kizukatana.bsky.social
30+ writes for pay in business/economics journals, writes for fun on AO3. BLM, abolitionist, wangxian enthusiast. No minors, please! Anti-science = blocked. #NoKings
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oooohhhhh!!! so luckyyyyyy!!! Yes, Queen!
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ugh I feel your pain on having the forced Fox news on in the medial buildings!
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They're characters in a Chinese novel about a gay relationship set in ancient China w/ some additional mythology (wwx = Wei Wuxian and lwj = Lan Wangji - they are the 2 main male characters). I accidentally used a trending key word that got some cross pollination on my post that I hadn't expected 😅
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It is the law.
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I love her so much
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right??? no one I know, that's for sure!
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😂😂😂
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😂😂 Or it was AI but wwx was actually making an offer
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For me I think going for walks/runs outside help the most but the weather has been terrible and the sidewalks are icy so I've just been... indoors freaking out and pacing in circles like a weirdo. Which... I am, so whatever! 😂
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Yeah, I sort of feel like the lack of bookmarks on bsky makes threadfics really hard. Scrolling through to find where you left off is annoying. I'll probably end up posting on AO3 when I get more written.
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haha!! No worries. That is how I took it!
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I love smart bad guys sm
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I don't think so!! I am going to have to move this to AO3. It's too long to do here.
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Me too!!!!!
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Yeah, in his mind he isn't the bad guy, he's fixing a legitimately broken system. And there is some evidence to support him, which (if wwx has his memories back as well) wwx will also see. It won't make him necessarily support wrh, but it might hold him back from supporting the others.
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♥️♥️♥️
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Thank you !!! The more I think about wrh the more interested in him I am LOL.
In my 'full arc' of this universe, wwx has his memories but it really could have gone either way!
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exactly! This was always in the back of my brain because novel wrh was not as evil/insane as CQL wrh and I think JGS (and, in some ways, LQR, NMJ and JC) were shown to be worse in the end. And then I got to thinking... maybe wrh sort of knew that and that's why he went to war in the first place
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What a waste.
He was interesting, this Wei Wuxian.
Perhaps Wen Ruohan would be able to convince him to take a different path this time.
A different side, as it were.
[end for now... I have a lot more written but it is a mess and needs to be organized]
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He found himself disappointed when he learned that, at the final battle--when the young cultivator had been confronted by a massive army of the remaining assembled clans--he had chosen to retreat and take his own life rather than kill them all as he obviously could have.
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How foolish the other sects had been for turning on him rather than embracing him.
Wen Ruohan wondered whether they had feared the boy’s power, or feared the fact that he had a sense of right and wrong, and the strength to back it up.
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... against killing the innocents amongst his people.
This was part of the teachings of Wen Mao, and Wen Ruohan found himself respecting the boy. It was hard to stay true to such values, when one held such power.
Wen Ruohan knew this struggle well.
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Moreover, he learned that—as soon as the war was over—rather than embracing the boy or even fighting over which sect would get to keep him, they had turned on him. This boy, this Wei Wuxian had been the cause for Wen Ruohan’s loss. But he had also been the only one who spoke out...
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From those that had been imprisoned by the Jin after the war—before they had been tortured and executed—he learned that none of the other sect leaders had not understood it either.
Instead, they had both feared and coveted it.
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who had somehow managed to create an entirely new style of cultivation with no one, even knowing.
It was only somewhat reassuring that this was not just something he had missed, was not something that the other sects had managed to hide from him.
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What he learned from speaking with those who had lived through that final battle was that all of his estimations of the battle strength of the surrounding clans had been accurate. They would very definitely have lost the war, except for a teenager
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Based on the ridiculous number of emissaries they kept sending him, they seemed to foolishly believe he would be kinder to them after learning how they had slaughtered his people and abandoned his lands.
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All that said, he felt like his initial judgement against the other Great Sects had largely been borne out to be valid.
He had no plans to change anything other than moving up the timeline, this time around.
As soon as he figured out how to handle the dark-robed cultivator.
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He preferred to run it directly and save himself the trouble of unpleasant negotiations with people who were not his equal.
Perhaps he would offer them a chance for survival again this time.
If they refused again, he would wipe them out again.
It had not taken much effort, after all.
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Jiang Fengmian deferred constantly to his temperamental wife who – while she was a strong cultivator – did not have the skills needed to manage that contained silk production and strategic waterways.
She managed trade relations based on her ego and pride, which was inconvenient for Wen Ruohan.
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The Jiang were possibly the least objectionable of the Great Sects. They had no corruption in their cultivation technique and were less rigid in their teaching. But they were disorganized and mismanaged, with the sect leader seemingly incapable of managing his own sect.
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... they had the ability to check. Wen Ruohan had wondered if they had played Inquiry at the work camp where his people had been tortured and murdered and simply not cared, or if they had not even bothered to do that much.
Righteous. What a joke. He would not be as merciful this time.
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When he learned how the oh-so-righteous Lan had stood by and let the innocents be slaughtered, it made him wish he hadn't told Wen Xu to allow so many of their disciples to live.
They claimed to be the seat of knowledge and righteousness, yet then had fallen for Jin Guangshan's lies, even when
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Then there were the Lan who hoarded knowledge and restricted access to it, yet forbade any creativity or innovation within their sect. What use was all of that knowledge if not to further the advancement of cultivation? It was a waste, and Wen Ruohan was very sure he could manage it much better.
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... would extend their life and keep them strong, not corrupt them from within and cause them to die earlier than even a non-cultivator would
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nature of his cultivation. Wen Ruohan had not laid a finger on him.
The last thing the cultivation world needed was a corrupt cultivation method spreading. Did the children then inducted into their sect know what they were getting into?
Many outer disciples joined sects to learn cultivation that..
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Wen Ruohan had realized the secret behind the Nie’s strength. It was not true cultivation. They borrowed their strengths from beasts.
And then had the gall to blame Wen Ruohan for killing their leader rather than acknowledging that the man wouldn't have died if he hadn't been lying about the
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And then there was the Nie Sect.
Their entire cultivation was unstable and corrupt. When he had sensed the resentful energy from the prior Nie sect leader's sword and broken it with his own, the backlash had caused the man to lose his mind and qi deviate.
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Despite their claims to be his 'allies', the Jin had been the main driver for the Wen genocide.
So he felt no guilt in his original plans for that sect.
If anything, he planned to move them up on his list of sects to wipe out with this new information.