haha anyways,

She/Her. European. Sometimes I write: AO3

[bread-crust-brust]

I was sooo tired while doing this... but I'm proud of myself 🙏

[kitachett]

I love the idea of Xie Lian having to balance his need to help others with his need to escape a heavenly tribulation at all costs.

My crack-ish headcanon is that heavenly tribulations have to be done in a certain way - like if you manage to kill a powerful ghost but do it by burning down the village you're supposed to be protecting, that kinda goes against what the heavens had in mind, right? So imagine Xie Lian saves a village from a powerful ghost and everyone crowds around, thanking Daozhang for his help, and he just gets this sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach that he really messed up this time.

And so, he sighs heavily and squares his shoulders. He lightly punches a random grandpa. Gently elbows a lady in the face. Steals a mantou from a child right in front of the parents. Yells random swear words at everyone. And just bolts for the treeline, stolen mantou stuffed in his mouth, screaming apologies the whole way.

He's left about 30 villages with weird stories like this not even a decade into his banishment. He's not even sure that's actually how these things work but he's NOT risking passing a heavenly tribulation no matter how many years pass so he keeps doing this shit just in case.

Then eventually the heavens get tired and go "Oh for fucks sake, fine! You're ascending for uhhh... scrap collecting. Yup. You're just so good at it. There."

(There were rumours that the first thing he said after ascending for the third time was a mumbled "at least I don't have to beat up grandmas any more" coupled with a heavy sigh. But surely someone misheard.)

[marichild]

wait sorry i know i've written fic about it but thinking about the concept of xie lian and home literally drives me up the wall chewing concrete what if you want to go home but it is physically impossible. like. what even remains of xianle? for as long as descendants of his people existed without being assimilated into other areas of the country, he could never have gone near them. his brief stint in yong'an must have been excruciating. home, something resembling home, and he has to hold himself above it. he can't join in. and yet it's also like. so so much would have changed in centuries. he wanders the world and no one remembers language like he does and no one makes the food like he remmebers and no one sings the way he remembers no one holds themself the way he remembers and holds himself there is nothing left of home to find. he can be as homesick as he wants but there is nothing left. he has no community and no people left just him and the silk band that his parents hung themselves with that tied him up in the most horrific moment of his life that is his only friend. a sword that was used to render him inrecognizable until he lost that, too. just. god. what the genuine actual fuck. it's not just homesickness it's the literal physical eradication of everything he knew and loved and living on through the centuries as even remnants of it become stretched and distorted almost beyond recognition and he doesn't even have the community or comfort of something else to fall back on. he is the loneliest being under the sun and stars and he just. has to deal with that.

[ray-eh]

[shijiujun]

EP 3 IS OUT FRIENDS AHHHHH I AM SCREAMING!!!!

ANOTHER 6 MINUTES OF GOODNESS

[qiandenguan]

everyone wake the fuck up we actually won

[bagel327]

I love how hc follows xl’s morality, bro doesn’t give a single fuck about what anyone else thinks. He doesn’t even seem to ascribe to xl’s morals he just follows what xl wants to do at a given moment, he’s just like amoral(?) I think is the right word.

He was still aware that xl was acting out of character tho, even willing to follow his plan of vengeance hc knew it was out of grief more than rational thought, but he wanted to follow and support him regardless.

[moonnogginn]

Happy Valentine's Day!!! 💝

[airplanecrashingtowardstheground]

hua cheng after his "joke" proposal to xie lian

[airplanecrashingtowardstheground]

[everoutoftouch]

Rotates my blorbos

[squishyfrogtoes]

xie lian: san lang the chains on your boots are broken, do you want me to fix them???

hua cheng who orered custom gucci broken chain aesthetic boots with extra jingle for 100000 dollars that are in perfect condition: yes please gege im so sad theyre broken sighhh

[kotoryba]

Inner thinking: I know, someone have already developed this idea long ago, probably 🙄. But anyway — why don't try? Autumn, exactly this wonderful time of the year 😜

So please, meet

MushroomLian

In his Taizi Dianxia era — the rare and precious (in my native location) Amanita caesaria

It's Amanita ☠️, yes, but edible (but still Amanita, aand so why someone saw this poisonous potential in XL later, trying to turn him to the dark side, here we have some Mushroom AU ideas 😏)

And later — as Macrolepiota procera

Totally not so poisonous as Amanita, some Macrolepiota are, but this one not. Still, this mushroom is often confused with Amanita, aaand likes to live in trashy places 😏

[heartinhyacinth]

[heartinhyacinth]

you tell him, dianxia

[punkrottenz]

silly heads. based on the post below

[heartinhyacinth]