#awwwwwww my babies
turns out, lan wangji does think about it.
still not really cql lol butdid I borrow A LOT of show imagery even if this is clearly novel canon?? yessue me the show is beautiful and I was thinking about those scenes while writing this so I just went oh fuck it I’ll put them inI’m the artist I do what I want for the sake of thematic resonance part 2anyway!!! I’ve been sitting on this for two weeks and I don’t like it as much as the first one but I was rlly interestedin exploring what it feels like to love someone for years and then you lose him and then he comes back in another bodyand like that’s still a miracle you know?? what right do you have to complainbut the body you imagined to love doesn’t exist anymoreand you mourn itand sometimes you dream about itand yet this new body you can love so you dotbh I don’t think mxtx has thought about this for one minute but I’m obsessed with this concept lmaoand there’s this whole silent subplot in the novel connecting wwx’s physicality and ownership over his body that I could talk abt for agesand I wanted to look at it from another’s perspectiveso here!I’ll shut the fuck up now ❤️ (also forgive my liberal use of commas I debated over commas placement for longer than would be considered healthyand then I went for all the commas) (via@still-snowing)
a little comic about hands, love, and owning a body that was not your own
the untamed(but not really since you know no body switch which I’m forever sad about)I know wwx shouldn’t have the wrist scars post canon but I needed them for thematic resonance okayI’m the artist I do what I wantplease talk to me about body ownership and self violence and self sacrifice in this storyanytime truly I looked at my hands so much for this I can’t stand the sight of them now (via@still-snowing)
hmm I had to read this like three times and then go read ops tagsbut now it’s hitting me and it’s hitting me hardI always loved the body switch aspect—but not bc I genuinely like itit’s so angsty and uncomfortable and honestly traumatic. wwx was given life again to complete somethingand then he goes and continues to live a life ‘his’ body was never going to experienceand this art is so spot on and yes yes yes incredible. Bc does wwx ever have mornings where he forgets who he is. Bc he knows his mindbut that’s all he has now. the same way mxy’s body was never meant to have this life w lwjwwx’s body will never experience life w lwj.anywho that was my rant. op I share your feelings about this and I’m also in love with this art tysm (via @sm-pclnr)
I think about this a lot how uncomfortable it would be to not have your own body how wrong it would feel and to miss your old one class and all I also wonder how lwj feels who is obviously just happy to have wwx back the man you fell in love with just has a new body… like that would be… weird (via@ashayxm)
mo xuanyu(in body if not in spirit!)one of the major things i dislike abt cql is a complete disregard of wwx being in a different bodylike… coming to terms w/ yourself after you’ve been dead for ~13 yearsplus you’re in a different body??anyway op this is beautiful i haven’t stopped thinking about it for like 4 days nwo(via@godkilling)
OH WOW OH WOW I AGREE W/ GODKILLING’S TAGS THAT IT’S SUCH A SHAME THAT CQL DOESN’T MENTION WWX HAVING A NEW BODY LIKE. THEY COULD HAVE LOOKED STRIKINGLY SIMILAR. THAT’S FINE. BUT MAYBE THEY COULD’VE HAD DIFFERENT WIGS. CONTACTS. A FEW PASSING COMMENTS ABOUT SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES. IT’D HAVE BEEN SATISFYING EVEN WITH XIAO ZHAN PLAYING THE ROLE THROUGHOUT ANYWAY… THIS… UGH OP YOU’RE KILLING ME THANK YOU (via@qinghe-s)
oh wowthis makes me so sad but hdbdhd so true actuallyI think mxy would be happy for him either waywwx completed his revengeand then lived the life mo xuanyu would have wanted but never would have (via@anxious-witch)
he’s never going to question it / but i doif i stay still if i don’t speakbut then i speak and i move and he smilesoh the pain and poetrythis is such a beautiful comic and the lyrical way the text is writtenabsolutely amazingthis is also just such an important topici love the way wwx acknowledges a difference between how he and lwj perceive his/mxy’s bodyalso the underlying current of guilt about being broight back for a reason and now using this chance to be happyand to literally use the body to be with lwjmost chilling favourite also has to bei’m still youit’s both beautiful for how lwj recognises wwx in the things that are almost unperceivably yet distinctly histhe actions he actively doesbut the horror behind the fact that when he wakes up and doesn’t move yetthere is each morning the off-chance that this is mxy againjust… i love thisand the hands obviously are beautiful and a great symbolic focus for this theme (via@moniazalea)
this iswowthe dissonance of not knowing who you arein a stranger’s bodyuntil ur reminded by the one who knows youlikeyeah lwj would know himeven in a different body he knew himok time to lay down (via@vilinglaozu)
STOP STOP IM GONNA START CRYING…..there’s something inherently queer about it all isn’t therelike not to Get Into It or anything but finding yourself for who you are only in the care of your loverbeing in a body that is and isn’t yourslosing and yet finding yourself physicallyit’s just…..there’s something inherently queer about it all isn’t there. (via@thecommunityoftrustworthysinks)
`throwback to like 3 years ago when I would post my Harry Potter fan art here lmao…
anyways here’s some 30 year old zukka in the SWT visiting Chief Katara probably.
Also please don’t repost this anywhere but likes and reblogs are appreciated!
@craic-specialist said Listen, my craving for demonic cultivation bamf Qiren is ❤️❤️
And they were right.
Nocturne in D Minor - ao3
(series:Variations on WWX & LQR in Assorted Keys)
“It’s up to you,” Lan Qiren said to his brother, who he hadn’t spoken to in years – not since Lan Wangji had gotten old enough to pay his respects without assistance. “You don’t have to do it; it is not something I would force anyone into, not in a million years. But I will be doing it, and I can’t help them both by myself. I need you.”
Qingheng-jun stared off into the distance, his eyes blank and vacant.
“We’ll die,” he finally said.
“Probably,” Lan Qiren said, because it was true. “I would even say that it is more likely than not. But…they’re your sons. Your legacy.”
