Over the last couple days I reread the fic Digging for Orchids, by betts, and was reminded just how GOOD it is
https://archiveofourown.org/works/28058367
- modern AU hualian
- roommates! out of work actors! pretending to be husbands!
- hualian are canonically both just so weird about each other and so over the top about everything to do with each other always, and this fic captures that dynamic beautifully
- the author's careful attention to the physicality of scenes is so good and so important
- xie lian is living with chronic pain after a fall and it's so real about how that affects his life
- there are so many funny and on point observations of various characters and their relationships with each other!
- I had many feelings
- LOVE WINS.