Hey Man Stories Where The Mc Wishes Someone Will Save Them And Then Someone Does Are/were The Standard

Hey man stories where the mc wishes someone will save them and then someone does are/were the standard for escapist fantasy. No one who’s been abused sincerely believes they can twiddle their thumbs and wait to be saved, but wouldn’t it be nice if they could? Wouldn’t it be nice if they handle their situation with grace, kindness, and compassion that someday they’ll be taken somewhere safe and loved forever? (Cinderella) Wouldn’t it be nice if someone might hear your darkest thoughts about needing to be rescued and not even death could stop them from loving you? (Snow White) Wouldn’t it be nice if the real world was even better than you imagined and your real family who loves you has been waiting for you all your life? (Rapunzel)

We know. No childhood victim of abuse watched a children’s film and thought that’s how real life worked, because the real world already sucked. We knew. It was comforting. Even if they’re being mean, I can be nice like Cinderella. Some day my prince will come. I am what I love, not who loves me. That’s why it’s called escapist fantasy.

Fandom misconception - "Wei Wuxian has an awful memory"

No. No, he doesn't. He has a selective memory that is impeccable when it is something that actually interests him. He only forgets things if they are unimportant to him - like who the hell Su She and Jin Zixun are lmao. But things he finds interesting? Like LWJ for instance...? He can remember every single instance they met some 18 years prior - having been dead for over 13 of those years, no less!

Yes, he (mostly) forgot where he heard what we know as Wangxian from, but he was feverish and slipping out of consciousness at the time. Yes, he forgot that LWJ saved him and protected him after Nightless City, but he was traumatised and physically drained.

WWX only forgets things during rather extenuating circumstances or due to trauma. Otherwise, his memory is actually impeccable. He remembers the melody he heard JGY play once (or twice?) during his forced empathy with NMJs decapitated head! Able to recall the song and play it note for note a few days later, after being out of it from being stabbed! He actually remembers the 'Hundred Holes' curse from glancing at it in a random book once in the Lan library some 5 years prior to seeing JZX2 riddled with holes.

He remembers every single exchange he had with LWJ during their teens. He remembers that LWJ paid for the food and A-Yuans toys during their impromptu Yiling date. He remembers the way the candlelight made LWJ's long lashes cast delicate shadows over his fair cheeks back when he was transcribing lines back at the Cloud Recesses!

WWX's memory is actually really, really impressive! He just doesn't hold onto useless facts, just as he doesn't hold onto resentment.

Mammals both produce milk and have hair. Ergo, a coconut is a mammal.

CW: alcoholism

I think one of the darkest things about mdzs could be how Wei Wuxian's drinking is (for lack of better words) displayed as a girly pop quirk when in actuality, he could have a drinking problem.

Not that all heavy drinking is trauma induced ✋️ but this is a thought I've been rolling around in my head. I can't think of a single moment that his ability to absolutely demolish a jug or 5 isn't written as anything but humorous. And I think mxtx has done this intentionally because we are in Wei Wuxians head, and if he's using it as a coping mechanism, and he doesn't see it as a problem, then why would it be written any other way. That's simultaneously brilliant and dark.

Probably reading too deep into it but this is the website for reading too deep into things don't yell at me

I can't believe I am about to say this, but ep 21 showed to me that FL completely picked right to hook up with head of secret police. This is a man with USEFUL skills and attitudes to have around in her life.

When her evil aunt hung herself in front of FL's house to create issues, ML was the first and only one to see (it was the middle of the night.) He had no particular reaction and just calmly, quickly, and efficiently moved the corpse and quietly hung it in front of aunt's equally evil husband's house so now evil husband is being investigated, that household is covered with scandal and our FL's family is oblivious since he didn't even bother mentioning it to anyone and just went to bed after this to sleep like a baby after moving and staging a middle-aged lady's corpse.

Later, when FL wonders if she's been too mean to cut off said evil aunt (still not knowing her boo just lugged around said aunt's corpse!) and is her family too much trouble in his eyes, he responds that hey, his grandpa killed a bunch of his own kids, his uncle killed a bunch of his brothers, and his father killed his mother, so nothing she does even registers for him and she could do way worse/have way more troublesome family and he wouldn't be bothered.

I kinda choked.

PS Girl, you are gonna have a hell of a dinner with the in-laws, someday.

It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?