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SAN LANG COME BACK!

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Listen, I love that Hua Cheng is revered as such a terrifying dude when this man is an 800-year-old virgin who named himself Flower, uses butterflies of all things to fight with, carries around an umbrella his crush gave him that one time, has his crush’s name tattooed on his damn arm, and made rain an important part of his character all because it was so Pivotal to Xie Lian’s downfall and rebirth. He gave no fucks. He’s in love with his gege, and everyone should know it.

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state of you // 花城

qifrey cover redraw! because i realized what's better than drawing blorbo once is drawing blorbo four times

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

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normal day at Qing Jing Peak

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*microwave ding* we got supremes fresh outta tonglu 👩‍🍳👩‍🍳👩‍🍳

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My favorite thing to do with MXTX series is to look at her books in the context of her previous works

Liu Qingge mourning for five years and taking in a disciple that Shen Qingqiu recommended feels like it eventually snowballed into Lan Wangji adopting A-Yuan

Xiao Xingchen is just the beta version of Xie Lian

Moshang’s ADHD/Autism, “oh my god he hates me”/“why is he not responding to my proposals :’(“ dynamic is a significantly more comedic version of Wangxian’s dynamic and the “come back to Gusu with me” miscommunication

Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian are the fucked up, irreconcilable precursor to the Xianle Trio and the main way MXTX made their relationship fixable was by inverting the class difference

If we were going further with the Xianle Trio comparison, Xie Lian is basically Mu Qing and Feng Xin’s Jiang Yanli

Shen Jiu and Wei Wuxian have immensely similar methods of dealing with their trauma. I.e., repressing it to the point that the worst of it can’t even be viewed in flashbacks, and deliberately allowing everyone around them to think the worst of them. They both have specific traumas (SA and forced cannibalism, respectively) that are never explicitly confirmed in the text, but are heavily implied by their actions after the fact. You could also draw a parallel between Shen Jiu only feeling comfortable around women in brothels and Wei Wuxian preferring to spend his time with the dead (and specifically his ghost jiejies).

This form of repression as a response to trauma is shared by Xie Lian and Wei Wuxian, and contributes to their being unreliable narrators, but weirdly doesn’t apply to Shen Yuan. Shen Jiu is the one who gets the treatment that would eventually be reserved for MXTX’s protagonists

Wangxian in general has elements of Qijiu in their dynamic, with the aforementioned trauma, as well as classism and INSANE MISCOMMUNICATION, but Wangxian, for their part, have much stronger moral backbones and are actually absurdly good with kids. That difference is probably why Qijiu is more often thought of in the same vein as Xiyao, since Xiyao is the fucked-up parallel-and-foil to Wangxian within MDZS

Not only are the books all about the inherent value of kindness, but MXTX often has her stories’ morals be stated by children (the Juniors in the Second Siege of the Burial Mounds, the little kids playing Sunshot Campaign, the merchant boy in the Banyue arc defending General Hua), the idea being that children generally have a purer view of the world, not yet overtaken by the cynicism and mob-mentality common among the adult characters

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Hualian merch collaboration with my beloved friend @tenowls (she did Hua Cheng)

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More of the boys! ❤️

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Xie Lian: I don't need to go to bed. I'm not tired, I'll be fine, San Lang

Hua Cheng: But, gege, I'll be so lonely without you. Come curl up in my arms so I can feel whole again

Xie Lian: O-oh. Well. Are you trying to seduce me into healthy sleeping patterns??

Hua Cheng: Is it working?

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I think one of the reasons why we get so many "Xie Lian needed to learn a lesson and the fall of the kingdom of Xianle was that for him" takes is that a lot of people do not deconstruct the prologue of the first book after the first read.

Because those takes are very similar to it and the prologue is the legend perpetuated by the Heavens. It's the propaganda. It's people perpetuating it going:" Here is what happens when people try to change things, they get punished...", even though he was right and if they had helped, none of this would have happened.

Xie Lian is a similar scapegoat to Wei Wuxian but Wei Wuxian died and Xie Lian became the persona non grata so that other people, heavenly official and sects can perpetuate the system without challenge.

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The concept of Feng Xin being an Archer and Xie Lian’s bodyguard is so funny because you just know everyone was looking at this like 10 year old martial prodigy who was far to excited to use his ever growing sword collection and went yeah we need to train his bodyguard to cut of the threats before they even get close to the prince as he will just decide to throw hands himself.

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when you want to take your crush on a surprise date but he's not back from work yet so you gotta wait with his weird cousin and his counsins son(?).

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"hua cheng is so jealous and possessive -" WRONG. that guy would watch xie lian date someone else and ask xie lian every day what his day was like and how the date was and it would literally kill him (for 19th time) to hear about it but he'd still ask because he likes seeing xie lian be happy.

if hua cheng ever dated anyone else (not that he would) xie lian would 100% arrange for a mysterious accident to happen. xie lian got jealous over ghost fire's beloved and wu ming's beloved and san lang's beloved and hua cheng's beloved despite the fact that it's literally. i have no words. you know what i mean.

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Hong Hong'er appreciation post, reblog to appreciate him

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A Special Someone

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Xie Lian: Who's the bestest sword in the whole universe? It's you! It's you E-Ming!

E-Ming: *Happy sword noises*

Hua Cheng: It's really not. It's a useless cry-baby

E-Ming: *Sad sword noises*

Xie Lian: Really? Name one sword that is better

Hua Cheng:

Xie Lian: Well?

Hua Cheng:...Gege has made his point

E-Ming: *smug sword noises*