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[leavethepuddle]

this is such a good way to end the book.... they're so in love i seriously want to cry...

#mdzs #mdzs liveblog

[rose-reads-visualnovels]

Okay so. Let's assess our situation.

Wei Wuxian is weakened somehow, either by the process of possessing the body or the kick from earlier really fucked this body up. Still it's important to note that Wei Wuxian brute forces through the pain/dizziness not to sit up like his initial plan, but to look around himself and check his surroundings.

And well. Hmm. Meatsuit X....... is this a special effects interest or are you like. GNC as fuck?

Wei Wuxian does not approve of men wearing makeup, but he also notes down that the makeup wasn't even applied correctly. I wonder which thing made him madder.

Hey, Wei Wuxian? I know this novel ends up with gay sex so like. Are you a repressed homophobic homosexual? Or are you one of those masc4masc "I'm a real man who only fucks real men" people?

What's your Grindr profile?

#mdzs liveblog #mdzs #mxtx novels #webnovel liveblog #webnovel weekend #wei wuxian #meatsuit x

[transboysokka]

okay fuck here we go it’s 1am im trying to watch the live action mdzs series again

I’ve always wanted to get into this fandom bc there’s a TON of stuff on ao3 for it and I’d love more reading material….

the only thing I know about this fandom at all:

it’s Chinese

It’s gay

There’s like magic, or they’re gods or something

Someone is called wei wuxian and he dies or something in the beginning???

ok first impression it has the same vibe as all the hetero chinese period dramas I love lol so this has gotta be better than that right??

uh… fuck it seems like there’s a million different characters and names and I think I’m gonna get super lost….

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[petrorabbit]

Does this count as foreshadowing

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[the-evil-pizza]

wwx as soon as he heard about the fact that mxy was into men: I bet can use this to dunk on my brother

#the adventure of a chaotic mess #mdzs animation liveblog

[veliseraptor]

rereading the villainous friends extra and

Xue Yang was about to split his sides laughing. "You should've gotten a mirror and looked at your face. That smile was nasty. It was so fucking fake I could have thrown up."

Jin Guangyao snorted. "What do you know, you little delinquent? One has to smile, no matter how fake, no matter how disgusting it is."

Xue Yang lazily replied, "You were asking for it. If anyone dared say I was raised by a whore, first I'd find his mom, fuck her a couple hundred ties, then drag her out and throw her into a whorehouse for others to fuck as well. Then we'd see which one of us was really raised by a whore. Simple."

Jin Guangyao laughed as well. "I certainly don't have such refined hobbies."

"You don't, but I do. I don't mind taking care of it for you. Just let me know, and I can go fuck them for you, hahahaha..."

Jin Guangyao said, "No thanks. Save your energy, Xue-gongzi."

head buzzing full of thoughts mostly:

I will never not love the fact that Jin Guangyao calls him "Xue-gongzi." do you think anyone else does that because I don't and I think Xue Yang finds it hilarious and also kind of adorable (and I think Jin Guangyao is both sincere and also knows Xue Yang finds it funny)

I feel like sometimes I see fellow Jin Guangyao apologists talking about Jin Guangyao like...just tolerating Xue Yang or dealing with him because his father told him to, and the thing I love about their dynamic so much is actually that it seems like Jin Guangyao is genuinely, ruefully fond of him

like here, Jin Guangyao has just had a very nasty experience that we know later on is what finally pushes him over the edge w/r/t Jin Guangshan, and Xue Yang makes Jin Guangyao laugh. by being crass and absolutely kind of gross, but Jin Guangyao's understated verbal reaction ("I certainly don't have such refined hobbies" "save your energy, Xue-gongzi") read to me as teasing.

also between this and Xue Yang's cutting out He Su's tongue after he insults Jin Guangyao too far earlier: Xue Yang's love language is horrific violence. other people will say "do you want me to kill them for you" but Xue Yang will actually do it and be very proud of himself about it.

anyway. just some feelings about them again and I feel like I'm failing to verbalize them appropriately. maybe I should go try to write that "jgy teaching xy to read" fic now

#important text posts #xue yang #jin guangyao #lise reads mdzs #lise does meta #...ish #the sad queer cultivators show #webnovel liveblogging

[princeoftheroses]

not to be dramatic or anything but i would die for lan sizhui

#started rewatching mdzs for hanguang june but i swear this will be my only liveblog post i wont do anymore

[radiantmists]

oh...

"If I wasn't destined to be perfect, I at least wanted to be perfectly kind. But I couldn't even manage that."

I think most people stop trying to be perfect pretty early; it's seen as almost egotistical to think you can be. But I think most people hold on to the desire to be good, and for a lot of us being a 'good person' means at least not doing terrible things, and ideally not having terrible feelings and impulses either.

And that's not achievable, not for real humans, and not even for the gods of this world. As the preceptor said, those who ascend are still human. The world has no true gods.

But in the wake of that truth, what Xie Lian says earlier is important. Everyone has the capacity and the impulse to do bad things, and everyone screws up and hurts someone sometimes. All you can do is shamelessly go on living, and keep trying to do good things and help people and make the world better.

#moral purity isnt real #but yin yu was good #and its terribly sad that he died feeling like a failure for not being 'a god' #...i want to come back to this and compare with the 'always stand with justice and live with no regrets' thing from mdzs #i think there's an interesting resonance there #tgcf #tgcf liveblog #tgcf spoilers #tgcf volume 7

[soldier-poet-king]

Does wwx doing this while trying to convince lwj he's telling the truth imply that the Chinese equivalent of 'Scout's honour' involves the SAME hand gesture?? Is this coincidence? Some improbable and unbelievable, yet somehow true story of cross cultural exchange?

#fran liveblogs #the untamed liveblog #no but for real this is a genuine question #i find it both funny/endearing and also intriguing #mdzs #yes i AM in the guest room in my PJs watching danmei the day of my cousins funeral #IM SORRY. I SPENT THE LAST TWO DAYS CRYING. AND MAKING NICE WITH RELATIVES I DISLIKE #i need this. tbh. #and we're here til SUNDAY. #i have to miss PATHFINDER #and now that most of the funeral stuff is done #i gotta like. do some work remotelt here #despite the fact that im maybe sick??? #god forbid ppl here get vaccines or wear masks #it would be. a conspiracy by the govt ofc :)))))

[leavethepuddle]

lmao @ jgy just giving up like. fine. let these two have their moment.

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[rose-reads-visualnovels]

Quacking youth count: 3

I love the emphatic question marks!!!

Wei Wuxian is just baffled. He really doesn't seem like evil villain material. Maybe he just thought necromancy was cool???

He certainly seems to have an anti possession policy when it comes to his powers. "I'll have a whole army of the dead but I draw the line at nonconsensual spiritual possession"

Okay, Wei Wuxian whatever you say.

Also interesting that we get told again and again that Wei Wuxian could feel the passage of time when he was in his dead state. It isn't a blink of death and then accidental possession.

And I have to ask. What happened to the spirit of Meatsuit X? Is he in the back of his mind sleeping or is he just POOF gone?

#mdzs liveblog #mdzs chapter 2 #mdzs #webnovel liveblog #webnovel weekend #mxtx novels #wei wuxian #meatsuit x

[vaguely-concerned]

that last scene in fatal journey where nie huaisang has to support nie mingjue for him to keep upright, harrowhark's arc in harrow the ninth*, and the 'O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven/Keep me in temper: I would not be mad' line from king lear all break my heart in exactly the same way. that precise thread of the ultimate, hopeless vulnerability and confusion that's at the heart of madness -- of realizing in glimpses that you won't even realize how far you've drifted from yourself and that you don't know how to stop it, you can't stop it. that's such a core part of nie mingjue to me, and I don't feel like I've seen a lot of real discussion around it considering how central I think it is to his character.

*also like harrow, nie mingjue is both 'mad' (im mentally ill. I'm reclaiming it. sometimes that does feel like exactly the right word for it) and also like. severely haunted. by a sword even lmao. they've even got the 'crushing weight of shouldering the responsibility of their entire house given to them at way too early an age under horrifically traumatizing circumstances' same hat/same hat! thing going on here. omg. nie mingjue is like if harrow was a big sensitive jock who cries at the drop of a hat and harrow is like if nie mingjue was a small wet ratwoman who does bones and catholic guilt. but the core is basically the same. I can't believe I'm right about this.

#and jin guangyao and ianthe doing the clasped hand meme over mercilessly gaslighting and generally making everything worse for them! #I have respect for ianthe's grift but not jin guangyao's I only regret nie huaisang could only kill him once </3 #the locked tomb #the untamed #nie mingjue #nie huaisang #nie bros #I wish everyone in this particular fandom overlap a very 'I've connected the dots' except in this case I think I actually did lol #I've always had a hard time explaining why I love nie mingjue SO MUCH despite the fact that he's probably the most doomed person #in the entirety of mdzs/the untamed and also of course his hands are not clean (no one's hands are clean in that world) #but my raw horrified sympathy for him in that element is probably really central to it #he tried so hard!! he tried so hard #it's so funny in my liveblog of the untamed way back when you can see me imprint on him hopelessly just like IMMEDIATELY haha #I chose pain

[morethanwonderful]

Local man tricked into practicing self care because he’s worried about his boyfriend

#this part of their relationship is SO important to me #lwj is so good for him in so many ways #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mdzsposting #liveblog #ID in alt text #wangxian tag

[daisyachain]

single plank bridge until midnight :^)

#through a series of coincidences the season of Nov-Dec is hardwired into my brain as mdzs season #kelsey liveblogs mdzs #wei wuxian

[the-evil-pizza]

bless his heart but teen jin zixuan was so fucking stupid

#not that bad though considering *points at his whole family* #mdzs animation liveblog #the adventure of a chaotic mess

[veliseraptor]

didn’t notice this little snip on my first readthrough! they are friends your honor.

never mind that I still reject “tall xue yang” as a concept, I love this for many reasons but especially the fact that jin guangyao made xue yang laugh about something. I want to know what.

#webnovel liveblogging #lise reads mdzs #jin guangyao #xue yang #i really need to...write something with the two of them again sldkjsdlfk