ermingarden | Entries tagged with fandom: mdzs

I am absolutely over the moon that two – two – wonderful people have decided to record my fics!

[Podfic] counterpart, counterpoint by

drpanda99 is a three-drabble sequence for MDZS (Twin Jades-centric gen). The recording is around three and a half minutes, and it's completely gorgeous! I especially love the use of the music.

[Podfic] stands yet the wallstone by

LittleRedRobinHood is an OW triple drabble. The recording is around two and a half minutes, and is likewise super beautiful, with some very neat soundscaping!

I really can't recommend either of these more highly, and I'm so flattered that folks wanted to record my little drabbles!

(And here's a very self-serving reminder that I give blanket permission for podfic, art, translation, and remixes.)

Current Mood: ecstatic

I finished my internship on Friday; it was an amazing couple of months! I was lucky enough to be given more responsibility than is typical for law student internships, and I learned so much from the experience. Looking back to my first day, I was terrified to stand on an arraignment, even one where we weren't asking for bail; just a few weeks later, I conducted an entire Sex Offender Registration Act hearing myself!

The internship was wonderful, but I'm going to enjoy having a little more free time between now and the start of school at the end of the month. It won't be 100% vacation – it's job application season, and I also have work to do for the journal I'm on – but compared to 40+ hours/week, it feels like I have buckets of time to relax. I'm also tremendously excited because my best friend is coming to visit me in just a couple of days! The biggest downside of living in NYC is that I miss my West Coast friends like crazy, so I've been desperately looking forward to this.

I'm also so excited to have more time for fic! First things first, I have to kick things into gear for

tolkienrsb. I also have a couple of other ideas I'm hoping to work on this month, including a fairly ridiculous MDZS fic about copyright law:

I saw this prompt over at

mdzskinkmeme exactly one week after my copyright exam, and I pretty much have no choice but to fill it! I've been doing some thinking about what common law copyright principles would develop in ancient fantasy China, and also how I could make it funny. I'm thinking copyright for talismans and arrays would be fairly similar to how copyright in software is treated under U.S. law – which also gives me a great chance to make a pun about Lotus Dev. Corp. v. Borland Int'l, Inc., 516 U.S. 233 (1996), which is a landmark software copyright case. (Admittedly, the pun would probably only be funny to me.)

It should surprise no one that "Crack Treated Seriously" is one of my favorite tags!

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: "Trenulețul" - Zdob și Zdub & Frații Advahov

A fun meme borrowed from

ysilme:

How big are your fandoms? List them in order of the number of works posted for them on AO3.

I'm doing this for the fandoms I'm currently active (i.e., regularly reading and/or writing fic) in. As of approximately 6 PM Eastern Time on March 20, 2022, the work count is as follows:

1) Star Wars – All Media Types has 192,780;

2) 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù has 54,335,

3) The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth – J. R. R. Tolkien has 21,340,

4) The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien has 21,168, and

5) 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù has 9,221.

I'm totally shocked – MDZS has over twice as many works on AO3 as does the Silm or (bookverse) LotR!

The MDZS novel serialization on JJWXC only began in 2015, and CQL only came out in 2019! (2019 was also the year the fan translation of the novel by Exiled Rebels was completed.) CQL has 38,138 works; 9,883 of those are not also tagged with MDZS, bringing the total for the umbrella fandom across media types up to almost 65k! (There's no "All Media Types" umbrella tag for MDZS; there are 250 works tagged with the donghua but neither the novel or CQL.) TOLKIEN J. R. R. – Works and Related Fandoms, the broadest Tolkien umbrella, beats that with 84,066 – but the oldest of the Tolkien works is (back)dated to 2003, and The Hobbit was published in 1937!

Current Mood: surprised

zdenka linked another fabulous quiz: "What MDZS clan do you belong in?"

I got Lan, which doesn't entirely surprise me – though I'm certainly chattier than the average Lan disciple!

lan: big feral love energy
generally, you're straight-laced and traditional, with rules and principles to guide you. you are known for being poised and calm, but no one knows that still waters run deep. you have many emotions and feel very passionately about many things. your heart does not listen to reason: it finds love where you least expect it. once you fall for someone, that's it: you're all in, consequences be damned.

What did you get? Are you surprised?

Current Mood: pleased

For International Fanworks Day, I'm posting a few themed rec lists! This one is for crossovers and fusions, particularly the unexpected ones:

Star Wars x Portal:
Testing Limits (28k) by

atamascolily

Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: New Republic Era - All Media Types, Portal (Video Game)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Luke Skywalker, C-3PO (Star Wars), GLaDOS, Turrets (Portal), Weighted Companion Cube, Cray Mingla, Callista Ming, Nichos Marr, Other Star Wars Character(s)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Artificial Intelligence, Body Horror, science gone wrong, Portal 2 Spoilers, Portal References, Whump, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, the ghost in the machine, essence transfer, Plot Twists, Fix-It of Sorts
Summary:

Trapped on the crumbling Eye of Palpatine warship, a grievously injured Luke Skywalker is forced to navigate an experimental training course managed by a sadistic, strangely human AI intent on carrying out its top-secret mission ... all in the name of science, of course.

Star Wars x Silmarillion:
Fear No Darkness (19k) by

independence1776

Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, Star Wars: Rise of Empire Era - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Maglor, House of Fëanor, Elwing, Eärendil, Finarfin, Original Characters, Nerdanel
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Star Wars Fusion, Jedi, Canon-Typical Violence
Series: Part 1 of Fear No Darkness
Summary:

Two years after the Empire's birth, Imperial forces led by Darth Vader devastated the Arda system. A few hundred Quendi fled the system's takeover. Among them is Maglor Fëanorian, the lone survivor of his Jedi-trained House. He has spent the past three years hiding in plain sight as a singer for a starliner cruise company. Now he is about to strike off on his own as an independent cargo pilot, unsure of what the future will bring him.

Star Wars x Stargate:
A Star to Steer By (99k) by

dogmatix and

norcumi

Chapters: 20/20
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Stargate SG-1
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Jack O'Neill, Obi-Wan Kenobi, CT-7567 | Rex, Clone Troopers, Goa'uld - Character, Janet Fraiser, George Hammond, Daniel Jackson, Sam Carter, Teal'c (SG-1)
Additional Tags: not rex/obi in the conventional sense, but definitely a strong connection, Alternate Universe - Fusion, GFY, swearing/adult language, mention of clone/clone pairings, era appropriate homophobia, Don’t copy to another site
Series: Part 1 of A Star to Steer By
Summary:

Jack O'Neill runs into the weirdest snake he's ever met, and that's saying something. Obi-Wan just wants to get his people home.

Night Vale x His Dark Materials:
He Says He Is An Experimental Theologian (182k) by

erinptah

Chapters: 33/33
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Steve Carlsberg & Cecil Palmer, Carlos/Cecil Palmer, Khoshekh & Cecil Palmer, Past Lyra Belacqua/Will Parry, Carlos the Scientist/Other(s)
Characters: Old Woman Josie, The Angel Erika, City Council Messenger Children, Khoshekh, Steve Carlsberg, Cecil Palmer, Hiram McDaniels, Desert Bluffs Carlos, The Man in the Tan Jacket, The Faceless Old Woman, Earl Harlan, Pamela Winchell, Intern Dana, Xaphania, Carlos' Team of Scientists, Carlos the Scientist
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Daemons, Re-Education, Hurt/Comfort, Canon-Typical Violence, Bilingual Character(s), Alternate History, For Science!, Alethiometer Use, Español | Spanish, Visually Impaired Character, Christmas With Family, Culture Shock, Post-Traumatic Stress, Slow Burn Carlos/Cecil
Series: Part 1 of Republic of Heaven Community Radio
Summary:

Ever since Carlos was little, he and his daemon have been fans of Dr. Lyra Belacqua. Both as the most groundbreaking experimental theologian of the 20th century, and as the heroine of dozens of fantasy-adventure children's stories (based very loosely on her own mysterious childhood).

But Lyra's true legacy is still bigger than Carlos ever imagined...until he took a team of scholars to study Rusakov particles in the most theologically interesting community in Hispania Nova. Now his own day-to-day life is full of things like angels, witches, hooded spectres, portals between worlds, vague yet menacing branches of the Magisterium, and a man who walks around without his daemon and can read an alethiometer as easily as a stop sign.

Night Vale x Dresden Files:
Love is All You Need to Destroy Your Enemies (222k) by

shadydave

Chapters: 20/20
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale, The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carlos Ramirez/Cecil Palmer
Characters: Carlos Ramirez, Cecil Palmer, Carlos' Team of Scientists (Welcome to Night Vale), Cactus Jane/Judy/June, Tamika Flynn, Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, Mouse (Dresden Files - Butcher), The Traveler (Welcome to Night Vale), Anastasia Luccio, The Apache Tracker
Additional Tags: Original Character(s), Crossover, Time Travel, Magic, Science, Magic and Science, Mad Science, Comic Book Science, Dubious Science, Fake Science, Just Generally a Lot of Science, poorly researched, on Wikipedia, gratuitous Shakespeare references, Needs More Dinosaurs!, Covered in Bees!!
Series: Part 3 of Love is All You Need to Destroy Your Enemies
Summary:

There are a few things that Carlos may have neglected to tell Cecil.

Like his last name.

Or how he hasn’t actually dated anyone since his junior year of high school.

Or that he’s a wizard of the White Council and the regional commander of Wardens in the western United States and not, in fact, a scientist.

You know. Minor details.

Mó Dào Zŭ Shī x Tiān Guān Cì Fú:
Lan Jingyi and the Adventure of the Immortal Cultivator (5.5k) by litbynosun

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Minor or Background Relationship(s), Jīn Líng | Jīn Rúlán & Lán Jǐngyí & Lán Yuàn | Lán Sīzhuī & Ōuyáng Zǐzhēn
Characters: Xiè Lián (Tiān Guān Cì Fú), Lán Jǐngyí, Lán Yuàn | Lán Sīzhuī, Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín, Tiān Guān Cì Fú Ensemble, Módào Zǔshī Ensemble
Additional Tags: Crossover, Just a Fun Little Romp, Minor Injuries, Canon-Typical Violence, Ghosts, postcanon, (for both books), Friendship, A Pack Of Teens Roaming The Countryside With Swords
Summary:

Lan Jingyi likes to think he's fairly clever and observant. He's a Lan disciple, after all, and one of the more skilled ones! He's also, unfortunately for a cultivator, rather scared of ghosts. Now if only his friends would listen to him when he warns them about the newest addition to his group...

Or, Xie Lian takes a little vacation, certain important biographical facts are omitted, and Wen Ning makes a friend.

Don't see your favorite here? Link it in the comments!

For International Fanworks Day, I'm posting a few themed rec lists! This one is for epistolary (and epistolary-adjacent) fics, i.e., fics consisting entirely or in significant part of letters, documents, social media posts, etc. – one of my favorite formats!

STAR WARS

Waste Not, Want Not (1.6k) by

carmarthen and

motetus

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The Dianoga (Star Wars), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Humor, Worldbuilding, Epistolary, Sanitation, Military, Illustrated, Crack Treated Seriously, Science Fiction, Podfic Available
Summary:

Imperial Sanitation Specialist Yaran Avoset discovers a jam in Death Star garbage compactor 3263827. His superior is not amused. Fortunately, a resourceful man can go far in the Imperial Navy.

Or, how the Death Star got dianogas.

Words by Carmarthen, art by motetus.

Re: FWD: Re: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: (1.5k) by 13th_blackbird

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Eli Vanto
Characters: Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo, Eli Vanto, Original Characters, Karyn Faro
Additional Tags: background/implied thranto, Epistolary, Bureaucracy, extremely poor email ettiquette, Supply Officer!Eli AU, forensic accounting, Sting operations, being good at math is sexy, needlessly circuitous plans (tm), karyn faro doesn't get paid enough, Chimaera staff, Comedy of Errors, this is silly, i mean it's just very silly, the height of action in this is an audit, Auditing, imperial supply forms, flirting through invoice comments, Podfic & Podficced Works
Series: Part 1 of bureaucratic nightmares
Summary:

Takes place in a world where Eli Vanto became a Supply Officer and shot right to the top of operations for Imperial Star Destroyer supply in and around Coruscant, and Grand Admiral Thrawn became the same scheming bastard we all know and love.

Emails are exchanged. Funds are embezzled. More emails are exchanged. There's very measured flirting. Jobs are offered and taken. Thrilling stuff.

(See above. Please advise.)

I have acquired a child. (2.8k) by stingrcy

Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: The Mandalorian (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Baby Yoda & The Mandalorian (The Mandalorian TV)
Characters: The Mandalorian (The Mandalorian TV), and a bunch of well-meaning but confused holonet users, mentions of other canon characters
Additional Tags: Attempt at Humor, Indirect Fluff, Epistolary, ManDadlorian, not explicitly at first but as we go on? ohoHOHO
Summary:

How can I ensure its welfare without having it become attached to me?
Thank you.
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(The r/Parenting AU some people wondered about but technically did not ask for.)

Note: Reads as complete despite chapter marking.

TOLKIEN

Common Counsel (3k) by

bunn

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fingon | Findekáno & Maedhros | Maitimo, Fingon | Findekáno/Maedhros | Maitimo
Characters: Fingon | Findekáno, Maedhros | Maitimo
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Letters, First Age, Beleriand
Summary:

A few letters sent between Fingon & Maedhros immediately after Maedhros went East with his brothers to Himring.

It is not entirely clear what the relationship was between Maedhros and Fingon during this period. There appear to be a number of things in these documents that are understood, but not spelled out.

The Sealed Letter (6.6k) by

rhymer

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Aragorn
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Letters, POV Outsider, Angst, Framing Story
Summary:

An isolated farmer finds a badly wounded man in a ruined farm. Six hundred years later, a historian researching King Elessar comes across a sealed letter. What links these two events is a story long forgotten.

MÓ DÀO ZŬ SHĪ

在此恭迎夷陵老祖; to yiling laozu, the great and venerable (6.8k) by yiqie

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Lán Yuàn | Lán Sīzhuī, Jīn Líng | Jīn Rúlán
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Urban Legends, Relationship Advice, Post-Canon
Summary:

“You don’t know? In Yiling, there’s a tree at the edge of town, one that stands at the fringes of where the city ends and the Burial Mounds begin, called the Lover’s Tree. They say if you write a letter and nail it to its branches, Yiling Laozu will receive it, and he’ll reply.”

Don't see your favorite here? Link it in the comments!

I picked up a pinch hit in this round of

seasonsofdrabbles:

classical reception (700 words)
Fandom: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur/Bedevere (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Characters: King Arthur (Monty Python and the Holy Grail), Bedevere (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Additional Tags: Drabble Sequence, Classical Reception in the Middle Ages, Blow Jobs
Summary:
Help, help, Arthur's being repressed!
(Sexually.)

Did I ever expect to write fic for Holy Grail? Not really. Did I expect the first smutty fic I ever wrote to be for Holy Grail? Not in a million years! Still, I'm glad I decided to take a risk and pick up the PH, and I'm satisfied with how the fic turned out. It's been a long time since I've done any sort of fixed-length format, so I enjoyed getting back into drabbles!

Major thanks to

fiona15351 for the beta!

I also want to rec a couple of very good fics from the collection:

(no) love left (300 words) by swanfrost (

swankitty)
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Additional Tags: Nightmares, Memories, Complicated Emotions, gratuitous use of italics and em dashes, Light Angst
Summary:
A dream? Or a memory?
The path to the Burial Mounds is dry and dead, just like the first time he walked up it.

The Old Stone (300 words) by

zdenka
Fandom: Ancient British Stones, Object and Concept Anthropomorphism
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The Longstone of Minchinhampton (Ancient British Stones)
Additional Tags: Triple Drabble
Summary:
An old stone hears prayers and answers them.

Current Mood: cheerful

zdenka linked this quiz: Which MXTX character trope are you?

I got "Well-meaning, misunderstood, oblivious homosexual (e.g., Shen Qingqiu, Wei Wuxian, Xie Lian)," which is...entirely fair.

Two fics (one long, one short) for MDZS/The Untamed, and one for TGCF:

Moonlight as My Guide (32k words) by BromeliadDreams
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Luó "Mián Mián" Qīngyáng, Wēn Qíng (Módào Zǔshī), Ā-Qìng (Módào Zǔshī), Mèng Yáo | Jīn Guāngyáo, Xuē Yáng | Xuē Chéngměi
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Body Horror, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Alternate Universe - Academia, (book) canon-typical desecration of the dead, actually far more soft domesticity than the previous tags imply, background/implied xiyao, grey-ace wei ying, Podfic Welcome, rated M for bodyparts but not the fun kind, feat. the author's feelings about academia
Summary: A modern cultivators AU in which Wei Ying, local talisman nerd and tired post-doc, finds himself drawn into the circle of professional cultivators Lan Huan and Lan Zhan as they attempt to track down the person responsible for a series of horrific magical ‘experiments’ in Yiling.

life, uh, finds a way (1k words) by

verity
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Qǐrén
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Museums, Dinosaurs, Jurassic Park but it’s just one cultivator messing around with a flute in a museum
Summary: "That was an exhibit," Lan Zhan said after a moment. Tarbosaurus bataar, the gem of the Museum of Natural History's collection.
"It was," Wei Ying said smugly. "And now it has feathers!"

Call it fate, call it karma (25k words) by goodbye_blue
Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Huā Chéng/Xiè Lián (Tiān Guān Cì Fú)
Characters: Huā Chéng (Tiān Guān Cì Fú), Xiè Lián (Tiān Guān Cì Fú), Hè Xuán (Tiān Guān Cì Fú), Shī Qīngxuán
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Magical Realism, Alternate Universe - College/University, Graduate School, Meet-Cute, Mutual Pining, Humor, Angst, Happy Ending, summoning a god in your dorm room, hua cheng is a masters student, xie lian is still a god, ill advised use of magic
Summary: “Alright.” Hua Cheng said, rolling his shoulders back a few times. “Oh magnificent god of mine, Taizi Dianxia,” he said, grinning, eyes firmly locked on Xie Lian’s. Xie Lian made a show of rolling his eyes. “Grant me your strength so I might vanquish your enemies on this mortal plane.”
Sorcery grad student Hua Cheng accidentally summons long-forgotten god Xie Lian into his dorm room in the middle of the night. They figure things out from there.

Current Mood: pleased

I've been sucked into MDZS/The Untamed over the past month, and I thought I'd share some fics I've particularly enjoyed:

moonlight caught in mutton fat (45,008 words) by Raitelzen
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Five Dogs, One Cat (13,443 words) by ryfkah (skygiants)
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by the way, i forgive you (9,085 words) by surething
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