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[oynonrings]

"but his hands are gentle" Oh im sure

[lucabyte]

yall heard about video games ? (currently in exterior i guess no major spoilers in tags? whatever those may be?)

[tezzbot]

An interpretation of some moments from the Silver and Espio story in Sonic Rivals 2!!! They are silly to me<3

[helyeahmangocheese]

the next time you find yourself researching a detail such as, say, how doors work in Hotel Valhalla, ask yourself: WWRRD? (What would Rick Riordan do?) The answer is, 9 times out of 10, he would not look it up and instead make up whatever rule/detail would be most convenient!

[forcebookish]

the way that phoom is crying and how bittersweet this moment is for him but the look on vicha's face is just pure happiness

SOMEHOW THAT HURTS MORE??

forced to dance and re-experience his death every night for 23 years in a place that only reminds him of who he lost and yet he's just so happy to be reunited, in the most uncomplicated way, knowing that he's where they're meant to be for the remainder of eternity

because phoom thinks it has to end, but vicha knows it won't

[mxtxfanatic]

I really like to read all your metas. And I was hoping if you would write a meta on classism and its effect on the world of mdzs and on the different characters of mdzs?

Classism is just something that plays a huge part in mdzs, and it's such a shame that not many people can understand how big of a deal it is.

The way Wei Wuxian combats how he is treated in the gentry will always be awe-inspiring to me. How he always rises up even though most would push him down. Not many fanfics write about this struggle and instead focus on fix-its (gosh, it's so annoying just because of how they're written). Those fix-its don't understand how the cultivation world works at all, they think just making Wei Wuxian change a decision will make the world a better place but it's not!

I don’t have a classism meta on mdzs, specifically, but I do have one on classism as a theme across all mxtx novels: here. Ultimately, the thing that the mdzs fandom (and the others, too) tend to get wrong about the classism convo is that they falsely believe that certain characters are good or evil based on class status and that everything would be resolved if everyone was a part of the “good” economic class because the “bad” economic class makes it impossible for people to be good. It’s where you get arguments like “wwx is only a good person because he was “raised rich,” while jgy and xy were never given the chance. If they had been raised rich, they would’ve been good, too!” or “lwj can afford to be a good person because he’s a clan heir, unlike wwx who had to struggle.”

This blatantly ignores how characters across the class spectrum share or have opposing moralities, even amongst those with similar backgrounds. A major theme in mdzs is that people should stand up for what’s right even if they do not gain approval or favors from their peers or superiors for doing so. Mianmian is a servant who rejects discipleship under the clan that employed her after having her position elevated, just to do the right thing. Lan Wangji is a great clan heir who rejects his family’s stance on morality because his clan was wrong. Both had different difficulties to face due to their circumstances but still made the same moral decision. Mxtx characters have autonomy and choose when to do right or wrong, and nothing about their class status changes that.

Also, extra note on how the common people in mxtx novels serve as a window into popular opinion, not a moral compass: here.

[turnaboutstar]

she's worried about apollo (◞ ‸ ◟ㆀ)

[duck-in-a-spaceship]

LET HIM OUT

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

Everyone say hi to and welcome the new blorbos: a bunch of ghosts yet again, but this time they're high schoolers :D xD

It's School Spirits 🥳🥳🥰👏!! My lovelies <3 it is SO GOOD!!

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

and happy pride to these assholes. it's still june so i can technially still make that joke right

[rosykims]

ok so like whats the game plan on the 1st of november lol

[mrsmarlasinger]

Dunno how much of Conference I'm gonna watch because I'm going out for lunch(? dinner?) and drinks with my friends tomorrow, and they also invited me to a drag show on Sunday. If I don't liveblog, y'all BETTER post a lot so I can scroll through the tags afterward. Do NOT make me have to download Discord, gays 🔫🔫🔫🔫

[jefferythejelly]

something about death in this digital age kind of gets to me because it's like. there's all these little pieces of someone left behind saved forever in bits of code, floating around on the internet or between different peoples' harddrives, and it's as eternal as it is impermanent; completely unchanging, it's forever a snapshot of some moment or action or thought or creation, and yet at the same time so easy to lose or delete or corrupt. and it's intangible right, like it's data, it's not like it's the same solid thing every time someone looks at it but it was still caused by someone who isn't here anymore, and it doesn't matter how much time has passed since they've been gone, as long as it's able to be preserved this little piece of them will always be the same as it was as if they had left it there 5 minutes ago. and something about that just makes me feel big things

[leafatlaw]

Love how opposed Derap is to teaming with Poafa. My guy is literally playing solo and every teammate hes ever had has left him, but he does NOT want to team with Poafa at all

[gaybellethorn]

i started listening to the first shannon hale eah book on my walk earlier and it's so good. hale you mad bitch <3!!!!!!!

raven being a swiftie (taylor quick........obsessed) and apple being a directioner ("you don't know youre charming" in universe pointing to the real life charming family. CRAZY.)

apple keeping a basket of candy and coins at her bedroom balcony to throw down to her adoring masses PLEASEEEEE . all her kingdom management classes amassing to this she's so FUNNY.

relatedly, how frustrated she gets at the end of her first chapter that people are only gonna grade her on being a good snow white based on how pretty she is and not on how hard she's studying to be a good ruler. very very juicy very interesting characterisation very interesting take for a snow white character. but also. the chapter starts with her naming the dwarves by derogatory nicknames ("my name is frank," pouty said poutily) and the narrative itself superimposing her names onto them in the dialogue tags. SO FUCKING GOOD. APPLE YOU SILLY BITCH.

hale's distate for apple's dad bleeding into the description i looooove it. "keeping a hand on the hilt of his blade as if ready for battle at a moment's notice, but of course he had never been in battle. his only claim to fame was falling in love with a comatose woman in a glass coffin in the woods" damn hit him again for me!!!!!

BUT this coming from apple's pov???? EXQUISITE!!!!!! god that's so fucking INTERESTING and really doubles down on her looking up to her mam and wanting to be the best ruler she can be, because no one's gonna help her out later! i haven't gotten to apple interacting with daring yet, but that's gonna be such an interesting lens to read their relationship through as well if she considers his role in the story like. repulsive!

also just an interesting contrast to raven's relationship with her parents, where she loves her dad and wishes her mam wouldn't belittle him in their convo. oh sidebar there was a description like, raven's mam did love her, in her own way. hope was like a sticky syrup and raven wished she could drink it down just one more time. auggghhh ravennnn :( <33333

back to apple, i liked the little detail about snow having this squeaky high pitched voice, and apple musing that being stranded in the woods with the squirrels may have done a number on her. i think she gives a length of time there, either weeks or months? i hadn't considered that being part of the snow white legacy, that's interesting ! especially after thinkng of her dad as a useless bum ass nobody like 😭

looooove getting raven's introspection around her mam. the mirror scene at the start is so so good. ugh then when she's talking to apple and she notices how slouchy and unkempt she is next to her. and she tries standing properly but she knows she comes off as too tall, too gaunt comparatively. and then she reprimands herself like 'stop comparing yourself to her, that's probably how mom turned out the way she did' AUGH ? that being the first indicator that raven can understand how that path unfurls in front of her, how she could easily take those same steps. sooo juicy

also looove her relationship with baba yaga so far. it's really interesting that baba yaga is compared/contrasted to raven's mam, i wanna keep an eye on how that relationship develops

baba yaga using an actual spray bottle on raven when she starts voicing rebel thoughts PLEASE‼️ raven grumpily looking into the princess' advisor office (run by the white queen! cute detail) where theyre given tea and plush chairs and noticing that there isn't a spray bottle in sight. MWAH.

oh ! and the detail about it being maddie who asks raven point blank "if you weren't destined to be the evil queen, you would...?" as part of this wonderland word game that she doesn't think anything more of, but raven is left speechless because she's never been allowed to consider it before. really sweet moment between them! :)

im like an hour into this 6.5hr audiobook. the voice actor is doing a wonderful job, i really like her voices for raven and apple in particular so far. i definitely wanna keep going on it! i will listen to it on walks i think :^)