The coffee shop is for Wai to make easy money by serving over-caffeinated college students, a good place for Pran to study while they can still sort of hang out, and so Wai can get through his first year between schoolwork and juggling his rugby scholarship.

But most importantly: it is not for some annoying Engineering boys to start flirting with his best friend while he’s working, and make things more confusing all around.

Ink sets Pran up on a date, which doesn’t quite go according to plan. Luckily, Pat arrives just in time to help.

“A-Yao,” Nie Mingjue says, taking his saber from Jin Guangyao’s hands. “Let me clean Baxia, get yourself cleaned up—”

“Hm?” Jin Guangyao looks down, moving his hand along the cloth.

Where the blade had slid right along his skin is clean, unbroken.

Nie Mingjue blinks. He thought he saw a red line, where Baxia would slice right along his palm, a sliver of blood slipping out. And yet he is scarless, woundless.

“Are you okay?” Nie Mingjue asks.

“Of course I am, Da-ge,” Jin Guangyao says. “Are you?”

–

Or, a Jennifer’s Body AU

“What was that for?” Needy asks, as Jennifer closes her phone with a smug grin. “Those guys almost sacrificed you to Satan!”

“Yeah, but you sacrificed me to Satan instead,” Jennifer replies.

Wei Wuxian returns from the Burial Mounds as a vampire.

All he can think about right now is Brendon, Brendon, Brendon. Brendon with his dogs and Dot and with him, grinning at him across Ryan’s living room while he kicks Ryan’s ass at Mario Party. Brendon at the front of the stage, singing his lungs out; Brendon next to his mic, singing his half of the twentieth duet they wrote together; Brendon on tour, hogging all the Poptarts or climbing into Ryan’s hotel bed because he “likes his scent” or jerking off in his bunk, bringing in another Omega during his rut…

“my best friend got turned into a frog and now i’m being the best wingman/woman/person ever by carrying them around to bars and getting hot people to kiss them in hopes of hooking them up with their true love” AU (x)

When everyone still has flip phones and Mark doesn’t have a best friend with $300,000 in his bank account, he works at Widener Library. He does headcounts, checks in books, tries to get away with coding for thefacebook, and eats lunch at the cafe with Erica Albright. Life is not much different when he meets Eduardo – but it is better.

Mark knew he’d picked the right Winklevoss brother.

The Sean Parker Variety Hour, with added commentary from Divya Narendra.