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mdzs!! writing & reblogs :] @soupjie on ao3

[blessyouhawkeye]

the best part about wei wuxian's resurrection scene is that it happens when the audience doesn't know anything about him yet, so when he goes "i'm going to act like a deranged homosexual lunatic so no one recognizes me" you're like yeah sure that could be a feasible disguise until the flashback happens and you realize it's a terrible idea, because wei wuxian acts like a deranged homosexual lunatic all the time

[goldenbeet]

[soupjie]

a fluffy chenning ficlet (2K). you can read it here!

[soupjie]

6K of fluffy wangxian halloween party shenanigans up, you can read it here!!

[snarkspawn]

a bunch of random studies from last week

[pumpkinpaix]

so what does zewu-jun mean, then? like how should it be properly translated? and what is the meaning of the title/ how does it fit him as a character?

in reference to this post

hi anon, I think you may have missed my point a little? there’s often no such thing as a “proper” translation, especially with something like zewu-jun, which aligns so poorly with english by nature. as i said in that post, one of the most frustrating things that happens in this fandom is the tendency to adhere to a “correct” translation, as if just getting the right translation will mean that they will be able understand the text as a whole. this is impossible. forcing one language into the shape of another is never going to work perfectly.

for example, even just translating -jun = lord, which seems straightforward, isn’t really. the same goes for -zun. just as there’s no direct translation for many japanese honorifics (-san, -sama, -chan, -kun etc.), it’s hard for chinese as well. I was part of a translation discussion recently where someone jokingly suggested translating 大人 (another honorific) as -sama, and everyone went “wait, but that IS the closest thing”, which was unfortunate, given that we were looking for an english translation lol.

all translations must fail. that’s the nature of the thing. i understand that that might be disappointing, but 🤷🏻‍♀️

i can speak a little as to how I see and understand the title, with the caveat that my interpretation is heavily personal. I’m extremely poorly read in chinese, so if there are intertextual references, chances are, I’ll miss them. I will not give you a translation here.

zewu-jun, to me, mostly manifests as a combination of an image and an emotion. i think of pools in the clearing of a forest, overrun with greenery. i think of wildflowers. i think of soft light. when I asked my mother how she felt about the character 芜, she said she thought of a very lonely atmosphere, and I feel that too. a place devoid of people, but full of life. i don’t know, a place that gives by its nature. a place you can visit, but not stay.

that’s basically how i think of lan xichen too, at least, how people have perceived and labelled him: generous, untouchable, lonely.

[messmikkelsen]

[soupjie]

wang hao xuan as xue yang

[tanoraqui]

“cultivator in white/cultivator in black” this and “orphans on a morality spectrum” that - you know the real sexiest narrative foils in The Untamed?

Jiang Cheng, constantly defined by/acting according to his desperate need to live up to societal standards, as well as by his older brother and the death thereof; makes a loud and furious show of his own power and authority at all times but is actually in control of maybe…half a scene, once, when he corners Wei Wuxian with Fairy, and then Jin Ling of all people takes it from him

VS

Nie Huaisang, constantly defined by/acting according to an absolute apathy toward what’s socially expected of him, as well as by his older brother and the death thereof; makes a loud show of his own helplessness and uncertainty at all times but is actually in quiet, deft control of every scene he’s in for present-day events

[notsorryenough]

jiang cheng using rage to mask grief vs nie huaisang using grief to mask rage also

[jill-question-mark]

Kinda ran out of steam on this one, but I just wanted to torture my poor Jiang Cheng a little bit. Everyone he loved is dead! Ha ha! Waaaaaahhhh

[soupjie]

anyone have a nhs sexuality hc?

[soupjie]

@thurso-more I was looking through my archive and found this old post - I don't know if you recall the exchange we had over it, but I just remembered what happened and figured out why it did happen in the first place

you thought I meant NHS like the national health service (I think that is what it stands for?) but I meant it as an abbreviation for a fictional character's name. so then when you replied there were several degrees of separation from the original topic and I thought you were a bot T-T my apologies

[soupjie]

3K words into my cabin (vacation, not stuck there in winter or whatever) fic and they haven't even opened the door to the cabin yet 😩

[soupjie]

found a sangcheng fic in my drafts in which nhs calls jc "my little tiger" and like OKAY no idea where I came up wth that but kinda cute??

[soupjie]

*doesn't take care of myself, engages in wildly homosexual activities, eats spicy food, resides in a cave next to a blood of blood, commits war crimes, likes soup,* wow im so wwx-coded lol

[gotinterest]

dumbest homo in The Untamed award deffo goes to Xue Yang who fucking falls in love with the guy he’s supposed to be getting revenge on.

[aoxue]

#king tried to get revenge and instead found himself months deep in a domestic au violently haggling with street vendors for aubergines @neriine

[haunted-radishes]

I think that something that is good to remember about the "Jin Guangyao vs. Nie Huaisang conflict" is that the two of them are not playing chess against each other. Jin Guangyao is playing chess against maybe 80% of the cultivation world while Nie Huaisang is sitting next to him eating his pieces when he's not looking.

[chaoticbiwuxian]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN BITCHES