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y’all really recommend books like: title, there are gay characters, enemies to lovers, young adult, written by poc

not once do i ever see a summary

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binghe fights sqh and he gives no indication at being powerful or with martial ability. he realises his mistake in approach. sqh makes himself small, pathetic, and easy to bully so that he is underestimated and ignored. fighting a PERSON will only increase that. well thats fine. mobei he's gonna toss ur human into a deathmatch against beasts rq ok? u wanna watch? if he gets too out of his depth you can step in he wont stop you but he knows you ALSO want to know what that little THANG is capeable of. nature doc mobei and binghe watching sqh in some demon forest. the wild qinghua, pressured out of its natural habitat. without greater predators to form symbiotic relationships with he must fend for himself. there comes the sunburst scorpion tailed bear goat- we shall soon see how the qinghua- OH HOLY SHIT HE RIPPED ITS HEAD OFF MOBEI YOUR SCRUNKLY RIPPED ITS GODDAMN HEAD OFF

THEYRE TAKING HIM OUT OF HIS NATURAL HABITAT AND SPYING ON HIM OH this is good

He didn't know he was capable of it either

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The defeated and bloodied king was chained to kneel in front of his enemy and he says weakly: "Is my wife still alive?" His enemy nodded. "You fools," he said smirking, and the king starts laughing as the sounds of explosions getting closer shake the room.

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i always find it funny how mxtx writes 6-7 year age gaps in all her main couples then makes them functionally useless in various ways.

with bingqiu: shen yuan dies around age 20 and transmigrates into shen qingqiu when luo binghe is 14. around five years later, shen qingqiu dies. five years after THAT, he wakes up in a temporary cheat sheet new body, unaware of and unaffected by any time that has passed, so he's mentally still 25-26ish. by this point luo binghe, who has been alive and fighting over his corpse the whole time as a newly awakened heavenly demon emperor, is basically only one year, maybe less, his junior. though nobody else in-universe knows, we can assume binghe is smart enough to eventually figure it out, especially after their marriage.

with wangxian, it's almost reversed. they start out being several months apart in age. wei wuxian dies in his early 20s, but unlike shen qingqiu, wei wuxian IS aware of the passage of time, though muddled. so when he's resurrected thirteen years later in the body of mo xuanyu, he's physically younger than 35-year-old lan wangji, but mentally not much different aside from catching up to how the people and places he used to know have changed. (it's a common misconception that mo xuanyu is a teenager or barely twenty, but if you dissect the timeline, he was actually somewhere in his mid to late 20s when he gave up his body.)

and finally, hualian, objectively the funniest: she slapped 800 extra years on them and called it a day. age gap, what age gap? a 10 year old peasant boy hero worshipped and developed a budding one-sided crush on the 17 year old prince of his country. after a series of tragedies they are separated for over eight centuries until they meet again as an 810ish-year-old ghost king named hua cheng and a 817ish-year-old god named xie lian, and then they mutually fall in love. basic math. amazing.

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Ok but what if Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu were the same person.

Little YQY is used to little baby SJ being a little strange. He talks about missing 'the internet' and one night when they almost freeze to death he solemnly informs YQY that "this transmigration experience sucks, 0/10 would not recommend."

As they grow SJ stops talking about odd things, but since he never explained about his past life to YQY he doesn't realize SJ is forcing himself to forget those memories of being warm and safe and happy because they hurt too much now when he is none of those.

The System is still there if course but since LBH isn't even born yet it's in low power mode. But that night locked in Qiu Manor after YQY leaves it pops up with a notification he's finished the 'Sorrowful Parting' quest and he loses it.

He alternates between insisting it doesn't exist and demanding to know why it only shows up when something bad happens to him. The System explains this is all necessary character development before he meets the main character.

SJ rages, not because he's not the main character but because he apparently needs to suffer for them, this person he's never met. Eventually the System turns off all notifications except essential ones, and that at least leaves SJ mostly alone in his own head.

And he takes that buried ache of his past memories and that he was apparently born to suffer and uses them to save himself when YQY fails him. Even though he promised. And he's fine- look, he's a Peak Lord! He's fine.

Until LBH turns up at the peaks, the System lights up for the first time in a decade, and SJ looks at this little boy and hates him. SJ can't see him without thinking about all the hurt he suffered, which the System insists was necessary for this boy's story.

So he does all those horrible things to LBH that he railed about as SY a lifetime ago and doesn't regret it. (PIDW is mostly lost to him, buried under the trauma, he doesn't know who LBH is, or who he is)

Until the qi deviation, which wipes all his memories except the ones he has buried. So he feels like he's a different person. He thinks he's transmigrated in late because he can't remember being 5 and teaching YQY carmeldansen.

A week after the deviation YQY hears SJ mutter something about Google and he relaxes, he does recognize this SJ after all.

Meng Mo pulls the memories out of SY's head after all. For all that SY draws the line between himself and SJ as different people he still remembers SJ's memories. But crucially not the ones from when he was little where his past and current lives overlap the most.

Sometime after the series ends SQQ is humming something modern- my heart says 'Never Gonna Give You Up'- and YQY casually mentioned he's always liked that one most of SJ's songs.

SQQ: What songs?

YQY: The ones only you know. You used to sing them all the time when you were little.

SQQ's head is spinning and he finds some privacy and questions the System which confirms he did in fact transmigrate as a baby like SQH did.

The memories come back slowly after that. He remembers telling LQQ he'll kill him after a bad fight, street kid him trying to explain to YQY what a T-Rex is... exactly what was going through his head when he dumped a cup of hot tea on an orphan he'd just met.

And SY has to deal with the fact that yes actually, that was him. That wasn't some other asshole. It's him, he's the asshole. Maybe that was the worst possible version of himself, maybe he got a second chance and changed for the better - but it was still him, and he's still capable of being that man again if he isn't careful.

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ooh fun

Last song: Romance is boring by Los Campesinos

Favourite colour: teal! it just looks nice

Last book read: does rereading count? if it does then tgcf vol 8, if it doesn’t then scum villain 4. i haven’t been reading lots recently

Last movie: uh i don’t remember the last time i watched a movie, i really don’t like most movies. i genuinely don’t know.

Last TV show: idk if it counts but i’m just about to start watching an anime called A sign of affection, it sounds good according to the person that recommended it.

Sweet, savoury, salty: sweet… but it’s because i have really bad allergies and for a while couldn’t eat anything actually good, now i can eat them and it feels a lot more special

relationship status: uh engaged? i’m aroace but me and a (queer platonic) friend are gonna get married for tax benefits. they proposed and everything

last google search: dnd oneshots lv 7. it’s for a group i play dnd with and we’re between campaigns right now

looking forward to: said dnd sessions

tagging: @iamshmolphrog @myheadgoesaround

tagged by @evilbubblewrap actually doing it this time bc u caught me in a silly goofy mood

10 people I'd like to know better!

Last song: Dad Vibes by Limp Bizkit bc it's been stuck in my head like crazy lately

Fav color: pink but army green looks better on me

Last book I read: An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz but it's for research lol im not that much of a wet blanket i prommy

Last movie: i watched Baby Driver for the first time last night since i saw it in theatres and yeah it still fucks for anyone curious

Last TV show: game of thrones [dodges tomatoes]

Sweet, savory or spicy: yes yes and yes

Relationship Status: partnered

Last Google search: tryna get a look at dem guns he's not injured this season my man'S PITCHIN THE DODGERS ARE GOIN ALL THE WAY AGAIN I KNOW IT

Looking forward to: spring break but like not for any particular reason just sick of the snow and my classes suck this quarter Tagging @meemawdean @a-chaotic-dumbass @g0lightly uhhhhh i cant think of 10 urls sorry sorry sorry

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Two times, Luo Binghe?

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whenever I realize I’ve forgotten to drink water/ eat in awhile, I think of these images

And a say “dink my oiter! 👏dink my oup!👏“ and it’s silly but it helps me remember to drink water and eat

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the humble "like" is oft mocked despite what it does for us. "like, three people" is a vastly different statement from "three people". "and i was like 'what the fuck'" is vastly different from "and i said 'what the fuck'". i love you "like" and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight

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another hyperfixation???

uh so apparently i’m getting obsessed with LINGUISTICS????? it’s just so interesting i wanna know way more about it

so if you guys can, respond with an interesting fact or something cool about linguistics!

@official-linguistics-post sorry for the tag i’m just really curious

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The ink bottle lying on your desk... begins to crawl away..???

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… what me? noooo

Hyperfixation so bad people think of me when they see it

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A study of sorts

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Starlight Pearl my beloved