Really I’ve been sitting on this for weeks and wasn’t sure if I should post or not, but I have some things I think need and should be addressed regarding MXTX.
She’s fabulous and a danmei icon at this point, which is all well and good, but what is she actually putting out here? The content needs to be properly examined and I’m here to do exactly this.
She perpetuates the idea of black and red being “demonic” i.e. stigmatizes the color scheme which can be commonly seen in gothic culture. This is harmful stereotyping.
Also, on the topic of being a colorist, she gowns all her “morally good/righteous” characters in white. This only lends more fuel to the fire that white is an inherently pure color and represents the goodness in one’s heart and soul. This seems like yet another cliche and leads me to wonder what other colors have ever done to deserve being spurned by her.
Dares to use her own cultural experiences and upbringing as the basis of her novels, forcing international fans to consume concepts they are incapable of perceiving. This leaves them with no other option than to scream cold and stale takes all over the internet, disparaging her heritage. Absolutely this was her goal; to upend centuries worth of history and have it watered down and westernized.
Obviously touts necrophilia in the union of Xie Lian and Hua Cheng. Dude may be hot and worth it, but dead is still dead no matter if it’s dressed up in a snazzy eyepatch and has a beautiful butterfly motif. Disgusting.
On the subject of TGCF; this entire novel disservices godly beings and shows very little care for religious idolatry and iconography. She drags heavenly beings down into mortal/human nature and dyes them in sin, literally the opposite of what they should be beholden to. It’s almost like she did this on purpose and with the intent to make us all think and reevaluate our stance on upright religion. If she did, that’s sort of lame because I came to read, not get an ethics lesson and now my brain feels like it has actual thoughts.
MXTX supports the idea of sugar daddy/sugar baby dynamics. This is proven in the way all of her gong are wealthy and handsome men that avidly dote upon their respective shou and thus sets a bad precedent for romance. Really she is out here writing about being able to buy love.
Also a bad precedent for romance and relationships in general, she advocates for being dishonest to your partner. Shen Qingqiu never admits that he is actually Shen Yuan and continues to carry on his marriage with Luo Binghe as a fraud.This showcases that people are only worth so much so long as they pretend to be someone else. MXTX is single-handedly killing romance.
She either writes women into small existences or kills them off (except you, Ling Wen) and it’s almost as if she understands that her target audience wouldn’t typically rage about something like this when the story itself is meant to be a BL, not a movement on female empowerment and it’s like she also believes that women don’t have to be outwardly productive to have meaning and are still just as valuable as background characters.
She makes executive decisions about her characters, minor or main, and doesn’t include the backstories we feel they deserve (who does she think she is, the author and creator???) and this actually just amounts to international theft. She robbed us of our chances to be thankful for a wholly developed character and instead left us to dangle above a pit and let us fall to our deaths at the bottom where we were skewered by our own outrage that 244+ chapters weren’t enough to satiate our thankless consumption of her media.
I don’t know about all of you, but I think we should be better fans and let her know we won’t stand for such a tacky reputation. I mean what does it say about us that we read and dwell in her fanbase when she only gives us so much dedication and a variety of characters to be swindled by? I’m thoroughly repulsed.
Anyway, I said what I needed to say. No criticisms allowed; this is just my opinion, okay?
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