Grapefruit Sketches

For the MDZS Reverse Big Bang 2021

Rating: T

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: F/F

Fandoms: MDZS/The Untamed (CQL) (cherry picking novel vs drama canon; accessible to fans of either)

Relationship: Luó "Mián Mián" Qīngyáng/Qín Sù

Characters: Luó "Mián Mián" Qīngyáng, Qín Sù, various other characters appearing throughout including JYL and JZX

Additional Tags: AU - Canon Divergence; AU - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies; Slow(ish) Burn; Childhood Friends; Friends to Lovers; Falling in Love; Mild Injury; Post-Sunshot Campaign; Night Hunts; Mianmian POV; Inspired by Art

Summary:

She turned north.

The moon was rising before she realized where she was going. A vision, from long ago. Pink robes fluttering before her. Gold and purple on her periphery but falling quickly behind, not quite able to keep up. The four of their giggles blending into one another’s, though Luo Qingyang could always pick out the cadence, the pitch coming from the girl that ran ahead. That same sweet floral scent carried back by the wind.

Luo Qingyang followed the voice now. Towards the one person who might understand, who would know, but had not engaged in, the horrors of politics.

She went north. And hoped Qin Su had not forgotten her.

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After leaving everything she's ever known, Mianmian wanders. But she doesn't do so alone.

“…I was going crazy!”

ZZS: Did you make Chengling bring these all the way up here for you just for this?

WKX: Yes, he had to queue for a really long t-

Where there is light A shadow appears The cause and effect When life interferes The same rule applies To goodness and grief

- Sorrow, Sleeping at Last

MDZS Network’s Two Years with CQL Anniversary

Coming June 27th we celebrate the two years anniversary of the release of The Untamed, the live-action adaptation of MXTX’s xianxia novel Mo Dao Zu Shi. We have put together a small event to celebrate this anniversary together with all of you.

We assume most of you know the Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter books that sorted the students into one of four houses, and we’re excited to introduce our very own CQL Sect Sorting Quiz! Click on the link and answer the questions to see what sect you would get sorted into, and then center your content for the anniversary around your result or something related to it that you can connect to. You’re free to choose any character, scene, color palette, quote, etc. related to your result that you want for your content. We hope it inspires you!

🐇 Rules

Reblog this post to spread the word.

You do not have to be a member to participate in the event!

The event will be open on the anniversary of CQL’s release - June 27th!

🐇 Extra Information

Create any content (fic, gif, art, etc.) for the anniversary.

Center your content around The Untamed and your sorting quiz result.

You can decide to keep your results private until the day of the event for an extra surprise, but this is not a requirement.

Mention @mdzsnet in the caption & tag #mdzsnet in the first 5 tags

IT’S FINALLY HERE! My first of 2 fics for the MDZS Reverse Big Bang!

The art that inspired this fic was done by @esmeblaze and can be found here.

I had so much fun doing this. Definitely will again.

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Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jiāng Yànlí/Jīn Zǐxuān Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Assassin!Madam Lan, no Lan bashing, Gusu Lan Rules - Freeform, Lan rules are a guide and not to be interpreted literally, Getting Together, Fluff, No Sunshot Campaign (Módào Zǔshī) Summary:

By metatext I mean like tagging, summary, and authors notes (especially initial authors notes at the beginning of a fic). The means by which we communicate to our readers what they’re getting into.

Because we kind of all have to learn it by osmosis and there are conventions but nobody’s really taught them at the start, so there’s inconsistencies and misunderstandings or people just not knowing things through no fault of their own.

This ends up breeding frustration and confusion and in the worst cases resentment, hurt, and aggression.

I’m severely tempted to make such a handbook and get it circulating.

Go here for the PDF, or here to view the whole document as a tumblr post.

I recommend the PDF.

Second RBB piece! Get your cute teenage Wangxian shenanigans ft. happy Lan family and Assassin!Madam Lan here!!

Which makes sense. She was born to a noble cultivator family, she probably didn’t know how to take care of children or cook food, and it also makes sense that maybe she didn’t have so much power and importance and servants in the Ghost Valley before WKX took charge.

What’s more interesting is that the show keeps WKX’s line about how he had no one to teach him martial arts. Why couldn’t Xi Sang Gui teach him? Maybe it’s something to do with her mysterious illness, which LQQ says is a chronic problem for her. 

Whatever the reason, it’s deliciously angsty that the founder of the Department of the Unfaithful, whose personal mantra is “you don’t fail me and I won’t fail you,” failed in looking after the child of the couple who helped her in her most vulnerable moment. 

@universesvisiting don’t apologize I love this!!! it makes my brain go brrrrr as well!!! yes yes yes you hit on all the aspects of this situation that I LOVE. I love that WKX is very traumatized and extremely bad at humaning and yet he IS such a good caretaker in such a nongendered way, he does an amazing job with both Gu Xiang and Zhang Chengling considering everything. and it shows in how much better adjusted and better at humaning GX is than he is.