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    What is Right? What is Wrong? by

    Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù  

    08 Jul 2026

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    The first thing Wei Ying became aware of was cold steel at his throat.
    Not one blade—several.
    He did not move.

    Sleep still clung to him, heavy and disorienting, but instinct burned through it fast enough. His eyes cracked open to darkness cut by lantern light, and beyond it, the rigid silhouettes of Gusu Lan disciples. White robes. Swords steady. Not trembling.
    Not a mistake, then.

    Wei Ying let out a slow breath, careful not to shift against the edge pressing lightly into his skin. “Well,” he said, voice rough with sleep, “this is a new way to wake up.”

    No one laughed.
    That, more than the swords, told him something was very wrong.

    “You will come with us,” one disciple said. Young. Formal. Afraid—but hiding it well. “You are to be detained and questioned.”

    “Questioned?” Wei Ying echoed. His mind raced, sifting through the previous day. Punishments—yes. Lan Wangji standing over him like a silent judge. Copying rules until his wrist ached. Kneeling until his legs went numb. Nothing new, nothing unusual, nothing that should end with… this.

    He frowned. “Did I break a new rule I haven’t heard of yet?”

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    06 Jul 2026

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    7/'26
    Kind of pretentiously heavy excessively repetitive writing. Daddy Lan (where is LQR?) is characterized like a mastermind, Uber powerful WRH type. WWX is also over powered in his intellect and situational engineering. THIS WWX would never have gotten himself into the pickle canon WWX did. LWJ and LXC read more like Wen Xu and Wen Xiuliu. Weird but interesting so far.
    These characters are all deeply weird, like MDZS characters merged with Spock and then taken over by the Borg weird. Total non human aliens.
    I shall rename this fic:
    Something tightened sharply beneath his ribs

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    wing bones touching by

    Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù  

    04 Jul 2026

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    Mo Xuanyu is the hastily legitimized daughter of Jin Guangshan.

    Wei Wuxian wakes up in her body the day before her wedding.

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    06 Jul 2026

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    7/'26
    Sooooo good. "Wei gender is a side dish not a main course Wuxian" so don't get distracted by that.
    June 6: Torturously left on a cliff hanger with Lady Xuanyu (WWX) showing up and looking like one of the apparitions.

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    Restless Rewatch: The Untamed by

    Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)  

    31 Jul 2025

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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

    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

    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.)

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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
    may have missed a few points, worth another read