#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation

[disgracefulthings]

Hungover Lan Wangji: ughhh, what happened...?

Wei Wuxian: Wow, drunk Lan Zhan is an entirely different person

Lan Wangji: ...what did I do?

Wei Wuxian: Well, after having a sip of alcohol and passing out, you woke up and tried to steal some chickens

Lan Wangji: Oh god

Wei Wuxian: Then you confessed your undying love for me and told me I am not allowed to kiss anyone but you

Lan Wangji covering his face: Oh no

Wei Wuxian: Then you got us married and adopted an orphan

Lan Wangji: That explains the child

Wei Wuxian: His name is A-Yuan. Then you brought us back to the Jinshi and passed out again

Lan Wangji: Why did you let me do those things?

Wei Wuxian: I was also very drunk

[sonik-kun]

The first person Jin Ling comes rushing to whenever he's in trouble 🥹

[askew-d]

i think jiang yanli is a feral mom, alright. beyond the fact she wanted to know more about her husband’s death, i had a consideration that just… in the day of the nightless city battle, she had to choose between one of her children, so to say: wei wuxian or jin rulan. jin rulan was just born. he was her blood child, yet he still couldn’t erase the position of another someone she raised, whom she also loved like a brother and a heart mother. a young man at the time who might not have been in her womb for nine months, but whom she cared for and saw grow up for more than a decade. so she threw caution to the wind, and ran after wei wuxian.

and the rest is. well, history.

[helpmeimblorboing]

I really like imagining Nie Huaisang’s response to Jiang Cheng’s whole shtick post-WWX-death, because, you CANNOT tell me that he wouldn’t immediately draw parallels, true or not, to his own shit with Nie Mingjue.

Like I can just imagine him thinking while talking to Jiang Cheng like “You were so unwilling to accept the notion of a world where your brother was dead that you were willing to spend your entire life chasing a ghost. That’s admirable. I admire that. Maybe if I had done that, Da-ge wouldn’t have…”

And meanwhile Jiang Cheng is just seething, fully convinced that he was chasing after Wei Wuxian’s ghost because he just hated him so gosh-darn much. Like, not to stir up any debate or piss off any of the more opinionated people on this site, but I genuinely don’t think JC hated WWX as much as he, or the jianghu, thought he did.

Hate can drive a person to do many things, but I genuinely don’t think it’s possible for hate to drive a person to chase a dead man for thirteen years. Five ? Maybe. Seven is pushing it. But thirteen ? The only kind of hate powerful enough to do that is hate adulterated with at least a sprinkling of love

And I think that creates a really interesting contrast, one Nie Huaisang, who disguises his hate and grief behind walls of obliviousness, all the while drowning in regret and despair, and one Jiang Cheng, who disguises his grief and regret behind walls of hate so solid that he’s managed to fool even himself

Both of them wearing masks. Both of them pretending to be whole after the death of their sibling(s). Neither of them actually okay

On the other hand, maybe Jiang Cheng does just fully despise Wei Wuxian, which just makes the whole thing hilarious instead of melancholic. Like here Huaisang is, drawing up elaborate manuscripts of the tragic story of the Yunmeng Shuangjie, and meanwhile Jiang Cheng is just the living representation of that one neighbour who’s been pissed off at you for a full decade because you accidentally insulted her apple cobbler at a meet one time

And once again, that’s a really interesting contrast, because, Huaisang holds grudges too, but unlike Jiang Cheng, who goes around announcing his hate, Huaisang hides it behind faked incompetence and obliviousness

Either way, it’s an enjoyable experience

[pastelshroomsbasement]

the xicheng discord server has officially adopted me, so heres a doodle 🤩🤩🤩

[wangxianficrecs]

Follower Recs

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I have a follower rec from the MDZS Big Bang! It's an evocatively-written modern AU with F/F wangxian. The characterization is so spot on and the writing understated and melancholy and beautiful. A real treat! @annerbhp

lately, blooming

by chibilwj (thelogicoftaste)

M, 34k, Wangxian

Part of the MDZS Big Bang 2024

Summary: It’s an irregular rhythm of coincidental meetings. Sometimes Wangji is there, and Wei Ying is not. And sometimes, when Wangji has to venture further out, to Nanhui or Jinshan, she sits in the back of the car and imagines Wei Ying between the trees, wandering aimlessly in search of her. or, a photographer and a streamer meet one very early morning. it goes about as well as you'd expect.

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(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.)

[hellinglaozu]

Smoke break🚬

[bishy437]

what’s left behind

[wintertundra-art]

“I want to take someone back to the Cloud Recesses… take him back and hide him. But he is not willing.”

[pillow-boi]

The full comic is finally over!!! Thank you for following it ~

[lilapplesheadcannons]

All MXTX novels are just about one outwardly put-together, inwardly screaming mess of a man and his emotional support war criminal.

[i-guess-im-into-this-now]

Shen Qingqiu: Some people are so beautiful that they are irresistible to both men and women... it's not gay to be attracted to them. There is literally nothing else you can do.

Xie Lian: You are so right. Or if you happen to have to kiss them to exchange spiritual energy, it doesn't mean you have feelings for one another.

Wei Wuxian: True. Also sometimes guy friends just need to get naked together and touch one another and make each other climax. Just normal friend stuff.

Shen Qingqiu: ....

Xie Lian: ....

Shen Qingqiu: ....exactly. You guys get it.

[sonik-kun]

Pretty pouty princess 🥺

[askew-d]

the wildest thing about lan wangji is the way he’s immediately enraged at his own feelings for wei wuxian. because we’ve seen wei wuxian fall in love slowly and surely, right? he goes from a quick interest to an oblivious attraction to liking lan wangji then being infatuated after his return to life, then to straight-up loving the guy intensely. we watch him develop his sexual and romantic attraction equally.

but lan wangji’s different. from the very first second he’s desperately smitten — all it took was one sly smile and he was going through the four stages of love: the desire to marry, kiss, bed and die with him. and he’s so goddamn outraged, because how dare this troublemaker trespass into his house and steal his heart so easily??

he was so conflicted that he didn’t see any other alternative if not to unsheathe his sword and fight the hell out of that idiot. feelings?? for a rebellious teenager?? right in front of my clan’s three thousand rules??? not today, devil.

[ebiemoon]

i know wwx couldn't have watched over him in canon pre-resurrection but i wanted to illustrate it (i'm so soft for lil sizhui)

[roremy]