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just finished episode 17. I think it's so funny how wen kexing and ye baiyi hate each others guts even though they literally want the exact same thing. also wen kexing has been looking so much like a small pathetic wet kitten. i need to pick him up and put him in my pocket

#word of honor #woh liveblogging

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#jiang cheng #FORG!!

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ok I'm on episode 15-16 of WoH and here are my thoughts so far:

Gu Xiang is like if Jiang Cheng's daughter was also Wei Wuxian's protege. She's the worst of Jin Ling and Wei Wuxian put together and I love her.

She and Cao Weining are like Xuanli if Jiang Yanli had turned out the way Yu Ziyuan wanted her to.

Cao Weining!!! He's so endearing!!!!

I'm coming around on Wen Kexing. I totally didn't trust him before but it seems like he actually cares a lot about Zhou Zishu now. I believe they can work things out between them.

Chengling is my baby son and I hope nothing bad ever happens to him. I'm taking him and putting him in a cozy blanket nest and feeding him soup and hot cocoa.

I feel really bad for Gao Xiaolian. Poor girl. I want her to have a happy ending but it's not looking good for her at the moment.

Han Ying is totally gonna die I'm calling it now. He's too good and narratively convenient to live much longer.

Tragicomic Ghost and Liu Qianqiao are such a power duo. Yes queens kill those lame-ass men! I kinda don't like that they both seem to have tragic love stories with random middle-aged men who possibly abandoned them though.

I NEED to see more of Scorpion King. I keep seeing him in the opening (and closing?) credits and I'm fascinated by him but he's only had like 2 seconds of screentime so far and I'm so curious.

Just met Ye Baiyi and I'm not sure what to think about him. I feel like something really big has to happen for Zhou Zishu to change his mind about the life-saving surgery.

Shen Shen is really annoying. I hope bad things happen to him.

#word of honor #woh liveblogging #gu xiang #cao weining #wkx #zzs #zhang chengling #gao xiaolian #han ying #tragicomic ghost #liu qianqiao #scorpion king #yby #not tagging ss. i feel like maybe he has a redemption arc bc i've seen fanart of him so i don't want fans to feel bad that i don't like him

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WORD OF HONOR | episode fourteen Whose idea was this? It’s both clever and cruel.Mine.Yours? You’re really trying to kill yourself.

#word of honor #zhou zishu #wen kexing #ye baiyi #gifs #this was the moment that made me realize exactly how much wkx cares for zzs #the sheer devastation written across his face... the way he can't stop staring at the wounds... the expression as he looks back at zzs' face #the way his breathing changes. he's horrified and concerned and sad and so so afraid #i'm only on like ep 16 so far but like. man.

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"Hearing the last part, Jiang Cheng remembered the past three months of rushing about and working day and night. He felt somewhere moved, but quickly put on a harsh face"

#jiang cheng #wei wuxian #twin prides #this is like the one time ever that someone notices jc's hard work *and* compliments him on it

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everyone had that one guy at their wizard school said edgy shit like "dark magic is just misunderstood, not evil" that ended up wanted in three countries for necromancy

#wwx

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I see fics writing Nie Huisang like:

Nue Huisang: "OMG Jiang Cheng was so mean and bitch with Wei-Xiong i must had to take revenge because this is not fair >:("

When in canon he is like:

Nie Huisang: Oh, Jiang Cheng was a bitch to Wei WuXian.

Nie Huisang: ...

Nie Huisang: Anyway-

#nhs: jc was a bitch to wwx... taking note of that so i can use it in my future plans ✅

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Tried of saying "this character has autism this character has anxiety" let's step it up a bit. I'm gunna start saying megatron has erectile dysfunction

#doesn't like the entire scum villain fandom agree that yue qingyuan has ed

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i think the hottest look you can give someone after they commit acts of unspeakable violence is approval. like don't get me wrong if there's lust there too that's great, but staring at someone with gore dripping down their chin and coating their hands to the wrists with undisguised appraisal and admiration. maybe giving them a little nod as if to say 'well done'. THAT'S what says "yeah we're gonna fuck nasty later".

#twin prides

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One thing i've run up against when dealing with fandom and characters making less than ideal choices is that people seem to treat a character's decision being sympathetic, the decision being understandable, the decision being reasonable, and it being objectively the best solution for the situation, as synonymous. When those are 4 very different things.

#the worst is when it's only the middle two #because you have people talking about how it was The Worst Decision Ever #but also like. it made total sense and you couldn't really expect the character to make a different decision under the circumstances

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a dangerous game indeed

#jin guangyao #jin ling #fanart #comics #that is some shit only yunmeng kids would come up with

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THE UNTAMED (2019) — episode twenty-seven

#jiang cheng #wei wuxian #twin prides #gifs #ok ok. SO #wwx has always been able to pull jc along with him wherever and whenever he pleases #and jc follows his whims because they are A Set‚ Do Not Separate™️ #but now wwx has abandoned him and suddenly they AREN'T a Set anymore. they're something else. something entirely different and wrong #and wwx doesn't realize this because he never quite sat down to think about it‚ he just accepted that they do everything together #and i think this is the moment where it sinks in for him. something has changed and now suddenly they don't belong together anymore. #because now that he's betrayed jc's trust in such a deep way‚ jc isn't willing to let himself be taken where wwx wants anymore. #this is where‚ all of a sudden‚ they both know it's over. #AUGHHHH

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Can't help but think about how much of Jiang Cheng’s 'I am nothing without my core' outburst when he wakes up after losing it is not because he needs to be the best but because he just lost the only thing he could do for his mother after she died. If it would've mattered less to him once he'd gotten the time to mourn her loss. If he stays up at night thinking about how all his accomplishments so far were possible because of Wei Wuxian's core, and how that would've disappointed her even more. If he thinks that she would've let Wei Wuxian give him his core had she been around back then, and feels an old but horribly familiar anger burn through him. If he still curses her for her last words to Wei Wuxian and curses himself for parroting them. If he curses Wei Wuxian for believing them.

Can't help but wonder if his dedication to the sect was to protect its people and those who depended on it just as much as it was about continuing a legacy, upholding his duty. If he really did all that to make his dead mother proud and earn his dead father's respect, if these considerations ever took first place in the light of day where he had a sect and a nephew to look after, or got relegated to the late hours when he lay awake, haunted by the past. Can't help but wonder if he ever saw Jin Ling cry, realised that his own mother would've scolded him for showing weakness, and decided that what she thought mattered less than he'd realised.

Can't help but wonder how much his mother still haunts his life.

#jiang cheng #jl #UWAGHHH WHY WOULD YOU SAY THIS 😭

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Wei Wuxian either was ripped apart by his zombie army due to his own loss of control over them (book) or threw himself off a cliff (drama). JGY did not make him do that.

Jiang Yanli died because she cared so much about Wei Wuxian, the man she saw as a little brother, that she traveled to the battlefield and then actively decided to put herself between him and the blade of a random cultivator who had a grudge against him. JGY did not make her do that.

Fic Prompt

During a conference, someone presents Jin Guangyao with a rare artifact. Upon activating it, however, the ghosts of everyone Jin Guangyao has killed or had someone else kill appear. The ghosts bear marks of how they were killed. (Wei Wuxian is in shreds, Nie Mingjue has blood dripping from his eyes, nose, and mouth, Jiang Yanli has a stab wound, etc.)

#jgy #????? #and if you're going to say ''oh but he arranged for the nightless city battle to happen'' or something just don't waste your time #in the cultivation world's eyes wwx had already established himself as an enemy of the people #they would have tried to kill him regardless of what jgy did

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#polls #i voted for jiang cheng bc there's something about him living forever while everyone else gets old and dies that just feels accurate to me #like. yeah that WOULD happen to him wouldn't it. figures. #and of course he would get saddled with way too much responsibility just as he's thinking ''finally i get to relax'' #it just fits with his shitty luck #but he would do his duty because he's always done that and excelled bc he goes above and beyond #however it would be deeply unpleasant for him. at least for a good long while... maybe he would get used to it eventually idk #i guess i'm saying ''likely'' in terms of story and themes and stuff though #who DESERVES to ascend the most is an entirely different question #(it's wen qing. just imagine: they burn her to ashes and then she rises out of them like the wen's double-headed phoenix) #(wreathed in flames‚ she denounces the cultivation world for their hypocrisy and corruption‚ then ascends to the heavens) #(then she settles down and becomes the god of doctors and healers and big sisters and refugees and those in unfortunate circumstances) #(come on you guys. wen qing!!!!)

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The agonising feel when a character tag is full of shipping that you Simply Do Not Vibe With. The solution is, naturally, to keep scrolling. But the wince, the WINCE.

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my time has come

I'm making a Jiang Cheng playlist guys, please drop songs that make you think of him!!

So far I have:

Heirloom - Sleeping at Last

right where you left me - Taylor Swift

God Only Knows - King and Country

I'll be Good - James Young

Hope - NF

Wait for it - Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton)

#jc #Spotify