#sangchengning

[sleepy-salami]

Hello! Given your earlier Wen Ning fic rec ask, may I ask about your favorite longer Wen Ning fics, please?

here are my favorites, more or less sorted from dark and heavy to more lighthearted! some are mature/explicit, some have heavy content warnings, so please check all the AO3 tags and sorry if something is not your cup of tea!

[T] Forth from Fire by melongumi

Wen Ning & Wen Qing, Speculative Backstory, Child Abuse

exploration of the wen siblings' childhood with their shitty father, from wen qing's POV (check the rest of the series out as well)

[E] Pray the Tearing by vibishan

Jiang Cheng/Wen Ning/Nie Huaisang, Rape/Non-con, Arranged Marriage, Miscommunication

jiang cheng is forced to marry into the wen sect after the jiang sect is destroyed; very dark but cathartic

[M] throughline by lunatea

Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian/Wen Ning, Modern Setting, Crime Scene Investigation

forensic technician wen ning meets two private detectives, THE wangningxian fic to me, with beautiful illustrations from the author

[T] gradation by lunatea

Lan Wangji/Wen Ning, Canon Divergence, Grief/Mourning

wen ning escapes from the jins early, and bonds with lan wangji over their shared grief and co-parenting a-yuan. incomplete, but still changed my life

[M] The Path that led Him to You by TheChangelingKing

Lan Wangji/Wen Ning, Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian/Wen Ning, Canon Divergence, Grief/Mourning, Slow Burn

ongoing! same premise as the previous one, very slow burn

[T] The Living Looked That Day by violettressed

Wen Ning & Lan Sizhui, Post-Canon

wen ning shows lan sizhui the memories about their family

[E] Normal, Healthy, Dead Guy Stuff by LesbianlazerOwl

Jiang Cheng/Wen Ning, Post-Canon, Getting Together, Slow Burn

jiang cheng and wen ning bond over co-uncleing the kids and team up against wei wuxian's approach to bodily autonomy

[G] Fierce Friends by TumblingTroublesomeTumbleweeds

Wen Ning & Nie Mingjue & Song Lan, Post-Canon, Humor

zombie club adventures! (unfortunately, incomplete)

[T] 5 Ways to Summon Your Ghost General by tricksterity (@sandumilfshous)

Immortal Wen Ning, Modern Cultivation

Ning-shushu and a discord server full of descendants <3

[G] No, we're not going to talk about how you killed my dad. This is an archery field, not a therapy session. by haenotic

Wen Ning & Jin Ling, Post-Canon, Humor

the title is self-explanatory lmao

[T] You just let them walk off with your left arm? by haenotic

Wen Ning & Jiang Cheng, Post-Canon, Humor

wen ning & jiang cheng's wacky hijinks in search of missing body parts (unfortunately, also incomplete)

[G] Selling Flowers by AmyNChan

Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, Wen Ning & Wei Wuxian, Modern AU, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Aroace Wen Ning

wen ning has a flower shop and wei wuxian has a bad idea on how to stop the customers from flirting with him

everyone is always welcome to add their own recs or promote their own works, and check out my shorter fics rec list!

[gusu-emilu]

I’ve talked with @eldritch-elrics and @qi-ling about Sangchengning several times (thank you for your thoughts) and I think the ship has a lot of potential.

It starts with the parallels. They are each a youngest brother left behind. They each value family yet are left alone for different reasons, “othered” by the world. They each care too much, love too hard, know grief too intimately. They are also some of the few people left who know who Wei Wuxian really is.

They each know anger deeply and feel it deeply, but express it in different ways ranging from NHS’s cold, quiet manipulation to JC’s heated outbursts to WN’s bottled-up resentment. They have each seen the consequences of how their anger has affected the world, with varying degrees of responsibility. They each have complicated relationships with betrayal and consent, sometimes as perpetrators, sometimes as victims (elaborating on this mess would really need its own post). All of these could be possible connecting points between them--opportunities for healing, for making sense of the past, for figuring out where to go from here.

I do think it would be a bit difficult for the ship to actually work out. Personally I think JC’s inferiority complex might get in the way of poly-ness (although I am 100% here for JC getting extra love), there’s the question of who reaches out first when tie-lines feel so frigid and distant and maybe aren’t even visible, and JC and WN have a lot of issues obstructing an amicable relationship between them...but still.

NHS is the link, the starting point. I think he would be looking for someone to connect with post-canon, somewhere he can let down his mask. JC and WN would probably like apologies for their nephews being put in danger and would be suspicious of him, but would also sympathize with him. From there, NHS could make a very good mediator between JC and WN, who are more similar to each other than they realize.

Bonus points for added backstories to deepen the narrative--it’s fair game for any of them to have been childhood friends/lovers during the Cloud Recesses study arc, and NHS and JC could have had some history during the timeskip. If we’re getting creative, WN could also enter the picture during the timeskip (i.e. NHS helps him escape from Jinlintai and keeps him somewhere safe, visits him often and forms a friendship toeing the line of romantic, one day JC discovers him--I cannot express how badly I need fanfic of this concept).

Plus their personalities are just fun to put together! There’s a lot of potential for humor and fluff, too. They can each bring out different types of expressiveness in the other: WN and NHS can bring out the softness in JC, JC can bring out a more vocal side of NHS and WN, NHS can bring out the troll in WN, and JC and WN would both definitely indulge NHS on his whimsy. They each are impulsive in some ways and steady in others. They’d complement each other well.

It would take work for Sangchengning to happen, but the intentionality of forming something new and whole out of broken pieces is all part of the charm :)

[westiec]

Heads Up, Seven Up

I was tagged by @peridot-tears to do the "last 7 sentences of your WIP" thing.

The actual last 7 sentences I wrote are in Yunmeng In-Laws Ch. 3, which will be posting on Oct. 31(!!) and I don't wanna spoil, so here are seven from the thing I was working on before that - one of the future chapters of the Big Sibs OT4 that started posting today!

Nie Huaisang watches the way his throat moves as he swallows and lets him think about what sorts of things those might be. It's a long list. Nie Huaisang is confident they can find plenty they'll both enjoy. Jiang Cheng licks his lips and glances back over at Wen Ning. "I thought you didn't- I mean- and what about you?"

Wen Ning smiles again, and this time it's not innocent at all. "Oh, I'm one of the people who likes to watch."

Jiang Cheng is saved from responding by the arrival of their plates, and Nie Huaisang proposes a toast to the infinite wonder of human relationships. 

... which is coincidentally a bit with only little sibs, but hey ¯\_(ツ)_/¯