Nie Huaisang - Tumblr Posts - Page 2
True True True True.
( 6 for me tho 😅)
Why NHS is the most relatable character in mdzs:
Hates politics
He simply does not dream of labor
Hates studying
Cheats at exams in school
Answers with "I don't know" to every question
Horny 24/7
Drama queen™
Lives for the gossip
I, too, have an extreme urge to fake faint when facing every minor inconvenience
Some more of my art! This time it's Jin Guangyao and (young) Nie Huaisang, two of my favorite characters in all of MDZS. I think I will come up with my original designs for all the characters in the future, but for now they are based on the donghua which I btw started watching (everything is so fast ahhh)
Also I know I probably messed up some anatomy/face features/other things but please don't point it out! I start to get ashamed and afraid to post my art even with soft criticism... So please let it be imperfect
Drew Mo Xuanyu and Nie Huaisang. Btw yesterday it was NHS's birthday! So I guess it kinda counts as a late present (I was sick yesterday😢)
I really like MXY, he deserved much better💔 I wish we got to see and know him more... I also don't think he was completely insane, but rather had some mental problems and was deeply traumatized. As a person who was labeled as "weird" and "crazy" all my school years I really relate to him...
MDZS/BotW - The Unclean Realm/Gerudo Desert
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
Ah yes, my favorite scene dedicated specifically to the main heroes bullying Nie Huaisang, the failure of a clan leader. A person making a laughingstock out of himself to save his own life. And this rough interrogation was followed by one of the most beautiful moments in the entire series and I love it.
Also I was waiting too long for drawing adult Nie Huaisang drowning in his oversized robes, so it's finally here.
Also the detail with him permanently sweating during these episodes is kinda funny.
@ibijau sorry for summoning you🙏🙏 but DID YOU SEE THIS-
YOU ARE A PROPHET
I know that from a modern western context Nie Huaisang's hobbies of collecting fans and pretty things, and painting and doing poetry instead of fighting is read as gender-nonconforming. And while that interpretation is perfectly fine and I do love seeing Huaisang play with gender in AUs, it's still pretty important to understand that in his own cultural context all of his hobbies are considered normal for a young man to have. Painting was one of the four arts of the chinese scholar, and so was calligraphy. These were all acceptable and even expected skills for a man to have.
Huaisang in canon isn't seen as womanly but as childish. He overindulges in his hobbies and refuses to do his job. He's physically frail, can't fight, refuses to try and train so he's also seen as lazy and alltogether not willing to bear the responsibility his station comes with.
And so, if you want to translate that to a contemporary society, he should ideally have interests that, while acceptable for a boy to have, are seen as trivial, as something it's a little cringe to still have a massive interest in as you grow up. And ideally something that carries a stereotype of laziness or physical weakness.
So what i'm saying is that modern AU Huaisang... is a gamer.
the good and evil masterminds of the cultivation world: nie huaisang & jin guangyao (fatal journey, 2020)
they say sect leader Nie's wife really loves him
pose reference pic:
I literally cannot-
My boy Nie Huasang is genuinely so funny like he knows EXACTLY who he’s talking to.
I picked up rereading MDZS (first time with the official English release) after resisting the urge for hella months. (I both want to and desperately don't want to move on from these series LOL.) I never picked up on the Nie brothers having different mothers?? And I don't think the impact of that is clear on the plot? But I wonder what the story is there and if it explains why (beyond the whole fake incompetence thing) NMJ is how he is with NHS. I wonder if NHS internalizes something about what happened to his mother in a similar way to how LWJ does with his. I want to KNOW.
Also, I think this means that the Lan brothers are the only fully blood related sibling unit? We spend so much time focusing on the chaos of offspring brought about by JGS that I feel the rest of the sibling dynamics are understated. Potentially the Wen siblings as well, though I don't recall if any detail is provided about their parents. I wouldn't be surprised if they were half siblings as well. The Jiang trio has its own dynamics, blood relation between JC & JYL but none with WWX, yet intense care and affection all the same (among other spicier details).
These tiny details of chaos and instability do so much to set up this world that has been at war for over a hundred years (this story being the conclusion of it... or one part of it, or a hopeful continuation of temporary peace). A generation of parents lost or disconnected (or just shitty). A generation of youth parentified and sent to war too young. Terrified elders fearing the ways the world could get worse or established power could be threatened.
MDZS from Lan Wangji's perspective is a disillusionment. A interrogation of the status quo created out of survival, firm and unquestioning, but simultaneously lifeless. Wei Wuxian comes in representing pure resilient joy in the face of tragedy, a wine stain on pristine white fabric an artifact of the revelry the night before in the face of darkness. Wei Wuxian the bonfire during the long night, promising life and warmth and chaotic joy and a future that is worth living and fighting for. Lan Xichen's disillusionment strikes also through relationship, but much differently.
(Of course I start this post just pondering family relationships and end up waxing romantic yet again about Wangxian because I HAVE THE BRAINROT SO DEEPLY.)
A generation of orphans raising a new crop of hope, rambunctious and resilient and curious. It's not the blood relation that matters, but who cares for your future, who fans your flames with love and wisdom. Who strokes your hair and makes you soup or fits you to sect colors regardless of how you were found sick in a tree trunk.
Who protects you from whatever Nie Mingjue was protecting Nie Huaisang from, the sturdy older sibling shielding their baby brother while also grumbling about their need to toughen up. A protection and expression of care that drove NHS to devise a plan so extensive it involved bringing someone back from the dead for justice.
The tiny details, ugh. They drive me insane.
