#jcs future

[jeffreycharlesstanley]

putting myself out there again hi everyone, it's been a while - 6 years since I last posted to tumblr. slowly dropping posts on my socials. starting the Passage Legacy blog - with my writing about art, culture, ecology, and technology.

updated jeffreycharlesstanley.com to version 3.5.2 in September 2024:

Launched JCS FUTURE in October 2022 (JCS FUTURE studio) and relaunched in July 2024 - as may main portal for everything Jeffrey Charles Stanley | JCS | JCS FUTURE (now containing JCS STUDIO - webpage for my video production clients):

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Put that thing back or so help me.

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[lgbtlunaverse]

Fandom is so nice to Jiang Cheng's inferiority complex because in reality every single thing he gets accused of is something Wei Wuxian is better at than him.

Jiang Cheng killed Wei Wuxian? Nope. Didn't even get close. Wei Wuxian's own spirits tore him apart before jc could even get there. wwx:1 jc:0

Jiang Cheng tortures people? We get two and a half rumours and a mention from jin ling that jc has 'captured' demonic cultivators before, but who is also apparently confident that just letting wwx run off will kill the issue even though those earlier rumours said ~no one who sandu shengshou captured was ever seen again~

The word jiang cheng uses when he tries to talk big game about 'beating the truth' out of Wei Wuxian's is a word that carries the context of pestering someone to do their homework. Doesn't exactly strike fear into my heart.

Wei Wuxian? Excellent at torture. A prodigy. Did you fucking see what he did to Wen Chao? Dude didn't have fingers anymore because wei wuxian made him eat them. He ripped out his hair, burned his skin off, and then stalked him for several days just to prolong the pain. He forced Wang Lingjiao to bite Wen Chao's dick off and then made her shove a stool leg down her own throat! 10/10, no notes. Absolutely horrifying.

Meanwhile Jiang Cheng's idea of torture is getting a dog to bark at Wei Wuxian for a few seconds. Weak, unoriginal, I bet fairy was literally wagging her tail the whole time. 2-0

Jiang Cheng made the entire cultivation world believe Wei Wuxian was up to no good on the burial mounds and ultimately orchestrated his downfall? lol. lmao, even

It's a big thing in certain corners of the fandom to really zoom in one one particular phrase at the end of chapter 73, where after wwx and jc have their staged duel to make the world believe they hate each other jiang cheng tells everyone wwx has defected and become "a public enemy'' or "an enemy to the cultivation world" or whatever the translation you're familiar with decided upon.

(As an aside, something I really like about this line is that the last half of it is almost exactly the same, like verbatim, as what wwx told him to say. like, the chapter is really hammering home just how much jc is speaking from a script here. wwx tells jc to say "今后魏无羡无论做出什么事，都与云梦江氏无关." and jc says "今后无论此人有何动作，一概与云梦江氏无关" the only meaningful difference is that he says 'this person' instead of wwx's name)

I've seen it said that this bit, the use of 'enemy' was said without wei wuxian's approval, that jc deviated from the script just to hurt his ex-shixiong for leaving him. And that this is what caused all the other clans to turn against wei wuxian. Regardless of if this is what jc and wwx discussed, or if jc had malicious motivations for it (considering my conclusions above, you can guess where i fall) it doesn't really matter, because the novel tells us when the clans completely freak out and become convinced wei wuxian is out to get them (though of course they've been wringing their hands about it since the literal day wwx ran off with the wen, months before jiang cheng visited) very neatly in chapter 75!

It's when they find out about Wen Ning.

And how do they find out about Wen Ning?

Because Wei Wuxian took him on nighthunts! And they kicked ass!

...Wei Wuxian, my man, why are you on nighthunts??? Why are you showing off your incredibly cool sentient fierce corpse buddy, who is way better and stronger than all the other fierce corpses, in front of the whole cultivation world??

Whatever his motivations (extra money, maybe?? they were strapped for crash) I can only draw the conclusion wwx had already given up on appearing calm or non-threatening and didn't care if the clans thought he was a threat, because they'd believe whatever they wanted anyway. Which he seems to clearly be aware of the whole time.

Regardless, we know that this is what created the myth of the Yiling patriarch. It's literally when the title first shows up!

Even if you really believe jc was secretly plotting against wwx in chapter 73, he's clearly doing a shit job of it because nothing he said made anywhere near as big an impact as this. Flopped!

The other point people use to argue Jiang Cheng caused wei wuxian's downfall is Jin Guangyao's speech in Guanyin temple about how jiang cheng could have saved wei wuxian if only he stood by him. Setting aside that jin guangyao is trying to get into jiang cheng's head here, and isn't necessarily saying what he really believes (though it very well might be! who knows with a character like jgy. assuming he's always lying is just as misleading as assuming he's always saying the truth) the fact is, if you read the speech closely, what he's talking about is not the 'public enemy' line, he's talking about the bond between them. The fact that people wanted wei wuxian out of yunmeng jiang, because the two were too powerful together.

He's talking about that one time Jiang Cheng very publically kicked wei wuxian out of the sect!

Which, unbeknownst to Jin Guangyao, was in fact Wei Wuxian's idea the whole time.

final score: 3 for you wei wuxian, you go wei wuxian! And nothing for Jiang Cheng bye.

[thisisrealy2kok]

2001 JCPenney Christmas Book, Page 337

[glorber]

[littlemagicalstardust]

Years ago, he was just a kid from Wherever. He was just starting out and never knew what would happen. Now he's about to main event another PPV for a big wrestling company called AEW, challenging for the World Championship! Lil JC Ryder would be so proud of the journey you took and never gave up on, Orange Cassidy. Even with all of the hate and people constantly telling you stupid things like "you'll never do anything", "you're too skinny", "you're too short" and "you're just a little too different". You proved every single one of them, wrong. You made a name for yourself. You got over with every crowded room you entered. And you showed the world that despite your size and differences, you can be a champion and you can make it one day! Whatever happens on Saturday, YOU did that! You're one of a kind and I'm forever proud of you. <3

[mxtxfanatic]

Hi! I love your blog! Especially your novel recommendations cuz they helped me find lovely stories that i wouldn't have encountered otherwise 💖

So there's this fic idea in my head for a while now but I'm afraid of mischaracterising wwx. so I would appreciate your input if you don't mind answering:

If a post-siege/post-canon wwx was transported back in time to the moment he has to decide whether to sacrifice his golden core for JC, would he still do it? What do you think his thought process would be like to make that decision?

I'm leaning towards no golden core transfer since wwx would know what JC would do with that power, but what do you think?

I agree. A desperate and traumatized teenaged Wei Wuxian made that decision. An adult Wei Wuxian who has weathered multiple life-or-death situations and now understands the true nature of Jiang Cheng and the depths of his hatred would make a different choice.

[creationfathers]

My God, that smile 😁

[nulfaga]

johanson pilate...that's the post

[proffesionalalpaca]

Things I’d love to see in Avatar 3

1. Varang is a cleopatra like figure; I don’t mean a captivating beauty but a deadly strategist, intelligent negotiator, innovative thinker (cleopatra was a chemist among other many things) & formidable threat beyond the femme fatal archetype.

2. Quaritch & Lyle’s growing understanding of the Na’vi language shown with broken sentences in the subtitles, only showing what they can understand - enough but not quite.

3. Jake & Neytiri (plus the kids) still grieving for their eldest and adjusting to life with that missing piece

4. Lo’ak finding his stride as a Metkayina and making efforts to prove his worthiness of Tsireya to her parents

5. Spider carving out a place for himself among the Na’vi despite Neytiri’s hostility

6. Tuk beginning to grow from a child and into the warrior she’ll one day become - giving Jake 2 or 3 heart attacks daily

7. The Wind trader tribe being chill nomadic traders who just roll with the insane nonsense that happens around the main characters: Archenemy resurrected? - bummer, Teenage girl controls the environment like a Demi-god? - very cool, Sky person boy just walking around acting genuinely Na’vi? - I like your stripes brother!

8. The Ash people being more than just aggressive warriors but who are rather a calculating and intelligent culture - one that, compared to other Na’vi clans, is uniquely multi-cultured from the many generations of outcasts from other tribes who brought their own skills, knowledge and aspects of their culture into the collective. - complete with Na’vi subspecies we have yet to see (Tundra/snow Na’vi? Taiga?) , hybridised offspring and descendants of them just intergrated into the cultural identity of the ash people.

HC - Varang is like 1/4 wind-trader/dessert na’vi and has a tundra Na’vi somewhere in her ancestral family tree.

9. Showcasing that a good portion of new humans arriving to Pandora come as refugees who genuinely mean no harm to Pandora and RDA staff who are opposed to the measures being taken by the leadership against the natives.

10. Exploration of Na’vi history and why the ash people appear to be outcasts themselves among other Na’vi. -my theory is that they were once an advanced civilisation like the Aztecs but were destroyed like them by all the Na’vi they ticked off under the first Toruk Makto (who supposedly rallied the clans to defeat a volcano- oral history passed by hundreds of generations and metaphor diluting the real history - instead defeating the tribe of the volcano?)-

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bros before Ho(oh my god is that Hanguang-Jun?)

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[demonicfarmer69]

the kind of notes a-cheng takes instead of listening to lqr's lectures

[thisisrealy2kok]

2000 JCPenney Christmas Book, Page 67

[trans-xianxian]

jiang fengmian saying they'll leave without wei wuxian and won't even try to go get him and jiang cheng asking "but how can we leave him behind?" they can't keep doing this to me

[larkbunny]

Thorin Oakenshield a la Leyendecker

[sigery]

Eclipse getting a pet?

JC!Bloodmoon got a racoon named Cotton. It would only be fair that Eclipse also gets a pet... but what kind?

Eclipse could get a snake and then Bloodmoon trying to be nice and helpful brings home a rabbit which is definitely too big for the snake.

A rodent like a mouse or a rat that Eclipse could coo over and make a elaborate maze and/or obstacle course in their cage.

Ferret? Bird? Another kind of reptile?