#open cultivation

[hellinglaozu]

Sing it, Lan Zhan!

Another continuation of the band au. ty for commissioning me for this piece!

[askew-d]

everybody mentions that the biggest clownery situation in mdzs was wei wuxian saying to lan wangji that lan wangji was gonna die alone and that he’d never marry into the lan clan, but nobody mentions how lan jingyi straightforwardly stated “hanguang-jun isn’t a cut-sleeve!” to wei wuxian. and then not long later saw hanguang-jun marry wei wuxian. i bet that’s one of my boy’s biggest mistakes he can’t stop thinking about before going to sleep

[kiiyovee]

hanguang-jun's been crushing on wei ying since their cloud recesses days ♡

based from this 👇

[lazycranberrydoodles]

chapter 2 - reincarnation (masterpost here)

[rejectedfables]

MXTX: so the story starts with the main character's death. Then we unravel his story and how he tried his best but had to resort to fucked up methods in order to create real change and save lives, how society supported him while it benefited them and then turned on him when it was convenient, how his complicated social status of being gentry-adjacent was intrinsically tied into every decision he made AND how he was judged before during and after those decisions, how he experienced abuse and abandonment and support and love, saved lives AND killed people. He sacrificed everything but never compromised his ideals once, and it got him killed.

MXTX: and then we close the story on the death of this other guy, who we're also shown having gone through ALL THAT SAME STUFF, except this guy compromises every single time and that ALSO got him killed.

MXTX: neither of them were killed because it was "right" to, or because they were "evil", but because those with power in society were done with them. Their past actions were used to excuse their executions, and it's kinda fucked up actually, wouldn't you say?

MDZS fandom: 1 billion years of meta on why JGY is an irredeemable villain, and WWX is a pure cinnamon roll

[hesina]

Wait wait wait wait wait. I'm connecting the dots. Venli talks to the stones in ROW and learns the story of the stones. The wind is sapient and talking to kaladin. The wind's sapience has been around since before the shattering. The Shin revere the gods of the stones (and the wind ?) The horneaters have a story where their ancient leader went to the gods of the rivers oceans and mountains to ask for help.

[qourmet]

this is the first time i'm explicitly putting a name to a character that canonically exists, xiao laopo doesn't count cos that's a title but madam lan didn't have a known title before she was madam lan, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

they're talking mad shit about u tho

[boarloved-art]

finished my uni project finally and this is how i celebrated. uk-ei wuxian. british supermarket au. sure. why not.

anyway!

yunmeng jiang is asda, qishan wen is wilko, gusu lan is waterstones, lanling jin is waitrose & qinghe nie is marks & spencers. baoshan sanren + her students are Tkmaxx. moling su is whsmith. hope this helps.

[nerimaha]

Gusu Lan is insanely peaceful in the night, especially when Wei Ying manages to convince his husband to stay awake after nine. Such moments are indeed wery rare, and Wei Ying is sure that he is infinitely cunning and eloquent, since he manages to convince Lan Er-gege to disobey the rules... even if he himself is the one who sooner or later falls asleep on Lan Zhan's shoulder.

Oh, if only the silly Yiling Laozu knew how much Lan Zhan loves such evenings. Silence, a simple presence oh his soulmate close, so close... and thought, simple and at the same time infinitely complex: they are at home.

They are together. And nothing else will separate them anymore.

[miradelletarot]

Ughh this is gonna be a messy post, but I want to say some things that are on my heart rn.

First of all, this blog will always and forever support LGBTQIA+. No intentional erasure of any kind will happen here. I just want to make that clear.

All my life (despite a very Conservative, bigoted and r*cist upbringing with silent gen and boomer parents,) I have always fought to love everyone. To treat everyone the way I wanted to be treated. With love and respect.

I spent my whole life with a binary mindset, trying to understand and learn about all the different pronouns and identities. I still have a lot to learn and understand. I'm getting there. (And I hope you'll be patient with me as I continue to grow).

Now, here I sit, months after discovering my own demisexuality... And I'm straight. Talk about feeling like a round peg trying to fit thru a square hole. My identity means so much to me right now because it's belonged to everyone else for all these years. I was brainwashed into believing I had no autonomy. I'm finally in a place where I can reclaim what's been taken from me. (I won't go into how Christianity hurt me...but let's just say, I have a lot of trauma bc of my old faith that ties into a lot of this. I'd need to make an hr long video just to unpack it all.)

What's great is that I have been met with nothing less than love, respect, and kindness, welcomed with open arms without terms and conditions from this community. On and off Tumblr. More than I've experienced in any community ever. Even more so than the witchy/pagan community.

I guess I just want to say that I love y'all. A whole fucking lot. Thank you for making me feel seen. Thank you for your love.

And I hope it's ok to say this but... I'm excited as hell to celebrate this year's Pride month, no longer just as an ally...but as a part of the Ace community.

Thanks for giving this odd, funky-shaped peg a place to call home.

Happy Pride. 🏳️‍🌈

[hellinglaozu]

We've always got time for one more

Yet another continuation of the band au. ty for commissioning!

[raddestrose]

They're so fucking dumb my dude it's so funny to me

Wei Ying how do you not know your ass is super gay like. Are you BLIND

They really are.

The amount of times I have read “ An unknown emotion washed over Wei Wuxian” has left me baffled.

How hasn’t he realized?

[wangxian-xianwang-shipper]

Young WangXian 💙❤️

[uwooyoungs]

im like severely in want to read fic mode but nothing's Hitting and i feel like i've already read all the best one's for the fandoms i wanna read for so. lemme know if u have recs for tgcf, mdzs, or the marauders (specifically wolfstar)

[wangxianficrecs]

We're friends... right? by Cy_an_Blue

We're friends... right?

by Cy_an_Blue

G, 3k, Wangxian

Summary: The juniors thought that the revered Hanguang-Jun would runaway and elope with the recently found-innocent Yiling Patriarch. When it didn't happen after Jin Guangyao's death, they waited... ...and waited... ...and waited. Nothing! Absolutely Nothing! Up until Wei Qianbei met them on a Nighthunt, they thought that he was an idiot for leaving the Cloud Recesses! But... that was before. Now they wonder... does Hanguang-Jun deserve Wei Qianbei? Kay's comments: This fic is a The Untamed and Novel Canon mix, but is set after The Untamed ending where Wangxian go their seperate ways and it's a reply to the mixed signals our dear Lan Wangji was sending, especially in his first life, which led to Wei Wuxian being unsure where they stood, especially after being left at the side of the road. A delightful outsider POV where the outsider in question realizes: huh, so that guys isn't an oblivious idiot? Really loved it! Excerpt: “You were on Hanguang-Jun’s level?” Jingyi asked in shock. “Of course!” Wei Qianbei exclaimed. “I still remember the first time we duelled. On a rooftop under moonlight and Emperor’s Smile in my hand.” The Juniors listened intently, hoping to hear something romantic. “He broke my jar! Told me to leave!” Wei Qianbei laughed, not noticing the Juniors’ flinch. “Of course, I was sneaking into Cloud Recesses after curfew the night before the Guest Lectures started. He told me ‘No entry after curfew’. And I had the Emperor’s Smile, so he told me off for the alcohol. And I made the mistake of trying to bribe him with it. So, three offences on our first meeting. He was so mad. I don’t know how I convinced him to be my friend when I was only there for three months, one of those months he oversaw my punishment copying the rules! I think we became friends after that.” Wei Qianbei looked happy about it for some reason, but none of the juniors could understand why. What was so romantic about fighting someone on a rooftop for breaking the rules and getting one of your belongings destroyed in the process? Obviously Wei Qianbei is biased, but love makes people biased towards the ones they love, so this is to be expected. Wei Qianbei obviously loves Hanguang-Jun, but… it doesn’t sound like Hanguang-Jun loves Wei Qianbei back.

pov outsider, post-canon, canon combination, frankencanon, angst, ambiguous/open ending, adorable juniors, reflection, complicated relationships, rogue cultivator wei wuxian, good friend wen ning

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(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.)

[lecinea]

I am still baffled that we are literally told in the novel that Wei Wuxian defecting from the Jiang Sect AND the fight after, was staged, because they really had to bring home that there was nothing between them anymore to keep the Jiang Sect safe, and yet people still use it as an argument for why Jiang Cheng is the worst and totally hates Wei Wuxian. Like we don't have that lovely little Yungmeng trio scene only 2 chapters later. Wild.

Oh and if you're interested here are the citations that that support that the defection in it's entirety is a sham:

After the fight, Jiang Cheng told the outside that Wei WuXian defected from the sect and was an enemy to the entire cultivation world. The YunmengJiang sect had already cast him out. From then on, no ties remained between them- a clear line was drawn. Henceforth, no matter what he did, they'd have nothing to do with the YungmengJiang sect!

MDZS exiled rebels translation, chapter 73

Before they parted, Jiang Cheng spoke, "We won't see you off. It wouldn't be good if someone saw us."

Wei WuXian nodded. He understood that it wasn't easy for the Jiang siblings to have come out here. If someone else saw them, all those things they did for the public to believe would be wasted.

MDZS exiled rebels translation, chapter 75