Birds and Dandelions

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*ON HIATUS*

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Tags masterpost! Largely for my own convenience, but since I’m pinning it I will try to make it navigable.

A quick overview for visitors/new followers: I tag spoilers very inconsistently; I will try to use “[region] spoilers” for newer material corresponding with those areas (currently, “nod-krai spoilers” and “mondstadt spoilers,” but I cannot guarantee I will always remember, and sometimes I tag events with the event name and sometime I do not. I also do not consistently tag NSFW, and would request that you do not follow me if you are under 18.

I was putting “inconsistently applied” on so many of these it seems fairer to note that all my tagging is inconsistent, so... if there’s a particular thing you want to block I do my best but I can’t make promises.

Writing tags:

fic bits (largely non-WIP writing that may or may not ever go anywhere)

ascended fic (fic bits that have been cleaned up and archived on AO3)

fic excerpt (for snippets from seriously-intended WIPs)

fic nattering (rambling about whatever I’m working on)

posted fic / completed fic (for fic put up on AO3; ‘posted’ is a chapter of a WIP, ‘completed’ is what it says on the tin)

Character tags: adelinde, albedo, amber, baizhu, barbara, beidou, bennet, childe, chongyun, cloud retainer, diluc, eula, ganyu, hu tao, jean, kaeya, kazuha, keqing, klee, kujou sara, lisa, madame ping, navia, ningguang, noelle, paimon, qiqi, razor, rosaria, shenhe, sucrose, thoma, traveler, venti, xiangling, xiao, xingqiu, zhongli

Relationship tags (both ship and non-ship content will be under the same tag): albedo and klee, albedo and sucrose, amber and eula, amber and kaeya, barbara and jean, barbara and rosaria, beidou and kazuha, beidou and ningguang, childe and lumine, chongyun and shenhe, chongyun and xingqiu, dehya and dunyarzad, diluc and jean, diluc and kaeya, diluc and rosaria, eula and jean, fischl and mona, fujin and lingyuan, ganyu and keqing, hu tao and zhongli, jean and kaeya, jean and lisa, jean and varka, jean and venti, kaeya and klee, kaeya and lisa, lisa and razor, varka and venti, venti and xiao, venti and zhongli, yun jin and xinyan; albedo and kaeya and klee, bennet and fischl and razor, diluc and jean and kaeya, eula and jean and lisa, jean and kaeya and lisa, jean and lisa and kaeya and eula, nilou and dunyarzad and dehya and candace and sometimes setaria, jean just having a polycule in general, the entirety of wangshu inn

Event tags: akitsu kimodameshi, alchemical ascension, beetle boot camp, chromatic ode of candies and roses, claw convoy, clink clank crash, divine ingenuity, dodoco’s bomb-tastic adventure, enchanted tales of the mikawa festival, fabulous fungus frenzy, feline fortress furrdyssey, fungus mechanicus, golden apple archipelago, graph adversarial technology, homeward, he who caught the wind, iktomi spiritseeking scrolls, iridescent arataki rockin’ for life tour de force of awesomeness, irodori festival, labyrinth warriors, lantern rite, lil fungi’s fun-tastic fiesta, mega meka melee, moonchase festival, of ballads and brews, of drink a-dreaming, parade of providence, perilous trail, receiver of friends from afar, reel ad-venture, roses and muskets, ruins exploration: fieldwise center second blooming, secret summer paradise, shadows amidst snowstorms, soulblazers’ snowbound journey, summertide scales and tales, sunspray summer resort, thelxie’s fantastic adventures, the summoners’ summit, three realms gateway offering, tournament of glory in bloom, tracing vanishing trails, waterborne poetry, windblume, windtrace

AU-specific tags:

bells and spires (marriage-of-convenience canon-divergence AU, non-romantic Jean/Kaeya and working on romantic Jean/Lisa)

benny kaeya and the seven dads (canon-divergence AU where Kaeya is raised by adventurers alongside Bennett)

in a windless land (arranged-marriage canon-divergence/royalty AU where, years after Kaeya disappears, Jean is sent to marry the prince of Khaenri’ah)

archon signatures (potentially expansive ‘people have archon traits’ AU that’s currently just one WIP wingfic)

bindings au (in which Kaeya is an Abyssal spirit summoned first by Diluc and then by Jean, leading to body-sharing)

a crow in mondstadt / a tengu in liyue (Kujou Sara getting shipped off into two different flavors of political marriage)

oceanid au (in which Seamus Pegg was secretly an Oceanid, and his daughters share that trait)

wind-swept scales (in which Mondstadt’s aristocratic lines are all dragons, with bonus oviposition)

harbinger au (Venti/Tsaritsa roleswap, a.k.a. Knights of Favonius: War Crimes Edition)

test subject au (instead of getting brought home from Sumeru, Kaeya gets picked up as an experimental subject)

spy x genshin (fusion with Spy x Family that gets sketched out in bits and pieces)

teyvat’s wizards (fusion with the Young Wizards books, no serious fic)

favonius stables (modern AU where everyone works at a stables, no actual fic)

heralds of favonius (fusion with the Valdemar books, no serious fic)

Other tags:

asked and answered (for asks)

why not meme i guess (for memes)

serenitea brewing (for teapot liveblogging)

battlefield of dice cats and cards (for TCG)

the shape of teyvat (headcanons)

knight meta (let me tell you about my KoF org chart)

[dandelion-wings]

FYI, for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, I'm taking a Genshin hiatus and don't expect to be active on this blog. No idea how long! But I'm not dead, just dealing.

[dandelion-wings]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Jean & Varka (Genshin Impact) Characters: Varka (Genshin Impact), Jean (Genshin Impact) Additional Tags: Angst, Unhappy Ending, Not Canon Compliant Summary:

Varka has grand plans for Jean, and grand hopes for Mondstadt with her as Grand Master. But not all plans go as intended, and not all hopes are fulfilled.

[leifyposting]

hey do you guys ever think about how eula is a glacier but longs to be the open ocean

do you ever think about how a glacier must melt and assimilate into the tide in order to become the ocean spray

do you think about how she cannot gain everything she wants without losing everything she is

[leifyposting]

she wants to be the sea spray that is blown into the wind from the top of a cresting wave. i feel insane

my original tags for posterity:

#i've been writing a lot of eula lately and it's forced me to develop a better understanding of her character#and i keep coming back to the character story that's like#“she yearns not to be sharp and rigid like ice but to be free and unbound like the ocean spray”#all her life she has been taught that she must be cold and unyielding. frigid. tough. implacable. sharp-edged and brittle#this is what the lawrences do. this is what the lawrences are#from the age of old mondstadt this is who we have been. this is the legacy that is yours to protect#if you let people too close they will melt you to the core and you will fall into the rolling ocean waves and the shining ocean spray#and you will gain everything you have ever yearned for at the cost of everything you have ever been#and if this is the path you choose then it had better be worth it#because the ocean cannot become a glacier any more than a sword can become a shield

[raijins-abode]

[lunar-muse]

Was practicing anatomy from some old Conan the Barbarian art and suddenly remember my Diluc headcanons, so here you are.

Please don’t repost without credit or feed my art to AI models.

[korbinmoon]

Found an old sketch meme redraw and finished it hehehe

[leifyposting]

varka a braver man than me fr because if i was surrounded by a horde of teenagers i would NOT be giving them knives

🏕️ eula/jean

🏕️ pre-canon excursion (gone wrong) (not clickbait)

🏕️ T-rated

🏕️ 7.5k words

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[moeblob]

Happy Birthday, Noelle!

[dandelion-wings]

went back into DMs with @theabysscomeshome for an entirely different thing and came across a conversation about my preferred aro!Kaeya/Rosaria/ace!Diluc arrangements, which I am copy-pasting here for posterity:

(Kaeya was not wrong [about Rosaria deciding a romantic gesture was suspicious] though. Rosaria would have a knife out and be demanding he prove who he was in seconds)

he leaves that to diluc :>c

yep :> he can do the careful romancing of their feral girlfriend (I did not like Diluc/Rosaria until leify started posting variations on "Rosaria doesn't feel like she deserves love but Diluc is going to offer it to her anyway" and I am. so weak for that narrative)

awwwww and tbh diluc is half-feral in a way himself after his murderventure XD so he's in a good spot to do it

he really is! relearning how to have human relationships by teaching her to have them too XD

(and neither of them want all the conventions, but like... I think it was tags on an art where Diluc was giving Rosaria a flower? but leify wrote a very persuasive little mini-essay about Rosaria thinking she isn't the sort of woman who likes flowers, but she likes that Diluc thinks she could deserve them, and I was like. yeah sure I will incorporate this into my worldview XD)

Rosaria from going "this is sappy and gross" to "this is my sappy gross gift from someone who cares about me" (and we know she latches on like that, given the Barbara Cake Incident)

(meanwhile: Kaeya: do you want me to go down on you in a back alley, say, eleven? we can kill some treasure hoarders ahead of time to get in the mood Rosaria: make it twelve and I'm down)

rosaria tucking her chocolate away in an inner pocket so she won't get blood on it when she murders a would-be robber on her way to have a quickie with kaeya XD

she tells the boys flat-out when it starts that she won't carry messages for them or get involved in their spats. they follow that rule religiously. they do, however, sometimes exchange tips about her

Kaeya: we were fucking on the Cathedral roof last night and overheard a couple of sisters talking about one's husband giving her an anniversary gift and she got that look, you know, when she's putting something in the box of luxuries of Mondstadt that she has to protect but doesn't get, so- Diluc: got it. I didn't need the context, but I get the point. Kaeya: context is important, Diluc 🙂 Diluc: do you want to hear about the gap in her schedule next week or not?

bonding XD

if they're pretend they're only talking in order to conference on Rosaria then they have a perfect excuse to meet up more often

and neither of them has to admit to enjoying that

yep! they're just here for their girlfriend, obviously talking about her is why they're enjoying the conversation

ofc ofc

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I don't have enough material for the rest of the fic that started scratching at my brain once I collected up those DMs (there's plenty of romantic stuff Kaeya can notice and recommend, but sexual interests that an ace Diluc would both catch on to and be willing to report back on are thinner on the ground), but the opening was rolling through my brain all morning, so have a little warm-up:

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"Don't expect me to carry any messages between the two of you," Rosaria tells them, after everything else is sorted.

After Kaeya kisses her, clumsy and hungry and far too terribly drunk, reeling from a fight both of them had barely won and eager as she is for release and relief and distraction; after Diluc kisses her, slow and careful and restrained and humming with heat beneath all the care, holding her like he's trying to pour warmth into her cold skin, and like she's delicate in his hands; after Kaeya tells her, laughing, that he'd told Diluc to either kiss her and see what happened or stop pining; after Diluc mutters that at least he hadn't had to lock Kaeya with her in the cellar like he'd threatened; after she tells Kaeya that he's adequate to her needs, as long as he doesn't do anything that she didn't want and ask for; after she tells Diluc that she'll tolerate his affection, as long as he isn't too overwrought or too public; after she tells them both that they're idiots, and they'd better not get too soppy or possessive, and this had *better* not interfere with her nighttime habits--

--after all of that, she adds the one last warning. "I don't care what the fuck is going on between the two of you," she adds, "but I don't want to be dragged into it."

"If I tried that, Diluc would just tell me not to bother you and cut me off for a few nights in the bargain," Kaeya says, grinning and waving a hand to dismiss the notion.

"If I wanted Kaeya to know something, I wouldn't involve you. He'd only use it as another excuse to be obnoxious," Diluc says, looking put-upon as he picks up a dirty glass.

So that's sorted. As long as it stays sorted, Rosaria will be content.

[tum-ano]

they love thier god

[liverlemons]

I hope we get more events of them interacting

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I had a nightmare that Hoyo finally gave us a Sara hangout, but gated it behind a quest where Sandrone comes back, so there was finally Sara-focused content and I couldn't even touch it :'>

[earth-shaker]

my take about introducing different characters the traveler & paimon know to one another is that everyone should just meet yoimiya. like we take her with us to meet everyone and everyone loves yoimiya bc how could you not. yoimiya impact

[dandelion-wings]

welcome to Genshin fanfic, where your #1 question regarding any given character is always going to be, "how the fuck do these clothes work?"

[la-cossmic]

Genshin Chibis Part 4

Part 3

[chopshajen]

A while back in discussion with @little-fuzzy-dude, @evig-sang proposed the funniest concept known to fandom, which is that Diluc, former captain of the calvary, has not only never seen a horse but doesn’t actually believe in them. It lead to this and to her hilarious fic Get Off Your High Horse, which you should absolutely read LOL