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[luanna801]

Oh so when Nie Huaisang tricks a guy into stabbing his best friend to death it's ""justified revenge"" and ""very girlboss of him"" but when I, Xue Yang--

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Xiao Xingchen/Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei Characters: Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei Additional Tags: xxc is not alive but very present, aq is also not alive but somewhat present, Ghosts, Psychological Horror, Burial Mounds (Módào Zǔshī), POV Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei, xy's very tenuous sanity, Grief/Mourning, Hallucinations, or are they, Whumptober 2021, Angst Series: Part 6 of Whumptober 2021: Yi City Edition Summary:

Xue Yang goes to the Burial Mounds looking for a way to bring Xiao Xingchen back. The Burial Mounds are not friendly to visitors.

[veliseraptor]

Yi City: Where Everything Really Does Happen So Much

[hysieme]

IF LIVING CAN BE THIS by lise/veliseraptor

“You make me very happy,” Xiao Xingchen said, like it was just that easy. Xue Yang felt like someone had just cut off his tongue and shoved it down his throat.

“Yeah?” he said stupidly, and then glanced over at a-Qing, suddenly self-conscious. She had a funny look on her face, a cross between disgruntled and pleased.

“Yes,” Xiao Xingchen said firmly. “It has been…an unexpected gift. You too, a-Qing,” he added. “The both of you. That you chose to make a home with me - that you have accepted Zichen as well…”

Xue Yang’s stomach did something funny, twisting around like an eel. “Who said I’ve accepted anything,” he said. “Maybe I’m just biding my time until I can get rid of him without you getting suspicious.”

Xiao Xingchen didn’t even hesitate before he laughed, turning that painful smile directly on him. “Oh, a-Mei,” he said fondly.

[veliseraptor]

your eyes they are bound | The Untamed

Summary:

Something’s gone wrong, Chengmei has disappeared, and Xiao Xingchen is trying not to panic.

(An alternate POV/missing scene from if living can be this.)

Notes:

I’m pretty sure this fic exists exclusively because @orodrethsgeek read a rough draft of if living could be this and went “but Lise, I want to see what happened in this bit between Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen” and I was like “oh well since you said so, allow me to indulge my inability to leave my own works alone and my eternal desire to poke around in what’s going on in everyone’s heads in a given canon.”

So - huge thanks to Misha, and also to @ameliarating for editing, and everyone who has read and kudosed and left comments on the original fic. I am grateful.

[xueyangs-pinky-finger]

send me a cql character + episode

↳ Xue Yang + Ep. 03 for @bluebelle88 ♡

[hysieme]

[krispycreamsicle]

The Untamed ☆ Special Edition Ep 16

[warningboyxboy]

[xueyanggg]

[confusion-and-more]

Since I brought up the unreliability of Empathy in the last post, I wanted to talk a little bit about how I view Empathy in MDZS vs Empathy in The Untamed. 

In my opinion, the actual events we see happening in MDZS!Empathy are overall more reliable than those we see in The Untamed, because we have WWX’s commentary to remind the reader that we do not have the full context of what is occurring, and that various aspects of what we see can be read in more than one way. Because of WWX’s commentary, his trying to puzzle things out, his recognition of not being omniscient, and his reminders that he is inhabiting NMJ’s vision and feeling his rage, the reader is aware that what we see is limited in scope, and all we can do is try and make educated guesses, like WWX, but that what we’re seeing is not a universal, objective truth.

Empathy in The Untamed, however, operates very differently. It’s a different medium after all, so the viewer can only watch for themselves and WWX’s commentary is absent. Due to the presentation, the sequence seems to function as a reveal, seeming to indicate that it’s the truth of what really happened. When you look a little more closely, though, there are moments from Empathy that do not align with previous events we’ve seen in the main body of the narrative. Sometimes this means omitting things we’ve already seen (MY throwing himself in front of the sword meant for NMJ, LXC explaining to NMJ about MY’s spywork), but other times it means either presenting things NMJ could not have possibly seen (MY’s run-in with the captain), or showing a version of events irreconcilable with what we’ve already seen (NMJ’s discovery of MY stabbing the captain in Episode 10 vs in Empathy).

Due to the editing of the Empathy sequence in The Untamed, I think the viewer is invited to remember, as WWX does in the novel, that what we’re seeing we’re seeing from NMJ’s perspective, and that his perspective is a limited one, and beyond that, especially in what is omitted and what is added (the suspicious head turn during the brotherhood ceremony, for example), one affected by bias, and one that does not necessarily reflect the full truth about who JGY is. 

[veliseraptor]

the backyard is full of bones | The Untamed

Summary:

Xiao Xingchen identifies the wounded stranger he finds from the beginning. Hesitant to kill a prisoner out of hand himself, he makes a deal with Xue Yang to preserve his conscience. Xue Yang senses an opportunity. Neither of them see what’s coming.

A lot can happen in the turn of a season.

Notes:

hey yeah it’s my fic for @mxtxbb that I’ve been talking about all year

yeah so you start with a basic premise and then eight months later you have over 100k of fic that’s mostly relationship development and characters talking to each other while catastrophically failing to process their own emotions. anyway I’m still a sucker for yi city arc fix-its, apologies to Song Lan who is sir not appearing in this fic, and huge, huge thanks to my artists @rakiah​ and Vic (@vic_draws_betah on Twitter) and my beta @ameliarating​.

(seriously though, ignore my weak graphic up there, the art here is incredible.)

When it comes to canon: I’m working from novel timeline as far as order of events and events themselves go, but largely with CQL character designs and adjustment upward in age.

Without further ado, since this fic is long enough without the notes making it even longer.

[gloriousmonsters]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Xiǎo Xīngchén & Xuē Yáng | Xuē Chéngměi, Xiǎo Xīngchén/Xuē Yáng | Xuē Chéngměi Characters: Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei, Xiao Xingchen Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, Blood, Unresolved Tension, Crying, as always xue yang’s love language is acts of service, Emotional Manipulation, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, as always assume i’m just wildly guessing when i label something h/c, ft. xue yang’s weird crush that he isn’t very good at noticing himself

Summary: Xiao Xingchen is badly shaken by a dream. They haven’t kept each other company long, but what kind of gratitude would Xue Yang be showing if he didn’t help out?

@ameliarating i finally wrote your prompt, fingers crossed that you like it!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Xue Yang/Xiao Xingchen Characters: Xue Yang, Xiao Xingchen, evil DMV employees Additional Tags: Happy Ending, Short & Sweet, the lightest of light Xue Yang angst, but XXC is there to help!, Child Abandonment, (referenced in the past), also references to food! don't be afraid!, adhd Xue Yang, Established Relationship, Xiao Xingchen is the best boyfriend, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Fluff, Somewhere in the USA, Attempt at Humor Summary:

Xue Yang and Xiao Xingchen go to the DMV (aka Where Hope Goes To Die) and share a kiss.

That’s it. That’s the fic.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Song Lan | Song Zichen/Xiao Xingchen/Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei, Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao & Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei Characters: Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei, Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao, Song Lan | Song Zichen, Xiao Xingchen Additional Tags: Whumptober 2021, Whump, Self-Indulgent, POV Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Established Relationship, xy making typically bad choices, dubious medical accuracy Series: Part 5 of Whumptober 2021: Yi City Edition Summary:

Battered, bruised, and more than a little fucked up, Xue Yang deals with it as usual: going into hiding to lick his wounds for a while.

Unfortunately, this time around there are some people who notice his sudden and unexplained absence.

[ameliarating]

xue yang and song lan had more years together (terrible, cruel, grief-stricken years) than either of them ever had with xiao xingchen

something to think about

[veliseraptor]

on a scale from xue yang to meng yao how do you respond, emotionally, to being threatened by nie mingjue