#what a person lan wangji

[lazycranberrydoodles]

getting back into the untamed and i had a thought. / follow for more yllz babygirlism

#i saw someone a while ago talking about how wwx always has good intentions…. #his personal road to hell was paved with good intentions yes but i’m not sure where making a guy eat his own legs fits #it is so funny to me how the tiger tally/yin iron influences wei wuxian differently in each adaptation #i remember making a sliding scale of how ‘culpable’ wwx is from adaptation to adaptation #based on how they portray the mental effects of the iron #but for the life of me i cannot find it :( #wwx really said ‘if i had a cursed amulet i simply wouldnt be corrupted🙄🙄’ #that’s basically what he tells lan zhan in this episode…. if necromancy was having ill effects i would notice #and you know. at this point he is lying about everything. but i do wonder how much he actually believes that 👁️👁️ #how much of his mind is resigned to doing whatever needs to be done to exact revenge regardless of harm to himself #and how much genuinely believes that he’s smart and competent enough to make it through whole #the answer of course is BOTH!! bisexual pride #mdzs #art #mdzs spoilers #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic arts #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #my art #the grandmaster of diabolism #cql #the untamed #魔道祖师 #陈情令 #mdzs meme #doodle #lmao

[goldencorecrunches]

on the one hand i know the lans probably tried to keep lan sizhui sequestered away from the rest of the world for several years bc of wen yuan reasons on the other hand I think it would be very funny if lan wangji tried to teach him to hate jiang cheng, specifically, for petty reasons, and wee lan sizhui just. refused

#the untamed #cql #mdzs #lan sizhui #jiang cheng #lan wangji #he doesn't know why.... but he likes him!! runs up and says hello #xichen has to scoop him up. i'm so sorry jiang zongzhu #jiang cheng is like ???? lans??? evil. child??? hm. maybe not evil #hello child?? #HELLO ANGRY MAN!! #lan zhan weeps a glittering tear of frustration in the background.... the betrayal #(and of course that makes it more tragic when sizhui learns of his birth and early years and what Happened. >:) bc that's another person #another person he Likes. Liked. oh no) #(HEY HEY HEY KEEP IT LIGHT KEEP IT LIGHT)

[miniminijiminni]

wei wuxian should thank his lucky stars that lan wangji figured out how to withhold his flustered-ness if it meant making wei wuxian flustered bc otherwise this would be as far as they got

#wangxian #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #wei wuxian #lan wangji #i'm right and i should say it #i was gonna put the same image with the “and so they were both bottoms” #but I'm not trying to get into top/bottom discourse and what makes a person a top or bottom #whatever it doesn't matter #they would've died virgins is what I'm saying #twice for wwx #mxtx

[rhymaes]

The Untamed (2019) // Red, Chase Berggrun

#just. thoughts. this collection was the best thing I’ve read in. so long. god. god. #retrospect is. so interesting. what u thought u had vs realizing what u do have. god. #I just. it’s so interesting how much of lan zhan’s hate was truly love and how much of his love was truly hate #or it’s more realizing what you have after you had it #because when you’re molded to distrust curiosity & feelings & exploration—you forget what they feel like #and Wei wuxian being the first and only person to teach him to feel. even wrongly. because god at least you’re still doing it #even when the world hates you. you are still feeling it. #and then. he didn’t. and it was 13 years of feeling it & nothing. ANYWYA. yeah. #the untamed #lan wangji #lan zhan #wei ying #wei wuxian #mdzs #mdzs wwx

[moodyseal]

I keep trying to convince myself that MDZS had a happy ending overall but then I think about how 80% of its AO3 tag is just fix-it fics

#and it makes sense bc like #wei wuxian's core is too weak for him to live over a normal human lifespan like lan wangji #and it's too late for him to be able to make it as strong as it used to be #his body isn't even HIS it's a whole ass other person #he'll probably never fully reconcile with jiang wanyin #most people still hate him #half of the characters are just dead #lan xichen is probably just the shell of a man now #what's there to be happy about LMFAO #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #lonely thoughts

[travalerray]

this guy is so funny. Jin Ling clearly has been fine all these years. "Jiang Cheng doesn't know how to raise kids", pls. I know you don't want to let go of a specific idea of your shidi but this is just so. Do you think Mr. Bully the kid was saving Jin Ling's ass all those years???? I'm.

#the shidivision should be its own character #wwx: my shidi is delicate and immature and rude and fickle and cannot do a single thing. He hates me and thus I cannot in fact go back to #him. No I am not lying to myself to lessen the heartbreak what do you mean #(JL I am so fucking sorry) #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #jin ling #lan wangji #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi #kk's rambles tag #(I am not commenting on the JGY part because yk. I do think that both JC and JGY taught JL their survival mechanism while #simultaneously giving him what they wanted (unconditional affection) from their parents so yk. In some ways JL still retains the trauma fro #YZY=> JC of having a terrible personality that no one will talk to him but unlike JC he still has a reliable adult figure to run to when #he is crying. WWX is just refusing to see things that dissolve his romantic dream)

[withthewindinherfootsteps]

One thing I love about Lan Wangji is that how the way he’s viewed by others changes with the progression of his arc. 

When we meet him in the Cloud Recesses, he’s already well known in the cultivation world. He’s known for being one of the Twin Jades of Lan – for being a model disciple, for being perfectly skilled in everything you’d expect a young master to be proficient in, for perfectly encapsulating all the Lan Sect’s principles, including their immovable adherence to the rules. And that’s immensely impressive. But the thing is, he’s not really defined by himself – it’s not his own identity he’s carving out, but the identity of a perfect disciple of a clan. That’s even echoed in his title as one of the Lan’s Twin Jades. He’s known, first and foremost, for being a son of the Lan Clan’s Sect Leader.

But as he starts to develop, as he starts to grow, what he’s known for changes, and people begin to know him for who, not what, he is. He’s not famous, first and foremost, for being Lan Wangji, one of the Twin Jades – but for being Hanguang-Jun, the ‘light bearer’, the person who goes where the chaos is, and for a title and reputation he’s carved out of his own merits. Instead of being known for perfectly embodying rules and principles, he becomes known for being righteous*, fair, and for caring about the common people; for prioritising their safety over his own reputation in a way that no other important member of a clan did. And I think it’s important to note that although doing this doesn’t break any rules, it does stand in contrast to the actions of most cultivators (and is even look down upon by some people, like Jiang Cheng, though I’m not sure how much of that is due to their personal history). Instead of being famous for embodying the values of the cultivation world, he becomes known for what he does that sets him apart from it.

People begin to define him by his actions and by everything he does that shows who he is as a person; not as somebody defined by embodying the status and clan he was born into. His reputation given to him as a Twin Jade has been carved into a reputation he’s made for himself, as himself.

And I think that’s beautiful.

#mdzs meta #lan wangji #for the record i do think this change was partly inspired by wwx #but not in the way most people think #wwx didn't inspire lwj to be a good person #lwj was ALWAYS a good person (which is part of the reason wwx took an interest in him in the first place) #but what he did do was help break lwj's perceptions on what being a good person MEANT #and made him realise that being a good person wasn't synonymous with following the rules or embodying clan principles #as wwx broke rules all the time #but was still undoubtedly righteous #which is where i think a lot of lwj's conflicting feelings about him came from at first #because to him back then it was hard to reconcile the two #anyway #my meta #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #gdc #魔道祖师 #a bit more emotional than i usually am in my metas #but he's a *well written character ok*

[fanning-the-flames]

Moonshot: A Cheng'e Story

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Part 4 of 5

Jiang Cheng delivers exposition.

In a past life, he stole immortality from Hou Yi!Wei Wuxian who had saved the world. This immortality was a trap though as it destroyed his mortal body. In order to continue existing he is completely dependent on the medicines made by the Jade Hares and so can never leave the moon. With Jiang Cheng as a patient, the Hares were able to develop the Elixir of Life which would fortify the body enough to take in the core without negative consequences, but it took too long. Hou Yi!Wei Wuxian had already died. Jiang Cheng has been holding onto hope that Wei Wuxian would come back and so kept himself (and the core) alive all this time.

The Lans run through the unraveling palace. Lan Wangji worries for Wei Wuxian. Lan Xichen is clutching a huge jar of wine, what is implied to be the wine Wei Wuxian was drinking as well as the Elixir of Life. He is crying…it seems Jiang Cheng would truly die without the core.

Wei Wuxian is not on board with Jiang Cheng’s plan…leaving him with an eternity alive without Jiang Cheng. In the chaos of the illusions ripping apart, reverting everyone to their normal state, he tells Jiang Cheng he loves him and just wants another chance together.

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I was debating whether Jiang Cheng should go as far as admit he walked into Jin Guangshan's trap on purpose, but given how he behaves in canon I didn't think he should.

If you were wondering exactly what was premeditated, Jiang Cheng has long told the Hares that he needed to stick around to give the core with the safe way of receiving it to Wei Wuxian, but also couldn't actively seek him out nor did he tell the Hares to do so. They did that of their own initiative parent trap style, seeing how Jiang Cheng couldn't leave and all the waiting was deteriorating his mental health.

Now for a wholesome brother illustration as a palate cleanser.

The Lans here are not gentry like in MDZS but immortal pharmacists, so I wanted their clothes to be simpler as well, closer to monk-like than their canon counterparts. The bunny ears are a nod to stories like Journey to the West, where transformations often have a flaw that reveals the true nature of the supernatural.

#jiang cheng #wei wuxian #lan wangji #lan xichen #cql #the untamed #chang e au #mdzs #Jiang cheng still doesn’t explain everything but that is most in character #the modern characters don't have the courtesy personal name thing #the courtesy names are their names #hence why lwj doesn’t shout Wei ying #I know shouting Wei would be weird and incomprehensible in Chinese #but writing out Little Wei or Brother Wei would be weird in English so just know that’s what I’m imagining for the Chinese #it seems that the personal names function like nicknames in modern chinese culture so that's why LWJ is called zhanzhan #i could be very wrong though #that's just how it will be in this AU

[avisisisis]

Wei Wuxian is fluent in Lan Wangji, except for when it comes to romantic love and/or jealousy.

#mdzs novel #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxian #wei ying #lan wangji #lan zhan #“hey lan zhan looks mad doesn't he??” “what the FUCK do you mean he looks like a fucking ice block” #the only person who can read him better is lan xichen #mostly because lxc DID notice lwj feelings for wwx #“lan zhan don't be mad!! :((” #lan wangji who was just staring at him with a straight face: mn. #wei wuxian: :00 how dare u >:( #everyone else watching this conversation happen: how

[miwakags]

al haithams thoughts (probably)

he can do anything half decently. he’s just like ‘it’s probably possible’ and then attempts it. and if he fails then he keeps attempting it

there’s like , very little point in lying to kids. there’s censoring for age appropriateness sure but he’s not going to be like ‘babies come from [insert children’s story]’. if they ask an honest question he will give an honest but age appropriate answer

the language of academia is exclusionary and it’s functionality lies in its exclusivity. he really only uses it when he has to perform in academia but otherwise will code switch to not talk like that

he tries really hard to not be pretentious. he doesn’t really want to be but he’s aware he can be a little bit that way sometimes. it comes with the job and also the confidence

kaveh once bit into an orange whole (w/o peeling it) just to see al haithams reaction. his instinct was to shove him off the port osmos docks and walk away. heathens get rights except when it’s kaveh

he has very specific taste in design. practical. functional. lots of storage. lots of natural light. light wood walls and a dark wood desk. he believes in setting up a good, clean space — even if he’s never in his office

he knows his dick is big. he doesn’t like, always say so bc it can sound weird. but he’s comfortably aware of his dick size

literally most things could be a letter instead of a meeting. he will just not go to meetings he considers a waste of time and drop off a notice to just send him the notes, he’ll follow up if he has questions

the consequences of your own actions is Real and if you don’t want consequences then you have to deal with the thing bothering you. this is to say al haitham is pretty direct. it’s what makes him competent, efficient and solution oriented

his CV is excellent. he volunteers with children in his free time and sets up educational programs through the university. his research is well written and specifically targeted. his theoretical work is unmatched in eloquence and genius. it’s a bit terrifying

he’s good with kids! not really surprisingly. he’s just honest with them and can carry them on his shoulders and is also unafraid to change babies diapers

#al haitham headcanons #yeah #idk where this came from rlly #i’ll probably do kaveh ones bc i like kaveh lmao #thwhre such academic bitches to each other it’s so fucking funny #gi headcanons #i was gonna write like comfort hcs w al haitham bc im stressed and overwhelmed #but it turned into like #general thoughts ab him lmaoo #i kinda imagine him like #kinda similar to lan wangji #pre uhh . the . the scene where that person dies. (saying this to not spoil lmao) #so this is what u get

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 4: Deranged Bedfellows

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.5)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #mdzs au #lan wangji #nie huaisang #Yungmeng Jiang training arc AU #This is the *first* part of what was supposed to be a much longer comic (LWJ's morning routine in full). #I'll finish the remaining part as a reblog to this post! I just think this is the funnier chunk. #Lan Wangji absolutely is the kind of person who has a perfect internal alarm clock for when it is time to get up. #He already has a dedicated sleep schedule. He is accurate within 10 seconds of 5am every day. #I think the Jiang disciples are most likely used to waking up around 6:00-7:00am #But the allure of having a guaranteed time keeper getting you up in the morning is worth the earlier hour. #I imagine they started outside lwj's door and slowly moved closer as the weeks went on. #Now LWJ has to cope with being way too warm in the night from all the extra body heat. #LWJ is not a fan of this but they scamper off immediately after he wakes up and they at least show initiative to follow routine. #NHS joins in only because he is a chronically heavy sleeper and needs this level of intervention to get up early. #His boldness would be a death sentence in the cloud recesses but here? Whole new game. #Yungmeng Jiang isn't a lawless land. It's just a land with different laws. #And one of those laws is to forcefully domesticate the catboy coded Lan boy through any means necessary. #Completely different tangent: I drew the thumbnail for this before I did comic 134. I then realized they had the same visual gag. #So I had to space this one out so it didn't seem like I repeated the waking up joke. That's my secret and all of you have to keep it. #And in my land the law is that snitches get itches (telepathically transfers hives onto your body)

[sasukimimochi]

more coi sketches on the way! coi is medicine for when my friend feels bad v - v so i did a bunch while they watched haha

i'm going to do the usual color blocking treatment for them but a couple need to be cleaned up some more before i get around to posting them hmmm

previews! lots of needy lan zhan (give him a break 100 years may not be 800 but he needs his husband's affection like water haha)

#patpats for the husbands head #the ribbon was personally requested by my friend so you have her to thank lol #actually the idea for that 1 is hers to thank too cuz i wasn't sure what to do. she wanted to see them staring into each others eyes sumhow #i thought i posted this;; oops #i was wondering why no one saw it. its cuz i didn't fucking post it LMFAO. these are done now. will post after nap #mdzs #COI #Clash of Immortals #mo dao zu shi fanart #mo dao zu shi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #lwj #wwx #lan wangji #lan zhan #wei wuxian #wei ying #demon wei wuxian #demon wei ying #demon wwx #angel lan wangji #angel lan zhan #angel lwj #wangxian #wangxian fanart #mdzs fanart #wwx fanart #lwj fanart #mdzs fanfic #mdzs fanfic art

[kisskissgotohell]

all the other juniors in lan sizhui's generation are secretly very glad wei wuxian took 13 years to show up again bc if he had come back sooner, lan sizhui would've OWNED on the gusu lan sect playground. insult the guy once when you're eleven and suddenly you're sitting in a parent teacher conference next to one or more of the following: the younger brother of the sect leader, potentially the sect leader himself, the ghost general wen ning, the goddamn yiling patriarch,

#i know cultivation sects dont work like american elementary schools but the mental image is funny #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #lan sizhui #wei wuxian #lan wangji #what would you do if you found out two supposedly very evil guys youve only heard abt in history class had a personal grudge against u #bc you were mean to their son/nephew once #i think i would simply just pass away

[vvienne]

it’s so sad that bingqiu gets so much shit for being “”problematic“” when luo binghe is the least sexy-lamp-like of all the mxtx tops

#scum villain haters just cant handle a bad bitch ig #i actually do like lan wangji and hua cheng and tbf it's not rlly like the story needs for them to be more fleshed out than they are #but i personally wouldve enjoyed some more extreme psychological torment for them #i suppose that is what fic is for

[rhymaes]

The Untamed (2019) // Anne Sexton

#YOU WANT THE BOY TO KILL YOU SO MUCH YOU ORCHESTRATED IT SO ITS THE ONLY WAY #YOU FEEL U CAN EARN REDEMPTION #BUT HE LOVES YOU TOO MUCH FOR THAT IN A WAY YOUVE NEVER KNOWN LOVE #AND HE DOESNT KILL YOU. BUT YOU DIE ANYWAY. AND THEN YOU LIVE AGAIN #AND HES MOCKED BY WHAT WAS ONCE YOUR WILLING CHOICE HELD AGAINST YOUR NECK!!! #‘loving another person seems like tying a noose around one’s own neck’ AND HE WAS RIGHT AND YET. AND YET. #the untamed #wei ying #I COULDNT GET THE BOY TO KILL ME BUT I WORE HIS JACKET FOR THE LONGEST TIME!!! #lan wangji #lan zhan #wei wuxian #mdzs #paralles #poem #anne sexton

[seethefakemuses]

I honestly feel like a huge majority of wangxian stans, especially the ones that are jc antis, don't actually like wwx all that much either. I've never gone out of my way to read a wangxian or anti jc fic, but sometimes they just get shoved in my face when I'm looking for other stuff to read (the time travel tag is a cesspool), and just by the synopses of those fics on ao3 (and by the wangxian/anti jc posts that i unwillingly see on tumblr) you can tell that their wwx...isn't actually wwx. It's a wwx who has never had any agency in his life, has never hurt anyone ever (on purpose or accidentally), and is always the victim in any and every scenario. Like I'm sorry, but the canon wei wuxian has one of the highest kill counts in the entire novel, and most of those kills happened within a few hours. Canon wwx was also, like, the Torture King, he saw torture as an art form, and tried to be as creative with it as possible 🤣🤣🤣. There are soo many other questionable things that wwx did, and wangxian fics seem to NEVER mention them, and instead they make everything someone elses (usually jc's) fault. It's like wangxian fics are written by lan wangji; someone who has probably never even fully accepted/acknowledged that wwx is lowkey a murderer, and instead feels like, in order for them to like wwx, he has to be pure (i could write a mini essay about this). And like...that's soo boring. Wangxian/Lan Wangji and wangxian shippers make Wei Wuxian boring. The only fics I've ever seen an authentic Wei Wuxian in is Chengxian, to be completely honest, and those fics are always soo compelling and interesting, because they don't shy away from the darker parts of Wei Wuxian's character (a huge part of his appeal), and aren't written from a 'woke' or righteous pov like soo many wangxian fics seem to be written from. And tbh, I'd take 'murder husbands' chengxian over whatever wangxian has going on any day🤷🏾‍♀️

nonny your brain…. you’re so right. and they project so much, constantly saying ‘oh jc stans don’t like the REAL jc’ but they’re the ones who don’t like the real wwx. please feel free to write that mini essay i’d actually read it lol. i find the characterization of wwx to be pretty accurate in the chengxian fics i’ve read as well, and though i haven’t read any wangxian fics i’ll trust you when you say they purify wwx considering they do the same in the wwx posts i’ve seen.

#torture king wwx is absolutely canon and tbh jc doesn’t seem the kind of person to enjoy torture that much #as i keep saying when he found wwx torturing the wens he was like just kill them already why waste time and wwx was like you’ll understand #when you’re older jc 😌 #wangxian fics are written by lan wangji — yes yes absolutely new accepted truth #they do make wwx boring! they flatten his char and remove his flaws like what’s the point of his char then? what lessons can we learn #from the story if the mc is flawless and does nothing wrong? #wei wuxian #chengxian #mdzs #anon #asks #feel free to hit me up off anon as well nonny you seem fun