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passing down family recipe (is done verbally)

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The donghua gave Jiang Cheng all the best action scenes 🤌🤌🤌

And yet he still looks like a princess 🥹

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"ppl dislike jc bc his trauma and suffering isn't romantic or stoic. he doesn't suffer in silence; he yells, is snide, mean and rude, he cries publicly & makes u uncomfortable. he wasn't made kinder by the cruelty, it just made him fiercely protective of what little he had left he's also hated from his principles and duty, he doesn't abandon them for love, he has the make the hard, ugly choices bc he has a entire sect relying on him and him alone. he doesn't have the luxury of defiance beyond his harsh temperament, and that was hard earned."

© to : jchengcryinggif on twt

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I'm thankful I haven't seen a JC anti in my Tumblr timeline ever since I went on a blocking spree thanks to the spreadsheet.

I still get frustrated whenever I see some anti talking points because they just read the novel with their "morality" glasses on and ignore the nuances in the novel. Life as a JC stan is hard when you're stuck reading takes from someone who believes in the purity culture bs

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*Sweeps Jiang Cheng off his feet, carries him to bed, gives his forehead a kiss, says goodnight and switches out the lights*

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Reminder that jc never hated wwx because he was "homohobic." His hatred, or rather, complicated feelings stem a lot more deeper than that.

Also, to argue that his "homophobia " will get in the way of he and wwx's reconciliation isn't a sound argument to use in your favour. Because he quickly appears to get over lwj's and wwx's relationship after the core reveal and the end of the book where it is never discussed or ackowledged again.

After that, jc let's them go at the end of the book to live together. He doesn't express disgust once again or tried to stop them from loving eachother. He let's them be together, whilst obviously watching on longingly for it is made quite clear in the book that he wishes for things to go back to how they were. For wwx to be with him as his second in command again. To come back to lp.. But at the end, he knows it can never be like that again.

So, Jc let's wwx go to be happy with lwj in the cr where he will be free from commitments and his past.

If anything, the homophobia he does demonstrate prior to that realisation reads as confusion and an excuse to justify his hatred for wwx after everything that has happened because he wants to hate him but simply cannot.

He doesn't hate wwx because he is a "cutsleeve."

He hated wwx for the lies he fed him. The betrayal and failure to fulfil his part as his second in command and ultimately, because of his perceived responsibility towards jyl's and jxz's deaths.

It was never because he was gay.

Oh, and I do find it odd that some of y'all seem to think that the rest of the cw would be accepting of their union, whilst jc isn't..

This simply isn't true. Whilst it is confirmed that they do marry at then of the book, it isn't quite clear where and who accepts it.

Obviously, wwx's close friends will accept it, but the rest of the world will not accept the union because it deviates from the social norms of that time period (as awful as that is).

To argue that jc will never allow them to marry in lp is a bit silly when that norm also exists for the cr and everywhere else really.

The social circumstances and time period is very important to consider here for it realistically influences how characters react to things. It is not entirely a reflection on their character (reminder that wwx held some homophobic views too before he fell for lwj).

Social and historical contexts all seem to go a miss in this fandom which I find interesting for that is the very same point antis like to bring up in regards to the ethics argument surrounding wwx's non consensual core donation to jc.

These people love to remind jc fans of the historical context and how such norms don't apply here giving how medical ethics wasn't a thing back then and therefore, the argument doesn't hold here.

If that is true, then why don't they apply that same logic to jc's perceived homophobia which was the norm back then? Whilst being gay itself was predominantly frowned upon?

If you are going to apply that same level of thinking to non con surgery, then I expect the same with the societal standards of the works in which the characters live in. Js.

You can't have one rule for one character whilst excluding such logic and understanding for another.

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Fuck it. I'm gonna bite the bait just to say that there were many instances where jc clearly trated wwx like a brother/friend in the BOOK, aka the canon text in case anyone was confused or have seemed to have selectively forgotten about.

From the part where jc scoffs at the prospect of wwx getting together with a servant. Laughing and proclaiming that he was treated better than he was (in reference to his own sister peeling his lotus seeds for him which she didn't do for jc).

Then there was him standing up for him on NUMEROUS occasions throughout the book. Such as before the LP Massacre. He could have let his mother beat wwx senseless, but he tried to stop her from doing so, begging and crying even for her to stop and take the punishment for him. Despite the risk it took to do so.

Not to mention the excuses he made to the rest of the cw after the war when he stood up for wwx and shrugged off his casual and overly familiar demeanour.

Then ofc there was the sacrifice he made for wwx (which he didn't have to do as the only male sect heir) whilst they were on the run from the Wens that ultimately led up to the events in the novel..

The Cloud Recesses era.. the part after jfm gave away his dogs and jc steadily welcomed wwx in his life, willing to scare away any dogs that threatened him..

These are all things a nasty, homophobic rich man would NEVER do for his servant if he only saw them as such.

If he was classist as you all seem to think he is, then he would never dream of doing all the above CANON EVENTS for wwx's sake. Js.

These were all in the book. To ignore them, that means you are ignoring mxtx's work and you clearly did not understand the complicated relationship wwx and jc had.

Because it was made clear throughout the text that jc never saw him as a servant. They shared a room, went to school together and made HUGE sacrifices for eachother. So much so, that their relationship pissed of jc's mother.

If you ignore that then you are ignoring a VERY IMPORTANT part of the text. And I have to wonder if y'all only came into the fandom for the mlm relationship between wwx and lwj and not the the story. Clearly, y'all are selectively ignoring some very IMPORTANT facts. Js. This book is MORE than just a bl........

And if that's the case, then you have no place arguing jc canon facts. Js.

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cloud recesses arc

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A WIP of me trying to remake Compared Child MV with Jiang Cheng

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male gaze is not 'when person look sexy' or 'when misogynist make film'

death of the author is not 'miku wrote this'

I don't think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what's in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it's utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn't mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot' - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn't intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it's worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it's there.' it's important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it's important to be able to tell the difference.

male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn't mean 'finding a lady sexy' or 'looking with a sexual lens', it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it's important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can't get a grip on male gaze beyond 'sexual imagery', you're really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.

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🤨 their cafe collab

gah so pwetty wanna do a btr drawing soon 🥲🥲

~ zx, signing off, for god knows how long 🤪

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You’re planning to kill yourself.

You’re planning to kill yourself.

Please don’t do it.

You will always be missed. The world would be smaller and less brighter without you in it. You matter despite what you might think. It might not seem like it, and I know you're in so much pain that you feel as if your soul is trying to claw itself out of your bones and marrow. But…

When you die, though, the pain doesn’t end there. 

Not really.

 In truth, the world will go on, but those of us who love you will be lost and full of so much confusing pain, hurt and most importantly guilt.

Because how could we have missed it? Missed you and the pain you were in? We will wonder if we might have been the cause of it unknowingly? The guilt of surviving will eat at us in a way where, even if you’ve been gone thirty years, it’ll get to us. There will be this unsaid, unspoken, grief filled gap where you once stood, laughed, and most importantly, loved.

When you die, your mother will crawl into your bed and fall into a fitful sleep as she inhales your slowly fading scent that’s only unique to you. A scent she has inhaled deeply every time she has ever held you or hugged you. She’ll continue to do this even when your scent fades away. Eyes shut tightly as her tears soak your pillow while she is so desperately fucking wishing you were here. Alive and breathing.

Your dad will find himself sitting in the sombre dark. Your favorite shows playing in the background to fill the desolate and empty noise where your laughter and running feet used to fill. He’ll wonder if he was too harsh on you with discipline. That he didn’t give you enough hugs and self-assurance that he loves you, and that you matter.

Your siblings will be surrounded by broken pieces and people they will have to help pick up and heal. They’ll absentmindedly stroll throughout their room or house and end up with a pile of your things you’ve either forgotten or they had taken to borrow. Some will throw it all away, because the pain is too much for them. The fact they won’t hear or see you anymore, and they will be afraid. Afraid they will forget what you will look like as they continue to grow without you. 

Your best friend will continue with a hard rock in shoes that will no longer fit. They will perhaps develop unhealthy coping methods for awhile, until it actually settles in your gone. They’ll probably rip a few pictures of you guys up in a fit of grieving rage, but they’ll get a tattoo to remember you by. It still doesn’t lessen the hurt or pain. The grief will always linger, just like the rock will always stay stuck in their unfitted pair of shoes.

 The small daily acts of kindness you perform stretch out more than you might think. A simple smile, or holding a door, could lead to someone getting on time to a job appointment when they were perhaps too late.

Small things, my dear. So small, you never even realized it. You are loved, you are cherished, and you are wanted. Don’t allow those thoughts in your head to get to you, and drown you. You are strong, amazing, so much more than you ever could have thought you were.

You’re planning to kill yourself.

Please don’t do it.

You are loved. I don’t know you, and perhaps I never will. If you're reading this, then know I love you. I love you and most importantly;

You matter.

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i think the difference between the barbie's treatment of ken's in barbieland vs the ken's treatment of barbie's in kendom can be summed up pretty easily actually:

barbie's ignored ken, realistically they were given an opportunity to have their own lives and do what they wanted and they didn't do it. everything revolved around their barbie's, ken would only have a good day if barbie did or if barbie acknowledged him. they never tried to do anything they genuinely wanted to.

whereas when the ken's took over, they brainwashed the barbie's into liking them and doing things for them. they would bring them beers and act like waitresses, give them foot massages or watch films they otherwise wouldn't be interested in. they became mindless and existed to serve the ken's. they were no longer just friends with the barbie's, they didn't want barbie to love them back, they wanted to own them.

people talking about ken falling down the patriarchy pipeline out of neglect or loneliness but why couldn't the ken's form friendships and communities like the barbie's did? why is it up to barbie to ensure that ken doesn't feel that way? at what point is it acceptable to blame barbie for ken's feelings? barbie let ken come to her party, watched him beach, held him whilst he went to the hospital, agreed to let him go on her journey, says hi to him when she sees him, things friends do and things she's shown doing with all the other barbie's, but if he still feels loneliness after that because she doesn't want to kiss him or doesn't love him back, why is that barbie's fault? meanwhile the entire time ken is ignoring other ken's out of his fixation on barbie and is even trying to "beach" other ken's off and causing problems with other ken's to gain barbie's attention

to me it's the perfect representation of the real world in the sense that women will leave men alone, men will want to own women, and women will be blamed for men's neglect and loneliness but it's a paper cage they create for themselves because they refuse to see women as individuals and arguably they don't actively try to create and nurture communities in the same way women do. ken's story is sad yes, but it's a story of his own design and what makes it worse is that he blames barbie for it. not himself, not mattel, no the real world but barbie, who's friendly disinterest in him means that she should be the one who is blamed and punished

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It is possible to realize that Barbie presents unrealistic and unhealthy body standards while recognizing that she was made to show girls they could be anything.

Like, Mattel is definitely doing better at trying to represent different body types, but I don't think anyone can say their dolls aren't unrealistically beautiful. That's a problem with our culture in general, not just Barbie.

But she was made so girls could play at being something other than mothers. She has hundreds of careers, many of which were incredibly rare for their time.

If you watch the Challenger documentary on Netflix, there's a scene where a reporter is interviewing Judy Resnik. She was an engineer as well as an astronaut. The interviewer was so fucking condescending.

He asked if men told her "You're too cute to be an astronaut."

He asked if there were discussions about what would happen when men and women went into space together and hypothesized that relationships might develop.

This interview was in 1981. This wasn't seen as a wildly inappropriate way to talk to someone with a PhD who had more scientific experience that him.

Barbie was an astronaut in 1965.

The idea of a woman being an astronaut was laughable to most people, but that was a career Mattel chose to show girls what they could become.

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It is a special time in every boy's life when he is exploded, emotionally gutted, stabbed, emotionally gutted again, and then shoved away from his shixiong who doesn't react, reopening his stab wound which if you care at all is over his heart. It is so, so important for boys to cry on the ground in front of everyone they've ever known. Boys love it when they're told that being with them was an obligation! A debt to be repaid! They love being told that the scales are even now, and knowing that they're not, and choosing not to burden that person with their sacrifice. And they love watching people walk away.

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Barbie saying I don't feel perfect anymore and how she never has been president or written a book or done something important and that absolutely struck a cord with me that I started tearing up in the movie theater. I felt seen just by that moment of barbie being vulnerable.