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The mental whiplash from Lu Guang going from 'little ball of grief and anxiety' all season to 'premeditated murder' at the end

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What I love about this in specific is lampshading that no, he really didn't.

The reason he drank milk is Qiao Ling, who was there for him, even in little things like coaxing him and making sure he was drinking his milk

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lu guang rlly said if im living through doomed yaoi ill doom other people too

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yingdu didn't answer many questions but it did settle this debate

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since when did i start defending my favourite shows and favourite characters 😭

I mean, I have always been unhinged and interacted with equally unhinged people. my basic platter starts with someone as morally gray as wei wuxian or hamlet or nangong jingnu

@croded sorry for the tag but really thank you for interacting like I need more people who are completely unapologetic, support lu guang's rights or wrongs no matter what.

It's concerning when I have to talk sense on Tumblr 😭 I have my uni to do that why here

first season first episode, when I saw him, I knew (there is something DEEPLY wrong with him) I would put him in my crochet bag and write melancholic poems for him with my pink glitter pen. Or maybe raunchy smuts, or gut wrenching life lessons and philosophy

UGH I need my Tumblr fun back, why am I being serious

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Ciel in this chapter is so awe-inspiring and phenomenal because… who the hell steals someone’s identity then gets mad at the person when they want their name back? Earl Ciel Phantomhive, that’s who.

Is it understandable emotionally? Of course. He worked very hard to reclaim the title and the lands; even putting up his own soul as a collateral to the demon. Even if r!Ciel had survived, there is no guarantee he could have done as good a job as our Ciel did. But it’s also… hilarious?? Just unthinkable to any common person.

Look at The Audacity™ of this little young master 😭 yes, that’s definitely the child who collared Sebastian… no one else could be like him.

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There are some moments like these where it’s painfully apparent that Ciel is just a thirteen year old child. He has a sweet tooth, and he likes to drink his tea and milk with honey… he’s so cute that it’s painful to see.

I think Ciel’s age plays a (somewhat) big role in how his relationship with Sebastian turns out. It’s both cute and sad; he lost his family at such a young age, and most of the care he’s received—and allowed himself to receive—since then comes from the demon who is waiting patiently to eat his soul. He’s been with Sebastian since he was ten—he hasn’t even lost all his milk teeth yet back then. It’s inevitable for such a young child to be compelled to depend on his caretaker—even if Sebastian was also completely out of depth and inexperienced in taking care of a human child; he is still Ciel’s primary caretaker and the only one who knows all of Ciel’s secrets and vulnerabilities.

With Sebastian being a demon, one could expect him to try to manipulate and foster unhealthy dependence with such a young child—and honestly, I am not crossing this possibility off the book either, what’s with Ciel not even knowing how to dress himself (I’m not sure how common this is amongst 13 year old filthy rich Victorian era nobility, but the kids in Weston seem to be doing fine without a live-in butler)—logically speaking, he’s probably one of the worst choices for anyone to depend on.

And yet, I think it’s precisely because Sebastian is a demon that Ciel allows himself to depend on Sebastian; because Ciel knows exactly what Sebastian wants, and he’s already agreed to give Sebastian what he wants. Ciel has a deep distrust on human nature; humans are fickle and have no scruples about lying. Humans can change, just see how quickly Elizabeth and everyone else change their attitude on him after they figured out he wasn’t who they thought he was. Humans cannot be counted on. Sebastian, on the other hand, is bound by their contract and has laid his cards on the table. Ciel can’t *trust* him, but Ciel can count on him to remain by his side—until Ciel gives him what he wants eventually. So Ciel can “trust” him—or more like trust the contract—and depend on Sebastian to some degree.

I think with Ciel’s naturally suspicious personality, if Ciel had been a young adult or at least a few years older; he might have been more wary and distant towards Sebastian, and Sebastian too would be less required to care for his master to this degree—but Ciel just happens to be at the age where he still needs a lot of care. Due to this vulnerability, Sebastian might have started out looking down on this little crybaby master; but Ciel surprisingly shows an undeterred perseverance that Sebastian has never seen on any master before him.

The two of them; a young child who has been rendered incapable of trusting any human, and a starving demon who is left in awe by the unexpected strength of his little master; form a strange, unlikely, and unique connection.

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honestly speaking,

As an Asian person, if you don't have a historical and political sense of post colonialism, you can't help viewing your cultural texts and traditions through a neo-colonial lens (before you even notice it).

Art is always political, language is always political and popular media resides in the complex nexus of 'money' and 'cultural capital' of the target audience.

As Asians, we often take a lot of things for granted (like, some traditional things which are 'radical' by Western standards are assimilated into the normative structures so much, we hardly recognise their subversive potential) You can be 'apolitical' but ultimately you subscribe to the notions of the dominant discourse marketed as 'norm'.

A few months ago, I accidentally found a paper on 'The Xiao Zhan incident' written by a phd scholar of my department. She has her specialisation in feminist politics in fandom discourses, media studies and sexual violence in yaoi fanfictions, where the violating/violated male bodies provide a sort of deviant pleasure to the mostly female fan-authors.

I obviously got interested and gathered a lot of materials to study on my own. Then I realised that a portion of "rotten girl/danmei" fandom mass is not what I actually thought them to be. As a literature major, I have always looked at anime/donghua queer ships as artistic and political mode of subversion. In my personal opinion (it is personal, I am still learning) Link Click's interpretation changes hugely from one interpretive community to another,

One group complain about Link Click not being 'gay' enough.

Another community complains that Li Haoling is "selling homosexuality"

Another community feels that Link Click beautifully and realistically portrays queer feminist issues, not conforming to the comphet expectations of 'queer representation/ fetishization'

If you have been active in fandom spaces, you know which group has the respective discourses as dominant ideas AND how it's very complex and mixed.

(I personally belong to the third interpretive community.)

The idea of 'fanservice ' which is directly associated with the 'deviant female pleasure and gay pornography' debate is very important to me. Because when the reclamation of femininity and androgyny in a AMAB body crosses the line and steps into the domain of fetishization is a topic of controversy.

My views are subject to change. Just because I have loved Link Click so far, doesn't mean I will not be critical.

Right now, I enjoy lc as a show

AND

analyse how politically nuanced it actually is

btw, if you are interested in that 'debate', here is a paper I recommend

or if you want to know more, comment or something and I'll send you a list of materials

thank you @whispersoflullaby for having the amazing discussion with me

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I hope we won’t meet again.

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My kids 🥹 (they're like 20 years old)

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GUYS i believe there’s a clarification to be made

YINGDU SPOILERS

lu guang did not ATTEMPT murder

it’s not like he tried really hard but the bitch vein lived against all the odds

vein was resurrected

which means lu guang fully succeeded at committing murder

vein was dead ass corpse before liu xiao came (or however else he was brought back to life)

anyways you can figure i am SUPER normal about link click yingdu chapter *trembles*

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It'd be really funny if Lu Guang has like four powers (seeing into photos, clapping into em, puppeteering from a distance, power word: heart failure) because he just... murdered several other superpowered people and those powers carried over dives. Imagine. A loop with a really early Cheng Xiaoshi death. Lu Guang going "yknow what, might as well" and just going around the world killing people and yoinking their powers.

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Yingdu was a say no to smoking campaign all along💔💔💔🥀🥀🥀

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oh. my. god. i

okay, just hear me out!!

since cheng xiaoshi's mother is also a time traveler and wants to save her husband by changing the past, WHAT IF her actions GREATLY influenced the development of events? i mean, of course they did, but what if cheng xiaoshi WASN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE in THE VERY FIRST timeline?

what if it was his mother's attempts to prevent her husband's death that led to this series of events??? to xiaoshi's death??????

JUST IMAGINE. it's the first time she's changed the past, SO liu xiao & co start looking for her AND cheng xiaoshi's father (because SHE is looking for him)

is that why they find cheng xiaoshi and everything leads to vein killing him?????? AND THEN lu guang jumps in time, trying to stop it.

WHAT IF he doesn't succeed precisely because cheng xiaoshi's mother dives in a few years before him and changes events there, condemning him to failure in advance???

WHAT IF THE ONLY WAY to save cheng xiaoshi is to give up saving his father??

imagine a conversation between lu guang and cheng xiaoshi's mother. she proves that if her son and lu guang don't interfere, she will save her husband and everyone will live happily, and lu guang tells her about cheng xiaoshi's death. aaaaand they both understand HOW to prevent it. a choice between a husband and a child. and it seems to me that she would have chosen a husband (seriously, it feels like both parents consider their goal and each other more important than their son..)

NOW IMAGINE she apologizes to lu guang and promises to save cheng xiaoshi as soon as she saves her husband and then disappears, and Lu Guang now has a certain enemy. not the whole flow of time, but the mother of the one he is trying to save. aand now he knows who needs to be stopped in order to achieve his goal.

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS?

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imagine not seeing your mother for literal years and the first thing she says to you after possessing your therapist's body is:

"oh thank god, you're not ugly!" like- no hi, hello, i'm possessing this chick's body btw, how have you been. just- at least she has her priorities straight 😭