Both were filled at the same time with the same water, only one had oysters.

So from the outside it just looks like LWJ met JGS’s illegitimate mentally ill son who had been ejected from the Jin sect and was being kept locked in his family’s back shed, looked at Mo Xuanyu and immediately decided he was going to take him home and start going everywhere with him…  The entire cultivation world really looked at that and went “WOW here we go again with Lan Wangji’s bad taste in men, but you know even though this would be a total scandal for anyone else I guess it’s still better than last time we had to deal with this, it’s not like you could do any worse than Wei Wuxian.”

Wangxian in PASH Magazine;; January 2023

some people out there really be typing fanfics longer than war and peace in their free time and then going on about their life like it's no big deal. how fucking incredible. like no offense to tolstoy but that was like. his whole job

ORV as textposts 40/???

can i just die in your arms without you making it gay. Come on man

I was at an art museum and saw a very intricate and LARGE painting of a rooster looking at a very red apple. I was really intently staring at the texture of the painting and someone came up to me and whispered "the apple of my cock", then walked away.

In hindsight the popularity of using “demonic cultivation” for what Wei Wuxian uses is running counter to what is actually in MDZS being used. It is resulting in a lot of fandom confusion, particularly since demonic cultivation is a xianxia genre standard. But that’s not what is going on in MDZS.

The genre standard demonic cultivation revolves around stealing qi, absorbing life energy from others, possessing others to get access to their greater cultivation abilities, and in general much more assholery than what Wei Wuxian does.

The actual term used by Wei Wuxian and most of the narration in the novel is Guǐdào; aka Ghost Cultivation. It revolves manipulating the dead, using resentful energy as a power source, and to be absolutely blunt it is a form of necromancy. It is the “redirection” option in dealing with the dead; drain away resentful energy so that you can convince the dead to finally let go and be liberated. Either by getting the justice they were denied in life or having lifted the worst of their anger and attachment so they can think clearer.

Not demonic cultivation.

The very title “Mo Dao Zu Shi” is part of the subversion element and part of setting in motion assumptions about the story for the original Chinese readers who know the genre and what the usual tropes are.

Because calling it “Gui Dao Zu Shi” would give away too much from the start of what is actually going on.

Also per MXTX, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are “morally perfect” and as that is the intention given by the author herself, that means nothing Wei Wuxian does with ghost cultivation has to actually harm the ghosts in a way that would be morally wrong. Like destroying them, preventing them from reincarnating, that kind of thing. He does not hurt the dead. He’s honestly shown to be more friendly with the undead; he is endlessly kind to them in fact and even gentle. Polite too and that deserve marking because Wei Wuxian ignores most manners because he generally doesn’t care. But he puts that care into how he treats the gui (undead) he commands and works with. He gives them rewards for a job well done as shown in the Yi City arc!

The one who does use ghost cultivation to hurt both the living and dead is Xue Yang who is repudiated by Wei Wuxian; “Xue Yang has to die” is what he says and that is what he helps Lan Wangji do.

But the actual founder? The guy who made it and is the absolute master of it? Rejects that kind of thinking all the way through the story, even at his lowest.

best ship dynamic is when they go from "you fool" (derogatory) to "you fool" (desperate)

brothel. broth-el. this is the superman that is made out of soup. the souperman, you might say.

i think the most wholesome prank i ever pulled was with a friend who had a polaroid camera and we were out one evening walking around the neighbourhood and this one neighbour had a garden gnome and we kidnapped him for the evening and took a bunch of polaroids of his wild night out: gnome on the swing set, gnome climbing a tree, gnome laying down next to an empty bottle of vodka, gnome just causing an absolute ruckus and then we took all the pictures and put them in a little see-through food storage bag to keep them dry and put them under the gnome who we left on the doorstep of the house we got him from 

anyway a few nights later we walked past again and wondered if the photos had been found and what the person must have thought and then we saw the gnome in pride of place balanced on the window ledge, and stuck to the inside of the window behind him were the polaroids with a sign saying “The Boy On Tour” 

Composer/Vidder: Lin Hai

I think the instrumental special version of Wangxian/Wuji still counts as a fanvid even if it’s made by the show’s composer himself, because he’s a huge fan.

[*Typo: 7am, not 7pm.]

(source: https://www.weibo.com/linhaimusic)

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