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[hessadv]

A popular idea I've seen in the fandom is that "Merlin should have told Morgana and Arthur about his magic and if he'd just done so non e of this would have happened so it's entirely his fault" and while may very well have prevented the tragedies that occured,ive always found that Highly unfair.

Let's start with Morgana,no Merlin didn't handle her situation the best way he could I agree. And I absolutely sympathize with how awful her it was. However saying that Merlin 𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 Morgana his secret because they were in the same position is ridiculous. Since -for one- they really really weren't. Morgana's position as a noble and uther's beloved beloved ward added dreadful complications and didn't really help her mental state,but it also afforded her protection that Merlin -as the bastard peasant servant - couldn't even dream of having. If they had ever gotten caught,it would have been 𝘩𝘪𝘴 head on the -very literal- chopping block. People 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 consider how this would have benefited Morgana and don't consider the risk to Merlin in this equation.

And people are missing another crucial factor, 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 Merlin telling Morgana about his magic would have prevented her from going Darkside....and maybe it wouldn't have. And all it would have done is give her some terrible ammunition to use against him. Morgana certainly didn't seem to mind using Camelot's anti magic laws for her own benefit to get rid of gwen -who and done 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 to her-.and is very quick to try and get rid of Arthur despite knowing him her whole life.Imagine what she would have done to Merlin?

Which brings to my next point,this idea that it's entirely Merlin's fault what Morgana became because he didn't help and also the poisoning,which is blatantly false because..he 𝘥𝘪𝘥. He led her to the druids(which backfired yes but he 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 ) against both Gaius' and kilgarrah's advice.

Now the poisoning,I agree Merlin made a mistake here I think he should have told Morgana about his suspicions instead of tricking her(although I completely understand why he did it). Saying this one act is what set Morgana on her path is blatantly false,mind you Morgana figures out that Merlin only poisoned her because she was holding the sleeping curse on Camelot,like that doesn't remain a secret and it didn't change anything for her.There were a lot of other factors involved and Merlin did NOT 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 Morgana to become evil. He didn't force her to do all the terrible things she did later. Those were 𝘩𝘦𝘳 choices. And maybe it would have been different if Merlin had admitted he had magic,and this is speaking as someone that 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 Merlin to reveal magic, however it's insane to say that he 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥 to, especially with so much at risk(his life,gaius' life, Arthur's life,the entire future of Albion) Considering Merlin only reveals his magic willingly to like 2 people.

Saying that Merlin (or even Gaius although he's FAR more to blame what this man did is wild) is entirely at fault for Morgana removes Morgana's responsibility for her own actions and puts it squarely on Merlin's shoulders,which is entirely unfair.

Moving on to Arthur,this one pisses me off even more. Cannot describe how many fics I've seen where a magic reveal happens and Arthur not only threatens but and/or/ banishes Merlin and the narrative frames it as 𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 because "Merlin lied to him". Bitch Merlin lied because he would have literally gotten killed if he didn't??. Merlin keeping a secret that would have gotten him banished at best and executed at worst is somehow equated to Arthur 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧'𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 or hell even WORSE. It's diabolical. If the fic has Merlin APOLOGIZE for lying or feeling ashamed for keeping it a secret I'm out, immediately. As if his literal existence wasn't illegal.

"well if Merlin had just told Arthur about his magic than he would removed the ban" maybe so...but why?? Why does Merlin 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 to reveal his magic and everything he's done for Camelot for Arthur to realise that the genocide is incredibly cruel and unjustified and to stop it??

"oh it's because he's never seen the good in magic" that's bullshit. Aside from the fact that magical people don't need to prove that to begin with. Arthur HAS SEEN the good magic can do. Like contrary to popular belief Merlin wasn't sitting on his ass the entire time. He 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 that someone healed Gwen's father. He 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 that dolma and dragoon helped him asking little in return aside from" hey maybe stop killing my people and think for the minute that it would take you to realise that magic isn't innately evil". He 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 that the magic ball of light helped him in the cave. He knows that will the 'sorcerer' died to save him.He has nightmares about the screams of druid children. He knows mordered- a child- was almost executed for no reason aside from being a druid. Why is ALL OF THAT not enough?? Why does he need more proof?? He has all the pieces to realise that magic doesn't actually corrupt and he still doesn't put them together.

Speaking of,maybe Merlin's magic being revealed would have prompted Arthur to finally do something about the ban...and maybe it wouldn't have.

It's just like with Morgana,you people act like the positive consequences of that decision are absolute and never consider the -potentially disastrous - negative ones.

It's just as likely (if not more so considering his canonical reaction) that Arthur would have banished Merlin. And let's look at the consequences of that shall we?

Banished Merlin can't protect Arthur quite as well, limited by both distance and lack of information(assuming he still wants to which I wouldn't blame him if he didn't)—> Arthur lasts two weeks max -and that's me being generous- before he dies to the latest magical threat,since Merlin isn't here to save his ass—> Albion never happens and magical people never get their freedom (if the prophecy that the show is built on is to be believed).

Reminder that it is not just Merlin's life on the line here. But 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 are relying on him to protect Arthur so he can make Albion happen,but even if it was 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 Merlin's life and safety at stake,he would have still been justified in not telling Arthur.

Why?? Simple, if you were gay and your friend/employer/loved one was very homophobic, would you come out to them? No right?? Because you know they won't accept you and will treat you differently than they have up until that point.

How many times does Arthur openly condemn magic and sorcerers Infront of Merlin? Way too many count. He does it at the 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯'𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 who DIED to save him. And it doesn't get much better after that.

Arthur's mentality towards magic the entire series is basically "one step forward,three steps back" he goes from being somewhat open to it one episode and back on his whole "magic is pure evil" the next. Like when he promised dragoon that he would remove the ban when he became king if dragoon healed Uther but went back on that when dragoon -seemingly- killed him.

Almost like....magic is simply a tool and wether it's good or bad depends on its user(he's so close to figuring it)

Arthur alternates between accepting,and even using magic,when it benefits him and condemning it when it doesn't (Uther would be so proud and I mean that in the worst way possible)

It's enough to give me whiplash,I cannot imagine what it was like for poor Merlin. His terror was completely justified.

That's not even getting into how he treats Merlin in general and how he literally threatened to banish him for talking about Gwen and agravaine. Imagine what he would have done about as something as bid as Merlin having magic?

And his reaction when it's finally revealed proved that Merlin was right in keeping it a secret,the man literally says he should've killed Merlin the day they met and it takes him days to come around. It's probably a good thing Arthur was actively dying I dread to think what he would have done otherwise.

Merlin never feeling safe enough to tell Arthur about his secret is a failure on 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘳'𝘴 part ,not Merlin's.

In conclusion,no Merlin didn't owe the secret that would have literally gotten him killed to Arthur or Morgana,even if it would have solved alot of problems. And it's not his fault everything happened the way it did. I'm not saying he's sinless,he made alot of mistakes but stop blaming him for other people's decisions. Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk

[trans-yllz]

I can't get behind modern aus where wei wuxian willingly drops out of college because canonically that man does not quit. he'll be going through horrors beyond comprehension and he's still like writing manuscripts and perfecting inventions and going grocery shopping. like is he acting normal and regular? of course not. but you can't convince me that wei wuxian would drop out of college for any arbitrary modern reasoning you could come up with when in canon he was essentially dropped out of the sky into a Literal pit of despair immediately after undergoing dangerous invasive surgery and getting beat up and still managed to invent an entire new kind of cultivation and learn how to play an instrument in Three Months while starving and dying. I'm sorry but I don't think a minimum wage job and an 8am class is going to be taking him out any time soon

[hessadv]

WWX is extremely resilient both mentally and physically and I'm tired of that aspect of his character being glossed over.

He invented an entirely new cultivation path 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 being dropped from a cliff into hell 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 getting his core carved out of him in a 2 day long torturous surgery

He invented things that made night hunting ten times more efficient while half starved on a mountain full of corpses with the entire cultivation world calling for his head

His core was the strongest of his entire generation even though he started later than his peers

He got shot in the chest by an arrow,pulled the arrow out and threw it back at the person who shot it hard enough to 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 him and survived for another three months,both with no golden core and presumably with little to no medical attention since wen qing was dead

He survived being gutted and 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺(I think?) also with no golden core

He killed a 400 hundred year old monster with the help of only one other person while hungry and injured

Modern WWX would be working three minimum wage jobs,half starving,on the verge of homelessness and he would 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 be at the top of his class with perfect grades and would probably find time to tutor on the side. He has a life threatening surgery and makes it to class the next day because if he has a decent teacher and likes the material you get he's showing up. He's graduating with two degrees for fun. He's getting a PhD at 20. He's publishing research papers that are breaking the industry.He would be inventing some revolutionary items in his bedroom at 3 am. He's in an orchestra. Every three weeks He's getting an academic award for something.He's babysitting on the weekends.he knows more about the subject than the teacher does.he's winning national archery competitions.

WWX is crazy and competent and he 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭. Dropping out? Never heard of her.

[mxtxfanatic]

what exactly does "morally gray" mean? i'm confused by this term and its application because it's thrown around for almost every character i see.

i've seen it thrown around for HC, WWX, NMJ, HX etx

what's the criteria here for morally good, gray and evil?

In literature, "morals" are categorized by what is considered good or bad by the narrative. A "morally good" character embodies the aspects considered good by the text, while a "morally evil" character does the opposite, usually in direct conflict to the morally good character(s). A "morally gray" character is one who displays behaviors of conflicting morality. An example with be a character in a superhero comic who murders regular people as a job they enjoy but also searches for missing kids to return home as a side hobby (this is a made-up example). They are not a hero like the superhero who fights to do good at any cost, but one would not say that they were completely evil, either, in a story narrative where the villains drown their sons based on rumors or use people as fertilizer and have no such redeeming qualities. These moral designations are 100% about characters' morality in the world of the story, which means that even characters from separate works who behave similarly can have different moral alignments (the gun-for-hire may be a willing participant in the superhero comic but a slave who takes every chance to rebel against the role in another novel).

However in fandom nowadays, people throw around "gray morality" to mean "character I think is mean (to other characters I like)" or "character that does things I, personally, consider bad." For example, "Wei Wuxian is morally gray because I think necromancy is evil, even if he used it for good," despite the fact that the "necromancy" in the novel is shown to be a legitimate cultivation path which is morally neutral. "Hua Cheng is morally gray because he runs a gambling den" despite the fact that the gambling is done by willing participants and no one is forced to place bets or even enter the den. By bringing their own biases into the work, the reader has supplanted the morality and themes of the novel to overlay their own preconceived notions of good and bad to smother what the story, itself, has to say about these things. This is generally bad analysis because, since what constitutes moral behavior is a philosophical question of constantly shifting criteria in real life, fiction books serve this irl dialogue by offering up different parameters for what the author thinks should be considered moral. Thus, when the reader ignores what the story has put forth about morality, they take on the egotistical role of the Average Person™️ or a god where they assume that their personal opinions on morality are representative of every single person's opinions on morality, universally, or that their opinions should be the standard by which morality is judged. Essentially: "we don't need to discuss what counts as moral, because I've already figured it out for everyone!"

[hessadv]

The whole "Jiang cheng had to protect him sect and the Jiang sect was so weak after the sunshot campaign and that's why Jiang cheng let WWX go and couldn't have helped the wen remnants because it was the correct political move and if he could have helped without endangering his sect he would have" argument never holds up for me for multiple reasons but the one that's particularly laughable is that if JC really 𝘸𝘢𝘴 working with his sect's best interest at heart,then the correct political move?

Would have been to 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐖𝐗 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐠𝐨.

WWX was a literal one man army. His reputation was drawing new disciples to yunmeng Jiang(who would later go to beg him to take them on as disciples at the settlement). It didn't 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 that yunmeng Jiang didn't have as many disciples as they used to, because WWX was more than enough to make up for their losses.

The real reason the jin was trying their damnest to drive a wedge between JC and WWX is because with WWX as part of the Jiang,they were basically untouchable. And for Jin guangshan who Wanted to become the new wen Rouhan,well that was unacceptable.

So they played on JC's insecurities and resentment issues,and JC-like the moron he is- fell for it,hook line and sinker. In fact he did half the work for them,by lying that WWX declared himself an enemy to the cultivation world and not telling anyone that the wen remnants were no army.

JC not helping WWX and very publically cutting ties wasn't "the best thing for the scet" because it 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 make anything better,like at all. It only weakened them,which is what JGS wanted to begin with.

How exactly did WWX leaving the Jiang benefit them at all apart from JGS and minor sect leaders playing JC like a fiddle by stroking his ego and saying "that he did the right thing" because WWX was "disrespecting him" (which never happened)"oh the others were giving him shit because WWX doesn't carry his sword" Fun fact: WWX actually left his sword behind alot before he gave up his golden core. But JFG didn't care so no one else cared.. people take their cue from leaders. If JC had shut that down and yk 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 his "brother" they would have let it go.

Had JC stuck by WWX and taken in the wen remnants, citing the 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 debt he owed WN and WQ,which would have cost him 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. And spewed some bullshit assuring everyone he had"WWX in line" that would have been it. "But the Jin were-" the Jin wouldn't have been able to do 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵. Especially with clear proof that the wen remnants were innocent.

This argument doesn't work for me because from a purely political stand point, making sure that WWX had absolutely no reason to leave the Jiang was his best bet. WWX is the single most valuable asset the sect has.

It's not like it would have been hard. WWX loved him(against his better judgement),and loved lotus pier. Had JC not made the very empathetic demand that WWX throw the wen remnants (including a grandma and a toddler btw) back into the death camps. Had he not tried to kill WN despite what WN had done for him. Had JC not personally burned every bridge that could have been used for WWX to both protect the wen remnants and stay in YJ,and as long as he didn't do anything heinous,then I doubt he would have left(considering he'd been conditioned to try and see the best in him. And WWX makes excuses for JC's horrid mistreatment of him,but the second JC turns that on someone else, WWX is swiftly putting an end to that)

WWX'S inventions that are still being mass produced in canon 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 after WWXs death- because the cultivation world is hypocritical as fuck- would be sold entirely through YJ making them even richer than they are probably. And When WWX and LWJ inevitably get together,it gives JC one hell of an alliance with the lan sect(god knows he wouldn't have been able to manage it on his own)

In conclusion, JC not helping WWX wasn't him doing what was best for his sect,it was soothing his own jealousy and superiority complex, because WWX was the best thing that ever happened to YJ. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[shanastoryteller]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Lady Mo au?

a continuation of 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60

Oh, A-Cheng.

Jiang Yanli's eyes burn but she doesn't let the tears fall through years of long practice.

When she'd woken and they'd told her that A-Cheng had killed A-Xian, she'd laughed.

It doesn't feel like a joke anymore, except for one where maybe she's the punchline.

She knows that he didn't mean to do it. She's not even sure that he did do it - the idea that shoving A-Xian off a cliff would do more than lead to some bruises is laughable. Maybe if he'd been exhausted, as he probably was, he could have broken something. There's no way, even at the height of A-Cheng's rage and grief when he thought her dead, that he'd meant for his blow to kill. That he would have thought that it could have.

Jiang Yanli reaches for her brother's wrist, feeling the strong thrum of his golden core under her fingers.

When Wen Qing told her what she'd done, Jiang Yanli almost regretted saving her, nearly ended her life herself.

It was only the knowledge that Wen Qing would have let her that stayed her hand.

When A-Xian went over the cliff, he didn't have a golden core. He hadn't had a golden core for years. Because he'd tricked A-Cheng into taking his.

For the first time, Jiang Yanli had hated him.

Still, Wen Qing had admitted that even without his golden core, she doubted the fall could have killed him. He'd endured worse without it and survived.

However. He hadn't lost quite so much then. He hadn't thought her dead then. It's possible it killed him because Wei Wuxian let it kill him. She'll never know if that's true. She hopes it isn't.

They never found a body. A-Cheng clings to that still, but there'd been plenty dead during the war that never left bodies behind. Besides, if he was alive, he would have come back. He would have heard that she was alive and came back to her even if he was convinced that A-Cheng never wanted to see him again.

He never came back. The only answer is that he's dead.

"Okay, A-Cheng," she says softly, patting the top of his head like when they were children. She wonders who he saw that reminded him of A-Xian, if someone laughed a little too loudly, if they were a little too rude or a little too bright.

"He did," he mumbles, turning into her hand. "But not even to us. Asshole."

"I know," she says. He'd most of the way asleep already. He probably won't notice if she starts crying too.

It kills her, but she'll never tell him to stop, never tell him why all his hope is wasted, why he'll never find A-Xian no matter where he looks.

She's never told A-Cheng the truth about his golden core and she never will. It would break him, to know that all that's left of their brother now sits in his chest.

[aphony-cree]

What if Buffy's mom hadn't found out about slaying at the end of season 2 and Buffy had to convince Spike to stay in town and pretend to be in a band with her because that was the cover story they'd told Joyce

[fluffyspuffy]

And then eventually end up accidentally actually starting a band because it’s easier than maintaining the lie

[aphony-cree]

Joyce says they can use the garage to rehearse and she always makes them snacks. Buffy starts to worry she'll never get Spike to leave

[fluffyspuffy]

Buffy insists on calling the band Slayer and Spike keeps failing to convince her that there’s already a band with that name

[disco-tea]

Low key I feel like Buffy would just see it as a cover and it’s a ‘fake band’ but Spike gets like way into it and it’s a Real Band™️ to him and he’s a little annoyed Buffy doesn’t take it as seriously. He’s always like “you missed practice this Tuesday what the hell’s up with that. We have a gig next week btw”

[saunteringvaguelydownwards]

#he starts trailing after her on patrol to bitch about missing practice or how she's sloppy on her chords #starts pitching in on the slayage because vampires keep interrupting his tirades #''EXCUSE ME we are having a ROW'' *stakes fledgling* #no chip necessary spike is literally the guy in the band with zero chill about the band #he undeads the band. he unbreathes the band. he spends all his time not sleeping... on the band. #(willow is their manager xander is the merch guy) #(giles was secretly plotting to lure spike into a trap until he notices spike is... actually better at corralling buffy on patrol than he is #because spike doesn't want her injuring her hands or doing anything that fucks with her breath control) #(giles is also weak to the nostalgia of it all and tunes their instruments when he thinks they're not looking) #(when faith arrives mid-S3 she's quickly recruited to sing backup) (via @entirelytookeen)

[muffinlance]

@worldsokayestdragon :

#spike after learning Oz plays guitar: why İsn't he in the band? #buffy: he's already in his own band. which is actually a real band unlike our fake band that you keep forgetting is just a cover story #spike: we're never going to make it in the music industry if you don't stop calling our band fake

Spike (with reluctant but knowledgeable backup from Giles) finally convinces her that "Slayer" risks bringing copyright lawyers down upon their heads, a fate worse than vampires

Buffy turns around and re-names their band "Fake"

[esmeralda-anistasia]

#Buffy at their next concert: hi this is my Fake band and you're at my Fake concert#Fake band fans go NUTS when the Fake lead singer pulls her signature move: peacing out mid-song to go beat up some guys out back#Meanwhile: extended guitar and drum solos#the fans eat. that. gimmick. up.#Buffy returning covered in blood an hour later: oh god you're still going. Okay Fake second song here we go#and the crowd goes WILD

[incorrectstarkfamily]

Jon, lightly touching Ghost with the side of his foot: Ghost move out of the way please so I don’t trip on you

Ghost, his eyes enormous: you KICK Ghost? you kick his body like the football? oh! oh! jail for father! jail for father for one thousand years!

[gazpachoandbooks]

Jon, on his knees and crying, feeding Ghost the fourth whole chicken of the day: please forgive me I’m begging you.

Ghost: father has betrayed me. I mean I’ll eat the chicken but I will not forgive this treason. The north remembers.

[lordsnow]

tobho: omg shit it's THE LORD HAND give him ur helmet!!

gendry: lol nah fam

tobho: the fuck he's a LORD

gendry: it's mine fuck him

eddard: shit he's Robert's.

[barelyanartblog]

"The finest knight I ever saw was Ser Arthur Dayne, who fought with a blade called Dawn, forged from the heart of a fallen star. They called him the Sword of the Morning, and he would have killed me but for Howland Reed and his shotgun. Howland put two rounds of buckshot into that motherfucker's back and saved my ass." Father had gotten sad then, and he would say no more. Bran wished he had asked him what he meant.

— ACOK, Bran III

[amber-laughs]

men: i never cheated on you please believe me!

ned stark: i cheated on you please believe that! i cheated on you so hard look here’s proof of my adultery doesn’t he look just like me? that’s definitely my love child tell everyone you know

[ladymelisande-deactivated202407]

This is the most 'she ran away' paragraph ever written. 😂😂😂

Oh, yeah, Rhaegar 'fell upon her', in Harrenhal. She was supposed to be in Riverrun, how did she get to Harrenhal in the first place? Did she say 'I'm going to buy milk' and never return? 😂😂

[the-king-andthe-lionheart]

Not only that but 1 league is the equivalent of 3 miles, so she was 30 miles away from Harrenhal.  Obviously nowhere close to Riverrun if they were all like “ten leagues from HARRENHAL”, not Riverrun.  Most likely, Lyanna knew she’d be quickly married off after the nuptials of Catelyn and Brandon.  So yeah, she likely ran away.

[valtsv]

people love to criticise the actions of someone under an extreme amount of stress as irrationally, irredeemably monstrous, and then you'll actually look at what they're talking about and see that not only is their behaviour entirely understandable given the circumstances, but they're actually demonstrating incredible restraint and will to endure beyond what you thought anyone was capable of

[valtsv]

my controversial opinion that it's unfair to expect anyone to be their best self when they're suffering has led me to engage in debates i wouldn't approach with a gun. to my head.

[enby-axels]

they hated jesus because he told them the truth

[tashaneva]

one child vs four maladjusted uncles

[canes-venatici200]

Why does most of the fandom always want to bring down Wei Wuxian’s character?

I just can’t believe that his canon charisma is twisted to him acting like an annoying, whiny toddler. They take his literal name into extreme new levels.

They have him as annoying, oblivious, arrogant, gremlin, self-esteem issues, irresponsible, flighty, lazy, etc. etc. etc.

They even have Lan Wangji telling him to shut up because he’s so annoying.

Am I one of the few that loves his confident, genius, charismatic, beautiful self?

If so, so sad.

[hessadv]

Adding on to this,the fanin trope that everyone found wwx annoying and are constantly eye rolling at him breaking the rules. When literally 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 esle was breaking those rules too. WWX is literally that popular guy you wanted to hate on principle because he was good at everything but he's so charming and charismatic that you 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭. Everyone liked him. The people that actually found WWX annoying are as follows: Lan wangji(fell in love and didn't know how to handle it,tried to gaslight himself),Jiang cheng (a jealous miserable brat,even at his best),lan qiren(holding a grudge against cangse that transfered to her 15 year old son, because he's an ungrateful hypocritical ass who had it for WWX 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 he actually did something to earn it,yu ziyuan(her opinion is irrelevant). That's it. WWX was very popular and well liked,and for good reason.

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Every time I open a mdzs/cql fic and see casual abuse brought to you by Jiang Cheng and his mother against Wei Wuxian and have it either not touched upon or turned into "but they secretly care about him so he shouldn't be upset uwu" I close the fic and wish there wasn't so MANY variations of this.

[hessadv]

Fandom treats love as if it's this get out of jail free card.

If they can just 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 that X loves Y deep down than that..idk lessens the impact of negative actions? Negates the harm done entirety?

And I heavily disagree. Secretly loving someone means 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 If you don't show it,if your actions don't match up.

Why should I care that YZY cares about WWX deep down when she's out here whipping him with spiritual weapon for the slightest offence and insulting his dead parents in front of him,when her last words are more hurtful vitriol and demands for him to be a meat shield?

Why should I care that JC still loves WWX when he has*checks notes* tried to murder him multiple times,gutted WWX during what was supposed to be a staged fight,led a siege with the express purpose of killing him that killed all the people he was protecting with the exception of a toddler who was hidden, spent 13 hunting down and torturing and killing people who 𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 have been "demonic" cultivators for the crime of reminding him of WWX, psychologically tortured him with his worst fear,was blatantly homophobic towards him,was pledging to kill him at a conference,then led 𝘠𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 siege to kill him?

I'm not saying that love doesn't exist,but it means jack shit when you're treating the one you love like garbage.

"they're brothers. They love each other" isn't the trump card you think it is, assuming it's true.

Yes I do believe JC still loves WWX. But that doesn't 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫. It doesn't change anything about his actions.

[flautistsandpeonies]

Fanon Petpeeve: Wei Wuxian the Sloven & Lan Wangji the Impeccable

Now, this is found in pretty much all types of fics, Modern AU, Burial Mounds Days Fix its, Cloud Recesses Days, etc.

In these fics Wei Wuxian is a slob. He puts no work into his appearance (hair is a mess/never combed and his clothes are wrinkly and covered in mysterious stains), he speaks without thinking, often getting himself and others in trouble, and he’s extra annoyingly loud and gets on everyone’s nerves. While there are a couple throw away lines about him being intelligent you rarely see that because Wei Wuxian is written to be about messy explosions, his living space is unorganized, he’s scatterbrained, and his entire being so chaotic the reader/lwj wonders how he survives. (Almost like a five year old covered in paint to be honest.)

In Modern fics (ones set in high school), Wei Wuxian is always second best. He just can’t get his grades high enough like Lan Wangji can- because he hates/can’t study you see, he just can’t bring himself to do it. (Studying in modern aus are the meditation equivalent of fics in the canon timeline)

Oppositely, Lan Wangji in these fics is just perfect. He’s always right about every single topic no matter even if he’s never experienced anything to do with it before. He never makes mistakes. He has his life together, but is drawn to the “chaos” that is Wei Wuxian’s life.

Now, Lan Wangji is a neat and clean person. He’s an incredibly smart individual and one of the best cultivators of his generation but not in the way these fics portray him. He’s written more as a god like figure than the human he is. He’s written to be better than Wei Wuxian, like Wei Wuxian is a disaster waiting to happen who’s not worthy of the Second Jade of Lan. Lan Wangji is put on this high, unreachable pedestal looking down on everyone below him while Wei Wuxian is supposed to play in the mud with Wen Yuan screaming that 2+5=7 is the discovery of the century.

This is especially damaging to their relationship in fics. In these, Wei Wuxian is beset upon by literally everyone (Yanli, Jiang Cheng, Lan Xichen, Wen Qing, etc) for being too stupid or in other cases having too low self esteem/self worth to realize that Lan Wangji is in love with him. He has to be explained to like a child why its so important and an honor that the wondrous Hanguang-jun is in love with someone like him. It’s yet another iteration of the Wei Wuxian is Oblivious fanon that I want to burn to the ground.

Side Note: Is anyone else disturbed that there are so many fics that have a bunch of gentry characters talking down to a lower class individual about how he should be grateful that another gentry character is in love with him?

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In fics set during the canon timeline, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that I’m going to call “The Lan Way or the Silk Road”.

In these fics, the Lan Sect is the pinnacle of righteousness who can never do anything wrong ever. The siege on the Burial Mounds? Never heard of her. Their participation is making Wen Yuan an orphan? That’s Wei Wuxian’s fault for not coming to them and informing them of who the Wens really were. Lan Qiren’s hatred of Wei Wuxian? Well, if Wei Wuxian just listened to authority and stopped being a disobedient son of a servant!

The Lan sleep schedule is the only right sleep schedule to the point where Lan Wangji constantly interrupts Wei Wuxian’s sleep and forces him to stay awake, even if he’s noticeably tired and needing more rest. The library holds the secrets and answers to everything which is why Wei Wuxian should just let Lan Wangji take him to Gusu. The Lans have the answers to his problem if he would just let them help. Stupid Wei Ying.

The Lans, of course, are especially right about Wei Wuxian’s cultivation. They know more about demonic cultivation than Wei Wuxian does. In fact, in fics where Wei Wuxian is resurrected, Lan Wangji will sometimes explain demonic cultivation to him.