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WIP 2023 Submission

Story Title: "Bring Me Tomorrow/Stay With Me" @wipbigbang

Fandom: MDZS/ The Untamed

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34668886/chapters/86313907

Art: Poster is made by the amazing @kingstoken

Summary: "It hadn’t taken long for the word to make its way around the cultivation world. Wei Wuxian, the Yiling patriarch, the dark individual who had cast a shadow over the collective peace of mind of all the clans had been defeated.

It was true.

Captured, beaten, stripped of his legendary weapon, Chenqing, and currently held in the dungeons of Lotus pier, the very place that he used to call his home, it seemed his reign of terror was finally coming to a close."

An AU where Wei Wuxian is captured shortly after Jin Zixuan's death. Hearing his beloved sentenced to death Lan Wangji finally has the impetus to bear his heart and confess his true feelings to Wei Ying. But what happens when new love has no time? When everything you've held precious is shattered and scattered to the winds, how do you find the will to keep going? How do you even begin to conceive of tomorrow?

Warnings: Major Character Death, Non-Con, Rape--alluded to but not explicit, Torture, Grief, Panic Attack, 

Characters: Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, Jin Guangyao, Lan Xichen, Jiang Cheng, Nie Huisang, Jin Guangshan, Nie Mingjue, Lan Sizhui

Pairings: Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji, Jin Guangyao/Lan Xichen, Jin Guangyao/Nie Mingjue, Implied Xicheng

When I Started: Back in the middle of the pandemic during a manic depressive episode.

How I Lost My Shit: It was just taking super long man.

How I Finished My Shit: When this year’s @wipbigbang came up, I thought, it's now or never baybeee! Gotta get this done! It's finally done, can't believe it happened. This is my first ever original fic. I started it about four years ago in the peak of the pandemic. Things were rough and dark, those days and the years ahead would see a lot of depressive lows and horrible manic highs. But through that time my sister introduced me to The Untamed and MDZS became kind of a small beacon of light. Because of that story I suddenly found the will to create art, to write again after not having done so for years.

I'm still not sure exactly how or why this fic was written only that I enjoyed the journey of it and am glad to have finally been able to finish.

To those of you who were with me from the very beginning you have absolutely NO IDEA how much your kudos and kind words and spellchecks and feedback gave me hope and light through some ridiculously tough time. In the four years of working on this fic I've struggled with mental health, gotten a diagnosis for cyclothymia, been evicted twice, had to move back with my parents who are hoarders and live in a shack, move again, get married twice once in a different country. You guys stuck with me through it all and I thank each of you from the bottom of my heart for your readership and your eternal kindness. Once again thank you to everyone who was kind enough to kudos and comment. May the grass be ever green beneath you feet, may your lifetime be full of good and wonderful stories, those you hear, those you tell and those who you experience first hand.

All my love to you all.

The Loki season 2 finale was heartbreaking, but in such a good way. Loki made a big sacrifice and is alone, but there is still this undercurrent of hope under it all, like he has given them a chance, and the time, to figure out a solution.

Also, when I saw that all the timelines assembled to make the Norse tree of life I cried.

This season was so well done from beginning to end. I don't know where they go from here, but if any of it is even a little bit as good as this season was then I'm excited to see it.

Ship Sunday: Guillermo de la Cruz/Nandor

[ID: On the left is an image of Guillermo clasping his hands and looking slightly nervous, on the right is an image of Nandor looking towards the left at Guillermo, they are both outlined in white. The background is white with blue hearts and vampire lips. Text reads ‘Nandermo, Guillermo x Nandor, Ship Sunday’. The Fanlore logo is at the top just left of center. /End ID]

It's Ship Sunday and we're talking about your favorite vampire/familiar duo! Guillermo de la Cruz/Nandor, also known as Nandermo, is the slash pairing of Guillermo de la Cruz and Nandor the Relentless in the What We Do in the Shadows (TV) fandom.

Guillermo and Nandor’s relationship begins when the canonically gay young human goes to work for the secular vampire as his familiar. The pairing gained traction and popularity among fans thanks to the "odd couple" chemistry between Guillermo and Nandor. Popular tropes in fanworks include Hurt/Comfort, Pining, and Nandor's reluctance and sometimes outright refusal to turn Guillermo into a vampire.

Do you ship Nandermo? Feel free to read about the ship and contribute to its page on Fanlore!

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