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actually, i think this is an incredibly important insight into their relationship, and how lu guang sees it. because over and over again, we see cheng xiaoshi's reckless, thoughtless kindness result in the worst possible outcome. people die, because cheng xiaoshi is kind. but lu guang is right, isn't he? it's not wrong to be kind. it's not wrong to want to help people. because cheng xiaoshi's kindness might have changed the fates of people like emma and xu shanshan, but he did not hurt them, or kill them. other people did. other people took advantage of the opportunity cheng xiaoshi's kindness offered to hurt those women.

it's not the kindness that is the problem. it's the people taking advantage of it.

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lmao forgot to post this here

original pic:

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Iguin, the Lidless Eye.

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someone commented ‘the sun, the moon and jayce’ under my previous meljayvik post i laughed so hard that i just had to draw it

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im sobbing

the brightest shade of sun

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WHA witches catching wild brushbugs after they ate their ink like

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"I never asked for this"

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nothing that warms you up on a cold day like making soup with people you love!

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THISS

I love that witch society is inaccessible even for Beldaruit

And by "love" I mean in the literary sense, in that it's an excellent depiction of how systemic ableism works.

Beldaruit is privileged in a lot of ways! Being able to know about magic at all is a privilege. He is one of the three wise. He has personal and political power akin to royalty in this world. His sealchair is much more complex and advanced than Custas' (and, mind you, even the barebones version is prohibitively expensive/difficult to replace).

But when the girls are passing their test, one of the spells they use is to widen the stairway... because even Beldaruit can't move around the Great hall normally. He has to use smoke-sculpture copies to get most places and talk to people. This is the heart of their society, this is the place that should have everything a witch could ever want, and one of their three most powerful members can't move around it freely.

The hall could have been build with wide passages and spiraling ramps. But it wasn't. (This is often true in real life too- building something to be accessible from the get-go isn't hard, it's converting or altering something that becomes complicated or expensive). But even if they didn't think of that when the Hall was first built, someone could have done something once Beldaruit was one of the three wise. Considering a group of teenagers could come up with the spell that widened the hallway, it can't actually have been highly advanced.

But nobody did. Not necessarily out of malice, but because nobody thought to. It's one of the core ways ableism persists, and it's something that WHA constantly returns to as a theme, and even has some characters like Tartah say explicitly. The accommodations that would make life better for people aren't necessarily hard to do, but unless a person struggles with the barrier themselves, or pays attention to others who do, they never cross people's minds or go long overlooked.

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love these alternate dimensions

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🌿☁️ serenity

done for a Heaven on Earth!

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im sick guys

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crying screaming throwing up

Do you think we’re soulmates in another universe?

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