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miyusketchdump · 3 months ago
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After Kiss
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peridot-tears · 3 months ago
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Quick addition on the Chinese cultural take: A lot of the things Jiang Cheng says to Jin Ling that white Americans read as "verbal abuse" are normal things that my parents say to me as well. (I literally need a moment in CQL when Jiang Cheng says to Jin Ling in the Burial Moments, "你小兔崽子,给我回来!" because jeeeeeez, that's how my mom talks to me and that's how I talk to my dog. I'm Chinese as well, with parents coming from the mainland. I found that a lot of our families tend to be more verbally direct or "harsh." My grandmother's first instinct, when chiding my grandfather for a mild inconvenience or fumble, is to curse him the hell out. (“你这王八蛋” etc.) I didn't like it as a kid and I don't like it now, but they're in their 90s and just chortle it off. And I know for a fact that this is normal in China and the diaspora. (Not everyone, mind, but it's common enough that when I share it with people from different regions, they're like, "Oh yeah, that's a thing.") I personally suspect that my grandparents have such a barbed tongue because they grew up during the war. My mother, while she doesn't do it as harshly as my grandmother, does the same thing. All this to say that while I'm not in MXTX's head, she's a millennial Chinese woman just like a lot of us. Meaning she's probably seen the same thing. And it reflects in MDZS -- your parents grew up in a horrific war/post-war era? Check. Now you're living in peacetime, and they're not as harsh as your grandparents? Check. But they still have a barbed tongue when they speak with you? Check. Just my little side commentary. The rest of your talk is more well-sourced than my master's thesis, so carry on.
haterisms beneath the cut
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.
#mdzs#qiu-yan#theladysunami#tears falling like peridots#you kinda have to source everything in this fandom lol#frankly i don't think of jiang cheng as verbally abusive#yu ziyuan? ehhhh times were different but what she did was definitely toxic as fuck#note to people who can't read hanzi 兔崽子 might get translated as bastard#it's better translated as brat and can actually be affectionate at times#it literally means like offspring of a rabbit AKA a bunny#王八蛋 AKA what my grandma uses is an actual insult there's no other way to use it#you gotta be ANGRY to use it especially in the older generation#for context wwx uses it in cql when wen chao locks him up with the dog#this is a cql only event#also not to get too personal but i WAS actually abused by my mom#we went to family therapy and the white lady mediating was stomping over us and dismissing us if anything she made everything worse#the other two actually had to push her out and then talked to us about cultural differences#they were two black women and they didn't try to put us down they really were like oh some values are clashing#and what matters is that you love one another and deserve gentleness both of you#my mom stopped abusing me after that#i really don't want to turn this into a racial thing but i'll always remember everything in stark contrast#and thinking that those two women probably understood what it was like to have someone dismiss your intergenerational trauma#like they said her hitting me was wrong but they didn't try to condemn her what mattered was making it stop not punishing her#and after basically growing up my whole life being abused by her she stopped do you know how big a deal that is
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eaion · 2 months ago
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Yan Wushi and Shen Qiao! 🥰
I love this scene so much in the book and it's an amazing and very accurate art! 🥰❤🥰
Posted with permission, art by @_Konia_ on Twitter.
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nat-draws · 4 months ago
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Anything, Shen Qiao?
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dahliadenoire · 1 year ago
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if yan wushi evil why wife shaped
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tempo-takoyaki · 4 months ago
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I started reading Thousand Autumns.
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teardew · 8 months ago
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commission for shelleyyyyyy n_______n
damn who did that to him. is that old guy leering in the background bothering you king?
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technically-human · 27 days ago
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So I read Thousand Autumns
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gommeboi · 7 months ago
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old men <3
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h1mmel · 6 months ago
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my first ever yanshen fanart <3
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miyusketchdump · 5 months ago
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Lip Cup
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the-music-maniac · 4 months ago
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I hadn't seen someone do this one yet (probably just missed it somehow) but you can't tell me this isn't Yan Wushi to the core
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cutelilbitch · 1 month ago
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Horrible news everyone, evil old man has a crush and is insufferable about it.
Fan coloring of the amazing original illustration by MiMo
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nat-draws · 6 months ago
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Yan Wushi in the donghua be like-
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secret-sageent · 4 months ago
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no because this is literally how shen qiao and yan wushi meet
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osteoh · 3 months ago
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yan wushi every time he puts shen qiao in a Situation
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