#wwx: adhd!

[mamoonde]

i really really really love the idea of wei wuxian revolutionizing modern cultivation over breakfast and conceptualizing these different theories simultaneously because the adhd brain has no brakes and the only reason it took him a decade to publish all these ideas was because he could not stick to a single train of thought long enough to finish (verbalizing) it, let alone put it down on paper coherently.

the only reason he even got to publishing them eventually (and enrolling to cultivation theory grad program to get on that track) was because one morning, his undergrad thesis advisor, lan qiren, finally got fed up and sat him down for an early morning progress check-in because it was midterm season and wei wuxian still hadn't decided on a topic.

wei wuxian, fueled by an unhealthy amount of redbull and three all-nighters, finally word vomits all his 'convoluted' ideas which he'd thought were uselessly obvious and redundant (because he's gone over these like a bajillion times, it's very plain-as-day to him, so he probably just hasn't read the articles that say these exact things).

lan qiren, teacup frozen halfway to his mouth: ...first of all, i only understood half of how you got to these conclusions, which only means they are indeed too convoluted and will need to be pared down; secondly: you have never mentioned any of these ideas before. why.

wei wuxian: oh. haven't i? oh well, i just thought, xyz, because, obviously, abcde. which is really what the 2 centuries old law on ghjkl was alluding to, right? and so, logically, xyz.

lan qiren: [mind blown, screaming, good gods this is the same child who's always tardy and spent freshman year pulling on the metaphorical pigtails of my straight-laced nephew?!?!??!??!?!] ..again, why...how have you never even spoken or submitted these ideas?

wei wuxian: because!!! they're so obvious!! surely, it's been published somewhere already? i can't be the only one to connect these dots, surely??

lan qiren: incredibly, you are. no one else has even thought to question tradition nor pursued more thoughts on the law of ghjkl, with half as much...sound arguments as you seem to have. in the past century, the focus of modern cultivation has tended towards practical uses and tools, some fine-tuning, perhaps. not entirely new theories.

wei wuxian: huh....

lan qiren, sighing, feeling a migraine: your problem with your thesis is not a lack of focus or ingenuity, but likely to be more a lack of recent, evidentiary sources. you will need to become very familiar with the university archives and dig deep for sources that will back up every argument you make.

he jots down notes on a paper. "you will also need to strictly adhere to the structure and methodology of these articles, especially given how radical your thesis will be. if you are diligent enough, you may just be able to submit your thesis without too much of a delay." he slides the list of materials to a gaping wei wuxian. "depending on your output then, we can discuss the possibility of submitting this for peer review."

"peer review." wei wuxian repeats. "as in, that thing where some uppity committee of old coots put their stamp of approval for it to become the reading materials of undergrads like me. you're joking."

lan qiren chooses to ignore the sentiment about peer review committees being uppity old coots, especially considering how he can't completely deny it on account of some of his colleagues, but also as a member said peer review committee, he isn't exactly pleased about being lumped in the same category.

wei wuxian backtracks at his unamused look. "right, you're not joking, of course you're not." he slowly inches the list towards himself. "right, yes, i guess i'll uh, get to it then. ok bye."

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idk, just, waves hand at wei wuxian candidly explaining new modern cultivation theories over cheerios at 2 in the afternoon to lwj who's trying to help him structure his grad thesis, getting mind blow dick hard at how this messy genius who's talking with his mouth full of half eaten cereal is the object of his affection....

wwx: --oh, oops, your highlighter fell

lwj: mn

wwx: ...aren't you gonna get that?

lwj: it's fine; i'll pick it up later. finish your thought.

wwx: right... i'll pick it up for you!

lwj, fighting for his life, trying to think unsexy thoughts: NO! sit. finish your meal, and then your thought.

#big brain wei wuxian #wei wuxian #genius wwx #in an interview for modern cultivation magazine he's asked: how do you do it? #wwx: adhd! #also a dedicated partner who tolerates your midnight rambling about spiritual energy and entertains your endless what ifs scenarios #bonus points if your partner is lwj who has amazing notetaking skills and a phd in decoding wei wuxian notes #wangxian #mdzs #modern cultivation au #also i love a supportive mentor lqr dont you #a mellowed out lqr who has a little more tolerance for radical ways of thought as long as theyre rooted in morality and good will #mamoonde short fics

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #tulu xuanwu #blood #Vomit on his sweater already; mom's spaghetti #I love drawing teenji because he gets to be a lot more expressive than Older Lan Wangji. #wwx is trying so hard to be supportive and it keeps backfiring for lwj. #“There's no way I would ever want you carnally ^_^” meanwhile the guy who wants him carnally is losing his mind in agony. #Hot tip if you keep finding yourself in Lan Zhan's shoes: consider being more obvious. Give up on trying to be subtle with an ADHDer. #His game is SO BAD. Abysmally bad rizz. I do not think it was possible for these to to have a chance to get together in this life. #He has no plan. He has no healthy outlet for his feelings. He is looking at his half naked crush and losing his shot. #F in the chat for Lan Zhan. He's just been accidently rejected and he is about to be accused of being straight. #Meta commentary moment: I am going to try very hard to be more consistent with outfits and details across comics #I have had some...difficulties in the past with forgetting details (COUGH the vermillion mark COUGH) #New year new goals! Wish my ADHD eyes and brain good luck!

[sanduchengjiu]

wei wuxian wouldn’t have invented demonic cultivation if lan qiren had gave him a fidget spinner

#wei wuxian #mdzs #lan qiren #wwx having adhd is real #he just needed a fidget toy #maybe an adderall prescription

[starrywangxian]

i'm so deep in my belief that lan wangji is autistic and wei wuxian has adhd that i forget it's not canon so when i see posts talking about it i'm always like "yeah??? this isn't new information???" and then i realise to some people it is new information and it is a new way of looking at them.

#like when i introduce wangxian to ppl i always say “yeah wwx is the red and black adhd bi and lwj is the white an blue autistic gay” #i forget it's not canon neither is it common knowledge ksdjskjds #anyway #if you want me to make a post wx being neurodiverse lemme know #i might just make one soon anyway lmao #starrywangxian #wangxian #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #cql #the untamed #lan wangji #wei wuxian

[ocyus-stuff]

When you go out for a nighthunt date with your hubby but he keeps gossiping with ghosts

#mdzs #mao dao zu shi #wangxian #wei ying #lan zhan #mdzs fanart #mdzs wwx #mdzs lwj #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #魔道祖师 #mxtx fandom #I called this the adhd experience in my file btw

[yinyangbuns]

wwx always jokes about his bad memory like “haha i wonder what could’ve caused that?” and then doesn’t consider that he went through traumatic incident after traumatic incident for like a year straight, never acknowledged that trauma OR the trauma that preceded it, and then died about it.

man i wonder why

#like bruh #trauma does that to a bitch #also probably the adhd #mdzs #mxtx #danmei #wei wuxian #mo dao zu shi #wwx #the untamed #grandmaster of demonic cultivation

[northisnotup]

Modern day mdzs is good bc LWJ absolutely would announce his relationship on whatever bare minimum social media he uses for real people after their first official date using the caption

'Me and the bad bitch i pulled by being autistic'

#i mean i know modern lwj is an instagram girlie but its really funny to think of him making a relationship announcement on linkedin #wwx meanwhile is furious lan zhan beat him to the punch but he was being CHILL and COOL and waiting for like their 1st month anni #bc lan zhan didn't say no takesies backsies and wwx is the poster child for adult adhd #jokes on him tho - to lwj thats a feature not a bug #mdzs #i'm not saying anything new but i am saying it #wangxian #the untamed

[yunmeng-jiang]

Thing that kind of frustrates me about mdzs modern AUs, as someone with chronic illness: Jiang Yanli (pretty much always) and Wen Ning (usually) are written as totally healthy. In canon, Yanli almost passes out from the exertion of... throwing a flower (mdzs), and Wen Ning needs to spend time in bed recovering after a night hunt (cql, I'm not sure about mdzs) because his soul got damaged when he was a kid. They're both sickly, with weak cultivation and much less physical stamina that other characters. But in modern AUs, Yanli is bustling around the house with a kid balanced on her hip, making food for everyone with a smile, and Wen Ning is generally quiet and socially anxious but still active and up for every wacky escapade that might be happening. I'm not saying every fic has to focus on their health issues, but it would be nice to have it mentioned once in a while. Maybe Jin Zixuan is taking care of the baby because Yanli is too exhausted to get out of bed, or maybe she has to duck out of a party early because she feels a migraine coming on. Maybe Wen Ning keeps painkillers and an inhaler in his backpack because he needs them so often, maybe he has to check his blood sugar before deciding whether he wants dessert because he's diabetic - just some little thing like that.

#mdzs #cql #the untamed #jiang yanli #wen ning #if you diagnose wwx with adhd and make him afraid of dogs and have lwj be officially autistic and wq a doctor/in med school #and nhs some kind of artist and my/jgy anxious to please his asshole rich dad and jc with an inferiority complex #but jyl and wn have no health problems at all or at least none that affect their daily lives #then you're wrong and annoying and i don't want to read your fic. sorry #maybe it's petty but i want accurate characterization and i also want to see myself in characters sometimes. idk #interestingly enough i do see their health conditions touched on a good bit in fics set in the original setting #i wonder why that is

[mdzs-owns-my-ass-i-guess]

Give WWX 3000 lines to read about something he’s interested in and he’ll do it in like 2 hours and write a 30 page MLA format essay on it by the end of the day too, with at least one Emperor’s Smile break factored in.

But make him read the 3000 Lan rules, he’s distracted by minute 3 and asleep by minute 7. 

#original thots #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #wwx #i also do this #its the adhd i think

[trans-xianxian]

important to me that when wei wuxian moves into the jingshi it's not just like. lan wangji's house and also wei wuxian is there. there's hassss to be little touches of wei wuxians personality and style throughout, both because that's how a healthy relationship works and post res wei wuxian just being inserted into a place that he's not even allowed to make his home and he just lives there as if he is a guest makes me sad and doesn't appeal to me or really Scream healing and growth and comfort. but Also because the image of a pristine, all white and clean and orderly gusu lan sect house with just like. a skull on the wall is deliriously funny to me

#I don't think that wei wuxian would Actually put skulls on the wall but you get my point #minimalist autistic lan wangji and his adhd goth husband #their home would be so so ugly and wonderful ❤️ #it has a million candles like in the phantom of the opera #ghost posts #text #wwx #lwj #wangxian

[waitineedaname]

I love the gusu trio because it's two of the cleverest people in their generation, and Jiang Cheng is the one that's actually paying attention in class

#mdzs #wwx and nhs at cloud recesses are so very much high schoolers with undiagnosed adhd #theyre both extremely smart but school is Not the environment for them #so they end up the class clown + lazy kid #meanwhile jiang cheng is actually doing his homework bc he doesnt want to give his sect a bad reputation

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bros before Ho(oh my god is that Hanguang-Jun?)

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #WWX really was unhinged for saying he was going to always be at JC's side and then immediately asking about LWJ. #The D in ADHD stands for Distractible. The second D stands for DooowawawaWaaaah (ADHDers know what I mean) #Their conversation is such a knife twist in this flashback. WWX truly and genuinely does mean it when he says he wants to support JC #And that JC hopes for that too! Tragedies hit the hardest when you can feel the lost futures characters would have together #And I feel it here in this scene so painfully. There's complicated feelings between them but it wasn't what broke them apart. #The rumours and the twisted family dynamics that tried to pit them against each other likely wouldnt have worked. #It set the stage for JC to have an inferiority complex which then grows into his responsibility complex. #WWX even calls it out! That JC has to be the responsible one in the dynamic. #And it sucks to be in that unequal position with a sibling or a not-sibling. #You don't get the love *or* acknowledgement but you do get the pressure to be the 'better one' in the face of the other's misbehaviour. #But I digress. There was a world where they did became the twin heroes of yunmeng jiang and stayed together. #And we'll never see it. That world is gone now. And just like Lotus pier -even if they tried to rebuild it - they will never be the same.

[insanusnavicularis]

I know this is really niche BUT

Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian (mdzs, the untamed) and Seiji Katayama/Nicholas Cox (Fence) and Jack Zimmerman/Eric Bittle (Check please!) they’re all the same just in different universes

#it’s the autistic/adhd couple for me #the silent and cold looking prodigy/the over enthusiastic one that just wanna be friends #look there’s more similarities but I’m in anthropology class rn and I can feel my brain cells decaying #lan wangji #lan zhan #lwj x wwx #mdzs #wangxian #wei wuxian #wei ying #the untamed #cql #check please #eric bittle #jack zimmermann #zimbits #nicholas cox #fence redemption #seiji katayama #nichoji

[starrywangxian]

i think part of the reason why i love wangxian so much is because they really are autism x adhd and i relate to both of them so much.

mxtx read a textbook and decided that it was perfect character material and i love that, honestly<33 /j

#i will never forget when i was researching adhd symptoms for /myself/ and only thought of wwx bc he was every point #like i'm not even kinding they are textbook autistic and adhd #mdzs #cql #the untamed #wei wuxian #lan wangji #cql lan wangji #mdzs lan wangji #cql wei wuxian #mdzs wei wuxian #mdzs wwx #mdzs wei ying #mdzs lwj #mdzs lan zhan #cql lwj #cql wwx #the untamed lwj #the untamed wwx #wwx #lwj #wei ying #lan zhan #wangxian #starrywangxian

[llycaons]

obviously people can do whatever they want with their polls but it does annoy me when a gay disabled poll gets run and a character who is not canonically either gets in. not even strong evidence lmao ust popular headcanons

#this is abt sokka. I can see the argument for adhd more than the argument for him being bi #hes only had romantic interactions w girls and the big m/m popular ship is based on almost entirely fan inagination #technically I also have a lot of nd hcs for characters that aren't explicitly confirmed #but I dont think seeing mob as autistic or wwx as adhd is comparable given the mountains of evidence #cor.txt

[dickggansey]

i HAVE to finish watching the untamed (guy who's watching and reading like 6 things rn)

#adhd momentttt i can't finish one thing before i start anotherrrrr #but there's so much wwx on my dash and i love him :(