#meng yao & wei wuxian

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girl found dead in a hidden room.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan xichen #jin guangyao #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #qin su #EDIT: Tumblr published an earlier draft with only half the notes I wrote so: late entry on my JGY thoughts. #Unlike the mystic powers of the stockmarket (what the OG meme is referring to) I think this situation calls for more active investigation. #qin su is such a deeply tragic character to me and I really wish we got a bit more from her. #Love everyone who sent me messages about her after the last time she appeared. #I think she needs a spin off of her being a transmigrator SO badly. #MDZS has so many interesting characters - but it sometimes fails to give them the proper room to really develop past a role in the plot. #That's just the consequence of writing a story like MDZS. Not every character in a book *needs* to have a rich inner life and backstory! #To do so would bog down the story and obliterate any notion of pacing. It's just not possible. #Jin Guangyao (nee Meng Yao) is unfortunately not free from this leeway rule. He is the culprit of this murder mystery plot #and thus NEEDS to encapsulate the themes of the book. And personally he's a 7 out of 10 at best on this front (in the AD). #MDZS is about rumours twisting reality and working towards truth. And about how people & situations are rarely ever black & white #JGY has his motivations. He's well written in regards to his actions making sense for his character. #What started as good traits (drive to succeed & improve his image) became twisted over time (do anything to maintain his image) #and it's a good parallel to WWX! He has the same arc (with different traits)! Bonus points for IGY in that regard. #but man....by the time we confront this guy for murder there's not a lot of grey morality. He's just...deep in the hole *he* dug. #There's a beautiful tragedy to it! More on JGY in later comics - this is getting pretty long already!

[unfamd]

i strongly believe that in any universe modern or otherwise lwj uses lan xichen as a kind of confessional like a catholic priest. he literally comes into lan xichen's room at four pm precisely because that's the scheduled time that he allows himself to share an Emotion with his brother and sits down and says in a distinctly monotone yet perfectly recognisably anguished tone 'brother i have sinned' and lan xichen sighs very quietly because he doesn't want to hurt his brother's feelings and puts down his pen and says 'is this about wei wuxian' very gently and Lan Wangji is like 'mn' because it has never once Not been about wei wuxian. and then he says something that is Kind Of Weird, But Still Not A Sin like 'he fell asleep when we were studying and i watched his ribcage moving up and down for thirty eight minutes until he choked on nothing and woke himself up; am i evil' and once again lan xichen will kind of not-sigh in a way that makes it very obvious that in all other ways except physical he Is, Indeed, Sighing and has to reassure the most rigidly distraught younger brother in the history of mankind that what he is suffering from is in fact a malady known colloquially as a crush

#the untamed #wangxian #lan wangji #lan xichen #wei wuxian #mdzs #cql #and then they never speak of any of it again even though lan xichen has to physically control the fact that he's having a Stroke #when lwj makes seventy eight Weird But Pretty Okay Really confessions about this boy for like three years and then leaves for college #and starts doing it over voice message instead #lxc sees the notification that lwj has sent him 16 voice messages in the last half hour and Knows Deep In His Bones that this is about wwx #poor man. he needs A Break #eventually the stress back ache gets too much to handle and he goes to a Very Fancy Chiropractor Spa Thing and meets meng yao and Is Happy #but it took some getting there #unfamd originals

[littlesmartart]

still absolutely BANANAS to me what a difference there is between meng yao in the wen sect from the "normal" (presumably unbiased?) perspective and the meng yao we see in mingjue's memories in empathy - who goes full on HOMME FATALE complete with suggestively stroking baxia, doing the elizabeth swann smirk, and leaning in like he's going for a kiss until his face is literally INCHES from mingjue's...... MINGJUE WHY ARE YOUR MEMORIES OF MENG YAO BEING "EVIL" SO WILDLY HORNY HMM

bonus, because experiencing someone else's Weird Horny memories first person has to be kind of confusing:

#nieyao #meng yao #wen yao #the untamed #lan wangji #wei wuxian

[purpleblch]

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #mdzs fanart #fanart #wei wuxian #lan wangji #jiang cheng #lan xichen #xicheng #wangxian #xue yang #meng yao #jin guangyao #stikers

[lilapplesheadcannons]

There is a convoluted tangle of "jealous of other people's younger sibling".

Wei Wuxian: Lan Zhan is so adorable! I wish I had a cute didi like him!

Jiang Cheng: Hey!

Lan Xichen: Oh, Wangji is perfect, but I wish we were a bit closer to each other like the Yunmeng brothers.

Nie MingJue: Look at Meng Yao, just look at him! He can draw up an emergency patrol roster in his sleep!

Jiang Yanli: I love them, I do. But I wish they were a bit less... them and a bit more sensitive and tactful like that HuaiSang.

Wen Qing: The day Wen Ning can stand up for himself, like young master Jiang, is the day I can die peacefully.

Jin ZiXuan:(looking at Meng Yao and Mo XuanYu) They are perfect!

#mdzs #mdzs crack #mdzs headcanons #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxian #lan wangji #jiang cheng #lan xichen #nie mingjue #jiang yanli #nie huaisang #wen ning #wen qing #jin zixuan #meng yao #mo xuanyu

[rejectedfables]

MXTX: so the story starts with the main character's death. Then we unravel his story and how he tried his best but had to resort to fucked up methods in order to create real change and save lives, how society supported him while it benefited them and then turned on him when it was convenient, how his complicated social status of being gentry-adjacent was intrinsically tied into every decision he made AND how he was judged before during and after those decisions, how he experienced abuse and abandonment and support and love, saved lives AND killed people. He sacrificed everything but never compromised his ideals once, and it got him killed.

MXTX: and then we close the story on the death of this other guy, who we're also shown having gone through ALL THAT SAME STUFF, except this guy compromises every single time and that ALSO got him killed.

MXTX: neither of them were killed because it was "right" to, or because they were "evil", but because those with power in society were done with them. Their past actions were used to excuse their executions, and it's kinda fucked up actually, wouldn't you say?

MDZS fandom: 1 billion years of meta on why JGY is an irredeemable villain, and WWX is a pure cinnamon roll

#Mdzs #Wwx #Jgy #mo dao zu shi #Jin Guangyao #Meng Yao #Wei Wuxian #Mdzs meta #the untamed #chen qing ling #Cql #the grandmaster of diabolism #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #Jgy is not a villain he's Wei Wuxian 2 and somehow everyone missed it #Like i know the adaptations made him worse on purpose but yall... its propaganda censorship purity wank... #Open your third eye and embrace complexity or you will fail

[scrivenger-grimgar]

wei wuxian would probably be taller than lan wangji if he wasn't starved as a child. my guy was 186cm tall after being starved for 4-6 years, he would probably be like 190-195cm tall.

i love the idea that both wei changze and cangse sanren were also both freakishly tall, and because of that their kid is eye-level with nie mingjue or more, like dude. dude.

WWX: tallest person in jianghu

just for the record, wwx is canonically 186cm, but i think this is better! this also means that every modern au has tallxian, and i will not compromise on this >:3c

#wei changze & cangse sanren deserve to be a little a freakishly tall. as a treat #my little freaks #mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu #mdzs #mxtx mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the grandmaster of diabolism #the untamed #chen qing ling #cql #wei wuxian #wei ying #wangxian #lan wangji #lan huan #lan xichen #mo xuanyu #nie mingjue #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #wen ning #wen qionglin #meng yao #jin guangyao #wuji #wei wuxian x lan wangji #3zun #lan zhan

[symphonyofsilence]

Sass master Jiang Cheng & his unparalleled "3 times divorced, single parent of a teenager" energy since age 15 appreciation:

#My wife is a bitch and I like her so much <3 #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #wei wuxian #wwx #wei ying #jin ling #jin rulan #jin guangyao #meng yao #jgy #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #cql #chen qing ling #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mxtx #my two cents #yunmeng bros #yunmeng shuangjie

[evilhasnever]

I'm losing my mind at JGY+hamster. This is the best thing that ever happened to me. You know I will be at the front of the line to buy those glorious xiyaos... gorgeousss

Official MDZS Sanrio collab twitter.

#mdzs #official art #sanrio #mdzsanrio #lan xichen #jin guangyao #meng yao #nie mingjue #nie huaisang #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #lan wangji #lan jingyi #jin ling #lan sizhui #wen ning #guys my excitement cannot be contained right now

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Courtroom Catastrophe [Bonus Comic]

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #xiao xingchen #xue yang #nie mingjue #jin guangyao #jin guangshan #Man…something about wwx thinking how he would have liked to have become friends with xxc really got to me #they both tried to do good but were met by terrible fates because of politics #what an awful fate for them both…courtroom dread as no one believes you. Rigged game. #I sure hope this Xue Meng guy isnt full of petty energy and leaves xxc along after this! #its meng yao/JGY’s first official appearance! Shout out to the person who caught on that even with his hat he had no hair! #he’s got a little headscarf. Like a grandma…mamie yao #in case people were wondering about JGS’s outfit; there’s only a front flap #nothing in the back #you hate to see him but you hate watching him leave even more #Thank god he's been dead for several slutty slutty years

[lgbtlunaverse]

I think my favorite wwx misconception/unreliable narrator moment is when he's watching nieyao fall apart during the empathy sequence and the entire time he's like wow... jin guangyao is SO smooth. He's completely manipulated nie mingjue he's sososoooo good at dealing with him. And then you look at the actual situation and literally NOTHING is going like how jgy wants it to go.

Like. Even after the stairs. Wei Wuxian is like "wow jin guangyao knows exactly how to get nmj to do what he wants" and the jin guangyao in question. Is standing there. Literal days after getting kicked down a flight of stairs. By Nie Mingjue. Outwardly blank but inwardly ripping his own hair out like god FUCKING dammit i'm done. I can't do this anymore. Literally nothing else has worked the only solution left is murder. And wwx is like "he's totally in control of this situtation" it's so fucking funny he sees the most basic display of deescalation skills and his mind is fucking blown 🤯 he didn't know people could do that!

#mdzs #wei wuxian #meng yao #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #the measure by which wwx decides if an interpersonal relationship is being handled well is if it's going better than him and jc #WHCH IS NOT A PROPER STANDARD #and even by THAT metric nieyao aren't scoring particularly well

[littlesmartart]

You're Gonna Go Far, Kid | The Offspring

another concept that has lived in my mind rent-free for so long that I've finally gotten around to creating! these boys are just such [clenches fist] incredible narrative foils. I am truly team #morallygreybisexualtwink.

#wei wuxian #jin guangyao #meng yao #nie huaisang #the untamed #also oh my god I've spent the last three years so hung up on 3zun + their sibs #that I completely fucking forgot what a horrifying fucked up little dude the PROTAGONIST is! can you BELIEVE? #rewatching him killing all those wens like o_o ah. yeah. forgot he was a cold-blooded sadistic serial killer. lmao I guess.

[palehorsemen]

#untamed fanart #theuntameddaily #theuntamed #wei ying #weiwuxian #mo dao zu shi #chen qing ling #lan wangji #lanzhan #meng yao #lan xichen #魔道祖师 #fanart #cdrama #cnovel #cdramaart #wei wuxian #illustrations

[twistedappletree]

jin guangyao: *gives fairy to jin ling* this is a spiritual dog, she’ll personally protect you whenever you’re in danger

fairy whenever jin ling is in danger: lmao nah *go gets wei wuxian*

#they share a braincell i think #mdzs #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #mdzs crack #mdzs meme #mdzs shitposting #incorrect quotes #incorrect mdzs #jin guangyao #meng yao #jin ling #jin rulan #jin ling’s uncles #mdzs fairy #apple memes 🍎 #wei wuxian #wei ying #mxtx #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation

[symphonyofsilence]

While making this poll I noticed that actually Wangxian are the subplot to the 3Zun story. The whole plot happened because of Nie Huaisang's 10 years old revenge plot against Jin Guangyao. Which happened because of the whole huge 3Zun drama.

Jin Guangyao was the one who killed the villain of the past time of the story and won the war. He was the one who went from being a poor outcast to the Xiandu.

The climax of the story is The Guanyin Temple. In the Guanyin Temple the main characters are Jin Guangyao, Lan Xichen and Nie Huaisang.

Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are... kinda there. Flirting and hugging each other.

In fact If you erase Lan Wangji very little of the plot will change.(I mean the book is in the romance genre so yeah, in that way it will definitely change drastically. But I'm talking about in- universe changes). Even in his own romance plot, he didn't have a very active role since LXC was the one who screamed at WWX about LWJ's love for him.

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #cql #chen qing ling #jin guangyao #meng yao #nie mingjue #lan xichen #lan huan #3zun #wangxian #lan wangji #lan zhan #wei wuxian #wei ying #nie huaisang #my two cents

[whimsicallywiddershins]

Jin Guangyao during the entire series: "I murdered my way into this mess, I will murder my way out of it."

#especially at the end #did he really think he could murder 3 sect leaders #and 2 sect heirs #and get away with it #everyone knew he killed jin guangshan #but no one cared #jin guangyao #meng yao #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan xichen #incorrect quotes