staidwaters
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Workplace Challenges by staidwaters
Fandoms: 盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei, 나의 나라 | My Country: The New Age (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
24 Aug 2021
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Take a heaping handful of pseudo archeologist tomb explorers, add a couple of immortals, and stir well. Then sprinkle with a powerful and ancient god-artifact capable of time travel, an opinionated sword that was worshiped enough it developed a spirit, and enough hijinks to sink any team that doesn't have a protagonist halo protecting them.
Chapter 6: Say hi to the My Country characters and all their associated drama! -
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Post-cannon, Park Chi-do gets an unexpected visitor, and Hwi gets his father's armor back.
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- Part 5 of Tis of Thee
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One more lie (for the road) by staidwaters for Avaunt
Fandoms: 나의 나라 | My Country: The New Age (TV)
30 Nov 2020
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And everyone lived happily ever after.
(Or at least as happily as men such as they could.)A post-cannon fix-it featuring: Yi Bang-won being a dramatic, self-gratifying asshole, Nam Seon-ho as a vicious warrior with a mama bear complex, and Seo Hwi as the voice of sanity who has them both wrapped around his little finger. Also featuring assassinations, abdication, exile, highway robbery, farm life, spy networks, and a healthy dose of romance (or what passes for it with these three).
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- Part 2 of Tis of Thee
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Yi Bang-won tries to pretend to be a humble peasant, and fails. With painful consequences.
Fits into the universe of The End is the Beginning and One More Lie. This definitely happened at some point in that universe, although I'm not sure exactly when.
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- Part 4 of Tis of Thee
- Part 4 of My Country of Whump (Whumptober 2020 ficlet collection)
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A Handbasket of Good Intentions by staidwaters
Fandoms: 나의 나라 | My Country: The New Age (TV)
18 Oct 2020
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Bang-won and Seon-ho both have an innate understanding of how people think, which they use to manipulate the people around them. Unfortunately, they tried to use it on Hwi.
(Reinterpreting two scenes from Episode 11.)
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Just a bit of gratuitous, spoiled dreaming. I refuse to accept the cannon ending; however well done, I want to believe that in some reality, everyone lives happily ever after.
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My Country of Whump (Whumptober 2020 ficlet collection) by staidwaters
Fandom 나의 나라 | My Country: The New Age (TV)
27 Nov 2020
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My Country is basically 16 episodes of tears and pain in a cute, feel-good package. We ALL cried at least once while watching it, right? Now, I'm going to try to make us all cry even more, as part of the Whumptober fic challenge.
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If there is one thing Jinmi knows with absolute certainty, it's that nothing is gone forever. Cut down a cedar and a new tree will grow from the trunk. Fires can reignite from old coals long after the flames went out. No one can return to the past, but the past is always within reach, as long as the warm embers of memory are kept alive.
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Erik lives, but returns to Wakanda and asks for sanctuary when he discovers Linda had left him a son - a son that Hydra is trying to use as collateral to force Erik to help them create the perfect soldier. Safe behind Wakanda's walls, Erik finds more support than he expected, and learns to be a father while making a place for himself in the new Wakanda that T'Challa is forging.
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Deadset by 1PB2PB3PB4
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon)
17 Apr 2021
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When Nie Huaisang is twenty-four, he dies.
This is what comes after.
////////////////////////////tgcf style ghost au with NHS as a ghost who is determined to get revenge for his brother's (and his own) murder, no matter what he has to do to get it. Canon divergent, but still follows the key events of canon.
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- Part 1 of The Golden Ghost
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- English
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- 76,565
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- 25/25
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11 Jun 2026
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everything you love lies unbroken by Stratisphyre
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
08 May 2026
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Their Chief Cultivator’s command to bring them all together seemed oddly more pointed this year than it had before. Or Nie Niubai’s had, at the very least. He suspected he hadn’t been the only one wondering why Wen Ruohan had abruptly demanded their presence in Nightless City, when such requests usually came with far more pomp and circumstance and less command.
Following an unexpected discovery at Wen Ruohan’s latest Discussion Conference, Nie Mingjue’s father changes the course of fate for many different lives.
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09 Jun 2026
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“Laurent,” Auguste says, “why are we in Akielos? And what is he doing here?”
Ten years after the battle of Marlas, Auguste wakes up.
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05 Jun 2026
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Did somebody say Mingli fic?
Nie Huaisang was sitting in the aviary, feeling extremely pleased with himself, when Wei Wuxian bounced in and immediately demanded, “Are you trying to steal my shijie?”
“What?” Nie Huaisang blinked at him with pretend innocence. “Wei-xiong, why would you say such a thing?”
“Do you think I’m an idiot? Do you think shijie is an idiot?” Wei Wuxian continued. “I mean, what you’re doing is so blatant that Jin Zixuan noticed, and he is an idiot. So let’s try this again, Nie-xiong – are you trying to steal my shijie and marry her off to your brother?”
“I sure am,” Nie Huaisang said cheerfully. “I mean, who would you rather have to sit with at family dinners, me or Jin Zixun?”
tl;dr what if the lectures were at The Unclean Realm rather than Cloud Recesses?
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Bookmarked by staidwaters
01 Jun 2026
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Lan Wangji lost everything, and has only himself to blame. What remains are the memories, and a little boy who Lan Wangji swears will never forget how to smile. He wouldn’t have fought, if it weren’t for him. He wouldn’t have tried to hold on, if not for the silent promise he made in the darkest moment of his life.
As much as he wants to be with Wei Ying again, his promise keeps him bound here.
After flogging, repenting, and seclusion, Lan Wangji faces the next ordeal, also designed to bring him back onto the right path: to give the Lan Clan legitimate heirs. He sees no point in resisting, and resumes his duty to sect and family with the same stoic acceptance that brought him through everything else.
He hopes that one day, kinder fates may reunite them again, and that Wei Ying will be able to forgive him. And until that day, he treasures the memories of a smile that is forever lost to him.
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Bookmarked by staidwaters
03 Nov 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
This is amazing and beautiful. I loved that LWJ actually grows and ages in this fic, and that he is shown as intellegent and thoughtful, always putting the well being of innocents first but acknowledging his own emotions and giving himself time for them too. The author has a very skilled hand with showing the passage of time and people's inner thoughts - I really enjoyed it.
Anyhow, this left me in a much happier mood than I started the day in. Thanks