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@soph-sol.bsky.social
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here I guess. they/them. fandom and books and birds. tgcf/mdzs/svsss are my jam! @soph_sol@federatedfandom.net on fedi, sophia_sol on ao3 and dw personal website: aviansoph.com

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welcome to the glennaissance @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
my opinion about the Quad Debate is basically, if someone is able to skate well with good skating skills, strong spins and stsq and performance ability, AND land clean quads, then of course they should score higher than someone without quads, they're doing more difficult content. BUT—
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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Eight Days is a fantastic, Hugo-winning podcast, & this episode features me as special guest! Becca and Emily are the smartest people around, & kindly invited me to talk about my fave, The Lives of Christopher Chant, & also bureaucracy, & colonisation of mind, & a bit about cricket. do check it out.
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
literally I had this image screenshotted to be able to send to my partner lol
screenshot of an instagram post which says "Imagine dating me because you think I'm cool then BOOM it'n 83 texts in a row all about BIRDS"
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worm / the wussy 🔞 @softandworm.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Speaking of SVSSS extras!! Here's an EDITED and TRANSLATED version of the new SVSSS short by Jin. New sections will be added as it gets translated. This was shared with permission (thank you @teamune on discord!!)❤️ just wanted to spread the word! docs.google.com/document/d/1... #svsssspoilers
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System-Enslaved to Translate for Tea (a.k.a. Tea before my deadlines, svsss extras over my essay)
T/N: translating one chapter a day… Progress: Part 1: Reality! 一、现代! Part 2: Binghe! 二、冰河! Part 3: Daily Life! 三、日常! Part 4: Proud Immortal! 四、狂傲! Part 5: Meeting! 五、开会! Part 6: Origin! 六、起源! Part 7: ...
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cally again @callowyn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
because to bingzu, /that wouldn't be him./ a child named luo binghe, no matter how pitiful his childhood, would not be the person bingzu wanted to save without going through the endless abyss. that's why it's a fixed plot point. because without that ordeal to shape him, it's not really binghe.
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
when you're a birder in autumn, you spend a lot of time having your eye caught by falling leaves, bc some of them look a lot like a bird in flight, then being disappointed but I've grown to kind of enjoy it? bc it means I spend far more time admiring the beauty of a leaf drifting in the air!
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bingge meowmeowifier @kitschlet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
it just occurred to me to repost this here since i deleted twitter, so anyway it's kinda like this
a graph where the Y-axis is labeled "HAS their shit together" to "DOES NOT HAVE their shit together," and the X-axis is labeled "SEEMS like they have their shit together" to "seems like they DO NOT HAVE their shit together." there is a picture of xie lian in the quadrant for "has their shit together/seems like they do not have their shit together", and hua cheng in the quadrant for "seems like they have their shit together/does not have their shit together"this one has lan wangji in the quadrant for "has their shit together/seems like they do not have their shit together" and wei wuxian in the quadrant for "seems like they do not have their shit together/does not have their shit together"luo binghe and shen qingqiu are together in the "seems like they do not have their shit together/does not have their shit together" quadrant
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
welp that was an unintentionally long break from bsky. what'd I miss?
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AARD @obviouslyaard.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
start using "fanworks" again instead of "content" let's go people
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bingge meowmeowifier @kitschlet.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
hua cheng and luo binghe are handshake meme on being like "you didn't respond to my last text for twenty minutes and i just want to make sure we're okay." lan wangji isn't like that bc wwx has never once taken twenty minutes to respond to his text
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Furthest I've been: North: Gdańsk, Poland South: somewhere along the south shore of South Africa, further south than Cape of Good Hope, but I don't recall our exact route East: Taipei, Taiwan West: on the waters off the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
#Rec #VidRec #DungeonMeshi #Farcille Time in a Bottle, by aguntoaknifefight ao3.org/works/61999351 ➜ dunmeshi vid, Marcille's pov on Falin ➜ gorgeous achy-sweet vid; slow but never tedious, as it brings out their bond ➜ Length: 2:30 ➜ Music: Time in a Bottle, Jim Croce. No other audio mixed in
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[fanvid] Time in a Bottle - aguntoaknifefight (swirlingvoid) - ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon [Archive of Our Own]
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
#Rec #VidRec #Climbing [vid] Wanna Be Her, by suzanne_f ao3.org/works/62675200 ➜ vid about women's rock climbing & bouldering ➜ such good energy and excellent editing! ➜ Length: 2:33 ➜ Music: "Boys Wanna Be Her" by Peaches. No other audio mixed in.
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[vid] Wanna Be Her - suzanne_f - Climbing - Fandom [Archive of Our Own]
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
#Rec #FicRec #NirvanaInFire #NiF meanwhile the world goes on, by Nemainofthewater ao3.org/works/65708527 ➜ short post-canon NiF fic ➜ Jingyan and Lin Chen drink & talk about Mei Changsu ➜ I love their complexities of grief, and their previous mutual envy/dislike ➜ I LOVE THEMMMM ➜ 2k words
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Betty @bettytheteapot.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
@eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social I wonder if the Wizard Howl is DWJ taking a second try at the Chrestomanci type, like, "I don't think you all are properly appreciating how ridiculous this man is. I need you to really appreciate it."
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Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net · 02/08/2025
My favourite thing I learned for this episode is that DWJ had a mental image for Howl and it was Andre Agassi. 1980s Andre Agassi with the blond mullet and the tiny shorts. PLEASE look up photos you will not be disappointed.
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shrimps 💪🍤 @shrimpchipsss.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
wife.. #svsss
a dim greyscale drawing of bingqiu with shen qingqiu straddling binghe's lap and pulling down his lower lip. shen qingqiu's face is mostly hidden by his hair and binghe is staring at him with starry eyes and his hands around his waist
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shrimps 💪🍤 @shrimpchipsss.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I AM HOLDING A FANART RAFFLE and i will match the first $100 donate for a chance to make me draw whatever you want* see form for details: forms.gle/zk8t3bP8YKCJ...
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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"Lots Of Starlings Keep Stuff Safe" -- my very funny wife @epbirdsall.bsky.social who has heard me give the basic digipres spiel far too many times
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"the personal is political" yes and it's amazing how many opinions I came up with that I'm not adding to that thread because it's connected to something that is politicised in some way or another. hell, even the ones I AM posting, most of them I could connect to politics in some way!
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
yes let's do this
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
8 days of dwj released their episode about fire and hemlock today, and I finally understand why people talk about that one as being her magnum opus. and also why I bounced off it the one time I tried to read it, when I was a kid! I think it was actually even a dnf for me.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Really like this project by Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek. Titled Exactitudes, it's a series of portraits stretching back 20 years that shows how people style themselves to signal they're part of a group and unique individuals within that group. exactitudes.com
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
#Rec #StoryRec #Novelette His Greatest Adversary Yet, by architeuthis ao3.org/works/29080227 ➜ original m/m novelette about a guy who got into supervillainy as a post-retirement hobby [1/3]
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His Greatest Adversary Yet - architeuthis - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
one sees lightning bugs and one doesn't NEED to believe in magic, because our natural world is astonishingly marvelous just as it is 🥹
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
if you're intrigued by making a free neocities site or the like, but have felt intimidated to try, I'd def recommend this resource!! having your own website is SO fun and rewarding, and easier than you might think! htmlforpeople.com
htmlforpeople.com
HTML for People
HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
#Rec #FicRec #TGCF #hualian swallow my fable (that I was not enough) by darkestmagic ao3.org/works/67197469 ➜ post-canon xie lian wakes up in the past; hua cheng hasn't yet met him the 3rd time ➜ I love this xl & hc, what their priorities are & reactions to things would be ➜ a great fic ➜ 5k
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I wish more sff short fiction publishers gave story summaries, so I can know the kind of story to expect! - Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies: On the story page, nothing. On the issue page, a brief quote, prob intended to provide the flavour, but the chosen excerpts tell me nothing [1/3]
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stoner werewolf @crowkids.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
both tgcf and mdzs are stories with protagonists with compromised agency, bound by social obligations and/or manipulated by forces they cannot control. scum villain is the story of a guy who makes a lot of decisions while yelling I'M NOT THE ONE DECIDING TO DO THIS
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
#Rec #FicRec #Transformers Reap the Whirlwind by @rolameny.bsky.social ao3.org/works/65492404 ➜ fun little sex pollen MegOp fic ➜ so delightful! I was grinning to myself throughout. the pacing, humour, fun little details, the familiarity these two clearly have w/ each other...a great time ➜ 3k
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New Session | Archive of Our Own
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
#Rec #FicRec #SVSSS #Liubingqiu Putting the 'Hit' in 'Hit On' by Prudabaga ao3.org/works/55307680 ➜ post-canon liubingqiu fic ➜love the light tone, with great moments of humour, as lqg integrates into bingqiu's life and lbh develops an interest without realising ➜ a fast, fun, cute read ➜ 4k
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Putting the 'Hit' in 'Hit On' - Prudabaga - 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
#Rec #FicRec #NIF Liberties by Isagel ao3.org/works/58185811 ➜ mcs/jingyan fic: missing scene, before identity reveals ➜ neither can sleep one night and they have sex ➜ I love how jingyan keeps being reminded of lin shu...how much his connection with mcs makes jingyan think of lin shu [1/2]
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Liberties - Isagel - 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
#Rec #FicRec A Faster Method, by acernor ao3.org/works/66670696 ➜ I don't know the fandom, but had fun with this fic! ➜ The Yin Yang Master, Boya/Qingming ➜ modern au w/ powers, at a cultivator conference. Qingming inveigles his way into sharing a room with Boya and sex pollen ensues [1/2]
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A Faster Method - acernor - 阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master (Movies - Guo Jingming) [Archive of Our Own]
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
#Rec #StoryRec #Novelette The Name Ziya, by Wen-yi Lee reactormag.com/the-name-ziy... ➜ fantasy novelette about a young woman (Ziya) from the edge of empire ➜ when Ziya is offered a chance to attend a prestigious university in the heart of empire, what is she willing to sacrifice for it? [1/3]
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The Name Ziya - Reactor
A girl reckons with what she must lose--and who she has become--in order to be accepted at the empire's most prestigious university.
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Aster Glenn Gray @asterglenngray.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Hear ye, hear ye! The annual Aster Glenn Gray birthday sale has begun! My birthday is not until July 2nd, and the books will remain on sale through July 4th. Which books, you ask? This year I was feeling indecisive, so it's ALL of my books. I plan to raise prices after the sale, so buy now!
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
#Rec #StoryRec #ShortStory Five Things You Can See, by Nadia Radovich strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi... ➜ short story about time travel and family and trauma and the impending doom of an apocalyptic future [1/2]
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Five Things You Can See
You saw her for the first time at your front door, like she wanted to sell you something or convert you. She had light hair and dark eyes, and she was wearing fatigues, which was the only way you k…
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
#Rec #FicRec #SVSSS #Qijiu Poppy Dream Spider Demon, by Minutia_R ao3.org/works/63161782 ➜ YQY is ensnared in a dream-trap; original SQQ goes in after him ➜ as the tags say: "you can lead these idiots to a contrived plot device but you can't make them communicate" ➜ it's so THEM <3 ➜ 1k
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Poppy Dream Spider Demon - Minutia_R - 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]
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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A series of giveaways on my books for June, my least fave month of the year! firstly, You Are Here: Ten More Stories, my second short story collection, full of spaceships, ghosts, and also romcoms and queers. If you'd like to win one, repost this and I'll pick a winner at the weekend.
Book cover: text, YOU ARE HERE: NINE MORE STORIES, IONA DATT SHARMA, on illustration of grim South Asian woman with greying hair, orange hair scarf and shoulder tattoo of a violet, holding a floating Earth Blurb text: It is not a sin, to love a wild thing…

A witch falls out of the sky; a dragon joins the resistance; a smuggler of magical trifles loves a girl she can’t have. A spaceship lights up for Diwali; an arch in the woods leads to wonders; and in a small community in lunar orbit, for no reason understandable by normal people, romance has been abolished. 

Here are nine more stories, of hope and passion, grief and bureaucracy, and how you can’t go home again but it doesn’t mean you’ll never be found.

(In a white room, full of ghosts, a woman cries and will never be found.)

You Are Here is a follow-up to the author’s first collection of short fiction, Not For Use In Navigation (2019). This new volume collects eight more stories, plus an exclusive previously unpublished novella, Wish You Were Here. Published 1 January 2025.
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
#Rec #StoryRec #ShortStory The Gulmohar of Mehranpur, by Amal Singh reactormag.com/the-gulmohar... ➜ The Nawab of a small district in India is old, his favourite tree is dying, his district ailing. Then a man arrives who says he can cook a dish that will provide eternal youth. [1/2]
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The Gulmohar of Mehranpur - Reactor
In the small city of Mehranpur, the Nawab suspects there may be a connection between the slow wasting of a beloved tree and the fate of the city itself.
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
#Rec #FicRec #TGCF #Hualian quite the catch by scrapimmortal ao3.org/works/61427593 ➜ cute fic about an alternate 3rd meeting for hualian ➜ I love how Hua Cheng reacts; it's so him <3 ➜ also: look at this delightful fanart of a fun moment in the fic! alyona11.tumblr.com/post/7773881... ➜ 4k
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quite the catch - scrapimmortal - 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
#Rec #StoryRec #ShortStory If an Algorithm Can Cast a Shadow, by Claire Jia-Wen clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_06_25/ ➜ near-future scifi short story about a woman whose teenage son dies, and who buys a copy of her son's Digital Double to try to make sense of what happened ➜ 5k words
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If an Algorithm Can Cast a Shadow by Claire Jia-Wen
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
listening to the episode of the bird joy podcast that has Kojo Baidoo as a guest, and that guy truly does have an infectious joy about birds! it's a delight to hear
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I love this time of year with all the newly fledged birds flying around just the most awkwardly anyone's ever flown! they're so charming to see, as they try to figure out whether they should flee from a human on a bicycle, and if so, how and where!
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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
it's almost the solstice (17 hours of daylight!) so here is the reminder: Sing For The Coming of the Longest Night, the wintry weird-ancient magic poly novella I wrote with my lovely friend @krfabian.bsky.social (come for the atmosphere, stay for the jokes!) www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...
cover for Sing For The Coming - silver text on dark wintry background with sprig of hollyThe world you know is underneath the substance of another, with cracks in the firmament that let the light of its magic in…

Layla and Nat have nothing in common but their boyfriend – enigmatic, brilliant Meraud – and their deep mutual dislike. But when Meraud disappears after an ambitious magical experiment goes wrong, they may be the only ones who can follow the trail of cryptic clues that will bring him safely home.

To return Meraud to this world, the two of them will confront every obstacle: the magic of the wild unknowable, a friendly vicar who’s only concerned for their spiritual wellbeing, and even the Thames Water helpline. All of which would be doable, if only they didn’t have to do it *together*.

But the winter solstice is fast approaching – and once the year turns, Meraud will be lost forever. As buried secrets lead to unexpected revelations, Nat and Layla must find a way to overcome their differences before it’s too late.
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Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net · 21/06/2025
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: - listen I spent years thinking about Traditional British Boarding School Stories for my own purposes and then we read this book - I become incoherent with indignation about the American edition - my greatest ever DWJ insight: guys the Chrestomanci books are ABOUT CHRESTOMANCI
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
#Rec #FicRec #MDZS Disturbed Circulation, by acernor ao3.org/works/65913649 ➜ jiang cheng's core is acting up; nie mingjue assists ➜ much dramatic irony w/ things the reader knows but jc doesn't, & it's very 😭 (complimentary) ➜ 800 words ➜ (note: author tags it m/m, but imo it reads as gen)
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
#Rec #FicRec #SVSSS #Bingqiu Outdoor Cooking Life with Wolf, by The Feels Whale (miscellea) ao3.org/works/66498499 ➜ svsss bingqiu au, bingyuan flavour ➜ ft a shen yuan who's never been to pidw, and a bing-ge in search of a Kind Shizun of his own [1/2]
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Outdoor Cooking Life with Wolf - Chapter 1 - The Feels Whale (miscellea) - 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
#Rec #StoryRec #ShortStory When the Faerie King Toured the Human Realm, by Vanessa Fogg www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/when... ➜ a lovely and evocative fantasy short story with great use of pov ➜ a delicate balance of mysteriousness and of details to bring the story and world to life ➜ 3k
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When the Faerie King Toured the Human Realm - Lightspeed Magazine
When the Faerie King takes his tour of the human realm, he becomes---of course---a viral hit. The first posts and videos stream out from Shanghai, just after the New Year. He’s seen waiting patiently ...
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
#Rec #FicRec #TGCF #Hualian the god honest truth, by miuxiao ao3.org/works/65077936 ➜ post-canon hualian fic in which xie lian is affected by a truth curse ➜ a cute sweet fic about xie lian expressing all the things to his husband that he's usually too embarrassed to actually say! ➜ 12k words
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Soph @soph-sol.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
#Rec #FicRec #SVSSS #Tianxi make me your wife, by corduroyserpent ao3.org/works/62533915 ➜ such a fun little su xiyan/tianlang-jun fic! ➜ in which they swap clothes and engage in some gender play, and su xiyan is far more into the idea of tlj being her wife than she expected ➜ 1k
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New Session | Archive of Our Own
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