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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 15h

Thinking about what tech changes my thirteen-years-of-amnesia WWX will be need to adjust to, and I’ve realized this is a perfect opportunity to complain about losing headphone jacks

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My last experiment with drafting fic using voice-to-text while working on a tedious task went super poorly, yet I’m once again considering it so I can write while I scrape wallpaper off my walls. Imagine how much writing I could get done in the one thousand years it will take me to finish my walls!

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Predictably, I scared myself listening to a spooky podcast. Who has some fluffy fic recs to protect me?

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Su She catfishes LWJ using pictures of prolific stock photo model WWX. It all falls apart in dramatic fashion when LWJ happens to meet the real WWX.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This took about two hours, and once I finish the whole rest of the room, I’m still going to have to do it all over again to remove the next layer of wallpaper. Please send help

A section of wall about three feet wide. The wallpaper has recently been pulled down, leaving a patchy mess of wallpaper glue and the backs of a couple of layers of wallpaper that didn’t come up in some places. Peeking through in a couple of spots is yet bother layer of wallpaper with white and yellow flowers

The same wall, with the top layers of wallpaper and glue partially scraped away to reveal the green wallpaper with white and yellow flowers underneath. The top layers have been removed from the bottom of the wall almost up to the light switch. The rest of the wall still has the layer of wallpaper back and glue waiting to be scraped up.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I like the idea of WWX and LWJ having a fundamental mismatch in what they want to see when they’re traveling/sightseeing. LWJ prefers nature and ancient historical sites. WWX is more interested in modern innovation and engineering.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love how many people tell me their favorite Jelle’s Marble Runs team in the comments on one of my fics. I’m luring people in with a wangxian cemetery romance just to get them to talk to me about marbles

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've just been hit by a powerful urge to start working on another My Heart to Your Beat bonus chapter that I've been spinning around in my head for a million years

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Starting my next redecorating project and oh boy is it just wallpaper on wallpaper on wallpaper in here

A wall with a wallpaper panel peeled off. The untouched wallpaper panels on either side are cream with irregular blue/green and peach vertical lines. In the middle section where the wallpaper has been peeled up, the bottom is another layer wallpaper with some kind of grassy floral pattern largely obscured by a layer of glue. About halfway up the wall, that layer of wallpaper has torn away to reveal beneath it another layer of wallpaper, this one green with puffy yellow and white flowers.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mushroom forager LWJ, who brings everything he collects to the local college to have mycologist WWX check if they’re safe to eat. And every time, WWX has to tell him that every single mushroom he collected is poisonous.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can totally enjoy a fic that goes with a harsh portrayal of my beloved angry grape, but it does on occasion require an extra step of reminding myself that this is not my angry son JC, this is someone else’s JC, and he too is a compelling character

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Feels like a good time for a WIP Wednesday! I’ve been slowly but surely writing more amnesia fic, aka the mortifying ordeal of having to go through a second big queer awakening when you already (apparently) have a husband

“So…” Who are you? he wants to ask. But he can’t bring himself to say it, not in so many words. “We must be pretty close.”
Lan Wangji—Lan Zhan looks down at his hands. “I’m your husband.”
Wei Wuxian’s brain screeches to a halt. He’s pretty sure if he were still hooked up to the heart monitor, it would be flatlining.
Husband. Did he say husband? It sounded like he said husband. Like he said he’s Wei Wuxian’s husband. But that’s just…that’s not possible.
It takes a second for it to register that the nervous laughter he’s hearing is coming from himself. Lan Zhan’s eyes are still fixed on his hands, and his face has gone completely, utterly blank.
“Sorry.” Wei Wuxian presses both hands over his mouth, like that might hold the laughter in, and mutters through his fingertips, “I just… Sorry. But I don’t… I’m not gay.”

Lan Zhan’s gaze snaps up to his, eyes going sharp. “Ah. The summer after grad school.” That’s where Wei Wuxian’s memory stops. Lan Zhan knows as much, after the extensive interrogation Wei Wuxian went through earlier.
Wei Wuxian’s laughter trails off. “Yeah?”
“It wasn’t until a few years later,” Lan Zhan says, each word wrapping around Wei Wuxian’s chest like a cobra, “that you realized.”
“Realized that I’m gay?” Wei Wuxian asks, his voice too high, his throat tight.
Lan Zhan shakes his head, and the cobra around Wei Wuxian’s chest releases its grip a little. Is it homophobic to be relieved? He can’t help it, he’s relieved—until Lan Zhan opens his mouth again and says, “Bi.”
Okay. Okay, okay, okay. The cobra’s back, and it brought some friends. How fun.
This doesn’t make sense. He doesn’t… He’s not… It’s just, isn’t that something he should know about himself by now? Or have known by then—whatever, he can’t worry about what tense he’s living in while he’s also staring this in the face, it’s too much.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When LWJ turns up at the Burial Mounds with no memory, WQ does an examination and WWX asks him a ton of questions, and they decide this doesn’t seem like an accidental curse picked up on a night hunt. This seems specific. Intentional.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wangxian as business partners who buy and restore abandoned historic buildings. WWX decides to help finance their work by starting a YouTube channel. Their audience comes for the renovation videos and stays for the slow burn romance.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“Spray painting is so fast! It’ll only take me like twenty minutes to paint this little cabinet.” —me, an hour ago One day, I’ll remember that the prep work for painting takes nine million years longer than the actual painting part

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Why do we still not have bluesky polls? I need them!

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s very validating to have someone cover my job for a week, and then come back to them saying “holy shit, how do you get all this done?”

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m rereading Waiting for Spring and I am S U F F E R I N G I just want these two to talk! About their feelings! But I know they won’t! For a really long time! And I will continue to suffer!

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I scavenged two silly gold light fixtures from my brother’s house when he was going to toss them, and they have been sitting on my office floor for two years, and I finally painted and hung them. I’m so pleased with how they turned out in the darker color!

The before picture: A gold-painted light fixture hanging on a beige wall. The fixture is a tall thin pole mounted to the wall via two disks about a foot about on the too half. Between the two disks, a candelabra-style arm curves off the front, holding a big round Edison bulb.

The after picture: The same light fixture, now painted a slightly metallic brown, hanging on a dusky purple-brown wall

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You cannot claim something takes ten seconds when step one is “have a pot of boiling water” I am going to fight this random instructional youtube video

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Okay but why is it that going to a soccer game has made me want to reread a wangxian baseball fic? They are very different sports, brain, what are you doing?

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/01/2026

It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The new chapter of Wing Bones Touching has me crawling up the walls again, this fic is So Good!!!!

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I need someone to come hang out on my back porch to keep me company until I finish weeding

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Stormy and I went to a Poe speakeasy tonight, and the readings were so good, and now Stormy has new ideas for an Annabel Lee installment of their wangxian Poe series. I am making it my mission to get them to write it because I need it to exist so I can read it!

Photo of a card with an image of Edgar Allan Poe and the text:
The Return of Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy Part II
Four new stories and four new cocktails

Photo of a small stage covered in candles and lanterns, and lit with green stage lights. On one side of the stage there’s a chair in front of a writing desk. On the other side there’s another chair surrounded by books and candles.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

…just found a LWJ amnesia threadfic I’d completely forgotten writing. Apparently I’m way more into the amnesia trope than I realized

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m in high school, I guess? Don’t love that But if I only count the last book I chose to read for fun, then I work for the antimemetics division. I fear I won’t do well there, but at least it will be an interesting way to go…

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Juniors shenanigans college AU where all LSZ’s classmates think he’s having a torrid affair with Professor Wei, because people keep spotting them having suspiciously familiar interactions. LSZ’s friends launch a whole investigation to see if they need to rescue him from a predatory professor.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How soapy the outside of this package feels does not bode well

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I will always be sad that I moved out of the city too soon to experience having Mamdani as my mayor

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I always find it amusing when a modern AU Wen Ning is a kindergarten/elementary school teacher. I’m sorry, that man could not maintain order in a classroom. I have watched him being bullied by a gaggle of small children in the street.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I guess one silver lining of a travel day from hell is that I’m no longer sad about my trip ending because I’m so happy to have finally made it home.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It gives me so much joy that Stormy and I finished and posted this chapter of lighthouse fic from an operational lighthouse. If only we could write all our chapters at lighthouses from now on.

A photo taken from the water of a forty-foot-tall lighthouse next to a white lighthouse keeper’s house. In the foreground, rocks run along the shore of the island. In the background, the sun is setting over pine trees.

A forty-foot-tall lighthouse lit up on a foggy night. The fog is catching wide beams of light, which shoot out in every direction. The light looks teal in this photo, but in real life was green.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Chapter 10 is here! Brought to you from a week of writing sessions at an actual lighthouse! ghosts of all things that are ⚓️ a wangxian pirate AU ⚓️ (former) lighthouse keeper LWJ ⚓️ pirate captain WWX ⚓️ the inherent eroticism of the waltz

ghosts of all things that are

The shore was bare save for the black rocks worn smooth from the ocean’s beatings. But as Lan Wangji looked, he noticed an unfamiliar shape, a bundle of what might be wayward seaweed—except for the splash of red, vibrant and alarming and clear. He removed the spyglass from its case on the wall, extended its silver frame, and peered through to confirm what his rabbiting heart had already concluded.

[Lan Wangji lives a solitary life as a lighthouse keeper. One day, a pirate washes up on his shore.]

Teen
No Archive Warnings Apply
M/M

Fandoms: The Untamed, MDZS

Ship: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Characters: Wen Ning, Wen Qing, Luo Qingyang, Lan Xichen, Lan Qiren, Baoshan Sanren, Wen Yuan, Jiang Cheng, Jiang Yanli, Wen Chao, Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian

Additional Tags:
Alternate Universe - Pirate
Alternate Universe - Fantasy
Steampunk
Lighthouse Keeper LWJ
Pirate WWX
Slow Burn
Ghosts
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
Angst and Romance
Aftermath of Violence
Lots of plot
Mutual Pining
Eventual Declarations of Love
POV Alternating
Hurt/Comfort
Identity Porn
Canon-Typical Violence

Words: 51,827
Chapters: 10/13

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

*cue Pirates of the Caribbean theme* Something is coming soooooooon 👀

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I was planning to spend the first day of this writer’s retreat working on one of my many WIPs, but naturally I spent it starting a new fic instead. Oops

Wei Wuxian frowns. “Am I hurt?” A stupid question, probably. He’s in a hospital bed. Of course he’s hurt.
There’s a pressure—the guy clutching Wei Wuxian’s hand in both of his. He has been the whole time, Wei Wuxian thinks. It’s a little weird, maybe, a stranger holding his hand, but it’s also kind of comforting, so he doesn’t say anything.
“Your ankle is broken,” the guy says. “And you hit your head. It was—” The guy swallows convulsively. “Dr. Wen was worried about the swelling, but it has gone down now. Wei Ying. It’s been two days.”
“Oh.” This guy seems really upset. Like, more upset than you’d get about a stranger. And he knows Wei Wuxian’s name, and…well, he’s sitting here to begin with, isn’t he? He wouldn’t be sitting here if he were a stranger. “Sorry, um, I don’t… Um. We’ve met, I take it?”
The guy’s expression goes slack, his hands tensing on Wei Wuxian’s. They stare at each other in silence for one heartbeat, two, three, the beeping of the monitor seeming a little louder each time.
“You don’t know me?” the guy asks, voice tight.
“Sorry, no.”
“Wei Ying. What year is it?”
“Um. Twenty…thirteen?”
A muscle jumps in the guy’s jaw, and he releases Wei Wuxian’s hand. Silently, he presses the call button on the side of the bed.
“So…not twenty thirteen?”

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Stormy and I are about to leave for a week-long writer’s retreat in a lighthouse, and I am very excited! We’re gonna finish the next chapter of lighthouse fic at an actual operational lighthouse!

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

After Guanyin Temple, JC really thought they were done with horrifying new revelations about JGY’s unsavory activities. Everyone thought they were done. And yet.

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

……I keep telling myself I won’t bring another of my old unfinished threadfics over here until I finish at least one that’s currently in progress. But also……..what if I start posting my post-canon WQ lives threadfic?

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Recently overheard in my office kitchen: “…and his reward is to become human once in a while, and the prince is like ‘Oh…that’s my fish!’ And then there’s mpreg stuff.” Gotta love a workplace where people are chatting freely about fish danmei mpreg stuff

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Puck @gdnightsweetme.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

LWJ in highschool: I’m being bullied. …and it’s Wei Ying yelling hello to him every morning. Sometimes he waves, it’s the worst.

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truths 🌱 @bangtanagan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

the desire not so much to write as to roll around in the trappings of an au and imagine vague scenarios without the constraints of Narrative Structure

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Nat 🌻 @nat-draws.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Lan Zhan's secret hobby #mdzs

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I just want to be able to buy embroidery patterns made by humans. Is that too much to ask?

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

See, now reading that P&P thread has me thinking about my wangxian P&P AU again

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/05/2026

I like that Charlotte Brontë was basically telling a soapy saga about how the world is a hard and complicated place and sometimes Shit Happens, and Jane Austen is just like, “I’ve met the worst and simultaneously most boring people you can imagine. Hunker down, let me tell you all about them.”

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The fact that POS is also a business acronym brings me so much joy

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Larkspur 🪷 @larkspur-9.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I’m rereading A Blade by Your Side, and it remains my gold standard of arranged marriage AUs. I just love this fic so much! If you haven’t read it and you like arranged marriage and/or imperial court AUs, you should go read it now! And then yell about it with me! archiveofourown.org/works/573510...

A Blade By Your Side
athena_crikey

Summary:

In the end, it had been the Yiling Patriarch’s stratagems and his fierce fighting which had turned the tide of the war. He had killed both Wen Ruohan’s sons, and floored the traitor so that Meng Yao could strike the final blow. His status as the strongest warrior on the field had been undeniable.

Thus, the offer extended to him by the Lan court. Take his place as the Emperor’s consort, the only one permitted to lay hands upon the Emperor, the only one to share his bed with him while he sleeps, unaware and vulnerable. His last, best line of defense.

Or: Forced by his court to accept a consort, Lan Wangji is certain he has seen enough of the so-called Yiling Patriarch to know what he's getting: an uncouth ruffian. Slowly, he begins to realise that even an emperor's assumptions can be misplaced.

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