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16-year-old Luo Binghe: "...and that's how I get away with tripping into Shizun's boobs during spars!"
16-year-old Hua Cheng: taking notes furiously, wistfully, and admiringly, his eyes so bright you can see almost the red one through the bandages
16-year-old Lan Wangji (silently but you can tell): I would NEVER let Wei Ying get a free win
“Don’t either of you get jealous?”
Xie Lian: every once in a while, but it’s usually just a misunderstanding
Wei Wuxian: Lan Zhan has his possessive moments, but he knows how I feel about him
Shen Qingqiu: *stares directly into the camera like he’s on an episode of The Office*
I will die on the hill that wwx would have folded SO fast at the "Wei Wuxian!" "Lan Wangji!" fight, if lwj had just started crying
The wider cultivation world's POV on Wangxian is incredibly funny cause on one hand you've got Jin Guangyao treating it like it's his comfort trashy soap opera, while Lan Xichen is well aware what's going on from day one and goes through the full parabolic arc from "oh he has a little crush that's cute" to "he's mourning him like a grieving widow maybe I should hide all the branding irons". The juniors take one look at the whole situation and go "huh I don't know why Lan Wangji is sleeping with this crazy guy we found in a ditch but whatever makes him happy man 👍" Jin Ling finds his uncles so aggressively endearing he is forced to speedrun Unlearning Homophobia and ends up giving Wei Wuxian a shovel talk that starts and ends with "be faithful to him or istg I will kill you with my own two hands." (he is thirteen)
And then there's Jiang Chang. Not only was he blissfully unaware that Wei Wuxian and Lan Zhan could even hold a civil conversation with each other, he also somehow went through Wei Wuxian's entire first life thinking that his brother was straight.
idk if this comparison has been made before
One of my all-time favorite Jin Ling moments was when he realized that his crazy homo uncle (who may or may not be the Yiling Patriarch) was trying to get with Lan Wangji—one of the only adults Jin Ling actively fears and respects. And after enough Wei Wuxian-specific shenanigans, Jin Ling’s reaction to all this, which had initially been, "cutsleeve? more like cut that shit out," eventually morphed into, "okay this is HANGUANG-JUN, buddy, you cannot fuck around and find out with this one. You gotta LOCK THAT SHIT DOWN if you're going to sleep with a man that famous. Look at me, put a ring on it immediately, he's too good for your slut ass do you hear me—”
Wei Wuxian: this is my son A-Yuan 😄
Lan Wangji, about to escalate his how-to-court-Wei-Ying strategy to baby-trapping:
Everyone talks about how embarrassing the wangxian confession was in the Guanyin temple, but I would argue that Jin Guangyao and Lan Xichen's messy, public divorce should be competing for the title of "most awkward for hapless bystanders."
Because sure, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian were being shamelessly cuddly, but Jin Guangyao—the man who was revealing his supervillain masterplot bit by bit throughout this altercation—spent a portion of that time on his knees in front of Lan Xichen with a tearful, "it's not true baby let me explain," routine—during which you can physically see Lan Xichen yo-yo in real-time between fully buying into jiggy's excuses, then snapping himself out of it with a colorful spectrum of emotions that are definitely in contrast with the Lan family precepts.
What's worse, not only are Jin Guangyao and Lan Xichen essentially two of the biggest celebrities of the cultivation world, but most of the cultivators present actively work for Jin Guangyao. That is their boss ugly crying on the floor trying not to fumble the man they are actively holding as their prisoner.
wangxian's PDA crimes pale in comparison to whatever the fuck xiyao was putting them through.
I got a record-breaking 8 post-it’s done today and there’s a little something for everyone! As long as you’re someone who wants an MDZS post-canon fierce-corpse!Nie Mingjue AU.
Bro the rules of gay chicken aren't even that complicated how are you losing this badly
I will wait for him
wei wuxian's foolproof plan of making everyone believe that he is, in fact, not the yiling patriarch:
step 1: pretend to be a gay lunatic (he already was a gay lunatic)
step 2: throw step 1 out of the window as soon as someone disrespects the lan clan (his life-long crush's clan)
step 3: play the flute (the instrument well known as the yiling patriarch's spiritual weapon of choice)
step 4: summon the ghost general (the yiling patriarch's right hand man)
step 5: play a song composed by hanguang-jun that only him and the yiling patriarch have ever heard
step 6: flirt with hanguang-jun (his lifelong crush)
why won’t you let me love you
Danmei is a very unique genre of queer literature which both centers and de-centers queerness. None of the Danmei I’ve read have been essentially “about” being gay. They’re just stories of life, of magic, of fantasy, of love, in which the main characters happen to be gay. Which is a kind of representation I have often seeked from western media and related intermediaries because why is every gay story, a coming out story? Is there not more to queer people than that?
However, while capturing the personhood of queer people; Danmei also captures the queerness of people because none of these stories would work if the characters weren’t gay/queer
Wei Wuxian’s absolute buffoonery of misunderstanding Lan Zhan’s feelings in a decade long telephone game in which neither of them open their damn mouth would never work in a non-queer story because between a man and a woman romance would be the natural assumption of everyone around them and therefore wouldn’t leave space for confusion. The misunderstanding of their romance is so closely tied to the plot succession that the plot would be… non existent without it
In TGCF Xie Lian and Hua Cheng’s absolute aspirational love is literally in the backseat and front seat of the story. Not too different from a classic hero’s journey but instead of the hero being one person, it’s two people. They are so intertwined with eo that they become one character and witness a lot of the story together. Witness being a very interesting word choice. Their queerness doesn’t drive the story but replacing one of them with a woman would dampen the effect— it’d remove the uncertainty, the confusion from everyone around them, the genuine slow burn of the romance. There’s also this idea of Hua Cheng falling in love with Xie Lian so far separated from concepts such as gender or whatever which wouldn’t have been hammered home in a straight romance where those conversations aren’t always had between the audience and the story
And Erha.. well obviously. Half of Chu Wanning’s “this is so inappropriate” spiral wouldn’t exist if he was a woman. And, the idea of Mo Ran being a “cut sleeve” builds up the under current of his character being so far dismissed by society because he’s seen as immoral. Which just wouldn’t serve to the same effect if he was into exclusively women because so was every other character.
Not in a single one of these stories is queerness and homosexuality the central theme of the story yet without them, the romance wouldn’t be the same. Liking the same gender as you comes with baggage in our society which is so heteronormative and that effect has to exist in the person characters become for them to be authentic but at the same time, limiting that effect only to produce coming out stories/falling in love stories is unfair. Danmei mends this through a middle ground where the plot is the focus but it doesn’t exist in a vaccum, it exists in queerness itself
Reading this chapter during pride month was kind of comical...
我如何温暖你我的爱人？
Yiling Patriarch era Wangxian is so fucking funny like.
Wei Wuxian: Lan Zhan always looks so angry and disturbed whenever people accuse me of stealing away virgins and fucking them in my evil cave. He must hate to think me so far gone and depraved
Lan Zhan: it should be me in that cave
