#this is why a liberal/left wing woman is the ultimate prize for these dudes#they see you as a wild horse to tame#and that's why they go ballistic about single college-educated liberal women#they know these women would never have them without being coerced so that's what they're trying to do#misogyny#sexism
A lot of these guys are also noticing that liberal and leftist straight/bi women increasingly make right-wing beliefs in men a dealbreaker - to the point that one could say that the easiest way to expand your dating pool is to not be a conservative - and that's a big part of why they are bellyaching as hard as they are now. And embracing more extreme right-wing beliefs that involve the idea of women having no autonomy so we have no choice but to marry these men. Which of course makes them even less appealing to women to date, which makes these guys more depressed, which makes them more likely to turn to Internet extremism and go further right, creating a vicious cycle. (The article I linked is a great examination of this, and less the "vicious cycle" language seems like blaming women for rejecting these guys, this makes it clearer that no, this cycle is of men's own making - the guys who fall into it and especially, the right-wing manosphere influencers who facilitate it.)
Edit: I'll also add that while there is a dynamic of men who only like liberal, opinionated, independent women so long as she stops being that way after a while once she's "his," or she only turns her opinionated nature on other people he disagrees with (years ago I read something by Amanda Marcotte where she called that the "hellcat dream girl"), I also think there are a lot of men who genuinely want women who are that way and stay that way, who find overly submissive and compliant and unquestioning women boring. (In general, regardless of genders involved, people tend to prefer partners who seem like they have a life and cares outside of them, and clinginess and desperation are seen as unattractive.) But I think in terms of guys in the second group, conservative ideology doesn't make any room for them to be able to find those kinds of women attractive. So they sublimate into the first thing, but they're not really satisfied by that. If their independent wife becomes more compliant, they'll get bored by her eventually and look elsewhere. It's not nearly as important as the way patriarchy hurts women and LGBTQ+ people of course, but there is something to be said about how what straight men are allowed to be and want is constrained by patriarchal expectations (especially the more extreme ones found on the right) and how that leaves a lot of them pretty miserable as well.
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Hey so am I like the only one who picked up on the parallel between Madame Yu and Jiang Fengmianâs last words to Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian?
Because this is what Madame Yu does:
She hugs and kisses Jiang Cheng, then turns around and tells Wei Wuxian to protect him at all costs
And this is what Jiang Fengmian does:
He strokes Jiang Chengâs head, then turns to Wei Wuxian and tells him to protect Jiang Cheng
I cannot stress enough that these interactions happen within five pages of each other. Like, Madame Yu is harsher with Wei Wuxian than Jiang Fengmian is, but these are fundamentally the same things. They comfort Jiang Cheng like parents, then they order Wei Wuxian to protect their son.
Iâll never really believe the take that Jiang Fengmian saw Wei Wuxian as a son and favored him over Jiang Cheng because when it came down to it, these were his last words to them. He may have been kinder to Wei Wuxian than Madame Yu was, but fundamentally he never saw him as any more of his own son than she did
#the untamed#Jiang family#personally I think it is extremely telling that YZY saves WWX along with JC#what itâs telling is sometimes a headscratcher but it itâs telling us something!#and yes of course she tells WWX he has to protect JC#but if all she cared about was making sure JC would have the best possible chance of making it out alive#it would have made a LOT more sense to send her extremely deadly personal handmaidens who were like her own family#not the wet behind the ears teenager#(who at the time was not a ruthless necromantic killing machine feared by all)#one of these days Iâve got to get into that in a fic somewhere#itâs just so interesting#like Iâm pretty sure we know how WWX thinks and feels about all of this#I donât think he suffers any real cognitive dissonance from being heavily favored by his sect leader and pseudo uncle#and then at their last meeting having it made clear to him that JFM values him less than the biological son heâs so disdainful of#like I think this all makes perfect sense to WWX#and heâs also arrogant enough not to question YZY saving him just so he can help protect her son#instead again. the more sensible option of sending her handmaidens#but I wonder what Jiang Cheng makes of all that!#does his father telling WWX to protect him make him feel loved? or does he interpret that as his father having no faith in his capabilities?#does he ever wonder why YZY chose to save WWX#someone she has been so hostile to and even recently agreed to maim#someone who JC has felt compelled to try to protect from her on multiple occasions because her treatment was so harsh#it is JUICY
Since I'm being jumped by JC antis for pointing out their double standards, letâs dissect the debts owed by Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian, shall we?
Wei Wuxian's Debt to the Jiang Clan:
Wei Wuxianâs debt to the Jiang Clan is immense by ancient Chinese standards. He was saved, taken in, raised, and trained by them, essentially given a new life and a future as a cultivator. In traditional chinese culture, this kind of debt would require a lifetime of loyalty and service to repay. However, Wei Wuxian chose to protect the Wen Remnants, a decision driven by his personal moral beliefs and sense of justice, effectively putting his principles over his obligations to the Jiang Clan. This choice made it impossible for him to repay his debt in the way ancient values would have dictated, as he directly went against Jiang Cheng's leadership and the interests of the Jiang Clan.
Jiang Cheng's Debt to the Wen Siblings:
Jiang Chengâs debt to Wen Qing and Wen Ning is also significantâthey saved his life and ensured his parents' bodies were returned with dignity. The expected repayment from him would traditionally involve some form of reciprocal protection or aid, such as offering them sanctuary, advocating for their safety, or using his influence to speak on their behalf. However, as the new leader of the Jiang Clan struggling to rebuild after the Sunshot Campaign, his first duty was to his own clan's survival. Repaying this personal debt to the Wen siblings would have required protecting the Wen Remnants, which would have risked his clan's stability and political standing. In the end, his obligations as a sect leader took priority.
The Double Standard:
So hereâs the issue, antis love to criticize Jiang Cheng for not sacrificing everything to repay the Wen siblings, judging him by the standard of traditional cultural values. But when it comes to Wei Wuxian, they switch to a modern standard claiming "children arenât expected to repay their caretakers," to dismiss his debt to the Jiang Clan. If weâre judging both characters by the same standard of "repaying debts," the fact is, both made choices based on their circumstances. Jiang Cheng prioritized his clan's survival, and Wei Wuxian chose his moral beliefs. To condemn one while excusing the other is just hypocritical.
lol i checked the notes on your other post and almost every username arguing with you is one i've seen nothing but rancid behavior and zero-iq hot takes from. if you write something intelligent, it's only natural that belligerent idiots will disagree with you.
The validity of JC' s decision to prioritise his own clan never fails to bring out idiots who argue that while JC was a shit leader, somehow the position of the Jiang sect was strong enough after the war to stand up to everyone else and win xD
The SchrĂśdinger's sect, as they call it - at once powerful and weak, made strong by a guy who wasn't there, and weakened by a guy who did all the work of leading itđ¤
the schrodinger's sect thing you bring up is really interesting, because imo it's the result of the jiang cheng haters trying to simultaneously two separate and often contradictory systems of values to roast jiang cheng.
western culture, at least, tends to follow at least these two separate systems of values:
the system of values that centers compassion, kindness, humility, and caring; ie. values typically associated with christianity.
the system of values that centers strength, accomplishment, independence, pride, and nobility; ie. values typically associated with ancient rome.
(nietzsche goes off to kind of an insane end about these, but this really isn't the place to discuss master and slave morality.)
now, these two systems of values are different. there are a lot of situations in which they can overlap and/or in which having virtues from one system will also bring you virtues from the other system, but there are just as many cases where traits one system classifies as virtues are instead classified by the other system as vices - cases where it is impossible to be "virtuous" under both systems.
and from what i've seen, jiang cheng haters often end up saying seemingly contradictory things because they simultaneously employ both systems of values to roast jiang cheng - even when it makes little sense to do so because, as stated above, these are two different systems of values that do not always align.
some common jiang cheng fandom roasts, categorized by me:
"jiang cheng is selfish," "jiang cheng only cares about his own reputation," "jiang cheng doesn't understand reciprocity or the concept of repaying debts," "jiang cheng is spiteful and hateful and unfair," "jiang cheng could have easily had yunmeng jiang help the wen remnants, he just didn't want to because he's a hater," etc.
"no one respects jiang cheng (and he deserves it)," "jiang cheng didn't accomplish anything," "wei wuxian's golden core was 80 years more advanced than jiang cheng's," "yunmeng jiang's success is due to wei wuxian, not jiang cheng," "jiang cheng is an inferior/mid-tier cultivator at best," etc.
a pattern emerges: jiang cheng is #Evil and his #Evil has the capacity to hurt others (ie. wei wuxian, no one else matters lol); therefore, jiang cheng must be at least somewhat capable of materializing his decisions into reality. however, wei wuxian is also supposed to The Best There Ever Was and the fandom's specialest little boy, so jiang cheng also cannot be more competent than wei wuxian. in fact, the more incompetent he is, the better, because incompetent people are Easy To Roast and the real purpose of this exercise is to bash jiang cheng. jiang cheng has to be evil so we can bash his moral character, but not so evil that wei wuxian caring about him and protecting him starts to cast shade upon wei wuxian's moral character. jiang cheng has to be incompetent so we can bash his failures, but not so incompetent such that he becomes unable to effectively act on his evil.
now, let's look at how these claims might contradict each other.
consider the claim "no one respects jiang cheng (and he deserves it)" in conjunction with the claim "jiang cheng could have easily had yunmeng jiang help the wen remnants, he just didn't want to because he's a hater." the latter is the single most common criticism of jiang cheng. the former is a hot take i saw a few months ago as a potential explanation as to why everyone seems to call jiang cheng by his birth name and not his courtesy name.
think about it: MDZS repeatedly establishes that how capable you are of protecting yourself and your people, as well as how willing others are to hear you out, is directly correlated with how much respect you command from your peers and from society; furthermore, "respect" flows from political power: if you are powerful and people recognize you as powerful (two things that may be considered synonymous, given that the existence of political power is made possible in part by popular consensus of its existence), then people will naturally afford you more respect, even if purely to serve their own ends. therefore, if no one respects jiang cheng, then jiang cheng cannot be said to have a lot of political power. if jiang cheng does not have a lot of political power, then - given that the faction wei wuxian pissed off with his actions is incredibly powerful - jiang cheng as a political leader does not have the ability to take in and protect the wen remnants from lanling jin. therefore, if no one respects jiang cheng, then jiang cheng could not in fact have easily stood by wei wuxian's side; these two claims cannot simultaneously be true.
imo, the people who try to argue at once that jiang cheng is evil and that jiang cheng is weak/incompetent do so less because they understand his character or even because they're trying to analyze this piece of media, and moreso because they've already made up their minds that This Guy Sucks Actually and are therefore trying to slap every negative adjective in the book onto him. in the same way that many of the same people will argue that "[trait A]=good, wei wuxian=good, therefore wei wuxian has [trait A]," these people will blithely argue that "[trait B]=bad, jiang cheng=bad, therefore jiang cheng has [trait B]" - all without realizing that, in the pursuit of their #canon haterade, they've merrily meandered off the path of canon and basic logic and into the territory of pure bullshit. this instinct to assign every bad trait under the sun to jiang cheng is also what i suspect drives people to call him, a character who does not seek romantic and/or sexual connections with women anytime onscreen, an incel. seriously, guys, words mean things.
sorry to go off on your post, op, especially about a largely unrelated topic. "SchrĂśdinger's sect" was just a really good way to describe an irritating fandom phenomenon i've observed for a while.
#this is the THING about jc haters: it is LITERALLY JUST BASED ON VIBES â the people who are truly vicious about him and spend TIME posting#about how many terrible qualities jc has â are just negatively obsessed with him because he's cringe and annoying#it's not ACTUALLY based on canon because their version of canon contradicts itself all the time#i respect jc haters who are like 'no i just find him cringe and annoying/i had a terrible family member like this whom i hate'#but the Canon Jiang Cheng posters are genuinely deranged and brain poisoned and not influenced by canon at all#to them jc is always the only character who has any agency in the story; everything he does â even under extreme duress â#is a conscious choice and perfectly reasonable and reliable representation of who he is as a person#and he's always powerful enough to Do A Terrible Thing but never powerful enough to create a scenario where he Doesn't Have To Do The Thing#schroedinger's sect is exactly it!!!!#and also: all of his good qualities (like respecting his loved ones or having a work ethic) are instead credited to wwx#and all of wwx's bad qualities (like being dishonest and rude and full of hubris) are instead assigned to jc lol#JC HAS ENOUGH BAD QUALITIES ALREADY YOU DON'T HAVE TO MAKE MORE UP#mdzs#my truest love#wank
Messy quasi chengningxian with WN is as often taking the brunt of WWX's inability to deal/process his love/attraction/resentment of JC
but make it WWX fucking with WN during the Burial Mounds era, slow escalation deniability style the way WWX does so well, and WN coming to the realization that it's a lot WWX projecting/acting out his JC fantasies on the replacement little brother shaped sidekick who can't say no
90% chances WWX doesn't remember anything about it (or decides he doesn't) once he's alive again, and WN is the only one left dealing with the knowledge.
You COULD have WN hatefucking JC post-timeskip for added spice. So WN can really work out these issues.
(WWX is going to be so betrayed when he inevitably learns way down the line what's been happening. Wen Ning???? Can u stop ever telling stuff to JC that WWX doesn't want him to know??????? u were supposed to be the good obedient grateful one)
(possibly he'd learn through JC one day JC is extremely fed up with WWX's bullshit, because that would be a net ego boost for JC. He already knows WWX didn't want to stick around! Learning WWX still wanted/wished he could have something of JC anyway is massive!)
promoting tags by ahavaas: #skdjdndiej wen ning! learn to SHUT UP OCCASIONALLY#your desire to hurt jiang cheng's feelings keeps making wei wuxian look Uncool (in love with jiang cheng)#jc extremely fed up: hey. fake idgaf'er. do we have to keep fucking this out thru wen ning or can you use your words like an adult#(no)#(wen ning: wei-gongzi don't listen to him. this is normal. healthy probably. do you wanna kiss.)
Inauthentic accounts linked to China are seizing on local political feuds.
When former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested under an International Criminal Court warrant in March, an army of online defenders sprang into action.
The Philippine midterm elections for local and congressional representatives were just two months away, and a group of pro-Duterte Senate candidates was challenging a slate loyal to Duterteâs ally-turned-rival, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
But according to expert analysts, many of Duterteâs online defenders werenât real. There were some genuine pro-Duterte influencers, with real people manning the accounts, but they were bolstered by a vast network of inauthentic accounts, all of which pummeled the Philippine elections with a deluge of disinformation, generative artificial intelligence, and deepfakes.
The noise came from all directions. Marcos himself rode an army of online influencers to victory in 2022, spreading false narratives and distorting his familyâs dark political history. Many pro-government accounts have attacked progressive candidates by âred-taggingâ them, labeling them without evidence as members of the communist New Peopleâs Army, an armed rebel group.
Pro-Duterte influencers are increasingly in sync with online accounts that parrot narratives friendly to the Chinese government, raising concerns of foreign influence.
Just how much this matters on the ground is uncertain. In the end, pro-Duterte candidates had a strong showing in the May elections, winning five of the Senateâs 12 open seats, although Duterte allies also lost seats in local elections. But itâs a sign of how closely Duterteâs cause and Beijingâs interests are being tied together.
There has been an observable rise in Chinese-aligned accounts whose behavior mirrors patterns associated with foreign influence, said Janina Santos, a Philippines-based analyst for Doublethink Lab, a Taiwan-based think tank that researches Chinese influence operations.
Ahead of the election, Doublethink and its India-based partner ThinkFi found a network of accounts on X posting âpro-Duterte, anti-Marcos stuff but also amplifying some pro-China stuff,â Santos said. These accounts were boosting content from a network of seeder accounts that would post content from pro-China influencers, propaganda sites, and state media, she said.
âWe noticed that the inauthentic accounts are also promoting pro-PRC narratives,â Santos said, using an acronym for the Peopleâs Republic of China. âWeâre not going to say the PRC has a direct hand in it. But there are indications of what we call âforeignnessâ in the observables that weâve been monitoring.â
Santos drew distinctions between such inauthentic accounts and those helmed by real people, many of whom echo pro-China narratives as a byproduct of amplifying their support of Duterte. But the presence of inauthentic accounts has exploded, especially on X, with the tech analysis firm Cyabra telling Reuters in April that around a third of all pro-Duterte accounts on that platform were fake.
These patterns are similar to what has been observed in Taiwan, which has spent years as a target of Chinese disinformation campaigns. The Philippines has served as a sort of trial balloon. When Duterte and Marcos began publicly feuding last year, it created a fertile environment for influencers aligned with each faction, especially as Marcos began drawing the country away from China.
Marcos has sharply opposed Beijingâs claims in the contested South China Sea, and the China Coast Guard has confronted Philippine vessels in a series of maritime confrontations. The Duterte administration, by contrast, was friendly to China, declining to challenge its maritime claims and pursuing joint energy exploration in the South China Sea.
In April, a Philippine National Security Council official said there were indications that Chinese state-sponsored information operations were attempting to prop up candidates China wanted to win while attacking those it wanted to lose.
The Senate is currently probing Chinese espionage activities, which can take many forms, such as influencing local and provincial politics. But it can be hard to quantify the extent of Chinese influence, especially when inauthentic accounts wade into already charged domestic issues, such as Duterteâs arrest.
Maria Elize Mendoza, an assistant professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman who has researched disinformation campaigns, said she does not think pro-Duterte influencers were the main factor in the victories of pro-Duterte candidates. She noted that reelected candidates such as Christopher âBongâ Go and Ronald âBatoâ Dela Rosa, both staunch Duterte allies during his presidency, have broadened their support bases.
Pro-Duterte influencers were likely responsible for Marcosâs approval ratings dipping after Duterteâs arrest, Mendoza said, by casting doubt on the legality of his arrest and âblaming the Marcos administration for allowing the âkidnappingâ of Duterte.â
âThe emotionally charged content framing Rodrigo as a frail, old man whoâs âaloneâ in a foreign prison also gained significant traction,â she said.
There has also been a consistent presence of deepfakes and AI-generated content targeting Marcos, she said. Last year, an audio clip went viral in which Marcos appeared to authorize a military attack against China. Later, a video showed an individual resembling Marcos sniffing a powdered substance, helping to amplify baseless claims that Marcos uses drugs made by Duterte and his supporters. The government flagged both clips as deepfakes.
But deepfake content has also been used by pro-government accounts to attack progressive candidates and activists, said Ian Angelo Aragoza, an education officer for the Computer Professionalsâ Union who has researched online influence operations in the Philippines.
The rise of generative AI and ease of creating deepfakes allowed such accounts to scale up and produce such campaigns âat a faster rate, with better quality and with a larger reach,â Aragoza said. Some Facebook pages, which are still live, regularly use altered images to label progressive figures, such as politicians representing the leftist Makabayan bloc, as communist rebels.
While Marcos pledged to end the red-tagging of progressive politicians and activists at the outset of his administration, the practice remains commonplace and is often perpetrated by members of the governmentâs anti-communist task force. Rights groups have repeatedly warned that victims of red-tagging are susceptible to kidnapping or extrajudicial killing.
The Philippine government has partnered in the past with social media giants such as Meta and TikTok, Aragoza noted. âIt should maximize its partnerships with them to be able to prevent incidents of red-tagging to happen at all and quickly be able to suppress these posts if any do show up,â he said.
Santos said the China-aligned pro-Duterte accounts she witnessed did not generally engage in deepfakes but did manipulate photos and use generative AI. For instance, when AI images resembling Studio Ghibli characters began trending in late March, pro-Duterte accounts began spreading âGhiblifiedâ images of Duterte being taken to The Hague, she said. Later, an AI image purporting to show a statue of Duterte in the Netherlands spread among his supporters.
Many of these accounts have been around since Duterte first became president in 2016, aided in large part by a Cambridge Analytica operation to harvest the data of Facebook users and spread propaganda favorable to Duterteâan operation it infamously repeated in that yearâs U.S. presidential election. A whistleblower from the company later called the Philippines a âpetri dishâ for disinformation campaigns. Now, China may see the country in the same way.
âThe Philippines is patient zero when it comes to the infodemic,â Santos said. âWeâre very susceptible to a lot of fake news.â
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jzx is very genuinely fun 2 me I like characters that have traits that either make them assholes or decent people and it just depends on the situation. excess arrogance leading him to be a jerk to yanli vs. excess arrogance making him the only person who resists the wens taking weapons at evil summer camp. it's fun!
JZX refusing to give up his sword at evil summer camp is like one of my favourite character moments in the whole show. Heâs been nothing but a dick up to that point, and then itâs exactly as you say!! Suddenly we see that that character trait actually has a silver lining! Itâs genuinely such a great character writing case study.
ok jiang cheng bouncing on wen qing's massive strap propaganda
1. it's about the bunnies. that one time early in cql when he tells wei wuxian that it's embarrassing as a man for him to want to pet bunnies and then wei wuxian rolls his eyes and we cut to jiang cheng petting his bunny with the softest little face and then i think he goes "chu" at the bunny. he wanted to pet the bunny so fucking bad but he felt ashamed of that desire because it fell outside the boundaries of the roles he was born and raised to inhabit. he wasn't made for fun, or love, or pleasure!* his parents made him out of duty and living up to that duty is what he's for. not bunnies and also not wen strap. do you see the vision.
2. it's sexy. like it's just hot. if you're not on this level get off on another floor idk i can't help you it's only hot to me when jiang cheng is weird about dick.
3. i know she would do mad science on her strap i know it i know it i know it. im sure this is why the strap has to be huge.
* or maybe it was more complicated than that but the point is these are his fears and beliefs
Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."
I think every computer user needs to read this because holy fucking shit this is fucking horrible.
So Windows has a new feature incoming called Recall where your computer will first, monitor everything you do with screenshots every couple of seconds and "process that" with an AI.
Hey, errrr, fuck no? This isn't merely because AI is really energy intensive to the point that it causes environmental damage. This is because it's basically surveilling what you are doing on your fucking desktop.
This AI is not going to be on your desktop, like all AI, it's going to be done on another server, "in the cloud" to be precise, so all those data and screenshot? They're going to go off to Microsoft. Microsoft are going to be monitoring what you do on your own computer.
Now of course Microsoft are going to be all "oooh, it's okay, we'll keep your data safe". They won't. Let me just remind you that evidence given over from Facebook has been used to prosecute a mother and daughter for an "illegal abortion", Microsoft will likely do the same.
And before someone goes "durrr, nuthin' to fear, nuthin to hide", let me remind you that you can be doing completely legal and righteous acts and still have the police on your arse. Are you an activist? Don't even need to be a hackivist, you can just be very vocal about something concerning and have the fucking police on your arse. They did this with environmental protesters in the UK. The culture war against transgender people looks likely to be heading in a direction wherein people looking for information on transgender people or help transitioning will be tracked down too. You have plenty to hide from the government, including your opinions and ideas.
Again, look into backing up your shit and switching to Linux Mint or Ubuntu to get away from Microsoft doing this shit.
Steps to Disable or Uninstall 'Recall' in Windows 11 24H2
there are multiple options here depending on how comfortable you are digging into your computer's registry. You can either simply disable it surface level through settings or excise it entirely from the system registry
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can we please get the ED / chronic back pain / disabled sex fic recs đ
hello yes!! @youweremovingyourfeet requested these also
Adjustments by sheepknitssweater (2.8k) hookup era, ilya has a herniated disc, shane frets that his bottom prep was inadequate, the mortifying erotic ordeal of having a body, sex as communication, the intimacy of exposing your injuries to your rival
two hours year-round + ten years and counting by @radialarch (2.2k + 5k) long distance era, ilya takes lexapro and uses his fingers and a dildo to fuck shane, jock4jock banter, i think i have every single radialarch fic bookmarked the characterization is just soooo good
The Performer by @toxotesjc (14k) shane having sex through the years, the closeted queerness and undiagnosed autism, "Itâs like everyoneâs interacting naturally, and youâre an imposter, an alien trying to blend in."
a winner at heart by @ellisonwongparty (32k) depressed ilya and SSRI-induced ED, anxious shane, doing molly in monaco, the humiliation of ottawa losing, the humiliation of dating not just a loser but a quitter, sex as metaphor for hockey as metaphor for sex, i genuinely love how insane they are about hockey in this, my #shanetashi agenda
#goalbody by toomuchplor (5k) husbands era, cozy and lived-in, keeping a microwave on their dresser during playoffs for heating pads and grumbling at each other half asleep in the middle of the night to go take ibuprofen, a lovely convo between shane and yuna about infertility, sacrificing your body at the altar of hockey, and this incredible line: "And Ilya went faster, and Shane went boneless. When he came, it was better than a hot compress and ten hours of sleep and a dozen pelmeni laced with dilaudid. He was loose and liquid and drowsy." like. yeah!! IV dilaudid DOES feel like an orgasm, opioids are crazy
a nothing play by viviaano (9.6k) husbands era, shane-centric study, the ableist hierarchy of acute vs. chronic pain: "There are injuries youâre allowed to talk about, the dramatic ones. Broken bones, blood, the ones that leave scars or bruises you can point to and say, I got this one here, on this night, in front of witnesses. Those get you sympathy, headlines, and a timeline on recovery. Then thereâs everything else."
another flaw in our equation by liveinsalt, @placebythering (50k and counting) husbands era, shane has a career-ending knee injury, they're both hurting and it makes them hurt each other in a gut wrenching but realistic and compelling way. the day the final chapter comes out i will be calling out of work to read it that's how much i love this fic
Route 96 Kanata by Anonymous (59k and counting) AU in which a knee injury ends shane's career before it starts, but he's still hooking up with pro athlete ilya, sex as self harm, sex as the blur between wanting to be someone and wanting to be with someone
here we are and what the hell are we going to do with it by walkingthroughwindows (24k) yet ANOTHER career-ending knee injury fic (sorry shane), but this one has the most well-adjusted versions of shane and ilya adapting to sex, retirement, and becoming a billet family (i love the sequel even more, although it's less pain/disability focused), like i just adore the casual care and access intimacy: "He rubs his face against Shaneâs shoulder, yawns loudly. 'Can you sleep like this? With me inside? Or do you need pillow for your knee?'"
speaking of, i'm also going to plug the essay Access Intimacy by Mia Mingus and the book Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire edited by Alice Wong because both have been foundational texts in my understanding of disability and pleasure.
What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another person. Explorations of caregiving, community, access, and friendship offer us alternative ways of thinking about the connections we form with othersâa vital reimagining in an era when forced physical distance is at times a necessary norm. But don't worry: there's still sex to considerâand the numerous ways sexual liberation intersects with disability justice. Plunge between these pages and you'll also find disabled sexual discovery, disabled love stories, and disabled joy.
please elaborate on your thoughts on wag labor if you feel comfortable. i also have many thoughts on this subjectâŚ
wellll not to be the friend that's too woke and also not to reiterate stuff ive already yapped about on discord but the whole framework of hockey mom -> billet mom -> older teammate's wife -> getting ur own wag -> she has ur kids and becomes their hockey mom.... chilling. its own form of time being a flat circle. anndddd it's an almost seamless pipeline that can be stitched together such that these dudes feasibly never really have to go without domestic labor from the women in their lives
also as much as we talk about the reinforcement and performance of masculinity in (m)hrpf, mens hockey is also very very much about a certain kind of female role and a certain brand of femininity for the women in their lives. the uniformity of physical appearance in their partners with very few exceptions... a real madonna-whore complex of Wife vs roadie hookups or Girlfriend Material vs puck bunnies. tate mccrae being the amy dunne Cool Girl who likes Sports so she became a safe acceptable answer for celebrity crush for all of them. et ceteraaa ad nauseammmm
anyway some recommended reading for the class: isles socials ask the players who does your laundry. let's all sit with this a bit
A reason I like asshole/scary Shane is I like imagining that Ilya has no fucking clue what anyone means by that. Because Ilya's one of the only people on the planet who isn't intimidated by Shane's looks and hockey skill, since he also has both. And he's not put off by Shane's insane commuication style because he's also terminally avoidant, and also an asshole, and Slavic. And he doesn't see the full brunt of Shane's dismissiveness because Ilya Rozanov exists in the warmth of Shane's gaze
Idk there's just something so funny to me about everyone else being like, "Yeah man....that guy is scary as fuck. I once watched him watch tape for 15 minutes straight without blinking. I played on the Mets for three years and he only ever called me by my number" while Ilya is twirling his hair and doodling "Mr. Hollander â¨â¤ď¸" in his notebooks in gel pen and imagining Shane as a particularly strange and cute little animal that he can poke to see how it reacts
I feel like too often people frame Nie Mingjue's issues as ignorance borne from safety. Like, they think that because of his privilege as a sect leader he doesn't know what it's like to be in danger and forced to make hard choices to survive. And I disagree. Strongly.
First of all, Nie Mingjue is very familiar with death not only from war but from. You know. Actively dying since the age of fourteen. Let us not forget Nie Mingjue is dead! Super dead! And maybe he didn't die the exact way he expected to but he did, absolutely, know he was going to die. To act like Nie Mingjue is unfamiliar with the scenario of "do something you find morally reprehensible or die" is to ignore that he has been living that exact scenario and chose death.
Nie Mingjue knows death is a risk for someone like Jin guangyao, in fact he explicitly acknowledges it even in his worst moments like the stairs in chapter 49. Had his issue been ignorance, then he would've responded to Jin Guangyao saying that he's in danger and has to sacrifice others for his own safety with "No you aren't you'll be fine." But he doesn't. He accepts the fact that jgy is in danger with no qualms and says: then you should die.
That's not him betraying his values, those are his values. He is, essentially, pro-suicide. Jgy is like hey I have a moral dilemma what should I do and nmj straight up goes "Kill yourself" and earlier that same chapter when he was faced with a moral dilemma he went "I'm gonna kill myself." He believes the solution to moral dilemmas is suicide! He is extremely consistent about this! When it's pointed out to him that it would have been dangerous for Wen Qing to oppose Wen Ruohan it doesn't phase him because he thinks putting yourself at risk to do the right thing is the only moral choice. The idea that he can only hold this belief because he is himself somehow not in danger, again, requires you to ignore that he is dying the whole time. And it doesn't deter him. He is the idea of self-sacrifice as a moral good taken to its absolute logical extreme. Someone who is ready to die and demands the same from everyone else.
It makes him a very fun case study for fandom, because a lot of fandom spaces also tend to revere self-sacrifice as the ultimate good, and yet we get very uncomfortable when someone starts demanding it of characters we love. Like woah, hold on, that's a bit too far isn't it? Only we the audience get to do that!
#mdzs#mdzs meta#nie mingjue#i got a bit spicy at the end there#one wonders of there is perhaps a theme around sacrifice the story is working with here#what with several of the most relevant and major character relationships centering around sacrifice.#anyway I wonder what nmj thought of Wen Qing (and Wen Ning though the jin kept him alive) sacrificing herself at nightless#I have to imagine he approved. despite disagreeing with her he also approved of mianmian giving up her clan position for wwx+ the wens#so he'd think this was her 'finally doing the right thing'#his approval would've been kinda worthless. As a person who is NOT pro-suicide I think that's fucked up! the sacrifice didn't even work!#but it's diabolical to think of the Wen siblings turning themselves in and nmj being there and *praising* them for it.#unhinged behavior. I need this missing scene stat.#this is just kind of a rephrasing of my 'stop calling nmj a hypocrite' post but with a bit more focus on what exactly his values are#and how his problems stem not from him being inconsistent with those values but the fact that they are pretty fucked up!#and that those fucked up values are not a result of a lack danger but the opposite. the *inevitability* of death#he's going to die so he *has* to believe that's the right thing to do.
Forever in love with the quiet space reserved for Jiang Yanli and Jiang Chengâs relationship. We donât get much of their dynamic together in canon bc wwx is the narrator/protag, but I have so many thoughts about the narrow window of time when wwx had left and they knew she was going to leave to get married but it was just them. Trying to pick up the broken tatters of their family legacy. Do you ever think about how much guilt yanli must of had, to leave Jiang Cheng alone? Guilt, that she wanted this one thing (Jin Zixuan) and was basically abandoning her brother- her brother, who would never hold it against her. Who would urge her to do what makes her happy, to reach for that happiness no matter the cost (him, lotus pier).
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When you think of Eastern European Jewish cuisine, which words come to mind? Light? Healthy? Plant based? Probably not. Heavy, ...
When you think of Eastern European Jewish cuisine, which words come to mind? Light? Healthy? Plant based? Probably not. Heavy, homey and meat-centric are more like it.Â
Fania Lewando died during the Holocaust, but had she been given the full length of her years, Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine may have taken a turn to the vegetarian side and we might all be eating vegetarian kishke and spinach cutlets in place of brisket.
Lewando is not a household name. In fact, she would have been lost to history had it not been for an unlikely turn of events. Thanks to a serendipitous find, her 1937 work, âThe Vilna Vegetarian Cookbookâ (âVegetarish-Dietisher Kokhbukhâin Yiddish), was saved from oblivion and introduced to the 21st century.
Vilna in the 1930s, where Lewando and her husband Lazar made their home, was a cosmopolitan city with a large Jewish population. Today, it is the capital of Lithuania but it was then part of Poland. Lewando opened a vegetarian eatery called The Vegetarian Dietetic Restaurant on the edge of the cityâs Jewish quarter. It was a popular spot among both Jews and non-Jews, as well as luminaries of the Yiddish-speaking world. (Even renowned artist Marc Chagall signed the restaurantâs guest book.)
Lewando was a staunch believer in the health benefits of vegetarianism and devoted her professional life to promoting these beliefs. She wrote: âIt has long been established by the highest medical authorities that food made from fruit and vegetables is far healthier and more suitable for the human organism than food made from meat.â Plus, she wrote, vegetarianism satisfies the Jewish precept of not killing living creatures.Â
We know little about her life other than she was born Fania Fiszlewicz in the late 1880s to a Jewish family in northern Poland. She married Lazar Lewando, an egg merchant from what is today Belarus and they eventually made their way to Vilna. They did not have children.Â
Lewando, to quote Jeffrey Yoskowitz, author of âThe Gefilte Manifestoâ was âa woman who challenged convention;â a successful entrepreneur, which was a rarity among women of the time. She supervised a kosher vegetarian kitchen on an ocean liner that traveled between Poland and the United States, and gave classes on nutrition to Jewish women in her culinary school.Â
âThe Vilna Vegetarian Cookbookâ was sold in Europe and the U.S. in Lewandoâs day, but most of the copies were lost or destroyed during the Second World War. In 1995, a couple found a copy of the cookbook at a second-hand book fair in England. They understood the importance of a pre-war, Yiddish-language, vegetarian cookbook written by a woman, so purchased it and sent it to the YIVO Instituteâs offices in New York. There, it joined the millions of books, periodicals and photos in YIVOâs archives.Â
It was discovered again by two women who visited YIVO and were captivated by the bookâs contents and colorful artwork. They had it translated from Yiddish to English so it could be enjoyed by a wider audience.
Like many Ashkenazi cooks, salt was Lewandoâs spice, butter her flavor and dill her herb. The book is filled with dishes youâd expect: kugels and blintzes and latkes; borscht and many ways to use cabbage. Thereâs imitation gefilte fish and kishke made from vegetables, breadcrumbs, eggs and butter. Her cholent (a slow-cooked Sabbath stew) recipes are meat-free, including one made with prune, apple, potatoes and butter that is a cross between a stew and a tzimmes.
There are also some surprises.
Did you know it was possible to access tomatoes, eggplants, asparagus, lemons, cranberries, olive oil, Jerusalem artichokes, blueberries and candied orange peel in pre-war Vilna? Thereâs a French influence, too, such as recipes for mayonnaise Provencal and iles flottante, a meringue-based dessert, and a salad of marinated cornichons with marinated mushrooms.Â
âItâs hard to know who the target audience was for this cookbook,â said Eve Jochnowitz, its English-language translator. âWe know from contemporary memoirs that people in Vilna did not have access to these amazing amounts of butter, cream and eggs,â she said. âLewando was writing from a somewhat privileged and bourgeois position.â While many of these recipes may have been aspirational given the poverty of the Jews at the time, the cookbook demonstrates that it was possible to obtain these ingredients in Vilna, should one have the resources to do so.Â
While the cookbook is filled with expensive ingredients, there is also, said Jochnowitz, âa great attention to husbanding oneâs resources. She was ahead of her time in the zero-waste movement.â Lewando admonishes her readers to waste nothing. Use the cooking water in which you cooked your vegetables for soup stock. Use the vegetables from the soup stock in other dishes. âThrow nothing out,â she writes in the cookbookâs opening essay. âEverything can be made into food.â Including the liquid from fresh vegetables; Lewando instructed her readers on the art of vitamin drinks and juices, with recipes for Vitamin-Rich Beet Juice and Vitamin-Rich Carrot Juice. âThis was very heroic of her,â said Jochnowitz. âThere were no juice machines! You make the juice by grating the vegetables and then squeezing the juice out by hand.â
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a Jewish scholar and Jewish cookbook collector, describes Lewando as âwitty.â âShe is showing us,â she said, âthat once you eliminate meat and fish, you still have an enormous range of foods you can prepare.â Lewando is about âbeing creative, imaginative and innovative both with traditional dishes and with what she is introducing that is remote from the traditional repertoire.â She does that in unexpected ways. Her milchig (dairy) matzah balls, for example, have an elegance and lightness to them. She instructs the reader to make a meringue with egg whites, fold in the yolks, then combine with matzah meal, melted butter and hot water. Her sauerkraut salad includes porcini mushrooms. One of her kugels combines cauliflower, apples, sliced almonds and candied orange peel.
There is much that, through contemporary eyes, is missing in âThe Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook.â The recipes do not give step-by-step instructions; rather you will find general directions. Heating instructions are vague, ranging from a ânot-too-hot-ovenâ to a âwarm ovenâ to a âhot oven.â Lewando assumes the readerâs familiarity with the kitchen that todayâs cookbook writer would not.Â
Lewando and her husband were listed in the 1941 census of the Vilna Ghetto but not in the census of 1942. It is believed that they both died or were killed while attempting to escape. âShe really was a visionary,â said Jochnowitz. âIt is an unbearable tragedy that she did not live to see the future that she predicted and helped to bring about.âBut in cooking her recipes, said Yoskowitz, as dated and incomplete as some of them may be, the conversation between then and now continues.
so i decided to take another look at the ancestral hall scene. i felt like wei wuxian's narration was less so objectively describing the scene and instead moreso describing how wei wuxian was interpreting the scene, so i tried pruning out everything except the dialogue and some basic stage directions. here's what i ended up with:
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[Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are in the Lotus Pier ancestral hall. They have just finished bowing three times to the memorial tablets of Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan.]
[A snort suddenly echoes from behind Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji. Wei Wuxian turns around to see Jiang Cheng standing behind him.]
Jiang Cheng: Wei Wuxian, it seems you really donât consider yourself an outsider. Coming and going as you please, and bringing people with you too. Do you still remember who this house belongs to? Or who its master is?
Wei Wuxian: I didnât take Hanguang-jun to any other restricted areas of Lotus Pier. I just came to pay my respects and offer some incense to Jiang-shushu and Madam Yu. Itâs done. Weâre leaving now.
Jiang Cheng: If youâre leaving, then please go as far away as possible. Donât let me hear or see you fooling around in Lotus Pier again.
Lan Wangji: Watch your words.Â
Jiang Cheng: Seems to me you two should watch your behavior instead.Â
Wei Wuxian: Hanguang-jun, letâs go.Â
[Wei Wuxian turns around and kowtows a few more times in earnest to Jiang Fengmian and Madam Yu. Then, Wei Wuxian stands together with Lan Wangji.]Â
Jiang Cheng: You certainly do need to kneel before themâto apologize for showing up in front of them for no reason, sullying their eyes, and violating their peace.
Wei Wuxian: Iâm just offering some incense, okay?
Jiang Cheng: Offering incense? Wei Wuxian, do you have no self-awareness? You were expelled from my family a long time ago. And yet you bring riffraff here to offer incense to my parents?
[Wei Wuxian has already stepped halfway past him to leave, but when he hears this, he suddenly stops in his tracks.]
Wei Wuxian: Make yourself clear. Who is this riffraff youâre referring to?
Jiang Cheng: Youâre so forgetful. What do I mean by riffraff? Well, let me remind you. All of Lotus Pier perishedâincluding my parentsâbecause you played the hero to save that Lan-er-gongzi next to you. But no, that wasnât enough. You had to go back for a second round. You just had to save those Wen dogs, and you dragged my jiejie and the others into your mess. What a great man you are. Even better, youâre so magnanimous that you brought these two to Lotus Pierâlet the Wen dog wander around in front of our gates and escorted Lan-er-gongzi here to offer incense. Youâre deliberately trying to upset them and me. Wei Wuxian, who do you think you are? Who gave you the right to bring others into my familyâs ancestral hall as you please?
Wei Wuxian: Jiang Cheng, listen to what youâre saying. Is it even fit for hearing? Donât forget your statusâyouâre a family head, after all. And yet you just insulted a distinguished cultivator of a prominent cultivation clan, right in front of Jiang-shushu and everyone elseâs memorial tablets. What happened to your upbringing? Where are your manners?
Jiang Cheng: Who exactly is the one humiliating my parents in front of their memorial tablets?! Please recall whose family home youâre in. Get it through your thick skull. Itâs bad enough that you were being so shamelessly touchy-feely outside. Donât come to my ancestral hall and fool around in front of my parentsâ memorial tablets! They watched you grow up, for whatever thatâs worth. Even I feel embarrassed for you!
[Wei Wuxian realizes that Jiang Cheng had seen his earlier romantic-esque encounter with Lan Wangji, and that Jiang Cheng is now offensively insinuating that Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are in a romantic and/or sexual relationship.]
Wei Wuxian: Shut up!
Jiang Cheng: Go outside and fool around however you please, if thatâs what you want to do. Whether under a tree or on a boat, whether you want to hug or do whatever else! Get the hell out of my house and get the hell out of my sight!
Wei Wuxian: Jiang Wanyin, you⌠Apologize right now.
Jiang Cheng: Apologize? Why should I? For stumbling on your rendezvous?
Wei Wuxian: Hanguang-jun and I are just friends. What kind of relationship do you think we have?! Iâm warning youâyou better apologize right now! Donât make me kick your ass!
[Lan Wangjiâs expression freezes.]
Jiang Cheng: Then Iâve never seen a âfriendâ like that in my life. And youâre warning me? On what grounds? If either of you possessed even the slightest bit of shame, you wouldnât have come hereâŚ
[Wei Wuxian sees the change in Lan Wangjiâs expression and thinks that Jiang Chengâs words have stung him. Wei Wuxian is incredibly angered.]
[Wei Wuxian flings out a talisman.]
Wei Wuxian: Are you done?!
[Wei Wuxianâs talisman strikes Jiang Cheng on his right shoulder and explodes, causing Jiang Cheng to stagger. Jiang Cheng hadn't expected Wei Wuxian to strike so suddenly, and his own spiritual powers have yet to fully recover. As a result, the blast catches him head-on and his shoulder begins to bleed.]
[Disbelief flashes across Jiang Cheng face, and Zidian shoots from his finger.]
[Lan Wangjiâs Bichen leaves its sheath to block the attack. With that, the three of them are fighting in front of the ancestral hall.]
Jiang Cheng: Fine! You want a fight? Then bring it on! You think Iâm afraid of you both?!
[Wei Wuxian haphazardly wards off a few blows, then abruptly comes to his senses. He is distressed by the realization that he is fighting Jiang Cheng in front of Jiang Cheng's parents. He feels like has been doused in icy water; his vision goes first dark, then white. Lan Wangji glances at him before whirling around to grab his shoulder.]
[Jiang Chengâs expression changes too. He retracts his whip, then blinks, looking alert.]
Lan Wangji: Wei Ying?! Whatâs wrong?
[Wei Wuxian feels dizzy and realizes he is bleeding from his mouth and nose. Wei Wuxian grabs Lan Wangjiâs elbow and manages with some difficulty to stand. Seeing that Lan Wangjiâs newly changed white clothes are stained with his blood once more, he unconsciously reaches out to wipe them.]
Lan Wangji: How do you feel?!
Wei Wuxian: Lan Zhan⌠Letâs leave.
Lan Wangji: All right.Â
[Lan Wangji lifts Wei Wuxian on his back and makes to leave.]
[Jiang Cheng is both shocked and suspicious that this is an act Wei Wuxian is putting on to escape.]Â
Jiang Cheng: Hold it right there!
Lan Wangji: Get lost!
[With Lan Wangjiâs words comes Bichen. Immediately after, a flash of purple lightning hurtles forth as well. Both divine weapons strike each other loudly.]
[The impact of this noise gives Wei Wuxian a splitting headache, and his eyes close and his head droops low.]
[Sensing the sudden weight on his shoulder, Lan Wangji promptly extracts himself from the melee to feel for Wei Wuxian's breathing.]Â Â
[With Lan Wangji no longer supplying Bichen with power, Zidian immediately advances toward Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian. Jiang Cheng, who doesnât actually want to injure Lan Wangji, instantly pulls back his strikeâbut it seems it is still too late.]
[Just then, a figure leaps down from nowhere and stands between them.]
[This person is Wen Ning. Jiang Cheng immediately flies into a rage.]
Jiang Cheng: Who said you could enter Lotus Pier?! How dare you?!
[Jiang Chengâs whip strikes directly hit Wen Ning, who tanks the blow.]
[Wen Ning holds out Suibian, Wei Wuxianâs sword, to Jiang Cheng.]Â
Jiang Cheng: What do you want?!
Wen Ning: Pull it out.Â
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some miscellaneous observations:
jiang cheng opens this interaction by repeatedly telling wangxian to leave; however, he also insists on getting as many barbs in as possible, even as he's telling them to leave. both jiang cheng and wei wuxian insist that wangxian leave (jiang cheng by telling wangxian to get the fuck out of his house, wei wuxian by repeatedly saying that they are leaving); however, wangxian fail to actually leave because both jiang cheng and wei wuxian keep dragging themselves back into the argument.
jiang cheng repeatedly highlights the assertion that lotus pier is his house, not wei wuxian's; that wei wuxian no longer has the right to freely walk around lotus pier as if he lives here.
wei wuxian's narration states that he got angry with jiang cheng not on his own behalf, but rather on the behalf of lan wangji - starting when jiang cheng referred to lan wangji as "riffraff." what's especially interesting is that jiang cheng's block of dialogue starting with "you're so forgetful" is in fact more insulting to wei wuxian himself than it is to lan wangji, since jiang cheng focuses his tirade entirely on wei wuxian's actions. however, despite this, wei wuxian's replies to this tirade (starting with "jiang cheng, listen to what you're saying) not by responding to jiang cheng's criticisms of his own behavior, but rather by calling jiang cheng out for insulting lan wangji....even though i did not see much actual insult towards lan wangji specifically in jiang cheng's rant. in fact, jiang cheng's tirade is more insulting towards wen ning than it is towards lan wangji, since jiang cheng refers to lan wangji as "that lan-er-gongzi" but calls wen ning "the wen-dog" - but wei wuxian does not call out jiang cheng for insulting wen ning, either. to me, it seems almost like wei wuxian is using "you can insult me, but you're also being mean to lan zhan!!! i'm defending lan zhan!!!" as an excuse to respond belligerently to jiang cheng's verbal abuse, rather than straight-up defend himself, the actual target of jiang cheng's rage.
it is wei wuxian who first escalates a verbal confrontation into a physical one.
wei wuxian escalates this confrontation to physical violence because he sees lan wangji get upset as a result of the conversation. wei wuxian assumes that lan wangji is offended that jiang cheng has insinuated that he and wei wuxian are gay, which wei wuxian himself seems to also take as an inherently offensive insinuation. however, it is fair to surmise that, in reality, lan wangji was actually upset because wei wuxian said they were "just friends."
jiang cheng is not angry at wangxian for being gay; rather, (on top of all his other reasons to be mad at wei wuxian), jiang cheng is angry at their perceived PDA right in front of his parents' memorial tablets.
jiang cheng does not seem that willing to actually physically fight or harm wangxian. he only fights back after wei wuxian hits him first, and stops fighting the moment wei wuxian collapses. the fight only resumes when he yells at wangxian, lan wangji strikes at him with bichen, and he blocks the strike; even then, the narration states that he did not really want to injure lan wangji.
wen ning enters the scene and jumps immediately into the golden core transfer. he does not try to piece together the situation or physically drive jiang cheng away from wei wuxian. one can only presume that he was already at the scene earlier and had seen much of this confrontation play out, hence why he doesn't need to try and figure out what's going on.
