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[idolision]

Wei Wuxian: The drama unfolding down there is very.... interesting!

Lan Wangji: Mm.

Wei Wuxian: I can't take my eyes off!

Lan Wangji: Mm. Mm.

[akakumoeteru]

Happy birthday, WWX! This is the piece I contributed to 芍香縈夢, a private WWX birthday event anthology I was invited to. You can see the other participant works by browsing this hashtag on Twitter or visiting the project account here!

[anfuaruuu]

happy birthday xianxian,,,

heres to another year of being loved 🥺

[abilai]

Fastest Wei Wuxian for his BIRTHDAYYYYYY

[somethingaboutkisa]

Then when I met you My virtues uncounted Oh, but that goodness Has gone with you now

[fluff-crt]

MDZS Donghua: "Happy 6th anniversary!"

Source: https://weibo.com/5406119222/5054165426372772

[anshares]

Well not YET at least...

[sinfulpatata]

tranquil

+closeups

[ten-kei]

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[thekansta]

Just realized I never actually shared this recoloured version on its own so here it is~

[idolision]

Wei Wuxian: Honey, I want to eat cabbage tonight!

Lan Wangji: Okay.

Jiang Cheng: Pfft! I'll also eat cabbage!

Wei Wuxian: GET YOUR OWN CABBAGE! I WON'T SHARE MINE!!!!!!!

[sluty-hanfu]

"Everything is the same but they have smartphones apparently" AU

[akakumoeteru]

Happy birthday, WWX! Again! This is the piece I contributed to 一枕游羡穿花梦, an online birthday event over on Weibo. You can see other participant contributions through this tag on Weibo (though you will need an account)!

[swordsmithofgondolin]

Ok so I don't usually get involved in fandom discourse or anything like that but the amount of racism and appropriation in the MDZS fandom has pushed me to my limit, so I'm doing this. This is for fans of both The Untamed and Mó Dào Zǔ Shī.

AUs are cool! I write AUs! Fanfiction is a labour of love and people should write whatever they want, but we have to be respectful of the culture that what ever we are writing fanfiction came from. But people write the most absolutely insane stuff. Historically, it is incredibly frequent that other cultures will steal the parts of Chinese culture and innovations and technology, and then use it while not giving any credit to Chinese people and being racist. This happens all the time today! (It is also what happened to Wèi Wúxiàn. The Cultivation clans hated him, killed him, killed his people, but he was brilliant and they used his brilliant inventions while being absolutely awful to him). If you want to write a Selkie AU, use characters from an Irish story or write Song of the Sea fanfiction. Or use similar stories from the Chinese mythological canon. There are so many Chinese myths about doomed love and animal transformation! Don't even get me started on the angel and demon christian bullshit AUs. I know that a lot of translations of MDZS use the word "demon" to translate either mó or yāo creatures, but they are vastly different from christian demons. This also gets into the other bizarre things that people write with Wàngxiàn's relationship. So many people in this fandom only like it because they want to write dubious consent stuff so they take these incredibly well-written characters with a very loving and trusting relationship and just write...the most out-of-character stuff to appeal to their own sexual fantasies. This ties into appropriation, using these Chinese characters with no regard for their culture or even for who they are as people! This is something that has happened to Chinese culture for centuries, and it is most definately a form of racism! Also, I cannot stress enough how much sex is not the only thing in Wàngxiàn's relationship. Their relationship is mostly about love, trust, shared interests, safety, and sex is just a small part of it. Also, kinks don't define people. Wàngxiàn feel so safe together and trust eachother so much that they are able to share their weird kinks with eachother, but their kinks aren't them. I have a lot more to say about this and the Incense Burner chapter, but that's not what this post is about. I will note something about characterisation, though - Wèi Wúxiàn is not the feminine twink that we make him. He's scary, he's powerful, he fucking killed someone by making her swallow a chairleg. He's terrifying. And his "feminine" qualities actually read a lot more like characters such as Né Zhā or Sūn Wùkōng from Chinese mythology. Also just the concept of "feminine" or "masculine" qualities is sexist and transphobic and terrible. I love gnc Wèi Wúxiàn and I often draw/write him wearing skirts and stuff, but that clothing isn't feminine and I have a lot more to say about this but there isn't time! He's a complicated and very interesting character, not just some western character type that you find on a chart in a middle school English class. Don't even get me started on the characterisation of Lán Wàngjī... Also, I've seen people writing meta about MDZS with Japanese culture and terms. East Asia is not a monolith! Japan has stolen so much Chinese culture and treat Chinese people awfully! Just watch anime to see the racism, and do reaserch about WW2 to learn about the awful things that they did to China and China's ecology and environment and China's people! But most importantly, MDZS is Chinese! Don't write meta about it as if it's Japanese!

The thing that pushed me over the edge to writing this is how so many fanfic writers just take the MDZS characters and put them into settings of mythologies from other cultures, or modern AUs, because they just...don't want to do research about Chinese culture and mythology or don't care enough to do so. This is racist! Y'all need to just take a minute to read the Dào Dé Jīng or Zhuāngzǐ or Wǔjīng or something!

The most prominent way that this misunderstanding of Chinese culture, particularly Dàoism, presents, is how people write/talk about Wèi Wúxiàn's ghost path. An important part of 道 is that there are many, many different ways to define it. Many different paths one can walk. There's also the earlier definition of 道 as a path, a course of discipline and cultivation and study, and the later definition of 道 as something ironic to the original meaning, the opposite of a defined course. The important part is that there are many different cultivation paths, many different 道. We need to read or watch more xiānxiá, rather than just MDZS! The point here is that Wèi Wúxiàn's ghost path is just another form of cultivation, another 道. A brilliant one, too! It is a very effective and kind and empathetic way to deal with all of the jiāngshī/stiff corpses. And his ghost path does not harm his body. I am so tired of it being something that harms him or that needs to be cleansed or something. If you want Wèi Wúxiàn to have health stuff, give him a disability! You can even use my disability headcanons if you want! I headcanon that Wèi Wúxiàn has Reynaud's, POTS, and EDS, and Lán Wàngjī has POTS, Scoliosis, and Lupus. If you have questions about writing these disabilities, you can mention me in a post or something to ask about Reynaud's, POTS, and EDS (I have these, so I can answer questions about them). For other disabilities, just tag them. There will definately be someone in the disabled community here who will be happy to answer questions.

This fandom is so clogged by racism that Chinese people and members of Chinese diaspora are being pushed out of the fandom because we are drowning out their voices and silencing them. Listen! Listen to Chinese people and members of Chinese diaspora! We have robbed them of a fandom that belongs to them and their culture!

Links to some Dàoist texts (there are a lot more that you should totally read and I don't even know if these are good translations or anything but I'm tired right now and my fingers are not happy that i am typing so much because EDS is like that so I'm only going to put these two but I might add more later) -

[shuang-hua]

happy belated lan wangji birthday TT —TT

i was so sad i didn't have time to draw something nice for the occasion and so pleased when i remembered i had this wip from ages ago that i could quickly finish... and then so sleepy so i couldn't stay awake to post it and now it's late anyway. sorry hanguang-jun ú_ù

anyway them!!!

Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian relax in their night clothes, curled up top-to-toe. Lan Wangji lies on his side with his head on Wei Wuxian's stomach, eyes closed and cradling Wei Wuxian's head against his bent knee; Wei Wuxian plays with Lan Wangji's hair, smiling or chatting away. The style is loose and almost monochromatic in blues and whites, except for the bright red of Wei Wuxian's clothes.

Coloured pencil and watercolour on paper.