CQL/MDZS Top Fives

[stultiloquentia]

I, for one, am in need of comfort reading. Let's make some themed rec lists!

It works just like a prompt meme, except instead of commenting with prompts for fic you hope someone will write, comment with a request for a specific "top five" category, such as Top Five Hurt/Comfort Fics, Top Five Lan Xichen Rarepairs, Top Five Recruiter Vids, etc. Put your request in the TITLE of your comment, and any additional details, squicks, etc. in the comment body.

If you see a prompt and think, "Aha, I've read five brilliant stories that fit that description!" then put your five-item rec list in a REPLY to the prompt comment. Yes? Good.

Also:

• Multiple people may reply to any given prompt.
• You may reply to your own prompt, if you have a rec set all ready to go! I hope you do.
• You may include no more than five recs per comment.
• But if you can't help yourself, you may wiggle around this by replying to a prompt multiple times.
• If the category is really niche, and you have only two recs, poooossst.
• Personally, my favourite part of a rec list is the reccer's notes about why they love a story and what the author does especially well, so feel free to include that sort of advertising pitch. No pressure, though, if you only have time and energy to drop links and run!
• Fic, art, vids, and other fanac all welcome!!!

Be kind, don't damn with faint praise, and feel free to shout, "OH YEAH, I LOVED THAT ONE TOO," at each other in the thread; you might make an author's day. Happy reading! ♥

Comments

Re: Top Five Casefics

[forestofglory]

Linger in the Sun (39400 words) by etymologyplayground
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, a whole SLEW of oc's
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Intimacy, Curses, Canon Compliant, Post-Canon, Cuddling & Snuggling, Getting Together, Romance, Sexual Tension, Scent Kink, m.. maybe??, its not as intense as a kink, wwx Loves To Teach, oohh myg od... theyre married. wangxian are married, Fluff, this is so long and it is mostly. nonsexual intimacy! you're welcome, Scars, Sharing a Bed, Wuji.MP3, Nonverbal Communication, this is HEAVY on the symbolism
Summary:

"Tell Lan Zhan that I'm weeping uncontrollably," Wei Wuxian says to the juniors. "Tell him I'm truly pitiful and he needs to do everything I say until I'm well again."

Lan Congyi is in the middle of carefully holding his eyelids open to check his pupils, but he still obeys, bless him. "Hanguang-Jun, Senior Wei would like us to tell you that he can't stop crying and he'd like for you to do everything he says until he's better." There's a moment of silence, and then Lan Congyi says to Wei Wuxian, "Hanguang-Jun says he already does everything you tell him."

--

Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji find themselves cursed, unable to see or hear each other. They figure things out anyway.

My notes: Great post CQL get together with a cruse and lots of teaching

Where the Lotuses Lie (3168 words) by dirtybinary
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Jīn Líng | Jīn Rúlán, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Additional Tags: Reconciliation, casefic, Post-Canon, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Jin Ling's been abducted.

Also: the Yunmeng brothers attempt to reconcile, with help from their nephew, a river demon, and some corpses.

My note: I will never get tried of Jin Ling trying to get his uncles to get along. Also some fun magic stuff here!

drawn to the blood (5079 words) by darkredloveknot
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Canon Universe, Hurt/Comfort, well as good a comfort jiang cheng can be for lan wangji, Blood and Injury, Near Death Experiences, Emotional Baggage, discussions of past deaths, Monsters, Reconciliation, Jiang Cheng POV, Angst with a Happy Ending
Summary:

Jiang Cheng pondered for a moment if he felt worse about having to save Lan Wangji, or if Lan Wangji felt worse about having to be saved by him.

My notes: some creepy magic and lots of feelings. Um, that may be a theme here.


爱不释手; never let me go (68713 words) by yiqie
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Lán Yuàn | Lán Sīzhuī, Jīn Líng | Jīn Rúlán, Lán Jǐngyí, Ōuyáng Zǐzhēn, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén
Additional Tags: All the clan leaders, Literally so many OCs, There are just lots of people, Case Fic, Blood and Injury, Demons, Body Horror, Mystery, The intrinsic horniness of wound tending, Yearning 2: The Electric Boogaloo
Summary:

Wei Wuxian has certainly hoped so ardently in his two lifetimes, for so many different things, in so many different ways, that he could have summoned the demon to his front door with his bare hands. His eyes wander to Lan Zhan, settle on the back of his head, the blue-black curtain of his hair. Oh, how he has hoped.

My notes: Another post-CQL get together, with super complex cause that once again brings out all the feelings

And rounding this out with the serries The Crashing Of The Ocean To Shore modern AU where WWX and JC are cops who keep getting supernatural cases, where the magic is very well done.