athena_crikey
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· Oct 19
I write books! My urban fantasy series follows a police squad tasked with investigating cases related to the supernatural, while navigating prejudice and privilege. Secrets, mysteries, and magic abound. minerva-grey.com for more.
MDZS 8 tomorrow:
The line whips and shivers, and Lan Wangji realises that at the end of the cord the decoyed hook is intended to look like an insect landing on the water’s surface. Wei Wuxian manipulates it seemingly effortlessly, whipping it back and forth with long, smooth movements.
The line whips and shivers, and Lan Wangji realises that at the end of the cord the decoyed hook is intended to look like an insect landing on the water’s surface. Wei Wuxian manipulates it seemingly effortlessly, whipping it back and forth with long, smooth movements.
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
MDZS 8 tomorrow:
The line whips and shivers, and Lan Wangji realises that at the end of the cord the decoyed hook is intended to look like an insect landing on the water’s surface. Wei Wuxian manipulates it seemingly effortlessly, whipping it back and forth with long, smooth movements.
The line whips and shivers, and Lan Wangji realises that at the end of the cord the decoyed hook is intended to look like an insect landing on the water’s surface. Wei Wuxian manipulates it seemingly effortlessly, whipping it back and forth with long, smooth movements.
MDZS
“You called me a true friend,” says Lan Wangji, jaw stiff, the joint grinding against his ear. “Wei Ying. I have none truer. There is no one else I would do this for. Is that not enough?”
He knows without waiting what the answer will be, though.
“You called me a true friend,” says Lan Wangji, jaw stiff, the joint grinding against his ear. “Wei Ying. I have none truer. There is no one else I would do this for. Is that not enough?”
He knows without waiting what the answer will be, though.
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
MDZS
“You called me a true friend,” says Lan Wangji, jaw stiff, the joint grinding against his ear. “Wei Ying. I have none truer. There is no one else I would do this for. Is that not enough?”
He knows without waiting what the answer will be, though.
“You called me a true friend,” says Lan Wangji, jaw stiff, the joint grinding against his ear. “Wei Ying. I have none truer. There is no one else I would do this for. Is that not enough?”
He knows without waiting what the answer will be, though.
I cannot believe that the first PWP I wrote for this fandom is about cars. I know nothing about cars. I drive a sensible Honda sedan. I do not live in a desert.
MDZS (PWP): Baby You Can Drive My Car:
archiveofourown.org/works/74671761
MDZS (PWP): Baby You Can Drive My Car:
archiveofourown.org/works/74671761
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I cannot believe that the first PWP I wrote for this fandom is about cars. I know nothing about cars. I drive a sensible Honda sedan. I do not live in a desert.
MDZS (PWP): Baby You Can Drive My Car:
archiveofourown.org/works/74671761
MDZS (PWP): Baby You Can Drive My Car:
archiveofourown.org/works/74671761
MDZS 7: archiveofourown.org/works/738818...
They cannot ask their own wise men, Lan Wangji reflects, as they walk home along a muddy road. But they can ask the Yiling Laozu. They have nothing to lose.
And so the rumours spread. The Yiling Laozu has unnatural knowledge. The Yiling Laozu can help.
They cannot ask their own wise men, Lan Wangji reflects, as they walk home along a muddy road. But they can ask the Yiling Laozu. They have nothing to lose.
And so the rumours spread. The Yiling Laozu has unnatural knowledge. The Yiling Laozu can help.
Dying to Raise the Dead - Chapter 7 - athena_crikey - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
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November 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
MDZS 7: archiveofourown.org/works/738818...
They cannot ask their own wise men, Lan Wangji reflects, as they walk home along a muddy road. But they can ask the Yiling Laozu. They have nothing to lose.
And so the rumours spread. The Yiling Laozu has unnatural knowledge. The Yiling Laozu can help.
They cannot ask their own wise men, Lan Wangji reflects, as they walk home along a muddy road. But they can ask the Yiling Laozu. They have nothing to lose.
And so the rumours spread. The Yiling Laozu has unnatural knowledge. The Yiling Laozu can help.
MDZS 7 tomorrow:
So, while Wei Wuxian stares, shocked, he lifts a cup of wine to his lips and tosses it back. It burns on his tongue, in his throat. Licks and scrapes at him. He plunks the cup down on the wooden table, looking into the clear, shimmering liquid lining the bottom.
So, while Wei Wuxian stares, shocked, he lifts a cup of wine to his lips and tosses it back. It burns on his tongue, in his throat. Licks and scrapes at him. He plunks the cup down on the wooden table, looking into the clear, shimmering liquid lining the bottom.
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
MDZS 7 tomorrow:
So, while Wei Wuxian stares, shocked, he lifts a cup of wine to his lips and tosses it back. It burns on his tongue, in his throat. Licks and scrapes at him. He plunks the cup down on the wooden table, looking into the clear, shimmering liquid lining the bottom.
So, while Wei Wuxian stares, shocked, he lifts a cup of wine to his lips and tosses it back. It burns on his tongue, in his throat. Licks and scrapes at him. He plunks the cup down on the wooden table, looking into the clear, shimmering liquid lining the bottom.
MDZS 6: archiveofourown.org/works/738818...
“How can Hanguang-jun worry about one such as myself? I’m shu – surely beneath his notice,” he jokes.
“I notice,” he says, helplessly. Wei Wuxian beams up at him, as if the words were a gift, a long-withheld present.
“How can Hanguang-jun worry about one such as myself? I’m shu – surely beneath his notice,” he jokes.
“I notice,” he says, helplessly. Wei Wuxian beams up at him, as if the words were a gift, a long-withheld present.
Dying to Raise the Dead - Chapter 6 - athena_crikey - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
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November 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
MDZS 6: archiveofourown.org/works/738818...
“How can Hanguang-jun worry about one such as myself? I’m shu – surely beneath his notice,” he jokes.
“I notice,” he says, helplessly. Wei Wuxian beams up at him, as if the words were a gift, a long-withheld present.
“How can Hanguang-jun worry about one such as myself? I’m shu – surely beneath his notice,” he jokes.
“I notice,” he says, helplessly. Wei Wuxian beams up at him, as if the words were a gift, a long-withheld present.
MDZS ch 6 tomorrow:
Wei Wuxian sits up, now, putting down the hollow jug with a clink of pottery. “Fear? Lan Zhan – no. Nnno no no. I won’t ever harm you. Never. Or those I raise – them also. You have my word. Promise. My honour.”
Wei Wuxian sits up, now, putting down the hollow jug with a clink of pottery. “Fear? Lan Zhan – no. Nnno no no. I won’t ever harm you. Never. Or those I raise – them also. You have my word. Promise. My honour.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
MDZS ch 6 tomorrow:
Wei Wuxian sits up, now, putting down the hollow jug with a clink of pottery. “Fear? Lan Zhan – no. Nnno no no. I won’t ever harm you. Never. Or those I raise – them also. You have my word. Promise. My honour.”
Wei Wuxian sits up, now, putting down the hollow jug with a clink of pottery. “Fear? Lan Zhan – no. Nnno no no. I won’t ever harm you. Never. Or those I raise – them also. You have my word. Promise. My honour.”
MDZS 5: archiveofourown.org/works/738818...
Wei Wuxian smiles. “No. My apologies. Hanguang-jun, esteemed cultivator, precious and handsome gege. I will show you all due respect.” He bows over a mocking salute.
Lan Zhan looks down at him, his mouth soft. “Wei Ying is free to treat me as he would.”
Wei Wuxian smiles. “No. My apologies. Hanguang-jun, esteemed cultivator, precious and handsome gege. I will show you all due respect.” He bows over a mocking salute.
Lan Zhan looks down at him, his mouth soft. “Wei Ying is free to treat me as he would.”
Dying to Raise the Dead - Chapter 5 - athena_crikey - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
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November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
MDZS 5: archiveofourown.org/works/738818...
Wei Wuxian smiles. “No. My apologies. Hanguang-jun, esteemed cultivator, precious and handsome gege. I will show you all due respect.” He bows over a mocking salute.
Lan Zhan looks down at him, his mouth soft. “Wei Ying is free to treat me as he would.”
Wei Wuxian smiles. “No. My apologies. Hanguang-jun, esteemed cultivator, precious and handsome gege. I will show you all due respect.” He bows over a mocking salute.
Lan Zhan looks down at him, his mouth soft. “Wei Ying is free to treat me as he would.”
I always start chapters on a new page with the number and title...
Anyhoo, MDZS ch 5 up tomorrow...
Anyhoo, MDZS ch 5 up tomorrow...
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I always start chapters on a new page with the number and title...
Anyhoo, MDZS ch 5 up tomorrow...
Anyhoo, MDZS ch 5 up tomorrow...
MDZS...
Like this, he looks like the Yiling Laozu of legend, of nightmare. His purse lined with coins and curses, stitched together with screams.
And then he smiles at Lan Wangji, and he is just himself again.
Like this, he looks like the Yiling Laozu of legend, of nightmare. His purse lined with coins and curses, stitched together with screams.
And then he smiles at Lan Wangji, and he is just himself again.
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
MDZS...
Like this, he looks like the Yiling Laozu of legend, of nightmare. His purse lined with coins and curses, stitched together with screams.
And then he smiles at Lan Wangji, and he is just himself again.
Like this, he looks like the Yiling Laozu of legend, of nightmare. His purse lined with coins and curses, stitched together with screams.
And then he smiles at Lan Wangji, and he is just himself again.
MDZS...
"If Wei-gongzi can reduce that suffering, he will have earned his place here.”
Lan Wangji lifts his head, mulish. “He is not a salve, to be prescribed. The sects want his obedience. But he is not a dog to heel to their command.”
"If Wei-gongzi can reduce that suffering, he will have earned his place here.”
Lan Wangji lifts his head, mulish. “He is not a salve, to be prescribed. The sects want his obedience. But he is not a dog to heel to their command.”
November 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
MDZS...
"If Wei-gongzi can reduce that suffering, he will have earned his place here.”
Lan Wangji lifts his head, mulish. “He is not a salve, to be prescribed. The sects want his obedience. But he is not a dog to heel to their command.”
"If Wei-gongzi can reduce that suffering, he will have earned his place here.”
Lan Wangji lifts his head, mulish. “He is not a salve, to be prescribed. The sects want his obedience. But he is not a dog to heel to their command.”
MDZS: archiveofourown.org/works/738818...
In the coffin, something fidgets.
In the coffin, something moans.
In the coffin, something shakes, rattles, cries.
Wei Wuxian doesn’t move.
In the coffin, something fidgets.
In the coffin, something moans.
In the coffin, something shakes, rattles, cries.
Wei Wuxian doesn’t move.
Dying to Raise the Dead - Chapter 4 - athena_crikey - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
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November 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
MDZS: archiveofourown.org/works/738818...
In the coffin, something fidgets.
In the coffin, something moans.
In the coffin, something shakes, rattles, cries.
Wei Wuxian doesn’t move.
In the coffin, something fidgets.
In the coffin, something moans.
In the coffin, something shakes, rattles, cries.
Wei Wuxian doesn’t move.
Reposted by athena_crikey
Good news - That Which Lingers is in its final draft now. Pursuing various publication pathways - now it's a waiting game...
November 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Good news - That Which Lingers is in its final draft now. Pursuing various publication pathways - now it's a waiting game...
MDZS ch 4 tmr.
Lan Wangji wants to call out to him, now. To tell him he doesn’t have to do this, doesn’t have to be this. This evil, this darkness.
But he does. Because Lan Wangji, Hanguang-jun, Second Jade of Gusu, couldn’t find a single other way to bring him and his people home in one piece.
Lan Wangji wants to call out to him, now. To tell him he doesn’t have to do this, doesn’t have to be this. This evil, this darkness.
But he does. Because Lan Wangji, Hanguang-jun, Second Jade of Gusu, couldn’t find a single other way to bring him and his people home in one piece.
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
MDZS ch 4 tmr.
Lan Wangji wants to call out to him, now. To tell him he doesn’t have to do this, doesn’t have to be this. This evil, this darkness.
But he does. Because Lan Wangji, Hanguang-jun, Second Jade of Gusu, couldn’t find a single other way to bring him and his people home in one piece.
Lan Wangji wants to call out to him, now. To tell him he doesn’t have to do this, doesn’t have to be this. This evil, this darkness.
But he does. Because Lan Wangji, Hanguang-jun, Second Jade of Gusu, couldn’t find a single other way to bring him and his people home in one piece.
Has anyone else gotten weird AO3 guest account comment accusations of AI use? Received a strange one on a fic in a v small fandom that was well written but also bonkers...
(Subquery: is someone using AI to write ANTI AI comments??? XD)
(Subquery: is someone using AI to write ANTI AI comments??? XD)
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Has anyone else gotten weird AO3 guest account comment accusations of AI use? Received a strange one on a fic in a v small fandom that was well written but also bonkers...
(Subquery: is someone using AI to write ANTI AI comments??? XD)
(Subquery: is someone using AI to write ANTI AI comments??? XD)
MDZS Ch 3: archiveofourown.org/works/738818...
Lan Wangji looks back, lip curled mulishly. Wei Wuxian laughs, lighter this time.
“Lan Zhan, ah Lan Zhan. So offended on my behalf. Don’t be. Let’s go find another shop, and you can subject yourself to my bartering habits before I spend your money.”
Lan Wangji looks back, lip curled mulishly. Wei Wuxian laughs, lighter this time.
“Lan Zhan, ah Lan Zhan. So offended on my behalf. Don’t be. Let’s go find another shop, and you can subject yourself to my bartering habits before I spend your money.”
Dying to Raise the Dead - Chapter 3 - athena_crikey - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
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November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
MDZS Ch 3: archiveofourown.org/works/738818...
Lan Wangji looks back, lip curled mulishly. Wei Wuxian laughs, lighter this time.
“Lan Zhan, ah Lan Zhan. So offended on my behalf. Don’t be. Let’s go find another shop, and you can subject yourself to my bartering habits before I spend your money.”
Lan Wangji looks back, lip curled mulishly. Wei Wuxian laughs, lighter this time.
“Lan Zhan, ah Lan Zhan. So offended on my behalf. Don’t be. Let’s go find another shop, and you can subject yourself to my bartering habits before I spend your money.”
someone tagged their bookmark of Dying to Raise the Dead with "IDK length." You and me too, bro.
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
someone tagged their bookmark of Dying to Raise the Dead with "IDK length." You and me too, bro.
MDZS ch 3 tomorrow
“Lan Zhan. You can’t just offer things like that to a feckless youth such as myself. What if I take advantage of you? What if I exploit your generosity to buy mountains of silk, bushels of leather? Hm?”
“Not a concern,” says Lan Wangji.
“Lan Zhan. You can’t just offer things like that to a feckless youth such as myself. What if I take advantage of you? What if I exploit your generosity to buy mountains of silk, bushels of leather? Hm?”
“Not a concern,” says Lan Wangji.
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
MDZS ch 3 tomorrow
“Lan Zhan. You can’t just offer things like that to a feckless youth such as myself. What if I take advantage of you? What if I exploit your generosity to buy mountains of silk, bushels of leather? Hm?”
“Not a concern,” says Lan Wangji.
“Lan Zhan. You can’t just offer things like that to a feckless youth such as myself. What if I take advantage of you? What if I exploit your generosity to buy mountains of silk, bushels of leather? Hm?”
“Not a concern,” says Lan Wangji.
MDZS Ch 2: archiveofourown.org/works/738818...
“Lan Zhan tells me you want me to raise the dead. I have a hard time believing the cultivators who exiled me for my diabolical methods would be so accepting.”
Jin Guangshan straightens. “Like everything, Wei Wuxian, perfection lies in moderation."
“Lan Zhan tells me you want me to raise the dead. I have a hard time believing the cultivators who exiled me for my diabolical methods would be so accepting.”
Jin Guangshan straightens. “Like everything, Wei Wuxian, perfection lies in moderation."
Dying to Raise the Dead - Chapter 2 - athena_crikey - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
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November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
MDZS Ch 2: archiveofourown.org/works/738818...
“Lan Zhan tells me you want me to raise the dead. I have a hard time believing the cultivators who exiled me for my diabolical methods would be so accepting.”
Jin Guangshan straightens. “Like everything, Wei Wuxian, perfection lies in moderation."
“Lan Zhan tells me you want me to raise the dead. I have a hard time believing the cultivators who exiled me for my diabolical methods would be so accepting.”
Jin Guangshan straightens. “Like everything, Wei Wuxian, perfection lies in moderation."
MDZS Dying to Raise the Dead Chapter 1: archiveofourown.org/works/738818...
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
MDZS Dying to Raise the Dead Chapter 1: archiveofourown.org/works/738818...
MDZS Ch 1 up tomorrow. Canon divergence/fix-it/Burial Mounds era:
“Wei Ying. The sects have sent me to make an offer. If you accept, they will allow the Wen Remnants to go where they choose and resettle there, without harm or harassment.”
“Wei Ying. The sects have sent me to make an offer. If you accept, they will allow the Wen Remnants to go where they choose and resettle there, without harm or harassment.”
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
MDZS Ch 1 up tomorrow. Canon divergence/fix-it/Burial Mounds era:
“Wei Ying. The sects have sent me to make an offer. If you accept, they will allow the Wen Remnants to go where they choose and resettle there, without harm or harassment.”
“Wei Ying. The sects have sent me to make an offer. If you accept, they will allow the Wen Remnants to go where they choose and resettle there, without harm or harassment.”
MDZS:
Jin Guangshan straightens. "We will have no armies of fierce corpses, no walking undead to plague us. But when an innocent dies before their time, when proper petition is made to the sect leaders, we will turn to you. And you will oblige by making them whole – not a puppet, not a toy. Whole.”
Jin Guangshan straightens. "We will have no armies of fierce corpses, no walking undead to plague us. But when an innocent dies before their time, when proper petition is made to the sect leaders, we will turn to you. And you will oblige by making them whole – not a puppet, not a toy. Whole.”
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
MDZS:
Jin Guangshan straightens. "We will have no armies of fierce corpses, no walking undead to plague us. But when an innocent dies before their time, when proper petition is made to the sect leaders, we will turn to you. And you will oblige by making them whole – not a puppet, not a toy. Whole.”
Jin Guangshan straightens. "We will have no armies of fierce corpses, no walking undead to plague us. But when an innocent dies before their time, when proper petition is made to the sect leaders, we will turn to you. And you will oblige by making them whole – not a puppet, not a toy. Whole.”
MDZS:
“But who among us, I wonder, is willing to do it? Inviting the Yiling Laozu into our home is opening a doorway for the devil.”
In the silence of the room, Lan Wangji swallows.
“I will do it,” he says.
“But who among us, I wonder, is willing to do it? Inviting the Yiling Laozu into our home is opening a doorway for the devil.”
In the silence of the room, Lan Wangji swallows.
“I will do it,” he says.
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
MDZS:
“But who among us, I wonder, is willing to do it? Inviting the Yiling Laozu into our home is opening a doorway for the devil.”
In the silence of the room, Lan Wangji swallows.
“I will do it,” he says.
“But who among us, I wonder, is willing to do it? Inviting the Yiling Laozu into our home is opening a doorway for the devil.”
In the silence of the room, Lan Wangji swallows.
“I will do it,” he says.
MDZS:
They’re walking, Wei Wuxian refusing to ride his sword, or even carry it. Just a flute, his ghost magic and a pair of worn shoes. “Oh? And how far beyond? Lan Zhan, give a li and I’ll thieve a thousand,” he says. It’s meant to be a threat; it sounds to Lan Wangji like a promise.
They’re walking, Wei Wuxian refusing to ride his sword, or even carry it. Just a flute, his ghost magic and a pair of worn shoes. “Oh? And how far beyond? Lan Zhan, give a li and I’ll thieve a thousand,” he says. It’s meant to be a threat; it sounds to Lan Wangji like a promise.
November 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
MDZS:
They’re walking, Wei Wuxian refusing to ride his sword, or even carry it. Just a flute, his ghost magic and a pair of worn shoes. “Oh? And how far beyond? Lan Zhan, give a li and I’ll thieve a thousand,” he says. It’s meant to be a threat; it sounds to Lan Wangji like a promise.
They’re walking, Wei Wuxian refusing to ride his sword, or even carry it. Just a flute, his ghost magic and a pair of worn shoes. “Oh? And how far beyond? Lan Zhan, give a li and I’ll thieve a thousand,” he says. It’s meant to be a threat; it sounds to Lan Wangji like a promise.
Castlevania! archiveofourown.org/works/73573416
“I don’t think he can walk,” says a warm voice in his ear. He cranes his head to the side. He knows who this is. He does.
“Apparently not,” agrees Adrian. He gives a small, unimpressed sigh.
“Of course I can walk,” replies Trevor.
He can't.
“I don’t think he can walk,” says a warm voice in his ear. He cranes his head to the side. He knows who this is. He does.
“Apparently not,” agrees Adrian. He gives a small, unimpressed sigh.
“Of course I can walk,” replies Trevor.
He can't.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Castlevania! archiveofourown.org/works/73573416
“I don’t think he can walk,” says a warm voice in his ear. He cranes his head to the side. He knows who this is. He does.
“Apparently not,” agrees Adrian. He gives a small, unimpressed sigh.
“Of course I can walk,” replies Trevor.
He can't.
“I don’t think he can walk,” says a warm voice in his ear. He cranes his head to the side. He knows who this is. He does.
“Apparently not,” agrees Adrian. He gives a small, unimpressed sigh.
“Of course I can walk,” replies Trevor.
He can't.