#decrecs — Public Fediverse posts

Final #DecRecs round up on DW!

https://forestofglory.dreamwidth.org/371091.html

Today for #DecRecs I want to talk about rotating teapots.

These are really clever gadgets that work pretty much like a gaiwan but with less wrist action which is great for people like me who have hand problems! They also might be good if you find the whole gaiwan thing a bit intimating!

Here's a picture of one so you can see how it works better

For today's #DecRecs I want to share some of my favorite songs so far form the Chinese reality show Crush of Music which I'm part way through watching having just finished episode 4

I guess I can link this to the whole year in review theme of this year's #DecRecs by saying that this year I started a tumblr account -- I still don't understand tumblr culture so I just follow people I know and reblog pretty pictures

I had PT this morning and it wore me out so for #DecRecs have a pretty picture

https://www.tumblr.com/hisiheyah/794758124462637056/as-the-leaves-on-the-trees-change-with-the

Today for #DecRecs I want to talk about Saint Cavish a Chinese food youtube channel run by Christopher St. Cavish

https://www.youtube.com/@saintcavish

I'm always a little careful about media by white dudes about China but I was intrigued by the series of videos where Italian chefs visit "China's Noodle Homeland" -- which turned out to be really good! I've since watched a lot more of the channels videos

It's winter solstice here today so for #DecRecs I'm reccing "Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night" by Katherine Fabian and Iona Datt Sharma a solstice themed contemporary fantasy novella. I love it dearly!

#decrecs another feel good video recommendation to follow up the one i shared last night: "nosferatu dancing to lady ga ga" from 2009

i hope this random cosplayer is living their best life now 💅

https://youtu.be/YBNOkGsI47E

I keep getting distracted and not posting #DECRecs toda. So I think it's time for another of my favorite SFF shorts:

“Monkey King, Faerie Queen” by Zen Cho

It's exactly what you think is form the title and its amazing!

https://kaleidotrope.net/archives/spring-2015/monkey-king-faerie-queen-by-zen-cho/

#decrecs if you need something to make you feel good, watch this video of this guy dancing to the cha cha slide in a full suit of armor
https://youtu.be/T4fq8agjNqY

Help i got hired at a military academy despite not having appropriate credentials and then i had a weird fling with my supervisor (who used to distrust me) in a moment of shared emotional vulnerability, and that was probably a mistake because i then betrayed him and his entire family and now we¦re at war but i still kinda like him and want to give birth to his child?

Except told from the perspective of the supervisor, who is trying to deal with the fact that his sister is abusive and his daughter is smarter than him and more independent than he would like and his wife is long dead but he never got counselling for it, but maybe here is someone he can actually talk to as he tries to make sense of it all.

Or at least have sex with, to take his mind off all of the above.

Seteth 💋 Byleth♀
-in-
“Exit Strategy”
by kimikaami on A·O·3
#FireEmblem #ThreeHouses (#FE3H) #FicRecs #DecRecs

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75043156

Today is one of those days where I really wish I was capable of napping. But since that isn't going to work I'm planning on spending some time curled up on the sofa with an ereader full of fic an hopefully a cat on my lap

So for today's #DecRecs I want to rec one of my favorite fics ever "on a long journey" by twigofwillow

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29819775/chapters/73366473

For #DecRecs Day 17:

Bon Appétit's Street Eats video series! Experts show you how street food is cooked and then eat it! Much enthusiastic discussion of food and cooking!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKtIunYVkv_Q7ELnShlyIfKr1Vm3ZvTeJ

Seeing as I'm using #DecRecs to reflect on the past year I need to talk about crossdressing girl media! You know the trope where a girl has to dress as boy so that she can go do something she otherwise wouldn't be allowed to do? I love that! It's major comfort trope for me and I really leaned into it this year watching a bunch of dramas featuring this trope!

Today for #DecRecs I'm bring you My Kyoto a vid by Naye

A vid about Kyoto with various anime sources – about Naye’s experience living in and nostalgia for the city! It’s just lovely – the transitions! The landscapes! I don’t have any connection to Kyoto but this vid made me feel things about it.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66092002

Today for #DecRecs I bring you Project Greensleeves in which a team of historical craftspeople recreate the clothing form one of the earliest surviving versions of Greensleeves! It's so cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VVO0MLRrXQ

#decrecs Audiotube is a great app for streaming music for Linux! And you don't have to login to any platforms and have your data tracked or anything like that. You just search for music and it can load up single songs or start a radio station based on the song. You can save favorites, make playlists, link songs to people...basically all the stuff you have to pay for on most platforms

Check it out if you've been looking to cut the cord with any of your streaming services!

https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/audiotube

#DecRecs: ‘Impulse’ by Yosi Horikawa

Blog post: https://musicrecs.ladys.computer/yosi-horikawa-_impulse_-borrowed-scenery-2025

I'm enjoying how this year #DecRecs has been turning into a mini low stakes year in review project for me as I focus on reccing things I loved this year.

And this year I have watched a lot of chinese reality show so today I want to talk about The Truth season 3!

So I'm not sure how big the overlap of people who know about Mo Willems Pigeon books and Nirvana in Fire is -- but if you are in that group you owe it to yourself to read "Don't Let the Strategist Plan the Party" by @aegtx

200 words of pure delight!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67708406

#DecRecs

I've rounded up the last five days of #DecRecs and posted them to my DW

https://forestofglory.dreamwidth.org/370138.html

Today for #DecRecs I want to rec Intergalactic Mixtape! This a SFF newsletter that my friend Renay started this year! It's got links to interesting articles and reviews, smart thoughts and recs! It's joy to get it in my inbox every week!

https://buttondown.com/intergalacticmixtape

Since I just posted and annotated bibliography todays #DecRecs has to be Zotero!

Zotero is a free citation manager! It's great! I'm not an academic and am not writing papers for publication but I love it!

I have a lot of PDFs and they aren't always easy to sort through, but Zotero make it easy for me to find things! I can tag them and search.

I also love that I can drag and drop and Zotero will pick up any meta data!

Doing a little better today so I want to talk about my favorite drama I watched this year for #decRecs

Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung! It's a historical kdrama about a young woman who becomes a historian -- one of the people charged with writing down everything that happens in court for the historical record. It's so so good!

I'm still not feeling great today so another old favorite for #decRecs "The Witches of Athens" by Lara Elena Donnelly is one of my comfort reads. It's everything that I want cozy SFF to be. Featuring sisterhood, coffee shops, and queer romance

http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/the-witches-of-athens/

I am sick to day but I don't want to miss #DecRecs so you are getting an old favorite "Fandom for Robots" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad

It's a delightful short story featuring fandom, friendship and robot pals!

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/fandom-for-robots/

#DecRecs

"Missing Piece" by #VanceJoy

For a person I think about every day, and whom I miss more than I can express.

:youtube: https://youtu.be/atka_0TUTLM

Video filmed in Melbourne.

The answer has always been yes
✍️ fic by #Magnolia822

❄️ #TheUntamed #MoDaoZuShi
❄️ #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
❄️ 6k, Explicit
❄️ WY needs a place to stay
❄️ He stays in LZ's dorm room
❄️ Bed-sharing, pining, realisations, explorations
❄️ then boyfriends

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35672635

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #MDZS #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #NSFW #ModernAU #OnlyOneBed #CollegeAU #FriendsToLovers #Pining

The answer has always been yes
✍️ fic by #Magnolia822

❄️ #TheUntamed #MoDaoZuShi
❄️ #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
❄️ 6k, Explicit
❄️ WY needs a place to stay
❄️ He stays in LZ's dorm room
❄️ Bed-sharing, pining, realisations, explorations
❄️ then boyfriends

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35672635

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #MDZS #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #NSFW #ModernAU #OnlyOneBed #CollegeAU #FriendsToLovers #Pining

The answer has always been yes
✍️ fic by #Magnolia822

❄️ #TheUntamed #MoDaoZuShi
❄️ #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
❄️ 6k, Explicit
❄️ WY needs a place to stay
❄️ He stays in LZ's dorm room
❄️ Bed-sharing, pining, realisations, explorations
❄️ then boyfriends

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35672635

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #MDZS #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #NSFW #ModernAU #OnlyOneBed #CollegeAU #FriendsToLovers #Pining

The answer has always been yes
✍️ fic by #Magnolia822

❄️ #TheUntamed #MoDaoZuShi
❄️ #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
❄️ 6k, Explicit
❄️ WY needs a place to stay
❄️ He stays in LZ's dorm room
❄️ Bed-sharing, pining, realisations, explorations
❄️ then boyfriends

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35672635

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #MDZS #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #NSFW #ModernAU #OnlyOneBed #CollegeAU #FriendsToLovers #Pining

shoot your shot -- hot or knot
✍️ fic by #defractum

🚁 #MoDaoZuShi #MDZS
🚁 #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
🚁 51k, Explicit
🚁 Combo dating/survival show
🚁 Omega WWX wants money & fame
🚁 Alpha LWJ practises survival skills
🚁 Surprisingly cute, considering the murders

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35735026/chapters/89106760

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #NSFW #Omegaverse #ModernAU #RealityShowAU #DubiousConsent #GettingTogether

By Appointment Only
✍️ fic by #snickersnacker

🗓️ #TheUntamed #MoDaoZuShi
🗓️ #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
🗓️ 3k, Explicit
🗓️ WWX visits the Chief Cultivator's office to ask for help
🗓️ He's not getting enough attention from his husband
🗓️ The Chief Cultivator provides assistance

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21727012

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDSZFicRec #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #PostCanon #Roleplay #NSFW #DirtyTalk

Three Days and a Morning
✍️ fic by #snickersnacker

🛏️ #TheUntamed #MoDaoZuShi
🛏️ #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
🛏️ 14k, Explicit
🛏️ After WWX gets stabbed at Koi Tower
🛏️ Grown-up LWJ can sort out his own issues
🛏️ He knows what he wants, and is in no rush

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21682984

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #MDZS #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #NSFW #MissingScene #FirstTime #HurtComfort #OnlyOneBed #CanonCompliant

Three Days and a Morning
✍️ fic by #snickersnacker

🛏️ #TheUntamed #MoDaoZuShi
🛏️ #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
🛏️ 14k, Explicit
🛏️ After WWX gets stabbed at Koi Tower
🛏️ Grown-up LWJ can sort out his own issues
🛏️ He knows what he wants, and is in no rush

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21682984

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #MDZS #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #NSFW #MissingScene #FirstTime #HurtComfort #OnlyOneBed #CanonCompliant

Three Days and a Morning
✍️ fic by #snickersnacker

🛏️ #TheUntamed #MoDaoZuShi
🛏️ #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
🛏️ 14k, Explicit
🛏️ After WWX gets stabbed at Koi Tower
🛏️ Grown-up LWJ can sort out his own issues
🛏️ He knows what he wants, and is in no rush

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21682984

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #MDZS #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #NSFW #MissingScene #FirstTime #HurtComfort #OnlyOneBed #CanonCompliant

Three Days and a Morning
✍️ fic by #snickersnacker

🛏️ #TheUntamed #MoDaoZuShi
🛏️ #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
🛏️ 14k, Explicit
🛏️ After WWX gets stabbed at Koi Tower
🛏️ Grown-up LWJ can sort out his own issues
🛏️ He knows what he wants, and is in no rush

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21682984

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #MDZS #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #NSFW #MissingScene #FirstTime #HurtComfort #OnlyOneBed #CanonCompliant

Today I'm really struggling physically and mentally with my hand pain. So for #DecRecs I'm reccing "Elder, an Aesthetic" by MarbleGlove https://archiveofourown.org/works/40189629 (gen, #TheUntamed, 8k words)

This is a very soothing fic about learning to live with disability

#AO3 #FicRec #MDZSFicRec

I'll meet you coming backwards
✍️ fic by #ilip13

🎂 #MoDaoZuShi #TheUntamed
🎂 #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
🎂 15k, Explicit
🎂 LZ & his mama could travel through time
🎂 He wakes up on a future birthday to discover he has a husband
🎂 WY is easy to fall in love with

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36593974

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #MDZS #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #ModernAU #TimeTravel #NSFW

With Surgical Precision
✍️ fic by #metisket

⚕️ #TheUntamed
⚕️ #WenQing
⚕️ 20k, rated Teen
⚕️ Wen Qing time travels to just before Gusu Lan lectures
⚕️ She goes on a murder spree
⚕️ She sorts out the cultivation world
⚕️ She gives zero fucks

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36852556

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #WenQingFicRec #TimeTravel #FixIt

This House of Ill Repute
✍️ fic by #Jo_Lasalle

⛈️ #TheUntamed
⛈️ #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
⛈️ 14k, Mature
⛈️ To escape a storm, they stay the night in a brothel
⛈️ LWJ is a bit uncomfortable when he realises where they are
⛈️ WWX helps him chill

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21368890

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #NSFW #PostCanon #FirstTime #GettingTogether

This Time Around
✍️ fic by #KouriArashi

⏳ #TheUntamed
⏳ #NieHuaisang, #MengYao, #WeiWuxian
⏳ 83k, rated Teen
⏳ After NMJ's death, NHS travels back in time to kill small Meng Yao
⏳ It's not so easy
⏳ Oops accidental adoption
⏳ Badass NHS & his boys change the world

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36885619/chapters/92024302

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #TimeTravel #FixIt #KidFic #MoralAmbiguity

The Heart and All its Chambers
✍️ fic by #etymologyplayground

📞 #TGCF
📞 #HuaCheng / #XieLian
📞 19k, Explicit
📞 XL has never had an orgasm
📞 HC lends her some devices to help her learn how to masturbate
📞 XL can't quite figure them out so HC talks her through it on the phone
📞 Lesbians figure out that they can be girlfriends

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18994888

#DecRecs #FicRec #TGCFFicRec #HuaLianFicRec #HuaLian #Genderbend #NSFW #ModernAu #PhoneSex #Masturbation #GettingTogether

In Sleep, We
✍️ fic by #diamondbruise

🐘 #MDZS
🐘 #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
🐘 11k, Mature
🐘 LXC gives WY an incense burner
🐘 He has strange dreams of LZ
🐘 His dream LZ seems to be attracted to WY
🐘 The real LZ doesn't feel that way, right?

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38675790

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #NSFW #IncenseBurner #CanonDivergent #MutualPining #Misunderstandings

reports of my heterosexuality may have been exaggerated
✍️ fic by #sysrae

👠 #TheUntamed
👠 #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
👠 8k, Explicit
👠 LWJ the clueless straight boy
👠 Openly gay WY who likes drag
👠 LWJ has a Dramatic Awakening

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38781093/chapters/96970713

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #NSFW #ModernAU #CompHet #QueerAwakening #DragPerformers #GettingTogether #DemisexualCharacter #CollegeAU

Work in Tandem
✍️ fic by MimiSpearmint

🏂 #MDZS #TheUntamed
🏂 #LanZhan / #WeiYing
🏂 23k, Explicit
🏂 LZ wants disability-led sword-flying lessons for his son Sizhui
🏂 WY is the best instructor
🏂 Funny, sweet
🏂 Good depiction of disability
🏂 Good smut in final chapter, skippable if it's not your thing

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/40835463/chapters/102323688

#DecRecs #FicRec #MDZSFicRec #WangXianFicRec #WangXian #ModernAu #ModernCultivators #GettingTogether