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    "An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break."

    The Maomao that had read those fated words was just a child—naive and sharp-eyed but so full of heart. The Maomao that read it had clumsy hands and chipped teeth, yard-tanned skin and endless questions. She hadn't the faintest clue of destiny's cruel design, and it would be cruel. There would be hate and horror and humorless irony in every turn, but that young Maomao grinned and relaxed down into the sunbaked grass with a crude legends children's book beside her. If her destiny was already set, it didn't matter what she did.

     

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    03 Sep 2025

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    This is to provide a reference for writers who are unfamiliar with Chinese literary conventions or terms used in canon. Hopefully someone will find this helpful.

    Prompted by https://three--rings.tumblr.com/post/187301034228/things-the-mdzs-fandom-desperately-needs-if-they

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    03 Mar 2023

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    Wei Ying hiccupped a bubble of blood out of his mouth, and he shifted on the sword, sending a swift terror through Lan Wangji. He pinned Wei Ying mercilessly close, tightly enough he could support Wei Ying’s entire weight even if his feet left the steel.

    Wei Ying had closed his eyes on the cliff at Nightless City and let himself fall back. Lan Wangji’s heart had leapt out through the wall of his chest. Lan Wangji had stopped him, pulled him forward and thrown down a teleportation talisman and swept him away. He would not, could not let him slip through his hands now.
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    Wei Wuxian survives, goes into hiding in Cloud Recesses, and Forest Gumps his way through the events of the timeskip, which alters their course.

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    04 Feb 2023

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    Innocence isn't the only thing to die in war. Propriety is the last thing on the minds of the teenaged generals, the orphan clan leaders of the Sunshot campaign.

    Jin Guangshan is the only leader who ascended as an adult, who didn't have his parents murdered by the Wen, who didn't come of age during a war. The last adult standing, the only one with experience and age. He assumes this will put him in the most advantageous position, once the war ends. That the infant leaders of the other clans will gladly fall into step within his shadow.

    He is wrong.

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    03 Dec 2022

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    For Wei Wuxian, the apocalypse begins in a petrol station, with a crying baby and its dying mother, and a horde of the undead outside. All Wei Wuxian can think of is making it back to his family, but little does he know that finding his siblings will only be the start of the fight to survive…

    A modern zombie AU featuring artwork from the incredible steppjes.

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    28 Nov 2022

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    Chinese family trees explained by Professor Lan and Madam Yu.

    This is a quick reference for the non-Chinese authors floundering with all the Chinese family terminologies.

    (most recent edit: 12-Apr-2026)

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    05 Oct 2022

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    Sephiroth is a cunning man with the power of a god at his fingertips. He decides that the greatest possible victory can be achieved if he turns back the hands of time and takes Cloud with him to the earliest days of Cloud's childhood. While Cloud is unable to remember his adult memories due to the physical limitations of a baby's brain, Sephiroth shifts the deepest foundation of their bond from hatred to manufactured affection.

    Where taken seriously, this has dark and lasting consequences.

    Where taken less seriously, Sephiroth goes from bad guy to dad guy.

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    04 Jul 2022

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    The Planet makes a simple plan, but chooses a complicated hero.

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    03 Jul 2022

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    Every time the world ended, Sephiroth and Cloud met.
    Every time, they decided what to change to make it end better.
    Every time they failed.
    Can anything save Cloud's friends? Keep Sephiroth from falling? Give them both a happy ending?

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    When Cloud Strife was 11 years old, he took his mom's truck, drove to Shinra, and stole a prized experiment. All because a nightmare with piercing green eyes asked him to try.

    Sephiroth isn't like anyone else, but Cloud thinks he likes him. Even though his arrival in Nibelheim changes everything.

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    02 Jun 2022

    Bookmarker's Notes

    The absolute best timetravel fixit in existence, Groundhog Day style. Sephiroth being saved from the lab! Cloud being opposite of saved from the lab! Aerith and Zack living! Heroic Sephiroth! And everything going to shit anyway, except that maybe things were a liiittle closer to a good end this time!

    Slow, slow healing while Cloud and Sephiroth try to make the world not end, and getting all sorts of hurt in the meantime

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    Through the spite of the spirits or plain rotten chance, a door that would have been better left untouched has opened. On the other hand, with Fire and Earth as one's allies, sometimes escaping is the easy part.

     

    Even the Dragon-King's temple floods.

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    24 Apr 2022

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    What if the Sardaukar had never intercepted Paul and co. at the ecological testing center? What if Duncan and Kynes survived the journey to the Fremen?

    A meditation on free will, prophecy, and wildly inappropriate dalliances.

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    01 Apr 2022

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    14 Mar 2022

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    Absolutely brilliant older!Geralt, young!Jaskier arranged marriage

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    “Cas,” Sam says, looking horror-struck. “You can’t be alone on Christmas.”

    [ Art Masterpost ]

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    20 Dec 2021

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    If you said the word "brother" to Duo Maxwell, he'd think of the other pilots.

    If you said, "no, your long-lost brother" to Duo Maxwell, he'd think of Solo and be very confused.

    If you said, "no, your twin brother you were separated from at birth, and he's now working with the Preventers as a lawyer" to Duo Maxwell, he would go and punch his doppelganger.

    Duo Maxwell isn't good at dealing with things, but unfortunately this particular thing isn't going to go away that easily.

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    08 Oct 2021

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    A look into how Geralt and Jaskier's relationship developed over twenty-two years.

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    He indulges himself a little and peeks over at Geralt. A witcher- a witcher, real and so close and not actually resembling the stories much at all, other than in sheer impressiveness- intently focused on his task. Jaskier curls in his lips, chews thoughtfully. Knows that Geralt wouldn’t want him to say he’s beautiful. Wouldn’t want a bard to gawk at him, doting, taking in how he nearly glows, caught between the light of their flickering campfire and the moon overhead. Regardless of how true it is.

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    08 Oct 2021

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    Jonathan Sims is a single father and the sole librarian of the most disorganized library in existence. Martin Blackwood's life has entered a new chapter but he can't seem to find the plot. Jon's daughter causes a chance encounter that throws them inexorably into one another's lives. As Jon receives a strange shipment of rare, peculiar books, he realizes that his life is only about to grow more complicated - and more dangerous.

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    04 Oct 2021

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    17 Sep 2021

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    There is a ghost on the Wani. But the crew have grown used to - even fond of - Prince Zuko. And no matter how many times General Iroh tries to gently explain the boy’s predicament, tries to suggest that he might attempt to move on, Prince Zuko can always be found watching the sea.

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    There is a prisoner in the palace.

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    29 Aug 2021

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    Cages or wings — which do you prefer?
    Ask the birds.
    Fear or love?
    Baby, don’t say the answer...
    actions speak louder than words


    Castiel was entrusted with the most sacred mission: protect the Michael Sword, the Righteous Man, until he comes of age to be of use to Heaven in the war against Lucifer. He willingly fell to earth, with the knowledge that he would be captured and enslaved, and eventually fall into the possession of the Righteous Man’s father. He was not prepared for what that would entail, and the horror he would be forced to face at his master’s hands.

    Dean was seven when Dad came back from a hunting trip with a bound, beaten man in a tan coat that suddenly went everywhere with them. His job, Dad explained, was going to be protecting Dean and Sam while Dad was away hunting.

    At first, Dean doesn’t understand why the man stays around just to basically babysit them... Until one terrible day he does: it’s not that Castiel won’t leave, it’s that he can’t — and after that, nothing will ever be the same.

    (Please note: Dean/Cas is the endgame, but does not happen while Dean is below the age of consent.)

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    15 Jun 2021

    Bookmarker's Notes

    One of the hardest hitting fics I’ve dared to read in a long time, but absolutely masterful in its handling of the TW content, and an example of the kind of writing i aspire to

  20. Public Bookmark 18

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    Jaskier didn't think it could get much worse. He'd already spent weeks in this hellhole that Nilfgaard called a prison. His body was a mess of torn skin and broken bones but despite their best efforts, he refused to give up any information. He's lasted this long, why give up now?

    As usual he's taken away to be tortured yet again. But this time is different. This time they're attacking his mind.

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    31 Mar 2021

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