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smtorama

Who gave Zagreus a license

achromaticbibliophile

Hua Cheng: My husband can wear whatever he wants because people are scared of him.

Luo Binghe: My husband can wear whatever he wants because I can fight.

Lan Wangji: My husband can wear whatever he wants because he’s a hoe and I knew that before we got married.

bichenistraumatised

ah yes "friendship"

It is one of the greatest love stories of our time & they say it's just "true friendship"💀

While yes friendships are great and for me platonic love is much more beautiful than romantic love but NOT HERE! NOT IN THIS STORY! THIS IS ABOUT MY AUTISTIC GAY MAN AND HIS BISEXUAL HUSBAND! IT IS VERY MUCH GAY AND VERY MUCH ROMANTIC! Seriously even bichen knows but don't ask that poor thing when it's already traumatised

laarems

Love is stored in the wangxian

bnnywngs

there's a lot of talk about wei wuxian going back in time and saving everyone (except those who don't deserve it) and keeping his golden core

little is said about wei wuxian confronting nie mingjue saying something like: *eye roll* chifeng-zun i already saw your naked dead body, of course you don't intimidate me anymore

questbedhead

I love me a pseudo-historical arranged marriage au but it always nudges my suspension of disbelief when the author has to dance around the implicit expectation that an arranged marriage should lead to children, which a cis gay couple can't provide.

I know for a lot of people that's irrelevant to what they want from an Arranged Marriage plot, but personally I like playing in the weird and uncomfortable implications.

So, I've been thinking about how you would justify an obviously barren marriage in That Kind of fantasy world, and I thought it'd be interesting if gay marriage in Ye Old Fantasy Land was a form of soft disinheritance/abdication.

Like, "Oh, God, I don't want to be in this position of power please just find me a boy to marry", or, "I know you should inherit after you father passes but as your stepmother/legal guardian I think it'd make more sense if my kids got everything, so maybe consider lesbianism?", or "Look, we both know neither of our families has enough money to support that many grandkids, so let's just pair some spares and save both our treasuries the trouble".

Obviously this brings in some very different dynamics that I know not everyone would be pinged by, but I just think it'd be neat.

kyraneko

This is actually a really cool variant solution to a real historical problem, wherein either primogeniture or other profoundly shitty customs led to wealthy parents having insufficient resources to provide for all of their children in a manner consistent with their station.

Historically, the Church and its widespread monastic structure functioned as a dumping ground for second/third/etc sons and all the daughters one can't afford to marry off adequately, with the military eventually picking up the slack for the former post-Reformation to the point where it's been argued that the need for something to occupy these dispossessed sons played a role in Europe's ongoing conflicts between its nations and the eventual push of imperialism and colonization over the rest of the world.

In a world where homosexuality were more accepted, it would offer a new option: spare a comparatively-small outlay of resources from the main family fortune to equip a house and accoutrements, which would be reabsorbed into the family as a return inheritance in a few decades, and contract a marriage which would be deliberately unable to produce legitimate offspring.

You get the advantages of creating marital ties with another wealthy family, the people married therein have a spouse and the status achievements that go with marriage, and the risk that your child goes off and marries someone unsuitable or inconvenient is removed entirely, as is the risk that they could marry someone and have legitimate, inheritance-claiming children with them. Sure, they can have affairs and thus get children if they're married to a same-sex spouse, but those children cannot be passed off as legitimate issue of the marriage, and so they pose less of a threat to the the main body of the family's wealth.

And, thus: perfectly reasonable reason why your pseudohistorical fictional characters can find themselves in a same-sex arranged marriage!

winxhelina

Not to start stuff (I say as I start stuff), but I hate when people write Lan Wangji like he’s Cristian Grey. And I get why it’s so easy to slip into that characterization, especially if you are writing a modern AU, but it’s one of the main reasons I tend to click off modern wangxian. Lan Wangji isn’t controlling like that when it comes to their day to day life. And it’s even worse when Wei Wuxian somehow becomes Ana as well, some weak inexperienced flustered person, who tries to assert that they can take care of themselves, but fails. One of the best things about wangxian is that they feel like equal partners. They feel equally capable, each with their strengths and weaknesses.

nixster627

Wei Wuxian: What's your type?

Lan Wangji: Kind, smart and also dumb, brave, a good fighter.

Wei Wuxian: That kinda sounds like me. Too bad I'm not a woman.

Lan Wangji: Did I mention dumb?

Wei Wuxian: Yes.

Lan Wangji: Good. Just making sure.

yourancestorsarefrowning

I love how so much of wangxian's relationship during the gusu study arc was wei wuxian going "look at me, look at me! look at me, lan zhan!" and lan wangji angrily pretending not to look, and then post-resurrection wei wuxian tries the same thing but this time lan wangji is like "I am Looking and I will not look away" and wei wuxian is so flustered that he accidentally gets dragged back to gusu anyway.

like, throughout the story people only interact with wei wuxian on a superficial level, with no one bothering to go deeper. he's just an arrogant jiang disciple. he's just a rebellious teen. he's just an admittedly terrifying demonic cultivator. he's just an evil person who needs to be stopped. and lan wangji sees all of this, (and in the beginning is almost fooled by it!) and then is the only one who cares enough to look long enough and see the true wei wuxian.

when wei wuxian is resurrected, he immediately relies on the fact that people only view him superficially to keep his real identity hidden. he slides right into mo xuanyu's cut-sleeve lunatic persona and probably could have gotten away with it except he runs right into the one person who has Seen him in the past and Sees him now.