#mdzs discourse
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this hater poll brought to you by....a series of Bad Mcfucking Takes i had to read with my own eyeballs. seriously did we read the same book or not.
explanations:
"jiang cheng killed wei wuxian": jiang cheng did not kill wei wuxian in any version of the story. in mdzs wei wuxian died from backlash and in cql wei wuxin chose to let go of lan wangji after jiang cheng stabbed the cliff face. you can argue till the cows come home about how responsible jiang cheng is for wei wuxian's demise, but "jiang cheng killed wei wuxian" is just factually incorrect.
"jiang cheng abuses jin ling": jiang cheng does not abuse jin ling. first, the narration goes out of its way to establish that jiang cheng does not hit jin ling, specifically in a setting where hitting children is normalized and expected. in fact, wei wuxian says that jin ling is bratty specifically because he's never been hit. second, jin ling is also clearly comfortable talking back to jiang cheng and needling him in a way jiang cheng definitely was not with his own parents. even when jiang cheng is actively losing it when he captures wei wuxian in qinghe, jin ling remains completely unruffled - which speaks to how much jin ling takes for granted that he is safe with jiang cheng.
"jiang cheng could have easily helped the wen remnants, he just didn't": antis love to act like yunmeng jiang could have easily taken in the wemnants and jiang cheng simply chose not to because he was a hater/super jelly/various synonyms for ontologically evil. which is not the fucking case. learn to read. yunmeng jiang's own position post sunshot was very weak - they were a great sect in name only and were excluded from the alliance tying the three other great sects together - and jiang cheng could not politically afford to protect wei wuxian after wei wuxian alienated lanling jin. that's why jiang cheng says "if you insist on doing this, i can't protect you," and why wei wuxian then tells jiang cheng to let him go. because they both understand this. come on
"jiang cheng forced jiang yanli to marry jin zixuan": jiang yanli as a character makes so many sacrifices for her family and her brothers. her relationship with zixuan is like the one thing she chooses for herself. she loves him!! the tragedy in wei wuxian killing jin zixuan is that yanli genuinely loved zixuan!! ngl i think antis argue this purely to try to exonerate wei wuxian: if jiang yanli didn't love jin zixuan then wei wuxian donutting him isn't a problem anymore, apparently. this is the result of people thinking of jiang yanli as purely a thing for wei wuxian, rather than a human being in her own right.
"jiang cheng should have protected wei wuxian from yu ziyuan": this one is annoying because jiang cheng was also a child. when a child is abused, it is the fault of the abuser, not the fault of another child who is also subject to the whims of the abuser. come on.
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#mdzs discourse#jiang cheng discourse#if the person i was talking to earlier sees this- don't worry. i am not vaguing about you here#this is someone i blocked as soon as I saw their take#I'd love to have good faith arguments about jc because he's such a messy son of a bitch#but that is currently impossible as the majority of his vocal critics rn are just writing fanfiction and using it as proof he sucks#currently bitching about the person who implied jc manipulated jyl into marrying a man she wanted nothing to do with#inorder to form a political alliance#and used 16 y/o jc's “i just watched my family die” speach and a 20 something y/o him saying “thanks. we'll talk later” as proof#jc antis are the most bad faith critics I've ever seen AND I HAVE BEEN IN THE FE3H FANDOM#i cant believe I've actually found something more headache enducing than the rhea and edelgard discourse
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it’s been a while since i’ve seen a take as batshit wild as this. like saying this with their full chest when wwx spent most of his childhood on the streets…. as if this wouldn’t shape wwxs understanding of his own worth and class… he was literally a child on the street begging for scraps …
how can you only look at the struggles jgy faced due to his class and pretend like he wasn’t able to raise above his “humble beginnings” and become literally the most powerful person in the cultivation world and then in the same sentence say wwx isn’t comparable bc he was “”””never affected”””” by his COUNTLESSLY stated level of lower class
also claiming jgy to be the “”””only”””” character that suffered bc of class….xy?? mxy???? even fucking su she has elements of struggles with classes in such a class driven society. anyone who wasn’t born with the clan blood of great sect????? just the most worms for brains take ive seen in a long while,
tell me you don’t understand anything about class systems without telling me you don’t understand anything about it.
#mdzs#mdzs discourse#jin guangyao#wei wuxian#i thought it was satire at first but no#the person wrote a whole thread full of this bullshit take
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#worst of the worst#there's so many other bad ones out there of course but these are my least favorite#all things i have seen with my own eyes by the way#daily poll#mdzs discourse
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When you join the mdzs fandom I feel like more people need to tell you upon entrance that novel/manhwa/audio drama wwx, untamed wwx and donghua wwx are all three different people with slightly different stories. Maybe this is why we have so many people misinterpreting the characters… not only are the characters really complex but they also tend to be very different depending on the adaptation you consume…
#weirdocat83 ramblings#mdzs#wei wuxian#the untamed#mo dao zu shi#the grandmaster of diabolism#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation#mdzs discourse
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simultaneously poking a sleeping bear and beating a dead horse here but something just irks me about the "unconsented surgery" argument. i saw a recent post on my feed about it and i just cant shut up sometimes. i already dismissed the post so i wont see it again bc self-care but i will be throwing this piece into the void so i can be done with it and it wont claw at my brain begging to be released.
now.
the golden core exchange ?
ngl it just sounds like a life saving organ donation on someone who was literally dying. considering how cultivators view the golden core, it literally IS a life saving organ donation. afaik even today with the waiting list system in most countries, recipients do not typically need to give explicit consent bc it's assumed they would receive the organ since it's literally life-saving.
in wwx and jc's scenario:
donor and recipient were a match
donor was 100% willing
it was technically an urgent medical situation in the eyes of their logic as cultivators whose golden core is considered a vital organ by most
recipient was bodily ready for transplant
if u want to argue abt the consent surrounding the golden core transfer, you'll also have to argue about the consent around recipients in our own organ donation systems.
like does anyone else get what im saying ? im always iffy about religiously applying real life concepts to literal fiction and fantasy works so maybe thats why im so ⁉️⁉️⁉️ about this.
idk im not really willing to argue about this, i just wanted to let my thoughts out for my own inner peace 😭 duke it out in the replies and reblogs if yall really want to, i know what the internet is like
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It's curious how Jiang Cheng stans are always so bittwr towards Lan Zhan, like It's so funny because it's so obvious, it's not like they just dislike the character, all of them seems to have a personal conflict with Lan Zhan and his relationship with Xian
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it bugs me when people treat lan wangji like a generic yaoi seme (i.e. filthy rich, selfish, arrogantly dismissive and unsatisfied, lords his position over those weaker or poorer, near-universal advantages over others, etc.
lan wangji IS way more privileged than wei wuxian, but lan xichen and the lan elders have FAR more power, control, and political advantage over him. lan wangji single-handedly physically fought 33 members of his own family to protect the man he loved, and they whipped him to near death for it. they forcibly imprisoned ("secluded") him and took advantage of his bedridden state to join the other clans in ambushing and assassinating wei wuxian.
my point is, he's not a stereotypical arrogant jerk with unending influence over others. if anything, being a dom top in bed isn't an expression of power for lan wangji, but an expression of freedom. he can be true to himself, his love, and his desires without being held back by his family and society's politics.
#lan wangji#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#wangxian#when ppl who haven't actually read mdzs make these assumptions im like ugh. annoying but understandable misconception#but ppl who HAVE read the book? unacceptable. IF U DONT LIKE LAN WANGJI I DO NAWWWWT TRUST U#YES HES UPPER CLASS & PRIVILEGED AS TO BE SO RESPECTED PPL DONT PUBLICLY CALL HIM OUT WHEN HES RUDE#BUT HE IS NOT YOUR SCUM GONG EMPEROR CEO AAAHH HES A MALE SUBVERSION OF THE JADE MAIDEN TROPE LET HIM OUT#also this post teeters into reversing wx discourse which... respectfully i prefer not to reverse them bc of things like this.#if u ask me lwj's repression doesn't inherently mean he needs to take it up the ass. but whatever. fandom will do as fandom wants#keri chats
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It's very ironic to get comments on "Scum Villain" fics that are essentially revenge fantasies against certain characters, given... uh... everything about "Proud Immortal Demon Way" and how the story of SVSSS interacts with that in-universe story.
Sometimes, it's mildly amusing. Sometimes, it's a little disturbing, depending on how violent and disproportionate the fantasy is, because even if I've written some villain as a real asshole, I don't want to open my inbox to people wishing death and gory violence on anyone. A couple times, it took me a hot second to figure out that the violent fantasy wasn't directed at ME specifically.
Thankfully, that extremism is quite rare, so it's more often people wishing milder physical pains or, uh, complete social humiliation on certain characters, sometimes just for the "crime" of being mild inconveniences or slightly unfriendly to the fic's protagonist. Most of the time, I assume this is some form of playful exaggeration on the commenter's part, a reader exorcising mild annoyance at a fictional antagonist and expressing some sympathy or compassion for the hurt protagonist. A reader mentioning they kind of want to see a character grovel pathetically for forgiveness only to get kicked in the face is not necessarily a reader who wants that revenge fantasy to actually happen in the story.
Sometimes, though, it is hard to tell if someone genuinely thinks that all of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect should be destroyed because Luo Binghe was abused or Shang Qinghua was overworked. Like, I sure hope this is just hyperbole! I sure hope that you don't honestly think that "an eye for an eye" or "I take two of your eyes and also your tongue because you took one of my eyes" are, like, reasonable justice policies! I sure hope that you don't sincerely think that collective punishment is in any way a good thing and that a random junior disciple on the tenth peak (who probably doesn't even know who Luo Binghe is) deserves to suffer because the original Shen Qingqiu was a really shitty person.
But revenge fantasies like "Proud Immortal Demon Way" are popular for a reason, so I can never quite be sure! In every fandom, you have Peerless Cucumbers demanding that villain characters be castrated or killed for being abusive pricks, who cheer on the fictional revenge fantasy of hurting someone ten times as much as they hurt you, and some fans would be absolutely horrified by that kind of "retribution" in real life and others would... cheer that real life "punishment" on as well.
I don't really have a strong point to make with this post! This post is too long to be a casual reminder: "Hey, I hope you're always keeping in mind that messages you send on the internet are being directly received by real people who 1) can't read your tone and 2) don't know your 'real life' opinions to immediately know if you're joking." And I'm focused more here on how amusingly ironic this type of commenting is in regards to SVSSS and PIDW specifically.
Like, it's fun sometimes to get a little "Peerless Cucumber" about our favorite protagonists! (Shen Yuan said a lot of shit on the internet about PIDW but apparently generally doesn't really want people in SVSSS to suffer.) But once your revenge fantasy starts getting a little too detailed in regards to public humiliation and social ruin, torture and dismemberment, arson and leaving someone to get eaten alive by fire ants, making everyone who ever mildly slighted you beg for their life at your feet... It's like, "Bro, I don't think this comment is even Peerless Cucumber levels anymore. You are straight-up getting into original Luo Binghe territory here."
#tossawary svsss#violence#character death#long post#SY wrote some bitchy comments about PIDW; but SVSSS doesn't seem to think well of the human stick thing or say Zhuzhi killing Gongyi Xiao#you get this with MDZS and TGCF discourse too; like hmmm bro I think you missed all of the themes here about revenge vs justice
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even if he was objectively guilty of every single crime levelled at him at any point in the narrative, the cumulative influence of jin guangyao's time as a spy for the sunshot forces during the war and his tenure as xiandu is still orders of magnitude more substantive, and positive, than anything else accomplished by any other named character in the text.
even if you believe he did every single foul thing he is accused of doing, he still saved the life of the gusu lan heir and ensured irreplaceable sect knowledge wasn't lost during the razing of the cloud recesses. he still killed literal tyrant and megalomaniac wen ruohan and ended a war. he still pushed through his watchtower program, which saved countless commoners' lives, and rooted out corruption in jinlintai to the point that no jin sect disciple would ever think about accepting a bribe in the city. he is the reason why wangxian get to fuck nasty on every surface of the cloud recesses post-canon--because jin guangyao used his influence to ensure the cloud recesses were rebuilt. he is the one who pulled nie huaisang's hands out of the fire after nie mingjue set all of his precious belongings on fire. he's the one who arranged to have those burn wounds tended to. he still built a temple in his mother's image and interred her body beneath guanyin so that all those prayers would go to meng shi, to grant her a better afterlife. he still gave fairy to jin ling.
even with the least charitable, worst faith interpretation of his character, these things remain true.
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#salty peak sect 🧂#jin guangyao#he did crimes??? good for him 😌#time to get high enough to fight god about the state of mdzs fandom discourse again i guess
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what kind of stan is entirely up to you
keep in mind that the jiang cheng stans won the horniest stan poll
#mdzs#wei wuxian#jiang cheng#yanyan polls#posts that get me blindfolded and executed via headshot. [chinese webnovel voice] i am courting death#mdzs discourse#yanyan haterpost
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Madam Yu defenders will be like "Madam Yu was a complex person with a tragic life and though none of that excuses her actions, it does explain them so please stop reducing to her to a monster and a caricature of an evil woman" and her haters will respond "so you condone child abuse"
#yu ziyuan#mdzs#madam yu#mdzs discourse#literally no one is claiming what she did was ok. we literally just want you to see the humanity in her and stop lying about her#because there are so few critics out there about the shit she actually did#like the only actually interesting critical take I've seen about her is how she taught the kids she raised pettiness violence and vengeance#most of the shit I've seen on the madam yu tag is just fanfic about how she punished wwx for trying to learn about his parents#or fanfic about her trying to kill him every day or stunt his cultivation#or the wildest fanfic I've seen so far- claiming that she cheated on jfm and that jc is an affair child and she's projecting on wwx#like none of that happened but yall hate her so much you're convinced its canon#but of course when it comes to the men you can find the humanity in murderers and cannibals#and then these same fucking people will turn around and accuse mxtx of being sexist
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after yesterday's picture i realised that almost every time i draw jgy he looks like he's about 5 seconds away from a breakdown so i figured i should give him a nap for once
#mdzs#jin guangyao#jgy#nieyao#grandmaster of demonic cultivation#my art#this was meant to be quick and then i started having too much fun messing around with colouring#i'm never letting go of jgy with nie braids i'll hold onto that forever#me a fool about to run face first into a wall of discourse: gonna go into the jgy tag now that I've got him on the brain :D#find some fun cute art-- D:#[principal skinner voice] good lord what is happening in there#anyway i have sensibly retreated from the tags and shall return to rotating my blorbos exclusively in my own mental microwave
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While Wei Wuxian is of course an extremely talented horse rider, I don't think he actually spiritually connects with them in the way Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji can. Like he's a jockey but he's not a horse girl. He doesn't have that special bond with the beautiful untamed stallion because he is the beautiful untamed stallion. That's why it's so important that he spiritually connects with Little Apple after he's revived, because it's the first time he's felt the special passion of horse girlification. That's the real reason why it's only after his revival that he falls in love with Lan Wangji. He understands him on a deeper level
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Jiang Cheng having complicated feelings about the Wen (and by extension, Wei Wuxian's actions and saving the Wen) are kinda valid considering that these people literally MASACCRED his own and many other minor sects, raping and pillaging along the way. They would have decimated every major sect if given the chance and indoctrinated them. It makes sense why JC would have trauma, fear and a hatred for them.
How can you not have this understanding and empathy for JC and the Jiang in general, yet feel sympathy for the Wen when everyone turned on them thereafter? And expect LSZ to get revenge for what happened to his clan?? It's literally the same thing. Both are victims of a massacre. How are you sympathetic over one but not the other?
#canon jiang cheng#jiang cheng#canon jc#jiang wanyin#jc#jiang cheng positive#mo dao zu shi#mxtx mdzs#mdzs#the untamed#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation#mdzs meta#mxtx#mxtx characters#jiang cheng discourse#jiang cheng meta
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I don't know why people are on the opposite spectrum only.
It's always either Jiang Cheng did nothing wrong or Jiang Cheng did everything wrong.
Did Jiang Cheng love Wei Wuxian? Yes.
Did he also in a way abandon Wei Wuxian? Yes.
Would Jiang Cheng die for Wei Wuxian? Yes.
Would Jiang Cheng prioritise something over Wei Wuxian? Also yes.
Why are people acting like him being angry and/or upset Wei Wuxian about literally anything he has done(and he has done a lot) negates the love he has for him?
Also about Wei Wuxian's morality, the author has said that Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are morally good people, this does not mean they can't do something wrong. And having made a mistake doesn't make them bad people either, it's just that morally speaking Wei Wuxian was in the right to defend the Wens. But life doesn't fucking work on morals.
Hell Wei Wuxian holds too many regrets that even he won't admit that he's a perfect person because there're too many things he would want to do differently. But under no circumstances can you question his morals because they have always been in the right place. All his acts of purposeful cruelty were against people who hurt him first.
Jiang Cheng being unable to stand up with Wei Wuxian during the Wen situation is because he's young and has no support but it's still disappointing because Jiang Yanli still managed to stand with Wei Wuxian in a way and then we see Jiang Cheng be unable to, it's also because the scale is different and he prioritised his sect over Wei Wuxian.
Then the other part of Jiang Cheng lashing out on Jin Ling physically that I see many screenshots of it and it's always when Jiang Cheng is under high emotional distress situations. Which is not to say it's okay and should be allowed. But the world setting and situation also matters.
But guess what that also does not take away from the love Jiang Cheng has for Jin Ling.
There's too many connections in the story itself especially around Jin Ling and his uncle's.
Now of course a relationship can have all the love but unless it has active care and affection it means nothing.
Which is why Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng fall apart. They have the love, they even have the care but because they just can't share affection they fall apart immediately after Jiang Yanli because before she had been the bridge of affection between them.
With the final bridge down, their relationship could not stay afloat and just sank.
#jiang cheng#fandom discourse#canon jiang cheng#mdzs#the untamed#cql#jgy in his jgy era faces the exact same on far ends of the spectrum but i have seen enough nuanced posts on him#that it does not annoy me half as much as Jiang Cheng discourse
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