Quick Post - Freebies Plus Recs
Because I keep forgetting to post about it, quickly dropping the fact that the author of Widdershins (the first Whyborne & Griffin novel), Jordan L. Hawk, is offering an e-copy of it for free to celebrate its 10th anniversary and also for Pride month until the end of June(this series pops up in the Yuletide tagset often, but I haven't read it.) Anyway, here's the blog post with DL link at the bottom.
Also, there's a few more days in the Hacking Chinese Chinese vocabulary challenge which has a promo code for a free month of skritter, a website/app that focuses on learning to write the characters and pinyin for Mandarin- the free month is from when you redeem it so you'll still get a full month even if you use the code now. I'm finding it interesting how often I know a word by hearing it or seeing the pinyin or character but completely blank when it comes to writing the character or pinyin. I doubt I'll pay to continue with it, but I am learning a lot for the moment.
Two weeks of @recthething recs (all MDZS/The Untamed fics):
Caught Between Sun and Shadows by (72k, MDZS Reverse Big Bang 2022)
Summary: The Sunshot Campaign was losing. It was only a matter of time before Wen Ruohan beat them into submission. There were rumours surrounding a force in Yiling that could potentially turn the tide. The place was taken from the Wen early in the war but no one knows by whom, known only as the 'Yiling Patriarch'. All forces that the Wen have sent to try and retake Yiling have been destroyed entirely. If he allied with the campaign then it could potentially turn the tide of the war. A messenger was sent to him asking what he wants in exchange for an alliance. The response came back: the heir of one of the Great Sects in marriage. For the war to be won, someone must be sacrificed. (canon divergent, alternate Sunshot Campaign fic with LWJ slowly developing feelings for the husband he barely knows and the issues he and having to deal with that and how the others fear/deal with WWX's powers)
Found: Extremely Friendly Fox by wanderingflame (22k, MDZS Reverse Big Bang 2022)
Summary: Lan Sizhui has never rescued a fox as friendly, intelligent and mischievous as this. How did it get separated from its owner? ---- Wei Wuxian has woken up in a lot of strange places over the years, but he never would have expected to wake up in the house of a Lan. (absolutely delightfully sweet modern shifter fic)
a flaw in my heart's design by citystoryscapes (25k, MDZS Reverse Big Bang 2022)
Summary Snippet: A few years into their marriage, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji encounter a highly puzzling case; a curse that kills with no trace or inclination, a town where the dead are no longer remembered, and memories that haunt them at every step. A question that remains: what does it mean to remember, in the face of death? (Excellent post canon bookverse casefic)
Sonata no. 159 in C Major by nirejseki (5k)
Summary: Maybe Wei Wuxian should have thought twice before trying out that array, but in his defense he had no idea it would turn him back into a five-year-old...or that Lan Qiren of all people would have had the misfortune to get swept up in the effects of the array along with him. At least there are cookies. (Sweet, and slightly melancholic, WWX and LQR get de-aged fic)
Paper Trail by Wolfling (21k, MDZS Reverse Big Bang 2022)
Summary Snippet: Rebuilding a relationship one letter at a time. (Post-Canon tender and sweet epistolary fic)
梅花/plum blossoms by bunnxianluvsu (MooseFeels), MooseFeels (20k)
Summary: Lan Wangji has been chief cultivator for many years when he is given a gift. (Wonderful AU where WWX didn't return after 13 years and the truth came out due to different reasons and LWJ has been the chief cultivator for 40 years when the Emperor presents him with a courtesan, Mo Xuanyu)
Amid the Frost by LtLJ (5k)
Summary: The Yiling Patriarch's demonic cultivation sect is invited to help fight a massive waterborne abyss. Exhausted and half-drowned from battling ghouls, Wei Wuxian meets Hanguang-jun. (A really interesting Non-Jiang WWX, no sunshot campaign canon-divergent AU where WWX and LWJ meet and are instantly drawn to one another.)
@battleshipex is starting for 2022! So exciting, I'm off to get in my noms!
Also, there's a few more days in the Hacking Chinese Chinese vocabulary challenge which has a promo code for a free month of skritter, a website/app that focuses on learning to write the characters and pinyin for Mandarin- the free month is from when you redeem it so you'll still get a full month even if you use the code now. I'm finding it interesting how often I know a word by hearing it or seeing the pinyin or character but completely blank when it comes to writing the character or pinyin. I doubt I'll pay to continue with it, but I am learning a lot for the moment.
Two weeks of @recthething recs (all MDZS/The Untamed fics):
Caught Between Sun and Shadows by (72k, MDZS Reverse Big Bang 2022)
Summary: The Sunshot Campaign was losing. It was only a matter of time before Wen Ruohan beat them into submission. There were rumours surrounding a force in Yiling that could potentially turn the tide. The place was taken from the Wen early in the war but no one knows by whom, known only as the 'Yiling Patriarch'. All forces that the Wen have sent to try and retake Yiling have been destroyed entirely. If he allied with the campaign then it could potentially turn the tide of the war. A messenger was sent to him asking what he wants in exchange for an alliance. The response came back: the heir of one of the Great Sects in marriage. For the war to be won, someone must be sacrificed. (canon divergent, alternate Sunshot Campaign fic with LWJ slowly developing feelings for the husband he barely knows and the issues he and having to deal with that and how the others fear/deal with WWX's powers)
Found: Extremely Friendly Fox by wanderingflame (22k, MDZS Reverse Big Bang 2022)
Summary: Lan Sizhui has never rescued a fox as friendly, intelligent and mischievous as this. How did it get separated from its owner? ---- Wei Wuxian has woken up in a lot of strange places over the years, but he never would have expected to wake up in the house of a Lan. (absolutely delightfully sweet modern shifter fic)
a flaw in my heart's design by citystoryscapes (25k, MDZS Reverse Big Bang 2022)
Summary Snippet: A few years into their marriage, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji encounter a highly puzzling case; a curse that kills with no trace or inclination, a town where the dead are no longer remembered, and memories that haunt them at every step. A question that remains: what does it mean to remember, in the face of death? (Excellent post canon bookverse casefic)
Sonata no. 159 in C Major by nirejseki (5k)
Summary: Maybe Wei Wuxian should have thought twice before trying out that array, but in his defense he had no idea it would turn him back into a five-year-old...or that Lan Qiren of all people would have had the misfortune to get swept up in the effects of the array along with him. At least there are cookies. (Sweet, and slightly melancholic, WWX and LQR get de-aged fic)
Paper Trail by Wolfling (21k, MDZS Reverse Big Bang 2022)
Summary Snippet: Rebuilding a relationship one letter at a time. (Post-Canon tender and sweet epistolary fic)
梅花/plum blossoms by bunnxianluvsu (MooseFeels), MooseFeels (20k)
Summary: Lan Wangji has been chief cultivator for many years when he is given a gift. (Wonderful AU where WWX didn't return after 13 years and the truth came out due to different reasons and LWJ has been the chief cultivator for 40 years when the Emperor presents him with a courtesan, Mo Xuanyu)
Amid the Frost by LtLJ (5k)
Summary: The Yiling Patriarch's demonic cultivation sect is invited to help fight a massive waterborne abyss. Exhausted and half-drowned from battling ghouls, Wei Wuxian meets Hanguang-jun. (A really interesting Non-Jiang WWX, no sunshot campaign canon-divergent AU where WWX and LWJ meet and are instantly drawn to one another.)
@battleshipex is starting for 2022! So exciting, I'm off to get in my noms!