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7/8/2025, 11:49:16 AM
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At worst, Xianxia can be far, far more retarded. >>714853102 is kinda concerningly accurate.
Chingchongs have a bit of a stereotype of not having any human empathy or imagination, which obviously makes it dificult to make compelling media.
The fact it is often badly translated chinese does not help: some of the things which are happening you may well not understand because you don't understand some cultural background.
Like a character might be considered good because he follows traditional confucian values - which are not our own - but then he does something that technically dishonours his parents (a big no no) and so is suddenly overwhelmed with regret. And you're reading being like 'but that village of people you skinned alive was just a footnote? What?' because confucius dont give a shit about that so it doesn't matter.
All genres can have good works in them though.
At best Xianxia can often be a wonderful interplay of extremely high fantasy abilities and topics and extremely low fantasy characters and plot. It's often sort of the fantasy equivalent to cyberpunk in a weird way. Like in cyberpunk you have the rich and powerful and they may as well be gods compared to everyone else, and they use their power to strangle everyone else and act like spoiled children and hoard all the power and wealth while the protagonists eat mud to survive. Until he gets one small break, some chance to ascend to the realms of the haves vs have nots (and then change fucking nothing because no empathy here).
Replace money with magical power and that is Xianxia. Western fantasy tends to have magic be something you have to learn and which treats people basically equally. Xianxia magic is something you absorb, and you absorb the most by working harder and being richer than other people. People who have talent but no resources die or serve people who have talent *and* resources to hopefully get a slice of the pie.
At worst, Xianxia can be far, far more retarded. >>714853102 is kinda concerningly accurate.
Chingchongs have a bit of a stereotype of not having any human empathy or imagination, which obviously makes it dificult to make compelling media.
The fact it is often badly translated chinese does not help: some of the things which are happening you may well not understand because you don't understand some cultural background.
Like a character might be considered good because he follows traditional confucian values - which are not our own - but then he does something that technically dishonours his parents (a big no no) and so is suddenly overwhelmed with regret. And you're reading being like 'but that village of people you skinned alive was just a footnote? What?' because confucius dont give a shit about that so it doesn't matter.
All genres can have good works in them though.
At best Xianxia can often be a wonderful interplay of extremely high fantasy abilities and topics and extremely low fantasy characters and plot. It's often sort of the fantasy equivalent to cyberpunk in a weird way. Like in cyberpunk you have the rich and powerful and they may as well be gods compared to everyone else, and they use their power to strangle everyone else and act like spoiled children and hoard all the power and wealth while the protagonists eat mud to survive. Until he gets one small break, some chance to ascend to the realms of the haves vs have nots (and then change fucking nothing because no empathy here).
Replace money with magical power and that is Xianxia. Western fantasy tends to have magic be something you have to learn and which treats people basically equally. Xianxia magic is something you absorb, and you absorb the most by working harder and being richer than other people. People who have talent but no resources die or serve people who have talent *and* resources to hopefully get a slice of the pie.
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