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What Wei Wuxian did was help the people he owed a debt to, people who risked their lives to save him and JC and put everything on the line simply because helping WWX and JC was the right thing to do. They were Wen! Wen Ruohan was winning! Capturing and presenting the Jiang Heir would’ve given them prestige and riches like no other! And instead they risk everything to save them.

And when time passed and they were the ones who needed help, JC refused and WWX acted with honour. He saved the lives of people because it was the right thing to do. Because a 1year old toddler isn’t evil, a grandma isn’t evil and a bunch of people born with the name ‘Wen’ doesn’t mean they’re evil.

And then Jiang Cheng takes part in the murder of these people. No he leads the charge to massacre the people Wei Wuxian gave everything to protect. He is there when they slaughter them all and dump their bodies in a blood pool and lie to the world about it. He upholds those lies and is famous for ending the Villainous Yiling Laozu. Wei Wuxian believes that A-Yuan is dead because he knows that even a child won’t be spared!

And then after Wei Wuxian comes back, it just never stops. From being whipped and being almost killed again to having a dog set on him, to outright homophobia. Jiang Cheng’s constantly saying slurs against the body of Mo Xuanyu and trying to slutshame Lan Wangji until it gets so bad that Wei Wuxian qi deviates.

Wei Wuxian is so furious that the man he loves is being degraded and humiliated that he spits up blood and collapses. He asks Lan Wangji to take him away from Lotus Pier and never wants to return. He just takes in the ranting and raving of JC to forever be his subordinate and serve under him quietly and apologises but has no intention of anything else.

There is nothing to ‘reconcile’ because there is nothing there. JC Stans may be okay with someone saying homophobic slurs against their loved one and holding up a banner of ‘why can’t we all get along’ about a man who’d throw you to the wolves to save his own skin and pride, but Wei Wuxian is not, most people are not and people who genuinely like WWX and JC both as characters aren’t either. The only thing in common Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng have is Jin Ling’s well being and thats it.

Because he doesn’t react.

Jiang Cheng is about 32-33 when the novel opens and Jin Ling is 14. So when we first read this line, Jin Ling is 14 years old and he doesn’t react to the violence in it all. Which means at 14, he’s used to an adult man screaming at him in public about breaking legs. He’s used to it. So how old was he when it first happened? 12? 13? Younger? He doesn’t react to Jiang Cheng’s other insults either.

And it’s not as if Jin Ling isn’t afraid of this threat and thinks it’s a joke or a bunch of hot air. No, the reason he was in Yi City in the first place and got involved was because he was genuinely afraid that this time, Jiang Cheng really would break his legs. He ran away specifically because he was afraid Jiang Cheng would truly hurt him.

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White supremacists use Ancient Greece to insert themselves and their beliefs, completely erasing an accurate Ancient Greece and actual Greek people and culture from the narrative. There's a reason why when discussing the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, they only show pictures of blonde, blue-eyed, Germanic, or Anglo-Saxon women, and never actresses who are actually Greek or of Greek descent. Just like how a black woman playing Helen is an issue to them, a Greek woman playing Helen is also an issue to them.

Since the very beginning of the concept of whiteness, beginning in the 19th century, white supremacists have excluded Greek people from whiteness, like they did for other ethnicities that you may now consider white, such as the Irish and Italians. Whiteness did not exist before the 19th century. When whiteness was conceptualized, it was purposefully created to not just view people native to the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania as lesser than, but to also view other Europeans as lesser than.

This was my final project for a Mythological Receptions and Adaptations course where I adapted the Apollo sections of the Iliad to explore his POV and feelings during it

Wwx- chooses to be my brother, therefore is my brother

Jin Zixuan- doesnt want to be with me? Fine. Im still me. Now he does want to be with me? Prove it. And get my little brother to my baby's coming out party.

Jin Zixun- insults my clan? Oh dear. Time for me to set the record straight about the level of importance your opinion carries in my eyes. And make you into a public fool to boot.

Madam Jin- Wants to be friends. Is friends.

Jiang Cheng- is a more complicated relationship for sure, but she still never asks him to be anyone other than himself and she doesn't change herself or her loyalties to accommodate his jealousy.

Same with her mom and her dad. Except she also doesn't change who she is for them, either, even when her mother demands it.

She is both a fierce woman and a very well written character. Radical acceptance in the form of a person. Literally- when her world stops being acceptable to her, some prick puts a sword through her throat.

Say what you want about her, but she tended every single one of her attachments in the healthiest possible way given her status and situation.