Did I Ever Tell You How I Got Kicked From Chess Club Back In School?

IF YOU KNEW ME, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT I WILL NOT SHUT UP ABOUT TOLKIEN (and about JC of course :D) AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT. Hence Beren and Luthien AU! XiCheng <3 (Beren!JC and Luthien!Xichen)  The Beren and Luthien story is very contexted and may confuse you if you haven’t read the Silmarillion (if you don’t know what that is, it is a very extensive thousand years ago prequel to Lord of the Rings.) But I’ll try to make it very simple and I’ll put in some MDZS too. Jiang Cheng, a young orphaned mortal man, suffered the destruction of the Jiang House. The Dark Lord has persecuted his house for the unwillingness to give up their territory and for their fierce opposition. The Jiang house was sieged and massacred (much like Lotus Pier) and JC was only spared because he was sent away to scout on the Enemy. He came back to a macabre. He was devastated and grief overwhelmed him. His parents and kin dead, WWX missing and JYL still at their grandparent’s territory. He swore revenge upon his mother’s bones and took her ring, Zidian, a powerful ring that controls lightning. Ok, let’s pretend that men, dwarves, and elves are all cultivators. Men, the weakest and Elves, the most powerful. 

Zidian was a powerful heirloom made by a renowned Elven craftsman and gifted to a Yu ancestor for saving the elf from an ambush. He spent four years as a solitary outlaw, hellbent on revenge but he became a friend to birds and beasts- yes like a Disney princess, AND! he became a full-blown vegetarian. Slaying orcs, he did not fear death, only captivity, but being bold and desperate, he escaped both death and bonds. His deeds became known throughout the land and there was a price on his head that could match the bounty price of an Elven King.  So all in all, he was a top-tiered vigilante, tired as fuck, grumpy as hell, thicc of thighs from all the running, and needs sleep ASAP. He stumbled upon the borders of Gusu (okay, replacing Doriath with Gusu), and went through it because he doesn’t give any flying fucks. The thing with Gusu that it is an enclosed elven kingdom with a very powerful barrier made by Madame Lan (okay, replacing Melian with Madame Lan), a Maia (equivalent to an angel). Qingheng Jun is dead here btw but Madame Lan is staying for her babies, the twin Jades, instead of going back to Valinor (heaven).

So Lan Xichen, the eldest immortal Elven prince, was the most beautiful of all Eru’s (God) children. Half-Elven and Half-Maia, he was very, very, powerful. He could very well kill you with his voice only without lifting a pinky. Ok, to establish, in Tolkien’s World, music is the very essence of power and creating, heck the whole universe is created through an opera gone wrong. So yeah, singing with power could very well kill you or heal you.   Anyways, back to JC, the barrier, called “the Girdle of Madame Lan” is very veiled and a really impossible maze. Only at the guide of the Elven sentries or the orders of Madame Lan does the barrier give in. But he surpassed that because he’s so fucking tired and doesn’t really care anymore. And Madame Lan liked him (she can read hearts and the future ok? She’s an angel) and could sense that he was LXC’s fated one. She kept silent of course.  So without any grace, he collapsed into his bedroll after finding a clearing and bandaging his wounds. The clearing also happens to be LXC’s favorite. And unlike the book, this AU will be ultra-slow burn friends to lovers, instead of love at first sight. Cos I like it that way?? And JC is blushing because of the sheer  elven prettiness and power that radiated off of LXC (yeah keep telling yourself that, JC.)  And if one knew of the story, you would have a vague idea of how this will all end. I’ll hopefully add more to this because I ADORE this AU, and yes I already thought all of it. Whoo good job, self :D

For Xichengclipse2021 DAY 3: Courting

These are their first of many courting gifts to one another. The sappiest one is yet to come.

And that, kids, is the story of how the twin heroes of yunmeng met the twin jades of lan. 

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Pictured above: JC and WWX arriving at Gusu Skating Complex to participate in the annual Gusu Training Camp for the first time. 

So a short note about Gusu Skating Complex - it is a full complex, equipped with facilities such as a running track, a gym, a pool, physiotherapy rooms, dance studios, etc. So the rule is that you should not be running in the Cloud Recesses Skating Hall, bc that area is for skating! if you need to do off-ice warmups, you can head down to the running track, or use one of the warm-up rooms next door. It is Gusu after all, everything has its place. 

More figure skating AU here: (x)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SENKU-CHAN🎉🎉

mike is allergic to making successful phone/radio calls, except for the time he called max. max is allergic to reaching out to people, except for the time she randomly radioed mike while they were preparing the sauna test to ask where they were, then proceeded to mutter aloud to herself about her complicated feelings towards billy. when those complicated feelings threaten to kill her a few months later, mike and this unique connection between the two of them is suddenly conveniently out of range

every season there's The Main Character and their emotional support mike. max didn't have her emotional support mike

My favourite Qinghe era NieYao dynamic is Huaisang gently bullying them into it

xeno dressing up as his pre-petrification self to spook the troops

Little rant :

I don't hate Scott, I just prefer Stiles's character over his because of the movie , the movie felt like really horribly written fanfiction by a misunderstood Scott fan.

1. In the movie, Scott's character development is thrown in the drain thanks to I'm guessing the bad writing ? It feels like he's just trying too hard to live out his high school glories.

2. Scott didn't lose anyone significant in his life aside from Allison and it made no sense to say Scott is still in love with Allison and to make them get together after like 15 years.

3. Scott knows damn well the trauma that Kate inflicted on Derek by bringing his whole family down. Then why would he just let Derek sacrifice himself knowing that he finally found a family and that Eli will lose his family, it makes no sense for his character

Rather than blaming Scott for being a shitty friend/ Alpha, it's time we blame the terrible writing .

Scott's character had a lot more depth in the TV show than in the movie and the movie managed to undo all his growth within that time frame.

Tsun tsun~