#nie huaisang x jiang cheng

[hotwing-sauce]

[elwashere]

Boom have some Sangcheng content because I love the ship (my favorite side ship hehe)

Here's my reference photo

[geekygirl24]

[unfortunatelycake]

Chapter: 2/3 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationships: SangCheng Summary: Returning to Qinghe, Nie Huaisang tries to keep himself busy to avoid his feelings of failure, but it isn't until he receives an unexpected visitor that he truly finds a distraction.

Notes: Sidefic/sequel to my xiyao fic, Broken Jade, Faded Blooms. Follows on from Nie Huaisang’s last appearance in said fic, written from his POV.

[asha-mage]

Do ya'll ever think about how every character in MDZS is living in a radically different genre of story?

Cause yeah, sure Wei Wuxian is living in a danmei fantasy novel with strong romantic comedy elements, but if you slide over a bit Lan Wangji is living a serious and heady drama about regret, loss, yearning, the passage of time, and ultimately atonement.

Scooch on over to Xichen and your in a straight up Greek tragedy, right down to the parable about hubris and trust. Jin Guangyao is living meanwhile in a political dark fantasy al'la Game of Thrones, Nie Huaisang is in a Gothic moody Monte Cristo-esque reflection on revenge and deception, and while Lan Sizhuhi and Jin Ling are living in two VERY different YA fantasy books ('magic boarding school/secret orphan of destiny' and 'Steven Universe style coming of age/discovering all your family are some flavor of evil and magic' respectively).

Everyone connected to Yi City is living inside a dark psychological thriller/horror flick, except for Xue Yang who is in a Found Family/Enemies to Lover fic right up until he isn't.

Jiang Cheng's entire life has been one long soap opera, and it is showing no signs of stopping anytime soon.

[stardyzzed]

This was kinda sloppy but I did it mainly just for fun

Ive been litterally losing my mind over @tbgkaru-woh 's designs for like 3+ days now straight. ESPECIALLY HUAISANG!!!! Im planning to make some proper art with their designs at some point but for now this is the closest I have. I also have now developed the habit of giving Huaisang braids that you'll see in my other doodles whenever I happen to post them ehe

(I am rambling to the void, anyways enjoy these 2 ♡)

[leddia]

last year illustration for MDZS desk calendar I made ehehhhhhhhh

[drama--universe]

S/O suffers from sleep paralysis

Requested by anonymous: Anyone from The Untamed you want with a reader who has sleep paralysis? She tries to alert her husband but she can't because she can't talk or move, but she still manages to alert her husband and he then tries to help her?

Pairing: (Wuxian, Jiang Cheng, Huaisang) x fem!reader

Warnings: slightly suggestive bullet point at the end, except for that none

Wei Wuxian:

Wuxian seems like a heavy sleeper

so even when you could move and shove him, he probably wouldn't awake

but he also has a sixth sense for trouble

(how else does he survive so easily through everything)

so when you wake up, only to find out that you couldn't move a muscle

it is concerning

the room is dark and yet you can see shadows, even though they aren't actually there

you want to move desperately, but you just can't and thus you chose to just screw your eyes shut in hope that it would somehow make you feel less afraid

luckily for you, Wuxian usually magically awakens when this happens

and when he sees you, he immediatley knows that something is wrong

even when he doesn't really know what is wrong

he quickly wakes you up, shaking you awake before hugging you closer to him

he's the type to not sleep again until he is sure that you're okay

doesn't agree if you tell him that you don't want to sleep

even when you explain why you don't want to sleep, he insist that you still need to

will hug you until you sleep eventually

he's afraid of it happening again and doesn't want to go to sleep before you

always wait for about an hour after you fall asleep

just to be sure

will also gladly take your scolding for it

Jiang Cheng:

this guy is a very light sleeper

I think he wakes up three or four times in the night

it would take him a few seconds to notice that you laid awake

yet you didn't answer him when he asked why you were up

that's when he notices that something is wrong

shakes you awake and flinches as you suddenly sit up

you cry as you explain what had happened

he listens carefully to your story, still a bit confused why it had happened

stays awake with you until you calm down

although he doesn't like physical contact too much, he still holds you in his arms

when you do go back to sleep, he opts to hold your hand instead

stays awake a bit longer, staring at you as you fall asleep

this time a peaceful sleep where your mind isn't playing mind tricks on you

when you're finally peacefully asleep, he follows

his hand remains in yours throughout the whole night

he also moves to wrap his arms around you

it's quite a funny morning

Nie Huaisang:

honestly, he's probably awake

insomniac of the trio

either he's painting or brooding

he notices when your eyes open, but you looked fearful if anything

he first thought you had a nightmare, but when you don't move he gets concerned

call out to you a few times before effectively waking you up by shaking you awake

he's weirded out by your story, but doesn't show it on his face

instead he just tries to calm you down

will get anything you need

you want food, he'll wake up the kitchen staff and asks if they can make you something

you want to just cuddle, he'll smother you with kisses while doing so

he'll make sure that you wouldn't panic again

if you decide to sleep, he will hug you close to him as a sort of reassurance

if you don't want to sleep, he'll stay awake with you and get your mind off of it

and he isn't opposed to helping you sleep in other ways ;)

[blubiboom]

✨MDZS PERFUMES PART #1✨ 

What smell do you think they have? 🥺

[miiokae]

So I made an edit for the first (and hopefully last) time....it's kind of a wip?? Might polish it might not but ANYWAYS- this show has given me SEVERE brainrot like I've never had before.

[insanusnavicularis]

Nie Huaisang: So which one’s yours?

Lan Wangji: *in a playground full of children, pointing towards Wei Wuxian who’s declaring himself the king of the swings and picking fights with the kids*

Nie Huaisang, concerned: God bless your soul

[takonxmz]

Had the honor of making art for @jaimebluesq to be featured in their SangCheng Mini Bang 2023 submission: Who’s Prepared to Pay the Price for a Trip to Paradise? (on ao3)!!! 😍💖✨️😍💖✨️😍💖✨️ Read and enjoy 50k words of SangCheng goodness!!!!

You can also view and reblog Jaime's promo post here!! 🥰💖✨️

[geekygirl24]

[unfortunatelycake]

Chapter: 1/3 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationships: SangCheng Summary: After a shocking encounter at with Lan Xichen and Jin Guangyao at the Stone Castles, a distraught Nie Huaisang flees to the only person he can think of.

Forced to confront his grief after so many years, Nie Huaisang feels nothing but hurt.

But can Jiang Cheng convince him that this pain will heal?

Notes: Sidefic/sequel to my xiyao fic, Broken Jade, Faded Blooms. Follows on from Nie Huaisang’s last appearance in said fic, written from his POV.

[annalacerda17]

How reputation works in MDZS is quite representative of the novel's themes.

Reputation in MDZS, much like in real life, does not accurately represent the truth about a person, but rather it represents how they are perceived. And how they are perceived in cultivation society has a lot more to do with status and power than what their personality is like or what they actually did. More importantly, it has to do with how well they adhere to societal expectations (a lot of which are based on status).

That's why people like YZY, whose attitude was terrible and who never did anything impressive in the novel (at any point that we're told) had a reputation as being impressive and powerful, and yet she liked to whip little boys and lost the only battle we saw her fight. She couldn't even stop WLJ of all people from sending off the signal to initiate the invasion of Lotus Pier - and we're explicitly told that WLJ was so weak she couldn't even wield a cultivation sword and had to make do with a branding iron. WLJ was absolutely not a fighter. YZY was also an incompetent leader, who failed to prepare for an attack everyone knew was coming - refused to believe the Jiang sect would be attacked despite what had happened to the Lan clan just because of her delusions of superiority born out of her classist world view - and once the Wens did arrive at her door, she handled the situation in the worst way possible by escalating it and finally choosing to sacrifice the sect for the sake of her own personal pride, again, born out of classism. To me, this means that we're supposed to notice that YZY's reputation is empty, and it actually comes from her being born with a hight status.

We also have JZXun, who we all know was an imbecile and cruel, arrogant and mean person, whose deeds can all be summarized as abusing and preying of the weak while overestimating himself. He was the one who ambushed WWX with 300 archers by his side, and yet he was seen as a victim by society as the victim, and defended as such, and his flaws were consistently ingnored.

Then we have JC, who built up his reputation by slaughtering the Wens in the burial mounds, people he himself had identified as the weak, the old the women and children. He then went on to spend the next 13 years kidnapping, torturing a d killing people he suspected of being demonic cultivator, and didn't let go even when proven wrong. I won't bring up the life debt he owed the Wen siblings and the golden core he owed WWX because society at large didn't know about those. The point here is that even with all that despite not being liked by people who actually met him, being known to have a bad temper, to not protect his own people unless it either brought him glory or somebody died first, and being known to act like a tyrant, at the time of WWX's resurrection into MXY's body JC was known as a war hero. That's because he was a sect leader. Had JC not had his status, he wouldn't have had anything else either.

Then we have WWX who was always righteous. When he was fighting for the sects in the SSC, everyone approved of him, when the war ended and he didn't act submissive, they feared and hated him. During the Phoenix Mountain Hunt, WWX took down one third of the prey and NMJ took down another another third, and yet, everyone was criticizing WWX, accusing him of breaking the (inexistent) rules and disapproving of him for acting above his status. On the other hand, nobody thought there was anything wrong with NMJ doing the very same thing WWX did. In fact, the thing the cultivation society hated the most about WWX wasn't his cultivation, evidenced by the fact that nobody cared that the Jin sect had XY experiment with demonic cultivation until XY went and murdered a whole clan (and even then, only NMJ did anything about it and it was only the murder he seemed to have a problem with), and nobody had any qualms about using WWX's knowledge and inventions. In fact, what the cultivation society hated the most about WWX was that he dared to act above his status. Just like this, WWX who was a truly good man had a much worse reputation than all those men mentioned above, all of whom were incomparably worse people than he.

We see a few cases like LWJ's, whose reputation was quite accurate and whose exalted deeds were true. Crucially, LWJ was a member of the Lan clan, the son of a sect leader and then the brother of one. He was famous for going where the chaos was, and helping anyone regardless of their identity. The pinacle of what a cultivator should be like, a truly righteous man. And yet, the moment he sided with WWX, the man they had previously slandered to death, cultivation society was ready to turn against him. It was only by the intervention of NHS that LWJ and WWX even got the chance to prove their innocence and expose the true culprits. Crucially, NHS was a sect leader who had real power (unlike LWJ who was the brother of a sect leader and therefore had high status bit little power).

NHS himself had a high status but a reputation as an incompetent and useless brat. However, NHS's case is different from WWX's because NHS had such a reputation intentionally, and used it as means to achieve his goals.

Anyway, I'm just ranting here because I got tired of seeing JC and YZY stans using their reputation of all things to claim that they were "badass" or somehow good or heroic when it doesn't match the actuality of their actions and capabilities in the novel.

[stardyzzed]

My OTHER doodles from yesterday

I just *head in hands moment*

I can't STOP

But I also cant draw YOUNG JC I guess