Huh, I realize I'm also not interested in pining! Lan Wangji really is a very uninteresting love interest. :P Especially considering how a bunch of Wei Wuxian's interactions with others read like this was originally supposed to be a dating sim, except the player character Wei Wuxian went way off the rails of the plot and ended up inventing necromancy instead of romancing anyone because he didn't realize he was in a dating sim, then completely accidentally managed to get into the "love interest Lan Wangji" route. (Other possible routes would include Jiang Cheng and Wen Ning at the very least.)
Another part of my antipathy for Lan Wangji and the central ship is that I've heard what the author has said of it: "ideal relationship" with a "perfect boyfriend" and um... Lan Wangji is very far from my ideal relationship partner, and the dodgy smut + way Wei Wuxian gets basically sequestered from the world, and the way Lan Wangji is very very obsessive make the relationship nonideal. Basically the remarks are kind of alarming, and death of the author and all that, but ... they'd need some sort of counseling. 13+ years of pining do not relationship skills make.
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Date: 2019-01-05 21:56 (UTC)Another part of my antipathy for Lan Wangji and the central ship is that I've heard what the author has said of it: "ideal relationship" with a "perfect boyfriend" and um... Lan Wangji is very far from my ideal relationship partner, and the dodgy smut + way Wei Wuxian gets basically sequestered from the world, and the way Lan Wangji is very very obsessive make the relationship nonideal. Basically the remarks are kind of alarming, and death of the author and all that, but ... they'd need some sort of counseling. 13+ years of pining do not relationship skills make.