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thatswhatsushesaid · 8 months

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it’s always so interesting to me when people state that they just “didn’t trust” jin guangyao from the very first moment he appears on screen as meng yao in cql because like

do you not recognize how your suspicion of a sex worker’s son on sight, before he’s done anything at all except endure humiliation during the cloud recesses welcoming ceremony, is the exact same attitude shared by the rest of the cultivation world?

#salty peak sect 🧂#this isn’t directed at any one person because i have seen this comment appear so many times #these kinds of instinctive reactions to characters from a lower class absolutely should be challenged #like i don’t think it is an accident that so many of the antagonist characters in the novel and the show #either originate from the margins of society or are forced there via circumstances outside their control #i don’t think it is an accident that they share many of these qualities with actual protagonist wei wuxian #(many but not all. wwx was still the legitimate son of a pair of rogue cultivators. STILL.)

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