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laurus_nobilis
FIC LIKES
Casefic and missionfic; backstory and missing scenes; hurt/comfort; slice of life; adventure; humor; dramatic irony; silly/humorous premises; competence and teamwork; friendship; characters finding common ground.
ART LIKES
Characters with contrasting looks/outfits; silly or funny situations; shippy art where the characters look very happy; abstract backgrounds; overt symbolism; fancy clothing; dramatic windswept hair and clothes; flowers/leaves/other botanic elements.
GENERAL DNWs
Detailed descriptions or images of graphic violence; non-con/dub-con; non canonical character death; non canonical incest; unrequested non-canon ships; AUs that change the setting (unless requested); D/s dynamics; spanking.
I'm open to receiving treats!
七爷 | Qi Ye - priest
This is the darkest canon I'm requesting, so just to avoid worries about my DNWs, I'm fine with doing what the book does and having all kinds of horrible things acknowledged as long the work itself doesn't go into detail about them.
Jing Beiyuan/Wu Xi (Qi Ye)
I love how ridiculously intense these two are about each other, to the point that they pretty much break fate, and yet each of them has his own "I'm not worthy" moments. Somehow they get to have both intense drama full of epic grand gestures, and a quiet slow burn where they show how much they care in small, every-day ways. They love each other so much but they're very messed up people in different ways, and that makes their eventual happy ending hit even harder.
Prompts
- I'd love anything post-canon for them: domestic fluff about their new everyday life, something about them adjusting to being in a relationship and having to actually deal with all their issues, a combination of both or anything in between.
- Jing Beiyuan never told Wu Xi about his past lives or about Wu Xi having been the Soulhook Envoy, so does he ever bring it up? Does Wu Xi figure it out on his own?
- For works set during canon, there's a lot of potential for Wu Xi pining and/or Jing Beiyuan trying very hard to stay in denial.
- These two are made for the kind of fanart that's full of symbolism, especially if it's about their pre-canon selves in the underworld.
- For during or post-canon art, I'd love domestic shippy moments, and it'd be great if their snake and sable are there too!
Jing Beiyuan & Zhou Zishu (Qi Ye)
Wu Xi & Zhou Zishu (Qi Ye)
Jing Beiyuan & Wu Xi & Zhou Zishu (Qi Ye)
I love all combinations of this friendship. Jing Beiyuan and Zhou Zishu are terrible people who nonetheless genuinely care for each other, one of my favorite things in fiction. Their friendship is so strong, even though or perhaps because they have no illusions about the kind of people they are: they just seem to get each other. And I love those times when Jing Beiyuan is stuck in the middle of his two very dramatic suitors and Zhou Zishu is just there being a good bro. In contrast, we don't see a lot of Zhou Zishu and Wu Xi together but the little glimpses we get are really interesting. They have very different personalities and yet they end up as good friends and making their own plans and schemes together.
Prompts
- All kinds of missing scenes would be fun, for any combination of characters.
- For JBY & ZZS, anything set during Beiyuan's first life would be interesting. I am haunted by that scene where he just casually mentions that oh yeah, Zhou Zishu tried to warn him that he was going to get him killed.
- For WX & ZZS, how did they become actual friends instead of just two guys hanging around in the same social circle?
- Just as for the JBY/WX request, art that plays around with colors/shadows/symbolism would be really cool! This book is just great for this all around.
- For a very different tone, it'd be nice to see quiet, daily life moments where they can almost act like normal people (either in art or fic form).
天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tian Guan Ci Fu - Moxiang Tongxiu
Fēng Xìn/Mù Qíng (TGCF)
These two hit me right in the "constant bickering turned into UST" trope, but there is also a serious undercurrent behind the humor that helps make them rounded characters. They've spent centuries stuck in the same dynamic, without either becoming friends again or avoiding each other. Their original falling out (with each other and with Xie Lian) was complex and very human: they both had good points, they both screwed up, and given their circumstances it makes sense why they couldn't see eye-to-eye. They're very funny, but they also have emotional depth.
Prompts:
- Getting together! After 800 years, and with their shining personalities, how does that even look like?
- One of my favorite things about these two is how the book kept putting them in ridiculous, tropey peril, so more of that would be great. I'd love either fic or art of this!
- For a less silly take, it'd be interesting to see them forced to work together for some case/mission so they can show off their more competent sides.
- Art where they are both very in love and very angry about it is one of my favorite genres of fanart for them: angry blushes, "is this hugging or wrestling?", Mu Qing being slightly horrified at sweet gestures, that kind of thing.
魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Jin Guangyao/Lan Xichen/Nie Mingjue (MDZS)
I love the tragedy of 3zun because they had so much potential. These are people who could've brought out the best in each other, but their circumstances and their own flaws doomed them to be a disaster. Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue are both good people trying to do the right thing, and yet Nie Mingjue is all action while Lan Xichen is all thought. Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao respect each other at first but become incapable of seeing things from the other's perspective, even before Jin Guangyao goes full villain. Jin Guangyao and Lan Xichen care deeply for each other and see the best in each other, but their relationship also hinges on Jin Guangyao hiding terrible secrets for years. And when you put all three of them together, of course it all goes up in flames.
Prompts:
- I'd love anything about them navigating getting together, especially if it's happening at around the same time as their sworn brotherhood and they already have all the fallout from Sunshot to deal with.
- Post-sworn brotherhood casefic, with them having to solve problems while dealing with their interpersonal mess.
- Fix-its! There are so many points where a canon divergence might improve things for them. I love their tragedy, as I said, but I'd be up for some happiness too.
- I realize the above prompts might be too much for an exchange with a short minimum, so feel free to write some vignette or missing scene about their interactions. I've rambled a lot about how messy they are but I very much enjoy fluff and slice of life, too. I'm here for the character dynamics.
- They are great for fanart with lots of symbolism and/or contrasts between their happy times and their eventual tragedy. I always enjoy the "Lan Xichen and his ghosts" type of art.
- On the sillier side of art prompts, Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao going at each other's throats while Lan Xichen doesn't notice is always a classic.
FIC LIKES
Casefic and missionfic; backstory and missing scenes; hurt/comfort; slice of life; adventure; humor; dramatic irony; silly/humorous premises; competence and teamwork; friendship; characters finding common ground.
ART LIKES
Characters with contrasting looks/outfits; silly or funny situations; shippy art where the characters look very happy; abstract backgrounds; overt symbolism; fancy clothing; dramatic windswept hair and clothes; flowers/leaves/other botanic elements.
GENERAL DNWs
Detailed descriptions or images of graphic violence; non-con/dub-con; non canonical character death; non canonical incest; unrequested non-canon ships; AUs that change the setting (unless requested); D/s dynamics; spanking.
I'm open to receiving treats!
七爷 | Qi Ye - priest
This is the darkest canon I'm requesting, so just to avoid worries about my DNWs, I'm fine with doing what the book does and having all kinds of horrible things acknowledged as long the work itself doesn't go into detail about them.
Jing Beiyuan/Wu Xi (Qi Ye)
I love how ridiculously intense these two are about each other, to the point that they pretty much break fate, and yet each of them has his own "I'm not worthy" moments. Somehow they get to have both intense drama full of epic grand gestures, and a quiet slow burn where they show how much they care in small, every-day ways. They love each other so much but they're very messed up people in different ways, and that makes their eventual happy ending hit even harder.
Prompts
- I'd love anything post-canon for them: domestic fluff about their new everyday life, something about them adjusting to being in a relationship and having to actually deal with all their issues, a combination of both or anything in between.
- Jing Beiyuan never told Wu Xi about his past lives or about Wu Xi having been the Soulhook Envoy, so does he ever bring it up? Does Wu Xi figure it out on his own?
- For works set during canon, there's a lot of potential for Wu Xi pining and/or Jing Beiyuan trying very hard to stay in denial.
- These two are made for the kind of fanart that's full of symbolism, especially if it's about their pre-canon selves in the underworld.
- For during or post-canon art, I'd love domestic shippy moments, and it'd be great if their snake and sable are there too!
Jing Beiyuan & Zhou Zishu (Qi Ye)
Wu Xi & Zhou Zishu (Qi Ye)
Jing Beiyuan & Wu Xi & Zhou Zishu (Qi Ye)
I love all combinations of this friendship. Jing Beiyuan and Zhou Zishu are terrible people who nonetheless genuinely care for each other, one of my favorite things in fiction. Their friendship is so strong, even though or perhaps because they have no illusions about the kind of people they are: they just seem to get each other. And I love those times when Jing Beiyuan is stuck in the middle of his two very dramatic suitors and Zhou Zishu is just there being a good bro. In contrast, we don't see a lot of Zhou Zishu and Wu Xi together but the little glimpses we get are really interesting. They have very different personalities and yet they end up as good friends and making their own plans and schemes together.
Prompts
- All kinds of missing scenes would be fun, for any combination of characters.
- For JBY & ZZS, anything set during Beiyuan's first life would be interesting. I am haunted by that scene where he just casually mentions that oh yeah, Zhou Zishu tried to warn him that he was going to get him killed.
- For WX & ZZS, how did they become actual friends instead of just two guys hanging around in the same social circle?
- Just as for the JBY/WX request, art that plays around with colors/shadows/symbolism would be really cool! This book is just great for this all around.
- For a very different tone, it'd be nice to see quiet, daily life moments where they can almost act like normal people (either in art or fic form).
天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tian Guan Ci Fu - Moxiang Tongxiu
Fēng Xìn/Mù Qíng (TGCF)
These two hit me right in the "constant bickering turned into UST" trope, but there is also a serious undercurrent behind the humor that helps make them rounded characters. They've spent centuries stuck in the same dynamic, without either becoming friends again or avoiding each other. Their original falling out (with each other and with Xie Lian) was complex and very human: they both had good points, they both screwed up, and given their circumstances it makes sense why they couldn't see eye-to-eye. They're very funny, but they also have emotional depth.
Prompts:
- Getting together! After 800 years, and with their shining personalities, how does that even look like?
- One of my favorite things about these two is how the book kept putting them in ridiculous, tropey peril, so more of that would be great. I'd love either fic or art of this!
- For a less silly take, it'd be interesting to see them forced to work together for some case/mission so they can show off their more competent sides.
- Art where they are both very in love and very angry about it is one of my favorite genres of fanart for them: angry blushes, "is this hugging or wrestling?", Mu Qing being slightly horrified at sweet gestures, that kind of thing.
魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Jin Guangyao/Lan Xichen/Nie Mingjue (MDZS)
I love the tragedy of 3zun because they had so much potential. These are people who could've brought out the best in each other, but their circumstances and their own flaws doomed them to be a disaster. Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue are both good people trying to do the right thing, and yet Nie Mingjue is all action while Lan Xichen is all thought. Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao respect each other at first but become incapable of seeing things from the other's perspective, even before Jin Guangyao goes full villain. Jin Guangyao and Lan Xichen care deeply for each other and see the best in each other, but their relationship also hinges on Jin Guangyao hiding terrible secrets for years. And when you put all three of them together, of course it all goes up in flames.
Prompts:
- I'd love anything about them navigating getting together, especially if it's happening at around the same time as their sworn brotherhood and they already have all the fallout from Sunshot to deal with.
- Post-sworn brotherhood casefic, with them having to solve problems while dealing with their interpersonal mess.
- Fix-its! There are so many points where a canon divergence might improve things for them. I love their tragedy, as I said, but I'd be up for some happiness too.
- I realize the above prompts might be too much for an exchange with a short minimum, so feel free to write some vignette or missing scene about their interactions. I've rambled a lot about how messy they are but I very much enjoy fluff and slice of life, too. I'm here for the character dynamics.
- They are great for fanart with lots of symbolism and/or contrasts between their happy times and their eventual tragedy. I always enjoy the "Lan Xichen and his ghosts" type of art.
- On the sillier side of art prompts, Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao going at each other's throats while Lan Xichen doesn't notice is always a classic.