#burial mounds

[retiredpeach]

Easy way to entertain your child at the burial mounds;)

#a yuan #wei wuxian #yiling patriarch #yiling burial mounds #burial mounds #the untamed wwx #the untamed #yiling wei #yiling laozu #wei ying #wwx #modaozushi #mo dao su zhi #mo dao zu shi #founder of diabolism #wen yuan #lan yuan #danmei #mxtx mdzs #mxtx fandom #mxtx novels #mxtx #mdzs art #mdzs fanart #mdzs wei wuxian #mdzs anime #mdzs #illustratio #father & son

[evakant]

when you fail so hard to convince your brother to come home (you both cried btw) that it somehow turns into agreeing to put on a show to make everyone else think he defected (you won't be able to support/protect him any longer) and you literally have to take the deepest breath possible to steady yourself as you leave him to this hell he is trying to turn into a new home (without you!!!!) to go prepare for the fake fight:

#ALSO you still have shiny wet tear tracks all over your face. because you cried (as mentioned) #id in alt #fra.txt #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #yunmeng shuangjie #for the archive: #untamed.txt #burial mounds #fragifs #fdstuff #rs: in our next lives

[nutcasewithaknife]

Wen Qing is just So Much. She's a leader doing her damned best to protect her people. She's a sister desperately trying to protect her brother. She never managed to kill her heart, risking it all over and over out of kindness. She is so impossibly kind. She is so horribly guilty. She cannot bear to ask for help. She can't do anything but ask for help to save her people, her brother. She can never forgive herself for letting wwx throw himself into the whole mess. She can barely live with the knowledge of what she turned her brother into out of a selfish desire to have him by her side. She is helpless and detests it. She's the best doctor in the land. She takes Jiang Cheng’s comb and keeps it till she thinks she's lost the heart and hope it gave her forever. She understands only too well what it means to give everything to protect those you're in charge of. She looks at the brother she gained, whose home she plucked out of him along with his core, and understands only too well what it means to give everything to protect those you're in charge of. She still loathes what she let him do, what she did for them; instead of culling her guilt, it only increased it tenfold. She is so tired of fighting, because the cost is no longer her; everyone who tries to pull her out gets sucked in as well. Her hope is so tattered at the end that she walks towards death with her people following and her brother's hand in hers. She smiles at the end, still fighting, still hoping that she can protect at least one of the people she cared for. How can one person carry all that and not buckle under its weight? Just. She!!!

#im rotating her in the blorbo microwave all the time nowadays help #wen qing #the untamed #cql #meta #wen sibs #burial mounds #wei wuxian #wen ning #jiang cheng #mdzs

[darkfalcon-z]

I tried my hand in redrawing a panel from @pakhnokh's lovely comic.

you can see the original here

to tell you the truth I haven't drawn for such a long time I don't even know what my artstyle is supposed to be like

#mo dao zu shi #mdzs #grand master of demonic cultivation #wangxian #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wei ying #lan zhan #burial mounds #pakhnokh #it's better to take two months to draw than not draw at all I guess #I swear the paper version looks better than the scan #dfzart

[memewhore]

I'm still looking for (and finding!) forgotten/unknown prehistoric Native American burial and ceremonial mounds in my area so they can be preserved and protected. These earthworks are ancient, 1,000-2,000 years old. I've expanded my search to the counties surrounding mine, and I might have actually found an animal effigy mound. It's hidden under tree cover. If it is, it looks like what they call a panther shape.

The "body" really resembles some of these and as you can see, they can have curved tails...

Ohio has very few known effigies, and they're pretty far from this area. I REALLY hope it is, that would be absolutely amazing!🤞

#Prehistoric #Native American #Effigy mounds #Burial mounds #Ohio

[shuang-hua]

🌹 for the art thing!

(You obviously don’t have to but I thought it’d be cute if a-yuan and wei wuxian were together for this prompt!)

I hope your work day goes well💜

🌹: draw the character giving someone flowers

oops-i-drew-these-prompts-then-didn’t-get-round-to-scanning-them-for-several-days catch-up time (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)

thank you and congratulations on being the only person who didn't request xiao xingchen fjfkgkglk. they can be... radish flowers :)

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Wei Wuxian, laughing, sits cross-legged on the ground with Chenqing held loosely in one hand. The other steadies a determined Wen Yuan as he clambers onto Wei Wuxian's lap to reach the top of his head, where he tucks a flower into his ponytail. He carries a small basket of the little flowers over his other arm, and one has fallen onto Wei Wuxian's leg.

Ink on paper.

#wei wuxian #wei ying #wen yuan #a-yuan #burial mounds #ask prompt #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #陈情令 #mdzs #the untamed 陈情令 #魔道祖师 #cql #魏无羡 #温苑 #阿苑 #魏婴 #ink drawing #traditional / #wei wuxian & a-yuan

[kettledemon]

Y’all ever think granny wen just pull a:

“Oh a-Han was such a cute child ☺️☺️☺️, he used to play with my son all the time! A bit cruel at times, such a shame he never grew out if it-“

And it takes a moment for Wei Wuxian to realize she’s talking about Wen Ruohan-

#mdzs shitposting #mdzs #mxtx #granny wen #wen popo #wen ruohan #wei wuixan #yiling patriarch #burial mounds #seriously what is her relationship to him?? #like we know that wen Qing and Ning are the maternal cousins to wen Ruohan #so was wen Ruohan’s mom granny wen’s sister?? #unless granny married into the family and so did wen ruohans mom theres no way they weren’t born wens #which they could have married in! #but we don’t know!! #aaaa!!!!! #I need a wen family tree please-

[scrivenger-grimgar]

West Continent (North to South)

Pale pink - Tian Yi Overlook territory

Pale green - Cang Qiong territory

Mid yellow - Huanhua Palace

Orange - Banyue desert

Purple - Zhao Hua Temple

Brown - West Demon Alliance

Dark Blue - East Demons Land

Bright blue - Northern Desert Kingdom

Beige - Southern Demon Tribes

East Continent (North to South)

Pale blue - Gusu Lan

Orange - Qishan Wen

Dark green - Qinghe Nie

Purple - Yunmeng Jiang

Yellow - Lanling Jin

Pale Red - Ghost City

Pink - Xian Le/Yong An Kingdoms

Red - Yiling/Tonglu (formerly Wu Yong Kingdom)

Central - Black Water’s Archipelago

#mxtx #mxtx tgcf #mxtx mdzs #mxtx svsss #mxtx fanart #svsss #tgcf #mdzs #wip #ghost city #yunmeng jiang #gusu lan #cang qiong mountain sect #lanling jin #qinghe nie #yiling burial mounds #yiling wei #burial mounds #ban yue #mount tonglu #maps #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the grandmaster of diabolism #heaven official's blessing #scum villian self saving system #tian guan ci fu

[korpikorppi]

THE SEATS OF THE FIVE GREAT SECTS - and one small non-sect

不夜天 Búyè Tiān - Nightless City - of the Qishan Wen

金麟台 Jīn Lín Tái - Golden Carp Tower - of the Lanling Jin

不净世 Bùjìng Shì - Unclean Realm - of the Qinghe Nie

云深不知处 Yúnshēn Bùzhīchù - Cloud Recesses - of the Gusu Lan

莲花坞 Liánhuā Wù - Lotus Pier - of the Junmeng Jiang

乱葬岗 Luànzàng Gǎng - Burial Mounds - of the very unofficial Yiling Wei

#the untamed locations #qishan wen #nightless city #lanling jin #golden carp tower #qinghe nie #unclean realm #gusu lan #cloud recesses #yunmeng jiang #lotus pier #yiling wei #burial mounds #theuntameddaily #the untamed #cql #random late night screencap edits #mine #korpikorppi

[phantomfoxart]

Even my artistic slump can't hold up against the urge to draw Wei Ying in baba mode

Have some baby a-Yuan as a treat as a try desperately to complete any of my projects

#art #my art #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxain #wei ying #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #yilling patriarch #burial mounds #wen yuan #lan yuan #lan suzhui

[megmahoneyart]

yllz era sketch w bad sleeping habits and a-yuan

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #wwx #lsz #wei wuxian #burial mounds #a-yuan #lan sizhui #sketch

[wutheringskies]

Jin Guangyao and Wei Wuxian aren't the same.

Jin Guangyao is one of the best written characters I've come across. A villian that doesnt look like one, doesnt act like one, is likeable, has strong motivations and a defined personality and extremely fun to read fanfics about. But what I dislike is the role that fanon gives him; specially his role in the story with allusions to Wei Wuxian, casting Jin Guangyao as someone similar to Wei Ying. The "poor children turned to forced villains" trope. This meta is about WHY that's NOT true.

The humiliation of his mother didn't give him the right to burn down an entire brothel. (personally, I found it satisfying but). The desire of acceptance from his father was a motivation for his crimes, not a factor that validates those crimes. Often, Jin Guangyao is treated as the counter part of Wei Wuxian. They both share only three similarities, however:

1. Both came from low backgrounds and struggled a lot in their childhoods. Meng Yao had food, but witnessed constant humiliation. Wei Ying had nothing, and then got tangled into the fucked up dynamics of the Jiangs.

2. Both were found to be much different than what people believed them to be. Wei Wuxian was supposed to be evil, hateful, a murderer who kills just to satisfy his blood thirst and need for power, a monster. Jin Guangyao was supposed to be the guy who worked hard and rose to the top, humble, kind, honest and pure of heart.

3. Both had their reputations destroyed from targeted rumor mill.

That is all.

Other than that, Jin Guangyao is NOT at all similar to Wei Wuxian by any measure. He had to do bad things because he desired power, and to gain, power in a corrupt world, you need to be even more corrupted. He killed all those who looked down upon him (not bodily harm him). He clenched his teeth and killed everyone who protested against him or questioned him. He silenced everybody before they could silence him. He isn't SOLELY responsible but he only played the cards that would bring HIM benefit, not the cards that were righteous, or good, or kind.

Wei Wuxian never desired power, was willing to give up a limb for the safety of his sect. When has he ever raised his sword or his flute if not in self defense? When has he ever attacked first and when has he ever killed an innocent? The only innocent he's most directly responsible for is Jin Zixuan and that was too, in an ambush, where he was asked to back down.

Not just that, everyone is always talking about the Nightless City massacre but never about the Burial Mounds Seige 2.0 where all of the cultivators WOULD have DIED, if not for Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian.

If your reasoning behind justifying Jin Guangyao's actions and murders is the "intention" then you come across as hypocritical if you condemn Wei Wuxian for the Nightless City massacre, ignoring everything that led to it. His prowess in cultivation, his natural genius, and his terrifying powers that he built himself even after losing a core are not crimes that he should be punished for, but he was. Because he's supposed to be just the son of a servant. How dare he be so powerful? So many attempts on his life were made and he survived them all. So many attempts to summon his soul, and they didn't work.

Is surviving a crime? For the Jiang Cheng stans who always thrust the survivor narrative onto JC, this is a question for them. Was Wei Wuxian wrong to have survived incidents in which he was being attacked? Should he have died for doing absolutely nothing wrong, other than having a different voice? For standing against a structure that always prioritizes one being above all, being the ultimate voice that cannot be questioned?

Here I'm going to quote some parts from the ExR translation of Villanous Friends:

He Su, “What was the irresistible trend? What was stirring up trouble? Jin GuangShan wanted to establish the position of chief cultivator only to imitate the QishanWen Sect in being the only ones at the top. Do you think all the world is ignorant? You frame me like this only because I spoke the truth!”

When you really succeed, all of the world of cultivation would see the true face of the LanlingJin Sect. Do you think killing me alone would put you eternally at ease? How wrong you are! We, the TingshanHe Sect, teem with talent. From now on, we’ll unite and never surrender to you Wen-dogs of another skin!”

Sounds familiar?

After a few laughs, he continued, “Sect Leader Jin, let me ask you something else. Do you think that, because the QishanWen Sect is gone, the LanlingJin Sect has all right to replace it?”

Wei WuXian added, “Everything has to be given to you? Everyone has to listen to you? Looking at how the LanlingJin Sect does things, I almost thought that it was the QishanWen Sect’s empire all over again.”

Wei WuXian, “Did I say something wrong? Forcing living people to be bait and beating them up whenever they refused to obey—is this any different from what the QishanWen Sect does?”

These were voices that questioned the greater powers. This is what happened to these voices:

Jin Guangyao: That’s not the way to go about things, is it? The TingshanHe Sect rebelled and schemed to assassinate Sect Leader Jin with all its forces before it was caught red-handed. How could that be called without a reason?”

Flashback to Wen Chao, asking if the disciples in the Xuanwu Cave were rebelling when they protected Mianmian who was asked to be the live bait of a monster.

Also, flashback to Wei Wuxian standing up for the Wens and being called a rebel when he stood up for the Wens who were being used as live baits to strengthen the Jin.

The ones over there cried, “Brother! He’s lying! We didn’t, we didn’t!”

Flashback to Wen Ning "losing control" at Koi Tower probably due to Xue Yang's invention. But the point to be taken away is that Sect Leader He Su's younger disciples, who are harmless, are framed as murderers. A position similar to what Wei Wuxian was put into.

He Su, “Utterly nonsense! Open your eyes and fucking look! There are nine-year-old children here! Old men who can’t even walk! How could they rebel against anything?! Why would they assassinate your dad out of nowhere?!”

Funny how the evils of society comprised of old grandmas, uncles, a toddler, a doctor, a fierce corpse, and a cultivator with no status, no core, no money, no voice living in a cave with a pool of blood, digging the Burial soil to grow some potatoes.

And not those who were sitting on their thrones, reveling in riches and ordering people around.

Jin GuangYao, “Because you made a mistake and committed murder, Young Master He Su, while they refused to accept Koi Tower’s conviction of you, of course.”

"A mistake" reminds me of the incident at qionggi path. Even if Jin Zixuan hadn't died that day, they would've kept cornering Wei Wuxian until he'd have no other choice but to go on the offensive (which is what he did.)

Turns out even being sooo powerful that he could shake mountains, he eventually died.

Yet, at such a place, nobody would listen to his protests. Sitting before him were two villains who already treated him as though he were dead. What they enjoyed was precisely his dying struggle. Smiling, Jin GuangYao leaned back, waving his hand, “Hush him up, hush him up.”

"You shut them in live?"

Xue Yang turned around, curling his lips, “Wei WuXian never used live humans, but I wanna try.”

So, Xue Yang is an actual demonic cultivator who's protected by the Jins, murdered 2 entire clans and this is the third one and godness knows how many more. Absolutely very few people give actual fucks about what cultivation methods to employ. The one who really cared was perhaps, Lan Wangji.

Jin Guangyao as you can see isn't being "forced" to kill people because he's of lower birth and nobody accepts him :(

He's killing people to silence those who speak against his and his father's (and they both are one and the same entity. he's acting on his father's orders which he could've disobeyed and run away but he would lose his sect reputation and standing.)

Why does his reputation and standing mean more than the lives of all these 70 people ?

Were they trying to kill him? No.

Did they attack him first to the point he would lose his life? No.

Would they have thrown him into a whore house? No.

Let us please not compare Wei Wuxian and Jin Guangyao.

MXTX wants us to know what's said and told may not be right. Wei Wuxian isn't fond of the techniques that are used to confirm Jin Guangyao's demise. He's critical of how nobody else is concerned. He's unsure of what NHS's motivations are - does he now want complete power? or did his plan only extend up to his revenge? He's critical of how only yesterday people were all over this guy and today they hate him. Critical of how society works on what is favourable and not what is true.

But he's not SUPPORTIVE of Jin Guangyao. He's sympathetic to people turning onto you, but not empathetic towards Jin Guangyao. He believes Jin Guangyao to be a cruel man.

Those are two different things.

Nobody knows better than Wei Wuxian how it feels to be set up at every step:

1. Firstly he was used as a punching bag for Madam Yu and an emotional one for JC throughout his childhood

2. The Wens completely played him up, setting him as the cause of LP's fall.

3. Then, he was played by the Jins and the cultivation world until his death by validating JC's jealousy against him, by villianizing him and estranging him, by setting up the ambush, by sending JZX, by making false promises, by not checking for validity, by controlling Wen Ning, by setting up the seige parade, by getting JYL there, and finally the seige. (even after his death disrespecting his all)

4. He was brought back to the world on the revenge plans of NHS and tossed like a tennis ball from the plans of NHS and JGY. Yi City arc? children would've died -> NHS. Burial Mound seige 2.0? everyone would've died -> JGY. if LWJ wasn't with him at every step of the way, Wei Ying would've once again been in such a spot. Without any status or authority he would've gotten no help, no aid, and been villianized once more. He would've been stabbed and captured with nobody to save him. He would've made himself the bait without anybody to fight the monsters off.

Each of us have individual capacities and also, each of us have the one thing we cannot let happen:

1. Wei Ying can't let injustice prevail and sit by the side doing nothing

2. Jin Guangyao can't take in being stripped of power and being a lowlife again.

Those are two very different things. JGY made every decision he could to escape his grand fear, which was personal. I don't condemn his motivations personally cause I find them hot. Similar to how I find his character hot. Yet, he's not the hero on the opposite spectrum. He's not the lowlife who was killed because people can't handle people from lower birth statuses being on the top chairs for making decisions - but that is also true - but is not the reason behind his tragedy. Not the sole reason and also not the most important reason.

The most important reason is as it is said: he believes himself to be different and values his life over others, similar to Xue Yang. Their personalities vary greatly, yet his "true" friends were Xue Yang and Su She. (He showed glimpses of the truth and of his reality to LXC. So, he's hiding the truth and LXC doesn't wish to dig deeper anyways thus not a true friendship.) One wished to take revenge in extremely unfair shares, a clan for a finger. A clan for a son. The entire cultivation world could die but he couldn't be badmouthed or put on trial or killed. The other - Su She, wished to be recognized by those who he equally hated, despised and considered arrogant and also was jealous and envious of. So, these two traits - great desire for revenge onto everyone who's ever said anything mean about him, and the desire for power. You may argue how this developed from his childhood trauma but you can't argue that this justifies his cold blooded crimes because it doesn't. Another thing I'd like to add is that, his friendship with Lan Xichen also shows his personality; not wanting to take the messy, big path (such as showing up to your own death planning party, or planning a death party) and his relatively calm nature. Yet just like the friendship it is fragmented and fake; a composure that is stuck onto the cold, and hot brimming desire for power.

There was one character who had to kill a large number of people or would have no other option left and it wasn't Jin Guangyao. There was one character who was hated by society solely because of his background and his desire to protect people and it wasn't Jin Guangyao. There was one character who had to give up everything for what he believed in and it wasn't Jin Guangyao. There was one character who ended up being the indirect reason for the passing of loved siblings due to the unjust society.

and it wasn't Jin Guangyao.

(but there were two characters who had confirmed sex before marriage. one of them was Jin Guangyao)

#mo dao zu shi #mdzs #mdzs meta #wei wuxian #jin guangyao #xue yang slaughtered 2 clans and was protected by the jins #xue yang #cultivation world bullshit #jin zixuan #wei ying #burial mounds #wen remnants #my meta #my thoughts #my essays

[supertaliart]

I made this way harder for myself by using the Forgotten Temple as a setting... But boy was it satisfying to finish!

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Hyrule Cultivators Masterlist

#Wei Wuxian #MDZS Botw Au #The Untamed #MDZS #Legend of Zelda #Botw #mo dao zu shi #Yiga Clan #Burial Mounds #Hyrule Cultivators

[violetscanfly]

hi I'm not dead

#summer courses been kicking my ass but finally found both time and motivation to draw #I feel like I haven't done watercolours in foreverr #trying to get back into it with varying results #can you tell I messed up the other eye lmao #but I had so much fun while painting tho and I don't think I've really done any yiling laozu stuff have I? so that's also fun #wei wuxian #wei wuxian fanart #yiling laozu #yiling patriarch #wei ying #mo dao zu shi #mo dao zu shi fanart #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation fanart #burial mounds #chengqing #mxtx #mxtx fanart #watercolours #illustration #artists on tumblr #violetscanfly

[bamboo-gdn]

Wei WuXian didn't fail.

Burial Mounds settlement with the Wens wasn't worthless. And I'm not saying this because Sizhui survived. Wei WuXian gave them a place to live together. It wasn't the best place but it was something, more than the cultivation world had allowed them. Because the Wen Remnants were doomed since the end of the war, they were destined to die. So what matters is how they died. They didn't die humiliated in a labour camp but fighting for the life they had a right to live.

Wei WuXian gave them time, time they treasured till the end and even after the end. Because of that, even after being killed unjustified and not being given a proper burial they were able to move on. Because of that, when they came back they decided it was more important to protect those they had left than to harm those who had killed them.

So, Wei WuXian didn't fail.

#wwx #wy #wen remnants #burial mounds #wei wuxian #wei ying #burial mounds fam #wei ying did his best #for the wens that was enough #wei wuxian did nothing wrong #the wens were masacred unjustly #forever bitter that cql didn't add the second siege scene #one of the bests scenes #wei ying found family #wen remnants did nothing wrong

[helenedraws]

- Suibian  随便  -

I am here for the inherent drama of parallels in colors

#the untamed #cql #mdzs #the yiling patriarch #wei wuxian #魔道祖师 #无羁 #wei ying #burial mounds #my art #watercolor #every reblogger who writes a nice word in the tags makes me day a little better bc i thrive off of those kind words to fuel my art and brain #so PLS if you don't comment say something you liked about it in the tags you will have my entire heart!!!