(please take my icon as a stand-in for a Jiang Cheng icon)
I've been so looking forward to this and it was such a joy to read! I kept smiling to myself while reading :') I'm glad you and I, if no one else, understand the joy of DVD commentaries / writing discussion in general for things you haven't read. I also love a well-organized DW post this is so nice..
Most of this I was already familiar with but I loved getting the full context! I particularly enjoyed your discussion of Huaisang (I had to sit for a minute with living in the bad timeline of your own life.. [gestures at canon NHS having his high school crush resurrected as part of an elaborate scheme to avenge his brother] what ffnet author would do this). I know the character pretty well by now but this post helped The Vision coalesce for me. When you're such a mystery to yourself that you take xianxia HRT without admitting to yourself that you want the side effects :(( Every excerpt with NHS/LWJ was also extremely funny (uninvited and luminous, as if actively trying to make everyone else look shabby). Huaisang's resentment + how heavily she's projecting comes across really well, and the image you've painted here of post-dove Sangcheng/Wangxian interactions is gold.
A few lines I snipped, because your writing hits very well:
Does Wei Wuxian know how lucky he is, to have returned from death at such high cost, with a man by his side who looks at his wreck of a life and says that it’s good, that he deserves to be held?
Nie Huaisang wonders how long it’s been since anyone touched any part of Jiang Cheng’s body like it was weak instead of strong.
when touched like this, she’s grateful to still have a body
It's not that being in love absolves a person, but that in this case it's the final push necessary to reactivate empathetic ways of relating to the world, which is a disorienting and painful process — this is obviously from your commentary, and we've already discussed this a bit, but just picture me punching the air at how eloquently you phrased it <3 it's easy to escape your own moral judgment when you've decided to extricate yourself from the world, sucks to have someone love you and make you feel like a person again! Being a person is so hard.
Congratulations again on finishing!!! I'm SO glad you got such good feedback after the stress over whether or not to post, it's absolutely deserved. And thank you for sharing this — you talking about writing is always very motivating for me, the passion!! If you end up doing a mercies commentary you know I'll be there in a heartbeat.
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I've been so looking forward to this and it was such a joy to read! I kept smiling to myself while reading :') I'm glad you and I, if no one else, understand the joy of DVD commentaries / writing discussion in general for things you haven't read. I also love a well-organized DW post this is so nice..
Most of this I was already familiar with but I loved getting the full context! I particularly enjoyed your discussion of Huaisang (I had to sit for a minute with living in the bad timeline of your own life.. [gestures at canon NHS having his high school crush resurrected as part of an elaborate scheme to avenge his brother] what ffnet author would do this). I know the character pretty well by now but this post helped The Vision coalesce for me. When you're such a mystery to yourself that you take xianxia HRT without admitting to yourself that you want the side effects :(( Every excerpt with NHS/LWJ was also extremely funny (uninvited and luminous, as if actively trying to make everyone else look shabby). Huaisang's resentment + how heavily she's projecting comes across really well, and the image you've painted here of post-dove Sangcheng/Wangxian interactions is gold.
A few lines I snipped, because your writing hits very well:
Does Wei Wuxian know how lucky he is, to have returned from death at such high cost, with a man by his side who looks at his wreck of a life and says that it’s good, that he deserves to be held?
Nie Huaisang wonders how long it’s been since anyone touched any part of Jiang Cheng’s body like it was weak instead of strong.
when touched like this, she’s grateful to still have a body
It's not that being in love absolves a person, but that in this case it's the final push necessary to reactivate empathetic ways of relating to the world, which is a disorienting and painful process — this is obviously from your commentary, and we've already discussed this a bit, but just picture me punching the air at how eloquently you phrased it <3 it's easy to escape your own moral judgment when you've decided to extricate yourself from the world, sucks to have someone love you and make you feel like a person again! Being a person is so hard.
Congratulations again on finishing!!! I'm SO glad you got such good feedback after the stress over whether or not to post, it's absolutely deserved. And thank you for sharing this — you talking about writing is always very motivating for me, the passion!! If you end up doing a mercies commentary you know I'll be there in a heartbeat.