#sect politics

[wangxianficrecs]

it's a long road but we're not alone by Stratisphyre

it's a long road but we're not alone

by Stratisphyre

M, 61k, Wangxian

Summary: In his madness, they say, the Yiling Patriarch stole into Koi Tower and abducted the widow of Jin Zixuan and her young son, only for all of them to die in a fire in the Burial Mounds shortly thereafter. Sixteen later, Lan Jingyi runs into two rogue cultivators during a night hunt.

Mojo's comments: Such an amazing premise and a well-written story! I'm a little breathless after that ending, and just so happy I dove in. POV moves around, (as does the point in time) and so there's a broad focus over everyone's perspective on the events of the 16 years following wwx's 'death'. I'm particularly fascinated by lxc, whose perspective is so distorted, bless him, but you can see how it all happened and how each step of the way he had only the best intentions. The plot divergence is massive enough that everything is different, and Author is very creative in pulling all the strings together. So. In which jyl kidnaps her wreck of a mourning Yiling Patriarch and forces them both into healing for the sakes of their sons. Lwj mourns, adopts the orphaned kid who reminds him of wwx, and finds a new focus until jingyi literally stumbles over sizhui and jin ling… who all get along like a house afire. So there's reunion, friendship, family feels, treachery and danger, grief, mourning, healing and love. Great story.

canon divergence, somebody lives/not everybody dies, jiang yanli lives, adorable juniors, parenthood, grief/mourning, canon-typical violence, family feels, reunions, golden core reveal, background songxiao, getting together, recovery, sect politics, happy ending

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#Wangxian Fic Rec #The Untamed #wangxian #MDZS #Mojo's Rec #canon divergence #somebody lives/not everybody dies #jiang yanli lives #adorable juniors #parenthood #grief/mourning #canon-typical violence #family feels #reunions #golden core reveal #background songxiao #getting together #recovery #sect politics #happy ending #long fic > 50k #Mature #it's a long road but we're not alone #Stratisphyre

[offaeandcreation]

Decided to post from my Art account.

Nirejseki’s, @robininthelabyrinth , Relentless spawned a slew of memes that I had to draw. So far, I managed 2/4. More incoming. I hope you find these as funny as I did while drawing them.

Post Chapter 14: Wen Ruohan goes on a cleaning spree. Yes, that’s a maid costume. Debating tacking on a peeping Lao Nie

Post Fic of Lan Qiren introducing Wen Ruohan who is soooooo ready with his cleaning supplies to “assist” in Lan Queen’s spring cleaning. The other Lan elders suddenly see a very “you won’t get away by pulling age” future ahead of them.

I mean come on, he totally would do this if he could be intimidating in it!

#wen ruohan #lan qiren #wenqi #ruoren #fanart #my art #qishan wen #gusu lan #sect politics #memed myself into drawing fanart #mo dao zu shi #next up is Lao Nie and that SPRITZ

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 1: Dread on Arrival

(Part 2)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #jiang fengmian #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #Yungmeng Jiang Training Arc AU #MDZS AU #The AU name for this idea is something I am 100% willing to change if someone has a better one. #There will be at least 2-3 more comics so *please*. Ideas and feedback welcome. #The core idea behind this AU is that LWJ goes to study with the Yunmeng Jiang sect instead of JC and WWX going to Cloud Recess #But why? Well I imagine Lan Xichen set it up to give LWJ a challenge (more social than skill based) and LWJ rose to it (begrudgingly) #Sort of a 'You've mastered so many Lan techniques but Other Sects have styles that are worth learning.' set up. #Lan Qiren agrees mostly on the basis that...well it's LWJ. Yunmeng Jiang is unruly but LWJ is beyond that riff-raff. He'll rise above it. #This is the story of a boy who thrives on routine and rules spending time in a place that is his apparent antithesis. #Also it is so warm there. He is used to it being cold and what do you MEAN just take off some of my layers? #I just want to see him struggle and flail in many situations. And get him in Jiang Purple. Is that so wrong of me? #(Soaking wet JC is part of my 'JC was born to swim; forced to hold a sword' agenda. Do not remove him from the water) #((Politeness notes: JFM would *not* call LWJ 'lan wangji' nor would LWJ be vocally impolite to a sect leader.))

[sunderwight]

thinking about reverse SVSSS AU where the demon characters are human and the human characters are demons (LBH is still both), but cultivation society operates more like MDZS so that the demon characters can preserve their ruthless clan politics and inheritance systems, and but demon society (which the formerly human characters are now part of) operates more like the ghosts in TGCF, where it's mostly a free-for-all of powerful demons establishing whatever kind of system they please in whatever space they can carve out. I think that'd preserve the meritocracy elements and "twelve different sects in a trench coat" qualities that cang qiong has as an organization.

so the peaks are instead these sort of liminal space cities which are ruled by the most powerful/influential demons, who choose their successors (at least ostensibly) based purely on talent and ability. instead of the sprawling alternate dimension demonic realms of PIDW, they're more like pocket dimensions which can only be accessed if you know the secret ways, existing in the shadows of otherwise seemingly normal towns, mountains, cities, forests, etc. humans sometimes wander into them by mistake, although whether they can get back out again or not depends a lot on which demon lord's domain they were unlucky enough to stumble upon.

Mobei Jun and Sha Hualing are still the heirs of their respective sects/clans, which are among the most powerful sects around. The CQMS peak lords are the rulers of twelve allied demon settlements. Tianlang Jun was the heir of the strongest sect, sort of like Wen Ruohan if Wen Ruohan's biggest motivation was to have his Hot Girl Summer rather than conquering everything, but after his and Zhuzhi Lang's disappearances their sect lost a lot of clout. Su Xiyan hailed from a wealthy demon phantom palace, known for its exceptional hostility towards humans (this version of HHP definitely literally eats people).

The demons-turned-humans are still exactly as cutthroat and dubious as in PIDW. Sha Hualing still wants to kill her father to take his position, Mobei Jun's uncle still tries to assassinate him, the cultivation world has an underground business in trafficking demon body parts (officially decried, but unofficially often consumed to help boost cultivation or create certain tools), the sects often go to war with one another and tend to wreak havoc on the secular human governments and societies whenever they do. All that sort of stuff.

On the humans-turned-demons end, demons in this setting are sometimes born the same way as humans -- two parents of compatible genital orientation get it on and some months later etc etc, which is how siblings like Liu Qingge and Liu Mingyan happen. But sometimes demons also just sort of manifest out of concentrated pockets of demonic energy. Some demons come from humans (SJ and YQY were both born from the unquiet ghosts of slave children), some come from animals (SQH was a pet hamster who was tormented enough to become a demon hamster, and then cultivated enough to take on a human shape), some come from collisions of powerful elemental forces such as volcanoes or floods (Su Xiyan).

So demons have a lot of apprenticeship and teacher-and-student style familial relationships, and demons looking to build families often will risk venturing out into the human realms and trying to find other isolated demons to bring into their fold. Demons alone in the human world are highly vulnerable to being hunted, killed, or enslaved. This is also why there's such a high percentage of "orphans", and contributes even more to a demon like SJ (no parents) resenting a demon like Luo Binghe (found and adopted by a kindly older demon almost right away).

So in the original PIDW, Luo Binghe is a kid who thinks he's a demon and grows up under the cruel and resentful talons of the Lord of Qing Jing, Shen Qingqiu. Every twenty or so years the demon settlements manifest much more strongly in the human realms, during which time they are a lot more vulnerable to attacks from humans. To help deal with this this, the demon rulers traditionally host big, dramatic, scary events that bring everyone within a certain geographic range together, the better to put any righteous sects off the idea of trying to single them out and attack. Most of the smaller settlements clear out entirely in preparation, leaving "ghost towns" where the buildings appear but the demons and anything too valuable to risk leaving behind are all gone.

This Demonic Alliance Conference is a time for contests, trials, matchmaking, partying, festive hunts, trading, and big displays of power. What could be a massive weakness instead becomes a big celebration, and a time for mingling and making new connections.

In PIDW, after suffering years of abuse at the hands of his cruel master, Luo Binghe attends the DAC in hopes of securing some better place for himself in demonic society. But when the righteous sects launch an unprecedented attack on the event, his human heritage is revealed, and Shen Qingqiu tosses him into the twilight space between realms in disgust. Binghe is forced to navigate the hollow and desolate place, locked into his newly-revealed and very weak human form, until he bonds with the legendary Xin Mo blade and effects his escape. Then he sets about bringing the righteous sects to heel (his bloodline means he's heir to one of the biggest sects around, even if they've fallen on hard times the past 20 or so years) and of course conquering the demon realms, and taking revenge on Shen Qingqiu, all while accumulating a record number of wives.

Shen Yuan transmigrates into Demon Lord Shen Qingqiu, ruler of Qing Jin settlement, a haunted bamboo forest in the most cursed mountain range ever.

Downsides -- he's of course destined to be dismembered and/or shoved into a pickle pot by the protagonist.

Upsides -- he's a demon with amazingly awesome demon traits! He has talons! Fangs! WINGS! Also, Binghe is a little demon bun and he is so cute, like a puppy with his fluffy wolf ears and baby claws and darling bright red eyes. Who could ever persecute such an adorable monster boy?! His tail literally wags when he's excited!

Plus Shen Yuan gets to spend as much time investigating cool beasts and other demons as he likes. He's in heaven. Well, not literally of course, but for his standards. Pretty close. Almost worth the price of admission!

#svsss #scum villain's self saving system #scum villain #bingqiu #for this I think also that heavenly demons aren't really a thing #so lbh is actually more over-powered on his human side thanks to the sect/clan system and the political weight of his bloodline

[rejectedfables]

Given the way that Headshaker Huaisang goes to Jin Guangyao (and LXC) for solutions to so many of his problems, possibly/probably including struggles with running a sect, do you think maybe the Headshaker persona was as much a part of the revenge plot as it was a veil to hide behind? Like, oh you killed my brother, the head of the Nie sect? Fine. YOU run the sect then 🙃 It needs a leader and you killed him so now it's YOUR fucking problem, and I'm going to make it an incredibly annoying problem. Not a single cog will turn smoothly 🙃

#nie huaisang #Mdzs #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the grandmaster of diabolism #mdzs meta #Nhs #And if he didn't ask for help with political things then just 'watch my sect fall apart because of what you did' I still a twisted knife #I don't GET Huaisang but no one can accuse me of not trying to #spoilers

[thatswhatsushesaid]

cql out here redefining daddy issues one agonizing microaggression at a time

#c'mon system choose me to transmigrate into the jianghu just as some nameless jin sect NPC #let me take just one or two things with me #i'll just walk up to jgs and very politely ask him 'excuse me jin-zongzhu but could u tell me if this handkerchief smells like chloroform' #'smells like what--' #and then if i can just avoid getting revenge murdered by the jianghu's most filial son long enough to Explain #everything will be fine!! #mdzs shitposting #cql #the untamed #jin guangshan #jin guangyao

[winepresswrath]

sudden yearning for time travelling teen jiang fengmian lands at lotus pier fic that winds up being about a perfectly nice kid having a varying series of "oh no. i don't like that. that's a lot" reactions.

#i think in order for this to be satisfying i have to give grace and interiority to teenmian #i'm picturing an older teen like 18ish? maybe even early 20s? #big crush on csr he's already pretty sure isn't going to work out #but at least he'll always have wei-xiong #anyway this is my ploy to give jfm a chance at an ugly crying meltdown #he's trying so hard to be even keeled and like #maybe take this as an evil vision designed to teach him something #but somewhere in between my crush stole my man and then they died #my whole sect burned #my grown ass son who is older than me making the vibe sooooo weird #and my grandson! child of my dead???? daughter?????? #is just like yeah he never talks about you. no never never #and then wwx blows into town and idk somehow they all end up at dinner together and jfm politely calls lqr a punk ass bitch in front of lwj #because what???? context clues suggest lqr has the fucking nerve to not like wei xiong's baby after All That #only for adult son with the weird vibes #to imply only filial piety is keeping him from naming the real #punk ass bitch #anyway this ends with jfm crying because clearly he marries yuanyuan and she HATES HIM and then his own son ALSO HATES HIM #and would rather stupid Lan-er-gongzi #be his dad. #if you like lqr so much why don't you just join the lan sect then????? #and that's how jc learns he didn't get it all from his mama #jc didn't mean it he was stressed! this isn't his dad it's an a-ling sized kid. but it's still stressful

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

additional work doodles on stolen printer paper ft. Jiang Cheng meeting various dog breeds

cuz I feel like it would be a hoot watching this guy react to the ecclectic variety of pooches the world has to offer

#little dogs? yes plz #large dogs like REALLY large dogs? he loves them! #let jiang cheng have dogs #he'll end up loving even the ridiculous looking ones #and give them all matching ridiculous frufru names #he'll bring one of his dogs with him to conferences #if he likes the sect hosting he'll bring one of the smaller and polite ones #if he DOESN'T then he'll roll up accompanied by a massive drooling beastie the size of small horse #u know one of those dogs whose panting is audible across a room? imagine one of them in the fucking high-ceiling echo chambers the jin like #to host dinners in cuz it flaunts their wealth and then trying to hold a discussion #“now on the issue of chief cultivator-” *PANT PANT PANT SCHLORP PANT PANT PANT* #corgi #basset hound #great dane #daschund #(imagine explaining the phrase 'weiner dog' to the grumpiest sect leader xD) #sheepdog #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #mdzs #fan art #the untamed #sketches

[travalerray]

ideally what I want from MDZS is an epic length series telling me the details of the Sunshot Campaign (HOW DID JC BUILD THAT SECT UP FROM THE GROUND) and everything that happened in the 13 year gap (JGY and his time being the Chief Cultivator is something that can be very personal actually)

okay maybe what I ideally do want is something that delves into the nitty gritty details of the politics and the war in mdzs because I keep crying everytime I have to comprehend the insane amount of things that Just Happen in canon

#mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi #jiang cheng #jin guangyao #kk's rambles tag #where's that post that goes stanning jc and jgy is what happens when you get interested in the politics of mdzs #''yeah this guy just fucking raised a whole ass sect that was burnt to the ground in three months and ran around to search for his #shixiong. Yeah he managed to remake the sect into one of the four great sects'' HOW. TELL ME. I NEED THE POLITICAL INTRIGUE HERE #can you tell I was more interested in xiyao's watchtower discussion during the Empathy sequence and that my favorite extra is unsurprisingl #Villainous Friends

[fistfuloflightning]

“Your welcome was rather disappointing, Jiang-zongzhu,” Jin Zixun calls mockingly. “Even your husband here failed to make us feel at home.” The obvious baiting is answered with a dangerously still, silent courtyard. Jin Zixun throws a glance at the three cultivators keeping Lan Wangji kneeling, chin tipped in a wordless order.

The blade hooked beneath Lan Wangji’s throat digs deeper, drawing more blood and he knows without looking that the red on the front of his robes is growing. Still no response. Lan Wangji can feel his wife’s presence, along with a handful of other qi signatures he recognizes as Jiang senior disciples. And he prays she doesn’t come out.

Jin Zixun’s grin is feral. “Very well.” But before the blade slides home and ends it all, the doors are flung wide and Jiang Cheng emerges. A silent breath escapes him. He should have known his Wanyin would not stand by. It is not in her nature.

Hair unbound and eyes flickering with Zidian’s energy, she looks like a wrathful goddess of lightning. Even where he’s forced to kneel, Lan Wangji can feel the electricity thrumming through his wrecked meridians, thinned to the point of snapping. Sandu’s naked blade gleams wickedly in one hand. And in the other, she carries their son.

She is not like his mother, bowing her head with furious acceptance of her fate and allowing her sons to be dragged away from her. She is not like her own mother, vicious in her pride and arrogance, blind to the needs of her children.

Jiang Cheng would do the impossible for those she loves. That is her strength.

Lan Wangji knows that there is no safer place for their son than in her arms.

#mdzs #zhancheng #jiang cheng #lan wangji #mdzs au #female jiang cheng #mdzs art #my art #an au where jfm never finds wwx and jc is born a girl #after jyl dies (naturally and much earlier) the jins decide to take lotus pier since it was their og!intention to make it a puppet sect #fem!jc doesn’t have as much standing as her male counterpart even tho she’s married to lwj in a strategic political marriage #so it’s easy for jgs to convince other allied sects to absorb yunmeng jiang #they didn’t learn anything from the wens #might expand this to a proper fic #my writing #was trying to go for static hair #ended up with medusa lol #another yin yang composition

[wangxianficrecs]

❤️Discordant Rhapsody by nirejseki

❤️ Discordant Rhapsody

by nirejseki

T, 49k, Wangxian

Summary: “Become my personal disciple,” Lan Qiren said to Wei Wuxian, feeling the weight of what he said on his tongue, the bitter taste of it mixing in with the ash of the Burial Mounds. “And as your shifu, I will bear the shame of your actions for you.”

Mojo's comments: Wow, this story just. Ya know, sometimes I'll read something in POV lqr and my mind will be blown, and this one did that. He's so complex. He tries so hard, isn't nearly as rigid as he seems, loves so unstoppably, is loyal and protective to a fault, makes mistakes (like wwx) out of trying to do the right thing, and doesn't evade the consequences. He's amazing, and I cried, okay. In which lqr sweeps into the Burial Mounds and convinces wwx to come be his personal disciple (along with his Wens) solely to prevent a future wherein his beloved nephew might one day choose to live in the BM and perhaps be forced into an impossible choice between defending his love or hurting his sect. So instead, lqr decides to take that risk, and that hurt, onto himself. To spare his nephew. And also because wwx is a genius with great ideas that can totally be incorporated into musical cultivation. Lqr can get along with wwx because his favorite cousin (Lan Jingyi's father, actually -- an OC that I thoroughly enjoyed) is ALSO a loud-mouth boiling over with weird ideas and fueled by love for his family. It's not a hard transition, actually.

Excerpt: Perhaps because of Lan Qiren’s experience with his brother’s selfish madness, he had never valued the sort of love that would lead a man to pluck out his eyes to let his beloved see – the type of love that gave too much, giving for the sake of giving even when the recipient didn’t want the gift. He had spent so many years trying to teach his nephews the same lesson, trying to show them that they could love in a way that was productive rather than destructive, that they could be measured and moderate with their love and still be true. He’d thought that he himself served as a model of that alternative, a type of love that was no less deep and passionate for the fact that it was quiet and calm and left room for prioritizing oneself. What irony. What a joke. Lan Qiren had, he now realized, modeled the precise opposite. He had wanted to keep his nephews from following his brother’s path, a love so selfish that it did not think about the harm it was doing to the one it supposedly for, but he had gone too far the other way. The rules said Love and respect yourself, but what was there in Lan Qiren’s life that he had not given of himself to that which he loved? It was only that he loved his sect, loved his nephews, loved the Cloud Recesses and the rules and the rest of it rather than a person that had obscured his vision and made him think, foolishly, that he knew the meaning of restraint.

burial mounds, canon divergence, post-sunshot, fix-it, good uncle lan qiren, pov lan qiren, protective lan qiren, character study, introspection, sect politics, teacher-student relationship, angst, hurt/comfort, love, feels, whump, abusive lan sect, familial love, happy ending, matchmaker lan qiren, @robininthelabyrinth

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[cryptidafter]

Lan "I don't give a fuck about anyone or anything except my husband" Wangji...becomes the head of cultivation society?

I know censorship wouldn't allow LWJ and WWX to go have their post-temple tumble in the bushes but there had to be a better decision than that.

#cryptid’s thoughts #he's a worse choice than NHS lol #(sorry but if you expect me to believe either of them would care enough to want all that responsibility...I need some compelling evidence) #yes LWJ 'goes where the chaos is' but that's exactly why he would hate dealing with tedious meetings and politics #he does not care what the other sects do so long as it doesn't interrupt his sexy times with wwx lol #there's a reason LXC is sect leader even beyond him being the eldest #he handles the whole social niceties part a lot better than LWJ #(no I'm not suggesting he should be Chief Cultivator either he's been through ENOUGH. Let that man rest)

[janaknandini-singh999]

Leftists vs Hindutva with Ram Mandir vs Babri masjid treating it like which came first "chicken or egg"?

#I stand with neither like why can't they just build both the things in the city? #I fully disagree with the violence on muslims and other sects committed by hindus tho like that's not what this secular country stands for #but at the same time I wanna celebrate a historic moment #idk? #desiblr #desi #desi aesthetic #desi tag #desi stuff #hindutva #ayodhya #hinduism #islamophobia #hinduphobia #india #politics #nationalism #history #religion

[philosophybits]

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (1822–1863)

#philosophy #quotes #Ralph Waldo Emerson #Journals #sects #parties #politics #thought #thinking

[waitineedaname]

sorry about this one.

#mdzs #the untamed #jin guangyao #wei wuxian #i can't stop thinking of them with this post dlkjflkdsjf #sorry about the bad photo quality idk why it saved like that #i had to rewatch the fight scene with jiang cheng to get this screenshot #which meant I experienced the pain of the jiang disciples still referring to wwx as shixiong again #he is still their sect brother!!! even if he's run off to yiling and is doing necromancy crimes or whatever everyone is accusing him of!!!! #i understand why wwx and jc decided to break things off like this #like. i get it politically. #but i think the jiang disciples still would've stuck by him #unnamed jiang disciples....... i love u

[labyrynth]

ok so your first problem was assuming mdzs is a story where Good People are Rewarded and Bad People are Punished.

your second problem was assuming that MXTX—who goes out of her way to showcase unresolved, tragic, undeserved endings in all of her works—would ever write a story with such a shallow notion of “deserving.”

the only reason wangxian makes it out unscathed is because they’re literally the protagonists. authorial intent and plot armor ensure their happy ending. that’s it.

#mdzs talk #moi #i mean it also helps that neither wwx nor lwj give a rats ass about the rest of the cultivation world #wwx had already fucked off and lwj was basically doing that too #that man has never given a single shit about politics and maintaining good relationships #like what does it say about you if even jiang cheng is a better politician than you. #mister ‘don’t talk to me before i’ve had my coffee. or after. just don’t fucking talk to me.’ #but yeah wangxian is like oh we helped to create a massive power vacuum and destabilized the entire cultivation world? #ahaha no way!🤪 hey actually can this wait? my husband and i wanna go fuck in the bushes 🥰 #like. lwj that’s YOUR brother that just lost his most significant emotional support of the last decade. #wwx that’s YOUR pseudo nephew whose parental figure you just got killed. #that’s YOUR pseudo nephew who now has to become sect leader at like 15. #but nah they wanna go bang on the side of the road #god forbid they try to clean up some of the gigantic mess they helped to make #and nobody try to argue ‘well but jgy!!’ buh buh buh nothing. jgy cleaned up after himself. #neither wwx nor lwj had ANY personal stake in seeing jgy dead. lwj SHOULD have had a personal stake in keeping him alive actually. #i still think it’s super shitty and hypocritical of lwj to defend wwx so strongly and yet try so hard to condemn jgy in PRIVATE #both wwx and lwj really showed their asses at guanyin ngl. obviously huaisang did too. #like yeah it’s noble and righteous or whatever but like. righteousness was not why lwj defended wwx before. #wangxian stans being self-righteous and hypocritical? with classist double standards? with black and white mentality? #wow! who would have ever guessed?