#talk to Mo

[violet-evers]

I think I was riding adrenaline for almost 2 hrs playing Deep Rock Galactic.

And I failed the fucking mission....

And it was totally not worth it. I had to kill bugs that were so beautiful and get eggs out of this sack and it looked like blood and the noises were so real....

I feel hungover.... I've never played a game this intense that I feel frickin sick and sad.... Those flies were so cute and I couldn't get to the pod 😭 I died trying to go baaackkkk

I know rage quitting is common but is depression quitting a thing?

Oh God I'm gonna have nightmares about those bugs.....

[icedhotcocoa]

okay guys but in all seriousness the trump attempted assassination is going to rally the right like crazy. voter turnout will be going up. it is more crucial than ever that you SHOW UP AND VOTE IN THIS YEARS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

[i-guess-im-into-this-now]

Shen Qingqiu: Some people are so beautiful that they are irresistible to both men and women... it's not gay to be attracted to them. There is literally nothing else you can do.

Xie Lian: You are so right. Or if you happen to have to kiss them to exchange spiritual energy, it doesn't mean you have feelings for one another.

Wei Wuxian: True. Also sometimes guy friends just need to get naked together and touch one another and make each other climax. Just normal friend stuff.

Shen Qingqiu: ....

Xie Lian: ....

Shen Qingqiu: ....exactly. You guys get it.

[rustyblender]

hiiiiii :3 I don't know how to use tumblr but I've been wanting to post these mdzs screencap drawings somewhere :DDDF !!!!!!

[wannabe-f-f-friends]

There's something about Wen Ning kneeling to apologize for everything that went wrong, and Wei Wuxian kneeling down with him as if to say nothing is your fault that isn't also my fault. Either we'll stand together or we'll kneel together.

They are the secret third thing.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Ghouls night out

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[cloudpalettes]

something something self-restraint something

[lazycranberrydoodles]

getting back into the untamed and i had a thought. / follow for more yllz babygirlism

[maalidoesart]

now both of you are gone

[annie-in-the-real-world]

Y’all would NOT BELIEVE what I found in a random store today

Best $10 I ever spent

[lady-of-the-spirit]

"JC should have defended WWX and the Wen remnants-" babe he has no political capital right now. He's rebuilding his sect from the ground up after a war. He's been locked out of the Venerated Triad. He's the youngest sect leader. How could he have defended them and not doomed himself and his sect all over again.

[the-lonelyshepherd]

its bc she said a curse word

[icedhotcocoa]

another thing about the trump attempted assassination situation is that in my heart it’s funny but in my mind I know this was a terrible fucking thing to happen, not just for the election outcomes/voter turnout on the right, but also ethically? ALLEGEDLY (unconfirmed) two bystanders were shot and one may be dead. even if it’s not true opening fire in a crowded area is so nightmarish and traumatizing regardless of who is being shot at

idk. we can reblog our memes all we want but let’s just try and keep that in mind

[kirbysorbet]

One thing that I find absolutely hilarious about mdzs is how flippantly the cultivation setting is treated and how little it actually means for the characters. Esp compared to mxtx’s other works.

Like, svsss has the more typical style of cultivation with formal levels (qi gathering, foundation establishment, core formation, etc). It’s slightly bullshitted thanks to Airplane’s writing style, but it’s implied that it takes decades of hard work to move between stages and it’s also implied that cultivators can and do live for centuries because they are cultivating towards immortality

And tgcf literally focuses on people who cultivate into godhood. Like we see ‘regular’ cultivators as well, but we also know that people in this setting are capable of becoming literal gods, and we know that it typically takes a lot of hard work to do so as well

But mdzs? Forming a golden core is nothing. Everyone has one. They’re handed out like candy. Wwx is lauded as a prodigy for forming one as young as he did, but his peers still seem to form theirs in their teens. And having a golden core means little to nothing for the characters except boosted strength and stamina, and that they can use magic

Putting aside the literal war killing people off and affecting the average cultivator’s lifespan, we see almost no evidence of anyone cultivating to immortality aside from Baoshen-sanren, who is an outlier. These characters all have golden cores! Granted, every xianxia-style story has different rules for how cultivation works, and in mdzs the focus seems to be more on using cultivation for practicality (night hunts) rather than any sort of ascension, but usually having a golden core will at least extend your life beyond the normal length

Not in mdzs! Jin Guangshan dies in his…sixties, maybe? Possibly younger, even! But he’s generally thought of as ‘old’ and everyone readily accepts that he died from ‘overexerting himself’ in that orgy. A sixty-year-old cultivator with a fully-formed golden core is considered old and decrepit! That’s a young’un in other cultivation settings!!

The other ‘old man’ we see is Lan Qiren, who could ostensibly be as young as his thirties during the Cloud Recesses study arc (bc keep in mind that he’s Qingheng-jun’s younger brother, and given the general lifespans of all the mdzs characters, it’s not unreasonable to assume qhj married and had his kids in early adulthood). Granted, to my memory wwx is the only one who thinks of him as an ‘old man,’ and anyone above, like, twenty would be seen as old to a fifteen-year-old, but still. Wwx continues to consider him an old man post-timeskip when it’s entirely possible he’s only in his late forties or fifties.

I don’t really have a conclusion or any sort of deep analysis for this, I just thought this difference in setting was an interesting/funny departure from mxtx’s other works and wanted to ramble. Feel free to leave thoughts/observations in the notes!

[dontheckinswear]

@moonlitpeony and i made a pin the head on the nie mingjue for our mdzs book club 🥳

(we used @poorly-drawn-mdzs’s design! (their comics are sent in our book club’s group chat every week and they’re our favorite :))

[wannabe-f-f-friends]

Having a breakdown over the way that Wei Wuxian's confession essentially gave Lan Wangji words that he might never have been able to get out otherwise. Because LWJ barely speaks on a good day and WWX never shuts up, so he just babbled out a paragraph and Wangji picked out the parts that resonated best and repeated them back to him over and over and that's what made me lose it today that's all