I know it’s haha funny to laugh at dutch and call it discount english or what-have-you, but I stopped finding it funny a long, long time ago. There’s so much active distaste for a language that has every right to exist and be found beautiful, but it’s hated by people who don’t speak it and native speakers who do. Why would you call any language lesser than? Any language better than another? There’s so much beauty to be found in each language, so many different ways of life and seeing the world, so many different words and sayings and ways to love that you can’t find in another. Dutch is no different, and it deserves to be appreciated, not driven into the ground and disregarded as a worn piece of clothing that’s served its purpose
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aside from thinking it would never work out, i think qingxuan and he xuan's dynamic becomes less interesting if you look at it through a shipping/romantic lense?
the way their stories connect and how it slowly gets revealed to the reader is one of the more interesting parts of tgcf for me (i read it years ago so i don't remember the details anymore but i remember not being able to stop thinking about he xuan specifically and how i wish his character study could have gone even deeper)
and idk for me, romance does not fit into that at all? i feel like it even distracts from what is actually interesting and complex about them
i agree omg, its fascinating like theyre like two sides of the same coin and shi wudu flipped that coin essentially, theyre infinitely more complex than what shippers make of them
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