陈情令

Wen Chao at the Cloud Recesses - Yes, he’s garbage, and he interrupted Jiang Cheng’s carefully prepared gift-giving, which is unforgiveable, but you cannot deny that this is a moderately dramatic entrance. From a piece of shit. 5/10, hate him, consolation prize for most punchable face.

Lan Wangji on the search for Wei Wuxian - The slow climb up the stairs. The epic scenery. The unsubtle threat. 8/10, points deducted because the follow-up is anticlimactic. We should have gotten to see some ass-kicking.

Lan Wangji at the hostage summer camp - Improvement! Isn’t letting the scenery do all the work, but letting it work for him instead. More slow swishy robes. More murder in his expression. No sign of having a broken leg because he keeps the pain inside. 9/10, excellent way to not be dead, no wonder Wei Wuxian rapidly develops a technique for flirting in hostage situations.

like, nhs? nhs, planning his great revenge, looks at jiang cheng and cannot fucking believe jiang cheng had the audacity to 'disown' and 'kill' (nhs does not have all the details) his own brother. looks at lan xichen who let his didi get whipped and, being a spoiled youngest child himself, has no inhibitions about hurting lxc for his own goals.

lxc? watching jc let wei wuxian descend into alcoholism and demonic cultivation? watching nhs ruin his own morals to get revenge, betraying every ideal nie mingjue stood for? he keeps quiet because he is lan xichen, hes got that oldest daughter syndrome, but oh, he does have opinions.

jc, the youngest kid, feeling the pressure of being the sect heir since forever, becomes the sect leader as a fucking teenager and watches the nies - watches nie huaisang being absolutely NOT prepared to take over. thinks about how nie mingjue knew he had no other heirs and still spoiled little sangsang, allowed him to become the headshaker. jc post-canon, always having been judged by lwj for letting wwx isolate himself - now watches lwj let xichen go into seclusion. ironic.

wen ning? forever bitchy about jc letting wei wuxian down during the burial mounds era.

lwj? obvious issues with jiang cheng.

nmj considers wei wuxian a traitor both to yunmeng jiang and to jiang cheng.

everyone except for maybe lwj thinks wen qing a monster for allowing her brother to become the ghost general.

and so on, and so forth.

even better, it's not like they think that themselves they were 100% Right. they are also bitter about their own actions, they also regret many things. nhs couldn't ever face his brother again after what he did for him. wei wuxian hopes the secret about the golden core is never revealed. wen ning wishes his sister hadn't led them to jinlintai. lwj stares at the quiet hanshi, the lonely shadow inside it.

there are no correct answers! there are no good solutions! there is just a bunch of adult people who made choices and watched others make choices and are extremely bitchy about those choices.

Q: Can you share with us what the role of Wei Wuxian means to you?

Amazing Cloud Recesses Cake

I am in awe at this? The painting on the top of the cake?? The skill to write Gusu’s rules that tiny on the side of the cake???