xl crossdresses, lqq insults xl for not being masculine, xl thinks he has no preparation to resist attraction to men (hc) and feels guilty when he gets aroused from hc bending him over during hc’s ghost arousal, and fxmq villainize hc’s expression of gay sexual attraction to xl
also i can't stress this enough but no, no queer media will ever be 'palatable' for homophobic people and danmei is the perfect example of that. tgcf is severly censored in china precisely because of this, hualian can't even KISS on the lips on the printed version.
@writingdisabled yup, this is done *within the opening arc of the novel*, hence why the excuse of kissing in order sharing spiritual energy is so flimsy in-universe. it should take no effort at all to recognize that the excuse of sharing spiritual energy is characterization, not world-building
people are so detached from the fact that narratives are, by nature, the culmination of an author’s decisions made with deliberate intent that they’ll tell you two characters sucking face means nothing because they have an excuse (and a flimsy one *in-universe* at that)
People complain, but it's true, TGCF is so censored that you'd never know it was queer if you weren't part of the fandom. Kisses on the lips as a power transfer aren't even that weird or prove anything, and the sex they had is completely unexplicit.
MXTX didn’t have to write it like that. no one was twisting her arm behind her back telling her that it’s a narrative law that mana exchange must be facilitated through acts of romantic/sexual intimacy.
ignoring the fact that characters *within TGCF* point out how unnecessary it is for hualian to exchange spit every time they transfer spiritual energy, let’s pretend for a moment it was the only option. you really don’t think that has any significance?
Before you get your “WW3” jokes off—people will die. People will die from US made bombs while we sit untouched and watch through our phones. That is the problem. That is why your joke isn’t fucking funny. Keep it.
pray for iran. pray for palestine. pray for yemen. pray for syria. pray for lebanon. pray for every country that has been bombed and desecrated by the settler state.
@femmedianxia by my count, hualian actually received 3,167 new works this year, whereas the graph only lists 2,198. so they definitely haven’t “fallen off” as much as it may seem! but thankfully we do have all of canon to indulge in hualian 😌
americans are uniquely diseased because they'll watch civilians get killed in real time by their own military and go but what abt me tho what abt me. have you considered how it feels to me
so many americans see people the global south as less than & make their suffering about themselves. it’s vile that people are enduring genocide, fear bombing or all & you’re only thinking about yourself because God forbid you’re not talking about you as others suffer and die
really tired of hearing all of this 'dying empire' stuff, pure wishful thinking that ultimately really just seems to mean that no one has to do anything to stop these crimes bc it's just symptomatic of some hidden crisis of hegemony. meanwhile the reich gets everything it wants
what causes most harm to organized action is this defeatist mindset that americans spread among themselves every time. when you say "man what are we supposed to do" it is not genuine inquiry, it's an attempt to absolve yourselves of all blame while not really trying anything.
Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC...
US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.
I think some of you guys are thinking too much about Americans feelings & not enough about the fact that America is about to completely suck Venezuela dry of resources making it harder for their struggling economy to recover and their people to be fed