#lan wangji is a simp

[bnnywngs]

i feel like, actually, i know that wei wuxian is definitely the more serious parent between him and lan wangji - not as in personality, but in the way they treat their kids' needs (like studies, personal belongings, etc)

the last word deciding anything to do with their kids is wei wuxian's, he's the one everyone looks when they ask for something because as much as a fake teary eyes works wonders with lan wangji, it doesn't matter because if wei wuxian says no then it's a no

a-yuan: dad, can i go out with my friends this weekend?

lwj: ye- *looks at wwx calmly drinking his gourmet coffee* yes, you can

jingyi: dad, can i have this famous luxury brand's shoes?

lwj: *taking off his phone to buy it* *looks at wwx who's looking at him very seriously over his custom mug* ...no, you can't

[qiu-yan]

thoughts

also wasn't sure what to do with the lan simp brothers so i guess they can sit on the side

[shiloriin]

[kikarou]

Fem! Wwx, my queen 🛐💜

[ilaneya]

лань чжань 😭❤️🤲

[whumpbby]

"But what he hadn’t expected was that when everyone feared him and flattered him, Lan WangJi scolded him right in his face; when everyone spurned him and loathed him, Lan WangJi stood by his side."

You know what, I've been actually thinking about this quote from MZDS and like, at the face value, it's pretty poignant and romantic...

But when you actually follow the plot and think about it, it kinda rings hollow?

"But what he hadn’t expected was that when everyone feared him and flattered him, Lan WangJi scolded him right in his face" because, in their first life, 90% of the time, Wei Wuxian was an asshole to him. Like, he was full of himself, thowing himself at a person clearly uinterested, then dabbling in something that was obviously damaging him that everyone close to WWX could see.

"When everyone spurned him and loathed him, Lan WangJi stood by his side." Did he tho? Like, yeah, Lan Zhan tried to get him out of Burial Mounds and help/protect him. Which was something that Jiang Yanli and Jiang Cheng also were adamantly trying to do until Wei Wuxian made it impossible for them.

Lan Wangji didn't stand up for what Wei Wuxian fought for anymore than anyone else around them did. He didn't stand up for the Wen. His single-minded focus was Wei Wuxian and Wei Wuxian alone, yeah - but he wasn't the only one who wanted to help him.

This kind of makes me believe that the romance wasn't as well though-out as it was in the other books. Either that or, during the writing process Jiang Cheng gained on a more prominent role than it was intended...

Although now I think about it, MXTXs main couples have this sort of forcefield around them that makes people keep trying to help them and laying themselves down for them, but remaining unrecognised by the plot for it. I don't mean 'rewarded', but very often the price side-characters pay on the account of the protagonist is goddamn hefty - and then kinda glossed over, because we have to skip over to the sex and simping... And it low-key bothers me, because the same person is writing all these characters, most of them more interesting than the protagonists, and yet still flattens them out whenever the protagonist is around...

Dunno, just rambling at the late hour....

[sentienceisoverrated]

Ever get those characters where even of there's a twitch of their lips you go apeshit

Every time Odo smiled I would be shaking in my seat. When Lan Wangi smirked I would almost scream.

Characters who only smile in very specific circumstances do something to me. You just know they're about to do something either incredibly stupid or fucking miraculous and there's no in between.

[ao3screenshotss]

[psychopomparia]

Reading the MDZS manhua volume 2 and feeling kind of flustered over Lan Wangji. Like...he just...used his power to make Wei Wuxian just immobile to hold him in his sleep like a plushie. Him in the hot springs...

Wei Wuxian, you lucky bastard.

[couldhavechoosensthbetter]

Wen Qing as ghost general.

It's alright, even my heart fluttered but imagine how different the plot would get, ohhh and golden core reveal scene, and how she'll be able to save more lives with her medicine and knowledge (because she'll live, kinda ), how it'll politically make it difficult for people to fear and hate the ghost general who treats people as well, the possibilities are endless.

Maybe they'll get a grip to shut up Jin clan because their sect leader is dying of illness (shush) and they need their help because she's best in her job (even if her corpse fingers are stiff to perform surgery, her knowledge is priceless), and the hundred hole curse thing as well, like she successfully performed a one of it's first and only golden core transfer surgery with her own knowledge alone in unsuitable environment, she's a mad woman. Damn.

All this would be difficult to attempt in canon because her life would very much be in mortal danger but as a ghost general, she can easily hand ass back roasted. Her knowledge and strength in exchange of her life (she burns to death, maybe the Jin clan were fearful of Wei Ying finding her corpse and turning her into a fierce corpse as well and how bad it would get for them because they acknowledge her talent and fierce personality)

Wen Ning would be eternal cinnamon roll who'll get to have memories with A-Yuan and maybe life would be a bit kinder to him with feared ghost general also well known doctor as old sis and the most powerful yilling patriarch keeping him safe from war, ofc few things can't be avoided but the possibilities.

[wangxiansbunny]

One of my most favourite lines of Wei Wuxian was when he said, "May I have the honor of getting a glimpse from you?" to Lan Wangji. He was already so in love with him from the very beginning and just had no idea it makes me tear up

[jiaoji]

K but KWJ getting confortable and all relaxed with WWX in the cold springs that he rests his forearm on the stone wall and holds onto WWX's waist, holding him like a kabedon and listening to everything WWX says with heart eyes and adoration, even if he's stuttering a little because of the vision LWJ's is in front of him

[skullysinner]

Old drawing of Nun!Jiang Cheng, Succubus!Lan Xichen,  Priest Wei Wuxian and Succubus Lan Wangji.

On the bottom (last pic) a more recent redraw of my Nun!Jiang Cheng and Succubus!Lan Xichen.

[askew-d]

if wei wuxian had ignored lan wangji a little, that would be the utmost fix-up. because, listen to me: if wei wuxian had decided to play hard to get after so many times receiving the cold shoulder from hanguang-jun, the man would be so dejected. imagine he decides ‘oh, well, guess i’ll just stop pestering him and do my stuff instead’. lan wangji would be so confused, he’d start begging inside during public appearances for wei wuxian to pay attention on him once more.

he’d struggle to get first place in every competition to be noticed by the yumeng’s head disciple. he’d stare at him so intensely all the time that at some point every cultivator will already understand or he wants wei wuxian naked or wants him tied somewhere, whimpering. or both, for the matter, but who cares at that point??! the cultivators just want some peace!!

lan wangji would buy him stuff. write him stuff. indulge his mischiefs. ask his laughing brother for advice. paint a ‘wei ying… notice me,” in his white clothes, making lan qiren go mad (alright, he wouldn’t do it, but you get what i mean).

it’s just that, canonically, i believe he absolutely loves wei wuxian’s undivided attention (his teenage self wouldn’t ever admit though). but if wei wuxian had ignored him a bit, lan wangji would have learned long ago how much he doesn’t want wei wuxian away, causing him to protect him harder.

but that’s just another theory that’ll never get proved because wei wuxian is a simp. he’s a hanguang-jun worshipper. the gayest gay to have ever gayed. his sleeves are so cut that the fabric’s now gone and he’ll walk around naked. he couldn’t have not bothered lan wangji — if you ask him, he’ll say he was born for that.

[ephemeralgalaxies]

nah cause the funniest part for me is still Jiang Cheng thinking that LWJ actually hates WWX so much like this man could not have been more wrong.

[snake-and-mouse]

I've come to the unfortunate realisation Shem Qingqiu would be obsessed with Lan Wangji. He would be such a simp for righteous and refined Hanguang-Jun who faced so many hardships and tribulations and remained stoic and unyieldingly moral.

And then he'd be so upset to find out he was actually a simping pervert who wants nothing more than to bite the class clown he went to high school with