#gdc

[tenmastrousers]

meet downhill longboarder wwx

[sunflowergalaxy-hide]

"come back to Gusu with me"

[pakhnokh]

He's constantly on guard with everybody, constantly facing rejection from every direction, but there's only one safe place he can go to, and feel secure enough to rest.

[lazycranberrydoodles]

"well, actually, as per gusu bylaw 55(b)-3...."

[withthewindinherfootsteps]

I love how the faux-politeness of MDZS' climax takes its themes to its logical conclusion. All throughout, we've seem how sects and cultivators prioritise their reputations, seeking glory and status even when real lives are at danger, keeping up their appearances. We see that in the unwritten rule that major sects won't intervene in problems unless the prey is dangerous; we see it in how Lan Wangji is unique in the way he prioritises helping others over seeking glory; we see that in how the Wen situation plays out, with Wei Wuxian confronting the Jins about a concentration camp while they're focused on having a banquet.

So of course in the Guanyin Temple, even when Jin Guangyao is directly threatening people's lives, the interactions are polite! We're seeing what has always been present – the absolute disconnect between the actions and world of the Jianghu, and the real harm that real people are suffering through (both intentionally and not) as a result.

[errortdmn]

[meyaoyu]

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[qiulangjun]

MXTX’s tentative novel: Death Gods Don’t Get Rest Days

It’s a suspense novel set in modern times!

The first chapter hasn’t been uploaded yet, but there is a novel description

Translation of novel desc:

What do to if your boyfriend’s too bad

★ This name is tentative, the official novel name will be changed, sorry to trouble everyone m(_ _)m

• International Practice, 1V1, Shou POV, HE.

• Heads-up: Completely Fictitious

• Anthology series, master plot. In addition, it will definitely be revealed, everything will change before it is revealed.

Everything is possible!!!

Concept (of the novel): Concept to be supplemented

Tags: Supernatural, Match Made in Heaven, Modern (place unspecified), Suspense, Drama

Main Characters: Yan Yue, Qiu Chi

Supporting Characters: Murderer, Victim, Melon-Eater (aka the person who views on the sidelines and doesn’t do anything)

Others: Qiu Chi x Yan Yue

POV: Shou POV

[grandmaster-of-denial]

Round 2 7th Pair!

[starrywangxian]

it is actually insane how wei wuxian went from this

to this

like just look. i'm obsessed.

[tes-slamjam]

heard his voice when I was in a meeting with the vice presidents of the credit union and was the only one who didn't set my water bottle on their custom quartz coasters

then I had more idea :)

[tenmastrousers]

without comfort

[sunflowergalaxy-hide]

forehead kisses

[incorrect-web-novels]

Nie Mingjue: NONSENSE! The Nie Sect doesn't even know the meaning of the word "surrender"!

Nie Huaisang: But we're willing to learn!

[winterkwinters]

[withthewindinherfootsteps]

Clarification: the point of MDZS isn't to distrust every rumour you hear. Some of the rumours in the prologue turn out to be right! The Jiang clan did take Wei Wuxian off the streets! Wei Wuxian did destroy (half of) the Yin Hufu before he died (and did ‘destroy the weapon’ in the sense it couldn’t be used anymore, because it required two halves to work)! He was one of the most promising cultivators and found success at a young age! He did die!

The point is thinking critically about the information you receive. Don't believe something because it suits what you want to think of someone, or because everyone else is agreeing with it. Believe it because there's strong evidence for it. Lan Wangji puts it best:

Lan WangJi slowly shook his head, “One should not comment without understanding the whole picture.” - Chapter 30, EXR translation

With Wei WuXian expanding on the reasoning (same chapter):

Just like you, I don’t understand the whole picture, so I’m not going to comment either. You’re right. Before knowing all of the turns and twists, causes and effects, nobody should presume anything about anything.

(And for context, this attitude is proven right! The conversation is about whether Xiao Xingchen performed lingchi on (severely tortured) Chang Ping, and there end up being so many unexpected twists and turns in his story that any judgement made without evidence would have been impossible to get right*. Wei Wuxian only makes his guess – that Xue Yang did it to take revenge for Xiao Xingchen, in his twisted way – after he has the relevant information of the Yi City quartet's story. And, seeing the nerves he hit, it seems to be correct.)

In fact, that's something we ourselves have to do throughout the course of the novel – weighing up what we know of Wei Wuxian's past deeds with what we see of his personality and actions in the present day. Those who still blindly trust the rumours up until the Second Siege are shown how unwise that is by being proven wrong... but that's not because having any opinion that happens to agree with a rumour, no matter the amount of evidence, is automatically wrong. As I mentioned, some of the rumours are correct! It's because how Wei Wuxian acted in the present day – ie the concrete evidence we have – didn't match up.

Blindly distrusting rumours is exactly the same as blindly trusting them.

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*Without making a random, lucky guess. And since that would have no proof behind it, and a greater chance of being wrong... well, I think we can all afree that random unbased guesses aren't the way to solve mysteries.