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Hello!

As you might notice from the url, I have moved my personal!

This blog was a side blog, but the account its attached to is one I don’t use anymore, so the new blog (with same url, chrispersonalcorner) is to be a side blog to my fic blog account, and thus making it easier for me to handle both.

For now the blog is all new, there’s just a welcome post pretty much, I’ll see to put a theme up, plus a little about me or about blog page, and then I will go through this old blog to make a queue with reblogs I like enough to reblog on the new blog (and thus have content).

See you on the new blog, and if not for any reason, I wish you the best!

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They’re probably looking for a place to eat and rest for the night after a cold day of investigations. But I feel like these two would never be cold as long as they’re together.

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I think another thing I’m irritated about in regards to The Untamed is how it treats demonic cultivation and how that has seeped into how a lot of the fandom views it.

i previously mentioned a rant about it so now here it comes

The Untamed can’t have anything morally grey at all because of censorship. So demonic cultivation is Evil and used mainly by the bad guys. Wei Wuxian using it was a “bad thing” but necessary as he had nothing else.

(this, of course, means the climax where Jiang Cheng gives Wei Wuxian Chenqing back very very awkward because…wait, that’s his spiritual tool for demonic cultivation??? and there is everything else as well sigh)

In the novel however, demonic cultivation is actually treated similar to how most cultivation is treated in xianxia novels. Which is interesting considering how xianxia novels work.

Let’s put the simple explanation of xianxia novels out; they are the high fantasy version of wuxia. It means “immortal hero” basically and is about cultivators ascending in power and kicking a lot of ass. Usually monsters but the usual tropes of wuxia still apply so fighting evil humans is par for the course too, especially if we are talking someone who falls under A Pupil Of Mine Until He Turned Evil.

I have mentioned it in another post I did, but Mo Dao Zu Shi is a deconstruction of xianxia novels. Barely any tropes are played straight in regards to the narrative. So when you read the novel, keep that in mind. Do a little research into xianxia it’s honestly very interesting!

Cultivation is hard. It is tricky and dangerous because you have to regulate your qi. There are stages of formation and doing anything slightly wrong risks a qi deviation. You know, how Nie Mingjue dies? That is a risk to all cultivators in xianxia novels. This is a well known trope and understanding of xianxia and wuxia novels. That’s why in the Guanyin Temple Jiang Cheng has to sit down after being wounded and focus; the wound interfered with his qi and if he was not careful it would end up worse. This is an assumption made in the writing; that the reader will understand it because MDZS is written for an audience who a) is interested in a danmei novel and b) in particular xianxia novels. Which are popular in China! It’s the counterpart of European Fantasy basically, wuxia and xianxia the more new little brother to the former.

With that understanding, demonic cultivation is at first treated as a short cut dark arts because you don’t need to do core formation to have the power. And the formation of a core is hard and doesn’t always work out to you being super powerful because of various factors. However, the risks are implied to be the same in the end. Wei Wuxian cautions people about it, but does not actually say people shouldn’t practise it, outside of refusing disciples (though they went there thinking he was “evil Yiling Patriarch” so can’t blame him for that). In fact, spiritual tools made with demonic cultivation are common (Spirit-Lure Flags, Compasses of Evil) use and Wei Wuxian is studying it a lot before he dies.

The main problem with demonic cultivation isn’t that it is evil. It is the fact it is new. This is an entirely new path that Wei Wuxian pulled out of his ass within three months in the Burial Mounds. He was tossed into hell and scrambled together a working version of manipulation of demonic cultivation. And then he focused his efforts on using it for war and in particular as a means to provide a lot of fodder fierce corpses to screw over the Wen Sect.

This is a messy, taped together path and thus why Wei Wuxian was still studying things by the end of his first life. Because there is a lot left to learn. Unlike with normal cultivation which has a long, broad history to it, Wei Wuxian is the singular inventor and builder of this path.

The single plank road in the dark. The dark here is more what is “unknown” not what is evil. Even Xue Yang does things different than Wei Wuxian; for all Jin Ling (who by the way we aren’t actually meant to see as correct in regards to his accusations against Wei Wuxian, especially after you have already read it and have more context on what really happened and how much Jiang Cheng lied to him) accuses Wei Wuxian of being behind living corpses, Wei Wuxian didn’t do that. He didn’t do those experiments. Xue Yang did.

What experiments he did is up for grabs but there were a lot of papers left behind by him if we go by the mess in his cave as shown twice. The Compasses of Evil came at that point. He was still working on them before the end.

Likely he was working on night-hunt suitable demonic cultivation. Before he was, as I said, working on the means to make it useful for war times. Which certainly increased the idea of it being scary and “evil” since the most useful thing he had to work with was fierce corpses.

The real problem with demonic cultivators who try to follow Wei Wuxian? Incomplete notes and working off a bad assumption that no one really brings up directly in the novel but is hinted at throughout in regards to how Wei Wuxian thinks back to what he was doing there with his experiments in the Burial Mounds when he was protecting the Wen Remnants.

Demonic cultivation is an unfinished cultivation path. And that is where the real danger lies; not everything has been discovered or experimented with by the time Wei Wuxian died. He is the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation yes.

But his work was unfinished when he first died.

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TIL astronaut Jack Schmidt discovered he was allergic to moon dust, which is a thing millions of other people have probably gone their whole lives never knowing.

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boyfriends, but still a bit shy about it

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“Yes! It’s us! The Good Boys!” 

(via)

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Today’s problem

what do chairs for dragons look like.

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The Marshmallow Effect

in which the teenagers are bored and therefore susceptible to Wei Wuxian Shenanigans™

p.s. this entire comic is shamelessly ripped off from B99. pls watch it’s amazing.

the series so far: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 ★

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