cashew | Monday, July 8th, 2024

Need to be in bed, but too hot so brain is occupied with Jing Yuan and how it's hard to find a half-way decent fic.

So, there's a few fanon peeves that's really starting to get to me:

Constant giving female genitalia to male characters to avoid writing gay sex. Like, geebus, this is a space faring civilization, lube is a thing they've invented.
This insistence on JY being a child and being treated as one by the Quintet. It's really annoying because while it's not necessarily against canon, there's plenty of hints that JY was an adult by the time he joined up with the Quintet, not the least of which being his character story Part III clearly stating: "他的应变急智和实用主义手段屡屡让上级们难忘又头疼。最终，受到前任罗浮剑首的邀请，景元加入其所部为之效力，开启了「云上五骁」传奇之路。" — He has already established himself in the Cloud Knights and it was only after he made a name for himself that he then got invited to join the Quintet.
Literally no one trying to write any hurt-comfort despite Dan Feng possessing healing abilities and JY being a front-line soldier. Seriously, where the fuck are my hurt-comfort fics?
The majority seem to take the stance that Jing Liu would just let Dan Feng do whatever to her disciple. Given her rather hardass stance and fandom's insistence on making JY a child, I find this immensely unbelievable.
No one seems to want to explore the politics. Despite the majority of the angst Dan Feng experienced being the result of said politics. FFS.
Literally no one is able to write an actual military campaign fic. Like...zero people seem interested in trying to imagine how the military campaign might've been carried out by the Cloud Knights given that's like the majority of the Quintet's interaction. Logistics. Supply lines. Geography. Tactics. There's so much to work with here and no one is interested in how each of the Quintet contributed to a functioning military. I'm seriously confused, because there's so many examples to copy from yet everyone is stuck on love-triangle drama.
But seriously, making JY a child during the Quintet days is crippling the fandom's ability to write remotely interesting fic. No wonder Adventurine/Dr. Ratio is getting more stuff written about them.