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worst feeling in the world: post a chapter only to realize you’ve made a major continuity error

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first person to use the aroace jing yuan tag on ao3 has got to be one of my top three life achievements for real

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YOU SEE THE VISION.

You make a good point about Silver, although I’d imagine Lilia to be somewhat different as a character anyway if the war was still going on. If I don’t look at Jing Yuan’s death flags they don’t exist. Trust.

Oh Jing Yuan totally tries to get his kid to have fun and socialize…I see it re Aetherium Wars.

STOP Lilia during the Halloween event was crazy. Crazy old man. Emotional competence of a peanut (I mean me too).

I do love how Lilia & Jing Yuan both have masks of whimsy. Could a depressed old man be this whimsical??

some day we need Yanqing & Silver to hit their dads point blank with the "WE KNOW YOU'RE NOT PERFECT PARENTS BUT ITS OKAY BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU ANYWAYS" at the same time Jing Yuan & Lilia shoot them with the "YOU DON'T NEED TO EARN OUR LOVE BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU ANYWAYS"

We can only pray 🤧

Fae Yanqing & Jing Yuan is such a concept. I like it. On the flipside, we could also have Xianzhou Diasomnia. Malleus is a Vidyadhara High Elder, obviously. Lilia and Sebek could be either Vidyadhara or Xianzhou natives. Silver still the regular human of the bunch (or he could be sorta like Moze, a transformed short-life species).

Because the AO3 author’s notes character limit hates me, I am posting this to Tumblr. Please enjoy me rambling on about fictional fathers, ft. HSR Jing Yuan & TWST Lilia Vanrouge (I refer to TWST chapter 7 dynamics below but without detailed spoilers).

I love it when a narrative is like, “Woe. Unconditional love of a child be upon thee,” to a depressed fictional man. Gotta be one of my favorite dynamics for real.

Jing Yuan reminds me a lot of Lilia Vanrouge from Twisted Wonderland. Like yeah the long-life species army general single parent things are the obvious connections but also I think they both share the same parenting flaws (physical and/or emotional distance out of not wanting to burden their child(ren) with their own pain; discounting their child(ren)’s love for them because they see themselves as fundamentally unloveable—which is more of a headcanon on JY’s part, but it’s real to me; letting their underage child be in the military and/or giving them intensive military training). Also Yanqing’s dynamic re Jing Yuan is like a mashup of both Malleus (weird political/formal distance in an obviously parental relationship) & Silver’s (wanting to repay an adoptive parent for their love, through military service even, when the parent doesn’t see a need for it; secret past his dad told him nothing about) dynamics re Lilia. Oh god, this is why I think Jing Yuan sucks at cooking; it’s the Lilia associations (plus Jing Yuan giving Yanqing money for food/eating takeout in “Taking It Easy”: there’s no way this man can cook). Also no wonder why I like Diasomnia so much. Sometimes a family dorm can be a single father, his two children, and their screaming pet crocodile. If you know you know.

Disclaimer I’m not saying I think Lilia or Jing Yuan are necessarily “bad dads,” in fact I have said and will say again Lilia Vanrouge is literally the father of the millennium (if you know you know) & I don’t really like categorizing people as “bad” or “good” (vs. action/intent/consequence). Every parent has their flaws, some are better and some are worse (in action/intent/consequence), re Jing Yuan and Lilia their kids love/respect them and want to be around them so they’re on the better side of things in my book.

Plus, I do think Yanqing picking up the sword was something he wanted to do himself at the very beginning, c.f. Jingliu’s Myriad Celestia Trailer where he talks about his reasons for doing so—and attributes his original desire to Jing Yuan telling him stories about Jingliu, before saying anything about expectations (and where he talks about repaying Jing Yuan’s teachings at the same time, so presumably after he’s started learning). So I do see a difference in parenting quality between Jing Yuan and say, Crepus from Genshin Impact, whose expectations for Diluc seem more heavy-handed/originating from Crepus himself. Yanqing’s pressures I think actually stem a lot from political/societal circumstances external to the Jing household, although Jing Yuan’s reticence does contribute to them.

There is that line in the kitty text message conversation about how in Yanqing’s earliest memories, he’s already being taught something by Jing Yuan. I think you can interpret that something as anything from reading to (if the previous paragraph is unconvincing) swordplay, but in my heart of hearts it is playing the flute.

Jing Yuan and Crepus both get failing grades in the “don’t let your kids be child soldiers” action/consequence column though. Lilia is on thin ice because it seems like Silver is only Malleus’s retainer/bodyguard and not like, on active combat duty or whatever, but there was still the childhood intensive training era until Lilia chilled out. I still have to catch up on TWST chapter 7 though.

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Because the AO3 author’s notes character limit hates me, I am posting this to Tumblr. Please enjoy me rambling on about fictional fathers, ft. HSR Jing Yuan & TWST Lilia Vanrouge (I refer to TWST chapter 7 dynamics below but without detailed spoilers).

I love it when a narrative is like, “Woe. Unconditional love of a child be upon thee,” to a depressed fictional man. Gotta be one of my favorite dynamics for real.

Jing Yuan reminds me a lot of Lilia Vanrouge from Twisted Wonderland. Like yeah the long-life species army general single parent things are the obvious connections but also I think they both share the same parenting flaws (physical and/or emotional distance out of not wanting to burden their child(ren) with their own pain; discounting their child(ren)’s love for them because they see themselves as fundamentally unloveable—which is more of a headcanon on JY’s part, but it’s real to me; letting their underage child be in the military and/or giving them intensive military training). Also Yanqing’s dynamic re Jing Yuan is like a mashup of both Malleus (weird political/formal distance in an obviously parental relationship) & Silver’s (wanting to repay an adoptive parent for their love, through military service even, when the parent doesn’t see a need for it; secret past his dad told him nothing about) dynamics re Lilia. Oh god, this is why I think Jing Yuan sucks at cooking; it’s the Lilia associations (plus Jing Yuan giving Yanqing money for food/eating takeout in “Taking It Easy”: there’s no way this man can cook). Also no wonder why I like Diasomnia so much. Sometimes a family dorm can be a single father, his two children, and their screaming pet crocodile. If you know you know.

Disclaimer I’m not saying I think Lilia or Jing Yuan are necessarily “bad dads,” in fact I have said and will say again Lilia Vanrouge is literally the father of the millennium (if you know you know) & I don’t really like categorizing people as “bad” or “good” (vs. action/intent/consequence). Every parent has their flaws, some are better and some are worse (in action/intent/consequence), re Jing Yuan and Lilia their kids love/respect them and want to be around them so they’re on the better side of things in my book.

Plus, I do think Yanqing picking up the sword was something he wanted to do himself at the very beginning, c.f. Jingliu’s Myriad Celestia Trailer where he talks about his reasons for doing so—and attributes his original desire to Jing Yuan telling him stories about Jingliu, before saying anything about expectations (and where he talks about repaying Jing Yuan’s teachings at the same time, so presumably after he’s started learning). So I do see a difference in parenting quality between Jing Yuan and say, Crepus from Genshin Impact, whose expectations for Diluc seem more heavy-handed/originating from Crepus himself. Yanqing’s pressures I think actually stem a lot from political/societal circumstances external to the Jing household, although Jing Yuan’s reticence does contribute to them.

There is that line in the kitty text message conversation about how in Yanqing’s earliest memories, he’s already being taught something by Jing Yuan. I think you can interpret that something as anything from reading to (if the previous paragraph is unconvincing) swordplay, but in my heart of hearts it is playing the flute.

Jing Yuan and Crepus both get failing grades in the “don’t let your kids be child soldiers” action/consequence column though. Lilia is on thin ice because it seems like Silver is only Malleus’s retainer/bodyguard and not like, on active combat duty or whatever, but there was still the childhood intensive training era until Lilia chilled out. I still have to catch up on TWST chapter 7 though.

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every so often I get hit in the face w the reminder that blade's shard sword weights 1.5 tonnes and jing yuan's starfall reverie weights almost 7 tonnes, and yanqing parried the first and regularly spars against the second. Then again, apparently the force of a hit from starfall reverie would realistically be several times the force of the strongest atomic bomb ever detonated, so I'm guessing it's more of a shorthand to say These Characters Are Super StrongTM than genuinely taking into account the physics of it 🤔

hello!! yeah i remember coming across the word 斤 without the 公 in front somewhere outside of the game like a few months ago, looking it up, and going “oh! so that’s what they mean by catties in hsr!” then two seconds later i thought about the numbers the game uses and was like, wait, Those Things Weigh How Much. famously, sci-fi writers have no sense of scale. although in this case it might be more accurate to say xianxia writers. force of an atomic bomb is crazy though. i kind of want to know how much yanqing’s sword collection collectively weighs now lol.

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i need to press that man like a flower. get in the book boy

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Generals and their little light

I love them very much

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Don’t forget.

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reading the shattered swords vn as an hsr yanqing fan is crazy because when they start mentioning him it’s just like, oh my god, that’s my boy (he’s a grown ass man), how dare the narrator talk shit about him (i mean apparently he goes around beating people up…but like that’s my boy), wait. What The Fuck do you mean his wife is 20+ years older than him. Hello.

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leave the front line to the cavalry

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aromantic hanahaki disease that's cured by rejecting the one who has unrequited feelings for you

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who gave this man wine in jail

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playing through the shattered sword vn and i was not prepared for how much it would remind me of the luofu trailblaze mission. like i really should have expected it, sushang + otto and his freaky casket are on the cover but like what do you mean they literally call otto a ‘luocha’ person.

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for those who don’t play genshin this update is like the resurrection of jesus christ

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not to mention it’s WINDBLUME. windblume. mond holidays my beloved.

im going insane

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BIG DAY FOR ANNOYING PEOPLE RAGBROS FANS WE ARE SO BACK

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im going insane