Saturday morning WangXian thoughts, a 🧵

Ok, so for some reason (obsession? Hush.) I woke up this morning thinking about the core fantasies of wangxian and how they uniquely address some of the deepest, most foundational needs for each of them. wwx's cottage core fantasy: wwx lost his parents, then was on the streets with no food security, no physical security (dog bites, weather), and no source of comfort. He was lucky to have survived. By the time that Jiang took him in, these wounds would be very deep. It would take

A poll on tagging! Ok, so in my other tweet I was taking about how the tags for drunk sex vs dubcon or noncon (when alcohol is involved in sex) happens and I want to run a poll on this scenario:

wwx goes to a bar on a Friday night because it's been a super stressful week and he wants to get drunk and laid. He is pretty clear about his intent and while he is there, he sees this beautiful man (lwj) so he propositions him and they end up hooking up. lwj was at the bar because he was dragged there, but he wasn't drinking. wwx was drinking, but was clear

I have seen debates both in comments in some of my fics and in comments in other people's work and I wanted to get a sense of what everyone thinks is meant by these 3 tags when it comes to alcohol involved in sex: drunk sex vs dubcon vs noncon

When I use the 'drunk sex' tag, I use it just to mean that at least one of the characters was drunk during sex, but there was nothing nefarious going on. So like... someone goes to a bar hoping to get drunk and laid, and they are successful in that endeavor. Or if there is drunk sex in an established

My therapist told me she thinks I should consider whether I am nonbinary because I told her that I don't feel tied to gender. I said I believe in reincarnation so I just feel like I happen to be wearing a woman's meat suit currently, but it could have been whatever and I wouldn't really care. She asked if I had any gender preferences and I said that obviously, from a social equity thing it would have been easier to have been a man but like... not from a personal identity issue. But I don't feel like this has anything to do with nonbinary?

One of the things I struggle with mxy's character is that it wasn't just that he was willing to sacrifice his body and his own soul to get revenge on his family. He was willing to sacrifice wwx's as well. bc if wwx hadn't basically lucked into mxy's family getting killed by the demonic arm, then wwx's soul would have been destroyed as well, with no chance of reincarnation.

It all worked out bc of the demonic arm doing the killing for him, but like... risking of someone ELSE's entire soul/chance at reincarnation is pretty big to get revenge on your fam

Ok, this is a new threadfic, modern cultivation AU, wangxian. LOTS of people do bad things to wwx, but it gets made public and they have to deal with the consequences. lwj and wwx start off on really the wrong foot, almost a hate-fucking vibe. But then lwj learns what happened. The night hunt had gone wrong so quickly. Wwx could hardly process what was happening. His entire body was shaking with the effort to keep moving. It had taken every last scrap of his spiritual power to take out the creature.

For some reason I am full of FEELING today about the unfairness of everything that happened to wwx. So I have a wish list of things I've been daydreaming about as sort of a 'people are made to regret being horrible to wwx' checklist: 1 - lwj initially is super cold and callous to wwx, always shutting him down and criticizing him (like in canon), but wwx is old enough when it happens that he starts leaving lwj alone. And lwj HATES it, and realizes he can't just be an asshole and expect wwx to keep chasing

I had this idea a while back about writing a short story: "Su She Eats His Heart Out": the (bitter) third party pov of the epic college romance between wwx and lwj, guest-starring lwj's extremely abrupt discovery of his libido (previously thought to be nonexistent) I thought maybe it was too weird of an idea, but then I mentioned it to a couple of people and they thought it could be fun. Here is the summary:
A new student transferred into the university in their second year, and Su She was gleeful to see how much Lan Zhan was irritated by

Hey, I am looking for an angsty story (with a happy ending) where someone like lxz or one of lwj's friends (he could have a friend???) is an asshole to wwx because they think wwx is leading lwj on, not realizing that wwx is sort of clueless and doesn't have the self-esteem to ever ask lwj out. And they also don't realize/fully appreciate that even though it's really clear to THEM that lwj likes wwx, it is not clear to anyone else, including wwx. So they basically tell wwx off ('you are the only mistake lwj has ever made' vibe) and wwx spirals and

My issue with JC and why I typically don't ship him with anyone isn't the 'torturing demonic cultivators do death' or even the 'can't show any emotion other than rage'. The first actually can (at least in part) make sense considering demonic cultivation took the strongest and most loyal cultivator he knew (wwx) and destroyed him and resulted in him losing his sister. So he could assume anyone else would fare much worse. And the verbal rage I get due to childhood trauma and the example he had from Madam Yu. The thing that I can't get past about JC

New thread! When the best of intentions go wrong
wangxian, modern AU, lxc tries to get them together and it blows up in his face. There are KNIVES in this one. Accidental triggering of childhood trauma, both physical and mental. Su She and Jin Zixun being assholes. Good jzx&my ok, so I had a dream about this and it has its claws in me so I need to sketch it out quickly before it fades and my meeting just got cancelled so here I go LOL. This might end up being a short fic for real but in the meantime, it will be a rough thread fic.

I want more EMT wwx and trauma surgeon lwj fics. I know that the EMS system works differently in China, but like... I just really love the idea of EMT!wwx who is always putting himself at risk to help rescue victims and coming up with ways to keep them alive until they get to the hospital, where he has complete faith that lwj will be able to save them if anyone can. And lwj gets frustrated because there are times when wwx should have followed protocol and not put himself at risk, but wwx blows him off because (usual lack of self-preservation sense) he

A Political Engagement - wangxian
OK! So people have been very kind to me and I am going to try my first thread fic. Premise is: yes, jzx handled his arranged engagement poorly. But would lwj have done any better? A lwj/wwx arranged engagement ficlet The oppressive heat of the summer in Lotus Pier was at its peak, and wwx had left his sweltering room to take a late-night swim to cool off. He was on his way back, his body feeling tired from his swim and cool from the water, and he felt sure he'd finally be able to sleep.