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but the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me

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Dadji how I love you

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A Shattered Mirror Put Back Together

破镜重圆 (pò jìng chóng yuán) — a Chinese idiom that means "for a separated couple to reunite after an enforced separation or rupture".

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I think MXTX putting the revelation abt JC losing his core to save WWX near the end of the novel is actually a really brilliant move. Besides being a nice plot twist, it also inadvertently acts like a test for us, the readers: are we capable of changing our opinion when we are provided with new information or are we too stuck in our old opinions and hatred no matter what?

It’s like we are experiencing the same thing the characters go through with WWX. They think they already know everything abt him, that he's the Yilling Patriach, the scourage of the world, that he’s ruthless, immoral, and completely evil. And this mirrored exactly how Jiang Cheng is introduced to us. He's spiteful and unreasonably hostile toward the protagonist. Then there's all these bad rumours that surround him. He's exactly introduced in a way for us, the readers to hate him.

But just like the characters journey with WWX, the more the story progresses, the more the story challenges our initial assumptions about JC. The golden core reveal is the pivotal moment that directly forces us to reconsider how we’ve viewed him up until that point, upending everything we thought we knew, where we’re finally confronted with a version of events that completely recontextualizes JC's character.

And just like how some characters in the novel are able to change their opinion on Wei Wuxian, some readers are able to do the same with Jiang Cheng, but there are also those that are still stuck in the past opinions and hatred, like the mob characters that are incapable and unwilling of changing their perspective no matter what new truths come to light.

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When jiujiu refused to take you with him on a night hunt. So cruel and unfair! Jail for jiujiu for one thousand years!!!!

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I worry about the rare few new people these days coming in to mdzs/cql fandom and finding all the vitriol that still goes around in the main tags.

Don't you get tired? Why the crusade? Can't you just write nice things about your faves?

I'll start.

Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian and Jin Ling and Jiang Yanli are all very good beans that all have their quirky flaws. I enjoy that not a single one of them can handle their feelings in a healthy way, but each of them still loves so fiercely it set to course for an entire story.

Yunmeng Trio and A-Ling&Jiujiu forever and ever, so may it be.

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If Yunmeng Shuangjie reconciliation has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Yunmeng Shuangjie reconciliation has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Yunmeng Shuangjie reconciliation has only one fan then that is me. If Yunmeng Shuangjie reconciliation has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Yunmeng Shuangjie reconciliation, then I am against the world.

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I think it's stupid to apply modern medical ethics to the golden core transfer but if we're already doing that then I have to point that while, yes, organ donors have a right to privacy, under modern ethical standards Jiang Cheng did not fucking give informed consent to organ transfer. He was told Baoshan Sanren could restore his core– a thing that the person telling him this knows to be false. At no point is it mentioned this would involve placing someone else's golden core inside of Jiang cheng. For example: If I have a problem with my lungs and a doctor tells me they're going to do restorative surgery to fix it, and then without my knowing they perform a lung transplant instead, that is medical malpractice! Even if the lung transplant succesfully treated the problem i had. "Well you knew we were going to do SOMETHING" is not fucking informed consent.

"Oh but Jiang Cheng was suicidial which means he wasn't competent to give informed consent" Ah yes, under emergency circumstances a doctor is allowed to perform life-saving treatment even if the patient is unable to give informed consent. In those cases, a surrogate decision maker like a family member is also allowed to consent in the patient's place. So... there you have it. Wei wuxian is the surrogate decision maker and all is well!!

Except sorry! No! Regardless of whether you believe Jiang Cheng was allowed to make medical decisions in that moment (suicidal ideation and active suicide risk are two different things! You do not have your right to bodily autonomy taken away simply by being depressed, that's a downright dystopian worldview.) If a medical procedure is done without informed consent in case of an emergency, and the patient is later sound of mind again, they have to be informed of the procedure! And it has to be explained why medical profesionals thought it was essential! And this is for cases where a patient is unconscious or unable to receive information. In cases where the patient is lucid but mental health makes it so that their consent can legally be overridden, they are still to be informed of the procedure ahead of time!

All of that is leaving out that the person hiding the truth from Jiang Cheng in this case was fully aware that if Jiang Cheng had been fully sound of mind and informed of the details of the procedure, he would have refused it, and therefore intentionally obfuscated the reality of the treatment. Which is unethical no matter what. Surrogates are supposed to make their decisions based on their knowledge of the patient's values and preferences.

Again, all of this is silly because there is no board of ethics in the jianghu. Wen Qing isn't gonna be tried for medical malpractice. From a story perspective the element of violation is there specifically to highlight the harm inherent to sacrifice: that you hurt your loved ones by hurting yourself for their sake. It is to be viewed thematically alongside Yanli's death, Wen Qing and Wen Ning's sacrifice, and– even more blatantly– Jiang Cheng losing his core in the first place because he sacrificed himself for Wei Wuxian and never told him about this.

Medical ethics are completely inapplicable in that scenario, and yet it is clearly meant to contrast the golden core transfer. The two events are to be judged as a matched pair. So, if Jiang Cheng getting caught by wen soldiers can't be judged on medical ethics, but it is clearly meant to be analysed in the same way the golden core transfer is, then neither of them can be subject to these standards. I guess we'll simply have to judge them based on the thematic content of the story they're in. Drat.

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made a jiang cheng anti bingo card, as inspired by this bingo card by @thatswhatsushesaid

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Fairy transportation

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my favourite mdzs/cql character dynamic will always always be jiang cheng and lan wangji. born to be mortal enemies forced to be in laws is the funniest relationship of all time. that brief establishing shot in cql episode 2 of them sitting in a tea house at different tables, facing away from each other, not talking is like a sister to me. wei wuxian's death turned a mutual disdain into outright hatred and now sixteen years of boiling rage down the drain because wei wuxian had to get RESURRECTED like an IDIOT and now they have to MAKE NICE and try their utmost not to THROW THINGS at each other at FAMILY DINNERS. which they have now because LIFE SUCKS. such an unparalleled dynamic that i'll be thinking about until i die.

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birthday wish for jiujiu

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spiffed up a doodle from work

I like to think protecting pretty Lan didis is an instinctual reflex... don't ask me why I drew this lol

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i think that if someone called jiggy daddy during sex he'd actually die. like he'd be so grossed out that he'd just expire on the spot

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(official art)

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