Jiang Cheng came to me crying and told me to post this on Tumblr

reread a lot of mdzs while going through the book for quotes recently, and wow jiang cheng really does not show his love through his words at all. somehow everything he says is acerbic, cruel, or both.

but then you look at jiang cheng's actions instead, and it turns out this guy's actually busting his ass really hard for his loved ones? wei wuxian gets beaten by gusu lan, and jiang cheng carries him back. wei wuxian and lan wangji get trapped in the murder turtle cave, and jiang cheng runs for seven days without rest to rescue them. jiang cheng and jiang yanli secretly visit wei wuxian in yiling. helicopter-parent jiang cheng goes charging up dafan mountain the moment jin ling sends a distress signal flare. jiang cheng goes running after jin ling whenever he gets into trouble. when jin ling cries, he cries to jiang cheng. and - of course - jiang cheng only got his core melted in the first place because he led the wen patrol away to save wei wuxian.

what's interesting is that, whenever jiang cheng is saying or doing something cruel, the narration always adds a few extra sentences describing how cruel jiang cheng is being. an aside about sect leader jiang's infamous ruthlessness, wei wuxian's snarky commentary about how jiang cheng can never let a grievance go, or just a description of the vicious sneer twisting jiang cheng's face - the narration never just lets jiang cheng's actions or words stand on their own.

however, whenever jiang cheng does something kind, the narration does not comment on it at all. it merely describes what jiang cheng did before moving on immediately. almost as if we aren't meant to take note at all.

I think this says as much about WWX, our pov character, as it does Jiang Cheng.

WWX isn't *ungrateful* per say, but he doesn't always take note of the kindness and attention of others. Lan Wangji's concern in the aftermath of Sunshot is framed in WWX's mind as the hovering of someone who wants to reprimand him. Jiang Cheng's pettiness is always expounded upon while his kindnesses are brushed past. As if Wei Wuxian himself is not petty!

One of Wei Wuxian's more minor tragic flaws is his propensity to take things for granted, which, coupled with his bad habit of making snap judgements about people and then inflexibly holding on to them, casts certain characters - Jiang Cheng especially - in a far more negative light than they truly deserve.

WWX, as a narrator, is incredibly biased, which I think is where a lot of the weird takes in MDZS fandom come from because people will take his judgements at face value without examining them.

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Welcome to "So you have acquired a murder meowmeow" Introductory manual 101

Jiang Cheng: being a moody bitch and insulting everyone within a 10 mile radius

the juniors: …..

the twin jades: …..

the yiling patriarch: …..

the embodiment of non-confrontational social anxiety, Wen Ning:

(jc voice) i thought i was already living in hell but it just keeps getting worse

a redraw from CQL... this ep put me through every stage of grief all at once not gonna lie

(id in alt text)

What’s More Romantic Then Rearranging Your Partners Guts? (@absolmon)

Jiang Cheng with Zidian worm on a string, 2019

will i ever make anything serious on this blog

cloud recesses arc

normal jiang brother activities <3

Little Jiang Cheng with his best buddy

This was drawn as a p/atr/eon reward for May 2021

The YouTube subtitles are really impressively terrible but sometimes they do come through.

#honestly this scene murders me #jiang cheng out there using his words #to say things like #i’m worried about you #you seem sad #is it your stupid boyfriend you shouldn’t fight with him if it makes you sad #genuinely willing to be supportive of the wangxian agenda if it will cheer his brother up #and he persists! #wwx has to blow him off like three different ways before he gives up #and makes a face like #well that was just as terrible as i always assumed emotional honesty and genuine attempts to communicate #without five layers of protective angry bullshit would be #i will be repeating this experiment never (via @winepresswrath)

the more fucked up Wei Wuxian is coming out the burial mounds the more funny it is for Jiang Cheng to be in denial about it. Someone will come up to him like "Um, Sect Leader Jiang, have you noticed your head disciple only breathes when he's playing his cursed flute?" and he'll be like "Well why would he WANT to breathe near you when you're INFECTING the AIR with your STUPIDITY???? Get out of my SIGHT!!" and then he goes and yells at wwx for something completely unrelated. comedy gold.

#'sir no offence but your brother is trailed by a miasma of horror and decay wherever he sets foot'#JC: 'that's stale liquor dipshit he's just hung over. again.' - via @ekho-ekho-ekho

I'm late to the CQL Hunger Games (and congrats to Wei Wuxian and Wen Qing!) but I just gotta say seeing the ChengQing matchup made my eyes and brain go HUGE

Currently screaming over this collaboration art.

LOOK AT THEM.