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accidentally cried about jgy in therapy 🥇@whatevermajorlosee on ao3 | M, mid-20s

[duohensheng]

(unfortunately serious about the therapy thing)

🫡 firm believer that xiyao should have had a theme song for when they spend too long sharing eye contact à la wangxian

⚔️ to be found defending jgy at odd hours

🫶🏼 currently reading tgcf svsss come scream with me #m reads

i do:

meta (usually in the form of incoherent tags on eloquent posts)

silly commentary and entry-level memework

lineart doodles #myart

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if anything i say on here upsets you feel free to let me know!! i will apologise and/or explain what i meant further.

[baiwu-jinji]

I don't want to start a fight or anything so I'm not gonna reblog the post but as a MXTX fan I just have to disagree with this take lol. Since English readers' judgement of whether a danmei author is a good writer or not heavily depends on the translation, it really puts MXTX at a disadvantage. I was talking to @alliumms some time ago about how the wit and whimsy of TGCF's language is completely lost in the official translation - it's not necessarily the translator's fault because it's an almost intangible and untranslatable quality. I've never laughed so hard at anything in danmei as I laughed at Quan Yizhen and his gold bars. It probably wouldn't be half as funny if other writers told the story because half the humour is in the language itself, in the way MXTX phrased things (I should probably write a post about it some day). Priest's language may be more literary than MXTX's but it's certainly not as inventive and creative as MXTX's, and I personally think she doesn't have either MXTX's or Meatbun's ability to connect with readers because her writing can be really dry (sorry Priest for being so hard on you I still think you're a good writer).

[baiwu-jinji]

@romchat your tags and other people's comments are starting to make me realise how problematic the official translation is and how much it might damage people's impression of MXTX's works💀 In the past I just thought it was an issue of MXTX's humour and quirkiness being lost in translation but at least the beauty of her langauge could still somehow come through, but then I see people calling her 3am taco bell to Priest's personal chef and I just start to doubt my reality 怀疑人生.

I suggest people read Ari's translation of MXTX's short story that MXTX wrote even way before her first novel and judge for yourself if this deserves to be called 3am taco bell.

[mossymage]

A flower caught in the wind

[mossymage]

“Hua Cheng didn’t respond, only bowed his head slightly and gently lifted Xie Lian’s chin so they could touch foreheads.”

- page 250, tgcf volume 5.

[weirdplutoprince]

Yiling Patriarch era Wangxian is so fucking funny like.

Wei Wuxian: Lan Zhan always looks so angry and disturbed whenever people accuse me of stealing away virgins and fucking them in my evil cave. He must hate to think me so far gone and depraved

Lan Zhan: it should be me in that cave

[eggsyllent]

[foxyjoy-art]

Important questions

[oldbllover]

Would worship again but not eat again.

[blaaddi]

" To me, the one shining in glory is you, the one falling down is dust is also you. What is important is you, not the state of you."

[corvid-cryptidd]

hua cheng being an absolute menace the second he knows xie lian returns his affections is so dear and silly to me

[iveoy]

goodnight beloved~

[lazyrunawayphilosopher]

Obsessively collecting screenshots of every Xie Lian blush

[rabdoidal]

you’re telling me this rock i’m hitting is a bottom?

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

The way Xie Lian would no hesitatation let Hua Cheng possess him for plot purposes if he needed to and would be genuinely upset when Hua Cheng was able to be in his own body again because he’s a freak like that and would love having Hua Cheng that close to him and being able to keep him safe with his own body like he’s that insane about Hua Cheng just like Hua Cheng is about him and that is genuinely important to me.

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

Considering the fact he’s set up to be like an antagonist force in the Heavens for Xie Lian Pei Ming is such a wild side character like:

He’s probably aromantic

He’s older than Xie Lian by maybe 5 years maybe 100s it’s really vague

He is constantly following his dick into places I wouldn’t go with a gun

He isn’t actually antagonistic to Xie Lian at all despite all the behind the scenes manipulation trying to make that happen

Him and Xie Lian share custody of a 250 year old war criminal

He’s the text book example of why “I was just following orders” is really fucking bad

He has an incredibly strong sense of justice

He’s best friends with the most evil woman and second most evil man in heaven for most of the novel

He’s genuinely a good person

He’s so charismatic his best friend/situation-ship tried to make him king without asking him

He’s so distraught about what happened with The Rain Master he runs away from her for +800 years of existence

He’s a slut

He’s a Hualian shipper

Despite being probably the third strongest Martial God in the series he spends all of Mount Tonglu with a broken elbow and being comic relief

He genuinely believes he and Hua Cheng are buds

He somehow didn’t have any children so instead he tries to trust fund kid his 17 times great grand nephew who was raised by the most humble man ever and can’t work out why the kid won’t let him buy his way out of jail

He wants to talk to Xie Lian about his sex life

He spends most of the last book being depressed that one of his best friends is dead and another is on the run

People pray to him for long lasting relationships

A yandre ghost is trying to kill him

Jun Wu was actively running a smear campaign against him the entire time

He was part of the magical girl sword

He’s the slut of the heavens

He is both so tried and living by the motto fuck it we ball

He’s the only other man Xie Lian finds handsome

He was the first person to realise E’Ming was a boner metaphor

He’s scared of the bull man who hates him

He is probably going to be the next heavenly emperor since Xie Lian doesn’t want that shit

He’s the only martial god who genuinely likes and respects Ling Wen until Xie Lian shows up

He says “Ho Ho” when Hualian kiss

[kitachett]

pt 2 of He Xuan's adventures with the giant Xie Lian statue

[kitachett]

I headcanon that during He Xuan's time in Tonglu, after several years of being alone, the giant Xie Lian statue basically became Wilson from Castaway for him lmao