cashew | Monday, September 16th, 2024

First, hilarious fic: 策士长工作日志一则① & ② & ③
Qingzu's headache when it comes to dealing with the many ridiculous stories surrounding Jing Yuan and his "inappropriate relationship" with Imbibitor Lunae.

Pros:

So funny, omfg.
Hilarious mentions of canonized doujin.

Now, to rant a bit about Jing Yuan and the fangirl's BL shipping goggles.

( Just me letting off some steam... )

Edit to add:

I'm kind of annoyed at the one argument from a Jing Yuan/Dan Heng shipper that actually Jing Yuan wasn't close to anyone in the Quintet except to Jingliu, and even that relationship was built on a strict teacher-student dynamic with no emotional ties.

WTF? Like I feel like you'd have to be deliberately obtuse to ignore all the blatant context indicating everyone in the Quintet mattered deeply to Jing Yuan. He's not just an outside observer, he was actively their friend. The fact that Jing Yuan goes to visit Bailu yearly with a made up excuse shows how close he was to Baiheng (since everyone treats Bailu as her direct descendent). The fact that an entire PV was made to address the emotional fallout from Jingliu going crazy shows how much Jingliu mattered emotionally to Jing Yuan. The fact that Jing Yuan spent literal hundreds of years dealing with the mess of the Sedition and continues to defend Dan Feng as a good person (with misguided intentions) proves he deeply cared about Dan Feng. The fact he goes out of his way to get Blade out of prison shows he still values the feelings between him and Ying Xing.

What the hell? Why would issues such as age gap, being a different species, having a different lifespan matter only when it comes to Jing Yuan's closeness to the Quintet but doesn't interfere with anyone else's friendships?! Why is Jingliu/Baiheng totally not affected by their giant age gap and being different species with differing cultural practices?

Shippers drive me crazy sometimes...