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    My pride stings a little at being so underestimated by a species that couldn’t even outrun a particularly determined turtle if their life depended on it. Look, I’m no Sha’Carri Richardson, but I’m pretty proud of my seven-minute mile. I worked hard for it. I haven’t been able to handle myself like this since I was... well, since I left Earth.

    “Y’know what? Let’s settle this once and for all. I could use an endurance test anyway. Good for my cardio.”

    Dr. Bones perks up. “You’ll do a demonstration?”

    “Absolutely. Give me two rest days and a warmup, then I’ll show you what the average human athlete can do.”

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    AKA, Grace doesn't consider himself much of an athlete, but he's no slouch either. And he's got the physical prowess of his whole species to represent!

    The xenobiology team, on the other hand, is horrified to learn what a 'persistence hunter' is.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Everyone had heard the stories about Wei Wuxian.

    The loud omega.
    The reckless omega.
    The omega no one could control.

    Lan Wangji expected trouble when their paths crossed.

    He did not expect a quiet apartment, a small child with stuffed rabbits, and an omega who looked like he had not slept in weeks.

    Some reputations are built on truth.

    Others hide everything that actually matters.

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    24 Jun 2026

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    Modern man Wei Ying would say that he's been surviving pretty well in the world of Path of the Lightbearer so far. The Sunshot Campaign is going as smoothly as expected...at least, until the titular Hanguang-jun gets blasted in the face with—well, you guessed it!

    Lan Wangji is looking at him with an expression that Wei Wuxian has never seen before, in this life or the last. His golden eyes are the hue of melted honey, the lines of his usually solemn brows lax and a little weak. His thin lips are parted, tiny puffs of breath a breeze between rosy petals—well, wait.

    Wait.

    Wei Wuxian’s smart enough to realise that he doesn’t look dazed in a mortally wounded way, but dazed in a…Proud Immortal Demon Way!?

    Lan Wangji looks at him with an ambiguous gaze, and whispers in a thready, raspy voice. “Wei Ying, I…”

    A shiver rips through Wei Wuxian’s entire body. Heat pools in his stomach.

    No fucking way!!

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    24 Jun 2026

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    He cannot lie and he does not want to. He plays his own name like a whisper. Wei Ying.

    Lan Wangji's breath hitches. His eyes are open but they are unreadable, a flash of gold in the pale moonlight. He hesitates for one moment like he does not know what to ask, perhaps as if he has too many questions. Wei Wuxian waits for the accusation, the resentment. 

    The guqin sounds more like a cry as Lan Wangji plays, Are you at peace.

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    23 Jun 2026

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    Omega Wei Wuxian never saw himself becoming a political pawn and is shocked to find himself scheduled to mate his alpha friend Lan Wangji—who doesn’t seem at all enthused by this decision. Ouch. Thankfully there’s more than enough to keep Wei Wuxian occupied from his new responsibilities: figuring out who’s coordinating deadly rogue attacks on the pack, checking in on the Wen survivors, making sure A-Yuan has medicine…

    …But he’s still gotta figure out how to court an alpha like Lan Wangji.

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    29 May 2026

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    Before the bandages came off there was some question as to whether the eye could be saved.

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    08 May 2026

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    Jiang Yanli is the nicest person on the planet.
    She does not deserve to be ditched by her bridal party in some stupid Jin attention grab.

    Wei Ying's the Maid of Honor, now. His butt looks better than Jiang Cheng's in this stupid expensive dress.

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    Wei Ying meets the love of his life while on the warpath, in a bridesmaid's dress.

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    22 Apr 2026

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    “The rock,” Jingyi says, voice very very unstable. “Hit the rock, shixiong, fuck, no time to break the wards, hit the rock —”

    The Killing Chord strikes Jingyi’s appointed boulder. It cracks that in half, too.

    Not half a second after Lan Yuan follows Jingyi into the crevice, the yaoguai strikes the stone, talons scrabbling at the crevice, beak pecking at the entrance they’ve made themselves. A red, furious, glowing eye peers in after them, and Lan Yuan stumbles back blindly, vaguely downwards. He’s staring at the entrance, at the clear and present danger. Neither of them are looking backward.

    In hindsight, it’s the worst mistake they make all day.

     

    Wei Ying has spent years sealed under a mountain. It's just his luck that the kids who break him out of it are Lans.

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    21 Apr 2026

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    Lan Zhan is desperate to avoid an arranged marriage to the detestable Su She. Desperate enough to respond to an ad on the Marketplace of all things. An ad to be arrested in front of one's significant other.

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    15 Apr 2026

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    lan jingyi needs a fucking break
    @jingY33T
    getting a phd in 3 things at one time sounded like a great idea when i started out | tired but hella wired | 21+ he/they views my own
    Location: probably the microfiche archives       Website: uni.edu/cartographicfolklore      Joined: August 2012
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    lan jingyi needs a fucking break @jingY33T 6/8/22
    LISTEN UP YOU HISTORY-LOVING FUCKS HAVE I GOT A WILD FUCKING THEORY FOR YOU: THE YILING LAOZU PROBABLY ACTUALLY EXISTED AND MAY HAVE BEEN A HUUUUUUGE SAPPY ROMANTIC: a 🧵 [1/?]

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    08 Apr 2026

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    Look, it wasn’t like Wei Ying meant to get so deep into the lie.

    He'd started out by simply saying ‘sorry, I’m taken’ when anyone asked him out.

    He hadn’t really been expecting to have to answer follow up questions from his co-workers like: ‘Is it serious? What do they do for work? Do they live in town? How did you meet? What are they like?’

    Wei Ying did not have a great memory for things outside of engineering and product design, so there was absolutely no way he was going to be able to keep his story straight if he really just made everything up.

    He'd just needed a… a mental model of what a potential partner for him could be like. So his brain had pulled up the memory of a guy in college that he'd always vaguely thought that—if he ever did settle down with someone—it would be like him.

    He possibly didn’t realize just how far things had snowballed until one day when one of his colleagues said:

    “Hey! I was talking to my cousin the other day and she actually knows your husband. Small world right?”

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    29 Mar 2026

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    Wei Wuxian has been betrothed, without having much (or any) say in the matter. At least he knows his husband-to-be - although he certainly wouldn't think they got along well enough for marriage.

    Luckily for him, Lan Wangji has sent him a memory pearl as part of his betrothal gifts. Maybe that'll shed some light on his reasoning?

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    22 Mar 2026

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    “Ah, Lan Zhan, you will not believe what kind of divination I got! Now I feel embarrassed for dragging you here.”

    Lan Wangji raised an eyebrow, an unpleasant feeling in his chest. There was a distinct impression of Wei Ying’s dramatics hiding true disappointment.

    “You know what she said?” Wei Ying asked, with levity in his voice that was so perfect Lan Wangji could have been fooled, had it not been for the way Wei Ying kept his gaze away from him. “I’m never going to get married!”

     

    or, lwj and wwx visit a fortune teller

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    22 Mar 2026

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    Lan Zhan couldn't speak. Was he still breathing? He wasn't sure. He didn't know if he could see or hear because his entire being had become his beating heart in front of the boy who had just entered the room.

    Wei Ying was... young. By the gods, he looked so young. His hair was styled in the ponytail he had stopped wearing along with his sword, as if loose hair could help him hide from the hostility and fear of others. His eyes were bright and happy. His lips were curved into the smile that had captured Lan Zhan's heart from the very beginning.

    The Wei Ying in front of him was just a boy, not yet tainted by war's harshness and people's cruelty.

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    Lan Wangji dies from the thirty-third lash, then wakes up as his fifteen-year-old self in the Cloud Recesses.

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    18 Mar 2026

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    It truly was beautiful here, serene. The light blue sky could be seen peeping through the tops of the tall trees, giving them some reprieve from the beating sun. Birds flitted to and fro, going about their business with a pleasant sing-song. The breeze was gentle as it kissed their skin, rustling through the leaves and carrying with it the refreshing scents of nature: pine trees, the earthy smell of dirt, fresh water. 

    It was truly picturesque in every way. 

    So, given how perfect the Lan sect and all their surroundings seemed to be, why the hell couldn't Wei Wuxian smell them?

    OR: Omega Wei Wuxian goes to study at the Cloud Recesses and is unnerved by the lack of pheromones coming from the Lans. Luckily for him, a pleasant sandalwood smell keeps appearing in his room whenever he's away.

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    16 Mar 2026

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    Wei Wuxian has been feeling like someone was watching him for weeks.

    A hot new neighbor moves in to one of the vacant units in the falling-down apartment block he lives in while laying low and waiting for the trial against Wen Ruohan and Jin Guangshan to move forward.

    These two events are not unrelated.

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    Lan Wangji does a favor for an old school friend in tracking down his wife’s missing foster brother and keeping a watch out for anyone trying to harm him. He quickly decides that a closer view would be beneficial.

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    08 Mar 2026

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    According to Lan Wangji, Yiling has two main items of interest. First, there is a supposedly demonic cultivator who a) may not exist and b) if he does, is keeping the town remarkably safe and not demonic. Secondly, there is Wei Ying, a man he is falling in love with.

    These are definitely two separate things.

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    06 Mar 2026

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    A large black dog bounds into the clearing, then skids to a stop. It stares at Wei Wuxian, body stiff, tail raised.

    A low growl rumbles in its throat.

    And Wei Wuxian goes utterly still.

    It had been a point of contention between him and Jiang Cheng when they were children. Jiang Cheng had thought he saw no difference between a happy dog with a wagging tail and lolling tongue, and one with aggression in its body.

    But Wei Wuxian knew—knows the difference. He knows because a happy dog is one he can run away from, duck behind Jiang Cheng, scramble up a tree and wail for rescue. A snarling dog is something that leaves him frozen.

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    Wei Wuxian gets locked out of the Cloud Recesses due to a broken rule and a certain stubborn Lan. Neither could have predicted what would come next.

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    03 Mar 2026

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    “No, you need to understand,” Wei Wuxian says seriously, chopping a hand against the table for extra emphasis. “The goal of this booth is for them not to kiss me.”

    “This is still such a slutty idea,” Jiang Cheng says.

    For MXTX Diaspora May 2023 - Week 4: Spicy

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    18 Feb 2026

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    Lan Wangji didn't expect to walk into his favorite used bookstore and find his future.

    He's not complaining in the least about the surprise.

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    17 Feb 2026

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