#grandmaster of demonic cultivation live

[asha-mage]

MDZS AU where Jiang Cheng realizes that Lan Sizhui is the Wen orphan that Wei Wuxian took care off during the Burial Mounds arc, decides that's close enough to qualify him as Nephew, declares that no Nephew of His (much less a surrogate son of Wei Wuxian's) is going to be raised in the Cloud Recedes, and immediately launches into a custody battle with Lan Wangji.

But since neither Jiang Cheng or Lan Wangji can acknowledge that Sizuhi has any connection to Wei Wuxian, both begin steadfastly and stubbornly insisting that he is a Cultivator of peerless potential and skill and he belongs in their sect thank you very much, and would clearly be very unhappy in the other's. This confuses the hell out of the already mystified Cultivation world, who had barely adjusted yet to gossiping about Sizhui being Wangji's illegitimate child by mysterious love affair.

(Eventually the common consensus in the rumor mills is that both JC and LW where in love with Sizhui's mother and both believe themselves to be Sizhui's real father.)

(LW couldn't care less what gossips say, but JC has to bite his tongue till it bleeds to avoid telling anyone the truth in a fit of anger.)

(It was Nie Huaisang who put that rumor out in the first place, partly to troll JC, partly because, in a way, it's a little true.)

[luanna801]

Oh so when Nie Huaisang tricks a guy into stabbing his best friend to death it's ""justified revenge"" and ""very girlboss of him"" but when I, Xue Yang--

[tenmastrousers]

without comfort

[benevolenterrancy]

the first of many betrayals (nmj is willing to throw other people to the wolves (his little brother) if it means he's not the one being immediately pestered)

[disgracefulthings]

Shen Qingqiu: Like you, I also have a tragic backstory

Wei Wuxian: Oh, did you have an abusive family?

Shen Qingqiu: Nope

Xie Lian: Have you lived through poverty?

Shen Qingqiu: Not that either

Wei Wuxian: Then what?

Shen Qingqiu: One time I read a really bad story

Wei Wuxian: ...

Xie Lian: ...

[mvdsart]

“Isn’t there somebody you forgot to ask?” meme but it’s Jiang Cheng

[lotuslate]

@wlwangxianweek

Day 5: Domestic Bliss / est. relationship; they went on an amusement park date 🥰

[i-guess-im-into-this-now]

Shen Qingqiu, embarrassed: I didn't come up with the idea! It was from that trashy book!

Wei Wuxian, envious: I cannot believe someone wrote a smutty book about you and your husband!

Xie Lian, triggered: It's mortifying to read about one's self like that. Those pervy books are best left in the trash.

Wei Wuxian, wide eyed: Don't tell me you have a smutty book about you and your husband too?!

Xie Lian: Unfortunately, yes.

Wei Wuxian: Lucky! All I have are some poorly drawn and wildly inaccurate pictures of the Yiling Patriarch.

Part 1

Part 2

[scumvillainess]

mdzs x svsss au where the qi deviation that shen qingqiu (sj) had was a result of someone summoning his soul to the mdzs-verse mo xuanyu style.

[mpreggificator]

I'm obsessed with the idea of Mo Xuanyu living but the story has not changed that much with him living.

Like, Mo Xuanyu does the soul sacrifice ritual and instead of his body being taken over by Wei Wuxian, it brings him back in his old body and Mo Xuanyu qi deviates on the spot instead. Instead of dying, he turns into a toddler and loses all of his memories.

Before Wei Wuxian can start his second life taking care of a toddler, Nie Huaisang comes in and yoinks Mo Xuanyu cuz can't have him throw a wrench in his plans. So while Wei Wuxian goes off to solve the mystery of the arm, fall in love with Lan Wangji, and live his second life the best way he can, Nie Huaisang is mostly at home taking care of a toddler and trying not to get too attached.

Bonus:

After the main plot, Jiang Cheng goes to the Unclean Realm to confront Nie Huaisang about the whole everything where he discovers that Mo Xuanyu is alive. He also discovers that Nie Huaisang is not that great at parenting and sort of shoves his way to show Huaisang the proper ways of taking care of a toddler. It helps that Mo Xuanyu is cute and small and reminds Jiang Cheng of Jin Ling when he was a toddler.

[sarahreesbrennan]

Quick Evil Note

To all my wicked darlings, I have now received rather a lot of messages asking me about the influences of Long Live Evil. And I wish to get messages about LLE and truly appreciate the ones I do get! And I wish to answer them. But answers about influences are tricky.

The book has been out in the US for a little over two weeks, and it’s going so well so far, I couldn’t be more delighted and appreciative about its reception.

But also I’ve been informed (not asked) that two of my characters are obviously somehow both Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy of Harry Potter, and Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. (Very puzzling as I don’t think these pairings - and one isn’t a pair - have much in common with each other or with mine. Vague hostility against a vaguely academic backdrop for a bit? For the record… in the book everyone is an adult and I don’t even have any academic backdrops to be vaguely hostile in front of…) This hasn’t happened to me in a long time, because I haven’t had an original novel out in a long time due to illness, and it is upsetting to always be discussed differently than writers who didn’t openly link their real names to their fan identity.

I have very different feelings and new appreciation for fandom than I once had. It’s been amazing to see and meet people who have stuck with me for decades. People are generally way more open and affectionate to and within fandom than they once were. Love matters to me a good deal more than hate. But getting death threats in your early 20s for excitedly telling your Internet friends you were going to publish a book does mark the psyche, and so does having your characters dismissed as other people’s characters.

And we can say there is nothing wrong with fanfiction or writing fanfiction and there isn’t! Fanfiction is great and can be genius. Terry Pratchett wrote Jane Austen fanfiction, and didn’t (and shouldn’t) have people saying Captain Wentworth = Captain Vimes. Still, when a TV show is discussed as ‘like fanfiction’ or when Diana Gabaldon said she didn’t like fanfiction and many said ‘YOU write fanfiction’ it isn’t intended in any kind spirit, even when it’s fannish folk saying it. And it’s just generally odd to have everyone call your apple a tomato, and has had professional consequences for me in the past.

However! All the asks I’ve received have been very kind, and I do want to answer them. I do want to talk about my influences because they are manifold and because I actually think it’s important to always talk about influences. I don’t believe stories exist in isolation - we tell tales in a rich tradition, and also a story doesn’t come alive to me all the way until it’s heard or read.

Long Live Evil is a love letter to fandom: it’s chock full of references to many many stories I’ve loved, to fairytales, myths and legend and Internet memes and epic fantasy and meta. My acknowledgements are endless partly for this reason. I do owe a great debt to many portal fantasies and archetypes and musicals and jokes about genre and plays through the ages, though I do think of my characters as themselves and nobody else.

I was frankly tempted to go ‘Yes I stole EVERYTHING! Bwhahaha!’ But while I am thoroughly enjoying and finding great freedom in my villain era, I do want to talk sincerely to you all as well, especially when asked sincerely interested questions.

But I’m a little scared to do so and have people say ‘AHA! Now we know what it’s fanfiction of’ (it’s happened before) or ignore me and go ‘we know the truth!’ (it’s happened before) and to feel like I’ve injured my book. Long Live Evil means more to me than any other and I really want to get talking about it right, and make sure it has the best reception I can give it.

So. Questions on all Evil topics very very welcome but answers to influence questions may come slowly. Bear with me. I am working on this!

[cloud-hymn]

Thinking about Nie Huaisang post-canon quite frankly haunts me

[wangxianficrecs]

Follower Recs

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This is a fun fic, with plenty of JC and LWJ snarking. @rosethornewrites

none lives forever, brother, and nothing lasts for long

by eena

M, 38k, Wangxian

Summary: (He’s my son, A-Cheng! Can’t you see? I birthed him of my own body.) Jiang Cheng reached forward and lifted the boy up into his arms. He settled the boy’s head on his shoulder and pointedly ignored the gasp of relief that shuddered through his disciples. OR Jiang Cheng stumbles upon A-Yuan during the Siege of the Burial Mounds and as a result, Jiang Yuan, courtesy name Jiang Sizhui, the heir to Yunmeng Jiang sect is raised alongside his cousin Jin Ling, courtesy name Jin Rulan, the heir to the Lanling Jin sect at Lotus Pier. Jiang Cheng is bad at feelings, but better at kids, and Lan Wangji is a fantastic bitch about Jiang Cheng's child-rearing and decides he is co-parenting whether anyone wants him to or not.

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[tenmastrousers]

I too am obsessed with @pakhnokh 's DTIYS

[daevolloqui]

wei wuxian at penn station

[disgracefulthings]

Two of my favorite characters in fiction are Wei Wuxian and Shen jiu. Their characters personality wise are very different but extremely similar story wise.

Orphans ✅️

Thinks their S/O hates them(LWJ and YQY)✅️

hated by the cultivation world ✅️

Practiced demonic cultivation(SJ when he studied under Wu Yanzi)✅️

Died and got dismembered ✅️

How do you think these two would interact with each other if they ever met? Considering their extremely different personalities yet similar backstories?

Oh they would absolutely hate each other, and it's all Shen Jiu's fault.

Wei Wuxian is a pretty chill guy, and if people insult him or are just plain rude to him, he would probably just forget him

But Shen Jiu? He knows how to make people hurt. He couldn't stand Luo Binghe who had a horrible childhood but at least had 1 person who loved him, so he would not like Wei Wuxian who was able to be raised in a rich and (mostly) loving family. Wei Wuxian would take verbal abuse about himself, but Shen Jiu knows that if he really wanted to get to him, then he would have to insult his family

After the war and when Wei Wuxian is labeled as the Yiling Patriarch, I can see him starting to understand Shen Jiu more. How bitter you can become when people think you're a monster when you're just trying to live your life. Maybe things wouldn't go the way they did if Wei Wuxian learned all the right lessons that Shen Jiu could not

Maybe Shen Jiu is gleeful at first when he sees how far Wei Wuxian has fallen, how he had become as hateable as Shen Jiu, but the victory is hollow. He is watching as someone falls on the same path he did. Wei Wuxian does nothing about the horrible rumors around him, and he will die because of it, just like Shen Jiu did

(Maybe Shen Jiu also hates Lan Wangji, because despite hating Wei Wuxian himself, he still thinks that he should've done more to save him. He never acknowledges that he himself did nothing to prevent Wei Wuxian's death)

Anyway great question! I never really thought about these two interacting, but I think people can get a lot of material out of these two