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For those who follow my Narnia NNSTG series on AO3, sorry for the wait ! I'm still writing the final part (technically i've been at it since last year lol, but let's say i've recently started writing it again).

I make no promises, but it should be ready before the summer. It's Peter and Susan's part, and I'm really having trouble with Peter. He's hard to write about !

In the meantime I can promise that there's a full part of the series already written about Rilian & Edmund reuniting. Does anybody care for this completely made up ship other than me ? Creating the ship tag tells me no, but it is going to be published anyway !

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Happy holidays! My white oliphaunt gift for the 2024 exchange: a pair of sleepy peredhil.

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2 pieces of Would You Fall In Love With Me Again details that I discovered through tiktok that has ALTERED MY BRAIN CHEMISTRY

Penelope sings waiting 8 times for 20 seconds representing the 8 sagas and 20 years she waited for Odysseus to come back to her

The melody of the "for" after these repetitions of the word waiting is sung in the same melody as "I am the reigning king of Ithica" cause you know that's who she was waiting for

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I wonder if even after Odysseus returns, Telemachus still wakes up in a cold sweat some nights and goes to pace in front of his mother’s door. There’s light and loud talking and laughing and Telemachus grips his sword tightly, tense as he knows he can’t let anyone near.

The door opens and Telemachus jolts, turning to see a man standing in the doorway behind him. He lunges forward, but the man grabs his wrist and shoulder, disarming him and bringing him to the ground. He closes his eyes, bracing himself and feeling a burn in his throat. He failed. He can’t protect her. He-

Suddenly there are gentle hands on his face. A soothing voice replacing the cacophony that the prince realizes had never existed. He looks into his father’s eyes with shame, blinking back tears as the king gently takes him into his arms. Odysseus promises his son that he’s safe, brings him back to rest beside him and Penelope, and lets him have just a few hours of peace before it happens again.

Just thoughts.

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He’s home!!!

I just wanted to leave a close up of the part I started this sketch for.

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I was fine for the whole saga. I was fine. But then the Just A Man motif came at me with a steel chair after Penelope's part because she brought the man back from the monster and next thing i knew i was crying in my car.

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medieval lit is really fun. there will be a footnote that is like “nobody knows what the author meant there and scholars have been debating it for centuries” 

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while i’m on the topic, it is very hilarious and also very insightful that mxtx actually plainly tells us how anyone else except wei wuxian would have fared without their golden cores/spiritual powers by putting thousand-plus cultivators in exactly that situation during the second siege. the way they all absolutely lose their shit, fumble around, lose coherence of thought, see-saw between decisions and become, essentially, helpless and useless is eye-opening. hell, jiang cheng ends up so affected that jin ling is able to manhandle him into the cave. the cultivators from the biggest clans aren’t able to come up with anything to save their asses and it takes shizui to point out the array for them to even consider it as an option. if wei wuxian, lan wangji and the juniors weren’t there, sooooo many disciples would have lost their lives–simply because of how incompetent they collectively became once they lost their spiritual powers. if they made a coordinated effort, they could have still held the corpses off, but it’s just that... they weren’t able to, mentally, get past their sudden lack of powers. they were disoriented.

now, i’m not saying that this isn’t a normal reaction to have. it’s totally understandable how these people were huge messes, especially in such a high stakes situation. it is just that it puts into perspective how AWESOME wei wuxian is to have had his golden core cut out of him, voluntarily, then beaten within a micrometre of his life, then thrown straight into the hell on earth aka the burial mounds and then instead of succumbing instantly, he instead overcame these impossible circumstances and somehow, survived and found alternative powers to keep him going. that is nothing short of mind-boggling, awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping. not one person in that siege-laying populace would be able to accomplish that and it held some of the finest cultivators their world has to offer. because no one, other than wei wuxian, had the internal capabilities to build their strengths up from a source that wasn’t their spiritual powers. without their golden cores, they would be toast faster than a human within one kilometre of the sun’s radius. and i love love love how mxtx hits us with this fact in our faces in exactly the scenes that are all about undoing the falsehoods and allegations that wei wuxian, until then, had been levied with in the larger cultivation world’s perspective.

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Council of lovefools.

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from this post, couldn't resist. the narrative foils in this story are just so Juicy.

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will i ever make anything serious on this blog

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has anyone done this already? father and son for real

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When I’m not crying about LWJ mourning WWX for 13 years I’m cracking up about him being the most down bad in a teen girl way everrrrrrr.

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Heartfelt Reunion.

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Since not everyone can be Luo Binghe (the meme, the legend)...

please vote for Hua Cheng in @the-ghost-bracket!

EDIT2: next round has begun, so the link above now directs there! And Hua Cheng is also currently in a competition for the title of the best leader.

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mxtxnet's october event | day 31: wei wuxian

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I just thought it would be perfect for them lmao (based on that template made by @/HL0428 on twitter hehe)