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I adore when Wei Wuxian is just DISTRESSED over Sangcheng. Like, here's karma now your little brother is dating the most manipulative red flag of a person that you know
Sangcheng week Day 5 - Collaboration
sorry all that i can offer for today is a silly doodle because i ran out of time lol the collaboration is JL JC and NHS commitment to the bit.
(i dont know if its readable so im putting transcription under cut)
wwx: you know a-ling, we should find your jiujiu a nice madame…maybe that’ll finally help his temper (lol) (shame that he is blacklisted everywhere haha)
jl: what are you talking about. jiujiu and Nie-zongzhu have been together for years
wwx: (a-ling are you /srs or /j)
jl: [acting casual but cackling inside] [gave sangcheng his blessing with the condition that he’ll get to break it to wwx]
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wwx: -and you didnt tell me?!??
jc: says the one who secretly eloped?
wwx: but! but! Nie Huaisang?? did you not listen to what i told you?
jc: yeah i did. So we talked it out like adults. we disagreed on things but its ok now.
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the “talking out”:
jc: -ARE YOU INSANE???!-
nhs: lower your voice wanyin.
Hey hi! The scene of Jiang Cheng being an angry grape and tossing his cape could be referencing the Chinese phrase "割袍断义" (gē páo duàn yì), which is taken from an actual event that occurred in history and literally means "to cut your robe and break a relationship". Basically refers to the ending of friendship or any close interaction due to differences in values and opinion! So JC probably did that as a show of officially denouncing WWX. (Although the way he did it was really very dramatic hehe)
anon!!! thank you for my entire life!!
this is so wonderful! i had forgotten about this particular idiom. thank you for bringing in to my attention. the jiang cheng scene now makes so much more sense, but also still ridiculously and absurdly dramatic, i love it so much!!
i just went ahead and skim read the baidu-baike article for 割袍断义 and it’s so interesting. lskg;lkdsg god leave it to a fucking show about one (1) utterly devastating disaster bicon to suddenly get me unendingly fascinated by and absorbed in learning about chinese literature and language, and all the poignant background stories for these idioms, which I totally glossed over as a child sitting in chinese school and wanting nothing more than to go home and doodle
adult me @ child me: u will regret this so hard
— Sue Zhao
I'm sorry. I broke my promise.
MXTX-TOBER 2023 ☆ DAY TWENTY THREE - Devotion
— Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
when fandoms collide ❤️ or the untamed meets asoiaf.
What is duty against the memory of a brother's smile?
Wei Wuxian & Jiang Cheng - Space and Time
love them so much...
@asiandramanet creator bingo — animation — wei wuxian & jiang cheng | the untamed (2019) insp: x x
Dying for a fic where Jiang Cheng has a second in command who's the closest friend he has and has been by Jiang Cheng's side since the war, and Wei Wuxian is jealous as fuck-
Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng’s (Lack of) Brotherhood
In fanfiction, it is extremely frequent to see Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng refer to one another as “brother”, either in dialogue, or described as such through the narrative. This always struck me as hitting the wrong note, because in the actual narrative of Mo Dao Zu Shi there is not a single instance where the word “brother” is used to refer to one another, not even once.
Yet it is obvious why fanfics go there. It does fittingly describe the nature of their relationship. Wei Wuxian was brought back to Yunmeng by Jiang Fengmian to be raised by him in a way that looks much more like an adoption than anything. It is probable that the main reason that he didn’t formally adopt Wei Wuxian was because Yu Ziyuan would never have stood by it. Despite her opposition and her worry that Wei Wuxian might usurp Jiang Cheng’s place as heir to the sect, it is obvious that Wei Wuxian wasn’t treated as a servant (as the son of a servant) or as a simple disciple. He was part of the family unit in more ways than not, and they grew up close and their relationship displayed a kind of intimacy and rivalry that is typical of brotherhood.
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