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birthday comic for wen ning 🏹

it’s still april 11th in my time zone. this counts

#wen ning #mdzs #mo dao zu shi

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Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 5: Flip Slip.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 4.5)

#HIS FOREHEAD IS NAKED LMAO #poorly drawn mdze #mdzs

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. Kingfisher Feathers by Anonymous I binge read this fic the whole afternoon and lets just say I am inlove 🥺♥ political drama + wangxian = heaven

#listen OP I REBINGED KINGFISHER FEATHERS JUST BECAUSE OF YOUR ART #ISTG i completely forgot about it after i finished chapter 10 and then i saw this art and i was like #“why is that familiar; why is this so pretty; wHAT IS THAT SILHOUTTE IN THE BACK” #YEAH WELL IT WAS THAT FIC I BINGED 1 DAY A WHILE BACK #AND I BINGED IT AGAIN albeit in 2 days cuz i am a working functional adult now #BUT I BLAME U OP #BECAUSE WHAT GOOD TASTES YOU HAVE #AND WHAT FINE ART SKILLS YOU POSSESS #TO LURE ME BACK INTO FANFIC AND HAVE BE IRRESPONSIBLY BINGE READ TIL 12AM WHEN I HAVE WORK AT 6:30 #yeah anyhow it was great thank you for reminding me of that masterpiece i caught up to chapter 11 #mdzs #wangxian

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Don't Wormy About Me.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #i love oh my god it's that fluffy worm thing

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Every other day I remember that the Untamed version of the Jingshi which LWJ stays at into is also the very place which his mother was locked away in and it hurts me body and soul to think about whether it is intentional that LWJ was given the place and chose to live there, or that he was assigned that place in general.

Cuz the thought of LWJ being assigned that place out of some Lan clan tradition that somehow for some reason, second borns of the main family are given the Jingshi as their home, is majorly fucked up that LWJ gets offered that house.

That physical distance which separates his home from the main buildings of foreshadows his future where he stands against the ways of his own clan to save and love WWX who is the very essence of un-Lan-like.

LWJ lives in the very place which trapped his mother's entire existence. in some ways it reflects how trapped he is by his own name; it encapsulates how he has lived in his youth with WWX still alive the 1st time, bound by societal rules, by duties to his clan and to his inability to be anything but the very perfect Lan head disciple that he is.

But also because of CHARACTER GROWTH, the Jingshi becomes if not one of the most iconic scenes in the Untamed (i.e. the talk with the snow outside lives rent free in my brain). The Jingshi is the place of isolation he grew with over the 13/16 years of WWX's death. So that by the time that he finds WWX again, he knows how to make it a place of shelter where they can be their most vulnerable (re: WWX sleeping there, LWJ with his hair down in the Jingshi with WWX by his side, hnnng iconicTM). it's just *chef's kiss* messed up but also *chef's kiss* beautiful.

#i will die on this angst train i will swear by it #Lan wangji #wei wuxian #the untamed #MDZS #wangxian #mo dao zu shi #cql #chen qing ling

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Rereading the TGCF extras and realising that in the amnesia chapter, Xie Lian woke up and straight up called the room a brothel room, and not just any brothel room, but specifically one he wouldnt go to, like damn, bro it’s UR ROOM LMAO 💀.

#ik he’s confused and like mentally 17 #but it will not cease to make me laugh at how he will look at his older self and be like ‘so… youre a slut now’ #800 y/o XL: and borderline almost mass murderer but who’s keeping count #do what makes you happy kid youre literally 17 and got like centuries more to figure out how to be happy #sometimes happiness is getting dick and also locking your old boss under a volcano #tgcf #xie lian #tian guan ci fu #heaven official’a blessing

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#heaven official's blessing #fanart #art #tgcf #mxtx #tian guan ci fu #hua cheng

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Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 2: Indocktrination

(Part 1, Part 3 (soon))

#PLZ IM LOSING IT #mdzs #poorly drawn mdzs #yungmeng jiang training arc au

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praise (21pgs) - ft. doting uncles, a flustered nephew, & hanguang-jun ignoring a cry for help

Keep reading

#your honour i love them #mdzs

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Parallel Lines and Brothers.

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#OP’s tags making me cry 😭😭😭 #poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #lan wangji #lan xichen #jin zixuan

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In hindsight the popularity of using “demonic cultivation” for what Wei Wuxian uses is running counter to what is actually in MDZS being used. It is resulting in a lot of fandom confusion, particularly since demonic cultivation is a xianxia genre standard. But that’s not what is going on in MDZS.

The genre standard demonic cultivation revolves around stealing qi, absorbing life energy from others, possessing others to get access to their greater cultivation abilities, and in general much more assholery than what Wei Wuxian does.

The actual term used by Wei Wuxian and most of the narration in the novel is Guǐdào; aka Ghost Cultivation. It revolves manipulating the dead, using resentful energy as a power source, and to be absolutely blunt it is a form of necromancy. It is the “redirection” option in dealing with the dead; drain away resentful energy so that you can convince the dead to finally let go and be liberated. Either by getting the justice they were denied in life or having lifted the worst of their anger and attachment so they can think clearer.

Not demonic cultivation.

The very title “Mo Dao Zu Shi” is part of the subversion element and part of setting in motion assumptions about the story for the original Chinese readers who know the genre and what the usual tropes are.

Because calling it “Gui Dao Zu Shi” would give away too much from the start of what is actually going on.

Also per MXTX, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are “morally perfect” and as that is the intention given by the author herself, that means nothing Wei Wuxian does with ghost cultivation has to actually harm the ghosts in a way that would be morally wrong. Like destroying them, preventing them from reincarnating, that kind of thing. He does not hurt the dead. He’s honestly shown to be more friendly with the undead; he is endlessly kind to them in fact and even gentle. Polite too and that deserve marking because Wei Wuxian ignores most manners because he generally doesn’t care. But he puts that care into how he treats the gui (undead) he commands and works with. He gives them rewards for a job well done as shown in the Yi City arc!

The one who does use ghost cultivation to hurt both the living and dead is Xue Yang who is repudiated by Wei Wuxian; “Xue Yang has to die” is what he says and that is what he helps Lan Wangji do.

But the actual founder? The guy who made it and is the absolute master of it? Rejects that kind of thinking all the way through the story, even at his lowest.

#wei wuxian #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #meta

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hold him close

#lan wangji #wei wuxian #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wangxian #cql #the untamed #wwx #lwj #魔道祖师

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We could have had it all...

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jin guangyao #nie mingjue

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Chu Wanning was really 26, looking after three teenagers, being addressed as Elder, and insisting on receiving 200 lashes for beating the shit out of a landlord. He should have been at the club.

#no but 💀💀💀 SAY IT LOUDER #plz im choking #2ha #chu wanning

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Post-canon wwx (from Jun 2022)

#it’s so pretty send help #mdzs #i saw this months ago and it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise this is a reference to The Longest Promise lmao #wei wuxian #mxtx

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#I LOVE? #svsss #mxtx #luo binghe #shen jiu #i do not condone maltreatment of bingpup

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I was wholly unprepared for the experience of watching the untamed in 2023. I’ve seen the gifs! I’ve read some character analysis! I vaguely knew the plot but I did not expect a.) the show to be a lot more tragic and nuanced and funny than what I thought possible and I cannot stress this enough b.) for Wen Ning to also be there on that damn boat

#AHAHAH bo cuz that’s EXACTLY how WWX felt too #in the novel he woke up and had a whole convo before he even realised WN was third wheeling #the untamed #mdzs #wen ning