#is lxc spared

[spriteofmushrooms]

If I don't read a Jin Guangyao and Jiang Cheng co-parenting fic right now I'm gonna die.

#pallas.rtf #mdzs #they don't have to fuck about it but i need jiang cheng to be fighting tooth and nail against his You're My Family instincts while jin #guangyao treats jc like an amusing little puppy #er-ge would you like diplomatic advice? #a-yao knows i always appreciate his thoughts. #jgy: a-ling have you shown your jiujiu xianzi's new trick? #jl: !! no shushu thank you!!! *runs to jiang cheng with his puppy in his arms* #jc actively holding himself back from murder as he listens to a jin elder complain: a-ling? *melts* #jin elder: ... which is why lanlingjin would appreciate jiang-zongzhu's consideration for this proposal #jiang cheng who has picked up jin ling and xianzi: send the details to lotus pier. #lxc: i don't believe we have any spare nephews of sandu shengshou to work such transformations for us

[leatherbookmark]

sits. i wonder in what ways would things change if gusu lan were slaughtered instead of yunmeng jiang, with lxc and lwj the only ones remaining

#what if there was no cave... what if lxc's worst nightmares came true and his uncle telling him to run really did end up being the last time #he'd ever see him. and jc didn't marry but he had many reasons for that. if all that was left from the sect was two brothers and a bag of #old texts i wonder if lxc would take one for the team and just. get married have children. be a bad husband and father (it's the trauma) #also re: xiyao. the lotus pier wasn't burned because the wen wanted to use it as the supervisory office. jgy wouldn't have 'helping lxc' #as one of his motivations for getting accepted into the jin. but with jin money he definitely could have helped in other ways #on the other hand again: Two Brothers And A Bag Of Texts. i'm committing treason rn but what if jgy still went to spy at the nightless city #but also helped the lan a lot. to the point that a/ both brothers realize how insanely competent and hard-working he is and b/ jgs #figures out that his bastard already swore his allegiance to them. something something #again though jgy (or: still my) staying with the lan would still... be a Not Good ending because lxc while he's xc he's still l. so even if #he loved a-yao more than everything he would probably still choose to Suffer for the clan's sake. especially if he could spare #lwj the suffering. #everything is sad actually. ah why did i make this post #shrimp thoughts

[random-mdzs-thoughts-dumpster]

Kev//aaron and ×!//ch€ng have the same exact flavor

#And it's not just because they're both pair the spares #There's just something more but I can't put my finger on it #Maybe it's the fact that aaron has a gf and lxc has jgy (kev has a gf too but I get why people dislike them together. Same way I get why pe #And both of their arguebly most important relationships (or second most important if you count their brothers) #Get dismissed just so they can be shipped with someone they've barely interacted with on page #I do think there's mysogyny at play when it comes to kev//aaron and people just hating jgy for various reasons with ×!//ch€ng #But the vibes are the same #And definitely the fact that kevin and jc feel like the same type of character to me #They have nothing in common though (now that I think about it jc and aaron have a lot in common 🤔) #I know it must be very common #But these are the only 2 fandoms I'm invested in at the moment lol

[poorlittleyaoyao]

Most of wangxian fics are a retelling of the chengxian canon relationship with lan wangji in jiang cheng' place, with anti jiang family content (sometimes jiang yanli is spared)

BOOOOOORING, and also ?????????? because... the whole point of Novel Wangxian, from what I understand, is that they didn't have a close relationship prior to WWX's resurrection. The combination of societal obligations, misconceptions about each other, fear of open communication, and traumatic events outside their control (ex: THE DEVASTATING CIVIL WAR) prevents them from connecting in their youths as they might have otherwise, so the story is about how they make different choices when they're granted a second chance as more-adult adults. Like. That's the novel. If you's prefer a version of events where they're kindred spirits and mutually close starting in their teen years, that is literally CQL.

But mostly, I say again, BOOOOOORING! In the tags that inspired this Ask, I forgot about post-canon fic, and there's a lot of potential there! How successful are they about staying out of politics, given WWX's proven inability to stay in his lane and the nonzero chance that LWJ gets pulled into additional sect responsibilities if LXC's seclusion persists? With WWX's image redeemed somewhat now that JGY's everyone's new villain, will that mean a demonic cultivation renaissance among rogue cultivators? What role will they have in helping LZS reconnect with his heritage?

So there is plenty of stuff you can do aside from Sexy and/or Bland Times with Wangxian, but the Jiang bashing is just... beyond basic. It cheapens WWX's actions so much. Like, are you saying your boy voluntarily ripped out his golden core for some guy he didn't even like and then didn't say anything about it because he was just that beholden to obligation? Are you saying that protecting the Wen remnants was a super easy task for him, entailing zero emotional hardship on his part because he'd long since discharged his debt to his oh-so-rotten adoptive family? Like, damn, CQL downplays or removes WWX's responsibility in a lot of what he experiences, but at least he's still actively choosing sacrifice and being really messed up about it. Why make him less interesting!

[symphonyofsilence]

I love Wangxian as much as the next guy, but my unpopular MDZS opinion is that both LWJ & WWX after the resurrection were really shitty brothers. Both to their own brothers and to each other's.

Like...JC just threw himself in front of WWX & his boyfriend & Jiggy's sword & took a stab to the chest just narrowly missing his heart, & Wei Wuxian DIDN'T EVEN ASK HIM HOW HE IS! I'm sure JC didn't want him to thank him, but totally ignoring that & forgetting about it is... you know, not fine. even LXC was more worried about his wound. After the temple, when everyone was talking to everyone else, & WWX thanked JC for giving Chenqing back to him, he doesn't even wait until JC's answer is fully out before he immediately turns back to look at LWJ!

Even JL who wasn't talking to JC at that moment saw that JC had something to say! But WWX not only didn't give him a chance to talk, but didn't even have any interest in what he had to say, and wouldn't listen to him just like all the other times when JC tried to talk to him (Repeatedly reminding WWX of his promise & even asking why didn't you go back to Lotus Pier). As you try to do, after you brother has returned from the dead, after causing his own death, your sister's and your brother-in-law's. WWX doesn't think that that's an issue that they need to talk about. Because it's unpleasant for him. While he is not the one who's owed an explanation or an apology. He's not the one who gets to decide if they're having this conversation or not. Let alone asking about JC's wound! WWX! just! Left! With! His boyfriend! & didn't look back! Not even after JC's public meltdown!

And and, what's worse, for both LWJ & WWX is this! Here is what happens when JC is trying to have a conversion with WWX about the non-consensual surgery WWX performed on him by mutilating himself on JC's behalf:

Why yes, he is injured, Hanguang-Jun! He's injured because he threw himself in front of WWX & you little fuck!

He does this once, and it causes JC's wound to open and start bleeding again, and then he goes to do it again!

It's a matter that seriously needs discussion, Hanguang-Jun. JC's world has turned upside down without him having a say in it or even being told about it for years, Hanguang-Jun. JC has every right to talk about it to the person responsible, Hanguang-Jun. It's a family matter, Hanguang-Jun.

And ffs What do you think WWX's brother wants to do to him?! After he took a stab to the chest for him?! He is wounded and his spiritual energy is sealed, what can he do? He's going through it right now in front of everyone. why would you humiliate him even more?! They're brothers! It's none of your business!

And WWX doesn't say anything! It's Jin Ling who must beg Hanguang-Jun to spare his uncle!

(I think they understood what a shitty move it was in the CQL, cause WWX at least lifts a hand to stop LWJ there. And LWJ doesn't actually push JC, opening his wound again, And then try to do it A SECOND TIME AFTER THAT!)

Like...Beating someone's family member in front of them is a very, very rude thing in general when they're themselves handling the situation very well. They were just having a family argument, and LWJ felt the need to beat JC. If you want to de-escalate a family argument, you do it the way JGY does. Or LSZ, A CHILD, de-escalates situations. While respecting both parties. Or else it just escalates even worse.

And this happened at the Jiang ancestral halls, too. WWX was the first to attack JC (which was totally within his brotherly rights when JC was being a little shit) and JC counter-attacked. JC's spiritual powers, unlike WWX's and LWJ's, hadn't returned yet. WWX totally got this. It wasn't their first time fighting. OK, LWJ deflected the first blow of Zidian. He didn't need to intervene further when WWX was beating JC in JC'S ancestral hall. WWX himself passed out when he realized wtf he was doing. (& bear in mind that hours ago, JC with his spiritual powers sealed, barely able to walk, picked his sword and was going to go back for WWX in the burial mounds, before he knew about the golden core thing)

Imagine your friend invites you to their home which they've ran away from when they were very young, their sibling that now owns the house lets you in even though you don't even say hi to them or acknowledge their existence there in anyway, & your friend invites you to somewhere you really have no business being in. IDK. Say, the master bedroom that's been locked ever since their parents' death. Your friend's sibling arrives there and they have an argument. You get offended in the crossfire but your friend leaps in to protect your honor, by beating the said sibling. The said sibling beats back. Can you imagine actually beating the sibling?! Trying to separate them, sure. But beating them?!

& others have talked in depth & better than I about how LXC just murdered the love of his life after some very shocking revelations & was 100% ready to die with him & was clearly going through it & LWJ just left with his boyfriend to fuck when LXC was the one who was there for him when HIS boyfriend died. Like..no LWJ didn't leave his brother after a few days. HE LEFT HIM THAT VERY MOMENT! DIDN'T EVEN GIVE HIM A HANDKERCHIEF OR A PAT ON THE SHOULDER!

And people have also talked better than I about how WWX didn't tell LXC about Sisi bc...he might have shown JGY mercy?

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #lan wangji #lan zhan #wei ying #jiang wanyin #yunmeng shuangjie #twin jades #the untamed #cql #chen qing ling #mxtx #my two cents #yunmeng bros #twin prides of yunmeng

[lansplaining]

what’s ur thoughts on jyl/lxc like aside from the pair the spares element of it. personally i think that lxc would value a lot of the traits in jyl that he values and notices in jgy (kindness, non physical types of strength, more vulnerable person making their way in a very rigidly defined society) as well as respecting her love of family specifically her younger brother. however i don’t feel like those characters are ones i have the best understanding of so i couldn’t rly say

hmmm, I think they would be very content in an arranged marriage, and would treat each other with care and respect, and definitely a kind of love that is not particularly romantic or sexual.

I definitely agree that there are some roughly JGY-ish traits in Yanli, but I think what LXC really loves and connects to in JGY is his drive and ambition. They make huge plans together, and organise political events, and discuss poetry and art in depth for fun. LXC knows how hard JGY had to work to gain that knowledge, and I think that's part of why he enjoys sharing it with him. Yanli has a lot of great traits, but she does not have a strong drive towards anything, and definitely has nothing you would call ambition. I'm sure she'd be very much in favor of the idea of the watchtowers, but she wouldn't do anything to make them happen. LXC would definitely not be miserable with a sweet, devoted, caring wife, but he wouldn't have a real partner, and I think that's what he wants.

As for Yanli... weeeell, she's desperately underwritten and all we know about her tastes are "Jin Zixuan," so. I think she'd be basically happy for the same reasons as LXC, but probably missing out on a deeper satisfaction that comes from having the complete devotion and attention of her partner (which is so legit, it's something she never got growing up), whereas LXC is always going to have an eye on his sect and the wider world.

#ask answered

[xluna-reclipse]

Love your interpretation on Jin GuangYao's character. What's your opinion on the death of JGS? Forcing those women into those acts, and then killing them afterwards, was not an act of self preservation or even necessary for revenge, as he could have killed JGS in many other ways, he just did not value those lives.

Do you also think that JGY would hurt LXC to save himself?

Jin Guangshan was a rapist who raped his own subordinate's wife THEN FORGOT ABOUT IT and died in a manner that at least one person thought would deliver poetic justice for Jin Guangyao, his mother, and his sister. Jin Guangyao's subsequent allowance of the death of those he had hired for the job was to eliminate witnesses. It was a pragmatic, though cruel, solution, perhaps partially mitigated by the memories of his mother's fellow prostitutes ridiculing her for being able to read/having "airs", stripping her, and pushing her onto the street and him down the stairs. He still couldn't stop that pesky trait of mercy and spared Sisi, who was kind to his mother. As we all know, without knowing who she was brought to testify against, she later helped bring him down.

I don't think you can say he did not value those lives. He understands what he has done and does it because he must, in terms of having those women killed. In his outburst with Nie Mingjue, a part of what he screams, besides the surface of "of course my life is worth more than theirs", what he brings up is that all life is equal and murder is murder no matter the circumstance. Just because you think you killed for a greater cause does not mean you did not kill.

And I think it very much was revenge. Revenge (like what NHS does) is personal and messy and brings in innocents (perhaps even the way Wei Wuxian uses corpses can count towards this, but more apt is the way he made Wen Chao eat his own legs and fingers then tortured Wang Lingjiao to insanity via horror then death by making her eat a table leg). BUT Jin Guangyao's revenge is also motivated by future troubles. He gets rid of people who will continue to make his life miserable, not solely out of revenge. He had his father killed the way he did because of all that Jin Guangyao and his loved ones have suffered at Jin Guangshan's hand. AND because Jin Guangshan would continue to ask Jin Guangyao to whittle away at his soul (corpse refinery, murder, dirty work motivated by Jin Guangshan's desire to be the first chief cultivator).

Honestly though, Lan Xichen has this same gripe, not that Jin Guangyao has killed his father, but that he chose that method. I think that's a fair critique. Considering the kind of person Jin Guangyao is, it really was "in seeking revenge, dig two graves". He is a person who tries to be kind whenever he can. In the end, it's these kinds of deaths that must get to him most.

There's a saying, "If you haven't suffered, don't ask others to forgive." I can't comment on Wei Wuxian's, Jin Guangyao's, Xue Yang's, Nie Huaisang's desire for revenge because I haven't suffered what they suffered, I haven't lost what they've lost and it's very easy for me as an outsider to be calmer and say that I wouldn't have done what they've done. The most I can say is that I'm not as talented and even if I wanted, I would not be able to accomplish what they've done and hope that I would not desire revenge in the first place.

As for Lan Xichen...

Jin Guangyao, in all universe, uses one of his very last actions to save Lan Xichen, the Lan Xichen who has stabbed him (even if it was an accidental stab). Lan Xichen has been repeatedly described as the white moonlight in Jin Guangyao's life. I'm not sure if you've read it, but I'm sure I've written meta about the common juxtaposition of "white moonlight at the foot of the bed" and "red cinnabar mole on the heart". In essence, Jin Guangyao will not intentionally hurt Lan Xichen because to him, Lan Xichen is all that is good and kind in the world and will die before he does. And actually, he does--die before he intentionally hurts Lan Xichen.

#Lan Xichen #jin guangyao #meng yao #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #xiyao #chen qing ling #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mdzs

[icarus-suraki]

It's Sad A-Yao Headcanon Hours again:

Meng Shi never has a lot of money to spare and now she has lil babby Meng Yao to take care of, so she has to keep working, right? So imagine that she has to work but there's no one to keep A-Yao quiet for the night. If she had the money, she could get some kind of medicine to keep him quiet and asleep when she needs to--instead she does the best she can and dilutes some liquor in water, sweetens it as much as she can, maybe adds a little fruit juice, and spoons it into A-Yao's mouth until he falls asleep. Then she can tuck him away somewhere and he'll be safe and quiet until she returns. And she does this for quite some time, until A-Yao is old enough to know how to be quiet and look after himself while his mother is away.

So when Meng Yao grows up, he has (to others) an unexpectedly high tolerance for alcohol--it even tastes a little nostalgic to him. But if he drinks too much he gets sleepy, which is something the Nie brothers have come to notice.

So when Nie Mingjue's best assistant is clearly working himself to the bone, Mingjue and Huaisang proceed to weaponize Meng Yao's inclination for politeness and invite him for a drink. It would be rude to refuse the invitation. So they give him a drink. And then another. And then another. It's rude to refuse them but, soon enough, Meng Yao sacks out (against his best efforts). It's underhanded, maybe, but it's one of the only ways to get the poor guy actually rest for more than a couple of hours at a time.

And if you, like me, want to imagine a drowsy MY/JGY leaned up against a smiling LXC, please, join me.

#mdzs #just a bit of headcanon #all in good fun #meng yao #meng shi #meng shi deserved better #also #xiyao #but only a little

[xiyao-feels]

I mean I think that's one of the things that really gets to me about the JGY-antis—I've said it before, but a narrative isn't just a random collection of facts; if something's in the story, that matters, and it matters when we learn the information, too.

Like, god, when I think about everything we see at or after the temple... that the stairs happened on his birthday, that he was treated horribly even at the brothel, that he spared Sisi because she helped him and his mother, that the entire temple was for his mother and he made the statue in her image, that the only reason he was even at the temple was that he was there to bring his mother's body with him—and god how much does it kill me that NHS' plan only worked because of that, that he must have been counting on it—that he saved LXC's life after Cloud Recesses burned, and it always kills me that this is where we learn it in the novel! I think the other adaptations tend to reveal it earlier but god, can you imagine getting through all this and then only at the end, after LXC has stabbed JGY, only THEN learning it—that he helped rebuild Cloud Recesses after the burning! Not that he gave JL Fairy, because we already knew that, but seeing the actual scene where it happens, and the kindness of it, and JL's explicit rejection of the idea that JGY was only evil and blackhearted and so on—

Anyway, I really don't understand how you can look at all that and go: the point of this narrative is that JGY is a pure and uncomplicated villain.

#jin guangyao

[spriteofmushrooms]

More of the Succubus Curse!AU. I’m just imagining the Spider-Man pointing meme when all three major Lan’s realize they’ve all fantasized about the same man. Of course all of their fantasies were very different, LQR was imagining a sweet ingenue JC begging to thank him for all his hard work teaching him by letting himself be further taught dual cultivation one on one. LXC thinks JC would be as firm as he is in the war room and would show LXC exactly how he wants to use him. LWJ mostly imagines putting a mouthy JC in his place or being dual seduced by both Jiang boys. Of course the other two legs of 3zun aren’t spared embarrassment. NMJ mostly likes to imagine JC dressing and acting like his mom. Being viscous and steam rolling any weakness. JGY mostly imagines setting himself up to be JC’s savior from Wen imprisonment and being thankful enough to heap praise and respect on JGY. He follows whatever JGY wants because he trusts him that much.

I imagine there’s a lot of arguments about characterization once people get over the initial embarrassment since it seems like JC just naturally inspires these feelings. Maybe there’s some latent Yu succubus blood the people think. The amount of spite RPF jumps Sky high and JC never knows peace again.

It would be very funny if NHS was immune to Succubus-jie's very helpful curse, because he had never fantasized about being personally involved with JC. JC should treat him like a refuge because FINALLY someone who isn't nasty!! NHS, importantly, is responsible for a minimum of 20% of all Hot Sect Leaders In Your Area RPF booklets. Because JC's hanging out with him, he's close enough to view at least a few of these fantasies displayed, and make perfect replicas of the others from gossip.

JC: Lan-laoshi thinks I'm a delicate maiden.

NHS: And how does that make you feel? 📝

JC: It's nice that he thought I was such a good student. 🥺

NHS: Bleak, yet inspiring!

#pallas.rtf #mdzs #hi anon #allcheng #nhs gets caught when he starts to have fantasies of jc reading his novels and saying ''huaiang-ge your prose is so refined''

[angstymdzsthoughts]

I think tumblr ate this ask because I have send some after and they have already been posted. Apologies if not.

Deity!au. Wei Wuxian ascends after passing, and Lan Wangji dies from the disciple whip after getting A-Yuan from the burial mounds.

They meet in the heavenly capital

LWJ is not on his right mind, and dazed. He only responds to WWXand it's either "Wei Ying" or "It hurts"

WWX was intending to keep a low profile but now he has to figure out what happened!

LWJ follows him holding onto his waist all the time

He catches the Lans in some kind of ceremony, he didn't quite realize it was a funeral

He hears someone speak about the thirthy-three lashes and boils with anger

He shows himself. LQR spits blood. The others are frightened. The only one who shows amy kind of respect is LXC.

He destroys their cores, sparing only LXC, and threathens to burn down CR and kill everyone on it if the disciple whip is ever used again

WWX, grabbing the disciple whip: I'm confiscating this until you can play nice.

#mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #character death #im always down for god wwx

[sasukimimochi]

hey guys! had a nap so I'm back to update u guys properly. I'm going to try to summarize the post I made a bit better, as well as posting the picture I shared with the previews (as little as it is)

*TWPT extra image. Translation: ”Come back soon! - Lan Sizhui”

As always, check out my masterpost in order to get more content! ❤

So onto what I mentioned earlier today, I'm delaying Ch 27 of Ghost of Mine by at least one more week due to life continuing to throw shit my way. However I'm sharing some previews on ao3 (they will be removed when I upload 27, just like the aftercare ficlet). A longer explanation will be under the cut!

This is in addition to stuff that is still happening from my previous life update.

as you guys know the past tenants aren't really paying their dues, so I've been waiting on that & I got a large charge from an insurance company I wasn't expecting on top of that. Then I got a second charge from the same company, in the same month, for the usual amount. So we lost as much as 900+ dollars this month. As you can probably expect, that is a lot of money to lose at once unless you are reasonably wealthy and comfortable.

We only just today got our check for next month- early, which is great because we were worried that we would have to stretch things until the 3rd with no new groceries other than what my mom might be able to throw our way. Before we got the check as well my cats decided they absolutely did not like the food I got them- My cats aren't picky when they're hungry, so this was a bizarre and unexpected thing and I couldn't spare the money to buy a new bag of food (my mom helped us by buying a new bag of their previous food and essentially doing a trade with us, so she has the food they don't like) Just, in general a lot of stress is happening at the same time.

Onto GOM: I was writing recently (I can't remember the exact day, it was probably up to two weeks ago) as I did rewrite the entire beginning of Ch 27 and planned to cut out a lot more, which is why it's taking me much longer than expected to complete this chapter- it's my first show of proper investigation and intrigue that is a bit dangerous for the present time and not just, you know, only revealing information- I really want this chapter to be good and not rushed through like my initial first pass. It was a short-lived lapse in my stress when I wrote the first fourth of the rewrite, and I've hit a spot in the chapter that's difficult when my mind is so distracted by the stress.

SO, as to make up for this lack of update (again) I'm gonna give you guys three exclusive previews, one for the beginning of Ghost of Mine Ch 27 (just the first bit, not everything I've written so far bc its still prone to change and I want to give u guys the best version), the beginning of Rose Hips and Flushed Fingertips - The Story of Mo Xuanyu (GOM extra), and the beginning of The Wild Plum Tree (JC & LXC's story - GOM extra) so I hope you enjoy these exclusive previews, as they are all directly connected with the story and are canon to the GOM universe.

TLDR; struggling still, this is another delay. will check back in in about a week- I'm going to show you guys some exclusive previews for GOM related content that isn't yet released to make up for it right now! GOM CH 27, RH&FF (Ch.1/Part1), and TWPT (Ch.1).

PLEASE, KEEP IN MIND: the previews are still very prone to change. RH&FF/TWPT especially, since I am always struggling on how I write JC to make him feel canon to me (and he doesn't here, in my opinion, just bc I haven't described him well enough there) so just keep that in mind when you read!

So I hope you guys enjoy the previews and come back next Sunday!

#yes lsz “drew” the picture i shared with the preview #its still a little too nice for his age as of that timeline but ehhhh ignore it #sasu speaks #GOM update #Ghost of Mine preview #previews #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mdzs fanfiction #mdzs fanart #mdzs fanfic #jiang cheng #lan yuan #lan sizhui #mo xuanyu #wei wuxian #sketch #writing preview #mdzs fic

[leatherbookmark]

wailing, etc, because the pieces of information wgxn choose to withhold from lxc -- how jgy and his mother were treated in the brothel, that both the sex workers and the clients were amused by meng shi’s ambition at best and disgusted by her Gall at worst; that (as opposed to what the fandom likes to think) there was no big solidarity with other sex workers, they weren’t a family of girlies who supported each other but rather a workplace that didn’t care about your personhood; that sisi was the only person who was kind to meng shi and little meng yao, and this is why he chose to spare her, and she didn’t even know why; and many more, including all the moments that nmj has shown wwx in empathy that might be influenced by nmj’s hatred -- are things that lxc just... won’t have a chance of finding out, ever. because who’d tell him? sisi is a victim, she’s not going to comfort a friend of the man who imprisoned her for a decade with sad tales from his childhood. she probably noped the fuck out as soon as she could. he’ll just never know. because wwx was sooo tired of all this bullshit, you tell him, lz, i f he asks. have i mentioned how i think zewu-jun should start biting

#shrimp thoughts #if not for the fact that the xi/yao tag has been very disappointing in the last couple of months so at some point i just stopped visiting it #i'd say i should go look for a revival fic where lxc can ask questions again and jgy can answer them #but either way it would be a difficult task because the trend has always been weepy dishrag jgy believes he doesn't deserve lxc's affection #he's such a baaaad maaaan who's done such baaaad thiiiinggssssss next time he'll atone and just let people harm and kill him (｀-_ゝ-) #which like. have we read the same book #anyway. yea

[maalidoesart]

if there is one thing i cannot get over its the „die with me“ scene between jin guangyao and lan xichen.

like at first there is so much terror in lxc eyes. he just stabbed a person he was so close to with his own hands, a person whom he trusted so much but was betrayed by. yet after only a few seconds lxc closes his eyes willingly, intending to join jgy.

while i do think that jgy has done horrendous acts i feel like he did care deeply about lxc. I do wonder what jgy thought while pushing lxc away and ultimately sparing him

„the one who survives will suffer most“ ( a quote from word of honor i think about alot and i do think it also applies to lxc. Maybe i have just consumed too much fan content but I do believe that jgys death and also his involvement in nie mingjue‘s death is something that lxc will forever carry around with him)

#lan xichen #3zun #xieyao #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #maali rambles

[poorlittleyaoyao]

I actually laughed reading about how novel!wwx judges others but he is a little mean. Novel!wwx is actually an asshole! And I too am surprised that jl didn't even spare a thought for his auntie! There's a whole paragraph about how he wants to forgive jgy and wwx (very beautiful) but what about qs? I put in the 'wtf' box, where there's also lxc's treatment at the end of the novel where lwj 'leaves him be' because 'he can't do nothing to help him'. I know that lwj isn't the best at comforting people but his brother is in seclusion! In a similar situation he was 13 years ago!

I mean... at the end of the day, the reason Jin Ling never thinks about Qin Su is that this canon itself doesn't especially care about its handful of women. It's why Jin Ling thinks about his father but not his mother, it's why Wen Ning doesn't mention his sister outside of a story about how poor Wei Wuxian has suffered ever so much, and it's why Wei Wuxian doesn't think about either of the above people. And unfortunately, since every Doylist answer has Watsonian repercussions, it means that these guys come off as jerks who don't give a shit about their mothers and sisters and friends who cared so deeply for them. The drama makes an effort, but even it stumbles in the end, IMO.

(Having typed that all out, I wonder if that's a factor in my Jiggy brainworms: in a story full of guys who regularly forget their female family members, we've got this little guy whose driving motivation is honoring his mother. And yet, because we can't have nice things, he is simultaneously responsible for a good chunk of the chronicled violence against women in the series.)

LXC's treatment is part of the novel problem of it being Wangxian: The Book. Which honestly isn't even a problem, because that is exactly what the novel is supposed to be! It's not a gen fantasy epic that happens to contain romance; it is specifically a romance so people expect it to be Wangxian: The Book.

I was complaining awhile ago about Novelxian's blithe attitude towards his traumatic experiences (both those he experienced and those he inflicted), and one of the anons who messaged me posited that this was better for the story, because it meant Wangxian could have their romance unimpeded by baggage. I boggled for a bit because it was so diametrically opposed to my own preferences that it was completely alien to me. It was eye-opening, too, because once I thought about it, that anon's perspective is probably much closer to the average audience member's than mine is, and that's fine. Because this is, after all, the romance novel Wangxian: The Book!

Going to back to LXC, the problem is more that the surrounding plot and characters are actually really damn interesting in a way that doesn't always mesh with the desired romance tropes. Acknowledging the love interest's permanently traumatized elder brother or the ramifications of the power vacuum that just opened up following JGY's death and the adjacent scandals would REALLY bring down the vibe when it's time for Wangxian: The Book to send its couple off to their cottagecore happy-ever-after. So instead, our heroes just go "well, best not to mention it!" and look like assholes because, as with the deaths mentioned in the first paragraph, the story itself doesn't want to dwell on it.

[lancabbage]

OMFG honestly, if I see another bs post about WWX being awful for keeping the fact JGY let Sisi live one more time.

WWX was not being anything but kind to leave that bit out. Firstly, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't matter anyway. The man literally killed his father (yes he was an ass), a whole bunch of poor prostitutes, his brother (he admitted this, so pee off), his son, his wife, his oldest sworn brother, countless other people and a clan who opposed his watch towers.

Do you really think him sparing one person would have changed the fact LXC was disgusted and angered by his actions? WWX did not tell him this quite frankly irrelevant piece of information to spare him further turmoil and most importantly to stop JGY from using it to manipulate him as he had done so the first time LXC confronted him and ended up a hostage.

Don't be a bunch of illiterate imbeciles.

WWX did not know LXC would stab him, NHS manipulated him into doing so and he probably would have still managed to do that whether he had that information or not.

WWX was being kind, MXTX wrote him as the moral ideal, so your argument is totally and utterly unfounded.

If you hate Wangxian so much why don't you just do one and read some picture books instead.

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wangxian #mdzs novel #rant #have some tasty salt #throws salt at the idiots of the fandom in hope they melt like the witches they are