#bifca

• First impression: chaotic little shit. the vampirism in trc makes sense with his dumb cape I love it

• Impression now: best boy!! 10/10 would die for

• Favorite moment: the scene where he and yuzuriha were going to visit sorata in the hospital and yuzuriha shoved a cookie into his mouth. he was so dorky and cute help

• Idea for a story: I'll never stop wanting an au where kamui chooses the DoE and subaru is the sakurazukamori from the start. they go on chaotic dates like fuuma and seishirou did except they actually have feelings and kamui decides maybe saving the earth actually wouldn't be terrible since he wants to protect subaru now

• Unpopular opinion: Still Don't Care For F**Kam 🤷‍♀️

• Favorite relationship: subkam is the only ship that matters

dhweohfuiehgiherui well someone went all out.

(cont) them elderly or children, and by his own logic was okay with sexism and classism) is a paragon of morality. Nie Huaisang (who the only reason he didn’t have a higher body count is because Wei Ying, Lan Zhan, and Wen Ning interfered) was just a poor baby driven to these actions. Don’t get me wrong I love all these characters (Nie Mingjue not as much though) and I completely agree that Meng Yao is a villain who did awful things, but I do have a hard time seeing what it is that makes Meng Yao so

(cont) especially villainous aside from not being born with the privilege to have his murders be seen as noble. Sorry for this ask dump XD 

(cont) also one thought I haven't been able to shake since I heard that Mo Xiang Tong Xiu confirmed on twitter than Nie Huaisang becomes the next Chief Cultivator. I think, based off of how history constantly repeats itself in the novel, that Nie Huaisang would go the way of Meng Yao

I think Meng Yao is both intended to be a very evil villain and to be complicated and nearly sympathetic.  One of the great things about MDZS is the way the characters mirror and contrast with one another.  So Meng Yao is similar to both WWX and Xue Yang and is obviously quite similar to Nie Huaisang in methods. 

As I’ve said before about Meng Yao, he doesn’t want power so much as he wants respect.  It’s just that the only way he can think to attain respect is through power.  However, there’s indications in the book that even when he’s Chief Cultivator, he’s not respected or well-liked.  So it’s ultimately a futile quest.  He sort of settles for revenge at some point: revenge on his father for ALL THE THINGS, revenge on NMJ for how he’s spoken to him, and ultimately I think revenge on the entire cultivation world.

So to a certain extent I agree with you.  I definitely have something of a problem with Jiang Cheng because we’re told he tortured innocent people, potentially to death, for years.  That’s the thing that my mind just won’t drop when people talk about him in particularly sappy ways.  Like, it’s fine, you’re allowed to like and relate to whoever, but yeah, mostly people want to make that not canon.

Nie Mingjue is flawed, yes, but he’s flawed in a very realistic way, and in a way I think directly brings about his death.  (Which is a required element of Classical Tragedy.) 

Honestly I think this are all reasons why MDZS has such staying power and captivating power in adaptation after adaptation despite being “only” a BL.  MXTX created a bunch of very complicated and flawed characters and bounced them off each other in ways we can talk about endlessly. 

And Kanda and Link have such glorious, gorgeous silky hair, too. I mean’s it’s begging to be played with, right? But both have this gruff, standoffish demeanor, and like, what’s it going to look like if they both enjoy being pet like some damn tame housecat? Ridiculous. Kanda solves his problem by brushing his hair at least 100 times a night. He massages his scalp, too. One night, Allen strides into his room and catches him at it, and Allen’s all like, “It must be hard to comb through all of that. Your hair is so long. Here, let me help!” And before Kanda can protest, Allen grabs the hairbrush and starts combing through those inky tresses. It’s soothing, actually. And Allen easily loses himself in the task, eventually humming to himself as he works. Kanda, for his part, is faaaaar less cranky and has shockingly said nothing at all ever since Allen started. But Kanda doesn’t like charity, doesn’t think he needs it. So he offers to comb through Allen’s hair too. He says something like, “Your hair’s a mess, moyashi. Here, I’ll make it presentable.” 

As you said, Allen loves it too, and freely admits it. He sighs in pleasure, all the tension falling from his shoulders. I mean, about 20 minutes later, Allen is practically purring in Kanda’s hands. It’s a little weird, but Kanda (as we know) also feels a bit responsible for all the things Allen goes through, so he’s inwardly pleased he can do something, anything to help. 

Enter Link, who’s trying to figure out where the hell the other two are. He walks in on a mildly scowling Kanda, who doesn’t really know what to do with the Allen in his lap who’s basically acting like a housecat. Link looks at Allen, then at Kanda, then at Allen again, and then just says “Me next,” like it’s some damn salon. I mean, he’s less reticent than Kanda to admit he likes it, though he’s still framing it in the sense of, “Hmmm... wonder if really feels that good?” Of course, he knows it does. He just wants to give the illusion of curiosity. 

Allen, being the great peacemaker that he is, just asks Kanda if there’s another hair brush around. He then invites Link to sit in his lap and Link agrees, and that’s how all three of them ended up brushing one another’s hair all night. 

demonic cultivators that were born "below" the twin jades' station no less

yeah. also a lot of people have pointed out they could have picked colors that contrasted with each other instead of increasing the saturation, which is part of what's causing the issue

the “man in a dress” joke is purely transmisogynistic. clamp likes to portray fai as being gender non-conforming to imply that he’s gay (which is its own homophobic issue) but also to get some cheap laughs because Ooooh Men Aren’t Supposed To Wear Dresses!!!!!! which is transphobic.

i really truly love fai as a character, despite clamp’s (frequent) bullshit. as a gay nonbinary person, i really like to headcanon fai as nonbinary in order to reclaim a lot of his canon gender nonconformity in a way that feels more positive to me. it is vital to his character - he’s a nurturing, maternal person, and i love that about him - but i can’t help but be bitter when thinking about how clamp treats it at times.

so instead of having kurogane berate fai for dressing femininely, i made that edit of kurogane supporting fai in being himself, which is more in line with their relationship arc in canon. and instead of having everyone else respond with shock, it was with support.

it’s really a jokey post, but it comes from a place of dissatisfaction as an LGBT person. i wrote it to be humorous, but also to comment on and respond to something that’s transphobic and homophobic in a work i love.

thanks for asking! i hope this answers your question.