Community Rec Post: Hurt/Comfort Fanworks!

[shadaras]

As we discussed earlier, we're starting off with some every-other-week rec posts for SHL and TYK fanworks! (Qi Ye and LLD/RPF are also welcome, of course, but your mods tend to be more into SHL/TYK so our posts will start there.)

This week's theme is: Hurt/Comfort

Please comment to share other hurt/comfort fanworks! Fics, vids, art, meta, headcanons, gifsets, filks/fansongs... anything and everything counts! :D All you need to do is provide a link to a fanwork you think fits the theme and say "I liked this!"

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Here's some starting recs:

Fanart
(given as image previews; click through for full images!)


by sinamonrose


by _xinxia_


by sinamonrose


Fanfic

在天涯犹有未归人; those left at the edge of the sky (5541 words) by yiqie
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 天涯客 | Faraway Wanderers - priest
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu
Characters: Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu, Jing Beiyuan, Wu Xi, Zhang Chengling
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Blood and Injury, POV Outsider, This is literally 4.5k of Jing Beiyuan suffering in a frozen tundra, And 1k of Wen Kexing being an anxious housewife
Summary:
“Why would you inflict a Wen Kexing who has lost you,” asked Jing Beiyuan, “upon this world?”

Rec Notes: Absolutely perfect Tian Ya Ke post-canon wrap-up for the healing of Zhou Zishu. Wen Kexing is very bad at waiting, Jing Beiyuan worries about Wen Kexing, Wu Xi attempts to take care of everyone, and it all turns out alright in the end.

three days, three months (963 words) by isozyme
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu
Characters: Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Kneeling, Less hurt/comfort and more hurt-as-comfort
Summary:
It hung in the air, unspoken: Wen Kexing had deceived him again and forced Zhou Zishu to watch his love die a second time.

Rec Notes: Short! Still packs a punch! The tags are very accurate; this is a particular form of kink-flavored post-canon catharsis.

On the Moor, the Creeping Grass (6209 words) by etymologyplayground
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu
Characters: Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu
Additional Tags: chengling is also there briefly! hes just not The Focus, Four Seasons Manor outtake, Canon Compliant, Missing Scene, Hurt/Comfort, Cuddling & Snuggling, Banter, Sparring, this is circa... episode 24-25, LOTS of poetry references, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Romantic Tension, they're DEEP in the lorezone babey, Pre-Relationship, Like, Sort Of
Summary:
"I'm not going to die of spoiled blood," Zhou Zishu groans, "Good heavens, Lao Wen ah."
"Indeed not! I won't let you," Wen Kexing agrees, and threads the needle. They fall silent as he stitches the wound closed. He can feel Zhou Zishu's eyes on his face, but he doesn't dare look up to meet his gaze; he doesn't want to prick him by accident. No, Zhou Zishu will not die of spoiled blood.
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Evening, night, and morning at Four Seasons Manor.

Rec Notes: I love all the poetry in this, unsurprisingly, but I also love the family feelings and the way Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing show their love for each other via tending wounds and wrestling.

all the fires faded and were quenched (1644 words) by elrohir
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu
Characters: Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Episode 9 divergence, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Kissing, Wen Kexing finds out about the nails, Love Confessions, Podfic Available, Translation Available, Перевод на русский | Translation in Russian
Summary:
“I’m losing my senses, Lao Wen,” he said, with a hoarse bluntness that was perhaps a little cruel. He paused, and took a deep breath. Wen Kexing stared, still silent, black eyes wide with a distressed devotion that caused Zhou Zishu’s stomach to fill with hot shame. “I’m dying.”
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Zhou Zishu can't smell Wen Kexing anymore.

Rec Notes: Angsty, yes, but also a really great fic about what it might be like for Zhou Zishu to be losing his senses and how Wen Kexing might feel about being told that's happening.

Comment and share your own hurt/comfort recs! Please! I want to see them! :D Again, all you need to do is provide a link to a fanwork you think fits the theme and say "I liked this!"

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Final admin note: There are still slots to sign up for character spotlights! Half the slots are filled right now, but we'd love to have more!

Comments

[trobadora]

Three short h/c fic recs and one art rec from me, all things I really enjoyed:

retain that dear perfection (1707 words) by Katharija
Fandom: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)"A-Xu?” Wen Kexing breaths out, a little teasingly and a little pleadingly because of course that even in these circumstances he is like a puppy, craving for reassurance and affection.
“You’re so...” Ridiculous, is what he wants to answer; extravagant and over-the-top dramatic and so terribly fake in moments like this. “You’re so beautiful,” he says instead because apparently, his head was hit harder than he remembered.

all of my tomorrows (2345 words) by moonsteps
Fandom: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationship: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu
Characters: Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Sharing a Bed, Hurt/Comfort, Kissing, set during episode 34.... wenzhou have a Conversation
Summary: “How could you not tell me?”

Wen Kexing’s expression falters ever so slightly, his eyebrows curving atop his forehead. “A-Xu?”
“Lao Wen,” says Zhou Zishu. The seven shards on his chest ache with the reminder of what he’s done. “Do you not trust me?”

Ride the Time (1137 words) by Essyllt
Fandom: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationship: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu
Characters: Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu
Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Hurt/Comfort, Cuddling & Snuggling, Biting, No Plot/Plotless, Just let Wenzhou bite each other
Summary: Zhou Zishu wants to hit him. He wants to push him away and hide like a wounded animal. He wants to crawl inside Wen Kexing's ribs and shelter there from the pain.
"Let this one take care of you", Wen Kexing murmurs. As if that was an easy thing to permit.

The Light by artistlin
Fandom: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
Relationship: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu
Characters: Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu

[mekare]

Oh very cool, I don't know any of these yet! Will share my own soon.

[shadaras]

Yay! I look forward to your recs! <3

[dreamy_dragon73]

a guide to brewing millet wine in five easy steps | 小米酒的容易做法
(4463 words) by littlebasketbun
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu
Characters: Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu
Additional Tags: Post-Episode 36, They talk, bath scene, intercrural sex, mention of oral sex, Post-canon, alcohol, Zhou Zishu brews wine, Emotional Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Trapped in the armory together, Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing finally talk.

Reccer's Note: I very much like the analogy of brewing wine and the WenZhou relationship post ep 36 in this.


enough of this terror, we deserve to know light
(2761 words) by p0rth0s
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 天涯客 | Faraway Wanderers - priest

Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu
Characters: Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Developing Relationship, Bathing/Washing, canon-typical mentions of death and dying, Tenderness, Mild Sexual Content, zhou zishu's sleepy dick
Summary: Zhou Zishu is unable to ignore the clamminess of his skin or the ache of his hips where they’re pressed to the bed. He swallows, tongue rancid. Raising his chin under Wen Kexing’s scrutiny, he quietly orders, “Tend to your husband.”
Wen Kexing exhales. His eyes crinkle. “Your feet won’t touch the ground.”

Reccer's Note: Tender, warm and fluffy like a comfy blanket.


love, pain, distraction
(3161 words) by yicityslut
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu
Characters: Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu
Additional Tags: Smut, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, First Time Blow Jobs, Zhou Zishu is in denial, Wen Kexing is so in love, Nails of Seven Torments (Faraway Wanderers), Canon Compliant
Summary: “A-Xu,” Wen Kexing says, “You don't have to suffer. I can distract you, you know?”
One night, Zhou Zishu can’t seem to handle the pain of the Nails of Seven Torments. Wen Kexing has a solution...

Reccer's Note: Pain relief WKX style. I also like the distinction between sex and in-timacy in this.

[mekare]

your flower rain at the end of the road
(22233 words)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu
Characters: Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu, Chengling, Gu Xiang, Cao Weining, Ye Baiyi
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Love Confessions, First Kiss, First Time, just some guys healing and making a home together, Mentions of Blood, Animal Death(pig slaughter), Chinese New Year, slaps fic this bad boy can fit so many chinese motifs and puns, Hurt/Comfort, just for seasoning!!, Alternate Ending
Summary:
“What’s next?” Wen Kexing finds that he doesn't want to know, but he asks anyway.

“Scent, touch, hearing, and then sight.”

He pulls Zhou Zishu’s face down to his neck. “What’s this smell?”

“Um, the green bottle with the cork—no, the agate stopper—on the stool next to the bathtub.”

Wen Kexing lets him go, reassured at least by that. He thinks for a while, and needles out, “So all this time, I’ve been cooking for someone who can’t even taste the hard work I put in.”

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cooking for a dying person in the shadow of his old home, until his self-destruct button can be safely turned off.