Me At The Con Last Weekend To Anyone Who Would Listen

*slams down 8 bucks*

if i had a nickel for every time i encountered some version of the following observation in the mdzs fandom:

"i'll never understand why fans of jin guangyao and jiang cheng and xue yang keep insisting on defending these characters' virtues. you can just admit that your favourite characters are assholes and terrible people. it's fine. why are you defending them."

i could probably buy myself a packet of some really sick edibles the next time i hit up the dispensary. but more to the point, what truly frustrates me about this observation (aside from the implicit arrogance that seems smugly baked into it every time i stumble upon it) is how completely it misunderstands what villain and antagonist fans are doing when we discuss the positive attributes of our favourite characters. it's the assumption that what we're doing must always be about defence, about arguments, about insisting that the characters we like are Good, Actually, And Here's Why--when in reality i have never, ever, ever encountered a fan of any of these characters who has been interested in definitively declaring that any of them are good or bad people. like that just straight up hasn't been part of the conversations we've been having with each other.

like, what you are interpreting as us "defending a character's virtues" is very often just us literally stating how the characters' actions have had a positive impact on other characters' lives, or the world more broadly. or we are just trying to compare acts of cruelty/violence committed by one of these characters vs the acts of cruelty/violence committed by the protagonist and his inner circle, to draw inferences about one or both characters, to better understand them and the story and how they illustrate various themes, whether mxtx meant for them to appear in the text or not. it's just... analysis. and yes, a core competency when it comes to literary analysis means being able to critically defend your arguments using examples from the source material.

jokes about the jgy or jc stans and "defence squads" aside, it's not about defending individual characters, because the characters don't need a defence, because they're not real. but the work we've all collectively put into examining these characters, and contextualizing their actions within their circumstances within the source material, is certainly real, and it makes sense that we'd want to step up and defend our work when people who disagree with us choose to misrepresent our arguments.

Nie Mingjue : Arguing with me is pointless I knew I was wrong 10 minutes ago

* Post temple scene

Wei wuxian: what lies do you tell yourself when your heart had been broken?

Lan xichen: I can't even lie to myself anymore I just feel empty inside

Song lan: For 24 hours all crimes are legal , what crimes will you be commiting?

Xue yang: none, because they are now legal

Song lan: listen here, you little shit

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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.

There will never be a day where I'm not salty about LXC's treatment post Guanyin Temple

I found this on tiktok, and this is the best thing ever ✨️😤🔥.

Like XueYao are such divas omg 💅.

I want to post it here to save it

Jiggy, hello. What was that entrance💅🔥

Xicheng

you can always tell when a ship exists solely because they were the only two remaining characters left and the ship always sucks