#and WWX said '[read]'

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Good Morning, World.

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[touchlikethesun]

sometimes, ngl, i do find myself wondering what it was that made lan wangji fall so desperately in love with wei wuxian - they really are so different and wei wuxian does represent in many ways the antithesis of everything lan wangji lives his life embodying, even if the audience knows how great and amazing wei wuxian is (we also read mainly from his pov and he is basically handcrafted to appeal to modern fandoms), we the audience are not lan wangji, lan wangji isn’t privy to all the same information we are. and then a scene will come along, where wei wuxian will be so earnestly and painfully good, to someone else or to lan wangji himself, and it all makes sense again. like, of course lan wangji was going to fall in love with him how could he not fall in love with him??? really he’s completely powerless when it comes to wei wuxian how could he not be

[boarloved-art]

i LOVEEEE idol aus so bad because none of these fucking characters would be caught dead doing any of this shit. your blorbo is NOT doing aegyo on stage for a paycheck! your blorbo is NOT singing and dancing!

[mxtxfanatic]

As someone who has far too much time on their hands I have waded through Ao3 and found some canon-complacent fics that do not assume that Jiang Cheng is a good brother, are not influenced by the untamed, and are hopefully to your tastes!

Our Feelings Remain Unchanged by Karmiya

When Wei Wuxian is resurrected with his original face, any plans to hide in plain sight as 'Mo Xuanyu' are ruined before they can ever begin. He soon runs into old faces, and finds that despite what he feared in his last days, Lan Wangji's feelings for him never changed; whatever they were in the first place.

I really like this author in general! All their fics are good but this is my favorite of them. It is not remaining in line with cannon because oh boy Wei Wuxian having the same face changes things starting with the fact that Sizhui recognizes him...

The Shade of Old Trees by Kryal

“We rest in the shade of trees our ancestors planted.” They called the man in the ice Yiling Laozu, after a folk hero associated with the town in the foothills of the mountains where he was found. No one expected him to be alive!

I believe you will appreciate this authors long footnotes. Also the historical details and world building is fascinating. They clearly put a lot of research into this.

this world (what I make of it) by glitteringmoonlight

The war had consequences. Once, a fully realized Avatar referred to one who had mastered all the elements and could go into the Avatar State. Now, that has changed. No one could master fire when there was no one to teach it, and people feared the abilities of a firebender too much to allow anyone, even the Avatar, to learn too much of it. Now, an Avatar was simply said to be fully realized when their instructors decided they had learnt enough.   In which Lan Sizhui is the Avatar, but he cannot firebend, nor can he waterbend very well. That changes when his travels take him to Yiling.

The best avatar fusion fic I've read. No mentions of jc so far and Wei Wuxian currently remains a mysterious figure who is for sure not a bloodbender and definitely isn't in hiding.

A look back at the past (it's never like they lie) by Imnobody122

Jin Ling had always wanted to know his parents so when he heard rumors about a ghost forcing people to relive their earliest childhood memories he jumped at the chance. Things did not go according to plan. Instead he's stuck watching the childhood memories of Lan Sizhui and Jin Ling is forced to confront the truth the Sects lied about. The Yiling Laozu should not be good with children!

It's harder to get more canon complainant than when you are literally quoting the text. Don't worry the author makes no excuses for Jiang Cheng and this fic tears apart the rumors surrounding Wei Wuxian.

Return to Sender by Theasaurus_with_no_words

On yet another gray and eerie morning in the Burial Mounds, Wei Wuxian wakes up with his golden core back. It turns out he lost something else in the process. (Aka: Wei Wuxian's feelings towards certain people get erased. It changes things. Is it a curse, or a blessing in disguise? And can Wei Wuxian trust himself, his choices and his priorities, after losing a defining part of who he is?)

Wei Wuxian regains his golden core and loses his loyalty due to Jiang Cheng's ingratitude. This is not a bad trade.

I hope you like them and it is kind of depressing that this list only has five entries but oh well.

Some more mdzs fic recs if anyone is interested!

[tea-cat-arts]

I'm willing to at least hear out most of the "xyz plot point is heavily tied to abc cultural context" brands of posts but the "wwx isn't meant to be read as morally gray" and "the western fandom made up Sizhui being wangxian's son" brands of post make me feel like my cultural ignorance is being used to gaslight me

[cosmobrain00]

u evr see a post n go "man I could rip this apart in seconds"

[amorremanet]

seeing a post that has interesting canon analysis and wanting to reblog it until you get to the last paragraph and just

[random-mdzs-thoughts-dumpster]

I love hensheng but telling people about its name must have been so awkward. Imagine if someone said "that's a cool sword. What is it called?" and JGY responded with "hating life". I mean, what would you even say to that?

[llycaons]

like I have plenty of critiques abt jc's behavior (I went back into my archives and I was WAY more understanding in 2021 lol but the fans pissed me right off) but I don't think he would do that, or then leave and then LIE TO JYL about it...he did put himself in between wwx and his mother to try to protect him, he did sacrifice himself for wwx later, he did sit down with jyl and promise to get wwx back while CRYING, he did search for him for months. as destructive as his anger is he's never been that out of control, and wwx at this time still has a very powerful gc

he has anger issues and he does take them out on wwx and he does hurt him when he's upset but this is just rly extreme for him, and its in order to set up a situation where wwx stays with the lans starting really early on, and I don't mind it enough to stop reading bc I also have my biases and my silly self-indulgences, and jc isnt even rly part of the story in most chapters and they come to an understanding, but I know it's really not in-character or fair to him. the author tries to make it even by saying jc really thought he was dead when he left but leaving a loved one's dead body just lying there in a field is a hideous thing to do, especially in that setting, so it doesn't really make him sound any better 😭

[mdzs-is-rotting-my-brain]

I had a conversation with a friend. And based on that conversation I would just like to say

✨WEI WUXIAN DID NOTHING WRONG. EVER✨

[lilnasxvevo]

Since teaching really does seem to be Lan Qiren’s passion I like to think about a modern Lan Qiren who is really good about pursuing possible diagnoses and treatment of learning/developmental disabilities of children entrusted to his care.

[mxtxfanatic]

“Unpopular opinion, but—” proceeds to state a fandom opinion so popular people make viral posts about it every week.

[borealiszero]

Oh god i made a doomed by narrative post on doomed by narrative's fan.website and it's sweeping

[twenty-orange-balloons]

I don't want to sound like an ungrateful bitch (which I'm sure I am) but can people please just add an Implied/Referenced switching tag!? Even if it's just a sentence, a word, anything at all that implies they switch during sex!! Please

[tibialtybalt]

4, 10, 26 for art asks!

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

You wouldn't be able to tell since I draw them so much as of late but arval........their honeycomb. plate. tabard . Thing. I vacillate wildly between being obsessed with it and loathing it depending on if I'm drawing it or not. Also what is going on on the back of their head? Their hair is so cubey I don't understand... And if it's epi then you've got the wing things which took me ages to figure out how they're shaped for some reason

Their design looks chefs kiss MWAH in game or in finished pieces but oh my goodness please help my doodling, cutting-corners hand

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

I'm a huge fan of crinkly clothes, cloth that comes to oddly sharp angles. Like where big poofy sleeves that are cuffed come to an end. Or where pants crinkle, at the knees and ankles. These bad boys

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

Hmm that's a difficult question because the stuff I draw is 90% of the time so Very straightforward funny fan art...

Oh but one time someone reblogged a MDZS post of mine and said in the tags that they didn't go there but thought it was funny, and the post is. This one. And you need SO MUCH context to get what the joke is like wow that is an entirely different joke.

[spacebeyonce]

there's one of these mdzs fics I've been keeping an eye on and reading when I have free time (and unfortunately I have too much free time, now), and it's taking the core transfer situation in a direction where it's being rejected, jiang cheng is dying, and wei wuxian and wen qing are being dragged across the coals by the narrative for making the transfer happen. and like...I am still keeping track of this because I want to see how the story ends. but it is difficult.

I understand that this route the story is taking atm is a form of catharsis but it's like. I've seen a lot of the fandom kinda take that moment, that decision, in isolation, and make their judgements that way. does that make sense? obviously the transfer isn't cool but my goodness, there were Situations going on that led to that decision! obviously! we all have reading comprehension, I hope.

so to read about one of the doctors that was taking care of wwx making all these judgements even though they are VERY MUCH an outsider looking in and have never been put in a situation like that, doesn't know anything about the surrounding circumstances that led wwx to make that decision...it's irritating! and to watch this attempt to mood switch into something lighter and inject comedy while I am still chewing on this irritation at how this is all being handled is just. difficult! it's difficult.

can't remember where I was going with this. I know very well that I can literally just stop reading the story since this part is bugging me so much but is art not meant to be criticized.