#metaphorical temperature plays such a huge role in traditional medicine that temperature-related abstraction could be ten levels deep

[whetstonefires]

for the wip guessing game: glass

okay i figured out which wips this is for lmao.

1) wangxian no-war au 2) original fantasy manuscript 3) top guide in this town unposted chapters 4) 2 of jin ling's uncles take a roadtrip [working title]

He was staring up at Wei Wuxian’s face, glass-brown eyes half-lidded but fierce.

It glittered, in the sunlight, when you looked down at it cupped in the wide harbor—they were great glass-makers, and the sign of wealth was not that you had glass in your windows but that the little panes were thin and even enough to look through.

Inside, the glass had been shattered.

[null result]

This was a fun word to run on the mdzs fics lmao; I suspected this would be the result. 'Glass' is the comparison the novel makes for the color of Lan Wangji's eyes, rendered 'gold' for the animation, and glass does not otherwise appear in the setting that I can recall.

I tend to interpret this description in terms of how the two easiest/cheapest colors to get in glass are generally brown and blue, both much easier than colorless, so these are the colors you see most often in historical contexts where there's a glass industry, but not a huge one.

In which case we're doing an interesting thing where an amber brown that would normally be considered warm, being shaded toward a somewhat reddish yellow, becomes a 'cold' color because it's being defined as 'glass,' which also lends it a sense of hardness and clarity. Given I'm working with translation idk if this is correct, but it's my working hypothesis.

Since Mo Xuanyu does not feel the need to draw this description of Hanguang-jun's features, there is no glass in his fic at all.