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xuexiao: my boy only break his favorite toy

for best meowtie @dustandducks happy belated birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉

#xuexiao #he saw forever so he smashed it up

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A Blossoming Friendship print available here! (patrons get an extra 10% off, including sale, early access and HD versions: https://www.patreon.com/oexas)

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A scenario where Wei Wuxian went to Koi Tower to hand himself over instead of the Wens, trying to prove that he had nothing to do with Jin Zixun’s curse….. Support me on Ko-Fi? <3

#wangxian #HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

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March 2024 reward || A Snake in the Dog's Den

I never shipped anyone but the canon pairings in MDZS but after rereading the novel again I MIGHT have thought a bit about these two... See full and colored here

#nieyao

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i'll believe it all, theres nothing i wont understand

i'll believe it all, i won't let go of your hand

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if shen yuan was forced to be the villain in a hades/persephone story

I just finished scum villain.

looked up fanfic. Saw this fic and this fic.

became I N S P I R E D to make some art

(Closeups under cut below lol)

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jin ling's slightly less homophobic arc (masterpost here!)

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#chengyao

Hardly a day goes by without me thinking about what could have been if Jiang Cheng instead of Lan Xichen had been the object of Jin Guangyao’s undying affection.

Imagine. Jiang Cheng, new to leading a sect, new to being an uncle, new to being the only one left alive in his family, who only knows how to bite back and how to shield himself from all the pain through anger, comes to know sweet, accommodating Jin Guangyao who has just been accepted as his father’s son, proclaimed war hero but can never be good enough, who has to endure endless amounts of scorn and hatred and who has to act as his father’s vessel all the same. And suddenly they are facing each other over a screaming Jin Ling that they both rushed to see and they understand: We’re family now.

Imagine, one day Jiang Cheng finds Jin Guangyao, shaking from exhaustion, sitting in a corner of the gardens at Koi Tower. And even though he insists that he’s fine, that he does not need to be looked after, Jiang Cheng pulls him away to his rooms because this hardworking little weasel needs a rest. (Jiang Cheng used to know another weasel who was even more effective in brushing off his injuries than Jin Guangyao is and he will not have it again.)

Jin Guangyao is completely astonished by all that grumpy caretaking. Who does this Jiang Wanyin think he is, putting him to bed like a maiden? Because you are a fucking maiden, Xue Yang suggests. Unhelpful.

Time goes by and they develop a certain acquaintance? A closeness, even? They talk (bitch) about Jin Guangshan, Madame Jin, Lan Wangji, never Lan Xichen who Jin Guangyao still adores and Jiang Cheng is indifferent towards, Sect Leader Yao and basically everyone under the sun. And they like it. They like each other. They like taking care of their nephew together. Occasionally, Jiang Cheng will find himself feeling a weird warm sensation in his chest but he doesn’t linger on it. He only goes “Huh. Strange.” and thinks nothing of it. At one point, he will be the one catching Jin Guangyao’s hand and saying “Don’t be silly, there’s no need for these formalities here.” Jin Guangyao beams.

And is in despair. How could this happen? How could he fall in love with someone other than the girl his father had picked out for him? And it only adds one more thing to the long list of reasons why Jin Guangshan has to die.

When he finally is dead and Jin Guangyao is made leader of the Jin sect and Chief Cultivator all at once, Jiang Cheng comes to congratulate him. He stays until late at night and many cups of sweet wine later (Jiang Cheng has had many of them, that is. Jin Guangyao only had one or two and did he really? Or did he use them to water a nearby plant?) Jiang Cheng says, eyes sad and cloudy and serious “Why can’t I hate him, Jin Guangyao? Why can’t I condemn him, after all these years, after all that he did to my family? He was my family, dammit! Why do I keep his fucking flute under my bed like a fucking-“

Jin Guangyao thinks about this. He thinks about retrieving Chengqing from Lotus Pier and using it for his purposes. But he discards the idea, just like he discards all thoughts of ever harming Jiang Cheng. Ever. He takes the tall angry sect leader into his arms and holds him and lets him cry into his shoulder just like Jiang Cheng let him time and time again.

Sap, Xue Yang provides. Jin Guangyao doesn’t care.

And imagine, after many happy years (more or less), a certain demonic cultivator appears and it all comes down to Guanjin Temple. It is Sandu that pierces Jin Guangyao’s chest and it is Jiang Cheng who swears to stay behind with him, to endure anything that may follow.

But Jin Guangyao pushes him away and Wei Wuxian pulls his shidi away from death. Maybe Jiang Cheng screams that he doesn’t care, that he would have killed Nie Mingjue, Jin Guangshan, all of those people himself if Jin Guangyao had asked him. But it’s irreversible now. Jin Guangyao is dead, the Jin sect is finished and it’s Jin Ling’s task to rebuild it, just like Jiang Cheng rebuilt Lotus Pier many years ago (something like that at least.) Jiang Cheng will find a purpose in helping his nephew with that task and he might begin to think of something else occasionally, over time. But he will never get back those few years, a little domestic, a little fucked up but still their years.

Idk i just think about that sometimes yea

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I think the whole fandom way overlooks the whole Mianmian thing. Like, I get it, the Xuanwu cave was the first almost-confession scene, Wangxian fought together and treated each others' injuries and feverishly cuddled. I understand the distraction.

But only Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji and Jin Zixuan stood up for Mianmian. Even before Su She threw her to the Wen, the other disciples she looked to for help actively stood back and would have just. Let her be strung up as bait.

Yes, these were frightened teenagers who knew they were at a disadvantage. They were also trained warriors who had, supposedly, been preparing for similarly dangerous scenarios for years. And out of that entire gathering of people, literally only three were willing to protect her. Only three were willing to fight.

That's indicative of a much deeper problem.

Obviously post-timeskip the Junior Quartet, in a similar situation, would stand up for an innocent. But would their peers? The Lan are oh-so-very-righteous, and we talk about Su She like he was an outlier, but there were other Lan in that cave. There were other Lan who stood aside and did nothing.

Wei Wuxian loved his Jiang sect-siblings, he trained and taught most of them, but they did not protect Mianmian. The Nie, for all the noise they make about honor, did not protect Mianmian. The Jin are the only sect who kind of have an excuse, on account of they don't claim to be good people, but it was the Jin heir who immediately stood up to help.

Nobody else even tried.

... Lan Xichen was at the raid on the Burial Mounds. Nie Mingjue was at the raid on the Burial Mounds. They saw the reality of the Wen they had come to kill, and they killed them anyway.

Their disciples -- kids they had helped train and teach and guide -- were in a cave with an innocent girl, who was just as afraid and unarmed and helpless as they were. That girl was going to be murdered, her body desecrated, used as bait to lure out a monster -- and they all stood back, and did nothing.

Nobody else even tried.

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good luck on your pulls <3

#dan heng #renheng #hsr

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No boit

#hsr #dan heng #renheng

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Restrain your grief

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‘Dusting off his robes, he slowly raised his head to look at Nie Mingjue. His eyes were quite calm, almost indifferent.’ -MDZS Ch 49 

I FINALLY finished this JGY piece! It’s been in my WIP folder for ages, feels good to be done.

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The Untamed - Episode 48

[ID: seven gifs from episode 48 of the cdrama The Untamed, starring Jiang Cheng and Jin Guangyao at the Guanyin Temple. The first gif shows Jiang Cheng from the shoulders up, who's sitting on the floor and furiously glaring up at a standing Jin Guangyao. He grits through his teeth: "Jin Guangyao, how vicious you are."

In the second gif, Jin Guangyao swiftly turns his head back to him, a disbelieving look on his face. In the third gif, his expression gradually softens into the start of a smile as he fully turns his body to him. In the fourth gif, Jin Guangyao slowly begins to crouch, smiling all the way with a pitying look on his face.

In the fifth gif, Jin Guangyao reaches Jiang Cheng's height and slightly cocks his head to the left in a delicate manner, never breaking eye contact with Jiang Cheng. In the sixth gif, Jin Guangyao shrugs his shoulders barely a fraction and asks Jiang Cheng with a mocking innocent expression: "Am I?"

The seventh gif shows Jiang Cheng's complicated expression, the tense lines of his neck marking his working throat as he forces himself to stare back at Jin Guangyao without showing how his words affected him. The caption reads: "The Untamed - Episode 48". /end ID]

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relax time at jin guangyao’s~

#恶友!!

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a Thought:

it is possible that part of why meng yao went the “let me say shit about your dead father” route when facing down nmj in qishan (aside from just, ‘it will particularly amuse wen ruohan’) was because ‘talking shit abt a beloved dead parent’ was what the soldier meng yao murdered had been doing, and when he told nmj that, it wasn’t a good enough excuse for him.  i can see him just being like ‘yeah, it sucks when people talk shit about your dead parents and you’re in a position of zero power and just have to take it, doesn’t it?  doesn’t it kind of make you want to kill me?  doesn’t it feel like something someone should have to die over?  don’t you think???’

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jiang cheng lucy dacus hours