still crying over siblings in the untamed | i think you should watch the sleuth of ming dynasty |sometimes i write| fic requests open |bi|31|USA|they/them (i follow as ponnearponfarponwhereveryouare)
Hello and welcome! This is a side blog that started out and is still mostly for The Untamed/CQL/MDZS. It’s focused on the drama.
I’m bi, nonbinary, white, 31-years-old, and from the USA. My pronouns are they/them! You can call me A. My favorite thing in the whole world is the found family trope. I write fic! You can find them here under #my fic tag or on ao3. My meta, thoughts, headcanons, and screenshots can be found under #a talks.
Other cdramas that I post about (favs starred):
The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty ⭐ (finished watching, on Viki. my other blog for it is @tsomdevents)
Legend of Yunqian ⭐ (finished watching, on YouTube)
Ancient Detective ⭐ (finished watching, on Viki, also on YouTube)
The Imperial Coroner ⭐ (finished watching on Viki, also on YouTube)
Love Between Fairy and Devil ⭐ (finished watching, on Netflix)
Legend of Fei (currently watching, on Viki, also on YouTube)
Douluo Continent (currently watching on Viki, also on YouTube)
Word of Honor (currently watching on YouTube, also on Viki)
Hikaru no Go (currently watching on iQiyi)
Couple of Mirrors (currently watching on YouTube)
my “to watch” list
And novels (favs starred):
Golden Stage ⭐ (finished reading, + reread. English translation at Peach Flower House)
The Wrong Way to a Demon Sect Leader (finished reading, read here)
Heaven Official’s Blessing ⭐ (read Seven Seas English Translation + watching on CrunchRoll)
Pulling Together a Villain Reformation Strategy (finished reading here)
Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know⭐ (finished reading, read here)
Grand Master of Demonic Cultivation (finished reading Seven Seas' translation)
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (read all except some extras, Seven Sea's translation on vol. 4 or 4) (I don't post about this one because it makes some folks understandably uncomfortable. I certainly have Thoughts about it.)
Record of the Missing Sect Master (DNF, can read here)
If you need anything tagged for any reason, let me know! I try and keep this blogged well tagged and it is no hassle for me to add more.
I also try and keep this blog SFW.
edit 4/10/21 note on accessibility: Going forward I am going to tag images that do not have an image id with “no id” for those who use tag saver. For my own reference, I tag posts that do have an id as “with id”.
You can find me on twitter here and elsewhere on tumblr blogging about shadowhunters here, star trek here, and my personal/general fandom blog (atla, leverage, black sails, etc) here.
Final but important note: There are NO incest ships here. Do not argue with me that because someone is adopted it is not incest. Do not even think of following me or interacting with me if you ship any incest ships. Just block me before I block you.
another @danmei-action prompt for an anon who wanted something relating to the goose scene :]
[ID: digital art of yan xiaohan and fu shen from golden terrace. it's divided into 5 comic-style boxes. box 1 is in the top left corner; box 5 is in the bottom right. boxes 2, 3, and 4 are aligned diagonally between them.
box 1: yan xiaohan, smiling, looks down at fu shen.
box 2: side view of a swan goose.
box 3: a wrapped note.
box 4: a flock of geese flying in a v-formation.
box 5: fu shen, also smiling, looks up at yan xiaohan. end ID]
Kinda fascinatingly how objectively fucked the Jiang home situation was. Like, you have this situation where "everyone knows" that Sect Leader Jiang loves Wei Wuxian so much and favours him over his actual son, INCLUDING his son, and. No. He does not.
You know what the last thing Jiang Fengmian, the man who supposedly "loves Wei Wuxian like a son" says to Wei Wuxian ? "A-Ying... look after A-Cheng". That's it. Not a goodbye, not a "take care of yourself", nada. Just instructions. Jiang Cheng gets "A-Cheng. Be well". Wei Wuxian gets told to ensure that
You know who else did pretty much the exact same thing, five pages ago ? Yu Ziyuan, who tells Wei Wuxian that "even in death, you have to keep [Jiang Cheng] safe"
I cannot stress enough that this is fundamentally the same interaction. Sure, Yu Ziyuan is infinitely harsher with her words and more abusive with her actions, but her last actions are an exact replica of her husband's - they comfort Jiang Cheng like parents, because they ARE his parents, and then they order Wei Wuxian to protect their son.
And that's why I'll never buy the idea that Jiang Fengmian loved Wei Wuxian more than he did his own son. He may have LIKED Wei Wuxian more, but that was because he LOVED the man Wei Wuxian reminded him of - his father Wei Changze. And he may not LIKE Jiang Cheng, for being more akin to Madam Yu than Fengmian, but it's undeniable that he loves him
And the real fucked part ? Wei Wuxian KNOWS this. He KNOWS that he's second-best !! He's accepted that !! You know who DOESN'T know that ? Jiang Cheng. Madam Yu. To a certain extent, I believe even Jiang Fengmian himself.
And also, this might be painfully old news by now, but also... Zidian unravelling itself when Jiang Fengmian touched it ? Both because it was obeying Yu Ziyuan's command to keep the boys safe - and to a certain extent she considered her husband's vicinity safety - and because she trusted him enough to make him one of Zidian's masters too ? Right after we see that Jiang Fengmian went out of his way to repair Madam Yu's hairpin for her ? This, after so many pages of everyone - including Madam Yu herself - insisting that the two hated each other ? Ugh
Doomed siblings have me on a chokehold in a way no trope can ever achieve. Something so gut wrenchingly beautiful about two kids going through unimaginable trauma and coming out damaged forever. I always eat it up. Maybe they stay together and find solace only in each other, used and kicked out by society! Maybe they end up on opposite sides of the war! Maybe they end up betraying one another! Maybe one of them dies haunting the narrative forever! Maybe one of them destroys the world for the other! So many endless tragic possibilities!
absolutely hilarious to me that they thought they could tattle to Lan Wangji about how much Wei Wuxian kicked everyone ass and that this would have any effect other than making him unreasonably horny
You should draw Wei Wuxian drawing the bouncing bunny trampoline thing on Lan Wangjis hand during the cloud recesses study arc
it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that the point of this was that if you moved your hand the bunny would look like it's hopping, I assume Lan Zhan had a similarly delayed realisation
So obviously I spend a lot of time thinking about lan wangji hearing wangxian and knowing that wei wuxian is back.
BUT! imagine how he must have felt when jiang cheng hit wei wuxian with zidian. imagine! you've spent 13 years mourning the love of your life. raising his son as your own. scars on your chest and back that will forever remind you of what you've lost. and then he comes back. it's an unfamiliar body but you know that it's him. you can keep him safe this time.
and then his asshole brother who you HATE hits your love with the exorcism whip and for a second, you think you've lost him again. your second chance, vanished as soon as you found it.
and then he's fine! your lost love is still there, being his annoying self, flirting with you. probably just to piss his brother off but he says you're his type. this all happens within like five minutes. emotional rollercoaster of all time.
