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tea-cat-arts · 3 months ago

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I'm willing to at least hear out most of the "xyz plot point is heavily tied to abc cultural context" brands of posts but the "wwx isn't meant to be read as morally gray" and "the western fandom made up Sizhui being wangxian's son" brands of post make me feel like my cultural ignorance is being used to gaslight me

#mdzs #vent post #the filial piety stuff in relation to jgy is incredibly interesting and has influenced my opinion on him #being told about the whole mo dao vs gui dao thing was very helpful since that is completely lost in the english translation #whether or not wwx's self sacrificing tendencies are supposed to be a good thing is a conversation i find interesting #even though i haven't come to my own conclusion on it yet #but wwx not being morally gray??? bro was a major player in a war- no ones coming out of that spotless #i also just straight up don't trust y'all about what mxtx said on him being morally ideal #y'all take her words out of context or just straight up lie about what she said so often that #I can't take anything y'all “repeat” from her at face value. i need links to the sources before I'll believe anything #on Sizhui being wangxian's son:#thats so embedded in the text the only way I'd believe it wasn't the intended reading is if 7 seas straight up rewrote section of the books #because its more than just a few throw away lines and wwx calling him his little one #its sizhui being formally adopted into the lans (proven by the cloud pattern headband)#its the extra where they take him on a nighthunt/investigation without any of the other disciples #its the paying extra attention to his hw while doing the grading #its in the miscellaneous anecdotes Sizhui remembers from wwx even after he lost his memories from early childhood #its the baby stories and sizhui chewing on wwx's flute #its Sizhui's unconditional faith in the two of them #its in Sizhui's choosing the same instrument as lwj #that is their kid!!! not through modern western adoption but thats still their kid!!!#sizhui developing a close relationship with his uncle doesn't change that #Wen Ning is the cool untaking the lan babies on field trips. wangxian are the ones actually raising him #also mxtx has been pretty open about being influenced by things other than chinese classics #so using “well traditional Chinese story telling uses this convention” will never be automatically be the correct™️ take on her work #not to say her stories are completely devoid of traditional structures its just she mixes in other styles too

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