#cql critical

[lavender-phoenix-flames]

Why is it always some untamed edit or video on yt that's calling wwx dumb and oblivious?!! I hate it here, can any adaptation get wwx's characteristization right?!!??

[wutheringskies]

If you sit down to analyze themes from CQL, Lan Zhan's character suffers so greatly.

me writing such a long post in my drafts shitting on cql lan wangji but the overall sentiment is such that:

MDZS! Lan Wangji: Wei Ying, will you allow me to be your husband, your daolu, your lover?

CQL! Lan Wangji: Wei Ying, be my casual, long distance, low commitment girlfriend.

[enby-axels]

i want to watch cql but i also dont want to bc apparently it changed a lot like why is wen ruohan doing demonic cultivation. what the fuck is a yin iron. what the fuck is chengqing

[sandontshengshou]

Day 3829 of seething and coping over the fact that despite making Jiang Cheng feel like he was worthless to his OWN FATHER by relentlessly and publicly favouring his other son/ward?, he ALSO managed to deeply traumatise said boy by making him promise to place the priorities of the Jiang Sect (a.k.a his own biological kids) over Wei Wuxian’s own life like the kid never even mattered to him!!! Fucking sublime!

[daily-suyao]

[thatswhatsushesaid]

the epic of gilgamesh (part 1 | part 2)

[tiredbitchposts]

Fine, this may be a conspiracy theory, but does anyone else thinks that after seeing the popularity of the non-canon ships in the scum villain fandom MXTX decided to write her next protagonist to be completely isolated on purpose? Because that has been on my mind a lot. Like, it's a fact that she hates it when people ship her MCs with anyone other than their canon love interest, MXTX wrote her first book with an MC that had a long list of people who adored him and were willing to die to protect him in-work, people ate it up, she noticed that a great part of the fandom ships her MC with basically anyone, she hates it, but no matter what she says the ships keep going, then she writes her next book. In that work her MC is a charming, popular cultivator, who suffers a terrible fall from grace and by the end of it he's lost pretty much everything from his past, except his canon love interest. Even if we take away all the love, respect and adoration Wangxian has towards each other it's pretty clear by the end of MDZS that Lan Wangji is the only one left for Wei Wuxian, everyone else is either dead, distant or just hates him

[jin-zixun]

you ever think about how the lan sect is disdainful of su she for "copying" them (already absurd he was a lan disciple ffs) but when faced with su she clearly playing differently they just assume he must be doing it wrong?

"he's copying us"

"he's playing a different song though?"

"no no he's just copying us wrong"

and lo and behold yeah it's a different fuckin song lmao.

...and it's a different fucking song the lan copied from someone else that's so peak I can't. like they are all like "these are our secret lan only archives" and they fucking copied it!!! I caaaaaaan't.

[t4tadrienette]

I think some of you should take off your Wangxian goggles when talking about a scene, especially if you wanna talk about Jiang Cheng being homophobic (he is not) especially in the fucking ancestral hall scene, he was not being homophobic, Wangxian were being disrespectful and the donghua made them look even more disrespectful honestly

[incognito-lionbeast]

truly, the best things to come out of CQL are: live-action Lil Apple & the secret Lan bnuuy cave hidden under the cold spring.

[factsilike]

You get it!

It's exactly why that JC/WQ romance angle they tried to play in cql pissed me off so much. I guess they put it in for the sake of trying to soften and pair up the chronically single JC up with someone, and poor WQ suffered for it.

Because the scene in which he gave her the comb as a proposal gift? It was a terribly offensive attempt at romance at best, and an outright threat or coercion attempt at worst. Because what he was essentially saying to her was, "I like you enough to be my trophy wife, but not enough to be bothered to save your brother or your family or, you know, repay my enormous debt to you." WQ has more patience than WWX gives her credit imo, because I would've thrown that comb in his face, along with a punch maybe.

Especially considering he was ready to sabotage WWX's efforts at saving her brother in the Burial Mounds. If WWX hadn't been carefully anticipating his movements before he struck his sword, WN might have been well and truly dead.

Also people love to say JC couldn't risk his sect's standing to help them, but then didn't WQ and WN do the exact same thing? Risk the wrath of their sect's leader to help them, but nobody talks about their bravery. Nobody acknowledges their efforts at helping these strangers at potential cost to their own lives.

But no, people will go above and beyond to make it seem like JC had no accountability for his own actions and absolve him of any blame, or that he had a million reasons for not helping them, when the truth is he has the blood of innocents on his hands with no interest in acknowledging it.

If all Wens were actually evil, Jiang Cheng would have been dead.

[llycaons]

I completely understand why people are frustrated that all the prejudice against a socially disadvantaged man turned out to seem legitimate because he really was a lying mass murderer, but come on. jgy wasn't a champion of the commoners as much as he was a vindictive, self-serving, cruel, sadistic manipulator. since when was murdering people for personal power and tricking your friend into killing his best friend something that gets glossed over in characterizing someone

[nattyontherun]

in a world that's a little bit tilted,,,,

[ecccentrick]

A lot of wangxian war prize fics are in the same vein as "sold to 1d" but lot kinkier and without being self insert. It's "oh no I'm being given to yllz/hanguang-jun 😱😳 !!" with cnc scene(s) thrown in. And it's honestly a scenario I can see wwx wanting to role-play in bed.

[thatswhatsushesaid]

NGL I'm torn between shocked that Wen Qing might win the CQL hunger games and salty that they're getting an airlift option NOW.

I'm not that shocked, the reductive "girlboss power!!!" energy that propelled her to victory literally past lan xichen made it pretty clear that this was just a character popularity contest rather than an actual attempt at realistically gauging a character's chances of surviving the hunger games. the narrow escape option should've been taken off the table after the quarter-finals, because it made wwx reaching the finals at least inevitable.

I 5000% share your salt around the dumbfuck airlift option now, what a cop-out lmfao 🖕😌🖕

[chenqingssuibian]

it's come to the point that I care about the guy who dies in the first fuckin pages of the book than i do the main character. this is what happens when you've been in a fandom for years. anyway, justice for mo xuanyu