Sect Leader Yao: *firmly Believes That WWX Is The Devil Incarnate Who Is Raising An Army In Secret, And

Wei Wuxian: Me and Lan Zhan are dating

Lan Xichen: We have known for ages

Wei Wuxian: ? We started dating 2 days ago

Jin Guangyao: tf were you doing before that

hate to say it, but one trend i don't really like among MDZS canon divergence and/or fix-it fics is the more simplistic morality. i know many people disagree with every part of the following statement here, but MDZS is genuinely interesting to me because of it's grey morality: almost none of the characters are purely good or purely evil, the moral characters of each person don't stay unchanging over time either, and the moral dilemmas that characters are placed into are genuinely distressing and therefore interesting.

but quite a lot of MDZS canon divergence fics seem to strip that away? instead of preserving the moral ambiguity of the source work, they instead wholeheartedly choose some characters to be "good guys" and other characters to be "bad guys," therefore allowing the story to have a straightforwards good-beats-evil resolution. ahhhhh, i can't bring myself to enjoy fics where jiggy is a mere mustache-twirling villain, so whoever the writer stans can just kill him and thus fully save the day (whether lan xichen is an evil enabler or a tragically deceived victim is up to the writer's discretion). ahhhhh, i can't bring myself to enjoy fics where the entire jiang family are evil abusers to poor uwu xianderella, just so lan wangji can swoop in as his prince charming and save him (whether jiang yanli is an evil enabler or also the victim of [yu ziyuan/jiang cheng/etc]'s abuse is up to the writer's discretion). ahhhhhh, i can't bring myself to enjoy fics where wen qing and the other wens are just straightforwardly evil, so everything jiang cheng does against them is justified. fics that somehow maneuver every named character onto the same side, against Evil Big Baddie wen ruohan / wen chao / wang lingjiao / jin guangshan / morally-acceptable-to-torture ensemble / etc., are more fun and pleasant to read, but even they seem to fall into the same pitfall of simplistic morality: there are good guys and there are bad guys, and happy endings are when the good guys kill the bad guys.

or maybe the preponderance of this trope suggests a broader, more depressing reality: in order for there to be happy endings in stories involving violent interpersonal conflict, morality must be black and white. when morality is allowed to be ambiguous instead, the happy ending dissipates, because the reader finds that in some sense all violence is tragic. thus, no - there must be a clear hero and there must be a clear villain, such that when violence is enacted upon the person designated the villain, it is a triumph instead of a tragedy.

So 3zun, huh?

"Don't talk to me or my child ever again"

Bsd fandom have their „ don't call me odasaku "

and xiyao stans have their „ don't call me brother, we are no longer brothers "

Akutagawa: you have disappointed me.

Atsushi: like how you’ve disappointed Dazai?

Akutagawa: *heavy breathing*

Atsushi: OKAY I’M SORRY-

Kind of obsessed with takes abt Jin Guangyao's manipulativeness (which I'm not even refuting! He is manipulative!) that also refuse to take into consideration the context in which his manipulation exists, which proceeds to net you awesome takes about who in 3zun was The Abuser and people showing up to the comments sections of good postcanon Xiyao reconciliation fic to passive aggressively talk about how it's sad that Lan Xichen is getting manipulated back into a toxic relationship

Xue yang: he's a 10, but blind.

Yao: Xingchen? Uh 4.

Xue yang: uh why?! Are you blind too?!

Su she: 4.

Xue yang: can you stop being a Jiggy leech

Yao: he's a 10 and a part of the Lan sect.

Su she: I was part of the Lan sect!

Yao: he IS a part of the Lan sect.

Su she: -1.

Xue yang: which Lan?

Yao: *hitting him with a cushion*

Yao: obviously er ge 🙂.

Xue yang: 7.

Su she: he's a 10, but is short, so he got to wear a hat.

Yao: *rolls eyes*

Xue yang: 10.

Yao: he's an 8, but we're "divorced"

Su she: 3 for purple grape boi.

Xue yang: 6 cuz he has a whip.

Xue yang: he's a 9.5, has a mustache, really really meaty. And got a saber.

Yao: xue yang. Leave dage alone. And he's a 10.

Xue yang: you and your medium rare dage.

Su she: 6. I'm only a Yao simp.

Xue yang: *dies*

Yao: 👀

@xianyao-villainousquartet I'm just tagging you because I hardly get any likes from anyone else. And you seem chill about these characters.

Vietnam and Opoczno girls 🏳️‍🌈💘

hang on, chengyao fake-dating for whatever reason would be fucking hilarious