#this is my first Actual cql gifset omg

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misc tidbits from the untamed eps 22-24

just so’s i don’t forget some stuff that happened because everything starts to merge together after a while. i’m lazy so here are my original notes plus annotations i am making just now, days later, enjoy lol

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why do these 2 have the cutest conversations on rooftops

i mean granted they (lwj and wwx) have cute conversations in lots of places, but ALL their rooftop convos are cute in some way. i hope it’s not just so they can have an angsty rooftop conversation later that feels even worse because it’s reminiscent of these earlier cute ones

lwj is so clearly worried about him. and trusts him! this hurts me. wwx even knows that lwj is worried as opposed to judgy! my heart!!

in retrospect this scene is kinda ludicrous because wwx promises he won’t ever use demonic cultivation (which is weird bc he must have known he would be doing it sooner or later in front of lwj?) and lwj believes him, and then later this very same episode wwx whips out ol’ flamey and goes to town on some resentful energy in the middle of a battlefield

though in fairness he did wait until the last possible second when basically everyone was already dead before being like “i guess i have to actually use my awesome powers that i’ve been hiding since there’s no other option”

god effing dammit xuan lu is crying again

i HATE it when she cries. cannot handle it. and unfortunately there is MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM ugh this show is the WORST

aw fuck there's more xiyao i'm not strong enough for this

listen these two have the best chemistry of anyone on the show and i’m really mad about it because i don’t want to ship it! because jgy is a horrible person and also because they have a tragic ending!!

okay like yes obviously wangxian also have amazing chemistry but does one of them sensually stroke the other’s hands the first time they meet??? no, they do not. so xiyao has the corner on that market unfortunately

also they’re both just. so beautiful. ughhhhh

lhk has the most intense face

i don’t remember which part this is about but honestly it’s always true

really good fight scenes!

yeah omg my expectation for cql fight scenes is so low bc i hated all the fights in the early episodes. but when they limit the use of wires and focus on the choreography, i super dig it! the actors and doubles are doing a great job!!

23

for some reason i assumed that jgy didn't start wearing the hat thing until he became chief cultivator, so now that i know he's wearing it this early it recontextualizes some gifsets for me

he does become chief cultivator, right? i didn’t make that up in a fever dream?

so much xiyao...lxc protecting jgy from nmj...calling him ah-yao...keeping jgy from bowing to him...have mercy

they’re so tender and i’m g r u m p y

how come no one figured out about wwx’s golden core while he was in a coma??

still have this question honestly. lwj and jyl i don’t know what kind of caretaking you’re doing but i feel like that would have come up early on in the process

that cleansing guqin scene!

can’t be coherent about it but note to future self: it’s in episode 23 if you want to rewatch it

oh all of a sudden it's super easy to destroy pieces of yin metal? are we supposed to forget about that time the lan clan elder had to lock herself in the honey bunny cave of marriage with a piece of yin metal because there was no way to destroy it? it’s either a plothole or it’s setting something up for later, idk

there are so many significant caves in this show and i’m gonna come up with a dumb rhyme for every single one of them, just watch me

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wwx is here to do what jc can’t because he’s an important sect leader now: just roll up to the banquet, remind everybody that jyl can decide if she wants to get married or not, and then yell “later, suckers” over his shoulder as he skateboards away

lwj is grounded so wwx just invites himself over lol

“why isn’t lan zhan with you? oh, he’s in Rules Jail? okay cool i got nothing going on i’ll just pop over there and keep him company”

i love every interaction between lxc and wwx because lxc is this fabulous mix of 1) indulgent/fond of this kid who will be his BIL someday, 2) stern because he’s protective of lwj and wwx really has no idea what effect he has on that guy, and 3) completely baffled because wwx is such a fuckin weirdo lmao

wwx is a real cocky bastard in this scene. dude you’re not doing yourself any favors!

YUNMENG SIBLING FEELS!!!!

they fight but they love each other!

wwx making choices that hurt jc but it’s all to protect him!!

making promises to shijie he can’t keep!!!

heartfelt conversations and eavesdropping!!!!

wwx being babey and jc being fond about it against his will!!!!!!

CHILDISH BICKERING

oh yeah this for sure isn’t gonna break my heart later

#we got the murder turtle cave we got the honey bunny cave now i just need a rhyming name for the burial mounds cave #i feel like i'm two steps away from inventing a worse version of cockney rhyming slang #these posts take me so long but i honestly have no memory of what happened in the episodes i don't make a post for #so i feel like i have to record my thoughts about them in some fashion #i should probably just make notes to myself and not put them on tumblr. but this way people reply and i learn things #i feel bad that these posts are so long but hopefully people just press that j key if they wanna skip it #also i've discovered i don't have to tag spoilers for dangerliesbeforeyou because she was already avoiding my posts for spoiler reasons! #which is good bc i keep forgetting to tag them lol #the untamed #cql watch #my posts

[morifinwes]

hi laura!! sorry this is a bit late i barely survived finals week :’) i just woke up after sleeping for like 18 hrs after my last exam fjdns

oooo yes i love yanqing too!! they’re my fav ship apart from wangxian (also jc/lwj w h a t why would anyone do that o.O)

halsey!!!! i love her sm i’ve followed her from the time she released badlands (i was such an emo kid istg that album was everything to me) omg your music taste is so similar to mine wtf??? the other side by ruelle AND mystery of love AND folklore ur taste is exquisite. i’ll check out the other songs i’m sure i’ll like them! (also based on your music taste i recommend u listen to the loch ness monster by matilda mann 10/10 would recommend)

okay today’s questions!

🎀 since i asked about non-canon ships last time, what is your favourite fic you’ve ever read in the mdzs fandom? or a favourite trope?

🎀 tell me about your favourite show(s)/movies other than cql/mdzs! i need something to binge watch over winter break hehe

hope you’re doing well! it’s getting cold where i live so if it’s the same where you live i hope you’re staying warm >.< now that i’m free i will try to send asks more often! - 🍵

hey c!! don't worry, you have to take care of yourself, i'm glad that you finally have more time for yourself too!

sleeping 18 hours after being stressed is valid, after a panick attack i once slept like 16 hours simply because i was extremely exhausted.

i listened to the song and it's!!! so good!! i really like this part of the song: now you've faded, / with no traces, /so who could ever tell. / what you've taken's, / been misplaced / but your name doesn't ring any bells, / since the day that they took you to hell.

halsey is!!! i remember hearing badlands when it came out but i only really got into her mid 2018? i listened to hopeless fountain kingdom then and realized that badlands and hfk where both from the same person!! folklore is @/keepyourlife's fault, annika reblogged a bunch of things and just went crazy over it, so i listened to it. i don't listen to much else from taylor, i like getaway car a lot tho tbh. i saw mystery of love in a wangxian edit on youtube and went !!!!!! over that song, so now i'm obsessed with it.

1. i've got a bunch of favorite fics but _none of them are finished _and ajdkskks i do have some that are finished but i can't remember for the life of me what they're called. so here are five of my favorites: love, in fire and blood by cicer (which i'm recommending to all of my mutuals always) which is a 212K wip of immortal/yp!wwx + war prize au with no rpe/noncon but in the first two chapters lwj is afraid of that happening. it doesn't. then there is this time/universe/dimension travel fic called a song to bring you home by neoserenity, where basically canon!lwj who mourns wwx meets a modern!sick wwx and apparently there is no modern equivalent of lwj? or at least wwx doesn't seem to know one. the updates are sparse but i reread this so often in hopes that updates will appear. an arrow through time by syrus_jones is a young!lwj time traveling to post canon mdzs and pining after "husband" and wwx at the same time and feeling guilty over it bcs he doesn't know wwx is "husband" and then there is the murder of crows by cerbykerby which is a yilingwei sect au. here is a modern office au: hello, IT. have you tried turning it off and on again?* **by overmountainandmeadow, which us just really funny so i've been reading this for stress relief. i actually quote like time travel aus? also just wangxian meeting other versions of themselves is fun!! i have a bunch of modern college au tabs open but i don't actually seek them out, if i see one and like the plot then i'll read it. there are a lot of good time travel aus in this fandom!! also i like it when people get wangxian together earlier than in canon, it's just really fun to see how that would go. i don't remember the name but i think there was one fic where lwj tried to flirt with wwx and wwx just didn't notice? until somebody pointed it out to him i think? that was fun to read because lwj was just so frustrated!!

2. i feel like i forget what shows i watched after i watched them? movies too, though i like to stick to rewatching movies i already know. but here are some shows: dark on netflix, if you have netflix it should be there, it's a german netflix show about time travel and fate and things being really fucked up. basically there is this endless loop of the world apocalypse happening in 2019? 2020? i'm not that sure of the timeline rn but it's either 2019 or 2020!! and jonas, the male lead, wants to prevent it but this shit gets complicated because this is a time loop, everything he has done has been done before him. there are some really great quotes in the show about things, there is a wangxian gifset that actually uses a quote from dark, and that's the one about having three deaths. (i'll probably add a link to the gifset when i find it) also martha, the female lead, seems not that important in the first season but don't be fooled by that. the ending is.... complex and cool and holy shit there is still one thing we don't know and ahdkksks it's a surprise tho so 👀👀. i recommend watching it in german if possible and with subtitles. i've watched a few scenes in english and idk the voice actors don't seen to fit, but i don't know about other languages. the 100 is also a pretty good show but it's.... it has queerbaiting. and to be honest, the queerbaiting is probably the only reason the show made it to a seventh season. lexa, a lesbian, dies and they use her death for the queerbaiting since she gets together with clarke, the lead character. clarke is a character that gets a lot of hate from both fandom and the characters, a lot of unfair hate if you ask me. she has to do a lot of decisions that are just not meant to be for a single human being, @/solntserises and i and a lot of arguements over placing the blame on her or placing the blame on society and the situation itself. clarke basically does what she needs to do, what she needs to do in order to protect her people, her friends, her family. she often just doesn't have good options, and if she has then she deems the risk too high or something too good to be true (which, she often is right about???). after s1 her friends push her into situations where she has to make the hard choice, but if it doesn't work out how they want it to work out they get mad at her. which is not fair. i remember hearing that raven finally understands what clarke goes through in s7? but i haven't watched the season. i gave up the moment lexa died and didn't want to watch past it, but when @/solntserises started we watched the other seasons together.

there is also shadowhunters which is an okay show ig, i've watched vikings until s5 too and i quite liked it, prison break has a lot of cool stuff to offer but i'd be careful watching it in case of any triggers you might have. i don't remember 100% of the plot but enough to say that one of the characters is a pervert and an awful person, so lots of murder, a lot of blood and yeah. the two main characters are brothers and mostly innocent in this but yeah. they break out of a prison y'know.

lucifer is !!! i think it goes after dc comics? so ig it's somehow part of the dceu but they're like.... never mentioned so idk. it's really fun tho!! you probably have heard from the vampire diaries right? yeah well, there is a spin off called the origianls and it's actually really good. it had some times where i was going to call it off but it's fine, legacies is both tvd's and to's spinoff and from the quality it can't really compare, it's still fun to watch and seeing the new generation grow up. (also a lot more canon gays)

for some movies: i don't really watch many but i've watched every movie in the mcu so far, i have the extended special editions for both the lord of the rings and the hobbit trilogy, the half of it is about ellie chu, an asian girl living in a small town with her depressed dad and falling in love with aster flores, and just.... finding herself, finding out what she wants, who she is and trying to figure out where life takes her. the movie is great!! the romance process is really slow and not that much of the main focus, but more of ellie finding her place in the world? the old guard is a fantastic movie that i watched because of @/keiraknigthly, it's really fun to watch!!

i look forward to talking to you more often!! 🥰💞

#C 🍵 #mdzsnetcc #ask #i hope you're staying home and healthy <3