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WangXian's first and last lines.

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So relatable!! 😂🥲💔

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Mxtx plots

TGCF: a mastermind is behind all of this and must be stopped

MDZS: a mastermind is behind all of this and must be stopped

SVSSS: the male lead will lose his shit, kill everyone, and destroy reality as we know it if he doesn't receive... *checks notes* ...gay love.

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six excerpts from a wangxian fic told entirely through ratemyprofessors reviews

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do you know the violence it took to be this gentle?

lan wangji and hua cheng do.

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I'm tired of people saying Steve should've chosen Tony over Bucky or people try and say that Tony and Steve's relationship was better than Steve and Bucky's.

Bucky and Steve had each other since they were kids. They've always had each other's backs. They defended each other, lived together, and fought together. They were everything to each other. Bucky always helped Steve.

Tony and Steve's relationship reminds me of coworkers who don't really like each other. Because that's what they are. Coworkers, friends at best. Tony would actively go out of his way to make fun of Steve in some cases. They were genuinely annoyed with each other's existence from what I've seen.

Tony would never have the relationship with Steve that Steve had with Bucky. Tony, or anybody in general (minus Sam) could ever understand the relationship those two had.

So of course Steve would choose the man who was with him through everything. In his own words, "Even when I had nothing I had Bucky." It was Steve's turn to help bucky. And he was going to help bucky no matter what.

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Ok. Lan Xichen. Boy needs a crazy amount of therapy.

His feelings towards his sworn brothers isn't exactly clear to me. I personally think there was an attraction to Nie Mingjue that might have developed into something more if nmj had lived longer. And I feel that Jin Guangyao felt as close to romantic love as he's capable of towards Lan Xichen. I don't know if those feelings were reciprocated or if he just felt friendship.

But anyway the absolute devastation. He didn't just shield nmj's killer. He didn't just give jgy access to the means he used to kill him. He encouraged it. He basically told nmj that he was being paranoid and to keep letting his murderer kill him. If he trusted nmj's judgment a little more or trusted jgy a little less, nmj might still be alive. The only way he could've been more complicit is if he actually knew.

So yeah. He needs therapy

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I don't like how the Untamed changed the events of nightless city as being AFTER the Wen Remnants had been killed instead of before. Because the insinuation for Wei Wuxian appearing there is that he's out for revenge for what they did. He is there to vent his very justifiable anger, but it's a huge difference to why Novel Wei Wuxian did it.

Novel Wei Wuxian showed up to there to talk. Even after hearing Jin Guangshan rile up the crowd to thirst for his blood and the Remnants, he still tried to talk. It was his last ditch to protect the Remnants without bloodshed. He showed up to see if the clans would keep their promise to the Wen siblings and he was right to do so because, as he expected, they weren't.

It's why it's so important that the clans shot the first arrow. That was the inciting incident to the proceeding fight between Wei Wuxian and the clans. He was there to talk, and instead, they proved once and for all that there was no reasoning with them. They wouldn't rest until he and the Remnants were dead.

He fought to protect the Remnants from them. It was a 100% selfless and justified move on his part. It's why it's ridiculous that the clans still had the audacity to seek retribution from him for their losses that night during the second siege. Its also an obvious way to show that the clans hadn't changed and that it's unsurprising that afterward they had no qualms in switching their attention to Jin Guangyao after all the revelations about him and Su She.

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i feel like we don't talk enough about how in the untamed, they made the voice that finally makes wei ying get up and go toward the yin iron sword so he can survive LAN ZHAN'S VOICE. it is such a powerful choice for the sound design team to make. that the thing that makes wei ying care about staying alive isn't the revenge that the sword is promising (he does really like that part, but he only starts reacting to it after lan zhan's voice sounds) but hearing the only person he thinks truely cares about him and knows him saying his name. i have many gripes with the untamed as an adaptation because of censorship and other changes to plot points, but this small 5 second segment is one of my favorite parts. wei ying doesn't know he's in love with lan zhan, but lan zhan's voice is still what gives him the strength to keep fighting.

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mdzs headcanon of the day #545 !

jiang cheng is lowkey a loser finance bro but he gets away w it bc of pretty privilege. he gets so mad when huaisang asks why they can’t just print more money out

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I will still be forever be annoyed CQL just did away with how Wei Wuxian always asked Lan Wangji if he would like to drink with him to instead play off Wei Wuxian as intentionally dismissive of Lan Wangji's own boundaries and tricking him to get drunk when they were young.

When they drink together as adults is a way for Lan Wangji to socialize with Wei Wuxian as well as Wei Wuxian being pleasantly surprised that Lan Wangji is willing to drop his proprietary. It's the act of underlying agreement and equal consent that CQL fails to match.

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The moment Lan Wangji regretted not giving Wei Wuxian his forehead ribbon because the badassery and the sexiness that followed was too great to handle. (Drawn in 2023)

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— the grandmaster of demonic cultivation

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the untamed + fine literature [in/s/p]

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The Untamed as text posts (94/?)

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wangxian walked so that huaibao could do tender face cradling (pt. 4/?)

The Untamed (2019) Meet You At The Blossom (2024)