August 2024 Fanfic Recs

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Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in August:

MDZS/CQL Fic Recs

A very cute epistolary fic. Thanks to spatz for the rec!

cookin' up a storm, piece of cake, Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, 9k, general audiences

yiling_patriarch: first time making a cake with alcohol! it’s still in the oven but it smells great so far
↳ Gusu Lan Kitchen: There is no alcohol listed in the ingredients for this recipe.
yiling_patriarch: i didn’t have any oranges or orange juice so i replaced those with a can of orange sparkling margarita! tasted super weird [★★☆☆☆]
↳ Gusu Lan Kitchen: Are you being deliberately obtuse?

OR: life is tough for baker!lwj when online troll!wwx won't stop commenting on his recipe blog

A fun modern-with-magic AU. Thanks to donutsweeper for this rec!

Roadside Attractions, Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, 10k, teen

According to Lan Wangji, Yiling has two main items of interest. First, there is a supposedly demonic cultivator who a) may not exist and b) if he does, is keeping the town remarkably safe and not demonic. Secondly, there is Wei Ying, a man he is falling in love with.

These are definitely two separate things.

Beyond Evil Fic Recs

Lovely post-canon domesticity

the years of my life, Lee Dongsik/Han Juwon, 11k, explicit

“We’ll be out of here in less than two days,” Dongsik said from behind him, amused. “Is our impressive Inspector Han too scared to sleep in a house with a couple dead bugs in it?”

“Despite your age, I honestly doubt your spine has become so fragile that it renders you incapable of cleaning up a few dead insects in the next ten minutes, Lee Dongsik-ssi.”

Dongsik barked a laugh. “This brat. Just you wait—in another decade I’ll be senile and you won’t have the heart to make jokes like that anymore.”

“Fifty-three is not senile,” Joowon pointed out.

Joowon returns to Manyang to stay.

Singin' in the Rain Fic Recs

A delightful post-movie getting together fic, thanks to spatz for this rec, too!

Ready To Love, Don Lockwood/Kathy Selden/Cosmo Brown, 12k, teen

Don and Kathy would move in together. They would have a dog or two and then inevitably, a small parade of adorable little brats who would call him Uncle Cosmo, and they would spend less and less time with him, not on purpose but busy with the rest of their lives, and ultimately Cosmo would learn to make his peace with it because he’d have no other choice and he would have to try to move on and not live too much in his memories. He could picture it so clearly, he figured if the songwriting gig with Monumental didn’t pan out, he could always return to the backwater circuit with a new act: The Amazing Cosmo of the Cosmos—ladies and gentlemen, he sees the future, he reads the stars, he silently pines for his best married pal and all the while tap dancing!

Don and Kathy inviting him along on their honeymoon, though—that part was a surprise.

Happy reading!