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sometimes you can tell when somebody who likes a ship just likes one of the characters and is simply using the other half as a vaguely ooc vehicle to make content for their fave which is whatever. not against the law. until the other half theyre using as a vehicle is YOUR fave. and then you want to explode them with your mind

Xue yang: just give me 4 minutes and I swear all them little curls are gonna be straightened when I have done with your ass

Song lan: why you texting my man

Xue yang: why you responding when you know I wasn't talking to you

just because it has come up in conversations today, here's what novel canon meng yao says to nie mingjue when nie mingjue catches him killing the jin commander on the langya front:

Nie MingJue saw all of the scene. Without saying a word, he unsheathed his saber by an inch. A sharp ring pierced through the air. Hearing the familiar sound of unsheathing, Meng Yao immediately trembled. He spun around, his soul almost evaporating, “… Sect Leader Nie?”

Nie MingJue pulled all of his saber out of its sheath. The body of the sword glared brightly, yet the blade itself vaguely glinted in the red shade of blood. Wei WuXian could feel the billowing anger from him, along with emotions of disappointment and hatred. Meng Yao knew Nie MingJue’s character more than anyone else. He dropped the sword with a clang, “Sect Leader Nie, Sect Leader Nie! Please wait, please wait! I can explain!”

Nie MingJue shouted, “What do you want to explain?!”

Meng Yao threw himself over, half rolling and half crawling, “I had no other choice, I had no other choice!”

(EXR translation, pgs 476-477)

he doesn't deny what he did or try to say someone else did the killing like he does in cql. he just wants a chance to explain why he did it.

Moon over Miyajima, Ito Yuhan, ca. 1930

JC: You bring dishonor to the family.

WY: Well at least I'm bringing something.

Can't agree more

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

well personally i like it when there’s incest and necrophilia and murder and cannibalism and abuse and torture and gore and mutilation and body horror and sexual depravity and death.

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.

Jiang cheng: People out here having threesomes and I ain't even having twosomes

Nie huaisang: And that's way they call you handsome

I saw this and I can't stop laughing.