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[peachpai]

Here's a couple of upcoming events of interest:

2021 Qi Ye Exchange! For fic and art. Requirements are 2k wordcount minimum for fic, lined and colored piece for art. Applications open 11/2. More info at the Carrd.

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[WoH Rewatch] Episode 19

[shadaras]

peachpai and I had a great conversation about disability in the comments over the last week; highly recommend reading if you’re interested in thoughts about SHL’s presentation of disability.

But today it is time for history, and learning how Long Que remembers everything going down.

( Scene List and Notes on Time )

( Recap )

( Commentary )

Discussion Prompts/Questions

1. This story is told through Long Que’s point of view, but we’re contextually told we should treat it as objective truth. I can’t recall anything coming up that contradicts the facts of the big events as Long Que lays them out, but Zhao Jing is certainly remembering different social dynamics than Long Que. What do you think? Is Long Que as objective as the show wants us to think? Are there missing pieces? Do you wish we’d heard this story from yet another source too?

2. Fathers (and/or father figures) keeping things from their sons (and/or students) sure is a big theme this episode! Ye Baiyi’s choices around Rong Xuan and Long Que’s with Long Xiao are paralleled here. What do you think of this parallel? Are there any other examples of this theme in the show? (Does ZZS not telling Chengling he’s dying count? Does WKX taking forever to tell Chengling about his part in the Zhang family’s death count?)

3. Okay, genuinely, literally any thoughts, feelings, and/or headcanons you have about Rong Xuan’s gang would be super fun to hear! I’m fascinated by the older generation, and we get so little about them! (Or, tbh, if you know about good fic focused on them I’d be interested in that too; I’m very bad at browsing for such things myself. xD)


Next Time: The whole Zhen Yan/Shidi thing, Long Que and Long Xiao’s (separate) deaths, and a return to seeing other characters! GX and CWN discuss what they’re doing next. LQQ and YQF try to take care of LFM. Zhao Jing sets the Alliance in search of Xiaolian.