#I guess you could hash out whether 'other man' implies romantic attachment (it didn't to me) but rn I need sLeep

[wombathos]

"but like... your other man is already a fierce corpse xxc" i was wondering, is there anything that confirms sl & xxc rs as romantic? Otherwise I'm always confused why ppl can't talk about xy & xxc without mentioning somehow romantic songxiao it's whether a fic, a meme, a joke, a serious analysis, etc...& it's not like it's not interesting & as if idk that these chara are p connected but it does baffles me that it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to find xuexiao that doesn't imply songxiao (&kinda sad lol)

to be clear I’m generally pro just xuexiao! and I do get this complaint. but also in the context of that specific post I think that xxc’s reasons for killing himself were canonically... uh, pretty closely tied to song lan dying (and xxc being the one to kill him) - and sentient fierce corpse song lan still being around could make a difference to xiao xingchen. and yeah, I guess I do personally read sl and xxc as having.... some kind of an intimate bond - I’m hesitant to label it romantic or anything so definitive, but they clearly care about each other a lot. so if xxc knew that sl wasn’t lost to him entirely, maybe they could all work something out (or so I’d hope, sadly it was a bit unlikely). beyond that, canon doesn’t really ‘confirm’ any ship apart from,, wangxian and anyone else who actually got married but I don’t... really care about confirming ships in general, sorry. I also don’t really like songxiao without xue yang in the mix but I do like it as a backdrop to xue yang and xxc’s relationship... I guess because I think jealousy and tragedy are fun?? but also I doubt that answer is representative of fandom as a whole and apart from that I can only really speculate

I totally get how common fandom interpretations can become grating through too much repetition, especially when they’re just casual gags that are treated like common wisdom. but I didn’t label either the xuexiao or songxiao axis as romantic or otherwise in that post or in the tags. mostly I implied that xxc cares about both of them, whatever form that takes. (and as it happens that tension is one of the things I enjoy a lot about xuexiao as a ship - xue yang deliberately targeting song lan to get at xxc, xue yang’s perspective on xxc’s whole ‘giving song lan his eyes’ thing, just how annoyed xue yang was when song lan showed up and ruined the peace. I don’t think that shared history is sad to me in that sense - or maybe a little for xue yang but I like that - because xxc having intense feelings about someone in the past/present doesn’t detract from the ship. I don’t think I’d ever want to cut song lan out of that. but on the flip side I would also be profoundly disinterested in any exploration of song lan and xiao xingchen’s dynamic that ignored xue yang. I just like triangles tbh.) I guess I don’t know what to tell you anon, I ship xuexiao and songxuexiao about equally and songxiao is honestly a bit of a notp for me at this point, so I’m not sure if I’m the right person to take this up with

#sorry I don't want to be rude lol #because I know first hand how annoying and frustrating common fandom takes can get #but also I guess in this case I agree with the general idea that there was *something* between sl and xxc? #even if I don't like any version of it that cuts out xue yang #leela replies #anonymous #demonic cultivation for pros #I guess you could hash out whether 'other man' implies romantic attachment (it didn't to me) but rn I need sLeep #also i just like fucked up triangles #suicide mention cw