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With the encouragement of @admirableadmiranda I had some thoughts regarding fandom and it's expectations that they want, and not necessarily the message coming from the text we read and are supposed to digest. As well as how it places these strict boundaries of not being able to make these characters nuanced as they are constantly called. I feel like what fandom wants a lot of the time is this self fulfilling need in themselves or want served some sort of comeuppance despite that's a call of further unnecessary cruelty and if that's what you choose you aren't any different from the in world condemnation and finding that scapegoat.
If you choose to see a sort of betterment for a character to please yourself it is to deny the heart and harm they canonically caused and underplay their existing personality to play to the wants you have. If you choose to hate them as well it is to the condemnation that they aren't capable of betterment upon the character's core nature that is nothing like our own.
In this sense I am specifically noting the way fandom deals with Jiang Cheng. They do not let him have his own sense of "redemption" or choose to see it as dissatisfying based on their own yearning and self experience. Yet it's not about "us". Self peace of one is not, and should not be, what I need for my own self. For Jiang Cheng his own peace is realizing that sacrifice and the catharsis of that acceptance is being able to accept yourself.
Jiang Cheng decides to be as he is without condemning Wei Wuxian finally for what he is or what he became as an adult. His core nature is still unlikeable, chooses force to keep anyone from arguing and is arrogant. But he uses that to protect Jin Ling, despite how much fandom may dislike this fact, he does love and who loves him in turn. He uses his nature now to protect someone he was not willing to do that for previously. He is not kinder or softer in nature and never will be, but he is standing by someone he truly does want to prosper without the expectation of gain for himself.
He stops forcing his own way onto Jin Ling as we are shown Jin Ling openly continuing his own hunts with the Lans as well as Wei Wuxian without Jiang Cheng interfering or inserting that Jin Ling is wrong for his associations he has chosen. As much as he hated Wei Wuxian, he also hated himself and by the end is able to accept his own bitter core without dying in hate as his mother had done. He is able to escape the shadow of being his mother in full, on HIS terms and no one else's. The point is not what is a dissatisfaction for the audience but what is a peace of self for the character.
What am I to decry a person's peace finally in their existence that does not resemble mine or what I want? That is the arrogance of the self that I refuse to partake of and find even more cruel to force on another and tell them "You are wrong for finding your own sense of self and peace because that's what I think".
#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#canon jiang cheng#you can choose as many reconciliation ideas as you want#when it's not what he wants or needs#or choose to hate what he still is and becomes#the peace of the self finally doesn't need you to be happy about that#I am not on any fandom argument side regarding him but MY own#and the point is accepting what he chooses and letting him have the life he wants as well#which is for Jin Ling#no one else#not Wei Wuxian#not friendship#or to be his parents and being okay with that finally
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I love MDZS bc I went into it for an angsty gay romance—which I got—but I was wholly unprepared for these books to have the vibes of an unhinged necromantic episode of the Magic School Bus. Just a demonic gay freak and his bf enthusiastically chaperoning a bunch of kids who are way out of their depth on a field trip to hunt ghosts and walking corpses, shoving them headfirst into insane nightmare-fuel as a learning experience. It’s fantastic idk why this isn’t the main selling point for the series
#now which character is Arnold and why is it Jin Ling#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#grandmaster of demonic cultivation#wangxian
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At your side [End of Season 2]
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#wen ning#jin ling#wen qing#jiang yanli#a-yuan#It may have taken a year but we did it! The end of season 2!!!#(Granted: this season was nearly twice the length of season one.)#It's been a really fantastic season to draw for. So many iconic moments! It was a lot of work but I had a blast B*)#I also enjoyed experimenting more and more with my comic style. I'm growing as a comic artist bit by bit!#There is even a little bit of shadowing in this one for next season. As a treat. All the fun (and not heart breaking) scenes to come!#Comic talk time: Recently saw 12 angry men for first time and I love the coincidence of the themes aligning here.#They both touch upon the horror of judicial systems - in which the most persuasive argument wins and the truth is a nuisance.#All it takes is one person to stand against the crowd and say 'I do not know what is true. And that is reasonable doubt enough.'#When the majority is for condemning someone guilty - that in itself is persuasive enough.#One will set their mind to what the 'truth' is and refuse to see it any other way. That their perspective is the only correct one.#No one is born with a monopoly on the truth.#Everyone has biases and agendas. Some care not for the outcome - only that they can be on the convenient side.#Lan Wangji is putting everything on the line to say 'I'm not going to go with the majority vote.'#And that is a huge deal in a story that is so politically focused as MDZS is. Everything is a careful chess move to these sects -#and to not play the game is basically sacrificing everything you are and your families name. For some it is unthinkable.#And there is no doubt in LWJ's mind. He would stand there and lose everything if it means upholding justice.#More importantly - these two have each other's backs. The bond is unbreakable. This is the most ride or die I have seen two people be.
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hang out with wwx they said it'll be fun they said
#jiang cheng#jin ling#wei wuxian#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#guess which character the artist wants to fuck: difficulty level hard
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#mdzs#jiang cheng#lan wangji#wei wuxian#jin ling#ig in this universe jiang cheng already knows about lan sizhui. which is also a headcanon i see a lot in fic#god that's so funny tho. jc recognizes wen yuan and just decides not to say shit. king honestly#ig also in this universe jiang cheng kept all of wwx's shit for absolutely not sentimental reasons. no reason in particular actually myob#which is also a headcanon i see a lot in fic. wwx comes back to lotus pier and jc just has his room perfectly preserved#i like that headcanon. jc keeps all the things his dead loved ones leave him and he guards them as preciously as he guards his own memories#his father's sect. his mother's whip. his brother's flute. his sister's son#augh the tags got serious#anyways apparently lwj is 188cm and jc is 185cm. fucking tall bastards ugh#that 3cm difference probably has jc seething#yanyan polls
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jiujiu and xiao-shushu sarcasm compilation
#this is why Jin Ling is the funniest child alive even though he doesn't know it#you know what's NOT funny? the lighting at Jinlintai during these episodes EXCEPT for inside Fragrance Hall#which is as it should be. like if Qin Su *has* to have the day she has then at least she gets good lighting for it.#jiang cheng#jin guangyao#Chengyao real
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this is my first real offering to the untamed fandom. i couldn't resist
#the untamed#mdzs#wei wuxian#wen chao#nie huaisang#jiang cheng#xue yang#wen ning#jin ling#jin zixuan#sorry about the varying screenshot quality#i had to make do with what google gave me#which is why the wwx and nhs one has the logo in the corner#google was really failing me there#anyway. i enjoyed making these#there were some others i thought might kinda work for some characters#but these were all the Most fitting to me
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Lan Sizhui the Blessed: MDZS AU #3
Mdzs au where Gui attempt to cuddle Lan Sizhui when he gets too close.
Ghosts and fierce corpses suddenly losing fierceness around one person in particular being a phenomenon that raises questions, Hunguang-Jun forces himself to tell (stops holding himself back from explaining) the full, painful, nuanced truth to Lan Yuan — about where he came from, about the man who protected and helped raise him in the time he didn't remember.
No clue exactly why fierce corpses consistently try to gently pat his son's head and coo softly at him. I mean, they can guess, but for all they know any child raised at the burial mounds would have the same thing happen.
(Lan Zhan cautiously upgrades the likelihood that Wei Ying actually did birth A-Yuan from his own body from 1% to 10%.)
Carefully spread cover story (Lan Xichen's sworn brotherhood does have its benefits) is that all this is the result of an extremely overpowered Lan childhood protection charm, which also neatly explains Lan Zhan’s mysterious three year seclusion as slightly embarrassing, slightly impressive spiritual recovery.
Furthermore, in the interest of avoiding any associations with any infamous demonic cultivators, they more formally define their relationship as father and son. Lan Wanjii suffering through cultivation society events just for the opportunity for Lan Sizhui to call him Fuqin in public, and all but explicitly confirm the rumors that he's his legitimized bastard (definitely not a war orphan from anywhere cursed).
Between Lan Sizhui's natural kindness, his Protagonist Superpower, his polite but undeniably Cool disillusionment with the older generation, and his very endearingly Lan attempts at pranking, Lan Sizhui grows into easily the most popular young master of his generation.
Wei Ying recognizes A-Yuan shortly after his revival, gratified to see his old protection spell still working flawlessly. He was just fucking thrilled to find out that the kid survived! The fact that he grew up in such a respected position — the fact that Hunguang-Jun actually made up nice stories about being friends with the Yiling Patriarch and told them to his son, to the point that A-Yuan was genuinely delighted to be called a mature radish — there's really no way he could ever repay that debt.
He's less thrilled to be leaving Mo Village with a curse scar still on his arm and Mo-Furen still alive, but eh, no one lives forever. What's he going to do, murder her in front of the kid? Right after he saved her life? Might as well enjoy the extra time while it lasts.
Slight genre shift from BL romantic adventure to father(s)-son bonding roadtrip (Wei Ying not noticing himself falling in love with the man Lan Yuan described — apparently Lan Zhan got even better while he was dead, who even knew that was possible!)
Of course he has to keep up the Mo Xuanyu act somehow — fortunately acquiring makeup and a face veil for Wen Ning kills two birds with one stone! Who would possibly suspect that the Yiling Patriarch and the Ghost General would ever masquerade as a pair of cutsleeve rogue cultivators? Ok, they’re a bit suspicious in terms of resentful energy, but that just goes to explain why Hunguang-Jun’s own little ray of light is supervising them!
And, well, as great as it is to eventually meet up with Hunguang-Jun in Yi City and thank him for raising A-Yuan so good (it really is great to see Lan Zhan and not get scolded) it feels a little unfair for him to hate Wen Ning so much, considering how much he apparently warmed up to Wei Ying after his death.
My MDZS AU Masterlist
#mdzs#my au#mdzs au#wei ying#lan sizhui#novel canon#not featured here - trickle down effect of all this on Jin Lings character development#via Lan yuan attending society events and getting into an ill advised fistfight with the Jin heir over the yiling patriarch#which has less noticable but still present trickle down effects on Jiang Chengs character development#it's okay don't worry about the curse scar#it gets resolved through eventual Yunmeng bros reconciliation#in which Jiang Cheng expresses himself through their brotherly love language — amoral violence#mdzs au no 3
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mmmm dont have time to dig into it rn but. i imagine lan wangji felt a lot of the same things raising a-yuan as jiang cheng did raising jin ling
and of course there are some very big differences too, but i imagine the love they felt for their kids held a lot of the same baggage.
#that child being the only thing you have left of the person you loved the most#the pressure of wanting to do good by those loved ones in how you raise their child#having to deal with grieving while being strong for the child#and when everything you know is flipped on its head#it must be hard to find solid ground from which to raise someone#and it makes it so. heart wrenching when you see that they did their best#and that kid turned out NOTHING like how they would have under their parents#which isnt good or bad inherently#but that would weigh so heavily on my mind if i were jc or lwj#anyway breaks over back to work#.text#mdzs#mo dao#the untamed#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation#lan wangji#lan sizhui#wei wuxian#jiang cheng#jin ling#jiang yanli
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Summary of MDZS/The Untamed:
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#jin ling#jin ling's uncles#wei wuxian#jiang cheng#jin guangyao#nie mingjue#nie huaisang#lan xichen#lan zhan#mo xuanyu#every son jin guangshan had#which are#like a million#YouTube
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Could you elaborate on what the yanli-jc wwx conspiracy is?
They are just generally in cahoots re: making sure he's safe and bringing him home, sometimes in defiance of their parents or society or just the likely fact of his death. The first time Wei Wuxian runs away Jiang Cheng wants to follow him because he's worried he'll get hurt. Jiang Fengmian says no, and when Jiang Cheng sneaks out in defiance of his father's wishes with his little rucksack in hand, Yanli is waiting at the gates to support him and tell him to bring Wei Wuxian home safe, implicitly siding with him against their dad in the matter of whether Wei Wuxian might be in real trouble and if so, whether Jiang Cheng's help might be valuable.
The second time is during the sunshot campaign while Wei Wuxian is missing- she comes in when he's brooding over Wei Wuxian's sword and tells him how grown up he is, fusses over him a bit and asks him to bring him back. Jiang Cheng fervently agrees, and looks actively relieved and pleased she's asking this of him- it's blatantly obvious he was going to do it anyway, but her support and faith mean a lot to him which I think is significant because he's usually so worried about failure and he knows Wei Wuxian has been thrown in the burial mounds and is almost certainly dead, but he's not actually frightened he'll fail her, he's just glad they're on the same page. He gets extra support this round because Lan Wangji is also refusing to believe Wei Wuxian is dead and taking joint missions to Yiling with Jiang Cheng and his own turn at sword brooding.
Breaking the pattern, in CQL she was originally going to go with him to talk to Wei Wuxian after he takes the Wens to the burial mounds but he kind of sneaks off without her when he sees her with Zixuan and then doesn't manage to bring Wei Wuxian home to her; she has a sad prophetic dream about it. The conspiracy is broken!
Until! They conspire to bring Yanli to Yiling so Wei Wuxian can see her wedding clothes. I personally think it's implied by the response to Zixuan's request for Wei Wuxian to be allowed at Jin Ling's hundred days ceremony that they were in on that together- either way they're both playing their part, because everyone from the Lan to the JIn know Jiang Cheng would happily take Wei Wuxian back and Yanli misses him. Whether they planned it or just moped really obviously is debatable buy money is on them being in on it together with Zixuan and maybe even Lan Wangji.
And then of course there's Nightless City, where Jiang Cheng notably does not try to get to Wei Wuxian but Yanli does, and then he finds him and loses him all over again so he can have a much more prolonged and less emotionally supportive round of refusing to believe Wei Wuxian is dead.
Bonus Round: The only time Yanli sends Wei Wuxian after Jiang Cheng it's when he's been captured by the Wen because he was already on top of the send Wei Wuxian home safe to Jiejie agenda.
#annnnd basically all of this is a cql exclusive! in the book there's no roadtrip we don't see yanli and JC interact during sunshot and she's#not there for the fall of lotus pier. and zixuan just writes a letter to wwx inviting him to the ceremony#whereas in the show you explicitly see him tell his dad that yanli#producer of heirs and legitimate grandsons#just has one teensie little thing that would make her happy#and lwj backs him up and writes the letter himself#i forget who says he can rejoin the jiang immediately if he gives up the amulet i think it's jgy and obviously a trap#but it's taken for granted that everyone from lxc to jgs knows jc will take him back if he's allowed to. womp womp also you get the shot of#JC and Yanli waiting for WWX together with Jin Ling when they get the news of Zixuan's death which is just. they wanted to introduce him to#jin ling together ;___________________; we three!!!
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So first of all, let me start by saying that JGY & LXC knew each other for far longer than Wangxian knew each other, or even WWX & the Jiang siblings were together. (Cloud recesses got burnt down and LXC went on the run when LWJ was around 17. At the time of the events of the Guanyin Temple LWJ was around 34. In the CQL, LXC & JGY first saw each other (& developed a huge crush at first sight) when LWJ was 15, and at the end of the story LWJ was 36) so all that talk of "LXC being too naive and blind for trusting JGY & thinking that he knows him"? Or hating him for defending his savior, supporter, and friend of 17/20 years? No. Wrong. Enough of that.
Now getting to the main point, IDK exactly when that teacher/student roleplay of them takes place but it must be shortly before NMJ's qi deviaton. Which is well into Xiyao's relationship. So my question is if these two have only now heard each others' guqin playing as is implied by these lines:
Jin GuangYao laughed, "Well, now that I've heard Brother's guqin skills, I might as well smash my guqin the moment I get home."
Lan XiChen, "Your skills are also considered quite fine outside of Gusu. Were they taught by your mother?"
Jin GuangYao, "No. I taught myself by watching others. She never taught me such things. She only taught me reading and writing, and bought a handful of expensive sword and cultivation guides for me to practice."
And they only now talked about JGY's family history with Meng Shi, and with how when telling his parents' story to WWX LXC talks like he hasn't talked with anyone about this story before, then wtf have Xiyao talked about all those years?!
#the untamed#mdzs#Were they too busy ''talking' every night all night long' to talk?#(the kind of nightly talks that had resulted in LXC being very well-informed about what mark is or isn't on JGY's body. U know which ones.)#cql#mo dao zu shi#chen qing ling#jin guangyao#Meng yao#lan xichen#lan huan#xiyao#my two cents
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another uncle added to jin ling's growing collection!
#jiang cheng#jin ling#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#yes jc is cute but jl doesnt want to think about it#jc is a november baby which means...he was conceived...probably around feb...#hes a valentines day baby-#i cant believe yzy let jfm hit
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imagine that you're jiang cheng and you have a meeting at jinlintai to pick up jin ling / discuss jin ling's educational plans / etc etc.. you arrive earlier than expected, so they tell you that lianfang-zun is still busy with his sworn brothers. that's okay though, you can spend the time feeding the koi in the koi pond with jin ling.
looks like jin guangshan is also busy which is alright because you don't want to talk to him and wait holy shit did chifeng-zun just kick lianfang-zun down the stairs????? huh?????????
maybe it's time to go back to lotus pier
#mdzs#jiang cheng#jin guangyao#nie mingjue#lan xichen#jin ling#the 3zun drama seems like it was largely kept under wraps but also nmj did super kick jgy down the jinlintai stairs in front of everyone#which seems like. it would be a bit difficult to cover up afterwards#plus jc probably has a higher rate of contact than average with jgy due to co-raising jin ling with him#which could potentially expose him to the drama#do you think that jiang cheng had private bitchy opinions about the drama. do you think he mentally took sides#or did he just forcefully go Not My Business and pretended not to see anything#do you think the xue yang drama made him want to renegotiate the jin ling custody agreement#also tbh im already unclear on the timeline....#yanyan speaks
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he is the BEST BOY and he is SO CONCERNED about his uncles who are both straight-up not having a good time right now 😭
#during JC's meltdown JL kept trying to place his hand on JC or restrain him for his own safety and JC kept PUSHING HIM!!! enough to stumble!#which is probably more aggressive than JC has ever been with him before#so between that and JGY obliquely threatening to kill him in the prior episode he is having SUCH A BAD NIGHT#jin ling#masala necromancy wizard hour
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when you’re trying to argue with him but he goes on a nerdy, detailed tangent about how he’d humanely catch and release a rat 🐀
#fic wip#jin ling#lan sizhui#zhuiling#fic: letters never sent#aka JL starting arguments on purpose just so LSZ talks to him#because he wants to feel justified about being mad at LSZ#but how tf is he supposed to stay mad at him when he says ridiculous shit like this 💀#also#sect leader jin ling being a primadonna#oh lawd they fightin#context since i didn’t wanna post too much: ‘as long as we don’t bother them’ (them being the ghosts)#this scene happens soon after LSZ comes back which is why JL is still pissed at him lmfaooo#LSZ getting so defensive over his ghost friends 😭#we love to see it (and by we I mean meeeeee)#fic musings
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