#wgxn

[runespoor7]

I've been thinking about the time post-canon where WGXN break out of the honeymoon phase because LWJ gets hurt. Maybe protecting WWX; that'd be the worst.

It's not a break-up; it's just LWJ realizing that WWX isn't acting quite the same. It's the glance LWJ's side when WWX brags about his husband. It's the bragging being less hyperbolic and LWJ not being sure if WWX's laughter is fake. Not relying on LWJ as much. Not mentioning details relevant to their night-hunts to LWJ. The more it goes on the less LWJ is being trusted by WWX, and LWJ is unable to find a way to change this. When LWJ grabs WWX and insists upon his devotion to WWX, WWX replies that of course he knows! LWJ tells WWX that he'll never let anything happen to WWX, but he's not sure WWX believes him.

Anyway LWJ is feeling some kind of way about being frozen out of WWX's confidence, not that he's put it in those words, and then they find themselves on a night-hunt with YMJ - it's a night-hunt with an investigation part so it takes them a while, and SLJ is there, which LWJ usually hates but isn't even his least favorite thing about the endeavour at the moment. LWJ isn't paying as much attention (glaring) to SLJ as usual, he's too busy with trying to regain WWX's trust being sad being focused on his relationship with WWX.

WWX and LWJ do spend some more time than usual with JC, ostensibly coordinating the night-hunt, really because spending time with JC is easier than WWX remembered (not least because it means not being alone with LWJ). Huh! JC has changed. No longer quite the pathetic, petty, weak boy WWX enshrined in his memory.

At the end of a conversation, when WWX has flit away and LWJ is brooding, and for some reason JC didn't leave yet and is still with LWJ, JC gives a little sigh. "So it's started, then."

LWJ looks at him. He wants JC to shut up and go away - he always wants JC to shut up and go away - but he also wants to know what JC means.

"He's started walling off. What did you do that made him lose confidence in you? He couldn't talk your strength too high and now he's finding excuses not to let you investigate on your own."

LWJ bristles. "You dont--"

The denial dies off on its own. What would he say? SLJ makes what is happening into a bad thing. But isn't it a bad thing, isn't it something LWJ wishes would go away? But he makes it something LWJ's did, but LWJ didn't mean to - but does LWJ's intent matter, when the result is letting WWX down? It feels unfair; it feels deserved. Would LWJ rather JC make it into WWX's fault somehow? Simply imagining JC casting WWX as the culprit makes anger swell in LWJ's belly.

He stares at JC, mute.

The corner of JC's lips twist in something that's not quite a smile. "Did you think it would never happen to you?"

LWJ hears the echo of the question he's thought about JC for years. Did you think you were good enough for him?

I've been thinking about it a lot.

The isolation and alienation of your loved one denying you the acknowledgement that there's something wrong; the loneliness of carrying a relationship with someone who's neatly slid you out of the people he's willing to be vulnerable with; the unbearable kinship with someone you hate, someone your loved one left behind, someone you're horrified to realize went through the same, like a mirror the future holds out to you.

[ohohoho-nyohohoho]

Hot Takes that prove you've completely failed to engage with the worldbuilding and themes of the original work on basically all levels:

"jc didn't support wwx + the wen remnants because he only cared about his reputation. wwx cares about morals; jc only cares about his image"

"the jiang sect's position was actually super strong after the sunshot campaign"

[nebulathunderwave]

Thank you MDZS Japan for the three course XiYao meal today 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

[touchlikethesun]

brb i need to assign artistic movements to mxtx couples

[yunmeng-jiang]

Honestly I find it narratively satisfying that many of mxtx's secondary characters have mixed to downright tragic endings, even though there are so many of them that I love to bits and want to be happy.

It makes the happiness of the leads feel so much more hard-won, emphasises that life goes on despite it all. Gives the ache of tragedy alongside the bliss of the happy ending, sharp and sweet, raspberries and cream.

That's totally fair!! It's just that what I want as an Appreciator Of Literature and what I want as a Fan Of The Blorbo are two very different things, and it feels like MXTX gives us Blorbo Fan endings for the main characters and Literature endings for the side characters. It makes sense though!

[dragonji]

found out one of my mom's middleaged woman friends is a cqlhead by having them visit my apt and her seeing my huge wangxian figurine iam not gonna lie it's feeling a little Too revealing in here rn

[forgottenfrenchfryunit]

Wangxian and vintage love songs belong together argue with the wall

[leatherbookmark]

i'm wondering if mxtx hadn't planned for nhs's character to be a lil bit more expanded upon, because... it's word of god that he and nmj have different mothers. but they didn't have to! it's perfectly normal for one son to be Worthy of inheriting the sect/family business/whatever and the other to be a cringefail dandy without those differences being Justified by Different Mothers. and yet...?

[nebulathunderwave]

This post is out there to make me cry and @eternal-brainrot and @reblorzelska have teamed up to give me the final blow

it truly cannot be overstated how completely bereft lan xichen is of meaningful, supportive connections post-canon.

even pre-canon*, the number of characters in his life who seek out his company without placing any expectations upon him is very, very, very low. (in fact there is only one character who does this. you know who it is, i'm just not saying who it is because i don't have to.)

post-canon, what indication do we have in the text that anyone is making his welfare anything close to a priority?

he has been totally abandoned by both the jianghu and the narrative.

[runespoor7]

Do think it's very crunchy that WWX only defends his new flavor of the month in the ancestral hall. Not himself. Not WN, to whom JC did arguably have a life debt and for whom WWX did dump JC. Not any of these old things; just the shiny new hot powerful protective dude that he doesn't have any meaningful preexisting bond with and that he's been falling for since returning and running away from his previous life.

Just the perfect, serene blank slate of novelty (and the guilty undercurrent of once again feeling something that isn't socially acceptable and won't be welcome).

[jcs-singular-slut-strand]

Sometimes, someone will like a few of my Jiang Cheng posts and then follow me so I go "oh cool, mdzs blog I'll check it out" and then their pinned post is about how much they love wgxn and how much chengxian sucks...

I don't think this blog is for you darling 💜

[nebulathunderwave]

Allow me to be mean and salty for a second. Sometimes it seems like there are clear correlations between certain types of fans of certain characters/ships and a certain way of interpreting (= completely exaggerating and twisting) canon scenes (= one quote).

[runespoor7]

But if you acknowledge the canon and the plot relevance what's left for the main couple, huh????

The fact that JC antis were crying, pissing, shitting over a tiny, pixilated image of Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian on a magazine cover is exactly why I can't take any of y'all seriously like omfg 💀💀

The tiny image in the top corner I've circled is what they're whinging over and threatening to boycott btw because Lan Wangji is not with Wei Wuxian in it or whatever 😒

You'd think that the image was of Chengxian having hot gay sex by those complaints, but oh no. Here is the close-up version, instead depicting a very integral scene in the book that kick-started the major events in the first place..

No romantic undertones, nothing.

I think JC antis just need to admit to their insecurities at this point. Because it seriously sounds like they feel threatened by JC's huge mistress energy. It honestly explains all the obsessive hatred for him now!

[touchlikethesun]

actually, it is not surprising at all that, for me, jiang cheng and wei ying’s relationship is the one that stands out, that pulls at my heartstrings, the most in mdzs. complicated, estranged siblings with severe communication issues and wounds that won’t heal, but who still despite everything despite not being able to say it, still care so much for one another? well if that’s not my m.o. exactly i don’t know what is

[yunmeng-jiang]

sometimes I wish Jiang Cheng actually had done all the stuff that people accuse him of so I could defend my enjoyment of him the same way Xue Yang fans do ("sometimes your blorbo is simply a fucked up guy who tortures people for fun and likes stabbing his loved ones in the back ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ what can i say I love a villain"). Instead I have to put up with wgxn stans who think JC killed WWX, beats his nephew every day, and tried to murder wgxn for touching their pinky fingers together while in his house

[dragonji]

speaking of buying merch I got my first ita bag recently and unforch it's just a little too small for my usual sketchbook which means it'll have to be a bag for when I Don't bring my sketchbook w me but that leaves me torn on how to decorate it... bc I dont want to use up All my good pins/charms when I'll only have it with me some of the time.....