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The Cultural Politics of Love (and Silence) by spicyomelette
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
28 Jun 2025
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"Ethical neutrality is not harmless. It is a choice made in comfort, at the cost of someone else's suffering. Silence, too, is a position. And love is not apolitical. This paper is not a confession. This is not only a paper about war and complicity. It is about the people we return to when we finally learn to choose."
- Lan, W. (2025) To Choose the Burning World: Moral Clarity, Complicity, and Attachment in Times of Systemic Violence--
Wei Ying volunteers for a cutting-edge simulation study on identity and memory.
Inside the machine, he lives alternate versions of his life. Across timelines, one thing keeps returning: Lan Zhan.
This is not a story about time travel. It’s not even really about science. It’s about the weight of choices, the grief that lives in silence, and the person who keeps showing up even when the world tells you not to look back.
And maybe, just maybe, it’s about love.
Bookmarked by Dark_Falcon
28 Jun 2025
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this is I believe something everyone would benefit from reading
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Bitter Plants Bearing Sweet Fruit by Kryal
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon)
03 Dec 2022
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Patience is a bitter plant that bears sweet fruit.
Lan Wangji doesn't know why Wei Wuxian is so interested in traveling to a city at the very edge of the civilized world. After Yunping, what secrets could possibly be left?
But the desert remembers many things.
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30 Nov 2024
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well researched, excellent work, book canon
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Wei Wuxian and Narrative Agency by songofthesky
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
05 Oct 2024
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An exploration on how MDZS’ narrative treats Wei Wuxian’s agency, and how despite all the tragic events in his life, this tragedy does not define him. Covering:
1. How the omission of periods where Wei Wuxian has little agency creates the impression that agency is important to his character (and how that impression is supported by text), and how the tragedy in his life enhances rather than diminishes that agency;
2. Wei Wuxian’s own attitude towards tragedy in his life, and how it’s a choice to not let tragedy define him (featuring an exploration of Jin Guangyao and Jiang Cheng as his foils); and,
3. How what’s shown and omitted is influenced by this attitude Wei Wuxian holds.
Here, narrative agency will be considered the ability of a character to meaningfully influence the story they’re in.
(For Xiantober Day One: Genius, Day Three: Conviction, and Day Five: Past and Present!)
Series
- Part 3 of MDZS Metas
- Part 1 of Xiantober 2024
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Glossary, Notes, and Bibliography by moonlitten
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
15 Feb 2022
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for anyone who may find it useful to have open in a side tab while reading MDZS fics~
watching MDZS since 2020 was a steep learning curve for me — I'd never watched a show in Chinese language before! and captions aren't always the most reliable translations... I had to start start keeping track of what I'd learned.
and I figured this might be helpful to someone else. also, I'm a slut for languages, so this was just fun!
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Teen Project to Change the World by animeloverhomura
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon), 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师Q | Módào Zǔshī Q (Cartoon)
28 May 2024
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Lan Sizhui, Lan Jingyi, Jin Ling, and Ouyang Zizhen listened attentively as Wei Wuxian explained his newest invention: a way to send memories to the past. Satisfied that he dealt with all possible paradoxes and running on -2 hours of sleep, he didn't make note of his sons' frankly concerning expressions.
"We could change everything!" they shouted simultaneously.
For better or worse, only time will tell.