Stiltonbasket is a very prolific fanfic writer who focuses on Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi. They are probably best known for the Twelve Moons and a Fortnight 'verse, but they've written plenty more. Their calling cards include happy marriages, worldbuilding, and ‘’lots’’ of babies for every couple involved.
You can find their work here
. They also occasionally write on their tumblr, which can be found here.
stiltonbasket's works provide examples of the following tropes:
- Adaptational Gender Identity: Xichen in the Art Thief AU is transgender.
- Technically, once he's returned in a female body in "a lapse of passage", Wei Wuxian is this as well.
- Babies Ever After: One of their calling cards is that every couple gets this, whether by birth or adoption. And then their babies have babies.
- Adaptational Villainy: In-canon, Jin Guangyao probably didn’t kill Jin Rusong, though still admits he probably had to die due to being a product of incest. In "a lapse of passage" and the AU around it, Jin Guangyao killed his own child. Qin Su found out and summoned Wei Wuxian in the sacrifice summon.
- Su She, while bad in-canon, did not participate in child murder that we know of. In the Qin Su!Wei Wuxian 'verse, he helped murder Rusong.
- Chastity Couple: Xichen and Mingjue in “the sun, which forms the fruit”, as Xichen is both aromantic and asexual. It’s a very good thing that they can have children via cultivation (and they end up having several).
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Qin Su dies in a sacrifice summon in "a lapse of passage".
- Gender Flip: In “Chancellor of the Morning Sun”, Lan Xichen is female.
- Both Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are female in Flowers in the Palace, as is Lan Xichen.
- Happily Married: Xichen and Mingjue in the Art Thief AU and in Life in Love’s Exchange.
- Incompatible Orientation: In “the sun, which forms the fruit”, Xichen is aromantic and asexual. Nie Mingjue is not. Unusually for this trope, they work it out and come to an understanding.
- Improbable Infant Survival: In “you can have the best of me, baby”, A-Yuan survives being ‘’born in the Burial Mounds’’.
- Modern AU Fic: "WangXian Versus the World, Bakery Style". Also the Art Thief AU.
- Mr. Seahorse: Usually Wei Wuxian and Lan Xichen, who can carry children in their golden cores. In the Art Thief AU, Xichen is trans.
- Mystical Pregnancy: Cultivation babies, who are created through healing cultivation rather than sex and carried in a parent’s golden core. There are a lot of these in stilton’s works.
- Related in the Adaptation: In multiple 'verses, Lan Jingyi is the son of Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue, either when Xichen is trans or when they can have cultivation babies. In the series, he was of no relation to Mingjue and his exact relationship with Xichen is ambiguous
- In “you can have the best of me, baby”, A-Yuan is the biological child of WangXian instead of adopted, created when they dual-cultivated together.
- Spared by the Adaptation: A variation in “the sun, which forms the fruit” and the entire AU it spins off from, as the character still dies, just comes back. As Wei Wuxian was resurrected by Qin Su, Mo Xuanyu is free to resurrect someone else. He picks his brother, Jin Zixuan.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Xichen looks a lot like his and Wangji’s mother in the Art Thief AU. In “The Portrait of Wen Mingyan”, he dresses up like her and makes Wangji very emotional.
- Teen Pregnancy: A-Yuan is the result of a mystical one in “you can have the best of me, baby”.
