Oct 29, 2025
qin nan is def a safest place in the world bf........but he's actually making me think of disability and ableism, in the sense that part of how his attractiveness is built/created/communicated (the architecture of it) is through his able-bodiedness. he runs up flights of stairs and beats up si bei's boss and picks her up and carries her around.
is there a word for the other side of the coin of ableism? a word for like the romaticization + eroticization of an able body? cause this is not something unique to qin nan, like i'd put healer under this category of romantic lead, too. def playing around with a man being The Protector, so able-bodiedness and gender construction + maintenance...
