#untamed book

[lutawolf]

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 1

If you've watched the series but haven't read the book... Go freaking read it. Why? Okay, I'll explain.

One to me, the pacing was better. I'll admit that when I started the book, I thought maybe I was reading out of order and had to check myself. In the book, you start after his fall. "Things get so much better once he dies!" Holds true for the book. There is that drop in your gut. Thank you very much. While it's ass backward from how the show starts, I really liked it much better. You also find out that Wei Wuxian is in a whole other body that was basically gifted to him in order for him to exact revenge. Because he is in another body vs. just a mask, it makes the fact that people figure out who he is, hell of more interesting. I understand why the show couldn't go this route, though, and I appreciate how they did handle it.

I understood things now that had me scratching my head in the show. There were just little things that were hard to understand without context that the book gives you. Also, Wei Wuxian is even more of a gremlin than what is shown in the show. Fair enough, we'd be here all day if they did that. I adore seeing just how devoted Lan Wangji is to Wei Wuxian now. All the little details clearly indicate his love. I also abso-fucking-adore that Wei Wuxian is all "What, me like him" he is clearly straight but there are all these context clues that scream "Not!" that he was, in fact, head over heels from the beginning.

After reading the book. I went back and watched the parts from book one, and you know what. I enjoyed it so much more. Watching these characters really brought to life the ones in the book. I had more substance and understanding, therefor, found myself clapping at certain scenes that previously had me baffled. That's what I love about shows made from books. You read the book, and it's like you know secrets that other people don't. You get context that some just never will understand, but shows give you better character understanding. Characters have a way of fleshing out in shows that give you an emotional context that was missing. That you didn't really understand until it was brought to life. Then you go back and read the book, it becomes better than before. You can visualize everything, even those you didn't see live.

I love the book. I highly suggest reading it. Do I love one more than the other, nah. I love them together. Hope you guys found this helpful or at least interesting. 💜💜💜

#untamed series #untamed book #coconuts mafia #luta opinions

[miscalculation]

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

#untamed book #quotes #self love #acceptance quotes #self love quotes #personal

[themandilorian]

I was wholly unprepared for the experience of watching the untamed in 2023. I’ve seen the gifs! I’ve read some character analysis! I vaguely knew the plot but I did not expect a.) the show to be a lot more tragic and nuanced and funny than what I thought possible and I cannot stress this enough b.) for Wen Ning to also be there on that damn boat

#the most show of all time #I’ll do a separate post about the book series because you also could not have prepared for that experience #mdzs #the untamed

[loveisbraveandwild]

please put in the tags the worst book you’ve read in its entirety!!

#it ends w us or untamed #books

[khattikeri]

one of my favorite things about mdzs is that for how heavily its plot involves politics of classism and misogyny... even the characters most directly impacted by it can't and don't free themselves from it. literally the closest exception is mianmian.

meng yao being the "son of a whore" wasn't some sort of commie awakening for him that led him to wanting everyone to be socially equal. he played the political game, climbed the ladders, sucked up to and backstabbed and murdered people, including other prostitutes who actually had nothing to do with how he and his mother were treated at the brothel he grew up in.

he put in so much extra excessive effort for even a fraction of the same respect that members of gentry cultivation clans got. and he did deserve to be treated more humanely! but he feeds into the exact same system that created him, leading to his own undoing.

his efforts were for a fragile upward mobility that was never going to hold up. he never surpassed his origins nor did he empower others in similar stations, because the society he lives in is not one that would accept that.

the second he got caught and all those crimes exposed, he was scapegoated to hell and back, replacing wei wuxian as society's terrible one-sidedly evil boogeyman overnight.

speaking of not-quite male gentry, i think it's interesting that wei wuxian explicitly doesn't try to climb the ladders in BOTH lives, knowing full well that anything he does will be punished just for the sheer fact that he is wei wuxian.

wei wuxian is scolded for giving intelligent and correct answers in school. lan wangji does the same and is praised.

wei wuxian occasionally lounges around with fellow disciples and is punished. jiang cheng does the same and mostly escapes.

wei wuxian refuses to carry his sword around in public (after losing his golden core, which nobody knows) and is scorned as an arrogant upstart. nie huaisang has been doing the EXACT SAME THING for YEARS and nobody bats an eye.

unlike jin guangyao, wei wuxian knew subconsciously from the start that his acceptance was superficial and that he could be cast out any time. when he was 10 and recently taken in by the jiangs, he canonically would not eat or use "too much" food and water because he thought they'd find him a nuisance for "wasting their things" and kick him back out.

now away from just the classism, yu ziyuan is a proud and strong noblewoman in a society that belittles and derides women for everything they do. her strong cultivation doesn't matter. she's victim to the vicious rumors of her husband loving another woman who is strong like her but apparently had a more likeable personality.

it doesn't matter even if jiang fengmian didn't cheat or that wei wuxian is wei changze's son with cangse sanren; yu ziyuan can't bear with the humiliation of herself (and by extension her children) not being "good enough". she's ridiculed for "failing" in that one duty as a wife, mother, and woman.

she lashes out and takes out that anger on everyone present for years, giving her children lasting trauma and also being a key element in how the jiang family and yunmeng jiang sect are effectively wiped out at the hands of the wen clan.

madam jin doesn't even have a name outside of the fact that she's married to jin guangshan. i don't even remember reading anything that indicates if she's a strong or weak cultivator, or what, which in itself proves that to most people, it doesn't matter. she's "just" a woman.

of course she's angry at her husband's affairs and all the bastard children they bring in. but she also can't do anything about them, so she lashes out at the few people she can: servants. non-cultivators, probably. those very same bastard children.

shoutout to meng yao getting shoved down a flight of stairs at age fourteen, because if madam jin tried that move against her husband instead, it would make her lose even more face, which as a noblewoman she'd never do.

and that's not getting into how jiang yanli is consistently sidelined for being physically weak.

that's not getting into how mianmian was actually a good cultivator, but was mocked by everyone around her for trying to stand up for wei wuxian when everyone was turning on him. how everyone scoffed at luo qingyang's words as "just some lovesick woman" who "obviously wants to marry or bed him since he saved her".

luo qingyang is the only one of these characters who HASN'T died. she didn't play society's games like jin guangyao. she didn't dig her heels in confidence of her own abilities like wei wuxian.

she didn't bitterly lash out like yu ziyuan and madam jin. she didn't gently accept it like jiang yanli.

she just LEFT.

she married an ordinary merchant and cultivates separately from mainstream cultivation society, and therein found her own peace and happiness.

mxtx doesn't bother with particularly class conscious or feminist vocabulary to hand-hold readers into understanding these disparities, but that choice highlights them & the deeply entrenched politics of their society even more. i really love it.

#keri chats #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #long post #mdzs spoilers #im novel only but still tagging. #the untamed #cql #yeah yeah everyone's written meta addressing this aspect of the story BUT I THINK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIMEEEEE #maybe i just don't get to read a ton of books often; esp not ones that mirror my own culture. but it's just so. soooooo. augh #the fact that the setting itself enables so much of the tragedy in mdzs... which is true of all tragedies but STILL... #this isn't even getting into qin su and the power imbalance w her and jgy post-reveal... man. #man. so much going on here. man #THIS POST IS MESSY AND BARELY EDITED BUT IF U READ IT. ILU

[magnaflourious-nerdity]

Am I obsessed with their narrative parallels? Who can say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#my friend and i were discussing the book being a split narrative between two perspectives and we both agreed #that jgy would have the most thematically resonant and narrativly interesting contributions #jgy #jin guangyao #cql #the untamed #wei wuxian #as always sorry if its been done before #i have the memory of a thing that cant remember anythign

[benevolenterrancy]

bros don't let bros walk around with their chest torn open

#mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #wen ning #wei wuxian #wwx #the untamed #mdzs book 5 spoilers #i find this little scene absolutely hilarious and i would honestly love a fic about wei wuxian experimenting with ways to patch wen ning up #and generally making everyone really uncomfortable about him casually shoving his hands into wen ning's chest while wen ning is just vibing #like it's no big deal #yiling patriarch and ghost general are the best bros #(yes yes i know the injury is not that big in the book but i needed it to be comically large enough for wwx to look through) #my art

[melonnade]

joked about this a while back and finally decided to make an edit

#wangxian #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wwx #lwj #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #cql #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #i think this is official art from the game iirc #i tried not to use any fanart so I grabbed it from the wiki #so hopefully it’s all clear #Jiang Cheng’s reaction to them during the Guanyin temple scene in the book is so funny #update: it is not from the game it is from the jp audiodrama

[arshwangxian]

#danmei #mxtx mdzs #mxtx tgcf #mxtx novels #chinese #books and reading #wangxian #lan wangji #the untamed #wang yibo #xiao zhan #yizhan #lan zhan #love wins 🏳️‍🌈 #wei wuxian #cql wei wuxian #hanguang jun

[fairy-orchid]

“You'll say it while crying one day”

@asiandramanet ✧ jan-feb bingo ✧ blending

#I made this bc I got up to the wen qing scene in the book and it made me cry so suffer with me pls #jin ling #wen qing #wei wuxian #asiandramanet #the untamed #theuntameddaily #dailyuntamed #asiandramasource #cdramaedit #tusermona #userxlh #lextag #usersbru #userkimchi #usergooseras #<3 #weiwuz #weiwuzedits

[chaifighter]

Wwx: alright venerated ancestors I need y'all to do me a solid and help me get this man ON LOCK I want him so bad I'm gonna perform 2/3 of our wedding right here just cause I'm so silly like that (but fr help me out here I Need Him)

Wwx 5 minutes later: can I posthumously blame mo xuanyu for turning me gay

#I am finally reading the books and just finished vol 4 #ohhhhhh my god #mdzs #the untamed #wangxian #cringe is dead modao on main

[berryberrytaeberry]

Me deciding to read mdzs after being 1.2 seconds into the untamed will forever be incredible (abridged version):

#its the development of learning Lan Zhans name for me #i “stumbled” upon the inside cover of book 2 and it was OVER YOUR GIRL WAS MESSY BUN GLASSES BLUE ORBS IN CAR ON THE WAY TO BARNES AND NOBLE #and now many months later i can no longer have coherent thoughts #and i still havent finished the untamed #mdzs #the untamed #wei wuxian #wangxian #wei ying #lan zhan #lan wangji #berry agenda rise

[scripted-downfall]

There's nothing quite like the subtype of "enemies"-to-lovers that consists of character 1 existing and character 2 screaming into a metaphorical pillow about definitely, totally, completely hating character 1 and, thus, having perfectly normal reasons to rant for two paragraphs how they're so infuriatingly perfect and good and kind and handsome and ugh they can't be real so let's go prove that they're not (oh shit oh fuck is this love)

#this was inspired by an incredibly niche book series but it applies in multiple contexts so heck it #the myriad #farragustus #tour of the merrimack #the sagittarius command #the other contexts: #red white and royal blue #rwarb #rwrb #firstprince #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #the untamed #wangxian #pride and prejudice #also they're not the main couple so i'm not giving them the whole fandom tag but: #fengqing #also probably beefleaf #but that's not canon so i suppose i won't tag it directly

[wisesnail]

Time to update my artbook game <;

Over the years, I have published 3 art books: GO, Hannibal and a miscellaneous book that includes works from The Untamed, TGCF, WOH and much more!

Links below 💙

the #GoodOmens book is 76 pages and can be purchased here

the #Hannibal art book is 152 pages, and it's available here

the #HeartInParadise book is 110 pages, and can be found here: REGULAR VARIANT

#wisesnail #art book #good omens #hannibal #tgcf #the untamed #mdzs #word of honor #tian guan ci fu #go

[wangxian-the-zhijis]

Whoever made Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo (Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji’s actors) sing the main ost of The Untamed, which is 無羁 (wú jī)— had made the best decision in the entire decision making world.

Whoever decided to name it 無羁 (wú jī) and make it the WangXian version (from the books/donghua) of the live adaptation, and also the one that Lan Wangji canonically composed as a theme song for him and Wei Wuxian — had made the second best decision in the entire decision making world.

Whoever decided to make the official English title of 陳情令 (chén qíng lìng) as “The Untamed” which also means “unrestrained” or “無羁 (wú jī)”— had made the third best decision in the entire decision making world.

Like it was so genius? Knowing that whenever you listen to 無羁 (wú jī), it’s Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji themselves singing the song? Their theme song? And that even though they censored it, they still managed to make the song name a combination of their names (Wuxian + Wangji)? And that the literal English translation of 無羁 (wú jī) is “unrestrained” which can also mean “Untamed”?

#aside from wangxian #i’ll also be adding wuji in my tags from now on #the untamed #cql #lan wangji #lan zhan #wei wuxian #wei ying #wangxian #wuji #Youtube #xiao zhan #wang yibo #i’m sorry my thinking might be wild #but when i realized that wuji is also a combination of their names #the first thing i thought of was how wwx was written before lwj so it’s giving my bottom lwj rights 😂😂😂 #which is acceptable (but i think in cql only? since book/donghua fans rage about the thought of bottom lwj) #but if u look at cql lwj i think theres no problem 😂 #my useless essays

[rainydrawstuff]

Wei Wuxian is a (soft) necromancer

Print | Wallpaper

This is based on my favorite “yiling laozu moment” from the novel. (Let’s be moots, if you love mdzs btw! I’m new around here)

Wei Wuxian listened carefully. Kneeling on the ground with one knee, he bent down and murmured something toward the earth below him. Suddenly, a bump formed below the surface. As though a pale flower had grown out of the black soil, a skeleton arm slowly broke through the dirt. The portion of the skeleton arm was weakly suspended in the air. Wei Wuxian reached out and grabbed it. He bent down even lower. His long hair fell from his shoulder, masking half of his face. He pressed his lips toward the skeleton hand and whispered something. Then he was quiet, as though he was listening for something. A while later, he nodded lightly. The hand formed the flower bud again and withdrew into the soil.

(The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Chapter 67, translation by Exiled Rebels Scanlations)

Since MXTX used a flower metaphor, I made a nice and colorful field instead of the dark and cold dirt of the burial mound. I wanted to add all the little details but still give the illustration my own twist, like the hair fall on his shoulder and covering his face (the other side for illustration purposes) or him pressing his lips to kiss the hand as if in gratitude for sharing their story with him.

His tears are my own addition. To me, Wei Ying's power is tied to how deeply empathetic he is, so I wanted to show his sensitive side when listening to a spirit. This piece is basically me romanticizing necromancy a little (oops) instead of going for a dark vibe. We love soft Wei Ying<3

I made a few color versions. I love how such a small change can make you feel like it's a completely different situation: the first warmer like daylight, cool moonlight is more melancholic, pale gives a winter/snowy vibe, and radiant is like you’re wearing rose-colored glasses haha

(Let me know if you’re interested in any of these versions and I’ll add them to my shop!)

#wei wuxian #mdzs #mdzs fanart #cql #digital art #yiling laozu #yiling patriarch #the untamed #artists on tumblr #fanart #wangxian #illustration #character art #book illustration #fantasy illustration #fantasy art #danmei #mxtx #wwx #rainydraws