The playground

Title: Lineage
Author: darkterrible
Fandom: The Untamed (TV)
Pairing/Characters: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian; Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Wen Qing, Wen Ning | Wen Qionglin, Jiang Yanli, Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei, Nie Huaisang, Nie Mingjue, Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao, ALL OF THE OTHERS
Rating/Category: Mature; M/M; Horror; Urban Fantasy
Word Count: 9,375 and 5 chapters so far (WIP.)
Summary: It's the late 1990s in Gusu, and Wei Wuxian is a struggling college student, far away from his family. He takes odd jobs and gigs on the side to pay for his apartment and what little food he can afford. One night, he takes a gig that seems too good to be true. No one is eating the catered food, and there's an odd smell that he can't pin down. When the night goes south and he ends up dead, he wakes up to an entirely new life. Trying to survive the politics of his new life mean challenges he's never faced before. Will he thank his new sire, or kill him?

…since i'm a one trick pony i'd be lying if i didn't say the plot of this is heavily influenced by vampire the masquerade: bloodlines

Content Notes: poverty, vampiric transformation, blood and gore, horror, eventual smut, eventual happy ending

On AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/73242191

Some of you, particularly fans of longer standing, may remember the epic paranoir modern-with-magic AU fic medium blues. The story’s legendary for its immersive worldbuilding, its no-holds-barred gore and unreality horror, and its fluctuating online/offline status (the author was among the targets of the fandom’s 2020 cyberbullying scandal, which drove out a lot of good writers and a beloved commenter-on-anon.)

darkterrible (the most recent of various iterations of her nom-de-net) has mustered the nerve to resume writing for CQL; she’s got a new modern AU horror work in progress, and would very much appreciate readers, feedback, and signal boost (as well as betas to help her keep the names straight.)