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1. Analysis: Why TGCF is Plot-Driven and It Works by nockingarrows

   Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù  

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   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   17 Apr 2020

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   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
   • Huā Chéng/Xiè Lián
   • Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji
   • Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
   • Xiè Lián
   • Huā Chéng
   • others make brief appearances - Character
   • this is NOT a fic
   • it's essentially a literary essay
   • or just a very long rambly thought
   • same thing pretty much
   • i wasn't sure where to post this so it's going here
   • but it's essentially my thoughts on tgcf and mdzs
   • being plot driven and character driven respectively
   • and the reason why it works especially well for tgcf
   • even tho theoretically it shouldn't
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   Summary

   THIS IS NOT A FIC. It's an essay. I didn't know where to post, but really wanted to work through my thoughts on how TGCF is a successful plot-driven story and the reason it works in comparison to the reason why MDZS works as a character-driven story.

   Yes, I was an English major in college. Yes, I did consider writing this like an actual literary paper, but then it'd be excruciatingly boring to read, and I'd also have to cite TGCF pages and I was not about to do that.

   [OR: an essay on why I really like TGCF even though its characters are static as hell]

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