Thanks! If you don't see me around next year, send Wei Wuxian to summon me back from the dead. *g*
Ah yes, the "one descriptor and 1-2 quirks" characterization! I loathe it from the very bottom of my heart, especially when the descriptor/archetype chosen is Wrong, or unrelated to the character. (Very often Wei Wuxian is comprehended only as The Uke, which leads to him being replaced with someone unrecognizable. His most-chosen quirk is also forgetfulness, when his memory isn't actually that bad, considering the trauma he was undergoing at the time. As a result, Wei Wuxian is mischaracterized as a dumb, ditzy uke, when in reality he's That Engineering Student who aces every test despite never studying. With a bunch of issues and a hero complex, too, but that'd be beyond these people's ken...) I understand not having perfect recall for canon details, but I've yet to encounter such blatant misunderstandings of the main protagonist and narrator in any other fandom!
MDZS also suffers from the 'unfortunate' categorization as danmei - the people reading danmei are usually there for the CP and not the plot. The plot may have better reception(?) if people read it as a fantasy book or something. I have to agree. People read it only for the romance, because it's marked as Romance - M/M, but I've read stuff marked as Science Fiction that had similar, if not greater ratios of Romance to Non-Romance. If it were marketed as Fantasy ... well, it'd probably get a Hugo Award for its M/M sideplot romance and the fact it wasn't anglophone originally, since Chinese SF is quite big on that circuit, currently.
I've read the first 14 chapters of Tian Guan Ci Fu, via Sakhyulations' translation, but have yet to encounter a super dense character. I have noticed that MXTX's characters tend to be patient people and also quite willing to think, not the stereotypical "dumb ukes".
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Ah yes, the "one descriptor and 1-2 quirks" characterization! I loathe it from the very bottom of my heart, especially when the descriptor/archetype chosen is Wrong, or unrelated to the character. (Very often Wei Wuxian is comprehended only as The Uke, which leads to him being replaced with someone unrecognizable. His most-chosen quirk is also forgetfulness, when his memory isn't actually that bad, considering the trauma he was undergoing at the time. As a result, Wei Wuxian is mischaracterized as a dumb, ditzy uke, when in reality he's That Engineering Student who aces every test despite never studying. With a bunch of issues and a hero complex, too, but that'd be beyond these people's ken...) I understand not having perfect recall for canon details, but I've yet to encounter such blatant misunderstandings of the main protagonist and narrator in any other fandom!
MDZS also suffers from the 'unfortunate' categorization as danmei - the people reading danmei are usually there for the CP and not the plot. The plot may have better reception(?) if people read it as a fantasy book or something.
I have to agree. People read it only for the romance, because it's marked as Romance - M/M, but I've read stuff marked as Science Fiction that had similar, if not greater ratios of Romance to Non-Romance. If it were marketed as Fantasy ... well, it'd probably get a Hugo Award for its M/M sideplot romance and the fact it wasn't anglophone originally, since Chinese SF is quite big on that circuit, currently.
I've read the first 14 chapters of Tian Guan Ci Fu, via Sakhyulations' translation, but have yet to encounter a super dense character. I have noticed that MXTX's characters tend to be patient people and also quite willing to think, not the stereotypical "dumb ukes".