#news flash

[in-danmei-hell-send-help]

I think what kills me about Jiang Cheng antis is that a lot of their talking points reek of anti survivor rhetoric. As someone who is a survivor and has done a lot of advocacy for victims and survivors of power based personal violence, I want to be the first to inform you that the narrative of the “pretty survivor” (which is steeped in cishet normative, white supremacist, and ableist ideas) is an extremely rare case. Trauma survivors are rarely pretty. The Wei Wuxian’s of the world are incredibly uncommon. 

Trauma--especially intense, horrific trauma like what Jiang Cheng went through--often leads to intense issues of anger and hatred. It makes you deeply emotional and can often lead to you becoming unstable. Jiang Cheng lost his entire family and community in the span of a few years. He didn’t have access to therapy (something that literally anyone would need to heal from that), he had to rebuild his entire sect, likely had to fight an uphill battle in order to be a significant part of Jin Ling’s life, all while cleaning up the mess that Wei Wuxian left behind.

This is not to hate on Wei Wuxian, he’s my third favorite character (after Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji) and I love him deeply, but he left behind a legacy that Jiang Cheng had to clean up. Whether or not he realized this would happen, Wei Wuxian created a cultivation path (gui dao/ghost cultivation) that is extremely dangerous and horrific. While I still don’t know if I believe that Jiang Cheng killed every demonic cultivator he came across, I don’t know that it was necessarily a bad thing that he did kill them. We’ve talked a lot in the cxc server about gui dao and demonic cultivation and just how much it harms the mind and body. Wei Wuxian is the exception to the rule in having such control over it and even he eventually succumbed to it. If demonic cultivators are causing great harm, then a cultivators job is to stop that harm and the source of it. That may mean killing the demonic cultivator. I think people get mixed up when (I think it was Jingyi) said that Jiang Cheng kills the wrong person. I believe it was @twilightarc-gm who said that “wrong” doesn’t imply innocent but rather the fact that the person isn’t Wei Wuxian. We know that Jiang Cheng spent thirteen years trying to find Wei Wuxian and when he does find him, he doesn’t kill him despite having literally every reason to.

Like idk y’all, if the guy that got my entire clan wiped out, my sect burned down, and caused the deaths of my sister and her husband died and came back from dead, I wouldn’t just threaten him with a dog and yell at him. I would kill him. But he doesn’t he has every opportunity to in multiple instances after confirming that it’s Wei Wuxian, but he never does. He seems more interested in dragging Wei Wuxian home (literally stating that he’s going to bring Wei Wuxian home to Lotus Pier to kneel before his parents’ graves). Like that doesn’t imply that he’s going to kill Wei Wuxian, but rather make him repent. 

I think it’s telling that despite a lot of Jiang Cheng’s hurt and pain, he still chooses to not severely hurt or kill Wei Wuxian, it would be within his right to do so, but in the end after it’s all over, he let’s Wei Wuxian go. He doesn’t tell Wei Wuxian that he sacrificed himself for him, because he knew that Wei Wuxian would feel guilty and obligated to him, just like Wei Wuxian knew Jiang Cheng would feel guilty and obligated. That to me shows a survivor choosing to break the cycle of hurt and pain and I have to question why Jiang Cheng antis so often choose to ignore the side of him that does love Wei Wuxian (it’s up to the viewer whether they see that love as romantic or platonic), enough so to let him go and not burden him with pain.

Jiang Cheng’s story and character arc is at it’s core about trauma, survival, and rising above dire circumstances despite the odds. He attempts the impossible and manages to succeed in it. And to ignore that is a disservice to his character, survivors of trauma, and the effort MXTX put into creating such a complex and interesting character.

#Jiang Cheng #canon jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #yunmeng shuangjie #the untamed #cql #this sounds like a fucking essay #tell me u were a lit major without telling me u were a lit major #mdzs meta #jiang cheng meta #stop being shitty to characters that are ugly victims #it's fucking telling to a lot of survivors that u aren't a safe person #and that u don't care about survivors if they aren't a 'good' victim #news flash #the way abusers isolate their victims is by acting like pretty survivors #if ur gonna pull the the shit u do #and say with ur whole chest that characters like jc are irredeemable #then maybe don't say ur a safe person for people with trauma

[beauspot]

twitter is being annoying as hell with chefs kiss so back to tumblr we go. i’m really sick and tired of people acting like the only reason people could possibly ship syd and carmy together is because they’re obsessed with white men or whatever. just annoying as hell

it’s like if you don’t fit in some stupid box you MUST be doing things for white approval. we can’t just enjoy a dynamic between two characters.

#news flash #all men are terrible! #the bear #the bear fx #the bear hulu #sydney adamu #syd adamu #carmy berzatto #carmen berzatto #chefs kiss #carmy x syd #syd x carmy #sydcarmy

[sysmedsaresexist]

Dissociative identity disorder: A disorder of diagnostic and therapeutic paradoxes, Dec 2023

DID is a childhood, posttraumatic developmental disorder, categorized by its dissociative symptoms and placed next to the new category of trauma and stressor related disorders, which have no symptom groupings

Also, this part about high functioning individuals, because you're just ableist about what DID "looks like".

#syscourse #pro syscourse conversation #did #osdd #did osdd #actuallydissociative #actually did #actually osdd #actually traumagenic #resource #debunk #pro endo #pro endogenic #anti endo #actuallydid #actuallyosdd #actuallytraumagenic #actuallymultiple #news flash

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

#flashing gif #gif #sesame street news flash #sesame street #news flash #classic television

[coffinwoodx]

this the tally hall yall always raving about?

#news flash #i don’t listen to tally hall #tally hall #mucka blucka #no hate #i’m a gorillaz fan #i get it

[shut-up-rabert]

Can I just say that I LOVE Lord Ram?

Like, I am a Vishnu aradhya overall, his greatness makes me cry regardless, but just looking at Ayodhya Naresh, look at him take all those trials in life, to go through what would break a normal human, to be the greatest man to ever exist, and when you think you have found humanity’s prime, there’s his smile, his all knowing smile and his love filled eyes, which give away just a glimpse of Narayan, and the realisation that this is the lord almighty doing all this for the humanity’s sake hits hard, that the most perfect human to exist was the lord all along, living amongst the common and hiding his greatness on purpose, I JUST WANNA FRICKING CRY OKAY?

JUST LOOK AT HIM?!?!

#News flash #my eyes are watery again #desiblr #hindublr #hinduism #shri ram #ram #jai shri ram #jai siya ram

[moonlitkat]

You're telling me I could've learned calculus by practicing?????? Like solving equations is just following a set of rules???? And I just needed to be exposed to different kinds of equations in order to recognize the patterns???? YOU'RE TELLING ME THIS NOW KHAN ACADEMY (their resources were available when I was an undergrad, I was just lazy)

#NEWS FLASH #college professors were right #the smart guys in all my classes were right #calculus #life science major problems

[gifs-of-puppets]

The Muppet Show (1976-1981)

#the muppet show #the muppets #muppet news flash #muppet news #muppet newsman #newsman #news #news flash #tv news #muppet #muppets #jim henson #gif #muppet gif #muppets gif #gifs of puppets

[sayeonlee]

thinking about sayeon. nothing too in specific, but there’s this metaphor i was thinking about a few weeks back, more of a art piece i envisioned, but you may use it in literature.

sayeon stays too close to the sun, gettijg burned. hindered. I think it could be used as a metaphor for sayeon desperately trying to stay close to her black and white moral code. she’s trying to act like a person with everyone’s best interest in mind but it’s not becoming any more true the more she tries to convince herself. but she persists, albeit it being in vain.

think mercury and the sun. the sun gives life to those at a safe distance, but burn the ones too close. I might write something on it. it’s clear as day, but if sayeon tries to stay too close to her strict moral code, she’s going to be burned.

#hand jumper #sayeon lee #sayeon lee hand jumper #sayeonleefan #writing #um. yeah #news flash #idk how to write #it’s almost as if ive never made any worthwhile content worth consuming 😨😨😱😱 i just yap #we ballin tho

[realpokemon]

saw ho-oh the other day and i was such a fucking idiot all i could thinkw as "i really hope he doesnt come down and eat my fucking sandwich like a seagull does" i swear the motherfucker must have heard me i ran screaming through ecruteak no one would help me do you know how hard it is to eat a rueben when a legendary pokemon wants it just as bad as you do

you guys are so casual. ohh yeah i just saw ho oh the other day. victini is in my house oopsie. mewtwo just came out of the trader joltik with a basket of leppas. what the hell

#also besides the point. what is a seagull #is it like a wingull thats from the sea? #news flash #all wingull are from the sea #pkmn irl

[ask-the-villasenor-fam]

NEWS FLASH! WOOHOO!

Gonna be closing the ask box for now! Why? Well I wanna work on the actual story for a bit!

I'll let you peeps know when the ask box is open again! :)

#news flash #tales of the isles #cuphead au

[bloodwrittenballad]

no way i just saw a p link masterlist with an aged up mike wheeler… you guys are actually fucking deranged. please seek immediate help

#news flash #aging up characters that are minors doesn’t change the fact that they are canonically minors #you guys are gross #literally get help #p link #stranger things p link list

[sysmedsaresexist]

News Flash ⚡

Dissociative Identity Disorder, Nooney, 2023

Why the DSM doesn't list causes of disorders, including DID:

The APA published the third edition of the DSM (DSM-III) in 1980 and, for the first time, provided detailed diagnostic criteria for all mental disorders, opening the door to more consistency in diagnosis. As a result of conflicting theories about the causes of these disorders, the APA chose to mostly ignore etiology and defined the criteria on the basis of observable symptoms alone. One result of this decision is that early childhood trauma is listed as a risk factor rather than a cause of DID.

Attachment theory and trauma:

Several developmental models are used to explain the causes of DID. They all posit that the fragmented identities present in those diagnosed with DID were created as a result of childhood trauma and/or insecure attachment, especially disorganized attachment.

I love this article because of how much emphasis it places on attachment as a predictor/cause. It's so amazing to have that trauma validated.

It also destroys the sociocognitive theory, and I'm always down for that.

#pro syscourse conversation #syscourse #resources #did #osdd #actuallydid #actuallyosdd #actuallytraumagenic #news flash

[lisamarie-vee]

#b.b. king #rock me baby #news flash #blues music #1960s #rock and roll hall of fame

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

sesame street news flash

#gif #kermit the frog #kermit #sesame street news flash #sesame street #news flash #classic television

[lyxchen]

Seeing this post on the blog of a person who I was once friends with but then had to block because they were being fucking antisemitic really is something… like dude?? I scroll up two posts from this one on your blog and I see antisemitism and I scroll down two posts from this one on your blog and I see antisemitism too!? What the actual fuck are you talking about??? I could give you so many posts that are on your blog that are so full with antisemitism, how ignorant are you????

#news flash #hating on israel for no fucking reason Is Antisemitism!!! #''call me out on that'' my guy what?? #if i call you out on your bullshit then you won't listen to me #also why do you not slow down and process before you reblog stuff?? #what is that even? #again how ignorant do you have to be?? #btw this isn't about the person who made that last reblog #i just don't really wanna reveal whose blog this is from because idk so i cropped their name out #antisemitism #but also the audacity the person from that last reblog has #so you agree that you don't think before you reblog which can cause harm and hurt jewish people?