The batshitness of the backstory is killing me

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For real, I thought it was just the usual fandom moaning over a little plot slippage, but the tv-Guardian backstory is so utterly what-the-actual-fuck that I can pretty much only console myself with novel-Guardian backstory.

Well, that and a new Zhao Yunlan expression, pursuant to young Shen Wei and that lollipop, which I would loosely translate as "omg, I'm so sorry for every time I did that, please just fuck me now for god's sake". Subtitle "I've created a monster and I'm /not sorry at all/".

For the benefit of future reference, and also of other fans who, like me, greatly prefer to go into a series well-spoiled:

Excellent vid comparing the tv and novel versions, especially focusing on the backstory. The other posts of hers on Guardian are also worth a look-in.

A salty series of blog posts and in particular the one post about the novel cosmology.

And, of course, if you just want to mainline the spoilers, hit up the fan-wiki.