#the fucking Weibo meltdown when it eventually comes out that the Immortal Cleansing Of The Burial Mounds was actually ultimate gay yearning

[nevertheless-moving]

really enjoying this concept. wei wuxian trying to come clean pretty early on and get some support in understanding how to format his paper but unfortunately 'thinks he's the yiling laozu' is not an uncommon form of psychosis for grad students in their department. the thesis committee does not push the defense date back (if they were good with mental health issues they wouldn't be in this fucking situation to begin this).

eventually he gets up fed up enough to do a Convincing Show of Power, partially out of practicality (deadline is coming up), partially for drama (he knows these guys are going to lose their shit).

Ok mostly for drama.

And while this isn't the first time a student in demonic studies has had a breakdown in exactly this way, it IS the first time the 'Wei Wuxian Come Alive Again' has summoned the LEGENDARY GHOST GENERAL (thought destroyed a millennia ago, apparently locked in someone's basement?) and a MASSIVE GHOST ARMY (no one knows how to do that anymore. part of what the thesis is on).

so once everyone stops cowering under their seats they explain how to do citations. yeah there's not a standardized style in cultivation studies you just have to be consistent within the paper, I know, we hate it too.

i mean the committee offers to grant him the degree on an honorary basis to remove the 'murder everyone' option but he's been having a lot of fun as a phd student so "Absolutely not, I am not risking having my soul torn apart due to a technicality in not fulfilling the ritual requirements. We're fucking doing this. Ok now someone show me how you submit a request for manuscripts from other universities that sounds AWESOME."

funniest thing the novel-centered part of the mdzs fandom misrepresents to cql viewers is the whole Smol Twink Mo Xuanyu bit.

like i know the donghua is majorly at fault here but 'five centimeters' guys. you know how much that is in the imperial system, it's almost exactly two inches. the breadth of my index and forefinger stacked together.

just enough height difference to be casually noticeable, that's how much.

mo xuanyu was also a tall guy.

[lizasweetling]

#mdzs#hunguang-jun cultivated to immortality and has been cleansing the burial mounds one spirit at a time hoping to find wei ying for 700 years#jin rulan is a sixteen year old orphan who decided to fixate on guy who killed his distant ancestors. challenges him to a duel to the death#everyone else who's done that has gotten pinned to the floor until they give up#so the library staff is kindof surprised that the annoying teenager is the one he decided to keep around and 'train to defeat him one day'#but YOLO. as the yiling patriarch has started delighted in saying.#uhnnn hunguang-jun coming down for his annual check-in with Sizhui's descendants and finding out the news#everyone tracking his approach to campus like OH SHIT LEGENDARY DUEL INCOMING! CULTIVATOR DUEL OF THE MILLENNIUM ABOUT TO GO DOWN!#the fucking Weibo meltdown when it eventually comes out that the Immortal Cleansing Of The Burial Mounds was actually ultimate gay yearning - @nevertheless-moving's tags

oh my gosh the entire campus thought they hated each other! and the Thesis committee/whichever library staf are in range are about to get prime seating to however that drama forms up! hehe!

funniest thing the novel-centered part of the mdzs fandom misrepresents to cql viewers is the whole Smol Twink Mo Xuanyu bit.

like i know the donghua is majorly at fault here but 'five centimeters' guys. you know how much that is in the imperial system, it's almost exactly two inches. the breadth of my index and forefinger stacked together.

just enough height difference to be casually noticeable, that's how much.

mo xuanyu was also a tall guy.