#just wangxian being wangxian

[bnnywngs]

lwj: wei ying needs a coat, so i bought one

wwx: lan zhan!! you shouldn't!! i'm ok with my coat!! there's just some holes but it's easy to fix!!

lwj: hm... wei ying complains about being cold constantly

wwx: that's just me being dramatic! look it still got the tag, you can get your money back! go, go

lwj:

lwj: *rips tag off*

wwx: *shocked pikachu face* LAN ZHAN

lwj, very serious: oops

wwx: you did that on purpose

lwj, smug: now wei ying has to wear it

[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.)

[yourancestorsarefrowning]

I love how so much of wangxian's relationship during the gusu study arc was wei wuxian going "look at me, look at me! look at me, lan zhan!" and lan wangji angrily pretending not to look, and then post-resurrection wei wuxian tries the same thing but this time lan wangji is like "I am Looking and I will not look away" and wei wuxian is so flustered that he accidentally gets dragged back to gusu anyway.

like, throughout the story people only interact with wei wuxian on a superficial level, with no one bothering to go deeper. he's just an arrogant jiang disciple. he's just a rebellious teen. he's just an admittedly terrifying demonic cultivator. he's just an evil person who needs to be stopped. and lan wangji sees all of this, (and in the beginning is almost fooled by it!) and then is the only one who cares enough to look long enough and see the true wei wuxian.

when wei wuxian is resurrected, he immediately relies on the fact that people only view him superficially to keep his real identity hidden. he slides right into mo xuanyu's cut-sleeve lunatic persona and probably could have gotten away with it except he runs right into the one person who has Seen him in the past and Sees him now.

[khattikeri]

cangse-sanren and wei changze would've loved lan wangji so much. you can't tell me they wouldn't have adored their son-in-law

[askew-d]

so….. are we ever gonna discuss the fact that wei wuxian most likely started letting his hair down because there was no more purpose in tying it up since he can’t fight with the sword no more and hair can’t trouble him again if he uses the flute instead? after all, isn’t letting his hair up just a reminder of something he’s unable to enjoy once more?

maybe it wasn’t style. maybe it wasn’t that he wanted to changed. perhaps it was just sorrow. so many things about him can be unraveled as such.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Parallel Lines and Brothers.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[ceru-draws]

[WangXian] Stargazers

[anfuaruuu]

having gusu!laozu thoughts lately

[tea-cat-arts]

I simply think this fandom doesn't give Wei Wuxian enough credit for the various ways in which he saved Lan Wangji

[trans-xianxian]

perhaps my hottest take yet but there's this very interesting phenomenon within fanworks, especially modern aus, where people make lan wangji like. The Crazy Smart Bookish Nerd, when in canon his Thing, his character archetype, isn't even that he's smart or clever. that's wei wuxians thing. HE'S the genius. and lan wangji obviously isn't an idiot, wangxians whole dynamic is that they're equally matched, but the narrative puts weight on wei wuxians intelligence where it does not with lan wangjis. lan wangjis thing Is being noble, and it Is valuing tradition, and it Is being talented, and, in the beginning, it Is following the rules. he's a good student as a child and an incredibly skilled cultivator, but the role his character plays in terms of trope is not one that focuses on his intellect, even when the story makes it clear that hes very smart. and the thing is that him being a rule follower in the cloud recesses arc Does make him a good student, and the story successfully communicates that he Is smart, but the focus is on him being a competent cultivator who is "good at school", the point is the way that working within the systems rules leads to success, Not that he's smart

but wei wuxians role in a strictly narrative context Does hinge on him being incredibly clever and intelligent, it's a key part of his character archetype, and there is a point being made about the fact that, even when he's a troublemaker in class and labeled as a bad student, he's very intelligent. it's one of the many things that frustrates but draws lan wangji to him in the first place. but somehow more often than not fanon depicts wei wuxian as a fumbling idiot. and I just think it's very interesting that rule following and "good behavior" gets associated with intelligence, where rebellion and disregard for social expectations is associated with being foolish or ignorant, when the narrative of the source material is communicating almost the opposite idea

[benevolenterrancy]

Senior Wei, please don't make them explain this to Hanguang-Jun...

[purgatoryandme]

Liushen has finally unlocked the part of my brain that makes me realize the ship dynamic I'm most obsessed with is Passionate Nerd with Chaotic Disregard for Rules x Catastrophically Earnest and Dedicated Protector who Indulges them.

[rosesapphire2323]

Just had a horrible, terrible thought. Have you ever tried taking a child from their mother, like to hold them or whatnot? after a certain age kids understand that taking them from their mom isn't gonna be permanent and you're not gonna kill them, but before that they cry and cling. And so it occurred to me that lwj may once had been at such age, small enough to think that being taken from his mom is the end of the world and had at least once reacted accordingly.

Think about that. Actually envision that moment happening with a tiny baby a-zhan clinging with his life to his mom when they're trying to take him away.

Now your day is as ruined as mine.

[mitchmotch]

my friend @revalito and i made an anastasia inspired au =]!

[keebssi]

The ending the untamed should’ve had 😔😔 wanted to practice a bit of painting with this piece

I also made an instagram feel free go check it out!! Insta: @k33bsi

[dontheckinswear]

I found this sketch from a year ago in my old procreate files so I cleaned it up just enough to not be embarrassing and added lighting :)

This is a drawing of the photo Wei Wuxian sends of himself to Lan Wangji in the fic: how to fall in love with a catfish: a guide by wei wuxian (disaster rat) by bwyn and Yuisaki !! It has a special place in my heart, not just for being one of the first mdzs fics I ever read, but also because I actually lived in a freshman dorm during the same year it takes place in, which means Wei Wuxian could have hypothetically been my RA 🥺

Anyways, it’s a really cute online relationship/university AU, and you should definitely read it if you haven’t already!