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Thinking about Laios Touden and his monster(fucking) fixation…
Thinking about Vergil Sparda (Netflix version) and how his devotion would look in a relationship…
Thinking about (DMC Netflix)Vergil’s undying devotion and how that would translate in a relationship… TW: oral sex, a whole lot of biting, dacryphilia, mating press, praise kink, body chains and costumes, shibari, safewords, sex toys
lan wangji going from
“not my monkey, not my circus 😒”
to
“this IS my monkey! and this is OUR circus! and I should’ve said so 16 years ago!”
This is actually such a crucial part of healing from neglect and abuse and I have to add to this.
Because indeed, people who like you will not roll their eyes and sigh at the idea of accommodating your needs, they will value your voice and be upset with you about injustice done to you, not at you for "being difficult". They will be happy when you find a way to live a better life, and help you to get there. If you are struggling, someone who loves you wants to see you smile, not tell you to smile because "you have it so good".
While it's not the focus of the book, Wei Wuxian as a queer character means so much to me. Literally summoned as an avenging spirit to mete out justice for a gay man's death. He's willing to put up with all sorts of verbal abuse but the second someone gets homophobic in his general vicinity it's on sight. And he doesn't know why. He went through the first twenty-odd years off his life clueless about any kind of sexuality and completely bluescreens when someone so much as holds his hand. He has a reputation as a deviant freak. He hears a story about two men founding their own family line before both dying tragically and it makes him really depressed for some reason. Two of the biggest crashouts we see him have on page he describes as "losing control" and the first one is him accidentally murdering a dude with ghost magic and the other one is the first time he slept with a man. He swaps makeup tips with women he meets on the side of the road. He gives the remains of a dead man to the one man he knows loved him in life and leaves the decision of what to do with the corpse purely up to his partner. He tries to run away from it all and live peacefully with his chosen family and when society doesn't let him do that he decides to burn it all to the ground. "When you're on their side you're a strange hero, a unique knight-errant, a force to be reckoned with who's in a league of his own. But the second you voice an opinion that differs from theirs, you're a maniac, immoral, a deviant who shuns the orthodox path." He spent his life being hated, being vilified, was literally killed for trying to live his life and be happy in a community he built himself. Only to come back, look at the world a few years later, and realize he wasn't even special. That it was never about him, it was just about having someone to hate. He cannot burn himself up and take all the hatred of the world with him, so he might as well live and be happy.
The only time in the whole series he directly acknowledges his sexuality is when he's wondering if being gay is contagious via blood necromancy.
like, in my mind, when lan wangji hears “wangxian” being played by wei wuxian, he thinks he’s imagining it— and then he realized his subconscious would never butcher “wangxian” this badly
The Creature calling itself Viktor and following Viktor around is so much more tragic when you know how babies develop and how newborns don't yet realise they and their mothers are two separate people. And one of the first things babies realise about themselves is that they're a whole separate person. And one of the first things they do when they start developing as a person is find out they have hands and play with them and with textures and start exploring. And when they want to start talking, they put their hands and fingers on their parents lips and throats to figure out how that sound is coming out of there and then they start imitating. Guillermo Del Toro nailed every single step of human development in such a beautiful celebration of life.
And Viktor abused the crap out of the poor creature for not being smart enough when it was only following natural developmental milestones. Because, like most men, like his own father, he wanted to create life but he wasn't interested in raising it beyond that and instead wanted it to be born a doctor ready to show the world how smart Viktor is for creating a carbon copy of his brain except in a stronger immortal body. Elizabeth gave him five minutes of love and let him explore how sounds come out of her mouth and he started talking.
Idk why some people are complaining about the movie being different from the book when the essence is literally the same, Viktor created life as if it were a godly feat and not something women have been doing since the dawn of humanity, and then he abandoned that life as deadbeat dads do. And that abandonment is what created a monster out of an innocent souls who could have become a beautiful being had it been nurtured. That's literally what Mary Shelley wrote. She would have been proud of this story. On top of being an incredibly gorgeous visual story, the narrative is very loyal to the point Shelley wanted to make.
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I think we can all agree that the most interesting well-written character in MDZS is Jin Ling's uncle.
I feel like people misunderstand the title of Mo Dao Zu Shi, or of what Wei Wuxian does as “demonic cultivation” (mo dao). It’s not. It is, however, what most people in canon THINK he’s doing
Mo dao messes with the cycle of reincarnation, which is why the Yiling Patriarch becomes so reviled. The term mo dao is actually used only ONCE in the novel - when Wei Wuxian notes that people called him “the grandmaster of demonic cultivation”
It uses living humans, extracts qi out of them, and involves the destruction of golden cores, brainwashing, and effectively vampiring living beings for the sake of power. It doesn’t use ambient resentment, it creates it by harming others.
The reason we’re continuously told (by people who know nothing of Wei Wuxian’s path) that he’s at risk of going insane is because that’s what mo dao does. It warps the mind and body because the source of resentment is within the user
Wei Wuxian calls his cultivation “the ghostly path” or “ghost cultivation” (gui dao). Hell, the only other person shown to match his expertise on the subject - Xue Yang - also calls it gui dao. Xue Yang !! He’d be delighted to call his actions demonic !! If he’s insisting on calling it “ghostly”, then that tells us that the difference matters
So what is gui dao ? First of all, we know that it doesn’t mind-control people as a baseline - that’s why Wei Wuxian ended up dying the first go around. We know that it utilises pre-existing resentful energy in the world to direct the dead
We know, also, that it requires a certain level of understanding of the dead. One of the spells Wei Wuxian creates is literally named Empathy.
We know that the power source is usually external (the Burial Mounds, the Stygian Tiger Seal), and that it, most importantly, doesn’t create demons. It creates ghosts and fierce corpses. And because of this, it likely doesn’t prevent reincarnation.
Why is the distinction important ? Because the former is what mo dao does. It creates mo.
We’re told the difference - very intentionally - in one of the earliest parts of the story, when Lan Qiren asks Wei Wuxian the difference between gui (ghosts) and mo (demons) and yao, and gets the correct answer
There’s foreshadowing littered all across the earlier chapters, actually. I might make a post on that some day
I want to see a MDZS K-Pop Demon Hunters AU, featuring:
Wei Ying as a half-demon cultivator like Rumi, who got exposed at the height of his popularity by the Jin and fell off the radar for years
Lan Zhan as the Jade Prince of Gusu Lan, who always sang alone …until Wei Ying
The juniors being a boy band…Lan Sizhui as the golden boy lead, Lan Jingyi as the sassy one, Jin Ling as a total brat the fans love anyway, Ouyang Zizhen as the quiet one in the back at interviews
Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao as “Triad”, the band that broke up under mysterious circumstances after Nie Mingjue’s breakdown onstage
Wen Ning as a demon who came back to Wei Ying after he died, thanks to Wei Ying’s music, and is free of the demon king’s control
Jin Guangshan as the demon king, Jin Guangyao as essentially Jinu (and yes we do see him have a moment of redemption at the end with Lan Xichen)
Nie Huaisang is the only one who knows about the Jins (other than his brother, who was driven to a qi deviation when he found out)
I’ll write it on AO3 just you watch me…
“Golden” was the Jiang siblings’ hit single…when Guanyin Temple happens, and Jiang Cheng comes in clutch, he and Wei Ying reprise it
“What It Sounds Like” is Wangxian, verse one for Lan Zhan, verse two for Wei Ying, bridge and chorus together—we get lil moments of the tune but not the whole thing until the denouement in the Burial Mounds
We end with the juniors inviting Wangxian onstage and all singing “What It Sounds Like” together
Also a scene of Jiang Cheng and Wei Ying and Jin Ling doing “Golden” and crying a lot
I want to see a MDZS K-Pop Demon Hunters AU, featuring:
Wei Ying as a half-demon cultivator like Rumi, who got exposed at the height of his popularity by the Jin and fell off the radar for years
Lan Zhan as the Jade Prince of Gusu Lan, who always sang alone …until Wei Ying
The juniors being a boy band…Lan Sizhui as the golden boy lead, Lan Jingyi as the sassy one, Jin Ling as a total brat the fans love anyway, Ouyang Zizhen as the quiet one in the back at interviews
Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao as “Triad”, the band that broke up under mysterious circumstances after Nie Mingjue’s breakdown onstage
Wen Ning as a demon who came back to Wei Ying after he died, thanks to Wei Ying’s music, and is free of the demon king’s control
Jin Guangshan as the demon king, Jin Guangyao as essentially Jinu (and yes we do see him have a moment of redemption at the end with Lan Xichen)
Nie Huaisang is the only one who knows about the Jins (other than his brother, who was driven to a qi deviation when he found out)
I’ll write it on AO3 just you watch me…
“WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?!” Xie Lian spared the time to turn his head and shouted loudly, “EVERYTHING’S WRONG! I’M SORRY! I’M SORRY!”
This shouldn’t be so relatable, should it?
"Treat them like people" is probably the biggest lesson we learn from the novel when it comes to Wei Wuxian
He is comfortable around spirits and the dead because he treats them with the same respect and gentleness he would any living person.
He is able to get along very well with children and the youth because he treats them with the same kindness and decency he would a grown adult, never looking down on them and instead patiently guiding them to learn things about the world and themselves.
He sympathizes with the Wen remnants' suffering because he's seen firsthand they have not been complicit to the war and has decided to extend to them the same kindness he received, thus treating them like individuals and not a mass representing Wen Ruohan.
No matter how insignificant, unsightly or scary something or someone might be, Wei Wuxian has always granted them respect and showed no disgust or disdain where it was not warranted.
Be like Wei Wuxian.
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