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grewlikefancyflowers · 3 years ago

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Thanks for weighing in on that “JGY outing LWJ” meta. I found ludicrous the idea that LXC and JL sitting away from Wangxian indicated othering instead of politely trying to give the couple some privacy.

I look forward to your in-depth analysis of homophobia in MDZS society. I think there’s some degree of scandalousness to being gay, but it’s overlaid with classism. But see: the random cultivator’s awkwardness in telling JC about MXY, WWX weaponizing MXY’s homosexuality against the Mo family, and WWX worried about LWJ’s response to JC’s accusation.

Separately, what’s the title of the audio drama extra you referenced? It sounds hilarious!

glad you appreciated my little rant about that anon!

yes i agree, there are times in the novel where being gay is treated as scandalous - we see quite a few different reactions ranging from jc's outright disgust to people having no reaction at all! but overall, we are not presented with a world wherein wx (or even mxy - he openly made advances on multiple people) are fearful of expressing their sexuality due to social backlash, as was suggested in that meta.

the audio drama episode was 'a lost desire'

#i was gonna finish writing that meta today but i got too distracted by my books arriving !! also kind of tired from work today anyway #uughh being cold makes me SO tired and its like 5°c at work HELL ON EARTH #edit:#adding this here because i keep getting asks about this which i'm not going to answer #ive already said i'd clarify this in another post so there's no point #anyway people seem to be making assumptions based on what i said in the tags of that post - none of which is worded that clearly anyway #so first of all 'homophobia isn't a big deal in md/zs- this doesn't mean 'queerness is completly acceptable & considered normal in society'#which honestly ik i wasn't speaking all that clearly but i think given the context it should be obvious i was saying #'homophobia is nowhere near as big a deal in m/zs as it was portrayed in that post'#and again when i said 'jc and jl are the only ones seen to be homophobic' a better way to word this would have been #'jc and jl are the only ones that we see expressing the disgust towards queerness that That Post suggested the entire cast of felt'#their views are presented as outliers #and honestly with jl it's far more nuanced than jc #anyway i'm at risk of rambling in the tags again which is ill advised apparently #i finally understand what all those bird app people are on about with how it's so hard to say anything clearly character limitations SUCK

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