Mourning Wei Ying and trying to find out what his place should be in a world where he is dead, alpha Lan Wangji meets Song Zichen, a beta rogue cultivator who is searching for his own lost friend. Their friendship helps both of them, but the strictures of the cultivation world threaten it.
Chen Chou first met Xu Dong back when he and Zhang xiong were first preparing for the Capital Examination, when they all got drawn into the series of weird cases that led up to a failed coup and everyone in the capital nearly dying from a mist of red pollen.
Their relationship has only been like this since Chen Chou and Zhang Ping moved to Yiping County, though.
Chen Chou and Xu Dong's arrangement through the years, and how everyone else arranged themselves too.
Sometimes a man's old enough to know his own mind, even if his brother worries, even if his family are living in exile in a mass grave, even if the boy he's set on is an unstable necromancer who could kill them all. Even if he has a history of making dubious choices.
A vignette.
Wen Ning and Lan Sizhui, wandering, falling in love, and coming back together with their family.
"I know, I know," Xue Yang interrupted. "You don't want to talk about it, and I'm not gonna make you, Daozhang, don't worry." He had the hem of Xiao Xingchen's wide sleeve between his fingers—just enough to draw him in by, to keep him aware of his friend's physical presence. "Just let me guess. You don't even have to tell me if I'm right, if you don't want to."
He would, though, Xue Yang was sure.
Xiao Xingchen is normally the one doing the tying up, not the other way around, but his boyfriends have a surprise for him this morning and they're sure he'll like it.
【The System was successfully activated! Role bound: Luo Binghe’s master, ‘Shen Qingqiu.’ Special challenge mode enabled: Alternate Universe #517, 'Eternal Youth'!】
Shen Yuan woke up in a new body, in a new world, smug with the knowledge that he was ready for whatever transmigration might throw at him. This lasted exactly as long as it took for the System to boot up, and for Shen Yuan to realise that his fellow humans, in this twisted AU of his favourite-least-favourite web novel, were strangely... aquatic. Oddly baby-faced, as if they'd just stepped out of a donghua. And there were other changes, too, which scared him in particular more than they would most of the characters in Proud Immortal Demon Way.
It's Vegas's first birthday since he and Pete have been together. The perfect occasion for him to meet Pete's grandmother.
these "by age 30" memes are very funny but the truth is that by age 30 you should have an animal people associate with you so when they don't know what to get you for your birthday they can default to something with the animal
—tweet by @AnnaGHughes
Wei Wuxian, pining in the Burial Mounds.
Tfw you think of a great fic title out of the blue, but then realise that the kind of story it would fit is Too Sad to Write. Not!fic, archived from Twitter.
There's got to be a way to bring back Wen Ning's consciousness, Wei Wuxian knows, and if he can't do it himself, then maybe Lan Wangji can help. Unfortunately for Lan Wangji and his suffering heart, he would do nearly anything for Wei Wuxian. Wen Ning did not get a say, because that's the root of the whole problem.