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  • brigwife:

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    Actually sobbing over SQH’s Big Brain thinking to (try to) write in a language that ancient Chinese fictional characters will have no possible chance of understanding

    • 3 hours ago
    • 492 notes
    • #svsss
    • #gotta read more!
    • #hilarious!
  • quasi-normalcy:

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    I was there 20 years ago. It was really obvious.

    • 11 hours ago
    • 2324 notes
    • #iraq war
    • #horrible tragedy
    • #I bought into it
    • #but I was 12
    • #I remember that fucking tennis ball speech....
  • tumbwr:

    • 11 hours ago
    • 348 notes
    • #chatgpt
    • #chilling
  • natalieironside:

    The hero’s journey is like the homeopathy of literary analysis

    • 11 hours ago
    • 1168 notes
    • #hero's journey
    • #tru
  • huffylemon:

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    • 11 hours ago
    • 923 notes
    • #design
  • tiktoks-for-tired-tots:

    • 11 hours ago
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    • #excellent
  • only-tiktoks:

    • 11 hours ago
    • 222 notes
    • #music
    • #russia
  • re: golden core reveal - wasn't JC actively attacking LWJ and (bleeding and semi-unconscious) WWX when WN arrived? I get that this fight was a misunderstanding and an overreaction from everyone involved, and JC didn't really want to kill or injure anyone, but if WN only arrived at the scene when he heard the sounds of fighting, I can totally see why he was so mad at JC lol, it probably looked like he was trying to kill WWX for some reason

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    lansplaining:

    YEAH okay so

    (sorry this got long)

    Jiang Cheng follows Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji into the temple and starts accusing them of fooling around, which I’d totally forgotten is actually the part that really upsets Wei Wuxian. And then he attacks first!

    Wei Wuxian saw the change in Lan Wangji’s expression and thought that Jiang Cheng’s words had stung him. He was so angry that his entire body shook. He didn’t even dare imagine what Lan Wangji thought of being insulted like that. His fury blazed brighter, blood rushed to his head, and he flung out a talisman.

    The talisman was fast and merciless. It struck Jiang Cheng on his right shoulder and exploded with a thunderous bang, causing him to stagger. He hadn’t expected Wei Wuxian to strike so suddenly, and his own spiritual powers had yet to fully recover. As a result, the blast caught him head-on and his shoulder began to bleed.

    Disbelief flashed across his face, and Zidian shot from his finger, sizzling and flashing haphazardly as it lashed out (249, 7S trans.).

    So then a fight breaks out between the three of them, Wei Wuxian’s like wait this is terrible and nearly passes out. When that happens–

    Jiang Cheng’s expression changed too. He retracted his whip, then blinked, looking alert (249, 7S trans.).

    Keep reading

    • 19 hours ago
    • 105 notes
    • #jiang cheng
    • #hilarious
    • #mdzs meta
    • #I don't think I read this part yet
  • lansplaining:

    so I am just saying

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    this is in fact… not what happens (go away donghua). he pulls himself together and fights for Jin Ling’s position and like… continues with his life.

    it’s almost as if Wei Wuxian’s assessments of people’s characters are not always (or perhaps even often) entirely correct!!!!

    I’m also just so struck this time about how the evasiveness is all on the part of Wei Wuxian, and is explicitly about no longer having the resilience to face the trauma of the core transfer and its repercussions. you might say he’s…… unable to face himself……..

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    WEI WUXIAN PLEASE JUST PAY A LITTLE MORE ATTENTION AND NOTICE WHO HE LEFT OFF THAT LIST

    • 19 hours ago
    • 295 notes
    • #I just have to protect Jiang Cheng
    • #and doing dark magicks
    • #jiang cheng
    • #hell yeah
    • #more competent than wwx gives him credit for
    • #but he also sieged the burial mounds so...
    • #it's also interesting how he's in the narrative slot of the jealous lancer
    • #but he's .. not actually that jealous?
    • #he had a moment or two when he was
    • #like
    • #13
    • #idk I may not 100% remember the book
    • #mdzs
    • #meta
    • #also
    • #I wonder if wwx is being completely honest about his motivations
    • #both to himself and the audience
    • #imo
    • #he's ashamed to not have a golden core
    • #he doesn't want to be pitied
    • #he doesn't want to lose his main tie to the aristocracy
    • #(aristocracy's not the right word
    • #but you know)
    • #he doesn't want to give up his social role
    • #by constantly lying by omission
    • #is pretty convenient for him
  • demoiselledefortune:

    iri-vail:

    lansplaining:

    @iri-vail i hope you don’t mind me pulling out these tags from this post: 

    #mdzs meta#meta#why i think wwx has to be a little mean to jc in fic to be characterized correctly#like that whole monologue ‘ohhh jc is just too weaaak~’#i know thats borne mainly of his own insecurities/attempt to distract himself from his tough decisions#but maaan it goes on for so long its so mean spirited it turns around into funny

    bc damn you know

    i’ve really never thought about it, but you are so so right. fic is so fixated on jiang cheng being mean to wei wuxian, with good and obvious reason, but wei wuxian is really quite unkind to him in the second life as well? he truly refuses to actually listen to what he’s saying at almost any point, and as you point out, his fundamental perspective on who jiang cheng is and what he’s capable of is not kind! this is not to say i don’t think he loves jiang cheng, but especially by the time you get to the temple confrontation, there is a fundamental dismissiveness and lack of willingness to hear or see him that is self-protective, but also shades into meanness for sure 

    Don’t worry I don’t mind! I like interacting on here even if I’m mostly a coward and keep to the tags lol

    I also think he loves Jiang Cheng, he’s just, as you say, very dismissive of what he has to say /and/ of his capabilities, almost comically so. It’s wanting to coddle him to the point of forgetting that Jiang Cheng is a full person, who has wishes beyond ‘need to be a good sect heir’, who cares about Wei Wuxian beyond his usefulness. Which granted neither Jiang Cheng nor his parents did a good job conveying to Wei Wuxian lol. But it’s the lack of any real interiority given to Jiang Cheng (beyond his role as cultivator) to justify such an immense act of love that’s just…. fun to me, it’s so cruel, not necessarily even of Wei Wuxian, just their situation in general. I hope Jiang Cheng never hears him say any of this cause I bet he’d never stop crying again ever in his life, I know I wouldn’t. Fun! They’re a mess I’m so fond of them!

    @cerusee ’s tags

    #yeah! and prev tags also#in order to really understand the core transfer you gotta understand that great sacrifice or no it is Not A Normal Thing To Do At All#it’s fundamentally incorrect to view it as an act of obligation. it is very much an act of love!#but even as an act of LOVE it is Not A Normal Thing To Do At All#like I find it astonishingly unlikely that WWX would do something like that with LWJ#not for lack of love! but because his relationship with LWJ is SO different#he views him fully as a peer and someone who he trusts to take care of himself#his equal and his partner#which is something he very much denies JC#and I think the core transfer actually makes it worse for the yunmeng bros#bc having done it WWX *has* to justify both the sacrifice and the secrecy to himself as Absolutely Necessary#in order to live with the increasingly unpleasant consequences of his decision#he can’t allow himself to consider the possibility that it might have been a mistake#which means he can’t allow himself to consider the possibility that JC would have been able to cope with the loss of his cultivation#or that JC could get over the core transfer itself if WWX told him#which is I think why it’s vitally important that JC find out!#not just so he understands why his relationship with WWX broke down the way that it did. why WWX made all those inexplicable choices#and why he left them#but also because only by having the core transfer revealed and JC learning to live with that knowledge#is WWX likely to ever reconsider and reevaluate the choices he made on JC’s behalf based on a flawed assessment of his capabilities#yunmeng bros#the untamed#they’re a mess and I love that for them

    (via neurodivergentwangxian)

    • 19 hours ago
    • 180 notes
    • #damn
    • #yes
    • #mdzs
    • #meta
    • #yumeng bros
    • #even if you love each other
    • #and you're basically both good people
    • #(debatable)
    • #you can be dysfunctional af
    • #also though
    • #jiang cheng did help with the siege of the burial mounds
    • #avoiding him and not forgiving him
    • #are totally rational responses to that
    • #interesting that he stayed friendly with lxc though
    • #maybe he felt like he didn't have a choice
    • #since lwj was helping him out
    • #and he was a guest in the cloud recesses
    • #huh
    • #also jiang cheng was homophobic
    • #in my own fic
    • #I like playing wwx as angry at jc
    • #not The Most angry
    • #but some built up resetment
    • #I think he felt that the whole time
    • #even if he didn't really express it
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