look, I'm all here for the 'Hua Cheng Looks Exactly As Monstrous As Everyone Says And Xie Lian Is Just So Used To The Horror That He Only Sees A Hot Man' idea. It's cool, it's deep, and it's fun.
But! Xie Lian is also the 'oh wow character x looks so ordinary' guy who thinks hua cheng is so pretty even his 800 years of abstinence are surely expected to crumble at the sight of him, so consider this one: hua cheng is actually one Damn Fine of a specimen, drop-dead gorgeous, era-defining beauty, but it's hard to notice with all the Glaring™ and Snarling™ and Evil Laughter™ going on, because let's be real the man is terrifying, so imagine the surprise of the heavens when, on one fine day, the ensemble cast go after xie lian to ask for his help or assistance or guidance or whatever, and they walk in on hua cheng – scourge of the heavens hua cheng, crimson rain sought flower hua cheng, supreme ghost king hua cheng – laughing sweetly with his highness trying to smother him with kisses all over his face, and at the sight of his joy and adoration they have one split second of going "Wow Crimson Rain is so fucking hot" before hua cheng notices them and starts hissing like a cat.
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The first three subclass/wizard school inspired outfits! teehee
(from left to right: enchantment, divination, illusion)
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I wanna feel like I’m gonna die any second— I wanna feel calm!
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y'all
Keyleth definitely would've seen through his illusion, right?
she saw that Essek showed up disguised as a random Cobalt Soul archivist and went "yeah, sure, why wouldn't an undercover Kryn drow show up when i asked a Zemnian human for help? that tracks with how wild everything is right now. anyways, gotta go deal with way more important people, byeeee"
or, way more juicy idea, did Caleb give her a heads up?
"ja, that sounds like a very important mission. unfortunately i'm indesposed (Jester knock it off this is an important call) but i can send you my good friend (Artagan please stop making that motion with your fingers). he'll be impersonating a member of the Cobalt Soul, but don't worry, Expositor Lionett is here with me and is giving me a thumbs up."
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Hello, I was wondering what criteria you personally use to decide if something is a species or a subspecies?
I quite like Kevin de Queiroz's recent take on the matter, so I will refer you to him. There has been quite a bit of subsequent discussion, some of which I agree with, some of which I think is a bit moronic.
TL;DR: They should be treated as a difference of degree, not of kind, and can conveniently be used to capture the grey zone that we know characterises the incipient stages of speciation.
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See Frieren x Himmel is canonically doomed and that's part of the overall narrative, Frieren will outlive almost everyone she ever meets but she slowly starts to build more and more relationships in spite of that and Himmel was one of the biggest catalysts in her changing in this way
But they also have this "this is how it can still win" vibe to it because Frieren is literally traveling to the afterlife specifically to visit Himmel, and along the way she's changing and very slowly embracing love in all these different forms from the people around her, one of which was from Himmel
So it's doomed but it still feels like they'll definitely have a happy ending too, it's an interesting dynamic
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