#mdzs ages

[zelkams-art]

great news! wei wuxian has died!

(full pics under the cut)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Ghouls night out

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[bishy437]

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[junodoom]

my second prompt for the MDZS gatcha for gaza fundraiser!! @ gentil_minou on twitter requested the juniors wrangling a de-aged WWX, LWJ, and JC. i adore this concept

[zelkam]

The Untamed + text posts [3/?]

[two-corpses-in-the-burial-mounds]

Anyone else think a lot about how at the end of canon, Lan Wangji has had time to mature for 10+ years into a guy in his mid-30s, but Wei Wuxian still has the life experience and general maturity of a war-traumatized early 20-something?

Because like. Wei Wuxian died young and he died tragically, and everyone who was around him then that's still there after he's resurrected has gotten to live their lives. They got to mature. They've had 13/16 years to heal (or not heal -_-) and learn who they are. To become fully realized adults outside of the pressures of war. And Wei Wuxian hasn't had that. If you believe MXTX's interview that circulates on this site sometimes, he spent those 16 years in a suspended state of agony. And even if you don't believe that, he was still dead. Non-existant.

For Wei Wuxian, the war is fresh. The pain is fresh. He has no idea what's doing because he's barely an adult, if admittedly a highly skilled one for his age. The world has moved on around him and he has stayed in place. What does he do with that?

Wei Wuxian had no choice but to pretend that he's moved on, too, because that war that took so much from him was almost two decades ago, now. The Wen Remnants have been dead for over 10 years. What use is it to dig up old hurts? Except, those hurts are still hurting him.

When he died, Wei Wuxian was helping care for Lan Sizhui. Wen Yuan. When he died, Lan Wangji raised A-Yuan with the Lan. If Wei Wuxian was dead for 13/16 years and A-Yuan was 3/4 when he died, then Lan Sizhui is about his age, or very close to it.

This is the child he was raising. This child is now his peer.

Wei Wuxian has memories of war and tragedy, but no one to talk to. The juniors, who are closest to him in relative age, haven't known war, and everyone who has known it has moved on. He's trapped between generations, and that has to be so incredibly isolating.

Jiang Yanli, the Wen Remnants, Wen Qing of particular note, all of them died shortly before he did. Did he ever really get to grieve them? Will he be allowed to now? Especially with his reputation. Especially with the number of people who would really prefer him to simply leave the past in the past. Especially with all the people who think he is the cause of the deaths he wishes to grieve.

Will he be allowed to mourn, if the cultivation world thinks these deaths are his fault? Or that these people don't deserve to be grieved?

Wei Wuxian has the misfortune of being a man who is a decade out of time, and he will have to learn to cope with that, but how does he account for the missing years? When the pain is still fresh for him, how does he find a place in a society that has long since moved on?

[amaetheia]

bow and arrows hit no mark, but cleave the sky

[soursoppi]

MXTX knows what she likes, and you gotta respect that

[maalidoesart]

a moment of peace

[jcs-singular-slut-strand]

Heyyyyy pookie

[eaion]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Who put these kids here?

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[xieliancore]

colour circle challenge for twt!

[factsilike]

Mdzs Fandom: JC suffered so much, he lost his entire family and sister and even his clan, surely his taking out his anger and resentment at others is totally misunderstood and reasonable, I relate to him so much 🥹

WN (who lost not only his sister and entire family and clan but also his literal life, and was held captive and experimented on for thirteen years as a trophy, watches his relatives die a second time, is treated with prejudice and disdain and fear by most of the cultivation world, yet despite all this still manages to retain a bone-deep kindness and humility, as well as a sense of righteousness as fierce as himself): Am I a joke to you?

This is what I meant when I said characters who are constantly declaring what they went through are put up on a pedestal for their non existent resilience. It's so easy to forget that other characters went through much of the same pain and handled their circumstances better, like WN who went through literal hell himself, because he barely mentions and even downplays his suffering.

[hannigramislife]

"Oh, so you're a jiang cheng apologist-"

Let me make something real fucking clear.

I like Jiang Cheng. I am a Jiang Cheng fan. I like him because that bitch had the entire universe against him and he still triumphed. Impossible what? Jiang Cheng doesn't know what that word means. He cooks impossible for breakfast and feeds it to Jin Ling so that his nephew would take after the Jiang side more.

The only thing Jiang Cheng has to apologize for is serving absolute c*nt in every scene he's in. And when he's done with that, he should apologize for stealing the Jin's thunder, because only one of his outfits could buy Carp Tower. And then, maybe he should apologize for wielding the best spiritual tool so beautifully we forgot other people have spiritual tools.

Never assume I will put fault on a man who went through horrific trauma and reacts in a traumatized way because he was, shocker, traumatized. Also never assume I won't defend him to anyone who talks shit about him in reference to other characters, because this man couldn't have given less of a fuck about the plot, the storyline decided to fuck with him, so he fucked right back.

Valid, is what I say.

[interstate35south]

listen. i like a good “hualian adopts wwx” au as much as the next guy. but do y’all ever think abt the fact that appearance wise. xie lian and hua cheng are supposedly like. 17-19

i forget about it until i’m consciously reminded of it but there’s comedic potential in there somewhere

like i imagine they could probably get away with it when wwx was a young child but it’s all fun and games until visibly 34 year old wei wuxian is still calling apparently 17 year old xie lian dad