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WORD IN THE STREET THAT STAREMBER IS LEAVING THE TGCF MANHUA TEAM PLEASE PLEASE GOD LET IT BE REAL

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shitpost dispatches from across the jianghu - mcsweeney's internet tendency edition

note: sources inside the cloud recesses confirm that hanguang-jun is not actually sorry

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"Jiang Cheng tried to use Zidian to break what he thought was a forcible possession, thats MURDER-" dude if I was minding my business and some dead guy hijacked my body and the local authority whose job is to deal with these things decided not to because he missed his brother I'd be flipping my shit in the tiny corner of my mind I'd been shoved into

If Jiang Cheng is living in a universe where Wei Wuxian has become a malevolent spirit who goes about hijacking other people's bodies getting him out of there is not only his duty, it's the best thing he can do for Wei Wuxian. If you really hate Jiang Cheng I can see thinking those two things have nothing to do with his motives, but I think you still have to concede that

It's his job to dispel possessions regardless of how he feels about the spirit in question

Becoming a bodysnatching poltergeist is not actually a good thing for Wei Wuxian

Like, the reason Lan Wangji does not worry about it is a) Jiang Cheng makes it instantly clear it's not a problem and b) Lan Wangji has faith that Wei Wuxian would never do something like that. I would argue that Jiang Cheng used to have perfect faith that Wei Wuxian would never hurt Yanli and then he killed her husband and hit her with a zombie. Now Jiang Cheng lives in a world where Wei Wuxian sometimes does things he could never have imagined him capable of and he can't trust anything he thought he knew about him. The contrast between their perspectives is kind of an important part of the story.

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2022г.

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here's a few reminders for the mxtx fandom

1. Wei Wuxian had 2 older sister figures in his life and they both died trying to save him and in the end failed since he died anyway. (RIP Wen Qing and Jiang Yanli)

2. Mu Qing only ever had his mom other than XL and FX and she died a mortal death. We don't know anything about FX's mortal family.

3. Wen Ning was experimented on for 13 years in captivity after seeing his sister's ashes and blames himself still for wwx's downfall

4. He Xuan cannot leave the world even after his revenge to Shi Wudu and is purposeless for all of his immortal life.

5. Jin Ling will never taste her mom's handmade favourite soup.

6. Canon Feng Xin and Mu Qing do not know what happened at the temple to Xie Lian.

7. Jiang Cheng will probably never be good enough in his own eyes (until he has like grand-nephews or something)

8. Shi Qingxuan will (probably) die a mortal death.

9. Some of Nie Huaisang's last words to Nie Mingjue were that he never wanted to be a clan leader.

10. XL and WWX both tried to protect a certain demographic that got wiped out anyway and made them public enemies and reason for their eventual downfall making it essentially ineffective.

11. All the calamities are actually gods who could or did ascend heaven.

12. Xiao Xingchen killed himself after finding out he wiped out villages full of innocent people and his own best friend who he gave up his eyes for. And realising his pursuit of helping the world was worthless.

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At this point i just live and breathe drama behind the scene pictures, especially The Untamed since they are so funny- It's chaotic. How on earth did they manage to film it in time?

All jokes aside, the whole cast is just amazingly talented and it's a shame that aside from Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo, no one else has really "skyrocketed". There are so many talented people who deserve better roles, leading roles even.

#my two favorite things: the Knees Out in every picture (it must have been pretty warm where they filmed) #and a-yuans actor playing on ppl's phones constantly while other stuff is happening around him #makeup. scene adjustments. line reading. and hes just there with an ipad or wtvr

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*Global Examination has the characters 高考 (gaokao) in the title, the same name as China's national university entrance exam

**All of these are Chinese BL

[eng by me]

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i'm out of my head,

hopelessly devoted

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Sketchy sketches of the girls. Experimenting with brushes.

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Part 2 of putting Mingning in different outfits

Northern and Southern dynasties

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Part 3 of putting Mingning in different outfits. A-Ling joins in!

Tang dynasty

So much to choose from 🤯 Sort of gave up on embroidery and prints. So intricate. So pretty U-U

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Part 4 of putting Mingning in different outfits!

Song dynasty.

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The Unhinged or whatever that chinese bl show was called

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one hour sketch🫶🫶

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Today is my birthday and I quickly drew the best character from the best novel as a gift for myself 😌❤

How long have I loved him? Sixth year?.. …Well, for stability and for my luck in the new year of my life 🥂😁

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Saw a picture of a gecko hanging from a ceiling and immediately thought of Wen Ning during the scene at the inn.

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i really really really love the idea of wei wuxian revolutionizing modern cultivation over breakfast and conceptualizing these different theories simultaneously because the adhd brain has no brakes and the only reason it took him a decade to publish all these ideas was because he could not stick to a single train of thought long enough to finish (verbalizing) it, let alone put it down on paper coherently.

the only reason he even got to publishing them eventually (and enrolling to cultivation theory grad program to get on that track) was because one morning, his undergrad thesis advisor, lan qiren, finally got fed up and sat him down for an early morning progress check-in because it was midterm season and wei wuxian still hadn't decided on a topic.

wei wuxian, fueled by an unhealthy amount of redbull and three all-nighters, finally word vomits all his 'convoluted' ideas which he'd thought were uselessly obvious and redundant (because he's gone over these like a bajillion times, it's very plain-as-day to him, so he probably just hasn't read the articles that say these exact things).

lan qiren, teacup frozen halfway to his mouth: ...first of all, i only understood half of how you got to these conclusions, which only means they are indeed too convoluted and will need to be pared down; secondly: you have never mentioned any of these ideas before. why.

wei wuxian: oh. haven't i? oh well, i just thought, xyz, because, obviously, abcde. which is really what the 2 centuries old law on ghjkl was alluding to, right? and so, logically, xyz.

lan qiren: [mind blown, screaming, good gods this is the same child who's always tardy and spent freshman year pulling on the metaphorical pigtails of my straight-laced nephew?!?!??!??!?!] ..again, why...how have you never even spoken or submitted these ideas?

wei wuxian: because!!! they're so obvious!! surely, it's been published somewhere already? i can't be the only one to connect these dots, surely??

lan qiren: incredibly, you are. no one else has even thought to question tradition nor pursued more thoughts on the law of ghjkl, with half as much...sound arguments as you seem to have. in the past century, the focus of modern cultivation has tended towards practical uses and tools, some fine-tuning, perhaps. not entirely new theories.

wei wuxian: huh....

lan qiren, sighing, feeling a migraine: your problem with your thesis is not a lack of focus or ingenuity, but likely to be more a lack of recent, evidentiary sources. you will need to become very familiar with the university archives and dig deep for sources that will back up every argument you make.

he jots down notes on a paper. "you will also need to strictly adhere to the structure and methodology of these articles, especially given how radical your thesis will be. if you are diligent enough, you may just be able to submit your thesis without too much of a delay." he slides the list of materials to a gaping wei wuxian. "depending on your output then, we can discuss the possibility of submitting this for peer review."

"peer review." wei wuxian repeats. "as in, that thing where some uppity committee of old coots put their stamp of approval for it to become the reading materials of undergrads like me. you're joking."

lan qiren chooses to ignore the sentiment about peer review committees being uppity old coots, especially considering how he can't completely deny it on account of some of his colleagues, but also as a member said peer review committee, he isn't exactly pleased about being lumped in the same category.

wei wuxian backtracks at his unamused look. "right, you're not joking, of course you're not." he slowly inches the list towards himself. "right, yes, i guess i'll uh, get to it then. ok bye."

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idk, just, waves hand at wei wuxian candidly explaining new modern cultivation theories over cheerios at 2 in the afternoon to lwj who's trying to help him structure his grad thesis, getting mind blow dick hard at how this messy genius who's talking with his mouth full of half eaten cereal is the object of his affection....

wwx: --oh, oops, your highlighter fell

lwj: mn

wwx: ...aren't you gonna get that?

lwj: it's fine; i'll pick it up later. finish your thought.

wwx: right... i'll pick it up for you!

lwj, fighting for his life, trying to think unsexy thoughts: NO! sit. finish your meal, and then your thought.