For the wary hearts.

However, while capturing the personhood of queer people; Danmei also captures the queerness of people because none of these stories would work if the characters weren’t gay/queer

Wei Wuxian’s absolute buffoonery of misunderstanding Lan Zhan’s feelings in a decade long telephone game in which neither of them open their damn mouth would never work in a non-queer story because between a man and a woman romance would be the natural assumption of everyone around them and therefore wouldn’t leave space for confusion. The misunderstanding of their romance is so closely tied to the plot succession that the plot would be… non existent without it

In TGCF Xie Lian and Hua Cheng’s absolute aspirational love is literally in the backseat and front seat of the story. Not too different from a classic hero’s journey but instead of the hero being one person, it’s two people. They are so intertwined with eo that they become one character and witness a lot of the story together. Witness being a very interesting word choice. Their queerness doesn’t drive the story but replacing one of them with a woman would dampen the effect— it’d remove the uncertainty, the confusion from everyone around them, the genuine slow burn of the romance. There’s also this idea of Hua Cheng falling in love with Xie Lian so far separated from concepts such as gender or whatever which wouldn’t have been hammered home in a straight romance where those conversations aren’t always had between the audience and the story

And Erha.. well obviously. Half of Chu Wanning’s “this is so inappropriate” spiral wouldn’t exist if he was a woman. And, the idea of Mo Ran being a “cut sleeve” builds up the under current of his character being so far dismissed by society because he’s seen as immoral. Which just wouldn’t serve to the same effect if he was into exclusively women because so was every other character.

۪── S̲omething completely unrelated to danmei for now ...

𓂋 🍥 ˚ REN⠀◌. safe to say i hate him so much, btw guys play 14 days with you by cutiesai.

NO

WAIT

CUCUMBER-BRO HEAR ME OUT

Look, if ge was really that much of a hack of an author as Shen Yuan says he is, he wouldn't get to live off his writing, no matter how much of "awful" porn he writes. He's not a bad writer, he's just poor and people pleaser.

So what if he gets in a situation where he can stop worrying about people paying him for his writing? Oh i promise you, this man gets to writing. He actually writes a good book, with actually decent plotlines that weren't abandoned halfway through. He gives protagonist meaningful relationships, not giving him a harem the size of China. It's not a stallion novel this shit becomes a fucking classic.

And spans on both worlds! People read it, demons read it and Shang Qinghua is in heaven cause sometimes he hears the palace staff discus his books. HIS BOOKS!!!!!! He definitely published them anonymously (old habits die hard, he remembers getting death threats) so there is no bias, nobody knows that it's the book of Ice Demon King's consort. And they still love because it isn't written for them, it's written for Qinghua who can finally release his writer potential.

He sometimes sees desciples of Cang Qiong, Peak Lords read it, he even saw his king reading it (he knows Qinghua wrote it. He likes how much the protagonist resembles him).