The Arcana is a queer-friendly visual novel with tarot themes, six romance routes (expanded from three), and a murder mystery (or some kind of mystery anyway) at its center.
In The Garden - Explicit
A spicy reimagining of the scene with Julian in the forbidden garden in Chapter VI Part II: A Gift and a Curse. What if the guards passed the garden by entirely and Julian and the Apprentice had more time? Julian is a cis man; Apprentice's gender and body are unspecified.
The Untamed (Chinese: 陈情令; pinyin: Chén Qíng Lìng) is a 2019 Chinese television series adapted from the danmei novel Mo Dao Zu Shi by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. It was my first introduction to the canon and my primary source of a lot of the characterization and plot points, though I most often write in a frankencanon cobbled together from the novel, the audiodrama, the donghua, and the live action.
The River Styx is High and Wide
Inspired by the album Hadestown by Anais Mitchell. Lan Zhan stumbled on the rumour of Wei Ying being thrown into the burial mounds and decided to go retrieve him himself. Otherwise, the plot of the show is not changed at all. Angst, ahoy!
into, around, through - A series of post-canon fics following Lan Xichen as he delves into, talks around, and moves through grief.
Part 1: what I've failed I will not unknow / what has failed me is not yet unknown
“We raised a child together,” Jiang Wanyin says, voice thick with pain. “You two were sworn brothers.” He swallows hard and oh. Oh, no. Lan Xichen is not ready for this conversation. He is never going to be ready for this conversation. “And because of what he did, there is nowhere outside this room that either of us can mourn him.”
Lan Xichen has been in seclusion for half a year, healing, he thinks, from the way his world was upended that night in a temple in Yunping City. Then, Jiang Wanyin comes to visit—breaking the fragile peace he has been building, but offering, perhaps, a better healing.
Part 3: We're all just stumbling through it
Jin Ling didn't try to escape the conferences often, but occasionally, when everything got to be too much and he felt too young for his social peers and too old for his agemates, he bowed out of the evening's banquet, mounted his sword, and flew east to the sea.
This time, he found Lan Xichen there.
Crossover with Selkirk/Me and AU
Jodi and Garrett are the badass park rangers-slash-monster wranglers responsible for keeping human-paranormal conflict to a minimum. Song Zichen and Xiao Xingchen are Daoist priests and cultivators who have cultivated to immortality and somehow made their way over to British Columbia. When people start getting killed by something obviously supernatural the two pairs run into each other.
Taking place in the Cold Springs Plaza Mall AU, this is best read as a sequel to Lan Xichen's Guide to the Williams Sonoma Catalog which is the fic where NieLan get together in this universe. In this fic, however, Jin Zixuan has his eyes set on courting Jiang Yanli and seeks out Lan Xichen's help in outfitting his kitchen to do so. This was cowritten with my pal spacewitchbot.
Me and AU is a queer, fannish romance podcast where two characters fall in love with a show called Selkirk (and maybe also each other). Selkirk is also a forthcoming podcast from Procyon Podcast Network, so keep your eyes peeled! :D
Crossover with The Untamed
Jodi and Garrett are the badass park rangers-slash-monster wranglers responsible for keeping human-paranormal conflict to a minimum. Song Zichen and Xiao Xingchen are Daoist priests and cultivators who have cultivated to immortality and somehow made their way over to British Columbia. When people start getting killed by something obviously supernatural the two pairs run into each other.
Crossover between The Untamed and Me and AU/Selkirk
Jodi and Garrett are the badass park rangers-slash-monster wranglers responsible for keeping human-paranormal conflict to a minimum. Song Zichen and Xiao Xingchen are Daoist priests and cultivators who have cultivated to immortality and somehow made their way over to British Columbia. When people start getting killed by something obviously supernatural the two pairs run into each other.