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If I may, I must make the gentle request that people consult Wikipedia for basic information about anything.

I’m not entirely sure what’s going on, but more and more people coming to me saying they can’t find info about [noun], when googling it yields its Wikipedia entry on the first page.

I’ve said it before, but I’ll gladly say it again: You can trust Wikipedia for general information. The reason why it’s unreliable for academic citations is because it’s a living, changing document. It’s also written by anonymous authors, and author reputation is critical for research paper integrity.

But for learning the basics of what something is? Wikipedia is your friend. I love Wikipedia. I use it all the time for literally anything and everything, and it’s a huge reason why I know so much about things and stuff.

Please try going there first, and then come to me with questions it doesn’t answer for you.

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Speak for Those Who Cannot by liverbiver9

Speak for Those Who Cannot

by liverbiver9 (@liverbiver9)

T, WIP, 13k, Wangxian

Summary: Wèi Wúxiàn never arrived at Jīnlín Tái, leaving Jīn Zixūn and his army waiting at Qióngqí path until Jīn Zixuān showed up and dragged them all back. Some days after the explosion, word finally reached the Great Clans of the mysterious explosion. Jīn Guāngshàn immediately sent cultivators to investigate. Upon arriving in Yílíng, the Jīn cultivators found an impenetrable ward around Luànzàng Hill, making it impossible for anyone to step past the foot of the mountain. Posted on a tree just in front of the shimmering ward was an edict that forever changed the jiāng​hú. OR A very self-indulgent Yílíng Wèi Sect/Canon Divergence AU spanning two timelines over the course of 14 years. Updates every other Friday. Kay's comments: As you can tell, I'm currently feasting on the feast that is @liverbiver9's fics and his WIP currently has me in a chokehold; I am so invested! It's a Yiling Wei story where Wei Wuxian struggles with chronic pain following everything that has happened to him, leading to them sealing themselves away before Jin Ling's 100-day-celebration and I really love how this story diverges, how the world changes as they think Wei Wuxian is dead and I'm loving all the Wen remnants getting names and personalities as well and I can't wait to see how Lan Zhan is doing! Except: “We’ll spend the rest of the year preparing as much as possible. Come the new year, our sect will announce that our founding patriarch and first zhǎngmén, Wèi Wúxiàn, died in his sleep from injuries sustained while destroying the Yīn Hǔ Fú. The sect will enter a period of seclusion to mourn their founder, and the wards will be enacted. While we are protected from the rest of the world, you will finally rest properly. Once I deem you stable enough, then you can work on fixing the wards to allow us to cross through.” Wèi Wúxiàn stared at Wēn Qíng with wide, shocked eyes. Before he could formulate a single word, Wēn Qíng continued, still mashing herbs in her mortar. “We will tell the citizens of Yílíng our plans and barter with them—seeds, grain, cloth, a few animals, and their discretion in return for closing off the mountain and containing all the yuàn qì inside our borders.” Finally, Wēn Qíng turned around and forced the medicine she had just finished down Wèi Wúxiàn’s throat. Once he was done grimacing, she stepped back and waited.

pov alternating, canon divergence - ambush at qiongqi path, no ambush at qiongqi path, wei wuxian creates a sect | yiling wei sect, sect leader wen qing, disabled character, chronic pain, mutual pining, angst, trans wei wuxian, genderqueer wei wuxian, angst with a happy ending, found family, demonic cultivation, cultivation sect politics, chronic illness, lan sizhui is a wen, character study, burial mounds settlement days, wen remnants live, wei wuxian lives

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Saw a cis (I think) woman talking about how cis women need trans women because if trans women don’t exist then being a woman isn’t a choice and is instead just something you’re consigned to for life.

I’ve been thinking about it all day because I agree but I feel like there’s more to it than that.

Idk. Gotta think more.

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My friend started reading mdzs and I decided to make a guide to help her differentiate between all of Jin Ling's uncles. And also flex my designer muscles on these characters

Nie Huaisang design was inspired by @cherizsaw 's design. Love it a lot

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"i don't comment on ao3 because i don't wanna be annoying or weird" skill issue + you greatly underestimate the power dynamic here, writing multi paragraph comments is like feeding a bunch of deeply insane and possibly starved ducks at the park and watch them go completely mad over having received a piece of bread

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“So let me get this straight. We’re here to rescue a princess.”

“That’s right.”

“At the request of a princess.”

“Right again.”

“And you, who will be leading the expedition, are also a princess.”

“You’re very perceptive.”

“How big is your royal family, again?“

“We don’t have one.”

“But–“

“We overthrew our monarchy centuries ago, but we kept most of the titles around. The rank of ‘princess’ is held by the directors in charge of various civil service branches.“

“Huh. And the princess we’re rescuing today is in charge of…?”

“Public sanitation.”

“The Lord of Death’s Dominion kidnapped your public sanitation director?”

“We think he’s a little confused.”

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I relate to wwx

Not bc of all the trauma, but bc I, too, think Jiang Yanli is a goddess amongst men

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Modern AU Yiling Laozu where WWX's a mob boss or something... trying to do idk a ransom video livestream or something only for A-Yuan to storm in like a toddler during quarantine and try to eat the video camera. Just

WWX: And if you don't comply with my demands--

A-Yuan: *baby stomps*

WWX: A-Yuan, no!

A-Yuan: *grabs the camera with sticky baby hands and puts it into his open mouth*

WWX: A-Yuan NOO!!!

*video cuts*

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死而无悔 (To Die Without Regret) by liverbiver9

死而无悔 (To Die Without Regret)

by liverbiver9 (@liverbiver9)

T, Series, WIP, 26k, Jiang Yanli/OC | Background Wangxian

Summary: Series title is an idiom from Analects of Confucius 1. Too Late For Regrets Jiāng Yànlí dies and wakes up outside Lotus Pier fifteen years before the Massacre at Nightless City. 2. Vain Regrets of Old Age Wèi Huǐlí dies of old age and ends up back in her original timeline; Wèi Wúxiàn, Wēn Qíng, Wēn Níng, and Jīn Zixuān are dead, only Jiāng Chéng and Jīn Líng left living. Named Jiāng Yànlí once more, she scrambles to pick up the broken pieces of a life that seems like nothing but a trifle dream. Kay's comments: This series has been a wild ride so far! I really enjoyed the character growth Jiang Yanli went through and how she managed to make herself at home in Qishan, finding new love in Wen Ning's and Wen Qing's father. Loved the trans representation that felt very natural to the setting and was very glad to see Wangxian at the end as well. I was a bit sad that the Jiang family reactions to Jiang Yanli's dissappearance (and later Wei Wuxian's appearance) wasn't addressed but that might happen in the future, who knows! Excerpt: Now her Jīn Zixuān and Jīn Líng were gone. Alone in an inn that was far away from her childhood home, Jiāng Yànlí, misplaced in time with only the determination to not let her past repeat, made yet another sacrifice. She already sacrificed her life, her future, for this second chance and now she needed to sacrifice her name as well. She couldn’t ‘dislike separation’ any longer, as she was already separated from everything and everyone she’d ever loved. Instead, she would now ‘part from regret,’ as it is too late for regrets. She couldn't be a Jiāng for now, but that was hopefully temporary; perhaps later, once she was old and looked less like her younger self, she would pick back up her surname. For now, Huǐlí hoped her ancestors forgave this lapse in filial piety. She would start in Yílíng; then, she would go to Qíshān.

pov alternating, pov jiang yanli, canon divergence, jiang yanli lives, jiang yanli-centric, bamf jiang yanli, demonic cultivator jiang yanli, angst and hurt/comfort, happy ending, found family, time travel, time travel fix-it, somebody lives/not everybody dies, getting to know each other

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死而无悔 (To Die Without Regret) by liverbiver9

死而无悔 (To Die Without Regret)

by liverbiver9 (@liverbiver9)

T, Series, WIP, 26k, Jiang Yanli/OC | Background Wangxian

Summary: Series title is an idiom from Analects of Confucius 1. Too Late For Regrets Jiāng Yànlí dies and wakes up outside Lotus Pier fifteen years before the Massacre at Nightless City. 2. Vain Regrets of Old Age Wèi Huǐlí dies of old age and ends up back in her original timeline; Wèi Wúxiàn, Wēn Qíng, Wēn Níng, and Jīn Zixuān are dead, only Jiāng Chéng and Jīn Líng left living. Named Jiāng Yànlí once more, she scrambles to pick up the broken pieces of a life that seems like nothing but a trifle dream. Kay's comments: This series has been a wild ride so far! I really enjoyed the character growth Jiang Yanli went through and how she managed to make herself at home in Qishan, finding new love in Wen Ning's and Wen Qing's father. Loved the trans representation that felt very natural to the setting and was very glad to see Wangxian at the end as well. I was a bit sad that the Jiang family reactions to Jiang Yanli's dissappearance (and later Wei Wuxian's appearance) wasn't addressed but that might happen in the future, who knows! Excerpt: Now her Jīn Zixuān and Jīn Líng were gone. Alone in an inn that was far away from her childhood home, Jiāng Yànlí, misplaced in time with only the determination to not let her past repeat, made yet another sacrifice. She already sacrificed her life, her future, for this second chance and now she needed to sacrifice her name as well. She couldn’t ‘dislike separation’ any longer, as she was already separated from everything and everyone she’d ever loved. Instead, she would now ‘part from regret,’ as it is too late for regrets. She couldn't be a Jiāng for now, but that was hopefully temporary; perhaps later, once she was old and looked less like her younger self, she would pick back up her surname. For now, Huǐlí hoped her ancestors forgave this lapse in filial piety. She would start in Yílíng; then, she would go to Qíshān.

pov alternating, pov jiang yanli, canon divergence, jiang yanli lives, jiang yanli-centric, bamf jiang yanli, demonic cultivator jiang yanli, angst and hurt/comfort, happy ending, found family, time travel, time travel fix-it, somebody lives/not everybody dies, getting to know each other

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Follower Recs

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A cool JYL time travel fic. - Anon

後悔莫及 (Too Late for Regrets)

by liverbiver9 (@liverbiver9)

T, 20k, Wangxian & Jiang Yanli/OC

Summary: Jiāng Yànlí dies and wakes up outside Lotus Pier fifteen years before the Massacre at Nightless City. Armed only with Chénqíng and her wits, she attempts to change the events that led to so much death, at the cost of never seeing her family again. She doesn’t expect to find love along the way.

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Yunmeng Jiang is probably the Florida of the Jianghu

Like, they canonically fought water ghouls with their bare hands, regularly get into brawls with each other, have no concept of appropriate volume, hell they have a town down close to the worldly people with no height separation or massive stone walls or a comical amount of gold plating, if you didn’t know that they was a cult of martial sorcerers in that town you might just think “wow, wealthy trading family. The docks are nice!” and then just leave.

The sect leader has no spine and a vaguely homoerotic relationship with his dead best friend slash manservant, he adopted one is fucking insane and also a radical genius, and you’d expect him to be the outlier but no, the sister is just as fucking weird, she’s probably gone around in soaking wet clothes carry a child like a football because “he fell in, I couldn’t just leave him there!”

The son likes to pretend he’s sane but he’s such a chronic gossip that he probably needed an intervention, his sword was named after the three poisons, and he also spent 13 years thinking that his dead adopted brother would find a way to resurrect himself.

Even Madam Yu isn’t safe because she lashed a teenager with a lightning whip like 36 times in the middle of the fucking Spanish Inquisition. She has such an irrational hatred of this one guy that she starts shitting on anyone even remotely kind to him. Girl. Go to therapy, or go to jail.

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Okay, to be clear: I totally agree with OPs point! The scenes are absolutely mirroring each other, and it is hypocritical of WWX to judge Bicao/Qin Su's mother for keeping the secret for so long.

I wanted to simply point out that, while they are mirrors, they are also supposed to be foils to each other. I won't get any deeper as OP requested not to get into a deeper discussion, but I wanted to make it clear that I do agree with the original post and that I was simply rambling about the differences between the scenes in addition to the similarities OP pointed out.

I will remember to add actual context the next time I say something... forgot not everyone is in my head with me LOL

it’s just so on the nose that wei wuxian openly blames bicao for qin su’s suicide because she told her the truth about jin guangyao a couple of scenes before the golden core reveal.

on the one hand it posits the reveal as an act of violence. a selfish act. and it really fucking highlights wei wuxian’s self-sacrificial bullshit. it wasn’t enough to give up his golden core, he also had to continue suffering in silence so as not to hurt jiang cheng’s feelings!

but like, i’d say only about half of jiang cheng’s subsequent suffering is caused by the truth, and the other half by the not having known the truth all along. things could have unfolded very differently if wei wuxian had owned up when it became relevant!

isn’t it also an act of violence to posit yourself as the sacrificial lamb under someone’s knife without them ever even realizing you’re there?

and like, to be clear, i absolutely fucking love wei wuxian and his self-sacrificial bullshit. but it’s still bullshit! and i fully understand and sympathize with jiang cheng.

god they’re both just broken little gadgets and i wanna smash them together!

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Oh, sorry I didn’t mean to come across like I was arguing or anything! Your post just tickled my brain and I started rambling with my own take. I’m sorry if my tone came across as aggressive or argumentative. I really like reading your takes here on your blog and I’m always nervous about reblogging with my own thoughts but I thought I’d try this time… I will take note to double check my tone next time. Again, I’m really sorry.

it’s just so on the nose that wei wuxian openly blames bicao for qin su’s suicide because she told her the truth about jin guangyao a couple of scenes before the golden core reveal.

on the one hand it posits the reveal as an act of violence. a selfish act. and it really fucking highlights wei wuxian’s self-sacrificial bullshit. it wasn’t enough to give up his golden core, he also had to continue suffering in silence so as not to hurt jiang cheng’s feelings!

but like, i’d say only about half of jiang cheng’s subsequent suffering is caused by the truth, and the other half by the not having known the truth all along. things could have unfolded very differently if wei wuxian had owned up when it became relevant!

isn’t it also an act of violence to posit yourself as the sacrificial lamb under someone’s knife without them ever even realizing you’re there?

and like, to be clear, i absolutely fucking love wei wuxian and his self-sacrificial bullshit. but it’s still bullshit! and i fully understand and sympathize with jiang cheng.

god they’re both just broken little gadgets and i wanna smash them together!

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I think the difference to me here is that when Wen Ning told Jiang Cheng about the core transfer, he was filling in a portion of information that Jiang Cheng was missing. He gained something from that which he didn’t have before and had noticed it missing, at the very least subconsciously. Wen Ning received nothing from spilling this secret, except maybe relief from holding it for so long.

What did Qin Su have to gain from learning the truth? Really, truly what did she gain? Nothing. She didn’t gain anything. There were no gaps to fill. It only broke things further. And Bicao, as Wei Wuxian so shrewdly noticed by the expensive bangle she was wearing, did have something to gain.

That is truly the underlying difference between these situations. One was a secret about a selfless act, which in classic Chinese literature is representative of a pure and morally just person, and the other was a damaging secret told only for material gain.

While the two scenes can be read as foils of each other, I always felt that the scene with Bicao and WWX blaming her for Qin Su’s death is more about him piecing together Nie Huaisang’s scheme and judging the cost of it. Because I fully believe he’s more or less figured out who is behind all of it at this point in the book. Especially since this scene is so closely tied up with the cultivation world rapidly doing a 180 on Jin Guangyao, I found it more to be a commentary on the cultivation world itself rather than Wei Wuxian’s past.

it’s just so on the nose that wei wuxian openly blames bicao for qin su’s suicide because she told her the truth about jin guangyao a couple of scenes before the golden core reveal.

on the one hand it posits the reveal as an act of violence. a selfish act. and it really fucking highlights wei wuxian’s self-sacrificial bullshit. it wasn’t enough to give up his golden core, he also had to continue suffering in silence so as not to hurt jiang cheng’s feelings!

but like, i’d say only about half of jiang cheng’s subsequent suffering is caused by the truth, and the other half by the not having known the truth all along. things could have unfolded very differently if wei wuxian had owned up when it became relevant!

isn’t it also an act of violence to posit yourself as the sacrificial lamb under someone’s knife without them ever even realizing you’re there?

and like, to be clear, i absolutely fucking love wei wuxian and his self-sacrificial bullshit. but it’s still bullshit! and i fully understand and sympathize with jiang cheng.

god they’re both just broken little gadgets and i wanna smash them together!