#and so was jin ling

[quan-yizhen]

you know that one video where the person is trying to find their cat so they get their cats kitten and walk outside, and when the kitten starts meowing/crying, you suddenly see the mama cat come running from down the street? well that scene where wei wuxian is kinda picking on jin ling in the woods and going “oooh, what’s your uncle gonna do?” and jiang cheng materializes out of no where? same shit.

[benevolenterrancy]

don't worry about it jingyi, it's a family tradition

(that reveal must have made for a REALLY weird day for the juniors)

#mdzs #junior quartet #mdzs juniors #jin ling #lan jingyi #lan sizhui #ouyang zizhen #lan juniors #poor jin ling is going through a lot with that particular reveal #my art #i just really wanted to have fun with expressions so i'm bullying the juniors don't mind me

[zunaki]

Wangxian in public being disgustingly in love and the Juniors on a matchmaking mission

#Outsider POV and matchmaking my beloved #i feel like in the the Untamed version Wangxian probably took some time to get together #like after Wwx got back to the Cloud Recesses after his big journey they danced around each other #but still look exactly like a couple #and everyone is getting sick of their pining #so the Juniors are coming up with stupid plans to get them together and chaos ensures #i might have read every fanfic on Ao3 with this exact plot #might make a small comic with that idea one day #wangxian #wangxian fanart #the untamed #the untamed fanart #mdzs #mdzs fanart #wei wuxian #lan wangji #lan sizhui #lan jingyi #jin ling #ouyang zizhen #wei ying #lan zhan #wei wuxian fanart #lan wangji fanart #art #digital art

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Get Their Ass.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jin ling #jin chan #Yeah that's right. This guy is a named character. All those nameless disciples in the yi city arc and *this* guy gets a name. #Jin ling finally gets his much needed outfit upgrade! Rest in peace double straps. #I adore how we get to keep learning about Jin Ling and peeling back the layers on him...It's also so sad to see him so alone and friendless #especially knowing he really was starting to build peer friendships in the yi city arc... #Jin ling really is one of my top 5 characters in MDZS and its absolutely in part because of how you can *see* how he ended up this way #and we watch him learn and grow! He's doing what most adults refuse to do: Consider that his opinions are skewed and need to change. #You are NOT immune to propaganda and I adore characters who reflect and struggle with that! #Just because someone with assumed authority says something that fits into what you want to be true does not make it true B*/ #In this series about rumours and warped perspectives - Jin Ling is a great example of how hard you have to work for the truth #+1 points of friendship with jin ling: He will self correct himself if he says a slur now

[yutaan]

“Yutaan,” you may say, “you’ve already made so much art of Jiang Cheng holding baby Jin Ling and crying on him. You do not need to make any more.” YES TRUE but CONSIDER! Is there ENOUGH art of Jiang Cheng holding baby Jin Ling and crying on him? No there is not!! I can do many variations on this most excellent theme.

Anyway happy birthday Jiang Cheng! Your present is cuddles with your baby nephew!

#jiang cheng #jin ling #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #papercraft #papercutting #paper art #my art #tbf Jin Ling was born after Jiang Cheng's birthday and so TECHNICALLY newborn baby JL cannot be JC's birthday present #BUT Jin Ling is always a gift #anyway this is another one that is intended for the holiday sale

[jonathankai]

Whenever I try to imagine relationship between adult Jin Ling and Jiang Cheng, it's always JC going "boo-hoo, now that he's all grown up, he will fly away from the nest and forget all about me and leave my old bones to rot as things should be" and JL going "FINALLY. FINALLY IT'S MY TURN TO FUSS OVER YOU".

Something like this:

JL: When was the last time you touched grass? No. No, look me in the eyes. Answer the question. When was. The last time. You touched grass? Okay, I'm staying here and I'm not going anywhere until you touch grass. Go on, do it. No. No, don't you dare! Come on. Just a little bit, it's okay. There you go! Wasn't so bad, was it? --------------------------- JC (staying in the distance, holding hands to his mouth and shouting): IS IT ENOUGH BASKING IN THE SUN????? JL (watching him from afar, also holding hands to his mouth and shouting): FORTY SECONS DOESN'T COUNT AS 'BASKING IN THE SUN'!!! JC: FUCK!!! ---------------------------

(Jiang Cheng and Jing Ling are enjoying dinner in silence, when suddenly--) JL: Name three good things that happened to you recently. JC: *grumbles* JL: Come on. JC: Uhh..... Okay, I..... Uuuuuuugh... I saw a cute dog yersteday! JL: Oh, that's a good one. I'll count this for two. JC: Aaaand I just named a good thing that counts for two? JL: That's two plus zero. Think harder, uncle.

--------------------------- JC: Sometimes I wish you flew away from the nest and left my old bones to rot. JL: You should have thought about it before taking care of me.

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JL: From now on you will sleep at least six hours per night. JC: No. JL: It's either that or hugging Wei Wuxian next time you see him. JC: Six hours is good, I can do that. (Jiang Cheng turns Lotus Pier upside down to find a rat who keeps reporting to Jin Ling about his sleep schedule. He can't find that person. Of course he can't! They are ALL rats!)

#JC had several people in disguise to check on JL's whereabouts #JL spent half of his childhood at Lotus Pier so he just went and conspired with the WHOLE LOTUS PIER to make JC live a good life #imagine JC sniffing flowers while writhing and hissing (literally) because little joys are a foreign concept to him #but don't worry he's in good hands he'll get there #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #jin ling #jin rulan #mdzsips

[dalbit0]

come again soon!

#mdzs #sangcheng #jiang cheng #nie huaisang #jin ling #cross posting another sangcheng family thing from a while ago they r so dear to me <3 #to those who celebrate happy chuseok/mid-autumn festival!!

[twistedappletree]

i love lan jingyi because he’s so intelligent and quick-witted but he’s also that kid whose friends would have to call the fire department after he gets stuck in a baby swing

#immaculate duality #mdzs #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #lan jingyi #jin ling would be laughing too hard to make the call so ofc it would have to be lan sizhui #before spending the entire time waiting for help to lecture lan jingyi with poetic metaphorical quotes about being an idiot #zizhen is the one genuinely trying to help by flipping him upside down lmAO #we all know a kid who’s gotten stuck in a baby swing and they were all jingyis lbr #and if you’re that kid then congratulations #you’re a jingyi #🍗😌🍗 #mdzs shitposting #apple babble 🍎

[qourmet]

open for a surprise

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#i always wanted to do this scene but this isnt really how i intended to do it #i was designing stickers and it came to me like a freight #mdzs #the friends thought it was funny so you get it too #wangxian #jiang cheng #jin ling #wei wuxian #lan wangji #fanart #my art #meng shi & jgy are the only humans dont ask me what this means for meng shi & jgs

[asha-mage]

Do ya'll ever think about how every character in MDZS is living in a radically different genre of story?

Cause yeah, sure Wei Wuxian is living in a danmei fantasy novel with strong romantic comedy elements, but if you slide over a bit Lan Wangji is living a serious and heady drama about regret, loss, yearning, the passage of time, and ultimately atonement.

Scooch on over to Xichen and your in a straight up Greek tragedy, right down to the parable about hubris and trust. Jin Guangyao is living meanwhile in a political dark fantasy al'la Game of Thrones, Nie Huaisang is in a Gothic moody Monte Cristo-esque reflection on revenge and deception, and while Lan Sizhuhi and Jin Ling are living in two VERY different YA fantasy books ('magic boarding school/secret orphan of destiny' and 'Steven Universe style coming of age/discovering all your family are some flavor of evil and magic' respectively).

Everyone connected to Yi City is living inside a dark psychological thriller/horror flick, except for Xue Yang who is in a Found Family/Enemies to Lover fic right up until he isn't.

Jiang Cheng's entire life has been one long soap opera, and it is showing no signs of stopping anytime soon.

#MDZS #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #Wei Wuxian #Lan Wang #Lan X #jin guangyao #nie huaisang #lan sizhui #Jin Ling #Xue Yang #xiao xingchen #a-qing #Jiang Cheng #oh god SO MANY CHARACTERS #feel free to add more if you think of them

[tbgkaru-woh]

Jin GuangYao and Jin ZiXuan of Lanling Jin

#jin guangyao #jin zixuan #mdzs #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #my art #i was working on jin ling and guangshan too #and then i started thinking of madame jin and awful zixun and jgy's wife WHOS NAME I JUST FORGOT IM SO SORRY #QIN SU? #anyway it became too much so i just... posted these two #may add jin ling later as he's 80% done

[ghostclowning]

everytime jin ling asks "are you wei ying" i can't help but imagine this

#mdzs #rereading it rn feeling things #i had no idea how much i actually love jin ling my little meowmeow #just in general feeling so much cuz yeah on second read u sorta. see things. man

[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

[sandu-zidian]

Nothing in the world belongs to me but my love, mine all mine all mine 💛💜

Happy birthday jiujiu!! 🪷

#mdzs #jiang cheng #jin ling #jin ling and jiujiu #probs better fit for JL’s bday but we’re a little late for that lmao #anyways happy birthday JC I blob u so so so much #posting this bc technically his bday has begun on the other side of the world <333 #katan art

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslighter? I hardly know her!

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #jin guangyao #qin su #The parallels to the mulderskully comic were genuine scripting coincidences that I kept in for the irony. #wwx and mulder both have a strong need to show their beloved (investigation) partner the cool thing they just found. #Much to their chagrin and concern. #For as much of a mess the plot gets in The Untamed...one of the things it does probably the best of all adaptions is setting up JGY. #specifically how we spend time getting to know him as a *Regular Guy* around our deuteragonists' age. #I love how he's present in the cloud recess arc! I was rooting for him as a character! The twist villain reveal felt so heartbreaking! #Here in the audio drama (for as much as it does well) we pretty much get 2 scenes tops with this guy before he's villain monologuing. #before this we know him as 1) the guy NMJ yelled at a lot 2) a suspect 3) leader guy Jin Ling was partially raised by. #The elements are there but but not with any particular depth to make him...interesting (in this version). #Sure we get to learn more after the fact but it just falls so flat in comparison B*/ #ohhhh noooo the guy we are pretty sure killed a guy is gaslighting his wife and has a secret torture chamber. And he's a politician. #not much of a mystery to it all innit. #Feel free to disagree or bring up differing points btw; I love media analysis convos and this truly is just my opinion.

[phoenixkaptain]

My favourite part of MDZS is how cool Wei Wuxian is.

Like, we don’t talk enough about how cool he is. He performs Empathy three times. His ability to use a flute is so powerful, the song doesn’t even have to sound good for it to work. He brought a dead guy back to life (kinda sorta).

But especially, I love how Wei Wuxian treats ghosts and corpses! Wei Wuxian just hangs out with corpses, for FUN!! He scares away low-level corpses just by existing! He hears the voices of the dead to the point that he can’t enter a place too full of resentment without getting a headache from the constant chatter.

I also really like the Extra where Wei Wuxian is just like “Well, the ghost will go away when he’s done screaming. I’m not worried about it.” And he just leaves a screaming ghost at some guy’s house so the ghost can move on peacefully (as peacefully as is possible when one moves on by screaming).

I love all of this so much because Wei Wuxian is constantly saying that people have too high of expectations of him. Xue Yang telling him to put Xiao Xingchen’s soul back together is just one example of this. Someone will tell Wei Wuxian to do something and he’ll be like “How powerful do you think I am?!” And it’s like… Wei Wuxian, you spent six hours hanging onto a cursed sword in the Xuanwu’s mouth, you survived three months in the Burial Mounds and then returned to make it into a semi-livable place, you killed at least a thousand people that one time, and you came back from the dead, just to name a few.

Wei Wuxian is so strong. He’s so cool. He is terrifying. He is unstoppable and unflappable if only because he gets over his embarrassment in about fifteen seconds! He just rolls with it! He rolls with anything that happens! He remains Shocked and Apalled by Lan Zhan’s behaviour for all of five minutes before basically going “lol okay”! He told Lan Zhan that he wanted to sleep with him in front of Lan Xichen, Jin Ling, a handful of Jin disciples, and the literal bad guy of the novel!!!

(I’ll never get over that scene. It is so funny.

WWX: “I need to say something, it can’t wait.”

JGY: “Then just say it right now as you are.” (Referring to the fact that Wei Wuxian has a wire wrapped around his throat that can kill him in seconds)

WWX: “Good point! Lan Zhan, we should’ve fucked.”

This scene is so fucking funny, I will absolutely never get over it)

I love powerful protagonists and honestly, Wei Wuxian is at the top of the list when it comes to overpowered protagonists. The only thing that phases him is dogs, and even then, he himself admits that he can get used to their presence as long as they aren’t barking.

TLDR: Wei Wuxian is so powerful and I totally get why Lan Zhan fell for him.

#wei wuxian #wei ying #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #wangxian #the inane ramblings of a madman #i love wwx #he is the bestest boy #he is so dumb #the part where lxc and jgy #are judging him for not getting how much lwj likes him #and he just keeps saying ‘no wait explain this to me???’ #lxc: good lord my in law is as dumb as a brick #jgy: good lord wwx is worse than huaisang to explain things to #it always makes me laugh #especially the part where lan xichen and jin ling #sit off in the corner #carefully not looking at wwx and lwj #i like to think they awkwardly talked about the weather #long post