LINKDING

summary: The air conditioned chill of Wei Ying's office gave way to a wall of humid heat as soon as they left the building. The walk to the station was only a few blocks, but the back of Lan Zhan's shirt was damp with sweat by the time she went underground. "So what's the curse, exactly," Wei Ying said as they jammed themselves into a packed subway car. At lunchtime on a weekday during summer break. Lan Zhan steadied herself against the car door. "I believe it's bad luck." "Holy shit," Wei Ying said. "Did she curse you to step on a Lego?" ➤ modern au f/f mdzs wangxian fic ➤ lwj and wwx are academic colleagues; lwj comes to wwx for help dealing with a minor curse ➤ I love the glimpses into their broader world, the way cultivation is a part of modern life, the dynamics lwj has with her family, etc ➤ the way lwj being a poet affects the prose of the piece, and her point of view! ➤ and the dynamics between lwj and wwx are soooo good <3 ➤ 1.7k words in length

Summary: Liu Qingge and Luo Binghe get themselves into a Situation at Shen Yuan's sister's wedding. ➤ modern au svsss, liu qingge and luo binghe as guests at a wedding, dancing with each other to get shen yuan's attention ➤ the dynamics between all of them here are so perfect, the unwilling attraction between bingliu and the unspoken understanding between them at the end! ➤ 900 words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Little Ash and Uriel, some two hundred years later, and a very important box</blockquote> ➤ another fic for When the Angels Left the Old Country, this one set 200 years later in the present day ➤ Ash and Uriel have continued to live in the US, and have brought Essie and Rose's papers to donate to a Jewish archive ➤ I love the archivist, and I love Uriel and Little Ash, and I love that from both sides there's kindhearted delight at seeing young people interested in preserving history! ➤ 1k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Wednesday nights at Cloud Recesses strip club are always a little weird, but usually they're not this /horny/. Whatever Wei Ying and Lan Zhan get up to, Mianmian is /not/ going to be the one to clean it up.</blockquote>

Summary: <blockquote>"Don't fuck your ex," Pei Ming said when Shi Qingxuan told him that she'd been cast in the Broadway debut of Heaven Official's Blessing.</blockquote>

<blockquote>liu sibs in modern times are like uh. those kids with about ten different extracurriculars and no free time. they’re booked into ballet and music lessons and everything else for the foreseeable future. and then their parents pass away.</blockquote>

➤ takes place entirely in comments on webnovels

<blockquote>Shen Yuan’s eyes widened when he opened the door to find his regular courier standing there, drenched, pitiful and dripping copiously onto his door mat. Luo Binghe looked like a particularly handsome drowned rat. “Shit, I’m sorry,” Shen Yuan said with a wince. “I tried to cancel! It just came on so suddenly—seriously, fuck rainy season.” Luo Binghe had received the cancelation text, and he had ignored it. He knew how to work in these conditions, and Shen Yuan needed to eat. God only knew what the man would try to bolt down if Luo Binghe left him to his own devices.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Luo Binghe was eleven he told everyone in his class that when he grew up, he was going to marry Mister Shen from “Stories and Songs with Shen Yuan”. Even his nice teacher had laughed at him—though she’d stopped laughing when Luo Binghe had punched the class bully Ming Fan, who’d jeered that “Stories and Songs” was for babies, hard enough to give the awful boy a bloody nose. Luo Binghe didn’t think laughter was an appropriate response to his declaration. After all, he hadn’t been joking. Luo Binghe adored that fresh-faced, becardiganed twenty year old television personality with his entire, earnest little heart. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Outside, San Niang has long finished the quota of charity Xie Lian allotted her. She's drinking something from the bakery on the corner—probably one of their dreadful, bitter coffees. The wind is making a mess of her hair. Yearning plants a seed in Xie Lian's heart.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Shang Qinghua finally convinces Shen Qingqiu to get, and use, Tantan (China's IP-rip-off answer to Tinder). Luo Binghe is less than thrilled with this development.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Lan Qiren did not raise Zhan'er to text an hour and a half before dinner to call it off without explanation.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Shen Yuan hates Shang Qinghua's sex scenes. Or so she claims.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In her first year of university, Qi Qingqi embarks on a voyage of self-discovery. Shen Yuan embarks on whatever the exact opposite of that is.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"That was an exhibit," Lan Zhan said after a moment. Tarbosaurus bataar, the gem of the Museum of Natural History's collection. "It was," Wei Ying said smugly. "And now it has feathers!"</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sha Hualing has always wanted to have a rival.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After one final look at the profile photo, Lan Zhan closed Grindr. "Not even a flame?" Startled, Lan Zhan turned to his left. "I know not everyone wants to start chatting right off the bat, but you spent long enough looking at my face," said the man from the app, who was sitting at the bar. Or: Lan Zhan gets stranded at the airport, decides to scroll through Grindr, and meets someone new.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Now I do wish it, love it, long for it, And will for evermore be true to it." Four lovers come to terms with the aftermath of a wild night. Modern AU, with magic.</blockquote>

<blockquote>cooking and furiosa/max? pretty please? :D</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Cosette attends Otakon 2014 and Valjean reluctantly accompanies her, the long pre-registration line Thursday night brings about an unexpected encounter.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Fantine is watching Cosette in the playground when someone she seems to know approaches her...</blockquote>

<blockquote>Oh, yeah, baby, semi my colon hard.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A useful reference list by Les Amis de l'ABC.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Feuilly has a day that rivals Bossuet's luck, but he also has a Bahorel, so it can't be that bad.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Anne rolls her eyes. "Is your aunt really going to know if you cheat on your nonfiction with some hot prose on the side?" "It's the principle of the thing. I've got my pride," Emily says. "Ah, yes, Murray pride," Anne says, warming to the topic. "Also known as, your family is so ridiculously stubborn that whenever I think about them I thank God I'm an orphan." "I'm an orphan, too," Emily points out. "I thank God I'm adopted," Anne says.</blockquote>