The Other Sandy

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This was a slow month for me.





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Challenge update: Blackout! *\O/*








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Challenge update: 22 books, 7 bingos.








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Challenge update: 14 books, no bingos. 😢








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Title: Fated Series
Author: LtLJ
Fandom: The Untamed
Category: M/M
Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

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The final rec! I can't believe I did this for a whole year!


REC

This is a canon era AU involving an arranged marriage between Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian. Wei Wuxian's background is very different from canon in this story and I was absolutely riveted by the bits and pieces hinting at what happened to him until the full story was revealed.

I also very much enjoy stories with the Yiling Patriarch running a successful community of Wens in the Burial Mounds.

And this is my last chance to remind you that LtLJ is an award-winning, professionally published author and I can guarantee you've read at least one of her books.


TEASER

Wen Ning advanced, eyeing Lan Wangji with sharp caution. "You're really all right, Xian-ge?"

"Sure, it's fine." He took the folded black robe from Wen Ning. "We need to go to the Burial Mounds. There's something there... The Jin want it. I didn't bring it, that's why I was..."

"Why you were unwell," Lan Wangji guessed. He added, "Has it to do with the fact you have been...previously dead?"

"Sort of." The Patriarch scratched his head. "The first time the Xue drowned me in the Blood Pool--"

Wen Ning cleared his throat anxiously. "Xian-ge."

The Patriarch made a placating gesture. "Right, right, it's a long story."

Title: Leave All Your Love and Your Longing Behind
Author: ScarlettStorm
Fandom: The Untamed
Category: M/M
Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian


REC

I can never remember the actual name of this fic because in my head it's called The Asshole Dog and the Most Beautiful Man in the World. I love everything about it so much. I love the writing. I love the humor. I love Wei Ying's relationship with his siblings and Yanli's family, and his found family relationship with the Wens. I love how Lan Zhan--despite his social anxiety--ends up forming bonds with his neighbors and is part of a real neighborhood community where people know and help each other. And I love how Wei Ying and Lan Zhan each have their challenges (PTSD and ADHD for Wei Ying, and Autism Spectrum for Lan Zhan) but they make an effort to accommodate each other with no judgment.

I also love how the author's portrayal of Lan Zhan's ASD doesn't stop at him being awkward with people, but also includes sensory issues, discomfort with spontaneity (as opposed to planned outings), overwhelm, and emotional dysregulation. Wei Ying just rolls with it all.

And of course I love Lan Zhan's cat, Bunny.


TEASER

All of Lan Zhan's previous interactions with The Most Beautiful Man in the World have been at a distance, with Lan Zhan on his front porch or weeding the front garden while The Most Beautiful Man in the World walks past on the sidewalk, gait a little bouncy as though he's too excited to rein himself in. Lan Zhan thinks he must have family in the neighborhood, because the visits aren't regular enough for The Most Beautiful Man in the World to live nearby--not that Lan Zhan thinks about The Most Beautiful Man in the World an inappropriate amount. He just tries to make sure he's outside in the afternoons on Fridays, for his own health, and if a few times a month he gets a cheerful wave accompanied by a smile that feels like a warm slap to the face, that's his business.

Title: Ridiculous Future Bullshit Series
Author: sami
Fandom: The Untamed
Category: M/M
Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian


REC

Do you have a long holiday weekend this weekend? Looking for something to read? Do I have a series for you.

The Ridiculous Future Bullshit Series is a sequel to a more serious series (which you don't have to read to follow this one) in which Wei Wuxian travels back in time to try to fix canon. He's not wholly successful, but he makes enough positive changes to result in this much crackier series wherein he, Jiang Cheng, Jiang Yanli, Lan Wangji, Lan Sizhui, Lan Xichen, and Wen Qing are living in modern times because they cultivated to immortality.

The country we know as China doesn't exist because the lands never unified. It consists of a group of countries collectively known as the Five Nations: Yungmeng, Gusu, Lanling, Qishan, and Qinghe. Five Nations people know that cultivation is real (was real?--it doesn't seem to be practiced anymore) and that seven immortals exist among them. People in Western countries may or may not believe that cultivation is real, but they think the Seven Immortals are the Five Nations pantheon of gods (Wei Wuxian takes enormous delight in his status as the pantheon's trickster god).

Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian have been married for a thousand years and have seen their story become a fable and part of pop culture, although in their day-to-day lives, no one knows they're Hanguang Jun and the Yiling Patriarch (despite Wei Wuxian also taking enormous delight in regularly wearing Yiling Patriarch T-shirts) because they move around a lot and use aliases.

My favorite stories are the ones where Lan Wangji expresses his epic displeasure to the producer of a movie in which Hanguang Jun marries Princess Lotus Blossom, Wei Wuxian helps build the Yiling Patriarch float at Pride, and one of the longer fics in the series where Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji stop traveling and settle in one place for six years so that Lan Wangji can get his DVM to cope with the heartbreak of losing one of his foster bunnies. This leaves Wei Wuxian with some time on his hands, which he uses to live his best chaos gremlin life (I would love to watch his YouTube channel).


TEASER

He comes to lunch that day, and drops down to sit next to Jordan.

"I looked up all your class's grades," he says, which is a thing he absolutely should not have been able to do. "This course is kicking your butts and it shouldn't be. I have to ask. Is it Lan Zhan?"

"It. Uh. I," Jordan says, because she definitely has not managed to overcome her life-ruining crush on his husband. Apparently that's enough.

"Thought so," Jiang Ying says. "Let me guess, he's sitting at the front and being all... him, right? He's just the worst that way."