#but mainly i am full of love for wangxian

[wangxianficfinder]

Fic Finder

Feb 25th

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1. Hello! For fic finder, please. I am looking for a canon au where WWX was blind. Mainly set at Cloud Recesses Lecture arc. The thing I remember is that the first time WWX is introduced to LXC and LWJ he doesn't face them quite right so JC leans over and turns WWX to be bowing in the right direction.

FOUND? 🧡 close your eyes, feel my heartbeat by ThatDesiGirl (T, 11k, WangXian, blind WWX, Angst with a Happy Ending, Rewriting Canon, not a fix-it but a what-if, Canon-Typical Violence, Golden Core Transfer, Romance, Pining)

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2. Hello, I have a fic finder request. It was set in Cloud Recesses but I don't remember if it was when they were teens in lecture or adults post-everything. Wei Wuxian brought Lan Wangji a series of courting gifts, some of which were fish he had caught. He wanted Wangji to eat the fish, but Wangji wanted to keep the present, so Wangji kept this chest growing full of dead fish and it began to stink lol. I think maybe the characters were animal shifters which is why Wuxian thought fish were a suitable present. Would love to read this again, if anyone has any suggestions I would be very grateful, thank you! @gloriousclotpole

FOUND! what you have tamed by lianhua_lianzi, Senforza (E, 94k, WangXian, XuanLi, XiYao, Eventual 3Zun, Animal Traits, misunderstandings (not the romcom kind that can be resolved in a 5min convo), Courting Rituals, Pining, Lan family dynamics, Drama, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Arranged Marriage, Wangxian break up but get back together, Eventual Happy Ending, vague biological essentialism (animal species have different mating preferences), Canon Typical Alcohol Usage, Implied Mpreg, Top LWJ/Bottom WWX, Unresolved Sexual Tension, unintentional and eventually resolved "gaslighting", Dragon LWJ, Fox WWX)

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3. Hey! I am looking for a fic where during the phoenix hunt, wwx and jin jixuan kill a beast together which wasn't supposed to be there. Later jin zixuan's puppies also turn into monsters when jin guangyao is keeping people hostage. It's canon divergence I think.

Thank you so much!

FOUND? 🧡 a stone to break your soul, a song to save it by rikke ( M, 180k, WangXian, Arranged marriage, Canon Divergence, Hurt/comfort, Light angst, Canon typical violence)

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4. I have read this fic so many times, I was so sure it was bookmarked! It's about how CSSR and WCZ finally free themselves from the Burial Mounds and go straight to the Cloud Recess were WWX is attending the lectures. Thank you!!

FOUND? in a dream, i was home by thelastdboy (M, 25k, WangXian, POV LWJ, Canon Divergence, Post-First Siege of the Burial Mounds, Time Travel Fix-It, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, Different First Meeting, Getting Together, Friends to Lovers, Sentient Burial Mounds, CSSR and WCZ Live, Families of Choice, Protective LWJ, Everybody Lives, Temporary Character Death, Grief/Mourning, Cloud Recesses Shenanigans, WWX Leaves the Yunmeng Jiang Sect, Golden Core Reveal, Fluff, Developing Relationship, Wen Remnants Live, WQ Lives, WN Lives, No Sunshot Campaign, BAMF WWX) but Lan Zhan also time travels in that one.

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5. For the next fic finder, I’ve been trying to find a fic where LWJ, LXC, and WWX are cats. LQR owns a tea house where LWJ and LXC are free to roam while WWX is a stray at the Jiangs’ shelter. Well one day WWX kind of breaks into the shop and continues to do so until LWJ likes him (I think that’s the order of events). When LQR gets the Jiangs to keep WWX away, LWJ starts getting sad without him. I think it ends with LQR basically adopting WWX since the Jiangs were going to have to put him down. I hope this all makes sense. Thanks for all of the help!

FOUND! allopatry by Anonymous (T, 4k, WangXian Modern AU, Cats, not in a catboy sense they're actual cats, wwx's propensity for annoying lqr transcends species, codependent cats as a catalyst for, lqr + jiang sibs friendship

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6. so I don't know if you do comics as well but I found this image on Pinterest and the comments say it's based on a fic/au someone made but they don't say the name of the Author can you help me find anything on it?

@redraven393

FOUND! lotus by mtdh (T, <1k, JC/LXC, JC & WWX, JL/LSZ/LJY, WIP) looks like the art was originally from this twitter/x post

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7. Hi! I’ve been looking for a specific fic for days now and I feel like I’m going crazy (ಥ﹏ಥ) if you could help I’d really appreciate it!

Details:

• it’s modern with cultivation, or some sort of tech magic. Still a work in progress from what I remember.

• wwx gets resurrected into a robot, and it specifically lights up with little emoticon faces while his voice is monotone. He doesn’t look like a human, I think he controls some sort of army bot??

• instead of Demonic cultivation I think it was some sort of technological cultivation?? Or an implant that could control the Androids and robots in the city. I’m sure an implant was mentioned though no flashback was shown.

• he meets the juniors and lwj, and spends some time running around in the first chapter I think.

• Lwj does take him to reunite with the Wen remnants which actually survived, and he’s offered to get an Android body later on (doesn’t happen in the fix yet).

• spoilers here but from what I remember the last updated chapter had him losing control and being commanded by Xue Yang to hurt (or strangle?) LWJ. During the fic’s version of the coffin city arc.

I don’t know if this fic was deleted or what but I haven’t been able to find it at all! I’ll be satisfied even if it’s bad news. I thank you for anything you might find (シ_ _)シ @spacy-thoughts

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8. Any help would be amazing

It’s a modern au and Wwx is supposed to be marrying lwj but he got super drunk the night before so Mo Xuan yu dresses up as wwx to attend the wedding but lwj realizes it’s not wwx and says he wont get married. @angiewriter

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9. Hi, I'm looking for a fic but i don't remember a lot! It was lqr trying to break wangxian up

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10. hi!!! I'm looking for a threadfic in which jzx and lwj are roommates and they both fall in love with wwx without knowing they loved the same person. when I stopped reading it seemed like it would be the three of them together on endgame @yourefinallysafefromshialabeouf

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11. Hi I'm looking for a fic where during the cloud recess study arc Wei Wuxian is punished and needs to clean like the scrap bin and Lan Qiren is there to overwatch but Wei Wuxian has a panic attack from his time on the streets and Lan Qiren comforts him. @datcringe

FOUND? The lavender handkerchief by barisan (Not Rated, 1k, LQR & WWX, WWX Has PTSD, Good Uncle LQR, WWX Has a Fear of Dogs, Panic Attacks, Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, My headcanon as to why WWX eats with so much spice)

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12. I’ve been searching for this but cant find it again.

It’s an alpha/beta/omega dynamics fanfiction on AO3 where Wei wuxian just got a new job and at the beginning their at like a work party and Wei wuxian is like where’s the alcohol and its said that no alcohol allowed and he thinks that lan wangji must be some old fuddy duddy but sees him from across the room and he’s like the most gorgeous man Wei wuxian has seen and he’s dissapointed that lan wangji has a wife but its actually just a marriage of convenience and lan wangji sees him and immediately promotes him to be his secretary and they kinda have an affair and towards the end lan wangji goes to anniversary dinner with wife to ask for divorce but Wei wuxian doesnt know that and is pregnant and is going to quits

Thank you!

FOUND? your lips are undeniable by orphan_account (E, 12k, WangXian, Dubious Consent, Consent Play, Undernegotiated Kink, Alpha LWJ, Omega WWX, A/B/O, Mpreg, Dark LWJ(kinda), Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Smut, LWJ is Married, (but not to WWX hehe), lowkey crack lol, Unreliable Narrator, WWX rly rly wants to get railed ok he DOES he just cant admit it to himself yet, the fic responsible for the wwx spicy slick discourse, 'Just the Tip', uh huh sure LWJ, Size Kink, Size Difference)

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13. Hello! Thank you for all your do! I’m looking for a fic I read a long time ago. In this fic WWX lived with the Wens in hiding and LWJ was a prince and there was a set of trials to help him find a lover. WWX snuck into the trials with portals he had made in order to steal from the other contestants, but along the way he became close with LWJ and he fell in love. In the end he blinds LWJ temporarily and escapes back to the Wens and JC eventually shows up to have him and the Wens speak to LXC. Please help me find this fic, I’ve been searching for it for awhile @bigmeatycl0ws

FOUND!🔒 the stars in the hazy heaven tremble above you by cicer (G, 64k, WangXian, Fantasy, Cinderella Fusion, Mutual Pining)

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14. Hiii! From what I remember, the fic I'm looking for has a setting where there is an emperor outside of the cultivation world, and he doesn't really care much about them until the war breaks out.

In this fic, WWX was never adopted by the Jiangs. I think he taught himself how to read and write and then gave the imperial exam, and became a government official. (The next detail may be wrong or mixed up with another fic) after he taught himself to read and write at a young age, he started to write 'illegal' or 'banned' books for an elderly man for income, the man was actually very rude to him at first.

Later, he became a government official and quickly rose through the ranks to become a favourite of the emperor. The emperor sends him to the cultivation world to settle everything after the war, he wears a mask during this time.

I'm not sure if he had a golden core or not, or if he used demonic cultivation, but the cultivation world knew him as a non-cultivator, just a very good scholar. I remember LWJ started to like him cuz of WWX helped the war/rebuilding effort even as a non-cultivator.

Lots of thanks for your work for this fandom 💝 @songtaegguk

FOUND? Copying Scriptures by chiyukimei (E, 31k, wangxian, graphic depictions of violence, Genius WWX, Palace, canon wangxian dynamics, Angst with a Happy Ending, LWJ Bites, LWJ is the baby of the Lan Clan, Good Uncle LQR, WangXian are parents, Fluff, Blood and Injury, Self-Harm)

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15. Hi.. May you have a good day! and thank you for all your efforts.. it is for fic finder..

what I remember about the fic I lost was wwx surrenders after destroying the yin tiger tally.. and was entrusted to the Nie's for punishment... (he was expecting harsh treatment and dying ordinary) but he was treated fairly by them and was even allowed to teach their disciples..

When asked to help with purifying NMJ, he rejected the request and revealed to LXC about his lost core...

That is all I can recall about the fic.. and

thanks to you, all the Mods for your endless efforts...

FOUND? Always walked a very thin line by tucuxi (T, 22k, NHS & WWX, JYL & WWX, WangXian, Depression, Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, Canon-Typical Behavior, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon Divergence, Everyone Lives, except JZn and JGS, Self-Worth Issues, Slow Burn, Oblivious WWX, Golden Core Reveal, WWX Has No Golden Core, Chronic Pain, Chronic Illness, Yin Iron, Baxia Saber, baxia as mental health barometer yikes, Pining, everyone is morally grey, life is not fair and that’s kind of the whole point of mxtx books)

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16. Hello! I remember this fic when lan wangji was selectively mute and wei ying was super talkative and I think it was an outsiders view, it's only a short fix @lanwuxian0725

FOUND! The Art of Communication by mrcformoso (G, 4k, WangXian, Modern AU, College/University, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Meet-Cute, Engineering Student WWX, Music Student LWJ, Swimmer WWX, Martial Artist LWJ, POV Outsider, POV WWX, POV LWJ, Everything is Beautiful and Nothing Hurts, Communication Issues, But Wanxian Makes it Work, LWJ has limited words, WWX has too many words, Falling In Love, First Kiss, Love Confessions, Love Languages, Requited Love)

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17. Hello! I don't know if I remember this fic correctly but all I know is wei ying was being courted by wen xu and lan wangji, and because of that lan xichen also accompanied him to yunmeng to court him property. Wen xu was also sent to yunmeng to court wei ying Because he's a great cultivator, I also remember that lan xichen and lan wangji sleep in the brothels room because madam yu won't let them stay in the lotus pier as to at least discourage them to seek wei ying (?) btw I think this was all A/B/O @lanwuxian0725

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18. Hello friends, can you help me find a fic? I thought it was Dispersing Clouds because it's genius WWX who creates powerful wards and many talisman, and also involves him taking over previous Jiang land/estates to help the Wen remnants. However DC explicitly says there will be no WQ or WN, and they were definitely in the fic I remember. For awhile they have to share a house with WWX and LWJ while new are built and WQ and WN tease them over their marital activities.

WWX uses wealth from his inventions to hire builders and make a village, and they live within the powerful wards and build throughout winter. I think another big difference is that WRH is still powerful and he or his son's attempt to attack the estate but can't get through the wards. Thanks for your help! @moku-youbi

FOUND? Just go forward like you mean it by tawaen (M, 101k, WangXian, WWX & WN &WQ, WWX & JYL, NHS & WWX, Canon Divergence, WWx does not attend the Wen indoctrination, WWX saves Lotus Pier, Inventor WWX, No Golden Core Transfer, Sect Leader JYL, JC Has No Golden Core, Bad Parents JFM & YZY, Not JC Friendly, but he gets a happier ending than canon so don’t look here for bashing)

FOUND? Time Charm by Jenrose  (E, 141k, WangXian, later queerplatonic LWJ/WWX/WQ, LXC/JGY/2nd Madam Mo, time travel fix-it, post-canon, everyone lives au, genius inventor WWX, BAMF wangxian, first time, pregnancy, childbirth, asexual character, aftermath of time travel, telepathic bond, slice of life) might be the series time charm by jenrose. It’s a time travel fic but some of the later fics have the mentioned events

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19. Hi! I'm currently looking for two fics.

A) First one is a time travel au where modern time wwx goes to the past to canon time and meets lwj. The time travel scene was like wwx going home from a night grocery shopping and when he took a turn he was at the steps of Cloud Recesses. Lwj doesn't know him because they hadn't met in that time (because canon wwx died before the study arc) but they get closer and lwj invites wwx to jin ling's 100 days celebration where jyl and jc recognize wwx and I think wwx has a panic attack? Because jyl died in his time. Anway it turns out that he can go back but lwj decides to go with him and they travel from modern to canon time like every year and stay 1 year there.

B) The other one is a modern a/b/o au in which the lans are rich, lwj is an alpha who has been in love with wwx for years. Wwx kept it a secret that he is an omega but lwj gets an anonymous message with a video in which turns out wwx is an omega. Before this all happened wwx had a streaming/youtuber career that he stopped when their house got burned down, jfm and yzy dead, and jyl got into a coma. Anyway somewhat later they get into an arranged marriage initiated by wwx to save jc's and lwj spoils him, but wwx has a stroke as well I think? And later it turns out the wens were behind the falling of the jiangs and the death of jfm an yzy. Wangxian also get married when wwx is in the hospital because of the stroke and later they have 2 kids.

Thank you so much in advance!!!! @petra2402

19A)

FOUND? Wrong Turn, Right Place by diamondbruise (E, 71k, WangXian, Time Travel, kind of, it’s more reality travel but there’s modern wwx and cultivator lwj, Mutual Pining, Angst with a Happy Ending, Jealousy, Idiots in Love, Slow Burn, Misunderstandings, Cultural Differences)

19B)

FOUND? Insert Coin Now for Extra Life by TriviasFolly (E, 201k, WangXian, A/B/O, Intersex Omegas, Modern, Omega WWX, Alpha LWJ, Marriage contract au, Twitch Streamer WWX, Fluff, caring for other while sick, Possessive LWJ, Rare Male Omegas, Pack Dynamics, Sugar Baby vibes, Eventual Smut, Brief mention of lwj/others)

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20. Hi!! I am looking for a canon rewrite fic where cultivators bleed gold and non-cultivators bleed red. When Wei Wuxian gave his core to Jiang Cheng his blood faded from gold to red, and after that point he had to hide injuries from everyone to hide the loss of his golden core. I am pretty sure this fic covered both the Burial Mounds settlement days and after Wei Wuxian comes back to life. I have been looking for this fic for months and haven’t been able to turn it up. Please help!

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[phagechildon]

Randomly thought of this while showering.

A modern Wangxian au where someone framed Wei Ying, making it look like he was responsible for a big fire(explosion) at a Christmas Party that all major companies were invited to. Yanli was severely injured, but okay.

Since then, Wei Ying hid in the shadows, trying to find who or what organization was behind it. Everyone assumed he ran away, not wanting to face punishment.

Years later, Lan Zhan, an on-duty (undercover) officer tracked a suspicious person to a museum. Just as chaos breaks out, someone slams into him, knocking them both down. It's a woman with ankle-length auburn hair and a face full of makeup. Her eyes are honey-comb in color, but her expression is full of shock.

She looks familiar.

Heart-achingly familiar.

Instead of chasing after the suspect (at this point the fire alarm is going off, proof that someone set it off to escape as water is spraying from the sprinklers), he instead chases after this woman who's now running away from him. She kicks her heels off, even so, Lan Zhan should've been able to catch her. There's only been one person he hadn't been able to catch.

Finally he catches the woman, mainly because her feet are now bleeding from the streets. He pins her to the wall, makeup half washed off from the sprinklers, wet hair sliding off, revealing a wig.

They're both out of breath, exhausted, yet Lan Zhan pulls the wig off, seeing long dark brown hair in a flattened bun.

"Lan Zhan, who knew you'd turn out to be so pervy?"

That voice - his entire soul froze in disbelief.

Wei Ying. This was without a doubt Wei Ying, the one he had fallen in love with, the one who had falsely been blamed, the one who went missing eight years back. His cheeks were sunken in, an obvious sign of lack of nutrition.

And his voice, so recognizable, yet so much softer and lighter than before.

"Wei-" Said man pressed a finger to his lips, glancing nervously around them.

"They're probably listening. Would a strong, strapping man like you escort this feeble maiden home?" Lan Zhan rose an eyebrow in disbelief, only making Wei Ying smirk more. "It's the least you can do for making me lose my shoes!"

.... there was so much he wanted to say, so much he wanted to comment on, but Wei Wuxian was very intelligent. If he said someone might be listening, he was probably right.

"Apologies. I mistook you for someone else." Not a lie. He didn't know who this was when he gave chase.

Without hesitation he swept Wei Ying into his arms, carrying him bridal style. A deep (adorable) red stained those pale cheeks as those eyes fluttered in disbelief, revealing a little bit of his natural silver eyes now that his contacts were slightly askew.

"A-ah, you don't have to carry me! Put me down!"

"No," he simply said, tightening his grip when he felt the other squirm. "I am doing as you asked. I'm escorting the feeble maiden who shouldn't be on her feet."

Lan Zhan follows Wei Ying's instructions, driving him to a shady looking bar that's three stories high. Normally he would assume his friend just wanted to drink, but this felt different.

They enter through the back, the kitchen staff looking up at them in shock. Wei Ying let his hair loose, waving to everyone and - was he using sign language?!

The employees sign back, looking both worried and relieved.

Eventually Wei Ying whispered "there's stairs to the left," and he carried him up to what looked like a large living room. Someone was playing a piano, a walking stick propped up against the wall near him, and a child slept peacefully on the couch. Wei Ying motioned for him to go up the next set of stairs, leading him to a small den that had been transformed into a room.

"When did you learn sign language?"

"Ahahaha, well, there's a lot you don't know about me, Lan Zhan." And it was true. All around the room were Styrofoam heads sporting different kinds of wigs, both male and female. Dozens of non-prescription contacts boxes were tossed all over. Clothes were thrown haphazardly in one of the corners, forcing them both to sit on the bed. This obviously wasn't Wei Ying's first time wearing a disguise.

"I saw a suspicious person go through an employees only door the day of the party, and instead of saying something, I ran after them. They noticed and ran, which made me give chase. He ran by the kitchen and hit a switch, and everything went black"

"Why didn't you tell that to the police?"

Wei Ying blinked up at him with a sad smile. "You think I didn't?" Lan Zhan didn't understand. The responding officers were good friends of theirs, people who have been friends with their family since they were little. They knew Wei Ying. Might not have been fond of him, but knew he would never do such a thing. Yet Wei Ying wouldn't lie about this either.

"They nearly killed me, Lan Zhan. They hunted me down, even used their damned hell hounds. They wanted me dead so they could pin the whole blame on me without further investigation. That's when I met them, my new family."

Wen Qing and Wen Ning were out shopping when someone tried to rob a now blind Wen Ning. Unable to stand by, Wei Ying swooped in and stopped them. After that, they kept running into each other. Eventually he learned the Wens had been at the same Christmas Party and Wen Ning had suffered a nasty head injury, resulting in blindness. Hearing he was searching for the one responsible, they teamed up.

From there, they gathered their savings and bought this rundown building, turning it into a bar. It brought them business and income without the attention. They also got to chose their hours. Most of then Wens who stayed with them had disabilities such as being mute, blind, or deaf.

"It's... been a long time since I've had a long conversation like this." Wen Qing was fine, however she was hardly home, always taking shifts at the hospital to give them a steady income when the bar was slow.

Lan Zhan, against Wei Ying's protests, helps clean and wrap his feet, agreeing to work together to find the one responsible and clear his name.

"He knows I'm on his trail. He's planning something, something big. We can't let him succeed this time."

And so Lan Zhan escorts a beautiful woman around town, one who's mute (which is so ironic since Lan Zhan couldn't get him to shut up when they were growing up), and when Wei Ying feels mischievous, he arrives at meet up locations in a different wig and a completely different kind of outfit, giggling as people start spreading rumors that Lan Zhan has turned into a player.

That's all I have so far XD Hope you guys like it! Just a shower idea

[shamelessemoartlover]

I really hate how I always become obsessed with ships where two people are childhood friend and the two of the genuinely respect,care or balance off each other so they basically feel like soulmates in my eyes I WANT IT SO BAD 😭 KNOWING MOST OF THESE WILL NEVER BE CANON SO DOES THAT ME TO THAT I WILL NEVER FIND THE PERSON OR CAN'T BE WITH THEM anyway I see love my definition of love is having mutal respect, admiration and you can just balance off each other wither you friends or not even if they have hurt you in the past if they show there trying to change there ways for themselves and you though words or actions I believe that with actions its more important because you can honestly make up those words vs doing things I honestly that shows you at least care about them or may love them depending on the relationship and people I stated this for mainly in bkdks case and a couple of other ships because I know I may get backlash for shipping them because its "abusive "even though katsuki is atoning for his past actions and the other ships that may cause backlash I believe that those characters show they have cared for the people am shipping them with at least more than others in their respected shows from my prospective and if they aren't childhood friends aren't what I've said earlier at all in this paragraph they just a crack ship or rare pair that are a really funny and cute dynamic from what I feel like they would act with each other in yakunoya ,kensato , lachambers, satogou and chailei case I like them a lot because even though most are rare pairs I believe they are really cute and have mutal love respect care and Adramtion for each other I think they can tell each other almost anything if not anything and honestly could be soulmates in how they are written / protraied in the mangas, the novel, the animes ,the movie , the series from how I see them with my definition of love wither platonic or romantic.

BUT ANYWAY I fricken love you can tell I have a huge ass obsession on all of these ships and which ones am obsessed with at the moment like deadass it turned to a long ass rant about the things I ship if this post does well then I make full on post about all of my ships to crack ships to otp ships and explain and analyze the ships and if this post doesn't ooh well am still going to do it because I think it will be fun and some of these ships really so need more content on here and other platforms I have.

#kensato #satoken #wonderduo #bkdk #bakudeku #eddeddy #keneric #kenman #yakunoya #noyayaku #wangxian #cardcaptorsakura #satogou #hiroguel #higuel #lachambers #cailei #hwapyungxyoon #reddie #ships #obessions #tumbler #otps #fandoms #ededdneddy #haikyuu #pokemon2019 #theuntamed #thebody #standbyme #erased #bigherosix #coco #theguest #southpark #mha #myhero #reddie #it #stephenking

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wangxian fic rec list

y’all knew this was gonna happen at some point alkdjasld 

i’ll put this under a keep reading so it doesn’t clog up everyone’s feed! i have created a full summary of basically all my bookmarks and am slowly writing reviews so take a look at that if you would like hehe 

this post is mainly to track my favourite fics but it will be constantly updated!  

here is the summary: notion fic rec page (i spent so long on this omg but it looks pretty :))

something to make your heart ache

series: long way home by @idrilka 

angst, fluff, smut, multi-chapter, post-CQL 

honestly one the best fics i have ever read; it captures the pining and the longing so perfectly and we get a wangxian marriage and domestic wangxian in future chapters so basically the perfect fic to soothe your heart post-CQL

and so my heart beats wildly by lily_winterwood 

angst, fluff, smut, multi-chapter, modern AU 

THIS FIC IS INSANELY FANTASTIC; the attention to detail is absolutely incredible and i really respect the amount of effort it would have taken to create this universe (basically modern cultivation); also the pining is just ASLKDJ 

your heartbeat across the grass by fakeplasticlily 

angst, fluff, smut, modern AU 

footballer!LWJ + photographer!WWX literally enough said; this was the first fic i read and it was the one that dragged me down the rabbit hole of wangxian angst, i literally needed 3 days to properly function after reading this 

series: forget everything, but the flowers and my love for you by leffy

angst, fluff, smut, mutli-chapter, modern AU

the first part of this ENDED me; it’s just such a nicely written fic with just the right amount of angst but we also get a domestic wangxian and they adopt [redacted] so it’s just NICE OKAY I LOVE THIS FIC also the smut is A+++++

shadows in the sun rise by @glenflower

angst (so much omg), fluff, post-CQL 

this angst killed me, like if you want something that really makes your heart just ache and ache this is the one; but it’s also unbelievably sweet and really shows how well wangxian know each other and how good wwx is to lwj ;;;

爱不释手; never let me go by yiqie 

angst, fluff, light smut, post-CQL

THIS FIC *mindblown* like genuinely wow what a well-written fic, i literally stayed up till 2am to finish reading this it was so captivating; basically wangxian are husbands (but not really bc ????? they are dumb) and it’s a fantastic case fic that just makes your heart whole again 

hunters seeking solid ground by @attilarrific

angst, fluff, smut, post-CQL

if you want something that makes your heart break for wwx, this is the one; it deals with some pretty heavy themes of PTSD and trauma but it’s so beautifully written and it features domestic wangxian (who aren’t together but like they’re together) and i just come back to read this one again and again 

something to soothe your heart 

a settling into his bones by walking_through_autumn

fluff, light smut, post-MDZS

THIS ONE RIGHT HERE GUYS; this was a recent read of mine and it’s so perfect, domestic wangxian at its peak, just them being husbands and dealing with the past together and then just being in love even more 

your heart, two doors down by @neiljortsens

fluff, modern AU 

*slams fist on table* GIVE US THE DOMESTIC WANGXIAN WE NEED; guys this is so fluffy i cannot i literally live for domestic wangxian being husbands (but not husbands) and this is literally that; also dad!WWX gives us all life and we thank the writers who give us this gift 

facilitated diffusion by chinxe 

fluff, modern AU 

in wangxian being dumbasses we trust; LWJ bby use your words pls but asldiajsd this is just a cute short sweet fic that makes my heart feel whole again after all that angst 

i hope that you will come and meet me by feyburner 

light angst, fluff, smut, post-CQL

DOMESTIC WANGXIAN STRIKES AGAIN; pls wwx use your words stop being a dumbass but this fic just makes my heart go 🥺it’s so beautifully written and the pining just is argh my heart ACHES 

something yet to learn by glitterbombshell 

light angst, fluff, post-CQL

ANOTHER DOMESTIC WANGXIAN (can you tell this is my thing???) but wwx teaching the baby lans is something i want to see every single day for the rest of my life it’s so wholesome and it fills and soothes my heart; also lwj being proud of his husband is my new kryptonite 

sleep in your bed by copperwings 

fluff, smut, modern AU 

WANGXIAN BEING DUMBASSESS AGAIN; wwx finding every opportunity to tease lwj is my favourite thing and lwj finally taking the initiative to just KISS wwx to shut him up is just *chef’s kiss* 

from me to you by @lynxxed

fluff, modern AU, social media 

THIS FIC IS ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITES; perfect use of social media to convey how dumb WWX truly is, but it’s just perfect pining and wholesome fluff wangxian being boyfriends is just always welcomed 

it’s the little things, you see by geraldinegrenadine

fluff, modern AU

WWX BEING A DUMBASS WE LOVE; dad!WWX + teacher!LWJ is the pairing i never knew i needed in my life but i’m so glad that it is omfg, domestic wangxian strikes again in this fic 

one good thing by @glenflower

fluff, light angst, modern AU

this was one of my recent finds! i absolutely love the concept and premise behind this fic + wwx being a chaotic mess without realising lwj is there is literally what wakes me up in the morning, i’ve probably re-read this fic way too many times by now oopsie 

something to make you laugh

the simplest way forward by harriet_vane

fluff, smut, light angst, modern AU

wwx reaches peak dumbass in this fic and that is not an exaggeration but we love him for it; lwj pls use your words sweetie but honestly i LIVE for this fic it’s so wonderfully written as well and incorporates all the other characters really well 

not just netflix and chill (or lan zhan's lack of grasp of euphemisms) by misscam

fluff, light smut, modern AU

CUTE, SWEET, WHOLESOME everything you would ever want, someone pls save lwj the poor bby, but this is just something short and sweet to soothe your heart from all the angst in this list hehe 

grace and a tender hand by feyburner 

fluff, modern AU 

wholesome, tooth-rotting fluff and the complications that come with first dates BUT IT’S SO CUTE wangxian being boyfriends is the aesthetic we live for 

[qinghe-s]

GETTING TO KNOW ME

i was tagged by @melodious-tear ♥

why did you choose your url?

i feel like that’s obvious to anyone who’s followed me for, like, two days. i know where my heart belongs. besides, the aesthetic of cql!qinghe fucks

any side-blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them.

well, this. i also run @masseffectcaps although i haven’t posted in a few months; i probably will again once i get my hands on the legendary edition. i started it because original default female shepard didn’t get the respect she deserves from bioware especially. don’t get me started on this bc i will not shut up. i have a lot of feelings.

@celestecraft used to be popular on mineblr; i went on a lot of adventures while playing with a small group of friends and wanted to save them in some way + sharing a hobby is fun. in the past i also had a fairly well-known lgbtq+ blog and a terry pratchett-centric one but that was years ago and my energy to keep up with providing things for others (rather than just enjoying myself) waned.

how long have you been on tumblr?

t...twelve years by now... oh no

do you have a queue tag?

nah. i used to, on my personal, but i almost exclusively post things through the queue so it doesn’t feel like it matters.

why did you start your blog in the first place?

i was lured into this fandom because a good friend of mine played a character based on him in a d&d oneshot and i was immediately and helplessly charmed, saw this gifset a little while later and told her “this. this will make me watch your show” and, well.

it started consuming enough brain space, especially as i was reading the book, that it made sense to keep it contained rather than expose my original followers to this endlessly when they come for — actually i don’t know. pretentious aesthetic and me being gay over star trek women (well, janeway, mainly) and crying over mass effect?

why did you choose your icon/pfp?

that woman is wife city to me. it was nhs previously because... baby

why did you choose your header?

it matches my blog background on desktop. that’s it. it’s for the aesthetic.

what’s your post with the most notes?

on this blog it’s probably this one of me calling lwj a bitch (honorific). i believe this wangxian fic i wrote for vday is a close second. (a couple of my gifsets of nie mingjue looking beautiful are gaining though which is very pleasing to me)

i also have a few posts that have reached the thousands on my mass effect blog, but i don’t keep track of those anymore.

how many followers do you have?

five hundred... something. six hundred? who knows.

how many people do you follow?

a couple of hundred? many are lgbtq+ resource blogs that post very infrequently though, so my dash generally isn’t that cluttered

have you ever made a shitpost?

a couple! i’m not all that funny (perk of being my friend is that you’ll always be the funny one, it’s the main service i provide) but the bitch!lwj one and an outofcontextyaoi text post edit.

how often do you use tumblr each day?

ehh, depends. some days i’ll only check in at night and refresh the dash once in a while when doing other things, other days my brain requires constant input and i’ll open the app on my phone every hour. there is no average.

did you have a fight/argument with a blog once?

yeah, but not here. i pissed a lot of people off a few years ago when i expressed my opinion on sexist portrayals of women in video games in general and mass effect specifically. my opinion was sexism = bad and some people decided that i was wrong and it’s empowering to put career soldiers in styled hair and a full face of makeup for the sake of marketing, actually, while male characters get to have weathered faces and grey hair. it was a fun time. (it was not)

how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this post’?

my dashboard is carefully curated and i never see those posts. are they still common? because they suck. don’t guilt people into caring.

do you like tag games?

mostly, yeah! sometimes they require energy i simply don’t have but i also think they’re a nice way to interact without having a direct conversation

do you like ask games?

i’m a lot less fond of those, personally. the chain letter type in particular.

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

a lot of them are well known in the fandom actually! which makes me question why they follow me but i am always flattered

do you have a crush on a mutual?

oh absolutely @evakant since we decided we were willing to die for each other after one conversation. wenzhou levels of love happening here.

i’m gonna tag already-mentioned @evakant because reasons but also some people i see in my notes a lot but haven’t talked to — feel free to ignore but also let’s be friends ♥

@shippingsavesmylife @radishsizhui @ahatfullofwords @inappropriatewenning @whateverthemoonhasalwaysmeant

[veliseraptor]

Who is your favourite character in The Untamed and why? Oh, and what is your take on Lan Wangji's character?

God anon, the thing here is that my answer is basically “I love everyone in this bar!”*

*other than, like, three people

There’s just so many characters I have such good feelings about. I tried to top five it but I kept ending up with six or seven instead and then remembering more characters that I love. I just have a whole lot of feelings. I mean, the thing about me is that my true love when it comes to characters is “emotionally dysfunctional people with terrible lives” and that’s basically what we’ve got going on here.

But I guess if I’m picking a few:

1. Wei Wuxian. I mean, I walked into this show because of him and I walked out of this show with a new adoptee (this one). There’s so many buttons getting hit here, and it’s not just “evil flute music sexy” or “narrative kink for stories about the way that the stories people tell about people shape a person” but it is also both those things.

Like, if ever someone gave me an introduction designed to make me go ‘oh, this one’s mine now’ it’s...well, both number one and two on this list.

It’s just...watching that opening scene, and then two episodes later getting slingshot back into the past with someone who seems completely different, and watching those cracks grow and form with each hit he takes...is really good for my narrative kinks.

But also...he’s such a determined-to-be-good boy, he’s such a conciliator in all of these ways that make me feel things, I’m always a sucker for someone who is self-destructive while not always realizing that they’re being self-destructive, who has this particular type of selflessness that becomes self-immolation and also leads to a whole bunch of collateral damage. I have a thing for people who are desperately hiding their dysfunction because they don’t want anyone to know that they’ve got any.

Like. He’s such a mess. He’s got a big heart and a lot of love to give and he’s an enormous fucking mess. And like. The family issues? The self worth issues? Just a whole bunch of things designed to hit me right where I live. 

And evil flute music sexy.

2. Xue Yang. I know myself well enough that sometimes I can look at a character and within thirty seconds of their introduction go ‘oh I’m going to like this one’ and 90% of the time I am right and that is what happened with my new favorite gremlin. Yes he is terrible, I love him and I want him to have nice things. 

This was true before we got to the Yi City arc and I was like. oh thanks for hitting me in my dysfunctional fucked up ship feelings, show, I needed another one of these! Which, I mean, I did need one, because I always do, but hoo boy. 

I just...love a deeply feral and absolutely ruthless murder bastard. The sheer level of “fuck it” energy coming off him all the time. The absolute commitment to the psychological destruction of his nemesis slash boyfriend. The psychological fuckery of spending many, many years trying to resurrect the nemesis slash boyfriend you drove to suicide. The weird murder friendship with Jin Guangyao. (Friends help you be complicit in the murder of two of five sect leaders!) 

I love it. And him. That Good Shit.

3. Lan Wangji. Possibly this is like. Transitive property of character love because I love Wei Wuxian so much and obviously Wei Wuxian is fucking head over face in love with Lan Wangji, so - but also I just think he’s a very good boy?? He’s a disaster gay primarily passing as a functional gay by virtue of not talking enough for people to notice how much of a disaster he is. He’s spending a good half the show having a whole-ass moral existential crisis, which while I don’t find it relatable I do find deeply endearing. 

And just. I’m always going to be a sucker for ‘character who has a whole lot of emotions but doesn’t want anyone to know’ and that’s very Lan Wangji. He’s just! Very good. I am thinking about the scene with him drunk later in the show and that especially just makes me want to grab him and hug him only he wouldn’t like it. 

I don’t know, he just gives me a lot of very squishy feelings where I want to tell him that he’s good and it’s not his fault that his boyfriend went over the literal edge.

4. Jin Guangyao. It’s funny because on my first watch I didn’t notice him all that much for a while (I was busy! having Wangxian and sibling feelings mainly, especially the latter tbh, and some bonus ‘adopting a new horrible gremlin’ feelings), and then we hit the Nie Mingjue flashback episode and I was like. oh shit I love you. you’re coming home with me now. 

I mean, that’s not totally unexpected, I am weak to characters who are a) schemers b) have a lot of shit going on with identity and perception and c) do a lot of really certifiably horrible shit, and I just. pocket sized murder kitten and he belongs to me, I will continue to call him Jiggy forever but that is only because he is yet another of my terrible sons

5. Lan Xichen. Another character I was like - warm and positive toward through my first rewatch and then at the end when he was completely shattering was like “oh hey I love him now.” And then also seeing people in fandom talk shit about him and going “oh hey I love him more now.” 

And then on my rewatch just like. Loving him even more because...yeah he makes some poor choices sure but he’s also just full of such...warmth and generosity? Like, this is a guy who, in a world where everyone is leaping to conclusions all the time, is like ‘maybe let’s not leap to conclusions and give people the benefit of the doubt sometimes, you guys.’ And I like that in a man. It seems like he’s almost compensating for everyone else by going maybe a little bit overboard.

But when did “characters making good choices” be something that qualifies anyone for a favorite of mine? The answer is never.

Also I deeply appreciate his commitment to Lan Wangji and by extension his position as the Founder of the Wangxian Fan Club (co-founder with Jiang Yanli, I’d say, but I think he did get there first). And his consistent expression of exhaustion through the whole thing. Characters who need and deserve a nap: Xichen, and not just the depression one he’s taking post-canon.

6. Jiang Cheng. Didn’t see that one coming but in retrospect probably should have! I’m always going to have emotions about emotionally dysfunctional people with inferiority complexes who have a whole lot of feelings but only really know how to express one of them. Also just like. The entirety of the relationship between Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng was designed to hit me right in the place where I live and boy howdy did it succeed in leaving me hurting a lot for them both. 

And just. This boy is such a disaster! He’s miserable! Everything in his life kinda sucks and he’s not helping himself and definitely not dealing with any of his issues at all! I feel like he needs a nap and a five year hug in the worst way.

But also like. All my love for Wen Qing and Wen Ning both? I’m acquiring more Jiang Yanli feelings on the regular? The entire Yi City Disaster Crew is gold and their dynamics are *chef fingers* amazing? I love all of the juniors but maybe especially Jin Ling so much???

(I do not have as many Nie brother feelings, but I feel like I could get talked into them with very little effort on anyone’s part, especially with Nie Huaisang. I already have feelings about the NHS/JGY relationship, so.)

like this is very much one of those pieces of media where I’m like ‘yes maybe I have latched onto these two characters most but G O D I love them all so much, taking them all home with me for therapy and hot chocolate.”

[razberryyum]

The Untamed/陈情令 Rewatch, Episode 4  (spoilers for everything)

(covers mainly MDZS chaps 13 and 14)

WangXian meter: 🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰

(a 🐰 is earned every time there is a WangXian scene or even when they’re just thinking of each other…more than one 🐰 can be given based on the level of WangXian-ness in a scene)

I loved and enjoyed all of Wei Ying’s “Notice me Wangji-senpai" moments in this episode, but my favorite has to be the one above: the way he tried to play off Lan Zhan totally ignoring him by blaming the other man’s hearing makes me laugh out loud every time I watch this episode. It’s just too adorable. Even though Lan Zhan is clearly still annoyed with him, I like how it’s also obvious that Wei Ying is slowly but surely burrowing his way into his psyche and taking hold there by either not leaving him alone or just being himself which is ample to constantly draw Lan Zhan’s attention to him. It‘s as if Lan Zhan’s life was a calm pond and Wei Ying was a beautiful, lively carp that suddenly decided to just jump into his waters without permission, taking liberties by swimming and splashing around, basically causing ruckus in every corner of his pool. Naturally, Wei Ying’s actions perturbs Lan Zhan to no end at first, but at the same time, he is also leaving an undeniable impression, so that eventually, when this carp leaves Lan Zhan’s pond, he can’t help but constantly think of Wei Ying and even miss his disruptive presence, thus naturally paving the way for the escalation of his affections that follow later on.  

Whereas with Wei Ying, I think he simply enjoyed irritating this fuddy-duddy at first, but eventually, his light-hearted teasing probably became just a little more meaningful and he started looking forward to getting a reaction out of Lan Zhan because it provided him with genuine joy and satisfaction, until those feelings grew into just joy from being around the other man and interacting with him.  

Ultimately that’s a big reason why I love their relationship: the development and progression of their feelings for each other makes a lot of sense to me. The phrase “opposites attract” has never been more applicable in terms of Wei Ying and Lan Zhan, but at the same time, they still share enough things in common—such as their moral code and belief system—that makes them absolutely just perfect for each other.  I can imagine a future for them right from the start, whereas with other couples in stories, regardless of their sex, I’ve had difficulty believing they should be together other than because the plot requires them to be. I think the drama really succeeded in showing us why it’s completely logical that these two people would be drawn to each other, that they almost can’t help but be drawn together, by actually showing us all these little precious moments between them as they occurred, which the novel for the most part only described in an after-the-fact manner. While subtlety has its merits too, I do appreciate the more clearly illustrated path The Untamed decided to take for WangXian.

Along those lines, I also appreciated how CQL chose to show us the first time Lan Xichen and Jin Guangyao met and their instant connection. Honestly, when I first saw this moment…

I immediately thought they were going to be a couple too, like Wei Ying and Lan Zhan, and I was totally on board, until I found out from reading comments here and there that I shouldn’t be because this ship was bad news. I was disappointed of course and even tried to withstand its alluring call for a while, especially after reading the book and finding out exactly why this wasn’t a ship I wanted to board since it was on a one-way ticket to hell and heartbreak basically. But the drama just made it so damn hard to resist, and before I knew it, I was lowkey hooked.  Much like with WangXian, I was surprised at how much the show was getting away with in terms of XiYao:

I mean, big bro Xichen totally stroked Meng Yao’s finger there, right? First time I saw that, I remember rewinding a few times just to check and and make sure and if it’s just an optical illusion, that’s a damn convincing trick. Amusingly enough I thought at first Wei Ying was seeing the same thing and was reacting in disbelief to that moment, until I realized from his angle, there’s no way he could have seen that small gesture and he was just responding to that (ugly) incense pot.  

After finishing the series, I have to admit I’m pretty much a full-on XiYao-shipper now, which is really out of character for me because I usually prefer ships with happy endings. I have to blame, or rather, give credit to the two actors portraying LXC and JGY (Liu Haikuan and Zhu Zanjin, respectively) for conjuring up these feelings in me because they had so much chemistry together, which honestly at times rivaled that of Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo’s chemistry. I just love how LXC’s expression softens every time he interacts with JGY and even from their first meeting, it’s obvious there were genuine feelings of respect and gratitude behind Meng Yao’s reaction to LXC.

Take the moment above as an example: the extreme admiration emanating from JGY after seeing LXC exhibit his fluting powers had to be for real since there was no reason to react just for Nie Huaisang’s sake. I can totally imagine hearts fluttering all around him as he looked upon XiChen with those wide, innocent-seeming puppy eyes of his. And when he bade his farewell to big bro later on in the episode, I loved how the camera lingered on LXC’s hands as Meng Yao moved away after saluting him, just to reiterate the intimacy of their brief physical contact.  

I also appreciated the small, seemingly trivial moments before and after he meets up with LXC in that scene, where Meng Yao is first ignored by the two male sect disciples walking by him and then later on by two female disciples. Contrast that with how LXC immediately praises Meng Yao and recognizes him as his peer from the get go, going so far as to refer to himself by his own name (“Xichen”) just to reinforce their equality, it’s no wonder JGY was instantly drawn to him. I would go so far as to say he probably fell for LXC right from the start; doesn’t even matter if it might be only in the platonic sense, man was smitten no matter how anyone chooses to categorize his feelings.

XianQing? No thank you

When I first watched this episode, I still had the stormy cloud of fear that Wen Qing would eventually be the love interest that comes in between Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji hanging over me due to some rumors I came across prior to even watching the show. As a result, every time Wen Qing and WWX would have a scene together, I would view it with trepidation as I was certain it was yet another building block to something undesirable, with the ultimate goal of mutating the relationship at the core of MDZS. If I’m going to be honest, I don’t think I was even able to rest easy until after Wen Qing’s passing and knowing for certain that the “danger period” was finally over, even though I had already grown to like her character. I still have complaints about how they altered her personality for the live action, but at least now, when I watch the scenes she shares with Wei Ying, instead of being filled with anxiety, I am actually more fascinated. I can still see the ghost of what Team CQL had initially intended with Wen Qing and WWX in a lot of their scenes together, before the fans’ uproar thankfully forced the producers to change their minds and stick with the source material.  This scene wasn’t one of those moments, but with revisiting each episode, I actually look forward to picking out which scenes were feeding into their ship because of the way they were shot and how the two actors were directed to perform during the scene, especially Meng Ziyi. I’m glad I can actually sit back and have fun with all of this now.  

XianNing? I can’t

I can see why some folks support this ship, and upon first viewing I thought this was a cute moment as well, but of course, I simply can’t go there since my heart already belongs to WangXian. And now, after having read the novel, all I could think about is how much I wish we got the archery contest at the Cultivation Conference. I’m glad we got to see it depicted in the donghua; it was as amazing as I hope it would be, but it’s a shame we didn’t get to see it in the drama. Since the producers had mentioned releasing specials of extra scenes that they couldn’t fit into the flow of the show, I hope the archery contest will be one of them. I don’t know where it would fit in in the timeline though…I guess it could happen while they were all held hostage at Nightless City, so the reason for the archery contest will have to be changed, but then maybe that’s the impetus for Wen Chao’s decision to force everyone on that dangerous quest to the Xuanwu cave: he’s so pissed off at losing at archery on his own turf that he decides to try to get all the sect kids killed.  Either way, I hope we get to see the contest in live action form one day.

Wei Wuxian is so smart

I loved this scene. I love how WWX schooled everyone with his inventive fourth reason. He’s so awesome. That’s really all I wanted to say about it.  

Random Bits of Randomness

I don’t think there’s anything wrong the color function on my tv, so please explain to me how that can be considered “purple” in any universe??

All I could think about in this scene is how disgusting that fish must have tasted cuz it looked awful, and I think Xiao Zhan even mentioned in an interview that it was gross. What probably made it taste worse was the fact that he kept on eating it from the stomach side, which can be really bitter. I think Wang Zhuocheng (Jiang Cheng) was eating it from the same side as well and I just can’t help grimacing every time I see this moment.

Odds and Ends:

I don’t really have any questions from this episode, but I did wonder if Wen Qing ever actually attended classes while she was at Cloud Recesses or did she just spend all of the time wandering the back hills, throwing her needles at barriers, cuz that’s not suspicious AT ALL. Unless I just happened to have missed her every single time in class, even though you would think it’s easy to spot her red in a sea of white…if that’s the case then I probably need to get my eyes checked.

Also, I wish we got to see Shijie draw her sword. She carried it around in the beginning, but I’m kinda bummed that we never saw her actually use it. I’m sure she is completely capable and would’ve looked just as badass as the boys.

And bless Uncle Lan for his brilliant idea of making Lan Zhan enforce the disciplinary action on Wei Ying, thereby allowing the boys to have valuable alone time in the library pavilion to further nurture their bond. In retrospect he probably regrets that decision, but as far as I’m concerned, that’s one of his best one he’s ever made.