Notices by Soph (they/them) (soph_sol@federatedfandom.net)

thinking about modern au wei wuxian marrying wen ning in order to provide him with extended health benefits....wwx like, yeah I am straight but obviously I would do anything I can to help my friend?

wn is well aware he himself is not straight, and is interested in wwx, but he's happy with friendship. wwx also happy with their relationship as is! and he's simply too busy revolutionising modern cultivation to find the time to date girls

when lan wangji comes back into wwx's life unexpectedly, dynamics get thrown topsy turvy for a while, but when wn and lwj see in each other how much both of them are willing to be on wwx's side no matter what, they become easy and comfortable allies without having to talk about it

idk what happens next but endgame definitely wangningxian

#mdzs

#Rec #FicRec #MDZS #CQL #WangXian

show me how you do that trick
by ilip13

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57026950

➤ modern au wangxian fic where they're friends and roommates who start a friends-with-benefits arrangement

➤ a-spec wangxian! I liked how it was handled with wwx's difficulties in recognizing what he was feeling about lwj

➤ I read this fic as a wip and I have a bad memory so I don't recall everything I thought about it in the earlier chapters but it was good!

➤70k words in length

I made a quick mini zine for fun!

back page will be in a second toot, I can only attach 4 images

#Rec #FicRec #YuriOnIce #victuuri

Recomposed, by rainbowninja167

https://archiveofourown.org/works/50421967

➤ a Viktor/Yuuri Yuri on Ice fic that's retelling the story of Persuasion

➤ but, and this is key, with the genius idea of casting viktor in the role of anne, and yuuri in the role of capt wentworth

➤ and hot damn the fic takes this premise and runs with it beautifully

➤ I was kicking my feet with delight regularly as I read!

➤ excellent characterisation and fun alterations from canon

➤ 50k words

#Rec #FicRec #StarWars #Torchwood

Hi, I'm Captain Jack Harkness, by Frostfire

https://archiveofourown.org/works/7661905

- it has been many years since I first read this fic but the memory of it will never leave me. it's an all-time classic.

- fanfiction shipping Jack Harkness of Torchwood/Doctor Who with Chewbacca of Star Wars

- Jack Harkness sees a cute wookiee in a bar and picks him up for a night of fun

- it's perfectly in character and delightful. I'm so glad it exists in this world.

- 3k words in length

red jeans remaking project complete! these jeans were too wide in the waist and too narrow in the thigh. I did the following:

1. removed the waistband so I could get some matching fabric from the inner side, to expand the thighs

2. unpicked the back seam and the inner leg seams

3. added the inner waistband fabric into the seams inside the legs, from the top of the seam to my knees

4. sewed up the back seam to take in fabric heading up to the waist

5. sewed the original waistband back on, with a tuck at the back to make up for how the back of the pants were taken in

6. sewed in some sturdy grey fabric scavenged from a dead pair of pants to cover the raw inside of the waistband

7. mended a small hole in the inner thigh

I maintained all the fabric in the seam at the back so that if I ever need to expand my waist again I have room to do that, instead of trimming the seams closely

and they're done!

#SophCrafts

#AO3 #SiteSkin

The results are here from the last week of hyperfocusing on teaching myself CSS through the medium of creating an AO3 site skin!

featuring the following:
- lightmode colour scheme in warm lower-contrast sepia tones
- with visual distinguishing between tags and tag types
- maximum widths on wide panels of text
- scroll bars on overly-long tag blocks or summary blocks
- a look that's useable both on mobile and computer
- and more!

feel free to use all or parts of this skin! or use my feral descent into coding to inspire you to make your own!

Here's the link:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53991520

#Rec #FicRec #CQL #MDZS #WangXian

The light that he brings, by raitala

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45408181

- modern au where wwx reappears after many years and lwj wants to keep him in his life in whatever way he can

- I love! how much they care about each other, and how they try to navigate the new/old dynamics between them with the additional perspective that being older will bring

- though lwj still hasn't entirely figured out the framework to understand his attraction to wwx

- they're both trying so hard to not overstep boundaries between them but they can both agree that whatever is best for a-Yuan is worth doing

- watching them slide into intimacy and intertwined lives, and how lwj comes alive with wwx and a-yuan in his life! endless delight

- impeccable under-negotiated d/s vibes between them

- I love the glimpses into all the other people in their lives as well!

- ahhh there are so many things I could keep saying about this fic! it's so good

- 106k words in length

IT'S HERE! my fifth mxtx fanfic is posted!!

Bowerbird, by sophia_sol

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53651899

- Hua Cheng builds Paradise Manor. He builds Paradise Manor five times.

- tfw you gotta make sure your sweet digs will impress your crush and you have too much time to obsess over it

- 1,900 words in length

#TGCF #HuaLian #Fanfiction

#Rec #YoutubeRec

bernadette banner on youtube has been in the habit for a few years of putting out a video rating the historical accuracy of costumes from tv/movies of the previous year, and each year the video gets longer and includes more guest experts for other cultures she's not as intimately familiar with, and this year's video for 2023 was SO much fun! I loved hearing about all these different time periods in different parts of the world from people who know what they're talking about, and seeing how very wrong (or right!) various media gets the details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKaIXvtJr_4

(no subtitles. video is 2 hr 20 min long)

#Fic #TGCF #BeefLeaf

I wrote a fic!!!

five excerpts from a saltwater aquarium hobbyist discord, by sophia_sol

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53073568

- modern AU He Xuan keeps skeleton fish as pets, and is an active member of a discord for hobbyists who keep saltwater tanks

- He Xuan is exactly as difficult a discord server member as you would expect

- 1k words in length

#Rec #VidRec #SHL

A Little Bit Ghost Valley, by alpheratz_vids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TP_9RckQ4Q

edited to add the ao3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32217631

- a Word of Honor vid. I have never seen any of the show and do not know who any of these people are and it's still so fun!

- stylish and snappily edited and confident

- audio is solely the music

- subtitles available

- 2:04 in length

- thanks to @lesbianwangyibo for the rec!

@lookitmychicken oh extremely jealous. xie lian has to do the whole thing a second time lavishing attention on e-ming this time; good thing this is not a hardship for xie lian who absolutely thinks e-ming is worthy of this kind of care as well

(and then hua cheng is jealous, and so the two of them have to go on to try something else that e-ming couldn't participate in, so that they don't get caught in a never-ending cycle)

@xieliansbignaturals also xie lian taking the opportunity to rub oil sensually and lovingly all over hua cheng's body! oiling your sword is very important don't you know.

xie lian all like, what fine steel you're made of! I need to protect it. gotta get a good coating of oil into every crevice. no don't move, hua cheng, what if I miss a bit while you're squirming like that? better stay still for me.

@xieliansbignaturals

"gege, gege, I surrender," hua cheng gasps. he's doing his best but it's hard to bear this much focused attention without being allowed to redirect any of it, to just lie there face-down on the bed and take it.

"I don't think swords usually talk," xie lian says tenderly, his hands rubbing oil into the crease at the top of his thigh. one hand strays a little higher to round the curve of hc's ass again, even though that part has already been thoroughly oiled, then returns to work on the strong sinewy muscles of hc's solid thigh. hc whimpers.

@xieliansbignaturals yessssssss

ok but NOW I'm thinking about what kind of precious hua cheng is, because we know what kinds of things xie lian considers precious, and it's swords. (also finding value in things other people overlook, yes yes the themes are very good and relevant too, but. swords. is the important thing here.) xie lian praising hua cheng using the types of compliments and admiration he would use on a really good sword! talking about the ways hua cheng could be used in a duel, admiring the craftsmanship of his body, dwelling at length on the proper ways to care for such a valuable weapon as this one

considering learning how to knit mittens, so I can have a nice chunky pair of 100% wool mittens to act as a liner for a pair of leather mittens I have, since the fluffy liner the leather ones came with is polyester and my hands get SO sweaty inside them

I found this pattern online that shows you pictures of every step for someone who's never read a knitting pattern before and doesn't know what they're doing, so this seems like a doable thing: https://blog.tincanknits.com/2016/12/01/letsknitsimplemittens/

I just need to find the time to work this into my busy crafting schedule lol

(also find some wool yarn!)

#SophCrafts

#Rec #FicRec #tgcf

shadowplay, by bloodletter @roland

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51971929

- a postcanon beefleaf reconciliation fic; it's a wip and the first chapter was just posted today

- sqx wakes up in a mysterious cave and finds that hx has saved her life and taken her there

- the gothic vibes are out of this world and I love it so much, I am just eating this up, it's delicious. there's even a bit where sqx is standing on rocks looking out over a tempestuous sea!

- hx is peak drama kid, peak capital-R Romantic, peak cannot-let-things-go. and sqx is unable to look away

- I cannot wait to watch the rest of this unfold!

#Rec #StoryRec #ShortStory

There’s a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead, by Sarah Pinsker

https://thedeadlands.com/issue-26/door/

- about queer intergenerational friendship and mentorship, about being a young adult trying to find your place, about death and what it means to you, about living through the death of all your peers and coming out the other side, about hope and love and making connections.

- holy shit this gave me so many emotions. READ IT READ IT READ IT.

- also I adore the title. pinsker writes great titles.

- 6k words in length

#Rec #FicRec #MDZS #CQL

Salt in Our Sentences, by hansbekhart

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24917725

- exploring the relationship between Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji; the three months of almost-friendship when they were searching for Wei Wuxian together, and then the many years of hatred that followed

- and yet lwj saves jc's life when he's injured in a night hunt. but they still hate each other.

- the deep well of bitterness on both sides, as both feel fully justified in their hate! god it's so good. the vibes in this fic are impeccable.

- 2k words in length

- thanks @lookitmychicken for the rec!