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not all ships are For wanting them to be in a happy healthy relationship together. sometimes shipping two characters means you want them to be erotically obsessed with each other and become entwined in a mutually toxic love affair for a few months and then horrifically break each other's hearts and never speak again. sometimes you want them to be codependent best friends with enough repression to explode a submarine who only make out/have sex when they're at their worst. sometimes you want them to pine after each other for years, never say anything, and then die. sometimes you want them to kill each other. this, too, is shipping

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Lan Qiren: I pray that my nephews won't share their father's weakness for women!

Monkey's Paw: *curls a finger*

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Actor for Lan Wangji does a very good job conveying his inner life considering he has had I believe less than 100 words of dialogue, as opposed to Wei Wuxian who in seven episodes has spoken more than you might think physically possible

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There is no reason for me to post yet another take about the "ethics" of the golden core transfer but I'm gonna. Look, WWX textually lied to JC about it precisely because he knew that JC would not agree if he told the truth. Regardless of what you think the reason for that is (for example I think the most obvious explanation is that having someone mutilate themselves for your benefit is completely abhorrent on every single level and JC doesn't even have to be a particularly loving or noble person to think this) it remains true that WWX purposefully deceived JC in order to get him to agree to the procedure. Even putting the details of the procedure aside (most of which are even more horrific) that fact itself runs headlong into the whole "informed consent" thing and automatically makes it Obviously Bad From An Ethics Perspective.

But most people who dismiss this don't actually disagree with that, it's really just that they don't think JC's autonomy matters because he's a prick. And to be clear, he is a fictional character, so obviously his autonomy doesn't matter (and I for one love to violate it). But it really does become very rapidly obvious that that's what's being argued.

Like nobody sincerely thinks that if your family friend said he was driving you to your ECG and then secretly transplanted his heart into you instead that would be fine, and he shouldn't have to tell you about it because he has a right to privacy as an organ donor; they're just fine with it happening to JC because they don't like him. But it's still important to downplay how bad it is or frame it as something that's actually beneficial which JC should be more grateful about, because if you just admit that you're okay with characters you dislike being hurt, you have to then grapple with the fact that the character you do like did something hurtful.

It's like how I'm fine with Wen Ruohan being the victim of a brutal and deadly backstabbing because I don't like him. But I'm not going to argue that attacking your boss with a sword conforms to workplace ethics from a modern perspective, no matter how bad that boss is.

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And what if I said Wen Ning and Wei Wuxian have the same type of relationship that Su She and Jin Guangyao have? What then?

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the thing about writing lan wangji is there is literally no way to translate his linguistic register into english, because from my understanding he speaks so academically that its incredibly concise in chinese, whereas academia speak in english tends to just be. more words. too many words. i like seeing how different writers tackle this issue

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如同死亡，在族谱上 需要一个人舍身     — filling in the blanks, chen guiliang (trans. meifu wang & michael soper)

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My friends always tease me for defending murder when I say this but I genuinely think it's relevant that the setting (both the world at large and the specific period of conflict much of the story covers) of MDZS has a much higher baseline of violence than our own. Purposeful combat (with intent to kill or injure), corporal punishment, and killing of others are all more normalised to the characters than to us in the 21st century

Which is just to say that JGY's various crimes really should be interpreted within the framework of how his world worked, and in essence killing his commander is not equivalent in severity to killing his assistant branch manager would be in a modern AU

Which is to say, I honestly don't believe JGY would really consider murder to be an option in any regular old modern AU? Like both from a logistical and a moral perspective

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jin guangmouse

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what does it mean to be a little brother? up to you.

jin guangyao and jin zixuan might have many siblings, but also they are only children.

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instead of worrying abt whether or not yr scaring the hoes y dont u find some hoes that dont get scared, brave hoes. indomitable hoes

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*logs off tumblr and rereads the source material* phew... it was all just a bad dream.. . thank god...

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he’s helping!

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haha thats so funny [face gets gravely serious] but were you not a staunch and trusted ally i would have you executed for such a joke

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never trust a hug. It’s just a way to hide your face.

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All you do is whine

untrue i also suffer, rot, wail, wallow, haunt, mourn and rage

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the flute mutant crawls horribly out of the bog, flute clutched in hand. just one thing is on his mutant mind: flute solos.