#cql

[sllykttn]

I love whoever saved these for fans- AND remembered to sprinkle them over us just when we least expected it :)

the bts that keeps on giving 😂😂😂

[lilkikibat]

🗣️🗣️ Take him down, lay him flat 🗣️🗣️

Introducing the WangXian wrestling au of my dreams— 6 illustrations by me and a ginormous fic by @redstockings for this year’s @mdzsrbb. It was an absolute treat working together and I’m incredibly proud of the way our collab turned out.

So fucking excited about this fic!! IT’S HERE. HORRAY.

Link to ao3 user RedStocking’s amazing fic here.

[keyjamm]

⋆ ˚｡⋆୨♡୧⋆ ˚｡⋆Villainous friends in a nutshell⋆ ˚｡⋆୨♡୧⋆ ˚｡⋆

[mrinafria]

The Unhinged Origins and The Unhinged Returns

The Unhinged or whatever that chinese bl show was called

[lanwangjihouse]

In the cdrama vs in the bts

[ bts cr: 派大星我们一起去抓水母吧lllb]

[scrimblescromble]

Kpop Demon Hunters but it's actually these guys and they get to live happily ever after and eat ramen :)

Design notes under the cut as always!

Yanli

Honestly she fits so well with Zoey!! Let Yanli be silly and goofy agenda!

Her weapons are meant to evoke the Chinese round fans, except in a bladed louts shape; this is also inspired by the concept art, since Zoey's weapon being a fan was an idea

Her outfit is based off an actual outfit I saw on a kpop idol, with the crossed belts and skirt over trousers look. Overall her outfit looks the least suited for battle at a glace with the skirt and the detached sleeves; however, her boots are the most practical

All of them have a lotus accessory - Yanli's is her earrings

Wuxian

His weapon is obviously Suibian, although I like to think he does play the flute in a plot-irrelevant way

Long Ponytail.

His lotus accessory is one of his necklaces - the other necklace is the Tiger Amulet

All of them have the same shade of light purple in their design. His is the most important in design-wise, as it's also the only purple - separating him from the others. It's also his jacket, which is removable, but covers his patterns.

Lotus shorts!

Wanyin

Zidian! Also inspired by Zoey's concept art! I meant to style it like a jie bian, or, a nine-section whip, but that was too difficult. So. It is in my heart okay.

Ever the practical man, he has the most fight-ready outfit

His lotus is the belt buckle

Earrings in the shape of the clarity bell - I also like to think they'd actually be bells

Other:

I'm not actually a fan of the way I drew the boots but I hope you all forgive me and instead see the vision

He was bullied into the shorts

Manager would be Nie Huaisang

Wuxian would be the charismatic quick-witted goof; Yanli would be the sweet older sister; Wanyin would be the tsundere but also the "sexy one"

The Saja Boys would be the same except Jinu would be Wangji; the rest don't even have names so placing other characters in seems unnecessary

I am calling them all by their courtesy names for simplicity's sake - except Lan Zhan would have both a courtesy and birth name since he's old

The Sunlight Sisters would be Cangse Sanren, Madame Lan, and Madame Jin - except with names

Obviously Yanli and Wanyin would be siblings still, but they'd maybe have a plotline of divorced parents and separated childhoods? Maybe Yanli grows up in America?

Wuxian would be Rumi but with Madame Lan

Lan Zhan would have abandoned Xichen and his son Lan Yuan

[part-time-trash]

More Jiang Cheng inspired by Wang Zhuocheng✨✨

[thebiscuiteternal]

Additional reminder that in the novel, it was Jin Zixuan, not Lan Wangji, who invited Wei Wuxian to Jin Ling's celebration because Jiang Yanli wanted him there, and Jin Zixuan *hand-delivered* that invitation to the Burial Mounds, which Wei Wuxian and Wen Ning actively discuss. Wei Wuxian even says it impressed him enough that he'll go easy on the guy for awhile and promises Wen Ning he'll be on his best behavior!

And then it all goes to hell anyway.

i see that, despite there being zero evidence for this claim, "jiang cheng sold an unwilling yanli off to the jins solely to secure political power; yanli didn't actually want to marry zixuan" is still a hot take people have.

my own conspiracy theory about this hot take (which iirc others have also posted about) is that even this hot take isn't actually About jiang yanli. instead, this hot take is actually About exonerating wei wuxian.

a certain subset of the fandom argue that jiang yanli didn't actually want to marry jin zixuan not because they actually care about the intricacies of jiang yanli's character, but rather so they can then lessen the negative impact of wei wuxian accidentally manslaughtering jin zixuan. obviously if a woman you care deeply is in love with her husband and actively wanted to marry him, then you murdering said husband - even if accidentally - is morally not great. but, i suppose the reasoning goes, if she doesn't actually care about her husband and doesn't want to be married to him, that makes your oopsies zombie BIL murder....less bad. less hurtful. then the pain you caused her - by, well, murdering her husband and leaving her child fatherless - can be minimized.

congratulations! the moral perfection of xianxian has once again been defended - at the cost of the agency of an already narratively-maligned female character.

[jasmasson]

My favorite part of the Mo Dao Zu Shi novel so far is how when Wei Wuxian is resurrected he proceeds to play gay chicken with someone who is a) actually gay and b) completely in love with him.

[wangxianficrecs]

Another Fandom Event Dropped!

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Hello! I was wondering if it would be possible to ask for a signal boost for an MDZS book club event? (It's totally chill if not.) My server is hosting our first week of book club next Sunday and we'd like to make sure that as many people can join in as are interested! @chef-manardee

MDZS Book Club

Grab your books and annotation tools for the MDZS Book Club, starting soon. For all information, check out the info post linked above or reach out to @chef-manardee

*** REBLOG so everyone enjoy! ***

Wangxianficrecs doesn’t coordinate anything in our Eye on Events segment, we’re just letting everyone know about them.  If you have an event you want the fandom to participate in or know about, let us know, and we’ll make a post about it.

[allegrabanner]

sometimes family is just you, your peerlessly serene but secretly feral autistic dad, your undead mad genius adhd gremlin necromancer dad, the lovably awkward reanimated corpse of your distant uncle, and the donkey your adhd dad stole from the family of the man who summoned his soul into his own body in order to enact vengeance on said family

[modao18]

[snowyshuanghua]

mdzs headcanon of the day #697 !

in escape rooms jingyi’s the one who has to do all the scary stuff even though he’s on the verge of throwing up bc no one else wants to do it

[elenfnoir]

#mdzs #theuntamed #cql #weiwuxian #lanwangji #wangxian

Give Lan Wangji a hug!

[seleniclight]

[MDZS] Understanding in Context

Sooooo, I never thought I'd be here, but recently I started reading Montaigne and IDEK man.

The reason I decided to write this post is because I think when people read MDZS specifically in the English side of the fandom they often neglect to see the whole story in the context of ancient China. I'm not saying I'm an expert on this, so I would love to be corrected if I'm wrong, but I specifically wanted to discuss an action from Jiang Cheng.

As people know, one of the biggest betrayals he committed is not protecting Wen Qing's faction (not the word I'd use but yeah), while Wei Wuxian did. Well, I think this is often more multi-faceted than people think it is.

Think about it, the Wen family killed JC's entire sect and family, even if it wasn't WQ's branch. So no matter what, JC as one of the last surviving members and heir to the sect is morally obligated to kill them to avenge his family. Then, people often bring up the debt he should owe to Wen Ning for saving him, which is where it gets difficult and muddy. Because while *technically* he does have a debt to WN, at the same time, WN saved JC for WWX (I think so? Correct me if I'm wrong please) so WWX has more of a debt than JC? and WWX fulfilled it. Of course, JC should to an extent still owe them, but then that would directly contest the whole societal pressure/obligation for him to avenge his family.

Therefore, despite WQ's whole faction being innocent, it makes sense that JC would still choose to be hostile to them, from both personal, societal and cultural reasons (remember, he was also playing a political game the whole time that WWX wasn't).

The final argument I've seen is also that JC can easily make the whole sects spare WQ's faction by saying he owes WN a debt from saving him and ???? That is simply not true??? Just because WN saved JC DOES NOT mean that the rest of the sects should forgive them for the other atrocities that the Wen family committed in the war (ie. burning the Lan sect). All it would do is have the Jiang clan killed for good, and obviously JC CAN NOT have that happen.

Basically tldr, the situation is a lot more complicated than most people give it credit for and people need to acknowledge that.

Anyways, bye bye!