#lc thoughts

[curapicas]

What I love about this in specific is lampshading that no, he really didn't.

The reason he drank milk is Qiao Ling, who was there for him, even in little things like coaxing him and making sure he was drinking his milk

[dokjas-lostselfpreservation]

so was this a Trauma Dump Day™ where all the creators drop their doze of horror on us and fucking vanish???? Vivimeng? Li Haolin? what was this? are y'all friends in secret or what?? huh???

first we have the Parasite™ No More and I Have Grown a Frontal Lobe—Learned The Concept Of Family And Healing:

and then we have Childhood Friend Forgotten, The Butterfly Effect™ and How Accurate Can Your Trauma Make You Guess:

Somebody Fucking Sedate Me.

[asoiaf-things]

yk theres something to say about the fact that after @tumblr was gonna fuck up reblogs by making them their own threads and the entire website pushes back.

They put out a @support message that says ok we won't go through with it but "hey guys we do need to improve stuff"

Now all of the reblogs on normal fics are getting flagged. as ive dealt with it and @idksmtms and now @ghostlybfgf is dealing with.

Idk guys just connecting some dots either this is intentional or they fucked something up by rolling back the changes they were gonna make that we never asked for. Either way they need to figure their shit out

[curapicas]

Why I think Lu Guang's answer to the riddle was the detective:

It's given at the same time Cheng Xiaoshi gives his own for misdirection. The one who gave the same answer as CXS was his own dad, a guy that for all his failings, was loved enough by SYY to try and change his death node - WQ is also attached to him, therefore we expect/hope CWM has an ethical side to himself; meanwhile the one who gave the same answer as LG was Vein.

It happens right before LG bets on Vein being murdered on that room, an antithesis to CXS changing the past for what he hopes is for the best to those involved (note: I'm fine with the guy trying to fix a death node by dumping a death node on his bestie's murderer, just pointing out them as a partnership don't EVER do things intending to eliminate the bad guys, ya feel me?)

CXS' answer presumes innocence (more on how to me, this reflects on link click's overall messages under the cut), but LG is analytical; he'd take in consideration that the detective is poor and the animals had a coin;

the riddle states that "you" are the detective. LG spends yingdu burdened by knowledge and trying to solve a disappearance along with CXS; we also know LG feels guilt over what he's doing and CXS' death (which is why he was harsh on Vivian not deserving CXS' sympathy when they were on the phone). Therefore, he not only has been functioning as a detective throughout yingdu and link click as a whole, but also presumes guilt for himself (meanwhile Vein presumes that ppl have hidden intentions like he usually does, I guess)

In other words; LG answers he's the detective bc he not only takes the seemingly innocuous clues into consideration, but by the end of yingdu he feels guilty and burdened by what he has done and feels he has to do. A far cry from the 1st episode, where he identified with the noble heroine who goes into a doomed quest; now he thinks of himself as the sharp detective who would burn a forest down to get what he wants.

Now, personally I vibe with LG and CXS pointing to two different directions: LG makes the audience aware that amidst all of the tragedies in link click, someone is benefiting; there's a person or a group who doesn't care others are being stepped on, which has been the case of the antagonists so far, be it LX or the typical bullies; and LG puts himself among them, since he doesn't justify to himself he has noble intentions so it's okay that they won't help with Emma's investigation, for example.

CXS is the other side of link click: actually, bad things will happen without anyone meaning to, as is the earthquake, the noodle lesbians' divergence, the time nodes getting messed up by well-meaning intentions.

Note: The big takeaway here is that LG thinks it's the detective bc he thinks he's the detective and LG knows himself as guilty. Not that his answer was (or wasn't) the most logical/obvious and CXS' was too naive, I'm actually trying to prove that even if he answers purely using logic, LG is being emotional about it too! A correct answer is NOT the point of the riddle

btw, the positive spin of LG going from the tragic heroine to the cruel detective is that he no longer is passive about fate, and sees it as something that can be seized, which gives him hope

[curapicas]

Yandere Lu Guang I love you yandere Lu Guang

I promise to not overlook your complex character, nor your tragic greek hero status - nor the fact that yingdu chapter as a whole explored your state of mind and the stakes that it takes for attempted murder to be on the table, nor the fact the light started really leaving your eyes once it was done, nor that you put high value in kindness and is motivated by devotion

But boy. Your answer to the story was "the detective is the culprit", wasn't it?

[curapicas]

ever think about Lu Guang becoming increasingly obsessed with cleaning throughought the timelines bc as they go on, he keeps seeing new spots full of imaginary blood

[curapicas]

What I really see when I rewatch that part

[curapicas]

gotta love how THAT Vein PV made everyone see him say "you look tasty" and leap over the horny implications straight into the cannibalistic implications LMAO