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fragmentedblade · 1 year ago

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I don't know, it's silly, but I really love this story. I fell in love with the details and how everything cohered beyond my expectations, how the little details in worldbuilding made big things click and make sense even though they seemed typical fiction "too much but you have to suspend belief" things at first. And I actually honestly think most of the things some parts of fandom complain about are not only coherent, but some of the best more nuanced aspects of the writing. Everything that I thought and interpreted, even to the most minute details, was confirmed. Even, again, to the most minute details I loved but thought I was being stupid for paying so much attention to, because surely they couldn't mean as much as I thought they did. Yet they did.

#I truly love this story‚ and I've fallen in love with the characters and their dynamics #And it's frustrating that this is a gacha game that I didn't trust at all to begin with #but even less so now that the story is being so loudly criticised because it didn't turn out as people wanted #I already expected things to stop making sense with some time as it always happens with long serialised things made to sell #but I hate that now I fear it will happen sooner‚ that they'll change things that will ruin the continuity or flatten the characters #All because people only read the two things very directly related to what interests them #and with preconditioned views on what they'll interpret #All the while criticising that one has to dig the story through fragments‚ scraps‚ off-hand comments made by the NPCs and so on #And I understand not liking a story told this way‚ but that's the core of this story in particular and why it works #And it's done very well and very cleverly #It's frustrating to see people who have not approached the text as it ought to be criticise the story and characters for what it is not #and for not turning out to be what they thought it would when they didn't even think at all because it was all a bit a hive mind thing #And it's sad in many regards #I don't know. I think it's super neat that everything‚ from Ying.xing being able to craft weapons as well as delicate jade flasks #to Jingli.u moving in a much lighter way than Blade to name two examples‚ makes sense and is justified with the information of the text #in a way that works with and deepens the worldbuilding as well as the characterisation and throws light to what happened in the story #I can't even begin to tell the elation I've felt whenever I saw the little details I loved and gave weight to‚#all the while thinking I was giving them too much weight‚ turned out to have the importance I had given them #and click with everything else perfectly making a way more complex machinery‚ the sound of the gears more beautiful and harmonious #It makes me wish I could drink or kiss this story #I feel I have a string in my chest and the reverberations cause my blood to vibrate and the vibration is the echo of this story #I talk too much #I should probably delete this later

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