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I find it really weird that "JC wanted WWX to be subordinate to him forever rather be of equal standing!" is viewed as some kind of slam dunk instead of like...how aristocracy works. LWJ is also subordinate to LXC. LXC mostly lets his little brother do whatever he wants but there was that time he oversaw LWJ getting whipped 33 times. That happened!

I shrug! As you said, it's not as though Xichen thinks that because Lan Wangji is brilliant and talented he should run off and found his own sect. Zixun is an miserable asshole who is deeply concerned with class and status but he doesn't seem to be planning on doing anything besides being Zixuan's subordinate forever. As far as I can tell "second in command to the leader of one of the five great sects" is a pretty important and high status job and it actually says a lot about their relationship that Wei Wuxian feels secure enough in his right to that position that it's something he can offer to Jiang Cheng as a kind of reassurance. They live in a hierarchical society, anyone who stays with Jiang Cheng is going to be his subordinate at least on paper, and it's not like he's a particularly demanding boss when it comes to Wei Wuxian specifically. Like:

He cares about how their relationship is publicly perceived. He is definitely aware of ways that the shift from "kids fucking around and finding out" to "leaders and last surviving remnants of their sect" has shifted the potential consequences of their dynamic. There are moments in MDZS and especially CQL where Wei Wuxian blowing him off hurts his feelings or makes him angry, but if Wei Wuxian had wanted to just spend his life fucking around in Yunmeng doing whatever I think it's pretty obvious that Jiang Cheng would have rolled his eyes but also rolled with it.

Oh God!!!

Now they’re all dead hearts to you

Untamed Fall Fest: Day 28 - Decay

Do not be daunting and immovable, do not be inflexible and stern, limit neither your growth nor your movement. Do not be a mountain for they are reduced to dust by little more than slight rains and soft winds.

Be water, flow through life picking up wisdom but don't let it overburden you. Be transient, change your form as and when required. Be as hard and cold as ice, rise up to the skies when the land becomes too unkind, let yourself be dragged through sewers if that'll keep you alive and revert back to your original form when the conditions suit you. But most importantly, don't lose the sight of your true nature through all this.

Be water.

Can I tell you that I SCREAMED?

“Am I still a brother to you now?”

I went through work today wondering from where a nice fruity fragrance was wafting through, making my day 100% better. A full 6-hour shift later I came to the realization that the smell was coming from MY HAIR as I had changed my shampoo just a day prior.

Top dumbass culture, I swear 🤦🤦🙍

To heal is to touch by Winglesss

Rating: Explicit     Words: 11285       Status: Complete

Tags: Post-Canon Fix-It, Hurt/Comfort, Friends to Lovers, Angst and Fluff, Porn with Feelings

Summary: Two years after the events of Guanyin temple, Jiang Cheng agrees it’s time to take a break from being a sect leader. Going on a night hunt seems like a good idea until it goes wrong. Severely injured, Jiang Cheng stumbles through snow and darkness to a small cabin. It might be fate that it’s the same cabin Lan Xichen chose for his secluded cultivation.Deep in the cold heart of the mountains, they both learn that healing physical injuries is easier than mending wounded hearts, but it can be done at the same time. They find out that by saving others you can save yourself.

i feel like as a fandom we do not spend enough time dissecting how fucked up the scene described here is.

“Young Master Wei, that night, you took the two halves of the Stygian Tiger Seal and pieced them together. After you were satisfied with the killing, you were a spent arrow as well. WangJi was injured on your rampage. He was in no better shape than you, barely supporting himself by leaning on Bichen. In spite of this, as he saw you stumble away, he immediately followed.

“Right then, not many people were still conscious. I, too, was almost unable to move, and I could only watch as WangJi, whose spiritual powers were clearly about to be drained, staggered towards you. He brought you onto Bichen as soon as he grabbed you, and you two left.”

just. the mental image of lxc being so injured and so drained of spiritual energy that he can only watch helplessly as his brother continues to aid the man who did this to him - to all of them - is fucking breaking me.

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Re-blogging for future reference.

Xicheng Rec List

I compiled my favorite fics for @waterandsilver after they posted they were finally seeing the appeal of Xicheng. I volunteered to give them good fics to help them understand better the appeal of our ship! So, here we go!

Post-Canon Fics

A Bit of Ruthlessness 110,111 When Jiang Cheng hears that Lan Xichen went into seclusion following Jin Guangyao’s death, it’s almost as if he can see the grabby hands of a restless ghost, reaching out for something to keep him company. For something warm and living and devastated. And as history has proven time and time again, the Lans are perfect victims when it comes to giving in to ghosts.

Yeah, no. Not on Jiang Cheng’s fucking watch.

Moments of Clarity 5,201 Snapshots of Lan Huan’s road to recovery with a helping hand from Sandu Shengshou. Companion piece from Jiang Cheng’s POV: A Present so Promising 

Faith 8,109 [Part 1 of the The Provenance of Hope series] Lan Huan isn’t sure he’s ready for this. (or, Lan Huan and Jiang Cheng meet on a night hunt.)

Visiting Cloud Recesses 7,566 [Part 1 of the Visiting Cloud Recesses series]   Since the sunshot campaign they haven’t interacted a lot outside of sect business, but Jiang Cheng has always found the First Jade of Lan gracious and pleasant to be around. Especially in comparison to his younger brother, who would never smile at Jiang Cheng the way Lan Xichen is right now, as if he’s genuinely happy to see him.

It’s easier to let go (let me hold you) 24,464 Five times someone noticed something was wrong and the one time someone did something about it.

Carried on the wind 1,129 [Part 1 of the The courtship of Jiang Wanyin & Lan Xichen series] Lan Xichen’s voice is very soft when he says: “Today is the day our mother died.”

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so here’s the tea sis-

Chapters: 4/? Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jiāng Yànlí/Jīn Zǐxuān, Mèng Yáo | Jīn Guāngyáo/Niè Míngjué, Niè Huáisāng & Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín Characters: Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén, Jiāng Yànlí, Jīn Zǐxuān, Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín, Wēn Qíng (Módào Zǔshī), Original Characters Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Murder Mystery, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Slow Burn, Misunderstandings, Eventual Happy Ending Summary:

Jiang Cheng has known all his life that things don't last. Love, friendship, bonds all are temporary and so he finds comfort in his routine life circling between his work and a social life consisting of handful of friends.

But when he encounters a strange case and a stranger Lan Xichen after a fateful string of events, he is forced to reassess his values