I know SV is referred to as the older brother of the other 2 mxtx fandoms but with how behind we are with all of our content we might as well be the grandfather... Tgcf/mdzs fandom complains about their donghua being inaccurate and sv fandom is like "shut up and eat your food. back in my day we didn't even have a donghua! We just entertained ourselves by staring at the microwave!!"
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Time for yet another Scum Villain take post; today, let's briefly deconstruct some of the "problematic" arguments. Long post ahead:
1. "Shen Qingqiu is Luo Binghe's teacher, it's inappropriate"
Y'all not gone like it when I say this, but uh: student Luo Binghe's romantic feelings have fuck all to do with Shen Yuan. It is actually integral to the plot that Shen Yuan is 1) unaware that Binghe is not the toxically macho straight character he expects, 2) knows absolutely NOTHING about his feelings and 3) DOES NOT RETURN THEM.
For literally half the book, he thinks this way and returns zero feelings. In fact, he doesn't find out until he dies, comes back to life years later, meets a 24-25 year old Luo Binghe unintentionally, and realizes that 1) he's literally tearing his mental state apart, 2) he's gay, and 3) he's gay for him.
He proceeds to fight himself via directly internalized homophobia for the rest of the book, until the end when he lets himself love Binghe bc Binghe needs to be loved.
2. "But but but Maigu Ridge- 🥺"
Now, forgive me if I'm remembering poorly, but I'm pretty sure that neither of them wanted that scenario to occur.
Luo Binghe is, at that point, being pushed by the narrative (which, say it with me now, choir, 👋🏾 Overarching Theme!!! 👋🏾) and seeing as I'll never get the phrase "intestinal fluid" out of my head, it wasn't written to be romantic either. It was actually a great deconstruction of that sort of romantic "fix it" scene (which no, i won't stop writing, but i recognize that I'm writing FICTION)
I just personally feel like if we're not gonna call Wei Wuxian getting Lan Wangji drunk and sleeping with him problematic (which, i don't, bc idc and again, it's fiction) then we need to stop acting like this was somehow just a "failed love scene". It sucks, and it's supposed to.
Nothing, NOTHING in this book is touching the level of cringe as that Sword Hilt-Incense Burner-R*pe Kink MDZS extra. Idc, I'll die on that hill 🤣
Like is Binghe still kinda crazy? Yes. 100%. Choices were made. Shen Yuan? I would also say mildly batshit. But Scum Villain is not by far so "problematic" as to not be read and appreciated for what it is (i keep seeing the take 'its her first book' but frankly, i just think it's unique from the other two) anyway, Y'all just think you're too good for it 🤣
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MXTX likes to tell stories about reputation, rumours, and how facts get distorted through the general public's main, selfish interests (or just common bias), to the detriment of good, innocent, morally upright people, and these themes can be found in her three books, especially in MDZS with what happened to Wei WuXian.
But in SVSSS, where Binghe deserves every bit of bad reputation he has, and then some, the real Wei WuXian precursor was not him, but Tianlang-jun. In this essay, I will
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