Fandom: The Untamed/Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Nie Huaisang, Jiang Cheng, Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji
Rating: Teen and Up
Length: 1,110
Content Notes: Please be advised this story contains a fairly blunt description of the butchering of game birds. This is exactly what it says on the tin.
Creator Tags: Literal Dead Dove, Qishan Wen Indoctrination (Modao Zushi), Butchering, Food as a Metaphor for Love, But Also As Literal Food Because They're Hungry, POV Nie Huaisang, Character Study, Podfic Available
Creator Links:
westiec;
westiec;
westiec
Theme: Trope Subversion & Inversion, Friendship, Character Study
Summary: Nie Huaisang loves beautiful things, and plucking game birds is an exercise in destroying something beautiful. After which it's an exercise in picking off tiny bits of fluffy down that hide in the crevices and don't want to come out, and that's just annoying. He might hate doing this, but he does know how, so the motions come easily.
The Nie were butchers, after all.
Reccer's Notes:
Set during the Wen Indoctrination; bird lover and Non-Action Guy Nie Huaisang draws upon his bird-catching skills and familial background in butchering to feed his friends in a desperate survival situation—and darned if this joking play on a trope name isn’t a moving and insightful character study. (Which prompts the further thought that one person’s Dead Dove is another’s crispy roasted squab.)
(If you’re wondering, yes—he also manages to accommodate Lan Wangji.)
Fanwork Links: dead doves: please eat, by
westiec.
Translation into Русский available: Мёртвые голуби, кушайте by
Greenmusik and
DrinkAndBite.
[Podfic] dead doves: please eat by
fensandmarshes.
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Nie Huaisang, Jiang Cheng, Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji
Rating: Teen and Up
Length: 1,110
Content Notes: Please be advised this story contains a fairly blunt description of the butchering of game birds. This is exactly what it says on the tin.
Creator Tags: Literal Dead Dove, Qishan Wen Indoctrination (Modao Zushi), Butchering, Food as a Metaphor for Love, But Also As Literal Food Because They're Hungry, POV Nie Huaisang, Character Study, Podfic Available
Creator Links:
Theme: Trope Subversion & Inversion, Friendship, Character Study
Summary: Nie Huaisang loves beautiful things, and plucking game birds is an exercise in destroying something beautiful. After which it's an exercise in picking off tiny bits of fluffy down that hide in the crevices and don't want to come out, and that's just annoying. He might hate doing this, but he does know how, so the motions come easily.
The Nie were butchers, after all.
Reccer's Notes:
Set during the Wen Indoctrination; bird lover and Non-Action Guy Nie Huaisang draws upon his bird-catching skills and familial background in butchering to feed his friends in a desperate survival situation—and darned if this joking play on a trope name isn’t a moving and insightful character study. (Which prompts the further thought that one person’s Dead Dove is another’s crispy roasted squab.)
(If you’re wondering, yes—he also manages to accommodate Lan Wangji.)
Fanwork Links: dead doves: please eat, by
Translation into Русский available: Мёртвые голуби, кушайте by
[Podfic] dead doves: please eat by