#cql tag

[twistedappletree]

mfw i’m only 16 and have single-handedly made several of the most powerful cultivators cry simply by calling them stupid and telling a few “yo mama” jokes without any repercussions from the elders of my own clan who let me do/say whatever the hell i want because they’ve given up on trying to stop me

#chad #mdzs #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #cql #chen qing ling #lan jingyi #precious gremlin #mdzs crack #mdzs meme #mdzs shitposting #apple babble 🍎 #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #fr tho nobody checks this kid ever #he gets a free pass for everything #prob bc nobody else wants to get roasted into oblivion lmFAO #chicken boy #i know he’s more goblin than gremlin but I’ve been using the gremlin tag forever and don’t wanna go through changing it in every post 😭

[lgbtlunaverse]

I think it's really funny that out of 3zun the one that probably likes drinking alcohol the most is in fact Lan Xichen.

Nie Mingjue canonically doesn't like drinking very much. Qinghe alcohol is probably effective for use as paint stripper so he might have a decent tolerance, he just doesn't enjoy it.

Jin Guangyao has likely deliberately worked up the exact tolerance he needs to drink a socially appropiate amount of alcohol at events without actully getting drunk, because I think the act of not being of sound mind in public is like a horror movie to him.

But Lan Xichen. Lan Xichen invented a whole new cultivation trick just to bypass his family's "one sip and we pass the fuck out" piss poor tolerance gene so he can drink as much alcohol as he wants. This man wants to go get white girl drunk with his sworn brothers so bad and neither of them are into it please pray for him.

#mdzs #3zun #lan xichen #meng yao #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #mdzs headcanons #edit: as notes pointed out the burning alcohol trick is cql only (though it rings true for his character alltogether) #which i guess means this warrants a show tag #cql #the untamed

[doublxpresso]

gusu lan arm strength(tm)

#the wangxian family ;; #strong gege #<- this was tagged by wwx #lan wangji #wei wuxian #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wangxian #cql #the untamed #wwx #lwj #魔道祖师 #dx art stuff

[lazycranberrydoodles]

THE THRILLING SEQUEL

credit to @parlerenfleurs for the idea lmao / follow for more wei ying shenanigans

#theres no characterization notes in the tags this time. #uhh except for the fact that hes a freak and i cherish him dearly #tbh ive seen a lot of people bothered by incense burner and fair!! #but i think that they deserve some fucked up magical cnc after everything theyve been through #same as hualian #mdzs #mdzs meme #art #doodle #mxtx #mo dao zu shi #魔道祖师 #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the grandmaster of diabolism #grandmaster of demonic arts #cql #the untamed #wangxian #wei wuxian #lan wangji #陈情令 #lmao #my art

[risoria]

Commission for @ocheeva of Nie Huaisang (with little friend)!

If you are interested, I have portrait commissions for Palestine open —> info in this link.

#my art #mdzs #nie huaisang #the untamed #cql #commissions #sorry theres so many tags…….

[pillow-boi]

"I fancy you, I love you, I want you, I can't leave you, I whatever you."

#wangxian #mdzs #wwx #lwj #mo dao zu shi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #wei xuxian #lan wangji #cql #the untamed #魔道祖师 #I'm not sure I should tag it the untamed or not??? #anyway have another wangxian kiss

[sadfishkid]

hide and seek

#mdzs #the untamed #jiang cheng #jin ling #art tag #commissions #i love cql for giving jc a cape #free real estate for jl and fairy

[cattoru]

The Unhinged or whatever that chinese bl show was called

#edit: thanks for the likes on this guys bc twitter ignored me 🫶 #i’m reading every rb tag and they’re all fucking hilarious #the untamed #cql #mdzs #up1k #cattoru’s

[3cosmicfrogs]

"We are fashioned creatures, but half made up."

More of the franken-verse because i keep rotating the dog metaphors... previous art 1 and art 2. I am running out of quotes.

#frankenieyao #<- thats the tag for this btw #nieyao #artfromthefrogs #nmj #jgy #mdzs #the untamed #cql #mo dao zu shi #mdzs fanart #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #blood tw #i know you guys dont much care for this au but i do. so. #really fuckin happy with the inking and styling for this btw.

[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

[agendratum]

The Untamed as text posts (96/?) mad scientists: a come back edition for @greenwitching

#the untamed #cql #mxtxnet #theuntameddaily #cqledit #wei wuxian #wen qing #jin guangyao #xue yang #wen ning #lan wangji #jiang cheng #cqlmemes #mt #it's the spooky scary season!! #it's not but that's the tag #hey #it's been a while

[wangxian-the-zhijis]

Wei Wuxian: *talks a lot* *insert long paragraph here* *insert long paragraph there* *insert long paragraph everywhere*

Lan Wangji: Mn.

Meanwhile, in another universe…

Xiao Zhan, accepting an award: *talks a lot* *insert long paragraph here* *insert long paragraph there* *insert long paragraph everywhere*

Wang Yibo, accepting an award: Thank u bye.

[Kidding aside, Xiao Zhan’s speech was lovely.]

Xiao Zhan’s Speech | Wang Yibo’s speech

Video Source

#wangxian yizhan parallels #yizhan = modern wangxian #perfect cast for wwx and lwj #no one else cud have played wangxian better than yizhan! #the untamed #cql #lan wangji #lan zhan #wei wuxian #wei ying #wangxian #yizhan #weibo night 2023 #im not tagging wyb and xz’s names cuz im so afraid of being founded by toxic solo stans

[sandumilfshou]

"why do you like jiang cheng?"

is such a weird question. what is there NOT to like?

sweet, insecure, covers up his embarrassment with fake anger, youngest baby sibling, heir to the sect, tries his hardest and is truly powerful and smart but doesnt look like it next to his beloved shixiong who is a genius and can do anything with barely any effort

desperate for his fathers approval, is aggressively mothered, pretends his shixiong is embarrassing and he wants nothing to do with him but is constantly letting himself get dragged into shenanigans

loses his entire sect and both his parents in one night, sacrifices himself in a potentially SI way to save his shixiong, becomes chronically disabled (for a cultivator), loses said brother he sacrificed himself for. gets plunged into a war as a teenager while trying to build up his sect from essentially nothing using his dead mother's weapon of choice.

goes through the sunshot campaign, wwx's demonic cultivation and defection, all while building up his sect again. loses yanli to the jin, loses wwx to the dafan wen. loses them both permanently. has no family remaining in the world, alone and vulnerable, except for infant jin ling.

3zun have essentially tied 3 of the 4 great sects together, leaving ymj out. vulnerable. so jiang cheng channels his mother and protects them by cultivating - successfully! - the reputation of the feared sandu shengshou who nobody wants to cross. forces himself to become angry and bitter to hide any remaining vulnerabilities, fragility, emotion.

threatens to break jin ling's legs but jin ling knows he is loved and is never scared of being physically harmed. raises the ymj out of the ashes to the point they can afford to lose 400 spirit nets without even worrying about it

jiang cheng is so broken and fragile and when he needs support, when he has lost everything and everyone, he has nothing. so he is forced to put himself back together, to harden his edges, to ensure that nobody will ever hurt him again. he is untouchable. he is respected. he is feared. he is powerful.

and despite all this, he still kept chenqing in pristine condition for over 10 years. he still trusts in wwx to do the right thing despite all the wrongs he has done. he cries, he rages, he threatens.

but in the end, jiang wanyin is the only one to come out of guanyin temple better than they went in. he wins. and he does it all by his fucking self.

even if all he wants now is jin ling to be safe and for wei wuxian to come home.

oh, and he looks like THIS:

#jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #mdzs #cql #ill tag both

[boarloved-art]

wen ning & baby sizhui for the MDZS Gotcha for gaza (@/MDZSAction on twt!!!!) - theres a few days left to submit prompts, so please donate to care for gaza & submit ur prompt if ur interestedd!!!

this prompt was for silvyghostie_m on twt !

#MDZS #lan sizhui #wen ning #wen yuan #lan yuan #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #founder of diabolism #the untamed #CQL #so many tags for thisnshow... #my art #art #drawing #fanart #artists on tumblr #sketch #blue flowers bc hes a lan later in life of course of course #my first mdzs fanart ive posted and its this....im not mad but i am surprised #i have many wangxian wips let it be known

[pink-linoleum]

piecing it all together

#jin guangyao #meng yao #mdzs #cql #fanart #just so everyone knows i would not solve a puzzle this way irl #also i looked it up and the generally accepted date for the invention of jigsaw puzzles is the 1760s so this isn’t historically accurate #in case you also wanted to know #whose hand is that?? well :) that would ruin the fun :) #digital #cnovel #art tag #csp

[alightbuthappypen]

A happy ending, eventually.

This was my original idea for the Close Quarters Exchange (for the tag 'immortal together'), but I changed my mind when I wasn't sure I'd be able to hit the deadline (and also that my giftee may prefer a wangxian that fit more in the spirit of the classic 'close quarters' trope). Which was correct! But also then I decided to do it anyway, in one day. So forgive any rough edges.

#lan yi #baoshan sanren #if they have a ship name someone let me know so I can tag it #mxtxnet #the untamed #cql #the untamed fanart #my art #baoyi #apparently!