And If I Say That Wei Wuxian And Jiang Cheng Were Always Destined To End Up The Way They Did Then What.

I have some recs! It's not exactly what you want (if you're looking for more cultivation based novels) unfortunately... but they're bahie and very beautifully written ones 2, they focus much more on politics and war so note: they will discuss heavy topics(so make sure to check any warnings labelled on the book):

All written by pdl (please don't laugh):

1)Jwqs:

It's abt a Cross dressing princess, who after her kingdom was completely destroyed during war by the enemy, seeks to get her revenge Unfortunately, her plans are foiled as the king marries her off to his favored princess and finds herself reluctantly falling in love(this changes nothing)

Very angsty and beautifully written.

It has a somewhat bitter sweet ending, it's not a BAD ending though.

2)Ruzhui:

The story of a women who is apart of a time travelling project finds herself accidentally stuck in a completely different dimension, After some accidental meddling she gets married to a rich merchant and is now stuck between deciding on leaving the women she loves or the world she knows and misses.

Unlike the former this is actually a comedy, it does dicuss heavy topics (alot). But I'm half-way into reading it, it's very good.

Also cultivation is a thing in this story but its not a common thing, so far their is only one known cultivator in the story (so don't expect anything magical to happen)

3)Female general and eldest princess:

I haven't really read this novel yet, despite it arguably being pdls most popular novel so my info on the actual book is quite lacking but here we go (I got the summary from Google lol)

The story of a crossdressing General and a strategic all-knowing Eldest Princess enfolds; with betrayal, violence, thrilling romance, and acceptance

This might be an incredibly specific ask, and I may be asking in the wrong places, however..

Are there any good wlw novels set in fantasy/history, with the same writing style and vibe as danmei novels such as TGCF, MDZS, Ballad of Sword and Wine etc?

Any fictional setting will do, I'm just putting feelers out there since it's been a long time since I've found a book series I've truly fallen in love with :(

Vibes based grading system.

(for @epistemologys, who wanted some post-canon, teacher WWX)

Aberration Lita?? Real!

cringe but free..............

anyways i don't love this- i feel like i slayed with mettaton tim and lita,, but everything else is. uhhhh mediocre.....

i think what most people fail to understand is that curating your online experience doesn't just mean blocking and filtering the things you don't like or don't want to see but that it also (and maybe more importantly) means engaging with the things you do like and want to see. if someone creates something that makes your experience better, let them know! tell them! reblog their things! you get to see/share more of what you like and they get to know that someone out there appreciates their work it's a win-win situation for everyone involved

passages that make me want to hit Xichen with a steel chair

i imagine i am not alone in needing an easy way to listen to this on repeat

you can see the sadness as gift and still….

they make me insane

I agree with this especially the shen jiu one. Don't get me wrong what shen jiu went through is horrifying! (And sometimes I feel like the fandom really doesn't take the stuff he went through srsly but that's a story for another day) but we have to remember that traumatic past DOES NOT EQUAL a justification to abuse!! Like what binghe went through was traumatising I feel like people forget that the tea incident was not the worst thing shen jiu put him through, by the time shen Yuan had transmigrated this child had been whipped, forced to kneel infront of the gates for who knows how long, bullied physically and verbally by this peers, Shen Jius past is an explanation to his behaviour. Not an excuse. I repeat.

(Actually I feel like this isn't just a svsss fan issue but a mxtx one in general Jc fans also have this mentality of "Oh he had a sad backstory! That's why he did all that he did!")

can we get 7, scum villain for the ask game pretty please?

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

I can't lie, Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu.

Now before you crucify me and say "oh but you like LQG and he's an ass" HEAR ME OUT🤚

I feel like the "everyone loves shen yuan he can do no wrong" is a little annoying and SOME of the fanfics I've read or the art I've seen have just reduced him to a damsel in distress or babyified him and I am mad because his canon self is so funny (exhibit A, how he acts in the donghua)

also he's kinda annoying in those fics too and mfs tend to over feminized him when that is a fully able bodied grown man with a job (several of my blood vessels explode violently when someone calls shen jiu mamajiu cause brother eughhh)

as for Shen Jiu, I just think the glaze for him is insane and I cannot get over the fact that this guy is a voluntary abuser to basically an innocent child and his fans (SOME FANS BTW SOME FANS THE NORMAL ONES R FINE) are like "he did no wrong!" "He's just a diva!" "that's just a skill issue on lbh's part" just cause his backstory is tragic, some even outright excusing it cause he technically suffered more like erm💀 (i also know this is old discourse within the community but this is my opinion, you asked so you will hear what I say)

The thing is about these characterizations with the Shens is was that it funny at first but now I find it so annoying and SJ's characterization into some tsundere bottom made me cry real manly tears

My main point: I liked SQQ first, he was my fave when I was first dabbling into the fandom, but then I made the mistake of picking up fanfiction and now either feel indifferent to them or outright annoyed when they show up AND IT'S SO SAD BECAUSE THEY'RE GENUINELY SUPER INTRESTING CHARACTERS UGH

Their are so many ppl who take yzy and jcs words of wwx as law, despite the fact that both yzy and jc are abusers with a victim complex similar to the size of China.

But that's besides the point, as others have said the Wen becoming powerful wasn't some sudden boost in status, at the point of the story we're in the wens had be destroying hundreds of smaller sects but, the major sects were willingly blind because they thought their status could protect them, both jfm and yzy were incompetent leaders .

I could also write essays abt how horrible of a person yzy really is, That women is an abuser to the max and all her ideals are deeply rooted in classism (see: literally how she speaks of wwxs and his parents or literally anyone else she believes to be lower than her) and disturbingly enough this behaviour is written off by the fandom as a quirky character trait, even worse sometimes her behaviour is excused by a "Oh yk that's just how Asian parents are like!" Like ppl srsly be stooping to racism for this women, But I degress Yzy AND fmg as characters barely get any screen time but I think from a narrative point they display the most public display of the corruption of the cultivation world, yzy is a full on classist, she bullies those weaker than her, commits unjust punishments etc, meanwhile Jfm is silent he sounds nice and sweet at first but in reality he hides behind his status, he's also a classist (many mdzs fans argue that jfm favored wwx over jc but canoncally there is no evidence of that, in fact the man literally tells wwx to protect his son before he dies) he's also willing to be blind to the atrocities around him for the sake of his own peace, and abt the wlj ordeal... I actually completely forgot she said that , it's been a while since I've read the source material but gosh how do people even defend this women-?

Am I missing something or is Yu Ziyuan half at fault for the Lotus Pier Massacre? I'm not talking about beating Wang Lingjiao up (understandable). But right before that, beating Wei Wuxian up to the point where he can barely move. And then when she starts beating up WLJ and orders her dead, WLJ escapes past WWX. He totally could've stopped her from setting off that signal flare if he hadn't been whipped with Zidian within an inch of his life.

I know there were a lot of factors and even if she hadn't beaten WWX up to the point where he couldn't do anything, or even if she grit her teeth and bowed down to WLJ (and subsequently cut off his hand), they probably would've found another excuse. But YZY's actions really didn't help.