A mind full of worlds

Okay didn’t expect to be typing up some random Lan Xichen meta type stuff this evening on my phone, but here I am writing about lxc trying to stay calm and do the right thing when everything around him is falling apart.

Sort of prompted by screencap showing where when things were going wrong - such as in Guanyin temple, LXC just sits down and meditates, like he is just so chill about it all. And a few people were saying that it was odd or silly or useless.
( Basically he's going ‘things are awful, but I can’t panic about it, I’m not allowed to panic about it, because if I do that will make it worse and I need to make this better somehow’ )

Written for the Bottomji big bang

Title: As Spring Will Surely Come
Fandom: Modao Zushi/MDZS (Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation)
Rating: Adult (Explicit sex scene)
Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian
Characters: Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian, Lan Xichen, Lan Qiren,
Tags: Hurt/comfort - physical and emotional, post canon, happy/hopeful ending, Lan family feels, bit of case fic,
Word Count: 38K
Warnings: Mental health issues - depression, flashback, nightmares. Near drowning. Physical injury - dislocated shoulder. Physical injury - cuts/bruises. Illness - stroke.


Summary: Now in their forth year of marriage Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are settled into their life together in the Cloud Recesses, looking forward to a quiet, cozy winter together in the Jingshi. A night hunt at a haunted water mill, old injuries and family illness make it a very difficult winter instead.

Here on Dreamwidth https://silver-sun.dreamwidth.org/272057.html
and over on AO3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/47561377


Thank you notes

Thank you to RM_offline for betaing for me again and seeing me through another big bang, and for finding where most of the missing part had vanished too. Sorry for any random commas, grammatical weirdness and any other oddness in this that come from me continuing to prod and poke the story right up to the very last minute before posting.

Also a big thank you to the wonderfully talented Yuyu (https://twitter.com/yuyu_finale/ ) who who chose this story to do art for.

And to people who follow me on Twitter & Mastodon who’ve been seeing random disjointed fragments of this for months. Finally the story is here.

Scars Etched in Heart and Mind (2945 words) by silver_sun
Chapters: 1/2
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Qǐrén
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Panic Attacks, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī Needs a Hug, First Kiss, Happy Ending, POV Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, POV Third Person Limited, Present Tense, Getting Together

Canon divergent au from the last few minutes of The Untamed.

Summary:  It tears at Lan Wangji's heart to let Wei Wuxian walk off in to the Jianghu without him. Yet he feels powerless to do anything else, certain Wei Wuxian needs his freedom, which he will not have if he remains with him in the Cloud Recesses. Walking back, alone once more, he breaks.
 

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( There is no other choice that he could have made, Lan Wangji tells himself. Certainly no fairer one. )

New Horizons (28518 words) by silver_sun
Chapters: 5/6
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sòng Lán | Sòng Zǐchēn/Xiǎo Xīngchén
Characters: Sòng Lán | Sòng Zǐchēn, Xiǎo Xīngchén, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Night Hunts (Módào Zǔshī), Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss, canon character deaths Wei Changze and Cangse sanren, Child Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn

Summary: The decision to help a small village threatened by a vicious yaoguai brings with it danger and upsetting news that Xiao Xingchen never expected to receive. With the news comes a choice, one that will change the course of both Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan’s lives in ways that neither of them expect.

Story is fully written and complete in six parts. Posting will be every other day starting on 22nd April, posting time each day will be about 8am UK time.

I really don't post here as often as I should, but here we are - an entire 84k long complete bigbang fic - all written since I last logged in and posted here. 


Finding Our Own Ways Forward (84250 words) by silver_sun
Chapters: 21/21
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén
Characters: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Niè Huáisāng
Additional Tags: Post canon, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Past Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén/Mèng Yáo | Jīn Guāngyáo, Panic Attacks, Poisoning, Stabbing, Nightmares, Revenge, Grief/Mourning, Hurt Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Hurt Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén, suicide of non canon character as part of plot, Suicidal Thoughts, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Torture, Blood and Injury, life changing injury/illness, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Friendship, Pre-XiCheng, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, Hopeful Ending, Alcohol, difficulty eating properly due to having been poisoned, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Reconciliation, Sickfic, Sick Character, Twin Jades Feels, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín Needs a Hug, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén Needs a Hug
Summary:

Post seclusion, Lan Xichen continues to struggle with grief and guilt over Jin Guangyao’s actions and how much blame should be attached to himself. He has become more adept at hiding the extent of it, of living everyday with what feels like a crushing weight on his chest.

The four years following the revelation about his golden core and the events at the Guanyin Temple have been awful. Jiang Cheng’s reputation as short tempered and unreasonably angry have intensified, to the point that many seem to think that qi deviation is something that probably lies in his not too distant future.

A poisoning at a discussion conference finally brings things to a head, forcing them both to confront parts of their thoughts and lives that they have tried to avoid.

 

Please take note of warning in tags and in the authors note at the start of the story.

Story here on ao3