#wen ning

[lanlanayang]

[sleepy-salami]

jiang cheng blaming wen ning for the fall of lotus pier and jin zixuan's death (something wen ning didn't want, consent to or had any agency in doing) vs wen ning yelling at jiang cheng for the golden core transfer (something jiang cheng didn't want, consent to or had any agency in doing) is peak actually. you take two sympathetic characters with insane amount of grief, trauma, guilt, blame and debt between them, and let them go ballistic on each other to avoid unpacking any of that. making each other worse just by appearing in the same sentence together. no political or social expectations getting in the way of their unbridled haterism either. lan wangji wishes he could join.

[labseraph]

Truth.

[beautiful--feathered--wings]

Masterpost.

A CONFESSION????? 

(they’re on the same page but they’re reading different books) (happy 100 posts to this lil au!) (inspo.)

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[papita474]

My baby my baby~~

[lilkikibat]

🗣️🗣️ Take him down, lay him flat 🗣️🗣️

Introducing the WangXian wrestling au of my dreams— 6 illustrations by me and a ginormous fic by @redstockings for this year’s @mdzsrbb. It was an absolute treat working together and I’m incredibly proud of the way our collab turned out.

So fucking excited about this fic!! IT’S HERE. HORRAY.

Link to ao3 user RedStocking’s amazing fic here.

[shuravf]

I have a soft spot for them 🥹

[jungcougar]

lan wangji in the untamed: hiiiiii baby welcome back <3 i missed you uwu

lan wangji in the donghua:

[supertaliart]

Post-it Wen Ning!

[wodania]

everything is the same except instead of rabbits it’s silkie chickens

[incorrectuntamedmodaozushiquotes]

Wen Ning: I have edge. Wei Wuxian: You really don't. You are literally the most wide-eyed person I've ever seen. You have the face of a cartoon lamb.

[seleniclight]

[MDZS] Understanding in Context

Sooooo, I never thought I'd be here, but recently I started reading Montaigne and IDEK man.

The reason I decided to write this post is because I think when people read MDZS specifically in the English side of the fandom they often neglect to see the whole story in the context of ancient China. I'm not saying I'm an expert on this, so I would love to be corrected if I'm wrong, but I specifically wanted to discuss an action from Jiang Cheng.

As people know, one of the biggest betrayals he committed is not protecting Wen Qing's faction (not the word I'd use but yeah), while Wei Wuxian did. Well, I think this is often more multi-faceted than people think it is.

Think about it, the Wen family killed JC's entire sect and family, even if it wasn't WQ's branch. So no matter what, JC as one of the last surviving members and heir to the sect is morally obligated to kill them to avenge his family. Then, people often bring up the debt he should owe to Wen Ning for saving him, which is where it gets difficult and muddy. Because while *technically* he does have a debt to WN, at the same time, WN saved JC for WWX (I think so? Correct me if I'm wrong please) so WWX has more of a debt than JC? and WWX fulfilled it. Of course, JC should to an extent still owe them, but then that would directly contest the whole societal pressure/obligation for him to avenge his family.

Therefore, despite WQ's whole faction being innocent, it makes sense that JC would still choose to be hostile to them, from both personal, societal and cultural reasons (remember, he was also playing a political game the whole time that WWX wasn't).

The final argument I've seen is also that JC can easily make the whole sects spare WQ's faction by saying he owes WN a debt from saving him and ???? That is simply not true??? Just because WN saved JC DOES NOT mean that the rest of the sects should forgive them for the other atrocities that the Wen family committed in the war (ie. burning the Lan sect). All it would do is have the Jiang clan killed for good, and obviously JC CAN NOT have that happen.

Basically tldr, the situation is a lot more complicated than most people give it credit for and people need to acknowledge that.

Anyways, bye bye!

[junodoom]

he’s helping!

[sleeplesssoporific]

I would love to know what MDZS was like from Wen Ning's pov.....

[lgbtlunaverse]

Fanon likes to portray Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji as being jealous of each other because they fear wei wuxian will choose one of them over the other. Which is ignoring the fact that at least in novel canon Jiang Cheng did not even fucking know wangxian ever got along let alone that lwj was in love with wwx until at the very end of the story (in cql canon he does go through a wangxian phase early on and gets very confused by their "breakup" during wwx's sunshot era) and that Lan Wangji is mostly filled with loathing towards both himself and Jiang Cheng for 'abandoning' Wei Wuxian and not being able to save him.

It also ignores the much bigger point that both Lan Wangji and Jiang Cheng are actually jealous of Wen Ning. And why wouldn't they be? That is who Wei Wuxian chose in his first life. He left the Jiang, told Lan Wangji to fuck off no he is not coming to gusu with you, and spent his days with his little-brother-shaped corpse bestie on his mountain in yiling. And then when he came back he immediately called him up the second he could string together more than two notes on a flute. Wen Ning is the real competition. (And he's winning)