#LSZ

[soph-skies]

unbelievably obsessed with how the juniors realize ‘mo xuanyu’ who is meant to be a bumbling idiot and embarrassment to his family is incredibly powerful, brilliant, and clearly very close with lwj, and they barely question it they’re just like yeah sure that checks out, moving on!

[anshares]

Just add the right amount of spice

[oceanbluuu]

Thinking about how Gongyi Xiao is literally sizhui, just Lanling Jin flavoured

[yunmeng-jiang]

why do people act like Wen Ning is like... totally well-adjusted and normal and the only sane man in a situation? this guy:

was attacked by an evil statue as a kid resulting in part of his soul getting sucked out

got one compliment from some guy he'd never met and immediately attached himself to said guy to the point of risking his life and betraying his entire sect just to help out the guy's brother/bestie who he basically could not care less about except he's related to That Guy Who Was Nice That One Time

is brutally murdered while being forced into slave labor and comes back from the dead as a zombie so full of repressed anger that he commits mass murder without even being fully cognizant of what he's doing

goes to live in a place full of dead people with the last living members of his family (his big sister and like 20 elderly folks plus his four-year-old cousin) and The Guy, who is now a mad scientist necromancer, trying desperately to scrape out a living from their corpse radish farm and slowly starving to death

accidentally murders someone and The Guy gets blamed for it so he tries to sacrifice himself to save The Guy and it doesn't even work and Wen Ning's entire family dies and he spends 13-16 years being experimented on by a different mad scientist necromancer

immediately breaks out of the secret torture dungeon when The Guy returns, then starts following him around like a lost puppy

discovers that he's not the only sentient zombie in the world but the one other sentient zombie can't talk and is too interested in another quest to even want to hang out

learns that his four-year-old cousin is actually alive and goes off to have adventures with him for a while and teach him about their family legacy

like. this guy is not normal. he is so messed up in the head. things have happened to him that no one else understands and seemingly no one cares except the cousin who barely remembers him. he's considered a monstrosity by 99 percent of the world. he's still a little obsessed with The Guy but The Guy straight-up abandons him to go travel the world and have crazy wild sex with the man who raised his cousin into a very nice young man during the 13/16 years of evil necromancy torture. what the fuck

[mdzs-owns-my-ass-i-guess]

Little Lan Sizhui: A-Die can I watch cartoons?

Lan Wangji: no, little radish, you watched cartoons in the morning already, it is important not to spend all day watching TV.

*later*

Little Lan Sizhui, crying: A-Die, it hurts!

Lan Wangji, worried: what hurts, little radish?

Little Lan Sizhui: it hurts that im not watching cartoons!

[panther-os]

absolutely in fucking love with @scarlettohairdye 's name for mianmian's husband, it just Fits in a sort of mouth feel and brain clicky way. however I cannot for the life of me find anywhere on the internet where scarlett mentions what characters are used in his name so I went hunting for the most likely suspects. there are approximately a million different ways to write fan wenxin, including two common surnames and one that has to do with trading/merchant-ship, but this one made me laugh and also just Feels Right

凡温馨

(fán wēn xīn)

google will tell you this means "where warmth" but Google is a liar and my actual Chinese English dictionary written by actual Chinese people says it means "common/ordinary/mundane comfort" (if you are also actually chinese and this is wrong please dm me)

but I do think "common comfort" is an amazing name for a non-cultivator who's just a stable presence supporting his wife

I'm also working on a list right now of English names for mdzs characters, for me to reference if I ever write a fic where they need to use them (somewhat likely, writing fic is hit or miss rn, but I live in an area with a ton of exchange students, immigrants, and visiting overseas businessmen so those situations are familiar to me) and I took the liberty of putting down "William Fan/Wendy Fan" for Fan Wenxin. 😅

anyways scarlett is my current favorite author when it comes to fic for my special interests. recs include:

Covered in Bees | T, Wangxian | Beekeeping au with tons of bee fun facts, one of my favorites long before I read scarlett's other stuff

leave all your love and your longing behind | E, Wangxian | Modern au feat. An Asshole Dog (TM) and some of my favorite modern characters dynamics ever

i know who i want to take me home | E, Wangxian | Su She and Jin Zixun are assholes and bartender Wei Wuxian rescues drunk Lan Wangji

There's a Baby Loose in the Burial Mounds! | T, gen | a-Yuan is very loved

My Zhiji's On Broadway | E, Wangxian | the most amazing of drunk Lan Wangji shenanigans, feat. the Washington State Convention Center as Sir Not Appearing In This Fic

stray cat strut | E, Wangxian | Wei Wuxian is cursed (ish) as a cat, Lan Wangji finds a random cat on a night hunt, aka the fic that gets vocal trash's cover of stray cat strut stuck in my head every time I read the title

[stardvstbby]

this moment is so incredibly special to me as a display of Lan Wangji’s trust in Lan Sizhui. he encourages Lan Sizhui to speak for him (though considering Lan Wangji’s status it is also speaking as a representative of the Lan Sect) and it reveals the depth of their bond that this is communicated with simply a look. this one sentence shows that they’ve spent extensive time with one another. not only that, but this is the first time we see just the two of them interacting, and as a first impression of their dynamic it’s clear they care for and rely on one another.

[piosplayhouse]

@emkini 's beautiful white (cremello) boy lan sizhui..

[megmahoneyart]

mxtxtobers 07 (blush), 08 (heal), and 09 (intoxicated (I think wax is capable of being a sad drunk at a specific time in his life))

[stackedbirds]

it's ok tho bc lwj was there

[emmytheferret]

the second sticker so far in my mdzs juniors series.... i'm going for all 4!

you can find jin ling here

[kamoteqeater]

no thoughts only lsz singing 'Journey to the Past' from Anastasia

[mdzs-equine-archive]

Mo Dao Zu Shi Novels; Russian and English Volume 5 Interior Illustrations

Artist: Marina Privalova

Equine featured: Xiao Pingguo

[guqin-and-flute]

It turns out I never posted this?? From my 'Wei Wuxian Keeps Accidentally Adopting Children In the Burial Mounds AU'

[mdzs-owns-my-ass-i-guess]

WangXian order this cake for A-Yuan's 6th birthday

And A-Yuan loves it, but refuses to eat it because it would "hurt the bunnies"

Pic source: here

[panther-os]

As a follow-up to Junior Quartet Heightcanons, here is Junior Quartet Agecanons (with birthdays!):

Sizhui's canon birthday is January 12th and to me he's the oldest.

Lan Jingyi's canon birthday is August 24th, and since Sizhui's birthday is typically before the Lunar New Year, he's technically a year younger than Sizhui but by American counting also the same age.

Ouyang Zizhen does not have a canon birthday, but I read somewhere that for characters without birthdays it's supposed to be the release date of the chapter in which they first appeared? That makes his birthday August 10th, and I would say he's a year younger than Jingyi, technically two years younger than Sizhui.

Jin Ling's canon birthday is November 21st and we know he was born when Sizhui was 3-4, I prefer 3 almost 4. So he's four years (3 years 10 months) younger than Sizhui, technically three years younger than Jingyi, and two years younger than Zizhen.

This makes Zizhen the middlest child of the four (two years younger than the oldest, two years older than the youngest), which explains why people always forget about him. 😂

So in fics using the 13 year gap between Wei Wuxian's death and resurrection (which are most of mine), this would make the ages in the present 17 (Sizhui), 16/17 (Jingyi), 15 (Zizhen) and 13 (Jin Ling).

In fics using the 16 year gap from cql, the ages are 20 (Sizhui), 19/20 (Jingyi), 18 (Zizhen), and 16 (Jin Ling).

For those wondering about Sizhui's age being 4 when Wei Wuxian died, even though I said 3 years 10 months for when Jin Ling was born.... It depends on whether you think Wei Wuxian was going to Jin Ling's 1 month or 100 day celebration. If it was his 1 month, Sizhui was still 3. If it was his 100 day, that's a little over three months, so Sizhui was 4 by then. Personally, I usually go by the 100 day so that's how the present ages are calculated!

Please don't fight about which canon is "correct" in the notes, this post is not about that. This post is about having fun regardless of what canon does or doesn't say.