
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
07 Sep 2019
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This is to provide a reference for writers who are unfamiliar with Chinese literary conventions or terms used in canon. Hopefully someone will find this helpful.
Prompted by https://three--rings.tumblr.com/post/187301034228/things-the-mdzs-fandom-desperately-needs-if-they
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Bookmarked by Folderol
26 Oct 2020
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Tangle Buddies (Or: How Rose Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Squiddles) by dltoro for cancerously
Fandoms: Homestuck
27 Dec 2012
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Your name is Rose Lalonde, and nine months ago you joined the website TangleBuddies.net.
No one must ever know.
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15 Feb 2015
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An Earth-Shattering Confession by rememberwhenyoutried (alysongreaves)
Fandoms: Homestuck
01 Nov 2013
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It’s been at least ten minutes since you closed your laptop and you still haven’t left your room. You are frozen between two equally terrible possibilities. Strangely enough, neither involves your mother refusing to believe you or rejecting you; these outcomes are out of your control and thus difficult to think about.
You’re going downstairs to tell your mother that you’re a girl.
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- Part 1 of Let There Be Light
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Bookmarked by Folderol
15 Feb 2015
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In which the winners of a modded game are forced to deal with the consequences of each other. Can be read as a series of connected oneshots with a linear plotline. Fic starts sometime before EoA5.
Chapter 10:
You were about to reprogram the software in question when a friend of yours offered to help by solving your sight issues in a more practical way. The glasses they helped build for you bathed the universe in lines of colored code; negative space shadowed, inanimate objects Prospit gold, sentient beings their respective blood colours. The lenses deconstructed the world to the bare basics of numbers and symbols, and you perceived the very framework you once hacked in order to diverge the alpha timeline.You had been reborn into a world of yellow and black, and it was perfect.
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- Part 1 of Coming Home
Bookmarked by Folderol
15 Feb 2012