#jin tls

[fuckyeahkagepro]

Jin: "I hate summer." {"Kagerou Daze" lyric reference}

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[demonsfate]

heihachi: returns in the most bullshit way imaginable

fans: that dlc story was alright. it's cool how heihachi returned <:)

jin: "redeemed" in the TK8 story after his character was ruined in TK6.

fans: i just think it's so bad how the story tries to redeem jin and make him out to be a good guy :/ like he was a super evil dude who killed millions he might as well be [insensitive reference to a real life dictator]

[rinbylin]

施主噩梦？是思梦。梦见从前的事。 Did you have a nightmare? It was just a dream. I dreamt about the past.

[venusvolta]

sowon will give jung yoojin this, the girl has a flair for the dramatic.

there's a murmuring amongst the general populace, most of the initiates have drunk too much and now there's a certain amount of fear and indignations being spewed at the table but in true form, sowon could care less. if some kid drowns it won't be on her conscious, it's not as if she told the dumbasses to drink when a ritual still had yet to be announced and she's not the idiot who provided anyone with drinks before telling them to go swim in a freezing lake either. whatever happens, happens to the flock of idiots that stand before her and no one else.

instead of waiting and watching for the rest of the fallout, sowon excuses herself from the table and walks out to the veranda to overlook the darkened woods that lead to lake cheongpyeong. thank god she's not an initiate, she thinks, there are a thousand stupid things she'd do for the chance to be in a club, but being dumb enough to swim in a lake in december while drunk might just be where she would've drawn the line four years ago.

she stares into the darkness of dense trees and what should be a lake for a moment, trying to see if she can see clearly into the night enough to guess what the conditions might be like but the absence of light leaves her unable to make out anything.

turning on her heel she thinks she ought to find clothes better suited for a nighttime hike when she sees him out of the corner of her eye. jin yohan sits in the corner, drink in hand and even from the briefest glance sowon can see in no uncertain terms that he is pissed.

"what?" she asks in a deadpanned voice, "are you worried that your recruits can't swim or are you worried they've got the sense to realize how stupid and dangerous this ritual is? because if it's the latter don't worry i doubt they do."

she walks closer to him, and leans against the wall looking down at him. "if anything hyungseo should have third best shot after hajoon and seunghan respectfully."

ECHOLALIA ft. @silenthowls

[lesbiansloveseokjin]

day 492/548 of seokjin’s military service

this selca was posted on 200718 with the caption:

Seokjinie

[sorrowschengmei]

why almost every villain in MDZS breaks their expected gender role somehow

btw please notice when i say 'masculine' i'm not saying 'manly in a contemporary western POV' i'm basically saying 'appropriate behaviour for a cisgender male of his social position' so yes expect a lot of class struggle as newsflash, identity based  oppression ALWAYS walks hand in hand with social class [there's a reason upper class americans always seem more comfortable to display gender nonconforming behaviour than working class ppl of the global south]

first i'd like to use a character as pretty much an example of  almost 100% gender conforming behaviour in that show: Wangji.

yes he's gay, but that really doesn't seem to be an issue in this setting. why? bc he dresses plainly, doesn't display excessive emotion, shows devotion to his family, respects customs, doesn't mingle outside his  social class... i mean, we all watched that show, he DOES slip sometimes, but not enough to create a reputation of rule breaker or something. even in his most rebellious moments, he's still inside everything one might expect of a cisgender man of his social class.

so who fails to meet the standard? characters that are heavily punished for doing so. that become bitter and resentful, and display their suffering acting in vengeful, cruel, calculating ways. that look at the society that ruined them, and say 'i'll ruin this bitch'.

and yes, this list includes Wei Ying. so say hello to the mean girls of MDZS!

starting by the most obvious example: Mo Xuanyu, gay, gender nonconforming to shocking levels and mentally ill. taken into the Jin sect, goes there and hits on his half brother. absolutely iconic. 

no really this character spits and pisses on the face of society, and its one of the saddest examples of this list as he not only doesn't do much damage as the others, he's also driven to suicide. i won't list all the ways he's GNC bc honestly there aren't too many ways he WAS in gender conformity lol

another character that resorts to ways that could be called antagonistic and also struggles with gentlemanly behaviour is Nie Huaisang.

he's devoted to the arts, what is NOT unmasculine per se, but the fact he can't succeed at swordsmanship, won't display a traditional assertive and unattached attitude when in a leadership position and has an overall sensitive and gentle demeanor mark him as a deviant from his assigned gender role, what is harshly punished by the masculine-and-manly-in-a-contemporary-western-POV Nie Mingjue. as he cannot win in direct confrontation, he appeals to indirect ways and social manipulation [completely ungentlemanly behaviour] much like the next in the list: Meng Yao.

this one is sorta tricky to fit in this list bc he DOES display gender conforming behaviour but as we can see, its either something fucking wicked like impregnating his own sister or pretty much a role he's playing. Yao is PAINFULLY aware of how society works. he can see clearly all the roles and picks those that will favour him. does it mean he's comfortable with them?

no lol to become the perfect married, with an heir, of high status, filial etc male model he does unspeakable things. i absolutely love this character and i'm yes, based af towards him bc his tragedy is BEING TOO GOOD AT FITTING GENDER ROLES. accepting anything to dodge the social outcast status that was imprinted on him since he was born. a whoreson is not a man, he's something less than a man, he's a Mo Xuanyu, he's a Xue Yang. he has no family to honour, no place in the social pyramid, no means of starting his own family.

he's unmasculine by definition. and much like Huaisang, Yao was graced with a soft and gentle presence, more appropriate for a Mianmian than a sect leader. talking of Xue Yang.... 

yes, he's pretty much 'manly' in a western contemporary POV. he kills ppl and displays antisocial behaviour, what is pretty much tied to our current view on manhood [see the soldier and the CEO as peak examples of the ''alpha male'']

 but whose family is he going to honor? what kind of emotional restraint is laughing during a massacre? which customs are being respected when a working class-born man kills an entire highborn clan for something that according to the custom he should just accept as his fate and move on?

add to that the fact he's very much satisfied with assuming a housewife role and hits on upper class men obscenely in any opportunity he has, and you have a walking menace to the entire concept of masculinity of this setting. *throws kiss* for Xue Yang, ancient Chinese working class queer icon.

then we have Su Minshan, who BETRAYED HIS CLAN out of devotion for a WHORESON, and has a lifelong grudge with who? yes, THE masculine role model, Lan Wangji, who honestly couldn't care less, he's just trying to live his already hard enough life in peace.  Su Minshan offends almost everything that means being a man in his setting. plus he's cunning-not a good look.

and finally we have the Yiling Laozu, that one that broke all the taboos, offended all the customs, rejected swordsmanship and embraced music, all while being romantically involved with a Lan of Gusu when he's merely a Jiang associate. and the most iconic part?

MXTX made him the fucking protagonist. yes. the dude who went there and dishonored everything that means being a man in his setting, she doesn't want us to think he's lowly, dirty, unworthy of empathy--there are enough characters doing this already. she wants us to join this gender nonconforming gay man as he lifts all the veils of society, wrecking mayhem in their little extremely rigid feudal system, intriguing the a-Yaos, a-Yangs, Minshans, Huaisangs and Xuanyus with his ways so similar but so different from theirs. it's like the author is saying:

'we know you are hurting. we know society fucked you up. but please, dont become bitter. you still can create a beautiful life for you. you don't need to be stuck in a coffin, left to rot, suicided or tossed aside. you CAN write your WangXian song and cultivate until immortality'

and honestly i dont think i've ever seen any work so obscenely thought-provoking regarding gender roles, social roles and trauma as MDZS....

[fengtashuangyi]

For the ones wondering, yes, there are extras. Specifically, 5 of them (or 12, if you count the parts separately).

From my understanding, 4 of them were originally posted on Weibo and then gathered by fans here:

They were translated in English, but the translation was locked and now has been taken down, so not many people noticed.

(Yes, the third extra is Cezhou's wedding).

I can't buy from jjwxc with my credit card and I never got access to the English translation. So I read the Portuguese translation of the extras instead.

The last extra is available only in the Traditional Chinese print. The translation can be read here if you purchased this edition of the novel.

And that's it, as far as I know ;)

[punnypandemonium]

Would you say that Jin mori is an omnipotent bieng since he agreed to be a all powerful that creates balance throughout all the universe

Since it seems he can kill the fairies that are eating the universe (which were a damn pain in the ass on the Tathagata battle and they had already destroyed an universe), the series narrator said in the last episode "Taejin Park's age, Daewi and Mira child, having reached nirvana Mori Jin was capable of solving these problems easily" and, as you said, chose for himself to be all-powerful when XuanZang asked him what he wanted to do, I'd say that yes, he is omnipotent, not a perfet omtipotent being since it was said that he is ageing although slower than the others tho.

A very interesting question is how much of reality he could bent with his new power and how much power would be necessary to be called omnipotent. for example can he create things? can he cure illness? at least that last one is implied he can but it could be a wrong interpretation. Sadly the total capacity of his new powers isn't really touched upon the series finale.

Even so I would call him an omnipotent god since the definition of omnipotent is "having unlimited power" and I thing being "all-powerful" is a valid synonym.

[doomxdriven]

Bount can manipulate Reishi and use it to heal / empower themselves but little known fact is that they can also manipulate Reishi to heal or empower others, too.

Normally;

this is all assuming that a Bount is within a realm where the concentration of Reishi in the atmosphere is high (Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, etc), but if a Bount draws Reishi into themselves, they can then in fact direct it into other Bount or non-Bount for healing or empowerment purposes through one of two ways. Either a Bount can indirectly channel the Reishi they are manipulating at a target individual, or they can more directly feed a target some of their blood, which will be infused with said Reishi-- both methods have their pros and cons.

The indirect method is quicker, and can be more easily utilized in fast pace combat situations, but the healing and empowering effects leave much to be desired. The indirect method is also less effective when used on other Bount, with it being far more practical for them to simply heal or empower themselves directly.

On the other hand, the direct method is a lot slower and cumbersome, what with a Bount having to cut themselves open and then steadily pour their blood into a targets mouth, but the healing and empowering effects are exceptional.

A Bount can almost bring someone back from the dead with the direct method, healing even the most grievous wounds and temporarily empowering a target far beyond their normal abilities.

Either method's effectiveness will also be influenced by a Bount's age, with older Bount being far better at utilizing manipulated Reishi in these manners.

Now, in regards to Jin specifically with this healing business;

he's of course a little special, and that's because Jin has something that most other Bount don't-- a Reishi and Reiryoku generating device that's been absorbed into his body, the Jokaisho. With the Jokaisho, Jin can heal and empower himself or others regardless of what realm he is in, because he can, whenever he wants, generate Reishi within himself.

Depending on how far along Jin is within his main verse at a given time, he may have to be more careful in how often he uses the Jokaisho (it can be fatal before its fully matured within him), but he still has tool at his disposal that can prove very useful to those around him, if he so chooses.

In non-bleach settings;

the same idea still follows, too, with Bount in general and with Jin and the Jokaisho, but its not 'Reishi' involved its 'insert magical or otherwise supernatural energy source' that can induce healing or empowerment (sometimes through the blood 😈, you know, real vampire shit).

[theinfinitedivides]

me seeing all of the MD discourse once again cursing out Gil Chae and calling her weak/a bitch for still turning down Jang Hyun's proposal before he left with the Crown Prince:

[loveregrown]

I really love how baby hocchan is such a menace... hocchan is ANGRY. Where's your fucking RAGE daikichi-kun? RISE RISE RISE

[neixins]

(through clenched teeth) just bc the boxset of the deer and the cauldron is back in stock doesn’t mean i have to buy it immediately……

[lovewhump]

Just found out Ya yultak name is actually Yayul(family name) and Tak(last name).

That sounds bit weird....imma just keep calling him Yultak

[beehiveofblorbos]

“but today, a new tale I have to append

which I shall now tell - if you will attend”

Yun Jin‼️

[ousnap]

Any active btspopper out there?? I need more to follow. But must be an active user. Check the tags please.

[raindrops-on-concrete]

Wei WuXian and Lan WangJi work so well as a team and it's a big part of why their dynamic is so enjoyable.

They have very different skill sets, but they both know their own strengths and limits. And, at least later on after WWX is reincarnated, they also understand each others strengths and limitations.

WWX let's LWJ fight a lot of his physical battles for him, because he knows that he himself wouldn't be able to handle them but LWJ is more than capable to. A beautiful example of this is in Yi City when LWJ swoops in to fight Xue Yang, and tells WWX that he has the fight handled. WWX then analyses the situation and realizes he's of more help by bringing the Juniors to safety and investigating some more. Lan JingYi even brings this up, asking why they don't lose any words over WWX leaving LWJ behind in battle. And WWX tells him that he trusts LWJ has the situation handled so there would be no use in losing any more words over it.

On the other hand, WWX always does the talking for the two of them. When performing Inquiry, LWJ relays WWXs questions without hesitation.

When they are conducting research in the secret library in the Cloud Recesses and WWX decides to take a break, LWJ takes over his stack of books without hesitation or asking him to continue his work. WWX recognized that he needed a break and LWJ respects that and does his work for him since he still has the energy to keep researching.

They also respect each other a lot, even if they don't agree with each other. After WWXs reincarnation, LWJ never questions him about his demonic cultivation, even though he probably still doesn't quite approve of it. As for WWX I can't think of a specific example after his reincarnation rn, but I really love the scene where he drinks LWJs liquor for him at Jin GuangYao's private banquet, because the Lan Sect are not allowed to drink alcohol.

There's not a leader and a follower between them. They always listen when the other is talking, and depending on the situation one or the other takes the lead. In that way, they are equals and see each other as equals. They are not equal in any particular skill or even cultivation level, but through their different skill sets they can add onto each other skill sets.

TL;DR WWX and LWJ work so well as a team bc they know their own and each other's strengths and limitations very well, and know how to use them accordingly. They have a lot of trust and respect for each other even if they disagree. They see each other as equals and their skill sets add onto each other very well.