#CQL canon

[sweetlittlevampire]

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A @mdzsbigbang fic, with art by the lovely @natsugami-mari (uploaded here and on AO3 with prior permission.)

💌 CQL post-canon | Wangxian | 18,889 words | Complete | Rating: G 💌 WWX travels and writes to LWJ, until the letters stop…and LWJ discovers that WWX has forgotten him. 💌 Happy Ending!

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[waterlilyvioletfog]

Something that is in fact SO important to Wei Wuxian is that, fundamentally, he is hot. He is Thee Hot Girl. He’s shooting five arrows blindfolded as a charged political statement and he’s doing it with zero magic powers AND he was sexy when he did it. He beats out his own brother (sorry, Jiang Cheng) for Most Eligible Bachelor despite being literally dirt poor and not a sect heir. He lives rent free in the minds of everybody twenty years later, to the point that JC and LWJ are literally Like That and NHS literally constructed his revenge plot around him and— look, just watch the scenes at the Second Burial Mounds Siege. Oh, and they use all his inventions, even though he’s an evil heretic, because uhhh they were really good inventions. Actually. Like he was in fact at the top of the field as an inventor and innovator. And he was hot. AND he had no powers. Whoops.

[wenningfanclub]

Like girl. literally no one but wwx and mianmian did anything to help the wens, why do you only care about jiang cheng. are you like, in love with him or something?

[lgbtlunaverse]

Most annoying NMJ or JC take is when someone that dislikes them is like "oh you're a fan of him? *scoff* Well obviously you've only seen cql, where he was super watered down. In the novel he's a dislikable asshole and that's the objectively superior canon I'm working from instead of your woobified fanfic." Meanwhile your main canon is novel canon and you genuinely find novel Jiang Cheng and Nie Mingjue complex sympathetic characters.

[thatswhatsushesaid]

i just think jin guangyao's expression while looking at nie mingjue's severed head in the jinlintai treasure room speaks volumes about the depth of his unhappiness regarding, well. everything about this situation. about the circumstances that brought them both to the point where it was nmj's life or jgy's; about the decade of deception required to hide the evidence of this crime; about what he knows this revelation would do to lan xichen, if he found out.

some points for context:

1) he believes he's unobserved, save for nmj's resentful spirit. qin su is incapacitated (which, yikes, but this post isn't about that), paper man wei wuxian is still hidden from view; he has no one to perform or pretend for;

2) this is not an expression of triumph or satisfaction. this is the expression of a man who is both sad and frightened;

in other words, this isn't cruel, heartless, self-satisfied villain behaviour. this isn't zhao jing from 'word of honor' pissing on the memorial plaques of all his murdered sworn brothers while laughing maniacally about outwitting them. this scene has the weight of a graveside visit, if that grave was maybe also a nuclear warhead.

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[acequinz]

I don't know why people are on the opposite spectrum only.

It's always either Jiang Cheng did nothing wrong or Jiang Cheng did everything wrong.

Did Jiang Cheng love Wei Wuxian? Yes.

Did he also in a way abandon Wei Wuxian? Yes.

Would Jiang Cheng die for Wei Wuxian? Yes.

Would Jiang Cheng prioritise something over Wei Wuxian? Also yes.

Why are people acting like him being angry and/or upset Wei Wuxian about literally anything he has done(and he has done a lot) negates the love he has for him?

Also about Wei Wuxian's morality, the author has said that Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are morally good people, this does not mean they can't do something wrong. And having made a mistake doesn't make them bad people either, it's just that morally speaking Wei Wuxian was in the right to defend the Wens. But life doesn't fucking work on morals.

Hell Wei Wuxian holds too many regrets that even he won't admit that he's a perfect person because there're too many things he would want to do differently. But under no circumstances can you question his morals because they have always been in the right place. All his acts of purposeful cruelty were against people who hurt him first.

Jiang Cheng being unable to stand up with Wei Wuxian during the Wen situation is because he's young and has no support but it's still disappointing because Jiang Yanli still managed to stand with Wei Wuxian in a way and then we see Jiang Cheng be unable to, it's also because the scale is different and he prioritised his sect over Wei Wuxian.

Then the other part of Jiang Cheng lashing out on Jin Ling physically that I see many screenshots of it and it's always when Jiang Cheng is under high emotional distress situations. Which is not to say it's okay and should be allowed. But the world setting and situation also matters.

But guess what that also does not take away from the love Jiang Cheng has for Jin Ling.

There's too many connections in the story itself especially around Jin Ling and his uncle's.

Now of course a relationship can have all the love but unless it has active care and affection it means nothing.

Which is why Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng fall apart. They have the love, they even have the care but because they just can't share affection they fall apart immediately after Jiang Yanli because before she had been the bridge of affection between them.

With the final bridge down, their relationship could not stay afloat and just sank.

[whuanyin]

Xian-xian.

[symphonyofsilence]

"Jiang Cheng is selfish."

Canon Jiang Cheng in his brief appearances: is always following WWX around and cleaning up after his mess (like carrying him on his back after he's beaten by the Lan Sect, sitting in the front of the classroom to appear attentive to LQR after WWX's shenanigans to save face for their sect, to quote WWX himself "you've already saved me so many times. So what's one more?"), warns WWX not to anger WZL since he's known as the core melting hand, then goes to attack WZL with his bare hands when he stands between him & WLJ after WLJ has burned WWX, runs for seven days straight to get help for WWX, begs his mother on his knees to stop hitting WWX in front of the Wens even though he knows if WLJ is not satisfied the Wens would lay waste to their sect and it's either WWX or their sect, uses himself as a bait to draw the Wen soldier away from WWX even though he knows his sect will end with him, his only thought after losing his golden core is that now he can't take revenge for his family and can't rebuild his sect, doesn't stick with his brother even though that's what he's always been doing because he can't risk his newly-built sect's safety, only truly gets mad at WWX when he kills their BIL & indirectly causes their sister's deaths, after 13 years still doesn't have a dog, offers Zidian to JL when he can't protect JL himself, even though he can barely stand and lift his sword still goes back for WWX in the burial mounds, takes a stab to the chest trying to protect WWX, offers to take JL's place as hostage for JGY, stands between JL and an unstoppable fierce corpse, doesn't say anything to WWX about his sacrifice.

[sinfulpatata]

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merxian thinks this prey looks quite tasty! and very handsome as well

[wangxianficrecs]

🔒 A Songbird at Dawn by mondengel

A Songbird at Dawn

by mondengel (@mondengel2)

T, WIP, 4k, Wen Ruohan & Wei Wuxian

Summary: At a discussion conference, Wen Ruohan discovers something he hadn't known he'd lost. As it happens, being a grandfather suits him rather well. Kay's comments: Oh, I'm really loving the idea of Wei Wuxian being Wen Ruohan's grandson. It has all the goodness of having Wei Wuxian being a Wen without messing with his parents, very neat! I also really loved how Wen Ruohan compared himself to a an elderly cat dealing with a kitten. Excerpt: “You've never cowered before a man in your life, have you?” he murmured, sliding his fingers through hair that was similar in texture to his own, but with a curl that must have come from his father's side. Had Wei Changze had hair so unruly? He couldn't recall. Letting his hand drop, he reached for his wine cup. Wei WuXian took a breath as a flicker of calculation flashed in those grey eyes. Trying to figure him out. His chin tilted up in a subtle challenge. “No I haven't sect leader Wen.” Wen Ruohan chuckled. The boy dared to bait him at his own table! “And you never should.” his grin spread at the confusion that replaced the defiance. He felt not like a cat with a mouse as he so often did, but a cat with a kitten. A warm indulgence softening his usual ferocity.

pov wen ruohan, canon divergence, wei wuxian is a wen, baoshan sanren is wei wuxian's grandparent, getting to know each other

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[cloudplaygrounds]

An EDITED helpful guide to Jin Ling’s many uncles

in conclusion: everyone’s a brother, everyone’s a husband, everyone’s jin ling’s uncle

[qourmet]

man i love my women born in or before the han dynasty that grow to immortality & grey & become masters of their own mountains

[helpmeimblorboing]

Currently working my way through Wicked’s playlist (thank you, Apple Music) and it just hit me that Mo Dao Zu Shi is basically just Wicked except the witches get together in the end

[duohensheng]

pov you’re zewu-jun and you’ve reached the thinly veiled gossip sesh part of the night

[lemonycranberries]

watching the untamed for the first time (VERY late, i know) and like. i keep trying to remind myself that this is the censored version. that the intention was making them just bros. because WHAT DO YOU MEAN i just witnessed wwx say "lan zhan, if i finally have to fight with them, i'd prefer to fight with you. if i am doomed to death, at least, i may die by your hand. that would be worth it." what the fuck