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Today's long haired anime guy of the day, per request, is:
Blue Knight
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mdzsartreblogs · 3 years
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One Year Anniversary and 15,000 Post Round Up!
September 6th marks one year since I started maintaining this blog. Since then, I've reblogged an average of 41 posts a day, gained 1,270 followers, and been able to share the work of 3,381 artists, and utilized over 6,000 tags to help people looking for specific types of work in the fandom find the content they want! It's really been a blast, and I'm so glad I've gotten the chance to do that. Everyday I get to just roll around in the gorgeous work that people in this fandom create, and I get to share that with others, too - I can't wait to see how Year 2 goes!
we're up 69 followers since last update!
there are 295 new tags in the blog; as usual, it's mostly artists, in that we've gone from 3,252 artists to 3,381, an increase in 129 artists represented.
If you know where any of the works tagged unknown location are, please let me know. Likewise, if you know any of the artists tagged unknown artist (it’s pretty much all official art), I’d appreciate your help a lot!
If you make fanart, feel free to DM it to this blog, or @ me @unforth (don’t tag @mdzsartreblogs, tumblr rarely shows me those tags). I don’t track any unique source blog tags but I do check #mdzs daily and reblog all artwork posted there provided it doesn’t break any of my few rules (also provided that the creator hasn’t blocked me, or I haven’t blocked the creator - I’ve been blocked a handful of times (10 that I know of, to be exact), and I block people who post hate in the main tag, and yes, that’s included a few artists.)
Support artists by liking and reblogging their work! Yes, even if you see them on a source blog! DO THE THING! Artists need and deserve our support!
-unforth
And, finally, as usual - some stats. (read more)
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Xiao Zhan (177 works) (no change)
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jiang cheng with braids (482 works) (no change)
fierce corpse wen ning (426 works) (no change)
blind xiao xingchen (384 works) (no change)
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nie mingjue has a mustache (271 works) (no change)
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wen yuan (206 works) (no change)
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taizi · 2 years
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I posted 8,096 times in 2021
221 posts created (3%)
7875 posts reblogged (97%)
For every post I created, I reblogged 35.6 posts.
I added 5,680 tags in 2021
#text - 2761 posts
#mdzs - 762 posts
#video - 729 posts
#critters - 295 posts
#marvel - 218 posts
#ghibli - 209 posts
#deltarune - 193 posts
#blah - 182 posts
#tgcf - 176 posts
#star wars - 155 posts
Longest Tag: 132 characters
#vacillating back and forth between ‘it’s fine it’s half an hour and then it’s over’ and ‘i am literally going to die no matter what’
My Top Posts in 2021
#5
70+71+72= ASL however you see them (pls don’t completely break my heart?)
PROMPTS LIST
70. “Everything is okay.” +71. “I’m going to protect you.” +72. “I believe in you.”
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“He’s sick?” Sabo stares at the Den-Den in his hand as though it might have some answers for him. The snail stares back. “Luffy doesn’t get sick,” Sabo says.
He’s in some backwater town, having followed what turned out to be a dead lead on some leaked information, and now he’s waiting for a pickup. He was happy to get a call from the Sunny, his knee-jerk reaction to any reminder of his little brother, but now that initial joy has curled up into something approaching dread.
“Apparently he does,” Robin’s voice says. She sounds wound up, in as much as Robin gets wound up. There’s a thread in her voice that Sabo is afraid to pull at, because he thinks it might unravel into fear.
Because if Robin is afraid, then Luffy--
“No, look, we-- we slept outside when we were kids, all the time,” Sabo attempts to reason. “Even when it rained. We went swimming in the cold seasons and hunted in the snow and-- he never got sick.”
“It isn’t a virus,” Robin says. “It’s a disease. Zoonotic. From a tick bite. The others are-- they have seen something like this before, while they were on the Grand Line. They’re worried.”
‘Disease,’ she says, and it’s as if Sabo’s heart falls straight through the bottom of his stomach. He’s standing up, snatching blindly for his coat and hat and pipe, running out of hands because he’s still holding the Den-Den like it’s a lifeline.
“I’m coming,” he says. “Tell me where you are, I’m coming.”
“Yes, I thought you would,” Robin says.
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It takes a full day to meet them, even with the Sunny in full sail towards Sabo’s borrowed (stolen) vessel. They toss him a line, but he doesn’t bother hitching it to their ostentatious brigantine, and leaps aboard instead with a quick boost from Ace’s fruit.
He’s visited them quite a few times now, with a standing invitation to show up whenever he pleases and stay as long as he likes. They see Ace when they look at him, Sabo thinks. They don’t want Luffy to miss any more time with his brothers. They want to make up for it somehow, in any multitude of small ways.
They’re very kind, and right now they’re clearly hurting. They don’t waste any time on pleasantries, beyond a few weary nods in Sabo’s direction. Nami leads the way to the infirmary, her pace only barely not a jog.
She has the steadiest hands of almost anyone Sabo has ever met, and right now they’re shaking.
It’s this-- more than Robin’s measured tones on the snailphone-- more than the somber air on the usually-lively deck-- that truly frightens him.
“It came on fast,” Nami says. “We knew something was wrong when he stopped eating. Sanji’s been on the verge of hysterics since Luffy started turning down his food. Don’t tell him I told you that.”
“Robin said it was zoonotic,” Sabo says. He’s unfamiliar with the term, and abruptly hates himself for not spending the last ten years pursuing a degree in medicine that would actually be beneficial to his brother right now. Instead he’s just another useless guy who can swing a pipe around really good.
“Right,” Nami says, pausing outside the infirmary door. She puts a hand on the door without opening it as though she needs to steady herself. From inside the infirmary, Sabo can hear a violin, playing something slow and gentle. “From a tick bite. It’s called the Five Day Disease. It’s-- not good. He’s in a lot of pain.”
“Is there anything you need?” Sabo asks. ‘Five days’ is ringing in his head like a death knell. “Anything I can help you find? All of my resources are at your disposal. Whatever resources you might need that I don’t have, I will obtain.” Through whatever means necessary, he doesn’t add.
Nami glances at him, silently taking him in. Seeing Ace again, Sabo thinks, but he’s never taken offense to that. Why would he? She’s comparing him to someone else who loved her captain, someone who crossed a desert to give Luffy a piece of paper that would reunite them someday. She’s getting the measure of him, of how far he would go when it’s his turn.
Whatever she sees, it makes her smile. She’s looking right at Sabo now, and nobody else.
“We have the best doctor in the world on the case already,” Nami says. “He’s cured it once before.”
With that, she opens the door. The room is cool, a window wedged open and fans blowing gently, the lighting warm and low and comfortable. Brook stops playing, lowering the violin and the bow, and greets Sabo politely. Zoro is planted in the chair beside Luffy’s bed, but he stands up when Sabo steps inside.
“Oh, no, please,” Sabo starts, glancing around for a second chair, but Zoro shakes his head.
“I need to be out there,” he says. He even sounds like it won’t cost him anything to leave, though the way he lingers beside the bed tells another story.
But from what Sabo has seen of this crew’s dynamics, they truly do rely on Zoro to keep things steady when the sea gets stormy. He’s like a stone for the others to crash against. He thinks of poor Sanji pacing around the kitchen without a sense of purpose, of Usopp and Carrot’s pale, worried faces, of Robin’s frightened voice on the phone, Jimbei and Franky deep in quiet conversation by the helm as they debate where they ought to sail next, where should they go, what do they do?
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111 notes • Posted 2021-06-25 03:50:18 GMT
#4
69/71 for tanunatsu please??
PROMPTS LIST
69. “I'm not going to leave you.” +71. “I’m going to protect you.”
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They never should have come to this place. 
It’s not an inherently helpful line of thinking, but Kaname can’t help it. Once the idea drifts into his mind it sticks there, stubborn and loud. 
They never should have come here. 
Shigeru’s face is like a thundercloud as he follows their host into the hall for a quiet aside that promises not to be particularly quiet. He pauses in the doorway to glance back at the boys, and Kaname meets his eyes. 
“I’ve got him,” he says with certainty he doesn’t entirely feel. 
Natsume’s father spares him a smile. It’s a much more familiar expression than that bald anger had been, and goes a long way in settling Kaname’s nerves. 
When the kitchen door slides shut, it’s just Kaname and Natsume and a very skittish cousin. 
“Um,” the cousin says. “Should I-- uh, tea? Or water?”
“You can just go,” Kaname says, meaning to just give them an out. It doesn’t come out right. He didn’t know his voice could go sharp like that. 
The unfamiliar boy twitches. It looks almost like a flinch. His hands are pressed together in front of him, kneading anxiously. “I’m really-- my dad shouldn’t have said any of that. I’m really sorry.”
Kaname doesn’t answer, because he isn’t sure what he can say. It’s not him who needs an apology, and Natsume and all his infinite forgiveness isn’t in a place that he can hear it right now. His eyes are glassy and vacant, and his hand in Kaname’s is cool. Kaname can feel his pulse racing, like a frightened rabbit. 
It’s a pretty house. Kaname thought it as they walked up. The yard was immaculate, the charms dangling from the eaves twirling lazily with low, sweet chimes. The room they’re in is bathed in rich afternoon sunlight, painted gold. 
He never would have guessed a monster lived here. 
Natsume tried to warn them, in his own way. He was uneasy enough about this reunion that he asked to invite his boyfriend along. His face went translucent with worry when Touko ended up with a bad cold and decided not to make the trip. He almost had to be physically propelled out the door when Shigeru told him last-minute that Nyanko-sensei couldn’t come. 
It all adds up. It all makes perfect sense to someone who knows him. Kaname has been braced for something like this since the moment they walked off the train, but that doesn’t make it any easier to bear. 
Part of him wishes Natsume would have said something, but almost immediately the thought feels uncharitable. He knows firsthand how hard it is to talk about some of the people or places that shaped part of the person you turned out to be. He knows how much it can hurt to relive things that hurt you once before. 
Kaname starts to move, and Natsume’s hand tightens around his almost to the point of pain. It’s the first sign of life he’s shown since the dishes got thrown across the table. Something bright flashes through his eyes, shaped like panic. 
“Hey, it’s okay,” Kaname says quietly. “I’m not going anywhere. I’m not going to leave you. You just hold onto me, okay?”
There’s broken glass next to them and wine seeping into the floor and Kaname extracts Natsume from the scene carefully. The other boy is pliant, following the motions with a willingness that sinks Kaname’s heart, because Natsume is so stubborn so much of the time that it doesn’t make sense he isn’t at least rolling his eyes right now. Instead he just stands there, hair falling into his eyes, waiting to be told what’s going to happen next.
“Step over,” is all Kaname says, calm and level. He waits until Natsume is free of the glass, and then touches his cheek. He’s still so cool, like his body is in shock. “Let’s go sit down outside, okay?”
It isn’t sweet like the mountain air back home, but Natsume always loosens up a little bit when he’s outside. There’s a steady sort of comfort in the breeze and the sky and the unchanging chatter of the insects getting their last business for the day all sorted. There aren’t any walls or tight corners or dark rooms to be afraid of out here. There aren’t any wine glasses to be thrown. 
The cousin follows them, worried and out of his depth. He looks as though he wants to be helpful and has no idea how to start. Kaname doesn’t spare him a glance as he leads Natsume by the hand to sit on the engawa, their feet dangling over the edge. 
The bushes ahead of them rustle, and a lucky cat pours out. Kaname has never been more relieved to see Nyanko-sensei in his life, and that’s counting the time they were chased by living dolls all the way from Shibata’s hometown to Kaname’s house. 
Nyanko-sensei is silent, because of their company, but his eyes are a brighter green than they ought to be. It reminds Kaname of the anger in Shigeru’s face just minutes ago. He invites himself up onto the porch and into Natsume’s lap.
“Oh, um, my dad has a cat allergy,” the cousin says. 
“I really don’t care about your dad’s cat allergy,” Kaname says frankly. 
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127 notes • Posted 2021-02-08 06:37:33 GMT
#3
Could you write something about natsume getting a hug?? Just, from whoever n for whatever reason. I keep thinking about how no one ever really hugs him n it makes me sad
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The absolute last person Joji expected to see today was Natsume Takashi.
Joji slows to a stop on the corner of the street, a block away from the train station, and stares shamelessly.
It's been a decade since the last time he saw Natsume, but he recognizes him immediately. Of course he does. His light hair and eyes aside, Joji has thought about him on-and-off since junior high.
Joji remembers that rainy day when he was thirteen, an empty desk in the middle of his eighth grade classroom, Ito leaning over in his chair to whisper, "Did you hear? Natsume was in the ER. He almost died. The police are looking at his foster parents."
It was as if he'd been plunged into a pool of ice water. He sat there, frozen, while their teacher called them to attention for homeroom and announced that Natsume wouldn't be in their class going forward.
What was the last thing Joji had said to him? "It's no wonder your parents didn't want you." Why the hell had he said that? A book, if he remembers right. He'd lent it to Natsume and Natsume gave it back all water-damaged, like he'd gone for a swim with his backpack on. Natsume's eyes were on his hands, on the ruined book, and he'd tried to apologize, said he'd pay for it, but Joji just snatched it away, ticked off.
"This is what I get for trying to help you, I guess. It's no wonder your parents didn't want you."
Joji is almost twenty-four now. He's going into pediatrics. His fiance, Sakura, is a foster parent. She is currently the proud and fiercely protective mother of two beautiful twin girls.
Sora and Miu are terrified of adults and they go everywhere together and sometimes they make up stories. Sometimes they lie, about why their uniforms are torn, why they're home late, why their lunchboxes are covered in dirt. They have this look in their eyes sometimes like they're just waiting to get hurt again.
Sakura has the patience of a saint. She never raises her voice. She stitches their torn uniforms, replaces their lunchboxes, and, on more than one occasion, has marched into their junior high school and threatened the staff with physical violence if her babies come home with bruises one more time.
Needless to say, Sora and Miu adore her. It took them longer to warm up to Joji, but they're there now; no longer flinching when he moves in their direction, greeting him happily when he comes over for breakfast, smiling shyly when he staggers into the apartment underneath the weight of two giant stuffed rabbits that cost nearly half his paycheck, because it's their birthday, Sakura, they need them.
Joji tries to imagine someone telling them "this is why your parents didn't want you" and goes absolutely breathless with rage.
Natsume glances up from his phone to look right at Joji, as if someone had pointed him out. Caught staring, Joji shuffles in place for a moment, and then squares his shoulders and heads over.
He's expecting the Natsume of his memory; he's expecting him to curl his shoulders and duck his head, the way Joji's girls still sometimes do when a stern auntie wants to talk to them.
He's not expecting Natsume to level him with a clear, politely confused gaze. He pockets his phone, and shoves his hands into the front pockets of the cardigan he's wearing; a size too big, like something he borrowed out of someone else's closet, but it's a charming look on him. He's dressed well, in dark-washed jeans and white high-top sneakers, and his silvery hair is long, probably long enough to fall past his shoulders if he didn't have it piled up in a bun. There's a squat calico cat at his feet, glaring up at Joji with judgmental green eyes.
"Can I help you?" Natsume asks kindly. His voice is a shock to the system; Joji remembers him like it was yesterday.
"Oh," Joji says, stymied. It never occurred to him that Natsume might not recognize him in turn. "Um, I'm Watanabe Joji. We were classmates in eighth grade."
"That's right," Natsume says with gratifying quickness. He looks a little embarrassed now and returns Joji's short bow. "Sorry, it's been a long time."
And we weren't exactly friends, he doesn't say, but that common knowledge sits neatly between them.
"Ten years!" Joji replies with some forced enthusiasm. "Is that why you're here?"
"Sorry?"
"The, ah, reunion this weekend? Ito, from our homeroom back then, put together a whole thing. Our whole class is getting together for dinner and drinks."
It occurs to him that Natsume might not have been invited. Joji thinks that's less because he isn't welcome and more because Ito almost certainly didn't have his contact information. The few times his name has come up, Joji's friends have gone quiet and melancholy. A few of them are parents now, or aunts and uncles at least. All of them know better than they did when they were mean, shitty little teenagers.
Joji opens his mouth to assure Natsume that they'd love to have him, but Natsume cuts him off with a laugh.
It's not a mean laugh. It's not unfriendly in the slightest. But it stings anyway, because Natsume is laughing out of pure disbelief.
"No, no," he says, waving a hand, "god, no. Could you imagine?" he adds, glancing down at the cat. The cat huffs, settling a little more solidly against Natsume's ankle. "We're just passing through, actually."
"We?" Joji asks dumbly. Did he mean himself and the cat?
It's Natsume's turn to get cut-off, this time by a long, drawn-out shout of "Takashiiii!"
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(I feel like I should finish your prompt first but. These ones are so good....feel free to ignore if you have too many asks but 29 or 33 with chocobros...?
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33. “Are you SURE I can’t punch him in the face?” “Yes.” “What if I just break his nose a little?”
ik i just did this one for natsuyuu but...........chocobros
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They're somewhere in Duscae, near enough to the coast that each breeze carries a hint of the sea, on another errand for another stranger to scrape together enough gil to eat tonight.
They've stopped at the last little roadside cluster of shops before the countryside stretches far and wide and wild, stocking up on what meager supplies they can afford.
Noctis has never lived this way before. He's never gone to bed hungry before. Neither has Gladio or Ignis, for all their world-weariness and the general practical knowledge and common sense they walk around with that far surpasses Noctis' own.
Ignis can budget with the best of them, and Gladio is willing to eat literally anything at any time, but Prompto is the one who gets it.
He chats at length about all the times he's had to get creative with pasta or rice because it was all that was left in his pantry. Back in high school, when he could only work part-time. When someone should have been taking care of him, and instead he was left to figure out how to stretch a tiny budget much farther than made sense.
"Come on, Iggy," he said once when they were out shopping, half-laughing. Like he thought Ignis was joking. "Fresh produce? We've got like a hundred gil between the four of us and we're totally out of restoratives."
And Ignis paused, and glanced sidelong at him. He put back the crisp, flowery vegetables and pulled out his little notebook and asked for suggestions instead. It took Prompto a few minutes to convince himsef that Ignis was taking him seriously, but now they like, bond over canned fruit.
"I'm gonna kill this catoblepas with my bare hands," Gladio says with feeling, leaning against the car. "I'm so godsdamned sick of pasta. Don't tell Iggy I said that."
Noctis rolls an energy drink between his hands absently, brow furrowed. It's tricky business, and he's not very good at it just yet, but home-made elixirs save them a ton of gil. He feels guilty when they have to spend their money on something he should be able to do himself.
"I'm telling him," he says without missing a beat. "He'll never forget, and he'll give you shit every single time you make cup noodles from now on, forever."
"I can't stand you," Gladio tells him seriously.
The bell above the door of the convenience store rings brightly, and Noctis glances up to see Ignis and Prompto walking out looking a lot more cheerful than they did going in.
Gladio's face does something very subtle and specific when he sees them, there and gone in a second, before Noctis can pin it down and figure it out.
"What are you two chucklefucks up to?" he calls over. Ignis immediately narrows a disapproving stare at him, but Prompto beams.
"I got a commission, sort of!" he says.
"A commission?" Noctis parrots, sending the energy drink back to the Armiger.
"Sort of?" Gladio adds.
"While we were checking out, the store-owner saw my camera, and seemed really into it," Prompto says. "Since, you know. It's unique."
Noctis does know. The digital camera hanging at Prompto's side has been with him since Noctis first bought it for him three years ago. He would rebuild it every so often, bowed over a collection of impossibly tiny parts spread out carefully across a dish towel at the kitchen table in Noctis' apartment. To call it unique is a bit of an understatement.
Gladio frowns, sensing where this is going a split-second before Noctis does. "And?"
"And he offered me money for it! Like, more than it's worth probably. A lot more."
"I don't see how that could be possible," Ignis says smoothly, leaning through the open window of the Regalia to put the shopping bag in the backseat. "Since your camera is clearly priceless. Which is what I explained to the man."
Noctis relaxes, glad that Ignis and Prompto have bonded over shopping to the point that neither of them want to do it unless they can go together-- because if Prompto had been in there by himself, he 100% would have sold his camera. He would have hated to do it, but he would have done it. It's like he thinks he owes his friends something just for letting him exist.
"Good looking out, Specs," Gladio says gruffly. Prompto waffles a bit, looking torn between pleased and embarrassed. Noctis decides to rescue him.
"What commission, though?" he asks.
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out past the shallow breakers
the untamed pairing: jiang cheng & wei ying, jiang cheng & lan sizhui word count: 3148 read on ao3
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“He died!”
The words ring loud, sharp—in the pavilion where they’re taking their evening meal, surrounded on all sides by untroubled water, the words seem to carry for miles.
It’s unlike Lan Sizhui to raise his voice at all, much less to raise it toward a senior. His hands, resting politely on his knees under the table, have curled into fists.
“Everyone goes on and on as though baba has so much to atone for,” Lan Sizhui says, each word lurching from his throat like a line of fierce corpses shambling through brush. “What more is there for him to give? What more do you want? He died.”
Jin Ling is staring at his friend as though he’s never seen him fully before. On Lan Sizhui’s other side, Wei Wuxian’s expression is shifting rapidly from alarm to comprehension. His gray eyes are full of a painful understanding.
“Sizhui ah,” Wei Wuxian says, touching the boy’s shoulder. “Come take a walk with me.”
Jerking his head in a nod, Lan Sizhui pushes to his feet and then pauses there. His Gusu Lan whites, those extra lines and layers that denote him a member of the main family, ghost elegantly around him when he lowers himself in a bow that is every inch deep that it needs to be and not one inch deeper.
“Sect Leader Jiang, this disciple apologizes,” he says. The cheerful ‘shushu’ of earlier that morning might as well be a memory of another life. “My behavior was unworthy.”
He doesn’t grit it out, the way Jin Ling would probably have had to. It doesn’t even seem to cost him any pride.
For one, single, impossible moment, it’s as though Jiang Yanli is standing there, making her apologies to their mother for her brothers’ sake, to spare them any pain she could. It didn’t matter that the blame wasn’t hers. It didn’t cost her any pride, either.
But Jiang Yanli didn’t have a chance to be a part of her nephew’s life, as much as she would have wanted to be. This likeness isn’t hers, not truly. Wei Wuxian was always more like his sister than he or Jiang Cheng were ready to admit.
“Forget it,” Jiang Cheng says. His voice is hoarse, but in the stillness of the water and the silence of the pavilion, it carries, too. “Go on.”
Wei Wuxian shepherds his son from the table. He glances back at Jiang Cheng once, a grimace of apology on his face, but then Lan Sizhui’s hand finds the trailing black hem of Wei Wuxian’s sleeve and clutches to it, and that steals all of Wei Wuxian’s attention as easily as a slap or a shout might have.
The moment they’re gone, Jin Ling lets out a breath he must have been holding, and rounds on his other uncle with wide eyes.
“What did you say?” Jin Ling blurts. “I wasn’t really paying attention, but it didn’t sound like—I mean, it sounded normal.”
Jiang Cheng is still staring at the place Lan Sizhui had stood.
The last living remnant of a persecuted clan, so much an amalgamation of his two fathers that it didn’t make sense that one of them had been dead for most of his young life—holding a grudge and bowing his head at the same time. Lan Wangji, in Jiang Cheng’s experience, has never once let something go that he could nurse icy resentment for instead. Wei Wuxian has always choked down hurt like it was second nature, no matter that it must feel like swallowing nails every time.
It was a normal conversation, but perhaps that’s exactly why Lan Sizhui couldn’t bear another second of it.
“He died,” Lan Sizhui had said, as raw as a fresh wound, or one that kept getting torn open again before it could heal. “What more do you want?”  
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“Ah, Jiang Cheng,” Wei Wuxian says the next morning, meeting him in the courtyard. “Did you sleep well?”
He’s smiling with a certain nervous energy that Jiang Cheng can only pick out because he spent the formative years of his life raising and being raised by his siblings. To an outsider, there probably wouldn’t be a single visible chink in that cheerful armor.
Jiang Cheng, for all his failings, isn’t an outsider. Not quite. The door between them is closed—has been closed for years, almost decades—but Wei Wuxian isn’t the one who closed it. There almost certainly isn’t a lock or talisman keeping Jiang Cheng from forcing it open again.
It won’t come open again easily. There is so much stacked in the way. Hurt and betrayal and grief throw their weight into keeping it shut, weighing it down on either side.
But—
“What more do you want?” Lan Sizhui had asked.
“Fine,” Jiang Cheng forces out. Wei Wuxian blinks, as if he didn’t expect a forthright answer, or any answer at all. Something about his open surprise at the barest scrap of civility makes Jiang Cheng add, “If you’re awake this early, you didn’t sleep at all.”
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16,000 Post Round Up
I've been so busy, and I got sick, that it's taken me days to get to actually finish this even as I've gone through the data as I've been able. Also, while I've not quite caught up on the queue, I have at least at the moment got it running "full speed" again, and I'll do my best to keep it that way, but no promises. Today was the first day in like three weeks that I was actually able to add everything new in the three tags I check (#mdzs, #mo dao zu shi, and #the untamed) to the queue so...hopefully things are on the upswing and I can start plowing through the stuff I wasn't able to post while the queue was running slower. Thanks for your patience, everyone.
Anyway! Some stats and notes as we reach the latest milestone!
we're at 1,321 followers, which is up 51 since last time!
there are 295 new tags since last time...which is exactly the same as I added for the 15k round up, which is weird...they're mostly artists; there are now 3,543 artists with at least one work reblogged to this blog, an increase of 162 since last time!
If you know where any of the works tagged unknown location are, please let me know. Likewise, if you know any of the artists tagged unknown artist (it’s pretty much all official art), I’d appreciate your help a lot!
If you make fanart, feel free to DM it to this blog, or @ me @unforth (don’t tag @mdzsartreblogs, tumblr rarely shows me those tags). I don’t track any unique source blog tags but I do check #mdzs, #mo dao zu shi, and #the untamed daily and reblog all artwork posted there provided it doesn’t break any of my few rules (also provided that the creator hasn’t blocked me, or I haven’t blocked the creator - I’ve been blocked a handful of times and I block people who post hate in the main tag, and yes, that’s included a few artists.)
Support artists by liking and reblogging their work! Yes, even if you see them on a source blog! DO THE THING! Artists need and deserve our support!
-unforth
And, finally, as usual - some tag usage stats. (read more)
Top 15 Characters Tagged Most Often:
wei wuxian (7,744 works) (no change)
lan wangji (6,263 works) (no change)
jiang cheng (2,301 works (no change))
lan xichen (1,530 works) (no change)
nie huaisang (1,246 works) (no change)
a yuan (1,191 works) (no change)
jin guangyao (1,084 works) (no change)
jin ling (954 works) (no change)
nie mingjue (814 works) (no change)
wen ning (718 works) (no change)
xue yang (693 works) (+1 from 15k post)
xiao xingchen (688 works) (-1 from 15k post)
jiang yanli (610 works) (no change)
lan jingyi (515 works) (no change)
wen qing (475 works) (no change)
Top 15 Ships Tagged Most Often:
wangxian (4,422 works) (no change)
xicheng (313 works) (no change)
xiyao (269 works) (no change)
sangcheng (239 works) (no change)
songxiao (235 works) (no change)
xuexiao (157 works) (no change)
3zun (108 works) (no change)
zhuiling (103 works) (+2 from 15k post)
xisang (98 works) (+2 from 15k post)
xuanli (94 works) (-1 from 15k post)
nielan (93 works) (-3 from 15k post)
nieyao (75 works) (+1 from 15k post)
yanqing (73 works) (-1 from 15k post)
ningxian (46 works) (no change)
songxuexiao (36 works) (no change)
Top 15 Platonic Relationships Tagged Most Often:
twin prides of yunmeng (519 works) (no change)
twin jades of gusu (265 works) (+1 from 15k post)
wangxian are dads (263 works) (-1 from 15k post)
grape uncle (259 works) (+1 from 15k post)
yunmeng siblings (249 works) (-1 from 15k post)
nie brothers (212 works) (no change)
wei wuxian is a dad (174 works) (no change)
junior trio (126 works) (no change)
junior quartet (115 works) (no change)
lan wangji is a dad (114 works) (+1 from 15k post)
yi city family (113 works) (-1 from 15k post)
wen siblings (108 works) (new!)
wei wuxian is an uncle (105 works) (-1 from 15k post)
burial mounds family (97 works) (no change)
one brain cell trio (95 works) (-2 from 15k post)
Top 15 (+1) Artists with the Most Works Reblogged Here: (+1 because I don’t actually count “official art” as an artist)
official art (228 works) (no change)
modao18 (161 works) (no change)
sketchyscribbles (153 works) (+1 from 15k post)
littlesmartart (153 works) (-1 from 15k post)
ibijau (139 works) (no change)
joshua-beeking (119 works) (no change)
hilluhri (104 works) (no change)
elogval (90 works) (+1 from 15k post)
pikazchu (87 works) (+1 from 15k post)
candicewright (85 works) (-2 from 15k post)
bbeiex (83 works) (+1 from 15k post)
wrecklwj (79 works) (+2 from 15k post)
valdrift (76 works) (no change)
xiejie-liubo (76 works) (-3 from 14k post)
wifiwuxians (72 works) (no change)
soursoppi (66 works) (new!)
Most Prolific Artists Who Posted for the First Time Since Last Tag Audit: everyone who posted at least 4 works, and is new to the blog, since the 15,000 post round up is listed here.
silvercrane14 (9 works)
noswordinourlake (7 works)
andyarts-stuff (7 works)
lotreckk (6 works)
fanning-the-flames (6 works)
zirttih (5 works)
willowafsi (4 works)
justanotherdayontheenterprise (4 works)
allirenaneko (4 works)
Top 20 Most Used Other Tags:
portrait (13,998 works) (no change)
digital art (13,164 works) (no change)
comic (2,614 works) (no change)
flowers (2,386 works) (no change)
laughs (2,339 works) (no change)
modern au (1,979 works) (no change)
sketch (1,801 works) (no change)
chibi (1,768 works) (no change)
lan wangji has golden eyes (1,510 works) (no change)
wangxian hug (1,369 works) (no change)
fantasy au (1,242 works) (no change)
yiling laozu (1,118 works) (no change)
food (1,098 works) (+1 from 15k post)
chenqing (1,080 works) (-1 from 15k post)
blood tw (989 works) (no change)
hearts (955 works) (no change)
lemon (943 works) (no change)
stars (934 works) (+1 from 15k post)
bunnies (929 works) (+1 from 15k post)
pencil drawing (928 works) (-2 from 15k post)
Top 5 Actors: the “cast” tag has been used 335 times.
xiao zhan (180 works) (no change)
wang yibo (130 works) (no change)
zhu zanjin (10 works) (no change)
song jiyang (10 works) (no change)
wang zhuocheng (9 works) (no change)
Top 5 Animals:
bunnies (929 works) (no change)
birds (388 works) (no change)
butterflies (231 works) (no change)
cats (135 works) (no change)
dogs (103 works) (no change)
Top 15 Character Attributes:
lan wangji has golden eyes (1,510 works) (no change)
yiling laozu (1,118 works) (no change)
lan sizhui (832 works) (no change)
wei wuxian has red eyes (698 works) (no change)
jiang cheng with braids (522 works) (no change)
fierce corpse wen ning (455 works) (no change)
child a yuan (410 works) (+1 from 15k post)
blind xiao xingchen (407 works) (-1 from 15k post)
jiang cheng has purple eyes (325 works) (no change)
nie mingjue has a mustache (292 works) (no change)
nie mingjue with braids (267 works) (no change)
wei wuxian in lan white (239 works) (no change)
wen yuan (227 works) (no change)
wei wuxian has piercings (219 works) (no change)
child wei wuxian (158 works) (no change)
Top 15 Relationship (romantic or platonic) Attributes:
wangxian hug (1,369 works) (no change)
wangxian kiss (593 works) (no change)
wangxian holding hands (503 works) (no change)
lan wangji carrying wei wuxian (134 works) (no change)
wangxian sharing a bed (112 works) (+1 from 15k post)
xiyao hug (106 works) (+2 from 15k post)
wei wuxian wearing lan wangji's ribbon (106 works) (-2 from 15k post)
xicheng hug (103 works) (-1 from 15k post)
sangcheng hug (79 works) (no change)
wangxian duet (76 works) (no change)
songxiao hug (67 works) (new!)
shuangjie hug (63 works) (new!)
xuexiao hug (61 works) (new!)
lan wangji wearing wei wuxian's ribbon (60 works) (new!)
wangxian forehead touch (60 works) (new!)
Top 15 AU Tags:
modern au (1,979 works) (no change)
fantasy au (1,242 works) (no change)
canon divergent au (675 works) (no change)
creature wei wuxian (566 works) (no change)
creature lan wangji (494 works) (no change)
technological anachronism (277 works) (no change)
bunji (206 works) (+1 from 15k post)
bunxian (205 works) (-1 from 15k post)
dragon (188 works) (no change)
creature jiang cheng (176 works) (no change)
cat person (143 works) (+2 from 15k post)
merperson (138 works) (-1 from 15k post)
historical au (134 works) (-1 from 15k post)
creature lan xichen (120 works) (new!)
fox person (111 works) (no change)
Top 10 Memes, Fandom Events, Holidays, and Character Birthdays:
october art challenge (204 works) (no change)
wangxian week (106 works) (no change)
color palette challenge (102 works) (+3 from 15k post)
valentine's day (100 works) (-1 from 15k post)
wei wuxian's birthday (93 works) (no change)
lan wangji's birthday (93 works) (-2 from 15k post)
draw this your style (73 works) (+1 from 15k post)
mermay (72 works) (-1 from 15k post)
mdzs reverse big bang (58 works) (no change)
lunar new year (57 works) (no change)
Top 10 Instruments and Weapons:
chenqing (1,080 works) (no change)
bichen (481 works) (no change)
wangji (468 works) (no change)
zidian (421 works) (no change)
suibian (176 works) (no change)
baxia (157 works) (no change)
sandu (152 works) (no change)
shuanghua (142 works) (no change)
fuxue (93 works) (no change)
liebing (91 works) (+1 from 15k post)
Top 15 Common Motifs and Objects:
flowers (2,386 works) (no change)
food (1,098 works) (no change)
hearts (955 works) (no change)
stars (934 works) (no change)
fan (745 works) (no change)
lotuses (679 works) (no change)
fierce corpse (566 works) (new - because moved from AU)
fire (510 works) (-1 from 15k post)
the moon (472 works) (-1 from 15k post)
alcohol (451 works) (-1 from 15k post)
jiang clan clarity bell (435 works) (-1 from 15k post)
the sun (426 works) (-1 from 15k post)
art of art (370 works) (new - because moved from Media-Related)
lanterns (341 works) (-2 from 15k post)
scars (234 works) (-2 from 15k post)
Top 15 Media-Related Tags:
portrait (13,998 works) (no change)
digital art (13,164 works) (no change)
comic (2,614 works) (no change)
laughs (2,339 works) (no change)
sketch (1,801 works) (no change)
chibi (1,768 works) (no change)
pencil drawing (928 works) (no change)
lineart (864 works) (+1 from 15k post)
ink work (848 works) (-1 from 15k post)
screen cap redraw (520 works) (no change)
watercolor (474 works) (no change)
work in progress (432 works) (no change)
meme redraw (391 works) (no change)
markers (290 works) (+1 from 15k post)
landscape (262 works) (new!)
Top 5 Trigger Warnings:
blood tw (989 works) (no change)
lemon (943 works) (no change)
mcd/implied mcd (516 works) (no change)
body horror tw (273 works) (no change)
suicide tw (94 works) (no change)
Top 5 Locations and Eras:
cloud recesses (692 works) (no change)
lotus pier (377 works) (no change)
lecture era (233 works) (no change)
burial mounds (219 works) (no change)
post canon (174 works) (no change)
Top 5 Lemons:
bondage (96 works) (no change)
bondage using the lan clan ribbon (47 works) (no change)
hickies (44 works) (no change)
blindfolds (34 works) (no change)
bottom wei wuxian (30 works) (no change)
Top 10 Other Fandoms:
tian guan ci fu (176 works) (no change)
ren zha fanpai zijiu xitong (151 works) (no change)
word of honor (21 works) (+1 from 15k post)
douluo continent (18 works) (-1 from 15k post)
the husky and his white cat shizun (15 works) (+2 from 15k post)
star wars (12 works) (+2 from 15k post)
legend of fei (11 works) (-2 from 15k post)
lang dianxia (11 works) (-2 from 15k post)
marvel verse (6 works) (no change)
there's a massive tie for this one: yuri on ice; thousand autumns; the smiling proud wanderer; hetalia; fire emblem; darkwing duck (no change on yuri on ice and fire emblem; all the others are new)
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