#(according to the fandom wiki that is)

[python-nebula]

Diversity win!! the five eldritch horrors that are stalking, torturing and killing your entire town across multiple timelines all use he/it pronouns!!

[pissfarmsblog]

the best thing rody soul did to mha was introduce ppl with different ambitions than being a hero

[thel1ghtningthief]

i love being soooo unnormal about things like yes i AM in the process of fleshing out approximately 1200 riordanverse ocs (not including the norse and egyptians thats for later-) just so i can write in-depth and lore ridden fanfiction I'll never post, thanks for asking!

[snowwtrapped34]

“My ship took 7 years to become canon it had such a slow-burn Omggg 😭”

no no it didn’t no it fucking didn’t

[ebenelephant]

oughh bruce who is desperate for human connection but deeply maladjusted, and yet he's found two people who he deeply trusts, and who somehow trust him despite not being able to pick him out of a crowd

[kasmirkozel]

I love this screaming cat in osomatsu kun 1988. Such a good character trope, to have just a freak of a little creature show up unexpectedly and scream at you the current time and location of a new scene. I'd call it iconic even.

[sunnysolaria]

SKY COTL 2023

I made this in the middle of the night refusing to sleep

(This is the A4 format notebook)

[randomnameless]

Wake up people, you cannot consider yourself as a citizen/member of a country if you "only" lived there for 13 years - you can only be one if you were born there or if your parents came from this place.

[willowbirds]

Who was gonna tell me that some Splat Supercharger figures smell like vanilla?

Or was I just supposed to sniff her while I was bored and discover this for myself?

[wotb-blog-2024]

WIP Great Chain drawing

[obnoxiousarcade]

ohhh this darn book

[badnew2005]

mrs mac & bonnie kelly in THREE s16 eps that’s the most time theyv ever appeared in a season what a win

[boatemboys]

i think the thing abt certain milgram spaces i dont like is everyones insistence that xyz character is entirely good or entirely bad. the point of milgram is that. none of them are entirely one or the other. thats part of the reason the voting is how it is. admittedly the english tl doesnt help this with the "innocent/guilty" thing but with "forgiven/unforgiven" its like. they did all kill someone in some way. u have to use ur brain.

[cepheusgalaxy]

Wow this shit's ugly

[Image description: The marfluid pride flag, a flag with many horizontal stripes; the two top halves of it are a gradient from dark blue to light blue, and then the three bottom stripes are tones of dark orange resembling the color of the planet mars. /end ID.]

Sorry whoever made that flag (i get the mars stripes and the masc stripes + the represented fludity so it actually makes a lot of sense) but i dont rlly like how it looks XD

Oh wait guys theres another one

[Image description: The alternative marfluid pride flag. It has five horizontal stripes. They are, from top to bottom, the colors are: intense blue, light blue, white, lavender and black. /end ID.]

Oh I like this one much better

[breakerbeam]

fandom wiki admins forcing you to edit wikis for 7 days in a row to gain temp admin for a wiki and then be active for 30 days after that to be a perm admin is evil as fuck for people who deal w time blindness

[mathmusicreading]

Xiè Lián: My surname is Xiè, my first name is Lián. Huā Chéng: You can call me your third husband. Xiè Lián: What happened to my first two husbands?!

I learned Huā Chéng was having Xiè Lián call him "husband" from Ty the Canasian on Kictor's YouTube, I found this when I was trying to corroborate the linguistics, and I indulged and bought the official Seven Seas Entertainment (translator and editor are on Tumblr!) English translations of the books so here's further confirmation from Volume 1:

ETA:

I made this post private because I was unhappy with it (misspelling/misformatting Wúmíng, knowing I wouldn't have good reach for larger and less biased sample size even if I could have tagged better for the fandoms and characters if Tumblr organized by more than the first five tags), but I'm making it public again since it finished and so did the similar poll that fun-mxtx-polls was kind enough to make for me.

Not to bias towards the first option, just to explain it, the first option and why I wanted this poll come from the naming pattern trivia for MXTX's love interests/male leads/gongs, which I think you can best read on Huā Chéng's page on the Heaven Official's Blessing/Tiān Guān Cì Fú wikia. I'm just using that as my citation given:

I'm not sure if MXTX has discussed this meta in-joke somewhere and if so, where.

The SSE Glossary: Terminology note (all volumes of all three MXTX novels) only explains the second and third gongs, and implies MXTX is doing this purposefully. Lán Wàngjī's wikia page explains only the three published gongs, and implies this started from fandom phenomena creating a proto-stage pattern (if you subscribe to "one is chance, two is coincidence, three is a pattern"). Huā Chéng's page linked above is the odd man out and so probably incorrect about Lán-èr-gē vs. Lán-èr-gēge, but it goes above and beyond by explaining the fourth gong, and it uses the most neutral language regarding this trivia.

I think citation is unnecessary for "gē" (哥 | 哥) meaning "big brother" and in certain contexts having the connotation or meaning of "eldest brother" (admittedly my unverified inference), "èr" (二 | 二) meaning "two", and "sān" (三 | 三) meaning "three".

I actually like so much because I like to think if it could use more wordplay and less literalism. Please forgive me for being a poor reader not remembering exactly, not buying the TGCF raws yet, not being able to buy the SVSSS and MDZS raws, and only being able to find old fan translations/interpretations of MXTX's fourth novel preview, but let me explain:

I believe Luò Bīnghé isn't being called "Luò Bīnghé-gē" (or rather "Bīng-gē" since I think? it's more usual to use the suffix with the single/first character of a person's given name, not with their full name, especially when the full name is three (or more? some of my reading has mentioned two-character last names but I didn't find if culture was strict about then making the given name be only one character) characters) for the usual reasons to address someone with "gē", but actually the PIDW!Luò Bīnghé is being called Luò Bīnggē (or "Bīng-gē") because he's more aggressive than canon/SVSSS!Luò Bīnggē who when being differentiated gets called Luò Bīngmèi (or "Bīng-mèi"), and I love that "very fitting reasoning for the naming, not strictly literal and not so bound to literal".

Then with Lán Wàngjī, I see the opportunity that his nickname could have used the natural naming of "erhua is used as a diminutive suffix", and the "er" would have been homophonous with "èr" (二 | 二) for "two" for him being the second gong, and homophonous to the potential "proper address for him as the second Lán son/brother".

In the most literal sense, you'll notice that the gongs so far have had their nicknames be using "(big) brother" and Huā Chéng's uses láng (郎 | 郎) "son" (his stated meaning, although it can also mean "man" and "husband" and the latter is how we can interpret he wanted it to be when coming from Xiè Lián). There's nothing wrong with that and the numbers are perfectly probable, and would still be so as they grow, but also they could feel more like "contrived" coincidence, which is part of my wanting to get away from literalism a little bit, not just my loving clever wordplay. With Huā Chéng, I don't have a homophone I can use for punning like with Lán Wàngjī, or really the "cultural language use where literal suffixes/honorifics get used figuratively for XYZ purposes", but I can make it fit with character interpretation. To me, Sān Láng doesn't have to be "Third Son" because "he has two older brothers" and in fact we aren't sure that he was telling the truth about that—instead, I think Huā Chéng could be being clever with not just getting Xiè Lián to call him (Third/surname "Three") Husband but in saying his name is "Third Man" because this is the third alias he gives Xiè Lián. (Some additional feels this gives me: It's like he's saying he's the same person Xiè Lián met before, that they shared all of that experience and it mattered, that he's the final form of that person wanting to be with Xiè Lián, that he's like a fairy-tale character with many names and forms and a true name and form and all along there was a trick or thread to follow in knowing and identifying him.) It just works out so perfectly because of the third way he introduces himself to Xiè Lián matching him being the third gong, and also the fairy-tale significant number of "three".

Finally, with the fourth gong, I've looked at Suika's TGCF Afterword translation, a NovelUpdates MDZS spoilers forum post by K.san crossposted to the Grim Reapers Have No Days Off spoilers forum by alexfilia, a reply to this post in r/tianguancifu by u/chenmochou, and also this post in r/tianguancifu by u/Loud_Daikon6167 which cites a TikTok I can't see either because of TikTok's thing about opening to a random page/the homepage or I assume the TikTok being removed or locked. Given the first NovelUpdates post maybe having more of a direct translation compared to the first Reddit post, it's still not definitive to me whether this is "actually more of a fandom thing, with MXTX acknowledging and participating in it enough to help make it possible" or it's "MXTX doing this on purpose with her name choices and character traits, whether she meant to have the pattern from the start or later, and yes could have been influenced by fandom" because I think "Other: 四少" is probably about the male lead(s) compared to it following "Protagonist: the uke's name is not determined yet" so it doesn't seem like the fandom came up with a nickname out of whole cloth. "Four young masters" is perfectly probable and could be equally reasonable, and "four ikemen" could even follow in reasonability; in fact it could be more likely and realistic since this is a modern setting, which would have different use of "young master" to me, and because we believe the gong to be the regular human and the shou to be the grim reaper. But for the wordplay, I would have liked it if the gong were the grim reaper and the "four theme naming" came from the famous "sì" (四 | 四) meaning "four" is homophonous with "sǐ" (死 | 死) meaning "die/death" and the latter being used in the Chinese for "grim reaper"/"death god".