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The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote in [community profile] sid_guardian 2025-04-14 09:41 am (UTC)

And the university buildings on one side, and water-and-rocks on the other side, which is Shen Wei's things & Kunlun's things, and also present things & past things, ahhhhhhh.

Ooh, yes! I love that -- awesome!!! :D :D :D And ha, it makes DQ wanting a human bathroom AND a cat tower make total sense, too -- reflecting his dual Yao nature. \o/

Lol aww, maybe he just assumes that now Shen Wei will be able to finally put it out in the open. :D He doesn't need a pining room anymore, just a beautiful art display. ♡

*dies* I can kind of see ZYL being prepared to live with a zillion portraits of his past lives, LOL! But maybe now that SW has the real thing, he's supposed to put away all the sad substitute-pictures? Idk! I feel like this is something they should discuss!

It's just one of those thoughts and feelings he can't control, but he would yeet himself out of his body before he even starts going there for real.

Oh, that's true. *relaxes a bit (even if that's distressing in its own way)*

DQ is talking about himself, so I guess that's just how he feels. He could have internalized prejudice or he could just feel this way about himself and then generalize, but I don't think it makes it objectively true for all yao. :)

I don't think it's objectively true either, and I really wish ZYL would challenge it when DQ says it. Like, even just raising a sceptical eyebrow. ;-p

Oh, wait, when it says, Daqing curled up on the ledge. A little desolate, he said, “We’re different from humans. We’re foolish and stupid. Even after thousands of years, we can’t cultivate much intelligence. We’re only able to recognize our master. I don’t know much about anything else.” -- is DQ using the royal "we" there, I wonder? Or is he extrapolating from his bad feelings? (Anyone?)

But also it's a real place and a mythological place irl, so I guess in-world characters just know what it looks like, even if they don't know about Kunlun-jun anymore.

*nodnodnod* That makes sense.

but now I'm picturing human-shaped DQ falling off of something. xD

HEE!

He did his duty, he doesn't need to be extra brave, this is enough. xD

Haha, yes, exactly. *pets him*

*facepalm* Of course CSZ is a zombie. Thank you! I don't know where my head's at, to have forgotten that.

but wikipedia about the rl mythology says "Fuxi and Nüwa have the same last name, Feng". And nothing else about it, so idk, but maybe they started the family?

Ha, why not?

I think it's just another case of keeping the promise that no one else even remembers anymore, so I don't think this was spelled out yet. :)

Ah, thank you! (I feel like I might be keeping track better if I weren't reading two chapters per week in among everything else I'm doing... but otoh, I was pretty lost during my first read-through so maybe not, heh.)

but YES, damn, it just sounds stressful and exhausting, and at the first slip-up he just wins. xD

I mean, if the stakes were very low, and he wasn't being actively mean, it might be fun? But there's no guarantee of the latter. ;-p

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