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[whetstonefires]

You know I'm realizing one reason you keep seeing mdzs modern AUs where the Jiang parents are alive mainly so they can dramatically fail and betray Wei Wuxian by cutting him off financially--defaulting on his college tuition or formally disowning him etc--isn't just that people want to translate the Burial Mounds II arc into modern terms while keeping Jiang Cheng clean of it.

(Despite the fact that the internal logic of Jiang Cheng's character is largely built around him being a person who would abandon someone he intensely cared about under these specific circumstances.)

It's because it's hard to set up a modern analogue for the way that Jiang Cheng is responsible for Wei Wuxian, as his Sect Leader.

We live in a highly individualistic society. People are trying to write Wei Wuxian Tragically Wronged, and because there's a normative expectation that people in the position of parents will provide you with resources, and certainly won't withdraw them without warning, but no such assumption that people in the position of siblings necessarily owe each other support, making this work in modern setting with Jiang Cheng in his canon role would require a lot of extra work, just to get a less readily resonant result.

But I keep thinking about it. Because something that's getting lost here is, not just the nuances of character and relationship, but like...it's sort of key to the story that cutting Wei Wuxian off was, in fact, Completely Socially Appropriate.

The level on which it was a betrayal is subtle, and deeply cutting. And intensely tied up in the very different opinions each of Jiang Cheng's parents had about what obligations existed in their family wrt Wei Wuxian, and what these meant.

The level on which it was the obvious, normal course of action is blatant. That is to a huge extent why it happens: because Jiang Cheng's instinct to conform is a survival instinct, reinforced by trauma, and Wei Wuxian's choices meant he had no coherently compelling reason not to obey it, and enormous peer pressure to do so.

The fact is that Jiang Cheng was making a reasonable choice, the actual thing 'anyone would do in that situation,' unlike Wei Wuxian and Jin Guangyao's respective wildly warped ideas about what that is.

Wei Wuxian wasn't betrayed by Jiang Sect like your foster parents cutting you off because you're disobedient. Wei Wuxian was betrayed by Jiang Sect like your brother refusing to drop fifty grand to bail you out of jail.

Of course Wei Wuxian tells him not to. And of course the fact that Jiang Cheng already chose in the moment not to pay a cent because Fuck You Wei Ying still stands there glaring, a precedent that can never be taken back.

And then later he's betrayed by Jiang Cheng like your brother cooperating with a police investigation into a manslaughter you really did commit, that's being handled like domestic terrorism. And then like your brother calling the cops on you. And then like your brother helping the cops find where you're hiding.

I'm personally fascinated by the way Jiang Cheng's lifelong resentment for the way Jiang Fengmian reliably bailed Wei Wuxian out of everything informed those decisions to do the normal thing, the way he's reacting against his dead father as well as against Wei Wuxian and the actual situation.

But even without that daddy issues angle, the fact that the person who made that choice was Jiang Cheng, and that it was simultaneously the reasonable appropriate normal upstanding citizen rational thing to do and so shitty Wei Wuxian would be entitled never to forgive it is sort of. The Point.

Of the scenario, and also to a considerable degree of the entire finely tuned narrative construct that is Jiang Cheng.

[syndrossi]

uuuuugh finally back home, after waking up at ass o'clock in the morning twenty-three hours ago to go to the airport

lots of sick people on both my flight to and back, but hopefully I will not be joining the legion of the sick

(though on that note, @carebooks had a sick-themed ask that I'm very keen on getting to in the morning)

[imagionary]

Some doodles I did on our plane rides recently,,, keeping my mind off of sad stuff and my horrid illnesses x~x

[is-the-battlemech-cool-or-not]

Posted 14-04-3148 to Melissa's social medias

(ooc: based on this image:)

[spice-ghouls]

Said this in the tags of another post a while back, but my #1 piece of advice for people trying to start HRT is that you should seriously consider lying to your doctor about the nature of your identity in any way necessary to adhere to the DSM-5's criteria for gender dysphoria, especially if your insurance requires a formal dysphoria diagnosis to cover hormones. Gender dysphoria evaluations are a means of selectively restricting access to care based on your capability to say the right things to check the right boxes to convince a doctor to write you a prescription. Fortunately, the trans community has developed a time-honored tradition to help you elide this barrier, and it's called Fucking Lying <3

[glompcat]

Made a consult appointment with the top surgeon I met with in 2022 and did not like.

I'm seeing him on Jan 2nd (such a short turn around! I made the appointment today!), here's hoping last time he was just having an off day and he comes across better this time

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[artisticdivasworld]

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[spyral-out-keep-going]

Higgins has a network (he knows people who know people) but today we find out that a few of his little birdies are actually the players (Isaac & Colin) and Will Kitman?! I love it

I feel like he helped orchestrate the possibility of Nate coming back up to the team. Will probably said something about Nate’s apology to Higgins. Then Higgins gets to thinking and perhaps spoke a few well placed words in Isaac’s ear suggesting Nate could come back? Then Isaac the team captain brings it up for discussion. I love those himbos, but this has DFO* Higgins all over it. I just feel in my soul he sent them to the restaurant to Nate.

[byberbunk2069]

Somebody was early to the compulsory "drinks with the bosses" do. :)

[tvntheatre]

Hello, 0% of my followers who like Fallen London as much as I, I'd like to say, HOLY FUCKING SHIT!? THIS DAMNED CARD JUMPSCARED ME WHEN I WASN'T EXPECTING TO SEE IT SO EARLY — or at all at that!? WHAT?

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[hismourningflower]

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i am !! yes !! HAHA

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