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Perfect Blue (1997) Dir. Satoshi Kon

#illustration

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NATSUME YUUJINCHOU SEASON 7 ANNOUNCED!!! animation production: shuka

#natsume yuujinchou

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Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji by Yasuko

#魔道祖师 #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxian #lan wangji #mdzs #wangxian #my post

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Unpopular opinion I guess, but I don't think Lan Wangji's problems came from being made to restrain his feelings or hide them, they came from the intensity of them and the fact that they were new. Something he had yet to learn how to experience.

Wei Wuxian is the one that holds himself back.

#only in mdzs fandom is the authorial intent considered unpopular opinion #lwj

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窓辺に立って、私は空虚な街��眺めて

後悔や、やりきれなさを募らせて

それでも やっぱり 何回も

誰かの為にって

祈る様に

情けないくらいに

いつまでも

いつまでも

#illustration

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Some of you who "read" Mo Dao Zu Shi really need to go back to their literary terms and brush up on what limited omniscient third person point of view means. Since it is PRETTY established Wei Wuxian is not our narrator and thus can't give a biased view in the first place. HE is just who the faceless narrator observes the most

#stop the 'unrelatable narrator ' nonsense #it's actually fascinating by which i mean disappointing that large parts if not the majority believe in wwx being the narrator #mdzs

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Uzumaki ("Butterflies") // Junji Ito

#junji ito

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there are lots of jokes about wwx and lxc coping through random flute solos, but i think a lot of people may not know of the audio drama extra which is basically young lan zhan venting his teenage frustrations on poor, poor namesake guqin

#mdzs ad

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Happy 天官赐福 Return to everyone!

Art by 日安 on LOFTER

#天官赐福 #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #tgcf #xie lian #hua cheng #hualian #breaking my hiatus for mxtx comeback ( this time fr )

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#sasuke #naruto

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But from this moment on, everything that you say to me, and do for me — I’ll remember them all, I won’t forget even a single thing. You are wonderful. I like you. In other words, I fancy you, I love you, I want you, and I cannot bear to be apart from you. — mo dao zu shi 魔道祖师 • official art by 长阳 pt. 1/2

#mdzs

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ik we all joke abt wei ying forgetting a lot of things and somehow remembering a melody he heard once while unconcious in a dark cave, but there’s something about him humming wangxian.mp3 in various times in his first life that just feels right. maybe he hummed it a lot to himself while playing in those few weeks in lotus pier, perhaps out of the earshot of his nosy shidis. or maybe humming out loud all the time to the point that those same shidis would beg him to stop. humming it to himself during the sunshot campaign. humming it at night to a’yuan when the child cant sleep. by the time he is resurrected, the melody is practically ingrained into his mind, to the point where it’s the first thing he thinks to play to calm a force corpse. it definitely can explain how he’s able to remember it after all that time. though whether or not it happened tht way, it certainly left a deep enough impression in his heart and soul that he remembered it even after all these years<3

#mdzs

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Meeting at Yunmeng

Art from Mo Dao Zu Shi novel serialisation, by ChangYang

#rb

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Y'all, friendly reminder that Wei Wuxian was not actually a demonic cultivator. I honestly found it shocking how prevalent the misconception that he uses demonic cultivation is, and how casually people throw the term around. His title as “Mo Dao Zu Shi” is intentionally misleading, as Wei Wuxian himself states many times in the novel that he does guidao  - the Ghost path.

This fact is probably more obvious to those who've read more xianxia novels (especially for Chinese readers, whom MDZS was geared towards), where demonic cultivation is a pretty common trope. Classically, “demonic cultivation” involves actual demonic actions, (ie. eating another cultivator’s golden core) - and MXTX deliberately used a subversion of that trope. Demonic cultivation in MDZS would require demons - something heavily lampshaded when Lan Qiren asks Wei Wuxian the difference between yao, mo, gui, and guai in the Cloud Recesses Study Arc. MXTX literally spoonfed the difference between demonic and ghost cultivation to readers in this scene, but I still see people perpetuating the belief that he was an actual demonic cultivator.

Demons come from living humans, so in the context of MDZS, the only true demonic cultivator we saw was Xue Yang, who use living corpses. Wei Wuxian only ever used the dead and resentful ghosts to do his bidding. The title of MDZS is a deliberate misnomer meant to act as commentary on how easily wrongful rumours and slanders spread, especially given how many criticisms tossed Wei Wuxian's way weren't even accurate - and somehow, 95% of readers fell for the same trap.

It's even worse how the official 7Seas translation perpetuates this misconception, by using "demonic" and modao to refer to Wei Wuxian's cultivation when he explicitly refers to his cultivation as guidao in the ExR translations and original text.

#and hence my blog title and username #mdzs

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Art by 舴轻舟

#illustration #gufeng #art #digital drawing #my post

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OST from the Mo Dao Zu Shi Audio Drama.

Used during the "Tossing Flower" scene in Yunmeng.

#one of my favourite soundtrack #rb

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WangXian by moira_takamu

#魔道祖师 #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #mdzs #my post