17 Works by Folderol
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The Serpent and the Songbird by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
24 Dec 2021
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Jin Guangyao is looking up again and grinning now, and he says, “And how does Nie Huaisang propose to protect me? With his saber?” He’s openly laughing at Nie Huaisang, and it fills Huaisang with a helpless, giddy fondness. Gentle Meng Yao, who flinches like a kicked dog at every low-level disciple, always with that polite strained smile, gets so vicious when he’s around Nie Huaisang. He’s like a bird with a broken wing. Nie Huaisang wants to tape him up and let him fly.
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Before Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli’s marriage and after Wei Wuxian’s flight to the burial mounds, Jin Guangyao is rapidly gaining power, which a strong marriage alliance would cement. Jin Guangyao likes taking care of people. Nie Huaisang wants to be a trophy husband. If you ignore literally everyone else in their lives, they’re a perfect couple. The first person that Nie Huaisang has to convince of this is Jin Guangyao.
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My roommate's a ghost ?!?!?! by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
22 Nov 2021
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"Hanguang-jun is a humanoid figure that has been seen by multiple people in either the library or the central room of the compound, the Jingshi. In appearance, he’s a male between his 20s and mid 30s, frequently seen wearing long white robes, with a silver circlet around his forehead.”
“White robes? Now that’s your classic ghost.”
"Like - like he wouldn’t be as good of a ghost if he were wearing sweats, is that what you’re saying?”
“Yeah exactly! You’re a ghost, you gotta, you gotta wear long sheets and go ‘oooo.’ Have some standards.”
“Hanguang-jun is primarily found between the hours of 5am to 8pm, but accounts from locals have described being violently accosted after hours if they’re carrying alcohol.”
“-Okay, okay, hang on. So this is a library ghost that has a curfew and hates teen drinking? Are we sure it’s not just a mean old man? Are we sure its not my brother?”
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Ghost believer Nie Huaisang is on a mission to convince his best friend and staunch skeptic, Wei Wuxian, of the existence of ghosts in their hit documentary series Buzzfeed Untamed. The next stop? The mysteriously destroyed Cloud Recesses.
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Flower Gazing by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
10 Aug 2021
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In the evening they will be rivals. Nie Mingjue is there to defend a trade agreement, one where either Gusu or Qinghe will prove the loser, and they will both fight for what is due to their own. They are each bound by duty to their sects, and bound to each other by their recognition of that duty, and so there is a pleasure even in the fight, and in the losing, to know that they are each acting exactly as they ought.
But that is in the evening. Now, Nie Mingjue has arrived early to Gusu, even though he has made the journey on many occasions and cannot claim that he simply misjudged the time. It is the same way that Lan Xichen carves out extra time before business when he travels to Qinghe, knowing that waiting there for him are hushed hours with Mingjue, where he does not have to carry all of Gusu into his private chambers.
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the landscape after cruelty, which is, of course, a garden by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
29 Jun 2021
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To his credit, Wei Wuxian looks a little abashed, holding his palms up to the bed. “Ah, many apologies, Wen-gongzi,” he says, bowing twice, “I hope this one hasn’t disturbed your rest.” From anyone else, the theatrics would be mockery. From Wei Wuxian, who the world casts in whatever role diminishes him most - servant, young master, upstart, hero - it is as close to honesty as he ever comes.
“If you’re not going to be useful, you can just leave,” says Wen Qing, folding her arms sourly, and turning her face away to hide her traitorously fond smile.
Some snapshots from the Burial Mounds days
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Make Me A Match by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
09 Jun 2021
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The cafe that the matchmaker had sent Jiang Cheng to was one of those sleek Tribeca joints that listed the same dishes as all the others of its kind, but with the sort of breathless thrill that implied that they had personally discovered the existence of roasted bell peppers. It’s aggressively modern and aggressively Caucasian, in a way that had made the choice of location feel intentional, like the aunties were trying to distance themselves from the old-world stain of arranged matches. Aunt Jingfei, Jiang Cheng’s mother’s second cousin’s wife’s friend who brokered the arrangement, had said “just like Bumble!” more than once, and laughed the same tinkling laugh every time. Jiang Cheng’s shirt is too small, his knees are bumping against the underside of the table, and a hot, miserable bead of sweat is wending its torturous way down his collar. He checks the clock again. His date - Immanuel: short, body type: slender, likes: music - is five minutes late, which is probably normal. Wei Wuxian would be five minutes late to a date. Or thirty minutes. If his date is in any way like Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng is going to crawl into the ocean and die there, like a lonely, celibate crab.
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"I'm Wei Wuxian, of course, we spoke before," Wei Wuxian adds. Meng Yao takes a second to look him over, the fine-boned features, the short stature. Long lashes casting spidery shadows on his rounded cheeks. Pretty, he finds himself filing away, absently. They’d communicated in texts before this, but this is the first time that they’re meeting face to face.
Meng Yao ducks his head. “An independent fine art appraiser, Mr. Wei,” he says, carefully humble. Polite to a fault. “Registered art certifiers have ARRT certification. And I appraise, not authenticate, although I can put you in touch with one of my contacts.” He focuses on radiating honesty to the point of pedanticism. “My name’s Jin Yao.”
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Three Can Keep A Secret (If Two Of Them Are Dead) by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
30 Oct 2020
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“I could ask Xichen instead,” says Meng Yao, annoyed, and winces. He’s definitely off his game.
“Lan Xichen will tell you to hug it out,” Nie Huaisang points out, “that’s why you didn’t call him, you called me: your meanest friend. Now tell didi what happened.”
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Meng Yao's Day Off
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“A-Ying, look at this!” she says brightly, and draws her fingertip down one of the long soup bones she’s set aside. They bleach white under her touch.
His eyes widen and he scrambles off the stool, decorum forgotten. “Wow,” he breathes, his eyes wide. “Where did the blood go?”
Jiang Yanli smiles helplessly and shakes her head. “I don’t know, I never thought about it,” she replies, a little ashamed. And what would be the point? You don’t win wars or found sects with what she can do. Sparkles for children and soup at the ready: all she does is the small, invisible magic of ease.
A life in small magics.
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Little Bird by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
14 Oct 2020
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“Inducing a qi deviation, really, A-Yao?” Nie Huaisang says, twisting his wrist to unveil one corner of his lifted mouth. Jin Guangyao jolts through his entire body and quickly gazes at the floor, but not before Nie Huaisang catches an upswell of panic widening his deer-soft eyes. Really, this is the most fun that Nie Huaisang has had in ages. If it weren't for the whole attempted murder debacle, he’d thank him. “And me, known never to lift a saber except to prune branches? What were you thinking? This is worse than the time with the captain.”
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Nie Huaisang, Sect Leader of the Nie and Nie Mingjue's best big brother, has a chat with his San-di.
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Lan Zhan stares at her, confused as ever by worldly matters, and Wei Ying thinks about the way that Wen Qing searches for her brother whenever he’s out of her sight, as if he is always in danger of being snatched away if she ever turned her gaze. What would she not do for her brother? What would he not do for Lan Wangji?
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In another world, Lan Qiren takes in the child of an old friend. Wei Ying is still Wei Ying.
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There was a king who had three sons of blood, and each carried a different name. The first was surnamed Jin, and he was straight and proud and tall, and he was the father’s favorite son. The second was surnamed Meng, and he was crooked and clever and smiling, and he was the father’s second favorite son by default. And the last was surnamed Mo, and he wasn’t anything or loved most by anyone at all, for now.
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“Ah, my mistake!” Nie Huaisang chirps. “You know your father has so many bastards, it’s so hard to tell which ones have been legitimized or not!” He pauses for long enough that Jin Guangyao’s cheeks must be aching to hold up that incredibly fake smile. “Oh… I’m sorry San-ge, obviously I didn’t mean...” he lets his sentence trail off into the paranoid recesses of Jin Guangyao’s hind brain.
“No apologies necessary, little brother,” Jin Guangyao grits out. “We were fortunate enough to recently expand the family.”
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5 times Nie Huaisang ruined Jin Guangyao's day, and one time Jin Guangyao ruined his.
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Pain Makes A Noise by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
29 Sep 2020
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The walk to the Back Mountain is peaceful in the hazy dawn light. No disciple comes up to them, but Lan Xichen still memorizes each silhouette as he walks by. At home, he was never truly alone. He lived across from his uncle, and there were always sect matters being brought to him, no matter the hour of day or night. When he had the chance for a night hunt, he was surrounded by disciples. Outside the Cloud Recesses, he was alert, constantly, to his status as the figurehead of the Lan, constantly watched for any slip-ups that could be used against them.
For the first time since he was a child, Lan Xichen is going to be truly alone.
He's primarily relieved. It is a guilty realization.
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Lan Xichen goes into seclusion. If only Wei Wuxian had heard of the word.
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Brimstone in The Garden, Roses Set On Fire by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
14 Sep 2020
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Jiang Cheng's loyalty has always been evenly split between his sect and his family. Recent events have shifted the balance.
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Oh My Brothers, Lost and Scattered by Folderol
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
21 Aug 2020
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“I”m sorry,” says Jiang Cheng, and now he’s smiling, teeth bared widely like an animal in pain, “It seems like the First Jade of Lan can’t countenance the sacrifice of a brother!”
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Lan Xichen, newly orphaned Sect Leader, tries to save his brother.
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Terezi and Aradiabot's noir adventures!!
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Adventures in the dreambubbles, or, Terezi reunites with a friend.