#i am team jc finding some measure of peace

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qi rong! i kid, i kid. how about jc.

I will ignore your cruel taunting and focus on my viniferous darling.

a song that reminds me of them

I don't think I have a personal anthem for him, but En Fortapt Bror (A Prodigal Brother) by Rotvelt would probably go on the playlist if I made one, just for this bit alone:

Kan ikke ta det tilbake Kan ikke få du gjort Jeg vil ikke ha tilgivelse Det vil ikke vaske det bort

Can't take it back Can't get you done I don't want forgiveness It won't wash it away

what they smell like

If we're getting poetic, like lotus fragrance and ozone.

an otp

No one in the cast is right for JC but I do think he wants and deserves a suitable wife so I like the idea of reading something where he's in a relationship. His problem is that he needs just, so much therapy before he can make an effective life partner for anyone. He features in this postcanon AU I wrote and that's a reasonable depiction of how I think things could shake out for him after many years have passed if he's worked on himself. Basically, I know his extracanonical list of qualities he requires in a wife is meant to be humorous, but I tried to incorporate them into an OC while also making her a match for him.

I dabbled in reading Sangcheng because I am a slave to @starwife and like, in theory, many many many many many years postcanon who knows what might happen? And mightn't that be interesting? Sadly I have come to the conclusion that it's too much of a stretch and isn't my cup of tea. Pls forgive

a notp

I was racking my brain to think of a JC pairing I kneejerk hate beyond the general 'well, he isn't really compatible with any of the characters we meet' stance and then I realised I had forgotten Xicheng exists. Pause for audience laughter.

What can I even add here? It's based on nothing and it's not even like there's the intelligence of a thoughtful resistant read behind it. The laziest possible pair the spares approach taken by people whose reading comprehension is so poor they think JGY is an irredeemable cackling villain and WWX is a noble woobie. Thankfully it's easy for me to avoid and therefore ironically ends up irritating me less than bad Xiyao in practice.

favorite platonic/familial relationships

I love his relationship with his mother. She's just horrendous to him and I don't think he ever has any concrete evidence she loves him until their final moments together, but what I find most interesting and realistic is that he seems to understand her. He can see why she is who she is, which doesn't in any way mitigate the damage she does but is an important part of their dynamic because it's an element of why he defends her and it contributes to how he internalises her criticisms.

My favourite JC and YZY moment is this:

Jiang Cheng was stuck between his father and his mother. After a moment of hesitation, he moved to his mother’s side. Holding his shoulders, Madam Yu pushed him forward for Jiang FengMian to see, “Sect Leader Jiang, it seems that some things I have to say. Look carefully—this, is your own son, the future head of Lotus Pier. Even if you frown upon him just because I was the one who bore him, his surname is still Jiang! … I don’t believe for one second that you haven’t heard of how the outside people gossips, that Sect Leader Jiang has still not moved on from a certain Sanren though so many years have passed, regarding the son of his old friend as a son of his own; they’re speculating if Wei Ying is your…”

YZY emotionally, verbally and sometimes physically abuses her son. She is failing him as a mother and as a mentor. But she is not failing him as badly as JFM is failing him, and everything she says here is completely correct. And when JC and WWX talk about it afterwards, JC is also correct. WWX and LWJ kill the Xuanwu of Slaughter and no one cares or gives JC credit for his less glamorous contributions. His own father prefers WWX and doesn't even like him, and that is appalling.

WWX means well by trying to gloss over it, but it's an open secret and pretending it's not true is harmful. YZY is also going about it all wrong, but she's the only person who calls JFM out directly for failing his son. Pot, kettle, but there's a reason why when JC is stuck between his parents he ends up going over to his mother's side.

a headcanon that is popular in the fandom but that i disagree with

I'm going to go radical here and say I don't personally enjoy or want to read any postcanon Twin Heroes reconciliation. The novel is pretty final about how things end up for them, and it's my belief that they are both far better off not being in each other's lives any more. It's sad because they were close as brothers and love each other so deeply, but ultimately it's for the best. They both appear to be in agreement about this.

the position they sleep in

Probably looks all super cool and handsome when he sleeps, but unfortunately not quite as super cool and handsome as WWX.

a crossover au i’d love to see them in

Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Can you imagine.

my favorite outfit they’ve ever worn

We all know I'm MDZS first in almost everything, but I'm not a huge fan of JC's hair in the official art. Besides, it cracks me up that JC is far and away the most stylish member of the cast in CQL, and yet there's no indication that it's actually an interest of his. CQL NHS wearing his same basic bitch grey and white yet again while CQL JC swaggers past in his shoulder pads owning the entire world—amazing. How could I pick a favourite? I do like his official photo look though, because the gold looks great with the purple.

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Finding My Voice in the World of Sports

Growing up as a child I grew up in a very sports oriented household. There was always some sort of sport being watched at my house whether it was football, basketball, swimming, soccer, baseball, golf or hockey. I grew up in Stoneham, MA as the oldest child out of two as I only have one younger brother. When I was little I probably did every sport that one could possibly imagine. I started out with t-ball, then moved to  gymnastics, then did basketball, then continued with dance for a few years and then through all these sports I had found my true passion for swimming. I grew up surrounded by water especially in the summer and originally learned how to swim at my cottage up in Windham, NH before taking actual swimming lessons at the Reading YMCA. I officially joined the Reading YMCA swim team at 6 years old and have been swimming ever since. Although I do not swim competitively at the collegiate level, I still use the LA Fitness and Woburn YMCA pools to keep up my stamina and get some good cardio in. Swimming allows me to relax my mind as I am only just focusing on the strokes I take and how I can get better with each lap that I swim. The coordination between the parts of my body such as my legs and arms and the water is a type of technique that took years of practice. Making sure I kick my feet up and down in a flutter kick as well as bending my arms and pointing my fingers so they gracefully enter the water is a type of technique that not everyone has. Taking time alone to swim allows me to enter a peaceful state of mind and reset myself for the next moments ahead in my life. My mom was a swimmer in which she also started at a very young age and continued through college. I wanted to follow in my moms footsteps and I aspired to be just like her if not obtain faster times than her by the end of my swimming career. Unfortunately, my swimming career ended my senior year of highschool but till this day my level of competitiveness has been within me ever since I was little and my love and knowledge for the game of sports has grown more and more over the years.

Before entering my first semester of freshman year at Endicott College I knew that being a sports management major would be the best and right fit for me. Even when I began classes in the sports management field, I enjoyed every single one and was very intrigued by the new information that I was learning and how to apply it into my everyday life. No matter what I was doing at Endicott I made sure to get involved in some type of exercise and some type of sports related activity that would help me grow as an athlete and individual. I am constantly in the gym as I go six days a week to keep up with strength and conditioning myself to become a better athlete and individual. Some of my favorite exercises to perform in the gym are the seated shoulder press, lateral raises and bicep curls as I love to target my shoulders and biceps to develop and get them stronger even more than they already are.

Throughout my first semester of sophomore year at Endicott, working alongside Jack Dustin and JC Khulman in the strength and conditioning room was a pleasure. They even invited me to a group lift with them to make me feel comfortable with the program and help me begin to be more comfortable with assisting athletes when lifting weights. Throughout my time in the strength and conditioning room I have learned different lifting techniques to make athletes and individuals stronger based on the muscle group that they were focusing towards. I have learned the dos and don'ts of lifting, and the preventative measures to take to ensure that nobody gets hurt while lifting. Gaining this knowledge and understanding different ways to lift different equipment as well as taking precaution to make sure you do not hurt yourself either helps me as an individual as well to make sure I am lifting properly when I am on my own. My spring semester of my sophomore year of college I had completed an internship at Endicott as well as partaking in sports management classes. This internship I worked as a Game Day Operations manager and had applied everything I was learning in my sports management classes into the real world. I have gained more of an understanding of the behind the scene work that a game day manager goes through before an actual game can be put on. I checked in referees and umpires into the games that they were working, showed them as well as the opposing teams to their correct locker rooms, worked the music and scoreboards, set up the games and broke down after the games as well as managed to control the fans in the crowds at sports games. I made connections with everyone including the players and I feel like I have walked out of this internship with the most experience possible. I made tons of new friends along the way and enjoyed every minute of watching the sports games that I was able to. I can use all of the new skills and experiences that I learned and apply them into my everyday life and future internship sites as well. 

Being so involved in the sports world for my entire life as well as getting involved with the actual experience hands on has helped me grow as an individual into a field of study that I want to be partaking in for the rest of my life. Sports have so much to offer along with so many emotions. Sports has the good and bad emotions of it that bring a sports enthusiast in each and every day to keep coming back and watching more. Sports has always been and will always continue to be a part of my life in so many different aspects. Whether it is participating in sports for fun, joining different sports leagues, watching them on my television, or getting hands-on experience in the sports world, I will never get bored or ever be bored of the job that I am in.​​ That is what I find best about sports. Sports brings people together, we allow ourselves to cry or feel happy towards the game of sports, and most importantly there is an unlimited amount of jobs out there with unlimited amounts of variety of what a sports enthusiast or manager can do.