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The presence of Potatoes in MDZS implies that some ballsy cultivator took a flying sword over the pacific to South America and brought them back and I would like to pose the idea that that particular potato loving dumbass was Wei Wuxian’s ancestor

(Edit: AND CHILIES!)

(EDIT 2: also watermelon except thats from africa. For reference, irl it’s Song dynasty for watermelon and Qing dynasty for potatoes and chilies)

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they heal me 💔

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Wangxian bunnies warmup doodle!

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Sketched some hualian while being out with friends 💖

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@epistemologys commissioned me to draw a reimagined illustration of the Phoenix Mountain Kiss. In this version, LWJ doesn’t run away just as WWX kisses back.

It ended up with a very wrecked, sweaty WWX getting his boobas fondled. Yeah, this extremely was fun.

THANKS EPI!!!!

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the idea of jiang cheng “adopting” or even having any magnitude of amicable/favourable relationship with sizhui—wen yuan—after discovering him instead of lan wangji or during any other period of canon is extremely absurd and offensive to the point of hilarity. some people mistake jiang cheng’s hostility as being solely directed towards wei wuxian (often thought to be attributed to his prior “love” for wei wuxian turning incredibly sour post-yanli’s death) but no, jiang cheng didn’t let go of his resentment for the wens, either. even after the genocide that he led and was a part of. he was still hateful towards the wens.

“And,” the proprietress added, “I’ve also heard of another person who was frightened away.”

“Frightened away by what?” Wei Wuxian asked.

Surely, this person couldn’t also have coincidentally run into Jiang Cheng using his whip on someone. Just how diligent was Jiang Cheng in his arrests, and how frequently did he lash people?

“No, no,” the proprietress said. “It was his bad luck too, I guess. His surname is Wen, and of course, Sect Leader Jiang’s mortal enemy is also named Wen. He hates every person in the world who bears the name Wen, and he grits his teeth at the mere sight of them, clearly wanting to skin them alive. So of course, his face was not a pleasant sight…”

so honestly, i think a person like jiang cheng could never reasonably set aside his hatred for the wens to “look after” wen yuan when he couldn’t even do so atleast 15+ years after his grievance with the wens began (the only valid reason he has to hold against the wens was the lotus pier massacre and that too, the wen remnants had no hand in). this is also besides the fact that jc knew wen yuan was amongst the wen remnants when the siege happened.

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Jiang YanLi was kneeling in the ancestral hall. She cleaned her parents’ memorial tablets as she whispered. Wei WuXian poked his head inside, “Shijie? Talking to Uncle Jiang and Madam Yu again?”

Jiang YanLi’s voice was soft, “Neither of you come, so of course I have to.”

—Chapt. 71: Departure, exr

It’s understandable why Wei Wuxian wouldn’t go, taking into account his feelings of debt towards the couple, and why it would be justified even without that feeling on debt on account of the couple’s treatment of him in life, but what excuse does Jiang Cheng have for not going? This is the man that supposedly has so much respect for his deceased parents that he “had” to fight right in front of their memorial tablets to defend them from…two queer men?

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rare sighting of the infamous yiling patriach crawling out of his blanket cave to kiss his husband good day

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ure not supposed to smile during the kiss san lang 😞

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Now see, Wei Wuxian would never be friends with Jin Guangyao because once he sees him as the trash he is he wouldn't ever think there was a good reason for Jin Guangyao to manipulate and hurt the people he goes after and sees he has no remorse because Jun Guangyao's doesn't care about anyone other than himself.

When Wei Wuxian did enact punishment and did kill it was for the sake of others justice and safety. Jin Guangyao didn't ever protect anyone without the thought of somehow benefiting off of that and kill them out of being personally offended eventually.

That was why Jin Guangyao was friends with Xue Yang. They were alike. Wei Wuxian was never like them despite having very similar backgrounds because he was kind and continued to be kind. Something that Jin Guangyao and Xue Yang never were and used that as an excuse to enact even worse cruelties.

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complicated feelings on jiang fengmian aside, i think the reason i don’t buy into the whole “jfm favoured wei wuxian much more than his son” and tend to agree with wwx’s words to jc that of course jfm would be more stern with jc because jc’s his son is because—my asian parenting experience has been somewhat the same (and i actually think this might be a bit of a universal experience regardless), not in the exact way mxtx portrays this relationship but in that my parents and parents of every single person i have ever known (mostly; there are always a few exceptions) show this pattern of being sweet and cordial and generally non-disciplinary towards kids who aren’t their own and being way stricter and more stern with their own children because they are the ones they are parenting. there’s almost this mutually known boundary that you don’t go and yell at another’s kid to correct bad behaviour, rather the impetus of imparting important values and lessons is reserved as your right for your own kids. that’s how i’ve always read jiang fengmian’s dynamic with wei wuxian vs jiang cheng. he was stern with jc because that’s his son and heir, someone he cares for very deeply. on the other hand, he does care for wei wuxian as well but he has never crossed that mental boundary from uncle to father figure in his head and his interactions with wei wuxian have never read as paternal or favourably partial over jc to me.

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you know, there’s this idea sometimes when talking about wei wuxian’s displays of violence in the novels as if they were indiscriminate, unmeasured and excessive when in truth, that was never the case. every single time wei wuxian employed more drastic methods to deal with an opponent—be it at an individual or collective level—there was a buildup and reason behind it. this includes his torture and killing of wen chao, which was literally just payback for the months of prolonged torture he had suffered at wen chao’s hands. using every trick up his sleeve during a war is fair game—it is not criminal to practice ghostly cultivation, however dubious it may seem for some, because the alternative is potentially losing against the wen clan who had already slaughtered countless people on their side before the war ever began.

similarly, wei wuxian defending himself against the assembly of cultivators during the nightless city massacre is not excessive violence. why should it be his prerogative to exercise restraint when the ones attacking him are coming at him with the intent to kill? i maintain the same position about the ambush. it’s very important and a deliberate detail that in these two instances, wei wuxian is NOT the one who instigates the violence, since these take place in a non-war setting and as such, the culpability of the losses suffered is actually on the party that initiates the full-fledged fight!

again, these were extenuating circumstances and wei wuxian had been pushed and pushed and pushed till he finally decided—not to go HAM and rage without sense—but to dish out fully deserved tit-for-tat consequences on the ones who first chose to harm him. this is not indiscriminate violence (and no, even jin zixuan’s death isn’t an argument for the contrary; momentary loss of control in extremely harrowing conditions ≠ a needlessly bloodthirsty, violence-for-violence’s-sake situation).

want an example from canon of indiscriminate violence? look no further than the lotus pier massacre or the wen genocide during the first siege. look no further than jin guangyao’s various murder plots. look no further than jiang cheng’s torture and murder of numerous cultivators who had done nothing to harm him. it’s just, when the text provides so many different instances of violence enacted, and makes a bifurcation between those scenes where a mutual battle takes place and wei wuxian just happens to have the upperhand vs scenes where defenceless and/or innocent parties are subjected to harm and are victimized, we’ve got no excuse to conflate the two and try to portray wei wuxian’s actions as something they are decidedly not.

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I miss these boys 🌸❤️

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If Qin Su married into the Jins, how come she didn't take the Jin sirname? I always thought that if women married into the clan they'd have to change to their husband's sirname?

Women don’t change their surnames in China upon marrying into another household. Anyone marrying into a clan keeps their surname from birth but take on the title of Madam, which is why there are jokes about Wei Wuxian being “Young Madam Lan” but he canonically keeps his surname upon eloping. So Qin Su is still “Qin Su” upon marriage but also Second Young Madam Jin (following the order of Madam Jin being the wife of the current Jin clan leader and Jiang Yanli being Young Madam Jin as the wife to the clan heir). That’s also why it’s a source of insult and embarrassment that Yu Ziyuan refused to be known as “Madam Jiang” but instead as “Madam Yu”: she’s both signifying that she is rejecting becoming a part of her husband’s household (amongst other actions like having a separate wing of Lotus Pier where only Yu disciples and servants could go) and also committing a faux pas by unintentionally implying that she has committed incest by marrying into her own natal clan.

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Kinda iconic of Xie Lian to ascend, cause a big ass bell to fall on Mu Qing during the process and then be like "who tf are u" at him when entering the communication array for the first time after 800 yrs

And then immediately recognizing Feng Xin

I think Hua Cheng wouldve died again from laughing so hard if he was there

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Lan er furen (sketch)