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what if wwx sang instead of whistled?
it’s just a thought i had while browsing tiktok (don’t judge me) and watching a woman sing a hauntingly beautiful song in a staircase with beautiful echoes - what if wwx sang instead of using a flute or whistling?
just imagine you’re some random wen guarding a watchtower and you suddenly hear quiet, soothing singing - and then you hear screaming, and see corpses, and die a painful death. imagine jc and lwj watching wwx sing wen chao to death; maybe sitting somewhere, or leaning against the wall, or standing almost uncomfortably close to him, and singing a haunting little song as he’s tortured.
imagine being on the battlefield, fighting to stay alive, and coming across wwx, singing calmly while surrounded by bodies.
imagine what it’d take to take this peculiar cultivation away this time - to silence him.
I keep thinking about this moment. About how Jiang Cheng must’ve felt when Zidian - the weapon that had served him for so many years, the weapon he inherited after his mother - suddenly stopped listening to him. The moment when he no longer felt its power.
His expression here just breaks my heart. The way he looks at Zidian, trying to understand what happened, trying to process this emptiness that he suddenly feels.
Because back then, Jiang Cheng doesn’t know yet that others also have been affected. He can as well be the only one - what he does know though is this feeling. This lack of power, the sudden emptiness, he knows it. Because he’d experienced it before. He’d felt what is it like when your golden core is gone. And he’s never forgotten.
In that moment, in the midst of battle, he lost his spiritual power and his very first thought when he realizes that is simply: Again?
How often do you think this haunted his nightmares? This awful feeling of hopelessness, the fear of it repeating itself and rendering him useless? The very fact that he got a second chance was a miracle, something probably not supposed to happen. Maybe he already had wondered if he was living on borrowed time, because how could there not be a price?
There was, but he wasn’t the one to pay it. He just didn’t know that.
So right there, in that very moment he gets taken back to all those years ago, to the days when he lost everything and could only lay and look up at the ceiling, to a different time that yet is now so vivid in his mind - does he think that his fear has caught up with him at last?
And then he hears shouts along the battlefield - cultivator after cultivator stating that they cannot use their qi - and only then does he realize that although there is an emptiness, it is not as profound, not that bone-deep void that made him collapse in on himself.
It turns out right when they’re in the cave and medics state that everyone has lost their qi only temporarily - and of course their situation is still bad, because they are surrounded and stuck and the only people able to fight are Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, Wen Ning and a bunch of children - but Jiang Cheng is relieved. Because he’s been through worse.
Convince me this wasn’t what everyone was thinking and I’ll pay you $5
Ah yes mingjue and the boys™
It’s the squad!
wei wuxian and jin ling: *exist*
jiang cheng: (ง'̀-‘́)ง
Now I know I talked about nie huaisang and lan zhan jamming to the twilight soundtrack but now get ready for
The lotus pier siblings singing the kim possible opening
okay okay here me out...
Modern au expect Mingjue plays animal Crossing
Wei ying, stop bullying Lan zhan .
Jc is such a mood
nie mingjue would definitely let a little nie huiasang paint his nails and you’re all cowards to refuse the power of chifeng-zun beating up fierce corpses with hot pink nail polish
brow: furrowed
jaw: set
fist: clenched
i am forcibly removed from matchmaking consideration
Yo so my brain keeps thinking of 3zun expect as different songs from heathers and I dunno if I'm making myself sadder or just laughing at the idea of Lan Xichen wearing a skirt
Or maybe both
I- I don't appreciate being emotionally attacked like this
cql writers really think they're sly huh
*Jin Guangyao walks into the room*
Lan Xichen: Mingjue, I'm going to ask you not to doing anything violent.
Nie Mingjue: What? What are you talking about?? I only use violence as an appropriate response.
Nie Mingjue, after being served vegetables: There’s been a mistake. You’ve accidentally given me the food that my food eats.
When I tell you I SOBBED
no matter how much i love the idea of ljy being nielan's baby... I cannot stop thinking about nmj with a little babygirl 🥺
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
Weird how people say Nie MingJue bullied Jin GuangYao when their late-game interactions were basically just Jin GuangYao being all, “I know Koi Tower said we would execute the mass murderer Xue Yang so that he can’t kill more innocent people, but keeping him alive in jail so my dad and I can continue to use his specialized skill sets in murder and demonic cultivation is totally the same thing as executing him, Da-Ge.”
And Nie MingJue’s response to that was a passionate, “NO, no it is NOT.”
Like Jin GuangYao wasn’t some hapless victim during these exchanges?? (And actually the victim between them has always been Nie MingJue so jot that down.) He willingly swore brotherhood with Nie MingJue too, knowing what Nie MingJue was like with Nie HuaiSang, knowing Nie MingJue was going to bear down on him with all that same Big-Brother-might to make Jin GuangYao get his act together.
“Where is your saber, HuaiSang?”
“Where are your braincells, Jin GuangYao??”
Calling it bullying just underlines the fact that Jin GuangYao only intended to use his new found family for personal gain and it was never out of any emotional care or support. His Sworn Brothers truly become nothing more than stepping stones. If Jin GuangYao was ever actually honest about what was happening to and around him at Koi Tower, it might have looked less like a one-sided argument with Nie MingJue and more like actual conversation. Even Lan XiChen’s support of Jin GuangYao was based on one-sided sympathetic presumptions rather than Jin GuangYao actually talking to him. Nie MingJue was demanding answers for all the BS and Jin GuangYao hemmed and hawed and acted spineless, which only made Nie MingJue angry because Nie MingJue knew Jin GuangYao was a capable and intelligent person who can get shit done.
If it was bullying, Nie MingJue wouldn’t have had to tell Jin GuangYao never to approach him again. If it was bullying, Jin GuangYao wouldn’t have needed to go to the Unclean Realm with a peace offering. If it was bullying, Nie MingJue wouldn’t have had to give Jin GuangYao a third chance at forgiveness when Jin GuangYao promised to have Xue Yang’s head in two months.
Because in the end, Jin GuangYao stopped trying to pretend to be pitiful and spineless in front of Nie MingJue because Nie MingJue knew him better than that. So Jin GuangYao had to own up to being capable and intelligent and admit, “I do, in fact, have braincells. You are absolutely right, Da-Ge, and I brought them this time.”
Except Jin GuangYao lied, he left his braincells at home, because once again he only brought the Collection of Turmoil which he used to kill Nie MingJue because Nie MingJue was always the victim of Jin GuangYao’s abuse and it was never the other way around!
Favorite character introductions: Nie Mingjue, Nie-zongzhu, titled Chifeng-Zun.
I didn’t add the slow motion, Wei Wuxian did. This is his story, after all.
part 1: Song Lan / part 2: Lan Zhan / part 3: Nie Mingjue
Bonus: Fangirling over Chifeng-Zun (bonus bonus: Lan Wangji is Not Amused)
Yo so I've been reading a lot of social media aus even though it's 2 am and my ass should be Asleep but like here me out
Social media au expect it's Meng Yao as a stressed customer service worker wondering what the absolute fuck is going on with all these rich people idk it just sound funny in my brain
The Soup Incident [Episode 22]
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The Untamed (2019)
Nie Huaisang: I don’t see why it’s so hard to understand, DaGe.
Nie Mingjue: I just don’t see why he would give up his freedom, possibly his LIFE just to protect those Wen-dogs-
Nie Huaisang: DaGe shut up, they’re coming down from the mountain.
Wei Wuxian: *holding little baby A-Yuan, giving him kisses and pretending to eat his little hands*
A-Yuan: *baby squeal* A-Die! No eating, no no!
Wei Wuxian: I think this tiny one will taste especially good! *pretends to eat his pinky*
Nie Huaisang: *looks at NMJ*
Nie Mingjue: *tearing up* Okay I get it.
Nie Huaisang: *big sigh* You aren’t gonna start talking about when I was that small, right-
Nie Mingjue: You were SO tiny, though! Father said you were born early, you nearly fit in my hand! *emotional dumb bitch noises*
“I hadn’t realized I was a villain in your narrative.”
↪ ‘A Court of Wings and Ruin’ by Sarah J Maas
While I love how this fandom has accepted the fact mingjue is a mountain of muscle with big tiddies I feel like in every incarnation au with mingjue he should just become taller he may have been 6'3 when he died but not anymore honey now he's like 6'5 like everything just stays the same expect mingjue is just taller
There will never be a time where this post is not funny
100.) Happy 100th post, everybody!
..... You know what your right
Lan Ghost #1: I knnnew it. I KNEW it. That Lan Wangji was a trouble maker from the start!
Madam Lan: Don’t look at me! He gets it from YOUR side of the family!
Lan Ghost #2: He’s just trying to help his friend!
Lan Ghost #1: Pffff “friend”.
Lan Ghost #3: If he tries to protect Wei Wuxian, Gusu Lan will be implicated, dishonour will befall the family, traditional values will disintegrate -
Lan Ghost #4: Not to mention Wei Wuxian apparently already HAS a child.
Lan Ghost #3: My disciples never got into such trouble, they all became wandering healers.
Qingheng-jun: Well, we can’t ALL be wandering healers.
Lan Ghost #1: No, your son just has to fall in love with a NECROMANCER!