#as well as mq and fx

[ginsays]

lololol

#fengqing #feng xin #mu qing #feng xin's canon boisterous laugh at anything even things that really aren't that funny #is very important to me #and it's a sight mq doesn't usually get to see #fx is too busy laughing to see mq's reaction as well... hang in there fellas

[bonesblubs]

More from that Feng Xin is paralyzed (temporarily) on a mission and MQ has to get them both out alive AU

#art tag #fengqing #tgcf #the idea is that it wears off slowly so in the first hour or so FX is completely paralyzed and has to yell via communication array #and slowly he regains control over his head and it works its way down #so he can talk and make expressions #MQ is an asshole about it but is surprisingly attentive #well #surprising to FX

[toffeecoco1]

fy: do you know what he was doing before he ascended?

xl: what?

nf: massacring cities.

fy: not every official in upper heaven is easy to get along with. no one can be trusted.

nf: well… a few of them can be trusted >:(

fy: do you mean yOuR general??

feng xin is trying so hard to unsubtly become xie lian’s friend again 😭 and mu qing is being a menace 😭

#i love them #incompetent little guys #they love their best friend sooo much!! and are incompetent about it #tgcf #xie lian #feng xin #mu qing #fu yao #nan feng #xianle trio #liveblogging tgcf #but also like?? when fx and mq aren't Fighting #they actually communicate so well together LOL

[mo49ko]

im fighting my demons and my demons are feng xin and mu qing not having canon birthdays

#moko text #my headcanon is theyre born on the same year but fx was born like 2-3 months later #and mq never lets him live like #“🙄🙄 well youd get it if you werent so young” “tf you want me to do about the day i was born???????????”

[mxtxfanatic]

I've gotten about half way through TGCF now (part way through book five), and there is a fandom thing that's confusing the heck out of me. Maybe you can offer some insight.

I keep seeing posts saying Liu Qingge is like Mu Qing. Other then martial talent, they've got nothing in common as far as I can tell. Did I miss something? Does MQ start acting more like LQG after book five?

Honestly it's Feng Xin that gives me major Liu Qingge vibes. They're not identical (Feng Xin is certainly more prone to cursing fits, and he's had at least one female lover), but they're both loyal, protective, a bit curt, nervous around women, etc. All around pretty similar in attitude and behavior. Mu Qing though? That comparison throws me.

Liu Qingge and Mu Qing are not alike at all. You’re not missing anything, anon, and nothing in the latter half of the novel (I’m assuming you’re reading the officials) will change about Mu Qing’s character or actions to make this comparison more accurate. Mu Qing stans—much like antagonist stans from other mxtx novel fandoms—like to compare him to Liu Qingge because most everyone agrees that Liu Qingge is a likable, non-controversial character that is explicitly written to be a good person. The comparison isn’t a true comparison i.e. “these characters share these traits, therefore they are alike,” but rather, a redemption-by-comparison whereby stans are trying to build an association to other characters from other novels to “redeem” Mu Qing’s character where he fails in his own story, a la “character x is a good person, so if I say character y is like character x, then character y must also be a good person.”

I do find the comparison between Liu Qingge and Feng Xin an interesting one to make, but on behalf of Liu Qingge’s reputation as an infallibly loyal friend and shidi, he is 1000x a better friend to Shen Qingqiu than Feng Xin was to Xie Lian 😤

#tgcf asks #anon #do I respect fx more than mq? absolutely! #does that mean i respect fx that much more? #well after my reread of tgcf: absolutely not! #also liu qingge is not nervous around women #he is indifferent to them as much as he is indifferent to anything that isn’t fighting

[mqfx]

one of the things I think about in tgcf is how the characters' friend circles actually function. like as it is in the novels, everything circles around xl (main character, duh) but we do get glimpses of other cliques (3 tumors, ghost city, banyue) and I'm so interested in whatever else they might have going on. do the martial gods hang out with each other (especially during the rebuilding since they're all stuck in a palace)? what's lqq's situation. does qyz have any friends?? what are the dynamics there. do either mq or fx hang out with other people?? because if they don't that seems like just such a terribly lonely godhood for all of them

#hewwo #MY headcanon: although mq doesn't have f-f-f-friends per se he has amicable connections with the civil gods #they see him as the Jock Exception and there's probably favor trading going on #meanwhile fx drinks with the martial gods and he does have ''friends'' but none that are as close to him as xianle trio were #lqq is Friendly with people but sees no need to have a Best Friend. just hangs out with his middle court officials and mingles with others #qyz is the loneliest according to canon 😔 just hold on king a true clown is on his way to u!!!! #well i don't think qyz even cares to have friends unless they're yy but we know how that went

[pangolen]

once again rotating the tg cf po to au in my head

#pangorambles #unreadable string of letters. sorry. #anyway i mentioned this before #but xl is christine (of course) hc is raoul and [tg cf spoiler] is eric #hc would have been a contender for phantom but [spoiler] was too perfect #also raoul & christines childhood friend thing works well with hc & xl's Thing #.... qx is meg #does that make s wd giry? i guess #but i kinda want the 3 tumors to be the theatre owners #px as carlotta? #wrong personality but....... could work #actually mq and fx are also raoul. dont worry about it #and now that ive assigned most roles ... it is time for me to wiggle them around a bit

[fullmetalpotterhead]

Hua Cheng must be guarding his old sketchbooks with his afterlife cause he’d die if Xie Lian saw his old work. His art in his pining arc must be amazing.

I mean he kept a lot of it in that big cave that only opens once every few centuries and even that wasn’t safe so really anything he made in the centuries since can never truly be guarded completely against prying eyes.

Luckily his husband thinks he’s sweet for it 🥰

#the worst of his art while he was learning will have been in the caves #fx and MQ really out here embarrassing him in his own art stash temple #well it’s not a temple but you know #worship cave

[confusedgoldenflower]

YALL!!!

If Feng Xin “bought” Jian Lan just to TALK and for companionship, then doesn’t that mean that Mu Qing served that purpose enough times for it to be considered such???? How many times do you think Mu Qing fell asleep humouring Feng Xin’s want to just chat (and we all know he wouldn’t have become a chatterbox at his precious prince).

Like their relationship couldn’t have been *that* bad until the whole fracture situation which was inevitable bc kids-young adults and stress etc.

I just-

#never mind of course how well they wouldnt worked together just in those ~six years they’ve been together and fought side by side #like #also can you imagine MQ cleaning his saber whilst FX just babbles about everything and nothing after a long day’s battle #it makes me soft #I just can’t #and this keeps me up at night #meta? #tgcf meta #Mu Qing #Feng Xin #heaven official's blessing #tgcf

[the-golden-mango-of-discord]

tempted to write a xianle-era mulian fic but only because i want to impose my very specific idea of mulian on this fandom. talk me into this y’all

#listen. listen mq would be SO miserable with a crush on xl #we’ve all seen how he acts when he just wants to be friends like good lord #and if xl reciprocated???? BAM the complexes would hit so hard all at once #don’t even get me started on how badly fx would react. listen listen. i just think it would be so so messy and terrible for all parties #involved and would lead to a lot of tension within the xianle trio and it could not possibly go anywhere #hint hint ​if anyone has any non-sugar-coated mulian fic recs i would love to see em #all that being said like. they’re still teenagers. it would pass they’d figure it out gods know they have a whole lot worse to deal with #later on i just think it would be fun to explore how local tsundere always-second-best ‘only got into mt taicang on xl’s favor’ mq would #act with a massive fucking crush on well-meaning but vaguely self-obsessed golden child ‘only a matter of time before he ascends’ xl #tgcf #mulian #blorboposting #xie lian #mu qing

[fortune-maiden]

Random TGCF AU of the Day

Whenever a heavenly official is banished, they lose all their memories of their time in heaven

Xie Lian is spared because of his cursed shackle, but the rest….

#tgcf #random tgcf thoughts #i guess mq & fx would be spared as well during the first fall since they aren’t gods yet and are attached to xl #but charas like yin yu px and sqx forgetting…. :D #I think it would be fun #is it possible that I really just want an amnesiac!sqx au? maybe #the last one a friend and I came up with was very fun!

[sunriseverse]

had some free time today so. sketchy tgcf be upon ye (with bonus nicknames)

left to right: xie lian, hua cheng, he xuan shi qingxuan, quan yizhen, muqing feng xin, ban yue, ling wen

#i was like oh i'll just do a quick sketch of the more major characters to get down their designs #well. that did not happen. #not going to tag everyone because there's so many #also fx is only there because i couldn't do mq and not include fx #otherwise it's just my favourite characters #fanart #tgcf #c.art #c.txt

[llycaons]

may have to come out as a hua cheng disliker after this reread I'm following, and it may be because I'm biased towards mq but like. okay I have a lot to say actually

it's nice that hc is always on xl's side and defends xl when he's not as powerful as the people around him but like...mq and fx really love xl. they really want to look out for him and protect him. they WERE loyal in the past and it was only under extraordinarily desperate and miserable circumstances that mq left - mq who has his own mother to take care of, and who freely admitted to making mistakes, and still tried to come back and give xl and fx food!

and fx who literally NEVER LEFT and was in fact TOLD to leave by xl. mqfx were more loyal than most people would be expected to be under the circumstances, and still for mistakes and things they did literally 800 years ago hc treats them with such contempt and cruelty. like there were many many reasons that the events of book 2/4 happened, mqfx aren't the people to blame. not everyone can be expected to be as single-mindedly devoted as hc, something the narrative actually points out. and it kind of necessitates hc having literally no other responsibilities, relationships, or even interests besides xl. like, mqfx's lives didn't revolve around xl, they still had their own things going on and that's normal. And it's kind of depressing that this is the only avenue for a romantic relationship bc its so unfeasible and cuts out so many people

I would get it if hc was angry on his own behalf since mq was very cruel to him as a child but he only seems to hate him bc of him leaving xl…and seeing hc now in this powerful position sneering at people and wishing death on them honestly kind of makes him look like a bully. but then again a lot of these people looked down on him as a kid so it's KIND of justified?? idk it just all seems so immature for him to constantly be so unkind esp when mq is practically being imprisoned or at risk of being forced to descend.

and yeah I get that I'm reading a fantastical romance and it's not supposed to be "realistic" but goddammit those are xl's friends and it feels weird to see xl laugh at hc openly mocking them. I feel like I'm too old to enjoy that kind of dynamic. I laugh once but when I actually start to think about it, it's quite unpleasant

#don't know why it's such a surprise that this book I've been a fan of for 2 years is immature but I guess I never pinpointed what bothered #me about it besides the general *gestures at backstory* #add the fact that hc has literally nothing else to live for/said he'd die if xl did #he called xl his beloved WAY back when he was a soldier/ghost when he literally never got to know him personally #and the fact that xl never addresses this just thinks it's all so High Romance etc. etc. #I'm often frustrated by choices authors make in writing relationships...I am frustrated by things in cql #but there's enough there that I really like that I don't mind it or I can work around it #but for h/l...they have some nice romantic lines and excellent chemistry but literally everything else about them holds no interest for me #even novel wx had a better grounds for a relationship and more consistent goals and more similar viewpoints and I do not say this lightly #and imo what jc did to wwx by abandoning him and murdering the people he was protecting is much worse #than what mq and fx did to xl. who did not die and actually did recover #but lwj treats jc with much less open hostility iirc. like there's still hatred and pettiness there but he generall acts like an adult #well. she did say "after writing a story where the couple was bonded by shared views I just wanted one where love was unconditional' #whichis great for some people yeah but. hm. not for me #tgcf txp

[exoqenises]

.

#yesterday i finally found a cool thread on mq #maybe now hopefully my opinion on him will change #well it already did #now that i understand him better i can say #hes an idiot #he sees how those two treat him #(now i see how its detached unfriendly and as just a servant) #i mean rereading book 2 now i see how fx is an ass #i just didnt thought much abt xl #but yeah just like with qi rong he never scolds fx #which i really dont understand wtf xl #anyways #he sees how they treat him and still cares about them? why lol #as it looks like they dont care abt u at all bro why bother #now i want to reread everything asap but ah i have so many fics to read #useless

[rendnotmyheart]

Yeah yeah Mu Qing loves watching Feng Xin work out, we all know that, but Feng Xin?? Feng Xin goes weak in the fucking knees anytime Mu Qing is anywhere near physical activity. Naturally this manifests in anger because, well, it’s Feng Xin, but fuck if the resulting sparring match isn’t the most homoerotic thing to ever exist

#fx: sees mq working out #fx: has the overwhelming urge to push mq against a wall and ki- kill him? #punch him in the face? (with his hand definitely not his mouth no way) #mq: lightly jogging with the wind in his hair a bead of sweat running down his face #fx: trips him #obviously mq trips fx too and fx ends up pinned to the ground which he’s not entirely sure is better than before #he also has a bloody nose and black eye but to be fair he did punch mq first #don’t judge him he’s really not good with feelings and physically could not handle that #two weeks later he once again baited mq into fighting him after running into him working out (not that it was hard mq is easy to bait) #next thing he knows fx is pinned against a wall mq’s sword to his throat and then they’re kissing #inevitably every fight they have after that ends in them kissing until they forgo the fighting entirely and just go straight to kissing #800+ years late is better than never as i always say (and as xl always says probably) #hc would be SUCH a bitch about it though #‘lol you guys are so stupid. it took you 800+ years to get together?’ #‘it you 800+ years too’ #‘yeah but i wasn’t friends with gege for 800 years’ #‘we weren’t friends’ #‘keep telling yourself that’ #‘we WEREN’T’ #‘i don’t know I like to think we were all friends even if we didn’t show it very well’ #‘…’ #‘….’ #*begruding agreement from fengqing because they don’t have it in them to disagree when xl says it* #fengqing #tgcf

[mqfx]

Mu Qing stopped caring and let everything go, thoroughly ripping things out into the open. “Of course it has to do with everything. At the time, life by His Highness’ side was staggeringly difficult, and you also hated me, the one who had returned to the Middle Court, to the bone. You love digging through my history to berate my wrongs, and since she’s your bedmate, how could she not hate me by this subliminal influence? Who knows, maybe she also started hating His Highness because, in the end, you still didn’t take her away, and instead chose to continue your wretched loyalty, it was practically abandoneme…”

Feng Xin couldn’t bear this anymore, and roared, “STOP YOUR BULLSHIT!!”

His fist flew out and Mu Qing raised his own to return the blow. Jian Lan went up to stop them but that fetus spirit started cackling weirdly, much like the chaotic cries of old crows, exceedingly horrifying. Pei Ming and Yin Yu both pulled Feng Xin and Mu Qing back separately while Quan Yizhen was standing on the side staring, seeming to be contemplating who’d win if they started a fight. In any case, it was a mess in the hall.

#ch208 #when is the catharsis for mq. not the f-f-f-friend thing obviously #i just mean. 800 years of getting misunderstood and taking false accusations from fx. something's gotta give #i want a written apology on my desk by next friday #tgcf reread #don't let me rant about this in tags but thats why i don't read a lot of mqfx fics #it's always fuckin....well. fucking. the ju yang + mq cultivation = hatefucking package deal i guess #NO!!!!! maybe it's time to hand mq the poison mushroom so HE can make FX settle down how about that!!!!!!!!!! #i think something cracked in my brain