poorlittleyaoyao

[poorlittleyaoyao]

-King Lear, Act III, Scene 5

#society if NMJ had simply torn out JGS's eyes: [utopia.jpg] #JGY reading all the Cornwall-Edmund interactions like 'da-ge this could be us but u playin' #<- SPEAKING OF LEAR I am sending this around again and preserving my original tags because they're correct #the Duke of Cornwall did nothing wrong actually

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It has just occurred to me that this is exactly the same stance I have re: Kent and Lear vs. Oswald and Goneril in King Lear. JUSTICE FOR THE HENCHMAN WHOSE ONLY CRIME IS BACKING THE DESIGNATED VILLAIN.

okay but for REAL we as a society need to do more with the fact that Wen Ning is to Wei Wuxian as Su Minshan is to Jin Guangyao. willing to kill and die and betray his entire sect for a guy who gave him one (1) compliment. icons, the both of them.

#everyone is like UGH GOD OSWALD IS THE WORST!! EVIL!! AWFUL!! when like #his main offense is being rude to his beloved boss’s asshole father #dude’s final words are ‘please deliver Goneril’s letter for me’ #move OVER Kent! Oswald is the REAL devoted servant!! #relatedly: Goneril did nothing wrong except maybe the sister murder. maybe.

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okay but for REAL we as a society need to do more with the fact that Wen Ning is to Wei Wuxian as Su Minshan is to Jin Guangyao. willing to kill and die and betray his entire sect for a guy who gave him one (1) compliment. icons, the both of them.

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Please reblog for greater visibility!

#oh Wen Ning without a doubt #WN did super duper high treason because WWX complimented his archery skills #that is some Su She energy right there

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hello and welcome to the how do i save this guy’s life rn eyelash flicker

#[yelling about it!!] #dispatches from the Nieyao dumpster #ft. MY covertly hauling NMJ out of the dumpster before the garbage truck arrives

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Wen Qing in Tang Dynasty Era clothing

#SHE!!! #this is beautiful!

[poorlittleyaoyao]

A thing about trying to plot out QS canon-divergence fixit where the marriage is averted is that the obvious solution to “she was already pregnant before they knew the truth” is, well, end the pregnancy. The wider world doesn’t seem to know that she’d conceived prior to marriage, so can’t be more than a month or so along as of the wedding for it to be plausible. People have been inducing abortion in dire circumstances despite physical risk and moral stigma throughout history. QS has magic at her disposal and the means to remove herself from society unnoticed during the recovery period, and even if it’s taboo, is it more taboo than incest?

#tfw when the text’s misogyny results in everyone operating on post-Roe Texas logic #*post-Dobbs rather #like come on JGY grew up in a brothel he would know how shit gets done #I can only see him not suggesting it if he’d witnessed someone dying from attempting to give themselves an abortion #and his panic brain was like ‘it would be Just Like That and she would DIE HORRIBLY so we must marry!’ #and even then it doesn’t explain why QS’s parents wouldn’t suggest it! #or (more distressingly yet still plausibly) pulling a Hoster Tully and forcing it #don’t mind me I woke up in the middle of the night and started pondering and now I’m grumpy #bc it’s like you either have to go FULL divergence where she and JGY never hook up at all #or you don’t give her the information until she’s already in the marriage and her options are much more limited #bc if she finds out at the same time JGY does possible outcomes either feel like a PSA about the importance of abortion access #or (if she marries someone else or otherwise sticks it out) GOP glurge about how keeping a pregnancy is always fine and good in the end #miscarriage cw #just in case

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琴箫合璧 (x)

#this one is so quiet and sublte ahhh

[poorlittleyaoyao]

OK I need to just appreciate the boost in confidence my boy has post-timeskip like. The little smirk at the Lans while just straight up calling them out. Not even responding to WWX's inane shit talking here, just running interference like a very good boy.

Like I...

Just immediately spinning the situation against WWX, it's great. How much of this is planned? I don't know. He walks into frame like he's the hero of the day right after JGY's "et tu Er-Ge" moment on the stairs.

As he should! He is the hero of the day! And the hero of every day! If you're JGY I guess, from now on at least.

#HERE COMES A SPECIAL BOY #he is the Henchman of All Time and he’s thriving

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Hey, if anyone has good theories about what the hell is going on with Wen Qing's alleged ownership of a soul-sucking dagger PLEASE send me links. If true, HUH??? If not true... still HUH?? If you're doing improv about the provenance of a soul-sucking dagger, why would you attribute the dagger to Wen Qing and not, idk, Wen Zhuliu, or Xue Yang, or just stop at Wen Ruohan? Why mention Wen Qing at all?

#I do love the mental image of WRH happily gifting WQ this dagger and she's like 'wow... thanks bofu you uh... you really shouldnt have...' #also it is entirely possible that this is the first time that ANYONE mentions WQ by name in the back half of the show #cannot confirm yet since I still have some episodes to rewatch before this point #but it may well be WWX thinking about her in Episode 2 -> JGY claiming she owns the evil dagger -> the core reveal 😬

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I'm also sad right now because, unlike in the novel where everyone totally sucks, someone DOES speak directly to Qin Su in CQL's treasure room scene. When Wei Wuxian comes up to check on her and confirm that she's not under a spell, he whispers "Jin-furen?" to her in concern. She doesn't acknowledge him, which feels weird, right? Why wouldn't she latch onto a potential source of help, especially one whom she knows is now affiliated with the influential Hanguang-jun since she saw them together during the banquet earlier?

EXCEPT

One of CQL's changes is to make Qin Su the target of Mo Xuanyu's unwanted advances instead of Jin Guangyao. So Qin Su, already having an awful time due to the incest marriage revelations, is now (as far as she knows) being addressed by her harasser whom she now knows is also a half-brother. No wonder she's not engaging! It's ANOTHER INCEST SITUATION! And everyone else is just standing there, except for Su Minshan, who snidely remarks "So Mo-gongzi brought us into the chamber just to see Jin-furen!" which! underscores! her probable concerns!

And I'm sad about it because maybe, if the Suibian reveal had somehow happened SOONER--if Jin Guangyao had replaced the head with something that attacked Wei Wuxian when he pulled back the curtain, forcing him to grab Suibian in defense, maybe--and Qin Su knew Wei Wuxian for who he was, then things would have gone differently!

#people who have rights in this scene beside Qin Su: #WWX (for making an effort); SMS (for being a dick but at least in a useful way?); JC (for reacting to QS's death when he enters) #that is IT that's the ENTIRE LIST #neutral rights for JL as he is a child #slight negative for JGY and NHS who earns points for appropriate reactions but lose them for uhhhhh creating the situation #negative rights for the Twin Jades who are just soooo fucking useless. especially LXC! #either his bf is innocent and just traumatically lost his wife OR his bf is a murderer and should be suspected in his wife's sudden death #and he just sits there being deeply awkward #I mean. relatable! but if you feel awkward you could at least try to be productive about it. get some funeral potatoes Zewu-jun damn

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Awhile ago I made fun of JGY's mirror room for being an inefficient use of space. HOWEVER! The area of the room in question was off to the side near the evil curtained cabinet where he keeps NMJ's head, which means it's the equivalent of a hall closet with no door. The main space looks like this

Which is really quite nice! Look at those ceiling-mounted display shelves for those accursed vases! I Look at the painting centered nicely on the far wall! Look at the tidy little work desk! I wouldn't judge my apartment based on my hall closet with no door, so I have to retract my prior statement.

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dude i just got shot i need you to suck the bullet out

#wenzhou

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inspired by this post by @drwcn... all the Jin bastards canonically see Stab as their way of solving a problem when the situation gets dire, which I think in a universe where the sibs get a chance to get to know each other, might give poor JZX a bit of a complex

#🔪☺️ #Zixuan may not embrace Stab but Stab embraced him nonetheless

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…you’re hired

#oh the coloring here is so dreamy #dispatches from the Nieyao dumpster

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This is even better if it’s early on, since LXC says that he didn’t know at first who was sending him the letters. Just imagine!

NMJ: “whatcha got there, Xichen?”

LXC: “it appears to be sensitive intel from within Qishan, but the writer doesn’t identify himself.”

NMJ: “huh! let me see.”

NMJ: …

NMJ: …

NMJ: “oh my fucking GOD.”

low-effort 3zun canon divergence, as per that one scene in the donghua: NMJ happens to see one of LXC’s spy letters and recognizes MY’s handwriting.

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low-effort 3zun canon divergence, as per that one scene in the donghua: NMJ happens to see one of LXC’s spy letters and recognizes MY’s handwriting.

#poor communication immediately overcome!