Here you will find sadness, hurt-no-comfort (or small comfort), and melancholy vibes of all kinds.
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. Knowing the Orpheus myth, you must know this ends poorly.
Here you will find a wide variety of kinks, both sexual and nonsexual.
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.
What it says on the tin -- things may be rough here, but they're getting better. Or we're finding some small comfort in the midst of tragedy. That sort of thing.
what I've failed I will not unknow / what has failed me is not yet unknown
This fic is the result of me excavating and processing my own complex griefs through the lens of Lan Xichen's extremely complex grief. It is important to me, both that Lan Xichen goes into seclusion and that, in the end and after an appropriate time, he comes out again. Also Jiang Cheng is there to reflect Lan Xichen's complex grief with his own.
We're all just stumbling through it
Set in the same universe as the above fic, though several years later, this one engages with Jin Ling's struggles with responsibility as he grows into his role as sect master of Lanling Jin. A conversation with Lan Xichen helps guide him through it.
What it says on the tin -- here be Shenanigans.
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.