问灵十三载 等一不归人

Ling Wen

randomly remembered this gem

Comfort Him!!!!

I'm 95% sure mxtx's response to my whatdoesitmean.jlaw would be "lmao don't worry about it" but really, what does it mean? Why do random gossips think this is a girlboss moment?? What is the tone of "had [n]ever argued either"? Does JFM not care? Does he feel like he shouldn't care or like fighting or even asking is pointless? Why does Madame "every inch of this place is my territory" hold herself apart in such a public way. The people (me) demand answers.

Op asking the important questions

#it’s genuinely very odd#I actually think about this a lot#mxtx withholdeth so let’s all speculate a lot! it’s fun#the Jiang marriage is toxic and broken but the particulars and how and why it got that way#oh so many possibilities#one of my preferred headcanons is that love is dead (between them) and only duty is keeping this shipwreck above the water#I think it’s insanely sexy of YZY if she fucking hates that man but she’d in the most literal sense and depicted in the story#rather stay and die fighting for the Jiang than consider leaving#because she takes her responsibilities deadly seriously; she married in; she’s grimly in it to the end#even if she hates her situation and lashes out constantly at everyone because of her own misery#and JFM is is also dutifully staying married because not liking your spouse and being unhappy in your marriage#and the fact that all your kids are sweating bullets whenever you’re both in the same room#doesn’t rise to the level of ‘take consequential action about it’ for him#BUT ALL THAT SAID#even if there is not a drop of love left in this marriage#did they ever have any?#did they have hopes and expectations of each other when they agreed to make a family together?#and if so when did it start to fall apart?#could it have ever have been saved?#not even saved in the sense that they’d be happily in love again or even for the first time#but in the sense of mutually respecting one another and being able to show that and behave that way towards one another#I really like that dying hand in hand thing for them in CQL#but it’s not because I think they were in love or even that they loved one another at the point of their deaths#but as a recognition that they had died together trying to protect the same thing#what a fucking moment to go on together with someone you don’t even like#that’s tremendously more interesting to me than ‘they were actually in love’#what can I say. I really liked Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes#it’s interesting to me to watch people become worse and not get better#relationships that didn’t have to be that bad but were. how can you not be into the trainwreck of it? wonder if those tracks could be fixed?#the untamed

@cerusee Yes!! Because our data points (for novelverse anyway) are

There's also the stories WWX and Jiaojiao have about how they came to be married- I don't think either of them is likely to be entirely accurate, but it does sound like they knew each other before they got married and both of their families thought it was a good match. There's so much room for different kinds of disaster between those lines!

@winepresswrath 's tags have some interesting headcanons:

– Sue Zhao

everyone had that one guy at their wizard school said edgy shit like "dark magic is just misunderstood, not evil" that ended up wanted in three countries for necromancy

What if Hua Cheng senses everything that happens to his ashes?

shen qingqiu and shang qinghua are paragons of internet safety. refusing to share their real names with people they met online even after getting transmigrated into another dimension

#i mean. are there Implications to the two only really seeming to identify with their character names and internet pseudonyms?#only feeling really comfortable when they have a facade to stand behind even in their most intimate relationships?#yeah yeah of course#but also those boys both have a phd in not getting doxxed (and by god they needed it) - tags by op

i like xie lian BECAUSE he has the opposite of parental instincts. he has that deadbeat dad swag

I think it's very significant Hua Cheng's power involves rain because the event that started Xie Lian's suffering was a drought, so it's as if when he emerged to protect him, he said: "if it was wrong for gods to answer prayers for rain, a ghost will. And the heavens will bleed for it".

having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer

to love and be loved is to rest

the wicked scimitar e’ming is a cursed blade of misfortune; a weapon of such evil can only be forged by an exceedingly cruel sacrifice and a bloody will

Heard you were talking shit about Shijie

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LWJ would see WWX's golden core scar and be hit with a "Well, how do you think A'Yuan's birth happened?"

enough about the good things in wwx’s life, remember that time we were told how the burial mounds is nothing but a mountain of corpses where nothing living survives and wwx still lived there for 3 months and then when asked if food planted in that soil is edible he answered “when starving, people will eat anything” and didn’t elaborate? was that messed up or what

#this is why he and xichen would be good friends #they just drop the most fucked up traumatic shit and move on #like goddamn you see that shit? that was fucking crazy. anyway I’m rod serling #it’s that level of ummmmmm #hey xichen hey wwx let’s expand on that #and they’re both like no 💕 and play a gay little tune on their flutes #kings both of them (via @nieyao)

"我在", an experimental comic I did on my break. A scene based on Mo Dao Zu Shi audio drama season 2 episode 16. My fav wangxian moment so far (but they didn't featured it on cql). Poor wei wuxian got resurrected just to be framed all over again.

Dialogues are from the audio drama, translated by Suibian subs