Yes! I'm thinking about the way they wear masks as a matter of course.
Ah, yeah! The only way people can drink in peace is to be anonymous.
And how suspicious they are of Shen Wei for caring about Zhao Yunlan - that whole extremely chilling 'what's he to you?' scene.
Yeah! And also the way the bargoers gang up on him -- but there isn't really a sense of community there. It doesn't feel like the bar coming together against an outsider even, it just feels like a bunch of people who saw an opportunity to mock someone and took it.
And here in terrible Real Life the bars in my city are open but the schools can't fully open safely and the medical system is overwhelmed. Not to project too much from American politics into Dixing, but it says some things about a society when they can keep bars open and not schools.
...there were definitely parts of the last couple of episodes that felt so much more painful living in terrible Real Life.
My current headcanon for how this timelessness came about is that the meteor that destroyed Dixing had time -bending powers, which makes sense because the Hallows were made from the meteor.
I was left a bit confused by the timelessness -- how much of it is metaphysical, and how much of it is perception due to the lack of light and hope. One of the Dixing thieves makes a reference to the other one still being young.
Like, it would be better for Ye Zun if he could let go of his singleminded obsession with his brother (that probably made sense once upon a time, when they were twins alone in the world who were everything to each other) and notice that Zhu Jiu, for example, does genuinely seem to care about him
Yes! And definitely yes to the latter, since I have currently decided Zhu Jiu is my woobie villain of choice. :) But the problem with singleminded obsession, even in a more time-ful world, is that it's so hard to want to let go.
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Ah, yeah! The only way people can drink in peace is to be anonymous.
And how suspicious they are of Shen Wei for caring about Zhao Yunlan - that whole extremely chilling 'what's he to you?' scene.
Yeah! And also the way the bargoers gang up on him -- but there isn't really a sense of community there. It doesn't feel like the bar coming together against an outsider even, it just feels like a bunch of people who saw an opportunity to mock someone and took it.
And here in terrible Real Life the bars in my city are open but the schools can't fully open safely and the medical system is overwhelmed. Not to project too much from American politics into Dixing, but it says some things about a society when they can keep bars open and not schools.
...there were definitely parts of the last couple of episodes that felt so much more painful living in terrible Real Life.
My current headcanon for how this timelessness came about is that the meteor that destroyed Dixing had time -bending powers, which makes sense because the Hallows were made from the meteor.
I was left a bit confused by the timelessness -- how much of it is metaphysical, and how much of it is perception due to the lack of light and hope. One of the Dixing thieves makes a reference to the other one still being young.
Like, it would be better for Ye Zun if he could let go of his singleminded obsession with his brother (that probably made sense once upon a time, when they were twins alone in the world who were everything to each other) and notice that Zhu Jiu, for example, does genuinely seem to care about him
Yes! And definitely yes to the latter, since I have currently decided Zhu Jiu is my woobie villain of choice. :) But the problem with singleminded obsession, even in a more time-ful world, is that it's so hard to want to let go.