#Jin Guangyao

[cephalopodish]

jin guangyao is small. teeny. minuscule. the littlest. you can fit him in your hand. protect him from the world.

[ber-go]

Piece I did for the MDZS Autumn With You zine

[nadiasna7]

Nothing lasts forever under the moon, but I'll always remember the day you were with me for the last time

[evilhasnever]

It is proof of his torturous but steady ascent in the Wen ranks that Meng Yao is allowed time with the prisoner. Even more so that he gets to visit alone, dismissing the guards with a tip of his chin.

The moment they are alone, the chained dragon uncoils, abandoning any pretense of sleep. Lan Xichen opens his maw and his long tongue unrolls like a silk carpet, producing a shining beacon of light on its tip. “Please,” he speaks urgently, without moving his mouth, “I need A-Yao to swallow this.”

From its glow, the light had seemed as big as a lantern, but upon receiving it in his palm Meng Yao sees it is a pearl no bigger than a common oyster prize.

He suspects this is exactly what he has been sent to torture out of him. The urge to drop it wars with the desire to bask in this undeserved, unfathomable trust.

Lan Xichen likely senses his hesitation. “A-Yao won't be in danger from my favor,” he whispers, “It cannot be taken from you by force.”

Meng Yao knows that Wen Ruohan would have him cut open from sternum to navel, like cattle to the roast, if he knew he had swallowed Lan Xichen’s pearl. He will simply have to lie better than usual, won’t he?

The moment he places the pearl on his tongue, it melts like a raindrop down his throat, tingling chill spreading across his body and into his limbs. When it reaches his belly, the bird-flap of his golden core turns into a feverish buzz, warmth setting in his deepest crevices as if the cold had been only a prelude.

“How will I return this to Zewu-Jun?” he whispers, breathless with the experience of it. He thinks of a lizard tongue as long as a waist sash, of the human tongue Lan Xichen used to speak softy with.

The dragon squints in what, perhaps, is as close as he can get to a smile with such a fearsome maw. “When the war ends,” he says, sounding slightly breathless as well, “there will be time.”

[19silvermirrors]

3zun taking the sworn brotherhood oath 🙏

[qiu-yan]

wen ning excluded for now because i can't figure out a way to justify calling him jin ling's uncle

[elaichichais-blog]

For people saying that Jin Guangyao, Lan Xichen, Wen Chao Are equally criticised in the fandom as Jiang Cheng, I’m just gonna drop some numbers off ao3.

See the hypocrisy?

I’m not hating on Lan Xichen and Meng Yao—I actually like them. I’m just being critical of their actions and how they compare to Jiang Cheng’s.

It’s okay to acknowledge flaws without disliking the characters. (I am absolutely hating on wc)

[mademoiselle-abysse]

MDZS Top Favorite Characters on Tumblr

(**Ranked by number of followers/members -people who deliberately follow a character tag to have him/her in their feed regularly.)

Wei Wuxian - 19K members

2. Lan Wangji - 15K members

3. Jiang Cheng - 7,7K members

4. Nie Huaisang - 4,5K members

5. Lan Xichen - 3,9K members

6. Lan Sizhui - 3,6K members

7. Wen Ning - 3,3K members

8. Jin Ling - 2,7K members

9. Jiang Yanli - 2,1K members

10 (11/12). Nie Mingjue - 1,9K members

10 (11/12). Xue Yang - 1,9K members

10 (11/12). Jin Guangyao - 1,9K members

13. Lan Jingyi - 1,8K members

14. Mo Xuanyu - 1,5K members

15. Xiao Xingchen - 1,4K members

16. Wen Qing - 1,3K members

(* I used the number of members of each character's most popular name (e.g. between Lan Wangji vs Lan Zhan, I chose Lan Wangji), to be fair to those who only had one name like Nie Huaisang. And anyway, it didn't make any difference to the ranking if I accumulated the followers of all the names.)

[zhoudadudugongjin]

actually the only thing in cql that i want explained is how jiggy got his hands on king théoden of rohan's sword

[darypeacher]

[marshmallowwitharubberband]

The Guanyin temple confession is maybe my favorite scene of any piece of media I've ever consumed because it's so unpredictable.

You got the villain just halting his evil plot, full stop, in the middle of his gloating speech, no less, because "What do you MEAN you guys aren't even together?! What?! No, no, no, there won't be any romantic misunderstanding in my hostage situation! Honey, tell him!"

And then the calmest, most polite character alive procceeds to go his version of apeshit on this punk like "my brother like-likes you, you fucking pinecone! You useless twink! We all thought you were a hoe but you are just an imbecile!" (Which is a nice parallel to the Jiang brothers' hatred for the peacock, but I digress)

And THEN, when it's the perfect moment for a climatic love confession, homeboy goes and screams for everyone to hear that he... really wanted that dick, Hanguang-jun! Where's love? Who cares? WWX wants to ride you like a carnival ride: sticky and filthy and multiple times.

It's a wonder that Xichen didn't yank that string from Jing GuangYao to strangle WWX himself.

This has been my favorite addition, I cackled like a seal irl lol

[thatswhatsushesaid]

jiang cheng says "son of a prostitute" within earshot of jin guangyao, 20 dead, 44 wounded

[ataraxixx]

been getting really into jin guangyao lately ...........

[kittycity]

Favorite Feral Lan Wangji Moments:

- Punching down several trees after kissing his crush (derogatory) for the first time because he has no idea how to process emotions normally

- Randomly biting Wei Wuxian in the cave because he has no idea how to process emotions normally

- Getting absolutely shit faced for the first time in his life and destroying a bunch of shit around cloud recesses before branding himself with the mark his crush from 10 years ago also had because he- well you get it.

- Writing an entire love song for his crush, naming it their ship name, and then only ever singing it out loud once to said crush without him knowing (this is an important tool we'll save for later)

- Generally enjoying being a little shit and then pretending he didn't do anything when people confront him about it

Please feel free to add to this because I know there is much, much more!

[florencziya-blog]