#MDZS spoilers

[lazycranberrydoodles]

sibling bonding moment!

#oughhhhh #kind of mashed together the book scene and cql scene for this. also somehow invented a whole new dseign for yllz wwx #EVEN THOUGJ HIS NENDEROID IS RIGHT THERE ON MY DESK LOOKING AT ME??? #yes wen chao is in the family guy death pose but his fingers are all bitten off so its mot as effective :/ #yes at this point his legs have been chewed off. HE CANT DEATH POSE WITHOUT THEM THOUGH #art #my art #comic #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the grandmaster of diabolism #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #twin prides of yunmeng #lan wangji #wangxian #mdzs fanart #mdzs spoilers #wen zhuliu #wen chao #sunshot campaign #lmao #blood cw #hanging cw #violence cw

[pillow-boi]

“I’ve lied countless times, ki||ed countless times. But I’ve never even thought about harming you.”

#xiyao #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #lxc #jgy #lan xichen #jin guangyao #meng yao #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the untamed #cql #mxtx #danmei #mdzs spoilers #im planning on printing it for y/con!!!

[enlightningbugs]

When Jiang Cheng stabbed the Yiling Patriarch in the gut, 2020.

#mo dao zu shi #mdzs #wei wuxian #wen qing #mdzs spoilers #mdzs comic #procreate #jiang cheng but only in the 'yuri of absence' sense #old content october

[benevolenterrancy]

finally in the process of reading the Guanyin Temple scene and holy shit if WWX isn't the protagonist of all time. We're in the Big Final Confrontation and so far my man has done fuck all except cuddle in LWJ's lap while everyone else is losing their shit and when he DOES finally do something he summons an army of naked, writhing, moaning sex corpses that even his allies just desperately wish Were Not There. stupendous, no notes

#this is the funniest possible Big Final Battle so far i have no idea how it'll end but so far i am LIVING for it #wwx and lwj are 100% committed to just cuddling through this and i love that for them why have i not once heard how funny this scene is #mdzs #wangxian #mdzs spoilers #the untamed spoilers #wei wuxian #wwx #lan wangji #lwj #jin guangyao #lan xichen #jiang cheng #jin ling #jgy #lxc #guanyin temple #my art #obviously tbf it's also a very well written and emotional scene too like yes it is also intense #jiang cheng and wei wuxian's confrontation was just *chefs kiss* heartbreaking well done team #kinda wanna slap lan xichen for being the dumbest bitch in the room but fine he is going through a lot atm #poor jin ling is trying his best and having a horrible time #i'm not convinced that wwx even cares that much about jgy besides for him a) trying to kill his friends/family #and b) making it actively harder for him to cuddle lwj #assume nhs is also there but like out of frame because that's basically how he's playing things atm anyway

[catkindness]

good for you, you look happy and healthy

not me, if you ever cared to ask

#digital art #digital painting #illustration #fan art #please PLEASE don't judge me for the song choise I heard it and immediately caught a nie huaisang brain rot it's stronger than me #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #nie huaisang #jin guangyao #mdzs spoilers #nie mingjue #but like. in pieces and only if you squint. #artists on tumblr #my art

[glitteringpoet1685]

Not a day goes by where I don't think about how Sizhui is the embodiment of the Lan principles despite not being Lan by blood, exactly how Wei Wuxian was the embodiment of the Jiang principles despite not being a Jiang by blood. God I forgot how tragic this show was.

#mdzs spoilers #the untamed rewatch going great i wanna cry myself to sleep #the untamed spoilers #mdzs #the untamed #lan sizhui #wei wuxian

[khattikeri]

one of my favorite things about mdzs is that for how heavily its plot involves politics of classism and misogyny... even the characters most directly impacted by it can't and don't free themselves from it. literally the closest exception is mianmian.

meng yao being the "son of a whore" wasn't some sort of commie awakening for him that led him to wanting everyone to be socially equal. he played the political game, climbed the ladders, sucked up to and backstabbed and murdered people, including other prostitutes who actually had nothing to do with how he and his mother were treated at the brothel he grew up in.

he put in so much extra excessive effort for even a fraction of the same respect that members of gentry cultivation clans got. and he did deserve to be treated more humanely! but he feeds into the exact same system that created him, leading to his own undoing.

his efforts were for a fragile upward mobility that was never going to hold up. he never surpassed his origins nor did he empower others in similar stations, because the society he lives in is not one that would accept that.

the second he got caught and all those crimes exposed, he was scapegoated to hell and back, replacing wei wuxian as society's terrible one-sidedly evil boogeyman overnight.

speaking of not-quite male gentry, i think it's interesting that wei wuxian explicitly doesn't try to climb the ladders in BOTH lives, knowing full well that anything he does will be punished just for the sheer fact that he is wei wuxian.

wei wuxian is scolded for giving intelligent and correct answers in school. lan wangji does the same and is praised.

wei wuxian occasionally lounges around with fellow disciples and is punished. jiang cheng does the same and mostly escapes.

wei wuxian refuses to carry his sword around in public (after losing his golden core, which nobody knows) and is scorned as an arrogant upstart. nie huaisang has been doing the EXACT SAME THING for YEARS and nobody bats an eye.

unlike jin guangyao, wei wuxian knew subconsciously from the start that his acceptance was superficial and that he could be cast out any time. when he was 10 and recently taken in by the jiangs, he canonically would not eat or use "too much" food and water because he thought they'd find him a nuisance for "wasting their things" and kick him back out.

now away from just the classism, yu ziyuan is a proud and strong noblewoman in a society that belittles and derides women for everything they do. her strong cultivation doesn't matter. she's victim to the vicious rumors of her husband loving another woman who is strong like her but apparently had a more likeable personality.

it doesn't matter even if jiang fengmian didn't cheat or that wei wuxian is wei changze's son with cangse sanren; yu ziyuan can't bear with the humiliation of herself (and by extension her children) not being "good enough". she's ridiculed for "failing" in that one duty as a wife, mother, and woman.

she lashes out and takes out that anger on everyone present for years, giving her children lasting trauma and also being a key element in how the jiang family and yunmeng jiang sect are effectively wiped out at the hands of the wen clan.

madam jin doesn't even have a name outside of the fact that she's married to jin guangshan. i don't even remember reading anything that indicates if she's a strong or weak cultivator, or what, which in itself proves that to most people, it doesn't matter. she's "just" a woman.

of course she's angry at her husband's affairs and all the bastard children they bring in. but she also can't do anything about them, so she lashes out at the few people she can: servants. non-cultivators, probably. those very same bastard children.

shoutout to meng yao getting shoved down a flight of stairs at age fourteen, because if madam jin tried that move against her husband instead, it would make her lose even more face, which as a noblewoman she'd never do.

and that's not getting into how jiang yanli is consistently sidelined for being physically weak.

that's not getting into how mianmian was actually a good cultivator, but was mocked by everyone around her for trying to stand up for wei wuxian when everyone was turning on him. how everyone scoffed at luo qingyang's words as "just some lovesick woman" who "obviously wants to marry or bed him since he saved her".

luo qingyang is the only one of these characters who HASN'T died. she didn't play society's games like jin guangyao. she didn't dig her heels in confidence of her own abilities like wei wuxian.

she didn't bitterly lash out like yu ziyuan and madam jin. she didn't gently accept it like jiang yanli.

she just LEFT.

she married an ordinary merchant and cultivates separately from mainstream cultivation society, and therein found her own peace and happiness.

mxtx doesn't bother with particularly class conscious or feminist vocabulary to hand-hold readers into understanding these disparities, but that choice highlights them & the deeply entrenched politics of their society even more. i really love it.

#keri chats #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #long post #mdzs spoilers #im novel only but still tagging. #the untamed #cql #yeah yeah everyone's written meta addressing this aspect of the story BUT I THINK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIMEEEEE #maybe i just don't get to read a ton of books often; esp not ones that mirror my own culture. but it's just so. soooooo. augh #the fact that the setting itself enables so much of the tragedy in mdzs... which is true of all tragedies but STILL... #this isn't even getting into qin su and the power imbalance w her and jgy post-reveal... man. #man. so much going on here. man #THIS POST IS MESSY AND BARELY EDITED BUT IF U READ IT. ILU

[frankencanon]

you ever think about the fact that nie huaisang's father and brother both died the exact same way — forced into qi deviation via a third party

you ever think about how nie mingjue's obsession with getting revenge for his father's murder might have been foreshadowing for nie huaisang's own obsession with avenging his brother and utterly destroying jin guangyao

you ever think about how nie huaisang is a lot more like nie mingjue than most people realize

#the untamed #cql #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed spoilers #cql spoilers #mdzs spoilers #mo dao zu shi spoilers #nie huaisang #nie mingjue #nie sect #nie clan #jin guangyao #meng yao #spoilers #grandmaster of demonic cultivation

[heebiebeebies]

A life-lasting gift 💝

For day 28 of #MXTXtober23: gift

#mxtxtober23 #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #魔道祖师 #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #江澄 #mdzs fanart #mxtx #mxtxtober #mdzs spoilers #fanart #digital art #my art #golden core transfer

[spottedgardeneelstan]

normal jiang brother activities <3

#mdzs #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #the untamed #jiang siblings #minus yanli #sorry yanli #please note that wwx’s face is not shown in its entirety after the first panel! #that is because i think that their time in gusu lan was one of the last times in the novel that jc knows how to feel about wwx! #my opinion of course #also the ‘i can’t go with you’??????? i’m going to collapse #so symbolic of their estrangement #and wwx’s departure from the cultivation world #anyway i had a lot a wwx feels while drawing this #also i never want to look at it again ever #mdzs spoilers

[naehja]

Xichen, please...

That's your little brother's privacy.

I'm sure it's against the Lan rules

#lan xichen #jin guangyao #wei wuxian #wangxian #lan wangji #mdzs #mdzs spoilers

[lazycranberrydoodles]

getting back into the untamed and i had a thought. / follow for more yllz babygirlism

#i saw someone a while ago talking about how wwx always has good intentions…. #his personal road to hell was paved with good intentions yes but i’m not sure where making a guy eat his own legs fits #it is so funny to me how the tiger tally/yin iron influences wei wuxian differently in each adaptation #i remember making a sliding scale of how ‘culpable’ wwx is from adaptation to adaptation #based on how they portray the mental effects of the iron #but for the life of me i cannot find it :( #wwx really said ‘if i had a cursed amulet i simply wouldnt be corrupted🙄🙄’ #that’s basically what he tells lan zhan in this episode…. if necromancy was having ill effects i would notice #and you know. at this point he is lying about everything. but i do wonder how much he actually believes that 👁️👁️ #how much of his mind is resigned to doing whatever needs to be done to exact revenge regardless of harm to himself #and how much genuinely believes that he’s smart and competent enough to make it through whole #the answer of course is BOTH!! bisexual pride #mdzs #art #mdzs spoilers #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic arts #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #my art #the grandmaster of diabolism #cql #the untamed #魔道祖师 #陈情令 #mdzs meme #doodle #lmao

[ennunanaiurov]

Nie Mess-With-Me-I-Mess-With-You HuaiSang

// ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ʀᴇᴜᴘʟᴏᴀᴅ //

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #nie huaisang #i love him so much #my art #mdzs spoilers

[enlightningbugs]

SunsHaunt Campaign, 2019

#jiang yanli #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #mo dao zu shi #MDZS #mdzs spoilers #MDZS comic #procreate #old content october #comic

[jonathankai]

❗❗MDZS spoilers, TGCF spoilers❗❗

Nie Huaisang: I destroyed him through and through. His own wife found him repulsive. The whole cultivation society wanted his downfall. He lost his mother's ashes. His dearest friend fatally wound him and dage tore his body apart. And what did you do with bastard who decapitated your brother?

Shi Qingxuan: He... comes over to dinner sometimes?

#mo dao zu shi #mdzs #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #tgcf #nie huaisang #shi qingxuan #beefleaf #mdzs spoilers #tgcf spoilers #mdzsips #hey! at least he xuan is not allowed to come to dinner until he brings his own food

[unreliablewitness34]

Trying to write Nie MingJue lives fix-it fic, to me, is like trying to write a fix-it for the victim in a murder mystery. Where they had already been suffering from a terminal illness. And their murder is the only reason the detective is even alive right now.

#mdzs #nie mingjue #not saying it’s impossible or stupid or anything #love everybody out there doing it #just funny how much to account for there is #like damn girl your death really did change everything forever #mdzs spoilers