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"Future Crown Princess 💕"

rules: go search „your name + core” on pinterest, post the first six photos, and tag 6 more people!!

didn't pick the first 6 (too many ads/similar pics) but definitely a theme here - likely because my name is a classic literary character 😅

BUT it does feel very authentic to me so I'm happy ❤️

O i feel so pretty yesss this is very me core

Couldn't pick the first six because they were things I did not want to put on my blog, but I think the rest fit my name. I definitely have some liminal space-y associations with it.

Spotted in San Diego at an antique mall.

I can’t explain why

But when he does this

I start screaming so loudly

THAT’S SO PRECIOUS??!?

and I start the consultation already miserable as fuck and I give the kid some pen and paper so I can maybe communicate and see what's on his mind

and then I go WAIT A GODDAMN SECOND I KNOW THOSE MONSTERS

the mom looked at me as if her son and I belonged at the same satanic cult and that's why I knew the names of the demons in his head

so they decided to highkey just appoint all of them to my day and it took me almost a month to realize that the fact that I kept arriving and finding that all of today’s appointments were autistic children was Not A Coincidence 

anyway this one time there was a kid who was really into christianity but it was like, specifically angels 

so I’m trying to start up a conversation with him and I ask what he’s reading and he goes “do you know what a nephilim is”

and like for one hellish second my soul is suckerpunched out of my body and thrown straight into supernatural-fanfic-on-wattpad hell, and then I reassume control of my flesh prison, ignoring the mental edits of Dean and Castiel making out, and go “Aren’t those the guys who are half human and half angel?”

and the kid was so fucking happy but the mom was staring at me like ‘why are you privy to this bit of occult jesus lore’

and my heathen lesbian of a self just looks at her and goes 

I think people fail to understand just how powerful Jun Wu really is.

And I know many TGCF fans think that Xie Lian won against him because he was stronger thanks to the power of love (or the devotion of Fafa, which is kind of the same thing), the fact that he had a secret move Jun Wu didn't know and all that, and it is partly true.

I also know that many picture him as the absolute villain of the story, as reflected in many fictional works.

This last part never sat right with me, so I spent some time thinking about it.

Jun Wu is extremely powerful, even without his armour.

In fact, Xie Lian had never managed to injure him in his Bai Wuxiang form.

But then, in the final battle, he seemed to lose all power and will to fight as soon as his armour was pierced. This didn't sit right with me, either.

Now, I think I understand why. It took me two years to actually put this thought into words (good job, me).

Jun Wu wasn't bad, per se.

Xie Lian's whole experience is the retelling of Jun Wu's story, with a slight but decisive difference. And well, Xie Lian isn't bad.

Jun Wu was lonely and driven to madness. He suffered for his people, did all that he could for them and still ended up being trampled by the ones he tried to protect. Once he fell, he was desperate and faced with difficult choices.

But in his desperation and madness, he was ready to do it all to save the common people. This is why he ended up killing three of his closest friends.

Then, it was Xie Lian's turn.

Xie Lian didn't act much differently.

I'm not saying that he would've sacrificed Feng Xin and Mu Qing, but he was also never faced with a Volcano that needed human sacrifices to be placated.

Jun Wu wanted someone to understand him. So he made Xie Lian go through the same experiences as him. In his own morbid way, he wanted to get someone to accept him for how he is. Only a person who shared the same fate was worthy of being his successor.

He was determined to make him lose everything, to make him understand.

But Xie Lian had the one thing he didn't have. Unconditional love. And an apology.

People who helped him when he was at his worst. One person who didn't leave. And that one person was enough to change it all.

So then, when his armour was finally pierced, Jun Wu realized.

Xie Lian understood him, but still managed to make the right choice. He had been like him, but despite it all, there were people who still loved and accepted him. Despite the pain, he remained kind.

And there was someone out there who accepted Jun Wu for who he was, as well.

He had found his successor. The only person who was worthy of ruling the Heavens.

It was finally time for him to let it go and repent for his sins.

Now, as the previous post, this too is, of course, a possible spoiler: don't say I didn't warn you.

Do you remember how Xie Lian reacted when Lang Qianqiu told him that he would never become like him? That he stayed good despite what Xie Lian supposedly did to him in order to ruin his life the same way that Xie Lian's life was ruined?

And do you remember how Jun Wu reacted when Xie Lian "beat" him? When he proved to him that he wasn't like him, that he wouldn't let himself be tarnished?

Do you see the parallels???