when your big brother clearly has a little too much fun inviting your crush along to exorcise the water ghosts after you specifically said no

grading the dramatic entrances of The Untamed, in no particular order

Wen Chao at the Cloud Recesses - Yes, he's garbage, and he interrupted Jiang Cheng's carefully prepared gift-giving, which is unforgiveable, but you cannot deny that this is a moderately dramatic entrance. From a piece of shit. 5/10, hate him, consolation prize for most punchable face.

Lan Wangji on the search for Wei Wuxian - The slow climb up the stairs. The epic scenery. The unsubtle threat. 8/10, points deducted because the follow-up is anticlimactic. We should have gotten to see some ass-kicking.

Lan Wangji at the hostage summer camp - Improvement! Isn’t letting the scenery do all the work, but letting it work for him instead. More slow swishy robes. More murder in his expression. No sign of having a broken leg because he keeps the pain inside. 9/10, excellent way to not be dead, no wonder Wei Wuxian rapidly develops a technique for flirting in hostage situations.

Jiang Cheng is his uncle, any last words? - Iconic. Masterful. Ominous. Also a great one-liner. Shows off his fashion sense well. 9/10, point deducted because he can do better and we know it.

A-Qing in Yi City - She deserves so much credit for making a room full of teenage boys piss themselves in terror. 10/10, make the boys cry, girlfriend.

Meng Yao, with a sword, on the steps of the Nightless City - Sneaky, surprising, and true to form. Maybe they all should have learned something from the fact that he showed up out of nowhere to shank a dude. 7/10, effective but not terribly stylish, execution could be improved (pun absolutely intended).

Nie Huiasang's conference meltdown - Also true to form, but in exactly the opposite way, as is appropriate! Ridiculous and overwrought. 8/10, points deducted because I want to know what his fake problems are. I bet they are creatively absurd.

The Tortoise of Slaughter - Humans always fall for the "pretend to be a submerged rock" trick! The score is unknowable because I would not dare judge an ancient being out of song and legend who has to spend the last days of its momentous life watching Wei Wuxian try to flirt.

Xue Yang watching over his work from the rooftop - Suitably dark and ominous. There are a lot of bodies and he is having a grand time. It's not his first appearance but it is his most effective character intro. 8/10 only because he immediately gets captured and that's awkward.

Wen Ning outside the window - He did not understand the assignment. 50/10 in the cuteness contest.

Wen Ning in the grass - Still does not understand the assignment. 1000/10 in the Halloween costume contest.

Wang Lingjiao says girls do it better - Looks good showing up to do some wartime sacking and plundering. She's terrible but she has style. 7/10, scores higher than her man because all he did was interrupt high school show and tell.

Wen Ning actually understands the assignment better than you think - Amazing. Stylish. A++ cosplay opportunity. Good hair. Nice chains. Mysterious origin. 10/10, would summon him using LWJ's secret boner song again.

The Yiling Laozhu makes an entrance - Too hot. Hot damn. Call the villain police and the villain fireman, then ignore them, because we are Into This and we are Not Ashamed. Combine the lurking on rooftops with the slow-stepping torture and we are feeling just fine. 13/10, change nothing, all judges award extra credit, this routine is going to the Olympics.

Xue Yang reveals himself in Yi City - As a society we do not talk enough about Song Jiyang's Xue Yang smile and the fact that it gives us all both chills and thrills. Combined with Xue Yang’s pet fierce corpse crashing through the roof a few minutes earlier, and the spooky musical conversation with the undead, this is a very strong entrance that is precisely as dramatic as it needs to be. 10/10, slay on, my murder prince.

Lan Wangji saves the kids - Glorious. Iconic. Solves a problem with minimal effort but maximum flair. Power move in every way. We are all excitedly chirping, “Hanguang Jun! Hanguang Jun!” in our hearts. 11/10, extra credit for the jazz hands.

Jiang Cheng, in the rain, with an umbrella - Magical. Stylish. Extra hot when you realize he killed like ten dudes with his purple kink weapon on the way in. He's there to save his nephew and maybe his not-evil brother and you can all fuck off and die. 12/10, I am not deducting but am in fact giving him extra points for the fact that he immediately trips into a humiliating public emotional breakdown.

Wei Wuxian's hot villain breakdown on the roof - Iconic in every way. Terrifying. Tragic. He's just here to laugh-cry and murder thousands and he's not leaving until he does. The scenery matches his outfit. Homicidal mental instability never looked so good. 12/10, I have to give him the same score as JC above because I’m not Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan. I don’t have to pit them against each other.

They say that Sandu Shengshou killed the Yiling Laozhu himself - Perhaps easy to overlook because it happens right in the beginning, before we know what's going on, while some other important things are happening, but. But. DAMN GIRL. This is how you make an entrance! The bloody sword. The slow approach. The shift from LWJ's distraught face. The cliff. The misdirection that is only revealed 30+ episodes later. The way it distracts us from the terrible CGI. Fuck yeah all around. This is it. 15/10, it's the worst day his life and his best dramatic entrance. How typical of Jiang Cheng to be unable to enjoy his win because it sucks for him.

“Against your cheek, my hand is warm and full of tenderness.” - Louise Gluck, Metamorphosis

THE UNTAMED - Two gifs from every episode [ 33 / 50 ]

MDZS Donghua Weibo Account’s 1000th Post!

my husband my husband my husband

I think it would be hilarious if Jin Zixuan had a crush on all three of the Yunmeng siblings at different points in his life

Old study and a doodle for an illustration I've never finished this summer

I wanted to make something with the concepts "Before the separation/ After the reunion" 😔

"Wei Wuxian was dreaming."

from @wei--wuxian 's fic these colors fade for you only

(some snippets from this scene under the cut!)

But it was dark here, with a heavy stillness that settled into Wei Wuxian like the dust across the surfaces of his childhood bedroom, and the water around him was cold where it should have been warm with eternally lingering summer. His fingers slipped through it as he drew back his hand, breaking the surface into noiseless ripples, but he could barely feel the touch of it against his skin.

The water was cold.

Wei Wuxian leaned back with arms outstretched and let the water carry his weight. It lapped cool against his throat, soothing his pulse and welcoming him as it always had, and he felt the stems of lotuses skim his legs as his feet lifted free of the mud below. He turned his face to the sky as he floated and saw nothing at all.

There was a light.

It seemed to come from all around him, a softly golden glow that glimmered on the surface of the water and touched the shadowed leaves and petals of lotus flowers that leaned in on every side.

It was warm.

Wei Wuxian tried to move towards the warmth-- and found he didn't quite know where to go.

The light wasn't coming from around him. It was coming from him.

The choice between everyday, one word, and every day, two words, depends on how it's used. Everyday, one word, is an adjective meaning "used or seen daily," or "ordinary." "The phone calls were an everyday occurrence." Every day, two words, is an adverb phrase meaning "daily" or "every weekday." "They go to the coffee shop every day." One trick to remember which is which is to see if you can put another word between "every" and "day," as in "every single day." If you can, you want the two-word adverb. 

terrible news. everybody. hanguang jun. it turns out everyday does not in fact mean every day

3zun getting up to some athletic nonsense. (yes, da-ge's core strength is AMAZING.)

It is very awkward between Lan Wangji and Nie Huiasang post-canon--but not entirely because of Lan Xichen. That is also a bit tense, of course, but what's truly awkward are two entirely different things:

1) On Lan Wangji's side, he is coming to terms with the fact that he would have done so much worse to get Wei Wuxian back, if he had known how to go about it. He has learned something about himself and it is uncomfortable. Not the potential for evil! Obviously Wei Wuxian being alive is not evil. No, what he hates is that it is not fair that he didn't get to scheme for more than decade when his motive would be true love. Going around playing music for a spirit seems kinda unimpressive, compared to a wildly convoluted years-long resurrection scheme that had like a 99.9% chance of not working. He could have schemed really quite outrageously, thank you very much. He tells Wei Wuxian as much. Wei Wuxian just laughs at him.

2) From Nie Huiasang's side, he's coming to terms with the fact that it is directly and irrevocably his fault that everybody in the cultivation world now gossips about Hanguang Jun's sex life. In tea shops. At cultivation conferences. While night hunting. They gossip. They gossip to him. All of his usual erotic art colleagues have been inspired. Nie Huiasang would rather they be inspired by somebody else! Somebody he has not known since they were five! And stop sending him illustrations, even if it is fun to improve the illustrations and send them on to Wei Wuxian (if they are decent) and Lan Wangji (if they are horrifying). Nie Huiasang does not believe in regrets but he does regret the fact that he now gets drawings of Lan Wangji's dick in the mail.

“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now and yet I know I will tomorrow.” x

They are really cute here

Someone on the phone : Hello, can I please speak to the man of the house?

Jin Zixuan, handing the phone over to Jiang YanLi: A-Li, they are asking for you.

Jiang Wanyin: dont come over

Wei Wuxian: too late lmao

Jiang Wanyin: im babysitting a dog

Wei Wuxian: oh shit

*from the room above Jiang Cheng, a window smashes as someone breaks back the fuck out*

THE UNTAMED Episode 43/50

A husband and wife, the future of Yunmeng Jiang Sect. Equally cautious, and equally fierce!