#cultivate the witness

[vintage-tigre]

[oftengrok]

Everyone has experienced enlightenment on some level. It's not a finish line, it's more like an infinite process of seeing what you hadnt previously and can't unsee now. You know the feeling when you learn of a thing that has been right in front of you the whole time but you never realized it. It's so obvious that when someone points it out to you, your eyes get big and you say, "oh yeah"! That's what enlightenment is but usually more and more profound each time. Sometimes you are awestruck and sometimes your only response is simply, "oh".

KDF

[grandapplewit]

Harem AU where Shen Yuan transmigrates into one of Bingge’s wives shortly after he returns from the other world. After a brief (and frantic) realization that’s she’s a woman (and always has been, but we’re not getting into that right now), she delves deep into this harem drama she’s been thrust into. It’s not until she comes face to face with Luo Bingge that she realizes just WHICH harem drama she’s living, and immediately sets about making his life as good as she can manage. Oh, harem infighting is causing strain on his containers? Simply nudge Liu Mingyan and Sha Hualing into working together to manage the harem. The Northern Desert is hinging on disaster because of clerical neglect? One of her harem sisters has a brother who’s in need of a job, no stress. Luo Binghe’s kids are unruly and there’s no clear successor? She has a college degree and a little sister, teaching a dozen or so demonic children is a breeze! All in the name of giving Luo Binghe the time to find a new wife, of course, one who will disperse with the need for this sprawling harem, and once that happens she’s free to travel and document monsters to her hearts content.

[lazycranberrydoodles]

chapter 2 - reincarnation (masterpost here)

[straylingart]

quick ootd sketch 'hag whose smug aura mocks you'

[stiltonbasket]

How did wen!wwx fall in love with lwj? Was it some form of stockhold syndrome on lwj's part? Pls tell us?

I can't really answer this via ficlet, but in short, Lan Wangji has known about Wen Ruohan's near-total control over Wei Wuxian for over twenty years. LWJ also knows that his imprisonment at the Wei Manor is meant as a punishment for Yu Zhenhong, not Wei Wuxian; and very soon after he moves into WWX's mansion, he realizes that WWX is genuinely the best person he's ever met and becomes bitterly jealous of Zhenhong. He's perfectly capable of escaping if he wants to, but he falls in love with Wei Wuxian so quickly that he decides to stay in Qishan until he can remove the obedience sigils on WWX's back, or at least until he can find a way to take Wei Wuxian with him.

On Wei Wuxian's side, he's a 37-year-old single father who has been alone all his life, out of fear that Wen Ruohan might use a spouse or partner as leverage against him. He's counting down the days to his only child's conscription date, and his greatest asset in the war effort - his position as Wen Ruohan's high general - has just been taken from him.

And then he meets Lan Wangji - the only person who is his true peer in every respect, despite being nominally dependent on Wei Wuxian's name and protection. He finds a way to support Wei Wuxian's spy ring from the High General's manor and get messages back to the front, and he manages to keep Wei Wuxian safe when Wen Ruohan starts to suspect that WWX might have betrayed him. He gives Sizhui a protection charm that will prevent any cultivator of Lan descent from wounding him with their spiritual energy, even though Sizhui is going into battle against Lan soldiers.

It's no wonder that Wei Wuxian falls in love with him. But he believes his position gives him far more power over Lan Wangji than it actually does, which is why he refuses to make a move until Lan Wangji makes it for him.

[autisthottygoth]

Just had the horrifically tragic realization that Wei Wuxian was never acquainted with the concept of finger guns

[mxtxfanatic]

Jiang Cheng continued, voice harsh, “Enough what? You think it’s enough just because you’ve said so? You know everything! You’re better than me in every way! Exceptionally gifted, a cultivation prodigy! With a pure heart and a luminous mind! You all know everything! I’m inferior—then what the hell am I?!?!”

–Chapt. 102: “A Hatred For Life” Part 5, boat-full-of-lotus-pods

A clown, you absolute tool!

[kayvsworld]

i need someone to give me matt murdoch brainrot if i'm going to watch this show. i need to deliberately contract Liking Daredevil Disease

[bombusbombus]

Just two clever, quiet men hiding in their own shadow

[oftengrok]

Suffering is putting faith in the things that change.

Part of enlightenment is competency in ability to change.

Everything will change.

Be fluid with inevitable change,

And let go of the things that change

[grandapplewit]

AU where Shen Yuan, soon after Binghe falls into the Abyss, loses all his memories of Shen Qingqiu. He assumes that he transmigrated into some no name NPC, and enjoys his life as a rogue cultivator completely oblivious to the Heavenly Demon and multiple Peak Lord’s tearing the world apart trying to find him.

[warmspice]

hello the world is so beautiful and I love you <333

[naksushadows]

the most adorable posters

[vyragosa]

hey i just want to say. every time i see you goin off abt DS I get the biggest smile on my face. i have no idea what the fuck is going on but by god your passion is inspiring.

woe! sam/higgs be upon ye!

COMING FROM Y OU I'M SO FUCKED UP. THE FEELING IS MUTUAL , YOUR HONOR. THANK YOU. FUCK.

-experiences bountiful sam/higgs harvest-

[deathbyoctopi]

from a post in the mdzs forum (link):

is there cultivation outside the mdzs-centric provinces?

I don’t mean a crossover with other svsss, woh etc. I mean other regions, in the west, in the south, up north, could they learn that kind of cultivation magic?

I, for one, DONT THINK SO! it would have developed in other forms... See, other areas in the world have perhaps more lowkey, mysticism magic (celts, xamans, inuit, idk) but no-one else can fly like they can!! and do so much cool shit with little difficulty!

So I think something makes that particular area very magic-prone, like it’s highly radioactive, or God sneezed over there and His Holly Germs are still floating around. (and mayyybe over long periods of time some flimsy sparks of that radioactivity spread to other parts of the world, but not much)

But the rest of the world is just normal, as in there are martial arts masters but they can punch, not fly! And the Emperor&co want nothing to do with those weird provinces because damn, people can just command nature and resurrect the dead over there? They can pick a bit of unnerving music and give you an aneurysm with it?? Yeah, we're not going anywhere near that place. Let them rule themselves as they please and interact as little as possible with them aND IF THEY ASK WE ALSO HAVE POWERS!!! D'YOU HEAR? IF THEY LEARN WE CAN'T DO THAT SORT OF STUFF THEY'LL CONQUER US IN A HEARTBEAT!!!