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The Untamed + text posts (pt. 4/4)

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Me explaining The Untamed to people who don't watch dramas

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the untamed + text posts

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The Untamed + text posts [2/?]

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The Untamed + text posts: Email Adventures Part 1 (20/?) (pt. 1) (pt. 2) (pt. 3) (pt. 4) (pt. 5) (pt. 6) (pt. 7) (pt. 8)  (pt. 9)  (pt. 10)  (pt.11) (pt. 12)  (pt. 13) (pt. 14) (pt. 15) (pt. 16) (pt. 17) (pt. 18) (pt. 19) (email pt. 2 - 21)

And then two I couldn’t quite nail down including the classic Margaret post. Go nuts in the tags! (or don’t)

#SKKVSCK HELP #mianmian can be the Margaret one #Jingyi for the second bonus

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the untamed + text posts

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The Untamed as text posts (88/?)

#absolutely losing it actually

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The Untamed + Text Posts (1/?)

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Interviewer to Wei Wuxian: So what it's like to marry someone way, way, WAY out of your league?

Lan Wangji grabbing the mic: Amazing. I never thought I would ever be this happy.

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In hindsight the popularity of using “demonic cultivation” for what Wei Wuxian uses is running counter to what is actually in MDZS being used. It is resulting in a lot of fandom confusion, particularly since demonic cultivation is a xianxia genre standard. But that’s not what is going on in MDZS.

The genre standard demonic cultivation revolves around stealing qi, absorbing life energy from others, possessing others to get access to their greater cultivation abilities, and in general much more assholery than what Wei Wuxian does.

The actual term used by Wei Wuxian and most of the narration in the novel is Guǐdào; aka Ghost Cultivation. It revolves manipulating the dead, using resentful energy as a power source, and to be absolutely blunt it is a form of necromancy. It is the “redirection” option in dealing with the dead; drain away resentful energy so that you can convince the dead to finally let go and be liberated. Either by getting the justice they were denied in life or having lifted the worst of their anger and attachment so they can think clearer.

Not demonic cultivation.

The very title “Mo Dao Zu Shi” is part of the subversion element and part of setting in motion assumptions about the story for the original Chinese readers who know the genre and what the usual tropes are.

Because calling it “Gui Dao Zu Shi” would give away too much from the start of what is actually going on.

Also per MXTX, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are “morally perfect” and as that is the intention given by the author herself, that means nothing Wei Wuxian does with ghost cultivation has to actually harm the ghosts in a way that would be morally wrong. Like destroying them, preventing them from reincarnating, that kind of thing. He does not hurt the dead. He’s honestly shown to be more friendly with the undead; he is endlessly kind to them in fact and even gentle. Polite too and that deserve marking because Wei Wuxian ignores most manners because he generally doesn’t care. But he puts that care into how he treats the gui (undead) he commands and works with. He gives them rewards for a job well done as shown in the Yi City arc!

The one who does use ghost cultivation to hurt both the living and dead is Xue Yang who is repudiated by Wei Wuxian; “Xue Yang has to die” is what he says and that is what he helps Lan Wangji do.

But the actual founder? The guy who made it and is the absolute master of it? Rejects that kind of thinking all the way through the story, even at his lowest.

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the untamed + text posts 

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#losing it

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sorry but I just can’t trust the judgment of a cultivation world that looked at wwx as the yiling laozu, domming ghosts and looking like THAT, and thought “evil!” instead of the obvious and objectively correct response of “that’s so fucking sexy what”

#lwj really out here as the only one with all the correct opinions #LISTEN #im on the asexual spectrum #but one look at the yiling laozu in any adaptation and I start SALIVATING #and it boggles my mind that they didn’t do the same #this arc literally makes me feral #i feel absolutely UNHINGED if I think about it for longer than two seconds #and I feel like we as a fandom don’t have nearly enough fanart or fics of it #not incorrect quotes #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed

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The Untamed - Episode 42

#yeah 😭

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I bought a cheap thrift store guess who game and have been making different fandoms versions (not shown: classic Barbie movies, kpop, pride and prejudice) and I just finished my mdzs one! For an extra “challenge”, the donghua is in the slots but you choose out of the cql pictures* so you gotta match them up before you start!

*it’s cause I couldn’t choose between the two versions so I did both

#mdzs #cql #guess who #mo dao zu shi #chen qing ling #board games #not incorrect quotes

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Photos that remind me of mdzs characters pt. 20

Mo Xuanyu -

Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng -

Nie Mingjue -

Jin Guangyao -

Lan Wangji -

Wei Wuxian -

Lou Qingyang and Wei Wuxian -

Lan Jingyi and Jin Ling -

Wen Ning and Wen Qing -

Nie Huaisang and Wei Wuxian -

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#immaculate

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Okay I’m losing my mind trying to find this fic so I thought I’d finall ask.

Do any of you know the fic where during the cloud recesses arc the class gets to try out this cursed artifact that lets them harmlessly feel how they die and when wwx does it it’s super painful and traumatizing and he goes a little catatonic? I think the rest of the fic is hurt/comfort/healing from trauma but I never finished it so I can’t remember. Thanks in advance!

#mdzs #searching ao3 #fic search #please help 🥺 #wei wuxian