You're not the only person! The sleeve-garter question is recycled from an old poll, and there were plenty of people there who agreed with you, iirc. To me, it seems a rather novel-derived reading (by which I mean, I personally don't see that tendency in drama!Shen Wei when I approach the drama as a thing unto itself), but given how closely the drama adaptation follows the novel in certain ways, it's not unreasonable to assume that subtext is in the drama, too. Thanks so much for adding it to the discussion (and expressing it so beautifully)!
ETA: I was going to say that by episode 20, Shen Wei is already wearing looser, less fitting clothes, but checking sakana17's clothes reference, I think that's mostly in ep 20? He goes back to fitted clothes (complete with sleeve garters) for a long time after that. :D
—The ass chain tho? None of this accounts for that; the ass chain is just slutty.
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You're not the only person! The sleeve-garter question is recycled from an old poll, and there were plenty of people there who agreed with you, iirc. To me, it seems a rather novel-derived reading (by which I mean, I personally don't see that tendency in drama!Shen Wei when I approach the drama as a thing unto itself), but given how closely the drama adaptation follows the novel in certain ways, it's not unreasonable to assume that subtext is in the drama, too. Thanks so much for adding it to the discussion (and expressing it so beautifully)!
ETA: I was going to say that by episode 20, Shen Wei is already wearing looser, less fitting clothes, but checking![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sakana17's clothes reference, I think that's mostly in ep 20? He goes back to fitted clothes (complete with sleeve garters) for a long time after that. :D
—The ass chain tho? None of this accounts for that; the ass chain is just slutty.
Hee!