I think the most consistently fun way to do mdzs modern AUs is to wildly diversify WHY everyone is in the present. Like, some people got reincarnated, some people cultivated to immortality, some people are actually modern, somebody fell on a time travel array, somebody’s just a god now. I cannot think of any wangxian fish out of water meet cute premise where one of them is from the modern day and the other has been suddenly transported from ancient wizard times that would not be improved by interrupting the plot to run into Jiang Cheng, who has simply been alive the entire time, at the grocery store.
I mean. Lwj birth name is literally blue azure blue. So. His naming ability is clearly hereditary. Whether it’s from his parents or LQR we will never know
Lan Xichen got the sense of artistry in the family.
LQR: What are your spiritual weapons going to be named, Xichen?
LXC: I think I will stay with ‘distantly romantic’ and ‘cold’ themes of our Clan with Ice Shard and New Moon :)
LQR: Very nice. Wangji, what about your sword and guqin?
never thought I'd say tumblr should copy something from Twitter but tumblr desperately needs a community notes feature where everyone is forced to see when posts have misinfo, instead of the corrections just getting lost in the notes as people continue to blithely spread propaganda