Word of Honor fics, thoughts
Apr. 12th, 2021 01:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
issenlloWen Kexing/Zhou Zishu:
the annals of history, now dust, ending spoiler, Word of Honor by sundermount
The Viscera of Our Souls, by Zelos. Also by same author: And We Shall Toast the Heavens
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Just one thing: I see authors apologising for making WKX the top and I'm... ?_? I had the impression that if anything the author meant for WKX to be the top and ANYWAY what does it really matter and does it need apologising for? So, mildly perplexed.
I think maybe (just off the top of my head) that it's the difference between how Chinese (and haphazardly lumping them with Asian) fans decide who's the top and how non-Chinese (ditto) fans do so? (I remember a number of similar debates in Japanese fandoms.) Or perhaps Chinese fans simply go with what Priest states (while recognising that they probably switch). I dunno. I've been watching too many fan-made reactions by Chinese fans that simply assume WKX is the top so *shrug*.
My thoughts on how TV characters might be for top/bottom dynamics: WKX is taller, more shameless, manic, feral, the avenger, better kungfu, versus ZZS who is older, rolls his eyes disdainfully, suffers prettily, the one who is guilt-stricken, the one who adopts the kid first and is a hugger. *shrugs* Any assumptions would collapse once we brought up other characteristics like how ZZS is the leader of a sekrit assassination organisation and stuck nails into himself while WKX twirls a fan and has magical red eyeshadow and provides for his family. ZZS has better hair, though. <3
As for dynamics: Whatever works for the story.
Watching lots of Word of Honor fan-reaction vids, so much so that I had to take a break and re-watch The Untamed, haha.
Also I belatedly realised Zhang Zhehan was young!Lin Shu in Nirvana in Fire and now I love him unreservedly.
the annals of history, now dust, ending spoiler, Word of Honor by sundermount
The Viscera of Our Souls, by Zelos. Also by same author: And We Shall Toast the Heavens
***
Just one thing: I see authors apologising for making WKX the top and I'm... ?_? I had the impression that if anything the author meant for WKX to be the top and ANYWAY what does it really matter and does it need apologising for? So, mildly perplexed.
I think maybe (just off the top of my head) that it's the difference between how Chinese (and haphazardly lumping them with Asian) fans decide who's the top and how non-Chinese (ditto) fans do so? (I remember a number of similar debates in Japanese fandoms.) Or perhaps Chinese fans simply go with what Priest states (while recognising that they probably switch). I dunno. I've been watching too many fan-made reactions by Chinese fans that simply assume WKX is the top so *shrug*.
My thoughts on how TV characters might be for top/bottom dynamics: WKX is taller, more shameless, manic, feral, the avenger, better kungfu, versus ZZS who is older, rolls his eyes disdainfully, suffers prettily, the one who is guilt-stricken, the one who adopts the kid first and is a hugger. *shrugs* Any assumptions would collapse once we brought up other characteristics like how ZZS is the leader of a sekrit assassination organisation and stuck nails into himself while WKX twirls a fan and has magical red eyeshadow and provides for his family. ZZS has better hair, though. <3
As for dynamics: Whatever works for the story.
Watching lots of Word of Honor fan-reaction vids, so much so that I had to take a break and re-watch The Untamed, haha.
Also I belatedly realised Zhang Zhehan was young!Lin Shu in Nirvana in Fire and now I love him unreservedly.