#nmj/lxc

[aphel1on]

text post meme: 3zun pt 1

#3zun #nieyao #xiyao #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #lan xichen #the untamed #mdzs #text post meme #aphelion.txt #jgy #nmj #lxc

[pillow-boi]

AND IT WAS A TIME TRAVEL FIX IT ALL ALONG!!! part 2/2 -› part 1

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #xiyao #jgy #lxc #jin guangyao #meng yao #lan xichen #nmj #nie mingjue #the untamed #cql #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mxtx #danmei

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Embrace the truth

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan jingyi #lan sizhui #lan xichen #lan wangji #wei wuxian #WWX uses NMJ's abs as part of his evidence for identification. LXC is allowed to use his familiar embrace as his evidence. #We are now entering the slow burn arc of 'Lan Xichen continues to lose everything he cared about'. #He has his love of fishing + his good friendship with JGY + his brother. I hope nothing happens to any of those things #Not that its in character for *anyone* present to have the emotional intelligence for it - but man LXC is having a very hard time #Trying to pin his sworn brother as a murderer *right* after identifying the mystery body as his other sworn brother? #of *course* he's defensive! You gave him no time to process! #He's gonna need a lot of time by the pond to cope #The original joke had LXC copping a feel on those glutes and recognizing him that way. Which now looking back *was* funnier #sigh...I need to trust my gut a bit more #Next time on PD-MDZS: They just show up in Jinlin Tai because I want to plot to keep moving

[poorlittleyaoyao]

from this poll

#closeness has nothing to do with depth of affection!!! don't come at me about the Nie Bros.!! #they love each other SO MUCH but boy oh boy do they misunderstand each other until it's too late! #meanwhile (not unlike NMJ) WQ has posited herself so firmly in the position of WN's protector that he can't fully know her #I debated the entire day about the placements for the Wen sibs + Lan sibs + Nie sibs #but went with these bc LXC and LWJ are at least fully aware of each other's close personal relationships #whereas WN has no idea about WQ and the comb (and very possibly no idea about how WRH uses him to keep WQ in line) #and NHS and NMJ keep hella secrets from each other even after their heart-to-heart in Fatal Journey #(in case it wasn't obvious: this is for CQL canon specifically do NOT bring novel canon into my home at this time)

[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

[benevolenterrancy]

xiyao shipping vs nieyao shipping

love that for them u.u

#mdzs #xiyao #nieyao #3zun #jin guangyao #meng yao #nie mingjue #lan xichen #jgy #nmj #lxc #my art #i really love every variation of this ship #but any version that involves nmj/jgy is the funniest thing ever to be and i adore it

[3cosmicfrogs]

this started out as a brief doodle of mingjue tits and morphed into a whole thing

#the phrase 'nmj transgender' popped into my head one day and it's all been downhill from there #Triangle post #artfromthefrogs #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #cql #nmj #jgy #lxc #3zun #venerated triad #nie mingjue #lan xichen #jin guangyao #nieyao #xiyao #nielan #oh how the Triangle compells me #trans nmj #listen petite sogging wet character is trans: BROKE. massive dudebro 6'2'' tall who knows only The Warriors Bond being trans: BESPOKE #its hard being the most enlightened person on this website. #pour one out for the 2-3 Mutuals who Understand trans nmj. You are great philosophers every single one of you and i am honoured to know you

[tavina-writes]

I have been pondering the recent rash of "post canon NHS and LXC would never ever reconcile bc even if NHS wanted to have Er-ge back, LXC would never ever forgive him for [insert reason of choice here]" type of posts + the "do you think NHS thinks very hard about how much Da-ge would hate him for becoming [the way that he is now] by choosing to seek vengeance" type of posts, and I think fundamentally the reason these posts do not jive with me is that we have no indication, in the show or in the book that uh, NHS gives a shit about either of these things very much anymore?

The first type of post is predicated on the assumption that LXC's forgiveness or lack thereof some some sort of either extension of mercy (which NHS obviously does not deserve <- or so assumes the post) or some form of punishment (which is obviously the correct answer) but the last scene we get with NHS both in the book and the show make no indication that this is a thing he wants? Or cares about? Book NHS has *sauntered off* with his little hat trophy and Show NHS walks off screen after saying something along the lines of "What is my responsibility I won't shirk, what isn't my responsibility I won't care about." Now, arguably, show NHS is having a worse go of it emotionally, but shows no real inclination or interest in either apologies or making up and being friends again with LWJ, LXC, WWX, or other people. Book NHS seems pretty pleased with the outcome of the events as a whole?

The second type of post is predicated on the fact that NHS finds Da-ge's judgement a horrible burden to bear at this stage in the game, which! He might! But again especially in the book we get no indication that he has any fucks left to give about what Da-ge may or may not have wanted since Da-ge is dead. In both the show and the book, NHS went about revenge taking very specific and complicated actions with the desired result of JGY dying, but he certainly took the scenic route getting there, which, he didn't need to? As I've written about before, JGY didn't see him as a threat. If he wanted JGY dead he could've arranged to poison JGY's tea like, 10 years ago and had done with it instead of his complicated Rube Goldberg life ruining scheme. If he is still sickly anxious about how Da-ge might feel about the scheming and the trouble causing and the whole everything, that's certainly possible, but he must've decided it was worth it anyway regardless of that, and I don't know that it necessarily would've changed just because he got what he wanted at the end.

Overall, I think as a fandom we think a lot about like "will and should this relationship ever be repaired or similar to how it used to be?" and "does this character deserve/not deserve the forgiveness of people they've hurt or abandoned?" which can be interesting questions! I do feel like these are often taken as "is a character morally good (deserves to be forgiven) or morally bad (deserves to rot in hell forever never forgiven ever ever)" and based entirely on if Character is the meta writer's blorbo. Under this paradigm the concept of "Character did bad things to get exactly what they wanted and were happy about that and no relationships were ever repaired and the emotional detachment of people they used to care about no longer matters to them!" is uncomfortable.

It's just that for NHS I've increasingly come to the conclusion that canonically, I don't think NHS thinks he has anything to apologize for, nor is he super interested in being forgiven! He got what he wanted the way he wanted it to happen. Which is potentially supremely unsatisfying but I think is very sexy as a narrative concept.

#like for the record #nie huaisang IS my blorbo #and I like a good reconciliation fic and nhs is feeling some kind of way about everything fic like #at LEAST as much as the rest of us if not more #but these POSTS I keep seeing mostly serve to bludgeon him with the 'punishment' of LXC's unforgiveness or NMJ's judgment #as a means to say he was wrong and should repent and probably shouldn't've murdered JGY or something #I don't think this punishment works canonically because he appears to give no shits about this anymore #anyway #meta #my meta #nie huaisang #nie huaisang my beloved

[luobingmeis]

my jgy thoughts have been expanding and adapting and roiling and toiling etc etc etc and all of it is coming down to me affectionately marveling at this character. he’s cut-throat. he’s cunning. his kindness leaves lasting impressions. his mercy is what predates his demise. he’s one of the few cultivators who helps those in need. he will sacrifice them if it benefits him. he loved. it didn’t last. it killed him. it orchestrated his downfall. he’s a genius. he’s paranoid. he compartmentalizes. he splits the world into who he would sacrifice and who he would not. people he loves and people he would sacrifice are not mutually exclusive. he’s filial to a fault. it was all for his mother. he is a study in assimilating to survive. the results vary. he manipulates the herd mentality to his benefit. it is turned against him. he is killed for the one thing he didn’t do by the one person he wouldn’t sacrifice. it is still somehow better than what the hive-mind cultivation world would have done. i love this tragic kaleidoscope of a character.

#this was sparked out of my love for jgy #my in-the-tags hot take is that i am just increasingly bored by unironic jgy did nothing wrong takes adfksks #like the statements that he is a victim and he has done helpful things and he has done harmful things. are also not mutually exclusive! #and i think that makes him fun :] #if jgy wasn’t a little fucked up he’d be boring #like it’s /fun/ to me that imo he was overtly targeted by nmj #but nmj was also like the last like of defense before the jins completely abused their power #like! we love duality. we love contradictions #i won’t even say ‘ask me abt how jgy views the concept of hurt’ bc i’m gonna tell you! #i personally believe that he was being honest when he said lxc was the one person he didn’t want to hurt #i just also believe that he doesn’t see the things he has done #namely the use of the fucked up song of clarity #as things that would hurt lxc #bc they weren’t done /to/ him! #lxc was just a pawn in that moment #and while i believe that jgy most of the time did not. pawn-ify. lxc #by taking the song of clarity (something entrusted to him by lxc) #and using it to kill nmj (someone jgy cared abt) #that hurts lxc! #i feel embarrassed i was like ‘let u tell me u my big jgy thesis paper’ and idk if it landed #but i feel like jgy sees ‘hurt’ as what is done to you #not what happens around you

[tbgkaru-woh]

Alternate paths

#nielan #nie mignjue #lan xichen #my art #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #last picture is inspired by word of honor's six harmonies dual cultivation #immortal lxc saving nmj from brink of death ;v;

[aphel1on]

mdzs/untamed misc text posts (pt 2)

#lan xichen #nie mingjue #lan wangji #mo xuanyu #wen ning #wei wuxian #mdzs #the untamed #text post meme #aphelion.txt #aaaaand that's a wrap #(for now) #lxc #nmj #lwj #mxy #wn

[dailyayao]

#the subtle change in his expression #when he stops looking at lxc #and looks at nmj instead

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

We could have had it all...

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #oh man....the NieYao dynamic....All these complex emotions and ties to each other and they *aren't* canon? #Sorry fellas but the way you proposed writing your bro a letter of recommendation & agreeing to it was very fruity. #And *then* Lan Xichen shows up. And both JGY and NMJ are head over heels for him and have been for ages apparently. #Its like they found out that LXC had been two timing them this whole time and their response was: “UM. HOT?” #I'm tempted to redraw these three as that one bisexual-core image with Anne Hathaway. You know the one. It fits. #It's strange seeing all of this fondness in retrospect compared to the betrayal you feel in The Untamed after a longer build up. #Initially it felt like 'oops we made him a little too 2 dimensional as a villain - quick make him more sympathetic'. #JGY even had a scene with him kissing babies. As any politician would do to improve their image. #but it does come around to really showing a more authentic JGY and the tension between him and NMJ. #As an angst lover I am personally all for 'what could have been' relationships and they DO have it all.

[a-yaos-little-murder-beans]

New Xiyao XD

And new Nie brothers designs, too!!!!

#i want jiggys coat-cape #I am also very weak for this NMJ #huaisang is just baby #3zun merch #mdzs #jgy #lxc #nmj #nhs #jin guangyao #lan xichen #nie mingjue #nie huaisang #medicos #akikos shitpost

[qourmet]

another AU no one asked for

i've been listening to the promare ost & gave in to watch the movie. been thinkin a Lot about a promare/wangxian AU but all i could really focus on was MianMian in Aina's clothes & i was kinda Gone

but also, consider: yiling found family as Mad Burnish

#mdzs #promare au #mianmian #luo qingyang #''i respect women'' then draws women like studio trigger #my art #this isn't a 1:1 AU #it's a fusion man idk lqy isn't siblings with a mad scientist #jyl is the scientist & jc works with burning rescue #lxc is fire chief #nmj works with burning rescue #nhs takes lucia's non-combatant roll #lwj isn't a burning soul wielding ice he's the stereotypical ice personality wielding ice #& vice versa wwx isn't a hyper-cool pyromaniac he's still pretty aggro #but also: lwj in a muscle shirt #imagine #mianmian can deadlift nmj tho

[benevolenterrancy]

(whispers: it actually was lxc who threw the snowball, he grew up without a little brother willing to indulge in something like snowball fights so he needs to get it out of his system now) (not that jgy is about to buy that)

#mdzs #3zun #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #lan xichen #jgy #nmj #lxc #nieyao #xiyao #it's snowing today so i needed to draw something snowy #just saying a cultivator snowball fight would be INTENSE #can you imagine wwx and jc as kids with more cultivation than sense? lethal #my art