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Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

#mee-yet #with that French upper palette sound yeah #idk if that n there is helpful but the rest of the explanation makes sense to me

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and they all lived happily (???) ever after (?????)

bonus whatever this is:

#I'm Losing it lmao #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #the untamed

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so obviously Jin Guangyao is the undisputed jianghu king of emails as turn-based combat, but I just remembered that Xue Yang "just a friendly reminder, you promised to let me kill a bunch of people! thanks in advance"s Wen Ruohan and that is why. they are besties.

#'my friend is a REAL actor' #'he taught me how to use the most passive-aggressive punctuation you've ever seen.' #jin guangyao #xue yang #the untamed

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I could use some good housing vibes today if anyone has some to spare ✨

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#I voted for the second to last #game is on a separate screen/smaller window #while I affix my eyes to twitter/tumblr and Do Not look at it

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jin guangyao text post meme

#these are perfect lmao #the untamed #jin guangyao

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speaking of characters & modern AU jobs, there are a bajillion Wei Wuxian-centric fics and I have read a very small percentage of them, but I hope there are some where he's a defense attorney.

I understand why so many fics seem to give him the role of a tech genius or a scientist of some kind--yeah, it fits with him "inventing" demonic cultivation--but I think the social betrayal aspect of his storyline works really well with being a lawyer and on the "wrong" side. and it fits both with him defending the Wens and also the scene where the cultivation world does a complete 180 on Jin Guangyao without really interrogating the evidence and Wei Wuxian--WHO WAS THE FIRST TO MAKE THE ACCUSATION--is nevertheless disgusted with them.

I feel like I've brought up that scene a million times on here and on discord but I can't help it, I just think it is such a critical scene for him and for the work as a whole.

#the untamed #wei wuxian

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I adore civilian butcher NMJ and I know I've posted this quote on tumblr before but I gotta just. leave it here again sorry op.

I’m attracted to a butcher’s innate knowledge. Romantically, I imagine it’s innate, that his nicked hands were born knowing how to slice those whisper-thin cutlets. I’m attracted to his courtly, old-world brand of machismo…Most of all, I’m attracted to his authority. There’s an absolute sureness to a butcher, whether he is chining lamb chops with a band saw or telling his customer just how to prepare a crown roast. He is more certain of meat than I’ve ever been about anything. Rippling deltoids and brawny good looks are nice, of course, but to me a butcher’s sureness is the definition of masculinity. It strikes me as intoxicatingly exotic, like nothing I’ve ever experienced.

(emphasis mine, from "Cleaving" by Julie Powell)

like... that's Nie Mingjue. that's him. that's the guy.

Nie Mingjue is objectively the funniest character to argue about what they'd be in a modern au. He's literally the only one that comes with a straightforward answer, the takes are completely unnecessary.

Like. Especially if this is non cultivation AU because see if it's a modern AU with cultivation the answer is obvious. He's a cultivator. They all are.

But if he has a civilian job??? He'd be a butcher. If the Nie family never became cultivators. They'd probably still be butchers. And do you really think that Nie -will literally die for my family I am ride or die for anything I've ever committed myself to- Mingjue would up and what leave the family business to pursue new horizons?? Really?

That man owns a meat store

#funnily enough #like five minutes ago I decided to take a break from my big bang fic #and work on a fic where NieYao are divorced coparents #and NMJ owns a grocery store that arose from the family butcher shop #(does MY have Feelings upon learning that all the staff are trained to give him the family discount #even tho they haven't been married for years? #you bet your ass he does)

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More art belatedly cross-posted from twitter: 3zun server daemon AU. NieYao may be fighting, but their daemons miss each other (and unlike their humans, they aren't afraid to show it... of course, LXC's daemon is gleefully facilitating this).

and bonus full view of the daemons: LXC's is a sika deer, JGY's is a Siberian weasel, and NMJ's is a boar

#I love #3zun #the untamed

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additional comment from the anon: this mostly applies to things like smut or nsfw art. I see a lot of blogs that are 18+ and I’ve always wondered if people actually listen to "minors dni (do not interact)" or if they just ignore them.

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#tbf when I was a minor that type of warning was not really a thing #honestly I don’t think I really ever had a conception of myself as ‘a minor’ when it came to viewing/reading sexual stuff? #I didn’t interact with sexual content/flaunt my status as a minor #because… it was sex stuff! #sex stuff is private and you don’t tell people you’re into it fullstop! #but I did not and do not think that sexual content is Bad for people based on the arbitrary marker of age #it was an emotional maturity thing #I was squicked out when I first stumbled on sexual content #and then I matured and wasn’t anymore #like granted I understand people saying minors dni #but if I were a minor and I liked the fan fiction of someone who said minors dni #I would not keep my mouth shut and continue to quietly and invisibly read it

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— chuck palahniuk, haunted

#the untamed #god I love that scene so much #Wei Wuxian being so disgusted about how quickly people turn on Jin Guangyao #despite that being fundamentally what he wants!!! #wei wuxian

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okay but it's the fact that CQL is in large part about what you would sacrifice for the people you love, and in almost every other instance in the show, that sacrifice is portrayed as, if not necessarily the Right decision, at the very least evidence of fundamental goodness. the Yunmeng trio, Wen Qing for her brother and Nie Mingjue for his (Fatal Journey counts 100%), Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen, they make difficult choices for love and that makes them Good even if it doesn't make them happy.

and then there's Jin Guangyao and Nie Huaisang. whose identities are so fundamentally wrapped up in being His Mother's Son and The Little Brother, respectively, and they are so singularly devoted to the legacy of their relative that they will continue to fight for it long after death. they will sacrifice others in a heartbeat. they will lie, they will scheme, they will cause others pain. they will endure humiliation after humiliation. they will put on a persona that makes their true selves unrecognizable even to the people who know them best. ultimately they will sacrifice their own morality, their own goodness, in a way that would probably horrify the people in whose names they make this sacrifice.

I am falling asleep and these are random disjointed thoughts but other things that drive me feral about them is:

the backstory CQL gives, Meng Yao being at the Unclean Realm for (?) a length of time, and allll the visual signifiers of a close, basically familial relationship between them

(I know fanon likes to talk about "the Nie braids" as a sect-wide thing but they ARE NOT. they are a HUAISANG AND MINGJUE AND MENG YAO THING. litcherally no other Nie disciple wears them, not even Nie Zonghui! that's so significant!)

CQL/FJ leaning hard into the suggestion of the brothers being more or less on their own, very little discussion of their parents, leaving room to lean into the idea of NMJ fulfilling a parental role as well as a brotherly one, and the parallel between him and Meng Shi being even stronger

the final flashback to Meng Yao and Meng Shi, and how it's framed to suggest that as coming from Huiasang--a cherished memory Meng Yao passed on to him?

I've seen this floated around on tumblr before, about how it's very likely that Jin Guangyao underestimated the depth of Huaisang's love for his brother, based on how his love manifests as overachieving. so that moment of revelation in the temple being not just "oh, you're the one who was behind this the whole time" but "oh, you and I have this same sickness, this same depth of feeling."

the character songs. I'm obsessed with them. the fact that Jin Guangyao's is a constant litany of questions, uncertainty, revolving around "How many people are willing to know your true face?", while the Nie brothers' song has their relationship as this unshakeable foundation, to the point that they're the only two characters represented by one vocalist. the Unclean Realm being unquestionably "a place of deep love" and the only uncertainty being "when will we see each other again?"

(...and that being answered in part by the title, the repeated use of farewell with connotations of permanence. Huaisang defying death, wanting his brother back in any form possible, while Jin Guangyao literally meets his doom because he is so concerned about earning his mother an easier time in her next life.)

mutual obsession over Nie Mingjue. Meng Yao keeping his head in his treasure room. there are lots of jokes about how LXC is left out of the get-along coffin, but can we talk about the fact that Huaisang sacrificed his moral compass, the reputation of his sect, the life of a troubled teenager, and 10+ years of his life all so he could free his brother's mutilated body from Jin Guangyao's clutches... and at the end of it all, Jin Guangyao is the one who will be with him for eternity?

in conclusion: I love them, your honor.

#nie huaisang #jin guangyao #the untamed

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MDZS x The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse [x]

Pestilence is Jin Guangyao, sick with plans up his sleeves, his ambition a plague that ceaselessly grows, his greed a fatally corrupting disease that conquers his soul and the innocence that once was. Wherever he goes, he spreads his malaise: some are similarly corrupted, avarice blackening their veins; some are asymptomatic, oblivious to the infection that spreads beneath their noses yet culpable in their ignorance; and others die, succumbing to this epidemic, mere numbers in his viral covetousness for power. And so Jin Guangyao is the White Rider, white like the tainted peony embroidered on his ill-begotten robes.

War is Wei Wuxian, for his single-minded devotion, for the beliefs that he fought and died for. He laughs in the face of his enemies even when he stands alone against them all, taunting them to fight and spill blood. Is that the best you can do? Draw your sword and take your best shot, for I will come back to fight you once more. When he raises his weapon and the haunting refrain echoes over the battlefield like a battle cry, blood is spilled – his enemy’s and his alike. And so Wei Wuxian is the Red Rider, red like the bloodied ribbon in his hair, fluttering in the wind like a tattered banner over a pile of the fallen corpses of those who once stood in his path.

Famine is Xue Yang, hungry for violence and revenge, yet starved of attention and love. Behind him, he leaves a cracked desert: people ravished and weakened, tongues stolen, unable to speak, unable to taste, unable to cry for help. Men and women, young and old, rich and poor – he devours them all, licking the meat off their bones like a child with candy, playing with their skeletons when he is done. A hungry wolf prowling in the night, feral and rabid, his cold eyes fixed on his prey, sharp teeth hidden behind a crooked smile. And so Xue Yang is the Black Rider, black like the eyes of the hollow bodies he leaves in his wake.

Death is Nie Huaisang, for his hard work, this backbreaking labour that can never be finished in a day. They say Death is just, but cross him, and he will cross you out. He flits through the unsuspecting living, playing their charades and indulging in their arts, but oh, is he always there, there without them knowing, watching and lurking in the shadows, to take them when they least expect. When it is time to go, he looks at those dearly departed souls with eyes sometimes cold, sometimes resigned, sometimes with a tinge of regret, and then he will carry on with his work, for it will never be done. And so Nie Huaisang is the Pale Rider, pale like the paper of the fan that masks his face.

insp.

#nie huaisang #wei wuxian #xue yang #jin guangyao #the untamed