Yeah, Wei Wuxian is definitely more complex than how most of the fandom characterizes him. I suspect that may be the case for Xie Lian too as more of the novel is translated :(
Personally I do enjoy seeing the kind of cracky fanart/fic where there's stuff like Shen Qing Qiu running away from Luo Bing He etc., but I had wished that there's an implicit acknowledgement that the characters are more than that..
Yeah, if MDZS was treated as a fantasy novel the readers may have been quite different. It's another effect of being having a novel with a M/M romance published in China - the so called 'controversial' part takes precedence over the rest of the novel. iirc the website where it's published in has a filter for F/F in their search but M/M is nowhere to be seen.
As for Tian Guan Ci Fu, the overly dense character appears quite late in the story so it's no surprise. And I agree MXTX's characters are patient. In fact, the timelines in her stories seem to be getting longer and longer lol.
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Personally I do enjoy seeing the kind of cracky fanart/fic where there's stuff like Shen Qing Qiu running away from Luo Bing He etc., but I had wished that there's an implicit acknowledgement that the characters are more than that..
Yeah, if MDZS was treated as a fantasy novel the readers may have been quite different. It's another effect of being having a novel with a M/M romance published in China - the so called 'controversial' part takes precedence over the rest of the novel. iirc the website where it's published in has a filter for F/F in their search but M/M is nowhere to be seen.
As for Tian Guan Ci Fu, the overly dense character appears quite late in the story so it's no surprise. And I agree MXTX's characters are patient. In fact, the timelines in her stories seem to be getting longer and longer lol.