#jiangs are ling yu

[tea-cat-arts]

Decided that for my mdzs creature AU, the Jins are going to be peacocks Phoenix, but I'm still debating whether I want to have Jin Guangyao to be a special little boy and be a Qilin instead or if I'm just gonna have him match the rest of his family

[bishy437]

what’s left behind

[wodania]

“i guess the apple don’t fall far from the tree cuz I’ve been looking at you so long now i only see me” or whatever charli said

[szaszkeh]

The same view

[tossawary]

Thinking about an AU where Jiang Yanli's "weak / mediocre cultivation" was caused by a horrific training accident when she was pretty young, in part to explore the tragedy and disability of it all and in part for the humorous "older relative casually drops wild personal lore that changes your entire perception of them" angle.

Like, Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan's firstborn child is a girl, which is not ideal in this deeply sexist world, but the sect motto is "attempt the impossible", right? It's not unheard of for female cultivators to lead sects and Yu Ziyuan wants her daughter to be the first female Jiang sect leader, to show up the cultivation world, and Jiang Fengmian isn't against the idea and wants the best for his daughter (although he probably doesn't want her to be a copy of his wife). So Jiang Yanli starts her cultivation training pretty early. There's a lot of intense pressure, a lot of expectation and projection and some arguments, and it all culminates in this poor child getting badly injured, with permanent damage to both her body and to her cultivation. It's a "no one's fault and everyone's fault" thing.

Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan quietly drop their plans for Yanli to become the sect leader and focus on a very young Jiang Cheng instead, which is easy in part because everyone expects the son to inherit anyway. A young Jiang Yanli is betrothed to the heir of the Jin Sect and this is basically never talked about ever again. General perception is that Jiang Yanli is a mediocre cultivator at best because she was born that way (she's a WOMAN, after all) and/or because her disposition is just too sweet and agreeable, and OF COURSE the son became the heir as soon as the Jiangs had a son. That's just how things work!

So, in an AU where Jiang Yanli (and Jin Zixuan?) lives and teenage Jin Ling is freaking out about some embarrassing and/or dangerous mistake on a night hunt...

Jiang Yanli, patting her son's shoulder: "It's going to be okay. You know, when I was a young child, I permanently injured myself in a training accident and could no longer become the Jiang sect leader, and it felt like the end of the world, letting everyone down, but it all worked out in the end!"

Jin Ling, whose entire 15-year-old worldview just got flipped upside-down: "...Mother?! What?!?!"

[mushroomwriter]

—Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

[sunshinerotting]

u ever think about jiang cheng having enough trust in wei wuxian to walk up a mountain blindfolded only to be betrayed in a way so internal and inescapable that learning about it sends him spiraling nearly two decades later. he lost everything in the world except what couldn’t physically leave. he has jin ling and wwx’s core and they’re both necessary and he couldn’t have had either of them without losing his siblings. he would prefer his siblings. he can’t have a conversation with wwx but he can never escape him how can he deal with that. doesn’t it feel dirty. imagine thinking your brother thinks he’s so worthless you would prefer taking the most important thing from him than to not have it. imagine him beating u at everything always and when u finally get ground it turns out it’s not even you. its still him. in giving up his core wwx gave up the possibility of staying in jiang chengs life even before the wen remnants entered the picture. congratulations to jiang cheng! u have his core but u can never have him again

[add1ctedt0you]

The Untamed - conventional and unconventional mothers

[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

For as little as MXTX cares about women she sure did a banger job of making mothers in MDZS infinitely more present in the narrative/influential than fathers huh

[tls123]

FLEABAG — season two, episode four + jiang cheng, his family, and jin ling

requested by @spriteofmushrooms - insp

[enby-axels]

something so tragic about how mdzs utilizes the fallible memory of children to comment on how reality is frequently rewritten in favor of the adults who've harmed them. both jin ling and wei wuxian say that they havent been hurt that bad by jiang cheng and yu ziyuan respectively, but we have textual evidence this is not true

[qiu-yan]

sorry yanli

[arknights-archive]

Yu PV

[jcs-singular-slut-strand]

The Untamed/MDZS but it's things that my Father has said part 2

Part 1 // my mother's version

[honghongyue]

my favorite chinese insults as mdzs characters !

[hannigramislife]

When people tell me Jiang Cheng turned out abusive like Madam Yu, I laugh.

Because Jiang Cheng was terrified of her.

If you think Jin Ling is not yelling at Jiang Cheng about three times a week over stupid stuff, then you are wrong.

If you think Jiang Cheng would have been able to stay strong through Jin Ling on his knees, begging and crying for Jiang Cheng to stop someone's punishment, then you are wrong.

And if you think Jiang Cheng felt even a little bit as comfortable crying in front of Madam Yu as Jin Ling feels comfortable crying in front of Jiang Cheng-

You. Are. Wrong.