Apostrophic

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[apostrophic]

fic: A Matter of Time See Your Love (Jiang Shaopeng/Yang Zixiang)

The sensation still lived under his skin, being touched, being wanted. Jiang Shaopeng’s strong, gentle hands.

5 times Yang Zixiang slept in the closet + 1 time he didn’t.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Marks of the past.

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[apostrophic]

I want to print this as a bookmark and keep it in vol 5, because I think it’s way too easy to forget that WWX goes through the whole Guanyin Temple scene looking like this 💀

[bluecygnets]

my new-ish hottake is that wei wuxian is the one who fell in love at first sight, lan wangji just realized and accepted his own feelings first

[bluecygnets]

to be more precise, wei wuxian was immediately attracted to lan wangji after meeting him as he was already chasing lan wangji and daydreaming about him the next day. meanwhile, for lan wangji, i think wei wuxian was initially a 'disturbance' in his life of order and restraint, a splash in the midst of his calm and still waters. at worst, he was annoying and at best, he was interesting. what really started to pique lwj's curiosity seems to be wwx's bold answer to lqr in class as it showed that wwx is as brilliant as he is mischievous. but i think attraction came for lwj during the time they spent in the library. wwx charmingly annoys lwj into liking him. in other words, wwx wooed lwj. but lwj is shy and probably unsure of wwx's sincerity. and this attraction grew as he observed how wwx lived such a carefree life. my guess is that he became aware of his feelings some time before or in the beginning of the indoctrination camp. and then wwx's careless words in the xuanwu cave must have strengthened his resolve to never let wwx know his feelings as wwx babbles about not liking men and how it's not lwj he's flirting with anyway so why is lwj so bothered. any by the time he hums a song to wwx, lwj has fallen in love.

back to wwx. like i said, he was already all heart eyes about lwj from the very beginning. there's no theorizing needed tbh, he basically lists everything he found attractive about lwj in his recount of their first meeting. he admires lwj's beauty and skills, and even his widely talked about intelligence. and while his words make it seem like he was annoyed about being caught and lwj enforcing the rules, it was also actually something he admired about him. wwx had met his match and, at the same time, he admired that lwj was firm and true to his principles. even lwj's cold look was attractive to him. by engaging in a fight with him, lwj had unknowingly shown a side of him that wwx never heard in the stories about the other twin jade of gusu lan, and it made wwx want more. i think wwx was already in love with lwj before he left the cloud recesses, he just didn't know it yet.

tl;dr: their game of chase in drunk 2 represents how their love story started—wwx chasing after lwj until lwj finally let himself be caught.

Wei WuXian was planning to catch him, not at all expecting that he’d walk right into his arms. Speechlessly startled, he even forgot to reach out. Seeing that Wei WuXian didn’t do anything, Lan WangJi lifted his tied-up hands and brought them over his neck as if he voluntarily slipped into an unbreakable trap, “You caught me.” Wei WuXian, “… Huh? Yes, I caught you.” As though he was waiting for something to happen but it never did, Lan WangJi repeated the three words again. This time, he enunciated each word with heavy emphasis and sounded anxiously eager, “You caught me.” Wei WuXian, “Yeah. I caught you.” He caught him. What else?

[summerofofelia]

Through the raw power of homosexuality you too can learn sign language in a week

[random-brushstrokes]

Alexandr Alexeevich Borisov - Seals (1912)

From the diaries of the artist: «It was very difficult to work; I had to cut the brushes, make the bristle short, rub the colors was almost inconceivable. <… > The hand is cracking, it is breaking; the roaring hands refuse to serve. But you draw, all thirsty to put on the canvas these bizarre, gloomy, full of peculiar beauty paintings of the Far North» (source)

[1five1two]

Ryo Takemasa.

[alienwlw]

ALIENWLW’S TOP QL DRAMAS | See Your Love (2024)

[apostrophic]

I sincerely apologize to the 11 mdzs fics I have in progress. See Your Love hit me with spectacular deaf rep + insanely healthy communication + devastating height difference and all my braincells went WRITE FIC NOW

[yingui]

我如何温暖你我的爱人？

[look-peach]

How about staying over tonight?

WHALE STORE XOXO (2025) EPISODE 06

[apostrophic]

I don’t really get writer’s block these days, but how much I write absolutely ebbs and flows like the seasons. Occasionally even in sync with the actual seasons. I let my brain lie fallow all winter, and now, like bright green little sprouts poking out of the soil, it feels so pleasant to have several WIPs at once again 😌🌱

[roach-works]

writing is the most insane hobby it's like,

is it easy? no

is it fast? also no

but is it fun? well,

[huariqueje]

Poetics of Abandoned IV - Susanna Iivanainen  , 2023.

Finnish , b. 1973 -

Colour ink and marker on canvas, 80 x 60 cm.

[shitpostingkats]

Bro the rules of gay chicken aren't even that complicated how are you losing this badly

[sadscruffy]

[imsodishy]

my favourite part of ao3 not having an algorithm is that i can click on any random fic, out of whatever curiosity (morbid or otherwise) i may have on a whim, knowing I won't spend the next three months having ''similar'' content constantly shoved in my face in a desperate attempt to keep me engaged while i stab the not interested button over and over with a growing rage bubbling beneath my skin

[apostrophic]

Drink You Like Wine

MDZS | modern AU | 51k | rated E

Wei Wuxian felt downright giddy, picturing in detail and with pleasure all the ways he was never, ever, ever going to let Lan Wangji live this down. Wei Wuxian runs a wine shop. Lan Wangji, his loyal customer, gets drunk. Things… might get out of hand. (Or: a hookup gone wrong, Wangxian style; they’re practically married with children within 48 hours.)

[huariqueje]

At the Berry Bush - Sabine Beyerle , 2023.

German, b, 1975 -

Oil on canvas , 120 x 100 cm.