#the untamed

[die-o]

LORD HAVE MERCY

just wuxian stretching obnoxiously and wangji struggling to ignore it. i wish they had more time for everything to be harmless fun and low stakes love like this.

[liverbiver9]

i’ve been thinking about modern au huaisang recently, and while i do think it’s charming to have him still use a fan, i’ve been trying to come up with a modern equivalent. literally been wracking my brain trying to think of something until i was in the shower today and i felt so stupid for not thinking of it earlier:

huaisang would use his phone.

he would be that motherfucker with an iphone max or something that doesn’t even fit into the back pocket of his skinny jeans, which he claims is an excuse for him to buy more designer handbags to carry the damn thing. everyone thinks he’s chronically online (which may actually be true but not in the shallow, narcissistic way they assume) because he never puts it down. it’s always up in his face, at least covering his mouth, as he types and scrolls away.

when someone has their phone out, it is universally assumed they aren’t paying attention to what is going on around them. so huaisang, who never seems to put his down unless he’s shopping or gossiping, is assumed to be completely engrossed in his online sphere rather than what’s around him. he’s the one everyone tells to go outside and touch grass. but the thing is, he’s always paying attention. his eyes may be glued onto his screen, but his mind and ears are focused elsewhere.

his brother has tried locking his phone up, throwing it away, even breaking it, but huaisang just sees this as an opportunity to buy himself a new one, so it’s a lost cause. all his friends tease him about it but don’t truly complain because he puts the phone down when it really matters most.

the point of his fan in mdzs is to paint him as frivolous and naive, as well as to hide his face and accentuate the fact that he’s not paying attention. so if we were to translate that to modern time, that would be a fucking phone

god i felt so stupid when i realized it because it seems so obvious in hindsight

[cephalopodish]

the best napping place is your undead best friend

[mzminola]

I don’t really know how The Untamed’s whole resentful energy thing works, but from what shows up on my dash I’m 100% confident if you dropped Wei Wuxian into Gotham he would be god-tier unstoppable.

[uncorrectintamed]

Wei Wuxian: Pretty please?

Lan Wangji: The physical appearance of the please makes no difference to me.

[wishthatiwasnessiesgirl]

and reblog for a better sample size!!

[gaiamochi]

special edition™ cql cereals

[curb-your-dog]

beyond the pale

[evilhasnever]

the official CQL twitter reposted this, so please look at the xiyao tangyuan and witness the smallest hat

[zelkam]

*chuu*

[untamedmetablogiguess]

The thing I think connects my two problematic MXTX faves, my two poor little MXTX meow-meows, Shen Jiu and Meng Yao, is the way they are not JUST still capable of empathy and compassion, even when they’re at their cruelest and most ruthless, but that that, specifically, is what destroys them. If they’d been entirely heartless, they would have taken out every loose end and it would’ve been impossible to convict them. But because they still had room for some human emotion, they didn’t- SJ spared Qiu Haitang, and Meng Yao spared Sisi. So often, if a villain has one teeny little spark of good in him, and he Pets the Dog and lets himself act with a little humanity, the narrative rewards him for it, or at least doesn’t directly punish him. But they both suffer as a DIRECT result of deciding, just for a moment, to be kind.

and I think it’s important, given the emphasis both of these stories have on the social consequences of people’s actions, to point out that sometimes- many times! - being kind ISN’T a benefit for you. You don’t get rewarded for doing the right thing. Being a human being with a sense of compassion gets you no tangible benefits, and often has negative consequences instead.

and you should do it , anyway.

[wuxianxkexing]

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[neverthirstagain]

On my way to CR for the guest lectures.

[northisnotup]

I love fics where lwj is playing 4d chess in his own mind with what he can have/get away with and then we flash to wwx who is not, as we thought, playing checkers, but playing a DIFFERENT game - a sillier game even - of connect 4 where he is blindfolded, playing against himself and sometimes the board changes for what he assumes is no reason