Yanyan's Side Blog

yanyan - they/them - chinese I'm not OP enough to be the #1 Jiang Cheng apologist, but I hope to rank somewhere in the top 10

[qiu-yan]

yanyan here. this is my MDZS sideblog.

i originally created this blog to defend my cringe fave online, but have since concluded that making low-quality shitposts is more enjoyable. i apologize for the occasional category 5 longpost incident.

when participating in debates on contentious issues, i tend to follow the three-reply rule: i will respond to one person for a maximum of three times before i move on to other activities.

due to the state of this fandom, i block rather liberally.

though the only content on here is MXTX content, the person running this blog is anti-terf, anti-transphobia, and anti-zionist. the person running this blog believes in the existence of anti-transmasculinity.

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[poorlittleyaoyao]

I do think it's interesting how Meng Yao doesn't use his Customer Service Face with Nie Mingjue ever while he's in Qinghe. He uses it with the captain, of course:

He's a little more subdued earlier when he's talking with everyone at Chang Manor--he looks pleasant and disarming (which makes sense, given that these people don't know him and he doesn't want to look like he's talking over Nie Huaisang, who should technically be the authority there on his brother's behalf), but it's not quite so forced.

But when he's actually interacting with Nie Mingjue on the clock, he's neutral to almost stern.

Even when he's trying to convince him to change his mind about something (obliterating Xue Yang on the spot, in this case), he talks to him... not quite as an equal, exactly, but as an adult.

And when Nie Mingjue ultimately agrees with him, he doesn't fawn or thank him or anything, he just gives this businesslike bow of assent.

And politely but firmly orders two guards over himself to help him escort Xue Yang to prison.

...and then once he leaves the building (and Nie Mingjue's field of vision) he encounters the captain and immediately goes into his Customer Service Mode, with his smile getting wider and more strained the more the captain disrespects him.

I just think it's interesting! I'm not necessarily arguing that the way he interacts with Nie Mingjue is his natural way of being; it's possible that Meng Yao simply clocked that Nie Mingjue values plain-spoken competence and adjusted his mannerisms accordingly.

But if this directness is what Nie Mingjue was accustomed to seeing from Meng Yao, imagine how unsettling he must find the obsequious rictus smile that Jin Guangyao wears 24/7 in his father's service.

[lvicevlk]

#NMJ just sitting there going 'what the fuck what the fuck' as JGY 🙂s his way through an excruciating meeting#increasingly upset and failing to connect the dots that this is part of being on the clock bc HIS employees don't do that!#as far as he can tell his erstwhile work spouse got an entirely new personality and he doesn't like it one bit!!!#<prev EXACTLYYYY#and then jgy is just like *smiles even harder* because he can't do anything else he's got EYES on him#mdzs#meng yao#jin guangyao#nie mingjue (via @lgbtlunaverse)

[wifiwuxians]

xue yang's response to "it's pride month chengmei you know what that means"

[linxuelian]

For @spriteofmushrooms

Baby Jin Ling does what he wants (○´︶｀○) he knows uncle Jiang's there for him

JC: Am i a monkey's uncle (ಠ益ಠ)

[linxuelian]

Jin Hamyao 🐹

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Any fic that acts as if Lan Wangji cares about Jin Ling in any form besides as "this person Wei Wuxian loves" or that Jin Ling trusts Lan Wangji at all except as vaguely "this authority figure who won't let me come to harm from an external threat" needs a 20 chapter spin off detailing the development of this relationship because in canon Jin Ling shows no trust in Lan Wangji even by the end of the story and Lan Wangji is just an asshole to that kid.

[hotdogdiscotheque]

I just finished the third book

[lotusandclouds]

the Lans and everyone else thinking Jiang Cheng is angry all the time but in reality he’s just squinting because he can’t tell them apart.

(he does hate Hanguang Jun and might be actually glaring just in case it’s him, but that’s besides the point)

[bidet-of-evil]

so i really enjoy the body acting in the scenes where jin guangyao gets up after getting kicked down the stairs, particularly in the scene with nie mingjue.

he gets up slowly, with difficulty, and then starts climbing back up the stairs, and there’s this almost mechanical jerkiness to his motions that i think is really significant to his character. the in-universe explanation is just that he is physically hurt so he is limping, but if you watch the scene, it’s pretty obvious that this is exaggerated and used for effect.

there is something really creepy both in the way this action is shot, lit, and edited between cuts, and the unnatural physicality of his movements. there’s an almost terminator-ish slow intentionality to it, an “i am going to keep coming for you even if you chop off parts of me,” and a singular, unemotional focus that calls to mind uncanny monsters in horror films.

this is further highlighted by the way it’s framed so that his face is either not visible or wearing a terrible smile mask. it’s almost like he’s possessed or being puppeteered from above in these moments. and i think this plays into his motivations and this idea that he has no choice.

and it’s like, we get this visual sign post: this is where the switch is flipped. we are no longer looking at kind doormat a-yao. this is the monstrous side of him.

but what really gets me is that we get the same motion, the painful, difficult lift onto his knees, the jerky shift of his shoulder, the slow uncurling of his back with the head only straightening at the end, in episode 49 in the temple:

the movement is almost identical to the way he straightens up in the first gif (and after jgs kicks him down the stairs!), and it’s a sign that he’s been cornered, so his survival instincts are about to take over. the switch has been flipped! his next line is the one about “that’s just the kind of person i am” right before he takes jin ling hostage. and i think this scene wants you to call to mind the other instances where he hurts people he cares about and see the connection.

there’s just all this visual and thematic detail to get you to consider a character beyond the obvious, and isn’t that neat??

[deadbeatadmirer]

I have 4 peony bushes growing on my yard and tending for them made me unable to look at fanarts w JGY cutely sitting/laying on the ground among peonies without thinking: get up man, or ants will get your ass

[i-eat-ants-off-of-peonies]

I know a way to deal with those ants

[deadbeatadmirer]

Hey hey let's talk! How do you find ant's taste?

[annoyinglandmagazine]

After reading the scene where Yu Ziyuan ties Jiang Cheng up with Zidian to prevent him running towards danger part of me was kind of wondering why Jiang Cheng doesn’t do this with Jin Ling on the regular. I know it’s an important spiritual weapon and all but honestly, with the situations we see that kid get into over a relatively short period of time, it seems like a reasonable trade off. That boy has the survival instincts of Wei Wuxian on cocaine.

[alwivi]

Zhuiling 🪷

[rowein1102]

LSZ and JL!

[jujuism-studies]

as much as i want to boink wei wuxian in the head when i think about the scene of him telling jiang cheng to leave it all in the past, it's such a good representatiom of how wei wuxian still views jiang cheng as this emotional and irrational person who couldnt possibly deal with the truth even when that's literally all he's asking from wei wuxian at that time

[starzknight]

Mdzs Witch hat atelier au pt2! Now with brimmed hat wwx

PT.1

Didn't actually think of lore....but i did drew pretty outfits

[mintybasilcake]

Jiang Cheng knows how to set boundaries. He can and will say no. He is 100% clear about it. He does not go back on his word. He will absolutely ignore his cute nephew and his former shidi making puppy eyes at him. He is unyielding as a rock. THEY WILL NOT STOP FOR ICE CREAM ON THIS NIGHTHUN- oh, damnit! Only two scoops per person, dinner is coming up soon.

[qiu-yan]

amusing myself by imagining LWJ making a WWX-shaped cookie during the 13 years of WWX's death, being unable to bring himself to eat it, and then having a completely silent breakdown when kid LSZ sneaks into the jingshi and eats it himself