#ch: lan wangji

[sugaaz]

happy birthday lan wangji ૮꒰ ˶• ༝ •˶꒱ა ♡

#theuntamededit #theuntameddaily #mxtxnet #cdramaedit #asiandramanet #cdramasource #dailyflicks #tvedit #cdrama #the untamed #d: the untamed #ch: lan wangji #*mz:mine #userroh #usermoh #userhanyi #userkyaa #usernikiforova #userinahochi #liliumdragomir

[takonxmz]

yesterday was wip Wednesday huh

podfic covers for gimme shelter and writ in blood. wangji is finished; xichen is in the "trust the process" stage. LMAO

#tako wips #wip wednesday #wip whenever #mdzs #my art #ink #pentel brush pen #colored ink #lan wangji #lan xichen #man. gimme shelter is not a long fic. wy's accent is what im slogging thru rn. #i have 3/5 chapters done. but i keep going back to fix wy's lines. #ch 4 and 5 arent long at all. #meanwhile i can finish xiyao fics rly quickly now

[sasukimimochi]

bonk

plus Ch 14 art wip

#my brain decided to melt bc of my recent dizziness #and gained impulsive thoughts about lwj putting #his big hand on his boyfriend's face instead of drawing the actual ch art lol #for those of you who actually wanna see a lil preview though here #have fun trying to figure out what's happening #help me brain is melting as i type #wwx #wei wuxian #shitpost #lwj #lan wangji #doodle #i am in a glass case of emotion #confused ghostie wwx #ghost wwx

[kingofpeacows]

Everyone knows Lan Zhan is gay, they're just waiting for him to come out to be polite.

#lqr and lxc seeing lwj flirt with wwx during the cloud recess arc #they know what he is #it spreads as a rumor while wwx is dead and then gets accepted as fact #no ones even mad at the gay thing #theyre mad he chose wwx #all the juniors know too #<<see ch 12 #lan wangji #wei wuxian #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #wangxian

[omgiamwish]

So! I’m gonna ask again, but this time with art! (and on my other blog)

I’m currently in a place in writing my time travel fic where i don’t need to give wwx a new title, but i kind of want to.

the one I’ve thought up is 阳光微笑 - Yángguāng wéixiào - sunshine smile (according to google translate)

if there are any chinese speakers who see this, can you please tell me if this is a good name, a bad name, or just really cheesy? It sounds cheesy in english, so if it sounds cheesy or bad in chinese, i won’t use it, since it’s not an important part of the story anyway.

Thank you! 💖

EDIT: I was using xiao xingchen and song lan’s titles as reference, but would wwx’s need to be formatted more like Yangguang-jun? Or would that just sound better? I don’t know, I wanted something that would convey that wwx is just as bright and righteous as lwj and is popularly thought of as such

I wanted to include guang in the name to complement hanguang-jun, but i realize i don’t know enough about the naming conventions to know if that would also be cheesy or bad. I am open to criticism and suggestions!

#the untamed #theuntameddaily #mdzs #cql #wangxian #wei wuxian #lan wangji #fan art #artists on tumblr #the above art would take place between ch 15 and 16 of my current draft

[gravitywonagain]

M, 1.6k, 1/1, Wangxian

He traces one line as far as he can, pressing gently into the easy yield of the scar tissue. Follows it from where it curls over Lan Zhan’s left deltoid, snakes around his shoulder blade and across his ribs until it crosses the knobby ridge-- Rage flares. ~ Wei Wuxian's feelings about his husband's whip scars.

Tags:

Post-Canon; Married Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn; Protective Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn; Angry Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn; descriptions of lwj's whip scars; descriptions of yzy's abuse of wwx; Discipline Whip (Módào Zǔshī); but like only in the context of the scars it left; Hopeful Ending; that feel when you're processing trauma in the middle of the night; while your husband sleeps peacefully next to you; but like in a good way

#wangxian #wei wuxian #lan wangji #the untamed #mdzs #cql #fanfiction #my writing #efytd #so..... instead of writing ch 17 this morning i decided to edit and post this guy #hope you all enjoy it!

[doufudanshi]

ON GHOSTS AND DEMONS: Wei Wuxian's "demonic" cultivation?

There are a few big misconceptions I have repeatedly seen in English-speaking fandom about things that are fundamental to the story of MDZS. One of them is this—

Wei Wuxian is not a demonic cultivator.

To prove this, let's take a deep dive into the original Chinese text of MDZS.

(Adapted from my original gdoc posted on Twitter on May 27, 2022. All translations my own unless otherwise stated.)

Demon vs. ghost

Let's start from the very basics. In addition to orthodox cultivation using spiritual energy and a golden core, there are two other forms of cultivation that are mentioned in the novel:

魔道 (mó dào), or “demon cultivation/path.”

鬼道 (guǐ dào), or “ghost cultivation/path.”

To be clear, 魔 mo "demons" and 鬼 gui "ghosts" (and thus their respective cultivation/paths) are not interchangeable because of the in-universe worldbuilding within MDZS. Using the characters in the term 妖魔鬼怪 "monsters," MXTX created four distinct categories of beings, each of which has a strict definition in the novel. From chapter 4 (jjwxc ch 13):

妖者非人之活物所化; 魔者生人所化; 鬼者死者所化; 怪者非人之死物所化。 Yāo (妖) are transformed from non-human living beings; mó (魔) are transformed from living people; guǐ (鬼) are transformed from the deceased; guài (怪) are transformed from non-human dead beings.

And of course, WWX hoards all the ghost-type pokemon monsters at the Phoenix Mountain tournament, and he only exerts control over corpses, spirits, and the like (aka people who have already died). (As opposed to Xue Yang, who appears to have been actively trying to make 魔 "demons" out of living people with those "living corpses" of his, perhaps.) (And, ironically, in order to avoid showing necromancy / zombies on screen, CQL technically does show WWX practicing demon cultivation because everyone is "supposedly alive" even when they're corpses? Which is, funnily enough, far worse morally in the MDZS universe, lol.)

So, intuitively at least, we know that WWX must be practicing ghost cultivation—now let's look at some concrete examples from the book.

Running the numbers

1) 魔道 (mó dào) means “demon cultivation.” As such, it must use living humans.

魔道 appears one (1) time in the novel.

Yes, once. The only time it appears is in the term 魔道祖师 modao zushi, or the namesake of the novel, in chapter 2. This is a title the general public has given him through rumors:

魏无羡好歹也被人叫了这么多年无上邪尊啦、魔道祖师啦之类的称号，这种一看就知道不是什么好东西的阵法，他自然了如指掌。 Wei Wuxian wasn’t called titles like “The Evil Overlord,” “The Founder of Demon Cultivation,” and so on over the years by others for nothing—he knew these sorts of obviously shady formations like the back of his hand.

2) 鬼道 (guǐ dào) means “ghost cultivation.” As such, it must use dead humans. 

鬼道 appears 12 times in the novel.

Here is the first instance that 鬼道 appears, which I believe is the first time Wei Wuxian's method of cultivation is properly introduced. From chapter 3 (jjwxc ch 8):

蓝忘机 […] 对魏无羡修鬼道一事极不认可。 Lan Wangji […] had never approved of the fact that Wei Wuxian practiced ghost cultivation.

Here's another quote from chapter 15 (jjwxc ch 71) for funsies:

蓝忘机看着他，似乎一眼就看出他只是随口敷衍，吸了一口气，道：“魏婴。” Lan Wangji looked at him as if he saw through his half-hearted bluff. He took in a breath, then said, “Wei Ying.” 他执拗地道：“鬼道损身，损心性。” He stubbornly continued, “Ghost cultivation harms one’s body, and harms one’s nature.”

3) 邪魔歪道 (xiemowaidao) means heretical path/immoral methods/evil practices/underhanded means/etc—e.g., lying, cheating, stealing, bribery, and so on.

It appears ~24 times in the novel.

I mention this last term because it is often used to refer to Wei Wuxian's cultivation, but as a pejorative. Every instance of 邪魔歪道 is said by or to quote someone looking down upon Wei Wuxian’s cultivation (Jin Zixun, Jin Ling, etc.) and referring to it derogatorily, whereas every instance of 鬼道 guidao/ghost dao is said by someone discussing it neutrally and/or factually (Lan Jingyi, Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian himself, random cultivators at discussion conferences, the narration, etc.). Here is a pertinent example with Jin Ling (derogatory) and Lan Jingyi (neutral) in chapter 9 (jjwxc ch 43):

金凌怒道：“是在谈论薛洋，我说的不对吗？薛洋干了什么？他是个禽兽不如的人渣，魏婴比他更让人恶心！什么叫‘不能一概而论’？这种邪魔歪道留在世上就是祸害，就是该统统都杀光，死光，灭绝！” “We are discussing Xue Yang,” Jin Ling said angrily. “Am I wrong? What did Xue Yang do? He’s scum that’s lower than a beast, and Wei Ying is even more disgusting than him! What do you mean ‘don’t make sweeping generalizations?’ As long as those practicing this kind of demoniac, heretical path are alive, they’ll continue to bring disaster. We should slaughter all of them, kill all of them, annihilate them once and for all!” 温宁动了动，魏无羡摆手示意他静止。只听蓝景仪也加入了，嚷道：“你发这么大火干什么？思追又没说魏无羡不该杀，他只是说修鬼道的也不一定全都是薛洋这种人，你有必要乱摔东西吗？那个我还没吃呢……” Wen Ning shuffled around. Wei Wuxian gestured at him to stay still, only to hear Lan Jingyi also cut in loudly, “Why are you getting so riled up? It’s not like Sizhui said Wei Wuxian shouldn’t have been killed. All he said was that people who practice ghost cultivation aren’t necessarily all like Xue Yang. Do you have to go around breaking things? I didn’t even get to eat any of that yet…”

Tl;dr—Wei Wuxian does not 修魔道 practice demon cultivation. When Wei Wuxian’s craft is discussed in a neutral and factual manner, it is referred to as 鬼道 ghost dao. 

In fact, Wei Wuxian’s imitators are also referred to explicitly as 鬼道修士 ghost cultivators.

魏无羡早就听说过，这些年来江澄到处抓疑似夺舍重生的鬼道修士，把这些人通通押回莲花坞严刑拷打。 Wei Wuxian had heard a while back that over the past few years, Jiang Cheng had gone around snatching any ghost cultivator suspected of being possessed or reborn, detaining them in Lotus Pier to interrogate them using torture.

So why the confusion?

Of course, there is the matter of the novel's title, which I will get into in a second. But the real issue is a matter of translation.

The idea that WWX uses "demonic cultivation" is a misconception in English-speaking fandom due to issues with the translation of terminology. Of note, EXR actually did translate 鬼道 guidao as "ghostly path" most of the time, though there were at least 3 instances of "demonic" and 1 instance of "dark," especially regarding the first few.

However, this misconception was perpetuated (and arguably worsened) by 7S's official translation, which not only mistranslated additional terms as "demonic cultivation/path" (at least in book 1), but also consistently mistranslated every instance of 鬼道 as "demonic cultivation/path."

So why is this book called 魔道祖师, commonly translated as "Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation?"

One possibility is one posed in Chinese-language meta online, which often cites that WWX himself is a sort of 魔 demon. While this may be true—after all, he can hear the voices of the dead—it doesn't quite explain the fact that the title sets him up to be the 祖师 or "founder."

My take is that this novel is very much concerned with hearsay vs. truth. This is one of the many monikers WWX is given by the public, who collectively view him as evil. (Also of note is that the non-cultivator public is not aware of all the nuances that cultivators learn re: distinctions between the 妖魔鬼怪 monsters.) In the quote from earlier, note that the first title we're given is actually 无上邪尊 “The Evil Overlord,” then 魔道祖师 "The Founder of Demon Cultivation." Like, what can that be other than MXTX telling us, "please take both of these with a HUGE grain of salt, lol."

(And not only the title, but the very first line—"魏无羡死了。" / "Wei Wuxian is dead."—is a lie.)

I think the title is genius, honestly. It intentionally makes readers come into the novel with preconceived notions that Wei Wuxian practices 魔道 demon cultivation and evil techniques—just like the public in the novel. What better way to tell a story warning about the dangers of how easy it is to fall for misinformation and jump to incorrect conclusions?

(Though, in our case, perhaps it worked a little too well.)

#魔道祖师 #mdzs #mdzs meta #mdzs translation #wei wuxian #wwx #demonic cultivation #ghost cultivation #mine #doufudanshi translation #crossposted from twitter #(sort of)

[wutheringskies]

do you guys ever think of how Lan Zhan shows so much physical affection to Wei Ying?

Pets him like a kitten

Just as his mind tensed, Lan WangJi reached out and stroked his back. Wei WuXian finally calmed down somewhat.

Exr, Ch 101

Lan WangJi stroked Wei WuXian’s back a few more times. Wei WuXian looked up. Lan WangJi didn’t seem at all surprised. His eyes were almost gentle. Wei WuXian felt his heart skip a beat. He couldn’t help but whisper, “… You knew?”

ExR, ch 102

Lan WangJi lowered his head and wrapped his arms around Wei WuXian’s waist. He looked quiet and motionless, yet Wei WuXian could feel his fingers stroke his waist, whether intentional or not. The fingers were so warm that the heat seeped through his clothes and went straight into his skin.

Exr, banquet

Lan WangJi stroked his hair and landed a kiss on his forehead. Shaking his head, he smiled.

Exr, Incense burner pt 2

Following are from chapter 94? By @boat-full-of-lotus-pods

Patting him on the shoulder, Lan WangJi stared at him with care and concern, as if asking Wei WuXian how he was feeling

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Expression unchanging, Lan WangJi held him with one arm and patted him in a soothing manner. Holding Wei WuXian with one hand and Bichen with the other, Lan WangJi leaped onto the wall and peered at the angry hound beneath them.

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Standing victoriously, Lan WangJi patted Wei WuXian on the back two more times for comfort. Hugging Wei WuXian tightly, he leaped down the wall once more.

so many pats !

#mo dao zu shi #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #lan zhan #novel excerpt

[thatswhatsushesaid]

apropos of (almost) nothing--i'm re-reading the empathy flashback chapters (again) to suss out a specific detail about the watchtowers, and i'm just. i'm giggling again about wei wuxian's continued fixation on jin guangyao's attractiveness lmfao

After the Sunshot Campaign had ended, the LanlingJin Sect set up a flower banquet that lasted for days, inviting countless cultivators, countless sects to come and celebrate together.

On Koi Tower, people came and went. Before Nie MingJue’s high viewpoint, the crowd parted again and again, with both sides nodding at him in respect, calling him “ChiFeng- Zun”. Wei WuXian thought, Such a show of extravagance is going to reach even the heavens. All these people both fear and respect Nie MingJue. There’s quite a few people who fear me, though not a lot who respect me.

Jin GuangYao was standing right beside the base of the palace. Now that he had become sworn brothers with Nie MingJue and Lan XiChen, and been accepted into his clan, he had already painted between his brows the mark of vermilion and donned the white, golden-edged robes of Sparks Amidst Snow. Wearing a gauze cap, he was almost beyond recognition. As handsome as ever, his cleverness was the same, yet his air was calmer than it had ever been.

- EXR translation, ch. 49 pg 490

honestly no wonder lan wangji hates jin guangyao so much. not only is he suspiciously didi-shaped and stealing away the attention of his beloved xiongzhang, but wei ying thinks he's hot, too?? this crime will not stand

#mdzs meta #jin guangyao #he did crimes??? good for him 😌

[mdzs-fanon-exposed]

MDZS Fanon VS Canon: 1/?

Wei Wuxian wore black and red as a Jiang disciple

Rating: FANON – NEUTRAL

Almost all the visual adaptations and official art for Mo Dao Zu Shi depict Wei Wuxian in black and red clothing during his days as a Jiang disciple, despite the other disciples wearing sect colors. However, this design choice is not canon to the novel, as the color of his robes during this time period is never stated.

In all the flashbacks to Wei Wuxian as a Jiang disciple, the only time the color of Wei Wuxian's clothing is mentioned is in the Xuanwu's cave:

The inner robe was his undergarment, which wouldn't normally have been appropriate for Lan Wangji to wear, but his outer robe was filthy. ... Wei Wuxian tossed the dry white inner robe to him and draped the outer robe around himself before silently making himself scarce to give Lan Wangji space. (Seven Seas Ch. 11, p. 64)

Wei Wuxian has canonically worn a white inner robe at least once. However, the color of his outer robes are never stated until after Lotus Pier is sacked and Wei Wuxian returns from the Burial Mounds for the first time, at which point he is "dressed entirely in black" (Seven Seas Ch. 13, p. 179).

Personally, the emphasis placed on how much black Wei Wuxian wears after the Burial Mounds implies to me that it is a brand-new fashion choice. In my opinion, as the head disciple of the Jiangs, Wei Wuxian was much more likely to have worn the sect's official color:

Jiang Cheng had yet to reply when a man clad in the Jiang Clan's purple came rushing out of the woods. "Sect Leader!" (Seven Seas Ch. 3, p. 80)

Notably, even in the scenes before his official separation from the Jiangs where he does wear black, Wei Wuxian does not appear to wear red either, except for one "accessory":

He saw himself, dressed all in black, standing with his hands clasped behind his back. A black flute with a bright red tassel hung at his waist. (Seven Seas Ch. 10, p. 310)

This prompts the question of why exactly the visual adaptations and fanart depict Wei Wuxian in so much red. My guess is that the red from Chenqing's tassel was used as an accent color in order to make Wei Wuxian's design distinctive, but I don't know for sure.

In conclusion, it is impossible to say what color Wei Wuxian's clothing was when he was a Jiang disciple, as it is never mentioned in the novel. The color of his clothing is left to the audience's own interpretation.

#fanon vs canon #mdzs #wei wuxian #yunmeng jiang #rating: neutral

[witch-and-writer]

Ek passe tu babbu, ek passe hai jag saara

-You on one side, my beloved, the entire world on another-

[About Ch-3 of Something is Wrong with A-Zhan!]

Remember the morally grey Wei Wuxian tag? Yeah, that line at the top is what I meant by that. I don’t think Wei Wuxian would ever be morally grey, he’s the most morally upright character I have ever come across, but just for this fic, as long as it’s Lan Wangji vs the world, Wei Wuxian would always choose Lan Wangji, even if it conflicts with his moral and principles. Putting it simply, Wei Wuxian would condemn murder and harming the innocents, but if it’s Lan Wangji committing these crimes, he wouldn’t be able to bring himself to condemn him, instead, he’ll come up with possible justifications for Lan Wangji and defend him.

I hope I was able to capture an inkling, an essence of this in the chapter.

Also, is anyone surprised that no Lan elders except Lan Qiren are furious at Lan Wangji's wantonness? I just think that after the whole Qingheng-jun fiasco, they will think Lan Wangji much more tame, especially since Wei Wuxian, unlike the Madam Lan in my head, doesn't seem too bothered by their second heir's behavior. Maybe they are even turning a blind eye to this because of how much they love Wei Wuxian and his genius.

My thought process behind their thought process is that- since Wei Wuxian is a once in a lifetime genius and he is here (in cloud recesses) because of Lan Wangji and he is staying because of his obvious love for their second heir, and they know this. They can see this. So, just for the sake of keeping Wei Wuxian in their sect as their prized disciple who is famous all around for his no-less-than-miraculous inventions, they all collectively decide to overlook Lan Wangji's shameless behaviour that is definitely not befitting of someone holding the title of the Second Jade of GusuLan.

Of course, no one added Lan Qiren to the group chat and that's why he's still bitter about his nephew's changed behaviour.

Mini Theater:-

*lwj acting shameless, holding wwx by the waist and kissing him publicly* Lan Elders: I can't see, I'm blind~ blind~ Lan Qiren, who was not added to the chat and thus was not informed that they have to ignore all this: *qi-deviates* Lan Xichen, who now has to deal with his dramatic uncle: Wangji, if you could just get a room, I would be grateful. You know uncle can't handle this much pda. Lan Wangji: *too busy sucking wwx's soul out through his mouth to hear, further sending his dramatic but weak-hearted single uncle into a qi-deviation* Lan Xichen: ... I love you, didi, but I feel like I should not. When did you become such a menace?!

I don't even know why I'm babbling, but I am and I refuse to suffer through the on-goings of my mind alone, so here we are~

Sofia out~

#mdzs #ao3 #ao3 writer #mini-theater #dark lan wangji #ao3fic

[sugaaz]

#mdzsedit #mxtxnet #*mz:mine #am: mo dao zu shi #ch: lan wangji #anisource #fyanimegifs #dailyshounenai #userhanyi #usernikiforova #usergojoana #tuseroa #userrsun #userkyaa #liliumdragomir #usersenka #userzuura #keikuns #userroh #usermoh #trying out stuff and i most certainly messed up the file sizes #oops #but hey first attempt in a new method of giffing

[yulan-ysbzc]

Lan Wangji — a comedian in disguise (you don't understand, he's so funny) Part 2

After a moment, his guqin’s strings sounded a couple more times on their own. Wei Wuxian asked hurriedly, “What did it say?”

“I do not know,” Lan Wangji said.

“Huh?”

Nonchalantly, Lan Wangji repeated, “It said, ‘I do not know.’”

“…” Wei Wuxian looked at him, suddenly remembering how, many years ago, they had had a similar conversation about “Suibian.” He rubbed his nose, speechless. Lan Zhan’s grown up too much. He’s even learned how to make me choke.

|mdzs ch.22 - fanyiyi translation

#he's having his little revenge 😭 #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #novel excerpts #lan wangji #lan zhan #hanguang-jun #wei wuxian #wei ying #wangxian

[sasukimimochi]

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Chapter 11: - "Road to Recovery"

He smiled in such a soft and warm way, arms winding around his torso like they were meant to be there. He would be safe. This voice of velvet tones would never let him down if he allowed it. Strong, reliable, and such affection and love that could penetrate his entire being even from far away.

This voice was his to listen to, his to lose himself in, to indulge like a fine wine.

“Lan Zhan…?” He blinked in confusion, lifting his arms to wrap around the white robes that had suddenly embraced him. He still leaned into the others embrace, a comfort nearly overwhelming him, like he’d been away for too long. He rubbed his cheek gently against the other’s hair, allowing the scent of sandalwood to calm his fluttering heart.

Did two this time! Not my favorites i've done but i hope you like them, i just redesigned LWJ a bit so this is the last time you'll see him with this design cuz i don't like it very much. I hope you guys enjoy the new Chapter!!

As always don't repost/use/edit my work <3

Find my other projects and other Ghost of Mine art here. ❤

#Ghost of Mine #mdzs fic #mdzs #lwj #lan wangji #wangxian #wwx #wei wuxian #wei ying #lan zhan #ghost wwx #Chapter 11 #Ch 11 #mo dao su zhi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #fic art #my fic :] #GOM

[least-carpet]

timeskip zhancheng questions I am currently tormented by

Purging my zhancheng thoughts on tumblr because I refuse to start another WIP. You can't get me, zhancheng timeskip thoughts!!

Lan Wangji:

If zhancheng happens during the timeskip, do Lan Wangji's ideas about Jiang Cheng change in proximity to Jiang Cheng?

If so, how do those changes affect him? (Maturity, political awareness, etc.?)

If not, what does that illustrate about him? (Cruelty, desire to hold a grudge, etc.) How do his conceptions of punishment and his dislike or contempt for Jiang Cheng interact with his canonical sexual sadism (value-neutral) in this relationship?

Does any of this affect how Lan Wangji sees himself, his own sexuality, etc. outside of the (slightly safer) container of "great passion for the singular love of my life?"

Can he recognize the ways in which Wei Wuxian harmed Jiang Cheng? (The lying and resulting distance, leaving the sect, killing his brother-in-law, etc. are definitely harmful to Jiang Cheng, among other people, regardless of Wei Wuxian's intentions.) If so, how does that affect how he understands both of them? If not, what does the resistance to seeing and understanding that tell us about him?

Jiang Cheng:

In this scenario, does Jiang Cheng recognize that he has created a situation that mirrors his treatment from his father and makes explicit the dynamic of his parents' marriage (by choosing a partner that is in love with an idealized dead past love, he's chosen a partner who will devalue him the way his father devalued his mother, but explicitly or aggressively rather than passively through avoidance). DOES HE DOES HE DOES H—

I think this is another Jiang Cheng self-harms through sex headcanon for me. Like it's also a bid for connection (I simply do not see canon era Jiang Cheng as particularly good at no-strings-attached sex) but not a healthy one; he has too much grief, self-hatred, and blame. In some ways, maybe banging someone who is openly contemptuous of him is a relief? He can externalize those impulses a bit? This at least starts off as projection4projection with Wei Wuxian's ghost firmly between them in an extremely emotionally rancid threesome.

Also if Jiang Cheng immediately gets dumped for Wei Wuxian upon resurrection, it makes him worse. Literally THEE abandonment trigger. You think he had divorced vibes before? Don't even know what this would look like. Obviously he's still holding it down for Jin Ling but at what cost. On the other hand, if they work something out, in which he is valued as highly as Wei Wuxian, in which he is irreplaceable... big catharsis, so tasty... HIGH RISK HIGH REWARD...

IMO this would have to be a zhanchengxian ending for a good ending because I think it would also fuck Wei Wuxian up to find out that he'd once again inadvertently replaced Jiang Cheng in someone's affections. Childhood wounds for everyone! I also want Wei Wuxian to come out of this... not more damaged than he already is...

Zhancheng, zhanchengxian, or zhancheng-adjacent timeskip fics that have contributed to my brainworms under the cut. Please check the actual tags/warnings on the fics themselves because I'm not being, uh, comprehensive about it.

Delight in Misery by @robininthelabyrinth (not rated, zhancheng are banging platonically and are essentially life partners, eventual actually romantic wangxian is planned I think, tasty to me because zhancheng get to be happy together during the timeskip and also because of a really fun canon divergence... they have kids to raise and animals around them... they aren't so lonely!)

venom by @alessandriana (M, zhancheng, past one-sided chengxian and wangxian, delightful proxyfucking, involuntary intimacy, and Fraught Life-Saving)

Tempered by theraputic_dose (E, zhanchengxian, post-canon with some tasty timeskip stuff, great balance of making Jiang Cheng Suffer His Feelings without softening his temper or his tongue too much)

don't want no other shade of blue but you by sofkoo (M, chengxian, zhancheng, endgame zhanchengxian, omegaverse, Wei Wuxian has an incest kink and an impulse control problem, Lan Wangji is violently introduced to nuance, and Jiang Cheng accidentally like 6 whole children)

Lost by NotActuallyaSpider (M, zhancheng, chengxian, zhanchengxian, Lan Wangji is a—somewhat OOC, it must be said—cad!!, and he eats so much crow about it, if this were SGA the lemon chicken rating would be OFF THE CHARTS, goes so hard on the Jiang Cheng Abandoned Wife Angst Vortex, for real)

all the time in the world (& i'll spend it loving you) by @asideoftrashplease (E, chengxian, zhancheng, zhanchengxian, a rather more light-hearted palate-cleanser, post-canon but with some timeskip stuff)

#zhancheng #zhanchengxian #wei wuxian's ghost is always in there let's be real #jiang cheng #lan wangji #wei wuxian #mdzs + #reclist #least-carpet thoughts

[gravitywonagain]

Okay, I know, I know. I said I was gonna do Whumptober and then I just... didn't. But! In my defense! I think this ticks boxes for the first three days (which I know is not the point, but work with me here, I'm broken and wrote this instead of reading for class).

No. 1 A LITTLE OUT OF THE ORDINARY: Adverse Effects | Unconventional Restraints | “This wasn’t supposed to happen” No. 2 NOWHERE TO RUN: Cornered | Caged | Confrontation No. 3 A HAIR’S BREADTH FROM DEATH: Gun to Temple | “Say goodbye.” | Impaled

Wei Wuxian is not all here. Oh, also, major character death... yeah... okay :D This isn't a nice drabble, not a happy ending, but maybe you'll like it anyway? I'm sorry and thank you <3

[M, 1k, Wangxian (implied), AU: canon-divergent]

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It was surprisingly easy to stop Hanguang-jun, to hold him in place. Wei Wuxian barely even had to task the resentment; it leapt at the challenge, at the bare notion in his will, wrapping around this jiandao cultivator’s limbs and trunk and bringing him to his knees. It bit and stung at his skin where it touched him -- six layers of silk protected most of him, but his neck and face, his hands were uncovered. The tips of his ears had gone red with… fury? Embarrassment? It was difficult for Wei Wuxian to tell. It was more difficult for him to care. Dead voices were loud in his head; living voices were calling for his blood. 

Lan Zhan was silent. He didn’t struggle, he didn’t speak. He stared at Wei Wuxian across the long spine of the rooftop, focused and intent, like he could rekindle the telepathic bond they’d shared once on another bloody night. 

An arrow lodged itself into Wei Wuxian’s chest and his body jolted with it. That wasn’t right. He’d been shot in the shoulder. Last time. Last time? 

He pulled the arrow from his body and looked at it. As he watched, smoke rose from his sleeve, wound around the tip, and licked his blood from the wood and iron. He felt something similar curling around and through the hole in his flesh. It tickled. 

Send it back, said the dead, repay him for our pains. 

What pain? Wei Wuxian couldn’t feel much of anything anymore. 

He threw the arrow back. He didn’t look, but the gasps from the gathered sects told him the dead had hit the mark. The mark was dead. 

Lan Zhan was still silent. Was that by choice? Did he finally run out of things to say to his lost-cause of a zhiji? His eyes were wide -- pleading and broken and afraid. Was he afraid of Wei Wuxian? He should be, probably. Wei Wuxian could feel his control slipping as the seal in his sleeve grew louder and more persistent. It wanted blood, see. And the war was over. But blood was plenty, pumping, provocative. Jin Guangshan had brought it a feast. Was that his plan? To seduce it away?

It didn’t matter. Wei Wuxian was so tired. 

Another arrow pierced him, his core this time. Or. Where his core would be. Was. Before. An interesting choice of targets. 

Lan Zhan screamed -- no longer silent; it must have been choice, then -- as thick, black smoke began to pour out of Wei Wuxian’s lower dantian. The scream was loud, raw, and Hanguang-jun began to fight against the ghosts holding him in place. 

The binding was never meant to be permanent, not really. Wei Wuxian would have let him go in a heartbeat. But. It was too late for that. 

A splitting sound accompanied a jolt of pain from his kneecap to his collarbones as the roof spine broke under the weight of him. The pain was-- nice. His power poured from him and left him vulnerable. So vulnerable. Another arrow. Another. Two more. Each one sharp and hot -- welcome after so many months spent cold and numb. 

Wei Wuxian looked over at Lan Zhan again. He was struggling and the ghosts were tightening around him with his every motion. It wasn’t going well. Not for either of them. He was yelling, too. Calling out for “Wei Ying! Wei Ying!” Wei Wuxian wasn’t sure who he wanted. Was it the boy who’d badgered him in the library? The inferior son of a servant who was playing with power he couldn’t hope to control? Was it-- Could it be the friend, the zhiji who’d fought by his side for years and years, who loved him and wanted for nothing but Lan Zhan’s attention and praise?

None of those people existed anymore. Wei Wuxian wasn’t sure any of them ever had. He knew that none of them could ever exist again. Not after what he was about to do. 

The tiger seal rose above the battlefield, light as smoke, black as shadow. It shivered as he promised it blood, as he fed it with the resentment bubbling out of him. He felt its anticipation brimming over and the bloodlust of it coiled in his own gut like a rising orgasm. 

His chin was wet, he noticed. His cheeks, too. He licked his lower lip: iron. 

Lan Zhan was glowing inside the cocoon of resentful dead that still held him. Wei Wuxian wished he could let him go, wished he didn’t have to watch. His name was still falling from those perfect lips. He couldn’t hear it anymore. 

When the seal shattered, shards of metal, no bigger than filings, rained down on the gathered masses and they stuck their hands out to catch the pieces like children catching snowflakes. 

Then Wei Wuxian felt his bones crack, his flesh tear, his lungs empty. The promises he’d broken exacting their toll. He slumped on the roof. His vision began to fail, black spilling in like his smoke, his shadows, until there was nothing left. His ears were ringing. He felt himself lifted, hands under his arms, around his waist, but he couldn’t move. There was shaking, too, jerky -- the kind he’d felt when he’d told Shijie that Lotus Pier was gone. But what would Shijie be doing here, on a battlefield? He thought, maybe, there were more hands, more than two. But numbers were becoming difficult. The cold was gone. That was nice. There was a gravity tugging at him and he really didn’t have any reason to fight it anymore. So he didn’t. 

He didn’t.

#wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #whumptober2022 #the untamed #mdzs #cql #fanfiction #my writing #i was trying to tap into the crazy yllz that i need for ch 18 but this... this is not that #which is probably a good thing all things considered #major character death #insane pov character #canon divergent au #canon typical violence