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instead of worrying abt whether or not yr scaring the hoes y dont u find some hoes that dont get scared, brave hoes. indomitable hoes

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Why's his hat so big?

It's full of crimes.

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kills me when people call jiang cheng selfish. as an Actually Selfish Person i can say with confidence that he is not one of us, and that calling him thus when he has not done nearly enough to earn such laurels is very disrespectful and appropriative of our culture. please be more respectful towards my people in the future </3

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I was dreaming of a summer sky and the wind blew the other way.

(idk just give them good endings too please. is that too much to ask?)

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this was originally based on a photo I saw of two people hugging and then my brain was like 👀 but what if we gave it "Ivan the Terrible and his son, Ivan" vibes tho 👀 and I'm not sure if I acheived that but I'm done working on it now either way

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Being like "I don't think Su She is meant to be a foil for Lan Wangji" as if he's not *defined* in the story by being compared to Lan Wangji. Like how obvious can it get?

What more do you want him to do? Show up in a shadow mask wearing all black like he's the very concept of persona, the shadow self, literally predicting and mirroring all of lwj's moves to the point he's honestly unnerved by it but disappearing like he was never there the moment he's close enough to catch?

i mean that'd be a bit much don't you think?

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One of the Ghost General's main talents is grave digging.🪦

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They might hate Jin Guang Yao but erasing his involvement in raising Jin Ling? Like, ever so often I see depictions of all the job done by Jiang Cheng (and somehow Xian Xian?!) but the kid was brought up in Jin Ling fucking Tai, wasn't he?

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A unique agony as a shijie lover is loving her precisely for the reasons people think she's lame and keep trying to "fix". I love that she's a bad cultivator with a weak golden core and that she's in poor health. I love that she's conflict averse and so not always a great mediator because she prefers to keep the peace and shut down conflict. Madam Yu yells at her every day to stop embarrassing herself by lowering herself to a servant's level, and every day Yanli is like "Yes mom" and then turns around and keeps doing what she likes anyways. She is not naturally suited to sect leadering and while she's extremely dutiful and would give it her all I think she'd enjoy it as much as her father does(which is to say, not at all). I love that she's totally unhinged about her brothers and that she was so scarred from the last time her family died when she wasn't there to see it that she recklessly throws herself onto a battlefield just so that she can at least be present this time. It's not even the first time, she's determined to help out with the war effort despite having zero fighting abilities and literally no one expecting her to do that. I love that she's uncomfortable with anger and struggles to stand up for herself. Xuanli are cute and I love that she seemingly banged her man before the wedding. Most of all I love that she died hating Wei Wuxian while still loving him enough to put herself between him and a sword. My beloved!!

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You know, that bit about "If you offend someone, make sure it's not Yunmeng Jiang and not their Leader specifically!" is just so fascinating to me.

Because - what happened?

What the hell happened to solidify the Jiang as the "find out" of Jianghu??

Like, sure, Sandu Sengshou "killed Yiling Laozu" so you probably don't want to mess with the guy - but a whole sect?? "Don't mess with them or they'll clap back" is a bit of a different fame than "he's torturing demonic cultivators!" - that former is an experience-based life advice.

So, what happened? Did JC punch someone square in the face during a sect conference? Called Sect Leader Yao for a duel and kicked his ass? Fucked up a bunch of trade representatives when they tried to take advantage of the fledgeling Jiang sect??? Took Jin Guangyao's hat and held it out of his reach????

And exactly how trigger-happy are the Jiang disciples to be known as the people you don't fuck with???

I need to know what the hell happened!

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I feel like too often people frame Nie Mingjue's issues as ignorance borne from safety. Like, they think that because of his privilege as a sect leader he doesn't know what it's like to be in danger and forced to make hard choices to survive. And I disagree. Strongly.

First of all, Nie Mingjue is very familiar with death not only from war but from. You know. Actively dying since the age of fourteen. Let us not forget Nie Mingjue is dead! Super dead! And maybe he didn't die the exact way he expected to but he did, absolutely, know he was going to die. To act like Nie Mingjue is unfamiliar with the scenario of "do something you find morally reprehensible or die" is to ignore that he has been living that exact scenario and chose death.

Nie Mingjue knows death is a risk for someone like Jin guangyao, in fact he explicitly acknowledges it even in his worst moments like the stairs in chapter 49. Had his issue been ignorance, then he would've responded to Jin Guangyao saying that he's in danger and has to sacrifice others for his own safety with "No you aren't you'll be fine." But he doesn't. He accepts the fact that jgy is in danger with no qualms and says: then you should die.

That's not him betraying his values, those are his values. He is, essentially, pro-suicide. Jgy is like hey I have a moral dilemma what should I do and nmj straight up goes "Kill yourself" and earlier that same chapter when he was faced with a moral dilemma he went "I'm gonna kill myself." He believes the solution to moral dilemmas is suicide! He is extremely consistent about this! When it's pointed out to him that it would have been dangerous for Wen Qing to oppose Wen Ruohan it doesn't phase him because he thinks putting yourself at risk to do the right thing is the only moral choice. The idea that he can only hold this belief because he is himself somehow not in danger, again, requires you to ignore that he is dying the whole time. And it doesn't deter him. He is the idea of self-sacrifice as a moral good taken to its absolute logical extreme. Someone who is ready to die and demands the same from everyone else.

It makes him a very fun case study for fandom, because a lot of fandom spaces also tend to revere self-sacrifice as the ultimate good, and yet we get very uncomfortable when someone starts demanding it of characters we love. Like woah, hold on, that's a bit too far isn't it? Only we the audience get to do that!

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This bit from NMJ’s empathy chapter has recently been brought to my attention and, with all due respect to our lovely translators, I’d like to make a small note. 

In the original Chinese, Meng Yao was actually saying:

“Was it really up to me? Sect Leader Nie, if our situation was reversed…”

So Nie MingJue isn’t saying he refused to see it from Meng Yao’s perspective. He’s saying that even if their situation was reversed, he wouldn’t have killed those men. 

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btw did u listen to the playlist i made u yet

zongzhu?? r u there

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Obsessed with Nie Huaisang acting so stressed about why he hasn't graduated from the strictest school in all the land yet but he pulls up to Gusu with a stash of gay porno magz so plentiful having one shredded by a conservative prettyboy doesn't even register as a loss.

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*covered in blood* I'm literally fine guys. im still funny. Would you like to hear a joke Im going to tell you a joke