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Purple alleyways ☔

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I might end up forgetting the existence of this post when I actually sit down to write (not speculation, based on read events) but in this moment I can imagine this site making my life easier and think that's beautiful

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

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always love how when AO3 does not appear to he working, I go, “is it just me? let me go to tumblr” and go to the AO3 tag to find other ppl losing their mind as well.

the only thing that would be better would be if AO3 was like, actually working

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the flavors of gay thoughts and repression in wangxian are the most fun

LWJ: loud gay thoughts on the inside; enormity of my desire disgusts me; oh god he's hot oh no; repress repress repress; no one will know so long as I don't make eye contact with anyone ever again, especially xiongzhang; my purpose in life is to be pure and noble, not be gay do crime; peace and tranquility, meditation and silence, once familiar, now empty, but at least they remain; I will simply be absent of desire as far as anyone is concerned and it will be fine;

WWX: gay thoughts but for the meme, they are universally true thoughts, regardless of gender, ok, shidi; if I flirt with everyone, no one will know that one man gets the True Flirt, including myself; if I keep moving and talking and laughing then I can live head empty no thoughts as fate intended; when you think about it, like when you really consider, like I'm just saying; look at me look at me look at me, need it need it need it; did I mention it was for the meme because it seems you are taking it seriously; why are you tying that, you won't even listen, what will you do to me~~

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"You’re so polite" thanks i was raised in constant fear of upsetting people.

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Late night thoughts

#kittycatandmanlyman

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Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made

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nothing will ever amaze me the way fanfiction authors do. like, you wrote silly little stories about my favorite little guys? and i can read them?? for free??? that’s fucking wild.

you poured your heart and soul and very being into your writing and then put it out there for anyone to read? insane.

you spend a truly incredible amount of time writing novel-length, high quality stories, again, FOR FREE, that anyone can read, again, FOR FREE??

shoutout to every single fic author in existence, you guys are fucking incredible and i love all of you so much

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i strongly believe that in any universe modern or otherwise lwj uses lan xichen as a kind of confessional like a catholic priest. he literally comes into lan xichen's room at four pm precisely because that's the scheduled time that he allows himself to share an Emotion with his brother and sits down and says in a distinctly monotone yet perfectly recognisably anguished tone 'brother i have sinned' and lan xichen sighs very quietly because he doesn't want to hurt his brother's feelings and puts down his pen and says 'is this about wei wuxian' very gently and Lan Wangji is like 'mn' because it has never once Not been about wei wuxian. and then he says something that is Kind Of Weird, But Still Not A Sin like 'he fell asleep when we were studying and i watched his ribcage moving up and down for thirty eight minutes until he choked on nothing and woke himself up; am i evil' and once again lan xichen will kind of not-sigh in a way that makes it very obvious that in all other ways except physical he Is, Indeed, Sighing and has to reassure the most rigidly distraught younger brother in the history of mankind that what he is suffering from is in fact a malady known colloquially as a crush

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reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

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another moment of silence for "i hope this isn't the one last week *opens* oh thank god it's not that one- nevermind, this is the one i read last month."

looking for fics about your favorite character on ao3 be like:

dont care

dont care

dont care

what the actual fuck

dont care

ooh that sounds- what the fuck

unfinished

don't care

the best fic ive ever read in my life. this absolutely ruined me and ill never be the same ever again

dont care

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"I knew it, flowers do suit you!"

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Wei Ying at 15: Lan Zhan is so awesome I do might swoon when if he glares looks my way.

Wei Ying at 19: if I am doomed to death, at least to die by your hands would be worth it

Wei Ying as Yiling Laozu: Lan Zhan, go on a lunch date with me!

Also Wei Ying: don't be ridiculous i don't have a crush on him

Wei Ying as Mo Xuanyu: you mean not everyone thinks Lan Zhan is the "most beautiful person in Gusu"??

Wei Ying in the middle of a fatal situation: Oh. I think I have a crush on you, Lan Zhan.

Everyone else:

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T h i s .

If there’s one thing I’m gonna do, it’s consume oddly similar pieces of media

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drives me crazy when the mdzs fandom still doesn’t understand wwx is just as obsessed with lwj as lwj was with him. dare i say moreso. how am i STILL coming across fics/meta where wwx is dating people after having met lwj. any attempted relationship would end after 2 hours cause he’s incapable of going 15 minutes without talking or thinking about lwj. even if he actually tried going on a date it would be like. he’d sit down sigh and his date would ask what he was thinking about and he’d say i invited lan zhan here last week but he rejected me :(((((( and i was so sincere :((((( and then they order food he’d start smiling to himself and they’d be like what’s up and he’d be like “ahahaha i’m imagining trying to get lan zhan to eat this dish!!” they walk around outside and he grabs a cute little trinket from a market stall and the date is like oh :)) and wwx would be like this is so silly and cute i’m gonna hide it in lan zhan’s bag and see his reaction. pre meeting lwj maybe there is a slim chance but after he sees that :| face it’s over for anyone else

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MXTX's protagonists and their deductive skill

Wei Wuxian: he'll have to investigate a little but he will quickly get to the solution. He is, however, a teacher at heart so he won't tell you, he will help figure it out yourself.

Xie Lian: he already knows everything, he even knows where you've hidden the candy that your grandmother gave you ten years ago. He won't tell you anything until you've tripped in those candies and in the end you will find out he was your grandma all along.

Shen Yuan: he doesn't know anything. Anything at all. You and him are the same person