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honestly continually taken aback at how squeamish citizens get if you're honest about the practical calculus of immigrating, even the ones who think of themselves as pro-immigration! like why are you suddenly stumping for The Good Immigrant archetype bc i promise the immigration bureau is NOT going to fuck you!!!
#like all my international student and immigrant friends are pretty like yeah these are the things you have to do to get legal status#particularly if you're not in like one of a dozen 'highly skilled' fields#and it's like oh okay so the system incentivizes going to a university here as a smoother pathway to immigration#that gets you points on your eventual application for longer term residency#and yet both the government and other people want you to pretend that that doesn't factor into your decision making at all???#like why is it only okay if i tell you that i came here just for the love of academia and then was like oh haha it's so great i had to stay#and was just serendipitously able to take advantage of this immigration pathway that i didn't even know about that you left open to me!!!!#like why would i maintain that kind of fiction if you're not a child and should know better#like i took a gamble and figured that it would be quicker and more reliable than trying to find a job that would sponsor me#and then i wouldn't be at the mercy of some random employer who could fire me and jeopardize my status at literally any time???#it drives me literally insane how much i'm supposed to pretend that the moon is made of pudding like i'm sorryyyyyyyy#like why are you setting up a system where you can only get through it in certain ways then freaking out at me for taking one of those ways#and it must be said probably the only one of those ways that was actually realistically available to me given my resources and skillset#like it's so weird how many residual hangups people have about what 'right' way to immigrate even if they say they don't#and it must be said generally know fuck all about how immigration and its bureaucracy work in their given country so like half of the shit#they're imagining as what you should do isn't even something that most people slash anyone could do#it drives me nutssssssss okay i'm done#i just was getting a medical test done and the tech was like oh you must love [subject area] and i was like oh yeah haha and i also loved#being able to move here (rookie mistake i should not have even mentioned this but in my defense i was very drowsy)#and she got soooooo weird and terse and was like 'oh! well i just assumed you were one of those people who loves learning'#like yeah that was on me but like you're an adult who knows how tuition and employment work and i literally said i was doing a lit degree..#like MAYBE if i were soo independently wealthy that would be a sufficient reason to work constantly for shit pay and no practical benefits#but c'mon girly........#okay i'm done it just drives me up the wall to have people act like i'm some craven freak#for looking realistically at my options for immigrating and being like hmmm well this one seems the most doable for me i guess#like i have figured out you do just have to be like oh yeah haha to whatever people say and again i would normally remember to do that#but it just makes me feel soooo like we're living in two different realities. esp when i have friends who Get It due to we're all getting#fucked by the immigration bureau constantly#it feels a lot like when you have to talk about your disability with people who've literally never thought about or experienced such a thing#and they'll give you some inane useless boilerplate advice then be affronted if you talk about how you actually (have to) navigate the world
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Xicheng Fic Rec ~
image credit: Silverink58 @afincf-tirwer i promise i didn’t forget ♥♥♥
*** This a mixture of multichapter fics. ♥ - for ongoing // ♦ - for completed. Sumaries are directly taken from the A03 description.
♦ Just Two Lost Souls by Rivlee
Even if it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife, husband, or companion, all Jiang Cheng really wants is to run his company, take care of his pets, and maybe get some sleep. Unfortunately the new job promotion to CEO comes with a loaded social calendar and a need for some sort of companion.So clearly the most sensible answer is to start dating the man he's had a crush on since he was a teenager.Because nothing could go wrong there.
♥ my heart is stone (and still it trembles) by Christian_Richtown
In an effort to get his council to stop forcing the marriage issue on him, Jiang Cheng decides to scare them into submission by marching into Cloud Recesses and proposing to the First Jade of Lan himself. It's a brilliant plan really and there's no way Lan Xichen will do more than laugh at the joke. The council will shut up, Jiang Cheng's marriage annoyances will stop, Jin Ling will get to enjoy some snow, and everything will go back to normal.So to say he's unprepared for Lan Xichen actually accepting his hand in marriage is a bit of an understatement.
♥ Shameless by ElectricFeline
After a night hunt gone wrong, Jiang Cheng accidentally becomes a myth after surviving the unsurvivable. Lan Xichen has to now deal with the aftermath of a painkiller-tea-dosed concoction that Wei Wuxian comes up with to make sure Jiang Cheng has no pain. Problem is, no one knows how to deal with Jiang Cheng on any sort of substance beyond alcohol and they're pretty sure they're not ever going to want to again.
♦ You & Me Baby, We'll Eclipse The Sun by 2501987
This AU is a Mafia/Gang universe set in Shanghai - a little fucked up (this is an understatement) and shows a lot of morally degenerate, obsessive behaviour between our four main men. Expect a lot blood, murder, possessive relationships that border on unhealthy, a stupid amount of life-threatening situations, along with gore and lovemaking.
♥ How to Escape Your Problems and Live Your Life in Denial – the Jiang Cheng Edition by Bgtea
So, this may not be the life Jiang Cheng's imagined for himself - he’s living in an apartment slightly bigger than a closet above a café filled with sassy, judgmental cats, penny-pinching and coupon-cutting his way to stave off starvation and scurvy. And of course, just to make his life more complicated, there's the Lan Xichen Problem.
♦ The Beginner's Guide To Moving On by messenger18
Jiang Cheng is jaded, bitter and miserable. Lan Xichen isn't sure he can ever trust anyone again. They've always been at the periphery of each other's lives, perpetually visible but never touching, and it seems it's going to stay that way. Then Jin Ling and Lan Sizhui fall in love, and everything changes.
Thrown together as the only single men in a family full of couples, neither is exactly happy about their situation. But when two lonely people find each other, sometimes they can be a little less lonely together.
♥ S.C.I. 谜案集 by The_Sassiest_Trixster
It was a foggy morning in Gusu as a young to middle aged man lay in the middle of the street, his throat slashed as blood from his neck pooled next to him. All around the body, onlookers were gasping and staring while a tall young man with light skin, long black hair tied in a high half-ponytail, and brown eyes dressed in black pants, a red dress shirt, black tie, and black suit jacket overlaid with a long black trench coat trimmed with red, knelt next to the body, studying it. As more and more people kept coming to look at the body, a police van suddenly pulled up and a few officers stepped out, heading towards the scene.
♥ Of Clouds and Rain by LazuliAlekto
Xichen sat back, hands steepled in front of him. The cat revealed its claws, he thought. He waved away the comment dismissively. “We are not discussing everyone, we are speaking of my brother…and yours.”
“Fine,” Jiang Cheng answered, but his eyes sparked with a successful hit made. Xichen was thankful that Sect Leader Jiang had let it lie.
“So, we come back to the issue at hand. What do wish me to do, Jiang Wanyin?”
Jiang Cheng leaned forward, a devious look on his face, “you and I, Zewu-Jun, are going to get those two idiots together.
♥ World Where Roses Bloom by 2091981
After the fiasco at Guanyin Temple, Jiang Cheng is, to put it simply, a complete and utter mess. He still can't face Wei Wuxian, still runs away from the knowledge that the warm, shining core isn't his. Jiang Cheng is slipping, the rage, fury, and hate are washed away, leaving him cold and lonely.
Lan Huan is bitter. His warm smile warps into a malformed quirk of his lips, and his eyes are blank. He should have done something, anything. He knows now, don't trust so easily, or he would get hurt.
Or, a fix-it cause I can't bear to leave both of them hurting and alone. ABO to make things a lil more interesting!
♥ The Red Thread of Fate by Tidecaller
Jiang Cheng is a young, troubled Yunmeng Jiang discipline when he first gets to know Lan Xichen, and the bond they form will be fundamental to the events of the dark future that awaits.
Or: A re-imagining of how the two future Sect Leaders got close to one another during a time they both needed it, and how much things change because of it.
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