#'SHOW DON'T TELL' etcetc nevermind that the way of telling stories seems to be... a little bit different and not only because of the

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’A multitude of variously-colored sword glares rushed over’

it seems it’s in our blood to look at a sword and think ‘yknow what would make it cooler? GLOWING, AND ALSO COLORS’

#something something modern cultivation... it would be so fun. so annoying to Serious cultivators who didn't like the sw comparisons #(so really fun in general) #shrimp reads mdzs #also general thoughts on the novel itself: #it helps a lot that i'm reading it after 4.5 watches of cql (which i love) because the constant infodumps make me go ah yes! this! #or OH so it was like THAT when something was unclear in the show (now that i think about it... the corpse ban made quite a lot of scenes #make little sense lol) #but if i was reading it for the first time (and for wangxian!) i'd probably find it irritating and difficult to remember #'SHOW DON'T TELL' etcetc nevermind that the way of telling stories seems to be... a little bit different and not only because of the #language #although i really wonder what would the experience of reading mdzs as it comes out be like #probably confusing. i'm able to connect the dots because i already know the material quite well but without it? i'd be lost lol #so i was wondering for a moment if it wouldn't help the structure (and the infodumps) a bit if the novel was non-linear #so like. a couple of chapter of present times and then some flashbacks BUT while it would sort of work with a story published in whole books #i think it just... wouldn't really work in a chapter-by-chapter format because it would be even More confusing #also god cql wgxn are great but the tiny written moment of fondness between wwx and lwj in the novel... gwah