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A close rewatching/analysis of all 50 episodes of The Untamed, with heaps of images and around a 50-50 mix of angst and laughs.
Major focuses of my analysis are: 1. Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian's relationship and how it drives their development as individuals, 2. Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng's relationship and family dynamic, 3. trauma and how it affects people & relationships, and 4. how are all of these people so pretty, just look at them, they are all so fucking pretty, oh my god
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14 Dec 2022
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Damn this is so good and so funny, also a quick reference.
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Turn Left by kianspo
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
14 Jul 2023
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“Make me so ugly that no one will ever want me,” he says. “Please.”
Or: Lan Wangji is kidnapped from the Lan Clan when he's still a small child. He retains no memories of his real identity, and only knows himself as a servant at Madam Ji's brothel. When the clients begin to look at him with interest, he finds someone to curse him and take away his true appearance, and with it any chance of ever finding his family.
(Not a brothel fic, that's only the starting point. A Wangxian story. A Twin Jades story.)
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21 Feb 2023
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Good, epic. Really good. Painful premise. Eventual happy ending.
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sandalwood, amber, vetiver by WithLoweredVoices
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
03 Jun 2026
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Sound engineer and ex war criminal Wei Ying has been hiding out working at a fey-human music festival. The past comes to collect its debts when Wei Ying is asked to fix a headliner’s sound system, only to find that the mystery musician is someone awfully, wonderfully familiar.
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(The one where it’s a music festival AU - only it’s not.)Series
- Part 3 of Magical Realism MDZS
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20 May 2026
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5/'26
A wild magical ride. Disowned fae. Lovely even if it is very AU and fairly OOC
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transmuter by WithLoweredVoices
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
12 Feb 2024
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Wei Ying gave up necromancy years ago. He should be done with hauntings, but here in his café, here in this quiet city at the edge of the world, there stands a ghost dressed in mourning white with eyes like warm honey at the bottom of the pot.
(The one where it's a café AU - only it's not.)
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- Part 1 of Magical Realism MDZS
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29 May 2024
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Paint a picture, compose a song. Very much a mood piece. Very evocative.
"Xue Yang’s redemption arc through the making of coffee" among other things. How come no one else thought of rehabilitating XY by teaching him how to make sweets?
A differently magicked AU. Not really a cafe AU. Pining, of course. And for a fandom famous for a line "to live with no regrets" is it ironic that everyone has so many regrets?
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Want the Lights On by Pip (Moirail)
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
24 Jun 2021
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Meng Yao's sister-in-law is following the Jiang tradition of being evil. Why else would she try to set him up with a married man?
“I’m pretty sure my sister-in-law is trying to ruin my life.”
Lan Huan’s tone is one of genuine curiosity when he asks, “Why would she do that?”
“I don’t know yet,” Meng Yao untangles himself from the barre and crosses his arms across his chest, looking up (and up, and up, curse Jiang Yanli for her knowledge of his tastes) at Lan Huan’s very handsome jawline. “But I need you to make less vigorous eye-contact until you bring me a notarized waiver saying your spouse doesn’t care about you hitting on me.”
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20 Jun 2025
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modern au
favorite 3zun contender