Community Recs Post!

[glitteryv]

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fancrafts/fanarts/fics/fanvids/podfics/some other kind of fanwork have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled

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[donutsweeper]

Back to my usual reccing of lesser known or new MDZS/The Untamed fics:

The sparrow's curious song by Mhalachai (13k)
Summary: One day in Lanling, a little blind beggar picks Nie Huaisang’s pocket, which is the most interesting thing to happen to him in months. (AKA the one where Nie Huaisang adopts A-Qing.) (wonderful AU where NHS's revenge takes a bit of a sidestep)

Yunmeng Shuangjie Reconciliation Speedrun, Any %, No Yanlis, 8.5k by Mikkeneko (8.5k)
Summary: Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng's relationship has been strained since the confrontation at Guanyin Temple. It is a rift that might take years to heal, if it ever does. That is, unless some unscrupulous persons decide to meddle... (a plan to get WWX out of Jin Ling's life goes awry, a delightful read)

(no one else can) take me there by azurewaxwing (4k)
Summary: In his recent article in Contemporary Theories of Cultivation, Lan (2019) sets out to study the correlation between instrument choice and outcomes in the liberation of spirits. While his main thesis appears sound, his decision to limit the study to the qin, dizi, xiao and pipa undermines his conclusions. This decision falls prey to the fallacy that tradition cannot be questioned. It ignores, too, the fact that many practising cultivators will encounter spirits that will have no exposure to such “expectations.” In a small study comparing the use of a dizi with a theremin—undoubtedly a non-traditional choice—the theremin produced optimal outcomes in liberating spirits where: time since death was less than 6 months; spirit was younger than 25 and older than 17 at time of death; or spirit motivation included aspects of revenge. The conclusions reached in Lan (2019), while providing a foundation for future study, are therefore as yet incomplete. - Mo Xuanyu; Cultivation Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University (a great modern-with-cultivation AU told via articles, emails and texts)

[andersenmom]

The second one was utterly delightful! Thank you so much for reccing it!

[screechfox]

Seconding the rec for (no one else can) take me there! I really enjoyed it for the academia/epistolary elements, and the way it adapts canon events is so interesting!

The sparrow's curious song was so good!

Spoilers

I like that Nie Huaisang doesn't give up on revenge, just learns to have other things in his life besides the obsessive wait for vengeance. (It's in the tags so it probably isn't actually spoilers, but better safe than sorry!)

[glitteryv]

Thank you for reccing lesser known and/or newer fics. :D