Inspired by a tumblr post... which I cannot find... because i saw it on tiktok... and the username was cut off... I’ve been trying to find it and literally it’s frustrating me.
the realization that ladybug is actually smirking in this photo did something to us collectively as a fandom and I’m blaming the quiet on that and not the hiatus
“At Burial Mounds, Wangji fought everyone. The Grand Master burst into anger, and brought him back to Cloud Recesses. The punishment was 300 lashes, repenting in Cold Pond Cave, and not leaving the back hill for 3 years.”
Disclaimer: I have read parts of the novel, the donghua and I watched the entire show.
Also, this will get super long, so I will hide it under a read-more.
When Xue Yang was a child (7 y/o), Chang Ping’s father used him to deliver a letter to a guy he was on bad terms with. That letter only contained insults, so the receiver beat XY up. XY returned to the inn where CP’s father had stayed at to get the candy he was promised as a reward, but it had been cleared away. The inn keeper also beat XY up because he thought a begging child to be a nuisance.
So XY ran around to find CP’s father to get his reward. CP’s father was already on a carriage speeding away so when XY was running to stop the carriage, he gave XY a hit with the horse whip, causing XY to fall before the carriage, which ran over his left hand, causing him to lose his pinky finger.
Essentially the resentment over this injustice (and the Yin metal which XY’s family apparently had hold of [at least in the show]) caused him to become a delinquent in the area of Kuizhou. By the age of 15, he had already killed a man.
So Xiao Xingchen, roaming the world freely wanting to bring justice, gets on the case and follows XY in order to stop and “arrest” him. XY murders the whole Chang sect (50 people) and XXC “arrests” him and XY is brought before Nie Mingjue [show-verse] to receive punishment.
Thanks to Meng Yao/ Jin Guangyao, XY can escape, and swears revenge on XXC for trying to stop his revenge on the Chang sect.
A lot of things happen and a wounded XY is found by a now blind XXC (yes, that’s on XY too) who nurses him back to heath in Yi City.
So at first XY still wants revenge, and manipulates XXC to kill the villagers (XXC is led to believe that they are ghost puppets, since he can’t see anymore and Shuanghua [his sword] can detect negative energies, but not seperate between dead and living).
After a while, however, XY seemingly appreciates having XXC take care of him, and while he still conceals his identity, he stops killing people. He lives peacefully along XXC and A-Jing, until Song Lan (XXC’s “most intimate cultivation partner”) comes around after searching years for XXC.
XY, seeing his home fall apart, decides to poison SL with corpse powder and cut his tongue out. Shunghua detects the evil energy, and pierces SL through the heart – XXC killed SL.
However, since AJ had met SL before his death, she tells XXC what XY has done this whole time. XXC confronts XY with the intention to kill him, but XY twists the story around, pushing all the blame on XXC, mocking him that he was the one to kill SL. XXC, devastated by what he has done, commits suicide and shatters his soul. XY collects some shards of the soul in a soul trapping pouch.
XY suddenly realizes that he has caused XXC to commit suicide, and he tries to bring him back as a ghost puppet (same thing he did to SL) in the hopes of keeping him around (“dead people are better anyway; they listen”. However, due to XXC’s shattered soul, it fails.
XY then spends years trying to find a way to resurrect XXC (you could argue, that in his own twisted way, he fell in love). So when Wei Wuxian is revived, XY does the most to bring WWX to Yi City to get him to bring XXC back with the Stygian Tiger Seal.
WWX refuses, and over the course of the fight, he manages to take both Shuanghua and the pouch containing XXC’s soul. Both are returned to SL.
The novel and the show differ in the ending.
In the novel, XY has his arm cut off by Lan Wanji, who also kills XY later. Su She manages to take XY’s dead body away.
In the show, XY had his arm cut off by LWJ. Su She only takes XY’s Stygian Tiger seal, but not XY. XY, who has practically given up, smiles as SL stabs him through the heart.
nie huaisang being an absolute gremlin of a sect leader is still my favorite thing like
someone hands him a long report? “sorry I don’t know how to read”
“It’d be super convenient for me if we stopped having meetings. Just, like, in general”
“if anyone has an objection they can feel free to say it very gently to my face. I am soft and I will cry if you yell it at me.”
just sobbing into his arms until a servant says it’s been 10 minutes and he immediately sits up straight, dries up those tears, and gets back to his paperwork
“how did you even become a sect leader?!” “Nepotism.”
“It would be a SHAME if someone were to DEPOSE ME,“ he screams while stomping down the halls at 6am
just has 10 minutes in his official schedule set aside for Screaming
“Are you using your saber to shave your legs?!” “I’m not gonna use it for anything else.”
“The budget for bird feed is too high.” “So is the budget for random murder campaigns but those are apparently a staple.”
“I stopped paying attention 30 minutes ago so if any of you have said anything important since then please summarize. I have a relatively short attention span and no interest in elongating it.”
inner circle just full of gays. NHS calls it his orgy to piss people off
Dumbledore knows Sirius’s loyalty lies with Harry instead of him, and he has no use for someone who is not willing to follow his orders without question.
Nooonono, my friend, that’s what makes this post so beautiful. Because it fits the meta I’ve been trying to get people to accept for years.
Harry was an outcast due to a childhood filled with abuse and neglect.
Vernon made him an outcast by dismissing his claims of magic, berating him, locking him in a CLOSET and putting bars on his window, and let’s face it, even though her editor made her cut it out, Jo intended for there to be physical abuse.
Petunia made him an outcast by enabling and contributing to this abuse, as well as making Harry do dozens of chores while doting on Dudley.
Dudley made him an outcast by bullying him and threatening any students at school who wanted to be his friends.
And the rest of the wizarding world made him an outcast when they bullied him for being an outsider.
Harry James Potter became an outcast the moment he was placed with The Dursleys.
This makes even more sense when you consider why Dumbledore deliberately made Harry an outcast.
Think about it What would Harry have been like if he had grown up in the wizarding world? Or, to put it another way, what would Harry have been like if he had grown up in a world where magic was the norm?
He would have taken magic for granted. He would have been less likely (especially as he got older) to view Dumbledore as a wise mentor and more likely to see him as flawed and capable of bad decisions. He would have seen both the world and Dumbledore as ordinary, with their good points and bad points.
But Dumbledore didn’t need a well-adjusted boy who took magic and the magical world for granted. He needed a child who would love the magical world unstintingly, even irrationally, because it was a haven from neglect and abuse. Even more, he needed a child who feared this world becoming evil and who therefore would not question someone that he saw as the ultimate authority, especially if he believed that obeying that authority would keep the world safe.
Even if obedience meant his own death.
Dumbledore wanted a martyr who would die for the wizarding world, because he believed that Voldemort could not die until Harry did. Which was why he left Harry with the Dursleys and let them neglect and emotionally abuse him for the next ten years.
If Carapace was a hella sea-themed monk in feudal Japan?? I had a bit of a hard time formulating this design but I thought carapace predecessors were the “rocks” to the miraculous gang – a being who would protect and always carry an assuring presence regardless of the obstacles ahead. Hence, I thought a monk would embody such well-grounded values 💪🏻
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