#lxc: '...thanks'

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

This is not my beautiful cultivation partner.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #su she #lan jingyi #lan sizhui #jin ling #TFW you lose sight of your handsome bestie because you forgot the no.1 rule of dudes: ALWAYS hold hands in the thick fog #No homies left behind. Rule no.2 is that if you lips are cold you have to kiss to warm them up. #JustMurderInvestagationPartnerThings #The poor juniors are having the worst time. Unchaperoned and poisoned. #Thank god they ran into wwx. Who's camp councilor energy is rivaled only by LXC. #All the juniors give me massive 'what do you mean all berries aren't edible' energy. #LWJ is just slightly to the left watching this all unfold and seething with no discernable outwards emotion. #He's gonna get that (su she's) ass (violent)

[3cosmicfrogs]

you asked for SLIGHTLY fucked up 3zun but unfortunately my measures for what is slighty fucked up and what is very fucked up are completely fucked up themselves so i'll just say that everytime i think about 3zun i go 'someone here should have their ribs cracked open so jiggy can get directly to the heart" is that anything?

[sicko.jpeg] yes.... yes...!

Mingjue's heart is literally right there, it would be a shame if someone took a bite

#more coming soon! with more blood i'm planning! and actual heart eating! #bones tw #xiyao #artfromthefrogs #lan xichen #lxc #jgy #jin guangyao #mdzs #mdzs fanart #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #cql #Triangle #i am letting xichen become unhinged. it is high time he get some Enrichment #thank you for this ask btw!!! there is something wrong with you that is also wrong with me (romantic) #'is this anything?' its not just anything its EVERYTHING

[stiltonbasket]

hi!! since you’re the nielan master, could you do nielan in one of your universes where they end up happy? thank you <3

"Diedie?" a tiny voice whispers in Nie Mingjue's ear. "Diedie, wake up."

Nie Mingjue is still half-asleep, his consciousness lost in the strange, sweet twilight between waking and dreams where he knows and remembers nothing save for his husband's warm weight in his arms—but in spite of the early hour, the sound of his son's piping voice rouses him at once.

When he opens his eyes, he finds Jingyi's round face hovering an inch above his own, aglow with a grin that reminds Nie Mingjue so much of a young Xichen that he nearly forgets to breathe.

"A-Yi?" he yawns, through a mouthful of Lan Huan's sleep-rumpled hair. "What are you doing here, baobao? Did you have a bad dream?"

"I don't have nightmares anymore. I'm not a baby," Jingyi protests. "And A-Die, you were supposed to get up at mao shi to make Ba's birthday breakfast! It's already past chen shi now."

Nie Mingjue reaches up to stroke Jingyi's chubby cheek. "Then I'll get up now, A-Yi. But you ought to go back to bed, because little buns like you should still be asleep at chen shi."

"But Ba's going to wake up before you're done cooking breakfast, so—"

"Your Ba is tired," Nie Mingjue chides, sliding out from under his husband's arm. "He might not want to get up until noon, so we still have time to make breakfast."

"I guess," A-Yi says doubtfully, crawling up to sit on the pillows beside Xichen's head. "But meimei might wake him up early, so I'll stay here and keep watch while you cook."

Mingjue laughs and kisses the top of his son's head before making his way to the kitchen. His heart sings at every step, though this is now hardly worth noting—for that heart has not stopped aching with happiness since the day he and Xichen declared their love for one another, some seven months after their wedding; and its song has only grown sweeter in the passing years, beautified and strengthened by every moment he spends with his husband and children.

He goes to the pantry in the kitchen for rice flour and eggs, and then to the garden for scallions. Nie Mingjue will have to make a simple breakfast today, since Wangji and Wei Wuxian claimed the privilege of arranging a birthday lunch for their entire extended family: and he has little time besides, so he mixes dough for scallion pancakes and prepares three oiled bowls for steamed eggs by the time Jueying begins to fuss in the bedroom.

"Yingying, don't jump!" Nie Mingjue hears Jingyi yelp. "You can't even walk yet."

At that, Nie Mingjue drops his pancake dough and runs out into the receiving room, where he finds baby Jueying crawling toward him on all fours with Xichen's forehead ribbon trailing behind her. Somehow, she had managed to make her way out of the bedroom alone.

"That's my strong Ying-bao," Nie Mingjue says, laughing at the resounding slap of Jueying's tiny fists striking the floorboards. "Should A-Die pick you up now?"

The baby shakes her head and crawls right past him into the kitchen, where she takes refuge under the table with one of Wangji's pet cats.

"Bu," she crows, delighted by the sound of her own voice. No was Jueying's first word, closely followed by Ba, for Xichen and Mingjue both; and since Yingying has rarely left her parents' sight, no is still her favorite thing to say.

Strange though it might be, Mingjue adores his daughter the most in moments like these, where she furrows her small brows and refuses to listen to her well-meaning elders; for it is then that he remembers that he and Xichen brought two tiny people into the world, with precious little minds and spirits of their own. Jingyi's mishaps and misadventures, Jueying's stubbornness, their shared passion for baked sweets and dislike of anything flavored with lemon—all of it came from the love that shaped Mingjue's very life, from the day he first laid eyes on Lan Xichen twenty-six years ago.

If it were any other day, Nie Mingjue would have abandoned his preparations for breakfast and returned to his husband's side, unable to keep away from him any longer; but Jueying has already fixed her beady eyes on the heap of chopped scallions, so Mingjue rushes over to placate her with a biscuit before cooking the eggs and fried pancakes.

"You can't eat these before they're cooked through," he tells her, watching the baby nibbling away at her biscuit in the safety of Xiaolongbao's wicker basket. "They might make you ill, baobao. But after your first birthday, you can eat anything you like."

"You musn't say that, A-Jue," a soft voice laughs from the doorway. "Ying-bao might take you at your word, and then where will we be?"

Nie Mingjue's poor, ever-hungering heart crowds up into his throat.

"Xichen," he breathes, holding out his arms as his husband comes running to meet him. "What are you doing up, sweetheart? I thought you would sleep for another hour."

"Without you in the bed beside me, Mingjue-xiong? I've been awake since chen hour," Lan Xichen smiles, leaning up to kiss him. "I would have liked to sleep a little longer, but I missed you, so here I am."

He kisses the tip of Mingjue's nose, and then:

"And Yingying crawled away with my mo'e," he says, perplexed. "Where is she, my love? Wasn't she with you just now?"

A high-pitched squeal rings out from beneath the table. "There she is," Nie Mingjue says fondly, as Lan Xichen drops to his knees on the floor and gathers Yingying into his arms. "We ought to feed her soon, or she'll try to eat Xiaolongbao's fur again."

With Xichen's help, the last preparations for their meal are completed in quick succession; and before long, all four of them are sitting around the table instead of underneath it. Jueying sits in Lan Xichen's lap, chewing bits of scallion pancake into pulp between mouthfuls of soft steamed egg; and Jingyi takes the little chair between his parents, so that he can lean against Nie Mingjue's shoulder while he eats.

For his part, Nie Mingjue sits with his arm about Lan Xichen's waist, and tries not to weep at the sight of his husband and children eating the breakfast he had made for them.

Surely such happiness is too dear for mortal men to know, he thinks dizzily. Just six years ago, a life with A-Huan and the little ones would have been beyond my wildest dreams, and yet—

Where was I six years ago? Nie Mingjue wonders. He and Xichen were twenty-five and twenty-three when the war broke out, and each of them had celebrated a birthday in the midst of the Sunshot Campaign; but neither occasion brought them any joy, for the beginning of another year of life in such straits could not help but remind them that they might not endure long enough to see the end of it.

Nie Mingjue had nearly died at the Nightless City, and if not for Xichen's skill in healing, he would have been stricken down by a qi deviation in the days after the last battle.

That would have been all right, Nie Mingjue reflects. He knows Lan Xichen's mind and heart as well as he knows his own; for Lan Xichen by far the stronger of the two of them, and he would not have succumbed to grief if Mingjue had left him that day.

"Perhaps not," Lan Xichen says now, reaching backward to hold Nie Mingjue's hand. "What you said when Jingyi was born—that is, what you said you would do, when you thought the worst was coming—I would not turn to such a course, but if I lost you—"

His grasp upon Mingjue's wrist grows tighter. "There would be no joy in this world for me from that day forth, though I would never seek to depart from this life before my time," he says at last. "You must know that, Mingjue-xiong. You must."

Nie Mingjue presses his lips to his husband's forehead.

"I know," he says thickly. "I know, my A-Huan. Happy birthday."

#mo dao zu shi #the untamed #nie mingjue #lan xichen #nielan #prompt fill #thank you for this prompt it was delicious ouo #my fic #this is set in the life in love's exchange verse btw #about five-ish years after the ending of the main fic #this is lxc's 30th birthday #life in love's exchange

[spriteofmushrooms]

If I don't read a Jin Guangyao and Jiang Cheng co-parenting fic right now I'm gonna die.

#pallas.rtf #mdzs #they don't have to fuck about it but i need jiang cheng to be fighting tooth and nail against his You're My Family instincts while jin #guangyao treats jc like an amusing little puppy #er-ge would you like diplomatic advice? #a-yao knows i always appreciate his thoughts. #jgy: a-ling have you shown your jiujiu xianzi's new trick? #jl: !! no shushu thank you!!! *runs to jiang cheng with his puppy in his arms* #jc actively holding himself back from murder as he listens to a jin elder complain: a-ling? *melts* #jin elder: ... which is why lanlingjin would appreciate jiang-zongzhu's consideration for this proposal #jiang cheng who has picked up jin ling and xianzi: send the details to lotus pier. #lxc: i don't believe we have any spare nephews of sandu shengshou to work such transformations for us

[sonofshin]

mango?

*nyam*

#doodles #nie huaisang #hayase #cuckoo among beasts #LXC: What do you have there Huaisang? #NHS: .... A mango? #thanks for reading rules

[symphonyofsilence]

I love LXC, but the way he put a fucking silencing spell on a mutilated, in pain, nearly passed-out JGY, when he was seeing to his wound was absolutely appalling! (& WTF was WWX thinking suggesting that!)

Even with his mouth open breathing must have already been hard for JGY. How was he supposed to go through LXC's treating of his wound without even breathing through his mouth, let alone screaming and moaning? What if LXC was doing something wrong and JGY had to tell him?

Screaming & proper breathing (in which exhaling happens through the mouth) help alleviate the pain and holding a scream in will interrupt breathing. Can you imagine how horrible it must have been for JGY to be unable to scream because his mouth was sewed shut?! He would have passed out any minute then had LXC not finished the struggle entirely for him.

He took a fucking sword to the chest and he couldn't even gasp! He had to rip apart his lips and go through that pain, too only so he could spit blood!

Before LXC came to his "aid", he was already passing out & moaning in pain despite his efforts to keep quiet!

I mean look at how he's described in that scene!

Jin GuangYao sat fallen on the ground, his face as pale as paper. His hair was somewhat disheveled as well, and cold sweat dotted his forehead. He had lost all his composure. Perhaps because the pain from his arm was too much, he couldn't help but moan a little. He looked up at Lan XiChen. Even though he said nothing, but merely from how he looked, holding his severed wrist with such dejected eyes, was enough to make anyone feel pity.

What kind of an eloquent, sneaky conversation could he hold up in that situation?!

And they could just...you know...not listen to him! Instead of silencing a nearly dying man!!

And to top all that there's this shit:

Lan XiChen was treating Jin GuangYao's wound. Seeing that Jin GuangYao almost passed out from the pain, Lan XiChen, who in the beginning wanted to use this to punish him, still didn't have the heart to bear it, turning around, "HuaiSang, give me the bottle of medicine."

Honestly, when I say that JGY was doing better before LXC tried to help him, I'm not talking about the killing part!

#and JGY THANKS him for this shit #jin guangyao #jgy #lan xichen #lxc #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #mxtx #my two cents #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #meng yao #lan huan #zewu jun #Gusu Lan silencing spell is fucked up on so many levels #I think CQL understood how fucked up this was #and in their noble valiant effort to make every character softer & nicer than they were in the books #did not include this

[jgyapologism]

for the ship ask, how do you feel about 3zun?

oooh thanks for the ask!

as for 3zun - i feel complicated, just like the ship itself is complicated

mingyao are narrative foils of each other, which always makes the ship fucking delicious. jgy follows his own moral code, while nmj has a moral code that is absolute and follows the sense of justice of the nie sect. this is where they clash and ultimately fall apart.

but then, lxc is the one who holds them together. he forces them to meet each other eye to eye, perhaps in the hopes that his two brothers will mend things, but only succeeds in making it worse.

so, for me, 3zun is a hopeless ship - yet a ship that you can't help but wish for things to be different. what could have changed, had jgy not killed his commander? what could have changed, had nmj not banished jgy? what could have changed, had lxc never met jgy during his time on the run? what could have changed, had jgy never gone back to his father?

it's like the greek myth of orpheus. he's told not to look back, otherwise he will lose everything, and these 3 cannot help but constantly look back, towards the past (jgy is stuck on revenge for the past, nmj can't look past jgy's past misdeeds, and lxc yearns for their relationship to be the same as it was in the past), which is their ultimate downfall.

it's messy and complicated and doomed by the narrative but by hell - it's great fic fodder.

#3zun #cql #jgy #lxc #nmj #ask game #this was such a fun question thanks anon

[a-yaos-little-murder-beans]

Okay, so, I was just casually scrolling through Tiktok when I remembered that there had been a french movie called "Der Fuchs und das Mädchen" (The fox and the girl) and of course my brain decided to make it xiyao.

But very tragic bad end xiyao. Maybe JGY reincarnating as a fox and finding LXC in his house in the CR where he is in seclusion.

Just the whole movie, but with LXC as the girl and JGY as the fox...

And maybe JGY can turn into a human at some point, but he gets discovered and LXC can't rescue him in time.

#it's not even midday and I already made me sad #but it would work so well for xiyao #maybe I make this my holiday writing project #thanks fox tiktok #it's your fault for reminding me of that movie #it's a french movie #Le renard et l'énfant #but the towards the end when the girl takes the fox to their room and the fox panics and jumps out the window #make this lxc trying to lock up jgy so that he won't be taken away again from him #but jgy panics and escapes only to run into someone who knows him and injures/kills him #also xiyao fox babies bc I need them for the end #you can fit so much hurt and angst in this #is it a bad or happy ending? #idk #xiyao #lxc #jgy #lan xichen #jin guangyao #fanfic idea #akikos shitpost #mdzs #cql

[lansplaining]

I love your takes so I have a brainworm I wanted to share: how would MDZS have been different if Wangji was the older and Xichen was the younger Lan sibling? Or would there have been no difference? (I feel like Xichen could’ve had less pressure on him and could’ve been even more of an adorable sunshine sweetheart, but beyond that I don’t know)

oooh I love this

let's assume for the sake of said experiment that their personalities remain basically the same, and certain formative things like Wangji being the one to wait at their mother's door also still happened-- maybe in this case out of stubbornness because no one would just say the words out loud rather than being too young to totally understand (or maybe she died when they were a little younger idk)

so we have: Lan Wangji, First Jade of Lan, rigid, proper, and cold. He knows the rules that govern his inheritance from the top to the bottom and knows it his duty as sect heir to embody them to the letter. The realization that he has feelings for Wei Wuxian is even more horrifying than before, and he probably represses it even more aggressively and gives off even more of an appearance of absolutely despising Wei Wuxian at first.

and we have: Lan Xichen, Second Jade of Lan, warm, open, and (imo) explicitly raised with the instruction that as second son, his job is to support and assist his brother. I think he definitely is overall lighter and sunnier in many ways, but also more explicitly pressured to direct his attentions and energies towards Wangji, not himself. Given he'd in theory be the ones studying alongside the other sect juniors at Cloud Recesses, maybe he befriends Wei Wuxian a bit, and notices that he's one of the few people who isn't too awed by his brother to attempt befriending him, too.

(whoops it got long)

if we're specifically going MDZS and not CQL, I think a lot of their early encounters can remain fairly similar, though Wei Wuxian harassing the Lan heir at the competition in Qishan would probably be the subject of a lot more gossip, and not only Jiang Cheng but probably others would be pointing out to him that he maybe needs to cool it when teasing someone who is going to be one of the most powerful men in their world. Does this stop him? No!

Where things get very... interesting? is the Hostage Summer Camp. Because one must assume Wangji and Xichen's places are swapped: Wangji flees with the library and Xichen ends up as a hostage. Who helps rescue Wangji, or in typical stubborn fashion, does he somehow manage it himself? Does Xichen stay in the cave with Wei Wuxian, or is he alone-- or with Jiang Cheng? Or does he just get out and no one kills the Xuanwu at all? I didn't quite realize until writing it down like this that this exact same period is an essential crux for both brothers' most important interpersonal relationships. And the whole plot therefore sort of falls apart here.

If Lan Xichen doesn't meet Meng Yao, Meng Yao presumably does not become a spy amongst the Wen-- he has no one he can reach out to who will trust him once he's able to hint at his identity. It's very likely they lose the war in that case, or if they win, at least Nie Mingjue dies in the process.

If the Xuanwu slaughter doesn't happen, or Wei Wuxian somehow does it alone without dying, or does it with Jiang Cheng, the whole pretense for the massacre of Lotus Pier has to change, and Jiang Cheng's specific relationship dynamic with Wei Wuxian in the aftermath would be completely different if he didn't have that tiny seed of resentment and blame. Maybe he doesn't run off without telling him. Maybe they go out together and both get captured.

And that's to say nothing of what happens if Lan Wangji doesn't think that he confessed his feelings to Wei Wuxian in the cave, and if they didn't have that moment of bonding and shared self-sacrifice. Assuming somehow everything else still falls out the same, this Lan Wangji would presumably be way too caught up in leading the remnants of his sect in the war to devote himself to following Wei Wuxian around and worrying about his cultivation.

Okay, but so let's imagine that for some reason Lan Xichen still flees with the library and Lan Wangji ends up at hostage summer camp. Jiang Cheng and Jin Zixuan are also there, and his dad is technically still alive, so it's not like he'd be the only sect heir there.

So then I think the most interesting crux becomes... how far does newly inherited Sect Leader Lan go for Wei Wuxian? And what is Lan Xichen forced to do in response? ...I may continue this in a reblog because it has gotten really long. 

#ask answer #lxc #lwj #i love this thank you #to be continued lol

[sandupommelfrog]

i only hv vague ideas for vampire xicheng plot but i hv a crystal clear vision of jc and lxc hanging out doing like boring logistic work together (but for seperate things) and jc just leans over and is like wtf r u doing. to which lxc is like um budgeting? you hv to know what that is right?? and jc is like no i mean why are you typing out all of the numbers and equations individually and lxc is just like why wouldnt i be doing that isnt that how excel works??? and jc has to take a minute bc wtf is gusu lan teaching their heirs in the modern day year of our lord 20XX and he scooches over (thigh to thigh touching ofc) and proceeds to give lxc a v aggressive lesson in the basics and intermediate functioning of microsoft excel, inadvertently v much getting in lxc’s personal space. jc is ofc oblivious to this as he is in the impassioned throes of Talking about Boring Logistical and Administrative Work

#this might b lxc's 'oh' moment #jc looks up at him #a little too close to his face and is like do u get it now? and lxc is just like haha. yes. thank you. (act natural act natural act natur) #jc goes back to his own work furiously typing emails to jzx ab financing rebuilding their shoppe unaware that he is still sitting #Very Close to xichen #lxc #jc #xicheng #vampire xicheng au

[kissporsche]

Can I make it a little weird please? Top 5 fictional human characters you'd ride into battle (literally)🎉✨

ALRIGHT SO. After much discussion (thank you @lu-sn for your invaluable insight) here are five human* characters I would ride into battle. The conditions they had to meet were: Have the strength to carry me into battle, have the fighting skills to protect me in said battle, and *would not drop me at any point*. If you're wondering why someone isn't on the list it's almost certainly because they would drop me (looking at Vegas)

Wen Ning- The Untamed. There are a few MDZS characters that meet the criteria but Wen Ning is the winner

Gideon Nav- The Locked Tomb. Maybe I never finished the first book but it doesn't matter, I know Gideon would carry me

Xie Lian- TGCF. The only downside to this is that Hua Cheng would probably smite me

Magnus Burnsides- TAZ Balance. If he managed to keep Steven the Goldfish alive he can keep me alive too

Shen Wei- Guardian. Would he be happy about it? No. But would he drop me? No. (SHOW VERSION SHOW VERSION I KNOW NOVEL VERSION WOULD DROP ME IN A HEARTBEAT)

Here are some other options if Wen Ning/Xie Lian/Shen Wei are not human enough for you: Carrot Ironfoundersson (Discworld), Merlin (Merlin, although might not have the carrying strength), Boromir (LOTR), Haruka Tenou (Sailor Moon), Bacta Campaignpodcast (Campaign, are clones human? Discuss)

#answer #petraplatypuspan #ask game #THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT WEIRD THIS WAS A FUN CHALLENGE #the other mdzs options were lwj lxc and nmj #pete cannot carry me and would likely drop me but nearly made the list anyway bc my brain got to 'riding pete' and staticked out

[fortune-maiden]

For the character bingo: Lan Qiren, Lan Xichen, and Wen Qing

Thank you! I did Wen Qing earlier, so I'll do the Lan family here :D

Shufu!

Does it count as daddy/mommy issues when it's not your daddy/mommy you have the issue with? 🤔

Anyway Shufu is cool and good. He's also prideful and strict but he raised his nephews to be good, loving young men and is routinely shown to be a capable leader for the Lan. Also he is probably the only major character to make it to his 50s and I think that should be celebrated

Meanwhile my blorbo LXC...

We have Character Bingo! XD

I love Xichen. I love breaking him. I love seeing him getting the hug he desperately needs. I think he should get to go a little feral. As a treat :)

#Thank you! #it does not surprise me that lxc got the bingo haha #he is my blorbo :3 #mdzs

[cryptidafter]

maybe I'm showing my true colors but I can honestly say I wouldn't get along with most of the MDZS cast lol. I am a very lowkey/mellow person and anyone that's too talkative or goofs around too much is going to make me crazy

#cryptid's thoughts #LWJ will be quiet and do his work and so will I #and LXC is chill enough that we could get along #I would honestly want to work with WQ but I'd have to strangle WC so no thanks #I'm also a perfectionist so yeah

[leatherbookmark]

sitting and thinking (in the context of my fic but also in general) about the things about jgy that lxc doesn’t know, but specifically those that wwx KNOWS but won’t tell him. because that would make him soft, and we don’t want that

#like this is so infuriating #in the novel... there literally is no last scar on wwx's forearm. there's no Imperative forcing him to solve the mystery Lest He Dies #and yet. and yet. the way lxc's reluctance to hop on the detective xianlock weimes train is almost framed as this... irritating obtuseness #and like i KNOW jgy did those things that lxc didn't want to believe he did. but wwx's approach is so impersonal sometimes #it Is just a mystery and uncovering it is fun for him. and i guess in a mystery novel it's also exciting for the detective to find all the #clues and exclaim that it was the butler that did it! but ignoring the circumstances that led the butler to do it to em is just Mean Okay #especially since we're holding in our hands a How Wei Wuxian Did It To Em: The Novel #that's the way it starts: wei wuxian the murderous yiling laozu! thank god he's dead! and then we find out that he wasn't an one-dimensional #villain! but while wwx can sort of say SAME HAT about the way jgy becomes the scapegoat in the span of like one day... as many people #before me said they have exactly zero feelings about each other. Nothing. and it's not a bad thing! it's interesting and ironic and makes #you lie down and go AAAAAA WHAT IF...!!! #but going back to lxc. he seems to know that jgy killed his father and that qin su was his sister but he wasn't at the lotus pier when the #cultivators talked about it and theorized about What Else he Definitely Did #wwx didn't tell him a thing about the brothel or meng shi's body. and i'm just very horizontal about it. i need to lie the fuck down #i still after 84 years have Not read the extras but like. is lxc sitting out there? wasting away? Uninformed? PROBABLY HE IS YEAH #because it's not like wwx cares particularly and at this point i think lwj would mentally spit if not piss on jgy's grave for hurting lxc #so they have zero business telling him stuff that might frame jgy in another more nuanced light. but also even if they did. then what? #hey this guy you were tricked into killing because you thought he didn't do murders but he did and it flipped your view of him upside down #so much that you believed that he genuinely would attack you? yeah about that we think he might have just wanted to get his mother's body #back. yeah from this temple where he essentially deified her. the temple he built where the brothel was. yeah they were treated horribly #out there and like i guess jgy wanted to make sure his mom would never have to suffer like that again or something. anyway thats all yea bye #i'm sad. #shut up shrimp

[qinghe-s]

Hi,.....if you don't mind me asking, can I ask your top 5 (or top 3) favorite characters from MDZS? And why do you love them? And your top 5 favorite moments from the series? Sorry if you've answered this question before....Thanks....

oh my gosh of course i don't mind!! the opposite! ♥

i could be cheeky and just list huaisang, but different adaptations (in order it'd be novel, donghua, cql, audio drama, manhua, just ftr) (donghua comes high on the list bc his scenes are more canon compliant than cql) but i'll take you more seriously than that:

nie huaisang still comes first, he's my sun and moon and the reason i got into mxtx at all. i've told this story before but in 2020 a friend of mine played a character based on him in a d&d oneshot and i was instantly charmed, saw her reblog a gifset a while later and then i started watching cql Just For Him. i started reading the novel around episode... 13? whenever they're in the xuanwu's cave, and he just kept ticking all my boxes. some boxes i didn't even knew i had! he might genuinely be my favourite character ever. he's a spoiled, adorable boy and a horribly bitter and devastatingly lonely adult who does awful things for someone he loves? the most character. no one beats him.

nie mingjue, lan xichen, and lan wangji get to share second place because i couldn't choose if i got paid to. they're so good. all three of them are so deeply loyal but show it in very different ways. i adore how nmj has such an incredibly big heart even though he's not presented as especially kind or nice, but his actions speak volumes if you take the time to look beneath the surface. lxc is kindness personified in contrast, serenity in the shape of a man, and the fact that that's both his strength and weakness in context of the main plot is *chef kiss* — plus, you know, he's the perfect man. who doesn't love him! lwj is an angry, petty, jealous, horny bitch and righteous and brave and so unbelievably good. kind without being nice. incredibly stubborn. objectively kind of terrible in bed (i mean HONESTLY) but it genuinely just endears me more. what a guy.

wei wuxian isn't someone i talk about a lot but oh my god. darling boy. i'm constantly overwhelmed by how kind he is to the dead, how gently caring. when he, lwj, and wen ning go back to the burial mounds before the second siege and he holds a skeleton hand to his mouth, holding it so gently? the way he cares? i'm tearing up just thinking about it. he isn't even the type of character i'm usually drawn to because he has such a severe case of main characteritis but i LOVE how his arrogance is his downfall and how, at the end of the day, what he really wants is a place to come home to. i could write way too much about about him & homes but that's for some other day.

my top favourite moments is honestly kind of hard! both because there are SO many but also, like... i can't decide if my favourite moments are the ones that make me happiest or the ones that make me have the most feelings. i'll try, though!

obviously i want to say "at least 70% of everything in the Guile chapters" but if i have to pick just one scene it's the one where nhs' things are burned. which seems horrible!! but it just says so much about him! the way he switches so quickly to fury and how easy it is to read fear into that reaction, like he's been holding things back for a long time and it just boils over. oh my god. baby. but also for real just. Guile. it's got the juice! and by juice i mean nmj/nielan/nie brothers

wwx coming back from the burial mounds the first time. it's so haunting! wwx, jc, and lwj all have so many things going on for them! jesus christ!!!

when the nie brothers arrive at baifeng mountain. they're both displaying such typical traits of masculinity, just on opposite sides of the scale (i've compared them to a lumberjack and a guy in a suit commercial before; the masculinity is equal but wildly different) and it Delights me. bonus: when jgy complains about how much prey nmj has captured and lxc LAUGHS OUT LOUD because he also finds nmj delightful (':

huaisang during the second siege ♥♥♥ i'm Obsessed with how he pushes his own agenda and the desperation you only see when you already know what he's doing. he's so precious to me, my perfect little guy, my most beloved.

i love almost everything about the extras. yes the bichen thing and the library pavillion too. my favourite extra is the lotus pod one, specifically lwj's chapter and absolutely everything about it. the way the lan brothers interact, the way lwj helps the common people, his insistence on picking lotus pods, the little glimpses of what lxc is like when no one's watching him... tearing up just thinking about how he loves the blooming magnolia so much he needs to paint it and how he goes to their mother's cottage to practice playing liebing. and how lwj put lotus pods in a vase there :((( they're such wonderful boys

#ask #thank you so much for giving me an excuse to talk about these great guys ♥♥ i really truly do love them #honestly i could go on forever about all these points #i could make lengthy posts just about what i like about the extras honestly lmao #nhs #nmj #lxc #lwj #wwx #mdzs #mdzs: all #celeste.txt

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lan xichen!!!

it’s not that i think lan xichen was robbed of screen time i just want to see more of him at all times <3

#i can’t even say everyone but me is wrong abt lxc bc i have seen some lxc stuff that i hold gently in my hands <3 #having lxc as a favorite is so pleasant except for the mental illness he gives me #answered #thank!!!