#jin guangshan

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

None of our hands are clean

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[oh-dameron]

AU where Meng Shi was just a bit more cynical and spent her hard-earned on buying Meng Yao study materials for the Imperial Examination instead of dodgy cultivation manuals. Cultivation is for his father to teach him, after all.

Meng Yao fucking blitzes the exam, because of course he does, and the first time he arrives at Koi Tower it's with an imperial mandate to audit the shit out of them for tax purposes.

[add1ctedt0you]

The Untamed + ao3 tags

[randomness-is-my-order]

since i’m on my third mdzs brainrot of the year, let me just say: it’s enlightening how this story, spread over multiple volumes, goes over the simple but undeniably true reality that even while doing almost everything “right” you can still be horribly “wrong” in the eyes of society. how wei wuxian would bend over backwards to follow his morals (which have been narratively shown to be somewhat the standard) but still be condemned at large because he didn’t go about it the way that was perfectly compliant with what his social superiors and other authority figures expected of him. how “good” deeds in the mdzs world (and ours) will only be accepted and praised, coming from someone of lower social standing, if they are packaged in an unobstrusive manner–and sometimes, not even then. and it’s funny how some people miss that, how they wonder what would have happened if wei wuxian had been just a bit more tempered, a bit more subservient, a bit more polite. how the expectation of delivering his kindnesses in the most unhindering manner possible is somehow an acceptable train of thought–how the burden to do better is not unequivocally placed on people like JGS, Jiang Cheng, Nie Mingjue, the Lans, etc.

some people think that wei wuxian using demonic cultivation in the eyes of the cultivation world is his downfall. nevermind the fact that he literally isn’t practicing mo dao–this whole issue is NOT about what he’s doing, but about who he is. mxtx has made that clear at multiple points in the novels but the most glaring example is, ofcourse, how the nie sect is allowed to mess with resentful energy all they like and since they are a powerful enough sect, they face no social or political backlash for it–not in the way that wei wuxian does. even then, during the war, those people had no qualms against weaponising wei wuxian’s powers for their benefit. if it truly was about the dubious morality of using mo dao for them then wei wuxian should have been condemned from the get-go. but it’s not. it’s about the son of a servant wielding enough power to change the tides of a war and then surviving to tell the tale and continue to live with the kind of power that shouldn’t be held by someone of his station. it’s about people quaking in their boots because wei wuxian has shown himself as someone who won’t conform, who won’t become a dancing monkey for their tunes.

yes, wei wuxian is not some perfect angel saint but then, why the fuck should he be??? this expectation from some readers and the members of his world alike, that wei wuxian should have been the one to give it his all and more to avoid conflict is blasphemous. in the end, wei wuxian chose his path, stuck to his ideals, and went down throwing a big fuck you at the larger cultivation world’s back, while the rest failed to break the cycle of power abuse. the fact that it took them more than a year to see him to death is just a testament to how well wei wuxian handled things than some grace given by the cultivation world. the whole “wei wuxian’s first death was inevitable” is, for me, not about wei wuxian slowly spiralling and things getting out of hand. his death was inevitable because corrupt people with power will always choose to exploit and silence, will always choose to exert their will, will always choose to hurt those lower in the chain. and that is exactly what happened with the ambush and everything that led upto it.

[brooklynishere]

I saw the meme and had to do a thing

Also I couldn't decide on JC because I wanted him to go in 'No, why would I feed the ducks' but also he'd be lying. Then a friend pointed out the most appropriate place for him considering that top line so bonus:

[pakhnokh]

House of Gentians Arc 3 || Pages 9-12

Flashback time T^T

(Yes, this is Jin Guangshan, I can't imagine him being young and dandy like in the donghua, I always imagined him like a lecherous old man, so I found the visual middle ground between the two haha)

Also, Lan Wangji may agree, but inside, he is definitely raging for what his beloved is being put through!

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[batbusiness-schooldropout]

Crack plot

Jin Guangyao: If we want a bloodless solution to how the Yiling Patriarch should be handled, we should have a competition. Whichever sect wins will decide what happens to Wei Wuxian and the Wen Remnants.

Dumbass Yao: And what competition would we have?

Nie Huaisang: I don't really know, but what about whichever person can get Wei-gongzi to leave the Burial Mounds and Yiling willingly? I don't know, something like that

Jiang Cheng: Agreed. Once he's back in Lotus Pier, we can put all of this nonsense behind us, correct?

Jin Guangshan: Once there is a clear winner, their decision will be final. We can all move on to other things.

Jiang Cheng: Good. If that's all, I have a letter to draft.

Lan Xichen: Gentleman. If I may be so bold, I would like to make an attempt now, so there's no confusion about any success or failure that might come.

Jin Guangshan: Go ahead. What secret technique does the Lan clan have to summon demonic cultivators?

Lan Xichen: Just this. I'M SORRY WANGJI, BUT WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE! YOU'LL HAVE TO MARRY JIN ZIXUN!

Wei Wuxian, out of nowhere: I'll skewer the Jin pig!!! Lan Zhan doesn't have to marry anyone he doesn't want to! That pompous prick doesn't deserve Lan Zhan anyway!

Lan Xichen: I believe I've won

[incorrectly-quoting-mxtx]

Jin Guangshan: There’s nothing you or I can do to bring Wei Wuxian back now.

Wei Wuxian: He has RISEN, babygirl!

Jin Guangshan: FUCK!!!!

[duohensheng]

either I just noticed something or I’m very late to the party but: jgy’s name

Guangyao 光瑶 (Light/Glory ; Jade per seven seas translation)

is a homonym of Guangyao 光耀 (which together means brilliance/honour/glory)

IS A HOMONYM OF guang yaozi 逛窑子 WHICH MEANS TO VISIT A BROTHEL????? NOTE THAT THE zi 子 IS THE SAME 子 AS IN SON?????

this is on purpose. right??? we all knew this man named his son a backhanded compliment (by using the suffix guang instead of the Jin generational zi, and by the fact that it’s a homonym for glory). BUT DID HE NAME HIS SON AN OVERT SLAP IN THE FACE ALSO

a sly snide open secret of an insult name????

screenshot of my mandarin dictionary 4 the ages but seriously What is going on. did we already know about this???

(homonyms don’t quite work like that in mandarin but I talked to my teacher about how she named her kids and she said people often do use “homonyms” (same sound different tone different character/meaning) to layer meaning onto names)

[disclaimer I am fluent but not a native speaker if anyone wants to correct me please do!!]

[thatswhatsushesaid]

be the cringe-inducing insincerity you wish to see in the world

or don't. spare us

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Cite your sources.

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[feyrischan]

[sockibean]

“The Sunshot Campaign”

This is old and was made from a fever dream— I have never played DND, I do not know the rules, but somehow my feverish mind made it up and now this exists HAJDHSJDND

[red-garden]

I submit for your consideration: type 1 diabetic Jin Guangyao.

It developed when he was fairly young- Meng Shi, trying her best not only to give her son a better life but also keep him alive at all, finds him all the books on cultivation she can, knowing the golden cores of cultivators help regulate their bodies.

He would actually be a much higher level cultivator if so much of his spiritual energy isn’t devoted to regulating his sugars. While his golden core can burn of excess sugar- much the same as lxc burning off alcohol- it can’t prevent a low. He’s like a hummingbird, always in need of something sweet.

Nie Mingjue, after whitesesing a low, starts carrying a sealed jar of honey with him- just in case. Even after he kicks Meng Yao out of the Nie, the bottle still lives in his pockets, a part of his routine. Xichen finds it one day and asks, to which Mingjue has to confront the place in his life Meng Yao had carved out before he was discarded. The place he was glued back into and no longer fits properly.

Qin Su mixes sugar into their tea in the mornings, aware that nights can be the most dangerous times. She keeps candies on the table by her side of the bed, just in case she wakes in the night at exactly the right time.

After Jin Guangyao dies, Jin Ling keeps finding little stashes of sugar, syrup, and candies secreted away in carp tower- unclear if they were placed there by his uncle, or his aunt, a kind older maid who cared for the sect leader, a guard Jin Guangyao had saved during the war, another bastard of his grandfather taken into the ranks of the Jin’s disciples quietly by his uncle.

Lan Xichen never buys sugar sculptures, taffies, or tanghulu when he goes to town anymore- if he leaves home at all. The Lan sect leader loved sweets all his life, a rare treat on the mountain, but left with boxes and jars and bags of them, they start to sicken him.

[ionshi-teiru]

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