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[qiu-yan]

a lot of what nie mingjue does makes sense if you consider his specific code of ethics, his position, and the fact that he's known for pretty much his entire life that his cultivation path will kill him and has accepted this fact entirely....but the one thing i don't understand is why he swore brotherhood with jin guangyao. from nie mingjue's point of view, jin guangyao is already the guy who faked a suicide to escape from nie mingjue after nie mingjue tried to bring him to justice for straight-up murder, and that's not even getting into all the fear, anger, and trauma nie mingjue must still be bearing from the wen yao confrontation at nightless city. why would you want to tie yourself via sworn brotherhood to someone who has already done all this shit to you?

consider also the fact that nie mingjue knows his saber cultivation will lead him to become more unstable, impair his judgment, and may even affect his perceptions of reality - which means that he needs confidants he can trust. jin guangyao, via the whole suicide gambit, has already proven to nie mingjue that he is not trustworthy. so if nie mingjue knows that trustworthiness is necessary and that trust is something he's going to need, why would he choose to tie himself to someone he already thinks of as untrustworthy?

some potential reasons i can think of (written from nie mingjue's pov, so they might read uncharitably):

first (1), there's nie mingjue's stated reason of "wanting to correct jin guangyao from the path of evil" (something along those lines). there's at least two different ways you can take this:

1A: nie mingjue wants to do this in order to protect others from jin guangyao: first, nie mingjue sees jin guangyao as an emerging threat no one else has yet recognized, and so wants to keep an eye on jin guangyao / keep him in check. if jin guangyao can be "corrected to the righteous path," then fewer innocent people suffer. second, nie mingjue wants to protect lan xichen from jin guangyao. from nie mingjue's pov, lan xichen has been completely taken in by jin guangyao's charm, so jin guangyao could pose a danger to him as well; by inserting himself into the sworn brotherhood, nie mingjue can be there to protect lan xichen.

1B: nie mingjue wants to do this in order to save jin guangyao himself: nie mingjue still loves jin guangyao and wants to save jin guangyao from the path of evil, for jin guangyao's own sake. confucius (and aristotle, and marx, and a whole bunch of other dudes) does say that if you see your friend doing something morally wrong, then as their friend you have a duty towards them specifically to object to their behavior.

second (2), there are also some more practical / political reasons:

2A: the sworn brotherhood secures a more stable future for nie huaisang, since it entails long-term connections with the jin and the lan.

2B: a sworn brotherhood between high-profile members of different sects after the ordeal of the sunshot campaign could help in encouraging more postwar intersect unity, which would be necessary and beneficial in a time period in which everyone's still struggling to recover from the war. this sworn brotherhood ties the jin, the lan, and the nie together as allies, meaning they can share resources and information as they rebuild. of course, this does entail the exclusion of the jiang - but my personal opinion is that they all lowkey expected jiang cheng to fail and for the jiang to decline / be absorbed by another sect.

third and finally (3), there are the simple interpersonal reasons, unrelated to morality or politics:

3A: nie mingjue still cares for jin guangyao and therefore still wants a relationship with him. at the moment he swore brotherhood, he was still willing to try and mend things with jin guangyao.

3B: nie mingjue wants to make lan xichen happy, and lan xichen clearly wants the sworn brotherhood.

3C: if nie mingjue refuses to swear brotherhood, lan xichen may very well go ahead and swear brotherhood with jin guangyao anyways. which would lead to lan xichen and jin guangyao becoming closer, while lan xichen by contrast drifts further way from nie mingjue.

probably some aspect of all of these (plus some other reasons i forgot) are true at once. what's interesting, though, is that one can construct two overlapping yet also separate categories of reasons - separated by whether one believes nie mingjue still holds personal affection for jin guangyao or not.

[guaxinimraccoon]

hey everyone! just letting yall know that I might be a bit off from here for the next weeks, I've been studying a lot for a test, competing for a job opportunity, and most of my days have been revolving around it

I'm tired not gonna lie but it's a great opportunity and a chance for me to have a better job so all of my focus is on that for now

I'll be doing drawings here and there for some rest but very occasionally unfortunately 😩 no worries though! It's all temporary, once I do the test you'll be receiving loads of trash on your timeline as usual, I promise

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

Yeah she barely even looked at him... it's very sus

Helena Diaz approve of your son's spouse challenge you're at zero out of two.

[habibisagi]

i miss theatre and acting so bad 🥹

[anarchomitsumi]

guys im actually so academically proud of myself this term. i feel like I've gotten so much better at historical analysis. this is a skill with which it's difficult to see if you're progressing or not, because there's no roadmap to lead you. sometimes it might feel like all your work has been for nothing.

but i finally feel like. I've gotten better. im sharp and i keep coming up with interesting takes and i keep catching details in sources my professors compliment me on. i have no clue exactly how I've done it but somehow it seems like I'm going in the right direction.

[bisexualdinahlance]

Trying to get my thoughts together to make a post about rivals jackparse in a world where Jack went to the draft after his 1-2 years in recovery and their messy not break up that becomes a real break up turns into a legendary rivalry until they are forced to make nice during some international event or asg or a trade. Maybe Grilled cheesby shit talking to the press and blaming each other for injuries shit -> becoming friends/friendly at worlds type of narrative.

[berrymoos]

i feel icky in two different ways :(

[grim-robin-rk]

Happy pride month!!!!!!!! Pride month is a time of celebration, morning, fighting the good fight and just being yourself. And I for one am so looking forward to everything that is to come during this month of the queers.

[gemharvest]

I think if you defend the current state of YouTube's ads you're a complete loser and your opinion means nothing to me. ^_^ YouTube Premium is a joke of an alternative to adblock and I'm gonna be real, them upping the frequency of ads + duration (mind you a lot of my ad experience lately has been via the TV app) I have to sit through does nothing but exhaust me and the shit ways this issue has advanced makes me hope they loose revenue. When I have to sit through an ad duration that is LONGER THAN WHAT I'M EVEN TRYING TO WATCH you lose. My attention is worth more than that shit.

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[queen-mabs-revenge]

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[tittyinfinity]

i missed one day on my lamictal and have been seriously unwell ever since

[byanyan]

which horror subgenre are you?

body horror

ㅤgore, splat-movies or torture porn. the fear of your own body being used against you. an experience so violent and visceral it leaves you marked forever, trapped in a body that isn't what it once was. you are an open person. you crave things in extremes. you might be sexually promiscuous, an adrenaline junkie, or otherwise an addict. you fear commitment and permanence. and boredom.

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[wannabeblorbo]

You know? Ellie was so right for that. I too would like to repeatedly take a meat cleaver to the skulls of my abusers.

[llycaons]

well, that’s it for me. good night, I love you all dearly