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"Kitchen Helpers"

I had an image in my head of soot sprites invading a kitchen while the owners were asleep and baking a batch of cookies overnight. Some soot sprites are more on task than others, though...

The kitchen was inspired by the bakery in Kiki's Delivery Service for the maximum Ghibli vibes :)

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I almost wanna say that Hua Cheng’s title is a misnomer in the same way Wei Wuxian’s is in the title of mdzs. The people who do not know and absolutely do not like him consider him as the “blood rain” that’s reaching for the flower, but Hua Cheng in the event that earns him that name isn’t the rain, he’s the umbrella. He’s always been the umbrella shielding the flower, just as the blood rain has always been the corruption of the heavens and earth trying to stain the flower with their filth. (And just in case this needs to be said, obviously Xie Lian is the flower 🤗)

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Once my dad asked my why I don’t just write a book instead of fanfiction I just deadass looked him the eye and said, “Because then I’d have to actually come up with my own ideas.”

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"There's millions of Tumblr users" to you. To me There's only about 12 and we all reblog the same five posts from each other

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"Wei Wuxian is more cautious of his ghost path in his second life." The same Wei Wuxian who summoned three fierce corpses within 48 hours of his resurrection to fight a ghost arm? The same Wei Wuxian who directly after this event went grave-digging to scrounge up some ghosts to put into talismans for later use? The same Wei Wuxian who plunges into Empathy with A-Qing despite seeing how horribly she must have died? The same Wei Wuxian who casually summons a corpse to ask it for directions????

I don't think there's a single moment in his second life where his first instinct is to use the orthodox path for anything. He even only accidentally used Siubian because he didn't have a physical body to defend himself with against Jin Guangyao in the hidden chamber. The next time he intentionally uses his sword, it's to cut up a melon.

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light and ash

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the thing about jiang cheng’s relationship with jin ling is that it is not the sugar-coated caretaking film which people wish to see it through and this is besides the fact that jiang cheng was physically abusive towards jin ling. jc was not interested in imparting good values to jin ling or partaking in his upbringing in any meaningful manner. what he taught jin ling was violence and anger and his own abrasive and entitled world views. he exposed jin ling to his treatment of demonic cultivators for a substantial enough time for jin ling to have been desensitised to it in some capacity. his lessons to jin ling were about being indiscriminately ruthless to anyone who he perceived to practice demonic cultivation. jiang cheng wasn’t “raising” jin ling to be a good, upstanding individual but moulding him with his worst impulses and never once reflecting over what that meant for jin ling and his future. people citing jiang cheng’s displays of overprotectiveness (which themselves are a detriment to jin ling’s progress) as proof of jiang cheng being this caring, kind uncle is an oversight of how utterly careless jiang cheng is with jin ling. jiang cheng wielded his influence over his nephew quite callously and he did jin ling damage by trying to make him another wheel in his vehicle of violence and that is unrefutable.

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Can’t properly explain it, but “I like this character”, “I like how this character is written” and “I care about this character” are 3 very different things which may or may not overlap.

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You're not immune to being the bully btw. You're not immune to being in the wrong

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there's something about amoral manipulative little masterminds who are constrained only by their intense fealty to a person of high(er) morals that's just. chef's kiss. so good

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"you can't pick and choose what you like from canon" common misconception! yes you can

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do you guys remember “kick his ass baby i got yo flower”

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my 5 year plan is to genuinely just have a good day

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"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

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hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

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the most aggravating fans are the ones that become huge fans of a villainous character but just can’t handle the fact that the villainous character does villainous things and instead said fans invent a million assbackwards headcanons about how the villain is TOTALLY not a villain at all and is some tragic blob where nothing is their fault even up to and including murder and genocide

i am just so baffled by this

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Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy

Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE

Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted

Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative

Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying