Look at that, I managed a whole month (and *mostly* within the month, too). Thanks to @clachnaben for making #FicRecFebruary happen! This was really fun. :ablobcatheart:

#FicRecFebruary no.28: building a fantastic set of wings, by lickrish

#MDZS, #YiCity, modern AU with cultivation, demonic cultivation, blood and sex rituals

Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen are researching the near-legendary Hanguang Jun. Xue Yang is studying the Yiling Laozu. Things are going to go inevitably, painfully, bloodily wrong.

The emotional tension, chill of foreboding and slow, ambiguous reveal of this fic are as masterful as it's sensorily detailed. Marvellous!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35675176/chapters/88950124

#FicRecFebruary no.27: fuori dal mondo, by bladedweaponsandswishycoats

#QiYe, #xiyuan and some JBY/ZZS, canon divergence, also the sable is here

Look, this is Qi Ye except that Jing Beiyuan sometimes turns into an indescribable eldritch horror, and I think we can all agree on how magnificent and visionary this is, right? I know my audience. Go read it! <3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42743220/chapters/107379843

#FicRecFebruary (shh conceptually it is still february

I really enjoyed this sweet Ted Lasso fic about Roy and Keeley pretending to be broken up because the paps didn't understand Roy being sarcastic at them. funny and enjoyable! https://archiveofourown.org/works/33977110

#ficrec

Last day of #FicRecFebruary, so time for something a little different than my last few (depressing) choices.

This fic is an amazing character study and just something that makes me so happy. I love kind characters, and I love stories that recognize that kindness is a choice and complicated and not boring.

Look into the sun as the new days rise
Writer: MashpotatoeQueen
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Pairing: Katara & Zuko
Rating: T
WC: 7726

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28057446

#FicRecFebruary no.26: Your Heart Pierces Through Me, by rivers_bend

#KinnPorsche, #VegasPete, post-canon

The one where Vegas wants to give Pete a piercing, and ends up getting an apprenticeship and, with Pete and Macau, rebuilding their whole lives together. I don't even know how to describe how much more this fic is than it sounds! I had to take breaks reading it to breathe and recover. (I also got new piercings partly because of it.)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42074181

#FicRecFebruary no.25: Black Honey on my Table, by Grizmelder

#MDZS, modern AU, #wangxian

Wei Wuxian, fine art restorer, has a new client. Lan Wangji, musician, has an heirloom portrait with a mysterious history. The restoration process is a satisfyingly detailed backbone to this fic, but never feels forced; wangxian's emotional connection builds to a perfect conclusion. A beautiful fic!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/44517490

#FicRecFebruary no.24: Brave of Heart and Strong of Arm, by Stultiloquentia

#MDZS, #gen, #YunmengShuangjie

Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian, and the canoe they built together as juniors. Lyrical, boisterous, melancholy and hopeful; plus, you will totally learn how to build a boat!

This is one of my all-time favourite MDZS fics—please give yourself the treat of reading it.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33459688

The Look You Give
✍️ fic by #alightbuthappypen

🎼 #TheUntamed
🎼 #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
🎼 8k, Explicit, canon divergent
🎼 After they fight the waterborne abyss, they spend another night in Caiyi
🎼 LWJ & WWX share a room again, but this time there is #OnlyOneBed
🎼 LWJ knows his body will betray him if they sleep next to each other
🎼 Dreamy fantasy turns into intense dreamy wonderful reality

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44967817

#FicRec #FicRecFebruary #MDZS #WangXian #NSFW

Gathered Herbs & Sweet Grasses
✍️ fic by #hansbekhart

🌿 #TheUntamed #MoDaoZuShi
🌿 #LanSizhui & #LanWangji
🌿 Not rated, 18k, canon compliant
🌿 A-Yuan grows up in Cloud Recesses
🌿 A collection of scenes from the years WWX was away, showing how LWJ & LSZ recover and grow together
🌿 Sometimes angsty, sometimes sweet, always beautiful

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/22687075

#FicRec #FicRecFebruary #MDZS

Rest is Revolution
✍️ fic by #MarbleGlove

☮️ #TheUntamed #MoDaoZuShi
☮️ #WeiWuxian, #NieMingjue, #JinZixuan, #LanQiren
☮️ 32k series, 4 works
☮️ Rated General and Teen
☮️ Canon divergent
☮️ After Sunshot, WWX discovers that he can take on the role of an Elder
☮️ Somehow he gets away with it
☮️ He inspires others to pursue to rest & recovery

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/series/3206487

#FicRec #FicRecFebruary #MDZS

#FicRecFebruary

A friend of mine asked me to read this fic by saying “I know it’s not your ship or the kind of thing you read but I don’t want to read it alone.” This fic messed with my head in the best way. It is definitely horror, and definitely not happy, but it is brilliant.

A Complete Kingdom
Writer: komodobits
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Dean Winchester/Castiel
Rating: E
WC: 85k
TW/CW: MCD, body horror, depersonalization, suicide

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5199629/chapters/11983268

#FicRecFebruary no.23: Use Once and Destroy, by catchmeifyoucreon

#CQL, canon-compliant, #WenZhuliu / #XueYang, good heavens do read the tags

Wen-era Xue Yang looks at Wen Zhuliu and sees someone who could really fuck him up. Wen Zhuliu has no interest in that, until it turns out he does.

(Yes it's porn but) I love fic that delves into WZL's core-melting abilities in a new context, and this is a technicolor exploration of just what they might be like, on both sides.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31053200/chapters/76713143

#FicRecFebruary no.22: Sisi, Nie Huaisang, and the Great Comet of the Second Year of Ningkang, by huanglaoshu

#MDZS, post-canon, #NieHuaisang / #Sisi

Sisi and Nie Huaisang watch a broom star (彗星 huixing) from the roof of the Unclean Realm. The quietest of romance: love as infodumping and love as asking somebody to infodump at you. Plus: the FOOTNOTES, oh my gosh, the footnotes! ☄️

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45241837

#FicRecFebruary no.21: citrus & woodsmoke, by alone_ghost

#MDZS, canon-compliant backstory, #YuZiyuan &/ #WenZhuliu

An imagining of how Yu Ziyuan and Wen Zhuliu might have known one another that is so specific and somehow almost dream-logical, while capturing the essence of these two distinctive characters, that it feels all the more true for being so surprising. Beautifully written, with a stinging last line.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31014347

#FicRecFebruary no.20: Entanglement, by westiec

#SVSSS, #LiuQingge / #ZhuzhiLang, sex pollen

Hi, hello, did you know I love rarepairs? Zhuzhi lang is so bright and cheerful and just a little bit odd, here, and Liu Qingge comes to realise* just how lucky he is there was a heavenly snake demon around when he needed one. A delightful little piece!

* hehehe

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45333559

#FicRecFebruary no.19: Northern Lights, by calypsio

#SEVENTEEN, #RPF, #wonhui, future fic, break-up

I know extremely little about SEVENTEEN, but I love Ally's prose here and the descriptions the aurora and of loving across languages.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42686289

I’ve been traveling for the last week and got behind on #FicRecFebruary

This fic is… barely a fic? It’s more like the implication of 39 different fics. Taking the concept of multiple timelines and repeating motifs and running with it. Each universe gets only a few sentences but somehow feels real and tragic. I think math was involved in writing it.

Mountain Fold
Writer: greywash
Fandom: The Magicians
Pairing: Penny Adiyodi/literally everyone
Rating: M
WC: 2873

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17863937

#FicRecFebruary #FicRec

by virtues uncounted
https://archiveofourown.org/works/18690685/

Fandom: #mdzs
Ship: #xiyao
Rated: E
Words: 6k
Tags (more on ao3): pre-canon, first time, character study

Ahhh this xiyao fic, it's the very first I ever read, and it sold me so thoroughly on this ship I had to start writing them myself! It's a sweet, only-slightly-fraught getting-together story, but still you can see both the enormity of their love and the issues that lie between them

#FicRecFebruary no.18: rare as the glimmer, by Euphorion

#TGCF, modern AU, genderbend + lots of gender in general

Retired boxer Xie Lian meets clearly-a-mafiosa Hua Cheng, amongst a bright ensemble cast. There's a very good beefleaf here, and a good Quan Yizhen, too. (I often don’t like fics with lots of gender, but this one worked really well for me.)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33335158