#handwave

[rizsnt]

pull the blanket tight now or whatever the kids are saying

[willelworld]

My BA honors in detecting AI writing tells me that you are narratively, structurally and emotionally incorrect. The emotional architecture of her posts professes her humanity. Her writing is circular and repetitive to mimic the circle of life itself. I could be wrong. Despite my academic credentials, I have never been able to make it through a full paragraph of that garbage.

and this is where the bachelor’s degree kicks in. you’ve failed to consider the visual grammar of her posts. it’s not just indicative of manmade language— it’s a testament to the authenticity of the human spirit. no claude, no chatgpt, no google gemeni. just endless hand-typed, thirteen paragraph essays analyzing the cinematographic choices of the stranger things production, and how these must prove the existence of a secret, lovingly-crafted ninth episode. if you can’t parse through the robotic, pretentious, pointless drivel, well, that simply means you’re not academic enough to understand it. everyone knows academic writing is about abusing your trusty thesaurus rather than concise, effective communication of an argument and its supporting evidence.

[xenosthetechnomorph]

Day at the Ballpark

The friendly shork baseball player handwaving!

Commissined by @smoksnake.bsky.social

[xkuja]

    "Even the fullest, rounded, brightest moon

is but a sigh, a scar, when the light shifts~."

[lansplaining]

lesbian wangxian

i do not claim that this is a comprehensive list, simply some of my faves, divided into the three key genres (though pretty much all of them contain a bit of each, but these are the dominant vibes i feel)

sweet

The right words at the right time by justpeace

am a huge sucker for sports-adjacent AUs. also, a deeply endearing lan qiren in this one

a little cold/a little lost by shipyrds

sometimes even when they’re already together things are hard but fundamentally they love and care for one another ok!!!!

Scream drive faster by rheawrites

lan zhan is a hot yoga teacher. you can imagine where this goes.

wake up all in tangles by la_dissonance

y-you’ve all read the impeccable lesbian rewrite of The SNL Fic, right

And they were roommates... by harrietvane

and! they! were! roommates!!!!!

sexy

if your body’s into me by plonk

predominantly smut, and one of the purest and best crystalizations of the essential ‘wei ying encounters hot, adult, no-longer-closeted butch lan zhan’ dynamic

Pull out game weak by 74243 (and again, everything by 74243, incl some A/B/O stuff i haven’t read bc that’s not really my jam)

wei ying and lan zhan have mean text sex and it’s incredible

PAIN

make me old, make me new by occultings/@microcomets

messy messy beautiful mess with a non-chronological timeline and a cat cafe

so little time and i’m way off track by @defractum

brand new and soooo good, an amazing modern cultivators AU that forces wei ying to confront her legacy with some delightful worldbuilding 

exposure therapy by mimilamp, also everything by mimilamp

boundaries? i don’t know her. btw the more repressed and sad lan zhan is and the more messy and mean wei ying is the happier i am in my life 

Out of your system by mimilamp

again, pain. also, sex. but: yearning and pain. 

here’s a story by mimilamp

in progress, but so far: PAIN. AND YEARNING.

[russianyoshkinaneko]

[wonderarium]

I would be lying if I said I weren't excited to see how mad this makes you.

i could just go on and on but life is too short. like fuckin. OH LOOK JOHN AN INTERESTING CASE TOO BAD IVE ALREADY SECRETLY SOLVED IT SO WERE COMING OUT HERE FOR NO FUCKING REASON OTHER THAN THE WRITERS NEEDED A LAME EXCUSE FOR ME TO SEE SOMETHING WAS MISSING ON A TABLE

[russianyoshkinaneko]