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curiosity-killed · 3 months ago

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*crawls out of 2 yrs’ silence on mdzs* in a modern au Lan Wangji’s reliance on structure and rules could closely mirror the way some students advance immediately from bachelors to masters to phd without taking breaks because it is a “safe” route that allows them to fulfill family and societal expectations of success and intellect in a relatively familiar environment without the perceived higher risk and greater volatility of success in the workforce, particularly where there is a family business in which such education is not necessary but still rewarded. His protection of Wei Wuxian could similarly play out as him dropping out of his studies before being pulled back by his family, and his growth across the 13 yrs supported by completing his degree but shifting his dissertation focus or concentration to a less theoretical and more highly applied vein of the same field. In this AU, I—

#it’s been said before and better but it’s on my mind today #one of my pet peeves with lwj characterization is this like…#hm #overemphasis on him rejecting gusu lan and its rules and values #bc like #what the outer world largely sees of LWJ is a paragon of GL #he is very traditionally successful!#he’s *odd* bc he also cares about the common people #but he has a lot of capital (multiple dimensions!)#very few people actually know about his defense of wwx or the consequences #instead (imo) the LWJ we see post-timeskip has learned how to balance both the principle and the reality #to steal from TGCF #he’s chosen a third path #which is different from either the expected route in mdzs jianghu #OR wwx’s rejection of society for the wens #this is less the case in the end of the novel but I would argue very central to cql’s ending #and relevant in both versions #anyway #I am so full of empanadas #time to go back to work #personal #the untamed #lwj

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