#also underrated

you love them? fantastic, check this out.

who's done more for chengxian than kate bush. running up that hill? wuthering heights?; queen unlocks a new chengxian emotion with every other song.

honestly, this is just....SO LUSH. the chengxian gothic that i normally make a beeline for is the wuthering heights - mansfield park one; the liminal zone of wei wuxian's 'upstairs/downstairs' position within the household. the childhood friends - growing up together before made-up boundaries like 'social status' could be of any consequence to them - almost brothers - almost lovers - never quite the leaders they'd hope they'd be together. jiang cheng protecting wei wuxian from his mother's wrath, jiang cheng's withdrawn father where even his favouritism of wei wuxian seems distant and absent-minded somehow, the disapproval he has of jiang cheng (who admittedly is a little cunt) where he scolds him but doesn't intend to raise him, jiang cheng & wei wuxian's joint adoration of their sistermommy jiang yanli. the fact that jin guangshan demands jiang cheng puts wei wuxian in his place - beneath him, a head disciple that got too big for his boots and yet jiang cheng comes to burial mounds as his brother, pleads with him like ismene did with antigone. the cassandra of mdzs/cql, he's the only one who seems to know what genre he's in, helpless & hopeless against his shixiong's hubris. he comes as a brother and leaves as a sect leader and the inevitable tragedy follows. the obsession, resentment & the hope that haunts after.

The song name got cut of sorry, it's called A laughing Death in Meatspace