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    In which the humans do a politics, the Xhorhasians learn about potato's, and everyone decides five hundred years of living in disguise and on the run isn't actually a great life plan, Essek.

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    11 Apr 2026

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    Rosohnans call it the rainy season: a time of humid days, heavy showers, and suffocating heat.

    Caleb, who feels less and less like a stranger in the city he recently decided to call home, finds it's also a time for revelations.

    (or: the porn-with-vibes fic)

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    02 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 14

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    He has always been a creature of magic to Caleb: a powerful, dangerous thing that Caleb really shouldn’t touch and does anyway, again and again and again.

    The sun sinks into the water; the clouds are co-operating with Jester’s terrible colour scheme.

    The world is good, and they are in it together.

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    29 Mar 2026

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    Shadowgast post canon adventures in Aeor (complete).

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    03 Mar 2026

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    The first letter Essek receives from Caleb Widogast is secreted into his pocket at some point during a tense interview with the Bright Queen. For the life of him, Essek cannot figure out how it was done. He doesn’t recall so much as brushing against the other man as he escorted the Mighty Nein out of the Lucid Bastion.

    Yet when he returns to his office, there it is, tucked into a nearly invisible pocket in his mantle — a piece of subpar parchment folded to vaguely resemble a cat’s face with tiny pointed ears.

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    27 Feb 2026

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    It starts like this: Essek, in a fit of lonely idiocy, agrees to partake in a honeypot scheme with the Mighty Nein. It goes about as smoothly as he should have expected.

    It evolves to this: by decree of Deirta Thelyss, Verin is tasked with protecting his brother and his brother’s friends(??) as they parlay with the Children of Malice over the diplomatic incident they caused. Verin remembers his brother being much more of an aloof douche and much less of a floating disaster.

    Or: In a reality where the Mighty Nein do a stop in Xhorhas prior to meeting up with DeRogna, Essek agrees to help with one side quest and ends up with a lover, a brother, and a fight with a god.

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    18 Feb 2026

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    Essek's tone is academic, clinical, cold. “It would be pointless to deny that I am attracted to you. And I wouldn’t object if what happened last night would happen again. But I would be grateful if we could keep it between us.”

    There’s a beat, then Caleb nods. “I’m fine with keeping it quiet and casual.”

    Or how cold, ruthless and lonely Essek Thelyss (a brilliant student with a secret) accidentally makes some friends and falls in love: a Shadowgast college AU.

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    17 Feb 2026

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    In which Lan Qiren and Jin Guangshan are conspicuously terrible, Lan Wangji decides to fake-date Wei Wuxian about it, and literally no braincells are consulted.

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    07 Jan 2026

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    07 Jan 2026

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    “This can’t keep happening,” Jango says despairingly. He’s said this almost every year for the past twenty-five of them.

    “Well,” Cody slowly replies, looking down at the squalling baby the witch has left on their doorstep, “what’s one more mouth to feed when you’re already feeding thirty?"

     

    In Cody's latest attempt to sacrifice himself for his family, he finally learns how to want something for himself. Modern AU with magic.

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    31 Dec 2025

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    “The time is 6:30 a.m.! Fifty-mile riders, the trail is OPEN!”

     

    Endurance riding: a real, actual sport for the kind of people who think riding a horse 50 miles (or more) in a single day sounds like fun. (It is! It is fun!)

    Come join Lan Zhan and Wei Ying (and Bichen and Suibian) as they ride really, really far — and maybe find themselves falling in love along the way.

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    18 Nov 2025

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    It wasn’t bone. It was too smooth. It caught the light like something greased.

    “A curse,” Lan Wangji breathed, because it could only be such.

     

    The Twin Jades of Lan get turned to jade.

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    29 Sep 2025

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    The truth was that Nie Huaisang wanted to be angry like Jiang Cheng, without caring about the consequences.

    Or: years after Nightless City, Nie Huaisang finds himself in a moment of weakness.

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    23 Sep 2025

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    Hanguang-jun is dating a mild mannered, non-cultivator named Wei Wuxian. The Yiling Laozu rolls up to a nighthunt on a motorbike, no relation at all to the previous statement.

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    23 Sep 2025

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    Wei Wuxian dies at twenty-two and doesn’t come back. Lan Wangji dies in an “unfortunate accident” in a temple in Yunping at thirty-seven. The world moves on.

    Thousands of years later, Wei Ying and Lan Zhan have a senior thesis in cultivation to co-write on the Yiling Patriarch. It doesn’t go exactly how they were expecting.
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    “I still do not understand why you were able to read the journal in the first place,” Lan Zhan says.

    Wei Ying grins. “You’ll laugh,” he says. He won’t, of course. Lan Zhan doesn’t laugh. But maybe he can swing a smile. “It’s because of the name thing. He wrote his name into the scrambling talisman. So it says that no one can undo the lock but Wei Ying.” He hooks a thumb at himself.

    Everyone’s always said his name is unlucky. This is the first time it’s worked out in his favor. It’s not a coincidence either; apparently his mother thought it would be funny. Mrs. Yu had told him that with a curl in her lip, as if it didn’t make him wish he knew his parents even more.

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    08 Aug 2025

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    Lan Xichen pauses before he speaks. He often does. “A-Yao, will you…?”

    There are any number of things that Lan Xichen might be about to say. He might be about to say, “A-Yao, will you cook breakfast while I bathe in the river?” But then, there is a gravity to his tone, and a flush on his cheeks. So perhaps it will be, “A-Yao, will you do that thing with your tongue?” Or even more thrillingly, “A-Yao, will you teach me how to do that thing with your tongue?”

    Lan Xichen does not say any of these things. He says, “A-Yao, will you marry me? If we both survive the war, will you marry me?”

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    Lan Xichen proposes before the war. Somehow, through the property of transitivity, Wei Wuxian becomes Meng Yao’s problem to solve.

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    21 Jul 2025

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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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    20 Jul 2025

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    “Alright.” Hua Cheng said, rolling his shoulders back a few times. “Oh magnificent god of mine, Taizi Dianxia,” he said, grinning, eyes firmly locked on Xie Lian’s. Xie Lian made a show of rolling his eyes. “Grant me your strength so I might vanquish your enemies on this mortal plane.”

    Sorcery grad student Hua Cheng accidentally summons long-forgotten god Xie Lian into his dorm room in the middle of the night. They figure things out from there.

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    18 Jul 2025

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    Sex with Hua Cheng was not a mountain that is impossible to climb, nor was it penfuctory and goal-oriented. It’s playful, and fun, and so full of love that Xie Lian has trouble breathing around it sometimes, like a new pair of lungs has grown in his chest.

    Xie Lian and Hua Cheng try something new. It doesn't go quite as expected, but... maybe that's alright, sometimes.

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    17 Jul 2025

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    Nie Huaisang looks at him. ‘You are confusing me, Clan Leader Jiang, perhaps I misunderstand, but…’

    ‘You didn’t misunderstand. You don’t misunderstand. You understand all of it.’ For six months Jiang Cheng has been mulling this over, and now with Nie Huaisang in front of him he can’t figure out if he most wants to knock him down or kneel at his feet. What he does is try and breathe. Clench his hands at his sides. ‘And now I am going to ask you to do something for me. You have to do something for me. You have to help Jin Ling.’

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    23 Jun 2025

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