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if its not wwx interested in flesh and the grotesque if its not wwx who owns human remains and bones for fun if its not wwx who will offer up his blood without question if its not wwx who will write romantic poetry and take you out to a quiet and solemn place for stargazing and prepares an entire basket of chocolates and flowers for you if its not wwx who will shower you with gifts and laughs as easily as the sun rises if its not wwx who isnt afraid of love but also of the indescribable horrors, if its not wwx who watches the most gruesome and gorey horror movie imagineable just to laugh at how fake the blood looks, if its not wwx that flirts and winks and fools around before he skulks back to his room where he keeps an entire human skull that has a non zero percent chance of being real… then i dont want it

#and by you i mean lwj #mdzs #wei wuxian #lots of thoughts abt my boy lately

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the new manga character designs is so reminiscent of that 2018/2019 early mdzs fanart, words cannot describe how excited i am for it 😭♥️

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its been 2.5 years and im still chewing on wangxian

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The 2nd teaser visual for the upcoming MDZS manga has been revealed~ The manga is slated for release Summer 2024

wangxian enjoying a plate of loquats atop the scenic cliffs. the precious time spent with you is the only gift one can ever ask for 💛

Illustration by @yuzurinwx

Character designs by dae @daedaedaw

Original tweet from @mdzs_comic on twitter:

#mdzs #lan wangji #wei wuxian #wangxian #mxtx #mdzs manga #mo dao zu shi #mo dao su zhi #1st teaser on wwxs bday and rhe 2nd on lwjs…… #i am so excited for this new adaption uwaahhhh

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i was going to add a rb to that post but when i read it ovr it felt chronically online so….

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“13/16 years” You have To Choose One.

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longing for the day when ppl on here will be able to separate mdzs and cql fandoms

#i really believe in separating them i really do #i have to admit mdzstwt is much better at it #“what if i like mish-mashing canon” idk thats a u problem im built different #i think id find this place bearable if the fandoms had a clear and separate line between them #i had to read with my own two eyes “the unta*med is the english name for mo d*o zu shi”“ #granted that person is not in the fandom so theyre just misinformed but ... #fandom salt

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🔗 ox bone soup

🍲 3,213 words || one-shot

“Bone broth was especially good for hangovers, and Wei Ying had plenty of those to go around. It contained plenty of collagen, as evidenced by the shiny glisten left on Wei Ying's lips whenever they had the dish. It always made Lan Zhan want to lean in and kiss him over the dinner table. The thought always occurred to him much more than he liked. One time, he did it anyways.”

aka a day in the life of househusband lwj

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new wangxian fic feat househusband lwj and his woes 💕 i really wanted to write domestic wangxian and especially domestic lwj cooking and cleaning for his beloved. truly a man of many talents

enjoy!

(link in the title)

#mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #mxtx #mdzs fic

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the amount of time i see things like “so and so could have been prevented if [this person] did exactly this or that!” is kind of absurd. yes, some people saw what the wens were doing and didnt speak up, not out of malice but because they didnt want their homes razed, or worse. that also doesnt mean that if they did speak up, all the clans would have magically come together in alliance—and we know it didnt because it took a lot of work, even after countless tragedies on multiple clans. the lotus pier massacre didnt happen because yu ziyuan and jiang fengmian had a bad relationship, it was because the wen clan was bloodthirsty and used any excuse they had to focibly take the territory as their own. the fact is, tragedy happen reoccuringly, and characters will die trying to prevent it—even when it becomes starkingly futile

when mdzs fans realize that major events in the book that happened or could have been prevented doesnt actually fall squarely on the shoulders on one single person, then we’ll all be happier

#i do not have examples on me this is just a little rant ! #mdzs

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when mdzs fans realize that major events in the book that happened or could have been prevented doesnt actually fall squarely on the shoulders on one single person, then we’ll all be happier

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for a while i was thinking about why i cant really see modern wei ying take on programming/software engineering jobs, but rather study other engineering fields or physics that involve programming, and i think its becasue he seems like a really hands-on type of guy. whether its microcontrollers or like. building furniture. i think he’d especially shine in designing schematics and involving himself in all sorts of fun little side projects. sometimes these side projects do involve a lot of programming, but its the hands-on part that hes really hungry for. maybe once he’d make a cute little jacket for a’yuan that lights up in speicifc patters, with conductive thread sewn on. he builds all his friends’ pcs and custom keyboards, but also has impressive shop skills and built wen popo an entire table.

also its partly bc i think hed really hate tech and crypto bros. he probably dropped out of the computer science program a semester in (not bc of the courses—they were easy) but bc he couldnt stand the ppl in his classes

#wei wuxian #mdzs

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For a while, I kept periodically thinking about F/M Wangxian (Male Wei Wuxian and Female Lan Wangji) without being able to figure out why I kept being distracted by F/M Wangxian. I mean, I think different genderbending AU situations are fun to think about in fanfiction, especially in worlds where gender roles are a problem. M/M, F/M, M/F, and F/F Wangxian all change the story slightly and I think it's neat to explore why and how.

And obviously, F!LWJ would be a total babe, that's nice to think about, but why still M!WWX and not F!WWX? F!WWX would also be a total babe, though of a different type, especially as the Yiling Patriarch. But my brain kept insisting that M!WWX was still crucial somehow and I couldn't figure out why that setup.

I mean, it is funny to think about how M!WWX's unchanged flirty behavior in their teenage years would suddenly set off every single alarm bell in the Cloud Recesses due to people being able to SEE IT thanks to heteronormativity goggles. WWX with a degree of societal permission to be romantically interested in Lan Wangji? Intolerable levels of annoying. Unbearable to witness. Singing love songs under her balcony type bullshit like he wants her to start another fight under the moonlight. He's writing her poetry (clever "joke" poems bordering on innuendo and actual romantic poems) and has the gall to be good at it. Lan Qiren is barely resisting the urge to beat WWX off with a broomstick. Lan Xichen doesn't know whether to be horrified or delighted (LWJ is bluuuuushing).

I do also like the idea of WWX coming back from the dead and finding out that the common people have decided in the past decade (thanks to the heteronormativity goggles) that the noble female cultivator LWJ had a Tragic Romance with the Evil Yiling Patriarch. Poor woman! WWX: "Who had a what now?" (I do also like the idea of Wangxian actually having a Tragic Romance during and after the war. And mutually stated romantic interest and affection still didn't fix anything for them. But it's funny to think about WWX getting completely blindsided by this EPIC LOVE STORY if there was no actual relationship.)

(Sizhui is still adopted here! Noble and pure-hearted LWJ adopted a war orphan because she longed to be a mother but swore never to love again after the Yiling Patriarch broke her heart, obviously! WWX, listening to this gossip: "She what? I mean, Lan Zhan would make an amazing mom, good for her, lucky kid, and no one is good enough for her if she doesn't want to get married, but seriously, I cannot stress this enough, what the fuck. She didn't like me back! Aiyah, I bet she's still so mad at me for ruining her reputation like this.")

Eventually, I realized that the key piece of this AU that I was missing was that I wanted to write F/M Wangxian that turned into F/F Wangxian. Because I think Transfem Wei Wuxian would display (and I mean this affectionately) the most ridiculous trans egg behavior imaginable, especially because it would lean more towards one of those "I was mostly fine living as a guy, but I'm so much happier as a girl" situations. Absurd amounts of queer foreshadowing.

So, Wei Wuxian gets resurrected into a female MXY's body or something and obliviously goes, "Oh! This is nice! I've always wanted to try being a woman! Yes, I can roll with this." And eventually Wei Wuxian has to actually examine the fact that she really likes being a woman and doesn't want to "go back" to being a man in any way, but not before putting Lan Wangji through an incredible amount of new "joke" flirtation. And people who knew WWX before are like... "Hmm. Some things are making sense now."

Things like: 1) As a teenager, WWX insisted that LWJ was such a strong woman that, if they got married, LWJ could be "the husband" and "he" would happily be "the wife". There were lots and lots of "I want to live as Jiejie's spoiled wife" jokes. Consequently, at the Cloud Recesses, at least one outrageously inappropriate joke was made by WWX about LWJ knocking "him" up, because WWX's breeding kink is still very much a thing. WWX didn't know about her breeding kink when she made that joke; both she and LWJ learned something about themselves that day.

2) Wei Wuxian would frequently pull crossdressing-related pranks saying: "Wow, this is crazy. I can't believe you guys are forcing me to put on a dress and all this makeup for this prank! You guys are wild!" And Jiang Cheng would reply: "No one is forcing you to do this. No one dared you. You suddenly volunteered to crossdress for a prank that does not require crossdressing AGAIN. Also, give me that brush, I'll do your makeup because you suck ass at it."

3) WWX would frequently go on rants about how women are so much more beautiful than men, which flew under the radar as a "normal behavior for a lustful young man", but there was always something a little off about it. Like, WWX might say that women are so beautiful and perfect that everyone would choose to be one if allowed to pick before being born just to admire the gorgeous view, and JC might say, "I don't think that's quite right...?" But WWX would just say something like, "Are you saying that Shijie isn't the best person in the world?" or (like an obnoxious teenage sibling), "That's because you know that you'd make an ugly woman!" And JC would have to be like: "I didn't say that! And I'd make a beautiful woman, fuck you! Also, how is that relevant to your point?"

By the end of this AU, there is at least one public love confession that is horribly embarrassing for everyone else to witness, in which Wei Wuxian has finally realized that LWJ used to be in love with "him" and that she loves LWJ back, but tearfully apologizes because she can't be the handsome man that LWJ loved anymore. Even if she could be a man again, she still doesn't want to stop being a woman, even if she's not very good at it yet. She can't perform the required husbandly duties like provide a good home for LWJ! She can't father LWJ's children anymore!

(Jiang Cheng: "Do you have to do this now?! Stop being indecent! There are children here. Also, we're all being held hostage.")

But it's all cool! Because shortly after realizing WWX was back and determined to live as a woman, LWJ speedran a sexuality crisis, flipped a mental switch, and essentially went, "I'm a lesbian now." (Or maybe LWJ was really confused about being attracted to WWX when they first met, because LWJ had only been physically attracted to her fellow female disciples up until then, so WWX seemed like the "exception", until WWX comes back from the dead as a woman and then it's like, "Ah. Not an exception after all.")

#this post is so good #mdzs #genderbend #<- if someone needs it #trans wei wuxian

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if i could id write about my thoughts on wangxian and lxc/jgy parallels, how lwj didnt know if he could trust wwx till he visited the burial mounds, vs how lxc trusted jgy until it was too late, and then in guanyin temple he didnt actually want to defend him anymore etc etc, but i dont have the braincells to formulate words

#its also like. just the same stuff ppl have written about time and time again #and i dont want to start a fight so lol #im not gonna tag this im just #maybe ill organize my thiughts later

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Reading takes that Lan Xichen was either a complete jerk to Lan Sizhui or was the one who really raised him and I just wonder if people in this fandom read the novel at all?

There is absolutely nothing in the book that shows Lan Xichen treated Lan Sizhui badly in anyway except your imagination because you have this weird hate on for him. I am sure he was always kind to him because Lan Xichen actually is a kind person. And Lan Sizhui definitely does not seem like he grew up in an environment where anyone treated him badly.

At the same time Lan Xichen was not the one who raised or took care of Lan Sizhui. It is very obvious that it was Lan Wangji. Besides the fact that this is literally mentioned more than once in the book. That is the whole point when in the beginning Wei Wuxian questioned who raised this boy. We also see that Lan Sizhui feels especially close to Lan Wangji not to Lan Xichen. And Lan Sizhui judging things fairly about Gui Dao users for example clearly comes from the way Lan Wangji taught him. As Lan Sizhui tells Wen Ning, Lan Wangji treated him as though he was his father or older brother.

But what about when Lan Sizhui was really young and Lan Wangji was injured? I see a majority of the fandom give credit to Lan Xichen and Lan Qiren here. But the more logical explanation is they have people in the clan to help out with small children. In fact the novel confirms this as Lan Qiren also didn’t fully watch over Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji until they were little older.

People just form these takes based on their vibes about characters but not anything supported in the text.

#mdzs

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if i want to see what mdzs tumblr fandom is up to (or more like cql fandom at this point. seriously is no one able to separate fandoms-), i just look through a specific few blogs and regret my actions LMFNSLDJOANS

#u people have terrible opinions! #shoutsout to lace for being the only real one on this site<3 #fandom salt

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*shakes my fist* dumbfuck director dumbfuck drama

#*cradles the novel close to my heart* shh its ok bby they cant hurt u anymore

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i wanted to follow up that last reblog by talking more abt chi*fcultivat*r!lwj and how much i despise it but its also like. many people before have discussed this over and over. theres nothing else i can add to conversation tbh but i still added to it tbh

but honestly? the ending cql gave by giving lwj the title of chief cultivator was just so that they could separate wangxian at the end. every cdrama based on BL cant give the couple a happy ending, whether its death or a more ambiguous ending (like word of honor). the fact that either of wangxian are even alive at the end is a miracle.

theres also how c-dramas like to revolve around plots that involve beloved and highly ideal main characters that strive to reach a high position a power so that it would not be so burdensome for the common people (supposedly). i usually see this in palace dramas, sometimes palace/wuxia mix dramas (but to be fair iv barely watched that many). cql is interesting because its a low-fantasy xianxia and also. cql!lwj never seems to strive for the position of chief cultivator or like. any high political position of power.

which like. brings me to my next point. CC!lwj doesnt just even make sense from a characterization standpoint. its been reiterated before but not only is he someone who is highly regarded as he who goes where the chaos is and always helps the common people, hes just known for never showing up at political events and discussion conferences. you could argue that hes the most highly ideal person for the position then—its what cql wants to imply anyways. but honestly, i think he should be the last choice for chief cultivator, for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to the fact that he doesnt even participate in politics in the first place. this goes for both the book (a given) and cql. it just feels like a complete 180 the way lwj suddenly takes on the CC position lol

of course im mostly talking about this based off the novel!lwj’s characterization, cus hes the one im familar with lol. and not to mention the fact that hes too busy travelling with his husband to even give the idea of even entertaining the notion of participating in jinaghu politics a second thought.

ALSO… whats the point if nie huaisang doesnt get the position of chief cultivator. i think mxtx confirmed in an interview that he will eventually get it in the future, and it makes sense! mans schemed for so many years behind peoples back and began showing his true abilities after jin guangyaos death. no way hes giving up on the position if being leader of the jianghu thats enpty and vacant and he has the opportunity to make the nie clan rise again. did he just let it go in cql???? anyways

#mdzs #cql #lan wangji #anyways i need to see nhs be chief cultivator i need to see what that boy is gonna do. #what insane political drama might happen with him as CC that has everyone shaking screaming crying #and meanwhile wngxn is too busy having their 463737th honeymoon