#when that changes

[dark-elf-writes]

Little baby Wei Wuxian who seeing Jiang Yanli and thinks, “I want to be pretty like her” and makes it happen through his cultivation breaking ways

Little Wei Wuxian who shows Jiang Yanli and Jiang Cheng his efforts first for approval and then no one else

Little Wei Wuxian who starts visibly and non visibly switching genders at random and giving no context while the Yunmeng sibling just start gaslighting everyone about it

(Little Wei Wuxian adapting the array to make him look like a completely different purpose for spying purposes bc Jiang Cheng is gonna be sect leader and Wei Wuxian isn’t going to let anything happen to him and that means politicking)

Not so little Wei Wuxian who shows up to the Cloud Recess Summer School and causes all the sexuality crises

(Lan Wangji who falls in love with Wei Wuxian at first sight and then has to deal with Wei Wuxian somehow getting prettier every time he changes appearance)

Lan Qiren’s blood pressure is going to go through the roof.

Wei Wuxian knows what true beauty is when he sees his new sister for the first time. Sees it in her sunshine bright smile and the pretty lotus flower jewelry she wears. Sees it in her gentle laughter and peeled lotus roots she gives to both him and Jiang Cheng. Sees it in her pretty silks and the steadiness in her hands as she wipes his tears and carries him and Jiang Cheng back home on trembling legs.

Madam Yu scowls at him whenever she catches him staring at his shijie. Snarls that she is already promised to another.

He doesn’t understand why she tells him that. Doesn’t understand that she thinks, even know, that he will grow up to want her as more than a sister.

It’s not true of course.

He wants to be her.

It starts with a way to apply makeup immediately (childish and playful at first tut refined as years pass). As much as Wei Wuxian loves the look of it, he never had the patience to apply such things himself. He was made to be always moving. Running from one end of Lotus Pier to the other without pause. Not for finicky little details with powder and rouge. A talisman is just so much easier and quite lucrative when word gets around to the female disciples

(The only time he is ever seen sitting still is when he is at Jiang Yanli’s feet. Letting her weave braids and baubles into his hair to match her own always finished with his signature red ribbon.)

As he grows and his body begins to change Wei Wuxian devotes himself to finding another solution. It’s not that he doesn’t like the width of his shoulders or how flat his chest is it’s simply… ill fitting at times. Like wearing sleeping robes to a banquet. They have a place, of course, and can even be fun to purposefully wear the wrong ones as a prank, but sometimes one had to change.

(He doesn’t understand why Jiang Cheng looks at him blankly when he says that. Doesn’t understand why his shijie’s eyes go soft as she calls him “A-Xian” and runs careful fingers over the pretty braids she just put into his hair.)

It’s a bit more complicated than the first talisman, but Wei Wuxian grins so brightly when he figures it out he could put the Wen’s Sun to shame.

Others begin to notice, of course.

And, of course, his siblings don’t even bat an eye as they join in on his claims that he has always looked this way.

(Wei Wuxian laughs so hard he falls off of the roof when his uncle joins in on the game. He is the only one to not realize it isn’t really a game at all.)

Really, adjusting the array to make him look completely different as both a man and a woman is only the logical next step. He will be Jiang Cheng’s right and left hand when they grow up, after all, will need to serve his little brother in whatever way he needs, might not be able to show his real face (either of his real faces) when he does.

Jiang Fengmian sits him down before he gores to the Cloud Recesses with Jiang Cheng and attempts to explain to him that the Lan Clan keeps their men and woman strictly separated. Wei Wuxian blinks blankly back at him.

“But I’m not a woman, uncle. I’m just me!”

The response is expected, of course, but Jiang Fengmian can’t find it in himself to be surprised. Better to beg Lan Qiren’s understanding anyway, as there will be no way to keep Wei Wuxian in one skin. His wild heart was never meant to be contained. Madam Yu had certainly tried and failed for years.

(Lan Wangji falls in love with a smiling boy drinking on a rooftop. He also falls in love with a laughing girl who whines and pouts as she is forced to copy rules day after day. He also falls in love with someone who is neither, charming loquats from villagers like they aren’t dripping with lake water after saving a Lan Clan Disciple and risking their own life in the process.

He falls in love with Wei Wuxian in every form, the only person other than his siblings who can spot him no matter how much he changes his appearance, and who always seems to know how he wants to be referred to at a quick glance.

Is it any wonder that Wei Wuxian chases after him at every step?)

[drumlincountry]

If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction.... Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

[tawnysoup]

Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!

[habken]

People don’t understand the concept of liking two characters’ relationship in multiple contexts. They can be lovers in one setting and just friends in another, their dynamic doesn’t have to be consistent in every piece of art I make.

[pallettown]

genuinely so scary that you can't access the page on the ssc website that guides you through changing your sex designation. so so fucking scary. they are already making our lives harder. they are already taking what little resources we have.

[frownyalfred]

love reading an older fic (10-20 years+) because you get these hilarious author’s notes but ALSO because you get the occasional “shout out to Jessica….without you telling me to write this fic it wouldn’t exist” and then the author proceeds to write the best 100k fic you’ve ever read and the whole time you’re thinking to yourself, where is Jessica these days? does she know she sparked this amazing fic? shout out to Jessica hope you’re doing well girl

[michael-the-rouge]

Do I have to say it?

[trashcatgallade]

tbh i never really considered seals. until i finally saw one irl and was like omg. the creature

this is my artistic representation of what they looked like on the beach from where i was standing in the distance

it was the most magical day of my life

[qiinamii]

one braincell transfer (divided by four)

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

Happy Stitch Day, everyone donate to the NICWA out of apology that we let the reboot gain any kind of traction

The National Indian Child Welfare Association is an organization working to protect indigenous children and families through education and advocacy on child welfare and kinship rights. Nobody gets left behind.

[eggsistential-breakdown]

Okay, but hear me out -- what if his parents weren't usually red and blue?

[corrodedparadox]

Falling Star

Prints

[karda]

[gayforcarstairsgirls]

[badolmen]

WARNING 18+

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