#untamed parallels

[tls123]

This flute… I've never seen you hold it before.

[mushroomwriter]

Jiang Cheng & Lan Wangji + holding each other back

✨ Happy happy happy birthday @evakant! 🥳✨

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslighter? I hardly know her!

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[wangxian-the-zhijis]

Wei Wuxian: *talks a lot* *insert long paragraph here* *insert long paragraph there* *insert long paragraph everywhere*

Lan Wangji: Mn.

Meanwhile, in another universe…

Xiao Zhan, accepting an award: *talks a lot* *insert long paragraph here* *insert long paragraph there* *insert long paragraph everywhere*

Wang Yibo, accepting an award: Thank u bye.

[Kidding aside, Xiao Zhan’s speech was lovely.]

Xiao Zhan’s Speech | Wang Yibo’s speech

Video Source

[torsamors]

Let me help (id in alt text)

[Star Trek - The City on the Edge of Forever, Anne Carson - Euripides, Big Eden (2000), W. H. Auden, Holes (2003), Star Trek - The City on the Edge of Forever, Deleted scene from The City on the Edge of Forever, Star Trek: Voyager - Resolutions, Dead Poets Society, The Untamed (2019), Star Trek - The City on the Edge of Forever]

[accio-victuuri]

yibo being the absolute cutest boi 🥹🥹🥹 // source

[korpikorppi]

Why don't you kill yourself then? You...! The Untamed, Ep41 || Ep48

[yunmeng-jiang]

Wen Qing and Wen Zhuliu are like opposites. WZL is like "I have this super crazy destructive power related to golden cores and I don't particularly care about using it but my boss told me to use it for evil so I guess I'm doing that" while WQ is like "I have this super crazy life-changing idea related to golden cores and I really want to try it but I have too many ethical concerns so I guess I'll never get to do it"

[rhymaes]

The Untamed (2019) // Dan Bellm, Deep Well

[rejectedfables]

Today I’m thinking about parallels.

I’m thinking about how Wei Wuxian, by doing the right thing (standing up to Wen Chao in defense of Mianmian), upset a powerful member of a powerful sect (Wen Chao of the Wen sect), who retaliated against Wei Wuxian by wiping out the home (Lotus Pier) of the man Wei Wuxian planned to spend his life with (Jiang Cheng). Wei Wuxian, out of guilt and love, had a physical part of himself (his golden core) transplanted into Jiang Cheng without Jiang Cheng’s prior knowledge or consent. Wei Wuxian then disappeared for an extended period of time, while Jiang Cheng desperately searched for him.

I’m thinking about how Xiao Xingchen, by doing the right thing (attempting to bring Xue Yang to justice for the Chang clan, and verbally standing up to injustice in the face of the Jin clan), upset a powerful member of a powerful sect (Jin Guangshan of the Jin sect), who retaliated against Xiao Xingchen by encouraging or allowing Xue Yang to wipe out the home (Baixue Temple) of the man Xiao Xingchen planned to spend his life with (Song Lan). Xiao Xingchen, out of guilt and love, had a physical part of himself (his eyes) transplanted into Song Lan without Song Lan’s prior knowledge or consent. Xiao Xingchen then disappeared for an extended period of time, while Song Lan desperately searched for him.

Later Wei Wuxian spends a couple years living in a remote haunted area (Yiling Burial Mounds) making house with the beaten remains of their previous enemy (the defeated and abused Qishan Wen clan remnants). 

Later Xiao Xingchen spends a couple years living in a remote haunted area (Yi City) making house with the beaten remains of their previous enemy (Xue Yang, injured from having narrowly escaped execution).

In the end it’s heavily implied that Wei Wuxian kills himself, and it’s stated that no matter who tried to call on his spirit in the following years, until Mo Xuanyu, he never answered. 

Xiao Xingchen certainly killed himself, and no matter how many times or in how many ways his spirit was called upon, he never answered. 

[eowyntheavenger]

I CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS. When we first see Ram, he’s in the desert. There’s no life—just the violent repression of the British Empire, which is literally killing the land, making it harsh and inhospitable.

There are no trees here, because the British probably cut them all down. There’s no growth or healing possible here. It’s a sign that Ram is on the wrong path, a destructive path. But after Bheem rescues and heals him and Ram is finally able to switch sides, he appears like this:

He’s surrounded by nature, by LIFE, symbolizing his rebirth/reincarnation and the fact that he can now become his natural, true self as a revolutionary leader alongside Bheem. Healing, renewal and growth are possible because Ram rejects his old way of thinking!

Not only that, we’ve seen a shot composed like this before:

It signifies Ram following in Bheem’s footsteps and becoming who he was destined to be! Becoming who he wanted to be! And he does it with and BECAUSE OF BHEEM! Bheem reminds him of his roots and what drives him in the first place:

I just LOVE how nature works as a theme in this movie.

When Bheem is being tortured, the natural world gives him strength:

Should you fall at your oppressor’s feet like a slave… you are no more a child of the forest.

He also literally unleashes the forces of nature on the British:

LOOK AT HIM I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

And of course, Ram and Bheem are portrayed as forces of nature themselves—fire and water.

LISTEN TO ME it makes so much sense for the final battle to take place IN THE FOREST, with nature itself rising up against the British. Colonialism tries to subjugate the land, just like it subjugates the people. But nature is untamable! It’s the PERFECT symbol for the revolution.

[tls123]

THE UNTAMED — episode seven / episode thirty-one

[mushroomwriter]

This is our Yunmeng Jiang Clan’s family business.

THE UNTAMED episode 21

[3cosmicfrogs]

one triangle is not enough i need to make more

[wangxian-the-zhijis]

✨YiZhan as WangXian✨

(aka YiZhan switching roles)

Bonus: xz and wyb actually playing each other’s roles

[cephalopodish]

that space between brother and sect brother and family and employee that's what the story is about you may see me as a brother but i know that i am just working here because i can sit at your table and be given your hand-me-downs but oh how i owe you for the experience