#mdzs musings

[gentil-minou]

A-Yuan every night in the burial mounds

(Wei Wuxian did it once as a joke and now every night he has to hold A-Yuan's hand as the walk around the entire place and tell all the ghosts goodnight while Wen Qing laughs at him)

#look i saw this going around everywhere and i had to #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #a-yuan #wen yuan #wei wuxian #mdzs musings

[marshmallowwitharubberband]

If MDZS characters were vegetables:

Wei Wuxian would be a carrot, idk, he gives carrot vibes.

Jiang Cheng would be an eggplant, of course.

Lan Zhan - cilantro, Lan Xichen- parsley. It's funny! 'Cause they look so similar! Hahaha...I need sleep.

Nie Huaisang would be a gourd, so of course Mingjue would be a pumpkin.

Jin Guangyao - Brussels sprout. Sounds about right.

Jin Zixuan would be, like, romaine lettuce. All fancy n sht.

Shijie would be a cute red cabbage.

Jin Ling would be a yellow bell pepper? idk.

The Wen siblings would be like, a turnip and a daikon?

Sizhui is, of course, a radish.

I'll be taking no questions.

#wrote this at 3am #so sleep deprived #send hepl #I was reading a very subpar fanfic #and i couldn't take it seriously #so my brain tried to help #and now they're vegetables #with silly voices #Veggie Tales but make it necromancier #mdzs musings #mo dao su zhi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mxtx

[suibianandbichen]

The more time I spend in fandom that appeals to different age groups across different formats the more I find that it's just pointless to argue or debate these characters and place moral judgement on actual human beings who relate to or enjoy these characters and interpret them however they do.

I remember reading Harry potter as a 15 yr old and then rereading them later as an adult with a load of life experiences and seeing the stories and characters differently

There is so much drama on here. I just want to enjoy everyone's creations and the occasional analysis. Biko.

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #mdzs musings #some people just don't even know how to debate without getting personal #new year no drama online or offline #biko is igbo slang for please

[liziocit]

Imagine if there's a fanclub for Wei Wuxian and the junior quartet and all the young disciples are part of it. Like every second friday of the month, they congregate to the Jin Sect and discus Wei Wuxian.

Jin Ling always ends up bragging about Wei Wuxian being his martial uncle, while Lan Jingyi interjects with a slight smile and says he's my shifu's husband.

Lan Sizhui interrupts and says very politely with a smile, "He's my dad, so..."

"He's my husband,"

Pin drop silence ensues when Lan Wangji, who followed them because he was curious why his lan disciples left for LanLing every month said this.

They all rush to explain themselves but Lan Wangji just waves a hand and tells them they're all good as long as he gets to join and he gets the first pick on merchandise.

And so every second Friday, the lan juniors go to Lanling with their Hangguang-jun beside them. Nie Huaisang is also in these meetings somehow, they don't know how he entered but he makes the merchandise.

So they don't question it.

#mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #junior quartet #i think lwj will one day be caught with wwx merch by wwx and his ears will go so red #musings #nie huaisang #thoughts

[esoteric-oracle]

//long rambles ahead!

I think what really lingers with me about MDZS is that it's not a novel with a cathartic ending at all. It's a bittersweet story that leaves you slightly hollow. Yes, it's a beautiful and epic romance. It's a piece of social commentary interwoven with a love story and murder mystery. It's a cautionary tale. But it is also very much a tragedy. It's a story about being too late, second chances, and moving on.

By the time the truth of everything JGY and JGS did comes to light, it's 13 years too late. Everything that mattered has already happened. Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan are long dead. Jin Ling is still an orphan. Wen Ning is dead, and sometime in the future, his death will be permanent. Wen Qing was burned to death at the stake for no fault of her own. Nie Mingjue has already spent ten years in a no-doubt agonizing state of un-death, and Lan Xichen will have to bear the guilt of loving both Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao, and by doing so, forsaking them both. Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng's once-close bond is irrevocably broken, and the woman who sowed the seeds of resentment when they were still children will never face the consequences of her vitriol.

People sometimes say MXTX was too hard on the side characters, and only gave the Wangxian a happy ending, but what stuck with me after finishing the story is how… sad things are. Yes, Wangxian finally get the happy ending they've deserved for nearly 20 years - but at the same time, it's not a happy ending where the people who've wronged them get the consequences they deserve.

Wei Wuxian will spend the rest of his life haunted by guilt and loss, over what happened to Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan, over the loss of the Wen remnants. The rest of his years won't even be lived in the body his parents gave him.

Lan Wangji will spend the rest of his years wondering if he'd chosen to stand with Wei Wuxian when it mattered - would his son have had to grow up without his birth family?

Nie Huaisang is left wondering if his brother had been a little less trusting and had never taken Meng Yao in as a Nie deputy, would his brother have died a less wretched death? Would he have been forced to stoop to ruthless machinations and manipulations to seek some semblance of justice?

Wen Ning will have to live with the knowledge that if he'd been a little less kind, if he'd let Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng die that fateful day - his family would still be alive. The Wens would've won the war; Wen Qing might've even succeeded Wen Ruohan.

No one really gets the ending they deserve. MDZS isn't a story where good people get happy endings, and bad people get their dues. Sure, Jin Guangyao's crimes are revealed and he faces the consequences of his actions. But what about the people who stood by and made him into a monster? If anything, the side characters and antagonists who survive get better than they deserve. The real villain of MDZS - society - will never face retribution. Those cultivators who always believed in their own bigotry and righteousness over and over again, will never face justice.

Do you think those cultivators and the public will ever feel any regret for the innocent people they condemned to death in their own prejudice and blind self-righteousness? Do you think the people who gathered at Nightless City to call for Wei Wuxian's death considered for one second that he was the biggest reason they won the war? When the cultivators who sacked the Wen settlement at the Burial Mounds threw the bodies of the Wens into the blood pool, do you think that was a sign of shame?

Do you think Jiang Cheng will ever regret leading a siege on a small settlement of innocent farmers? Do you think he's haunted by condemning to death the same people whom he owes his life to?

Do you think those people like Yao-zongzhu will ever feel an ounce of remorse for so easily believing rumours and hearsay, and spreading speculation and vitriol about innocent people?

Do you think that unnamed cultivator out there will ever lose a single minute of sleep over smashing in Wen Popo's head?

In the years that follow, Wen Ning will have apologized a hundred times for lives he did not take, crimes he did not commit, because of the name he bears. People, both in-universe, and even readers, will condemn him for actions he could not help, for doing the right thing. But did Jiang Cheng ever apologize for killing his family? Did the Jins ever apologize for their horrific treatment of people in the labour camps?

People will continue to demand that Wei Wuxian apologize for causing the deaths of their friends and family. But how is Wei Wuxian meant to do that? No one ever apologized to him for taking his family away. No one ever apologized for condemning the Wen Remnants to death for crimes they took no part in. The Wens were his family too.

There's so much potential for bitterness and corruption in MDZS. Instead of saving everyone, Wei Wuxian could've stood aside and let the people who tried to kill him die. MDZS could've been a story of succumbing to hatred and grief, but it wasn't. MXTX could've gone on and on about how society wronged the protagonist, but she didn't. The narrative is one of forgiveness and moving beyond past grievances. The story chose to close the story on a positive note. I truly love that aspect of MDZS, where MXTX leaves just enough room for hope and love at the end.

A-Yuan will finally get his closure about the family he lost as a toddler. Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian get their happy ending together after being separated by nearly two decades by war, miscommunication, cruelty, and death.

Wei Wuxian will never regret protecting survivors of an attempted genocide, because it was the right thing to do.

And Wen Ning will still stand in the way and take a fatal blow meant for Jin Ling, despite everything the Jins and Jiang Cheng did to the people he loved.

Because they chose love. Characters like Wei Wuxian and Wen Ning and Lan Wangji have the chance to move on and live a happier life because when they could've succumbed to hurt and fury and resentment, they chose to be kind and do the right thing. Wangxian get their happy ending because they learn to recognize the toxicity of the cultivation society's self-cannibalizing prejudice, and chose to pursue righteousness above personal benefit.

MDZS isn't a story about good people getting good things. Just look at what happened to Xiao Xingchen. There's really nothing satisfying or cathartic about everyone's fates at all. There's no promise about society facing the consequences of their mob mentality or Wangxian actually changing the world together. Even in TGCF, for all its makings of a love story, we get the promise of societal change once Jun Wu is deposed.

It has all the makings to be a tragedy or tale of vengeance of epic proportions - but instead, it's a love story. It's a story about making the best of what you've got, and staying true to yourself and your morals, even if that's sometimes a bitter pill to swallow. It's a story where everything that could go wrong went wrong, but the characters still managed to fight their way to a better ending by choosing kindness. At its core, MDZS is a testament to choosing compassion over cruelty no matter how tragic and hopeless life gets, no matter how long the journey gets. Even though the happy ending is more personal and only applies to the specific characters, even though we don't actually get the promise of their society becoming a better place - we still have the hope that Wei Wuxian's second chance brings. The hope that sometimes, no matter how cruel the world is, some people who deserve it still get their happy endings. That's what makes MDZS such a memorable work of art. That's why it stays with you.

#mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #nie huaisang #jiang cheng #wen ning #musings #Can you tell I really love the narratives MDZS took? #tragedies #mdzs thoughts

[whumpbby]

I'd really love to read a fic where a year past the canon ends, Lan Zhan starts to realise that his dreamed-up perfect relationship with Wei Ying isn't what he imagined it to be.

That what he got is actually a wholeass person with imperfections that will get annoying after a while, with opinions that he doesn't agree with and behaviours he's not prepared to just accept. A human person that will lie to keep him happy, that will leave when any possibility of strife approaches, that sometimes doesn't want to have sex - or that sex isn't a cure-all for their problems. That whatever Jiang Cheng experienced growing up with Wei Wuxian will fall on Wangji too, because love doesn't change you as a person in 100%, sorry.

Because that's what think will be a hurdle for him - he never was in a relationship. He never even had real human friends. Fuck, he doesn't seem to have acquaintances. All he ever had was a made-up image of a boy he knew shortly in his late teens and a sect where he was the lauded Young Master everyone respected. He can't stoically stand a kid talking back to him without a silencing spell and has difficulty expressing the most basic things in useful words. For all the soulmate talk, he didn't even know the boy he dreamed building a life with - that Wei Wuxian never existed outside of Wangji's limited glimpses of him and a lot of forgiving assumption.

Like, when will it hit him that Wei Ying is actually a complex human being that isn't just for him to care about and love, and that he himself isn't happy with some things? Will he one night wake up in cold sweat when he finally understands that the man sleeping next to him orchestrated a horiffic surgery on himself and his brother, and never indicated that he regrets it and wouldn't do it again? That the man sleeping next to him kinda-sorta just looked on as people were murdered in front of him, and didn't really have any strong opinion about being brought back via human sacrifice?

Like, discarding stiff and stifling Lan rules after being burned by them is one thing, but this is a moral quandary that goes way beyond that.

#thinking of lan zhan #wangji #mdzs #musings #wei wuxian #lan wangji

[twistedappletree]

when you’re trying to get advice from your friends but you all share 1 collective braincell ✨🧠✨

#also this was for an idea given to me by #feralplantwife #where lsz intentionally kills jl with kindness to the point that he’s in constant crisis lmFAO #mdzs #the untamed #jin ling #lan jingyi #ouyang zizhen #fic wip #mdzs juniors #apple babble 🍎 #zhuiling musings #it’s Zizhen’s time to shine in this scene fr lmaoooo #also feralplantwife tried to tag but tumblrs being weird #anyhooooot #i am WRITING THE TH ING #actually think i might break my fic fast with this one since i haven’t posted anything new since 2024 started 👀 #junior shenanigans #i love writing junior banter fr it fuels me 😭

[lgbtlunaverse]

I have been thinking on the nature of mdzs as a deliberately vague text that leaves many things up to interpretation, and how i've slowly come to understand "up for interpretation" less as "there is One True version of this story i must find" and not even as " Everyone has a different One True Version of this story inside their head be based on their interpretations and the differences don't make one wrong and the other right" but as "There is no One True Version. Even in my own subjective interpretation of the text multiple things can be true at once" specifically, in regard to Jin Guangyao and the many things which are left up in the air as to whether he did them or not, most notably killing his son.

There's evidence for this, but it's non conclusuve (jgy saying he killed him while also saying he killed Qin Su, who very much killed herself. The speculations on how he'd have killed him being sect leader yao just saying shit. ) it is, esentially, just up in the air enough that if you decisively fall on one side of the debate is probably says more about you and your general opinion of jgy than it does about the "true" events of canon.

I have, as a proud apologist, always fallen on the "he didn't kill him but felt in some way responsible for his death." Side but recently have become more okay with the interpretation that maybe he DID kill him, and that at the very least, that when he tells Qin Su their son "needed to die" he is being genuine. Which, once you look at it beyond. "Is jgy a poor lil meow meow who it is Okay to Like or an irredeemable baby murderer" becomes both INCREDIBLY tragic and deeply interesting. Because here is a man condemned for who his parents were and who wants nothing more than to live, saying that it is possible to be so cursed by your heritage that you need to die. There is no existence for you. The exact same thing that has been said to him.

Of course being born out of wedlock to a sex worker and being a product of incest are different things, but that begs the question: where is the line? What crimes of the father can mean death for the son? How cursed can you be until your existence is so incompatible with society it is you who needs to give? And if there is... where is it? Qin su clearly thought she was past it. Was his son really past it? Is he?

#warning: canon typical incest and suicide #mdzs #mdzs meta #musings on the nature of unreliable narratives or whatever #meng yao #jin guangyao #jin rusong #i know this is a controversial take #i just think! that once you let go of the idea that killing rusong is some load-bearing sin where if jgy has done it you can't like him #that there is interesting stuff to look at here! #obviously. child murder bad. jiggy has done many had things but this one is. particularly bad. #so i get it if you feel uncomfortable with it being done character you view as symapthetic despite other bad things he's done #and again! multiple things are true at once! i STILL operate from 'he did not kill him it was a secret 3rd thing' modus 90% of the time #it's just that in this one instant i find the other option really interesting #i just. non-identity problem my beloved. if rusong's suffering cannot be erased without erasing his existence is he destined to do so? #if he'd been a teen when everything about jgy got uncovered and both his parents died is there... a place left for him to go? #i just. hhhhh this poor child. we know nothing about you beyond your shameful birth and your death. is that really all you were meant to be

[nakimochiku]

you know, xue yang went about it the absolute wrong way but. I think at the core all he really wanted was for someone to be on his side. He wanted someone to empathize with him, to agree that he is worth it, that he matters just as much as anyone else. Like i think it would have soothed something inside him so much for one person to say “yeah that was fucked up no wonder you were pissed”.

it was never about the finger. It was about devaluing his life and body. It was about dehumanizing him. And maybe he didnt have all the words to say precisely that, all he really wanted was for someone to be in his corner and back him up. Even if it was wrong. Even if they might have stopped him. The point was to be heard and valued.

which yeah, xingchen telling him he’s disgusting and CAN’T understand him… not gonna go well. It felt like being utterly rejected. He asked xingchen, as best he could, “arent i worth as much as anyone else” when he asked “do you understand?!” and was told, to his own mind, “no, you aren’t”. There was some serious miscommunication between the two but like… how could there not be given the situation?

#Xue yang #mdzs #musing #its okay baby im kissing you on the forehead you go ahead and slaughter as many clans as you like

[jayktoralldaylong]

Wei Wuxian's Trauma - Open as fuck. Everyone knows about it. Everyone laughs about it. Everyone makes jokes about it. He's demonised till the current day. People don't accept him just because the truth gets revealed, they don't even care that he's no longer guilty, they just glad they could drag another 'peasant' down. As someone who's never in particular had a great reputation, Wei Wuxian couldn't care less but he does wish they'd stop using his history to hurt the people he loves. That annoys him.

Xie Lian's Trauma - An interesting contrast. Everyone thinks they know Xie Lian's Trauma but they don't. All they know is that his kingdom fell and he became a beggar. They mock him and make fun of him but majority of the shit that actually affected him is unknown by everyone except his abuser and Hua Cheng. Absolutely no one knows the shit he's actually been through and it's something Xie Lian plans on taking with him to the grave. Xie Lian at the starting point of the story would rather suffer torture all over again than tell a soul about it.

So we have the contrast of Wei Wuxian's public shame with Xie Lian's very private and hidden disgrace, where no one can laugh at the things that actually mattered to him.

Then we have Shen Qingqiu who seems to be a mix of both.

Shen Qingqiu's Trauma - As far as any incident involving Binghe, they seem pretty public. People can see that shit happening in real time. So Shen Yuan's trauma is public. However, no one realises that absolutely no one, NO ONE, knows Shen Jiu's trauma. That shit is just as hidden as Xie Lian's to the point that no one even got a whiff of it when he joined their sect. Not a single person knows what he's been through and I find that amazing but then he didn't leave any witnesses. Just Qi Ge.

#tgcf #mdzs #svsss #mxtx musings #xie lian #wei wuxain #shen qingqiu #original shen qingqiu #shen jiu #shen yuan

[fistfuloflightning]

…I am so sorry. I’ll have to get used to it. He’ll be my father-in-law, after all.

Jiuyuan bc you know that’s how I roll

#I AM BACK! #I had fandom burnout for a bit (and an unhealthy dose of writers block) #but my muse has returned from vacation #more for the mdzs/svsss au #crow!wei wuxian #he knows SJ’s type and the only way he’ll let go of his bby boy is over his dead body #SY undoubtedly has something to say abt that #svsss #jiuyuan #shen yuan #shen jiu #wei wuxian #mdzs #rogue cultivator shen yuan #my art #svsss au #svsss art #scum villain #crows

[gentil-minou]

Thinking about band au wangxian where their "gimmick" on stage is extremely sexually charged flirting like I'm talking wwx straight up grinding against lwj in the middle of his solo or they stare directly into each other's eyes everytime a song mentions love or sex

Except they haven't confirmed their relationship so like half the fans are diehard shippers screaming while the other half think it's a fake publicity stunt and point out all the bts vids where they look like they hate each other and argue constantly

Neither of them mention their relationships in interview, always redirecting questions back to the music or their advocacy and so for years it just goes on like this.

They're the most popular band in the world when suddenly they go on a long, three year hiatus.

And so everyone thinks oh gosh maybe they were together but they broke up and their tears are heard around the world.

Then they have a comeback tour and reveal all: of course, the hiatus was because they got married and adopted a son.

They drop this randomly in the middle of a set btw, Wei Wuxian just smirks at the audience and says "this is for my husband and our son" and then he winks and blows a kiss at Lan Wangji who catches it with all the seriousness in the world and presses it against his chest

Later on, the band's Instagram posts a photo of wangxian with their backs turned, each holding the hand of a little boy wearing little bunny eared headphones between them, as they all walk put of the venue

#the only thing stopping me from writing endless band au stuff is my pitiful knowledge of music #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wangxian #wei wuxian #lan wangji #bushy writing #mdzs musings

[marshmallowwitharubberband]

It's interesting to think that, from what little we know about Madam Lan, she was put in a situation where se had to take a life, and was punished with her freedom being taken away for the rest of hers, forced into a marriage where she didn't even get to see her husband (which could be a good or bad thing, depending on how she felt about Qinghen Jun, but it would svck either way), bore him two kids anyway, but then was barely allowed to see them. And still, she managed to be a good mother, and leave a loving impression on her sons. She had all the reason to be bitter and angry at the world, but she chose to make the best of her circumstances in front of her children, for their sake.

Meanwhile, Madam Yu was chucked into a loveless arranged marriage, yes, but she got to keep her power and her weapon, climbed up in status, was free to command (and mistreat) the entire clan as she saw fit. She was freer than the other clan leaders' wives, for sure. And yeah, even though she also bore her husband two children and he didn't seem to care, she had them by her side, but she chose to emotionally neglect them in favor of constantly trying to get her husband's attention. Instead of taking all the power and freedom she had and use them to make the best of her circumstances, she chose to use it to make everyone else's life worse.

I think it's a very interesting contrast and I wish we got to see more of both Madams if only to understand their actions better.

#mdzs #mdzs musings #yu ziyuan #madam yu #madam lan #character analysis #mo dao zu musings #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #She's a queen but she's also an asshole

[mojoflower]

MDZS Prosopagnosia (face blindness) AU

I want an AU of MDZS except Wei Wuxian is face blind. I just feel like that would change so much, adding both comedy and terror to the story overall.

Innocent Youth

Jiang Cheng unwittingly cultivated his shouty persona from a very young age, because he subconsciously realized that his shixiong was more comfortable with him when he stood out from the crowd in this way. Similarly, in the post-resurrection days, jc always lets Zidian spark purple in a very obvious and prolonged way, so wwx doesn't have to linger uncomfortably in an awkward is-he-or-isn't-he-my-brother zone.

Jiang Yanli slowed herself down as a child, becoming very calm and quiet and slow-moving, because that's when her shidi is the most relaxed. She quickly learned the look on his face, when he's trying to figure out who someone is without giving away his weakness... when he's desperately waiting for someone else to use a name, to give him a toe-hold. She always greets everyone by name: just for wwx. She also often announces herself in the third person: others might find it weird, but her didi is always so grateful.

Wwx actually needs to use Jiang Fengmian's unfortunate teeth as a marker to differentiate him from his son, once Jiang Cheng reached his adult height. (The frog on Sandu's hilt really helps, too.)

A lot of the shidis in the Jiang Sect know about wwx's special issues, and totally riff on him by switching their swords and hair ornaments just to fuck with him.  They can't switch their fighting styles, though, so the Jiang quickly become a sect where instant spar-offs happen often and are no big deal.

All the people who love wwx have adjusted for this in many ways, realizing that they either need to verbally identify themselves or adapt distinctive clothing/mannerisms/scents/body language.

Wwx wears clothes that don't match any sect because sect uniforms make everyone so homogeneous that he can't even discern gender, much less individual people. (Uniforms actually give him mental heebie jeebies, because they make his life so hard and uncertain.)

Cloud Recesses Student Arc

Wwx has to ask before he fights whether it's going to be friendly or to the death, since he doesn't always know if the person he's fighting is a friend or foe. Wwx defaults to treating all fights as friendly fights (which is why he never even unsheathed his sword when lwj attacked him that first night in Cloud Recesses) because he can't stand the thought of hurting a friend, or just someone innocent.

Lan Wangji is very still. Very still, very quiet, very tall and always wears white and smells of sandalwood. He is easy to recognize.  ... Except when he could be Lan Xichen. If there's a smile, or any color, then he's Lan Xichen.  (This means that wwx immediately knows who kissed him on Phoenix Mountain, because he doesn't use his sight to identify, well, anyone.)

Nie Huaisang becomes a friend because of his choppy, erratic, fast-paced motions, both when he is speaking and moving. Also, he's unusually short so that helps.

He is secretly fond of Lan Qiren because that dreadful and unflattering beard is such a great identifier. He loves Nie Mingjue because he's literally and distinctly larger than everyone else. Later, he will become immediate friends with Sisi, because dramatic facial scarring is the best cue there is for someone like him. (Is anyone fat? He likes fat people. He likes tattooed people. He'd have loved Mo Xuanyu with his Hanging-Ghost-painted face, because, wow, that's so obvious. Xue Yang's missing pinky finger is  so helpful.)

Wei Wuxian knows everyone's swords VERY WELL because he can recognize them and use them to identify which asshole in gold with a peony on his chest (for example) this dude might be. This is what he calls "my poor memory". But it actually means that Jin Zixuan looks exactly like Jin Zixun to him, if not for Suihua.

Burial Mound Days

He's got a string of orphans, and calls them all A-Yuan. No, seriously. Word has got out, and all the homeless babies know they can move into the Burial Mounds and get doted on by EVERYONE because no one there is about to correct the Yiling Patriarch.

Dead Wen Ning is easy to pick out because of his stiff gait, awkward stance and distinctive pallor with the black veins. This makes him an automatic wwx favorite. (The stuttering helped, even back when he was alive.) Wen Qing is tiny, and also, no one else is wearing Wen robes, so she becomes a good friend, too.

He actually really likes all fierce corpses, because the way they move is so distinctive that he always knows what he's dealing with.

Can you imagine how fucking terrifying the world must be when you know that all Wen Zhuliu needs to do is put on a different robe and then he can walk right up to you and wreck your core? Same goes for wrh, jgs, jgy, wc, you name it. Talk about hypervigilance.

Think of all the talismans he's invented to keep himself and the Wen Remnants safe because he knows he can't tell friend from foe and has to count on magic to do it.

Post-Resurrection

Lwj picked up on Jiang Yanli’s habit announcing herself by name instead of using “I”, and consequently uses third person for himself, too. The Junior Ducklings do it, too, although they don't understand why, at first. 

Wwx cannot, for the life of him, tell lsz and ljy apart if they just stand quietly next to each other.  Ljy will never think this is not hilarious.  Especially because wwx will offer them chicken to see which one accepts it.  (It’s foolproof.)

He is utterly and completely unable to tell the Twin Jades apart unless they're speaking. Lan Wangji has learned to announce himself simply to protect his brother from being leaped upon and kissed at random intervals. The whole sandalwood thing? Lwj marinates himself in it to give wwx a clue about who he is before he's within liplocking distance.

#MDZS #the untamed #wangxian #MDZS au #wei wuxian #prosopagnosia #face blind wei wuxian #face blindness #yiling patriarch #mojo muses #if anyone is inspired to write this #be sure to tag me! #face blindness is a shitty thing to live with #but it sure can be funny sometimes #and there's that element of horror too

[sassybluee]

What if... Lan Wangji is convinced his home is haunted as a kid. But he's little and scared, so he doesn't go and investigate. He just lies there, listening to all the little noises the house makes, seeing shapes moving in the shadows.

As he gets older, his brain supplements the weird with logical explanations. He grows up, goes off to college, moves out, gets a job. He only visits his childhood home for family dinners. He forgets all about how he thought his house was haunted.

But one night, he has to stay overnight because of bad weather. He's lying awake in his childhood bed, a tiny twin that really doesn't fit his body anymore, scrunched up beneath the covers, when he starts to see familiar shapes and hear familiar noises in the darkness.

He'd forgotten this. He got used to the sounds and shapes as a kid, but he's forgotten how to deal with it. At this moment, he's a little more freaked out than he would've been back then. The situation is more unsettling than he remembers. It doesn't feel normal anymore.

But he's also curious in a way he wasn't. In the back of his mind, buried, he's always wondered if any of his childhood imaginings could be real in any capacity. If he'd only just looked, what he might've found...

So, he gets up, he goes towards the creaking and groaning and the weird shadows. He goes out of his room into the hall, squinting to see in the darkness.

There's... a figure standing in the hall.

It's not a person, but it as person-like qualities. A similar height to himself, similar stature. But with horns. And wings? And a tail? And possibly claws??

The figure is frozen, having been caught for once, for possibly the first time ever. Lan Wangji steps forward, heart racing, but intrigued. He wants answers. The streetlights shining through the window hit the figure just so as he steps closer. And he sees....

Is it just him, or is this demon kind of hot?

#sassy's musings #mdzs #wangxian #demonxian

[bnnywngs]

in a world where lan qiren is a good teacher, wei wuxian has extra classes for advanced knowledge in basically everything, and has music tutoring class with lan xichen.

after the first class, before they ended the class itself, wei wuxian was rushed to lan qiren's office with his dizi in hand.

"xichen? what is the meaning of this?"

lan xichen, looking baffled with his own xiao in hand: "wei-gongzi is a music genius."

"a genius?*

"yes." lan xichen nodded "i haven't taught this song yet. wei-gongzi, please play it after i finish."

lan qiren looked at them with slight suspicious and serious curiosity.

the lan heir started with a soft note, beginning a famous gusu lullaby that was mostly known only to their people. wei wuxian payed attention, moving his head with the rhythm.

after lan xichen finished, he nodded to wei wuxian so he could begin to play too.

and play he did. no note out of place, exactly as lan xichen played just a moment ago. as if he already knew or had the music sheet in front of him - but, alas, he has his eyes closed almost in concentration.

"and he did not know this song previously?" lan qiren asked in shock.

"no, xiansheng..." wei wuxian answered almost shyly.

"i see."

lan xichen nodded "he needs another teacher."

"he does. as you said, he is a genius."

"ah..." wei wuxian looked slightly uncomfortable, a light pink shade on the bridge of his nose that wasn't there a second ago.

"you are also a genius in cultivation, as i've heard." lan qiren continued "more advanced than i thought you were." he sighed "we will be shifting you to other classes, please continue to pay attention and ask us for anything if you need help."

"th-thank you?" wei wuxian looked confused, but excited.

he was released after that, free of any schedule for the rest of the day as his teachers were set to meet and talk about him to find better ones for minds like his.

"what did yunmeng jiang did until now that no one has heard of his work?" lan qiren sighed.

"shufu... i fear he is stifled by the madam. from what i've heard from wei-gongzi himself."

"mn." lan qiren stroke his goatee "at least we have a time with him where we can nourish his mind. ideally, we should ask for him to stay another year."

"wangji would be happy." lan xichen chuckled.

"yes..." lan qiren's voice got a light tone of calculating "he would."

#lightly influenced by that lilo&stitch scene #man i cant believe my muse is back #brazilian & sad #thats me #mdzs #cloud recesses arc #mdzs drabble #lan qiren #lan xichen #lan huan #wei wuxian #wei ying #gusu lan sect #poaching cultivators #wangxian #mdzs headcanons #good teacher lan qiren #wei wuxian is a genius #scholarship for wei wuxian!! #teenage wangxian #teenage wei wuxian #teenage lan xichen #guy is like 19 in this arc #everything is good and nothing hurts #the untamed #wwx my beloved #happy wwx #my writing #bnnywngs writing #sorry for bad english