Lan Wangji - Blog Posts
Tell me why I can't stop drawing lan Wangji as an icewing?
Sorry for the photo quality š
Between Xiao Zhan's cute face and the fact that mxy!wwx is a cute lil twink of a character, I often kind of forget that it was this guyāļø, The Yilling Laozu who told LWJ that he'd birthed A' Yuan himself. This guy.
An old art I drew in lwjās bday
iāve decided that after 13 years of mourning, lan wangji carefully devised an algorithm for making decisions involving wei wuxian and it looks like this
You know what Iām actually not done ranting bc the danmei fandoms on tiktok keep driving me fucking nuts. This rantās topic is the godawful ālan wangji would burn the world for wei wuxianā type edits i see on tiktok and i want to scream and bite everytime i see one and not for a good reason. Like did you miss the part of the book where when wwx died lwj took all that love and grief that he had for him and used it to actually better the world? He loved wwx so much that he not only raised the son wwx left behind but also became a teacher and a role model for the other juniors across clans so that he could teach them the values wwx taught him and the values the world lacked and that caused wwx to be driven to death essentially. He wanted the next generation (of lans especially) to not blindly believe in authority figures, to not believe rumors and to question things and think for themselves so that no one would have to be scorned for protecting ppl like wwx was. Lwj loved wwx so much that he gained a reputation for ābeing where the chaos isā bc he wanted to help the less fortunate like wwx wanted to, knowing that the big clans often only help richer ppl who can pay for their services.
If lwj wanted to burn the world donāt you think he wouldāve done it when wwx actually did die in the story? But see how he didnāt do that? Instead he used the love he had for wwx to transform the world into a better place, bc it was a world wwx loved and a world he arguably died defending. Wwx loved the world & the ppl in it sm that he died standing up for what he knew was right and not budging even when he was pushed to his utter limits. Knowing all of that, do you think lwj could burn down the world? Do you think wwx would want him to? No i didnāt think so.
Also also ppl have got to stop saying that lwj āwaitedā for wwx and erasing the actual tragedy of their story which is that wwx wasnāt just gone, he died. He died and he wasnāt coming back and lwj knew that. He didnāt look for him for all of those years (idk where that idea came from) nor was he waiting around for wwx to come back. It was sheer dumb luck and some amount of evil scheming that brought wwx back but letās not kid ourselves when we say there were a lot of moving pieces in that plan and absolutely 0 guarantee that wwx would succesfully come back to life.
People like to joke about Jin Guangyao being a little too invested in Wangxian and not taking his hostage situation seriously enough, but he was not the only clown in that temple.
When Jin Guangyao dropped the cord he had held at Wei Wuxian's neck, did Wei Wuxian turn and attack? Did Lan Wangji take the opportunity to attack? Did anyone?
No. They did not.
Instead of doing anything to try an get out of being hostages, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji started hugging and talking to each other. Everyone else just watched.
That whole temple was filled with people who were more interested in the ever shifting drama of the situation than the danger.
I Want my Wei Ying Back, with apologies to Jon Klassen.
just won WANGXIAN DUCKS!!!! they're so beautiful...
hot take lan wangji would absolutely for sure scrap all day every day no hesitation whatsoever. the only reason he doesnāt is bc no one is stupid enough to piss him off (until wei ying ofc). you get one glare, maybe two if heās feeling patient, and then itās instant hands. truly a miracle wwx did not take more of a beating when he was at his most insufferable. in the library w the magazine lwj literally said catch me outside so i can beat ur ass. heās soooooo ready to challenge any and everyone he meets. jzx (either of them tbh) says literally Anything and bichen is OUT. blades at DAWN. AND noon. and you know what, fuck it, blades at dusk too. in middle school he fought wen xu and all his goons One time when he was like 12 and he beat their asses so bad that shit followed him all the way to college. legendary. everyone knows lwj is in love w wei ying bc of the lack of duels. anyone else would certainly have been punched in the face. but no wwx just gets sideye. and ignored. which only ENCOURAGES him. in fact if anyone else tries to put a stop to wwx shenanigans lwj glares at YOU. everyone says ah yes, face of jade, so serene. meanwhile on the inside he is full of lust and also more importantly rage. i Love him. he said sometimes violence is the solution actually. but only when i do it. pristine.
og photo is so modern wangxian coded i genuinely cannot think of another ship for it
drawing challenge originally from raerart on x/twt
Wangxian high school AU where Lan Wangji thinks that Wei Wuxian is being bullied by Jiang Cheng and keeps standing up for him despite thinking WWX is annoying and neither WWX nor JC tell him that they're brothers because this is infinitely funnier
So.......... I might have become obsessed with MDZS too I redrew my favorite book illustration, and added the color (original artwork by Marina Privalova)
do not stand by my grave and weep. i am not there, i do not sleep