CQL/MDZS Top Fives
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theuntamed_mdzsI, 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:
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! ♥
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! ♥
Top Five Modern Day AUs
Date: 2020-03-20 09:19 pm (UTC)Re: Top Five Modern Day AUs
Date: 2020-03-21 12:01 am (UTC)Out of the Bin and Into Your Heart (27675 words) by Alaceron
Chapters: 5/5
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: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Oblivious Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
Series: Part 1 of It's called a trash can (not a trash cannot)
Summary:
or, The Best Laid Plans of Wei Wuxian.
my notes: Fun fake dating AU! I especially love the cultural details in this! It even has footnotes (with even more footnotes in the sequel)
Gusu's Number One Rabbit and Single Dad Adoption Center (4966 words) by reallyyeahokay
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Lán Yuàn | Lán Sīzhuī
Additional Tags: Rabbits, Found Family, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
Summary:
Returning to Gusu was never part of Wei Wuxian's plan.
A-Yuan's desire to adopt a rabbit leads him to a fateful reunion he's been hoping to avoid.
My notes: This is just very soft and adorable
and so my heart beats wildly (106435 words) by lily_winterwood
Chapters: 19/19
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jiāng Yànlí/Jīn Zǐxuān
Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Jiāng Yànlí, Jīn Zǐxuān, Niè Huáisāng, Módào Zǔshī Ensemble
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Modern Era, Rivalry, Competition, Competition-Set Fic, Athletes, Multimedia, Miscommunication, frenemies to lovers, Rivals to Lovers, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Seemingly One-sided But Actually Mutual Pining, Oblivious Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Competitive Cultivation, Anal Sex, First Time, Angst with a Happy Ending, Olympics, Inappropriate use of an Olympic gold medal, Breathplay, Rough Sex, Food Porn, Tanabata, Lily's back on her Qixi bullshit, Switching, Bottom Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī
Summary:
“You know, you’re the one to beat this year,” Jiang Cheng offers helpfully, having seen the glare from right next to him. “Hanguang-jun’s been through juniors with the rest of us, he knows all of our tics. You’re an unknown variable, since he’s never competed against you before.”
“Thanks,” says Wei Wuxian drily. “That’s very comforting.”
Or: five nighthunting competitions where Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji were rivals, and one where they weren't.
my notes: I thought of this one when you mentioned wardrobe choices. This modern with magic where cultivation is a sport a bit like ice skating in our world, and its lot of fun
The Simplest Way Forward (71008 words) by harriet_vane
Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Niè Huáisāng, Jiāng Yànlí, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Lán Yuàn | Lán Sīzhuī, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Kid Fic, explicit in much much later chapters, green card marriage (but not really), pining for your own husband, endless pining, Slow Burn, Happy Ending, Nothing else bad or traumatic happens to the baby
Summary:
It’s a really unfortunate thing, developing a crush on your husband. Wei Ying had assumed this would be easy. Lan Zhan had been so icy and unpleasant to him, it had never occurred to him that he might end up spending the next however many years with this dumb, burning feeling in his chest whenever he looks at him.
“Okay,” says Wei Ying. “But tell me if I…if the pretending gets to be too hard, okay?”
“It will not,” says Lan Zhan, quietly certain.
my notes: This one is very popular in my circles so you may have heard of it already, but its sooo good! I really like the characterization, and A-Yuan here is super adorable but also realistically four.
our footsteps sing a reckless serenade (45916 words) by ThirtySixSaveFiles
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: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Niè Huáisāng
Characters: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Niè Huáisāng, Niè Míngjué, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén, Mèng Yáo | Jīn Guāngyáo, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī
Additional Tags: background Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian - Freeform, background Jiāng Yànlí/Jīn Zixuān, background 3zun, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Alternate Universe - Urban Fantasy, Everybody Lives, (Except Jin Guangshan), Arranged Marriage, pining for the person you’re sleeping with, Politics, Donghua Hairstyles, Emotionally Significant Braids, so much hand holding, Minor peril
Summary:
In the wake of intracity warfare, Jiang Cheng finds himself engaged by proxy to Nie Huaisang in an effort to build ties between their sects. The fragile peace is short-lived, however, and with the strands of magic and the alliances that hold the city together fraying apart, Jiang Cheng must decide where he stands in order to save what he loves.
My notes: maybe this odd thing to say about a fic, but I love the original worldbuilding in this! The city and its magic are just so vivid!
PS -- this really fun idea for a post, thanks!
Re: Top Five Modern Day AUs
Date: 2020-03-21 06:48 pm (UTC)Re: Top Five Modern Day AUs
Date: 2020-03-22 02:29 am (UTC)