Did The Trend W My Lovelies

i think rednote has hope 🫶🏾

I cannot get over how good the Japanese dub cast is for mdzs.

They have Hikaru Midorikawa as Jiang Cheng and Akira Ishida as Jin Guangyao.

Yessssss

How MXTX characters would react to the assassination of the UHC CEO

Wei Wuxian: has anyone seen Wei Wuxian and Luigi Mangione in the same room? 👀

Lan Wangji: 100% ready to aide and abet

Jiang Cheng: Runs to review the sect healthcare plan - he has enough problems without looking out for assassins.

Lan Xichen: understands the motive but did Luigi try playing calming music for the CEOs before resorting to violence? 🥺

Jin Guangyao: oh so some people get lauded as heroes when they commit murder? SMH double standard.

Nie Mingjue: appreciates martial artistry when he sees it. The stance? How quickly he cleared the jam? A true warrior.

Xue Yang: it lacked a certain pizazz, a stabbing would have been much more visually effective

Wen Qing: 100% approves bureaucrats should have no authority over doctors

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.

me at the con last weekend to anyone who would listen

Jin Guangyao?

more like Jin GuangYaoi, am I right?

Damn this is deep

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

Biggest plothole is why didn’t Meng Yao have jewelry and many pretty clothes when I know in my heart Nie Huaisang was using him as a dress-up doll/dumping ground for things he didn’t wear anymore