he’s off to do some animatronic maintenance and nothing more!

Tim wakes up in an unfamiliar room.

Already a bad sign. Speaking of signs there was what looked like a small packet of papers stapled together. The words on the front said, "Don't panic. You're here for your own protection."

Careful not to make too much noise an alert his captors, Tim-still clad in his nightclothes- walked to the packet and picked it up.

The packet explained that he had fans, he knew that. No one could remain in the public eye as long as he had and not gain a following, unfortunately for him it seems he had someone completely obsessed with him who had turned into a powerful ghost when she died and the writer of this packet was hunting her down to stop her from kidnapping him herself.

So basically this Phantom guy kidnapped Tim so she couldn't? Wierd.

Danny didn't think to inform Tim that he would be spending the next few days wearing his face in an attempt to get the ghost to kidnap him instead and get her to take him back to her lair where he can fight her without her being able to run away.

Unfortunately for both Tim and Danny,the Waynes weren't informed either.

Hiiii, if it's not too much, can you describe the biggest differences between the live action characters and the novel characters in MDZS? They are a lot, so I will love even the difference between few of them! I haven't seen the live action and I don't know if I will ever, but I am curious, considering all the meta. Anyway, thank you in general, even if you don't answer!

Hello anon! This has been in the inbox forever because there are soooo many ways to answer this! However, let me be transparent that I've watched maybe like 1/10 of CQL. Among other obstacles, I simply do not care that much about Lan Wangji and he's always there (even though Wang Yibo is giving it his all... it's not his fault I'm a hater...). Chewing through a book with Ms. Mxtx's commentary was just more enjoyable to me, and even then, to be honest, I still liked SVSSS better. (I just love Shen Yuan/Shen Qingqiu so much. That dude is wild.)

Still, the live action definitely affected how I understood certain characters (...primarily Nie Huaisang) and made me interested in relationships that I didn't pay any attention to in the novel. (I freely admit that the nieyao brainrot is 100% CQL's fault.) Also I found Wang Zhuocheng's Jiang Cheng very cute and loveable. It definitely contributed to my Jiang Cheng Brain Disease.

LISTEN. HE HAS BIG SAD EYES AND THE MEANEST SNEER AND HE MIGHT BURST INTO TEARS AT ANY TIME. HE IS A BABY. A baby who could kill you with his terrifying lightning whip! But a baby nonetheless, to me.

So if you want someone with a real and knowledgeable opinion on the live action, I'm probably not the right person for that! However, here's one difference that changed a bunch of stuff about the characters that I found compelling in the novel: the second flautist.

CQL adds Su She as a second flautist doing unorthodox cultivation in a couple of different places, including at Qiongqi Path, where he seizes control of Wen Ning and is therefore responsible for Jin Zixuan's death. Removing the responsibility for Jin Zixuan's death from Wei Wuxian creates a bunch of cascading character and relationship implications that I don't love.

Firstly, all of the people who cautioned Wei Wuxian against his unorthodox cultivation are now... wrong. If he never lost control, then actually his assessment that he could maintain control wasn't overconfidence, it was just true, and he was persecuted because the Jin needed a scapegoat and wanted the Yin Tiger Tally, not because his cultivation path actually involved significant risks and drawbacks. (To be fair, the Jins actively exploited those drawbacks, the public perception of his cultivation, and Wei Wuxian's failure to manage his reputation. But it matters whether the risks exist or are just made up.)

Secondly, removing his responsibility for Jin Zixuan's death transforms both Wei Wuxian's character and how we understand his relationships with Jiang Yanli, Jiang Cheng, and Jin Ling. Because, in the novel, he kills Jin Zixuan under duress but also after a lifetime of conflict with him. Like, he hates the dude, he doesn't think he's worthy of Jiang Yanli, and he's not willing to examine his hatred and resentment even though Jiang Yanli loves Jin Zixuan and wants to marry him, even after she marries him and has a child with him. (I would argue that a lot of the resentment is because of the eventual marriage; by marrying Jiang Yanli, Jin Zixuan becomes legally recognized family to the Jiang siblings, while Wei Wuxian's relationship with them has no social recognition; I think Wei Wuxian is deeply threatened by that but can't articulate it.) It's a huge failure! Like, dude, you loved someone and you killed that person's beloved spouse. That points to a certain degree of repressed jealousy, possessiveness, longing, arrogance, the list goes on... I am so compelled by that conflict, and the adaptation just erases it.

This also affects how we read Jin Ling's relationship with Wei Wuxian. In one scenario, a teenage Jin Ling is (eventually, minus one little stab) ending the cycle of violence by not seeking vengeance for his father's murder. In the other, it was actually someone associated with Jin Ling's paternal family that killed his father, and he's maybe just... coming to terms with that? One of these scenarios is so much richer and more interesting.

How it affects the relationship between Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian is a little more subtle. It locates the responsibility for a lot of the harm done to the Jiang siblings with the Jin sect, not with Wei Wuxian, removing some of Wei Wuxian's culpability in the devolution of his relationship with Jiang Cheng. If Wei Wuxian isn't guilty of wronging the Jiang family (and instead is also a victim of the Jin sect), then all of Jiang Cheng's rage and betrayal was misdirected. They were both tricked. In some ways, maybe that's easier to patch up after canon? (I wonder if this is why many CQL yunmeng shuangjie reconciliation fics have Jiang Cheng apologize to Wei Wuxian, but not the other way around?) But it's so much less interesting to me!

Finally, it removes Wei Wuxian's tragic flaw! Dude is legitimately a genius but he's got hubris coming out of his ears and it fucks him up big time! This is classic stuff. Please stop flattening my boy!!

Dinner

MAGPOD FANS!! PSSPSPPPSPS HERE HAVE A SNACK

Me and my friend posted the first chapter of one of the m a n y tmafics we are writing!!

we hope you enjoy your snack !! /silly

It has come to my knowledge that today, February 13, is National Pancake Day.

So Happy Pancake Day to Goro Akechi and all of you!

@ygoc-week day 5 - swap!

My lazy nature got the best of me so i only managed to spit out a small clotheswap doodle but like hey at least i got smth

Anyways look at the gay people

omg it's pomni hi pomni hello!!! why are you so silly pomni you are so silly i love you my beloved silly creatura

And I'm supposed to be normal how?

Their dynamic in a nutshell.

//I really wanted to get back to it after work. But oh my god, I have been knocked out and then some.

//It's Munday in the morning. Therefore...

Loving my diet rn: two bags of candy

im going to make a carrot pickle would any of you like some

love love husband yj fics from you 🥺 theyre amazing and shshwjsbwjs youre so good at writing husband 9-5 txt >///<

oh yk just from personal experience bc he is my hubby <3 ahaha

Shipping silco and viktor is awful why did you have to put this in my dash?

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