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Presenting a timeline of mdzs’s complex events with approximate ages for everyone who is given an age (sorry, Song Lan, I think you’re xxc’s age but like that’s not explicitly in the text).
references are to chapters, author interviews, and a few explanations (like how we know it is closer to 14 than 13 years since Wei Wuxian’s death given Jin Ling’s age).
Listen, I’ve seen it been said a few times on twitter that Wei Wuxian views kindness as something that is conditional and in turn, is something that needs to be repaid. This view also extends to his view on love. By love, I’m talking specifically about people and how they love him.
Look, I headcanon that Wei Wuxian’s love for Jiang Yanli and Jiang Cheng is different from the way they love him, why?? Because he was raised to love them in order to protect them whereas they grew to love him on their own. Jiang Fengmian found Wei Wuxian and brought him to Lotus Pier, introduces him to his kids and just provides him with the necessities, but Madam Yu resents Wei Wuxian for what he represents. He is proof, at least in her mind, that her husband is never truly hers. She is not kind to him. She does not treat him like the others. She is quick to remind him of his place and remind the other members of the family of it as well. He is there to serve them in whatever role is expected of him. He knows his role and how he fits or doesn’t within their family. He knows that he is given the things he has because he is useful to them. He may be the first disciple, but he is still the son of a servant. This also is the reason he is so willing to sacrifice himself, but that is for another time.
This is especially shown when the lives of Jiang Yanli and Jiang Cheng are thrust into Wei Wuxian’s hands. Despite the fact that he was whipped, without a sword, and also losing his home, he was expected to put their lives above his own in order to keep them safe. Although some would be at a loss with this sudden responsibility, he only allows himself to grieve for a small while before he throws himself into the position. This makes you wonder just how many times before he had been expected to put their lives above his own. How many times has this boy been told, has been shown, that his life is worth less than theirs??
This all ties into Wei Wuxian’s denseness when it comes to Lan Wangji and his feelings. Yes, Lan Wangji is a man of few words and his facial expressions are hard to decipher for others, but also Wei Wuxian didn’t realize that he could actually like him because that thought never crossed his mind. How could anyone like him when, in his eyes, he hadn’t done anything to be deserving of it?
Love and kindness is always attached to something for him. It is something you receive when you do something for others. It’s a reward for being good and useful to those around him (see: how the cultivation world, despite fearing him during the sunshot campaign, did not turn on him until he was not in use and would not allow himself to be used by other sects). With Lan Wangji, all he ever did was annoy him and then later on fought with him. Sure they had their nice moments, but did it really outweigh all the bad?? Probably not. So how could this boy, who had this lesson that love is something that is not freely given but is something that is conditional, ever think that Lan Wangji could feel this way about him??
It would be interesting to read fic about Wei Wuxian learning that love doesn’t need to have any strings attached. It’s not easy to unlearn something that has been such a key element to your belief system, but I think with Lan Wangji and the juniors Wei Wuxian can learn that he deserves to love and be loved in return.
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I had to ask, because you are so super helpful and seem to be open to questions. The letter lwj sends to wwx in the burial mounds, is there a full translation? The subtitles just say something like wwx is invited to 1 mo party, signed lwj. Full text can be seen in episode 31, 4:12. I saw something recently that suggested there was more to it, but didn't give the full translation, now I'm curious.
[transcript; the actual writing is in traditional, I just changed my keyboard to simplified and can’t be bothered to change it back]:
送呈
魏婴今日安否 金氏子轩公子与江氏之女喜得贵子 将满百日 金氏设宴金麟台 众亲朋来贺 婴当以礼赴之
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Okay first of all I feel so validated, this is written in pretty unequivocal 文言文 wenyanwen / literary/classical Chinese, I didn’t make up the entire linguistic register post based on smoke and mirrors
Translated, we get:
Message:
(which is a rough translation of 送 song / ‘to send,’ 呈 cheng / ‘a report/petition,’ we’re two words in and Lan Wangji is k i l l i n g me here)
Wei Ying – are you well today? Young master Zixuan of the Jin Clan and Lady Jiang have been blessed with a precious son, who is about to complete a hundred days. The Jin Clan is preparing a banquet at Koi Tower. Relatives and friends will come to celebrate. According to ritual, Ying should attend.
Lan Wangji
OKAY! OKAY, THINGS. THINGS TO UNPACK HERE
first of all, 今日安否 jinrianfou is giving me so many feelings. I don’t even have a good reason why. It’s just the height of domesticity – are you well today? – in the height of literariness. Lan Wangji and his four-character phrases, my god.
“Young master Zixuan…” yep, Lan Wangji is being super formal here with his naming of Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli. The height of politeness, because he is a polite boi and was Raised Right.
“a hundred days” yeah idk that should be a three-month party? but everyone in the show says one month? pour one out for the props department
“According to ritual” Lan Wangji please, just say you and Jiang Yanli want him to come, this is so you
Lan Wangji’s use of Wei Wuxian’s personal name here without the surname is interesting but not unexpected; I’m fairly confident that there’s precedent for that in classical texts, even if an example escapes me at this particular moment. I am, however, losing it over Lan Wangji exclusively Wei Wuxian’s personal name throughout this invitation, and then signing it with his courtesy name. BOI I SWEAR TO GOD–
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all right guys, let’s have a conversation about linguistic register, Lan Wangji, and I guess Wei Wuxian can come too
(and I do genuinely mean conversation, I’d love to hear other people’s input on this, because I did just write a long-ass post about the subjectivity of interpretation in translations)
So when I started interacting with the fandom and reading people’s fics, I got really confused by the way some folks were writing dialogue for Lan Wangji; he often sounded super awkward, spoke in fragments, and sometimes exclusively in third person. To be fair, all of those are elements of his speech at various times, but like, seeing it in English-language material felt like a really heavy-handed way of rendering it in translation?
I guess when you use third person within the first three episodes of the show, it makes a pretty big impression on the audience
This is not at all intended to be a criticism of people who are 1000% writing and creating wonderful work, which is more than I can say for myself, but I want to poke and prod and tease at some linguistic nuance here.
Take a deep breath, grab a pot of tea (this’ll take more than a cup), because we’re going to take the scenic route on this one–
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10 Strange and hilarious Facts About Mo Dao Zu Shi
This is posted on Moxiang Tongxiu (Mo Dao Zu Shi’s author)’s personal Weibo on 31/10/2017, in celebration of the second anniversary of the novel. Translated badly by tumblr user my-otp-list.
1. Fairy is actually a Husky. When I set up this character, I didn’t know that huskies were… not that intelligent, so now in my mind Fairy still has the look of a Husky. Let’s just think that Fairy is an extremely intelligent mutated Husky okay…
2. Lan Qiren has a beard from a young age. However, it was shaved clean by Zangse Sanren. He was so mad!
Later, the son of Zangse Sanren also shaved his beard… (but I did not write about it).
*For those who don’t know, Zangse Sanren is Wuxian’s mother.
3. When Jin Guangyao took in Lan Xichen during his runaway, Guangyao sort of became Xichen’s assistant.
Guangyao helped wash Xichen’s clothes, because Xichen himself did not know how to wash. It was not possible to ask others to wash, because it would be dangerous if the cloud patterns were recognised. Moreover the clothes could not be thrown away or burnt.
Jin Guangyao used to complain to Nie Mingjue that Lan Xichen’s arm was too strong that he tore apart his clothes while washing…
4. It was way too easy to make Xingchen laugh. Both Xueyang and Ah Qing knew about this but they would never tell Xingchen. Song Lan did not know about this, because the dude never ever laughed…
5. Jiang Cheng went to 3 blind dates. For various reasons, he got blacklisted by all the female cultivators.
Here are Jiang Cheng’s requirements in his partner: naturally beautiful, graceful and obedient, hard-working and thrifty, coming from a respected family, cultivation level not too high, personality not too strong, talking not too much, voice not too loud, spending money not too much. And must treat Jin Ling nicely.
6. Lan Sizhui is older than Jin Ling, but both of them are 172-cm tall. Sizhui suffered from malnutrition when he was a child, and only ate bland food when he was growing up, therefore his development is a bit slow…
Lan Jingyi is 168-cm tall.
7. In order to confess to Jiang Yanli, Jin Zixuan specifically hired someone to write a long long long cheesy essay, and he learnt it by heart. Turned out he did not use a single sentence.
One day, after their marriage, he felt that the opportunity had come, so he read it out loud to Jiang Yanli. Upon hearing it, Jiang Yanli gently stroked his cheek, turned her back and walked away. She was graceful enough to not roll on the floor laughing in front of her husband.
8. Lan Wangji has known very early on that Wei Wuxian is afraid of dogs.
Jin Zixuan used to own a dog, and he left it at the foot of Cloud Recesses’ mountain. One day, the dog ran up the mountain right when Wuxian was sneaking in through the wall. The dog snarked loudly at him; he was so scared he immediately ran to hide in a tree. It was Lan Wangji that chased the dog away.
However, Wuxian thought that Wangji did not see him trembling on the tree.
9. Even though Lan Wangji never talks about it, Wei Wuxian discovers that Lan Wangji loves to use all sorts of things to tie him up during (…)
10. Between the seme and the uke, Wei Wuxian was the first character to be set up.
Back then I even ranted on Weibo, “This uke is giving me so much headache; I don’t know what kind of seme I should give him!”
The seme has gone though many changes in personalities, appearances, ages, backgrounds, back stories… such a complicated process!
But in the end, a flash of Heaven’s light came right through me, I slammed the table and chose the very first version - “This is him!“
It can be seen that Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are fated to be together. No matter what happens, in the end it will always be that person.
I want to know what Jiang Cheng did to get blacklisted. Did he hit all the girls he dated with his magic whip and send barking dogs after them on the off chance they were under the control of Wei Wuxian’s spirit?
step 1: enter room
step 2: interrogate to make sure this isn’t Wei Wuxian back from the dead
step 3: threaten to break legs if she is mean to Jin Ling or unfaithful or something??
Or. Maybe he got rejected at step 1. all he has to do is just. stare at them. Who wants to marry a guy who’s always scowling? This guy either has a perpetual resting bitch face or is two seconds from getting very angry.
he has his good qualities, but they don’t have even the slightest chance of being expressed before he scares people off. xD he may be the leader of the Yunmeng Jiang, but the status is totally not worth the headache.
I mean he is the leader of Yunmeng Jiang, so I expect at least a few women persevered to step 2, or maybe step 3, before deciding that he really isn’t worth it and maybe they should go try and seduce Lan Xichen or even Nie Huaisang instead.
You actually mean “they should go try to queue in the long long long line of ladies that want to seduce Lan Xichen.” I’m convinced that the queue must stretch from Cloud Recesses to Lotus Pier and back 😂 He is the Most Handsome (and most handsome living) cultivator after all.
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This was another scene in episode 29 of The Untamed that really got me.
Lan Zhan went to see Wei Ying in Yiling even though he knew that he would be punished for it. Just how much he must’ve missed him! And even in the next ep, he still kept calling Wei Ying his friend and freely admitted that he went to Yiling to see him, even though it turned many powerful people against him…
I love characters like Lan Zhan, people who do what they think is right and then don’t try to weasel out of the consequences. They do something fully aware of what will follow and when it’s done they accept their punishment - and they still think it was worth it. People like that have my sincere admiration.
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