The Untamed

This drama owns my life right now. Apparently I don’t make the rules.

[yilinglaozuhot]

#context what context

[lanwangjihouse]

[red1stockings]

Looks like he’s waiting for the lazy corpses to get out of their graves this morning

[illuminchim]

Teen Wangxian during the cloud recesses arc!

I still can’t believe that Wei Wuxian shared that book with Lan Wangji and he didn’t even look at it himself 🙄

[lunnitavaldez]

I love them so much that they evoke maternal instincts in me 😔

[icantgetanythingdone]

Amazing Cloud Recesses Cake

I am in awe at this? The painting on the top of the cake?? The skill to write Gusu’s rules that tiny on the side of the cake???

那个喊蓝式家规的你给我出来，真的是魔鬼……#魔道祖师 #生日 #蛋糕

[orphaenus]

Something really sweet to think about is how Wangxian was played at first for Wei Wuxian in a cave with a couple strings (in the donghua) meaning that it most likely didn’t sound very good and probably out of tune just like how Wei Wuxian probably played it when he was using the makeshift bamboo flute when he was revived

I’m not sure just how to explain but there is something romantic about Wangxian being just the rawest and purest form of love between Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian. That even at when it’s poorly played with the barest of essentials (just a couple strings and humming or a last minute carved piece of bamboo), it’s still important to Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian without it being carefully played or super good sounding

[lanwangjihouse]

[ladyandthelotus]

I am desperate for a show that just follows Lan Xichen around for a week

[ladyandthelotus]

new holiday just dropped

[alondrag06]

[seongwu]

“It is a domestic affair of the Jiang Clan of Yunmeng. Please leave it to us.”

[coquelicoq]

#when you’re so mean to your boyfriend that even jiang cheng is like#HARSH#like he’s your boyfriend if you’ve decided you don’t like him anymore he’s trash now#but you know#trash that had been making himself useful! (via @winepresswrath)

[ewoman]

#jc has spent the last three months on an extended painfully awkward road trip with this guy because you supposedly love him #(god the things jc will do for his siblings) #and now you’re kicking him to the curb in the coldest possible way? okay jc can do that he can make that turn on a dime for you #he’ll cut lwj out of all your pictures for you later and help you make a tinder profile for your rebound #but yikes this is a really awkward end to a really awkward road trip for the brother that’s been making nice with your bf for 3 months #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #they’re brothers. they are BROTHERS #the untamed #gif (howdydowdy with the ID scratching tags of perfection here)

[winepresswrath]

#that’s the thing about jc. he doesn’t let people in to the family very easily and he’s very protective of the family he already has#but once you prove that you’re serious about one of his siblings and that you make them happy he is on board!#so like at this point he and lwj have a very awkward rapport but they do have a rapport and jc accepts him#and then bam wwx comes along and is like ‘eject him from the family shaped chamber of your heart into which#you begrudgingly admitted him. strike his name from the family registry you keep inscribed upon your soul. this guy is old news’#and jc is like damn okay bro i will do that right away and i will not make an uncomfortable conciliatory face at him#in recognition of all he has done for us even though there’s a part of me that really wants to more tags via @howdydowdy because i love them.

[thekingandthelionheart]

#jiang cheng being perpetually doomed to resign himself to brothers-in-law at the worst possible moment is near and dear to my heart #i’m very fond of the idea that he was just coming around on zixuan when he died #like obviously ugh zixuan #but also he put a ring on it making him Officially Family #he is clearly tolerating yanli and jiang cheng’s codependence with relatively good grace #he contributed to jin ling’s existence which i think would constitute a redeeming feature all on its own #and he’s also trying to help bring wwx home! that’s huge. in the days immediately preceding zixuan’s death his stock is at an all time high #likewise lan wangji is helping jiang cheng find his brother! jiang cheng gets to a place where he comes perilously close to admitting he’s #very worried out loud! and it’s jiang cheng that’s not nothing #and then wwx is like nope he’s an untrustworthy outsider we don’t like him and we make sure he knows it #and jiang cheng is very much like well much as it is not for me to say if zixuan is forgiven #it is not for me to say if lan wangji has rights #but signs are pointing to no #also no really you don’t tell him where to go or step an inch more into his personal space than he wants you to be #like in private he might be all hey so you actually seem pretty fucked up about this are you sure it’s worth fighting with him about it? #but if lwj is in the room an internal jiang matter is an internal jiang matter and if wwx decides he gets the zixun treatment that’s it #he’s functionally zixun now #thanks for the three months of frantic searching and shared worry and misery! (via winepresswrath)

[shitpostingkats]

I absolutely adore the way MDZS treats and talks about the concept of revenge. It says "Yes, getting payback on the things that hurt you is actually a stellar concept. In a vacuum. However, there is no true and quantifiable way to actually equate one evil deed to another, making the entire quest for revenge pointless because you will have no way of knowing when justice was actually met." Xue Yang killed dozens and tormented Xiao Xingchen for years, all for the sake of a lost finger, and still ended up unsatisfied, and all our hero has to say is why didn't you just take his arm and call it a day. Jin Guangyao taking the very neat, methodical approach to eliminating everyone who ever wronged him but by the time he gets there he gets taken out by another revenge seeker before he can even bask in it. Jin Ling wanting so so bad to hate everyone involved in his parents deaths but finding himself utterly unable to because they're all just messed up people and now he has to live with the fact that he's an orphan and that's just that. Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian hiding their good deeds from each other because they know it will just complicate everything even more and further muddy who was the wronged party. That one cultivator who goes on a hate filled tirade talking about how he's going to avenge to death of his parents and Wei Wuxian just replying "My life already sucked so bad, what more do you want from me?"

You can never have revenge. The world is too big and messy and you'll never just get the pure, satisfying moment of feeling like all your problems are solved because you harmed someone else. Purely because by the time you get there some unseen factor will be added to the equation and it suddenly won't count.

[nnolinocere]

[sharowolet]

🐰🐰

[sunflower-galaxy-star]

Pride and Prejudice (2005) movie scene as wangxian

[ennunanaiurov]

It’s 1 AM but here’s Sizhui because I love him good night

// ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ʀᴇᴜᴘʟᴏᴀᴅ //

[pondreeds]

Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian pausing their torture of Wen Chao and Wen Zhuliu to make out. Jiang Cheng is riding the high of just finding out Wei Wuxian is alive and also torturing his parents murderers to death. His brain is just endless explosions of dopamine and adrenaline, he feels like a wild animal. So it’s really not that weird that he keeps grabbing Wei Wuxian and kissing him on the mouth! Every time he kisses him it’s a reminder that he’s really here and really alive and that this is all real. Wei Wuxian thinks it’s cute and laughs at him affectionately every time he does it, and it’s making Jiang Cheng’s heart beat even faster and his head feel even stranger. Eventually he starts getting more desperate with it and slipping tongue and they have to keep pausing their torture session to fully make out. 

[thepoetryoftheuntamed]

Identification Wisława Szymborska

It’s good you came—she says. You heard a plane crashed on Thursday? Well so they came to see me about it. The story is he was on the passenger list. So what, he might have changed his mind. They gave me some pills so I wouldn’t fall apart. Then they showed me I don’t know who. All black, burned except one hand. A scrap of shirt, a watch, a wedding ring. I got furious, that can’t be him. He wouldn’t do that to me, look like that. The stores are bursting with those shirts. The watch is just a regular old watch. And our names on that ring, they’re only the most ordinary names. It’s good you came. Sit here beside me. He really was supposed to get back Thursday. But we’ve got so many Thursdays left this year. I’ll put the kettle on for tea. I’ll wash my hair, then what, try to wake up from all this. It’s good you came, since it was cold there, and him just in some rubber sleeping bag, him, I mean, you know, that unlucky man. I’ll put the Thursday on, wash the tea, since our names are completely ordinary—