Wen Ke Xing and Zhou Zi Shu on 1 braincell

Wen Ke Xing, Zhou Zi Shu and their gaggle of children is my life.

[soursoppi]

Helloooo i looooovvvvveeeee all your art and aus, they are so cute and funny!! i've an unrelated question tho 😬 I'm starting in the mdzs fandom and i was wondering if you read fanfiction and can recommend some?

OH BOY DO I!!!! As a disclaimer my OTP for the series (Lan Xichen x Jiang Cheng) is a pairing with almost no canon interaction lol- like ShinKami I ship them for their pairing potential. I started out shipping another pair but... ahhh that ship gave me anxiety, and I really really really am not good with angst so after I got suckered into reading a fic for this pair.... I kinda just.... realised I liked them a lot more lol because a LOT of their fics are all about healing and helping each other grow.

Upon Our Silver Bridge by TheWanderingHeart

MY ABSOLUTE FAV, an absolute behemoth of a story that weaves in myths and memories to create an unforgettable story about learning to live again, and to live life without regrets.

Status: One last chapter to go- but with a word count of 422753, you can take your time enjoying it~

A Small Measure of Peace by Sandstone112

The best Uncle Jiang Cheng and baby Jin Ling interaction bar none in all the fics I’ve trawled through (I made my way through like 75% of the Xicheng tag tbh). The ending is a little anti climatic but seriously, the early chapter interactions are just NNNGGGHHHHHH so heartwarming.

Status: Finished and MY GOD I KEEP COMING BACK TO REREAD IT WHEN I THINK OF JIN LING GOING “JIUJIU LIANZI” HELP I CAN’T STOP

The Beginner’s Guide To Moving On by messenger18

The fic that converted me lol. Another behemoth of a fic but super cathartic, and well written. Essentially it’s the fic that shows you how XiCheng makes sense. Not my fav, but a good start if you want to understand how this ship got so popular.

Status: Finished! Another behemoth at 189538 words (a LOT of fics in this fandom are enormous lmao)

Alliances are Just Another Form of Matchmaking, Right? by FluffyHippogriff

A retelling of the canon from the POV of Lan Xichen, with more of a balanced focus between the pairings Wangxian and Xicheng. Basically it follows the first meeting between the twin Jades of Lan and the twin Heroes of Yunmeng through canon events! Very cute at parts though it’s kinda stuck in the sad part of the story now. A very humanising look at LXC!

Status: 11/30 but again another behemoth at 125233 words! Lots of cute interactions to read!!!

All This Could Be Yours by Philosophics

A SHORT BUT SPICY ONE!!!!! Modern AU Xicheng, very sweet and spicy :)))) they meet in the gym. Do check out her art too: https://feiyunn.tumblr.com/archive!!!

Status: JUST TWO CHAPTERS BUT GOD DAMN EVERYTHING IS PACED SO PERFECTLY. *chefs kiss*

Who wants to live forever by velithya

A series of short stories with Xicheng living as immortals in the modern era!! A very interesting series, which uses the POV of modern everyday mortals to take a look at the enduring and everlasting partnership/relationship between the two. Sweet and exciting!!

Status: Ongoing series! The author has a few other cool Xicheng series too

Mulberry by xxdz

The formatting and grammar can be a little wonky BUT OH BOY THE PROSE AND WORLD-BUILDING MAKES YOU FORGET ALL THAT UNIMPORTANT STUFF. Super interestingly written though it’s still early enough in the chapters that the main pair has barely even noticed the UST building up in the story. The characterisation for Jiang Cheng though, is delicious enough that you’d read it even if it’s a gen fic.

Status: WIP but oh god Jiang Cheng is so angry and it’s amazing

Where the Black Lotus Blooms by sohbet

Another fic still in its early stages that I’m reccing based on the fantastic prose and the interesting premise!!! You have LXC having long monologues on how thirsty Jiang Cheng makes him!!! :))))) And super interesting myths and mysteries!!! Plus the world building and attention to period detail!!!! Ahh my fav kinda fics!!

Status: WIP though that one chapter of JC dressed to kill has me by the throat

Audience of One by WinterDreams

A modern fake dating that eventually becomes real dating AU. It’s a sweet and slow burn story, that has them navigating each other’s wounds and protecting/patching each other up. The exact sort of fic that makes me love them so much because its SO SWEET AND CATHARTIC TO READ!!!!! (also has adorable interactions with WWX, JC and JL!!)

Status: Almost done at 13/16! It’s stopped on kinda a weird spot but essentially all current cliffhangers in the story has been resolved (beyond the actual status of their relationship lol)

And now.... a special mention for the fic that actually lured me into the fandom, and the one series that I still read for this pair. It’s XiYao btw! A different pairing from my OTP.

A Troublesome Charge by Moonsheen

JGY gets reincarnated and shenanigans ensue. WELL WRITTEN AND AWESOME ACTION, with some bonus ZhuiLing. It’s probably the only Xiyao fic that did not give me anxiety lmao, mainly because of how it deals with the problem of JGY being JGY.

Status: It’s actually a series of “short” stories but ongoing still!

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This German art student, Benjamin Harff, decided, for his exam at the Academy of Arts, to do something only slightly ambitious — to hand-illuminate and bind a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion. It took him six months of work. He hand-illuminated the text which had been printed on his home Canon inkjet printer. He worked with a binder to assemble the resulting book.

More pictures HERE

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[witchshork]

My cat does this thing where she squints at me when I brush my teeth. It's because she doesn't like the strong smell, but in reality it makes her look like she's suspicious 🤣

She's literally 2 meters away from me and when I pretend to breathe in her direction she sits there like

Midna, please I'm trying to practice dental hygiene stop judging me 😭

[waci-illstr]

Friends of Moominpappa (3/3)

Bonus part soon! 🎩

[mochiango]

Part 2 of the reunion comic I made

Previous chap:

Hello

Already posted this one on reddit but... Seeing how many people really wanted Snufkin and Joxter reunited in season 4, I thought I'd post th

[witchshork]

Visiting some childhood "friends" idk how to call it, a family that took care of me more emotionally then my own parents did. But we moved country and I hadn’t seen them in YEARS and being hit over the head with the shitty Xenophobia sentiments that have been rising in Germany. It was bad.

And as a historian I see the circle here. It was basically all about how Germany is doing really badly and ppl see refugees getting "perks" and shit just snowballed from there. But it's the "refugees have it easier" and "refugees are the only ones doing violent things" stuff, like it's luke they don't even notice the full circle they are in. Also this is not just Germany, as you can see with UK most bigger countries are in it deep and even the small ones are struggling to keep tge brewing discontent from becoming resentment towards smaller groups of ppl.

I just didn't expect ppl I grew up knowing to be kind and generous to make xenophobic jokes like it was the norm.

This was the countryside, btw. But ppl rly have no empathy for ppl fleeing active DEATH and war, huh.

I am tired, man

[witchshork]

I just dream wasps flew into my open mouth and eyes. Including the crawling around in there. I have horrific phobia of wasps, I almost fucking screamed. Holidays are stressfull

[witchshork]

You know what's annoying? Having mild insomnia and living in a country with midnight sun. Tryingbto sleep and its 5 am and I walk into the living room only for it to be DAYLIGHT. Is disheartening. Even worse yesterday I was still awake at 3 am and the birds were having a concert. LIKE NO BIRDIES IS SLEEP TIME. Anyway I still prefer summer bc cave winter is litteraly the worst. It's so darkkk. This is just mild complaining, I have a double black out curyain layer in my bedroom. Pls can I have more summer 😭😭

[witchshork]

Imma be honest I don't get why ppl are ok with the new donkey kong design. I FUCKING HATE IT ✨️ He doesn't look like DK at all, but everyone seems to think it's fine. He cursed.

[transgothzoey]

From a state hearing in Texas

[zoglin]

What you can’t see is me with the controller panicking and yelling

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Computer games are fantastic

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[akkpipitphattana]

first kanaphan knocked the fuck out in a hospital bed cinematic universe

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@ Only Friends

[witchshork]

It's so weird when you talk about having the kind of autism that makes ppl dislike you on principle. Bc when you say "ppl don't like me." That is viewed as a ppl have to comfort me and tell me "no that's not true." I'm not fishing for pity of sympathy. Ppl especially that have to deal with you in like school or therapy or health care situations pick up on the -charisma type of autism and they dislike you. This can be horrible as a kid but it can also lead to you struggling to get an appartement bc the would be landlord doesn't like you after a 10-30 min convo.

Bc especially neurotypical but also neurodivergent ppl bc society teaches you that ND traits are of putting and uncanny.

As a child I didn't understand why so many kids disliked me or like to ask me weird shit bc they liked laughing at my reactions.

[witchshork]

How I got my first cat at age 9:

My mother had to argue with my father, who does love cats, but he wasn't sure that it was a good idea. After loads of convincing we visited some relatives of friends that had some farm kitties. It was raining and the kitties loomed like wet rats. Tiny kitty walks out in the rain to scream at me. That was my cat, Bilbo.

Few years later my father was out alone, he was friend's with the parents and I was friend's with the kids and one time he was there alone and he came home with a little pathetic Soot sprite look alike of a cat. He was the runt of the litter and my father said "I want to give him a Norwegian name" and called his cat Gunnar.

And that's on my autistic father and his bonded partner, both (cats) have sadly passed away. My father is still alive. Gunnar passed away last autumn.

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tags from coloredcompulsion:

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“Could you be the chosen one?”

“I am very much the guy who’s here.”

[lifewithchronicpain]

[witchshork]

Don't rly know how to explain Folkehøgskole in Scandinavia, but just imagine boarding school, but ppl are only there to be social and do fun stuff. Classes are devided into hobbies.

We had a "Music" class, it was like 30 men and 1 woman. They went on a school trip to Berlin, so they weren't doing anything related to learning, but fhs have a few rules, no alcohol, no drugs and when on a trip come back by curfew and avoid wandering alone.

After this trip all but 1 guy got suspended for a few weeks. Why? Bc all of the class went to stripclubs in berlin, got hammered and spent a few thousand crowns at the strip clubs. And I can neither confirm or deny if drugs were involved. But I remember they day they got back, there was a line to the principals office.

I am still baffled by the catastrophic decision making skills of that entire class, but I guess it makes sense being 99% mostly 19/20 year old boys.

The remaining guy didn't have class so he kind of just slept in and hung out when he felt like it.

No this rly happened, 2017.

[witchshork]

Sometimes I forget that screaming into void can result in ppl who love you hearing you and becoming upset. Bc they somehow care about you and also bc shit that are hurtful thoughts to ypu, can be hurtful to others. And now I sit in want to through up type anxiety.

Might not even be about me, but I have ocd so I can't convince my ocd that it's not me.

Good job, me, getting my mentally ill smoothie on to other's shoes.