#mdsz fic rec

[jalapenohoneybadger]

I absolutely loved this fic by @thievinghippo, especially as a fan of a mostly losing baseball team. The pining was sooo delicious.

#wangxian #wei wuxian #lan wangji #fic recs #the untamed #mdzs #mdsz fanfic

[lotstradamus]

Top 5 fics read in 2020

oh god. this is going to be the most unholy combination of fics for a 50-episode Chinese historical fantasy romance and... hockey RPF. am I really going to expose myself like this?????

yes 

Adorned by jolach - ‘This is an AU about a dick piercing.’ (Alexander Ovechkin/Nicklas Backstrom, hockey AU) 

A Lot of Edges Called Perhaps by hansbekhart - ‘The funny part is - and it is a little funny, even if Wei Wuxian has no one left to share the joke with - they never have. Not anything. He has never kissed any part of Lan Zhan besides his slim hands; never been even partially undressed with him anywhere besides a miserable, xuanwu-infested cave. It’s always been like this between them, this simmering need, this desperate understanding: a knowledge so deep that it lives somewhere in his bones, that if he wanted to have Lan Zhan he could have him, and if Lan Zhan wanted Wei Wuxian he could have that too. But they never have.’ (Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji)

dream team by jolach - ‘“It’s not a big deal,” G had said to him. “It’s just like any other game. Don’t sweat it.” It is not like any other game. - OR - Seventy-two hours in St. Louis.’ (Travis Konecny/Nico Hischier, Travis Konecny/Nolan Patrick) 

The Roots Grow Riotous by hansbekhart - ‘Sometimes Lan Zhan doesn’t work through lunch. Sometimes he makes conversation with coworkers in the halls. Sometimes he goes home instead of spending the last hour trawling through Grindr. But mostly, that’s exactly what he does. The sameness is comforting. His life spools out in easily measured increments: capsule collections, yards of hand dyed textiles, ninety day lead times, sell through figures, cost of goods sold. Every date in manufacturing can be calculated backwards and forward from a single horizon point: the date that the goods must arrive into the country where they'll be sold. Other than that, nothing else really matters.’ (Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji, modern AU, WIP) 

seldom all they seem by Fahye - ‘or, one hundred and thirty-three principles of the Gusu Lan, pertaining to the state of marriage *** He bows to Wei Wuxian, sword in hand, sleeves falling properly. Wei Wuxian bows in return, and the sect leaders begin the opening courtesies, and for all of ten minutes Lan Wangji is under the impression that he is betrothed to a boy who is perfectly normal and acceptable apart from an unfortunate tendency to fidget with his clothes. That impression does not last.’ (Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji, canon AU) 

#in 2020 my pinned fic rankings stand thus: #The Untamed/MDSZ: 38 #hockey RPF: 21 #other: 4 #the 'others' were 2 TRC and 2 IT #no one stood a chance... #answered #TOP 5 MEME #fic rec #BUT FOR WHOM????? WHOM ELSE IS SUFFERING IN THIS PARTICULAR WAY

[callunarecs]

[The Untamed] Unstrictly Ballroom

Title: Unstrictly Ballroom [Ao3] Author: Ariaste Fandom: The Untamed, Modao Zushi Pairings: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian Wordcount: 47k Rating: Teen & Up Summary: Thirteen years ago, Wei Wuxian brought scandal and shame down upon his head and was thrown out of the competitive ballroom dance circuit. He vanished, never to be heard from again. Lan Wangji aches when he remembers the way Wei Ying danced--like a laugh given movement and form. He has never stopped searching for him.

Excerpt: “Oh!” Wei Ying says, lighting up. “Yes, I can show you.”

He restarts the music, drops his stick with a clatter and crosses the room to Lan Wangji in a few strides, just enough time for Lan Wangji to think oh no and brace himself. Wei Ying steps into close embrace, wrapping an arm all the way around Lan Wangji’s shoulders, tucking his face against Lan Wangji’s neck and ear, pressing their chests together. He’s positioned himself as the follow. 

“Lead,” he whispers.

For a split second, Lan Wangji isn’t sure he can do this. Wei Ying doesn’t know the magnitude of what he’s asking for. Thirteen years he’s been waiting on Wei Ying’s promise. Thirteen years of wondering and missing him and feeling cold and empty and alone, with no light left in the world. And now here Wei Ying is in his hands, and Lan Wangji barely dares to touch him. Like a bird, he hears Wei Ying’s voice echo in his head. Like a treasure of thin jade. Lan Wangji knows exactly what he means with that too.

He doesn’t know if he can do it, but then he does it.

This, too, is effortless--Wei Ying is as good of a follow as he is a lead, if not better. Lan Wangji barely has to cue him. It’s like telepathy, like Wei Ying knows where Lan Wangji wants him to go, and he’s moving there the same nanosecond that Lan Wangji directs him. Lan Wangji can feel Wei Ying’s heart beating against his chest, can feel their breath syncing as they move across the floor in simple figures. Nothing complicated or showy, and Wei Ying is barely adding any embellishments or flourishes. 

Lan Wangji can feel the heat of him. His nose is full of the scent of Wei Ying’s hair and skin--it smells familiar, partly because Wei Ying’s been borrowing his soaps, but it’s more than that. Underneath it all, he just smells like Wei Ying.

Lan Zhan closes his eyes. He doesn’t need to see for this--he knows the room like the back of his hand. He could probably navigate through it by echolocation alone, if he had to. Wei Ying moves with him as sweet and smooth as cream, and it’s so lovely that it hurts. Lan Wangji wants to cry, and to kiss him, and to shake him by the shoulders and demand to know why they had to wait thirteen years for this. 

Wei Ying turns his face against the side of Lan Wangji’s jaw, and Lan Wangji can feel his own heart beating in every part of his body. He can’t bear to move them through any figure that’s going to require Wei Ying to step back from close embrace. He can’t even bear it when Wei Ying has to swivel to one side or the other so only half of him is touching Lan Wangji.

He wants to clutch Wei Ying tight, but that is poor form and a bad example to the students. He does not do it.

He wants to throw all of the teenagers out of the room and have him right here on the scuffed hardwood. He doesn’t do that either.

He holds him like a treasure of thin jade, precious and delicate. He holds him like a bird, with the knowledge that Wei Ying is going to fly away when this is done.

All things end. This ends like a soft, extended sigh, an exhale clouding in cold air and then dissipating. Lan Zhan would draw the last moment out--and then probably draw it out, and out, longer than is normal or appropriate, and then everyone would see exactly how much he actually did mean it, and that would be dangerous--but all too soon, Wei Ying is dropping their frame just enough to shout with laughter and fling his arms around Lan Wangji’s neck. 

“Lan Zhan! That was so good! Wow, you’ve gotten so good!” 

Lan Wangji concentrates very, very hard on not clutching Wei Ying too tight now, either. Like a bird, he reminds himself, and then he lets go and allows Wei Ying to flutter his wings and hop out of his hands. It hurts. It is a real, physical blow. 

He opens his eyes. 

The first thing he notices is that Jingyi and Zizhen, directly in front of him, are clinging to each other like they’re both in danger of falling over. Zizhen is crying. 

Oh no. Oh no, how much did he give away?

“You see?” Wei Ying chirps, turning to Jin Ling, whose jaw is on the floor. Sizhui, next to him, is wide-eyed and biting his lip on a smile.

“Senior Mo!” Jingyi wails. “Why did you stop?”

Wei Ying blinks at him. “The music ended? It was over?”

Zizhen collapses slowly to his knees, outright weeping.Wei Ying scuttles over and squats beside him, patting his shoulder. “You’re gonna be a romantic one when you grow up, eh?” he says, not unkindly.

#the untamed #mdsz #mo dao su zhi #wangxian #wei wuxian #lan wangji #fic recs #teen and up #modern au #dancer au #40k+

[nessureads]

Chapters: 11/? Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Characters: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Nie Huaisang Additional Tags: Modern AU, Established Relationship, Porn, like in the writing and also as a plot point, onlyfans au, sex worker wei ying, Fashionista lan zhan, in this house we support sex workers, Fluff and Smut, they’re horny and in love, mental health, therapy is good actually, No beta we die like wei wuxian, Domestic Bliss, tender kink, Fiber Arts, autistic lan zhan, neurodivergent wei ying, switch rights, Nonbinary Niè Huáisāng, a soupçon of gender, get in losers we’re introspecting about queerness Series: Part 2 of See all this and more for just ten dollars a month! Summary:

“Oh, and that time I ran away? From the family that had me before the Jiangs took me in? I got hypothermia.” Wei Ying says all of this with the same easy demeanor that he uses when he tells playground stories about Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli, like he’s not discussing trauma. “When you get hypothermia once you’re more susceptible to it in the future, which is a fun side effect.” He shrugs and kisses Lan Zhan’s neck with lips that are still cold but not horribly so. “I just get cold easy now. I’m used to it.”

“Mn,” Lan Zhan says, and means, “We’ll fucking see about that.”

Or: Wei Ying is not allowed to be cold, therefore Lan Zhan must learn to knit.

#DOMESTIC BLISS #like i can't even state how accurate that tag is #IT IS BLISS #and lan zhans joyrney of self-discovery fuck it's just so good #and talk of knitting obviously #the first part of the series is also 10/10 #such excellence #wangxian fic #mdsz fic #rec

[fic-recs]

Title: Frost Moon's Sun

Pairing: Song Lan/Xiao Xingchen, Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Word: 107,497

Status: Complete

Rating: Teen and up

Summary: Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan had dreamed of founding a sect together, that is until Xingchen heard what happened to his shijie. The two then decides to put their little dream on hold as they care for a pair of tiny hands between them, protecting the little boy with a sunshine smile as best as they can.

#mdsz #mdzs fic rec #lan wangji x wei wuxian #wangxian #song lan x xiao xingchen #songxiao

[str8-goggles]

This is a hilarious entry into The Same Moon Shines series— where through time travel magic WWX has managed to save his family, and many live to be immortals living in modern society. Shizui and WWX are really good at computer programming… and experiment with it. WWX does this to a typical wwx level. Lan Zhan does not know much about computers but he is just a MOM BOSS.

How do I post a spoiler cut??? I guess I avoided needing one but still… is a laptop required????

#mdsz #mdsz fanfic #untamed fanfiction #fanfic review #fanfic rec #same moon shines #Sami fic #sami

[watch-grok-brainrot]

can you rec me some nice blogs that post about the untamed?

Sure! But first, this was answered by some people i follow already. so i might as well tag them and link their posts since they’ve tagged some great people! follow them if you haven’t. LOL. but i think that’s a given? 

@leonzhng recced a lot of blogs on this post

@candicewright answered here

@aheartfullofjolllly answered here

@yibobibo answered here

I know there are others but i wasn’t tagged so it’s harder to find.... i would go through and follow everyone mentioned in these posts. I would also go to @mdzsnet and follow everyone there. they make content. support them. [disclaimer: i am a member, so this is somewhat self serving. oops.]

I follow a lot of people. these are ones i’ve noticed who post or reblog a lot of CQL/MDSZ content...some do post more than just cql content, but i might as tag them anyway. so some people i follow that i don’t think was mentioned by the above posts.... uh... to those i don’t ever talk to, i do read a lot of your stuff and i hope you don’t mind being tagged.

@winepresswrath, @bi-the-wei, @trans-axian, @pumpkinpaix, @phoenixrisesoncemore, @merelhyn, @trensu, @wuxian-vs-wangji, @honeyiling, @artsy-alice, @seekingthestars, @jupiterjames, @three--rings, @bilboo, @robininthelabyrinth, @kurowrites, @ibijau, @howdydowdy, @veliseraptor, @chinajousama, @chi-zi, @moobiess, @yutaan, @a-cutebird, @brancasyard, @flanpu, @fols-eli, @lan-trans-ji, @ouyang-zizhen, @gravitydefyingtears, @inessencedevided, @bladedweaponsandswishycoats, @dying-redshirt-noises, @wangxianficrecs, @merinnan, @theleakypen, @paradoxspaceheater, @cangse-sanren

ok. you can tell i’m all over the place with who i follow. it ranges from craft makers, fics writers, ranters of odd ideas, artist, meta spew-ers, translators, etc. some just reblog cool stuff and curate a neat page. idk. i love them all for different reasons -- even if i don’t always agree with everything they may say. 

also, it’s FUN to see when people are friends. they reblog and talk and have fun interactions in the comments and reblogs. i love seeing that! i know there are clusters of people i’ve never interacted with and hopefully i get around to it one day. :D

one thing to remember is tumblr is a hell site. I sometimes follow people because i realize we have similar tastes. why is that important? because I MISS THINGS. Tumblr doesn’t show me EVERYTHING I WANNA SEE. So sometimes just because I follow someone doesn’t mean i know they updated until i see another person I follow reblog it. I follow people so they can help notify me when cool things are posted. It’s also why i try to reblog many many things and have a queue going. i’d rather see a cool post 20 times than none. fear of missing out, i guess. hahaha. 

so if you like someone’s work follow them. if you like their taste, follow them. and reblog like crazy! 

uh... this turned into a soapbox. sorry! >.< also, sorry it took me so long to answer this. i had to find bandwidth to go through notifications and find the posts i wanted to link... and then i realized i had a mini-soapbox. Orz.

#Anonymous #thanks for asking! #haoppopotamus rambles #i really do ramble a lot #one big Midwest OPE #thanks for reading! <3

[isozyme]

Do you have any fic recs for The Untamed? :)

boy howdy, i sure mcfuckin do! here you go! this list is organized by my own internal heuristic, aka: not. we have a little bit of everything here; long, short, gen, smut, finished, wips, soft, angsty, cql canon, mdsz canon, crackfic, canon ships, you name it, it’s in this list and not labeled very well!

a lot of edges called perhaps - hansbekhart, LWJ/WWX if you read zero other things, please read hansbekhart. if you haven’t read hansbekhart, go read hansbekhart immediately. theirs was the first fic i read in the fandom, and i will continue to stuff their words into my eyeballs as long as they keep producing them!!! this one is tagged “risk aware consensual patience” and it is 20k of emotional edging that is simultaneously soft and funny and very good. also read their fashion designer!lwj/model!wwx au. do it. it’s a wip and it doesn’t matter read it anyway (it updates weekly).

out of the bin and into your heart - alaceron, LWJ/WWX modern au! fake dating! everyone hangs out at the chinese cultural center! except wwx is banned from all events because of that time he punched jzx during an orchestra concert!

the yunmeng accords - cafecliche, JWY & WWX it’s a series, just read all of it! the good brother reconciliation content that we NEED AND DESERVE

this river runs to you - sundiscus, LWJ/WWX a modern cultivation au; labeled “the dragon one” in our groupchat; feels like reading a studio ghibli movie

four days in lanling - halotolerant, JWY/NHS converted me wholeheartedly to this ship, dang, what a good fic!!! really deft characterization and unreliable narration

with absolute splendor - lise, LWJ/WWX, JWY & WWX jiang cheng is going to MAKE SURE that wwx has a PROPER WEDDING, how dare he think about having a small ceremony in gusu, no jc does not care about things like “complicated history” and “you hate my fiance” suck it up you’re getting married the right way so help me god!

until only the mountain remains - idleorbitals, LWJ/WWX (wip) a big what if about sizhui growing up in the burial mounds with the wens. it got me by the heart!!!

before you stumble - ribena, JWY & WWX jin ling thinks that maybe his uncle should like, be better at this brothers thing. probably everything can be solved by fighting a monster!

i hope that you will come and meet me - feyburner, LWJ/WWX it’s just really SOFT and GOOD and LOVING!!!! lives in my head as “the one where there’s a lotus pond and a really good hug”

hunters seeking solid ground - atilla, LWJ/WWX wwx has nightmares and can’t sleep, hurt/comfort ensues in spades. it’s excellent, the cuddling is out of this world

human places - ilgaksu, JGY/NMJ/LXC (wip) crimson peak au!!!!! crimson peak au!!!!!!!!! brilliant, inspired, i’m never going to recover from reading this. if you’re anti-wip, try their series where lxc is a lord of the fae and jgy is a half-mortal with Big Plans

gentle exile - rynleaf, LXC/SZC lxc and song lan have issues to work out! lots of them in fact! what if they did it...together...and wrote each other letters....wow....

an elegant solution - giraffeter, NMJ/LWJ/WWX (wip) arranged marriage! nmj getting the hots for how much lwj and wwx want to fuck! just go with it, okay? if you don’t do wips, try giraffeter’s finished detective!lwj/kidnapped!wwx modern au, which is also worth a read

grief negotiations - nomette, JGY/LXC post-canon seclusion time: lxc is sad and what is this mysterious music left behind by jgy hm hm sure would be a shame if he were to play it to see what it does... there’s a sequel in the works and it’s so so so good

year of night call - ailuridae, LWJ/WWX the one where they’re all trauma surgeons and there’s only one bed in the on-call room! the juniors have a group text!

attempting the impossible - ariaste, LWJ/WWX, JWY & WWX post canon: wwx and lwj have...seven kids. somehow! jiang cheng learns this, is furious, and goes on a campaign to be the best uncle OR ELSE

half cloak & half dagger - fahye, JGY/LXC canon-divergent au where things are significantly less tragic, and jgy’s main problem is how is he going to get lxc to stop being such a kind, considerate lover and COMPREHENSIVELY RAIL HIM???? technically a sequel, stands alone just fine

a compromising position - verity, JWY/LJY WE ALL KNOW IT, OKAY, WE ALL KNOW THE JIANG CHENG/JINGYI FIC, i’m sorry, i had to put it. i’ll go now.

the one with the emotional support biceps - mongrelmind, JWY/LJY PSYCHE, i’m not gone yet, if you’ve read the verity fic, why don’t you read the version where jiang cheng is a sexy firefighter and jingyi has lit his dorm’s kitchen on fire five times this month?

go forth, enjoy!

#i used everyone's courtesy names in the ship labels #for consistency #even though JWY looks very strange #the untamed #read hansbekhart though #Anonymous

[winterfrosch]

Fic Rec n°28

For Want of a Nap - nirejeski (completed, 6k words)

MDSZ

(Nie Mingjué/Wei Wuxian; Nie Migjué/everyone)

A pur, shameless crack fic about nmj and his accidental harem of tired cultivators (who find out that actually, nmj presence works better than a sleeping talisman)

And a podfic was made by Opalsong

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25074985/chapters/60737992

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27478156

#fic rec #nie mingjue #wei wuxian