#this is also a problem for wangxian if he doesn't literally or metaphorically die out of that life and set of attachments first

[whetstonefires]

counterpoint remember when they went to the archery thing in qishan and he didn't recognize lwj right away because he was wearing a different outfit, and had not in fact thought much about him since leaving gusu.

like you can put the latter under unreliable narrator if you prefer, but the total failure to place him in the qishan hunt costume and how devastating a blow this was to lwj (who had definitely been thinking of wwx in the past year) is super, super funny to me and deserves its place in the AU ecosystem.

drives me crazy when the mdzs fandom still doesn’t understand wwx is just as obsessed with lwj as lwj was with him. dare i say moreso. how am i STILL coming across fics/meta where wwx is dating people after having met lwj. any attempted relationship would end after 2 hours cause he’s incapable of going 15 minutes without talking or thinking about lwj. even if he actually tried going on a date it would be like. he’d sit down sigh and his date would ask what he was thinking about and he’d say i invited lan zhan here last week but he rejected me :(((((( and i was so sincere :((((( and then they order food he’d start smiling to himself and they’d be like what’s up and he’d be like “ahahaha i’m imagining trying to get lan zhan to eat this dish!!” they walk around outside and he grabs a cute little trinket from a market stall and the date is like oh :)) and wwx would be like this is so silly and cute i’m gonna hide it in lan zhan’s bag and see his reaction. pre meeting lwj maybe there is a slim chance but after he sees that :| face it’s over for anyone else