#more jin sibs content!!!!

[lewiscarrolatemybrain]

I am having Jin Sibs thoughts and feelings again.

Pre-legitimization Meng Yao standing awkwardly at a banquet, surrounded by Jin cultivators, stage-whispering about his mother and his history and isn’t it so shameful that the bastard whore-son has come crawling, searching for scraps? Doesn’t he have any shame? And Jin Zixuan doesn’t say anything, tries to pretend he can’t hear the whispers, but he gets tenser and tenser and tenser until his cup shatters in his hand, and he stands and storms out of the room.

Everyone assumes he left because he was so furious and disgusted with the presence of his bastard half-brother, everyone figures he’s angry to have to share space with Meng Yao. The whispers pick up, get louder, nobody is even pretending they don’t want to be heard, and Meng Yao smiles and smiles and stares at his feet and grits his teeth until his jaw aches and smiles and smiles and smiles

Jin Zixuan returns only a moment later, scowling furiously, robes whipping around him as he storms across the room to Meng Yao. He raises his hands — Meng Yao flinches — Jin Zixuan grabs him firmly by the jaw, tilts his head back roughly.

Uses his pinky, wet with paint, to dab a vermilion mark, right between his brother’s eyebrows.

Wordlessly, he drags Meng Yao to his own table, bullies him into sitting down. Turns to snap at a gossiping servant — well? Jin-er Gongzi has not been served. Do you think this is acceptable? In the stunned silence that follows, Jin Zixuan stares resolutely at the pot of tea (he tries to pour himself a new cup and can’t, on account of he broke the last one and doesn’t have a replacement yet.) The whispers will start up again as soon as Jin Zixuan is out of earshot, but for now, at least, the hall is quiet.

#mdzs #the untamed #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #jin zixuan #jin guangyao #meng yao #jin siblings #I heard them called the twin treasures of lanling in a fic once #and I love it #jin brothers #more jin sibs content!!!! #gimme!!!

[firebirdsdaughter]

You know who else deserve to hug?…

… Fuwa and Izu.

Come on, wouldn’t that be cute?

She tries to very seriously thank him for saving her, but he goes tsundere insists that it had absolutely nothing to do w/ her (bc he would, the tsundere loser, shut up you idiot, you did it for your fam and you know it), and then she just stares at him for a moment, then unexpectedly steps forward and gives him this big hug. And he freezes up for a moment, bc boy is probably not used to hugs, and this is a HumaGear… But it’s Izu, so he eventually relaxes a bit and kinda awkwardly pats her shoulder or something.

Extra emotional if she gets kinda wobbly and admits she was scared (which I think she was).

#Kamen Rider Zero-One #Kamen Rider Zero One #Zero-One Spoilers #Zero One Spoilers #my precious angry wolf dad #this ep reminded me I want more Wolf Dad and Robot Daughter content #also her looking back and forth between Yua and Fuwa in that moment broke my heart… #esp bc of how I see everyone's relationships it kinda felt like she was going 'Mom? Dad? Mom?! DAD?!' #hopefully Izu can scan Fuwa or something and call him on that brain chip if he tries to keep it a secret #or here's an idea she calls him on it privately and he manages to beg her into not telling Aruto but she insists on trying to help him #could lead to some nice Izu and Jin sib moments #sigh #I do love the idea of the terrible triplets (Jin Izu and Aruto) happening but this still feels rushed #Jin was ready to murder Fuwa yesterday but now he's suddenly cool helping Aruto? #I'd love it to be something like Aruto offering to try and find a way to disconnect Horobi from the Ark #or just bringing SOMETHING to the table as a bargaining chip #but I'm not gonna hold my breath #anyway #I'm runing the vibe of this cute post #Binary Retro Rider

[robininthelabyrinth]

Prompt: what if jc was lxc's age (and jyl maybe 2 or 3 years older) and wwx was lwj's/nhs' age when he was brought to lotus pier? (Or anything that involves a much bigger age gap bw the jiang sibs and wwx - where wwx is babey)

Untamed

“You know what,” Jiang Cheng said to his sister, who looked at him. “I’ve changed my mind. I’m not marrying a woman.”

Jiang Yanli’s lips started twitching uncontrollably and she hid her smile behind her sleeve. “Oh?”

“Nope. I’m going to marry Chifeng-zun.”

“On the basis of…?”

“If you take two adult men in charge of two Great Sects,” Jiang Cheng said, doing his utmost best to keep a straight face, “with all the power we can generate between us, we might – maybe – have a chance at disciplining our baby brothers.”

Jiang Yanli burst out laughing.

“There, there. It’s all right,” he said, grinning, reaching out to pat her on the shoulder. “You can join us if you’d like. There’s enough room in Qinghe for two wives.”

“We are not both running away to Qinghe,” she said, giggling. “A-Cheng!”

“What? I think it’s a great idea. If our parents want us back, they can negotiate with Chifeng-zun for it – may they have more luck than they had with the whole medicinal herb debacle.”

“A-Cheng, I am officially tabling this idea,” Jiang Yanli said, still snorting. “Older sibling privilege.”

“I let you out of the womb first as a matter of courtesy,” Jiang Cheng sniffed. “And now you use it against me? A-Li, how could you?”

“Call me jiejie! It doesn’t matter how much older, a few shichen or a few years, older is still older.”

“You probably elbowed me with those sharp pointy things you have on your arms. Weapons of war.”

“Older is older!” she sang. “Now tell me, what did A-Xian do this time?”

“Would you like it in chronological order, or in order of severity? I can also group it by theme, if you prefer.”

“Oh no,” Jiang Yanli said, covering her eyes. “Oh no.”

“And the chief-most theme,” Jiang Cheng said, continuing anyway, “is still called Lan Wangji.”

“Oh no!”

“He has the worst crush,” Jiang Cheng said, shaking his head with endless amusement. “And he just – refuses to admit it. ‘Nooooo, shixiong, we’re just friends, he can’t even stand me most of the time, he’s always trying to get me in trouble, but sometimes he lets me sit next to him and spend time with him and he’s so handsome and I really just want to make him laugh –’”

“We have,” Jiang Yanli said thoughtfully, “raised an idiot.”

“He was fine when we got him,” Jiang Cheng disagreed. “We have spoiled an idiot.”

“This is true. Maybe we should go form a mutual complaining society with Chifeng-zun; isn’t his little brother also an idiot?”

“Oh, you have no idea,” Jiang Cheng said. “Worse: they’ve teamed up. Nie Huaisang buys Wei Wuxian porn now.”

“Oh no…”

“In return for help cheating on his tests!”

“Oh no!”

“So that’s why I’m going to marry Chifeng-zun,” Jiang Cheng concluded. “Our parents may be disappointed by my decision, but with our powers combined, we might be able to save the world from our respective younger idiots.”

“Maybe,” she said, and shook her head. “A-Cheng – about our parents…”

Jiang Cheng shook his head as well, echoing her action but more in denial. It wasn’t anyone’s fault that she took after their father and he took after their mother, that she was born a shichen prior to midnight and he a shichen after and their personalities completely different as a result; it was no one’s fault that their parents didn’t get along, with their mother disdaining what she perceived as Jiang Yanli’s passiveness and lack of passion and their father despising Jiang Cheng’ prickly temper and difficulty communicating his affection without scolding.

It certainly wasn’t Wei Wuxian’s fault for being younger and more brilliant, talented at everything he did and with just the sort of personality their father liked best – the combination of his former best friend and the girl he’d once thought of marrying – and that he’d always made that preference very clear to everyone, even to their mother who often worried that her husband would dispossess her children in favor of his foundling and who lashed out at everyone in response.

That had hurt – hurt a lot, even, and Jiang Cheng was soft and sensitive underneath all his defensive layers, but any time he got angry over it he would look at Wei Wuxian, their little A-Xian, baby Xianxian, who adored his older siblings more than anything and was adored in return, and he forced himself to get over it. He was old enough, by the time Wei Wuxian arrived, to know to whom the blame really belonged.

“I spoke with Nie Huaisang while I was at the Cloud Recesses,” Jiang Cheng said in an undertone, one reserved just for his sister. “He’s asked me to pass along a message to his brother, the next time I go night-hunting, about the whole debacle – he’s so terribly apologetic, you understand, he couldn’t wait for the post – if we get to Qinghe by tomorrow, Chifeng-zun will be able to get to Gusu in time to intervene before our father does something wretched like cancel your engagement and take A-Xian home early from his studies.”

“The engagement I wouldn’t mind,” she remarked. “If Jin Zixuan feels so strongly about it that he’d get into a fistfight with A-Xian, it’s better not to marry, no matter what our mother might think. But on no account is A-Xian to be sent home early! He needs his education!”

Unsaid was everything else he needed, things he could get better at the Cloud Recesses than anywhere else.

“Then we go?”

“We go,” she agreed. Between the two of them, Jiang Cheng had more talent at cultivation, but she was steadier, even in her overall mediocrity: when the two of them flew on a sword together, they could make it much further and faster than anyone expected.

Qinghe wasn’t really close enough for a quick jaunt – they flew all night without stopping – but Chifeng-zun was amendable to their scheme, jumping at once onto his saber and making his way straight to Gusu. A waste of spiritual energy all around, really, but far faster than their father would move, with his Sect Leader’s dignity and retinue, rushing to the Cloud Recesses to save his precious little Wei Wuxian from having any connections in life that weren’t to the Jiang sect, and the Jiang sect alone. 

And never mind how much he needed those connections: needed to have friends his own age, needed to have more time with that crush of his, needed independence and freedom and everything the Jiang sect supposedly stood for - needed for them to support him and act as the foundation beneath his feet, rather than the chains tying him down to earth.

Chifeng-zun – who was only a few years older than they were – was really a very understanding person, getting the problem at once and immediately agreeing with their view on things. Perhaps there really was something to be said about the difference in generations…

“Let me show you to rooms where you can rest,” Chifeng-zun’s aide said, a slender young man with a polite smile on his face as he saluted. “I’ll arrange for refreshments as well.”

“We hate to trouble you, but in all honesty you are a lifesaver,” Jiang Yanli said to him warmly, and he unexpectedly flushed red at the cheeks. “A-Cheng, let’s follow this handsome young man and rest a while before we return to the Lotus Pier.”

The young man was blushing.

“What’s your name?” Jiang Cheng asked, and the blush faded away at once as the man paled a little: it would be one he expected them to recognize, then, and not in a good way.

“This one is Meng Yao,” he said, and saluted again even though he’d already saluted once before, and Jiang Yanli’s eyes flickered to Jiang Cheng’s very briefly before she caught his arms and raised him up.

“I’ve heard of you. Smart and talented enough to get Chifeng-zun’s attention, even so far as becoming his personal deputy - you must be brilliant. Truly, you deserve a better father,” she told him, and he stared up at her, dumbstruck.

“Don’t mind her,” Jiang Cheng said. “She’s trying out this new thing in which she says everything she feels without thinking first.”

She elbowed him. “And isn’t it your fault?” she asked snappishly. “You’re the one who needs to speak your mind more; I’m just modeling good behavior!”

If she’d been older than him – really older, rather than just a few shichen – maybe she would have held her tongue more and played the role of the peacekeeper, trying to protect him from his father’s indifference the way she had tried to when they were both younger, just as he had tried to distract his mother from her with his hard-fought accomplishments. It wasn’t until they had little Wei Wuxian to spoil and care for, a joint task that required both of their attention, that they realized that splitting their forces like that was pointless and self-defeating: it wasn’t actually helping that Jiang Yanli suppressed so much of her spirit until she felt like little more than a reflective mirror with no content, nor that Jiang Cheng nearly worked himself to death trying to prove that he was worthy of his father’s love and respect that he would never receive, and it never would.

So they stopped.

They were trying very hard to stop, anyway.

“You’re very kind,” Meng Yao murmured, and led them to their rooms.

The moment he closed the door behind him, Jiang Yanli turned to Jiang Cheng and said, “I’ve changed my mind about your plan – we can run away to Qinghe. You marry Chifeng-zun, and I’ll marry that charming boy out there.”

There was an audible thudding sound from the corridor outside, as if someone had accidentally walked into a wall, and they both grinned at each other.

“Mother would kill you,” he warned her in an undertone.

“And being married to someone who disdains me enough to fight over my worthlessness in public wouldn’t?” she retorted, smiling even though her expression was tinged with pain: if she had one ambition in life, it was to never become their mother. “The marriage agreement might have been forged by our mothers, but the text of it says ‘the Jin sect leader’s son to the Jiang sect leader’s daughter’. Why can’t I marry him?”

“He hasn’t been acknowledged.”

“Only technically. Everyone knows he’s the real deal, or else his father wouldn’t have made such a fuss about it.”

“But –”

“Anyway, he must be a good man, or Chifeng-zun wouldn’t have promoted him.”

“I don’t know about that,” Jiang Cheng said. “Chifeng-zun doesn’t have the sense of self-preservation the heavens bestowed on a lemming.”

There was a vaguely audible snort from outside their door. It seemed Meng Yao, at least, had the good sense not to leave guests in his house unattended, and no discrimination against the very useful business of listening at doors.

He also had a sense of humor, which was good given Jiang Yanli’s newfound ambitions in his regard.

“Yes, well, I wasn’t saying I’d elope with him tomorrow or anything,” she sniffed, eyes dancing. “Give him some time to prove himself to me.”

Jiang Cheng couldn’t help but smile back. “That’s true,” he said, raising his voice a little. “At Chifeng-zun’s side, he’ll be able to make a name for himself until the whispers all say that his father was an idiot for keeping him away.”

“And if even that doesn’t work, I’ll marry him in and make him help me run the Jiang sect,” she said cheerfully. “Who needs Lanling Jin?”

“Wait, since when are you inheriting the Jiang sect?”

“I’m older! And anyway, aren’t you marrying Chifeng-zun? That means you’ll be away helping run his sect, and that leaves an opening at home for me.”

“…huh. Good point.”

“Maybe you can just swap places with Meng Yao,” she said, starting to giggle again. “And we can all see how long it takes anyone to notice…”

“Our parents might not,” Jiang Cheng said dryly. “But Chifeng-zun would. If only because I have my sights set on his bed, and I don’t think Meng Yao does.”

“You don’t know that; everyone wants Chifeng-zun. Maybe you have competition.”

“Better to have competition than be oblivious. Do you want to hear the whole story about A-Xian and Lan Wangji’s tragic mutual pining disaster? Xichen-xiong told me all the details he’s been leaving out of his letters.”

“Tell me everything!”

#mdzs #jiang cheng #jiang yanli #meng yao #nie mingjue #my fic #my fics #jiang sect twins #crazycat27 #mingcheng #meng yao/jiang yanli

[vermillioncrown]

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#redglyphs

[thebiscuiteternal]

For the writing jam: AU where Nie Huaisang, Jiang Cheng, and Meng Yao become sworn brothers?

Okay so I started putting way too much thought into this (to no one's surprise), so you get concept notes.

Mixed adaptation, but leaning more towards CQL-verse, for starters, so that Nie Huaisang and Meng Yao already know each other. When Meng Yao is exiled, Nie Huaisang is desperate to do something to help him, so he quickly writes a letter to Jiang Cheng and tells Meng Yao to deliver it to Lotus Pier, without giving his real name. Meng Yao is extremely dubious about this, but he agrees to do so.

However, the more he thinks about it on the way, the more curious he gets. It's not exactly snooping, since Nie Huaisang didn't even bother to seal the letter...

The contents are a quick note full of praise for his abilities and work ethic. There's no mention of his having been exiled, just that it was necessary to send him to another sect, and that it would be best to hide his identity from Yu-furen because of her close friendship with Jin-furen.

...Hm. Despite his self-preservation instincts insisting he should throw the letter away and make himself scarce, he can't help but want to see where this might lead.

He winds up in Lotus Pier in the days just after Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji were rescued from the Xuanwu Cave. Now highly suspicious of the Wens and still smarting from his parents' last fight, Jiang Cheng asks him if he knows anything about being a spy.

Well, then.

He manages to give three extra days' advance warning of what Wen Chao has planned, for all the good it does. Things don't go much differently from canon, other than he is there to intercept the boat and help hide Jiang Cheng, Jiang Yanli, and Wei Wuxian.

While scouting the possible safe paths to Meishan Yu, he finds an injured Lan Xichen and brings him into the fold as well (how the hell has he ended up babysitting two traumatized sect heirs now??? he frequently wonders), along with a handful of Jiang disciples who weren't present for the attack.

Because no one's looking for him, he's the one who goes into town, preventing Wei Wuxian's near-capture and Jiang Cheng's actual capture. Unfortunately, Wei Wuxian is later grabbed by the Wens when they split up to search for any other disciples who might have survived, and still ends up in the Burial Mounds because luck was not on his side.

When they join the battlefront, he and Jiang Cheng find Nie Huaisang working in the infirmary and kitchen tents (and secretly passing information and strategy where necessary).

And... that's where I kind of fizzled out. I think in this case, Meng Yao would actually volunteer to be sent into Nightless City, and while Jiang Cheng is loath to lose his best spy, he agrees that Meng Yao is the best spy for this. And because he has a greater support network here in the form of the Jiang sibs and Nie Huaisang along with Lan Xichen, he's less inclined to spitefully use Nie Mingjue as a game piece because he doesn't want to risk all their good graces.

Jin Guangshan still tries to poach him after he becomes a war hero, and that's when sworn brotherhood is suggested. It puts Nie support behind the Jiang, making them somewhat less beholden to the Jin, and significantly elevates Meng Yao's position. And even if he does accept the offer to join the Jin sect, he now has much less reason to go along with his father's plotting, because he's emotionally bound to the sect that will be hurt the most.

#mdzs #cql #jin guangyao #jiang cheng #nie huaisang #ideas

[goddamnshinyrock]

More modern 3zun, out on a date. A-Yao is always generating Content for his Personal Brand, Xichen just likes taking nice pictures with his bfs, and Mingjue finds public selfies deeply embarrassing.

(NHS is absolutely the sibling who invites himself on his brother's dates if given the chance. 3zun have gone out to dinner with NHS a LOT more than with LWJ or any of the Jin sibs.)

#3zun #jin guangyao #lan xichen #nie mingjue #cql #mdzs #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #nmj thought if he made a face a-yao wouldn't post it. he underestimated JGY's levels of petty. #JGY just wants one! nice! picture! per date! is that too much to ask??? (yes) #it's okay huaisang is GREAT at taking selfies that make them both look hot and- more importantly- like they have Aspirational Lifestyles #so JGY gets good pics when they go out together #my art

[amedetoiles]

its been a year and just reading about the jiang sibs being happy is enough to make me SOB. THEY DESEREVED BETTER

It has been over 12 months since I fell into this hellhole, and I am still crying over Yunmeng siblings. I have no idea why I made this poor life decision, but it seems I am forever stuck bearing the consequences. I am sure there was a time in my life where I did not in fact spent a part of my waking hours crying over fictional sibling relationships and the tragedy of love your sibling so, so much yet being unable to save them, but alas, I no longer remember such peace. I am, however, enormously pleased and grateful to have had you all as company during this apocalypse. <3

In celebration of our constant agony, here is another compiled list of Yunmeng siblings/bros & co fics that I’ve read since my last rec list for all the anons in my inbox who have been asking for another list. Some of these I’ve rec’d individually as I’ve come across them but now it’s in a nice list for easy saving / reading! :)

For reference, my other rec lists are here and here.

in our respective ways ; an aging wound by @veliseraptor ; more gems from lise who really needs no introduction because everything she writes is perfect. jc and lwj searching for wwx for those 3 months during. post canon wwx and jc both tenuously trying to navigate the route to reconciliation. 

display my heart for you to see by @souridealist ; jc-centric (chengqing / mature). an oldie but a goodie. this is mostly about jc and wq. post-canon if set in a world where jc secretly saves wq’s life. everything author writes is a goldmine of sheer mastery.

this blood in my mouth by @shanastoryteller ; sizhui-centric but the yunmeng bro content is glorious even if it’s a small part. i cannot articulate just how much i love this entire fic. sizhui is going through it, and i say he absolutely deserves to be angry for once.

lynchpin by @shanastoryteller ; canon-divergence. time traveling jc is one of my favorite tropes in the world. lots of meta opinions, but the yunmeng sibling content is amazing and everything i have ever indulgently wanted.

by any other name by @shanastoryteller ; canon-divergence au where wwx is gender-fluid and mxy performed the ritual too early leading to some problems. (keep the premise in mind esp if you’re not into that!) in any case, the yunmeng bros and jin ling relationship here is really good.

impossible be strange attempts by comfect ; very indulgent fix-it and i love it. jc crawls through the land of the dead to get his siblings back.

a grave so familiar by @the-first-refrain ; jc and wwx are both injured and stuck in a cave and are both just.. going through it. i wailed through the entire thing. the prose is amazing. jc hurts so good. he loves wwx so much. wwx loves him so much. trauma heavy references; tread softly with your heart.

the dock of the bay (wwx-centric) ; in the morning sun (sizhui-centric) ; still remain the same (jc-centric) by @lesyah ; post-canon character studies as basically everyone goes through it with some canon-typical demon kidnapping. not always the kindest take but love post-canon fics that allow characters to process and have unfair feelings about everything they’ve been put through. especially wwx who regardless of how good he is at moving and not holding grudges still deserves to be angry! the yunmeng bros reconciliation made my heart swell. there’s two other parts to this series that focus on lxc and lwj if you want to read.

just this once by sami ; jc is kidnapped and wwx comes to save him. i am SOFT. everything about this is too much.

utterly inevitable by sami ; post-canon. wwx decides to help by brazenly and unapologetically stomping all over xichen’s wounds and jc (finally) demands what is his. love that for them (i’m sorry xichen). this has xicheng in it and as a non-xicheng shipper, if i’m rec’ing it, you know it’s worth it.

five things that changed for jiang cheng after he regained his golden core (and one thing that never did) by @mikkeneko ; title says it all. it is so so good. i am still wailing on the floor over this one.

letters by @withbroombefore ; post-canon. realized while going through my previous rec lists that i’ve never added this to any of my lists. a mistake i must rectify because it’s so good! and sizhui getting to build a relationship with jiang cheng is just something that i need with my entire heart. there’s so much healing! everyone is moving forward and it is so amazing.

living ; lifeline by @withbroombefore ; canon-divergence. jyl and wwx live. rec’d these as soon as i read them and am definitely rec’ing them again because it is so so good. yunmeng siblings prioritizing each other. just 🥺

coda by @withbroombefore ; guanyin temple fix it. what we all deserved after watching these two dumbasses openly pine in the courtyard. there’s a sequel in the notes. also before i rec the author’s entire list of works, y’all should just go to their ao3 and read everything.

the trick is to keep breathing by @alessandriana ; assassination attempt on jc’s life in order to get to jin ling. literally everything i have ever wanted.

see me, feel me (listening to you) by ghost_honey ; wwx-centric. wwx gets cursed while on a night hunt and on brand doesn’t tell anyone about it because of his abysmal self esteem. juniors galore! plus jc telling him he’s a moron. wwx out here always seeing everything but the fact that everyone loves him.

happy reading! <3

#陈情令 #the untamed #mdzs #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #jiang yanli #yunmeng sibs #yunmeng shuangjie #fic rec #fic rec: mdzs #i'm sure there's more that i've missed but this should until the next time! #also sorry for hijacking your ask for a fic rec lists LOL D: #yunmeng-shuangjie #[ ask eve ] #!mine

[littlesmartart]

IT’S MY BIRTHDAY AND I’LL POST IF I WANT TOOOO ~ 🎶 the popular vote was for Jin Sibs content, so here’s Mo Xuanyu with his Jin family!

his relationship with Jin Zixuan isn’t super emotionally close, and they don’t have a huge amount in common, but it’s very affectionate, and A-Yu has a lot of loyalty to his brother for taking him in and so thoroughly integrating him into the family - even teaching him alongside his own children. @ellethinthewoods helped me name his sword, it’s called jianjian (...pointy sword) (please let me know if this doesn’t work haha)

JGY really likes kids, and he’s actually the one who goes to Mo Manor to pick up A-Yu - where he’s calm, and quiet, and kind, unlike most of the adults in A-Yu’s life - so they bond pretty quickly. they discover that whatever gene it is that gives JGY his impressive memory, A-Yu also has it, and with that insight into how A-Yu’s mind works, JGY takes over some of his schooling and is able to help him catch up with his peers, and grow in confidence.

A-Yu and Yanli are very close, although the relationship is a little more complicated from Yanli’s side - she doesn’t want to make him a replacement for A-Xian, but with such a similar background... and being so similar in appearance and personality... it’s very easy to slip into that same sort-of-mother-sort-of-sister dynamic... it’s fine, she just has to step back and compose herself sometimes, and remind herself to treat A-Yu as his own person.

when A-Yu first arrives at Koi Tower, it’s quite overwhelming for a young boy with trauma and pretty severe anxiety, and his brothers and Yanli are all very busy with their duties running Jin sect and looking after the Jin children, so he actually winds up spending quite a bit of time with Qin Su. when the hustle and bustle of court gets a bit much for him, Qin Su takes him with her back to Laoling for little holidays. when he expresses interest in make up - initially because it reminds him of his mother, but then later for himself - she is the one who teaches him everything she knows.

given his age - only five or six years older than Jin Ling - A-Yu is in a weird position between generations. he’s old enough to be treated as the same generation as his siblings, but young enough that Zixuan and Yanli’s children easily accept him as one of them, and he once he becomes confident enough to be comfortable in Koi Tower he quickly winds up being the ringleader of their mischief!

#jin zixuan #mo xuanyu #jin guangyao #qin su #jiang yanli #afvsjh #qin su and the boys #the untamed

[madtomedgar]

bare bones of an untamed locked tomb au, incredibly specific content for myself and like two mutual

yeah so idk anything about how like. plot. goes here. but.

So the most important parts of this for me are as follows:

1) The twin jades are both cavs. This is like. A problem, probably, but idc. Lan Xichen’s necromancer dies in the burning of Cloud Recesses. Lan Wangji’s official necromancer is Su She.

2) Meng Yao is a necromancer, untrained but incredibly powerful. Meng Yao saves Lan Xichen after Cloud Recesses is burnt. Lan Xichen becomes Meng Yao’s cav, but not officially for politics reasons.

3) Nie Huaisang is the Nie sect necromancer, Nie Mingjue is his cav. Something about the way the Nie sect uses cavaliers --> big sword brain disease/saber curse/qi deviation. No one should ever have to watch their cavalier die :) :) :)

4) The stab in the temple still happens. Jin Guangyao, instead of “stay and die with me,” initiates the lyctorhood process. Lan Xichen becomes the first cavalier in history to become a lyctor by stabbing and eating their necromancer. :)

5) Lan Xichen handles this about as well as Harrow :) :)

6) The reason that Jin Guangyao gets himself soul-cannibalized by Lan Xichen instead of just... dying? Other than that being mad romantic and fucked up and etc? Some sort of stoma/rb/revanant THING is in Nie Mingjue’s corpse causing havoc and must be stopped ok.

7) Wei Wuxian helps Lan Xichen lobotomize himself and (possibly??) Jin Guangyao’s soul attaches itself to Shuoyue.

The parts that are less important to me:

The Jiangs and the Wens and etc:

Wen Chao is a shitty necromancer and Wen Zhuliu is his very tired cav.

Xue Yang is a necromancer. Xue Yang has no cav. Xue Yang uh... gets Xiao Xingchen’s necromancer (Song Lan) out of the way and is like. Aw. Poor thing. Looking for a necromancer. Whadya know. I’m looking for a cav :D.

Now you might be thinking that Wen Ning is the necro and Wen Qing could go either way. Wen Ning is a cav in training and is like. A Nonnius fanboy extraordinaire. Wen Qing is a necro. She specializes in flesh magic but she also can do bones. 

Now the Jiangs: Officially, Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian are both necros, with Jiang Cheng as heir. They have their own Jiang disciple cav. Jiang Yanli is also a necromancer but she’s like... an academic one. Like Abigail. She isn’t very powerful and also isn’t what one expects of a necromancer. If only she’d been born on the Fifth...

Anyway. Jiang Cheng is actually not a necromancer at all, and wants nothing more than to be Wei Wuxian’s cav, a role he would ex-fucking-cel at. (Jiang Fengmian is a necromancer and married his cav secondary after his cav primary retired upon marriage and folks this was a mistake and he blames his wife/cav for the fact that their children aren’t Great Necromancers like his original cav primary’s wunderkind).

The Jiang cav dies in the sack of Lotus Pier. The Wen sibs rescue the Jiang sibs, Jiang Cheng is injured and mentally fucked up, Jiang Yanli is sick. Wei Wuxian and Wen Ning decide to attempt a lyctorhood (which Wei Wuxian has reverse-engineered/independently invented?) and become perfect lyctors together. Jiang Cheng never forgives Wei Wuxian for not eating him instead. 

Lan Wangji is fine with not having been eaten, actually. He is less fine with Wen Ning being a permanent part of his and Wei Wuxian’s relationship. He is the most fine with being Lan Sizhui’s cav primary until he feels like retiring and letting Lan Jingyi graduate from secondary to primary. 

Wen Ruohan is a traditional lyctor and lyctored himself like Ianthe did. In other words he just fucking stabbed his cav out of nowhere, ate them, laughed maniacally about phenomenal cosmic power, and never looked back. 

Jin Zixuan is a necro, Mianmian is his cav, Jin Zixun... idk and idc. 

Anyway. There are many other ways this could be done I’m sure. But this is my attemp.

#untamed stuff #locked tomb stuff #this is for me and abigail-pent and maybe lilac-buttons

[somuchnonsense]

October Drabbles

Previous drabbles

26. Garden          (post-canon Wangxian featuring bunnies)

Wei Wuxian doesn’t have a farm yet, but he does have a garden on the back hill in Cloud Recesses. “Why here?” Lan Wangji asked him when he started planting. “The rabbits will eat everything.”

“I don’t mind if my hard work goes to feeding the rabbits,” Wei Wuxian responded, grinning. “Besides, I’m not here consistently enough to tend to it and harvest things when they’re ready. At least this way, someone will enjoy the fruits—or vegetables, I suppose—of my labor. And maybe then they’ll love me like they love you.”

Lan Wangji smiled, petting one of the rabbits as they both curiously watched Wei Wuxian work. “I’m sure they will.”

It’s debatable, a few months later, whether the rabbits love Wei Wuxian any more than before, but they do love Wei Wuxian’s garden, and Lan Wangji loves watching him kneeling in the dirt, celebrating the first shoots of a new plant or complaining when the rabbits ate one before it even had a chance to grow. He looks so happy, so comfortable, so relaxed, not the fearsome Yiling Laozu or the brilliant cultivator Wei Wuxian with his ever-active mind, but just an ordinary young man, content with his simple life, with no fears and no painful memories weighing on him.

“What’s that look for?” Wei Wuxian asks, eyeing Lan Wangji with a freshly pulled carrot in his hand. There’s dirt on his cheek and a sparkle in his eyes.

Lan Wangji says nothing, keeping his thoughts to himself, but Wei Wuxian smiles like perhaps he knows anyway, and cheerfully turns back to his garden.

27. Serendipity          (Wei Wuxian canon gen/character study)

It would be easy to think that Wei Wuxian has bad luck. He lost his parents young, and then the people who took him in when he was alone. He lost his adopted sister, and the people who lived with him like family for a year. He lost his golden core and the trust and respect of his peers, and the love of his adopted brother. He lost his home, and the one he found to replace it. And after all of that, he lost his life too soon.

But if you ask Wei Wuxian, he’ll tell you he’s lucky. He lost his parents, but then he was taken in by a new family. Sure, they weren’t perfect, but they saved him from a lonely life on the streets and they loved him, mostly. He lost them too, though not all at once, but then he had the Wens to care about him. That didn’t last, but he got Wen Ning and Sizhui back, at least, and he has the other junior disciples who are ready to fight for him, and Lan Wangji, of course. As much as he’s lost, he’s also been loved by many people, and isn’t that lucky?

As for the rest, well, the loss of his golden core was a fair trade for Jiang Cheng’s life, and it led him to abilities that helped avenge the Jiang Sect and defeat Wen Ruohan and later Jin Guangyao. He’s not the strong cultivator he was as a teenager, but he’s found new ways to be strong and fight the battles he needs to fight. He’s also blazed a new path and invented new things and made a name for himself, in his own way. Isn’t that lucky?

And yes, he died once, painfully, but that’s over and done with and he got a second chance at life. In his second life, he’s fallen in love, made new friends, done some good in the world, and at least done a little to make up for his past mistakes. So few people get a chance like that, including many who are much more deserving than him, so in the final sum, isn’t he lucky?

28. Drunk Confessions          (junior quartet gen)

It started with a few bottles of wine and Zizhen declaring that true friends share their secrets with each other, but nobody could have imagined that it would end like this.

"You're what?" Jin Ling asks, his voice low and strained.

"You're what?!" Jingyi echoes in a loud squawk.

"I'm a Wen," Sizhui repeats, his nervous expression belying his calm voice.

"You never told me!" Jingyi's voice is still far too loud, his expression almost comically betrayed. "How could I not know that?"

"You knew Hanguang-Jun took me in," Sizhui points out.

"Yes, but I thought your parents were Lan cultivators who died back then, or at least non-cultivators from Gusu. Not...Wens." Jingyi grimaces, but wipes the expression of his face when he sees Sizhui's face fall.

“Sizhui is still the same person, right?" Zizhen puts in. "And we know Wen Ning's a nice guy. It's not like all Wens are bad."

"Right," Jingyi firmly agrees. "But I can't believe you didn’t tell me sooner!”

"I didn't know until recently. After meeting Wei-qianbei and Wen Ning, some memories came back." Sizhui finishes the drink in front of him, getting some liquid courage before he looks at the conspicuously silent Jin Ling. "I'm sorry," he says quietly. "I hope this doesn't change anything between us."

Jin Ling clenches his fist on the table, brow furrowed, and for a long, tense moment, the whole group is silent. Finally, he sighs exasperatedly and says, "Well, it's far from the worst secret I've heard about someone I knew. Do you two at least not have any dark secrets?" He waves his cup and Jingyi and Zizhen.

"None, I promise," Zizhen declares.

"If I do, I don't know them myself," Jingyi says.

"I've met his parents," Sizhui interjects. "They're nice, normal Lan cultivators for several generations back."

"Good," Jin Ling says. To Sizhui, he adds, "For this, you can at least buy us another bottle or two of wine."

Sizhui smiles brightly, getting to his feet. "Right away."

29. Cars          (modern AU Wangxian featuring the Jiang sibs)

Jiang Cheng says Wei Ying drives like a maniac. Wei Ying says Jiang Cheng is a wimp and also boring and besides, he doesn’t go any faster than he can safely drive, but he does always slow down when he sees Jiang Cheng’s knuckles turning white.

“You’d better drive more carefully on your date with Lan Zhan,” Jiang Cheng tells him. “He probably drives perfectly the speed limit and obeys every traffic law to the letter. He won’t be able to deal with you.”

“I’ll be fine,” Wei Ying insists. “And it’s not a date!”

“Just don’t rush,” Yanli says. “You’ll have more time with Lan Zhan that way. And I’m pretty sure it is a date.”

“Not you too,” Wei Ying whines.

Later, though, when he picks Lan Zhan up and sees him looking very dashing even though he’s in what passes for casual clothes with him, Wei Ying has to admit that okay, yes, he wants it to be a date, and sure, okay, he wants to impress Lan Zhan, or at least not scare him away by driving too wildly. He forces himself to go only a little above the speed limit as he drives to the cafe where they’re going to study together, and Lan Zhan doesn’t complain or grab the panic handle like Jiang Cheng does.

On the way home, though, after endless hours of Lan Zhan sitting across from him looking casually hot but looking at his textbook or talking about economics instead of kissing Wei Ying, he forgets himself and drives as usual. Lan Zhan doesn’t say anything, so Wei Ying doesn’t realize what he’s doing until he stops in front of Lan Zhan’s building and sees him looking suspiciously paler than usual, his hand still gripping the door handle. “Oh, uh, Lan Zhan…you okay?”

“I’m fine,” Lan Zhan says tightly.

“Say, um…” Wei Ying feels bad and all, but he’s spent hours not kissing Lan Zhan and wishing this was a date and he just has to know if maybe it was, or at least could be. He unbuckles his seatbelt, turns in his seat and presses his lips to Lan Zhan’s. He’s not expecting to promptly get pulled into Lan Zhan’s lap, but he’s definitely not complaining, especially when it’s followed up with a whole lot more kissing.

They only stop when someone honks and Wei Ying realizes he didn’t pick the best parking spot for making out. “So,” he says, grinning shamelessly as he moves back into the driver’s seat, “let’s go out on another date some time soon?”

“All right,” Lan Zhan agrees without hesitation. He’s not smiling, but he is eyeing Wei Ying in a way that he really likes. “But next time, I’ll drive.”

30. Dessert          (modern AU Wangxian, just a tiny bit NSFW)

The first time Wei Ying sees Lan Zhan in a cafe daintily eating whipped cream off the top of a parfait, he can’t believe his eyes. There’s something so unexpected about strong, serious, stoic, ever-responsible Lan Zhan enjoying any kind of dessert, let alone the same kind Wei Ying’s sister and her friends love—unexpected and adorable.

“Wow, Lan Zhan! I had you pegged for the health food 24/7 type,” Wei Ying says, sneaking up on him from behind. He’s obviously trying to surprise Lan Zhan, but he doesn’t expect it to actually work, so he’s thrilled when it makes Lan Zhan jump and then turn a glare on him. “Hey, no judgment. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying something sweet.” The temptation to stick his finger in the whipped cream and dab some onto Lan Zhan’s nose is so strong, but Wei Ying doesn’t want to die today, so he restrains himself.

It takes nearly a year after that encounter for them to start dating, though Wei Ying does manage to put whipped cream on Lan Zhan’s face twice before that. (Maybe he should have guessed that Lan Zhan liked him, despite never mentioning it, by how he didn’t murder Wei Ying for doing that.) It takes another five months after they get together for Wei Ying to convince Lan Zhan that whipped cream will also be delicious when licked off his body, but oh, is it worth it.

31. Trick or Treat          (modern cultivation AU, A-Yuan and Wangxian)

    “I want to go as Uncle Wen!” A-Yuan declares.     Wei Wuxian blinks at him, turns and blinks at Lan Wangji, and then starts to laugh. “I mean, I think a ghost or a vampire or a cat or something is more typical, but sure, you can go as a fierce corpse.”     “Not a fierce corpse!” A-Yuan protests. “Uncle Wen!”     Lan Wangji gives Wei Wuxian his patented You are not treating this child as he should be treated look. “Yes, of course,” Wei Wuxian amends. “We’ll find you the best Wen Ning costume anyone has ever had.”    “Can Uncle Wen come with me?” A-Yuan asks.    Wen Ning won’t do well with crowds or a sugar high A-Yuan, but on the other hand, he’ll blend in on Halloween in a way he usually can’t. “We’ll all come with you,” Lan Wangji tells him.    “Yay!” A-Yuan jumps up and down in excitement. “What will you be? Ooh, I know! You should be a bunny.” He gestures at Lan Wangji, and then to Wei Wuxian, “And you should be a carrot.”    “A carrot?” Wei Wuxian grimaces. “Come on, between the two of us, don’t I look more like a bunny?”    “At least he didn’t say a donkey.” Lan Wangji keeps his voice low, and before A-Yuan can demand that he repeat it, says, “Those are excellent choices.”    “You’re so mean to me,” Wei Wuxian whines, but that doesn’t stop him from going out on Halloween evening in a big carrot costume, hand in hand with rabbit Lan Wangji, with mini Wen Ning skipping on ahead of them and actual Wen Ning looking fondly on.

#mo dao zu shi #mdzs #cql #the untamed #mdzs fic #cql fanfic #the untamed fic #wangxian #wangxian fic #wei wuxian #lan wangji #lan sizhui #jin ling #lan jingyi #jiang cheng #jiang yanli #mine #fic #flufftober

[fortune-maiden]

For the writing asks: #3 & #5

Thank you! :D

3. Tell me about what’s next on your list for being completed?

I currently have 2 ask box prompts that I want to prioritize before anything else.

For one of them, I have a completed first draft but I need to rewrite most of it because I wasn't getting the vibe I wanted. I loved writing it the first time but slightly dreading the rewrite xD It's a fic about Jin Zixuan in the immediate aftermath of Soup Drama (tm).

The other one is just... not working out....... I'm about to attempt a version 4 of it xD (what I have so far is probably workable! It's just not what I want :/). Features Wen sibs hurt/comfort <3

5. Show me your favorite under-appreciated fic; why do you wish it got more attention?

I'm still not sure if this is supposed to be about my fics or any fics ^^"

...let's go with my sole tgcf fic Wretched End. I don't think the fic itself is underappreciated, but the pairing absolutely is and I need more content for it >.<

#I am plotting a takeover of that pairing tag! ....just need to actually write something OTL #there are definitely better fics for that pair than mine but sadly they are not in English :( #i really want to translate one of them but that would require being able to translate #and asking the author for permission and i am incapable of either

[fae-of-the-rose]

So we finished the Untamed last night and I just have Thoughts and need a place to organize those Thoughts and Tumblr ain’t dead yet.

Overall I loved it?? But I like lists so

THINGS I ABSOLUTELY LOVED

More Yanli! More WWX and Wen Sibs bonding! Like holy shit I loved the bonding and the Yanli content?? In the novel we got like. three scenes of Yanli and two of the Wens before Shit Went Down and getting more of them in the drama was so fucking good

Xue Yang. Like. I still hate the fucker but his actor made him so much more entertaining and I can see why so many people like him now.

(sidenote: goddamn was XXC’s actor pretty?? like everyone was pretty but goddamn)

(sidenote to the sidenote: Wen Chao’s actor was so good at making me want to punch him in the goddamn face. Same with asshole cousin!JZX)

Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian’s confrontation in the temple. Reading the novel, I got a much harsher impression of that scene? And the drama made it much clearer to me that yeah, JC was angry but he was also grieving again and both brothers were just. so lost and missed each other. There was more hope for a reconciliation I think

Same with the Golden Core Reveal. In the novel it read to me as much harsher, and I like the drama version more.

Getting to see things WWX never saw or couldn’t have seen, which is just a perk to being a drama with more than one POV as opposed to a third person limited POV.

Sizhui being an adorable little terror at the end?? Yes good torment your father.

Mianmian being Jin clan, not Random Other clan. It made her leaving much more impactful imo.

More Unclean Realms content! Getting to see that Lan Qiren actually does care for his nephews and is a good person (if flawed)! Ouyang Zizhen in general!

Giving Jiang Yanli a fucking reason to be at Nightless City. Like holy shit, I admit it’s been a bit since I read the novel but to my knowledge she had no reason to be there in the book!! Thank you, Untamed, for fixing that good gods.

THINGS I DIDN’T LIKE

The Yin Iron Plot. Like. I get why it’s there, but it overall made everything too clean and connected and tidy. I liked that the Yi City Group were just incidentally connected to WWX’s shenanigans in his first life, that there were just Things WWX Has To Deal With Now That Weren’t His Problem Before But Sure As Hell Are Now. There’s nothing inherently wrong with the Yin Iron Plot, but having read the novel first I just didn’t really like it.

Making Peacock!JZX’s death planned by JGY. Again, I get it, but the tragedy of no one wanting him to die (right then, anyway, who knows what JGY woulda done in a year or two) was just really good.

Also obviously not the biggest fan of the “Su She can imitate Wei Wuxian and manipulate Wen Ning” thing since, again, the tragedy of WWX actually losing control was so, so important imo but again, I get why it’s there.

Danfan being a Wen town and the Dancing Goddess Statue being relevant pre-time skip. That one I just don’t get.

They didn’t bring up anything regarding why JGY owned the temple grounds or why Sisi was spared, and those, I feel, are actually important? At least why JGY owned the temple, because otherwise it leaves everyone wondering what he was digging up (his mother’s grave, ftr, because the temple used to be the brothel, and it’s implied that NHS found out and arranged for her body to be moved somewhere else to fuck with JGY).

So there’s a line Sizhui has just after the timeskip, where he says that he feels guilty for what happened at Mo Manor because the sword spirit was obviously drawn to their flags, and he’s confused about how the sword spirit got there because the range on their flags isn’t that big but the spirit was so strong that if it was in range there’d’ve been more chaos sooner. That just. feels really messy to me? Like I get it, it’s probably meant to make NHS’s involvement clearer and imply that he dropped the spirit off, but it also makes me wonder why the hell the Mo family called for help if it wasn’t a problem. It’s a small gripe, but it stuck out to me and is an example of how trying to make the plot all neat and tidy kinda didn’t work at times.

THINGS THAT HONESTLY I’M MIXED ABOUT (BUT IT’S MOSTLY POSITIVE)

WWX and LWJ meeting XXC and SL before Yi City. On the one hand, the parallels are so much more obvious and they see that the parallels are so much more obvious and I loved WWX getting to ask XXC about Baoshan Sanren and it makes Yi City hurt more. On the other, see the above.

As much as I didn’t like the Yin Iron Plot, I did like getting to see WWX and LWJ traveling together! It’s a good reference for post-canon (just with added romance) and also just cute as hell. We do lose the “LWJ hates me” misconception, though that’s still brought up despite it being demonstrably not the case, and I did enjoy WWX’s utter confusion over LWJ not hating him after coming back.

Related to the above, while I am sad we don’t get WWX’s Gremlin Attempts At Escaping Cloud Recesses, thank the gods they didn’t try to put that in. I love it in the book! Because it works in the book! It wouldn’t have worked in the drama, though.

Lack of Gremlin!WWX, honestly. I feel like the novel!WWX is more of a terror than the drama at times, but both are good and work and are just different sides of WWX, which I like seeing.

Honestly I’m okay with it being the sword spirit and not NMJ’s body, but also like. The scene where LXC recognizes the body hurts and I am sad we didn’t get it.

Seeing Nie Huaisang in Mo Village. On the one hand, yes! Good! An explanation for how he knows shit’s gone down! On the other, it implies more control than I feel NHS had over the situation because I’m sorry, but you cannot tell me was actually planning on MXY’s ritual working. That was a wild card, assuming he even knew about MXY’s plan in the first place.

Relatedly, JGY being the final target of MXY’s curse. Honestly makes more sense than the servant it was in the book, but the fact no one brings it up until the end kinda says a lot and see my general meh-ness on them making the plot so neat and tidy.

JC not wearing enough purple. IT IS SO DUMB AND I REALIZE THIS but everyone else stuck to their colors (except the Nies, but they changed that color overall so w/e) and JC did not wear enough purple pre-skip!! Let the angry grape be a grape dammit.

Overall, I loved the drama and am amused at myself for taking so long to watch it! I think I’ll always lean more towards the novel, but I am defs taking bits and pieces from the drama and would very much like that special edition Japan got now, thank you.

#The Untamed #Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #MDZS #itp: Fae has thoughts