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sailuncharted · 4 months
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I'm never getting over the symbolism of Jin Guangyao's coffin being sealed under the weight of Meng Shi's fallen statue! As if His fate had already been sealed by his mother's profession from the beginning and no matter how high he climbed it would always come to this!
And finally, he got crushed and buried under the weight that had been on him all his life. When all he ever wanted to do was to cherish his mother. He built a temple for her and made a statue of her as a god but in the end, he ended up in Meng Shi's coffin sealed by Meng Shi's statue, in what was once the brothel in which they both were abused.
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sailuncharted · 4 months
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Happy and alive 🤧❤️
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sailuncharted · 4 months
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the weirdest journey i've been on with mdzs was going from wangxian & 3zun > xiyao > all!yao > chengxian & all!yao
like, i guess i just threw the main pairing out the window, barely stayed with them for a month after finishing the book everyone else is so much more interesting to me
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sailuncharted · 7 months
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sailuncharted · 7 months
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he can be your angel or your devil....😈
Evil Astarion is my everything
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sailuncharted · 7 months
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Jiggy! His design is very relaxing to draw, its theraputic lol
This is how i usually draw…ive only posted thumbnails/composition roughs and cheebs so far,,,
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sailuncharted · 7 months
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They’re in love?????
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sailuncharted · 8 months
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Finally got the insperation to finish this!! I'm really happy how it turned out~~ I hope you guys like it too!
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sailuncharted · 1 year
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Tendie xiyao comm for @/fincalinde on twitter :3
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sailuncharted · 1 year
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sailuncharted · 1 year
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sailuncharted · 1 year
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Los bastarditos Jin. 🙏 AU en donde estos weyes son los meros-meros del clan Jin como siempre debió ser. 🥱💛
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sailuncharted · 1 year
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xiyao 👀
I don't talk about this one as much these days mostly because I'm not presently writing fic for it but this is still a "yes, do ship" for me
What made you ship it?
I was on board even before it went tragic and I think the selling point for me initially was the adorable bowing ritual in CQL (meaningful symbolic gestures between two people deeply restrained about their public behavior!) combined with the way that their relationship is...one of the few personal things for each of them that's...not uncomplicated but not so defined by all the push-and-pull factors that restrict the rest of both their lives to different degrees.
What are your favorite things about the ship?
I could repeat myself a little from the above but to pull out something different...I think my favorite thing might be how real it was. Like, on the face of it I think the focus often ends up being on the things Jin Guangyao was keeping from Lan Xichen, what he wasn't telling him/was concealing about himself, etc., but I am deeply obsessed with the fact that in other ways Jin Guangyao was showing Lan Xichen a version of himself that nobody else could see, or would see, because Lan Xichen was looking at him as a person where so many other people were looking at him as something else. That's what he and Qin Su have in common, I'd say - the way that Jin Guangyao is to them both an actual person rather than Jin Guangshan's bastard or the son of a whore or even the Chief Cultivator.
I just am deeply weak for that kind of...genuine-ness in the midst of a life that's requiring a lot of hiding and masking and keeping your mouth shut. And I don't mean that in terms of, like, "Jin Guangyao is gossiping to Lan Xichen about everyone who upsets him," I mean it in the sense of "the freedom to think a little less about how every little move you make is going to be scrutinized." I don't think I'm phrasing this very well.
Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?
I don't know if this is unpopular (again, I feel like I have a hard time gauging that), but maybe the fact that I do like for them to come into some kind of conflict and I don't enjoy it as much if they're perfectly in sync 100% of the time. Because they do have different priorities, and there are ways in which Lan Xichen's understanding of Jin Guangyao's perspective and life comes up against a wall of his own experience. And I like to see that as something that needs to be reckoned with even in happier universes where things don't end in death and destruction.
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sailuncharted · 1 year
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antis scoff at the apologists’ “lack of/bad reading comprehension” but you take a look at them and it soon becomes apparent that theirs is just as bad if not worse.
“jc accuses wwx of bringing ruin to the lotus pier when it’s not his fault at all and he knows it” sometimes people whose family and friends have all been murdered can get a little emotional about it and say things they don’t actually mean. because of the emotions, you see. “if jgy is so filial why does he kill his father/have him raped” this is him ceasing to be filial after years of calmly enduring horrible treatment.
it’s like they need it explained that characters aren’t flat constructs with three personality traits max (”making a sandwich evilly”), and that they behave differently depending on the situation. except i feel like they do understand that, because they have seventeen phDs in talking about wwx’s trauma, his lack of other choices, his noble and morally correct intentions that automatically erase all possible negative consequences of his actions, etc, etc. it’s never about reading comprehension, unless “reading comprehension” is “agreeing with me, who is objectively correct”.
everything about Good™ characters, everything they do serves to show how Good™ they are, and everything Bad™ characters do serves to show how Bad™ they are, even if they build and finance an orphanage (money laundering), throw themselves in front of a truck to save a cat (a chance to get access to the owner, who they want to exploit) or sacrifice themselves to save the world (out of their narcissistic desire to have everyone love and praise them, of course). and they know this because it’s obvious. if you were smart and cool like them you’d know it too. pah
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sailuncharted · 1 year
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Petition to say WHICH version of MDZS you're talking about when writing meta. I swear half the confusion comes from someone talking about cql then gets replied to by novel main and corrected by a donghua only
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sailuncharted · 1 year
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I am always shy about posting things on tumblr,,,
But here,, I did this fmv a while ago because I love jgy very much
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sailuncharted · 1 year
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Don't worry guys, I found Sect Leader Yao! We can all go back to what we were doing.
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mxtx is Excellent at writing manipulative characters and the way this is showcased is by how often people tend to argue in favour of the manipulators she’s written. like mxtx sets up these characters to be multifaceted, they openly manipulate the people and situations around them to get what they want, have equally pathetic and sad upbringings to add realism into their actions, and even after all of their deeds are brought forward for everyone to see readers will Still defend them.
you could argue it’s poor reading comprehension and an inability to recognise that the character you latched onto is actually the Bad Guy. but i think it’s more of a testament to how good mxtxs character writing is, that people are willing to defend these people who have wholeheartedly committed unforgivable crimes just bc they’ve successfully manipulated the reader into thinking they had no choice but to murder babies and lie and betray and grab for power.
it’s kinda iconic tbh
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