Growth and Healing
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He shakes uncontrollably in his corner, pulling the blanket tightly around him and wondering how he can possibly face the world while bearing the weight of his sins.
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All’s Fair in Love and War by Oceans_Away
Fandoms: Lore Olympus (Webcomic), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
31 Aug 2025
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After centuries growing her godhood on earth, Aphrodite feels ready to take on Olympus, and she's making a serious stir. Fresh off his first campaign, Ares is stepping into the role of War, and his troubled family is setting high expectations. When the two meet by chance in Hera's garden, it sparks a friendship and a love that will change them and Olympus for ages to come.
A story about power, and the many things it means. A story about feeling, and knowing yourself through it.
Hey, hopeless romantics! Settle in for the ride if you:
Pine for "When Harry Met Sally" and "Ten Things I Hate About You", but wish they also had a bunch of magical god shit and queerness.
Think smut is great, but it would be cool if it was scripted by Lorelai Gilmore.
Like reading women and bisexuals being friends, enemies, and lovers, while making a ton of bad decisions and (arguably too many) feminist speeches.
Have a thing for characters with *ambient chaos*... and also direct chaos.Buckle up, Buttercups! Actually, don't bother, it's a slow burn. Better grab some snacks.
Building up the soundtrack by chapter here!
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I'll Shout It to the Blue Summer Sky by stardustedknuckles
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
20 Dec 2020
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Beau's thought about it before, what it might mean to be someone's honest to gods girlfriend. She wants to get it right for Yasha, but there's something she's never quite managed to unravel and with Yasha's help, now might be the right time to confront it.
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It has never been the drift that connects both of them. Even in the worst days of the academy, and even in the days they're reunited in the shatterdome, counting days until the apocalypse greets them at their door—Wonwoo believes in this truth.
Wonwoo and Seungcheol, told through hope, promises, lies and half-truths, and a whole entourage of Kaijus waiting at their doorstep.
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Artemis & Lycan by curiousscientistkae
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
25 Jun 2023
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Glimmer is a hunter-the protector of Brightmoon and all those who live there. After the death of her mother, she has taken up this role. Adora is a werewolf, bitten as a child and unable to control the monster inside of her. One faithful day, their paths converge. Glimmer seeks to find her mother's killer. Adora seeks to know about the truth of her family. Will either find their answers as unbeknownst to them, shadows lurk all around and danger is brewing.
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"𝘰𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦"
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gon’s hands fold together, rip apart, smooth down his shorts, scratch his cheek. his eyes dart around, never lingering on anything for too long, always skirting just barely around killua. he shuffles on his feet and killua can feel his entire being trying not to ask the question.
“killua…”
the bird chirps, the wind picks up, and gon keeps moving forwards.
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Secret (Dating) Service by daisytarget for there_must_be_a_lock
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe
29 Dec 2023
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Clint Barton is undercover in the Secret Service looking for a Russian mole. On his persona's first night off from work, he finds himself at a speed dating event - and who shall he meet but a Russian mole, set to take down a mark in the club?
Yeshua is trained to charm, to captivate, to weave a web and leave no trace. On his first mission to prove his capabilities as a spy, rather than a blunt weapon, what could go wrong besides, oh, meeting someone who looks like a reincarnation of his best friend from yesteryear?
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"Just for your information: if you fall asleep during coitus, my ego will never recover.”
“Ew. Never call it that,” Ed says with a grin, wrapping arms around Stede and sliding hands down the back of his shirt.
“Oh, I beg your pardon,” Stede says, pretending to be affronted but far too giggly to commit to the bit. “I believe I recall you dubbing it ‘intercourse’ once upon a time. How on earth is coitus any worse?”
Ed’s giggling, too.
“Well, yeah, but I…”
Until he’s not.
“Y-yeah, but…”
Stede’s kissing his neck, and Ed’s voice should have sputtered out from pleasure. But that’s not…that’s not the reason.
Intercourse. That’s…
What?
How does Stede…?
That…that happened in the gravy basket. Ed said that - he said that in the gravy basket.
Stede doesn’t…Stede shouldn’t…
(OR: A mislaid memory has Ed convinced he never left the basket. Stede helps him back down to earth. Angst, comfort, smut and healing x)
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his warmth, mochi and cuddles <3 by jupiter_the_chaotic_autism_creature
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)
21 Aug 2024
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This is a one shot of Toge and Yuta becoming closer through platonic intimacy of hugs, cuddles, quality time and light amounts of homosexual behavior this is mainly a Toge's centered pov but occasionally it goes out towards Yuta, another jujutsu high member and such, this is my first fic and i hope it's okay <3
i hope you enjoy this fluff, i hope i have got all the tags ^^
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After exposing Andy, Melinda begins to rebuild her life—facing trauma, mending relationships, and finding strength in her voice. Healing isn’t easy... But, yeah, neither is algebra, but here we are.
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baby, come home, be close by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel
28 Aug 2025
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In 1955, Steve Rogers, a decade post-discharge and heavy with what he still carries from the war, struggles to find much point in anything aside from keeping the lights on in the gym he owns in Brooklyn. He's confused when Bucky starts picking the locks in the middle of the night, intrigued when he wants to learn how to fight, and endeared when Bucky finally begins to open up.
Before he knows it, he starts to feel something like human again too.
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the earth remembered me by remux
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
12 Apr 2020
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All around him, summer throbs like a heartbeat, undeniably alive. Wounds begin to heal.
And Wei Wuxian, with sweat on his brow, feels ripe. Wei Wuxian, with his hands deep in the soil and mud between his toes, remembers something simple and primitive and utterly transformative:
It feels good to make things grow.OR:
Wei Wuxian's travel guide to finding your place in the world.
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18 Jun 2021
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wwx's postcanon travels! ahh the healing of nature and the kindness of strangers...of manual labor and time to think...very beautiful
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after night by detention_notes
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
08 Mar 2022
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And Lan Zhan looks at Wei Ying. Still the same as ever, he thinks. A couple hard-earned grays finally twine around his face. Faint scars etch here and there, one under an eyebrow where the hair sprouts white. He has a bruised shoulder. Summer-chapped mouth. Hands re-callused, smile unchanged.
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years fold between one summer morning and one summer night. wei ying and lan zhan learn how to move forward.
the final installment of from season to season
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ideal postcanon scenario. I'm so glad this fic exists.
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Lan Xichen closes his eyes and holds the rules in his chest. He is a pond, slow-moving and lined with cattails, bending around rocks and honoring dams. He knows a limit of grass and beach and stone, knows how far he can lap over their edges. He does not dry up, he does not flood. He takes rain and spills, branches, gravel--he glints sunlight at his surface, and pulls ugly things down below the coating of his silt.
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A study of Lan Xichen's year in seclusion.
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- Part 3 of from season to season
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18 Jun 2021
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that good postcanon lxc introspection yeah
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Close Your Soft Eyes by timetoboldlygo
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
17 Jul 2020
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When Lan Wangji woke, the first thing he noticed was the slip of paper, folded and tucked between his index and middle fingers, not Wei Wuxian’s absence. His fingers trembled as he unfurled the paper. A donkey with a little smile beamed down at him.
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On the nights that Wei Wuxian was gone, Lan Wangji woke to gifts on his pillow.
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18 Jun 2021
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wwx leaves little gifts when he wanders out at night, over the years, to soothe and comfort lwj if he wakes in a panic. what a beautiful postcanon married fic. domestic and tender and respectful. I feel indescribable emotions re: growing and communicating and healing
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That’s just the thing, isn’t it? Wei Ying feels nothing. He doesn’t feel anything, and this emptiness should scare him. He knows he should be scared. He wants to be scared. He isn’t. Fear itself is never scary; fear is just a response. It means that your body wants you alive. It’s the absence of terror that scares him.
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18 Jun 2021
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modern AU wwx, attempted suicide and his recovery with lwj. this fic makes me literally insane I am obsessed with it
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end the rises and the falls by eeriemedusa
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
20 Sep 2020
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And Wei Wuxian has seen himself in the wintertime, with no blanket and no hearth. When the stones hold only the bitter evening frost, when the lakes freeze and the birds flee south. Wei Wuxian has seen how far the animal will crawl to survive.
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After a life in the cold, Wei Wuxian is learning what it is to be warm again.
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18 Jun 2021
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wwx coping postcanon with residual trauma, unhealthily. excellent exploration of sensitive topics
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give up your shape to the falling snow by thistleghost
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
29 Dec 2020
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Lan Zhan's hands are twitching in his lap, his long pale fingers curling into his palms, uncurling.
A part of Wei Ying wants to take Lan Zhan by the shoulders and shake him as hard as he can. Tell him that he doesn’t get to look so sad about this, about a bus that didn’t even kill Wei Ying, only could have. A meaner part of Wei Ying wants to say the words caught at the back of his throat, sharp like little pieces of glass. He wonders a lot of things about Lan Zhan, but this especially. How far his patience can stretch, how far Wei Ying can push before Lan Zhan gives up on him.
I wish it had hit me, he thinks about saying.
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14 Sep 2021
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modern AU wwx is seriously struggling with depersonalization issues, suicidal ideation, dubiously consensual sexual encounters...he finds himself at lwj's doorstep, and things get better. the bunny kink isn't even really sexual, and the writing and emotions are so powerful
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Wei Wuxian laughs again. "Lan Zhan. Lan Wangji. Hanguang-jun. What an honor it is, to be graced by your presence today. Have you come to take me back to the Cloud Recesses with you?"
He doesn’t say, please take me back. Doesn’t say, sometimes I wish you’d taken me back with you all those years ago.
But Lan Zhan shakes his head, small and deliberate, the tiniest, most devastating shift in the world. Wei Wuxian exhales audibly.
"Wei Ying. I have come to ask you to take me away with you."
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Three years ago, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian saved the world. Now the world has moved on and they are left to pick themselves up and start anew. It takes them a while to figure it out. (A post-canon CQL getting together story.)
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oh MAN what a work. starts off THREE years postcanon, when lwj can finally leave his position. wonderful characterizations, reserved but intensely yearning. wwx is unhappy, and his growing closeness is with lwj and the joy that brings him is beautiful to see. the ending made me cry...wwx asked lwj to remember him as he was, and remind him of the person he used to be. I think this lwj is very good in a cql-specific way - shy, reserved, unsure of the unknown, deeply loving
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31 Oct 2022
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UGH a classic. wwx and lwj get together a little after yi city. the writing and characterizations in this was just excellent, especially lwj. some GOOD miscommunication and melodrama
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I Was Not Destined to Tell You My Thoughts (End Racism in the OTW) by BlessedAreTheFandoms
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
11 Aug 2022
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Lan Wangji loves his boyfriend, loves the life they have built, loves the family that surrounds them. It is good--until an attack on Wei Wuxian teaches them both that "good" is a thing you have to fight for sometimes, one conversation and negotiation and realization at a time. Healing is a slow process; for Lan Wangji, it is one that he will pour everything into if it helps the man he loves. For Wei Wuxian, it is one that may be too exhausting to even begin.
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07 Jan 2023
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wwx's attempted SA and his recovery. weaker than the others, but still has a certain charm. the d/s is nicely explored, if a little juvenile and fanficcy
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a kind of emptiness by ScarlettStorm for bookwyrmling
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
30 Oct 2021
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“Lan Luan-daifu says it looks like you’ve been undereating for months.”
“I eat!” Wei Wuxian protests. “You watch me eat, Lan Zhan!” Why is he protesting? He knows exactly what he’s been fucking up, and Lan Zhan almost certainly has the shape of it if not the details. The words stick in his throat, fishbones to choke on, and he drinks more soup in a sullen attempt at washing them away.
“Wei Ying,” Lan Zhan says, setting a hand on his too-wiry thigh. There’s a whole sentence in the name now, layers of meaning, and he says some of it out loud with, “What’s wrong?”
The fight goes out of Wei Wuxian. It’s finally easy to surrender: Lan Zhan knows. It’s humiliating, but he knows. “Ah, Lan Zhan,” he says quietly. “It’s… complicated.”
Lan Zhan nods, his hand petting over Wei Wuxian’s leg in comforting arcs. “Then we can work together to fix it,” he says earnestly. “Tell me?”
Or: Recovery is complicated.
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wwx postcanon learns to gain weight and develop a healthy relationship with food. really wonderful content about healing and recovery and love
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the rites of a widower by sixstepsaway
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
21 Dec 2020
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When Wei Wuxian died, Lan Wangji was rendered a widower. It turns out, he's the only one who realized that — including his oblivious, clueless husband, who deigns to ask one day if his husband found anyone romantically while he was dead.
From there, everything unravels: after all, it's one thing for Wei Wuxian to convince himself he had sex with Wen Chao willingly when he didn't know he was married, and another thing entirely to think he did it when he WAS—
Lan Wangji is not impressed by Wei Wuxian's misplaced guilt and is fully resolved to helping him through his trauma.
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ough, this one. heavy and difficult, but with joy springing here and there. not a great handling of sexual assault, but self-indulgent and kind of fun. nice jc and wwx dynamic
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come for a while by Joana789
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
23 Jul 2020
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The thing is this — Wei Wuxian still isn't, entirely, used to waking up and simply feeling alive.
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19 Feb 2023
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wwx getting used to being alive!!! some gardening. some emotions. very lovely
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the work of spring by wrrms
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
03 May 2021
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Because his heart is in a hotel room halfway around the world without him, because his sister is dead and his brother is as good as gone, because it’s beginning to look like it’ll be a month and a half until his next paying contract, because it’s winter and his hands itch and his head aches and he thinks that if he sits still for any longer he will probably die, Wei Ying decides one night that he might as well start a garden.
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14 Mar 2023
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modern AU wwx lives alone, his sister recently dead and his brother estranged. he starts a little garden in his apartment with nhs's help and gets close to lwj, which turns into a really sweet long-distance relationship, lwj very cute and funny in this one
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how the body can be both greenhouse and graveyard by molerein
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
26 Oct 2021
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tell me again how the body can be both greenhouse and graveyard; trace your fingers across the landscape or my back, each vertebrae a hill, the space between - absence. memories unravel like gossamer strings: i am a haunted house, i am the sanctuary within which you planted your seeds, left them to germinate for the spring.
or, wei wuxian grows into his new body. along the line, he drags his brother in law out of seclusion, and lan zhan loves them both
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24 Mar 2023
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lxc and wwx bonding postcanon! not bad
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feast and famine by luckymarrow
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
28 Nov 2021
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Everyone likes to say things, platitudes, really, about good days and bad days. Wei Ying doesn’t have either. There are good minutes and bad minutes. Good hours and bad hours. Sometimes, they can get four, five hours at a stretch before something goes wrong, but it never lasts.
Wei Ying survives a violent assault. The world keeps turning.- Language:
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modern AU, married. wwx is drugged and raped at wen qing's party by wen chao and his lackeys. he gets the support he needs, and he's emotionally far more well-adjusted than in canon. annoying pre-assault dynamic, but post-assault a lot of tenderness and heartbreak. excellent jyl, great jc and jfm. respect for survivors and those who don't want to press charges. painful but satisfying story.
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grave goods by luckymarrow
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
25 Apr 2022
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Death is banal. It’s boring. It happens every day. It happens to someone else, always, until it doesn’t.
One day, it’ll happen to you, too.
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Wei Ying, PhD candidate, licensed mortician, and world's second best boyfriend, after Lan Zhan, of course, thinks he knows all there is to know about grief until the sudden deaths of his adoptive parents upend the lives of everyone in their orbit. A study in grief, mourning, and semi-intentional child acquisition.
Updated with art on 25 April, 2022
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18 Jun 2023
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modern AU wwx works with the dead, is dating lwj. good relationship dynamics, slightly uncomfortable light cnc scene. myu and jfm die in car accident. jc pretty good. jyl wonderful, has baby jin ling. great siblings dynamics. granny wen dies too and wx take in a-yuan. really cute!! really sad. cried.
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and the calm is deep where the quiet waters flow by izanyas
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
07 Mar 2024
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Cangse Sanren was the first of her kind to become a cultivator. Talented, passionate, free-spirited, she bested everything that ever came her way until the very end.
Jiang Fengmian refuses to see her son deprived of that same freedom.
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28 Jan 2025
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I'm still crying. if any story brings you to the depths of despair and the heights of joy, it's this one. different from canon but similar enough in the important parts - the themes and romance, and many of the relationships. deeply satisfying wrt canon novel dynamics in its scathingly critic eye on a culture of sexual abuse - the only way omegaverse should be written honestly. I'll be thinking about it forever probably