#fierce corpses

[fiercecorpsefest]

Fierce Corpse Fest

Hello everyone and welcome to Fierce Corpse Fest!

It is a fest primarily to celebrate and appreciate the Fierce Corpses of MDZS/CQL/The Untamed. If you love Wen Ning, Song Lan, or Nie Mingjue, then this is the place for you! If you love turning other characters into Fierce Corpses, this is also the place for you!

This fest started on twitter, and we've now expanded to include tumblr and discord as well. (our twitter account is fiercecorpses)

We're having a few TBT events starting next month, and our Ao3 collection from this year is remaining open until our next event (a mini event in April for Wen Ning's birthday, and a full fest event in October) if you feel inspired by any of the past prompts :)

More info will be coming here soon, so stay tuned!

#mdzs #cql #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #fierce corpse #fierce corpses #wen ning #song lan #nie mingjue #song zichen

[niobefurens]

To be Wen Ning...

In 1974, Thomas Nagel wrote one of the most discussed papers on the problem of consciousness in the last half-century, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” But, what is it like to be a ball? Let me risk a further speculation here. The ball is like a dummy, a ventriloquist’s dummy. Now, we know that a dummy is empirically, objectively, just a piece of wood, covered in rags, with someone’s hand up its ass. It is not alive. And yet the dummy feels alive when it speaks, just as the ball feels alive when we are playing. But the strange thing about the dummy is that even when it is not being animated by the ventriloquist and is just lying unused and ignored in an attic, it still feels like it has a potential for life, a terrifying potential, which is why puppets are such sources of uncanny fear, hovering somewhere between life and death, occupying neither one realm nor the other. We might say something analogous about soccer balls.

#mdzs #mdzs meta #wen ning #consciousness #puppets #fierce corpses #soccer #baseball

[nekobinn]

Ok but I’m surprised there wasn’t some kind of fierce corpse outbreak throughout the MDZS world. Like imagine if the corpse powder was able to spread to smaller villages and infect more people, and the weather or temperature doesn’t seem to affect the corpses soo.

#mdzs #fierce corpses #I just finished watching Kingdom that’s why I’m curious #it would turn into the walking dead but Chinese fantasy so fast once the powder spread to one of the sects #kingdom 2019 #ok but the way they made their zombies was so cool #the virus came from a parasite living in a special plant? genius #they hate warm temperature and hide under the summer sun? but stay up during the winter? amazing #the almost-infected can be cured when being engulfed in water? love ittttt

[tbgkaru-woh]

Don't fuck with the new leader of Qinghe Nie

#nie huaisang #and his collection of fierce corpses #each with different behavioral patterns #there's headcanons to be had but i won't spam the tags #the untamed #mdzs #my art #song lan #nie mingjue #wen ning #jin zixuan

[benevolenterrancy]

okay I'm in love with some of the suggestions on how Wei Wuxian should fill the hole in Wen Ning's chest... obviously I had to test a few of them out. fortunately Wen Ning is nothing if not a good sport

The tags/replies come from:

@average-hua-cheng-fan, @deep-side-of-the-pool, @lifegoalsofafish, @wen-ning (does that make the fishbowl the canonical answer then...🤔), @ardentumbra

and the picture without all the text cluttering it

#mdzs #wen ning #wei wuxian #wwx #lan sizhui #lan jingyi #the juniors are still adjusting to having a fierce corpse as a friend/senior/uncle this is old hat for wen ning and wwx #the untamed #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #my art #this is pretty ridiculous but i've been having so much fun reading the tags on that last piece of art that i had to try drawing a few ehehe

[twistedappletree]

Made myself sad thinking about how fast Jin Ling runs to Jiang Cheng’s side if he even suspects he’s been hurt because he’s lost everyone in his family, everyone who cared about him and was supposed to watch him grow up and all he has left is his jiujiu and he can’t lose anyone else, he just can’t

#going to throw myself in the trash rn don’t worry #aHAHAHA #🙂🙃🙂🙃 #mdzs #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #jin ling #jiang cheng #jin ling and his jiujiu #sad baby boy hours OOPS #i actually would’ve obliterated the earth if he lost JC in canon #or if JC lost him #it’s bad enough JL was originally supposed to die and become a fierce corpse liKE #LEAVE THEM ALONE #GSAHGDYJHFJLH #apple babble 🍎 #the only consolation is that jin ling has the other juniors now #it makes me so happy he has friends and that they love him and he loves THEM #even if he won’t admit it lmao #also im aware he still has uncles everywhere in the damn world lmFAO #I mean the family he was around the most and had the biggest roles in his childhood/life

[the-pudding-is-a-lie]

Today I finished another artpiece to go with my fierce corpse Jiang Cheng AU. :D

Sketch can be found here - fic can be read here.

[image ID: A fully coloured digital drawing of Jiang Cheng from MDZS/The Untamed portrayed as a fierce corpse. He is standing in the rain. Water is running from his forehead down over his eye and cheek, making it unclear if he might be crying or if it's just the rain. He is wearing his clothes so that the right side is covering the left to accentuate his status as fierce corpse. End ID. More detailed image description in alt text.]

#fanart #the untamed #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #cql #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #fierce corpse au #fanart for fanfic #mxtx #image described #cnovelartsreblog

[web-novel-polls]

#mini polls #polls #bingqiu #svsss #hualian #tgcf #nieyao #mdzs #mxtx #<-nieyao is there bc it's MY favorite & made me think of this #(specifically JGY & NMJ fighting for a hundred years as fierce corpses lol) #my polls

[lgbtlunaverse]

tumblr isn't letting me answer your amazing comment on my post about wwx's obvious crush on jgy and the rest of 3zun in the novel, so i have no choice but to send it to you here as an ask: i am now envisioning lwj busting open the get-along crypt post-canon to fight two extremely confused fierce corpses in a fit of jealous pique.

lxc, torn between shock and horror "wangji no!!"

lwj, with determination "wangji yes >:C"

HELP 💀

As I typed it I was like "oh god what if he has an embarassing wet dream about it and lwj finds out via incense burner"

Lwj waking up in a cold sweat: I have to go

The poor lan disciple who just watched hanguang-jun storm out of his house in his pyjamas: what??

Lwj: I have to kill 2 corpses

Disciple: isn't a corpse already dea-

Lwj: Not dead enough

#asks #mdzs #lan wangji #wwx can and will assure his husband that he doesn't ACTUALLY wanna get with anyone in 3zun (that clusterfuck??? absolutely not) #he likes vore too that doesn't mean he actually wants to get eaten by a snake! #and lwj understands the logic of that but he is still gonna bust this crypt open and make minced fierce corpse meat

[add1ctedt0you]

Jiang Yanli's death

#mar!reading mdzs #A cql post about her death was on my dash #And uh. It seems quite different #She blames wwx for her husband's death! #But she can't forgive or hate him and then she dies #mmmmmm #Also #Idk if happens in cql too but a fierce corpse slashes his sword down at jyl #How did she survive that lol

[unfortunatelycake]

Could've added more characters here but since the poll only allows 10 options I just chose three from each media. Plus the 'show me the results' option I normally forget to add lol

Reblog for bigger sample size and more little kisses for your blorbo. And as always please go nuts in the tags/replies/reblogs to explain your reasoning.

#mxtx polls #mdzs #tgcf #svsss #xue yang #jin guangyao #wen ruohan #hua cheng #he xuan #bai wuxiang #mobei jun #linguang jun #tianlang jun #mdzs polls #tgcf polls #svsss polls #poll #polls #was gonna include nmj because he's crazy dangerous as a fierce corpse #but the other three are probably more deadly #whether you vote for the thirst or perceived safety any reason is valid

[heebiebeebies]

Two soulmates kissing, totally not controlled by a third 🥰

Does it count as making out if there’s only one tongue there?

#songxiao #song lan #song zichen #xiao xingchen #mdzs #yi city #fierce corpse #mdzs fanart #mo dao zu shi #魔道祖师 #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mxtx #fanart #my art #digital art

[niobefurens]

When you're a fierce corpse...

Wen Qing: What are those???

Wei Wuxian: A-Ning bought you roses...

Wen Qing: Roses? What happened to them?

Wei Wuxian: He touched them...

#mdzs #cql #the untamed #wen qing #wen ning #wei wuxian #roses #fierce corpses

[mediocretosubpar-soup]

fierce corpse yiling laozhu following jiang cheng from the burial mounds. jiang cheng keeping the fierce corpse of his shixiong in lotus pier. dragging back demonic cultivators to 'interview' on fierce corpse care. demanding suibian back from the jin. demanding wei wuxian's notes.

mo xuanyu calls back wei wuxian. the rumors wei wuxian hears are mostly the same but the flavor is sharper. sect leader jiang is still hunting his shixiong's ghost. even going so far as to challenge the chief cultivator over his belongings.

jiang cheng sneers at him, that he thought wei wuxian would pick something better for a body.

the golden core reveal throws jiang cheng badly (was he delusional all these years?) and he still goes to guanyin temple and gets skewered and gives back the chengqing. and the story play out as it does.

except for when jiang cheng goes home, his fierce corpse has broken containment and gotten its hands on suibian. it waits for him in his room, taking a fake nap on his bed, and when jiang cheng comes in, it tries to drag him into a spar until the blood registers. jiang cheng isn't having that. he knows, he's been deluding himself making a mindless monster act like wei wuxian. thinking that a part of wei wuxian wanted to stay with him after all. what a fool, he was. he should really put an end to this farce. before he can draw sandu the fierce corpse attempts to decapitate himself with suibian which it drew. jiang cheng decides that maybe he shouldn't judge too quickly.

so this is how jiang cheng ends up taking his secret fierce corpse with him, he won't leave his side, he won't give up suibian. he gets him to put on a veil at least. but that still means that he hits the next cultivation conference with a man trailing his every step who's carrying wei wuxian's sword and constantly teasing him. and as much as he tries to hide it, he can't hide how much he likes that.

the cultivation world is largely torn between three reactions; a) what the fuck? what the fuck? b) it's nice that sect leader jiang has relaxed a bit. you know? c) drama!!! the sheer drama!!! of it. they thought jin guangyao's scandalous downfall was good? hahh this is a thousand times better. the front row seats for the first cultivation conference with hanguan-jun/wei wuxian and jiang cheng/SIC in attendance are sold for the price of small cities.

#mdzs #inspired by the post that said the first corpse out of the blood pool was wei wuxian's old body #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #fierce corpse!wwx #nie huaisang sees jiang cheng roll up with hsi SIC #and wishes he hadn't taken the job #possibly going to clean this up later #undecided yet whether wei wuxian experiences dissociative episodes in which he vividly dreams of playing around with his shidi #like they did back when they were young #only it's him taking control of his own fierce corpse #or they are separate creatures #and wei wuxian has to contend with the fact that jiang cheng took part of him back after all that #and is willing to play house with it #either one appeals

[morethanwonderful]

Out of all of Wei Wuxian's traits, one of the ones that fascinates me the most is how incredibly casual and chummy he is with corpses. All the other cultivators are a bit desensitized to the dead by nature of their profession, yes, but Wei Wuxian in particular treats the dead very much the same as he treats living people, and I think it's simultaneously one of his best and most concerning attributes.

On the good side, the way Wei Wuxian treats the dead is absolutely an extension of his overall goodness and empathy. He stands on the side of those that are looked down on, and nobody faces more discrimination that the dead. He treats the dead like people because they are people, and they deserve to have their voices heard. That's what Empathy's for, and that's why he revives Wen Ning to stand as witness to his own murder. Wen Ning is not a thing! And even when Wei Wuxian is raising armies of dead Wens to fight on his behalf, we get illustrations of him giving a helping hand to a weak old corpse that can't stand on its own.

Wei Wuxian is painted in very deliberate contrast to Xue Yang, who treats the dead as tools and deprives them of agency. His closeness with them is a symbol of his kindness.

However, beyond treating the dead decently and like people, there is a point where his chumminess with them starts to get unsettling, and that's the point where it becomes a reflection of his loneliness and trauma. In particular, I'm thinking of his cuddliness with the ghosts he uses to torture Wen Chao and the corpse girls he's hanging out with when he invites Lan Zhan to drink with him. Because treating the dead with respect is a very different thing from having a corpse lay in your lap as you stroke its hair. And fierce corpses by definition do not have personalities (with Wen Ning as the exception that proves the rule), so treating them as companions to socialize with is rather concerning behavior.

So why is he like this? Isolation and trauma!

It's easy to understate the trauma of Wei Wuxian's three months in the Burial Mound, especially given that we don't see them play out but do get details about so many other horrible moments. But those three months? They Fucked Him Up. In particular, beyond the trauma of the near death experience (or presumably many many near death experiences in a row), he spent the better part of three months without seeing a single other living human. People are not meant to do that.

So what is a person gonna do when he spends three months in Worse Solitary Confinement? And when that solitude is spent on Fierce Corpse Mountain? He's gonna get really weird about corpses. He's gonna turn into the kind of man that would let a murderous ghost he's controlling lay in his lap as he strokes her hair, because for an extended period of time, that is the closest thing to human contact he's had access to.

And later, post-sunshot-campaign, Wei Wuxian does regain access to living humans and society, but he's still incredibly isolated. Just about everyone besides his siblings and Lan Zhan hates and/or is scared of him by the time we hit the scene of him and the fierce corpse girls throwing flowers, so it's no wonder he's hanging out with dead people. He already picked up the habit of replacing company with corpses once, so of course he doesn't see anything wrong with it. Maybe they're there as bodyguards, maybe he's just extremely lonely and doesn't have any human companions to drink with him, or maybe (probably) it's a mix of both. But in any case, it's a pretty clear expression of a horrifying degree of both past and present isolation.

That's why, though he doesn't lose his respect for the dead or his desensitization to touching corpses, we never see him just Hanging Out With Mindless Ghosts in his second life. It's a substitute for real companionship, not a healthy behavior, but lack of company is no longer an issue he has after being resurrected.

He doesn't need an entourage of corpse girls, because this time, when he wants company, he's always got Lan Zhan.

#see also: xy spending years with sl's fierce corpse as his only companion #his fierce corpse that he was controlling completely #respect for the dead is good #but Hanging Out With Corpses You're Controlling is pretty deeply unhealthy #and it's a good habit for wwx to have broken #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #mdzsposting #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #oh and this is why I'm so mad that the donghua cut out that creepy-ass scene of the Wen Chao torture #Wwx being a fucked up little guy with trauma that makes him Weird About Corpses is deeply important to me #and important to his character #and the donghua really nerfed his fucked up little guy levels #(and I'm guessing cql did as well. but I haven't actually watched it) #wei wuxian #wei wuxian my beloved #english major hours #long post

[menelaus-blue]

wowie if it isn’t the most terrible trio of all time

#i’m actually crazy obsessed with these guys and kind of with this drawing too #there’s something so live laugh lunacy about them #mdzs #3zun #the venerated triad #lan xichen #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #but like fierce corpse mingjue #mo dao zu shi