- Location
- Fabulously Rainbow Ireland
*pat pats*
Just join Team Sixiang? Cute genderfluid Moon Husbando FTW!
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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Just join Team Sixiang? Cute genderfluid Moon Husbando FTW!
[X] One person's desires cannot, alone make a home nor a family.
Just noticed Sixiang called Ling Qi by her given name and thought it was a nice detail.
Just noticed Sixiang called Ling Qi by her given name and thought it was a nice detail.
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[X] One person's desires cannot, alone make a home nor a family.
We know from Discord yrsillar (which someone not me with more effort should collect and post here) that what broke Ling Qi out of the second dream was that all her friends had subordinated their desires to hers. Ling Qi's insight in #2 directly stems from that realization.
As to it's relation to Zeqing's trial, it's basically a mom has to recognize her kid is growing up and give her the room and freedom to become their own person rather than their extension. (A more literal example here than the figurative examples in real life) They have to recognize and at the proper age or time, grant weight to the other party's desires as well as their own.
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[X] One person's desires cannot, alone make a home nor a family.
A key brick in the foundation. If any cultivator could rise to defy the law of Cultivation being a road of isolation, then it should be us.
A key brick in the foundation. If any cultivator could rise to defy the law of Cultivation being a road of isolation, then it should be us.
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
Interesting, kinda figured that's what it was with Renxiang being there.
Also Meizhen going with her out of her love for Ling Qi. Does that mean Ling Qi actually likes Meizhen?......may be a conclusion some people would draw from this. Rereading it again made me reconsider that conclusion and realise that love may still be a bit one-sided.
Gonna post again later as soon as I find the quote Im looking for in the last thread (something something taking advantage something something CRX conversation something something before salt filled the thread)
- Location
- Europe
Honestly, Ling Qi's discomfort with just not feeling that way is the part of her that I identify most with.
Not specifically about sexual orientation, but in general. She understands how she should feel, even how she would prefer to feel (sometimes) and then has to contend with a world where it is very possible that she could change herself to be that person even though she doesn't actually want to be them emotionally.
Just hits all my buttons.
Thankfully that doesn't actually get explored because transhumanism isn't most peoples cup of tea so I get to leave my issues blissfully unexamined.
- Location
- United States
[X] Face the world as it is. While idle dreams can inspire, only toil and sweat can create beauty.
Kai Merah
Hound Hearted Hedonist
- Location
- Somewhere in the corners of my imagination
Beauty can sometimes arrive, and be appreciated, even without hard work. (Sunsets, flower fields, waterfalls, a kind gesture when you're down.)
Beautiful lies (justice, altruism, faith) are necessary foundation for a beautiful future.
But most importantly... as we grow more and more inhuman, more strange and rigid in our path, it is important to always remember that while other people may think differently from you, their wants and desires, their feelings are still important.
[X] One person's desires cannot, alone make a home nor a family.
Beautiful lies (justice, altruism, faith) are necessary foundation for a beautiful future.
But most importantly... as we grow more and more inhuman, more strange and rigid in our path, it is important to always remember that while other people may think differently from you, their wants and desires, their feelings are still important.
[X] One person's desires cannot, alone make a home nor a family.
- Location
- That basement
[X] One person's desires cannot, alone make a home nor a family.
DeusExBritannia
Red-White-Black-White
- Location
- Texas
What quest is this? I want to play this one.
You fool! That's what she wants you to think.What quest is this? I want to play this one.
What quest is this? I want to play this one.
Mother Is Destiny (Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Threads of Destiny)
You love Mother and Mother loves you.
[] Stay with Mother forever.
[] Stay with Mother forever.
[] Stay with Mother forever.
2 hour moratorium
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[X] One person's desires cannot, alone make a home nor a family.
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
This is basically where the 2nd insight comes from, actually. Han Jian and Xiulan going 'screw family' and walking around with Ling Qi is something that is actually "Xiulan and Han Jian failed and subordinate their desires to Ling Qi's". CRX not being the heir and running away with Ling Qi is also the same. Meizhen flat out goes "Oh yeah, I didn't fail but I am still breaking all my oaths to come with you".I like that in the dream, Han Jian decides "screw family" to be with Xiulan. To abandon family and tradition in order to be with the ones they love. Too bad it's just a dream
Everyone is talking all the nice things in the second dream while I see something that made me a bit sad and disappointed; the fact that CRX is there with us, alone in her office. Imagine her sister taking her dreams and purpose in life, Shenhua discarding and abandoning CRX for her uselessness, then her solution to it all is running away from it all to start anew (that's my interpretation of the scene anyway).
It totally ain't gonna happen but even at a high cost, I would not be completely surprised if Xiulan, and Meizhen, heck even Han Jian (who is significantly even lower than Meizhen) decide to run and go adventuring with Ling Qi, riding on Zhengui, but not CRX, never CRX. Out of all the characters, CRX is the one person who I would never see doing that even if the possibility of her sister usurping her is still a very real since it is like the very abandonment of the very thing that defines herself.
....and now an omake idea has come to me even though I'm not a writer.
The second insight is more or less "Ling Qi won't accept forcing the people she loves following her own wishes when it conflict with theirs or with reality". It's basically taking a step back and going "Well, this isn't about grasping our dream (1), and it isn't about building the best possible future (3). It's about how you need to respect the ones you love".
On that note,
[X] Face the world as it is. While idle dreams can inspire, only toil and sweat can create beauty.
[X] A harsh ending is sometimes necessary, for a beautiful lie is poor foundation for a new beginning.
