#especially when ppl cut away the entire cast just to make wx hook up. its boring. they're at their best within their own setting

[llycaons]

the lof finale’s edge over cql is that all the characters were together, meeting each other again, interacting, making future plans, there was a timeskip with a set amount of time in which we know what happened and what will happen next, the state of the world was addressed, etc. cql’s ending left so many characters in uncertain or open-ended states

not that I dislike cql showing us how important wx is, or that I dislike that the ending was somewhat bittersweet (how could it be anything else?), but there were so many other characters who I wanted to see interact and whose relationships with each other really mattered to me, and given how important wx’s ideals of justice were, I would have liked to hear what exactly they were doing as CC and wanderer, respectively, to that end (although the vagueness was probably necessary to stay true to xianxia/wuxia heroic standards without really adessing the systemic issues at play). also I am personally just really curious about how long wwx was travelling for, bc some fans are so annoying “oh he was only gone a day” well clearly you don’t understand why he had to leave. I think maybe a year or a little less

but jin ling, jiang cheng, wen ning, lan sizhui, lan xichen, song lan, all had varying amounts of their stories still to go or had things that could be expanded on. that’s what I liked reading the novel extras for, some of them had really cute night-hunts with the juniors or gossip about the nies. I pretend the rest of them don’t exist

#and that's why I like a good thorough postcanon exploration #i don't really read fic set within the show itself. it's either adding to or changing events that i feel are intractable #I don't even like AUs very much. the canon setting is too complicated and interesting to me #especially when ppl cut away the entire cast just to make wx hook up. its boring. they're at their best within their own setting #and surrounded/influenced by other characters in a very particular genre and situation #cql txp #lof lb