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Hi! Welcome to my main blog, which is dedicated to the C-drama The Untamed - Chen Qing Ling (CQL) and it's source novel The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation - Mo Dao Zu Shi (MDZS), and everything related to them. A fair warning though: most of the content here relates to the CQL.

For my own content, I mainly play with screencaptures, so it is mostly stills, occasionally with some ranting and bits and pieces of meta thrown in 🙂.

I have three ongoing "projects": the Untamed collages, the Untamed costumes and the latest one, the Untamed portraits.

The Untamed collages are just that: collages of screenshots (sometimes with some of the subs quoted), which I am making, mostly, for each scene of each episode, to create a kind of "photographic reference" to the Untamed. I have started posting collages in reverse order (moving backwards from the last scene of ep50) into a sideblog, @theuntamedcollages. I've also made collages for the first 16 or so episodes and posted them in this blog, they can be accessed by episode through the tags ⬇️. They will, eventually, be updated a bit and reblogged into the sideblog in correct order. Update December 15th, 2022: collages for episode 48 done and posted. Check them out :)!

The Untamed costumes are a series of posts about the various wonderful character costumes, a costume per post. This will also be a long-running project 😁. The posts I've already made can be accessed through The Untamed costumes masterpost *updated January 23rd, Lan Wangji's outfits*.

The Untamed portraits are portrait-like single screencap edits of the various characters.*latest update: October 15th 2023, Lan Qiren*

A couple of resource posts:

Links to the music of the Untamed

Fanfic recs, Fanfic recs Part 2, Fanfic recs Part 3 *edited September 7th, 2023*

MDZS donghua episode notes masterpost *updated November 8th*

All the rest from single screenshot edits to longer, meta(ish) posts can be found through the masterposts below 🙂.

Miscellaneous posts 2023 masterpost

Miscellaneous posts 2022 masterpost, part 3

Miscellaneous posts 2022 masterpost, part 2

Miscellaneous posts 2022 masterpost, part 1

Miscellaneous posts 2021 masterpost, part 3

Miscellaneous posts 2021 masterpost, part 2

Miscellaneous posts 2021 masterpost, part 1

Miscellaneous posts 2020 masterpost

Sideblogs:

@theuntamedcollages As mentioned above, screencap collages of every scene of every episode of The Untamed (work in progress).

@1000wangjis Single screenshot edits of, yes you guessed it, Lan Wangji.

@webandwifi All things Wang Yibo and Xiao Zhan, reblogs mostly.

@7nails10devils All other C-dramas, reblogs mostly, some screencap edits.

@aarnikaarne Everything else, reblogs mostly, some photos (tagged #aarnikaarne).

And no, Wei Wuxian dear, I will not stop anytime soon. Sorry.

#the untamed collages #the untamed ep1 collages #the untamed ep2 collages #the untamed ep3 collages #the untamed ep4 collages #the untamed ep5 collages #the untamed ep6 collages #the untamed ep7 collages #the untamed ep8 collages #the untamed ep9 collages #the untamed ep10 collages #the untamed ep11 collages #the untamed ep12 collages #the untamed ep13 collages #the untamed ep14 collages #the untamed ep15 collages #the untamed ep16 collages #the untamed ep17 collages

weirdplutoprince

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

#lan wangji #drinking vinegar like a pro. again.#wangxian #wei wuxian #yiling laozu #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #text

maru046

Going back to my roots 👀

#beautiful 🩵#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #mdzs fanart #wonderful fanart #wangxian #lan wangji #wei wuxian #maru046

usergif

Am I in love? —yes, since I am waiting. The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait… The lover's fatal identity is precisely: I am the one who waits.

— Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

[ inspo: ★ ]

#woah!#and oofff #lan wangji #wei wuxian #the untamed #cql #great gifs

jadenbirdieblythefics

Making art for my fics is just as much fun as writing the fic. Wei Ying decides it's time to go home to Lotus Pier.

#this is lovely #wei wuxian #little apple #wonderful fanart #jadenbirdieblythefics

zelkams-art

great news! wei wuxian has died!

(full pics under the cut)

#talk about a jarring wake-up #wei wuxian #mo xuanyu #wonderful fanart #the untamed #cql fanart #zelkam

zsww-moved-to-pillowfort-deacti

※re-posted with permission ※please don’t remove the source

#gorgeous as always #wangxian #lan wangji #wei wuxian #wonderful fanart #cql fanart #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #mdzs fanart #foxking

two-corpses-in-the-burial-mounds

Anyone else think a lot about how at the end of canon, Lan Wangji has had time to mature for 10+ years into a guy in his mid-30s, but Wei Wuxian still has the life experience and general maturity of a war-traumatized early 20-something?

Because like. Wei Wuxian died young and he died tragically, and everyone who was around him then that's still there after he's resurrected has gotten to live their lives. They got to mature. They've had 13/16 years to heal (or not heal -_-) and learn who they are. To become fully realized adults outside of the pressures of war. And Wei Wuxian hasn't had that. If you believe MXTX's interview that circulates on this site sometimes, he spent those 16 years in a suspended state of agony. And even if you don't believe that, he was still dead. Non-existant.

For Wei Wuxian, the war is fresh. The pain is fresh. He has no idea what's doing because he's barely an adult, if admittedly a highly skilled one for his age. The world has moved on around him and he has stayed in place. What does he do with that?

Wei Wuxian had no choice but to pretend that he's moved on, too, because that war that took so much from him was almost two decades ago, now. The Wen Remnants have been dead for over 10 years. What use is it to dig up old hurts? Except, those hurts are still hurting him.

When he died, Wei Wuxian was helping care for Lan Sizhui. Wen Yuan. When he died, Lan Wangji raised A-Yuan with the Lan. If Wei Wuxian was dead for 13/16 years and A-Yuan was 3/4 when he died, then Lan Sizhui is about his age, or very close to it.

This is the child he was raising. This child is now his peer.

Wei Wuxian has memories of war and tragedy, but no one to talk to. The juniors, who are closest to him in relative age, haven't known war, and everyone who has known it has moved on. He's trapped between generations, and that has to be so incredibly isolating.

Jiang Yanli, the Wen Remnants, Wen Qing of particular note, all of them died shortly before he did. Did he ever really get to grieve them? Will he be allowed to now? Especially with his reputation. Especially with the number of people who would really prefer him to simply leave the past in the past. Especially with all the people who think he is the cause of the deaths he wishes to grieve.

Will he be allowed to mourn, if the cultivation world thinks these deaths are his fault? Or that these people don't deserve to be grieved?

Wei Wuxian has the misfortune of being a man who is a decade out of time, and he will have to learn to cope with that, but how does he account for the missing years? When the pain is still fresh for him, how does he find a place in a society that has long since moved on?

yingandzhan

This was a beautiful, poignant read. But, if it helps, I do think this is more speculation and your own personal (painful 😣) headcanon, rather than what WWX actually feels in the novel itself.

Firstly, the Sunshot campaign was quite a few years prior to WWX's demise. Like at least 2 or 3 years I think 🤔 So that wasn't exactly fresh on his mind, though of course he DOES carry a huge amount of trauma, but he's lived on since then - so it's not exactly fresh to him.

Secondly, although he died in his 20s, he does remember his time being dead. He comments on this throughout the novel - being a most well behaved soul and remembering he never received any paper money. So he was aware and somewhat conscious, still experiencing things and to a certain extent, growing and maturing to a certain extent.

Also, MXTXs comment stated he was in a semi-conscious state, not of agony as far as I recall, but a state of chaos with some of his senses - like he's in an endless nightmare. Either way, it seems he does recall certain less painful aspects of a harmless soul minding its own business.

As for WWX pretending to move on - I honestly think that's pretty ooc. It is part of WWXs character to move on, to hold no grudges and focus on the positives in life. That's what he's always done. He has never dwelled on the past and is just happy to be alive again. Even more so the minute he realises he's free of obligation, debt and status! Able to truly run free and act as wild as he wants. So I don't think WWX is like that upon his return and we have no textual evidence to show anything else.

As for memories of war and tragedy, if WWX truly wants to talk about the past, LWJ would be there to listen and talk with him. It certainly seems they have indeed spoken about WWXs past abuse, judging from LWJ's reaction of offering him comfort when parallels are drawn between a case they are investigating and his mistreatment at Lotus Pier. So he's not alone. They have shared history and trauma, both of which the other is more than willing to support and be there to soothe their husband should they need it.

To anyone else, such a thing as being over a decade behind everyone else might be isolating, but to WWX it does not seem to phase him in the slightest. He is just happy to be alive and living his best life with those he cherishes most.

If WWX wants to mourn, he will do so and he would not let something like requiring others permission to do so get in his way. But again, WWX doesn't dwell. He honours those who are gone by keeping their memories alive - by living by the important lessons they instilled in him (his mother with her philosophy of remembering the kindness others have shown you, not the kindness you have shown others and WQs "sorry and thank you" that he tries to teach JL for example).

So overall, if it makes you feel any better, novel canon WWX seems to have not even paid it a second thought - too busy concentrating on living his second chance of life to the fullest, being madly in love with soulmate and remembering his lost loved ones in his own special way ❤️