a kingdom, or this

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

in denying us almost any information about mo xuanyu that does not come from a biased outside source, the narrative itself parallels the violence inflicted upon him by the cultivation world and by himself. like his half-brother jin guangyao and his body-heir wei wuxian, mo xuanyu is the subject of much rumor and speculation, yet we never hear the entirety of his side of the story. in the untamed, he doesn’t even have his own actor, it’s just xiao zhan there at the beginning - there is nothing about mo xuanyu that isn’t intrinsically bound to wei wuxian. the price of the sacrifice is more than just destruction of his soul, it is destruction of his entire metatextual character and narrative. in order for the protagonist - the character the narrative spends the most time looking at - to complete his story and get his happy ending, another character must be completely excluded from the narrative’s gaze. mo xuanyu forfeits his entire being, becoming something that exists only in the memories of other characters and not in the eyes of the narrative. mo xuanyu would not be the same character if we had ever been allowed to meet him in-story or if the tragedy of his sacrifice had ever been properly lingered upon. it is the gaps in the narrative, the things that are never properly questioned or called attention to, that make him who he is and that add an extra level of heartbreak to his already tragic story. in this essay i will

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i'm contractually obligated to get every angle of this

yibo dressed as lan wangji while playing with a bunny is something that can be so personal

Wei Wuxian | THE UNTAMED

Blindfold kiss incense burner jp audio drama extra. Lan Wangji not knowing it's a dream and Wei Wuxian having some fun~

THE UNTAMED | episode 26

art for the #orufreyweek hosted by @orufreyweek

Drunk WWX I posted on instagram for his birthday!

Reading this chapter during pride month was kind of comical...

donghua gets points from me because this is such an unbelievably cunt way to introduce your protagonist