#in my nie huaisang era bc i really don't know

[yoyowrites]

as i read mdzs, i had a hard time wrapping my head around lan xichen. he was so kind but for whatever reason i didn't trust him. honestly, until it was explicitly said that he was being held captive and forced to seal up his cultivation that i trusted he wasn't a part of meng yao's scheme. then, it hit me.

lan xichen parallels yue qingyuan. they are both outwardly kind, of high status, and powerful. they both have a soft spot for questionable men and that soft spot leads them to ignoring the men's unsavory sides.

the same way yqy definitely knew that something was up with how shen jiu treated lou binghe, lxc had to have had SOME idea that meng yao was untrustworthy. not just meng yao, listen i love nie mingjue but the reason meng yaoi's plan was so perfect is because nmj had already been seen as so volatile. nmj was respected, yes, but he was also feared. he had a huge temper. lxc was used to looking away when poor behavior occured in favor of having a more positive view of the person

[arcelian]

melon gel Today at 1:27 AM i just realized jin zixuan has no way of knowing about the cloning/splicing machine at first

melon gel Today at 1:28 AM he's really out there for at least a few hours thinking "@past me did i fuck that raccoon :stressed2: "

era of the dryads Today at 1:28 AM sdshfshsdshhsh

tanoraqui Today at 1:29 AM “How drunk WAS I at Huaisang’s party” “...wait that’s not anatomically possible. Right? Right. Right?”

era of the dryads Today at 1:29 AM "i thought i was doing better than my father 😔 "

tanoraqui Today at 1:30 AM (JZX is very far beyond accepting the fact that one of his better friends is a very intelligent parrot who throws parties like a debutant) (He’s already gotten used to that)

melon gel Today at 1:30 AM OH HEY, huaisang can talk! but he mostly repeats his fave catchprases and things that other people said in his hearing

era of the dryads Today at 1:30 AM yeah

retail cryptid (arc) Today at 1:30 AM huaisang definitely could, theoretically, translate for the raccoons. he just chooses not to

melon gel Today at 1:31 AM (I don't know! I don't know!) inveterate gossip...

era of the dryads Today at 1:31 AM he says "i don't know" so often people can't tell if he means it or not. which is meta and cool when you think about it

tanoraqui Today at 1:32 AM I feel like “saber” needs to be some sort of...parrot workout routine?...that Mingjue has to nag him through once a week or something

era of the dryads Today at 1:32 AM or, and hear me out, nie mingjue genuinely wants his parrot to be good at using a sword

tanoraqui Today at 1:33 AM Maybe he’s a rescue parrot and he needs to exercise his bad leg or something Of that’s better yes

melon gel Today at 1:33 AM aw, but that's cute too...

tanoraqui Today at 1:33 AM In his claw

melon gel Today at 1:33 AM nie mingjue worked very hard on developing forms that huaisang can use

tanoraqui Today at 1:33 AM Both?? Bird leg exercise routine of training him to hold a little sword...

retail cryptid (arc) Today at 1:33 AM nmj said 'fuck you' to meng yao in nhs' presence ONCE and now nhs refers to meng yao EXCLUSIVELY as 'fuck you' meng yao: does he...... think that's my name?

melon gel Today at 1:33 AM he has no appreciation for his effort!!

melon gel Today at 1:34 AM huaisang has to be able to defend himself if someone breaks into the house, okay! (hey da-ge... he can just fly out of reach, you know?)

era of the dryads Today at 1:35 AM he won't always be around! what if the parrot's next owner isn't as cruel! he's gotta be able to defend himself! also just imagine this little parrot saying "en garde!"

tanoraqui Today at 1:35 AM NMJ is professionally some sort of martial arts coach *parrot voice* “I want a fan! I want a fan!”

melon gel Today at 1:36 AM various doll-sized static and folding fans... he enjoys electric fans also, but differently: he used to make meng yao turn on the big standing fan in the living room and then he'd kind of glide-hop against it while cackling loudly (while meng yao was trying to work)

retail cryptid (arc) Today at 1:39 AM hm. just realized this is the perfect setup for an ace-attorney style cross-examining of the parrot in a court of law

melon gel Today at 1:40 AM nie mingjue gets kidnapped and locked in a basement... The Parrot Testifies...

retail cryptid (arc) Today at 1:40 AM nie mingjue DOESN'T die bc i say so, but meng yao DEFINITELY gets arrested for crimes that nhs was present for coaches the parrot to stop saying the incriminating thing. breathes a sigh of relief. they take the parrot to testify, but it's fine, bc meng yao planned for this--- it is not fine. the parrot said the thing.

era of the dryads Today at 1:41 AM amazing i love how this just creates an absolute inability for even the audience to know how much of this is a parrot's cunning plan and how much is just. a parrot.

melon gel Today at 1:41 AM :s_ok_feral:

tanoraqui Today at 1:42 AM I LOVE IT

retail cryptid (arc) Today at 1:42 AM TRULY nhs' ideal world

tanoraqui Today at 1:42 AM Does Meng Yao get busted bc the parrot for the raccoons to turn over his office or something Giving LWJ an excuse to look through it bc he’s trying to catch this clearly feral raccoon

era of the dryads Today at 1:43 AM hsfhsdsh

retail cryptid (arc) Today at 1:43 AM afdjlsk please

era of the dryads Today at 1:44 AM he's sitting there calmly reading while wei wuxian the raccoon is just going to town on a filing cabinet "i have not scanned that one yet, wei ying" and the raccoon pauses and goes to savage a calendar somewhere else wait sdsdfshshsh "come back to cloud recesses veterinary center with me, wei ying"

retail cryptid (arc) Today at 1:46 AM HJSFKLD:

melon gel Today at 1:46 AM he just wants wwx to get a rabies shot before it's too late...

era of the dryads Today at 1:47 AM "exposure to rabies is harmful to the body and temperment, wei ying"

tanoraqui Today at 1:47 AM WWX hisses at him and runs off

melon gel Today at 1:47 AM he's immune, dammit! he already had it! and recovered! because necromancy! he's a very smart raccoon, a little thing like that wouldn't keep him down!! (this is his burial mounds equivalent now. Somehow Survived Actual Rabies)

era of the dryads Today at 1:48 AM absolutely wild

tanoraqui Today at 1:49 AM I can’t believe Jiang Cheng raccoon fucking electrocuted a man to death

era of the dryads Today at 1:49 AM you can't prove that

MeanutButterAndJellyEnthusiast Today at 1:53 AM how is it Wen Zhuliu/Wen Chao's fault that WWX got rabies?? inadequate quarantine when they caught him that one time??

tanoraqui Today at 1:53 AM Wen Industries bulldozed the raccoons’ home, right? So maybe he...I have no clue

melon gel Today at 1:53 AM animal control, right?

era of the dryads Today at 1:54 AM caged him with another raccoon, who was rabid?

melon gel Today at 1:54 AM yeah

tanoraqui Today at 1:54 AM Threw Wei Wuxian in a pit with a rabid animal, bc Wen Chao would definitely do dog fights

era of the dryads Today at 1:54 AM terrible but yeah

melon gel Today at 1:54 AM or some other random animal--OH oooh, that's good

MeanutButterAndJellyEnthusiast Today at 1:54 AM oo, that fits the bill

era of the dryads Today at 1:54 AM wen zhuliu: if anyone finds out about this i'll lose my job wen chao: hush up and let me watch the fight

melon gel Today at 1:55 AM (god, deliberately using rabid animals in pit fights is really taking your life in your hands, huh)

tanoraqui Today at 1:55 AM Could be not rabies, actually. Could be, like, terriers

era of the dryads Today at 1:55 AM ow!

tanoraqui Today at 1:55 AM But rabies is fun

melon gel Today at 1:55 AM feels fun to make rabies connected to raccoon death magic organic

MeanutButterAndJellyEnthusiast Today at 1:55 AM burial mounds could be the name of a illegal dog fighting pit

era of the dryads Today at 1:56 AM burial hounds

MeanutButterAndJellyEnthusiast Today at 1:56 AM (illegal may be redundant, but it doesn't sound right otherwise) hahahopasijf;j nice

melon gel Today at 1:58 AM they captured him, locked him up with some other animal, threw him in the pit, and then disposed of him in the city dump :cowboy_bread_pensive:

era of the dryads Today at 1:59 AM ,,,,,,lan wangji teaming up with a raccoon to search for another raccoon

retail cryptid (arc) Today at 1:59 AM the mental image....... an enormous pile of garbage.......... and then from the top of it emerges. a single raccoon hand. Triumphant

era of the dryads Today at 1:59 AM any scene with lwj in it is just instantly hilarious when you picture it panning back around to the raccoon staring at him

melon gel Today at 1:59 AM then he got sick and wandered the dump for weeks trying to find an exit... refused to lay down and die... he felt the rabies symptoms coming upon him, but hisssss unacceptable!!! and then one day he's just. cognizant again. and a necromancer. and wanders out of the dump

retail cryptid (arc) the mental image....... an enormous pile of garbage.......... and then fr...

melon gel Today at 2:00 AM DFLSKJA

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