#granny wen

[violet-petals-in-the-rain]

Can yall imagine yourself being wen ning marching towards your death (this time willingly) with your sister's hand in your own, all to protect the people you love?

Watching them burn her to death and hearing that its meaningless and that they still plan to continue and kill everyone, you attempt to break out and rush back, but its not possible, and you're confined before long.

It isnt until time passes and in your confinement you hear of how the people you loved and would give everything to protect have all been killed and its through the guards holding you captive jeering and laughing and that the world is celebrating their deaths.

And you can't even weep because your eyes can't cry

They're all dead. What was it for? What was her death for?! What had his A-Jie been burned to death for?

Little A-Yuan,

Granny Wen,

Uncle Four... everyone is dead.

Young Master Wei....Wei Wuxian, the last sight you remember is him lying there helplessly calling for you to not go and you wish you had listened.

You can only greive now. The only thing you can do is scream, and its not enough.

Then they begin experimenting on you, and no one knows you're kept down here, locked away, all alone with people who don't consider you human.

Then you lose your free will, your thoughts and consciousness, until 13 years later.

13 Years Later, you hear a familiar melody calling for you and a seed of hope grows in your chest

[add1ctedt0you]

The Untamed - conventional and unconventional mothers

[lgbtlunaverse]

the wangxian + a-yuan "dads with an adopted son" thing is fine and enjoyable in fanfics honestly but I think we as a fandom are really not utilizing the idea of all of them in unconventional familial structures enough. Like, canonically it wasn't so much that wwx was a-yuan's guardian as that a-yuan was being raised collectively by the wens and wwx was adopted INTO the larger wen family. And lwj got attached to him through that. A-yuan just has these very attached weird uncles/older cousin figures that aren't related to him by blood at all but keep sticking around.

Just think of a modern AU with a lot less death where lwj does as he does in canon and keeps showering a-yuan in gifts as much as he can and when wwx is like "aiyah lan zhan you're gonna spoil him. Not everyone is as rich as you! What's his family supposed to say if they can't buy him all the stuff you do?" lwj just goes "Hm". And from then on out every year once a-yuan's birthday is near the extended Wen family members (well. the ones that are invited that is. No one wants wen chao at a birthday party) wakes up to a wechat payment from lwj.

Random wen cousin number 6 texts granny like

cousin 6: i just got 400 yuan????

granny: oh that's just wangji

cousin 6: i've never met this guy in my life???

granny: he wants you to buy a-yuan a nice birthday present!

cousin 6: how does he know my bank account???

[kettledemon]

Y’all ever think granny wen just pull a:

“Oh a-Han was such a cute child ☺️☺️☺️, he used to play with my son all the time! A bit cruel at times, such a shame he never grew out if it-“

And it takes a moment for Wei Wuxian to realize she’s talking about Wen Ruohan-

[symphonyofsilence]

MXTX writing MDZS female characters who were not Mianmian:

[lovewanxian]

Sect leader Granny

Upon her death, Granny Wen ends up time traveling 15 or so years back in time, to before the Dancing statue goddess could attack. With knowledge of everything that will happen unless she does something to change the future, Granny Wen decides to take up her birthright: to be the sect leader of the Wen. Her younger brother was Wen Rouhan’s father and he stole the throne from her when they were younger. She didn’t fight back because she wanted to be a doctor, not deal with politics, but now she regrets it. 

Wen Rouhan falls sick in a “mysterious illness” (after all, as a healer she knows All about poisons) and when he dies she is there to take the throne. His sons are too young to rule and there are no other close relatives except her own children. She becomes sect leader Wen and brings her family of healers to the capital to start rehabilitating the snake pit that is the Qishan Wen by having them learn from the Dafan Wen. 

Remembering Wei Wuxian’s tales of his times as an orphaned street kid in Yiling, she also goes there and brings him home. She has her children adopt him as their son Wen Wuxian and he grows up with Wen Ning and Wen Qing as his siblings. Granny Wen encourages his genius and he becomes fantastic with talismans and cultivation and also learns some medicine. He and Wen Qing are invention buddies and he and Wen Ning train archery together - and with Wen Ning never hurt by the dancing statue he can cultivate with Wen Wuxian. Wen Xu and Wen Chao gets forcefully taught kindness and humility and become decent people. 

Granny Wen encourages the creation of connections between the Wens and other clans (and very closely monitors the Jins, prepared with some “medicine” for Jin Guangshan if it turns out to be necessary). So she sends her grandchildren to the Cloud Recesses where they meet the Lans and the Jiang. Wei Wuxia and Lan Wangji fall in love, as is destined, and Granny soon has a betrothal drawn up for them. They nighthunt and help the common people and live with no regrets. They never adopt A-Yuan, for Granny Wen’s younger child, his parent, never dies, but he is Wen Wuxian's baby cousin and they gladly babysit him instead. And they adopt a dozen other children as their own.

There is no war, there is no genocide. Granny Wen dies peacefully of old age, satisfied with her accomplishments. Wen Qing becomes an amazing doctor and she will be an amazing Sect leader in the future, with two little brothers to help her lead the Wens to an ever brighter future. All is well. 

[sepia-mahogany]

Re-reading MDZS and reaching the second siege, Wei Wuxian, Wen Ning and the Wen Remnants 😭

This was one of the houses that he had built himself. Before he left, the house had still been fine. Although it was crude, it was a place to seek shelter from the weather, nonetheless holding the people he was familiar with; the people he treasured. In the saying 'the things remain but the people don't', at least 'the things' still remained. With such a scene in front of him, there wasn't even anything to remind him of the people whom he missed. Wei WuXian, "Don't look anymore." Wen Ning, "… I knew that it'd be like this a long time ago. I just wanted to see if there was anything left…"

Wei WuXian's lips trembled. He seemed as if he wanted to say something, but still he couldn't say it. He lowered his head and bestowed upon them a heavy salute. His voice was rasp, "… Thank you." Lan WangJi saluted as well.

When they were fighting, the blood corpses seemed as fierce as could be, but right now, when facing them, they still appeared hideous, but their movements seemed somewhat clumsy. At varied times, they bent down and lifted their hands, returning the salute. And then, as if something had sucked out the energy and life within them, they all collapsed at once. Their blood-colored bodies seemed to be fragile porcelain, cracking apart inch by inch, their pieces growing smaller and smaller. If another gust of wind blew over, there might be nothing left. Wen Ning threw himself onto the ground, using his hands to gather up the crimson ashes.

[nofreeyogurt]

burial mounds family photo ! yiling laozu created a lil talisman that could capture moments ! unfortunately, it doesn't have a timer function yet, so uncle four had to sit out to activate it 😔

inspired by tangerinechar’s tweets here

originally posted on septempber 19th 2019 on twitter

[arianaderalte]

In which Granny Wen is increasingly weirded out by the gentry, cuddles with Wen Ning solve everything and a blacksmith is annoyed.

[oldhagtournament]

ROUND 1 - GROUP A

Propaganda under the cut

Pinako Rockwell

She fits the criteria (she's a granny, old, gets called a hag by at least one character) and also she's a legend.

Granny Wen

she's old! she's often also kind of ignored, for her significance in the life of her living relative in the main cast, often replaced in her role in the story by the protagonists for the sake of saying wwx of all people is a good, involved dad, among other things, which... hot take: is silly, especially when it requires you to forget this quality old hag!! she matters!! <- incoherent but she's old hagging it up in the story just absolutely doing nothing else and no one seems to appreciate this until they can use it in a moral argument for or against something! victim or nothing. trite

[violet-petals-in-the-rain]

LISTEN, all im saying is yknow how Wei Wuxian lay under the night sky constantly telling himself to just consider it a debt repayment and failing to convince himself about the core transfer at all. Living onwards, maybe even outright ignoring it after until Wen Qing showed up straight at his door, a reminder of the core and cultivation he's lost, but that's not whats important. Do you guys think he was living day to day life in burial mounds and starting to think 'its not so bad living without a core' do you guys think he looked up at the night sky after drinking the wine uncle four made specially for him and thought 'its not so bad on the ground?'

and then it all came crashing to hell and i just think i made that one fucking line worse for myself when wwx was running after wen siblings after 3 days lying helplessly "where should he go, it felt like the world had no place for him in it at all"

[add1ctedt0you]

The Untamed + ao3 tags

[nixster627]

Inconsequential Untamed Poll #2

[theleakypen]

Chapters: 5/6 Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Wēn Qíng, Jiāng Yànlí & Wēn Qíng, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Jiāng Yànlí, Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín & Wēn Qíng, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn & Wēn Qíng, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Wēn Qíng (Módào Zǔshī), Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Jiāng Yànlí, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén, Niè Míngjué, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Granny Wēn (Módào Zǔshī), Fourth Uncle (Módào Zǔshī), Original Characters Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Sunshot Campaign (Módào Zǔshī), War, Pre-Relationship, The comb means I love you, it's Sunshot so there's a fuckton of original characters, just casually filling canon with women and nonbinary people and doctors Series: Part 1 of 澄情 | Clarity of Feeling Summary:

Jiang Cheng holds out the comb to Wen Qing. This is a bad time for giving gifts of affection, but he doesn’t know if he’ll ever have a better. “If anything happens to you in the future,” he says, “come find me and I will help you again.”

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Wen Qing takes the comb and the promise and makes her way to Qinghe to see that the promise is fulfilled.

“I have found my brother, but I need help to rescue him from the Qishan Wen sect. Jiang-zongzhu— Jiang Wanyin, if you can help me rescue him and bring him back, I would be forever grateful.”

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WE’RE BACK, BAYBEE! I finally figured out what to do with this fic after THREE YEARS of hiatus whooooo!

[rosethornewrites]

From the next chapter of “Operation Barking Dog.”

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When they let the Hu family know after breakfast the next morning, A-Ning insisted they take Xiao Ta with them so she could be warm at the inn, too, and Wei Ying caved quickly, tying the little creature to his chest in a sling and tucking her underneath his outer robes, so she would benefit from his body heat and be snug under his cape as well. Xiao Pingguo was significantly less enthused to be brought from the relative warmth of the barn, immediately trying to step on Wei Ying to express her discontent, only stopped by Lan Wangji’s quick reaction.

The trek itself wasn’t terribly unpleasant, quiet but for the wind and Wei Ying’s flute until his hands were too cold to be outside of mittens and he tucked Chenqing away in favor of staying warm. So instead he talked the rest of the way, explaining his intended remedy for the cold, which hinges on buying six large blankets, sewing talismans for keeping cold out on one side of each, and talismans for giving off heat to the other side, to be hung from the ceiling, walls, and placed on the floor of their shed.

“Popo was delighted when I came up with them—said her old bones couldn’t handle to cold as well as they used to, and she had difficulty with arthritis anyway. I even made her some warm packs for the painful days.”