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The Untamed || Nie Huaisang & Meng Yao

Another one on the pile of things I don't have the arm power to color. Lol

The Untamed behind the scene

an underused source of comedy in post-series fics is the fact that wei wuxian is now Very Technically jin guangshan’s bastard son, and could be in line for jin sect leadership if him or jin ling ever wanted to acknowledge him that way.

theres so very many loopholes he could exploit with this knowledge. its a beautiful day in lanling, people are bothering your beloved nephew who’s doing his best, and you are a horrible necromancer stuck in the body of the old sect leader’s son, so youre going to threaten everyone with the possibility of YOU being in charge if jin ling gets overwhelmed by their petty complaints

the sheer comedy potential of post-res wwx having equal if not higher chance of being jin sect heir   as jiang sect heir   where is the bitter silent struggle between jiang cheng and jin ling to lay claim to the wayward wei wuxian through hitherto untried feats   …of sect politicking   jin ling’s mostly in it to get his uncle to outwardly acknowledge he wants wwx in his life again   jingyi is backing him because he thinks it’s hilarious   sizhui just wants everyone to give wei-qianbei a break    battle lines are drawn amongst the juniors. it’s war.    wwx is blithely and blindingly oblivious to the entire thing  (via  @impossibletruths)

Somebody take the ipad away from me…. I need a vacation.

I’ve seen lan xichen get a lot of flack and even called a bad brother for like. Not immediately believing wwx and lwj when they tell him about jgy but I feel like he was being perfectly reasonable—exceptionally reasonable, even, bc I know damn well that if MY little brother came up to me and was like:

“Hey my back-from-the-dead boyfriend who everyone thinks is evil says that actually YOUR boyfriend is the evil one and the only evidence he has is a song that he allegedly heard and immediately memorized while in the memories of your other dead friend but you gotta believe us xiongzhang i swear”

My response would probably be to smack him. It certainly wouldn’t be:

“Well you believe YOUR boyfriend—who’s been dead for 13 years and everyone thinks is evil—but I believe MY boyfriend friend who has been actively doing good deeds in that entire time and who saved my life after the cloud recesses burned. But ykw. I’ll hear you out AND protect your boyfriend in the meantime.”

Like hello???

(С)

the untamed if it was written by rick riordan

ep 1. I Accidentally Get Resurrected

ep 2. My Teenage Nephew Bullies Me

ep 3. The Teacher’s Pet Duels Me to the Death

ep 4. Lan Xichen Shoots His Shot

ep 5. Jiang Cheng Needs a Wingman

ep 6. We Speak With Lan Zhan’s Frozen Grandma

ep 7. Lan Zhan Smiles

ep 8. We Embark On an Epic Field Trip (Also Nie Huaisang is Here)

ep 9. I Throw Hands With a Bird

ep 10. We Meet Our Celebrity Crushes

ep 11. We Pull Up to Evil Summer Camp

ep 12. The Low-Budget Dog Animatronic Tries to Eat Me

ep 13. We Battle the Tortoise of Doom

ep 14. I Threaten to Strip

ep 15. My Stepmom Ships Us Off

ep 16. Pretty Much Everyone I Love is Dead Now

ep 17. I Find a Cure

ep 18. I Plummet To My Death

ep 19. I Come Back Wrong

ep 20. Lan Zhan Breaks Up With Me

ep 21. I Evade Non-Consensual Therapy Sessions

ep 22. My Evil Flute Solo Kills Everybody

ep 23. I Ditch the Dinner Party

ep 24. My Ex’s Brother Tries to Stage an Intervention

ep 25. Jin Zixuan Fumbles My Sister

ep 26. I Reanimate My Homie

ep 27. My Brother Questions My Interior Design

ep 28. Lan Zhan Discovers the Joys of Fatherhood

ep 29. I Get Major FOMO

ep 30. I Fulfill My Cottagecore Fantasies

ep 31. Everything Goes Downhill

ep 32. My Nephew Becomes an Orphan

ep 33. I Plummet to My Death (For Real This Time)

ep. 34 Jin Ling Gets Eaten By a Wall

ep 35. We Become Tomb Raiders

ep 36. Lan Zhan Steals a Chicken

ep 37. I Force Feed Radioactive Porridge to Teenagers

ep 38. Xiao Xingchen Breaks the Bro Code

ep 39. I Go On a Shopping Date

ep 40. I Crash a Conference for Free Food

ep 41. Nie Mingjue is an Unreliable Narrator

ep 42. Everyone Wants to Kill Me (Again)

ep 43. Lan Xichen Trauma Dumps

ep 44. We Visit the Ruins of My Cottagecore Fantasies

ep 45. I Do Group Conflict Resolution In My Underwear

ep 46. The Truth Comes Out

ep 47. I Become a Hostage

ep 48. Jin Guangyao Talks Too Much

ep 49. I Reunite With My Evil Flute

ep 50. My Boyfriend Abandons Me On a Mountain (Not Really)

fuckin fascinating that the first thing we learn abt nie huaisang is his having smuggled a wild songbird into class

because what it gives us on the surface is goofy, playful nie huaisang who can’t pay attention and keeps trying to muffle the cheeping coming from his sleeves in a charming and funny way that seems totally in line with the frivolous airhead he seems to be

but once you know - you can see it, in that first scene.  he plays the long game.  he tells wei wuxian that he followed that bird through the woods for 3 days, quietly letting it get used to his presence, giving it time to let its guard down, and once it was lulled into not finding him threatening, he was able to catch it - to catch a wild bird with his bare hands, tuck it into a cage, and smuggle it into a classroom.

we watch wei wuxian do something similar, to play up his silliness and make jokes and play games and we know that none of that makes him any less dangerous.  we should have known huaisang was no more a fool than wei wuxian, but he was so good at the game that we didn’t notice it either.

we should have realized what he was capable of the moment he explained how he caught the bird - he was telling us.  he was telling us exactly what was up his sleeve.

I firmly believe that Jin Ling rolling up to Dafan Mountain with 400 spirit nets was NOT purely Jiang Cheng’s doing, but rather a joint uncles venture to Build Jin Ling’s Self-Esteem via helicopter parenting.

Jiang Cheng, sympathetic to his nephew’s need to prove himself as a cultivator for Personal Reasons, but also terrified of harm befalling his one remaining relative: “And obviously I’ll keep an eye on him, but I can’t do the fighting for him, since the whole point is to get people to respect him. But he should be okay with enough supplies, like maybe a few spirit-trapping nets–”

Jin Guangyao, sympathetic to his nephew’s need to flex on his peers for Personal Reasons, and still delighted by the novelty of being able buy whatever he damn well wants: “Perfect! Here’s 400 of them.”

#alternately: JGY as a weak cultivator has minimal firsthand night hunt experience so he has no idea what a Normal Amount of nets is#‘it’s one night hunt Jiang Wanyin! how many nets could he need? 400?’ (via @poorlittleyaoyao)

(somre more excellent tags from @labyrynth)

I know xiyao did not literally meet in Yunping (it's likely that meng yao worked somewhere else as a bookkeeper after his mom died, etc.) but let's use Yunping as shorthand for "xiyao in hiding somewhere in yunmeng", anyway.

Point is: oh my god, the xiyao cottagecore period has all of the best tropes. a secret time away from the world, just the two of them, societal differences suspended while in hiding, there was only one bed, wound tending, secret identities, prince thrown among commoners, nicknames, first times, first love, etc.

for months

Look at this whole wartime romance blossoming quietly in a single flashback, a period of time that we only heard about from other people in the previous versions of the story, that we never saw until the donghua, but that apparently changed both of their lives so completely that lxc came out of it with pretty enlightened takes on grey morality and the nickname "a-yao" on his lips. Incredible. unparalleled. blessed content. whenever I think about it I want to bite my fist.

xue yang text post meme pt 4