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sorry the fandom got a hold of your blorbo and flattened him into a one dimensional paragon of purity and virtue. yeah, they erased the time he sliced the flesh off his living enemy and force-fed it to him. yeah, the part where he raised the corpses of people’s ancestors and made them slaughter entire families is gone too. sorry, the bullheaded arrogance that led to deaths of thousands is now a praise kink. all that’s left is a loudmouth twink with a rape fetish. oh, yeah they’re fine with that part.

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who up 👀👀👀 getting they golden core 🟡🟡🟡 cut out??? 🔪🔪🔪???

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maybe a hot take: I don't think there's any act of revenge in all of MDZS that we are meant to take pleasure in

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"There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen"

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cant stop thinking about how violently proud yu ziyuan would be if she ever had the opportunity to see jiang cheng in full sandu shengshou mode

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How much longer 'til your luck runs out?

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ENCYCLOPEDIA - (...) Where were you before? You had to be somewhere. YOU - Up on Marvel Hill. ENCYCLOPEDIA - Why did you say that?

— original quote from disco elysium — dialogue screenshots from fayde (conversation branch) — inspired by this set by @revacholian-girl-utena — and mdzs disco elysium au by @poorly-drawn-mdzs

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One thing I really hate about the untamed fandom is the complete disregard for the politics of the story and the context and culture it’s written in like no wonder the fanfic is so god awful y’all don’t care about the setting and worldbuilding that informs the characters actions - like why watch a show or read a book sent in fantasy historical China if you don’t like how fantasy historical Chinese characters act - like the politics is so interesting in the way it constrains and bounds the characters actions especially Jiang Cheng and Jin Guangyao and how it shows how characters that resist that mold (no matter how heroic or well intentioned) fail and die horribly (Wei Wuxian). Like y’all can praise him all you want for how good his intentions are (and they were good) but he did fail (because he completely went against the grain and believed his righteousness would be enough - and also was in the lowest point of his life emotionally and physically) and the Wen Remnants and Wen Qing all died horrible deaths and that matters! And characters that used the system and bid their time and worked behind the scenes (Jiang Cheng and Jin Guangyao) made something of themselves and their sects and they did good for a while and yet they still suffered!!! And characters that were passive and did nothing and let the events unfold (Lan Wangji pre time skip and Lan Xichen) still suffered!!! For very particular reasons related to the way the world they live in functions. It’s a tragedy not a lesson in morality and it’s also a story with a very particular setting which dooms these particular characters. The world they exist in matters for why they do what they do and trying to super impose your sense of morality on fictional characters to justify why you like them is so boring and frankly a terrible what to engage with fantasy. All these characters have sympathetic understandable traits and they all have flaws and hurt people and that’s why it’s a good story

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JGY destroys a sect for the death of JRS with no repercussions either materially or reputationally, but people don't understand why JC couldn't stand with WWX after he killed multiple Jin cultivators and even JZX. Do you think JGS was nice??

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note that when Jin Ling says he is 'almost fifteen' that means he is very much still fourteen, and that he's counting in a system where you're born age 1.

so he's thirteen. we would say, he is 13 years old.

in a modern AU he would be in the 8th grade. statistically he is just starting puberty. he is a child.

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when ur husband won't touch u or take concubines but spend regular month long meetings with his sworn brother

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okay but for REAL we as a society need to do more with the fact that Wen Ning is to Wei Wuxian as Su Minshan is to Jin Guangyao. willing to kill and die and betray his entire sect for a guy who gave him one (1) compliment. icons, the both of them.