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he’s like that weird uncle that won’t stop randomly showing up for family events despite cutting him off 23 years ago for felony fraud charges

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not to upset anyone but i actually think Wei Wuxian was even more Jiang Cheng’s Greatest Mistake than Lan Wangji’s. Like I know the core transfer discourse tends to rotate pretty narrowly around consent and the (unwinnable and pointless) argument of Who Sacrificed More, but. In the rules of that world as I understand them from text, your body belongs to your sect. Hand, core, labor, life– all of it. Jiang Cheng’s willingness to lay down his life in Yiling to prevent Wei Wuxian’s capture was noble, loving, generous– but it was not proper for him to do because, as sect leader with no heir, his survival was more important than Wei Wuxian’s. His act of love was personal and therefore indulgent. It was not in service of Yunmeng Jiang; it was not honorable by any definition of the world he lived in or the sect he owed absolute allegiance to. Your body belongs to your sect.

Jiang Fengmian and Madam Yu got this. Wei Wuxian got this. It’s one of many, many ways he was a better Jiang than Jiang Cheng could ever be. It also weights their respective sacrifices differently. Wei Wuxian’s sacrifice of his core was brotherly, loving, and virtuous, but it was also what most of his life had geared him for. Jiang Cheng was going against not only his own survival instinct when he threw himself at the Wen soldiers in Yiling, but also against the established rules of a world he was actively fighting to get back.

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Wei Wuxian: What are you talking about? The Nie Saber Tomb is not scary.

Nie Huaisang: Please, you were there for like ten minutes, barely inside the antechamber, it’s not like you could actually get inside which is good because I didn’t want you falling off the cliff that leads to the actual tombs. Besides, I was there the whole time to make sure the people eating trees didn’t get to you before you found out the missing piece and Jin Ling.

Wei Wuxian:

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abandoned space elevator

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jin guangyao being so polite while taking everyone hostage is so fucking funny. like he's actively restraining them and he's like "hello!! welcome!! if you'd please come right this way and seal your spiritual powers— oh no, sir, there's no need for that kind of language! i understand that it's an inconvenience but i assure you it's necessary"

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You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

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I bought a book with extremely modern and relatable translations of Sanskrit poetry from 2,000 years ago

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Honestly, as a German I can not quite understand the obsession of the English speaking world with the question whether a word exists or not. If you have to express something for which there is no word, you have to make a new one, preferably by combining well-known words, and in the very same moment it starts to exist. Agree?

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My bio implies that I don’t know what „vegetarian demon-worshipper“ is supposed to mean but I lied.

It’s a way that some ancient texts ( somewhat impolitely) refer to practitioners of Manichaeism that I found too funny to take seriously.

also I actually am vegetarian and studying religions which,, close enough I guess.

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Kaoru Yamada

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Gay ppl r so funny i wish they were real

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moleskine = bad

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Andrey Surnov evening traffic

more art by Andrey Surnov

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Gustav Jahn (1879 – 1919)

Winter, around 1905