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“We did it, Boss. We caught him.” “Who?” Zhao Yunlan rubs a hand over his face as he turns around. Lin Jing looks surprisingly eager when he says, “Hei Pao Shi. We finally caught him.”

Shen Yuan isn't lonely. He's just overseas in a new city, trying to muddle his way through a business degree, and dealing with the side effects of his stupid intestines trying to kill him. So, maybe he sometimes watches ASMR to cope with his too-quiet apartment. Maybe he has a little bit of a parasocial-relationship-thing going on with one particular cooking ASMR channel. It's 2021, who doesn't? The point is, he's content with his quiet life. And then Shang Qinghua strong-arms him into watching one Hallmark Christmas movie, and it all goes to hell.

The text keeps flashing over and over in Lan Zhan's head like the bulb lights on a marquee. They’d been talking about homework directly before that, swapping notes on music theory in the baroque period. Then, like a fork of lightning out of a clear blue sky. wanna practice kissing? 😚 — Wei Ying suggests an arrangement. Lan Zhan, in love, deals.

In the time between sacrificing himself to stop his estranged disciple’s qi deviation and waking up in his back-up body, Shen Yuan -formerly Shen Qingqiu- experiences a long series of dreams that make him confront quite a few things about himself that he’d been stubbornly ignoring. Good thing they’re just dreams, right? Otherwise he’d never be able to look Luo Binghe in the eye ever again. - Binghe froze under his hands as Shen Yuan brought him into the most gentle hug he could manage. “Still crying?” He asked, only just keeping the unsteadiness out of his voice. He was naked and this was a sex dream and Binghe was crying all over his dick. He didn’t need his kinks spelled out for him quite this explicitly, thanks. - Or: two horny idiots finally get out of their own way.

“Already so wet,” Mo Xuanyu croons. “I knew it. You want her so bad. You’re such a little creep. Do you spy on her when she’s in the shower? Oh wait, I know. Do you sneak into her room when she’s out and sniff all of her clothes?”

Lan Zhan does not expect his life to change at six-thirty in the evening in the middle of the week. Or: When you touch your soulmate for the first time, you remember your past life together. When Lan Zhan touches Wei Ying, he watches him die.

"Hi, I'm Wei Wuxian. I'm a Career Omega and this is my fourth season on the show. I like spicy food, archery and alphas who are funny. Or maybe I don't, I haven't rolled over for one yet." On-screen, Wei Wuxian winks at the audience laughter. Hot or Knot is the world's most popular reality TV show. Part dating show, part survival show, Hot or Knot is everyone's guilty pleasure - and Wei Wuxian is a fan favourite. - The Love Island/Hunger Games reality dating tv show A/B/O au

As he has been for the past two hours, Lan Zhan is standing across the room, shoulders tense, very determinedly not acknowledging Wei Wuxian. Wei Wuxian stares at the sweep of his hair, the slight flush of his neck, and something twinges in his chest. Look at me, he thinks. Look at me, just once. Wei Wuxian spends his New Year's Eve longing for Lan Wangji.

End of Year Recs Day 10 October 2021

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End of year recs day 12 December 2021 Happy New Year!

JOIN LAN WANGJI IN HIS QUEST TO CLEANSE THE RESENTMENT THAT PLAGUES YUNMENG! There's action! There's romance! There's a mysterious cultivator with a secret identity who may be more familiar than she first appears! -- “KILL!” the creature shouts, and Lan Wangji pulls himself to his feet. He’s shaken, somewhat. He was too slow. It must not happen again. He draws his sword once more, sliding into a defensive stance. They stare at one another, neither willing to make the first move. The creature’s tongue falls out of its mouth again, dripping black saliva down its chin and neck, revealing its great, long teeth and the pink flesh of its gullet. There, Lan Wangji thinks. That is how I will kill it. He readies his sword and takes a deep breath. But before he can move, purple lightning strikes. It’s a drumbeat of energy, a crackle of power. It lights the whole street with its rage – and then, swinging in on her purple whip in a whirlwind of motion, the Violet Spider arrives. -- TUNE IN NOW FOR THIS THRILLING TALE!

“Not only that, but they sent one of the direct descendants of the family. He’s supposedly as beautiful and flawless as a jade marble.” “Is that so? I’d like to see someone like that with my own eyes.” “Ha! What good is his great beauty if he still haven’t managed to grab bixia’s interest—” The chatter died down as Lan Wangji strolled by. - A newly-arrived concubine Lan Wangji, neglected by the Emperor's disinterest in him, finds himself acquainted with a gardener.

“Oh,” he said, blinking, “You can’t--can’t get off?” “No,” Lan Zhan growled, looking like he was two seconds away from learning how to astral project himself into a new universe where he wouldn’t have to have this conversation. “My eggs. Won’t come. I think one is…stuck.” “Oh,” Wei Ying said again. “Oh. Okay.” Lan Zhan didn’t need him to panic. He needed him to help.

The Yiling Patriarch claims Lan Wangji. Or: This is just omegaverse smut.

End of Year Recs Day 11 November 2021

The old woman looks at Lan Zhan. "What's his name?" Lan Zhan looks down at the man's pale, slack face, and presses his own hand against the cut, trying to staunch the blood flow with his glove. "Wei Ying," he says without thinking about it. The man stirs slightly in his arms, his eyes blinking open for a moment. "Oh," he says faintly. "It's you." Lan Zhan stares down at him, the stranger in his arms, whose name is Wei Ying. Which is something Lan Zhan knows. How does he know that? How does—he can't—this isn't— "It's okay," Wei Ying says, reaching up to pat vaguely at Lan Zhan's face. "It's all—" His eyes slip closed again and he's limp in Lan Zhan's arms.

End of Year recs Day 9 September 2021

“Ted,” he says, mouth dry. “Trent,” says Ted. “Is this a date?” says Trent stupidly. “Trent Crimm, bringing that heat.” Ted still hasn’t withdrawn his hand. They’re standing in the street outside Ted’s flat where any tosser in Richmond could gawk at them. Trent hasn’t blanked so hard since his first press conference at Man United, where Alex Ferguson insulted his hair. His mouth, trained by years of journalistic habit, says on autopilot: “Follow-up question.” In 48 hours, Trent Crimm lands a scoop, implodes his career and makes some drastic life decisions. And then there's the aftermath. And Ted, of course.

Finally going on an official date with the man you’d been in love with since you were old enough to really understand what love was should have been a purely joyous occasion, he’d thought. Instead, Binghe stood outside Yuan-ge's apartment building, frozen by anxiety. He’d spent the time between that morning’s fateful brunch and now obsessing over reservations, whether to bring a car or not, and just how many buttons represented the sweet spot between ‘too slutty’ and ‘just slutty enough.’ Binghe was fully prepared to put out on the first date, but a hurried text conversation with Shang Qinghua had made it pretty clear that -as easily overwhelmed as Yuan-ge could get- he also was so dense that nothing short of a surface-to-air missile could penetrate his established determination that he was undesirable so it might not happen right away. Or: that one where Luo Binghe gets both his man and some overdue revenge.

While returning to Cloud Recesses, Lan Wangji encounters Wang Lingjiao and Wen Zhuliu; he does not come out of the encounter unscathed.

Wei Ying makes a bet at an office retreat. Wei Ying is about to get more than he bargained for.

End of Year Recs Day 6 June 2021: Merry Christmas if you celebrate, Happy Saturday if you don't!

End of Year recs Day 7 July 2021, and this month is a doozy

End of Year Recs Day 5! May 2021

End of Year recs day 4. April 2021 let's go!

“Have dinner with me,” Lan Zhan says. One of them has to ask it. They’ve been dancing around it, and Lan Zhan has the sense that if he doesn’t ask now, he won’t have the chance. Wei Ying feels like a ghost – some sort of apparition dreamt up by him and his phone. Lan Zhan tries to imagine sitting across the table from a set of pale-pale wrists and idol eyes. Can’t. --- Taco nights, messy academia peeps who love drama, and thousand-mile distances. Everything happens so much.

Welcome to Day 1 of my End of the Year rec list, it's going to span multiple days because there are too many talented people around here. See below for the January 2021 fics I saved

Day Two End of Year Recs! Februry 2021. Thank you February for being a short month

Day 3 of Year End Recs! March 2021, the longest list yet which makes sense since this month lasted a thousand years