New Fic "Seven Cups of Tea"

Seven Cups of Tea (2968 words) by Forestofglory
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jīn Líng | Jīn Rúlán, Niè Huáisāng
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Epistolary, Tea, Mostly Fluff, Arts & Crafts, grief and mourning, research notes at the end
Summary:

Letters Wei Wuxian sends to Lan Wangji while he is traveling

The working title for this one was "WWX does Taran Wanderer" I also considered calling it "Set Out as You Choose" which a quote form that book, but it seemed a little bit grand and misleading. "Seven Cups of Tea" is the title of well know Chinese poem about tea so that seemed like a fun reference.

I mentioned that I was reading Tea in China by James A. Benn -- a lot of little details form that book ended up in this fic! (That's also how I learned about the poem) It was fun to do research for this fic, but I tried not to let myself get too worried about historical realism because the source material clearly doesn't care.

Finally I'm not really sure about the character tags on this. I asked for general advice and got told "tag characters if they are important to the plot" and also "if the character is tagged someone reading just for that character shouldn't be disappointed" and those are both kinda subjective measures. And the plot is kind of meandering and episodic. So that the moment I've tagged the characters that felt I had something to say about and have not tagged other characters who I have fewer feelings about. But I don't know I might go back and tag the rest. If you have thoughts either on when one should tag characters in general or who in specif in this story I should tag let me know.