You can tell Isabela is a sweet and carefree woman because if everyone else got a cool nickname from Varric and I was just ‘Rivaini’ I would have become the second most ballistic party member in a heartbeat
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im permanently thinking about ludinus's "the divergence wasn't to protect us from them. it was to protect them from us." absolutely incredible way to spin the calamity and if he's an aeor survivor then he 100% has reason to believe this. they struck down aeor to protect themselves. oogh.
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okay, i dont really care for gale, but i really wanna know what's going on with the whole minstra took advantage of him in a similar manner to shadowheart or others
because im not rlly interested in romancing him, and the way he tells you stuff when not romancing him just makes it feel like there was just a power imbalance and he purposefully overstepped the boundaries with her because he wanted more power/knowledge/possibly to become a god and she was like 'ok fuck you' and then became really fucking rude to him
but its not sounding like all this was done when he was a kid? i would assume since he had been a goddess's lover he would be of age but i could very much be wrong. can someone please shine a light on this?
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Interesting little tidbit I found while looking for something, but for all the people claiming that LanlingJin was just “sooooo powerful” that everyone else was “afraid to go against them” and that’s why all the other surviving sects post-Sunshot Campaign rallied to eradicate Wei Wuxian and the Wen remnants per their wishes:
This is Wen Ruohan’s assessment of the Jin clan:
Among the four sects, the LanlingJin Sect was on the fence—watching how all of the sects were angrily going on some expedition, it wanted to take part as well, but if it suffered more defeats than victories, it’d soon realize that there was no good in it, perhaps even coming back to hug the Wen Sect’s leg and worship it once more
—chapt. 61, exr
And this is what the Nie clan might was, as per Wei Wuxian’s recollection:
During the Sunshot Campaign, Nie MingJue won almost all battles. The enemy couldn’t even approach him, much less cause him to be so badly injured.
—chapt. 48, exr
The Jin were fence-sitters who would suck up to whoever they deemed the most powerful at the time. Because they didn’t know which way the tides would turn in the war, they didn’t want to commit to an alliance with anyone. They also knew that they couldn’t (or didn’t want to) afford losses in battle. On the other hand, the Nie under Nie Mingjue were near unstoppable. “Won almost all battles” in a war in which you were severely outnumbered? That’s astonishing!
But once the Wen clan fell, a power vacuum was left, one that Jin Guangshan was given the opportunity to fill with the other great clan leaders’ reluctance to take up the political power QishanWen left behind. The problem: his clan was simply not powerful enough to stand against the one clan that was successfully able to hold QishanWen back even before Wei Wuxian’s aid. In that same assessment Wen Ruohan made of the Jin, he noted that while nmj was a tank onto himself, killing him would leave the Nie clan listless, neutralizing them as a threat. Jgs realized this too, which is why he had to resort to trickery and then assassination: there was a higher chance of loss against nmj (especially with wwx’s refusal to join the Jin) than success. And the Jin do not take up opportunities without a guarantee of success.
Had nmj not been willing to cede political power after the war and had kept the Jin in check as wrh had (albeit because he was a tyrant and not for any moral reason), jgs would have had no choice but to stand back and continue playing second fiddle to the powerhouse clan above him. But by the time nmj began to understand the treachery of the Jin as a concretely bad thing, jgs had already gotten bold enough to choose assassination as a solution to his problems.
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thinking about the fact that the only(?) time the castration metaphor is used in reference to malcolm himself is when he comes back after his first resignation ('he's in an odd way, it's like he's been to the vet and had his knackers done'). and of course it comes from ollie
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I've been trying to pinpoint something about Min Woo's sudden redemption and being pushed towards Soyeon that annoys me, and I finally figured it out. When they're having that 'Oh poor me breadwinner for my family', he's STILL calling Soyeon a Princess and being bitter about her dad being a judge. Not once in the drama, apart from the NK defector lady and even then it was pretty messy, has she used her background to her advantage. She doesn't push it into anyone's face and it's never really mentioned unless he's involved, so while it's a part of her it's not EVERYTHING about her?
You could also say that if he should have a chip on his shoulder with someone, it's Soyeon, but he chooses to focus his ire and resentment on Young Woo, who realistically he's more closer to in terms of background. So yeah, this sudden move to push Soyeon into his arms is a load of cobblers and I will not have it!
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I really liked your explanation of the difference between JC and LWJ when it came to how they were constrained by their personal issues. I feel like JC is often seen as "uwu fav uncle who did no wrong and just loved" but that's not true. All the characters may have fucked up, big or small, but it's the way in which they (WWX or LWJ) always try to do the right thing.
In what ways do you think LWJ held back in the ways he could have helped? Or was what you mentioned about talking and pressing the issue after the flower banquet the extent of that?
Man anon, you sure do know how to hone in on a point of conflict 😭 But seriously, I won’t answer this not because I have an issue with the question but because my thoughts on what Lan Wangji could/could not feasibly have done during wwx’s first life has actually changed quite a bit the farther I get from having read the book, and I realize that a lot of my opinions have been influenced by how much I didn’t like how the discourse on the topic was going. (Seriously, I hate the “well he could’ve died!” argument as to why it was “the right choice” for lwj not to side too much with wwx*, because wwx and the Wen remnants DID die, so what makes lwj so special????)
I was actually gonna revisit this when I did my reread (which will probably happen in April to celebrate my one-year anniversary for reading mdzs 🥳), so if you stick around, that’ll go up at some point.
*I’m speaking a little tongue-in-cheek here since the debate is about whether or not he sided with wwx as much as he could’ve at the time, but those previous discourses that pissed me off were definitely worded as “it was good for lwj not to publicly side with wwx because he could have died otherwise”
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So Daemon inherited Dark Sister after his father had it. Which is something he had in common with him aka being a warrior/fighter. And that means Dae had his mother's personality and his father's poweress. While Viserys got his father's temperment?
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