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What A Nerd

@backpackingspace / backpackingspace.tumblr.com

fandom blog swinging wildly between my obsessions. mainly an untamed blog rn. I also post my original and fanfiction stories here. ao3 is gracefanfiction
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Anonymous asked:

It's funny how Xiao Xingchen wanted to understand Xue Yang and Xue Yang wanted to be understood, yet they still ended up talking past each other.

veliseraptor answered:

this is an old ask but every so often I go back in my inbox to see what's in there.

I actually don't know that Xiao Xingchen did want to understand Xue Yang, though! Or at least he was never in a place to receive that information. But he does pretty explicitly reject Xue Yang's offer to explain in both the novel and the drama (though he indicates some hesitation in novelverse); Xue Yang just goes ahead and does it anyway, because the second part of this is certainly true: Xue Yang desperately wants Xiao Xingchen to understand.

I think if Xiao Xingchen were asked when he was calmer - if he ever had the chance to get calmer - whether he wanted to understand, he would probably say yes, if only because he would feel the need to make sense of the entire disaster. He would want to have some kind of explanation for it all, and part of that includes a level of understanding of Xue Yang.

But I also don't know that he ever would be able to make it make sense for himself. Xiao Xingchen works so psychologically differently from Xue Yang - their worldviews are so profoundly divorced from each other, and their understandings of right and wrong even more so - that I don't think there's really a way to bridge that gap in the sense of "oh, I get it" on a logical level. When I write fix-its, I don't tend to have Xiao Xingchen reach understanding so much as acceptance. And absolutely at the point in time when Xue Yang is trying to explain himself Xiao Xingchen is in no kind of mental state to absorb anything outside of his hurt and horror.

On Xue Yang's end of things, I've written before about how something that breaks my heart about that exchange, and specifically about Xue Yang's attempt to explain himself to Xiao Xingchen, is the fact that it is something he otherwise doesn't do. The contrast is clearest in the drama where Wei Wuxian directly asks Xue Yang why he killed the Chang and Xue Yang doesn't answer him, but in the brief account of Xue Yang's trial in the novel, too, there's no indication that he makes any attempt to justify himself - which could be a desire not to incriminate himself since the case being made hinges on his supposed innocence, but also...I think he just doesn't think it's worth it.

but with Xiao Xingchen...he tries. which, for Xue Yang, is an act of intense vulnerability - and the fact that it ends in emphatic rejection is what triggers his bomb detonation of a reveal.

I wrote a long thing about this back in 2020 and went back to excavate it if you are interested in more of my Thoughts on this

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since apparently it's the internet and you can just Say Things these days, I'm gonna venture out on a limb and say actually it's Jin Guangyao who's the moral compass of the story. hope that clears everything up for people 🙂

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Leia's worst online PR scandal is when a political opponent tried to say something mean about her kids so she pointed out that his no longer talked to him, in a space tweet that stayed up for 25 minutes and was screen-shotted 14 million times from across the galaxy. Luke and Lando's worst online PR scandal was the time they both joined the same mlm scheme for 3 months and had to issue a joint apology . Han has never had an online PR scandal because despite the fact that his handle is @/therealhansolo he has three followers and his only other social media is spfacebook which he uses exclusively to get into parent shaming fights with Isolder, Wedge's worst online PR scandal is when a major holo news channel posts an article that referred to him as "an lgbtq ally" and he space qrts it with "I am not" without specifying that he is not because he is bisexual and then turned his phone off for 14 hours.

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actually so bitter how much better muse would've been handled by the original daredevil showrunners. his murals of his victims would've been way more unsettling and we would've gotten him talking more going on his insane philosophizing abt art and murder

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after the fratt scene I thought Matt might be the reason to pull Frank back in. But seeing as they haven’t interacted since and with bullseye returning next week I am now fully convinced Frank is coming back solely bc of Karen. He knows bullseye will be after her again and he ain’t about to let that happen

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Was it ever established why he didn't shoot Karen as well in the opening scene? If he's gonna target her anyway why didn't he take that chance when he had it?

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