Within_the_Shadows
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Reaching for Sunlight by Within_the_Shadows
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
17 Dec 2024
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Twenty-two years ago, the Lan family joined forces with other Chinese-Canadian educators to establish the first bilingual Chinese-English university in Canada: Baifeng Shan.
Now Lan Wangji attends Baifeng Shan with the loud but lovable Wei Wuxian, who keeps him afloat while working as a don. Nie Huaisang is around, too, but after flunking out of school, he’s become an exhausted custodian with the thankless task of cleaning up after Wei Wuxian and the rowdy first-years under his and Lan Wangji's care.
Among the calmer students is Hua Cheng, a legally blind art student who is prone to self-isolation. When Wei Wuxian and Nie Huaisang draw him into their lives, he’s surprised to discover how desperate he is for friendship and care. He’s always walked a dark and lonely path, facing his trials alone, but now, while the road is still dim and covered in thorns, he slowly embraces the concept of found family and embarks on the long journey toward healing.
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Flames of Brilliance by Within_the_Shadows
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
29 Jun 2023
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Starting with his first encounter with Nerdanel, this fic follows adolescent Fëanáro up until the birth of Maitimo. Featuring Fëanáro's mood swings, the remarriage of Finwë, lampstones, Arafinwë being an emotional support baby, and some relationship drama.
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- Part 3 of The Result of Tinkering
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If the concentration of Light is related to quality of life, then it should control the burning of my fëa by Within_the_Shadows
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
12 Jan 2023
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After sending his children to Arafinwë's during a depressive episode, Fëanáro seeks to control his moods with the Light of the Trees.
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One potential explanation for the creation of the Silmarils and their significance to the Fëanárians.
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- Part 4 of The Result of Tinkering
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Children of Doom by LessSadAmbarussa, Within_the_Shadows
Fandoms: Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
02 Jan 2023
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The Fëanárians have been largely successful at avoiding human interaction in Beleriand, but when the Moriquendi and the Kumandrans - who fled to Beleriand after the Druun destroyed their homeland - demand a council to coordinate battle plans, they have no choice but to face the second-born Children of Eru that Morgoth claimed would cause their downfall. Naturally, angst and cultural confusion ensue, and everyone and their dog has an emotional breakdown as they attempt to find their way in a world fraught with peril, grief, and doom.
[AU where the Dragons are Valar (who refused to abandon Middle Earth to Morgoth), the Kumandrans are the Atani (who came into being a few hundred years before the rising of the Sun), and the breaking of the Dragon Gem happens five hundred years before Raya and Namaari are born.]
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The End of the Road by Within_the_Shadows
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Movies), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
26 Oct 2022
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At the end of the Third Age, during the War of the Ring, Galadriel finds herself reflecting on her similarities to Fëanor and what made them different.
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- Part 2 of The Result of Tinkering
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The Result of Tinkering by Within_the_Shadows
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings (Movies), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
29 Jun 2023
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A world where the Light of the Trees is assumed to have medicinal/life-giving properties and Míriel was captured and released by Morgoth, who tinkered with her mind in a way that would have devastating effects on Arda as a whole.
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To Be Loved by Within_the_Shadows
Fandom: Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
27 Sep 2022
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Fics about different kinds of love between characters (not just romantic and sexual).
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- 39,538
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RatLD from the perspective of a non-binary Namaari and others from the land of Fang, plus Sisu because it just kind of turned out that way.
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黑白棋落下的痕迹; traces left by qi pieces by yiqie for aubreyli
Fandoms: 大梦归离 | Fangs of Fortune (TV)
11 Dec 2024
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“Did you find him?”
“No.” Zhao Yuanzhou’s breath shook on the inhale. “But I think he awoke on his own. The grove is empty. He might have wandered into the Dahuang, so I’m going to look for him.”
“He had to wake now, of all times? Could he not stay put? He’s a damn tree.”
// Years after Zhao Yuanzhou returns, he, Zhuo Yichen, and a dormant Li Lun are known throughout the lands as the Old Guardian Demons, hunted by their lessers for cultivation purposes. Zhao Yuanzhou isn’t worried, because he’s hidden Li Lun in a safe place—until Li Lun wakes, and finds himself in a world that demands his blood.
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18 Dec 2024
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pei sijing jie ↦
Can I ask a question about Li Lun?
Feel free not to answer if you don’t feel comfortable.↤ xiao zhuo
I am ready to talk shit about that man at all times ask me anything// The Fangs of Fortune gang work at a law firm. To their horror, Zhao Yuanzhou's universally disliked ex that he can't stay away from is suddenly back in town.
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Noodle Shops and Little Brothers by detachedwanderer
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
19 Jan 2024
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Lan Wangji had detention. Lan Xichen felt the world tilting on its axis. His obedient, rule-following, little brother had detention. He hadn't even explained why. He'd just asked for Lan Xichen to pick him up from school at 6PM.
- Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue find solace in each other as they tackle the woes of raising their little brothers.
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29 Oct 2024
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'Til the Morning Light by the_empty_pen
Fandoms: 二哈和他的白猫师尊 - 肉包不吃肉 | The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat
23 Nov 2024
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Mo Ran has one goal at university and one goal only - fucking his professor. Okay, well, it's a little more complicated than that. Him and Chu Wanning have backstory, okay? So of course he would choose the university where Chu Wanning, the man who used to work at the orphanage Mo Ran lived in as a child, works these days.
He doesn't think that Chu Wanning remembers, and he might be a bit mad about that, but also just looking at him is kind of enough for him.
That's until he suddenly gets told that he's getting a new roommate some weeks into the semester, and when the door opens the next day, Chu Wanning is the one standing in it, having gotten kicked out of his flat for reasons he refuses to disclose (accidental bioterrorism).[standalone fic even if it's in a series; just the same AU as the other one]
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- Part 3 of We'll be more than a memory - verse
- Language:
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17 Sep 2024
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With an Equal Will by leonidskies
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
19 Nov 2021
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Xie Lian never expected to make connections as he wandered the world for centuries. Everyone who got too close would surely fall to his bad luck; all, it seemed, except one little boy.
Quan Yizhen was hungry, injured, and couldn't say no to a fight. Xie Lian couldn't bring himself to leave him to his fate. In intervening, he found himself catapulted into something far bigger and better than what he'd resigned himself to before.
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- Part 1 of Fate Can Change
- Language:
- English
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- 29,259
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- 4/4
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Bookmarked by Within_the_Shadows
01 Apr 2024