#also. like

i’m aware this is probably a joke, but like. i’ve got a gripe and i’m using your ask to vent it.

off the top of my head:

shen yuan, however comical his narration may be, is not an idiot bumbling around unaware of what’s going on around him and how he’s seen. the people in his life are not humouring his little act, and his disciples’ respect and deference to his decisions is not a capitulation or a “whatever you say shizun” type reaction. the people of cang qiong mountain sect (as well as other characters: zhuzhi lang and gongyi-xiao, tianlang-jun and even meng mo) are honestly appreciative and respectful of him and what he’s done for his sect.

he is always thinking of how he presents himself to the world, always aware of his reactions and how they might be perceived. he’s aware to the point that it comes between him and binghe on multiple occasions.

he is intelligent and self-aware. equating his confusion and fear of his own sexuality and self-expression with his personality is rather annoying and a thing i see a bit too much of.

i don’t mean to be a spoilsport but it is getting rather exhausting to see the same joke packaged differently and sourced from the same misconception/misunderstanding of shen qingqiu’s fundamental characterisation.

and. also, something i think some people forget rather easily: shen yuan knows the customs and standards of ancient china, as well as those in pidw and other xianxia / wuxia / fantasy novels. you may even say he lived somewhere where he learned these things his whole life prior to transmigrating. crazy right?

i know no one follows me on this account but i feel my jdox obsession slowly starting to creep in again and i need someone to talk to about this song. and the fact that. its literally jd @ perry and OUCH

absolutely i think this is a problem that tends to be found in hollywood projects in general, but this show in particular did a really shite job of it. 

some thoughts on the show so far: (i’m on 1x07) 

the fact that a white guy fell out of the sky and was treated as ‘deliverance from heaven to save us from the Hand’. i just. yike

also ‘i am the iron fist and i never lose’. lines of this nature. yike

a white dude being the ‘chosen one’ in china (let’s be real it’s china). ok whatever you say 

i’d much rather watch a show about colleen wing 

i don’t mind that they want to work with asian culture—or chinese culture, to be specific. but the way they did it made it apparent that they had no heart in it, put no real effort into it, and only wanted the ~mysterious east~ness of it all to make the show ‘stylish’—a style anyone with actual asian background will find laughable  

the fact that danny’s entire character is based on his years in k’un-lun but we NEVER see any of the monks on screen for more than 3 seconds at a time says a lot. when we do see one monk on screen he’s floating around speaking incomprehensible mumbo jumbo 

any time we learn anything new about k’un-lun it’s from danny’s own mouth and i’m very tired of it. my heart drops knowing that the creators will not show me the world that’s supposed to be so important to the entire show because they never bothered to build it 

what the fuck was that spider-woman in the second round of the tournament 

the butchering of the language, as you said 

tl;dr it is a half-baked mess. next time just give him a pretty fighting style or something but by god without the bullshit background please. 

or, y’know actually do it properly