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minnarrThe night after listening to the Fic Clique episode on genre and subgenre in fandom (an EXCELLENT listen, before I argue with it I want to be clear that I loved it and it made my brain light up), I wrote an entire goddamn essay in 12 pt Times New Roman double-spaced and just yeeted said Word doc at the hosts. Until now, I've been too lazy to figure out how to format it for DW, but I do want to share it here frankly because I'm afraid I'll lose the file as much as because I just want to yell about gen fic always. Many thanks to deepestbluesky for helping out with the Chicago citations; I no longer have institutional access to the manual. :( Anyway, below is the essay, reproduced as well as I can on DW.
At 11:53 PM on February 15, 2024, an e-mail appeared in the Fic Clique podcast’s inbox with the subject line, “this is definitely not a cry for help.” What had their correspondent (me) so out of her gourd? In two words: gen fic. In slightly more words: the entire content of this essay, minus the introduction. In their “Minisode: Genre and Subgenre in Fanfiction,” the hosts of Fic Clique proposed a definition for fanfiction as a genre, rather than just a medium. However, their definition positioned romance as a central, perhaps essential, element. While fanfiction as a genre is much narrower than the much more wide-ranging medium of fanfiction, there is room in it for other types of relationships. In fact, with a simple tweak to the proposed definition, gen fic fits neatly into the fanfiction genre.
As outlined in the Fic Clique genre minisode, fic as a genre foregrounds romance, is character-driven, attempts to remain in-character or somehow faithful to the original canon, “uses tropes as a foundational story-telling element”; it maintains a kind of contract with the reader that either the story will end happily, or there will be some warning that it does not; and, potentially, that it has a comforting or escapist quality for the reader. This essay will focus on the first point, so it is quoted here in its entirety:
Earlier in the episode, the hosts also discussed the concept of “Romance Plus,” which is inextricably intertwined with this definition of genre fanfiction. In a fanfiction where another genre is fused with the primary, relationship-centric genre of the fic, the romantic arc sometimes supersedes the plot arc, allowing the author to play with some of the trappings of the secondary genre as supporting elements for the romance. For example, a Mario/Waluigi mafia AU might use the darker themes to highlight the ways that Waluigi is a dark reflection of Mario—but scenes of torture might be comfortably interspersed with flirtations over morning coffee. This approach might also allow romance to be centered in a story set in a canon without much room for softer emotions.1 In both Romance Plus and genre fanfiction, the romantic arc remains a primary way of developing and exploring the story’s central characters.
However, not all fanfiction is primarily romantic in nature; let us consider general fiction, or gen. There is no single, stable definition of gen. Writing in 2007, LiveJournal user telesilla argued that gen meant “a fic with no relationship stuff of any kind” and identified a few possible reasons for preferring that definition of gen fic: anti-slash bias was one reality, but they had seen much more desire for plot, humor, or an escape from ham-handed canonical romances.2 This is the most restrictive answer, but many cast the net wider. Weighing in on a later debate about the definition of gen in the Supernatural fandom, in 2009, musesfool acknowledged the desire for “stories free of romantic entanglements and the angst they bring,” musesfool felt that a story could be called gen even if it had a sex scene, “as long as the story is not about the relationship carried on in the sex scene,” and gave examples of stories where a character had a liaison of some kind, or acknowledged an established relationship, but the main focus of the fic was on a main plot that had nothing much to do with the sex.3 Other authors have concurred that gen is about the focus, rather than the content. In trying to define terms for the LiveJournal community queerlygen, also in 2009, fiercelydreamed wrote that gen was “a work that does not foreground romantic or sexual relationships and where the creator does not consider those relationships to be the point of the work.” This definition did not, to fiercelydreamed, exclude explicit sexual content, characters in romantic or sexual relationships, or any other mature content. The post also references some of the tensions inherent in defining divisions between gen, slash, and het fic at the time: “this community will challenge certain beliefs: that it is a right to be protected from the sexual or gender minority identities of others, and that such identities are inherently threatening or always sexually expressed.”4 This post defines gen not in opposition to het or slash, or even excluding romantic relationships, but as a mode of exploring characters—possibly a genre or subgenre in itself.
So how do gen and fanfiction-the-genre fit together? At first glance, they are at opposite ends of the wider world that is fanfiction. Genre fanfiction, by the proposed definition, prioritizes romance plotlines; gen fanfiction de-emphasizes and sometimes excludes them entirely. This paper, however, proposes that some gen fics—not all; gen casts a wide net even by the most restrictive definition—fall quite beautifully into the genre of fanfiction. All it takes is a small modification: rather than emphasizing romantic arcs, the genre fanfiction emphasizes relationship arcs, whether romantic, platonic, familial, or too ambiguous to categorize as only one.
The fandom for The Untamed provides some excellent examples of this. While the canon itself is a romance—subtextually for the show, although the novel it adapts is explicitly a romance between the two main characters, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji—plenty of fanfiction delves into the fraught platonic relationships that entangle many of the characters. There is a particular rich vein of feeling to mine in the relationship between Wei Wuxian and his erstwhile shidi5 and clan leader, Jiang Cheng. They grew up together; Wei Wuxian once promised to stand by him forever; Jiang Cheng put himself in harm’s way and lost his golden core to save Wei Wuxian, and Wei Wuxian returned the favor by secretly donating his to Jiang Cheng and then covering up his own lack of a core by becoming mysterious, distant, and impossible to save; he accordingly died by falling off a cliff after apparently causing Jiang Cheng’s sister’s death, came back to life in another body sixteen years later, and after most of their secrets revealed, he left again without really talking to Jiang Cheng about any of it. Meanwhile, Wei Wuxian is probably still pretty sure Jiang Cheng hates him.6 In the fic “waiting for the remedy,” author Lise explores the unfinished business between them after the finale by putting them smack into the middle of a night hunt organized by their nephew Jin Ling, who is scheming to get them to finally talk it out.7 It is a perfect example of genre fanfiction.
“waiting for the remedy” covers all the bases of Fic Clique’s definition-as-proposed, with the exception of the first one. It is character-driven: its structure, plot and even the point of view are all geared towards exploring Jiang Cheng’s grief, confusion, and longing for what he and Wei Wuxian used to have. It remains faithful to the canon and the characters therein; it ends hopefully; it is comforting. It even uses tropes to tell its story: the meddling kid who just wants the adults to figure it out, and (as one of the tags succinctly puts it) “night hunts as a thinly veiled excuse for feelings.”8 As for the first point, the provision that “the romantic arc is primary or secondary,” this fic presents a strong argument for the fanfiction genre centering any kind of strong relationship between characters. It may not be Romance Plus, but it is certainly Emotionally Devastating Pseudo-Brotherhood Plus.
Everything about this fic is designed to take the tension between Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng at the end of canon and wind it tighter until it breaks. The very first scene sets up this tension: “His eyes slid briefly in Wei Wuxian’s direction and Jiang Cheng quickly jerked them away, but not before he caught Wei Wuxian looking at him too, Chengqing twirling around his fingers. There was a lump in his throat that Jiang Cheng swallowed very hard to dislodge.”9 Though it is not directly said in the narrative just yet, the longing on both sides is pretty clear, as well as the impossibility of closing the gap between them. The night hunt, however, quickly goes wrong: an unnatural fog closes in, and the only person Jiang Cheng can find in the fog is Wei Wuxian. This is transparently a plot device to force them together; they have strained conversation as they try to find their way out, with emotion bubbling just underneath everything they say, and then fierce corpses appear. Without consciously choosing to, Jiang Cheng uses a fighting style that relies on having another person nearby who understands how he fights and how to fill in any weaknesses for him, and even though it is not immediately easy, it feels, “like this was how it was supposed to be, even if Jiang Cheng had by now spent more time fighting without Wei Wuxian than he had fighting with him.” This is not done to wind the tension on the “plot” of the night hunt higher—we don’t even find out what exactly causes these problems, and everything will eventually be solved off-screen by the others.10 Instead, the increasing stakes are there solely to, just like Jin Ling, push Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng together. It comes to a head when, during the fight, Wei Wuxian nearly falls off a cliff, and Jiang Cheng catches him. Suspended in a grim parody of the time sixteen years ago when Lan Wangji held onto Wei Wuxian, trying to stop him falling to his death, Jiang Cheng finally starts to air some of the bitterness he has been holding back; just before they get anywhere, another fierce corpse comes and Jiang Cheng drops him. He lives, but Jiang Cheng has to kill a lot of corpses to find that out—and then his care finally comes to the surface as well when he grabs Wei Wuxian in a fierce hug.11 Plot events have conspired, and the seal is broken at last on the feelings Jiang Cheng has been hiding.
Notably, the story does not end with the night hunt or them bickering off into the sunset. They go into a second arc, where Jiang Cheng can no longer rely on his instincts to carry him forward with Wei Wuxian, but must choose to pursue a relationship with him. He drags Wei Wuxian back to Lotus Pier to get medical treatment, and he avoids Wei Wuxian, gets scolded for avoiding Wei Wuxian by Jin Ling, and slowly talks himself into the terrifying prospect of reaching out. Which is not to say he immediately leaps into admitting how he feels. He takes Wei Wuxian’s old clarity bell, something given to him by the Jiang clan and which he lost when he died all those years ago, and gives it to him. Afterwards, “he didn’t bolt, just...left quickly, before he started crying on Wei Wuxian, again. There, he thought. Even Wei Wuxian can’t misunderstand that.” Wei Wuxian leaves again, and Jiang Cheng and Jin Ling talk about him, and finally Wei Wuxian returns to Lotus Pier and Jiang Cheng directly invites him to do something that will mark his belonging here again: he tells him to go pay respect to the Jiang ancestors.12 The story emphasizes not only the need for catharsis, to finally air out the feelings Jiang Cheng has been holding onto, but the need to rebuild, however tentatively, the relationship between him and Wei Wuxian.
To anyone familiar with The Untamed, it would be surprising if no hint of romance touched this fic. It is certainly present as an element in Wei Wuxian’s life; his romance with Lan Wangji is referenced multiple times. However, it remains in keeping with the definition of gen as fic where romance is not the point. Lan Wangji never shows up in the fic, and his purpose in the narrative is to be another symbol of the distance between Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian. While they hang off the cliff, Jiang Cheng asks Wei Wuxian if he has any Lan clan flares, and is surprised by his bitterness at learning he does have them: “Of course he didn’t have any Jiang Sect flares. When would he have gotten them? Who would’ve given them to him…It was just some flares, not like he was going around in Gusu Lan white and blue.”13 Jiang Cheng is desperately jealous of Lan Wangji, not because he is in love with Wei Wuxian himself, but because Lan Wangji is who Wei Wuxian goes to now. Later in the conversation on the cliff, this devastating exchange happens:
Lan Wangji is, in this fic, a mirror and a foil to Jiang Cheng; placing Jiang Cheng in his position, holding Wei Wuxian to stop him falling off a cliff, only drives that home. There is no romance arc in this fic whatsoever; only a bittersweet reconciliation between sometime-brothers, with the primary obstacles of distance and the difficulty of talking about how they feel about each other.
“waiting for the remedy” is about two men with a long history and an unresolved relationship; not a romance, but a gen fic par excellence. It is exactly the kind of story that fanfiction as a medium excels at, and it fits comfortably into the expanded definition of fanfiction the genre. The lack of romance is no obstacle. It’s about the longing.
1. Brenna, Nic, and Reid, hosts, “Minisode: Genre and Subgenre in Fanfiction.” Fic Clique (podcast), November 10, 2023, accessed February 15, 2024, https://ficclique.podbean.com/e/minisode-genre-and-subgenre-in-fanfiction/.
2. telesilla, “Meta: When is Gen not Gen?,” LiveJournal, July 6th, 2009, https://queerlygen.dreamwidth.org/1256.html.
3. musesfool, “baby, i got my facts learned real good right now,” LiveJournal, July 21, 2009, https://musesfool.livejournal.com/1756425.html.
4. fiercelydreamed, “Discussion post: defining “gen.”,” LiveJournal, July 6th, 2009, https://queerlygen.dreamwidth.org/1256.html.
5. Younger student of a shared master, lit. “teacher younger brother”; see “Terms of Address in Wuxia, Xianxia & Xuanhuan Novels,” Immortal Mountain, accessed February 15, 2024, https://immortalmountain.wordpress.com/glossary/terms-of-address/.
6. The Untamed. I’m here for the bit, besties, but I am not finding individual episodes to reference. <3
7. Lise, “waiting for a remedy,” Archive of Our Own, https://archiveofourown.org/works/32468080.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
Unsettled Borders: Gen and the Genre Fanfiction
At 11:53 PM on February 15, 2024, an e-mail appeared in the Fic Clique podcast’s inbox with the subject line, “this is definitely not a cry for help.” What had their correspondent (me) so out of her gourd? In two words: gen fic. In slightly more words: the entire content of this essay, minus the introduction. In their “Minisode: Genre and Subgenre in Fanfiction,” the hosts of Fic Clique proposed a definition for fanfiction as a genre, rather than just a medium. However, their definition positioned romance as a central, perhaps essential, element. While fanfiction as a genre is much narrower than the much more wide-ranging medium of fanfiction, there is room in it for other types of relationships. In fact, with a simple tweak to the proposed definition, gen fic fits neatly into the fanfiction genre.
As outlined in the Fic Clique genre minisode, fic as a genre foregrounds romance, is character-driven, attempts to remain in-character or somehow faithful to the original canon, “uses tropes as a foundational story-telling element”; it maintains a kind of contract with the reader that either the story will end happily, or there will be some warning that it does not; and, potentially, that it has a comforting or escapist quality for the reader. This essay will focus on the first point, so it is quoted here in its entirety:
The romantic arc is primary or secondary, but it is rarely tertiary or absent. There's a strong romantic throughline; you know who the characters are who are in this romance, and you follow them through it.
Earlier in the episode, the hosts also discussed the concept of “Romance Plus,” which is inextricably intertwined with this definition of genre fanfiction. In a fanfiction where another genre is fused with the primary, relationship-centric genre of the fic, the romantic arc sometimes supersedes the plot arc, allowing the author to play with some of the trappings of the secondary genre as supporting elements for the romance. For example, a Mario/Waluigi mafia AU might use the darker themes to highlight the ways that Waluigi is a dark reflection of Mario—but scenes of torture might be comfortably interspersed with flirtations over morning coffee. This approach might also allow romance to be centered in a story set in a canon without much room for softer emotions.1 In both Romance Plus and genre fanfiction, the romantic arc remains a primary way of developing and exploring the story’s central characters.
However, not all fanfiction is primarily romantic in nature; let us consider general fiction, or gen. There is no single, stable definition of gen. Writing in 2007, LiveJournal user telesilla argued that gen meant “a fic with no relationship stuff of any kind” and identified a few possible reasons for preferring that definition of gen fic: anti-slash bias was one reality, but they had seen much more desire for plot, humor, or an escape from ham-handed canonical romances.2 This is the most restrictive answer, but many cast the net wider. Weighing in on a later debate about the definition of gen in the Supernatural fandom, in 2009, musesfool acknowledged the desire for “stories free of romantic entanglements and the angst they bring,” musesfool felt that a story could be called gen even if it had a sex scene, “as long as the story is not about the relationship carried on in the sex scene,” and gave examples of stories where a character had a liaison of some kind, or acknowledged an established relationship, but the main focus of the fic was on a main plot that had nothing much to do with the sex.3 Other authors have concurred that gen is about the focus, rather than the content. In trying to define terms for the LiveJournal community queerlygen, also in 2009, fiercelydreamed wrote that gen was “a work that does not foreground romantic or sexual relationships and where the creator does not consider those relationships to be the point of the work.” This definition did not, to fiercelydreamed, exclude explicit sexual content, characters in romantic or sexual relationships, or any other mature content. The post also references some of the tensions inherent in defining divisions between gen, slash, and het fic at the time: “this community will challenge certain beliefs: that it is a right to be protected from the sexual or gender minority identities of others, and that such identities are inherently threatening or always sexually expressed.”4 This post defines gen not in opposition to het or slash, or even excluding romantic relationships, but as a mode of exploring characters—possibly a genre or subgenre in itself.
So how do gen and fanfiction-the-genre fit together? At first glance, they are at opposite ends of the wider world that is fanfiction. Genre fanfiction, by the proposed definition, prioritizes romance plotlines; gen fanfiction de-emphasizes and sometimes excludes them entirely. This paper, however, proposes that some gen fics—not all; gen casts a wide net even by the most restrictive definition—fall quite beautifully into the genre of fanfiction. All it takes is a small modification: rather than emphasizing romantic arcs, the genre fanfiction emphasizes relationship arcs, whether romantic, platonic, familial, or too ambiguous to categorize as only one.
The fandom for The Untamed provides some excellent examples of this. While the canon itself is a romance—subtextually for the show, although the novel it adapts is explicitly a romance between the two main characters, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji—plenty of fanfiction delves into the fraught platonic relationships that entangle many of the characters. There is a particular rich vein of feeling to mine in the relationship between Wei Wuxian and his erstwhile shidi5 and clan leader, Jiang Cheng. They grew up together; Wei Wuxian once promised to stand by him forever; Jiang Cheng put himself in harm’s way and lost his golden core to save Wei Wuxian, and Wei Wuxian returned the favor by secretly donating his to Jiang Cheng and then covering up his own lack of a core by becoming mysterious, distant, and impossible to save; he accordingly died by falling off a cliff after apparently causing Jiang Cheng’s sister’s death, came back to life in another body sixteen years later, and after most of their secrets revealed, he left again without really talking to Jiang Cheng about any of it. Meanwhile, Wei Wuxian is probably still pretty sure Jiang Cheng hates him.6 In the fic “waiting for the remedy,” author Lise explores the unfinished business between them after the finale by putting them smack into the middle of a night hunt organized by their nephew Jin Ling, who is scheming to get them to finally talk it out.7 It is a perfect example of genre fanfiction.
“waiting for the remedy” covers all the bases of Fic Clique’s definition-as-proposed, with the exception of the first one. It is character-driven: its structure, plot and even the point of view are all geared towards exploring Jiang Cheng’s grief, confusion, and longing for what he and Wei Wuxian used to have. It remains faithful to the canon and the characters therein; it ends hopefully; it is comforting. It even uses tropes to tell its story: the meddling kid who just wants the adults to figure it out, and (as one of the tags succinctly puts it) “night hunts as a thinly veiled excuse for feelings.”8 As for the first point, the provision that “the romantic arc is primary or secondary,” this fic presents a strong argument for the fanfiction genre centering any kind of strong relationship between characters. It may not be Romance Plus, but it is certainly Emotionally Devastating Pseudo-Brotherhood Plus.
Everything about this fic is designed to take the tension between Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng at the end of canon and wind it tighter until it breaks. The very first scene sets up this tension: “His eyes slid briefly in Wei Wuxian’s direction and Jiang Cheng quickly jerked them away, but not before he caught Wei Wuxian looking at him too, Chengqing twirling around his fingers. There was a lump in his throat that Jiang Cheng swallowed very hard to dislodge.”9 Though it is not directly said in the narrative just yet, the longing on both sides is pretty clear, as well as the impossibility of closing the gap between them. The night hunt, however, quickly goes wrong: an unnatural fog closes in, and the only person Jiang Cheng can find in the fog is Wei Wuxian. This is transparently a plot device to force them together; they have strained conversation as they try to find their way out, with emotion bubbling just underneath everything they say, and then fierce corpses appear. Without consciously choosing to, Jiang Cheng uses a fighting style that relies on having another person nearby who understands how he fights and how to fill in any weaknesses for him, and even though it is not immediately easy, it feels, “like this was how it was supposed to be, even if Jiang Cheng had by now spent more time fighting without Wei Wuxian than he had fighting with him.” This is not done to wind the tension on the “plot” of the night hunt higher—we don’t even find out what exactly causes these problems, and everything will eventually be solved off-screen by the others.10 Instead, the increasing stakes are there solely to, just like Jin Ling, push Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng together. It comes to a head when, during the fight, Wei Wuxian nearly falls off a cliff, and Jiang Cheng catches him. Suspended in a grim parody of the time sixteen years ago when Lan Wangji held onto Wei Wuxian, trying to stop him falling to his death, Jiang Cheng finally starts to air some of the bitterness he has been holding back; just before they get anywhere, another fierce corpse comes and Jiang Cheng drops him. He lives, but Jiang Cheng has to kill a lot of corpses to find that out—and then his care finally comes to the surface as well when he grabs Wei Wuxian in a fierce hug.11 Plot events have conspired, and the seal is broken at last on the feelings Jiang Cheng has been hiding.
Notably, the story does not end with the night hunt or them bickering off into the sunset. They go into a second arc, where Jiang Cheng can no longer rely on his instincts to carry him forward with Wei Wuxian, but must choose to pursue a relationship with him. He drags Wei Wuxian back to Lotus Pier to get medical treatment, and he avoids Wei Wuxian, gets scolded for avoiding Wei Wuxian by Jin Ling, and slowly talks himself into the terrifying prospect of reaching out. Which is not to say he immediately leaps into admitting how he feels. He takes Wei Wuxian’s old clarity bell, something given to him by the Jiang clan and which he lost when he died all those years ago, and gives it to him. Afterwards, “he didn’t bolt, just...left quickly, before he started crying on Wei Wuxian, again. There, he thought. Even Wei Wuxian can’t misunderstand that.” Wei Wuxian leaves again, and Jiang Cheng and Jin Ling talk about him, and finally Wei Wuxian returns to Lotus Pier and Jiang Cheng directly invites him to do something that will mark his belonging here again: he tells him to go pay respect to the Jiang ancestors.12 The story emphasizes not only the need for catharsis, to finally air out the feelings Jiang Cheng has been holding onto, but the need to rebuild, however tentatively, the relationship between him and Wei Wuxian.
To anyone familiar with The Untamed, it would be surprising if no hint of romance touched this fic. It is certainly present as an element in Wei Wuxian’s life; his romance with Lan Wangji is referenced multiple times. However, it remains in keeping with the definition of gen as fic where romance is not the point. Lan Wangji never shows up in the fic, and his purpose in the narrative is to be another symbol of the distance between Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian. While they hang off the cliff, Jiang Cheng asks Wei Wuxian if he has any Lan clan flares, and is surprised by his bitterness at learning he does have them: “Of course he didn’t have any Jiang Sect flares. When would he have gotten them? Who would’ve given them to him…It was just some flares, not like he was going around in Gusu Lan white and blue.”13 Jiang Cheng is desperately jealous of Lan Wangji, not because he is in love with Wei Wuxian himself, but because Lan Wangji is who Wei Wuxian goes to now. Later in the conversation on the cliff, this devastating exchange happens:
Aloud he just said, bitterly, “wouldn’t want to upset Lan Zhan,” and a moment later wanted to slap himself. Wei Wuxian’s face closed off.
“Jiang Cheng,” he said, and it wasn’t the way he’d said Jiang Wanyin at the shrine but it still sort of felt the same. Oh, yes. Because Wei Wuxian would hurry to anyone else’s defense but not his own shidi, no, of course not.14
Lan Wangji is, in this fic, a mirror and a foil to Jiang Cheng; placing Jiang Cheng in his position, holding Wei Wuxian to stop him falling off a cliff, only drives that home. There is no romance arc in this fic whatsoever; only a bittersweet reconciliation between sometime-brothers, with the primary obstacles of distance and the difficulty of talking about how they feel about each other.
“waiting for the remedy” is about two men with a long history and an unresolved relationship; not a romance, but a gen fic par excellence. It is exactly the kind of story that fanfiction as a medium excels at, and it fits comfortably into the expanded definition of fanfiction the genre. The lack of romance is no obstacle. It’s about the longing.
1. Brenna, Nic, and Reid, hosts, “Minisode: Genre and Subgenre in Fanfiction.” Fic Clique (podcast), November 10, 2023, accessed February 15, 2024, https://ficclique.podbean.com/e/minisode-genre-and-subgenre-in-fanfiction/.
2. telesilla, “Meta: When is Gen not Gen?,” LiveJournal, July 6th, 2009, https://queerlygen.dreamwidth.org/1256.html.
3. musesfool, “baby, i got my facts learned real good right now,” LiveJournal, July 21, 2009, https://musesfool.livejournal.com/1756425.html.
4. fiercelydreamed, “Discussion post: defining “gen.”,” LiveJournal, July 6th, 2009, https://queerlygen.dreamwidth.org/1256.html.
5. Younger student of a shared master, lit. “teacher younger brother”; see “Terms of Address in Wuxia, Xianxia & Xuanhuan Novels,” Immortal Mountain, accessed February 15, 2024, https://immortalmountain.wordpress.com/glossary/terms-of-address/.
6. The Untamed. I’m here for the bit, besties, but I am not finding individual episodes to reference. <3
7. Lise, “waiting for a remedy,” Archive of Our Own, https://archiveofourown.org/works/32468080.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
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