#mdzs sl

[aphel1on]

songxuexiao... or something

#songxuexiao #songxiao #xuexiao #songxue #xue yang #song lan #xiao xingchen #yi city #mdzs #the untamed #text post meme #aphelion.txt #sl #xxc #xy #they cause me derangement on a scale nothing else ever has

[thatswhatsushesaid]

it’s time for another stupid fandom poll

welcome to mdzs university!!! what’s you’re major? just kidding, it doesn’t matter. what does matter is you have to join a group to complete your first group project. no pressure, the project only counts for 50% of your total grade this semester.

so:

put your reasons in the tags if you feel so compelled! i’ll mix up the group members for the next poll just to keep things interesting 👀

#mdzs #cql #the untamed #polls #shenanigans #i tried to include someone who would Ruin Things for each group #except for sl and xxc #i guess you (the participant) could screw things up for them tho #be the chaos agent you wish to see in the world etc

[wifiwuxians]

#xue yang #song lan #yi city #mdzs #xy&sl #bad penny that he is

[krispycreamsicle]

#xue yang #mxtxnet #theuntameddaily #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #cql #mdzs #yi city #*my gifs #cleansing the bad vibes in the xy tag with a gifset of him being hot while tormenting sl <333 #anyway this is a songxue post. it's also me holding my little evil dude in my hands and watching proudly as he commits murder

[zelkam]

Let’s go?

watching xiao xingchen and song lan leave // episode 10

#cqledit #The Untamed #Wei Wuxian #Lan Wangji #wangxian #mdzs #myedit #I was deleting screencaps from finished sets and I somehow forgot to gif these so here we go #god you can really see that thoughts were being thoughten here #the 'what if that was us' #which is then nuts once you know how it ended up for xxc and sl

[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

[aoxue]

@songlanweek2023 Day 3: Laughter / Relaxation

Sword and fuchen forms are a fine way to loosen up! Love the fact that we get to see Song Lan be proficient in two (2) different weapons and also capable of dual-wielding onscreen…. What a well-rounded young man

#song lan #mdzs #cql #slloveweek23 #aoxue.png #referenced a cool wudang jian + qingfeng fuchen video on youtube... the dual wielding is legitimately so cool to me. sl is so cool

[chenqingssuibian]

broke: xue yang is a jin bastard

woke: xiao xingchen is a jin bastard

bespoke: song lan is a jin bastard

#obviously none of them are. but wouldnt it be funny #if jin ling's 500th uncle. was the guy his nightmare babysitter blinded muted murdered and mindcontrolled for eight years #and by funny i mean horrifying #personally i think xingchen deserves lan baby status. hes just so tall and pretty and strong yknow #if xue yang is anyones baby hes chang cians. just seems like something mxtx would do if giving xue yang a daddy was on her mind #song lan just spawned. obviously #the great thing about unexplained backstories means that i can make anyone a bastard! :D #i need something to entertain myself w at work okay #just imagining the look on jgys face upon hearing that Giant Man is his brother. he wouldnt be able to contain the rage #song lan #sl #mdzs #cql #the untamed #shut up ly

[mispronouncing-michaelangelo]

"Song Lan... I- I can't see." finally snapped; im making a pacrim au, lets fucking go

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #xiao xingchen #song lan #songxiao #the untamed #cql #my art (??) #okay so i have a lot of stuff i wanna draw for this au aye i love it so much #i am so deeply into my mech phase (yet again) right now and just cannot be stopped #i learned the basics of how to draw a gundam and now im convinced im good at it or something aye #but anyway; the lore for this part of the story is basically that the mech was sabotaged by xy #with the intention of blinding sl and during the drift he was and the mech was blind too and thats how they got to injured #but the mech sort of threw them out of the drift and they thought they were okay in the end but xxc's vision goes black a little later #(the mech didnt throw them out; xxc tried to save sl by forcing him out (dangerous!!!) and taking the injuries of the mech onto himself) #basically xy tried to blind sl (and did temporarily) but ended up blinding xxc instead #mech au

[goldencorecrunches]

I think it would be really funny if fierce corpses actually Do need to eat flesh to survive but wen ning doesn't bc he's too polite

#and it works to be clear. it works #sl does chow down but he does like animals and feels bad about it like one of them vegetarian vampires #the untamed #mdzs #cql #wen ning #not to say i wouldn't love me some bloody mouthed wen ning. that'd be some fun stuff to explore #I just think this would be really funny #'oh none for me thanks. my sister told me no'

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #song lan #a-qing #xiao xingchen #xue yang #The scene where Song lan sees Xue Yang is supposed to be dark and dramatic but there's something about the whiplash of emotions- #-that makes me lose my mind!! That's *HIS* bestie!!! Back off bitch!! #Poor guy wandering around for years looking for his amiguito only to find him with the guy that split you apart in the first place #XY wasn't even trying to flaunt it on purpose. He was just vibing with XXC at the wrong time. #I also love A-qing for being quick on the uptake that these two are so similar its practically like a mirror image. #This also mirrors song lan's first/last appearance with the bff sundae. XY finally gets his revenge (having a domestic life with a bff). #((XXC has no idea what the t-shirt says. He just needed a spare. I like to think XY sewed and embroidered it personally)) #I will get into my xue yang thoughts more later but...man I will always wonder how things would have gone if song lan never showed up #xxc never should have run away (out of shame for causing SL harm). It was always going to cause more harm... #Dont worry SL. XXC still misses you. Some bonds cannot be broken even if time and distance pull you apart.

[aphel1on]

2 mdzs posts that i think about all the time but i cannot for the life of me remember the origin of

- "song lan roaming the land like a wild pokemon"

- "do you think hensheng wobbles like laminated paper when jgy flies?"

#mdzs #aphelion.txt #song lan #jin guangyao #sl #jgy #edit: the sl one comes from the TAGS of corpsentry's incredible xuexiao comic #still can't remember where the 2nd one is from

[thatswhatsushesaid]

okay everyone, you've presumably survived two group projects at mdzs university, you are probably getting passing marks, and the end of the term is in sight. you just have to get through one last project, and then you're home free for the holiday(s) (of your choosing)

so, it's time to decide who you will throw your lot in with one last time:

good luck!!

#real talk if I had to join any of these groups I'd probably drop the course and take up drinking #but if I HAD to join one #i'd probably choose lwj sl & sms #just because the tension will be Real but it won't be quite as cringe-inducing as listening to jin zixun start every team meeting #regaling us with his latest venture capital start-up idea #or carrying the dead weight that will be nhs on any project that doesn't spark joy in his heart #mdzs

[wifiwuxians]

it's autism acceptance month! my best friend likes the squeezy hugs the most, so i drew them our favorite boy getting a squeezy hug from his number one menace~ these two characters have evolved into a sort of representation of our bond on occasion lol

[ID: a grayscale halfbody sketch of a grinning xue yang enthusiastically hugging an embarrassed yet accepting song lan. the only thing in color is a pastel rainbow infinity symbol on the brooch on song lan's belt. xue yang is tackling song lan from behind and the side, and song lan is somewhat leaning back into him with his hands resting in his lap. he is wearing gloves and his head is turned towards xue yang. /end ID]

#song lan #xue yang #xy&sl #mdzs #they are the sl to my xy which sounds SO terrible if you dont know what we mean by it LMAO #my art

[krispycreamsicle]

make me choose

@veliseraptor asked: dead xue yang or dead xiao xingchen?

#xue yang #theuntameddaily #mxtxnet #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #cql #mdzs #yi city #*my gifs #okay first. :((((((((( #but dead xy. because at this point in his life death was really the only way for him to move on #there's genuinely nothing left for him but clinging onto the false hope that xxc would somehow come back #which. xxc won't come back. so xy's stuck in an endless cycle of misery trying and failing to resurrect xxc over and over #and he drags the rest of the yi city crew in along with him #there's absolutely nothing that could get xy to let go of xxc (and by proxy sl and aq) but death #which. even then there's a possibility of him becoming a ghost but that's a whole other thing #xxc's death is what initiated xy's spiral of misery while xy's death is what lets them all (including xy) be free from it #and as much as i hate it i think xy's death is what's best for all of them :( #but also how about neither?? how about xy and xxc alive and happy and no one dies or is sad ever #but also also the way he struggles to look at the candy and the soft smile as he dies aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh #i have no coherent thoughts left only amorphous yi city feelings

[theinkgirl]

my sister was talking about wizard ghost book with me, and was like ‘I know there’s like 7 gay tragedies, but the most canon ones, the nice ones, (she was meaning wangxian and songxiao) both have the surviving person in the couple become the caretaker for the other one’s kid. And I really like that’

And she’s right. It’s a parallel I hadn’t noticed. You can’t not pay attention to LWJ raising WWX’s child while he’s dead. But Song Lan doesn’t just take the shattered fragments of his partner’s soul. He’s given (as if it’s the most natural thing to do) the shattered fragments of his partner’s kid’s soul too. And his stated goal is to safeguard both of them, take care of both of them, figure out a way to repair both of them get both of them back. He doesn’t have any promise he’s getting either of them; but he takes them both. He knew A-Qing for like 4 minutes before death, but that’s his kid now too.

I don’t know where I was going with this, I just saw that official art with Song Lan and the shadows of XXC and A-Qing and started typing at light speed

#mdzs #mo dao su zhi #mo dao zu shi #wangxian #songxiao #wangxian fam #songxiao fam #wizard ghost book #LWJ #WWX #SL #XXC #lan wangji #LSZ #wei wuxian #lan sizhui #lan yuan #a-yuan #song Lan #song zichen #xiao xingchen #a qing