The Abyss Also Stares

preparing for full mdzs arts so quick meme sketch last art in 2023

Day 12: Core

There's something about Wen Ning kneeling to apologize for everything that went wrong, and Wei Wuxian kneeling down with him as if to say nothing is your fault that isn't also my fault. Either we'll stand together or we'll kneel together.

They are the secret third thing.

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.

Normal boy spotted.

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once again cooking for me and three other ppl

How i see Wei wuxian leading the band of disciples through out the book:

which went first, the tally or him?

“I speak for the trees, and the trees say come back to Gusu with me”

🎶How ba-a-a-ad can I be?🎶

i cant go on twitter any more because they took tweetdeck away so i wanted to archive some of the important work i've only posted over there. heres some of my drawings for my involved mdzs au where wei wuxian has to wear mo xuanyu's fursuit to sneak into a convention he is banned from in in order to solve a murder

drawing requests from instagram!!

crack au where wq transmigrates into abo mdzs

POV: Wei Wuxian came back from the dead to fuck around with your life once again

Poorly done doodle of the protagonist of the story and his useless human

— richard siken, war of the foxes