Themed recs for Nirvana in Fire: Fox Spirits

I want to start making recs again, and I thought a theme would be fun, so here are some recs for Nirvana in Fire fox-spirit!AUs.

This fox heart of mine by iokanaan. After hearing an unusual story, a feverish Mei Changsu has strange dreams. Beautiful use of dreamy prose to create an unreliable-narrator effect and amplify the sense of longing.

Ever Onward by aboxthecolourofheartache. WIP; fox spirit Lin Chen! This one is a WIP, but the author has put a significant amount of research into fox spirit history and tropes and it really shows. Lin Chen makes an excellent fox spirit, and I think this author's note from an early chapter is hilarious enough to share:

This is about the time in the story where Lin Chen the fox spirit says "I never used to understand what my father saw in his dumb human until I got a dumb human of my own. I've only had this human for a few months, but if anything happens to him, I will kill everyone who ever hurt him and then probably myself.

Tell me that, if you substituted 'Qilin scholar' for 'dumb human,' that wouldn't sum up Lin Chen's feelings in canon! :D

Fox of the Northern Mountains and Fox of the Langya Hall also feature fox!Lin Chen. They're probably my least favourite of this group, but still enjoyable; the foxiness just feels less deeply anchored, and both fics have a few SPAG issues.

And just for fun:

Palimpsest by ofsevenseas, and its unofficial sequel Lithograph by romantic_drift. a fabulous AU where Jingyan meets "Su Zhe" years earlier, and can't quite forget their chance encounter however he tries. When Su Zhe appears in the capitol, they reconnect. Included on this rec list even though the fox theme is limited to a joking mention of fox spirit!Mei Changsu, because there aren't enough fics with this premise to make a rec list I'm a completionist and I say it counts. :D