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Eleven New Additions to the Gusu Lan Wall of Rules
From the Gusu Lan Department of Records
On the 10th day of the 2nd lunar month of the 41st Year of the Reign of Xuanzheng, the Year of Gengzi (that is, 3 years after the downfall of former Chief Cultivator Lianfang-zun), 11 additions were made to the Gusu Lan's Rules within one day. These were:
You shall not climb the Cloud Recesses' Wall of Rules.
You shall not climb the Cloud Recesses' Wall of Rules just to avoid your former acquaintances.
If you absolutely must do so, you shall only argue with your former acquaintances at a regular speaking volume.
You shall not eavesdrop on the disagreements of others, no matter how loud or how public they may be.
All medical procedures performed by Gusu Lan and/or any of its affiliated personnel require fully informed consent from the patient. For a complete definition of "fully informed consent," please refer to Rules #3199 and #4023.
Be mindful of what you say or reveal in a moment of anger.
There will be no emotionally significant shocking revelations in the Cloud Recesses.
There will be no hypocrisy in the Cloud Recesses.
If you absolutely must do so, you shall only cry in public at an acceptable volume.
You shall not say the words "Wen patrol" anywhere near the vicinity of the individual named Wei Ying courtesy name Wuxian.
The individual named Jiang Cheng courtesy name Wanyin is only permitted in the Cloud Recesses so long as he speaks at an acceptable volume.
I just finished the untamed (and am obsessing over it) and I was wondering if you had thoughts on one of my fav scenes. in ep 49 when jc throws wwx his flute (ok 1. Has he been carrying that around for 16 years) and when wwx begins to play, they really focus in on jc’s expression. I was wondering what your interpretation of that look is? Because I’m trash for loving bros, I like to see it as jc being proud like look at my all powerful bro and also showing his trust in wwx. Do you have thoughts?
I have ENDLESS thoughts about that scene. Thank u for asking and I’m sorry for what I am about to subject you to, but basically I think it’s about
a) love
b) emotional hoarding
c) trust
My take on Jiang Cheng’s deal with his brother is that one of the most traumatic things he has to contend with is the idea that he was wrong to trust and love him. His mom has this whole thing about how Wei Wuxian is going to bring disaster to their clan and Jiang Fengmian’s indulgence is basically a dereliction of duty as well as favouritism, and Jiang Cheng very much continues that tradition, particularly with respect to this dangerous cultivation technique that’s helping them win the war. He also continues JFM’s tradition of treating Wei Wuxian like an official part of his family. Wei Wuxian enters formal banquets up front with him and Yanli. He attends war meetings with the rest of the sect heirs and their brothers. He has a level of access to Yanli that Madam Jin tells us is a little bit scandalous. Jiang Cheng smuggles Yanli into Yiling so Wei Wuxian can name their nephew and waits with her and her son for Wei Wuxian to come to Jin Ling’s one month celebration, and all this leads to Zixuan lying dead on the ground and Wei Wuxian screaming it’s not me on a battlefield while evil spirits possess Jiang disciples. Now Yanli is dead and Jin Ling is an orphan! Bad times for all involved, but especially for Jiang Cheng, who is alive to be left holding the guilt and baby. In the distance, Lan Wangji is playing the world’s smallest guiqin for him.
Jiang Cheng is not thrilled by this sequence of events, and after taking a moment to relieve his feelings by screaming at his suicidal brother he goes to look for him, because that’s what he does. Wei Wuxian leaves him and he chases after him. He doesn’t find him, but he does find chenqing, which is extremely loaded from a symbolic perspective. It’s the spiritual tool that Wei Wuxian used to practice the dark arts that destroyed Jiang Cheng’s family, stole his brother, and turned him into a dangerous sister-killing wild card, but also it’s the last memento he has of someone he loves, and Jiang Cheng is very bad at letting go. So he keeps it, because his whole existence is designed to make me feel sad about him. He tells himself whatever he needs to to justify that decision and he holds onto that dumb goth flute for sixteen years. He takes it to the temple with him when he goes to look for his nephew (and also his brother, but he’s not in a mood to admit that). He does not, however, give Wei Wuxian the flute when he arrives. He fights against a dude who is literally playing evil music, he gets stabbed, he cries on the floor, a zombie carrying a possessed saber shows up with murderous intent, and he neglects throughout all this to mention that he has a powerful spiritual tool that could maybe help them out of evil monologue jail.
Jiang Cheng gives Wei Wuxian chenqing after his brother works with Wen Ning to save Jin Ling. Not in a big self sacrificial gesture designed to save everyone while putting himself at risk, but by specifically paying attention to what was going on with their nephew and prioritizing his safety. His murder zombie, far from acting like a dangerous super weapon, grabs a blade with his bare hand to help protect their nephew. Wei Wuxian (and company) demonstrate that they are trying to help keep his family safe. In return Jiang Cheng trusts Wei Wuxian to play chenqing in the same room as their nephew, Yanli’s son. I genuinely cannot imagine a bigger gesture. The last time Wei Wuxian played chenqing, Yanli died. This time Jiang Cheng is trusting him to save everyone and making himself an accessory to whatever Wei Wuxian decides to do with chenqing, now and in the future. It’s a lot!
#anyway yes jc as an abused child made choices to not believe his mother about certain things bc he treasured & wanted to be close to wwx#and continued doing that over and over as he grew up and gained a ton of responsibility in a very traumatic way#and as it became less and less clear that his brother deserved his trust and second chances#and as more and more people around him encouraged him to turn his back on his brother#but he didn’t! because he was committed to that relationship. and he made a choice to trust wwx even when people told him not to#(his mom told him not to and she had always been wrong about that. right?)#and then in the most tragic way possible he was shown that he had been wrong all this time to trust wwx#(or at least that’s how it seemed to him given the information available to him)#and he had 16 years to stew in that knowledge. that he had been a fool to love him. that wwx had destroyed his family just like#his mother always said that he would.#(also sidenote you continue to kill me with your turns of phrase. ‘world’s smallest guqin.’ ‘dumb goth flute.’)#i don’t think i ever realized that he only gives wwx the flute after he protects jin ling#like i noticed he held on to it through a lot of touch and go moments in that scene and was like hmm did he forget about#the gamechanger that’s literally up his sleeve?#but you’re right that was deliberate. he needed to be given another reason to trust him.#he can’t trust blindly anymore like he did when he was younger. he’s been hurt too much. by wwx specifically.#some part of him is screaming ‘give me a reason to trust you wei wuxian! i want to but you gotta give me a reason!!!’#ugh i can’t believe this why do you keep getting me right where i live tags via @howdydowdy
God, can you IMAGINE being Lan Sizhui at (the CQL version of) Guanyin Temple?
You were reminiscing with Wen Ning during Jiang Cheng’s #BelieveWomen Summit at Lotus Pier, so you don’t know about Sisi and Bicao’s revelations. You haven’t been part of any discussions about Nie Mingjue’s murder. You know that the blade spirit from Mo Manor led you to a headless corpse in Yi City and that’s about it.
So now you’re in Yunping looking for your dad, his boyfriend, and your new bestie Wen Ning. You find Wen Ning possessed and carrying a highly cursed saber. You try to calm him down to no avail, and you are YEETED FULL FORCE through the door of a Budhhist temple in the middle of the city. Inside, you find your dad, his boyfriend, his brother who's been missing for the past couple of days, your new friend Jin Ling, Jin Ling's jiujiu, Jin Ling's shushu, that guy who tried to kill you at the Burial Mounds, and Sect Leader Nie for some reason.
THE FOLLOWING THINGS HAPPEN IN RAPID SUCCESSION:
Jin Ling's shushu is about to slit Jin Ling's throat or something?
Your dad cuts Jin Ling's shushu's arm off.
The blade spirit tries to kill Jin Ling's shushu AND Jin Ling himself.
Jin Ling's jiujiu is helping Jin Ling but otherwise not doing much? What's with that?
Your dad, your dad's boyfriend, your dad's brother, and your new bestie Wen Ning all subdue the blade spirit.
That guy who tried to kill you at the Burial Mounts apparently tries to stab Sect Leader Nie and the blade spirit gets riled up AGAIN and just completely OBLITERATES that guy, and he and Jin Ling's shushu have, like, a whole Moment while he's dying.
Your dad, your dad's boyfriend, your dad's brother, and your new bestie Wen Ning get the blade spirit to rest in a coffin--wait, is that Sect Leader Nie's brother who qi deviated when you were a kid? What's he doing here?
And after that, everything calms down! You're all kind of just hanging out there in the temple. A bunch of the adults had their cultivation sealed earlier, apparently, but everyone but Jin Ling's jiujiu seems to have it back now, so that doesn't really explain why you're still chilling here. There are, like, a LOT of dead Jin guys dotted around the floor. Somehow this all reminds you of your childhood and you take a moment to cherish the little butterfly toy you've brought with you. Jin Ling's shushu is definitely bleeding out from his missing arm and nobody seems concerned about this, but he did just try to kill Jin Ling (and maybe your dad's boyfriend too? they have identical throat wounds. what the HELL, Jin Ling's shushu?), so that's probably valid. Your dad's brother is tending to him, though. What a compassionate guy he--
HOLY SHIT DID HE JUST STAB HIM???
Now he's yelling and somehow this is Sect Leader Nie's fault and THEN Jin Ling's shushu grabs your dad's brother and now THEY'RE having a Weirdly Intense Moment and THE GODDAMN BLADE SPIRIT WOKE UP AGAIN and now the entire temple's getting torn apart by resentment. You all start to flee, but your dad's brother and Jin Ling's shushu are still having their Intense Moment until Jin Ling's shushu shoves him at your dad.
The entire temple collapses. You have so many questions, but then your friends all show up and you forget all about them, because you're about to connect some dots from your forgotten early childhood and simply have no time for whatever the hell that just was.
[ID: Text post memes of Xiao Xingchen, Song Lan, and Xue Yang from The Untamed.
Xiao Xingchen + "can't wait til I'm released from captivity into the wild and immediately get carried off by an eagle"
Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen + "in another universe we are flagellating in the same monastery"
Xue Yang and Xiao Xingchen + "matching couples shirts that say "<- THE ONE WHO WILL INEVITABLY DESTROY ME""
Xiao Xingchen smiling while blindfolded + "i'll never win an idgaf war love disarms me completely and i'm bleeding out"
Xue Yang and Xiao Xingchen + "the line between vengeful brutal catharsls and gay sex is very thin so be careful out there"
All three of them + "The problem with my polycule is that I've got a wolfgirl GF and goatboy BF and I'm carrying this cabbage so it's basicaly impossible to cross rivers"
Xue Yang looking unbalanced + "do NOT kill yourself. im not done with you yet". End ID]
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I love asking people how their parents met. You always get an interesting reply. My best friend’s parents met on the relatively new internet in 1999. My other friend’s parents met at Burger King when one was the manager and the other was a regular customer. My parents met at the beach because they were neighbors in their rental houses, mom was on a church trip and dad was getting blackout drunk every night with his friends next door.
What pisses me off the most is that y'all don't keep this doomerism to yourself, it would be one thing if you just wrote this shit in a diary, but y'all are putting that out there trying to scare young trans people into being divided. spreading the idea that trans unity is an "unobtainable fantasy" only serves to make trans people feel even more alone and desperate than before, during a time where being united will give us strength.
Trans people should be encouraged to find safety and community in one another, and not just with trans people that are "like them."
Having a breakdown over the way that Wei Wuxian's confession essentially gave Lan Wangji words that he might never have been able to get out otherwise. Because LWJ barely speaks on a good day and WWX never shuts up, so he just babbled out a paragraph and Wangji picked out the parts that resonated best and repeated them back to him over and over and that's what made me lose it today that's all
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after wei wuxian's death, the yunmeng jiang sect is poor in everything from manpower and public goodwill to actual funds, so jiang cheng is open to all possible avenues of revenue and/or goodwill generation for his sect.
then, someone floats the idea of the ancient chinese equivalent of a bake sale. as it turns out, jiang yanli had taught jiang cheng many of her dessert recipes before she left for lanling, and jiang cheng thinks that it would be a massive waste to let these recipes disappear. so jiang cheng agrees to give selling some of his baked goods a shot.
to jiang cheng's surprise, his custard buns (no innuendo) are a massive hit - especially the novelty rabbit-shaped ones. as it turns out, the real draw is not just the buns themselves (though they are aesthetically pleasing and do taste quite good), but rather the sight of sect leader jiang, fully decked out in the aprons and headwear of a baker, swearing his ass off as he wrestles with a wad of dough. furthermore, because jiang cheng is too busy and too proud to spend that much time baking, he only makes a small number of sweets - thus, everything he bakes is also limited edition and exclusive, and yunmeng jiang gets away with charging more.
thus, yunmeng jiang's bake sake is a massive success, and jiang cheng decides to make it a biannual event.
meanwhile, lan xichen can tell that lan wangji is doing really badly in seclusion. even though lan wangji has a-yuan to consider, mentally and emotionally, he's still rapidly declining.
as a desperate last measure, lan xichen travels to yunmeng in the hopes of finding something that will remind lan wangji, in a non-tragic sense, of wei wuxian. and when he finds out about yunmeng jiang's bake sale - more specifically, when he sees the rabbit-shaped custard buns that jiang cheng made on a whim - he feels as if he's struck gold. wangji loves rabbits. these desserts are shaped like rabbits. what a splendid idea!
as for who made the desserts....well, what wangji doesn't know won't hurt him.
so lan xichen buys a large order of rabbit buns and brings them back to lan wangji and a-yuan. a-yuan is immediately enamored by the rabbit buns, and lan wangji is cheered to see that wei ying's child(?) also loves wei ying's favorite animal.
thus, the rabbit buns become somewhat of a source of strength for lan wangji. and lan wangji forms an emotional attachment to these rabbit buns specifically: while other bakers also make rabbit-shaped buns, the taste is different and somehow they are not as cute. thus, even when lan xichen tells lan wangji that the baker who made these rabbit buns only releases them twice a year, lan wangji still is not deterred - instead, surviving and recovering well enough to eat those same rabbit buns half a year later becomes a source of motivation for lan wangji in his journey to recovery.
because lan wangji is an exceptionally strong cultivator, he actually ends up recovering physically from the damage dealt by the 33 lashings after only 2 years, after which he signals he is ready to exit seclusion. however, lan wangji then finds out just where lan xichen has been getting those rabbit buns for the past two years. this information is so horrifying to him that it sends him right back into seclusion for another year.
so the rabbit buns were made by the loathsome jiang wanyin. truly one can rely on him to ruin all that was pure and good. well, lan wangji supposes, then he will simply have to give up on the rabbit buns, because he refuses under all circumstances to even touch anything created by jiang wanyin.
.....except he can't do it.
the rabbit buns are too good. they are too cute, soft and white and fluffy just like a real rabbit. and they taste divine, perfectly balancing a subtle yet unique sweetness in a way that no other baker can quite match. when yunmeng jiang announces the return of their bake sale, before lan wangji even realizes what he's doing, he's aleady filled out the preorder form.
thus, for the next 10 years, lan wangji continues to be the number 1 patron of the yunmeng jiang biannual bake sale. lan wangji soon becomes paranoid about jiang cheng figuring out that it's him ordering the rabbit buns, so he quickly devises some system by which other lan disciples order the buns on his behalf. this way, lan wangji reassures himself as he guiltily nibbles on a rabbit bun, at least jiang wanyin won't know that the orders are coming from him.
and then wei ying returns, everything hits the fan, and then there's the debacle at the lotus pier ancestral hall. and then there's the other debacle at the guanyin temple. and then wei ying starts living with lan wangji at the cloud recesses, and refuses to mention jiang wanyin's name at all.
but this is all well and good, because jiang wanyin is terrible and wei ying is good and so wei ying must be protected. jiang wanyin will only hurt wei ying, so lan wangji is correct in encouraging wei ying to stay away. and if wei ying seems to shine a bit less brightly than he did before.....well, nothing in life is perfect.
and then comes the time for the yunmeng jiang biannual bake sale. lan wangji fills out his preorder form as per usual, only to receive a notice afterwards that he has been banned.
eventually, overcome with the guilt of having enjoyed a confectionary (many confectionaries) baked by the person who had so cruelly betrayed wei ying, lan wangji confesses the full extent of his wrongdoing to wei wuxian.
.
lan wangji: wei ying.....there is something i must confess.
wei wuxian: are you alright? you look like your heart's about to give out.
lan wangji: for the past thirteen years, i have been eating jiang wanyin's buns in secret.
wei wuxian:
lan wangji: i have betrayed you. i am so sorry.
wei wuxian:
lan wangji: i have stopped, of course. due to recent events, he has banned me completely. yet i cannot get the taste out of my mind.
wei wuxian: the. the taste
lan wangji: i knew i should not have done it. i knew i should have quit. but i could not help myself. they were so soft.
wei wuxian: so - so soft. soft.
lan wangji: i am truly sorry.
lan wangji: is there anything i can do to make it up to you?
wei wuxian: i
wei wuxian: i, uh
wei wuxian: i.....haha......ahahahahaa! that. that uh. certainly wasn't what i was expecting! hahahaha!
wei wuxian: his. his buns, you say. buns? haha.
lan wangji: yes.
wei wuxian: buns? soft buns?
lan wangji: yes.
wei wuxian: haha, wow, yeah......i, uh,
wei wuxian: and you say that he's not letting you do it anymore?
lan wangji: he seems to be upset about how events recently transpired.
wei wuxian: which means you tried recently?
lan wangji: yes. he was quite clear on the refusal.
wei wuxian: ah, yeah, he's like that, hahaha.......
wei wuxian: and this.....this upsets you?
lan wangji: ....i am loath to admit it, but yes. i wish he would let me eat them once more.
lan wangji: if it is alright with you, of course.
wei wuxian: if it's alright with me.
lan wangji: yes.
wei wuxian: you're asking if it's alright with me.
lan wangji: i'm sorry.
wei wuxian: haha, no, it's fine, it's fine, hahahaha. ha. of course it's fine with me. you're - you're free to do what you want! he's free to do what he wants, too.
wei wuxian: and if you want to, then - then - then - go ahead, i guess! full steam ahead! wei wuxian approves!
lan wangji: .....you are certain?
wei wuxian: yeah, of course. anything for you.
wei wuxian: i'm afraid i won't be able to go talk to him for you, though. i don't think he wants to see me anymore.
lan wangji: do not worry.
wei wuxian: oh--
lan wangji: i can go speak with him alone.
wei wuxian: a-alone.
lan wangji: you need not trouble yourself on my behalf.
wei wuxian: ahaha....of course not.....
wei wuxian: well
wei wuxian: don't let me keep you!
wei wuxian: have fun, stay safe, and, uh, good for you!
wei wuxian: hahaha.....
[later]
wei wuxian: [barging into lotus pier] jiang cheng!!!! you let lan zhan eat your ass?????
jiang cheng:
jiang cheng: wh
[ID: MDZS fanart. In the first piece, Jiang Cheng seriously tells Jin Ling, "If someone is a necromancer its cuz they have no money to hire men and no charisma to convince people to their cause u have to understand they only fuck with skeletons because they have no other option".
In the second, Yiling Laozu-era Wei Wuxian smiles sunnily while dripping in blood and says, "*covered in blood* I'm literally fine guys. im still funny. Would you like to hear a joke Im going to tell you a joke". End ID]
Edit: OP kindly added this ID to the og post, so please go reblog from them instead!!
honestly it would only be beneficial for everyone if jiang yanli and wen qing swapped younger brothers for the day
jiang yanli + wen ning: peacefully gardening and cooking, having a lovely and wholesome time
wen qing, jiang cheng and wei wuxian: several things are on fire, one of them is jiang cheng, wen qing is going to put him out in a minute she just needs to stop laughing first
#THIS WEEK ON DIDI SWAP#first: jiang yanli and wen ning almost come to blows over the correct method of making flower crowns!#[footage of jyl looking at wn’s daisy chain and saying ‘oh a-ning that’s so lovely! i’ve never seen it done that way…you must teach me!’]#meanwhile: doctor wen is covered in blood! but which brother does it belong to?? the answer will shock you!#in gusu: the air crackles with sexual tension. will lan xichen and jin guangyao start sucking face or will they restrain themselves#in the presence of a-yao’s kid brother? only time will tell!#and back in lanling jin zixuan and the second jade of lan have a surprisingly enthusiastic discussion on lotus husbandry!#you’ll never guess why!#tune in this thursday at 8/7 central to find out!#the untamed - tags via @howdydowdy
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this is like the opposite of that "wizard vs artificer" post. the one that goes, like, "oh, you've just been summoning from the plane of water! I thought you had to combine hydrogen and oxygen, that's so much easier".
and I like that. because different methods will work for different people. sometimes you find it easier to start up physics and sometimes you find it easier to tear open the layers of reality.
