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Made a chart for sorting fantheories
@shyobservationblog thanks for the tag!! <33
last song: wet - dazey and the scouts
fav colour: red
currently reading: tgcf revised edition on jjwxc :DD
currently watching: mostly indie animation pilots? but next on my list is the lackadaisy one
spicy/sweet/savoury: sweet!! then savoury, then spicy (i cant do spicy food, sorry ancestors)
current obsession: danmei and the magnus protocol
tags: @cum-villain @stardust-falling @furbygoblinxiv @wildbeingwild @ali2ter @zykamiliah
(btw absolutely no pressure at all guys)
Thank you @bebemoon for the tag!!! 💝
last song: knock knock by red velvet
fave color: pink, yellow
currently reading: braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer (which makes my sappy soft self cry every time I pick it up)
currently watching: nothing lol (but may rewatch hxh yorknew for shal’s chrollo-focused zine)
spicy/savoury/sweet: sweet
relationship status: aromantic and annoying about it 😌
current obsessions: floating islands & giant aquatic insects / vampire by Olivia rodrigo
Tagging: @raeygina-george @maracllea @kaylinalexanderbooks (no pressure 💗!!)
I want to put Alice Dyer and Tim Stoker in a room and see how long it’d take for one of them to just break down
The two people who use humor as a coping mechanism to avoid feeling any feelings? Man they would NOT like seeing their own tendencies in someone else
my one and only contribution to the fandom
Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created
Anyone ever think of the comparison between yanshen and hualian, coz idk why but I've always thought that if HC never met xl and still became a supreme ghost king and then met xl he'd be exactly like yan wushi coz (I believe) part of the reason why hc had to meet xl when he was younger was that children are much more open to being helped without ulterior motives.
Part of the reason why hc doesn't have many people close to him (again it's simply my belief) coz he grew up only having xl as a source of kindness and was very cynical towards everyone else around him so much so that just at the age of 10 he decided to commit suicide and even at a place where people held the belief that if he disturbed the ceremony then the whole kingdom would collapse.
That sort of resentment is soo hard for a 10 year old boy. If hc wasn't rescued by xl on time and then met him 800 years then he'd also be like yan wushi testing xl again and again to see if he's actually genuine. There is a reason that most fanfiction authors have xl and hc meet when they were much younger, a grown person is so much harder to help since they are so adverse to it suspecting it to be with ulterior motive.
As much as people like to think that if hc met xl in canon timeline and would just be poof in love that won't happen, in fact hc would just bother xl all the time (like yan wushi did with Shen Qiao) and push him to his limits. Likewise sq and xl are also very similar, say xl hadn't met hc as Wu Ming and took the curses wouldn't he also end up like sq? With all the I deserve punishment and the punishment he'll take for who knows how long (given wm dispersed and xl can't as he's a god.)
( I'll shut up now sorry I just write too much sorry)
After finishing Thousand Autumns Vol 3, ummmm Shen Qiao I think it’s time you admit u wanna fuck that evil old man??? Like…feeding him soup with your mouth…crying your eyes out to the point of enlightenment so you can have a chance to go and save him…deeply mourning his split personality that was sweet to you…my brother in Dao u wanna fuck that old man so bad???
Polyamorous relationships are not for everyone. Monogamous relationships are not for everyone. Romantic relationships are not for everyone!!! We are all different people with different needs, maybe just stop trying to condense the human experience into a homogenous gray monolith!!! aaaaaaaa
Jonny and Alex, very aware of their audience, writing in the fact the statement giver doesn't like DnD to indicate that they're a villain
NOOOOOO WHYYYYY
The Locked Tomb Series Summary:
The “Lesbian Necromancers in Space” book series
Clear and Muddy Loss of Love Summary:
A natural moat called the Luo river split the great land into two. Jing of the north, and Wei of the south.
One was the Prince of the grass plains who had no worries nor sorrow. One was a lawful Princess who received exclusive favour of the Emperor.
A war turned the Prince of the grass plains into an orphan, she who had laid dormant for ten years had originally planned to become a sycophantic official, to manipulate the enemy kingdom into chaos, but was appointed as Fuma at the Chionglin banquet.
Wait and see, how this debt of grudge from a fallen kingdom and devastated home will be settled.
*inhales*
It’s Luo Binghe, not Lou Binghe.
It’s Shen Qingqiu, not Shen Qingqui
And please, please, please stop calling them “Luo” and “Shen”
Hua Cheng, after Wu Ming: "When faced with any problem, I only have to ask myself 'What would Second White No-Face Xie Lian do?' I will completely base my personality and moral code on this question, as an act of devotion. When next I meet Dianxia, we will be a perfect match."
Hua Cheng: becomes the Great Feared Calamity Ghost King
Hua Cheng: meets regular Xie Lian, just a very nice guy
Hua Cheng:
Hua Cheng: "Shit"
woah, you seem a little worked up there, take a breather yeah?
firstly, i think it’s hilarious that you’re calling a random person on the internet a ‘nobody’ simply for disagreeing with you. didn’t you yourself say it was ok and normal for people to have differing opinions? whatever happened to having civil discussions?
secondly, i never demanded for you to provide evidence. it was simply a suggestion. i’m not even asking for ted-talk material or a thesis, just quotes or even just page and chapter numbers with the relevant material would do. even then it’s up to you whether you want to do it. people will be more likely to see things your way if you provide the proof to back it up.
anyways, that’s it from me, i hope you feel better soon :)
I dunno, I think that post-Scum villain MXTX wants to write a poor mistreated Cinderella protagonist, but somehow keeps ending up with these wealthy, gifted, loved and admired guys that need a lesson in humility to earn their comforting big-dick boyfriend xD (Hard work, who? Don't know her, I was born better/wealthier!)
Like, the boyfriend is universally a dick to the protagonist's family members/friends who in any other story would be terrible abusive faithless monsters - but somehow MXTX cannot write them as anything else than decent, upright, complicated and dedicated people who only leave the protagonist's side when faced with insurmountable odds, and yet still try to support them.
Dunno, it's like we're trapped in the genre and can't get out :0
you do you, but don't you need some form of evidence if you want to draw a conclusion?
I dunno, I think that post-Scum villain MXTX wants to write a poor mistreated Cinderella protagonist, but somehow keeps ending up with these wealthy, gifted, loved and admired guys that need a lesson in humility to earn their comforting big-dick boyfriend xD (Hard work, who? Don't know her, I was born better/wealthier!)
Like, the boyfriend is universally a dick to the protagonist's family members/friends who in any other story would be terrible abusive faithless monsters - but somehow MXTX cannot write them as anything else than decent, upright, complicated and dedicated people who only leave the protagonist's side when faced with insurmountable odds, and yet still try to support them.
Dunno, it's like we're trapped in the genre and can't get out :0
also i would like to add that although wwx was taken in by the jiangs, it doesn't negate the fact that he did not have a privileged start
wwx's parents died when he was very young. he was NINE when jfm carried him back to yunmeng. he endured cold springs and winters whilst dressed in rags. he fought with dogs over food, which were such traumatising experiences that he developed a fear of them.
but yeah ofc he needs a lesson in humility! /s
I dunno, I think that post-Scum villain MXTX wants to write a poor mistreated Cinderella protagonist, but somehow keeps ending up with these wealthy, gifted, loved and admired guys that need a lesson in humility to earn their comforting big-dick boyfriend xD (Hard work, who? Don't know her, I was born better/wealthier!)
Like, the boyfriend is universally a dick to the protagonist's family members/friends who in any other story would be terrible abusive faithless monsters - but somehow MXTX cannot write them as anything else than decent, upright, complicated and dedicated people who only leave the protagonist's side when faced with insurmountable odds, and yet still try to support them.
Dunno, it's like we're trapped in the genre and can't get out :0
wealthy, gifted, loved and admired guys that need a lesson in humility to earn their comforting big-dick boyfriend xD
now i’m not denying the fact that these characters were privileged at at least some point in their life (xl being born into it as royalty, sy being a second-generation rich kid and wwx being adopted by the jiangs), but saying that they ‘need a lesson in humility to earn their comforting big-dick boyfriend’, in my opinion, is a gross misrepresentation of their characters.
from the way you phrase it, you make it seem like the advantages that these characters’ possess is an inherently bad thing. privilege is no one’s sin. none of these characters asked to be born with talent and/or riches, it’s simply just the circumstances they happened to find themselves in, and there’s nothing they could have done about it.
being privileged in and of itself is neither inherently good nor bad, and the deciding factor lies in whether privileged individuals choose to acknowledge this privilege, and how they choose to use it.
some choose to use it in a way that is harmful due to perceived superiority and arrogance. this is when there is a need for ‘a lesson in humility’ in order for there to be character growth.
now do kindly elaborate and provide some concrete examples rooted in fact to illustrate your point. how do these three characters choose to use their own privilege to harm? i would be more than happy to hear you out provided you can give valid proof.
I dunno, I think that post-Scum villain MXTX wants to write a poor mistreated Cinderella protagonist, but somehow keeps ending up with these wealthy, gifted, loved and admired guys that need a lesson in humility to earn their comforting big-dick boyfriend xD (Hard work, who? Don't know her, I was born better/wealthier!)
Like, the boyfriend is universally a dick to the protagonist's family members/friends who in any other story would be terrible abusive faithless monsters - but somehow MXTX cannot write them as anything else than decent, upright, complicated and dedicated people who only leave the protagonist's side when faced with insurmountable odds, and yet still try to support them.
Dunno, it's like we're trapped in the genre and can't get out :0
People really read Scum Villian and think Shen Yuan as Shen Qingqiu doesn't care about any of the people around him?
Yeah he struggles to see them as actual people at first but that changes over the years! Long before he realises it!
And saying that he doesn't care that Shen Jiu was abused? He literally yells at Airplane for creating his backstory and putting him through it!
He does feel for Shen Jiu and mourns that he wasn't there to hear Yue Qingyuan's explanation and apology
However! He doesn't let Shen Jiu's trauma justify him abusing Luo Binghe in the same way which is correct!
Yes what Shen Jiu went through was horrible and deserving of of sympathy but he also regularly had a child whipped bloody!
He didn't just bully Luo Binghe he abused him horribly and broke his spirit
The abyss didn't really blacken Luo Binghe in PIDW, Shen Jiu did. The abyss was the final act of Shen Jiu in the process
Thats why while SVSSS Binghe is blackened its not nearly as much. Because there were gaps between Shen Jiu and the abyss where Shen Qingqiu was loving and kind because he was Shen Yuan
They spell it out! Shen Jiu is a complicated villian, he is sympathetic but he's still a villian. (And I say this as a Shen Jiu fan)
And Shen Yuan pretends he doesn't care, that he's seperate, as a defense mechanism. But his actions are the opposite
He saves Liu Qingge so Liu Qingge can protect him later and then repeatedly puts himself in danger to protect or help Liu Qingge
He goes running towards Cang Qiong when Luo Binghe is laying seige to protect everyone and because he's realised Luo Binghe loves him and has accepted that even though he's still struggling with what it means for him
He repeatedly abandons attempts to run away and protect himself in favour of protecting others
In fact in Sha Hualing's raid on the sect after he's poisoned (that happened because of an action he took to instinctively protect) he was fully prepared to self detonate right then and there to protect the sect
So from really quite early on he was already treating them as more than characters
Just how can you read Scum Villian and think Shen Yuan doesn't care?
(yes this is about that one post. No I'm not responding to it directly to save my sanity)
Attention non-artists who commission artists: don’t fuckin do this???
I know I haven't been super active on here for the last few months, but I don't know where else to turn... My name is Harmony, and I'm a 19yo trans lesbian who needs help escaping an abusive situation.
My mom and dad recently found out that I'm trans, and what was once verbal and mental abuse has turned physical and violent very fast. I've packed a suitcase and I'm planning on leaving, but I have nowhere to go and I'm so fucking scared.
I don't want to ask for too much but I would love to just get a hotel room for a few nights until I can find someone I can stay with. If it were summertime, I would just sleep in my car, but it's way too cold for that right now... The cheapest hotel near me is $60 a night and I only have $14 to my name at the moment. If you can send even a dollar, or spread this post, it would help me so much.
Thank you for considering, and thank you for reading.
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”Hua Cheng would never bottom” are you high. Are you on drugs. What is it you smoke. Is it crack? Weed? Coke? Are you huffing glue? Are you on mushrooms? Xie Lian could politely go ‘I think I wanna top tonight’ in passing conversation and that man (ghost?) would go ‘Ok Gege :D I love you’ and then he’d happily get his back blown out, and he’d be arching the whole time. I know him personally so I can vouch. Get your act together.
I like that in The Ghost King's Bedtime Story extra Hua Cheng says, "the night we consummated our marriage" instead of "our wedding night." And even in the story Xie Lian is reading the consummation does not immediately follow the marriage. I like the thought that even once they were married they took a while to get there. And given the fact that there seem to be several truths woven through the creative liberties of the myth, I like that in the story it's the Scrap Immortal who initiates the consummation (albeit for duplicitous reasons, which I don't at all think actually happened). It's just very sweet that the implication is that they took their time, and when Xie Lian was ready he asked (probably just as adorkably as he did in the story) and Hua Cheng, naturally, said, "Of course."
wuxia, xianxia, and cultivation differences meta
translations: wuxia 武俠, xianxia 仙俠, and cultivation 修真/修仙 (xīuzhēn/xīuxiān)
think i've seen posts on this eons ago, and i'm pretty sure there are tons of these online, but since this has been written up already let's just have another one.
wuxia 武俠
wuxia and xianxia sound similar, but basically for wuxia it is about the pugilistic world (江湖 jiānghú). It is relatively more down-to-earth, and people practice martial arts ("kungfu") in their current life -- they do not do it to become xians (仙) and gods (神) however.
Like Thousand Autumns and Faraway Wanderers/Word of Honor, it has more historical background and ties to the current court and kingdoms, because people are living in the moment and concern themselves with worldly issues.
Martial arts may seem unrealistic, but in view of chinese fantasy it would be considered "real". It consists of fighting moves and internal energy, which they call qi or nèigōng (內功), and at times you see people flying around, climbing hills and jumping across rooftops which is qīnggōng (輕功).
xianxia 仙俠
A level up would be xianxia, where characters in the story cultivate to become xians (and gods, like in the heaven official's blessing). They don't really care about earthly issues here now, because their ambitions lie beyond the current world, and cultivation, getting stronger, and an immortal life are majorly all their goals.
You may not always see them working towards that purpose, such as in mdzs they are considered a lower-xianxia society (低魔), meaning people don't go through all the steps of cultivation and only stay at the stage before the "golden core" stage.
In xianxia, characters still learn basic fighting moves aka. martial arts, but to direct the internal energy they use línglì (灵力), zhēnqì (真气), and fǎlì (法力), all xianxia terms you commonly see. "neigong" is practically nonexistent in this genre. That's why people building up their "neigong" instead of "lingli" are likely never going to be able to cultivate.
cultivation 修真/修仙
A subgenre in the xianxia category would be cultivation. Characters actively go through the stages of cultivation, and likely for the MC, because they are the main character, they successfully become a xian and exit the world at the end of the novel.
There are many stages of cultivation, usually defined at the beginning of the novel in the synopsis, and a typical example of the different levels would be this:
练气，筑基，金丹，元婴，化神，炼虚，合体，大乘，渡劫
And with a cursory search, an English translation would be something like this, albeit not with all the cultivation ranks identified.
Qi condensation (练气), Foundation establishment (筑基), Core Formation (金丹), Nascent Soul (元婴), and the names after that vary too greatly with translation and fandom so I'll jump straight to Immortal Ascension
extra info: getting into the philosophy of it all
It'd be interesting to note that the word "xiá" (俠) permeates all these genres. This is something akin to the concept of "hero", but not at all also, and I'd love to speak more on this but this post has already gone way longer than I hoped it would be, so perhaps another day.
Regardless, it is interesting to note that wuxia has a greater emphasis on "xia" than xianxia. (some joke that cultivation doesn't have the word "xia" in it, and much of that is because characters have foregone heroism and focused on gaining powers and working towards ascension instead). As a result, wuxia is more confucianism-oriented, though not without its taoism and buddhism influences.
xianxia, on the other hand, is mainly derived from "dào" (道), from taoism, which is another lengthy concept if I ever get to it.
And some may have heard of the "farming" genre, 种田 (zhòngtián). This has to do with golden fingers (mary sues) in imperialistic china, earning a wealth of money, and all that. It has nothing to do with cultivation, alike they sound in english.
that's it for now, hmu if you wish to ask/discuss!
(and apologies for the pinyin translations, hope it's understandable still! formally writing pinyin they are supposed to be two separate words not one.)
shen qingqiu's eye color
ok so...i've noticed in the official art sqq is depicted with green eyes. however, in the book, it is clearly started he has dark black eyes. it sorta ticks me off that on the front cover they got his eye color wrong...but was it just a thing with translation? I can't find the quote rn but in the first few chapters, when shen yuan intially transmigrates and describes sqq's body, he is said to have dark b;ack eyes. never states he has green eyes. and in the art, the green is quite light. idk if someone has pointed this out before.
I've been thinking we should've just used Cucumber in any ship name that has SY in it, like with the classic Cumplane and the less known Scumcum (better known as Jiuyuan).
In that line, I bring forth a few ideas for the main ship: Cumgee (as a nod to the first meal LBH made for SQQ), or perhaps we could use LBH's own name: Cumriver. Icycum. Cumcicle. (Though that last one could apply to the crack ship of MBJ/SQQ.)
Anyways I'm open to suggestions.
“I’m fine, I’m not getting corrupted by this power! I can control it!” -guy who is 100% getting corrupted by this power
I love you dumplings I love you gyoza I love you xiaolongbao I love you wonton I love you baozi I love you mandu and yes even you, ravioli