#wwx is such a good brother

[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

[faewaren]

Handy infographics for wangxian feat. whoever you want to put in there. Rubbing my polyamorous hands all over them.

I THINK this must be the three most common ones. Who else do people put in there?

I am not a photoshop professional. This is obvious. However I must spread my agendas.

#wangxian #zhanchengxian #wangningxian #wangsangxian #wangchengxian #the untamed #i. truly do not know the tag for huiasang in there. #wangsangxian sounds like it would make SENSE but i do not kNOW. #anyway. polycule times forever and ever. #re: jiang cheng i really enjoy both interpretations of him and wwx as brothers or as two guys who are so weird about each other. #there are many possible headcanons and they can contradict and you can explore them in different ways. #many good possibilities.

[add1ctedt0you]

What a plot twist you were. [x]

#Like. The narrator introduces jc to us as the antagonist #Then we got to know him. Not who people think he's. But who he really is #And we saw jc giving wwx a piggyback. Giving him soup. Rescuing him. Putting himself between wwx and any danger (madam yu/wen soldiers) #And even the staged fight. It's yk. Staged #jc wanted to protect wwx at any cost. But wwx wasn't willing to compromise. But jc did #The fight was wwx's idea. Because jc is an enabler (just like jfm and jyl) #jc is ready to bend for his loved ones sake #The point is. Every action jc takes. Is in the name of his loves ones' safety. And surprise. wwx is one of the people jc really cares about #Even after wwx' return. Aside a broken cup. jc isn't doing much to stop wwx or anything. We know that jl was able to free wwx from Zidian #only because jc - Zidian's primary master- wanted it! #And jc fling himself into danger countless times to save wwx even though wwx can't sit still with him for a hot minute #What I wanted to say it's that the jc is presented to us - the mean ungrateful man- is very different from the real jc - #the indulgent uncle who rolls his eyes at his nephew antics. the brother who buries the hatchet for his sister's happiness. #the uncle who kinda wants to help wn to get up from the floor because he was an ass to jc but he helped jl and that's what matters to jc #the sect leader who let two women speak freely their mind in a patriarchy society #People better than me have already said this. shit I can't remember my point lmao #Like. jc is presented as an antagonist but what this man wanted was an apology and an explanation #This post is a mix of a rant I wrote last year (ha) after seeing a bad take. About what I don't remember lmaoo. And me wanting #to make gifs of wzc in this scene. Why does he look so good. It should be illegal. Seriously #jiang cheng #*mgifs

[loosingmoreletters]

when stuck in writing block, killing off a characters works like a charm

#writing #mdzs #brutally murdering jiang cheng #to unleash the most unhinged JYL&WWX mentally ill codependency #nothing like a man determined to make his sister the greatest sect leader ever as a coping mechanism #nothing like a woman giving up on her good reputation entirely to keep her brother by her side #jiang cheng's ghost watching this like “my siblings loved me... and now they're incapable of functioning on their own” #anyway scary guard dog wwx ruthless sect leader jyl rights #aus and ideas

[ddthebreadboy]

Wei Wuxian has one Good Shidi Pt. 1

Jiang Cheng, "..., No matter who they are, with a surname of Wen they have committed a most heinous crime! And those who protect the Wen are at risk of being condemned by everyone! All the people loathe the Wen-dogs so badly that the worse they die the better. Whoever protects them is against the entire world. Nobody would speak for them, and nobody would speak for you either!" ---MDZS Ch. 73

Meanwhile in reality, a few days ago in Jinlintai:

Lan XiChen responded a moment later, "I have heard of Wen Qing's name a few of times. I do not remember her having participated in any of the Sunshot Campaign's crimes."

Nie MingJue, "But she's never stopped them either."

Lan XiChen, "Wen Qing was one of Wen RuoHan's most trusted people. How could she have stopped them?"

Lan Xichen spoke for Wen Qing, the so called Wen Dog whom no one willing to speak for.

Still, in the same occasion, Lan Wangji:

Lan WangJi sat with his back straight, speaking in a tone of absolute tranquility,

"I did not hear Wei Ying say this. I did not hear him express the slightest disrespect towards Sect Leader Jiang either."

Lan Wangji spoke for Wei Wuxian. Thwarting Jin Guangshan's deliberate slanders toward Wei Wuxian, embarrassing a Sect Leader in his own banquet, just to defend Wei Wuxian.

Of course don't forget one more person:

Suddenly, a careful voice interjected, "It's not killing indiscriminately, is it?"

...

The woman seemed as if she was scared. She was even more careful, "No... I don't mean anything more. There's no need to be so agitated, everyone. I just feel that the words 'killing indiscriminately' isn't really suitable."

...

The woman tried hard to protest, "The Sunshot Campaign is a battlefield. In the battlefield, would it mean that everyone is killing indiscriminately? Let's consider this as it stands. I really don't think it's right to say that he killed indiscriminately. After all, there is a reason. If the inspectors really abused the prisoners and killed Wen Ning, it wouldn't be called killing indiscriminately anymore, but rather revenge..."

...

The woman said, "The other inspectors are scared that they'd be responsible for abusing the prisoners and killing people. Of course they'd insist that he fell off on his own..."

3 People Spoke for both Wen Dogs and Wei Wuxian.

2 of them even people with high status.

So much for "No one spoke for them. No one spoke for you" huh...

Jiang Cheng is really a very good Shidi🙂🙂🙂 A good Shidi who will tell his Shixiong that "Everyone else is against you".

#Wwx Has a Good Shidi #Yunmeng Shuang-Jie #Loving Brothers #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #lan xichen #lan wangji #mianmian #canon jiang cheng #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation

[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?

[jiangchengsjawline]

slaps jiang cheng’s ass this bad boy can fit so much incest guilt in him etc

#chengxian #i just think. jc with like one ounce of class consciousness #miserable bc despite his best efforts he doesn’t really see wwx as a brother #feeling like he’s betraying wwx bc if he doesn’t see him as a brother he must see him as an outsider like his mother does #good shit good shit #meanwhile wwx is like. yes he’s my brother yes he belongs to me what about it.gif #k speaks

[poorlittleyaoyao]

I'm now at the portion of CQL that overlaps with the volumes of the novel that I read last summer, and for all the nonsense brought by the combination of CQL's adaptation changes + reluctance to fully commit to them, I really and truly do prefer these iterations of the characters, especially WWX. I just watched the episode where JC catches him in Qinghe, and it had me chewing on the walls! The show's chronological storytelling let us see their relationship's intensity and tragic deterioration, and it delivers on making this confrontation EXTREMELY FRAUGHT for both of them. JC unleashes 16 years of unprocessed grief and anger as WWX tries his damnedest to avoid it, and the shadow of JYL's death looms over both of them. Even though the dialogue in the novel is nearly identical, the mutual urgency isn't there; JYL is never mentioned (beyond JC reminding WWX that he is the reason JL's parents are dead), and WWX himself has no emotional response whatsoever to any of it, save for an offhand mention that he was nostalgic for the Lotus Pier of his childhood. JC might as well be having an argument with an imaginary WWX in the shower. There's zero tension there. Information has to be revealed and withheld differently with the non-chronological story structure, of course, but there are ways to hint at a character being impacted by and reacting to past experiences without saying outright what those experiences are, and that is simply Not Happening sufficiently for me with anything involving WWX's platonic and familial relationships in the novel. And if you wanted more on the relationships between characters who aren't WWX? lol good luck!

#in fairness the novel DOES talk about JYL in that same chapter after WWX and JL part ways #but it's purely in the context of exposition--JYL was WWX's source of info for how he came to Lotus Pier #there's no consideration of JYL as a person (or even just of what she meant to the two brothers) at all #and then in the first two volumes GENERALLY there's no concern in WWX's inner monologue about anything else #not about WQ or the Wen remnants or how their deaths were accelerated by his accidental murder of JZX #the show drops the ball on that too but at least in the second episode WWX thinks about WQ and the Dafan Wen (before even seeing WN!) #and that's why I couldn't with the novel: either the narrative isn't as interested in the ramifications of all that as I am #or WWX himself doesn't give a shit #and neither bodes well for me having a good time! #masala necromancy wizard hour

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Parallel Lines and Brothers.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #lan wangji #lan xichen #jin zixuan #Does anyone else think about the tragedy of the parallel lines? Of characters who are parallel lines? #Of running the same course as someone. Of echoing each other in perfect synchronicity. #It's more than being a foil. It's about being on the same path and being so near to each other. #and yet parallel lines never intersect. They cannot meet each other despite their existence being tied to another. #I think the brothers tragedy is just as much of a tragedy of parallel lines as is pre-resurrection wangxian. #Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian spend so much time running side by side and yet - they cant close this gap between them. #Even if their relationship never recovers - they are forever tied together through their past. The good and bad and ugly. #All the things that are left unsaid between them. All the love and sacrifices they made for each other that are never shared. Parallel line #I firmly believe any post-canon material that would have them be indifferent towards each other is just...really doing them a disservice. #And dear god the Lan brothers. They certainly love each other! Its a far fonder fraternal relationship than jiangxian (/platonic) #They fool you by having you think they have a good read on each other. Lan Xichen certainly wingmans + advocates for lwj! #But lets not forget - Lan Xichen by the end is in the reverse situation and headspace as Lan Wangji by the end of this story. #Lan Wangji is more free and open than he has ever been. He's in love. He's married. He and wwx are intersecting lines. #& LXC who grew up with and lived the same path as LWJ - who even is said to resemble him visually - his parallel line - shuts himself away #Despite all the love LWJ has for his brother I don't think he ever manages to reach him.

[mxtxfanatic]

Yes yes, Jiang Cheng didn’t literally kill Wei Wuxian by landing the killing blow, but I find it very interesting that this conversation:

“Jiang Cheng, Clan Chief Jiang, brought people to encircle and besiege the Burial Mounds. He killed you, sir.”

“I have to clarify this. He didn’t kill me. I died because one of my techniques backfired.”

Wen Ning finally lifted his eyes and looked at him directly. “But, Clan Chief Jiang, he clearly—”

—Chapt. 43: Beauty I, fanyiyi

...is the first time Wen Ning is willing to meet Wei Wuxian’s eyes, directly.

#human reads mdzs: take 2 #wen ning does NOT play about wwx's health and safety #he’s such a good baby brother

[llycaons]

'poor heroic tragic saint jiang cheng' is actually my favorite jc misinterpretation it is just so fucking funny. I'll watch the man advocate to abandon a group of political prisoners to state-sanctoined genocide, constantly yell about his issues, threaten his nephew and everyone else around him, and abuse his power to intentionally trigger his traumatized brother bc he's mad at him and I go online and see posts about how he's so strong and noble and a great parent/leader despite suffering so much. LIKE

#did he at one point have good intentions and noble goals? yes #did he suffer? oh yeah #did he sacrifice? and was it a secret? you betcha #did this make him into a stoic hero who never talks about his own suffering but just supports his people/protects his nephew? no fucking wa #that man is so self-centered and fixated on his own grievances that he spent over a decade trying to permakill his brother #AFTER HIS BROTHER ALREADY COMMITTED SUICIDE #and he taught his sister's son to hate their brother even KNOWING how much jyl loved wwx and how much she considered them all family #bc he's more interested in his own gratification and his own anger and grieve rather than jyl's wishes or her own legacy #or even jl's happiness. fuck #but all we see is him being a dick to jl and constantly reminding him that his parents are dead and it was wwx's fault #he IS protective of him and I love the zidian scene but that's buried under the bs he puts him through #AND THIS IS A GOOD THING!! HE'S A GOOD CHARACTER!! #and it DOES make him a good foil to lwj!! which is an important part of the text!! #ppl will take the exact opposite of what a story is trying to say smh #cql txp

[birbfeedersart]

ok it took a while but i made a tiny comic about my shl/cql crossover idea i was burbling about the other day 😅 anyway the idea here (if u don't care to read the post) is that wen kexing found baby! wei wuxian and raised him alongside baby! gu xiang, so by the time the events of woh begin, he has two servant-siblings instead of one. basically i wanted wkx to call wwx 'a-xian' and be a good brother-dad to him and a-xiang, and also when they have their double wedding to lan wangji and cao weining, lwj will be able to save gx and cwn and NOBODY HAS TO DIE OK??? EVERYONE WILL BE FINE D:<

#shl/cql crossover #shl #woh #shl fanart #woh fanart #wen kexing #gu xiang #wei wuxian #crossover au #cql #no i don't know why they're in that building #no idk why they're dressed in those outfits specifically #i don't make the decisions i just let my hand do what it wants #let wwx have a good brother-father figure 2k22 #wwx and gx would make delightful chaos together #word of honour fanart #shanhe ling fanart #山河令 #birb draws #the secret of my inability to draw anything consistently has been revealed #it might not have been that much of a secret tho #is this an art blog? #the untamed

[fauvester]

mingli bonding for a very sweet fic that cursed my dick

#GET THAT MAN JIANG YANLI MAKE HIM TAKE HIS BABY ASPIRIN SO HE DOESNT DIE OF ANGRY SWORD DISEASE AT 40! #mdzs #jyl #nmj #mingli #LOVE a big sword guy truly the kisame of the cultivation world #i want good things for miss jiang. and her brothers and nhs. theyre FOR REAL BROTHERS NOW #no force on earth can keep anyone safe from wwx and nhs chaos

[merlinsbed]

look everyone gives wwx shit for dressing like he did in his previous life when he comes back in mxy's body but I mean in cql canon there are literally people cosplaying as wwx in the streets before he even died and in book canon jc spent 13 entire years dragging demonic cultivators back to lotus pier to accuse them of being his brother and I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume the majority of them were cosplaying as the yiling patriarch.

hell even the flute probably wasn't that suspicious. if you're gonna try and copy the yiling patriarch's methods then you gotta have a flute, right? weird that he decided to make one in the middle of a crisis, but everyone seems to know that mxy isn't exactly known for rational decision making and also there's a soul eating statue charging at them so they can worry about that later.

suspicious as hell though to summon wen ning with a flute. which is incredibly funny since wwx had no idea that was an option and was just as surprised as everyone else when wen ning popped out of the ground.

#the untamed #also in wwx's defense his plan was to fuck off and avoid everyone #that boy just can't resist a good mystery #honestly jc wasn't even that suspicious of him until wen ning showed up #which is fair considering wen ning was supposed to be dead dead #not undead running around in the mountains #all I'm saying is cosplaying as himself is probably the least suspicious thing wwx did #could've helped himself out a bit more by not cosplaying as himself #but to be fair he didn't know he'd be running into his brother AND his ex on the same mountain #at that point you may as well commit to the bit

[thoroughlycollected]

Regarding the MDZS donghua:

So I was rewatching random episodes, as one does, when I got Lan family feelings.

(First, I should say that I’ve long held the interpretation (headcanon?) that in the Lan Sect if the Sect Leader is indisposed then the “heir apparent” takes over until a proper heir is born and old enough to lead. For this reason as long as QHJ is in seclusion, LQR leads. And depending on adaptation LXC is either an adult or coming into adulthood when the Wen attack, meaning that if QHJ is dead afterwards then LXC is the Sect Leader. And if he’s on the run [indisposed] then his “heir apparent” is LWJ! I’m saying I think that one of the reasons Wangji sprinted back to his people after the false Xuanwu cave rescue is because he was worried about his family foremost and concerned he might technically be in charge secondly.)

So anyway, I’m watching the donghua, it’s episode 12, Lotus Pier just got wrecked, Wangji is vining in his Ancestral Shrine, and this Lan Elder approaches Wangji. According to the Tencent youtube channel’s subtitles the conversation goes—

Lan Elder: Wangji

LWJ (bowing in greeting): Great Uncle (Shufu).

Lan Elder: I heard that you’ve sent disciples to Yunmeng and Meishan to look for the Jiang Clan leader’s daughter and son, and his senior disciple.

LWJ: Yes.

Lan Elder: Wangji, this time Wen Clan of Qishan used a heavy hand and destroyed Jiang Clan of Yunmeng in one night. They even hunted down the three young people at that night. With every effort to kill them all. Do you know why?

LWJ: I understand.

Lan Elder: Then why did you have to help Jiang Clan and get yourself in trouble? Wen Clan of Qishan made such a big deal to deter us just to show it’s the unchallengeable leader of the clans. Who obeys will live and who objects will die. Now the rest of the clans avoid confronting them. Our Lan Clan has been hit hard. It’s better to bide our time and focus on building up strength.

LWJ: Great Uncle, the clans are closely related, the others will be in danger if one of them falls. At times like this, we should contend with the Wen Clan together.

Lan Elder: To contend with? Wen Clan of Qishan is so powerful and strong. How’s it possible to get rid of them easily? The one taking this lead will be the target of Wen Ruohan later. The Cloud Recesses is the legacy that our ancestors have built with hundreds of years of efforts. We shall not ruin it.

LWJ: When a nest falls, all the eggs break. And someone must take the lead.

[Lan Qiren enters the scene]

Lan Elder: Just listen to you, why are you so stubborn? notices LQR Qiren, your timing is perfect. Come on, talk some sense into Wangji.

LQR (bowing in greeting): Uncle, I think what Wangji said was totally right.

Lan Elder: What?

LQR: When a nest falls, all the eggs break. Facing such a crunch, all the clans should join their hands to pull through this. Tomorrow, I’ll hit the road to Qinghe.

Lan Elder: Unbelievable!

And then the Elder leaves! And Lan Qiren encourages Wangji, reminding him that the Elder is only worried about the clan, and then asks Wangji for any updates on Xichen. Wangji hasn’t heard anything and he’s like “no news means good news. He’s smart. He’ll survive this.” and then he asks for updates on the Jiang kids!

And like. Imagine Lan Qiren who knows what it’s like to have your older brother suddenly not there, leaving you in a position of authority you weren’t really trained for, supporting Lan Wangji as he tries to lead his family into the beginning of uncertain times with war on the horizon. Where’s the fic about those uncle-nephew conversations?

#mdzs donghua #mdzs #long post #lan posting #thinkin about the lans again #i'm always thinkin about them tho what a loving and also fucked family unit amirite #Lan Qiren #Lan Wangji #LQR and LWJ plotting together how to rally the smaller clans bc they can't rely on Lanling Jin #LWJ making hard choices and LQR supporting him and checking in with him #lan qiren must feel sick watching history repeat #and he's like trying to be the adult he would've wanted by his side when his brother first became ~indisposed~ #and then that GOOD bit of history continues as lan wangji is the adult he would've wanted #always hovering nearby like a constant safety net for his little coterie of juniors #i know we like to call them wwx's ducklings #but the duckies were only in a row to be scooped up bc the lan+ouyang ones were a line behind hanguang jun #when the adults pay forward the good stuff everyone benefits and when ppl focus on revenge and violence everyone fckin suffers lol #pre-sunshot campaign