2023 Ship Promo Post!

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We know most of you have been looking forward to this post, so without further ado, here's your chance to share what you love about the rare ships you've nominated and will either request and/or offer! Some of the rare ships in the tagset belong to rare canons. If you're someone who loves trying new canons or is currently on the hunt to become obsessive about something else, this is a great post for you!

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[marquisguyun]

Canon: 小蘑菇 - 一十四洲 | Xiǎo Mó Gū - Yī Shí Sì Zhōu (Little Mushroom in English)

Ships: An Zhe/Lu Feng

Media: Book (Original in Chinese, English translation published in two volumes by Peach Flower House and available in print or ebook)

A summary of the canon: In a post-apocalyptic earth, what is left of humanity shelters in walled cities to avoid the creatures and contamination outside. A mushroom gains a human form and goes to look for his spore, which was taken by humans. When he gets to the Northern Base, he draws the attention of the Arbiter, whose job it is to immediately execute anyone who has been infected by xenogenics. An Zhe (just a little mushroom)/Lu Feng (the Arbiter) is the canon ship for the book. The apocalypse keeps happening around them.

What do you love about this ship/these ships?: The book is from the POV of the non-human character, so it's really interesting to see their relationship developing from the perspective of someone who doesn't really have a frame of reference for human relationships. They have a lot of really cute moments (like Lu Feng giving An Zhe his jacket to wear). I like how they always come back to each other even with everything else that's going on. Other people assume they're together before they are, while An Zhe is just sweating bc he's not human and he's not sure what Lu Feng can tell about that since he hasn't killed him yet.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Alternate POV, post-canon, mpreg/kidfic, smut, fluff

Content warnings: Lots of violence and death, a lot of it at the hands of one of the main pairing. It wrestles with the morality of things like killing some people to save others and putting that choice in the hands of specific people without oversight.