#mdzs talk

[labyrynth]

like i don’t understand xi//cheng to begin with but conceptually i think it’s even funnier when ppl are like “and jingyi is their son!! 🥹” as if jingyi is not canonically ragging on jc at every single opportunity presented to him (and then some)

like this is their dynamic

#mdzs talk #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #jiang cheng #lan xichen #lan jingyi #if you’re into that. like. you do you!! #have a great time!! #i just. #conceptually it’s too funny #like rambunctious disciple + sect leader he kind of respects + sect leader he wouldn’t hesitate to drop kick into the sun #jc doesn’t know who the fuck this kid is #but if he’s got beef with him well. #jc isn’t one to back down from a fight. #jingyi tries to fight him and jc punts him into next week #(after which he may or may not have an awakening) #what kind? you choose #greatest hits

[spicydevilz]

Tempted to rewatch the untamed just for yicity, especially xue yang, I just love him😩😩

Yi city is and always will be my favourite arc, I do with the untamed went more into xys backstory though. I'm glad it did show his and xxcs relationship, it's interesting to me, and I enjoy talking about it with people. I don't see their relationship as romantic, more as family... God I wish Yi city didn't have a bad ending

#the untamed #mo dao zu shi #Mdzs #xue yang #xiao xingchen #Mxtx #Mdzs talk #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #yi city #not a shitpost #Spoilers

[fatalism-and-villainy]

Something that frustrated me about the discussion over the Seven Seas MDZS translation was the emphasis on the mere presence of a character guide as a problem. Having a dramatis personae of sorts is a pretty established feature of even traditionally published English language fiction (each A Song of Ice and Fire book has an extensive one, for example) and translated classics (like my edition of Anna Karenina). I disagree that it's infantilizing or talking down to readers, or that it's demeaning to the source material.

What I did object to about those character guides, or at least what I saw of them, was the editorializing. The point of a character guide should be to give readers an easy index of characters to refer to if, say, they forget who's related to who and how. It is not to tell readers how to feel about certain characters, or pass judgment calls about their actions. That, to me, is an inappropriate overstep, especially in official publishing.

#and honestly.... even in non-official publishing #there are fan translators whose translations i admire #but whose editorializing commentary just pissed me off #like 'friendly reminder you're not supposed to sympathize with this guy' fuck off #fandom natterings #mdzs talk #and etc.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 3: Enveloping Feelings.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 4 (soon))

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #Yungmeng Jiang training arc AU #I wanted to try out a different paneling style for this one - sorry I'm a day late! (there will still be a post tomorrow to keep on track) #The original 3 panel comic idea was fine but the point of this new schedule was to take time to push myself a bit more. #I was taking a look back through some comic artists I felt inspired by #and I really loved how Lynda Barry fills her gutters with patterns and doodles! #Obviously I'm not going as absolutely wild with it as she does but it was a great exercise! #I truly think the gutters are the most important and most overlooked part of any comic. There's lots going on in that space. #It's the same with timeskips. The implied movement between moments that we don't see changes depending on how wide that gap is #You're here for the funny tags so here's some that ties this time talk together: #I think LWJ was thinking about that second note from day 2 but it took him 7 days of hazing to commit it to paper. #I think he sends it a day later and immediately regrets it. Chasing down the messenger and everything. #You know if something actually happened to his brother he would never ever forgive himself for putting the bad vibes out there. #Third time skip was the hardest because there was so many possible flavours of jokes here. Day 8/9 was a personal favourite. #day 14 was also funny (week by week). I think the debate on 'how long does lwj take to catch feelings' is more or less: #'how long does it take for him to arrive at a particular stage of grief and yearning (and awareness of it all) #This is a symphony. There is an act by act structure. Every day he is fighting to keep his old sensibilities. He is losing so badly. #(I'll be returning to the main comic soon but there is more of this AU to come!)

[cloudpalettes]

something something self-restraint something

#mdzs #mdzs fanart #mo dao zu shi #lan wangji #lan zhan #wei wuxian #wei ying #wangxian #mxtx #TEEN WX !!!!! #HEAR ME OUT #lwj would do this me thinks #CHU !!!! #he panicked bc wwx can;t shut up ! #this is like. almost a kiss but not rly #this would def fluster wwx #and lwj too #wow i love them #smth out of a shoujo manga type of vibe #ty for coming to my ted talk #consider this my teen wx contribution #ok do u think they'd kiss fr after this not-a-kiss moment of weakness

[lazycranberrydoodles]

getting back into the untamed and i had a thought. / follow for more yllz babygirlism

#i saw someone a while ago talking about how wwx always has good intentions…. #his personal road to hell was paved with good intentions yes but i’m not sure where making a guy eat his own legs fits #it is so funny to me how the tiger tally/yin iron influences wei wuxian differently in each adaptation #i remember making a sliding scale of how ‘culpable’ wwx is from adaptation to adaptation #based on how they portray the mental effects of the iron #but for the life of me i cannot find it :( #wwx really said ‘if i had a cursed amulet i simply wouldnt be corrupted🙄🙄’ #that’s basically what he tells lan zhan in this episode…. if necromancy was having ill effects i would notice #and you know. at this point he is lying about everything. but i do wonder how much he actually believes that 👁️👁️ #how much of his mind is resigned to doing whatever needs to be done to exact revenge regardless of harm to himself #and how much genuinely believes that he’s smart and competent enough to make it through whole #the answer of course is BOTH!! bisexual pride #mdzs #art #mdzs spoilers #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic arts #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #my art #the grandmaster of diabolism #cql #the untamed #魔道祖师 #陈情令 #mdzs meme #doodle #lmao

[nyunie]

that video got me in the feels about mdzs im gonna read the novel again

it made me CRAZYYYYYY i was going to read the novel and then got caught up in fucking minecraft lore of all things but now that i have all this spare time on my hands i might go back to it

#asks #anon!! #mdzs talk

[lgbtlunaverse]

the wangxian + a-yuan "dads with an adopted son" thing is fine and enjoyable in fanfics honestly but I think we as a fandom are really not utilizing the idea of all of them in unconventional familial structures enough. Like, canonically it wasn't so much that wwx was a-yuan's guardian as that a-yuan was being raised collectively by the wens and wwx was adopted INTO the larger wen family. And lwj got attached to him through that. A-yuan just has these very attached weird uncles/older cousin figures that aren't related to him by blood at all but keep sticking around.

Just think of a modern AU with a lot less death where lwj does as he does in canon and keeps showering a-yuan in gifts as much as he can and when wwx is like "aiyah lan zhan you're gonna spoil him. Not everyone is as rich as you! What's his family supposed to say if they can't buy him all the stuff you do?" lwj just goes "Hm". And from then on out every year once a-yuan's birthday is near the extended Wen family members (well. the ones that are invited that is. No one wants wen chao at a birthday party) wakes up to a wechat payment from lwj.

Random wen cousin number 6 texts granny like

cousin 6: i just got 400 yuan????

granny: oh that's just wangji

cousin 6: i've never met this guy in my life???

granny: he wants you to buy a-yuan a nice birthday present!

cousin 6: how does he know my bank account???

#mdzs #lan wangji #wei wuxian #wen yuan #lan sizhui #granny wen #wangxian #i just don't think we're thinking enough about wangxian as nonconventional family to a-yuan enough #lwj leaving early on chinese new year's eve to go to a party over at the wens??? hilarious #wen siblings move in with granny to care for her and help with a-yuan. wwx crashes at their place for months #eventually lwj is there more days than not. the white wash cycle is like 70% his clothes #granny sleeps in the room next to wwx's and once wangxian happens #she sometimes very pointedly goes well!! i'm gonna go to the park!! for about an hour! which means I WON'T BE HERE. *wink* #as always when talking about underrated dynamics i am not hating on anyone for writing what they want. merely exploring concepts i enjoy

[avisisisis]

I always found it very funny that while HC and LWJ's flirting attempts post-waiting flew over XL and WWX's heads, LBH's flirting attempts after the two years were interpreted by SQQ as murder attempts

#this novel is so unserious compared to the other mxtx works #svsss #mdzs #tgcf #bingqiu #hualian #wangxian #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #lan wangji #wei wuxian #hua cheng #xie lian #shen yuan #lan zhan #wei ying #avis' post #avis talks

[wannabe-f-f-friends]

Okay but Lan Wangji is harboring this extremely sketchy weirdo and protecting him even when he commits crimes, but whenever anyone questions it, someone else steps in to say, "Don't you know? That's his babygirl" and everyone else is like "Oh okay that's his babygirl"

#mdzs #is wild okay #wangxian #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #talking pancake

[maalidoesart]

now both of you are gone

#i think about this scene alot #the pain in lxc eyes after talking to nhs #i dont think ill ever forget that scene #bcs in the eyes of almost everyone this scene meant the way to a happy ending except for lxc #and that destroys me #i hope ppl notice nmj standing in the light while jgy stands in the shadows #art #fanart #drawing #illustration #mdzs #mdzs fanart #mo dao zu shi fanart #mo dao zu shi #lan xichen #nie mingjue #jin guangyao #3zun #3zun fanart #xiyao #nielan #danmei #the untamed #mxtx #the untamed fabart #cql #cql fanart #魔道祖師 #my art

[labyrynth]

very quickly: the expectation that jgy needs to be some kind of working class hero is :/ to begin with, and condemning him for “buying into the system of oppression” is really telling when that’s not a criticism made of anyone else

but the idea that jgy personally is refusing to use his power to uplift the common people is mind bogglingly dumb

i cannot emphasize enough that his primary project for the last decade has been trying to figure out how to get all of the other sects to do their fucking jobs—the jobs they were supposed to have been doing the whole time—so that poor people are less likely to be fucking murdered by monsters.

a concept, if you recall, that was so controversial, nobody questioned that a guy would kill his political opponent’s child over it.

this society balked at “do the jobs you signed up to do,” but it’s somehow jgy’s fault that change is going so slowly? fellas he’s the only one doing anything.

#moi #mdzs talk #jgy tag #jin guangyao #not even your precious wang//xian do anything to uplift the working class #and in fact their enthusiasm in assisting in the destruction of jgy’s reputation may have fucked over the common folks :) #also as a side note #solidarity is a two way street #so why do ppl expect jgy to have solidarity with a group that visciously bullied him (A CHILD) and his mother for years #ppl also love to ignore that jgy canonically treats servants well

[lilac-loserr]

I think the reason lwj is so quiet around wwx is because he goes completely fucking stupid when wwx is around. Like full on no thoughts head empty (except for gay thoughts). He can’t open his mouth because he cannot predict what kind of garbled disaster of syllables will spill out if he does. Everything he says in canon has been rehearsed in his head and whispered under his breath fifteen times at minimum before he can even dare to try to say it, lest he accidentally looks into wei ying’s eyes at the wrong moment, causing him to forget everything he was just about to say and also how to walk in a straight line.

Just. Give me stupid lwj.

#don’t get me wrong I love me a good stoic lwj #and I’m not saying I think he’s outgoing or anything #I’m just saying he probably talks more when wwx isn’t around #because that’s the only time he trusts his own ability to speak #I mean we all know the books/show is from wwx’s perspective and wwx is an unreliable narrator #so he may not have made that observation about lwj #I’m on team stupid lwj #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian

[last-in-line-for-hell]

Time Passes

#mdzs #wei wuxian #my mdzs art #happy birthday wei wuxian #mo dao zu shi #my mdzs comic #sishu means uncle four btw #if you’re wondering how each iteration of WWX is talking to each other….¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #artistic liberty for symbolism #I guess 😭 but yeah I wanted to draw this a lot and so I did #no background because they are in the ~mind void~ or whatever #if you wanna know about the food and drink it’s just types that mean a lot to that particular time’s wwx #they’re sharing it amongst each other lmao #the younger ones aren’t aware of the older ones memories if that wasn’t obvious #why? you decide ✌️ #anyway I loved drawing this but goddamn did I put off a ton to do this oops 😭 #whelp bye bye again

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Custody Battle: START

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #jin guangyao #jin ling #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #lan xichen #Jiang Cheng did NOT care to talk to anyone else. He just straight up hones in on finding his nephew. #Jin Ling has had a tummy ache from all the guilt though. Look at that face. You have to be nice JC. #The third panel should have had a more chaotic energy. But onwards we go! #I feel like I have seen very little about the shared custody relationship between JGY and JC. #It's pretty evident that JC has had a large role in raising Jin Ling. As too has JGY. They also seem to have a very familiar banter here. #JGY has 'the nicer parent in the divorce because he only sees the kid(s) every other weekend'. JC is dealing with everything else. #Anyways. This is how xicheng-ers can still win. Jiang Cheng is the 4th in the 3zun polycule. #He might just not know it yet.

[nighttimeebony]

Sizhui: "So, Hanguang-Jun, how did you and Wei-qianbei first meet?"

Lan Wangji: "When Wei Ying was 15, I caught him illegally smuggling alcohol into the Cloud Recesses and I tried to stab him."

Sizhui:

Lan Wangji: "It was love at first sight."

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #wangxian #the untamed #lan wangji #lan sizhui #wei wuxian #i dont think we talk enough about the fact that wwx has canonically been a heavyweight drinker since he was 15