#novel commentary

Back reading from the chapter my tablet opened up to (267 dokjas story iv) laughing again abt master and osu just biting the shit out of constellations lol

Lmao? Damn joonghyuk got his tibbies out beefing with constellations 😂😂 RIGHT THE FUCKING RULER OF AMUSEMENT THING LMAO Aaa his stories woke up 🥺 Omg lol Bihyung is gonna crash out damn

🤭🤭 Baram: are you doubting the great dokkaebis? Bihyung: bitch I might be OH OH HE WOKE UP DOKJA WAKE UP YOU RAT

3 million into stats 😂😭 help lmao Me when kdj hunts down dying yjh 🥺 Me when he calls for asmodeus 😒

"yjh was barely breathing. The weight was lighter than usual" homeboy idk how to break this to you But yjh is literally disarmed ofc he's gonna be lighter

😭😭😭 FIGHT DEATH FOR ONCE YOU USELESS FUCKING SUNFISH Joonghyuk just 🖕at his sponsor lmao Dokja throwing his husband and just heel turn punch help 😂💀

Surya: there's no myth grade stories :/ Asmodeus: lol. Lmao, even 💀💀💀 HELP LMAO HIT SURYA WITH THE lmao skill diff Like I GET it but also 😂😭???? "osu, who was the size of a guinea pig" LMAO?

Hayoungs messages through the wall never sent?? Omg what like I get it make kdj strugglebus his way to not dying or w/e but damn It would be a little bit funny if fourth wall was the one that told unidentified not to send them but that seems unlikely OH SP? THE CONSTELLATIONS CAME INTO THE CHANNEL IM SO NORMAL YEP YEAH

GORYEOS FIRST SWORD UPGRADED LETS GO Also man, fuck surya 😂 "once I came to my senses, I was in the arms of a man" He's not yjh but kdj really is never beating the bottom allegations

Omg Jihye too? Girl let's gooooooo Did…did everyone break into the selection 😂😂😂 help Did all of kimcom just invite themselves in like some fucking misbehaving vampires WAIT HEEWON HAS WINGS? URIEL? BABYGIRL IS THAT U God I love how Uriel just showing up made everyone fuckin (sock puppet meme with the bombastic side eye)

Uriel hit andras with the fuckin that's copyright infringement in going to dust your ass xoxo crying lol LMAO Uriel at demons 🔪🖕 Uriel at dokja 🥺🥰😳 abfd watching this like what the fuck is this gap

[you are loved by an archangel] Stop 😭😭😭😭 omg she so fucking cute I can't

But also the fucking Holding up sword Don't worry booboo I'll exterminate ever one of them 🤗🤗🤗 OH LILY BLOOMING IN AQUARIUS AND COMMANDER OF THE RED COSMOS (idk who guardian of youths and travel is lmao) Did they show up to tell Uriel to slow her roll before she started a war lmao

Oh! Scribe of heaven!!! That's uhhh metatron iirc? I'm pretty sure Lily blooming is gabriel

Wait omg the rest of Eden did roll up bc uriel's being ratchet help 😂😂😂 Bless her LMAO girl I GET it

"I wanted to help you until the end" LIKE- I KNOW SHES JUST TALKING ABOUT THE SCENARIO BUT GIVEN EVEYTHING ELSE THATS HAPPENED WITH ORV I-- 😭😭😭

my friend was making fun of me when he saw those bc he was like you rendered punishers abs but not yjh's and I'm like HIS ARMS ARE CROSSED AND HE'S LEANING OVER WYM LET ME APPRECIATE HIS FAT TITS IN PEACE Speaking of yjh he's returned lmao poor Uriel didn't get to see her otp standing next to each other in person 😔

OOOOO GIANT STORY 😭 the giant story starts on the train [this is the story of a reader] 😭😭😭

Mf got caught by another man (this time it was yjh) Smh 😂😂 kdj really out here living the shoujo lead female life WHY IS KOREA ON FIRE OEDIPUS YOU SCUMMY LITTLE CUNT

One of the best things of MDZS, which demonstrate really well the central themes of the novel, is that while the cultivators used false morality and hypocritical justice as a shield to justify practicing so much dehumanization and tyranny, Wei Wuxian was the only one who actually exercised that justice and followed the concept of what a cultivator should be for real.

It's funny because they accused Wei Wuxian of all sorts of things when he was literally just doing his job as a cultivator - protecting the innocent and fighting against evil – It’s quite the irony seeing Wei Wuxian being condemned for doing what already is, or should’ve been, the very ultimate goal of cultivation – apart from imortality – in the first place. To me, just the fact that the Clans did function based on an aristocratic system immediately points to the idea that the purpose of cultivation, in the MDZS universe, is a simple sham for nobles to maintain their privilege and monopolize the power.

“Those who oppress others and do evil while relying on the power of their Clan should be killed. Moreover, they should publically beheaded in front of tens of thousands of people so that nobody repeats their mistake – Wen Mao, founder of the Wen Clan”

By this, it’s clear that they strayed so drastically from their original intente to use power to help, to actively oppress. The Jiang who used to be a care free sect., turned to be a clan “you could never, in any way, offend”, the Lans, whose motto is “Be Righteous”, and have a whole wall of rules that says, “do not jugde others”, “be kind”, “do not bully the weak”, “do not make assumptions about other” etc, turned to be a sect where what matters the most is to “look rigtheous” and “prioritize not troubling the powerful”. 

MDZS universe is ruled by a fundamentally corrupt society, where the sect leaders congratulate each other on maintaining this facade of civilization and morality, which consist of purposefully ignoring the rot that takes place out of sight and is sometimes even publicly acknowledged, but fully accepted. Because no one cares about injustice, corruption, tyranny, as long as it doesn't affect them directly or their peers ( not even of the smaller clans, only the great sects) and most importantly, it can be easily excused and brushed off if it is caused by a clan leader, an heir or descendant of the main line.

For example, the complete extermination of the Tingshan He Clan, which had no objection. The fact that no one did anything when LanlingJin refused to execute Xue Yang after Nie Mingjue's death, even though he was responsible for the annihilation of an entire clan and was recreating the Yin Tiger Tally, a weapon of mass destruction. Or the matter of Jiang Cheng torturing and killing "demonic cultivators" being something know even by disciples of Gusu Lan and this is never treated seriously because these people were not importante enough to make a fuss, and let's not even talk about the Nie cultivation method, because it's a bottomless pit of hypocrisy.

It’s clear that, for the cultivation world, the only objectionable thing is the voice that differs from this dirty dishonesty, who identifies the farce for what it is and refuses to be part of the "brainwashing", or rather, the legitimate alienation. It is only reprehensible those who do not accept the veiled injustice that the Clans propagate in the name of unfounded reasons and who, in order to blame this system, goes against the meticulous facade of “honor and morals” created by the cultivation world, the facade that normalized, for the sake of 'good diplomacy’, the act of turning a blind eye to the cruelty, classism, oppression and authoritarianism of the Clans.

Logically, to be able to keep this arbitrary system working, it was necessary the fabrication of a new villain, “ The Great Evil" in common, hated by all and capable of taking the blame for everything and be used to justify all sorts of brutal and inhuman behavior. It was essential to use the villain's performative defeat to create a false, but allowable, sense of collective peace, sustained by innocent lives, that permit them to keep the face of righteous in the social circle of 'important people', while not forcing them to actually do something against the real problem, because all the bad things that happened were the ‘scapegoat's fault’. And this was not something fated to happen only with Wei Wuxian or the Wen Remnants, it was an an act bound to always happen in an infinite cycle, because inevitably one of the Clans would do some shit that would need someone to be criminalized and used as a guinea pig in order to hide their own corruption.

Basically, it's an entire society that hides behind "justice" in a reality where the very concept of that justice in question can only be judged by the Clans, predominantly from their own personal interests and not for what is really right or wrong. That is, justice is only right when it is theirs, outside of that, it becomes arrogance, madness, heregy. The real truth is unimportant in this scenario, much less innocence.

[...] “Don’t you understand? When you're standing on their side, you're the bizarre genius, the miraculous hero, the force of the rebellion, the flower that blooms alone. But the second your voice differs from theirs, you’ve lost your mind, you’ve ignored morality, you’ve walked the crooked path” [...]

For the ones at the top of the social hierarchy, nothing they do is criminal as long as it does not oppose the tyranny and the ‘absolute truth’ of the Clans. But anyone who doesn't have a noble lineage is worth absolutely nothing and has no right even to their own life, the people deemed as "below them" only serve as an tool to the powerful to use, to shut up when faced with offenses and to bow their heads in obedience, and that’s why Wei Wuxian died, he was a servant that did not know his place and tried to rise above his station.

I swear this is straight out of an obikin fanfic. Obi-Wan, standing there in his torn Jedi tunic, refusing to be healed until he has checked to make sure Anakin is alright.

Padme takes a moment to notice that Obi-Wan looks a hint more desperate than usual. She acts like he never feels that way. She clearly doesn’t understand a thing about this man because he’s desperate 90% of his life. Everyone is pulling him in different directions, his Padawan has got him on edge. Give the man a break.

Everyone tells Obi-Wan not to feel.

I thought this was really cute.

Arrogon speaks to his father, King Braxton, telling him "what Keyes would like to do for Crystal on their day of unity." That's kind of creepy, cousin. You seem to want this a bit too much.

Oh Jesus. Now King Braxton has called in all the aides and the rest of his family and explained in detail this day-of-unity tradition. They don't really need to know this.

OH JESUS. Now King Braxton is making a speech about it at the banquet. "By the traditions of her people, the couple must wait one year after they marry before they can unite." REALLY? This is an appropriate time to discuss your grandson's sex life?

OH MY LORD IN HEAVEN. At the ceremony - at the damn wedding ceremony - IN THE CEREMONY ITSELF - the king says "They were married in the custom of the Bazeal people and have yet to join themselves as one." Because it's really, really important that we all know they haven't had sex yet, and why, and that means they'll be boning tonight. It's really, shriekingly important, you guys.

Tomorrow I expect a palace trumpeter wandering the halls and every five minutes making the same announcement: "Tooooooooooot. They have boned."

This is the penultimate chapter. We're getting quite near the end now of my analysis of this novel. (That's a movie reference. Guess which movie.)

"Seliah had reappeared to [Keyes]. This time she just smiled at him, then told him sehe was proud of him, and that he had her blessing to unite with Crystal." So you appear in a man's dream and tell him he's allowed to bone your daughter. That's not weird at all, ghost mom.

"Arrogon gave Keyes several ideas for the day he and Crystal decided to unite." THAT'S NOT WEIRD AT ALL, COUSIN. I really don't need your input about this particular day, thank you very much. "So what you're gonna do, is you're gonna wanna take her legs and bend them up like..." NO.

At the big celebratory feast, Keyes told the villagers "of Seliah's visit and of her warnings" but really they don't need to know all that. Why do you people keep nothing to yourselves? You think it, you say it. This is not how people act.

They're arguing over who the leader should be. As far as I can see it, nobody brought back blue ice. Nobody gets to be leader. NOW YOU'RE AN AUTONOMOUS COLLECTIVE!

...that seriously just happened. I was just joking. But... Wow. The racers all denied their rights of leadership. "Screw you guys for not helping fight Gafton; we're gonna go live with the elves."