LINKDING

summary: When Shen Qingqiu is infected by succubus poison, he is forced to confront a few things. ➜ post-canon svsss bingqiu ➜ ft. mysteriously long-acting sex pollen, and sqq's difficulty in communicating ➜ many wonderful details in this fic! and bingqiu are honestly so sweet <3 ➜ 12k words long

Summary: After the Immortal Alliance Conference, Shen Qingqiu eventually recovered from his grief. A reasonable man, he accepted his limitations. Of course, there were—other options. ➜ a genius svsss bingqiu canon divergence au fic ➜ sqq decides to take care of the unavoidable abyss plot-arc by body-swapping with lbh to do the abyss arc for him ➜ meanwhile the bodyswapping didn't work QUITE as intended so although sqq is indeed in lbh's body running the abyss, lbh is in lqg's body and lqg is in sqq's body ➜ cue: time for lbh and lqg to learn how to appreciate each other! ➜ anyway I loved EVERYTHING about this fic. sooooo many good things it's doing ➜ the way sqq has such a great time testing out his abyss speedrun ideas! lbh and lqg's gym bro friendship style! meng mo providing internal colour commentary the whole way through! ➜ and like holy shit, sqq’s weird as fuck identity issues wrt bodies and self and sexuality and stuff! EXQUISITE. ➜ a totally delightful fic, highly recommend ➜ 36k words in length

summary: "It should go away on its own," Mithrun says, face just as flat and expressionless as it always is. He doesn't say anything else, like 'let's move on' or 'I'll handle it myself-' just stands there, wooden and blank, waiting for someone else to direct the parts of his life that aren't related to slaying the demon of the dungeon. Kabru imagines it: Mithrun walking around just like this, drifting to where he's put and only assuming that fierce expression when there's a monster to be dealt with. All while his obvious, awkward, extremely prominent boner is tenting the front of his skirt, bobbing with each step. ➤ dungeon meshi kabru/mithrun sex pollen fic ➤ which, as the author has tagged, can easily be read as asexual character x2 ➤ GENIUS tbh!! I love kabru's pov, and I love how much the sex pollen is just another thing to deal with, another thing to assess and excel at ➤ and mithrun omg yepppp that's him ➤ 1k words

Summary: <blockquote>Liu Qingge returns from a hunt with more health conditions than he knew about and receives... assistance. :)</blockquote> ➤ liu qingge gets hit with a fuck-or-die monster venom! shen qingqiu and luo binghe are here to help him out ➤ the vibes are SO good, from the prickly antagonism between lqg & lbh at the beginning, through the awkward unspoken interest in sqq, to the way lqg goes all melty and floaty at the end ➤ it's SO soft from lqg's pov once the cure is embarked upon and I love it so much ➤ 7k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>It isn't even an accident, precisely—that might be the most humiliating thing about it. Lan Wangji had tasted the tea, expecting it to be precisely what it revealed itself to be; Lan Wangji had wanted to feel its effects, to gauge them, although he had expected them to be mild. He had brewed the tea himself. An entirely uncoerced and foolish act. Lan Wangji has a misadventure with an aphrodisiac. It works out for everyone.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Okay. Shi Qingxuan liked to have fun. Everyone knew that she liked to have fun—she was the Young Lord Who Poured Wine, after all. It was her thing. But she was, genuinely, fairly restrained and dignified! She was classy! She did not get up in her lady form and beg for random male officials to take her clothes off!</blockquote> ➤ early days beefleaf!

<blockquote>Meng Yao gets dosed with truth pollen. The cure has some side effects.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Yue Qingyuan is afflicted with a deadly poison, and the only cure is dual cultivation with a particular man. Shen Jiu holds the sect leader’s life in his hands (and hole).</blockquote>

<blockquote>Oh no! Liu Qingge has been inflicted with a dastardly poison, one that will slowly and painfully liquefy his organs if he doesn't dual cultivate with someone soon! Thankfully, the good doctor Mu Qingfang is here to save his most frequent patient... however a few difficulties arise: for every partner the victim has been with, this most sinister poison, Blinders for Wandering Eyes, becomes all the more deadly! One would think the austere and proud lord of Bai Zhan peak would have no problem with such a substance, and yet...</blockquote> ➤ series consists of: For Want of a Vacation Pay it Forward Concessions Just trus(s)t me Bronze mirror [wip through ch1] Burn away the chill The Process of Elimination Follow-Up Appointment

<blockquote>Liu Qingge and Shen Qingqiu have a bit of trouble with a succubus nest. This becomes Mu Qingfang's problem in a big way. OR Life as a medical professional in a world riddled with aphrodisiacs is hard, especially when you're half in love with a patient.</blockquote> ➤ the sex pollen stuff is just one small ordinary part of the world they live in, and the series as a whole is about the complexities of mqf & lqg's relationship over the whole course of their knowing each other, and it's all GREAT. So far it goes up to the five years of sqq being dead. ➤ series consists of: Oral History Objects of Affection

<blockquote>Jingyan knows what is happening to him. In the first hours, the sensation was familiar, the subtle burning under his skin distinct and memorable. He had asked his mother about the flower and the drug many years ago, omitting to mention that he had taken it himself. He had been a little alarmed by her description of the consequences if the pair who had taken it were unable to reunite — she had put it less euphemistically — but had decided to put it out of his mind. Whatever might happen over sixteen years, it couldn’t touch the bond between him and Xiao Shu. He hadn’t even been sure the drug had had much effect. The rest of that season had been filled with triumphs of strength and with heated, stolen nights, but who could say whether that was the drug or mere suggestion working on their youth and strength? They were already invincible. They were already in love.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Sir Su, I believe I have been given a certain drug. My mother sent a message warning me of it. It could have been placed in my food or drink at any time in the last two days; its initial action is slow. She said I would know when it began, and advised me to keep only company I could trust for the hours it lasted.”</blockquote> ➤ failed sex pollen

<blockquote>There are a hundred and fifty-two separate instances when an aphrodisiac pollen or flower was used in the original Proud Immortal Demon Way. When instances of reusing the same plant or flower are removed, that narrows it down to a hundred and twenty-six. Of these, twelve are commonplace in the demon realm. Shang Qinghua runs afoul of one of these, much to his dismay.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"In order to please the lord, please his wife first." This is how Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe get front row seats to a gladiator fight, encounter a low level villain, walk into a papapa plot, and have an extremely under negotiated but intellectually rousing "discussion". Also, there is a really huge beetle.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Stephen took hold of Jack's face again, but not this time to cherish. He held him still—Jack making a mild complaining sound—and moved back far enough for the lantern-light to fall upon Jack and bring him into focus. There—there, on his jaw, where Stephen's hands had grabbed him—a faint smudge of the silvery dust. And on the side of his neck where the shirt lay loose, another trace of it, glittering like assassins' knives; Stephen remembered how he had combed all of his treacherous fingers through Jack's hair, stealthily savouring him. Contaminating him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Set in modern day London. As a member of the Gusu Institute, Lan Zhan plays his part on keeping the spiritual peace in the metropolis. Wei Ying left the Institute a long time ago, but from time to time they still work together and Lan Zhan mourns the closeness they once had. Lan Zhan calls Wei Ying in on a strange case at the British Museum. Events conspire to shatter the careful barriers they have erected. So much pining. Some case fic. Emotional rollercoaster with a happy ending. Some critique of the museum as an imperialist institution.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mission: What If? Fated Lovers On Another Planet has successfully been activated! This is Shang Qinghua's fault.</blockquote> ➤ kind of... weirdly wistful and lovely, and both sad and happy at the same time? anyway it's great ➤ series consists of: invisible strings cut me open, heal me fine

<blockquote>Zhou Zishu gets drugged, gets rescued, gets fucked better by Wen Kexing, and thinks about the fact that he has things to live for, in approximately that order.</blockquote> Author's note:<blockquote> "i bet i can convey the extent to which wkx is having a bad time from the pov of the person who's too high to function" i said, putting on my finest clown nose</blockquote> ➤ REALLY GOOD at that actually!! And also at the horrible headspace zzs is in!

<blockquote>Five times that Shang Qinghua has to save Liu Qingge's life with his dick... ...and one time that Liu Qingge returns the favor.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In a tragic reversal of Ouyang Zizhen's fantasies, he is rescued by Senior Wei. Hanguang-Jun assists. </blockquote>

<blockquote>When UNCLE learns of a chemical weapons laboratory in the French Antilles, Gaby, Illya, and Napoleon are dispatched to investigate and shut it down if at all possible. They discover that THRUSH's scientists are developing an extremely powerful aphrodisiac - and their mission doesn't quite go as planned. Basically: sex pollen.</blockquote>

<blockquote>With a match against the Eton first eleven looming, Psmith is behaving strangely, and Mike wants to get to the bottom of it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A subtle French poison is making Jack feel things that are not appropriate for polite society, nor even for the often impolite society of his ship. This is either the best or the worst day of William Marshall's life.</blockquote> ➤ OH MY GOSH. INCREDIBLE. WHAT THE HECK. (William Marshall is the man who was in love with Jack from the first book)

<blockquote>Emhyr was looking at him for once, with a strange expression. “I have misjudged you,” he said, sounding irritated actually: how dare Geralt surprise him. “I get that a lot,” Geralt said.</blockquote> ➤ in a number of ways it's a thematic retread of astolat's smallville fic about Lex conquering the galaxy with Clark as his consort, but I'm pretty okay with that, it's a fun set of themes, and astolat's really good at writing that kind of ruthlessly competent person who sweeps people up in his charismatic path. Totally readable while knowing 0 about canon.

<blockquote>Case A certain man, being under the influence de cerinthus fornicationus, came to have carnal knowledge of a woman; after this it is said that he is required to marry said women. The questions here are: First, what is the degree of the sin which they commit? Second, is it required that they then marry one another?</blockquote> ➤ author notes: <blockquote>I woke up this morning and read Papianista's highly entertaining summary of the legal consequences of sex pollen, under (I assume?) modern US law. I said unto the internet "this is beautiful but now I want to assess it from the point of view of 13th century canon law". And then there turned out to be so MANY considerations that I was writing a legit parody of Gratian's Decretum, and, well, it was amazing.</blockquote> ➤ what amazing nerdery I love it

<blockquote>In which a flowering fairy orchard introduces a troubling new idea to Childermass and Segundus. (Sex. The idea is sex.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Captured on a mission, Illya is exposed to a drug causing intense sexual arousal. Napoleon helps. (Note: I selected the rape/non-con warning because this trope is inherently dub-conny, and because there is discussion of rape and questionable consent in the story. The sex that occurs in the story is agreed-to by both parties. More details in notes.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>"I didn't even know I liked cake," Steve said.</blockquote> ➤ (cake is a metaphor for sex) ➤ also I am beginning to be reminded, in all these fics about tracking down HYDRA bases, of Man From UNCLE and THRUSH.

<blockquote>In spring, the fort of Castellum is blanketed by a pollen that causes desire among those who breathe it in. This includes Alexios and Hilarion.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Carlos runs into yet another Night Vale peril, but maybe he shouldn't have called Cecil for help this time.</blockquote>