#I literally love wei wuxian so much

[sarumint]

there’s just something about men who have died before

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Council of lovefools.

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[violetscanfly]

Once again I offer you art that I didn't post when it was made✌🏻 One thing I have learned is to never throw away your art because even if you don't immediately like it you might some day

[touchlikethesun]

wwx: lan zhan, i'm sorry... and thank you lz, who has done every single thing in his life for the past 20 years for wwx and wwx alone: *a single tear rolls down his cheek* the soundtrack at 200% volume: ✨✨ 📣📣 🎶🎶 BU RU XIAO XIAO SA SA LI BIAN FENG HE LANG TIAN YA YI QU GONG YOU YANG 🎶🎶 📣📣 ✨✨

[miniminijiminni]

lan wangji has to be the most interesting character in mdzs to write in a modern au. like. yes, his personality and beliefs chance after he meets wei wuxian, but he changes AGAIN after wei wuxians DEATH!! so like?? who would he be in a non-cultivator modern au??? the possibilities are endless!!!!

[lesbianmaxevans]

#the duality of gay marriage

The Untamed 1.36 || Interview with the Vampire 1.01

[dearmyloveleys]

every time people in the jianghu point their fingers at wwx and scream DemONNNNNNN HERETIC POWERS, I'm there like: dude did u think wwx wanted to go down this path?? :)))

homeboy just wanted to see the people closest to him safe, drink good alcohol, protect the weak, duel for fun, fly on his sword, catch chicken and fish, train disciples, travel around on night hunts

every time they ask why he doesn't carry his sword anymore, I just wonder how much he is actually hurting on the inside. the fact that he probably would have largely stayed the way he was as a student at cloud recesses if the war never happened also hurts a lot

[bigquestionmark]

i kinda hate every mdzs fix-it fic because theyre all like “well actually everyone was willing to help wwx he was just too oblivious or prideful or stupid to notice” LIKE?????

[trans-xianxian]

sorry I can't stand aus where wei wuxian grows up in another sect. I mean this so genuinely without the yunmeng siblings the story is Nothing

[yumemiruuuu]

as much as I make fun of him as being cringefailure e-catboy, I sometimes think about how he canonically likes puppies and the thought makes me cry 😔😔

[ephemeralgalaxies]

every day I sob over the fact that Lan Wangji probably didn't think he even mattered all that much to Wei Wuxian before the the whole Mo Xuanyu situation. Like, it was one thing watching WWX going through the the whole "villain arc" thing (which he WASN'T but-- for argument's sake here) and doing everything he could to protect WWX.

Like yes, in (I think all, but we'll say) most adaptations, WWX and LWJ confirm to each other that they do both still consider each other zhiji (on the computer again so we get no pinyin or characters, bear with me) but that's all before WWX takes the Wens, before Jin Zixuan's death, confrontation with JC, the literal entire battle and desecration of the Burial Mounds and the Wen family. Oh, and WWX's death... Like, in the live-action adaptation, u can pull a bit of the "oh LWJ can see that WWX does still care about him and tries to save him even when JC appears as a threat" but that original version??? (0_0) bro literally told LWJ to "scram." Like that's a bit harder to rationalize the person you're in love with and have spend the past years bonding with and protecting also still has any affection or respect left for you.

And then he find A-Yuan, raises him and names him, remembers WWX every day for over a decade and welcomes him back with open arms when WWX fully expects the man to kill him on the spot.

[peridot-tears]

I have a HC that the Sword of Eden didn't break, Arno just never got it to work because he was never interested in its power. Homie was too busy being depressed and not caring about those things, and so the power of that sword never got triggered. In reality, it works perfectly fine. But Arno is too Arno, and has rendered it into nothing but a glorified shiny. Who needs lightning powers when you can just drink at the speed of light, after all?

Yooooooo, this is a man who is incorrigible because he has his priorities STRAIGHT. Why rule Paris when you can kill a bunch of men for wine?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you. I'm sorry.

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[yutaan]

Throwback reblog for Jiang Cheng's birthday! The present I got him is Suffering, apparently. :D

Plot twist!!! 

[touchlikethesun]

i feel like, years from now maybe even decades, i will still be waking up in a cold sweat thinking about the last line of mdzs.

"and forever after, his eyes could never move away from him again."

[khattikeri]

one of my favorite things about mdzs is that for how heavily its plot involves politics of classism and misogyny... even the characters most directly impacted by it can't and don't free themselves from it. literally the closest exception is mianmian.

meng yao being the "son of a whore" wasn't some sort of commie awakening for him that led him to wanting everyone to be socially equal. he played the political game, climbed the ladders, sucked up to and backstabbed and murdered people, including other prostitutes who actually had nothing to do with how he and his mother were treated at the brothel he grew up in.

he put in so much extra excessive effort for even a fraction of the same respect that members of gentry cultivation clans got. and he did deserve to be treated more humanely! but he feeds into the exact same system that created him, leading to his own undoing.

his efforts were for a fragile upward mobility that was never going to hold up. he never surpassed his origins nor did he empower others in similar stations, because the society he lives in is not one that would accept that.

the second he got caught and all those crimes exposed, he was scapegoated to hell and back, replacing wei wuxian as society's terrible one-sidedly evil boogeyman overnight.

speaking of not-quite male gentry, i think it's interesting that wei wuxian explicitly doesn't try to climb the ladders in BOTH lives, knowing full well that anything he does will be punished just for the sheer fact that he is wei wuxian.

wei wuxian is scolded for giving intelligent and correct answers in school. lan wangji does the same and is praised.

wei wuxian occasionally lounges around with fellow disciples and is punished. jiang cheng does the same and mostly escapes.

wei wuxian refuses to carry his sword around in public (after losing his golden core, which nobody knows) and is scorned as an arrogant upstart. nie huaisang has been doing the EXACT SAME THING for YEARS and nobody bats an eye.

unlike jin guangyao, wei wuxian knew subconsciously from the start that his acceptance was superficial and that he could be cast out any time. when he was 10 and recently taken in by the jiangs, he canonically would not eat or use "too much" food and water because he thought they'd find him a nuisance for "wasting their things" and kick him back out.

now away from just the classism, yu ziyuan is a proud and strong noblewoman in a society that belittles and derides women for everything they do. her strong cultivation doesn't matter. she's victim to the vicious rumors of her husband loving another woman who is strong like her but apparently had a more likeable personality.

it doesn't matter even if jiang fengmian didn't cheat or that wei wuxian is wei changze's son with cangse sanren; yu ziyuan can't bear with the humiliation of herself (and by extension her children) not being "good enough". she's ridiculed for "failing" in that one duty as a wife, mother, and woman.

she lashes out and takes out that anger on everyone present for years, giving her children lasting trauma and also being a key element in how the jiang family and yunmeng jiang sect are effectively wiped out at the hands of the wen clan.

madam jin doesn't even have a name outside of the fact that she's married to jin guangshan. i don't even remember reading anything that indicates if she's a strong or weak cultivator, or what, which in itself proves that to most people, it doesn't matter. she's "just" a woman.

of course she's angry at her husband's affairs and all the bastard children they bring in. but she also can't do anything about them, so she lashes out at the few people she can: servants. non-cultivators, probably. those very same bastard children.

shoutout to meng yao getting shoved down a flight of stairs at age fourteen, because if madam jin tried that move against her husband instead, it would make her lose even more face, which as a noblewoman she'd never do.

and that's not getting into how jiang yanli is consistently sidelined for being physically weak.

that's not getting into how mianmian was actually a good cultivator, but was mocked by everyone around her for trying to stand up for wei wuxian when everyone was turning on him. how everyone scoffed at luo qingyang's words as "just some lovesick woman" who "obviously wants to marry or bed him since he saved her".

luo qingyang is the only one of these characters who HASN'T died. she didn't play society's games like jin guangyao. she didn't dig her heels in confidence of her own abilities like wei wuxian.

she didn't bitterly lash out like yu ziyuan and madam jin. she didn't gently accept it like jiang yanli.

she just LEFT.

she married an ordinary merchant and cultivates separately from mainstream cultivation society, and therein found her own peace and happiness.

mxtx doesn't bother with particularly class conscious or feminist vocabulary to hand-hold readers into understanding these disparities, but that choice highlights them & the deeply entrenched politics of their society even more. i really love it.