#here is a lwj fighting gifset

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Restless Rewatch: The Untamed, Episode 27 part one

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Warning! Spoilers for all 50 episodes!

First, brachium is Latin for arm, so debrachiate *should* be a real word. But isn’t, alas. 

Fight Me

We start off this episode with the world's darkest dark overlay, which I have removed (along with the color) so we can see what the fuck is happening. (Gifsets are here and here and here.) 

What is happening is that Lan Wangji gets a highly effective umbrella while Wei Wuxian gets the world's least effective rain hat.

We've all watched this scene 1000 times, right? Lan Wangji calls Wei Wuxian back to the path of orthodoxy, Wei Wuxian points out that orthodoxy isn't the same thing as goodness. 

This is the first time, I think, that Wei Wuxian has directly told Lan Wangji that he is wrong. Up until now when they've argued, Wei Wuxian has either deflected or defended but not hit back, rhetorically. But now he's had it and he's just saying what he really thinks. 

(more behind the cut!)

What he really thinks is that he, in failing to stand against the Jins sooner, has broken their vow, and that now Lan Wangji is breaking it.

Wei Wuxian finishes up by--sweetly, kindly--challenging Lan Wangji to a fight to the death. He says that he won't mind dying by Hanguang-Jun’s hand--that he won't be aggrieved about it.  

I think it's important that he doesn't say "Lan Zhan" in this moment--he uses LWJ’s title. Wei Wuxian is saying that if he dies at the hand of a famous hero it'll be okay because it's not a punk-ass way to go out. 

That’s a nice sentiment, and might seem like he's giving LWJ permission to kill him--but it's a threat, too. The wording is a little different, but Wei Wuxian has expressed this feeling about death-by-famous-creature to Lan Wangji before, in a previous conversation that also invoked their shared promise.

"Didn't we promise to practice chivalry and uphold justice together? If we kill the big turtle today, then it is considered as an act of chivalry. If we are unlucky and get killed by it, we still got killed by[...]a monster that's tens of thousands of years old. We still won't look shabby if it gets out, right?"  (Viki subs, Episode 14)

I am incredibly certain that Lan Wangji remembers that earlier declaration.

Wei Wuxian's memory may be crap but he definitely remembers that the turtle he’s comparing Lan Wangji to, is dead. So he's telling Lan Wangji "you'll have to kill me to stop me" and he's also telling him "I won't resent you for killing me" but he's ALSO also telling him "I will kill you if you try to stop me." Lan Wangji has accompanied Wei Wuxian in battle and he knows exactly how deadly that flute can be.

I don't think that fear of death has ever given Lan Wangji a heartbeat's pause, and I don't think Wei Wuxian would expect it to, but this threat is his way of showing LWJ how extremely serious he is about following through on the decision he's made. And Lan Wangji, heart breaking, finally stops trying to change Wei Wuxian. 

He also stops using an umbrella. 

Water is one of the five elements, in Chinese tradition. I won't characterize what water means, because I'm not Chinese, and while I can look things up on Wikipedia with the best of them, I don't want to reduce this to any English-language interpretation, even in the unlikely event that I pick the right meaning. In Chinese poetry, based on my limited knowledge in that area, a single image can convey layer upon layer of meaning, based on context and the reader's prior learning. There's no way I, as an outsider to Chinese culture and language, can understand and explain the full meaning of the imagery in this scene.

What I can say is that this is a scene where water is pouring down, and Lan Wangji has been carefully protecting himself from it throughout the conversation. But at the end he drops that protection and lets himself get soaked. I don't think he's just being emo in this moment; I think this is symbolic of a philosophical turning point for him.

The Unburial Grounds

Wei Wuxian and the Wen Remnants (and the Wen revenant) head into the Burial Grounds, where there are skeletons lying all over the ground. They should rename this place, given that properly burying anybody seems to be a low priority lately. 

Maybe these skeletons all belong to the horses they were riding in the previous scene. Sorry, horsies, everyone was super hungry.

Wei Wuxian says that he lived here for 3 months in the past and everyone is like, okay, *shrug.* Everyone has been through so much at this point that things that were too shocking to mention, before, are now just part of the landscape.

The Wen Problem

Now it's time for another terrible Jin party. 

Jin Guangshan is so terrible, nearly everybody else is terrible; I'm not going to recap all the ways they are terrible.  But let's look at the chess moves that are happening in this scene.

First there’s the Wen situation. Everyone is talking about the Wens and how they deserve punishment, and they debate whether non-participants who help participants are guilty. And the thing is, Wen Qing totally helped Wen Ruohan, and Wen Chao. She did it to protect her brother, but helping a murderer to kill everybody else's brother in order to protect your own is not, actually, very cool. 

A better defense is that the Wen sibs were traitors to Wen Ruohan, and helped the Jiangs quite a bit.  Wen Ning directly attacked Wen soldiers to rescue Jiang Cheng and was imprisoned and tortured for it; Wen Qing sheltered the Jiang core family at the risk of her life, saving the future of the clan, and was also imprisoned as a traitor.

Jiang Cheng starts to say that the Wen sibs saved them during the war, but Nie Mingjue immediately challenges him, asking how did they save you, and didn't the Wens annihilate your sect? 

And that's the end of any more Wen advocacy from Jiang Cheng. Unfortunately, this is sensible of him. All it would take is for one rando cultivator at the party to say "You, your sister, and Wei Wuxian made a deal with those Wens to save your life; you ran away and didn't protect your parents" and that's the end of the Jiang clan. For Jiang Cheng, every other obligation--every other feeling--is secondary to the safety of his clan.

Everyone agrees, vocally or by staying silent, that the Wens suck and need to be punished, and Jin Guangshan moves along to the next agenda item: talking shit about Wei Wuxian.

The Wei Problem

This is the actual point of this gathering. Jin Guangshan wants the Yin Tiger amulet. The Yin tiger amulet is, currently, a spiritual tool belonging to the Jiang Clan, just like Zidian, or Baxia with the Nie clan. The Yin amulet is special, because wielding it is dangerous, specialized work, but the situation is still pretty simple. JGS wants a weapon that properly belongs to Jiang Cheng, even though Jiang Chang isn’t the one holding it. So to get it, he will do whatever he can to get control of Jiang Cheng.

He does this by offering his son, and his clan’s protection, to Jiang Yanli, and by directly pressuring Jiang Cheng, trading on long family friendship.  And with Jin Guangyao’s help, he works to increase the conflict between Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian, pressing very hard on JC's insecurities as a young clan leader. 

This doesn't entirely work as Jiang Guangshan hopes, however.

The thing about Jiang Cheng is, it's very easy to make him lose emotional composure, but his loss of composure doesn't really affect his decision making. He's *used* to being an emotional mess. He's good at it. He gets upset, but he still makes careful and reasonable decisions.  

What all of the anti-Wei Wuxian talk does affect, however, is Mianmian's decision making

Mian Mian's departure has consequences beyond making her the only female character to survive this adventure. When Jin Guanghan lets her leave without a word, a crucial support is removed from Jin Zixuan's side: someone who has looked out for him and mediated all of his interpersonal interactions for years and years. 

In particular, she's intervened in his conflicts with Wei Wuxian. The fight at Qiongqi Pass would have ended differently, if she had been there. Most likely, she would have died instead of him--she's a female character, you know I'm right. If she didn’t manage to de-escalate the situation in time, she would have thrown herself in the way of the fatal blow, saving Jin Zixuan. And then he would make that slightly pained face he makes. 

Yep, that’s the one

The other person who is affected by the slander is Lan Wangji, who contradicts the chief fucking cultivator in front of everybody, while giving him a death glare for the ages. Jin Guangyao steps in to soften up the obvious lie, and Lan Wangji transfers the death glare to him. 

Eventually Lan Wangji gets fed up and leaves the party without asking Lan Xichen for permission, which is a first. Lan Xichen is not a fan of this new side of Lan Wangji. 

Note that Lan Qiren doesn’t say a goddamn thing during this whole party, deferring to Lan Xichen and keeping himself in the role of wise elder. All that self restraint must be difficult; he is probably really looking forward to yelling at Lan Wangji later.

Eventually Jiang Cheng has been harangued by Jin Guangshan for long enough, and says he’ll go to the burial mounds, and he’ll make Wei Wuxian turn in the Yin tiger amulet.  This is a political decision, not a personal one, despite all the personal turmoil Jiang Cheng is feeling. 

Seriously.

Jin Guangyao and Jin Guangshan are both very pleased with themselves, having executed this whole sequence of moves in perfect harmony. 

They don’t actually know Jiang Cheng or Wei Wuxian all that well, however; nothing is going to go according to their plan. Or at least, not according to Jin Guangshan’s plan.  

Later, Gator

Lan Wangji says goodbye to Mianmian and exchanges the secret fist bump of Wuxian solidarity. When we next see her, she will be married with a kid and have grown-ass men hiding behind a hay bale on her porch for no apparent reason. 

On the other side of the porch, Lan Xichen and his sworn brothers have a super uncomfortable chat. Nie Mingjue admires Mianmian's gumption and is probably thinking he should marry her marry her to Huaisang.

They talk about Wei Wuxian and his evilness, with Lan Xichen being uncharacteristically outspoken by offering a weaksauce defense of Wei Wuxian, and Nie Mingjue being a massive hypocrite as he blusters about the importance of staying on the right path..

He takes a minute to lecture Jin Guangyao on taking this as a lesson, while Lan Xichen contemplates Lan Wangji's back, and worries.

Writing prompt: AU in which Nie Mingjue marries Mianmian to Nie Huaisang, then dies; Mianmian helps Nie Huaisang with his revenge plot, Mianmian cleverly figures out how to keep Mo Xuanyu alive by sticking his wandering spirit in Jin Guangyao's body after all the debrachiating and stabbing. Mo Xuanyu’s a nice person so he decides to go comfort Lan Xichen, so suddenly "Jin Guangyao” shows up on Lan Xichen’s doorstep wearing flashy face makeup and sexy clothes, ready to live his best gay life. I have no idea what LXC would do; I don't write the stories I just write the prompts; no I’m not smoking anything at the moment; anyway Mianmian becomes chief cultivator, Huaisang helps her with strategy and foot massages, and Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian go road tripping.

[cqlfic]

hi! thank you so much for what you do! would you possibly know of any good fics where the highlight is jc and lwj not getting along, modern au or canon compliant?

hmm where the HIGHLIGHT is the jc&lwj conflict... i can think of a couple but not as many as i expected 🤔 hm! interesting i need to read more of this it’s so funny watching the two of them glare at each other

recs:

With Absolute Splendor by Lise (@veliseraptor) (T, 43533 words): yunmeng reconciliation + jc plans a massive wedding [my post here]

Wei Wuxian’s Kidnapping Back and Forth Farce (Starring Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji) by misscam (@misscamthenorwegian) (M, 5554 words): lwj vs. jc proxy war, via kidnapping wwx [my post here]

Important Distinctions by nagi_blue (@nicole-penn) (T, 5395 words): the book of lwj’s facial expressions

OH I JUST REMEMBERED ONE WHERE THEY LITERALLY PHYSICALLY GET IN A FIGHT AND IT’S BEAUTIFUL:  Better than a Mouthful of Blood by mondengel (@mondengel) (T, 1456 words; restricted on AO3) (originating from a gifset here on tumblr which is similarly incredible)

[valarinde]

hi hi, i have a fave parallel request for the untamed! because i live for the drama, i love the fact that, when Wei Wuxian reappears after having been missing for three months and needs to get Lan Wangji to back off, he throws a lot of LWJ's words back in his face. The part that stands out to me is when WWX says that this [his actions/the fate of Wen Chao] is an internal matter to the Jiang clan and doesn't concern LWJ — which is exactly what LWJ told WWX in the Cold Pond Cave when WWX wanted to stake his claim to the yin iron quest

I love this parallel and i don't know that I've ever seen it in a gifset! Would you be interested in making it? (Also me, every time I rewatch this scene: uh oh, the girls are fighting! 🤭👀😏)

I KNEW people would come up with awesome things I’d personally never noticed before… This one is so good, thank you for pointing it out to me! Here’s the set, I hope you like it <3

[agendratum]

the mind-melt gifset got me thinking, so please allow me to mumble some more

there are always a lot of discussions of like who fell in love first? who realised his feelings first? is wei wuxian actually that dumb? (spoiler: he isn’t and i will fight you) and so on and so on. and i have some thoughts on the subject and the mind-melt scene is helping me to form those thoughts. i don’t claim to be right and those thoughts to be canon (even though i just said that i will fight you), but here they are

they definitely notice each other at almost the same time. lan zhan’s first appearance is a very fond memory for wei ying and he holds on to that memory even after he died and came back to life. and i mean you also can just see his reaction, it’s not rocket science.

lan zhan doesn’t notice him immediately as he’s kinda busy and so he doesn’t pay attention to people. and you know how he is, always alone, used to his peers seeing him as some kind of perfect standard. but then wei wuxian says something smart about a “corpse” that no one else notices and, wow, that is exactly a way to get second jade of lan’s attention. better not ruin that first impression by yelling and breaking a bunch of rules later. oh well

then the rooftop fight happens and i would say that for lan zhan this is it. he yet to really love wei ying with his full soul (you know, at least get to know him first, also get through all this repression), but he’s in love and he’s pissed. wei ying? i think he’s Impressed. i don’t know at what point he really falls in love (but i’m going to tell you by what point he’s definitely in love already), but he meets his equal and he’s impressed and he likes him and he wants to be his friend. and then he likes him a lot. a lot

please gaze upon this screenshot that perfectly captures the dynamic in the begging

i don’t think cql wei wuxian is oblivious (and i don’t know anything about any other wei wuxians so this all is just about cql wwx (and cql lwj)). but god, i think he is a teenager, and he needs time to understand what he’s feeling, and also he has this very twisted relationship with the idea of being loved. and also lan wangji isn’t very good at not being pissed at wei wuxian at any given time. but look at the fondness on wei ying’s face in this screencap. it’s a very brief moment, and lan zhan is too drunk to notice anyway. he knows he likes lwj a lot, he���s perfectly aware of that. but there are still miles and miles to go before they both can peacefully accept this wild concept.

fast forward to the cold caves, that is where lan wangji just accepts his fate. he’s still pissed about that, but now he knows that he can’t outrun his feelings and he’s stuck with wei ying, both metaphorically and literally. so he binds them with his ribbon, because at this point why the fuck not? it’s too late anyway, he’s too far gone. might as well get engaged. 

by the way place your bets on the time period when lan wangji writes wangxian. cause i have no idea.

then lantern ceremony happens and dare i say that by that point

the boys are both in love

but i would say that lan zhan is in love and still doesn’t fully understand what to do with that. he’s quite repressed, confused and very not used to that. while wei ying is in love and he doesn’t think that he’s good enough, so he just doesn’t think too hard about it. why focus on it, when you can focus on having fun and spending time with lan zhan who’s slowly getting less pissed of with you? sounds like a plan

then they go on a little adventure, and by that point lan zhan is actually happy that wei ying is going with him. they meet their relationship goals, (spoiler: maybe don’t make xxc x sl your goals, they kinda really fuck up in the process of their relationship) they yearn, they pine and then they part. by the time they are parting, both are pretty much aware of what’s happening. lan zhan doesn’t really want to leave, but he has to. and wei ying, well, he wants to sleep on lwj’s roof.

when they meet next time, they are already at this point of relationship where you will never admit your feelings to each other, but you will jump in front of a sword to save the other’s life. we’ve all been there, right? 

and then there is the cave. 

i need to remind you and myself that after they leave this cave, the next time they’re going to see each other will be in the 20th episode. a reunion after one or both of them have been through hell.

but back to the cave. after all, this post started because of mind-melt gifset, remember? 

the cave may be famous for the “you are fond of mianmian?” moment but remember, wei ying is trying not to think to hard about his own feelings, and lan zhan isn’t very good at conveying his, soooo you can see where the problem is, right?

there are other factors too, of course. they’re stuck in a cave with a deadly monster, lan wangji’s sect is in danger right in that moment, his brother is missing, the war is coming, he’s in pain, he’s tired and on top of all that, the boy he’s in love with is right there in his face being very helpful with his wound but not very helpful with lan zhan’s confused feelings getting more confused.

same goes for wei wuxian, who knows that the cloud recesses was destroyed, knows that his sect is in danger next, has to worry about his little brother getting somewhere, ideally home, safely, also aware of the fact that they are stuck in the cave with a deadly monster and there is one very wounded lan zhan on his hands who isn’t being super cooperative right now

it’s not the best time to think about all those feelings but it’s the only time they have. 

and we all know lan zhan is going through some shit with all this “mianmian” nonsense. but let me point out some ways that wei ying shows his love in this scene without saying anything. rushing to tend to lwj’s wounds and giving him all the medicine that’s left, trying to comfort him and distract from the thoughts about his sect, covering lan zhan with his robe when he finally fall asleep 

and then waking up before lan zhan (did he even have any sleep?) and putting his ribbon back on him, so lan zhan doesn’t feel nervous about it. (allow me to scream about that for a sec) (also he takes his robe away before lan zhan wakes up so don’t tell me this boy doesn’t know what he’s doing, he’s just, you know, being wei wuxian in the process)

so take into account all this wall of text i wrote and consider what happens next. mind-melt. and listen, i don’t know how this spell works. who even knows? cql lore doesn’t explain shit and for that scene i’m actually glad it doesn’t. because i can just imagine how it works. ha!

and how i imagine it works, inspired by some other posts, is that some of your thoughts and feelings melt too, not just the thoughts you want to transfer.

it’s the face he makes. why does he smile like that? why why why

i already mumbled a bit in the tags of that post but here is what i think. they may not get the full picture from that mind-melt, but they get the idea. maybe it’s the warmth, maybe it’s the comfort, the trust, the fact that they’re already been through so much together and did so much for each other. but it’s all in there. 

another reminder. by that point lan zhan already wrote wangxian (and he will later transfer it right into wei ying’s mind alongside a canonical wangxian fanvid). 

lan zhan opens his mind to wei ying and wei ying give his that smile in response. and i feel like they just pour their feelings into each other’s minds. not all of them. and they don’t have time to reflect on it. but here they are. really makes me wonder how their reunion would look in other universe, where wwx doesn’t come back as a traumatized necromancer. 

there are reasons why wei ying decides to push lan zhan away when he’s back. and some of the reasons come from this cave, this exact moment, i think. he know he earned lwj’s trust, he knows lwj cares about him, he knows what it’s like to make a second jade of lan smile. and he’s afraid to lose it all so he just doesn’t allow himself to have it back in the first place. he also knows that lan zhan can see through his bullshit. and he in so much bullshit now, he doesn’t want to scare him? dissapoint him? make him more worried than he already is? 

and i’m sure he knows exactly why he cares about lan zhan so much but now he cannot be allowed to think about that. 

and you know when he finally think about that? when that sinks and he breaks his own heart because it’s too late now and they run our of time? their reunion in burial mounds. that is when, i think, wei wuxian finally admits how far gone he is for lan wangji but it’s too late. he’s allowed to have this last happy memory of lan zhan and then he has to watch him leave forever. 

when wei ying is back to life 16 years later, they both are both aware of their feelings. they just don’t know how the other one feels now. they need some time to figure it out but they catch up pretty soon. the end :) 

[qinghe-s]

GETTING TO KNOW ME

i was tagged by @melodious-tear ♥

why did you choose your url?

i feel like that’s obvious to anyone who’s followed me for, like, two days. i know where my heart belongs. besides, the aesthetic of cql!qinghe fucks

any side-blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them.

well, this. i also run @masseffectcaps although i haven’t posted in a few months; i probably will again once i get my hands on the legendary edition. i started it because original default female shepard didn’t get the respect she deserves from bioware especially. don’t get me started on this bc i will not shut up. i have a lot of feelings.

@celestecraft used to be popular on mineblr; i went on a lot of adventures while playing with a small group of friends and wanted to save them in some way + sharing a hobby is fun. in the past i also had a fairly well-known lgbtq+ blog and a terry pratchett-centric one but that was years ago and my energy to keep up with providing things for others (rather than just enjoying myself) waned.

how long have you been on tumblr?

t...twelve years by now... oh no

do you have a queue tag?

nah. i used to, on my personal, but i almost exclusively post things through the queue so it doesn’t feel like it matters.

why did you start your blog in the first place?

i was lured into this fandom because a good friend of mine played a character based on him in a d&d oneshot and i was immediately and helplessly charmed, saw this gifset a little while later and told her “this. this will make me watch your show” and, well.

it started consuming enough brain space, especially as i was reading the book, that it made sense to keep it contained rather than expose my original followers to this endlessly when they come for — actually i don’t know. pretentious aesthetic and me being gay over star trek women (well, janeway, mainly) and crying over mass effect?

why did you choose your icon/pfp?

that woman is wife city to me. it was nhs previously because... baby

why did you choose your header?

it matches my blog background on desktop. that’s it. it’s for the aesthetic.

what’s your post with the most notes?

on this blog it’s probably this one of me calling lwj a bitch (honorific). i believe this wangxian fic i wrote for vday is a close second. (a couple of my gifsets of nie mingjue looking beautiful are gaining though which is very pleasing to me)

i also have a few posts that have reached the thousands on my mass effect blog, but i don’t keep track of those anymore.

how many followers do you have?

five hundred... something. six hundred? who knows.

how many people do you follow?

a couple of hundred? many are lgbtq+ resource blogs that post very infrequently though, so my dash generally isn’t that cluttered

have you ever made a shitpost?

a couple! i’m not all that funny (perk of being my friend is that you’ll always be the funny one, it’s the main service i provide) but the bitch!lwj one and an outofcontextyaoi text post edit.

how often do you use tumblr each day?

ehh, depends. some days i’ll only check in at night and refresh the dash once in a while when doing other things, other days my brain requires constant input and i’ll open the app on my phone every hour. there is no average.

did you have a fight/argument with a blog once?

yeah, but not here. i pissed a lot of people off a few years ago when i expressed my opinion on sexist portrayals of women in video games in general and mass effect specifically. my opinion was sexism = bad and some people decided that i was wrong and it’s empowering to put career soldiers in styled hair and a full face of makeup for the sake of marketing, actually, while male characters get to have weathered faces and grey hair. it was a fun time. (it was not)

how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this post’?

my dashboard is carefully curated and i never see those posts. are they still common? because they suck. don’t guilt people into caring.

do you like tag games?

mostly, yeah! sometimes they require energy i simply don’t have but i also think they’re a nice way to interact without having a direct conversation

do you like ask games?

i’m a lot less fond of those, personally. the chain letter type in particular.

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

a lot of them are well known in the fandom actually! which makes me question why they follow me but i am always flattered

do you have a crush on a mutual?

oh absolutely @evakant since we decided we were willing to die for each other after one conversation. wenzhou levels of love happening here.

i’m gonna tag already-mentioned @evakant because reasons but also some people i see in my notes a lot but haven’t talked to — feel free to ignore but also let’s be friends ♥

@shippingsavesmylife @radishsizhui @ahatfullofwords @inappropriatewenning @whateverthemoonhasalwaysmeant

[elvencantation]

gyadl ep6 liveblog

you’re not crazy, you didn’t miss episode five, i just didn’t do it XD

- QIKAI THE XXC’S SISTER ARE THE CUTEST!!! they can have rights. as a treat

- i am IN LOVE with hong lan’s dress 😍  give me a dress with a cape and i am SOLD

- DID HE JUST CALL HIS KID NOT TALENTED AND HIS DEGREE NOT WORTH MENTIONING? DAMN U A SHITTY FATHER

- does anyone else think their wine looks... to light colored? like it’s rly bright red it looks like berry juice

- the PETTINESS of hong lan. i love her

- we get to see flustered LUO FUSHENG?!?! we are truly blessed today

- also the shen wei blinking!! gotta gif that

- time for the father son fight

- oh honey! xxc is so dumb, but such a sweet boy

- TIME FOR MORE OF MY GREMLIN SON I LOVE HIM

- ‘are you miss tianying?’ I CANT. thats going in the gremlin compilation gifset im saving clips for

- also i love his cardigan/coat thingy. i want it

- oh of COURSE he’s gonna make her sing at the MGM in front of other people as well 

- omg luo cheng is so earnestly enjoying this!!! precious cinnamon roll. or it might be the crab. his little nod of agreement at his da-ge is so adorable

- into the post it goes! just look at that precious face

- oh of fucking course ur fantasizing her doing a riskier dance just for you. dumbass

- hey at least dream!tianying still dont completely take ur shit

- why the bubbles though, is the question we should be asking

- how long is this gonna go on??

- as lwj would say- shameless

- of course he grabs two entire crabs as he’s leaving. no plate, no bag, just two crabs in his hands

- “The Ultimate Crab Experience.” - @thursdayplaid​

- aggressively fans self when annoyed. what a mood 

- oh that’s what the hand crabs were for

- oh my FUCKING GOD YOU DO NOT JUST GRAB OTHER PEOPLES BRACELETS DICKWAD

- (even if this couple isnt as valid™)

- stop interrogating ur sister 

- YOURE THE FUCKING REASON SHE HAS TO ‘ASSOCIATE WITH LUO FUSHENG’ YOU IDIOT

- get over urself! god he infuriates me 😒

- is hong lan... holding a whip? im so here for it

- oh my god thats hot. that is hot and i am gay

- what i dont enjoy as much- her being made into the ‘crazy jealous girl’

- love how when he was actually honest and vulnerable with hong lan, she didnt even fucking believe him. girl u dont deserve him

- CUTE DOG!!! WANNA PET!!

- awww he’s falling asleep to her music

- oh no a dream with a gun i dont like this??? or nightmare i guess. poor boy

- cute curled up in chair fusheng deserves his own gifset!!!

- oh that’s a cute dress she’s wearing to see her dad! love the little girdle. but can she stop wearing a pompom (or a flower) in the middle of her collar? i just feel like it looks... tacky

- OH MY GOD IS HE JUST STARING AT A PHOTO OF HER INSIDE OF A BOOK AND PRETENDING HE’S READING XD

- why do the subs say ‘ai ai’ but it sounds like they’re saying yuenyuan?

- two dumbasses XD

- just two bros. stripping off their clothes together. less than five feet apart because theyre probably not gay?

and on that lovely note, we are done for the evening

[phoenixrisesoncemore]

So, I’m going through The Untamed gifsets, and I hit some of the ones from the behind the scenes stuff, and there’s that one that I think is during the Emperor’s Smile scene in the cultivation chamber, and the director is explaining how LWJ is gonna spoil WWX now, and will never get him hurt even if that means offending everyone, and will fight the entire world if that is what it takes...

And I’m over here like Giant Disney Alice crying the river of tears.

And it’s gonna be terrible cause we don’t have flood insurance.

But I don’t care because OMG HE WILL FIGHT THE ENTIRE WORLD ❤️❤️❤️ Mr Rules-Are-Rules-Are-Rules, How-Dare-You-Drink-In-Cloud-Recesses will FIGHT THE ENTIRE DAMN WORLD.

[multsicorn]

[liveblogging watching the untamed, the start of ep 33]

When Lan Wangji cries for Wei Wuxian to stop… it’s not clear to me what he wants?  Wei Wuxian, instead of fighting, RUN AWAY? maybe?  Cause Wei Wuxian at this point is literally fighting for his life… and Lan Wangji also looks REALLY SAD and gets distracted when WWX gets injured…

Question: is the Stygian Tiger Amulet making everyone kill each other for it ~magically, or are they just all doing it because they want the power?  (Does it even make a difference?)  (Has the whole Yin Iron/Stygian Tiger Amulet thing reminded me of the One Ring this whole time, yes, of course it has.)

And it never has been clear, mechanistically, why, say, Wei Wuxian can fly around and Lan Wangji can follow him and everyone else is standing there on the ground - they’re all cultivators, they can all fly some, so, like, is this just a genre convention that I should know?  That WWX and LWJ can fly more/better/higher/farther than the rest of ‘em cause they’re ~stronger? - Although at this moment, Lan Zhan may be the only one following Wei Wuxian because he’s the only one who cares more about Wei Wuxian than he does about the Stygian Tiger Amulet.  (Not counting Jiang Cheng, who’s still crying over Jiang Yanli’s dead body ;___;).

Anyway: Wei Wuxian throwing himself off a cliff!!!!  Or trying to!!!!  And Lan Wangji catching him!!!!  Is so super affecting (I don’t know why they show started with it, though, I didn’t care *then*), and it’s…. something, alright, that I both kinda do and kinda don’t know what’s coming.  I remember from thirty-three episodes ago that he does end up dying right here (but eventually comes back); I remember that there’s a third party involved, too, but not who or why exactly it happens, cause thirty-three eps ago I knew no one and NOTHING.  This is a… choice?

But also since I just mentioned the One Ring up above I am feeling very Mount Doom vibes right now. Of course the whole thing may well be accidental, and the visual similarity also, but it’s super strong.  This cliffside looks volcano-like, maybe just from all the red and jaggedness, even if there’s no lava, and, well, I just rewatched the scene from LOTR to compare-and-contrast:

Wei Wuxian throws away his Stygian Tiger Amulet, not into destruction, just away from *him.*  Into the middle of a battle: maybe in part because it’s brought him nothing but pain and sufferering, but also at least in part as an act of aggression.  Or of some sort of revenge: this doesn’t help him win the battle, and it’s his last act.

And then Wei Wuxian throws himself off the cliff.  Not the amulet, just himself.  He has no choice, he’s been driven to it, not so much by the amulet as by the situations it created or enabled.

(Frodo couldn’t throw away his magic, at the last minute; Wei Wuxian couldn’t throw it away till then.  Frodo was driven mad by the magic itself, but Wei Wuxian mostly by everything else…. which is way better, actually!  Not to blaspheme, I do love LOTR.  Frodo needed Gollum to bite off his finger, and to jump madly (for joy) into the bit; Wei Wuxian, well, he contains his own Gollum.  Arguably ;).  Cause I love parallels.)

And Lan Wangji tries to save Wei Wuxian, through all of this, both from demon magic and from FALLING TO HIS DEATH, and Lan Wangji is absolutely nothing like Samwise Gamgee except for in this one instance, but… someone’s made the gifset, right?, of ‘stop this’/‘throw it away’, and the bitten finger/stabby hands re: amulet, and DRAMATIC FALLING, and gripping hands <3 <3 <3.

[coquelicoq]

misc tidbits from the untamed eps 22-24

just so’s i don’t forget some stuff that happened because everything starts to merge together after a while. i’m lazy so here are my original notes plus annotations i am making just now, days later, enjoy lol

22

why do these 2 have the cutest conversations on rooftops

i mean granted they (lwj and wwx) have cute conversations in lots of places, but ALL their rooftop convos are cute in some way. i hope it’s not just so they can have an angsty rooftop conversation later that feels even worse because it’s reminiscent of these earlier cute ones

lwj is so clearly worried about him. and trusts him! this hurts me. wwx even knows that lwj is worried as opposed to judgy! my heart!!

in retrospect this scene is kinda ludicrous because wwx promises he won’t ever use demonic cultivation (which is weird bc he must have known he would be doing it sooner or later in front of lwj?) and lwj believes him, and then later this very same episode wwx whips out ol’ flamey and goes to town on some resentful energy in the middle of a battlefield

though in fairness he did wait until the last possible second when basically everyone was already dead before being like “i guess i have to actually use my awesome powers that i’ve been hiding since there’s no other option”

god effing dammit xuan lu is crying again

i HATE it when she cries. cannot handle it. and unfortunately there is MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM ugh this show is the WORST

aw fuck there's more xiyao i'm not strong enough for this

listen these two have the best chemistry of anyone on the show and i’m really mad about it because i don’t want to ship it! because jgy is a horrible person and also because they have a tragic ending!!

okay like yes obviously wangxian also have amazing chemistry but does one of them sensually stroke the other’s hands the first time they meet??? no, they do not. so xiyao has the corner on that market unfortunately

also they’re both just. so beautiful. ughhhhh

lhk has the most intense face

i don’t remember which part this is about but honestly it’s always true

really good fight scenes!

yeah omg my expectation for cql fight scenes is so low bc i hated all the fights in the early episodes. but when they limit the use of wires and focus on the choreography, i super dig it! the actors and doubles are doing a great job!!

23

for some reason i assumed that jgy didn't start wearing the hat thing until he became chief cultivator, so now that i know he's wearing it this early it recontextualizes some gifsets for me

he does become chief cultivator, right? i didn’t make that up in a fever dream?

so much xiyao...lxc protecting jgy from nmj...calling him ah-yao...keeping jgy from bowing to him...have mercy

they’re so tender and i’m g r u m p y

how come no one figured out about wwx’s golden core while he was in a coma??

still have this question honestly. lwj and jyl i don’t know what kind of caretaking you’re doing but i feel like that would have come up early on in the process

that cleansing guqin scene!

can’t be coherent about it but note to future self: it’s in episode 23 if you want to rewatch it

oh all of a sudden it's super easy to destroy pieces of yin metal? are we supposed to forget about that time the lan clan elder had to lock herself in the honey bunny cave of marriage with a piece of yin metal because there was no way to destroy it? it’s either a plothole or it’s setting something up for later, idk

there are so many significant caves in this show and i’m gonna come up with a dumb rhyme for every single one of them, just watch me

24

wwx is here to do what jc can’t because he’s an important sect leader now: just roll up to the banquet, remind everybody that jyl can decide if she wants to get married or not, and then yell “later, suckers” over his shoulder as he skateboards away

lwj is grounded so wwx just invites himself over lol

“why isn’t lan zhan with you? oh, he’s in Rules Jail? okay cool i got nothing going on i’ll just pop over there and keep him company”

i love every interaction between lxc and wwx because lxc is this fabulous mix of 1) indulgent/fond of this kid who will be his BIL someday, 2) stern because he’s protective of lwj and wwx really has no idea what effect he has on that guy, and 3) completely baffled because wwx is such a fuckin weirdo lmao

wwx is a real cocky bastard in this scene. dude you’re not doing yourself any favors!

YUNMENG SIBLING FEELS!!!!

they fight but they love each other!

wwx making choices that hurt jc but it’s all to protect him!!

making promises to shijie he can’t keep!!!

heartfelt conversations and eavesdropping!!!!

wwx being babey and jc being fond about it against his will!!!!!!

CHILDISH BICKERING

oh yeah this for sure isn’t gonna break my heart later

[klainelynch]

Thoughts on the opening:

Okay so I recognize a lot of these people in the opening from the gifsets but I really don’t know who a lot of them are

omg a woman (tumblr would have me believe there are Only Men in this show)

Episode 1:

these mount doom lotr vibes

thank you subtitles for telling me which one is which

wait why are you saying let go bud (like I know he dies but why say that)

“falling off a cliff without a body to be found without a way to survive”...sounds like a great way to come back for the Drama

Even if I wasn’t spoiled on WWX coming back in some way, this episode i already making it clear that’s gonna happen

oh yeah I’ve seen a lot of mask gifs on tumblr but don’t know why they matter

who was talking to the ghost???? I thought it was LWJ but maybe it was the kid he adopted?

wait is this the spirit of wwv in this kid’s body?

okay he’s talking about 16 years ago, this is DEFINITELY wwx

also the funny little music when he steals the peanuts is cracking me up

okay see the camera pulled in on the headbands!!! something is up with those

“Is he here too?” your man????

why is he throwing an entire temper tantrum?????

still v unclear on how cultivator magic works or what its limits are

“mental illness”...you keep saying those words...I do not think they mean what the people think it means...

whoever this kid is, he likes to cause problems on purpose, and I respect that

is this capture the flag????

“I’ve heard this melody before” is it because it’s your First Dad who’s playing it

oh we got demons up in here!

HE FULFILLS AN ACT OF REVENGE AND A SCAR HEALS OHOHOHO

okay this mysterious kid was super excited to see Lan Zhan, he’s 1000% WWX’s ghost in this body

EW WHY DOES HIS HAND LOOK LIKE IT’S PART OF THE GRAND CANYON

FUCKING YIKES THE DEMON BROKE ITS HOST’S OWN NECK??

bud why are you so casual about “it’s not a ghost”?????

I have NO clue who is fighting against who right now so I’m just along for the ride

Lan Wanji with big Gandalf energy, coming in with this musical instrument rn

“He’s always dressed in white like he’s going t attend a funeral” but everyone is in white??? are they copying him???

okay we’re in the flashback now right

[canary3d-obsessed]

Restless Rewatch: The Untamed Episode 20, part three(!)

(Masterpost) (Other Canary Stuff) (Previous Post)

Warning: Spoilers for All 50 Episodes!

This episode has so much crucially important stuff in it I had to write 3 posts about it! Part one is here, part two is here. 

Don't Start None, Won't Be None

Lan Wangji has never had a real fight with Wei Wuxian before--remember, in their rooftop fight Wei Wuxian never even drew his sword. And since this is going to be a verbal fight, Lan Wangji is going to lose, badly. He's an elegant and articulate speaker, but he's not quick with words, and he speaks directly and sincerely. Weaponized speech is not his area at all, so he's pretty much bringing a knife to a gunfight. A guqin to a flute fight. Whatever. He tries to turn it into a physical confrontation, twice, but Jiang Cheng holds him back.

This throwdown is 100% about religion and orthodoxy; something that is fundamental to both of these young men's lives. Lan Wangji has made it his mission to be as orthodox as possible, doing shit like volunteering to be beaten for drinking when he didn't choose to drink. He's constantly overwhelmed by emotion, and the Lan rules are a source of regulation and safety for him. His emotions around Wei Wuxian are among the most overwhelming he's got, possibly only second to his feelings about his mom.

Right now his feelings are extra overwhelming. 

It's complicated because his relationship with Wei Wuxian literally started off with him punishing Wei Wuxian for heterodoxy. All that time they spent together in the library? Was because Wei Wuxian talked--JUST talked--about using resentful energy for cultivation. Which is precisely the ability he's just shown them, along with a style of killing enemies that's borderline evil and definitely, DEFINITELY unsportsmanlike.

So this is not, Lan Wangji is lovingly worried about Wei Wuxian and Wei Wuxian is pushing him away to avoid an uncomfortable conversation. This is Lan Wangji freaking out because his entire system of belief is being challenged and he's in love with the person who's challenging it.  

Wei Wuxian has shown up to the party wearing an International Mr. Leather tee shirt with a enamel pin stuck to it that says "I get my kicks on route 666" and Lan Wangji just. cannot. deal.  

Never Start a Fight But Always Finish One

Wei Wuxian has a couple of options here. One is to accept, kindly, that he and his friend can't be friends any more because of religion. In this option, in order to preserve his friend's comfortable sense of being right, he would have to tacitly accept that he himself is bad in some way, and allow his friend to keep having his value system, while walking away from him.  

The other choice is to hit so hard that he makes his friend feel really, really bad, and potentially rocks him off of his comfortable foundation. In the short term, the friendship breaks, but if it forces him to actually question his value system, it might lay the groundwork for a new, more accepting friendship.  Anyone who is queer with an anti-queer-religious best friend is probably familiar with this dilemma.

Wei Wuxian chooses the second option, and goes all in from the first moment, calling Lan Wangji "Lan Er Gongzi" and then upgrading to "Hanguang Jun" and even bowing. If it's possible to bow sarcastically, that's what Wei Wuxian is doing. Then he meets his eyes and sticks his chin out, essentially saying "how do you like them apples?"

(more after the cut!)

Lan Wangji's feelings are probably hurt, but he's too busy being mad to show it, and he goes straight to grilling Wei Wuxian, asking him about the killing, the talismans, and giving up the sword, all while Jiang Cheng stands by and wonders what the fuck is happening. 

Lan Wangji is making a fundamental error here, which is he's speaking as if he's an authority instead of as a peer. Wei Wuxian has only ever accepted one authority in his entire life, and that was Jiang Fengmian. Jiang Cheng is the one who, for a change, is approaching as a worried friend, while Lan Wangji approaches as if he has the right to call Wei Wuxian to account.  

Wei Wuxian won't answer his questions and is getting in his face, provoking him in a very quiet and controlled way, and Lan Wangji responds by just being really aggressive. It's interesting to see Wei Wuxian completely mastering his emotions while Lan Wangji is completely....not.  Wei Wuxian pushes harder, saying he's being rude, saying he's being a bad friend.  Which doesn't make any difference to Lan Wanji, who keeps pressing for an answer while Jiang Cheng wonders what the fuck is happening.

Come to Gusu

Wei Wuxian says he already explained, that it's complicated, it will take time to explain, so then Lan Wangji makes the utterly dumbassed demand that Wei Wuxian return to Gusu with him to explain it. What, exactly, is his plan? Bring Wei Wuxian to Gusu and have Lan Xichen (at the very least) and probably also Lan Qiren help him to convince Wei Wuxian that resentful cultivation is bad? How is that likely to work out? Let's have our own flashback, to that classroom interaction that led to the punishment in the library.

Lan Qiren: How will you make sure the resentful energy will only listen to you and not harm others? [Note: he's not wrong, Wei Wuxian] Wei Wuxian: I haven't figured that out yet ["details," as OP's dad used to say] Lan Qiren: If you did, the cultivation world would not allow your existence [i.e. we, the Lan Clan of Gusu, will kill your ass]

Lan Wangji probably doesn't think he's threatening Wei Wuxian with death by inviting him to Gusu, but he kinda is, if Lan Qiren was serious back then.  Lan Wangji is so upset and fearful that he's not really thinking clearly at this point. He loves Wei Wuxian and he's certain that cultivating with resentful energy will destroy him. [Note: he's not wrong, Wei Wuxian]  But Wei Wuxian is beyond fear. He's already been destroyed once.

Wei Wuxian rips on Gusu and then says, in a super-provocative way, that he prefers Yunmeng, which prompts Lan Wangji to say "don't joke around" as angrily as possible. 

This part of the interaction always confuses me because...shouldn't he prefer Yunmeng? He's actually from there and lives there and belongs there and stuff? He's just saying "I think I'll go with my brother" yet WWX and LWJ both act like he said he'd rather go to Demon City.

Lan Wangji takes a big step forward and Jiang Cheng blocks him while Wei Wuxian continues to act unperturbed and puzzled while holding his demon flute out in between them. 

Finally, FINALLY, Wei Wuxian calls him Lan Zhan, and asks him a serious question: What do you really want. Lan Wangji calms down for a second--although he keeps leaning into Jiang Cheng's sword block--and gets to the point, which is that the unorthodox path is dangerous, and harmful to his temperament.  

Kill one turtle together and you think you're the boss of me

So, these dudes are talking about 2 different levels of unacceptable cultivation, in this episode and the next few. Netflix translates these as "wicked tricks" and "crafty tricks," which both sound absolutely ludicrous in English, so I'm going to use my own preferred terms, going forward.  

I think what they are calling "Wicked Tricks," which includes spirit snatching and feeding people to the murder turtle on purpose in order to harvest their resentment could be translated as Heresy--adhering to a forbidden belief or practice; standing in opposition to Orthodoxy.  

Edit: After rewatching Episode 35, in which Nie Huaisang explains why their whole blade thing doesn’t count as “wicked tricks,” I’ve changed my mind about what to call this. NHS says that “wicked tricks” specifically involve the use of humans & human spirits (killing, sacrificing, etc.). Which means Necromancy is probably the better term for this particular type of cultivation, although it is still (also) Heresy. 

"Crafty Tricks," which is using resentful energy to raise and control already-dead people (ghosts and zombies) as well as just generally using resentment for basic stuff like beating Jin Zixuan's ass, could be translated as Heterodoxy--deviating from the accepted belief or practice, but not to the point of complete opposition.

Wei Wuxian laughs while Lan Wangji tries to be convincing, but since Lan Wangji is just repeating what he's been taught, he's not making much headway. Instead of saying "there's no exception throughout history" he could have, instead, gone with his own actual observations, such as "you are acting like a sadistic prick" or "you seem amazingly miserable" or "you aren't hugging your brother, what the fuck is that about?" But no.

Wei Wuxian responds to the charge of heresy by saying nuh-uh, and explains his methods, sort of, while going back to calling him Lan Er Gongzi. Lan Er Gongzi responds by actually literally yelling at him, and saying he's not allowed to decide for himself about what he's doing, as if the words "allowed to" have ever meant a goddamn thing to Wei Wuxian.

Temperament

At this point Wei Wuxian is done. He goes and gets right up in Lan Wangji's face and sticks a metaphorical knife right in his heart, smiling as he does it. "How do others know my temperament?" he asks; "and why should it be their concern?" i.e. you are not in my heart. 

This makes Lan Wangji so mad he calls Wei Wuxian "Wei Wuxian" for possibly the only time in the show, and he also flashes a whole bunch of angry teeth. (Gifset here). In a callback to the JFM-YZY fight back in Lotus Pier before the war, Wei Wuxian just calmly says "Lan Wangji" back at him, and then tells him to go fuck himself.

Jiang Cheng still doesn't understand what the fuck is happening, but this is a sentiment he understands, so he also tells Lan Wangji to go fuck himself, reminding him that Wei Wuxian is Jiang clan property and it's not the Lans' place to discipline him. Adding "and I'm not going to discipline him any way, look how good he is at killing people!"

Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji continue to stare into each others' eyes from a distance so close that it really should lead to making out, but they are both much too angry for that. 

Wei Wuxian is as cold as we ever see him, smiling as he silently confirms: I do not belong to you. Lan Wangji glares back, his anger maybe finally giving way, a little bit, to being hurt.

Finish Him!

Wen Chao picks this moment to wake up and crawl over to the trio, begging Lan Wangji and Jiang Cheng to save his life, since he presumably knows it's pointless to beg Wei Wuxian. Wei Wuxian turns around and gives him the EXACT SAME dead-eyed smile he just gave Lan Wangji, and kicks him.

Then he tells Lan Wangji to please leave so he and his brother can finish torturing this dude to death, and caps it with an official Jiang Clan eye roll.  

Lan Wangji, poor bb, just throws in the towel, and turns and leaves, the anger finally starting to leave his face and be replaced with something else...chagrin, maybe? Or maybe just softer anger, for the moment. 

After he's out of sight Wei Wuxian turns and looks after him sadly, all of the cruelty and hardness gone from his expression, while Wen Chao says "forgive me,"  possibly voicing what Wei Wuxian is thinking.

Lan Wangji walks out the front gate, troubled, and hears Wen Chao scream. He stops and replays the most pointed part of the fight in his head - the part where Wei Wuxian asked him, "who do you think you are?" Lan Wangji went into the fight believing he was completely right and was entitled to judge Wei Wuxian, but he's come out of it with his certainty shaken. 

Family Time

The Yunmeng brothers go to the ancestral shrine in Lotus Pier even though the whole "reclaiming Lotus Pier" scene doesn't happen until Episode 24. So apparently they just kind of sneak into the the shrine, and then sneak back out. Or, you know, continuity error.  Anyway Wei Wuxian is nothing if not adept at sneaking around death-related places.

Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng bow and offer incense. It's nice that the Wens didn't fuck up everybody's name plaques when they were in control of the place...or the tassels, candles, etc. 

Wei Wuxian quietly tells Yu Ziyuan and Jiang Fengmian that he did what they asked--taking care of Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli--and they can rest now. Nosy parker Jiang Cheng wants to know what he's saying, but Wei Wuxian just changes the subject. 

They talk about going to Qinghe for the final combat of the Sunshot Campaign. Wei Wuxian says that's why he returned, which...dude, you can't even pretend you came back to be with your loved ones? Ouch. Jiang Cheng doesn't really react to that, but he's happy when Wei Wuxian says he wants to see Jiang Yanli. Wei Wuxian wants to know if she's ok and if she's mad at him, and Jiang Cheng says wait and see, because direct answers are not the Jiang Clan way.

Jiang Yanli is helping tend to the wounded, and we see her telling a particularly fussy wounded dude to suck it up and stop complaining. 

When Wei Wuxian shows up she totally stops paying attention to the wounded dude so that she can smile at Wei Wuxian. 

He looks back at her tearfully, briefly managing to smile but then just trying to hold it together. He has been to hell and back, and doing his very best to hide it, but when he sees the person who loves him most--the person who will NOT spend 20 minutes yelling at him as soon as they see him--he starts to crack open.

[dimpledpran]

Get to know me

Thank you for tagging me @lanwangiji ! 

Why did you choose your url?

Because I watched The Untamed and got sucked into it so bad. I just wanted to combine something of WWX and LWJ together for a name. 

Any side-blogs? If you have them, name them and why you have them

This is a sideblog just for all the drama stuff. My main is rainboww-paradise which for my personal and 1D stuff.

How long have you been on tumblr?

I started this blog in June last year. I have had my main since 2012. And my old personal since 2010. So kinda way too long.. 

Do you have a queue tag?

Nopeee. Cos i usually add stuff to queue, and then just post from there when I have time at work. If I had a queue tag, then all my posts would have them.

Why did you start your blog in the first place?

Started my personal long ago cos I am always intrigued by SM platforms, and then created a 1D blog cos I did not want to mix personal and fandom together. Created this blog last year pretty much for the same reason.

Why did you choose you icon/pfp?

Because it is gorgeous!!

Why did you choose you header?

Love the HQ shots from the drama, and this is such a special scene. I just loved it.

What’s your post with the most notes?

This text post (which I totally forgot about until i went through my tag). But for gifset, it is this Hamilton Lyric Request

How many people do you follow?

447

Have you ever made a shitpost?

yessss, this CQL ending one and i think the YiCity 3 Evils one counts?

How often do you use tumblr?

Like what Sabrina said, way too much. >.<

Did you have a fight/argument with a blog once? who won?

Nope. Don’t have the time or energy for that.

How do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this post’?

Not a fan, but sometimes some of those are funny.

Do you like tag games?

Yesss! It is fun to know more about the people behind the URLs, and some are really fun to do! Love the picrew ones!

Do you like ask games?

Yess, but it doesn’t really work well for me now. haha

Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

Well i think Tumblr is passed the “famous” stage, so I dont think anyone cares about that now? 

But that being said, i think half the net people are/should be tumblr famous because THEIR SKILL??

Do you have a crush on a mutual?

Not sure if this means on a personal level? But I admire alot of people. Like I said the skill level here is incredible!! And so many lovely people!!

Tagging: @purplexedhuman @yibobibo @underaswift-sunrise @jiancheng @leonzhng

[canary3d-obsessed]

Clipper’s Guide to The Untamed

Oh hey! Are you a gifmaker? Do you find it challenging to remember which episode things happen in? Are you sick of opening the wrong episode when you're trying to do clips or caps for your next gifset? Me too! So I made handy guide to help me, and you, pick the right episode on the first try. 

It’s a list of overall story arcs and giffable moments, based on the assumption that you know the story backwards and forwards already, but might not remember the order things happen in. (It’s absolutely loaded with spoilers, obvs). 

It’s a google doc, for easy downloading and searchability, and it’s licensed  CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 so you can edit it and share your own versions, if you’re so inclined. You can remix it to index all the moments for your ship of choice, for example. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YBT0MuH8fzJA_xEIM6pL8kOkUvJVJriLsYLnuGtLbY4/edit?usp=sharing

Here’s an excerpt so you can see if you’ll find it worth downloading: 

Episode 01

Flashback: Yin Tiger Amulet, Mount Yeet - short version The whole Mo Manor story Meet Lil Apple

Episode 02

Lil Apple, continued Meet Jin Ling LWJ gives JC the silent treatment WWX visits the Hengdian Studios River of Sadness Wen Memorial (Juniors, then WWX) Dancing Statue  Meet/Fight Wen Ning Flutey-toot-toot time (WangXian reunion) Whip-it time (ChengXian reunion) 30-Episode Flashback begins

(Etc...the google doc has this sort of summary for all 50 episodes)