Thread by @Hello_Tailor

JIN ZIXUAN???????

when the episode began with an idyllic scene of wei ying picking lotus pods with an adorable child, i just KNEW we were in trouble.

not to state the obvious here but Wei Ying Does Not Deserve This

holy shit this Nightless City scene with all the clan leaders cheering the death of the Wens. BRUTAL.

of course they are on the god damn roof again

https://twitter.com/Hello_Tailor/status/1240729484363476992?s=19

NO

the Stygian Tiger Amulet is like if everyone in LOTR, including the audience, forgot about the One Ring for hours and days at a time.

the fact that lan zhan is still fighting for wei ying right to the bitter end... has anything ever been more heartbreaking!!!

the orchestral score has been absolutely kicking ass throughout this final battle scene, which is wholly appropriate because it's a damn opera.

SIXTEEN YEARS LATER BABY... wei ying is looking so well-moisturized!

in absolute hysterics over Jin Ling's introduction.

i can't believe after 20 episodes of emotionally intense wartime romance, wei wuxian rises from the grave for... a monster-of-the-week episode in a spooky cave??

perpetually losing my mind @ the artificial themepark lighting they use during every nighttime scene in The Untamed.

people have been RTing this for 2 months like "just you wait girl!!" so i'm curious to see what happens now nie huaisang has returned after a 25-episode absence.

https://twitter.com/Hello_Tailor/status/1233490855807377415?s=19

nothing but respect for the Untamed props department, purchasing plastic skeletons, plastic swords & wildly unconvincing chains that clearly weigh 35 grams, all so Lan Zhan can have the most beautiful silver diadems in all the land.

every random villager in The Untamed is an NPC from The Witcher whose only task is to gossip loudly about nearby hauntings, and i respect that.

does wei wuxian's congee magically only take 10 minutes to cook because he uses demonic cultivation to make it?

the boys are back after like 20 episodes and apparently a whole entire EPIC TRAGEDY has unfolded completely offscreen. luv this bold storytelling choice.

https://twitter.com/Hello_Tailor/status/1238928365089959942?s=19

37 episodes in, my brain still hasn't absorbed a single ounce of information about the Yin Iron, the Stygian Tiger Seal, the tortoise sword...

https://twitter.com/Hello_Tailor/status/1257408107824758791?s=19

perpetually in awe of this narrative structure where the main story will pause without warning for an EXTENSIVE 10-years-previously flashback for a random character we only just met.

xue yang rocking up to ruin someone's marriage, eating a lollipop & wearing a croptop with the word "EVIL" spraypainted across the chest.

xue yang acts like a professional wrestling heel.

the epic tragedy of xue yang/song lan/xiao xinchen has real "tenporary buffy villain" energy.

lan zhan is being slowly crushed to death under 100,000 tons of suppressed emotions and wei wuxian just! will! not! notice!!!!

what do u do when u like, get back to ur hotel after dinner and there are 3 wizards having a VERY intense conversation over a levitating sword in the lobby.

"everyone just act normal about this anonymous masked man accompanying lan wangji to an elite meeting of sect leaders."

sizhui is baby

screaming @ wei wuxian's advice to the teens being "get into more fights while you're still young." TRULY JIANG CHENG'S BROTHER.

GOODBYE

what👏is👏in👏qin su's👏letter!

https://twitter.com/Hello_Tailor/status/1170822757497614336?s=19

could not be more stoked for a Meng Yao flashback sequence. this man can ACT.

i say this with absolute sincerity: he has SO many different ways of dramatically widening his eyes!!!

LLLLITERALLY ARE WE GETTING AN EXTENDED FLASHBACK ESTABLISHING A NIE MINGJUE/YAO/XICHEN THROUPLE

obsessed w meng yao. obsessed. i couldn't hope for a better villain. THE SLOWEST OF BURNS.

lan xichen is such... a himbo...

this back-to-back fight scene! lan zhan & wei ying invented romance & fidelity!!!

kudos to The Untamed for unleashing this wildly tragic & fucked-up backstory for lan wangji like 90% of the way through the series!!!!

🙏🙏🙏

instantly headcanoning a long epistolary friendship between Mianmian and Lan Zhan, based on SHARED INTEGRITY and RESPECT.

i cannot believe...

https://twitter.com/lunarspeIIs/status/1264228532630228993?s=19

wei wuxian: i think you all know why i've gathered you here today.
mob of cultivators: to reveal a secret murderer?
wei wuxian: no. to deliver a 10-minute lecture about music theory.

the choreography for this fight scene where wei wuxian strips down to his jammies & lan wangji destroys a horde of zombies with the graceful ferocity of a panther...... thank u.

wow i was NOT expecting jin guangshan's... mode of assassination. 👀

women are obviously not foregrounded in this show, but it's fascinating how many of the key plot points are caused by fallout from the mistreatment of women, and not in an exploitative way.

the entire plot of The Untamed hinges on the fact that a minor character (Jin Guangshan) is a colossal misogynist. a dynasty rises & falls because he's cruel to women.

we've gone back to rewatch the first two episodes before the final 5, and it is... truly wild to actually understand what was happening this whole time.

huge respect to any tv show whose first episode is completely incomprehensible until after you've watched 35+ subsequent eps.

Lan Zhan's first scene: iconic, angelic, majestic, ethereal...

absolutely world-class swooning scene between Lan Wangji & Wei Wuxian during this argument with Jiang Cheng. NEVER HAVE I SEEN SUCH A SWOON...

the golden core revelation scene: agonizingly cathartic.
the lake scene: A PAINTING!!

this thread will soon be over, but i hope you all stick around for the fanfic i will surely write after the finale lol

embarking on the final 4 eps and you'll never guess where we are again

https://twitter.com/Hello_Tailor/status/1240729484363476992?s=19

what could be more delicious than the seething hatred in lan zhan's eyes when he looks at jin guangyao...

i can't believe they're introducing a deadly standoff between TWO sets of star-crossed lovers in a secret Buddhist temple *during a thunderstorm* basically 5 mins from the end. love that for us.

how tf hasn't jiang cheng exploded yet from a superfluity of resentful energy.

lowkey worried that jiang cheng's grief-sweat & tears are gonna melt off his lacefront wig

people had so much more time for plots & schemes during Historical Times before videogames were invented, huh.

whenever it's time for someone to explain where the Yin Iron is or what it's doing.

losing my mind @ The Untamed's ~final battle~ consisting of 3 mins of wuxia followed by 40+ mins of the villain explaining his motives in front of 900 candles like the Phantom of the Opera.

lan xichen/meng yao evil sugar baby au

the most shocking thing in this ep is how long it took su she to die. second most shocking: the fact that jin guangyao even gives a shit.

people have been clowning me for this tweet since february & it's finally time to find out why.

https://twitter.com/Hello_Tailor/status/1233490855807377415?s=19

what if the final 25 minutes of The Untamed is just a montage of various men looking at each other.

oh my god are we ending on a heartfelt duet performed on opposite sides of a river symbolising the rift created by censorship guidelines

lan wangji looking at wei wuxian is the greatest love story ever told.

thank u for joining me on this journey. it's now time to write some fanfic.

literally what could be better than writing overwrought historical romance. that's right, nothing.

i decided i may as well post the first chapter of this tonite, and am positively cackling as i type in the AO3 tags. "pining"... "mutual pining"... "misunderstandings".......

ok here it is! part 1/2 of a post-canon Wanxian fic! this is pure, unadulterated ~romance. archiveofourown.org/works/24670510

doing my utmost to earn that "mutual pining" ao3 tag.

part 2 of my Untamed fic is now up, complete at 6k words! archiveofourown.org/works/24670510…