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Ao3 version that lets you open the 'director's cut' where I, the author, explain every detail in excruciating detail to you and what it is in reference to.

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THIRD PLACE ROUND - Jiang Cheng vs Wen Kexing

The battle for third place is between Jiang Cheng (shixiong: Wei Wuxian) from Mo Dao Zu Shi and Wen Kexing (shixiong: Zhou Zishu) from Word of Honor

Propaganda under the cut

Wen Kexing:

(okay so the canon part is confusing. cause wenzhou are officially canon in Faraway Wanderers and are censored bromance in Word of Honor. but they're only shixiong/shidi in Word of Honor and not in Faraway Wanderers. so idk what you want to do in regards to the canonicity of their relationship)

I mean Wen Kexing is all over Zhou Zishu from day 1, though he has very complicated emotions surrounding the whole shixiong/shidi element to their relationship, he does eventually declare himself as the second disciple of Shiji Manor and publicly acknowledges Zhou Zishu as his shixiong. anyways if you know anything about Wen Kexing you know how desperately he wants Zhou Zishu, even the censorship couldn't hide the fact that Wen Kexing wants to rail Zhou Zishu to kingdom come

the utter simp that is WKX for his ZZS? No contest. None. None at all.

#WKX now actually fucked his shixiong like pls the entire book/show is about him wanting to get with him

#WKX hands down wanna fck or get fcked by his “Ah-Xu~” from day 1

#y'all have the audacity. as if Wen Kexing did baby trap is shixiong with TWO kids

Jiang Cheng:

Clinged to WWX constantly for 7+ years, wanted to have WWX as his right hand man forever after becoming sect leader, cried after WWX left, cried when he discovered what WWX sacrificed for him, was TORN APART when it got explained to him that if they were more outwardly close knit, WWX might not have died

PROPAGANDA!! to start, i'm still very bitter about how fairy lost the sentient animal poll and i want to win this badly. very very badly. current stats are 50.6 in favour of jc but that's too less of a gap for me. jc should be winning this by a landslide, y'all hear me? anyways. starting with a class act, like the clown i am->

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a few links ( because i'm chengxian trash, as always and i'd love if poll-guy could copy paste them on the og post): one, two, three, four (gif), five, six, seven (gif), eight (thoughts on different wavelengths), the absolute circles of them saving each other, the fucking golden core reveal scene. golden scene reveal part 2, jiang cheng will always forgive wei wuxian

to start with. jiang cheng is literally the picture of "i knew from the moment i met you that i'd spend a lifetime forgiving you".

the earliest dynamic of jiang cheng and wei wuxian is jiang cheng giving away his dogs (the only gift his father has ever given him, btw) because wei wuxian is scared of the dogs. tis only the start of it.

his father very obviously prefers his shixiong over him, his mother berates him for not being as good as wei wuxian and tells him his inheritance is in danger, and his sister (in my opinion) has more care for him (visibly. maybe jiang yanli doesn't show it because jc is an emotionally complicated purple grape, maybe because jc doesn't need it, or wei wuxian is traumatised but that's my opinion). but still. still. Jiang Cheng loves Wei Wuxian. so much. jealousy is like. the most tame response i can think of. and jiang cheng is proud of wei wuxian, okay? he'd believe his big brother if he'd said anything. want proof? well, here you go-> link

to paraphrase the link:

Jiang Cheng had just lost his family, his home, and his very golden core, and his older brother - his brilliant older brother who could fix anything, who could sneak wine into Cloud Recesses and defeat an ancient turtle nearly-god and make Jiang Cheng share a smile when Jiang Cheng’s mother was disappointed and furious at both of them - His big brother smiled and said, “I can fix this.”And Jiang Cheng believed him then, and believed him three months later when Wei Wuxian crawled out of the Burial Mounds (just the second miracle in three months), and believed him every day of the next seventeen(?) years until the pieces were shoved into place for him to see.

also. the circle these two go in protecting each other. (gif set by @sandushengshou), the 'if one of us is to die, then, i beg, let it be me' that they both do for one another in a seemingly neverending loop of sacrifice. via this post a la my lovely @backtoyunmeng

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jiang cheng is a cannonically ruined woman archetype, justified via the countless posts you'll get in the top posts of jiang cheng tag. he keeps chenqing, wwx's flute in perfect condition even when he hates wei wuxian, even when wwx, if only indirectly, has a part in jiang yanli's murder and oof okay someone pointed out to him that he's known to have killed wei wuxian and he almost cries. he absolutely believes, with his whole heart, that wei wuxian lives even when the world is sure he doesnt. and it always read to me like, i'd know if he was dead. he's a part of my soul, so i'd know if he was dead. he can't be dead.

this is getting too long, so, to sum up, some absolute poetry by @jiangchengsjawline

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#JC On The Other Hand Has His Entire Life Shaped By His Shixiong And Ended Up Cast As The Ruined Woman By The End

#jiang cheng though. wasn't able to fuck his shixiong but his shixiong definitely fucked with him

#hello?? the answer is Jiang cheng pls#he's the shixiongfucker or all shixiong fucker you wish you could be as pathetically in love with your shixiong as he is#chengxian

#i do not go here (chengxian) but the propaganda is incredibly correct they are insane abt each other#also sorry jiang cheng ik you're suffering but they are so funny to me#neway VOTE JIANG CHENG FOR CLEAR SKIN

#look I rarely go here#(here being chengxian)#but by GOD their lvoe compels me#they’re tragic and doomed and they love each other without knowing how to say it in words the other would understand#or in words at all because communication??? we don’t know her???

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he didn't even think about sacrificing himself, and consequently his entire bloodline, his sect, pretty much everything that depends on him for his shixiong??????????

is this not convincing->

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#had to vote jc though i have more feelings about chengxian#i think jc should have a huge gege kink

#like. jiang cheng should win the entire tournament hands down period

#jiang cheng#is the only correct answer in my gay little brain#i’m sure everyone else’s shixiong fuckers are great too#but jiang cheng is MY favorite#tumblr polls#mdzs#if chengxian fucked in canon it would make everything about their situation at least 65% less complicated you can’t change my mind

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From top to bottom:

魏无羡的三件遗物之一 · 因爱而生贪 The first of Wei Wuxian’s three remnants · greed born of love 魏无羡的三件遗物之二 · 因恨而生嗔 The second of Wei Wuxian’s three remnants · rage born of hatred 魏无羡的三件遗物之三 · 因痴而生对爱恨之执着 The third of Wei Wuxian’s three remnants · attachment to love & hatred born of delusion

Artist is 海焰金 qingshengqingsi @ lofter: 转载请标明作者和出处，不需要问授权。

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oh to be held like a baby to luo binghes bosom

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If you want to be a dog, first you must learn to wait. You must wait all day until somebody returns, and if somebody returns late, you must learn to wait until then.

Then you must learn to speak in one of the voices available to you, high and light or mellow thick and low or middle-range and terse. Whichever voice you learn to speak, you will meet somebody who does not like you because of it, they will be wary or annoyed or you will remind them of something or someone else.

Once you have learned to speak you must learn not to speak unless you absolutely must, or to speak as much as you feel you must regardless of how many times you are told to stop, or sit, or placed behind a door—this will depend on what kind of a dog you want to be.

And indeed there are many kinds. It may not feel as though you get to choose, and that too is a kind of dog. Next you must learn to relinquish all control over everything you might wish to control.

Wikipedia Entry for Livestock Guardian Dogs / Seven Seas translation of MDZS / "How to Be a Dog" by Andrew Kane

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ok but what if the reason SQQ-J and QQQ hate each other isn't anything about her thinking he's scum

what if part of being the four arts teacher of cqms means having to keep up with literary trends and teach/discuss the big novels of the year in class

so SQQ-J is just so pissed that he has to be asking students shit like "have you considered that [xian shu student's penname] might be using the green of [thinly veiled SQQ-J insert]'s hanfu as symbolism? If [thinly veiled SQQ-J insert*] is meant to represent [concept] while [thinly veiled LQG-insert] and [thinly veiled YQY insert] fight over him, what does that suggest they represent?"

meanwhile QQQ is annoyed either that her students are getting so much milage out of SQQ-J's bullshit for their stories that they spend more time writing than cultivating

or she's part of a long tradition of xian shu peak writing porn for porn's sake and would he just stop trying to make it literature already?

*No, that's not a mistake. This AU IS assuming that LMY and the rest of Xian Shu were absolutely already writing enemies to lovers and tsundere!SQQ-J thinly veiled RPF before Shen Yuan got there and Bingqiu made their sales skyrocket.

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like brother, like sister

(just had a thought...if the genders were changed around...the Liu siblings would still probably be punchy gorillas hahaha)

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It's a good cause, a great cause even. But I need you to stop.

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Dibujito de ChengCheng 🫶🏻💜✨

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jiang cheng after purposefully getting himself blacklisted from matchmaking

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jiang cheng antis always acting as if they'd do different in his shoes. as if losing your entire family, sect and home was just something you could brush off and get over. as if there wouldn't be an anger and a need for vengeance, that your entire bloodline wouldn't need avenging and more. they seem to struggle with humanising him and realising that all grief comes in different shapes. jiang cheng simply couldn't curl up in a ditch somewhere and accept his fate, he couldn't put himself in solitude and have someone else take charge — jiang cheng was the only one left to restore the yunmeng jiang sect, he was quite literally the surviving hope for his home and people. there's an immense sense of pressure on his shoulders, combined that with survivors guilt and then followed by the loss of jiang yanli and wei wuxian, jiang cheng really was going through the works.

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I’ve been watching The Untamed and Jiang Cheng is my favorite… no one is surprised.

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guy who spirals into alcoholic depression, violently breaks from his entire society, and spends two years manically inventing things in a cave then does a murder because his repressed hatred of his BIL is so pointlessly powerful even his murder zombie instinctively reacts to it: I am emotionally whole and dealing well with the consequences of my actions :)

fandom: yes :)

guy whose entire family died 48 hours ago and who made a decision he thought would lead to his death but it didn’t and he just learned that he’s permanently disabled: I wish I were dead :(

fandom: this weak-willed loser can’t handle shit ffs

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okay so since nobody else jumped to make this, here we go

(there's a 'see results' option for those who did read svsss at the end of the poll btw!)

(also i ask humbly to reblog if this poll caught your fancy. because most of my followers are from danmei fandoms and likely have read svsss)

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The bravest man in The Untamed is actually this guy right here casually rocking up to Jiang Cheng and poking him in the stab wound.