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chibi comms from earlier this year!

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I made some weird wwx with makeup on sketch last week but deleted it cuz I hated it LOL. I was procrastinating so here is a better version. Didn't look up historical stuff or smth, it's just my imagination.

I didn't have much time for shading and a bg tho🙃 i have a presentation tomorrow and i still have to write my script sksksk

Also I hate drawing flowers ://

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Artist :  KOGA桑

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I can't see to escape JC content on Instagram because I follow the MDZS tag so let me tell you how all this should go:

"The Jiang sect would have been something big with Wei Wuxian" says a bunch of people who were allowed to flourish under Jiang Cheng's reign because of WWX's golden core, in houses built by Jiang Cheng because of WWX's golden core, eating food grown by Jiang Cheng because of WWX's golden core, near a river not poisoned with corpses thanks to Jiang Cheng because of WWX's golden core.

WWX had to provide for people while having no support, money or golden core. On a mountain full of bodies and resentment. JC had a MIGHTY golden core that wasn't his. Political and monetary support from the sects.

WWX and JC are not the same.

JC standing for justice? When? When he said and I QUOTE:

Jiang Cheng mocked, “Those sect leaders thought you gathered some leftover forces and crowned yourself king of the hill. So it’s only the old, the weak, the women, and the children.” – page 930

And the way he decided to side with justice was to keep that fact for himself and declare WWX everyone's enemy? Yeah, right. I see how he stands by justice.

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Xianxian is a groom with white hair 💒

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i am once again thinking about lan zhan, lan wangji, hanguang jun, lan er gege and literally how he's the best boy ever

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retaliation!!!!

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I love that thing WWX does where he thinks that everyone finds LWJ as attractive as he does. LWJ’s beauty is just A Fact Of The Universe. It has nothing to do with the eye of the beholder.

Only then did the flock of juniors remember why they had come to Dafan Mountain. Placing any other thoughts at the back of their minds, they reverently awaited further instructions. A few moments later, Lan Wangji spoke again, “Try your hardest. No recklessness.”

His voice was low and magnetic. The heart of anyone standing near enough would undoubtedly tremble upon hearing it.

(Chapter 8, Fanyiyi)

It’s not just the beauty of his face, but the beauty of his voice as well! I was about to say that I doubted that the hearts of LWJ’s juniors trembled when they heard his voice, but Jingyi is there, so maybe some of them do. XD Still, I’m sure most people do not find LWJ’s voice magnetic and feel their heart tremble when he speaks.

The man was tall and slender, with lovely, fair skin, his hair dark as black lacquer, damp and hanging over one side of his neck. The lines of his waist were slim and sleek, both elegant and strong. In short, he was a beauty.

But the reason Wei Wuxian couldn’t tear his eyes away definitely had nothing to do with being stunned by the sight of this beautiful man bathing. However beautiful he was, Wei Wuxian wasn’t really attracted to men. The actual reason he couldn’t look away had to do with the things on the man’s back.

(Chapter 11, Fanyiyi)

I’m sure that WWX is distracted by LWJ’s scars! But that is also not why he spent a paragraph describing LWJ’s beauty. When someone only cares about the scars on another person’s back, they don’t keep calling him a beauty/beautiful.

Suddenly, he laid eyes on a handsome young man with an icy countenance. The young man wore a red, round-collared robe with narrow sleeves, tied with a belt of nine rings—the juniors’ ceremonial uniform during the Qishan Wen Clan’s Discussion Conference. Dressed in it, the young man was extraordinarily good-looking: part courage, part elegance, and entirely gorgeous. Eyes couldn’t help but brighten upon seeing him.

(Chapter 45, Fanyiyi)

I believe there are, in fact, eyes that can help brightening when they see him. There are plenty of people who are, actually, quite unhappy to see LWJ, as baffling as that is to WWX. Definitely many people would agree that LWJ is beautiful, but probably not to the point of feeling their heart tremble or their eyes brighten just to hear or see him.

This is also the chapter where WWX is “was too dazzled to recognize him immediately.” XD You absolutely have a record of being dazzled by LWJ’s beauty, WWX!

I really enjoy this early stage of WWX’s attraction. I very firmly don’t think he’s oblivious, but before he’s ready to recognize and admit what he’s feeling to himself, there’s such a sense of honesty and sincerity about his reactions. Finding LWJ attractive just comes so naturally to him that I find the way he externalizes that to everyone a little adorable. What do you mean, there are people who wouldn’t want to just…stare at LWJ’s beauty all day, or listen to his magnetic voice for hours? Sounds fake but okay.

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I can't do this anymore...JC stan has told me (in their attempt to show me that JC is not a bad person and that he never wanted to hurt WWX), that Jiang Cheng has only ever tortured demonic cultivators after he was sure they were not Wei Wuxian. Truly heartwarming, I'm convinced😒

ahahah it's all starting to come together 🤔; ActuaLly jiang cheng is a method actor ok. He went above and beyond to isolate WWX bc he committed to his role re: the toTalLy staged fallout. He stabbed WWX in the gut & declared him the enemy of the entire cultivation world bc he was taking his part seriously. Then he strategized and led the siege against Wei Wuxian, using the inside knowledge he had of his weaknesses -successfully ensuring his death and the death of the people he was protecting and spent the next 13 years hunting anyone he thought might be WWX down, then tried to banish WWX the moment he came across him in his next life and kidnapped him again to torture him BECAUSE HE WENT TOO DEEP INTO HIS ROLE. Obvi he didn't want to actuALLy hurt WWX tho duh. smh unbelievable how ppl just miss what's right in front of them. Just say ur a jc h8r & go >:-///.

jc stans explaining their their theories like :

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THE RIGHT THING IS NEVER EASY

What makes MDZS a great story, and not just a good one, is that WWX is an incredibly moral person, who puts doing the right thing above everything. Societal rules, personal relations, even his own health. This is not him being insecure or not having self-worth. It is him having an incredibly strong moral core, and recognising that sacrifices are often necessary when you want to do the right thing because the right thing is never easy. So, we have the general goal of the protagonist: Stand by what is right.

And why is the right thing not easy? This is where the conflict comes in. In MDZS, the conflict is man vs. society. It is WWX's tenuous position in the high society of the cultivation sects, which by the way, is filled with classist assholes, that lead to him being villainized. MDZS is a story of how society exploits rules and traditions, and turn dark. No one is wholly blameless in the fact. After the war, LXC, NMJ, and JC were all in positions of power to stop the brutality of the Jin Sect.

LXC's sins are more forgivable, perhaps, because LXC does stand up for WQ, and we really don't know the extent to which he and NMJ were aware of the wen remnants only being civilians. However, even when WWX points out very, very relevant points at the banquet, LXC, who leads the sect with the motto, 'Be Righteous' is unswayed, and doesn't pursue the matter.

NMJ, for all his strong sense of justice, clearly has no idea what it is like to live under a tyrannical dictator when he says,

Nie MingJue spoke coldly, “If she responded with only silence and not opposition when the Wen Sect was causing mayhem, it’s the same as indifference. She shouldn’t have been so disillusioned as to hope that she could be treated with respect when the Wen Sect was doing evil and be unwilling to suffer the consequences and pay the price when the Wen Sect was wiped out.”

The crime NMJ accuses WQ of is the same crime he is guilty of. Indifference. The only difference is that WQ actively went against WRH's command to join the battle lines, saved YMJ's heir and ensured its survival. NMJ, on the other hand, not only did not but later on, joined the siege against the innocents.

Again, we don't know how much the Nies and the Lans were aware there were only civilians. We don't know if the Jiangs and the Jins were the ones who carried out the slaughter, while the Lans and Nies fought the fierce corpses there. It is likely they believed there were cultivators and war criminals at the Burial Mounds, But, it is also likely that they had some idea that civilians were there as well.

And JC... well, we have absolute proof of JC's crimes. I have talked about this before, others have talked about it, and the gist of it is this. JC does nothing to pay back the enormous life debt he owes both Wen Ning and Wen Qing. Instead, he condemns them to death. He abandons his sect brother and turns the world against him. He leads a siege against a mountain full of civilians.

The Cultivation Sects would do nothing for the Wens, and this is further emphasised by the fact that even LWJ recognises that WWX has 'no other path'. This is not about MoDao. It is about protecting the Wens.

So, society exploited the ideas of 'righteousness', of 'justice', of 'honour'. During War, they all did awful things. But the absolute horror of what happened to the Wens was that they were brutalised during peace. The horror was that a dictator was removed, and in its place, arose a society that plundered and murdered innocents.

The thing is, we don't know, really, if even WRH was ever this blatantly cruel to civilians. We know he didn't care for their safety or anything - case in point, waterborne abyss, but QishanWen Sect was a vast, vast behemoth. We don't really know how much was his direct orders and how much was idiots like Wen Chao slacking off. We know he slaughtered the entire Jiang Sect, but again, cultivators. We don't know if Wen Ruohan pulled civilians into his power play in the cultivation world. (If there is actual textual evidence against this, please reblog and share. I read the novel quite thoroughly multiple times, but if I missed anything, please let me know.)

So, if the result of the SunShot Campaign was a society that slaughtered innocents, then how could they even call it righteous

So, again, conflict is Man vs. Society. ( In most fix-it fanfics, people remove this conflict, and are left with rather a shell of a fic. I theorize this is where most of the insecure WWX tropes come from -> so conflict becomes, Man vs. Self)

But Karma is an actual, real thing, and we see it happen. WWX, who stood by the right thing, who refused to let society declare cruelty as justice, was reborn, with a body that has a core he can cultivate and is able to live without regrets and live happily, with a man he loves. JGS, who was responsible for the whole thing? Look how he died. LXC's actions in response to JGY's crimes, lead him to being devastated, and goes into seclusion (Note that if a similar investigation was held with respect to the Wens, the tragedy might not have happened). JGY and NMJ, one slightly better than the other, certainly, are sealed as fierce corpses. JC is faced with total abandonment from the last person from his past, and the realisation that he has no right to compete with WWX, that WWX owes him nothing, which for him is devastating, as we see from how easily JGY uses it to manipulate him. The Jin Sect is surrounded by rumours and general dislike from the cultivation sects (Not you Jin Ling, you're doing lovely, sweetheart.)

That's why MDZS is an absolutely brilliant literary work. It shows that doing the right thing isn't easy, it is a slippery slope and you can fall very easily. But life always rewards those who try, and always punishes those who don't.

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Lan Zhan. Where are we going?

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Official donghua illustrations uploaded to Weibo during the final season! If I missed any please let me know and I’ll add them.

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This is something that bugs me a bit in fandom and I wanted to know your take on the “WWX has a hero/savior complex.” I have a lot of feelings about it but don’t write for this fandom as of now/yet…

That is them not considering JC an unreliable narrator. They go on and on about WWX being one but JC is unreliable too. Many people take his words as gospel truth when it is just his bias talking when he says WWX has a hero complex.

What WWX has is a well-developed morality and sense of righteousness. He is the most righteous and heroic character of the series consistently. But he is also the most intelligent. Every time he intervenes, it is purposeful. There are consequences, of course, but that is life. Everything seems easier in hindsight.

My take is that he doesn't have a complex. He doesn't wish or need to be a hero. But he is also very confident and not the kind of guy who will just sit back when someone is in danger.

He doesn't have a hero complex. He is simply heroic as a consequence of his sense of justice.

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lmao @ people yelling that wwx should've just talked to jc like he wasn't having a minor qi deviation and like jc wasn't just yelling at him. how tf was he supposed to get a word in when jc didn't want to listen or let him speak in the first place. why can't jc be the one to talk like a goddamn normal person, if y'all want them to talk so damn bad. smdh y'all clowns

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lan wangji + flowers

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Okay, there are a lot of things to love about the Intrusion extra (and grewlikefancyflowers has a great meta about its place in the greater story), but I am never, ever getting over the Wangxian clothes-sharing.

Wei WuXian slept all the way until the sun was high up in the end. Only after much hugging and caressing from Lan WangJi did he finally manage to crawl up. As he proceeded through his morning routine with closed eyes, he even put on Lan WangJi’s inner-wear by accident. A few inches of white sleeves extended from below his outer robe, rolled up many times. It was quite unbefitting, really.

(Chapter 120.5)

When the time came, Lan SiZhui had been waiting for quite a while, standing in the courtyard with Lil’ Apple reined, when Wei WuXian and Lan WangJi finally sauntered out of the house.

He wanted to tell him, Senior Wei, you accidentally wore HanGuang-Jun’s clothes again. But after some thought, he still swallowed the sentence.

After all, Wei WuXian wore the wrong clothes every couple of days. If he reminded Wei WuXian every single time, wouldn’t he die of fatigue?

And every time Senior Wei would wear it anyways because he thought it was too much trouble to change. Feeling that there was no point in reminding him anyways, Lan SiZhui decided he’d much rather pretend he saw nothing.

(Chapter 122)

Especially poor Sizhui noting that WWX wears LWJ’s clothes so often that he’d die of fatigue if he mentioned it to WWX every time it happens!

I bet it’s not an accident. LWJ would absolutely enjoy seeing WWX in his inner robes, and WWX would love wearing them. Anything accidental would still result from a deliberate choice, like placing their inner robes in close enough proximity that WWX could easily grab the wrong one.

That actually feels like it fits in with the way WWX sneaks affection, too. He does things that are accidentally-on-purpose all the time. And what I also love is the way LWJ understands and helps him without commenting. If WWX wants to sneakily, “accidentally” put on LWJ’s clothes, LWJ will just put them where he can “accidentally” find them and enjoy the whole process.

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I am honestly baffled by people telling us to keep Jiang Cheng “hate” (by which they tend to mean posts discussing things he does in canon) out of the JC tag.

Okay, here is an example that most English-speaking fans (where the tag discussion tends to happen) will recognize. I like Darth Vader as a character. The father-son relationship between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker is my favorite Star Wars relationship. I really enjoy AUs where they get to be a family.

And yet, Darth Vader is a villain. He turns out not to be the main villain, that’s Palpatine, but Darth Vader spends most of the story opposing the protagonists, committing torture and murder, and assisting in mass murder/genocide (destruction of Alderaan). And that’s just the original trilogy!

He has a traumatic backstory that includes slavery and grooming. As we watch the prequel trilogy, we come to understand his decisions and how he became the villain he was. Many people sympathize with him.

But as a Darth Vader fan, I think most of us consistently recognize that he did some very bad shit. And most of us don’t excuse it. Yeah, there will be some people saying the Jedi deserved what they got, but most Darth Vader fans are just “Okay, this is part of his story. He did bad things. We are still interested in exploring his potential for redemption and how he might connect with his family, even given the bad things he did to them specifically.”

And even then, in most of the Luke & Vader fic I read where they get to bond, most people don’t force Leia in there as well (unless it’s like an AU where Vader always got to raise her). They look at what he did to her in canon and recognize that she is unlikely to reasonably want to build a relationship with him and respect that.

When I go into the Darth Vader tag, I do generally expect to see posts sympathetic to him and his story. But when I also come across a post discussing how Leia is a ball of rage but she won’t want to be like her biological father, I am not, like…insulted on Darth Vader’s behalf. I don’t think that’s hate.

I would also not think it was hate if someone posted discussing their discomfort with any story where Vader and Leia build a familial relationship, given he tortures her in canon and holds her back as her planet is destroyed and freezes her love interest in carbonite to give him to someone who hates him. As a Vader fan, I would think “not my feelings, but valid.” And I would move on because it’s a post discussing Darth Vader’s canon actions in his tag and it made sense to tag it that way.

Discussing Vader’s canon actions and their impact to the story and the characters can and does coexist with AU family bonding.

So I honestly think it’s a little ridiculous that something similar cannot happen with the Jiang Cheng tag.

In canon, JC whips WWX with Zidian with the intent of expelling his spirit from MXY’s body, effectively meant to kill him (Chapter 10).

In canon, JC deliberately uses WWX’s greatest fear against him to hold him against his will and punish him (Chapter 24).

In canon, JC does not just announce WWX’s departure from Yunmeng Jiang, he calls him an enemy of the sects (Chapter 73).

In canon, JC reacts with disgust to hearing that MXY is gay (Chapter 10) and to seeing WWX and LWJ hug (Chapter 88).

In canon, JC hits his nephew Jin Ling on multiple occasions (Chapters 99 and 107, etc.).

People who enjoy discussing and creating content based on canon should be able to reference the bad things that JC does and the impact they have on the story and characters. We should be able to do this using the JC tag, because tags are an organizational tool both for our personal blogs and as something that allows people who may not have encountered us before to contribute to the discussion.

If you are someone who enjoys a softer AU portrayal of JC, that’s fine. The tag is for you. But the tag is also for me, if I want to discuss how the canon homophobia he displays impacts WWX and the Wangxian relationship. These things should be able to coexist in the tag without someone telling me that I should tag my hate.

It’s not hate. It’s canon.