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at least he didn't suggest to sell stick!

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I love that Cheng Xiaoshi is dead honestly.

I mean, to be clear I want him to be alive by the end, I want Lu Guang to succeed and I want them to stay together but the fact that Cheng Xiaoshi's death is all over the narrative is so fun.

It's fun because suddenly, the show completely changes without it being contrived because we've got so many hints of his death, including in the shorts.

It's fun because now the official art and fanarts are having so much fun with symbols that means he is dead and Lu Guang's pining and sadness is immaculate.

It's fun because we are going to get an arc with them both dealing with those revelations and I'm so here for it. Gimme "I shouldn't even be alive so I'm going to be so reckless" Cheng Xiaoshi (or it's variant: "if I was dead, maybe Emma and others would be alive" type of angst).

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is this anything

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the pipeline of fixating over some thingy

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Link Click is honestly one of the best stories of recent time, the animation is gorgeous, the pacing is thrilling, you’re always on the edge of your seat and nothing is forgotten, everything is connected and WELL connected, it’s amazing

(the gay innuendo is just a great bonus)

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baby frog-Guang inspired by Courage of Stars by @mykingdomforapen

black hair version to fit the fic canon under the cut

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Day 3

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burmese dancer miku!! 🇲🇲

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gay people will say "i know a spot" and then it's a time loop and then it's a time loop and then it's a time loop and then it's a time loop and then it's a time loop and then it's a time loop and then it's a time loop and then it's a time loop and then it's a time loop and then

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Why does nobody's 'Ghibli-inspired' TTRPG ever look like this?

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I will be coming back to this concept. We're not done here

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me when i need to sleep but the tumblr dashboard fyp is lowkey eating

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Art by Hinano

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I think that more fanfiction should be written with the aim to tackle the original meaning of hanahaki. Because when the concept of hanahaki disease was originally created, it was intended to be a metaphor for suppressing one’s feelings.

Your feelings are this beautiful garden of flora inside of your chest. When you express how you feel honestly, you allow for it to grow freely. But when you hide how you feel out of fear of rejection, and try to make it smaller and smaller, the flowers become cramped inside of you, until you choke on your own feelings. Every flower you cough up is something you’ve felt, but refused to say.

The whole “dying” thing is intended to be more symbolic especially. You’re killing off bits and pieces of yourself and how you feel, because you’re afraid to express yourself.

It’s not really supposed to be, “The one I love doesn’t love me back, and I’m dying from it.” Rather, it’s more along the lines of, “Repressing your emotions is bad for you, and it’s better and healthier to express them freely, even when it’s scary.”

Which is to say that, one, the cure for the disease should be telling the person that you are in love with how you feel. How the other person feels about the person afflicted should have nothing to do with it, as the trope is meant to be about feeling your emotions unapologetically.

And that, two, it’s not an inherently romantic trope. Obviously, it has romantic applications, but it can be written for any situation where a character is hiding how they truly feel. This can include a refusal to address a specific trauma, a desire to indulge in something that they’re ashamed of, and even really practical things, like wanting to ask one’s boss for a higher position.

Although (as an aromantic person myself) I don’t agree with this conclusion about the trope, this application would also avoid people calling it arophobic. When the thing killing the character is a refusal to be honest with themselves, rather than an unrequited love, it’s on nobody’s hands but their own to save their life.

There are a ton of ways that this interpretation of the hanahaki disease could be applied in new and interesting ways in fanfiction, and I’d love to read what things people could come up with!

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deadpool, wolverine, and the child deadpool baby trapped him with, dogpool !!!!

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wolverine after spending a minute with deadpool

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