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#mdzs #narc.

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Remember that time when Lan Xichen gave Jiang Cheng a full once over in front of both of their brothers, JC’s nephew, and his murderous sworn brother?

#mdzs #this is absolutely a game recognize game moment

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One of my fav things about Wei Wuxian is that, upon being accused of some heinous crime he didn't commit, he reacts like

"If it really was me, you would know."

#mdzs #he's so.

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I love how so much of wangxian's relationship during the gusu study arc was wei wuxian going "look at me, look at me! look at me, lan zhan!" and lan wangji angrily pretending not to look, and then post-resurrection wei wuxian tries the same thing but this time lan wangji is like "I am Looking and I will not look away" and wei wuxian is so flustered that he accidentally gets dragged back to gusu anyway.

like, throughout the story people only interact with wei wuxian on a superficial level, with no one bothering to go deeper. he's just an arrogant jiang disciple. he's just a rebellious teen. he's just an admittedly terrifying demonic cultivator. he's just an evil person who needs to be stopped. and lan wangji sees all of this, (and in the beginning is almost fooled by it!) and then is the only one who cares enough to look long enough and see the true wei wuxian.

when wei wuxian is resurrected, he immediately relies on the fact that people only view him superficially to keep his real identity hidden. he slides right into mo xuanyu's cut-sleeve lunatic persona and probably could have gotten away with it except he runs right into the one person who has Seen him in the past and Sees him now.

#mdzs #they both see each other so much more clearly than other people do

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look, i’m not saying that lan wangji intentionally tied wei wuxian’s soul to the love song he wrote for him as a teenager.

i’m just saying that the first time wwx heard it was while he was slipping away in a dark cave with nothing but lwj’s voice to hold onto.

i’m just saying that the lans already have songs written to bind the dead.

i’m just saying that after he died he was not compelled to answer inquiry because he was already beholden to another song.

i’m just saying that it was the first song that he played in his second life — the song he associated with pacifying the dead and leading them away from the edge of madness.

i’m just saying wwx is remarkably well adjusted for someone who died as brutally as he did and was literally summoned up as a spirit of vengeance.

so i'm not saying that lwj intentionally bound wwx's soul, but maybe, just maybe, a soul in need of a tether found a song that would hold him, and then never let it go.

#mdzs #MAN. ALRIGHT.

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#mdzs #akdbfkjd if only

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I finally have something I can post here too lol

#mdzs #cute!!

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The thing that I cannot get over about mdzs is that Lan Wangji lived for Wei Ying. So many romances revolve around being willing to die for each other, but theirs is a story of living for the other.

Lan Wangji built his life around the Wei Wuxian shaped hole in the world. He collected things that reminded him of wwx. Held on to trinkets from their time together. Branded himself with the same scars that wwx wore in life. Raised a-yuan in his stead.

And this is a bit of conjecture, but the Lan disciples were able to replicate wwx’s spirit flags exceptionally well. I like to think that lwj also kept wwx’s memory alive in his teachings to his disciples. That spark of brilliance living on in the next generation.

For thirteen years, lwj kept his love, his Wei Ying, alive through memory. Through the scars he once wore. The child he held dear. The inventions he created. Through his love. Thirteen years, that could have easily turned into the rest of his life had wwx not returned.

Wei Wuxian was never truly gone from this world, so long as Lan Wangji kept living for him.

#mdzs #it's so good!!!!!!! #im really struck by the difference in how he and his brother deal with grief #sure they both went into seclusion after their loved one's death #but lxc's was self inflected out of grief #meanwhile lwj's was enforced on him bc of his punishment #and once he was out he continued to live his life in a way that cherished wwx's memory #it's also very different from jiang cheng's grief! stuck in the denial/anger phase of grief for over a decade! #god. i love the different ways grief is depicted in this series

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I love that Wei Wuxian thinking Lan Wangji is hilarious isn’t like. A fluke or him being blinded by love or whatever. Lan Wangji is shown to have this really interesting, sneaky sense of humor. He’s so deadpan and subtle and underhanded about his jokes and while obviously not everybody enjoys that sort of humor I personally do honestly think he’s hilarious! But the thing about his sense of humor is that you need to be paying attention. Lan Wangji’s jokes don’t draw attention to themselves — usually they’re for just him, he’s entertaining himself first and foremost, but Wei Wuxian came along and actually paid attention and saw what Lan Wangji was doing and went “wait a minute this guys a riot actually” and that’s so!!! Good!!! It’s so good.

I love them.

#mdzs #yes!!!!! #i feel like so much of what is special about them is that wwx pays attention to him in a way that other people don't #which is why he finds him so funny! because he's actually listening!

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I am sorry to everyone who tagged me in some tag game and I never responded. I saw it and thought “aww they thought of me” and proceeded to forget about it right after

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“Bronze basin with little animals that spin when filled with water. China, Eastern Zhou dynasty, 697–628 BC”

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is he ugly on purpose?

Not ugly…

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HAAANK! THAT'S NOT ART BY THE OP HANK! OP REPOSTED IT WITHOUT CREDIT! HANK!

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Xichen, please...

That's your little brother's privacy.

I'm sure it's against the Lan rules

#mdzs #KABSKFBFKSHD #literally everyone else assumed they were together at this point except the two of them

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#mdzs #sword tricks fuck yeah