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Rewind 2025 - Follower Recs Part I

WangxianFicRecs - Rewind 2025

For our Rewind 2025 our dear followers are also able to submit their own recommendations! Here's part one of their favourite fics published this year and if you haven't submitted a rec yet; the inbox remains open!

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This is a collection of 7 works so far based on the premise that Wen Ruohan recognises Wei Wuxian as his grandson when visiting Yunmeng. It’s funny and full of genius Wei Wuxian who gets spoilt by his new grandfather. Wei Wuxian is a complete ball of sunshine throughout and prevents the war purely because his grandfather knows it would upset him. I loved the whole series. @i-amnotawriter

Red Ribbon

by Bastet_Fanwork

M, Series, WIP, 127k, Wangxian

Summary: The Cultivation World was no stranger to gossip. From the minor clans to the major clans, there was an implicit belief that they were superior to ordinary people, even those who ran the country from the Imperial City; some cultivators could attain immortality and become gods; they could fly on swords, subdue living creatures with music, and survive for long periods without food through meditation. But they were still human. And it was human nature to prosper by meddling in other people’s affairs. This gossip in particular had the potential to spread and ignite like a broken lantern thrown into a pool of oil: the lucky ones had witnessed the highlights live, the others would complain for a long time that they had missed such a spectacle. And to think that it all started with a simple hair ribbon. ~ When Wei Ying is twelve years old, the Jiang Clan hold a Discussion Conference at Lotus Pier. All the clans attend, including the Wens. All goes well until Wen RuoHan notices the red ribbon in Wei Ying's hair.

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Its author-wwx and actor-lwj which are two of my favorite tropes for fictional jobs! Combined! It’s a very amusing fic and I loved the family group chat and how committed to being helpful Jin Zixuan is in it. Plus wangxian get together really quickly in a way that’s funny but also satisfying. @wangxoxian

Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once (but Wei Wuxian does)

by relenafanel (@relenafanel

T, 7k, Wangxian

Summary: Bestselling author Wei Wuxian finds himself invited to the Golden Globes. It’s very exciting for everyone involved, including actor Lan Wangji (who may or may not be his biggest fan). Featuring: wwx’s family group chat, a one night stand with an actor that doesn’t end in a nondisclosure agreement, and lwj’s particular brand of flirting (inviting the man to move in with him)

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anything by strat is amazing but this one about the fate of wei wuxian's parents, it's so good @notenoughgatorade

show me how to lay my sword down

by Stratisphyre

T, 81k, Wangxian

Summary: For a short while, probably more than he’d had any right to expect, Wei Wuxian had managed to feel like himself again. His clothing might have been rougher, and pockets certainly lighter, but sitting across from Lan Zhan sharing a meal without cross words or demands flying back and forth across the food… But a short time had all he’d been allowed before being abruptly summoned back to reality. Or, two strangers appear in the Burial Mounds.

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This fic about Wei Wei Ying moving to Australia to begin his doctoral program while applying to adopt A-Yuan will fill a hole in your soul you didn’t know was there. The writing is evocative and lyrical as Wei Ying meets and falls in love with Lan Zhan, and they move forward through the adoption process together. It’s an absolutely gorgeous exploration of family in all its different forms. @doctorbunsenhoneydew

Bright Things and Quiet Places

by spicyomelette

T, 9k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec

Summary: He’s a single man in a new country, trying to adopt a child. He doesn’t have time for crushes. But Lan Zhan is… Lan Zhan. Untouchable. Impossibly calm. Possibly carved from some secret mountain monastery stone. Wei Ying likes his voice. Likes his quiet. But he doesn’t let himself like it too much. Still, something shifts. Slowly. Like sunlight creeping through drawn curtains. Lan Zhan watches Wei Ying like someone documenting how he fits into the spaces he finds himself in, and Wei Ying starts to wonder what it means to stop surviving and start choosing.

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All their stories are fantastic, but I particularly like how this story uses the amnesia trope and makes callbacks to canon. @zebydeb

rain that you slept through

by anaphoricae

E, 54k, Wangxian

Summary: “You’re in the hospital,” she says. “You were in a traffic accident, and–" “No, I heard that. But–” Wei Ying glances at the extremely pretty man, who’s just staring at him, completely still. His empty hands hover in the air. “I don’t need anyone to take care of me. I just wanna go home." “You are going home,” Yanli reaches over and tucks his hair behind his ear, giving him a tiny smile. “Don’t worry. Just a few more scans, and then Lan Zhan can take you back." “Who’s Lan Zhan?” he asks. The pretty man by his side inhales so sharply Wei Ying feels the air get sucked out of the room. - Wei Ying gets in a traffic accident and loses six years of his memories, including meeting and marrying the love of his life. This is the story of how he falls back in love with Lan Zhan: quickly, and inevitably. Or, my take on one of my favorite tropes.

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38k of pure delight! @intoxicatingimmediacy

💙 the cat distribution system

by ScarlettStorm (@scarlettohairdye)

E, 38k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec

Summary: Wei Wuxian didn’t imagine acquiring a cat like this, nor did he imagine acquiring a fluffy white cat that, even covered in dirt and debris and clutched to a four-year-old’s chest like a teddy bear, manages to give the impression it’s judged his entire life and found it deeply wanting. “Uh, A’Yuan,” he asks slowly, just in case this is a hallucination. “Who’s this?” “A cat,” A’Yuan says proudly, leaning his round cheek against the top of the cat’s head, while the cat continues to look at Wei Wuxian like he’s wearing week-old clothes covered in food stains. Or: Wei Wuxian gets a cat, and then a boyfriend, both of which are a surprise.

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[mdzsao3]

Lan Wangji speedrunning the "I hate this cat" to "I adore this cat" pipeline, only he's the cat and his feelings are directed at Wei Wuxian

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[gargoyleandgremlinpress]

I'm declaring it the week of the pamphlet bind, because this is the second of three I've got in my backlogged queue of fanbinds to share.

Sometimes, a vaguely ridiculous idea gets ahold of you and won't let go.

When I discovered that there were not one, but TWO short MDZS modern AU fic with the incredibly specific meet-cute premise of "character A encounters a swarm of bees, and character B is the beekeeper who rescues them," I decided I needed to bind them. Together. And they were both short, so a quick pamphlet bind was the perfect solution.

I think I did this two summers ago, and would probably do a bit better with the text placement on the cover now, but I stand behind all the bee theming in the typeset unreservedly.

There must be something about the Twin Jades of Lan that not one, but TWO authors looked at them and said, you know what? Beekeeper.

So here we have, both with awesome titles, Save the Bees (Ride a Beekeeper) by @ariaste and Covered in Bees by @scarlettohairdye.

Public domain images, cardstock cover, sewn with some orange crochet cotton, because god knows I have enough random thread around. To make up for the disreputable cookie sheet used for an atmospheric industrial space background in my last post, this one is photographed on the orange and yellow stripes of a rainbow plain-weave tablerunner I wove out of the accumulated scrap basket at the weavers' guild.

And lovely authors, if either one of you would like a copy, I would be happy to make you one, or share the digital files with you.

[fantasiavii]

Thinking about Scarlett’s t4t Wangxian…. rotating them in my head… staring at them wistfully… 🥺

[therealfailwhale]

This classified ad from 1952 gives me huge “Covered in Bees” by @scarlettohairdye vibes. Like who else but Wei Wuxian would be out there posting an ad in a newspaper saying HELP I LOST MY BEES.

[Alt id: A newspaper clipping that reads “LOST: SWARM OF BEES - PLateau 8306 6-28”]

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[saltyteethbooks]

It Seems the Hills and Rivers Have Been Waiting. This fic, wow. I kept telling people I was going to bind this fic with every chapter update. Dayum, ScarlettStorm, dayum.

Dang, I can't believe I was following the fic for 2 whole years. It's so good though, that as soon as I finished reading the epilogue, I marathoned my way over the course of 2 days to finish 90% typeset of over 390k words. Then I took nearly a month on the little flourishes and physically building the book, which oh boy this curtain brocade I bought a decade ago is beautiful but whoops the embroidered leaves at the corners started fraying like heck in short tufts (stahp, no).

This led to a hilarious hour in the Discord server as a fellow member tried to assist in explaining how to do the currently unplanned for corners because what is maths but thank goodness my brain realised two of the triangles make a square so the diagonal should be double the width of the facing spinal bookcloth asdfhhjkklll omg thank you geometric logic. I was also terribly concerned I had miscalculated the fore edge overhang because I haven't gotten this down pat yet. Somehow pulled it off??? And then doing the second attempt in my life at sewing endbands and I somehow managed to fix a couple of missed/loosened spots.

Also had a helping hand in turning the boar spear I drew up in Sketchbook app into a proper ornament because I'm not at that level yet (I love the Renegade members).

I did my best with editing the photos for consistency but the camera kept changing the colour tones and I just wanted a nap by the end of it.

I might reblog with process photos later on if I remember lol

[keriwangxianrecs]

link / link to podfic

I just read this fic this weekend (specifically, I listened to the WONDERFUL podfic by Khashana) and it had me in stitches. I loved the worldbuilding, the gentle beginning of the relationship, and most of all the truly funny writing. Shoutout also to the sequel, which manages to make a play on a/b/o both funny and sexy.