#(i say they have a talk but really it's just nhs crying)

[wangxianficfinder]

In the mood for...

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1. Hi. Thank you for the last itmf, the recommendations made me cry. Again thanks to the hard work of the mods.

Right now for itmf I'm looking for fanfics where Wei Wuxian says "fuck it" to the cultivation world and everyone think "Good riddance" just to end up regretting. Extra points if LWJ goes with him or call out everyone. Similar to "The Line Between Good and Evil" by Dandelion_sama ( Really good fic) @anime-trash-parody

you've heard that melody before by Stratisphyre (M, 65k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Hurt/Comfort, Memory Loss, POV Multiple, Multiple Canon Character Deaths, Depictions of depression, Light Dom/sub, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Twin Prides of Yúnmèng Dynamics) maybe? people don't say "good riddance" b/c he cast some sort of blanket amnesia spell, but they SURE DO REGRET IT

wide enough and wild by impossibletruths (E, 64k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Getting Together, Canonical Accidental Baby Acquisition, Families of Choice, References to Depression, Happy Ending, I Swear To God I’m Giving Them A Happy Ending, Overzealous Use Of Imagery, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Well Except WN But He Was Already Dead So, Fix-It of Sorts) he does go back

The Line Between Good and Evil by Dandelion_sama (G, 34k, wangxian, Canon Divergence, What-If, Rebirth, Time Travel, kind of Mass Reborn, reverse uno, Canon-Typical Violence, WIP)

The Best I Can by Zephyr (ZephyrAndTheSilverfish) (T, 26k, LJY & WWX, wangxian, WWX talking to his donkey, Canon Divergence, Light Angst, Drama, Recovery, Coming of Age, Secret Identity Fail, Friendship, Rogue Cultivator LWJ, Road Trips, POV Multiple, Happy Ending)

focal, filler, and line by bosbie (T, 26k, wangxian, canon divergence, flower shop au, fluff, hurt/comfort, pining, falling in love, WWX is not recognized in Dafan mountain, slice of life, WIP)

🔒 My Reason To Live by HeloSoph (Not rated, 3k, LSZ & WWX, Post-First Siege of the Burial Mound, Child LSZ, He's actually a Wei..., Suicidal Thoughts, Not Cultivation world friendly, Not JC friendly, not NMJ friendly, not LQR friendly, not JGS friendly, YLLZ WWX, WWX Deserves Better, And this time... he knows this..., A-Yuan is the best boy, Parent-Child Relationship, Parent WWX, BAMF WWX, wwx and a-yuan leave the BM..., WWX Leaves The Cultivation World, and they set on a journey to find a new home...)

And They Have Escaped The Weight of Darkness by cosmicmilktea (T, 10k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Amnesia, Memory Loss, Grief/Mourning, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Screw the Cultivation world tbh, The Lan precepts deserves better, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Falling In Love, domestic life, Social justice boyfriends wangxian, Happy Ending)

Home isn’t Where the Heart is. by Hauntcats (Not Rated, 7k, WangXian)

Lay my body down by tawaen (M, 48k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Rogue Cultivator WWX, Eventual WangXian, No Golden Core Transfer, Not Cultivation World Friendly, Canon-Typical Violence, Not Jiāng Chéng Friendly)

( 🔒 but I'm not in charge of sorrow (so please don't ask me when) by Tavina (M, 75k, NHS & NMJ, NHS & OCs, LXC & NHS, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Passive Suicidal Ideation, Found Family, Unconventional Families, Families of Choice, Post-Canon, Post-Guānyīn Temple Scene, What’s a Reconciliation Anyway?, Internalized Acephobia, Depression, Mental Health Issues, An Absolute Boatload of Nie OCs, Background characters and relationships, Intergenerational Trauma, the Horrific Persistence of Memory, NHNS Needs a Hug, NMJ is dead even when he's alive, JGY is also dead but like you get the impression he used to be alive, Sometimes 'just walk out' IS the answer, Non-Chronological, lots of people are dead in this fic and this fic is about why it's not okay) If you’d like another character doing the same thing, ie fucking off and leaving the cultivator world )

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2. Helloooo, can I have for the next ITMF some fics with something like ghost WWX? I know there's a tag but I've seen some fics where the authors don't tag them with that, and some where he's not actually a ghost (more like a memory or apparition?) that shows up randomly in the cultivation world. Both work for me (just no JC bashing please!). Thank you! @jiangclaritybell

🧡 Ghosts Shouldn’t by ShanaStoryteller (Not Rated, 15k, WangXian, Grief/Mourning, Canon Divergence, Angst with a Happy Ending)

asymptotic by chinxe (T, 26k, wangxian, Canon Divergence, Angst with a Happy Ending, Slow Burn, Misunderstandings, Pining, for 20+ years as per the course with lwj)

🔒 The Time Traveler's Soul by mondengel (Not rated, 2k, wangxian, time travel, podfic by flamingwell)

🔒 scatter and sunder by silversshadow (T, 15k, XuanLi, WangXian, Temporary Character Death, Canon Divergence)

Teatime with the Dead by Winxhelina (T, 6k, wangxian, Ghost WWX, Love Confessions, Kisses, Happy Ending, Fluff and Angst,bGhost City)

one good thing by Yuu_chi (T, 26k, WangXian, Modern AU, Ghost WWX, Angst and Humor, Angst with a Happy Ending, I swear there really is a happy ending, And an alarming amount of rabbits, [Podfic] One Good Thing by jellyfishfire)

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3.

Are there any fics which feel like this?

Or where wwx feels like this?

Thankyou very much

Also all these arts are by Ibuki Satsuki @constellationdks

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4. Hi! I’m looking for fics where wwx cries in the middle of the night and lwj comforts him and vise versa maybe they woke the other up bc they were sobbing. Wangxian hugs and having emotional intimacy each other. Thank you!

hunters seeking solid ground by Attila (E, 23k, WangXian, Canon Compliant, discussion of canon character death, Hurt/Comfort, Nightmares, bed sharing, Getting Together, Yearning, Literal Sleeping Together, Really Excessive Amounts of Hurt/Comfort) here's a GREAT fic that's all about that

hold me close by gentil-minou (Flyingsuits) (E, 13k, WangXian, Post-Canon, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Established Relationship, Porn with Feelings, Emotional Sex, Grief, Mental Health Issues, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, Character Study, Masturbation, Oral Sex, Anal Sex) If I may plug my own fic, there's a scene where lwj wakes from a nightmare and cries and wwx comforts him

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5. inmf lwj whump. the heavier, the better. happy ending appreciated, but not necessary. Physical whump is nice, but ain't picky. Thank you for the hard work! @jawla-mukhi

Stained With Blood and Tears by FaramirsBlessing (G, 63k, wangxian, LXC/JC, Hurt/Comfort, Heavy Angst w Happy Ending, Hurt LWJ, Doctors & Physicians, Chinese medicine, Medical Procedures, Major Character Injury, Injury Recovery, Pet Names, People cry, Bedside Vigils, nobody dies tho, Sad WWX, Night Hunts, Post-Canon, JC is a good brother, Poisoning, Forehead Kisses, Hair Braiding, Hair Brushing, WWX loves his husband's hair okay, Cuddling & Snuggling, Delirium, mix of novel and series, so much hand holding, Chaste Kisses, resentful energy, the juniors ship all the adults, they are the humor in this tbh, PTSD, Перевод на русский | Translation in Russian)

New Perspective Series by mrcformoso (T, 35k, WangXian, Angst, Hopeful Ending, Fatherhood, Regrets, Flashbacks, POV LWJ, LWJ-centric, Canonical Character Death - WWX, Pining LWJ, LWJ Has Feelings Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī Needs a Hug, Character Development, Dead WWX, Introspection, LWJ is Bad at Feelings, Character Study, Regretful, LWJ Breaking Toxic Cycles, Canon Compliant, LWJ in Seclusion, Post-LWJ in Seclusion, Child LSZ)

a buried and burning flame by otherhippo (hippopotamus) (T, 17k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death, Implied/Referenced Torture, Kinda dark?, Angst with a Happy Ending, does it count as bedsharing if theres...no bed, Imprisonment, Hurt/Comfort)

Across the street to another life by danegen (M, 99k, WangXian, Modern AU, unleashed au, Family Fluff, Set in America, Hurt/Comfort, Past Child Abuse, Addiction, Crime, Amnesia, Ableist Language, another fridged mother, POV Alternating, past wwx/ofc, past wwx/omc, Medium parent YZY, A-Yuan is wwx's biological son, Musicians, Happy Ending)

🔒the map of days by everythingispoetry (M, 20k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Permanent Injury, Recovery, Disability, Parenthood, Character Study, Thirteen Years of WWX's Death)

Alter by Solmae (E, 162k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Drama & Romance, Slow Burn, Canon-Typical Violence, Rape/Non-con Elements, Gang Rape, Forced Prostitution, PTSD, Top/Bottom Versatile | Switch WangXian, Explicit Sexual Content, Sexual Slavery, Angst with a Happy Ending, Implied/Referenced Torture) LWJ is kept as a sex slave by the Wen sect

hold me close by gentil-minou (Flyingsuits) (E, 13k, WangXian, Post-Canon, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Established Relationship, Porn with Feelings, Emotional Sex, Grief, Mental Health Issues, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, Character Study, Masturbation, Oral Sex, Anal Sex) LWJ struggles with WWX's death, even after WWX's return

Lan Yuan's War by BurningTea (G, 196k, WIP, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Angst, Sick LWJ, Hurt/comfort, Eventual Happy Ending)

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6. itmf fic where wwx cheats on lwj

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7. itmf fics about granny wen! any fics about granny wen being a bamf, or being the (grand)parental all of our favs desperately need. looking for feel good fics. some angst is okay, but a happy ending is a must. ty all!

Lay my body down by tawaen (M, 48k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Rogue Cultivator WWX, Eventual WangXian, No Golden Core Transfer, Not Cultivation World Friendly, Canon-Typical Violence, Not Jiāng Chéng Friendly) Not sure if this counts as it's not really about Granny Wen, but she does become sect leader of the Wen Remnants in this & mingles with other sect leaders at a discussion conference

Granny Knows Best by The_Snarkivist (T, 5k, OYZZ/WN, JL/LSZ, Getting Together, Fluff, Accidental Elderly Acquisition, More OYZZ content in 2022 agenda, WN Centric, Let WN Be Happy Agenda, Happy Ending, fast burn, Granny does know best, POV WN, Post-Canon)

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8. hii how are you? I'm in the mood for a fic where either wwx or lwj go incoherent (sexually maybe) and the other takes care of them.

thank u sm for ur work and time!! @mercurygirlwt28

To Know, To Be Known Series by cqlorphan (E, 38k, WangXian, PWP, Bottom LWJ, Top WWX, Cock Warming, Multiple Orgasms, Marathon Sex, Under-negotiated Kink, Porn with Feelings, Aftercare, Dom/sub Undertones, Established Relationship, sex tears, gratuitous use of names, Begging, this is actually...really soft, Kink Discovery, Post-Canon, Switch WangXian, Cock rings, Rimming, Edging) Lwj definitely goes incoherent a few times!

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9. Please recommend some wangxian mafia au/ dark wangji modern au fics . Moreover Mafia wangji is so hott🥵 @itzweiwuxian

🔒🧡 Rule Number One: Never get attached. by KizuKatana (E, 130k, WangXian, Modern AU, A/B/O, Criminal underworld AU, Fluff and angst, Crime boss LWJ, Rouge criminal genius WWX, Explicit Sex)

to give a snapdragon by suton (T, 1k, WangXian, Modern AU, Mob, Dark LWJ, Minor ZhuiYi, Ambiguous/Open Ending) Short but sweet!

luminous by azuresummer (E, 50k, WIP, WangXian, Dom/sub, Dom/sub Undertones, Dominant LWJ, Submissive WWX, Modern AU, Merpeople, A/B/O Dynamics, Dark LXC, Dark LWJ, Possessive LWJ, Protective LWJ, Crime Boss LWJ, Omega WWX, Siren WWX, Merperson WWX, Hurt WWX, WWX Whump, Precious WWX, Spoiled WWX, WWX Has a Fear of Dogs, Hurt/Comfort, Panic Attacks, Nesting, Scenting, Power Imbalance, Obsession, Kidnapping, Organized Crime, Mild Gore, Minor Character Death, Excessive Amounts of Tenderness, Pining LWJ, Dark WangXian)

We do have a Mafia / Cop / Detective / Thief comp if you haven't checked it out yet ^^

how to be a heartbreaker by sweetlolixo (E, 105k, WangXian, Modern AU, Sugar Daddy LWJ, Sugar Baby WWX, Dark WWX, Dark LWJ, Pining LWJ, Possessive LWJ, Crossdressing WWX, Seductress WWX, Eventual Happy Ending, Dirty Talking LWJ, They Do Fall In Love and there’s Fluff, Dark!Wangxian, Power Couple, Off the Charts Sexual Tension, Size Kink, Daddy Kink, degradation kink) lwj darker in the 2nd part of this, this one is real good too. 2nd part has ambiguous ending.

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10. Hello! I'd like to make a request for the next fic finder- it's not necessarily itmf, more like "does it exist?" Crossover with tgcf, but focusing on a Guzi and A-Yuan friendship? I've only ever seen 2 artworks (both from the same artist). And I've tried searching, but no luck, does anyone else know if such a story exists? Or is too niche a request? Thank you ❤ @theladypeartree

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11. Hello! I'm in the mood of a fic where Wwx feels hurt/insecure about Lwj not burning paper money to him while he was dead. @annebaneriddle

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12. Hi! For ITMF, could you recommend me a fic where WWX collect children and become their father figure/mentor? I want MXY is one of those children if you can but other is fine too. I prefer if its not modern AU, except if it was modern with cultivation/magic. Thank you! @idontknowwhattowriteforusername

❤️ Seen and not heard by eatmyass (E, 51k, wangxian, case fic, no sunshot, kid fic, dadxian, strangers to lovers, found family, LWJ pov, pining, fake/pretend relationship, first time, falling in love)

Attempting the Impossible by Ariaste (T, 36k, WangXian, JC & WWX, Post-Canon, Yunmeng Bros Reconciliation, Adoption, Family Fluff, Kid fic, Family drama, Fluff, [PODFIC] Attempting the Impossible by Ariaste by lunatique)

🔒and having a marvelous time by varnes (E, 108k, WangXian, Yúnmèng Siblings, Sound of Music AU, (i know!!! i know. stay with me on this.), Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Family Feels, spies to lovers???, Protective Siblings, Sometimes You Just Want Your Dads To Admit They're Your Dads, Angst with a Happy Ending)

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13. I'm looking for niche au fics! The more obscure the better: I've previously encountered figure skating, amish, cave diving, and surgeon aus. No WIPS please :) @mostergreentea

Into the Depths by elytchaeke (T, 47k, WangXian, Modern AU, Cave Diving, Slow Burn, not that slow, Speluncaphobia, Claustrophobia, Descriptions of Corpses, Drowning, Minor Character Death, Minor Violence, Sharing Body Heat, The Inherent Eroticism of Wordless Communication, Corpse Handling) cave diving fic that op is talking about

The Amish AU by bufflehead, goofs_n_gaffs (T, 13k, WangXian, XuanLi, Modern AU, but they're amish, Crack, Not taken seriously, Slurpee Acquisition, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, Cloud Recesses Shenanigan, rated h for hector, pitchforks, References to Shakespeare, Cultural Appropriation, of the amish, Fishing, Buggies, Violence Against Chickens, Bad Cooking, Goose Metaphors, First Kiss, Party Host JW) amish fic that op is talking about

Always Be Closing by betts (E, 32k, WangXian, QingXian, Modern AU, America, Office, Kid Fic, Drunken Kissing, Semi-Public Sex, Sexting, Divorce, Falling In Love, Bank Robbery, Secret Relationship, Co-workers) commercial lending au

🧡 Faire thee well by Scrippio (T, 77k, WangXian , ChengQing, XuanLi, 3Zun, Modern AU, Renaissance Faire, Mutual Pining, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Slow Burn)

[Podcast] New Year, New Pod! jellyfishfire, kisahawklin (G, 2.5-3 hrs, Modern AU, Streaming, MP3, Cold Read, Trailers, Recommendations) @kisahawklin and @jellyfishfire did a great podcast recommending various fic and podfic where MDZS cast have unusual (for them) occupations. I bet a bunch of these would scratch your itch!

there is no limited dimensions by Stratisphyre (M, 122k, WangXian, NieLan, MianQing, WN/Other(s), Star Trek Fusion, Canon-Typical Violence, Slow Burn, Friends to Lovers, Assumed Character Death, Minor Character Death Tags on Each Chapter, references to non-con, references to canonical slavery, (The Orion Syndicate is just really bad okay?), bizarre space mpreg, Implied Future Pairings, Implied NHS/Others, POV Multiple, Accidental Child Acquisition, Found Family, Implied Future 3zun, Genius WWX) Star Trek AU (you don't need any familiarity with star trek to read)

Waiting for Spring Series by thievinghippo (E, 225k, WangXian, Modern AU, Sports, Baseball, Switch WangXian, mentions of past emotional abuse, slight angst, Happy Ending, Pining, Masturbation)

Creatures of Emotion by thievinghippo (E, 33k, WangXian, Modern AU, Rimming, Phone Sex, Blow Jobs, Office Sex)

light a lantern (and guide me home) by xuanxuanwo (ostentatiouslyrealistic) (T, 63k, WangXian, Moth WWX, Witch LWJ, Tea, Plants, Mountains, Loneliness, Curses, Curse Breaking, Melancholy, Friendship, Romance, Angst with a Happy Ending, Thunderstorms, Fluff and Angst, Minor Character Death, Memories) mothxian/witchji!

Wei Wuxian Makes a Wish series by natcat5 (M, 119k, wangxian, major character death, underage, madoka magica au, modern w/ magic, time travel, high school au, body horror, self-harm, angst w/ bittersweet ending, time loop, mental instability, suicidal thoughts) incredible madoka magical au

🧡🔒 Night of the Living History (an edutainment special!) by Aerlalaith (T, 51k, WangXian, Modern with Magic, Workplace Relationship, Fluff and Humor, Museums, living history, Some Plot, Slice of Life, Injury, a minor haunting) living cultivation history museum au

🧡 A Knight in Shining Armor by thievinghippo (G, 6k, WangXian, Modern AU, Single Parent WWX, Fluff, Meet-Cute)

Falling to the Rhythm by Selenay (E, 128k, WangXian, Modern: No Powers, Dance, Strictly Come Dancing Fusion, Ballroom Dancing, Dancer!WWX, Violinist LWJ, Pining While Dancing, Oblivious WWX, Gratuitous Costume Descriptions, Gratuitous dancing descriptions, Slow Burn, [Podfic] Falling to the Rhythm by semperfiona_podfic (semperfiona))

Covered in Bees by ScarlettStorm (T, 8k, WangXian,Modern AU, Beekeeping AU, Meet-Cute, Comedy, Fluff, Bees)

🔒some things go forward by everythingispoetry (T, 73k, WangXian, Modern AU, Hospitals, Teenage Drama, Slow Burn, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Happy Ending)

Wei Wuxian’s Home for Lost Creatures by Stratisphyre (G, 22k, WangXian, Modern with Magic, Fusion, Fluff, Single Dad LWJ, Near Drowning, injured animals, First Meetings, Falling In Love)

as if you were a mythical thing by daltoneering (M, 17k, WangXian, Historical, Science Fiction, Magical Realism, Steampunk, Getting Together, Fluff and Angst, Light Angst, WWX Master of Clocks)

🧡 Yiling Salon: Hair, Nails and Piercing by TriviasFolly (T, 22k, WangXian, Modern AU, hairstylist AU, WWX owns a salon, Hairstylist WWX, 5+1 Things, Fluff, Experimental Style)

C’est toi pour moi by eatmyass (T, 49k, WangXian, Jab We Met AU, Modern AU, Strangers to Lovers, travelling, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Sharing a Bed, Fluff, Slow Burn, Pining, POV LWJ, Endgame WangXian, All Is Not As It Seems, No cheating whatsoever!, Paris: the city of hate)

🧡 don’t threaten me with a good time by livinginaworldofnoise (G, 60k, WangXian, Modern AU, Great British bake off AU, Script format, Fluff and Crack, Reality TV, Social media)

Welcome to the Great Gusu Bake Off! series by BlackWiresOnHerHead (G, 59k, Modern, College/University AU, The Great British Bake Off AU, Humor)

💖 Pentimento. by orange_crushed (E, 73k, wangxian, modern, college/university au, art conservation, museums, pining, not actually unrequited love, angst w/ happy ending, misunderstandings, smut, major character injury, hospitalization, hurt/comfort, past incarceration, forgery)

always on my mind series by sami (E, 41k, wangxian, LWJ/Others, LWJ & JYL, Modern, references to past LWJ/others, references to past WWX/WQ, Family, Sexual Tension set in the early 90s, Grief, Erratic Gay Superstar Musician LWJ, life is what happens in the in between, Fluff, Children, Pregnancy, not mpreg, Parenthood, Music Videos, LWJ's Gremlin Tendencies, WWX's Gremlin Tendencies, Drag, Daytime Television, Bitches Get Things Done, fictional daytime talk shows, Q&A, Slice of Life, Awards shows, any resemblance between OCs and real people living or dead are coincidental I swear, Communication, and how LWJ is bad at it, LWJ's weirdly wholesome kink inclinations, LWJ's aggressively artistic musical career, References to Major Character Death, Celebrity stuff, Superstar musican LWJ)

🧡 I Don't Want to Debut! by countingcr0ws (G, 56k, wangxian, Modern, Reality Show, Idols, Celebrity, Social Media, Epistolary, Romance, Fluff, Footnotes, Kissing, Poetry, Podfic Available)

You're Home, I'm Home by Pip (Moirail) (E, 8k, WangXian, Modern AU, Ice Skating, Olympics, Falling In Love, Anal Sex, Rimming, Unsafe Sex, Creampie, Ice skater LWJ, Hockey player WWX)

down by the water by astrolesbian (E, 60k, WangXian, Slow Burn, Modern AU, Friends to Lovers, Surfer LWJ, Surfer WWX, Loneliness, complicated family relationships, mention of drowning, but no actual drowning is described, fluff and smut and angst, Reconciliation)

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14. itmf fics set during the cloud recesses study arc, with wwx and lwj exploring their sexualities with each other... basically having sex which is underage, but wholeheartedly consensual and wholesome. just the vibes being them excited cause they really like each other but its their first times, so they want to be careful. bottom!lwj preferred, or with neither topping or bottoming.

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15. itmf lwj being held hostage or used as blackmail

Alter by Solmae (E, 162k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Drama & Romance, Slow Burn, Canon-Typical Violence, Rape/Non-con Elements, Gang Rape, Forced Prostitution, PTSD, Top/Bottom Versatile | Switch WangXian, Explicit Sexual Content, Sexual Slavery, Angst with a Happy Ending, Implied/Referenced Torture) (link in #5) Alter works for this request as well since LWJ is being held prisoner to ensure LXC's good behaviour

the field meets the wood by astronicht (T, 7k, WangXian, BAMF WWX, slight whump, Ritualistic Self Harm, Canon Era, Tang Dynasty style, Blood Loss, Blood and Injury, salt economics, Post-Canon, [Podfic] the field meets the wood by semperfiona_podfic (semperfiona), [podfic] the field meets the wood by jellyfishfire)

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16. Hey, here after a long time. Hope you guys are doing well.

ITMF everyone simping over Wei WuXian. Something like Touch That Body, (It's Not Mine) @tinyfoxpeach

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17. heyy there thanks for your hard work! do you have any fic recs on wangixan post canon married life that's basically fluff? or any fics that wwx is injured or sick and lwj gets worried, protective and looks after him? thanks in advance! :) @aquiver-heart

small mercies by mellowflicker (E, 11k, WangXian, Post-Canon Fix-It, as in wwx doesn't walk away but stays to take care of his zhanzhan, Chief Cultivator LWJ, Getting Together, Domestic Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Switching)

the lives of birds by bleuett (E, 15k, WangXian, Post-Canon, Domestic Fluff, Gardens & Gardening, Fluff and Humor, Family Feels, Established Relationship, Anal Sex, Rimming, Blow Jobs)

As You Like It by cosmicmilktea (T, 8k, WangXian, Chief Cultivator LWJ, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Tea, Finding out preferences, Childhood Memories, Yunmeng trio feels, child rearing, Post-Canon, Very Very Light Angst, Fluff) Such lovely married wangxian. Wwx researching and helping lwj learn what is to his taste (literally, as in tea and food)

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would you ever write a modern/no-powers au for dreamling/sandman?

"Look, Mee," Hob says, for the fourth or fifth time that conversation. "I'm sure your brother is, uh, great, but I'm not sure -- "

"Come on," his best friend says, also for the fourth or fifth time that conversation. "Honestly, you'd be doing me a massive favor. I can barely get him out of the house most days, so I figured that at least the two of you could faff off and be really pathetic together?"

"Thanks." Hob switches the phone to his other ear and glares suspiciously out at the garden; when you've got two small children and it's quiet, you figure something's gone terribly amiss. Robyn and Alison haven't burnt the place down or gotten run over in traffic, but they're playing with something small, muddy and possibly still alive, and Hob debates whether he has to sprint out and save them from certain death. "You're a great friend, truly."

"I know," Morticia says airily. That does, bewilderingly, seem to be her actual name (were her parents massive Addams Family fans or something?) but with Hob and the rest of her friends, she generally goes by Mors, or Mee for short. He looked it up once. Ancient Roman god(dess) of death, which made him laugh, at least when it didn't kick him in the teeth. "You can thank me later."

"And I want to spend time with your brother... why?"

"Because." Oh God, here it comes. He can hear her trying not to say it, the same way everyone's tried not to say it in the going-on-eighteen months since his wife went into an ordinary central-London NHS hospital to give birth to their second child and didn't come back out. "You know it would be good for you, Robbie."

"Right." Hob's voice turns wry. "Can't have me wallowing alone in my misery? You know I've got the kids to look after, and they're talking about extending my contract at Birkbeck. I'm keeping busy."

Keeping busy. It always sounds stupid, even if it's the truth. Like you can chase overwhelming, soul-crushing grief away just by getting out of bed and making breakfast for the kids, holding Robyn's hand as you trundle off on the school run and tell him to have a good day, the thousand and one ways you think you're massively arsing this up and Ellie would have been so much better. Every time the doorbell rings or someone comes up the walk, he thinks -- for a stupid moment he thinks -- and then of course it isn't. You think about women dying in childbirth like it's something out of medieval times, or some third-world country. Not in England in the twenty-first century. Not in London. Not as if your daughter is beautiful and bright and alive, and every time you look at her, you remember that her mother isn't, and the happiness you feel is poisoned by grief again, cold and blue and endless as the ocean. You laugh with the kids at some Disney cartoon one moment, and the next, you're crying alone in the kitchen, in bed, in the silent darkness. And no matter how much you ask, she doesn't answer. You think she does, sometimes. You're just fooling yourself.

You know, Hob thinks. Maybe it would be good for him. At least it would let him spend time with (if Mee's account is anything to go by) the one man in all of London more pathetic than him. It doesn't have to be anything more than that. Even if she is trying to set him up, she wouldn't admit it. She isn't, surely? Trying to match her brother off with her best friend, widowed-single-dad-part-time-lecturer who's clinging onto sanity by the bare edge of his fingernails? Right? Fuck. Should never have told her that he's bi. Doubled her meddling possibilities at a stroke. And yet. He's so lonely, he almost doesn't care.

"Fine," Hob says resignedly. "I'll see if I can get a sitter for the kids. And it better not be that grotty brewery in Shepherd's Bush you dragged me to last time."

"No." Mee sounds like she's laughing at him. She probably is laughing at him, or else she thinks he's become such a pathologically undatable freak that his only chance for happiness ever again is with her equally pathetic little brother. "Nice new Asian-fusion place. Hammersmith. Fifteen minutes from you on the Tube. Don't chicken out, Robert."

And with that, well --

There's pretty much no choice.

Hob finds a sitter for the kids, promises to pay her twenty quid an hour (it's London, after all), and grumblingly picks out some clothes. He's not good at this. It's been almost ten years since he was dating anyone, and Eleanor was from a rich enough family that there was no chance of ever impressing her parents; he could have turned up in anything from Savile Row to a bloody dishcloth and they still would have hated him. Then he finds himself fucking around to the point where he's going to be late, the Tube will be a nightmare anyway, and panics again and rushes out the door with barely a word about what to feed the kids and when to put them to bed. Is nice Olivia from down the street judging him? She almost surely is.

Hob grimly toddles off to Hammersmith, exits into a light rain, and spends an inordinate amount of time searching for the restaurant. When he finally steps inside, he's not quite sure who he's looking for. Mee texted him a picture of her brother, but Hob has trouble believing that such a pale, pasty, and terminally uncharismatic twink could ever be related to her. One of them has to be adopted, and he's laying money on this one, whose name is -- no, seriously -- Morpheus. Morticia and Morpheus. What is wrong with their parents? Determined to doom their children to an eternity of primary-school torment?

Hob contemplates turning around and leaving, but now he's come this far, Olivia will definitely judge him if he returns within the hour, and frankly, he's judging himself. Even worse, he's fairly sure he's just spotted his man. Morpheus (come on, really?) is sitting by himself at a corner table, looking appropriately dark and broody, in his emo-goth dark coat and toilet-brush hair. Just like the photo. He's admittedly not bad-looking in person; he's got a pale, chiseled beauty that is briefly arresting, almost unearthly. Still, though. Definitely a wanker.

"Hello," Hob says, deciding to bite the bullet. He strides over, hand outstretched. "I'm Robert Gadling, and I think you're the bloke I'm supposed to be meeting? I know your sister."

Morpheus's mouth makes a small lemon-sucking motion. He rises to his feet, regards Hob's hand as if not certain what to do with it and/or wondering if he can get away with not touching it, and finally shakes it, brief and cold and dry. "I am," he says curtly. "You may sit."

Well, good. Glad they got His Majesty's permission. No unauthorized sitting happening here, no sir. Resisting the urge to roll his eyes, Hob puts his bag on the floor and slides into the chair across from Morpheus. Like every Londoner at a loss for a better opening line, he reaches for the weather. "Shame about this piss, isn't it? And it was all the way up to twenty degrees last week. Did you have to come far?"

"No," Morpheus says, still not displaying any particular delight in being forced to spend this evening in the presence of another human being and looking as if he is very much hoping the floor will suddenly open up and swallow him. "Not far."

Hob waits, in vain, on the chance that Morpheus might elaborate. He does not. Well. This is going swimmingly. Are they on a date? Did Mee tell him that they were on a date? Is Hob sure this isn't an extremely elaborate prank, and she just plucked one of her single friends from the vast and bewildering mystery of her acquaintances? Truly, it is no wonder that Morpheus is, in fact, unattached. He's got the personality of a soggy rag and the face of -- well, not that. He is pretty. But Hob is not that shallow. Thanks very much.

Conversation suffers badly until they order drinks and food; or rather Hob orders, and Morpheus says that he'll take just a glass of wine. He does loosen up slightly as they talk; Hob does most of that, but Morpheus listens with cool, intent attention. From time to time he asks a question, but he doesn't interrupt, and finally Hob, trying to make it as light-hearted as "my wife died eighteen months ago and this is the first not-date I've been on ever since" can possibly be, admits it. He braces for Morpheus to get up, to run, to fire off an indignant text to Morticia or anything else, but he doesn't. He just nods once. "I'm sorry," he says quietly. "I know that it is... difficult."

All of a sudden, Hob is forced to consider the startling and unsettling possibility that Morpheus himself knows something about this. He can't say why or how that might be, but life is full of mysteries. "I -- yeah." It's an abject relief to say it and to have someone acknowledge it simply and matter-of-factly, not smother him with sympathy or cluck about how hard it is. "So if I'm off my game, that, uh. That's why."

Morpheus thinks about that for a long moment. Then all at once, out of nowhere, he smiles. It completely transforms his face, it twists like a fishhook in Hob's gut, and all of a sudden, he wonders in alarm if he is, in fact, entirely that shallow after all. "Believe me, Hob Gadling," Morpheus says. "It has very much been my pleasure."

[pettyrevenge-base]

No you can't have new years eve off.

So I started a new job this year and up until recently I've genuinely been enjoying it. There's some colleagues I've bonded with really well with and I'm actually really good at what I do. I work in primary care for the NHS (UK) and patients are always telling me how helpful and how kind I am. Since I joined in January, 6 patients have bought me chocolates/flowers by way of a thank you for fixing certain problems for them. For the first time in a really long time I feel like I've found some sort of calling. As lame as that sounds. But recently my days have become increasingly difficult.

4 months into my employment my colleague (let's call her Trish) who trained me up had to take some time out for a health issue so I spent 3 months basically doing the job without her, and at times it was incredibly stressful being the only person able to perform the job. Admittedly there was maybe one or two days it was too much and I had to run off for a small cry before getting back out there. However, eventually ended up taking it in my stride and thus gained praise and respect from colleagues and patients alike. But when it was said Trish was coming back I was relieved because I thought it would give me a bit more breathing room. I was wrong.

Now I'll preface all of this by saying that Trish isn't particularly well liked. She's known for being blunt to the point of cruelty both to patients and coworkers, she's snappy, and rude to pretty much everyone. There's negative comments regarding her on Google fir crying out loud. She's had umpteen complaints against her but they keep her around as she's worked there for around 20+ years. When she went on leave, granted I didn't know her that well, but we got on well and in spite of everyone bad mouthing her behind her back or making snarky comments when she went into a different room, I stood up for her. No one was particularly overjoyed she was coning back from leave other than me.

For the first few days she was back she went straight back to trying to "train" me in spite of the fact I'd been doing everything solo since her absence. Which rubbed me up the wrong way a little but I ignored it. The last time I saw her I was still regularly asking questions. So that's fair enough. But even though she could see I was quite capable and competent she kept talking to me like a moron so I had to be quite blunt with her and tell her I'd been doing the job by myself perfectly well with 0 help from her or anyone so I didn't need to be "refreshed" with training.

Since then (July) the relationship has soured somewhat. We're civil when it comes to work stuff but outside of that we don't really talk. Until a couple of weeks ago. I had a particularly difficult patient call up 3 days in a row and I just needed to vent. In my head it came under the headline of "work related" so I vented to Trish about the patient, she agreed the patient was difficult and I did the correct thing for them etc. I thanked her for letting me blow off some steam about it and went to do something else. I forgot something though so went back and caught Trish bitching about me to 2 other colleagues, calling me soft, a whingy cow, i just need to grow up and get on with it etc.. She was like a deer in headlights. Nothing was said between us but the whole next day she may as well have been kissing my arse.

Now my supervisor messaged me the other day re an extra holiday day around Christmas, Trish is on annual leave currently so the supervisor hadn't yet asked which extra day she wanted. From previous conversations with Trish I know she wanted to take the last few days of the year off so she could go over to Europe to spend NYE with her adult child. After the way she's treated me the last 2 months I felt like being incredibly petty so I asked for the day I knew she wanted and asked to use a couple of my annual leave days as I have "family commitments" meaning I had 3 days off, total, following the weekend (this was also going to be Trish's plan). My supervisor gave them to me. So that now means Trish won't be able to take the days off as there won't be any cover. I also know she's already booked her hotel and flights and she was just waiting for the supervisors to bring up the extra holidays.

So fuck you Trish.

TLDR; Caught a colleague slagging me off so knowingly booked annual leave for dates I knew colleague wanted. Colleague had booked hotel and flights to visit family for NYE. So now she won't be able to go as there won't be cover due to me having booked the time off.

Source: reddit.com/r/pettyrevenge

[living-with-herpes]

2 years on

So I completely forgot about this blog and have recently found it again.

It’s two years later and reading what I wrote makes me want to cry for myself. I honestly was so convinced my life was over and I can completely tell you, it is not!

I won’t lie, I was very low for a fair while and I cried about it a lot. I continued to google every which way under the sun and continued to terrify myself. I read so many statistics it made my mind swim.

But slowly I accepted what had happened.

I was so angry about it and so upset. I did some research into testing for it and in the uk apparently doctors don’t routinely test for herpes for 3 main reasons:

1) the tests are roughly 50% accurate if it is not swabbing an actual sore. A blood test will just test for antibodies and as not every person who carries the virus reacts to it, some people might be carrying the virus and not have needed to produce antibodies

2) the nhs doesn’t consider herpes to be dangerous enough to need testing for regularly. Let’s face it, you wouldn’t go to the doctor after kissing a stranger on a night out and ask them to take a blood test to test for a cold sore (hsv1 herpes) just in case

3) doctors consider the mental health implications of knowing you have the virus, worse than the symptoms of the virus itself so they almost think it’s better that sometimes people don’t know. I can personally attest to this.

Every site you go to the statistics vary slightly but the general consensus is that roughly 80% of the population have herpes (hsv1/hsv2).

I thought this diagnosis would be the end of my sex life, no one would want to touch me again. I was so wrong. Using barrier contraception like condoms really does minimise the potential for passing it on.

There is lots of talk on the internet of whether people need to disclose a herpes diagnosis or not to new partners. Again after all, people would disclose that they’ve had a cold sore before. I’m still undecided on this one but so far I have told my partners before sleeping with them. I can tell you now that no one has ran for the hills, in fact most don’t even care.

I’ve learnt a lot, in fact if I was on mastermind now I think my specialist subject could be herpes!

Basically the herpes virus lives in your nerves and can flare up from time to time, lots of things can trigger this from a cut, to stress or illness. Not every time you have a flare up, you have an actual outbreak with the little blisters. When you have a flare up with or without the blisters, it’s called viral shedding and this is called viral shedding. You are particularly contagious when viral shedding, and if you don’t always have blisters, this is why it’s so important to use protection as you don’t know when this happens.

Your first outbreak is usually considered the worst and in my experience it completely was! Since then I’ve had a few outbreaks. But now an outbreak consists of one tiny blister.

My doctors put my antiviral on a repeat prescription for me so I have made it so that I always have a pack in my bathroom cupboard so I can start them as soon as I feel one coming. It’s only a two day course.

Honestly it doesn’t affect my life massively at all now. It’s all manageable and I had no reason to worry.

Obviously I would prefer to have continued living my life without herpes. But it really is no different now I’m living with it.

I’m even now at the point where sometimes I go weeks without remembering that I have herpes.

Honestly all I could say to someone going through a diagnosis is, be sad if you need to be for a while but know there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it does not mean your life is over.

Xo

[187days]

Day Ninety-One

Today was the last day of the semester, which means it was the last day of APGOV. A few of my students brought me gifts and thank you cards, as well as college banners to add to my classroom collection (I pin them below my whiteboard). That was really sweet.

They'd had all semester to find a way to participate in the political process, so today they shared what they'd done and what they learned from it. Some had gone to local board meetings, others to presidential candidates' campaign events, others to issue forums. It was really neat to hear all about their experiences and what they'd learned, and it's a good way to end class because it celebrates the fact that they got out there and got involved- and hopefully will continue to do so! The best thing the eighteen-year-olds said to me was that they were carpooling to their local polling places with their friends to vote for the first time as soon as their classes were over.

It's pretty cool that their last day in my class was the day of the NH primary.

It's a tradition of mine to write a letter to deliver one last lesson and say goodbye to my GOV students, which, somehow, none of them had heard about, so I got to surprise them with them with that. A few read what I'd written right away, a few said they'd cry if they did that, and that probably would have made me cry, too! It's not really goodbye, though, because one of the congressmen who's a longtime friend of the class is coming to visit tomorrow, so these students are going to stick around one more day (with permission from their second semester teachers), along with my new students, to talk to him.

So that'll be fun.

Meantime, in Global Studies, I attempted to teach the same thing I'd taught yesterday, just to the other two sections. I say "attempted" because, while it went totally well in the first section, the fire alarm went off during the second.

Obviously, that was not planned, and now they're a bit behind. I'll get them caught up, though!

[llycaons]

ep22 (pt 1): SOUPGATE

aw man look at them. up on the roof like old times

and wwx is SO fondly nostalgic of CR! iirc, he only has good things to say about it from the LP attack on out. they're probably some of the last happy memories he has, carefree and innocent and young where the worst he can fear is a whipping and a scolding. and lwj is clearly a bit baffled bc they fought all the time back then but wwx is like 🥰 about it

this is not great but it IS a step up from 'wicked tricks'

oh jesus. I don't think we hear him talk about BM a lot, but that's fucking bleak

oh here he's worried about what do you call it. qi deviation. had to google it 😭

iirc this was mistranslated. he was promising not qi deviate here, only that

aww his smile when lwj offers to help him. he's relieved he doesn't have to lose him! I think he knows having a relaitonship would be impossible under these conditions but he's just glad that they can be buddies again. which they are! for the rest of this episode, they are literally not five feet from each other in almost every scene

aww nhs. I've seen ppl joke abt lwj drinking vinegar here but I've been watching his face and it literally didn't change at all from when nhs was calling goodbye. lwj not being very expressive means ppl tend to project on him a lot it seems. if he is jealous here, he doesn't show it

that's like 20 people....such an army lmao

oh god oh fuck

so when people become puppetified they just...burst into flame sometimes and then emerge as puppets. man, but this is really so boring

this shot was kind of neat

and this was funny. a zombie grabbing a jin cultivator by the leg and bodily throwing him across the battlefield and it cutting to jzx looking concerned and mildly disgusted

this was dumb. you can KIND of tell it's meng yao and you hear his voice, but he's still blurry. weak reveal if it was meant to be

cool set deisgn here

it's very obvious they're just having people yell and growl...sounds a bit silly, they could have sound workshopped it maybe

nmj is a very brave and honorable leader, but this plan was not well thought out! was there REALLY nobody stronger or sneakier or more capable in the army? if he's taken alive, he would be a powerful hostage. and if he fails, the nie clan would fall to HUAISANG in the middle of a war. the army would lose one of its only leaders and maybe its strongest fighter besides wwx. it's a plan that makes sense given nmj's outlook that a leader should personally risk himself to do something important and spare his men, but it's not a wise choice. delegate, my man!

lxc's outfit is so pretty here. he may be in the middle of a war but that is no reason not to look sharp

HERE'S SOUPGATE. xuan lu is so good at crying I love her

mm voice: young master, you stupid fuck

oh this is so cruel. jyl is clearly timid and not graced with high self-esteem or social talents, and jzx is being dismissive of her in public. his men are snickering and he doesn't tell them to stop. DICK

out of context, an admirable perspective, but I feel like most of the time he doesn't really think about this. he just pulls it out to use as a weapon against someone like jyl who is of high birth but whose actions he's judging.

and then wwx physically attacks jzx and his men over it and lwj has to come in and calm him down kjahdksadkl

[atlafan]

Your relationship with your Nannie sounds so special and peaceful, I love that for you that you have her and her home as that place to go to!!

I'm very lucky that I have a "young" grandmother. She had my uncle at 18 and my mom at 19, so she was a young mom, and then her first grandkid, my cousin, was born when she was like 40??? So wild to even think about. And since I'm the youngest grandkid, I got to spend more time with her and my papa when they used to live in Boston. Like I was always with them and got to have the most sleepovers. My house was so toxic and dysfunctional, it was always a peaceful escape when I got to go to Nannie and Papa's. Even when they lived 20 minutes away, I'd cry when my mom or dad came to pick me up to bring me home. I never wanted to leave.

It was really hard on me when they moved to Florida. I was in the fourth grade. I got to visit them with my mom that year, and it was a blast. Then they got a place up in NH in the summer, and when I tell you that was better than summer camp?? It was. We'd go to the beach and the arcade, and I was actually given food to eat. Being with my grandparents truly were the only times I felt loved and cared for. I was their baby.

Then, since my papa was 18 years older than my nannie (both their second marriage lmao. I wasn't biologically related to him, but that man was my papa), they couldn't keep traveling back and forth. So, they'd come visit when they could, but it wasn't enough. When I was 15, I finally got to go to Florida by myself because I had a job and could buy the plane ticket on my own. It was wonderful, and I made it a yearly tradition. Mostly I'd go in the summer so it wouldn't conflict with school.

Every time I stepped off the plane, I was immediately put at ease. Florida was my happy place, and my grandparents were my sunshine. I miss my papa terribly, he died in 2016. But Nannie and I are still as close as ever. I have always been able to talk to her about anything, and we always make each other laugh. I am literally her little clone. We are so similar, it's scary. I get my road rage from her, I get my humor from her, and I get my bluntness from her. She always speaks up for herself and always says what's on her mind. And that's how I am at this point in my life. She's my whole world. I wish I could have stayed down there longer...but alas, I had to come home to Henry and get back to work. She's not going to be traveling up here much anymore since it's just too much work for her at this point. I'm the only one that really makes time to go down to visit with her. I know it's not feasible for my siblings or mom to go as often as I do, but...I can never understand why they don't feel that urge to be with her like I do. We all got to spend birthday weekends with my grandparents, and they always made us all feel special in our own way. So it bothers me that they don't call as often as I do, or send her cards for holidays/birthdays like I do. She and I shit talk them a lot, it's so validating lmao she and I just think the same about so much, it's so funny

I'm rambling now so I apologize! I had friends growing up that thought it was weird that I was so attached/close with my grandparents, so I always feel like I need to defend myself??? Anyways, yeah, I'm very lucky and privileged to have her

[mirandamckenni1]

Liked on YouTube: AUTISTICS, CHOOSE YOUR FORK! | Autism Memes || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVoxCnaeNRI || Autistic person reacts to Autism, ADHD & neurodivergent Memes! 💛 If you need more memes, here's the playlist 💛 : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEHi2YmjD7gEssdqTn0247t_niQMt2b22 00:00 Rusty spoons & forks! 00:08 High school WAS that bad 00:47 It's all autism 01:56 AuDHDers losing their phones... 03:19 which fork ARE YOU? 04:26 SALAD FINGERS 05:11 Autism in DA club 05:53 Endless pursuit of love 06:18 Just sleep through work it fine 07:14 How small talk feels from the inside... 07:47 autistic people don't like this... 08:56 The personality of the blank sheet of paper... 09:22 autism is my whole personality 10:49 Why is everyone autistic now? 13:40 Why are rocks SO COOL? 14:08 We don't have BPD lol 17:40 Trying not to be rude 18:36 plz invite us 19:19 Am I an alien or a robot? Videos I Mentioned: 10 Signs you have Pathological Demand Avoidance: https://youtu.be/1Uq1n8UQ3hc Do YOU Have Pathological Demand Avoidance??: https://youtu.be/XTdx_oSjLBs ALL the Socially Anxious | Actually Autistic Memes: https://youtu.be/6YYUfBDPzos Autistic Special Interests are NOT what you think: https://youtu.be/yaZ10mYCQsM References: The PDA Society: https://ift.tt/ZP1HjxW The first person diagnosed as autistic: https://ift.tt/yaWQs53 BBC I don't have ADHD, but three private clinics say I do: https://ift.tt/lWBxCYH Autistic children wait up for five years for an NHS appointment: https://ift.tt/vFi6sJt. What is borderline personality disorder: https://ift.tt/9FybEsm Salad fingers??: https://youtu.be/tfy1ffrftoE Thank you so much for taking to the time to watch! Feel free to make requests for future videos in the comments. DISCLAIMER: I am a second-year psychology student and a late-diagnosed #actuallyautistic individual. I am not a qualified healthcare professional. *Books I'd Recommend about Autism: Different not Less by Chloe Hayden (read if you want to cry): https://amzn.to/40fKx2m Aspergirls by Rudy Simone: https://amzn.to/3xSZ6Mg *Unmasking Autism by Devon Price: https://amzn.to/3LhMV3j *Links with a star are affiliate links. The channel will receive a small commission if you buy anything on Amazon after clicking through with this link. There's no extra cost to you and any money will go towards putting out more content. I'd love to post twice a week and put more time into research for these videos. Thank you so much - I really appreciate everyone sharing their stories in the comments.

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day. Welcome to the working week although, for those of you working in the NHS, welcome to just another day.

R.I.P. Cynthia Weil. With her partner Barry Mann, she co-wrote many beautiful songs including ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling’ by The Righteous Brothers and ‘Don’t Know Much’ by Aaron Neville & Linda Ronstadt.

The weekend got off to a great start! Friday night at The Tabernacle! They’ve got one turntable, a huge sound system and the DJs play seven-inch vinyl to a very appreciative crowd. Good vibes! Good to see legendary DJ Smokey Joe, who I first met at The Palm Tree Club on Fore Street, Edmonton 40 years ago, and good to meet drummer Richard Bailey, who has been part of British black music since day one (playing on albums by Linda Lewis, Sharon Forrester, Osibisa, Billy Ocean, Gonzalez, Incognito, The Breakfast Band, Morrissey Mullen and now Cymande.)

We were at The Tabernacle to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Metronomes Steel Orchestra, an integral part of UK culture for decades. Our great-nephew Elijah-Pops is part of the band. He’s one of those beautiful kids at the top of my Facebook page. I’ve known him since the day he was born. When he cried, they gave him to me, and I would walk around the house saying to him, “There’s no crying in baseball!”

Metronomes is as much a social club and family as anything else. Parents send their kids to Metronomes to join the Mini-Metros, as they grow up, they graduate to the group you will see at Carnival, and then there is another line-up for virtuoso musicians. I’ve got into soca later in life and, having listened to SO much music over the last 62 years, I am very appreciative of people generating imaginative rhythmic arrangements (as opposed to the simplistic thud of flaccid house!)

During the show, I clicked on Facebook Live and captured a few minutes as it happened. Listening back to the video, it made me realise how noisy the audience was! Really hate it when people talk through a musical performance! Go and do your second-rate flirting somewhere else!

Also on Friday, I discovered that my mate Northolt Paul has just contracted Covid! This is a man I hugged last Sunday at The White Lion but, thankfully, I’m fine! And this is why I still wear my mask on public transport and in shops!

Many thanks to everyone that listened to the show live and to everyone that will listen to the show on MixCloud. The Letter N (Part One) next Saturday at 1.00 p.m.

We were going to spend Saturday night with one beautiful friend but she cancelled, so we thought we’d spend Saturday night with Lady Wesker instead but she cancelled too! The one person who was very happy about all this was The Mighty Josiah (he hates it when we go away), which meant we were suddenly on grandparent duty!

On Sunday, I was a man. I mean, obviously, I’m a man but, on Sunday, I was very manly. I attempted and achieved a fairly sacred set of manly tasks. 1) weekly grocery shop at Sainsbury’s, 2) washed the car (and my son’s car as well) with help from son and grandson, 3) took grandson to local park (played football in a cage with kids 50 years younger than me in 80 degree heat), and 4) came home to help prepare brunch. Still got it.

Have a marvellous and momentous Monday. I love you all.

[thesoundofmadness]

@destiny-in-the-universe I watch too many unresvoled mysteries youtube videos.

So, ninja fight, something goes wrong. Randy ends up on the floor, his own sword stabbed straight through his chest

Howard gets to him, tries to help him, but it's too late.

Randy's in shock, unable to understand what's going on, and slowly falling asleep. He hugs Howard, saying something like "at least I saved you..." Then holds Howard's hand, and tells him they'll meet up again tomorrow. He closes his eyes, and dies.

Howard is in utter hysterics. he won't stop crying and trying to get Randy to wake up again. At least an hour goes by before Heidi shows up on the scene.

Heidi hears Howard screaming, and walks into the room, finding Howard hovering over Randy's body. She draws the obvious conclusion, but Howard weakly tells her it was the monster. She calls the police, and tells Howard they should probably leave. Howard refuses.

By the time emergency services arrive, Randy's body is starting to decompose. It's turned cold and stiff, and his back is bruising. The blood is drying, and it's spread almost everywhere, partly due to Howard.

Police ask Heidi and Howard what happened. Heidi tells them everything, but Howard is too hysterical to properly explain. He can't cry anymore, and his voice is weak from all the screaming. He refuses to leave the scene, tries to stop them from messing with Randy's body, and even tries to go with them when they start to move the body.

Upon seeing the blood, paramedics check Howard out, only to find that it's not his.

NHS is shut down for a bit while an investigation is launched.

Howard is the biggest suspect, having Randy's blood on him when they find him. Also because Howard never gives a proper statement as to what happened. He says Heidi had nothing to do with it, but that's about it.

They clear Howard quickly though. Part of it is due to how he was acting at the scene. No one who just stabbed someone would be telling the police not to clear the body. Another part is lack of motive, and lack of ability. Randy and Howard were known to be good, long time friends, with EVERYONE who knows them vouching that. And Howard just wouldn't be capable of lifting the ninja sword.

Heidi is also cleared quickly, largely due to Howard INSISTING she had nothing to do with it.

The investigation is dropped after some time. Investigators simply couldn't figure out what happened. They know a monster attacked the school and the ninja showed up to fight it, but why would the ninja, the beloved hero of the town, stab a random student?

Sure Randy wasn't the most popular kid, nor was he the greatest student, but he was on okay terms with everyone. And he was a fan of the ninja.

Howard is fucking traumatized after the whole ordeal. He gets super depressed. He won't leave his room, can't sleep, and nearly drops out of school entirely. His parents and Heidi try to help him, and put him in consoling, but there's only so much they can do.

They generally keep Howard's name out of any reports about it, only referring to him as anonymous, due to him being a minor and his parents asking for it.

The nomicon ultimately chooses another ninja, but it, finja and plop plop mourn Randy. Finja in particular is shaken up, as he never expected to lose another ninja like this. Whoever the new ninja is, realizes what happened pretty quickly.

The school opens up again after the investigation clears. The teachers try to keep everyone from talking about it out of respect, but rumors and theories spread quickly. People ask Heidi about it, and some even try to ask the new ninja themselves.

i just know true crime and mystery spaces online have a fucking field day with this.

Howard slowly but ultimately moves on, but it never really goes away.

He fucking hates all the rumors and shit, but doesn't dare to say anything about it. He wants to, but Randy trusted him to keep his identity as the ninja a secret. He blames the nomicon for it, saying that it should have never chosen Randy in the first place.

Randy's parents partly blame Howard, but they'll never admit that. They try to be nice and tell him they're there if he needs them, but Howard knows that's not the case. He considers telling them the truth, but doesn't.

i imagine there's absolutely some supernatural shit going on, mostly Randy's ghost following Howard around whevever he goes. Whenever Howard is alone, he can sometimes feel Randy hugging him.

had this one idea where like. when howard gets older, he decides to make a video game about it, mostly to deal with his feelings but partly to get the truth out there. something like myhouse.wad.

the game is part visual novel, part beat-em-up, detailing the events of the week leading up to when Randy died, told from Howard's pov.

maybe it's a grave puncher mod????? idk

It directly outs Randy as the ninja, but doesn't go into much detail on how the whole ninja thing works aside from that. It also never directly states who the player character is, using a blacked out name whenever 'Randy' refers to the player. Howard changes some details, like Randy's last name, the school, and the town.

The game lets you explore and hang around Norrisvile with Randy. Some days you get to chose what you do, others Randy chooses. The days that Randy chooses what you do, a ninja battle happens, and you play as the ninja fighting off enemies.

Weirdly enough, you can't actually customize Randy at all during the beat-em-up sections. You have the whole range of ninja weapons (at least the ones Howard knows about), but you can't change them at all.

You always have the option to stop Randy from fighting the monster, but it never works. Randy says it's his duty, and promises he'll be back soon.

Maybe throughout the week, Randy progressively gets more and more tired from ninja fights. Maybe the last day before he dies, you try to go somewhere with him, but he's too exhausted so you just stay with him as he naps.

Throughout the entire thing, there's a weird disdain for the nomicon. whenever randy is called into the nomicon, the player notes how annoying it is. You never actually see what happens in the nomicon tho.

On the last day, Randy and the player go to school like normal, but things are really tense. There's more detail in the writing than usual, the music is quieter, the school background is even SLIGHTLY off-colored. you wouldn't notice it if you weren't paying attention.

When the monster attacks, you get the option to stop Randy from going like usual, but there's no option NOT to stop him. It just keeps telling you to stop him, with the player character seemingly getting more and more desperate. Randy always refuses, and even gets more annoyed the more you try to stop him.

You don't get to play as Randy during the last fight. The player character waits in a classroom, until you hear the nomicon calling for you. The character is slow to get to Randy, even though the dialouge is telling you to go faster.

When the character finally gets to Randy, you're presented with a horrifically realistic CG of the crime scene. The scene plays out with Randy hugging the player, and telling them you'll meet up tomorrow. The scene ends with Heidi walking in, saying "Howard?".

There's a file in the gamefiles with an obituary, a copy of the case report released by the police after the investigation, and a note. the note says something like, 'If you want to know the truth, here it is. I'm tired of the nonsense. Cunningham, I'm sorry. you're trusting me to keep this a secret, and I'm breaking it. I can't stand all the lies surrounding your name. if there's an afterlife, hopefully we'll meet again'

the game gets a lot of attention online, largely for it's ending. The ending comes out of no where, and you can't change it no matter how much you try. People speculate it's connection to Randy's case, and the validity of it.

Shortly after releasing, the game randomly gets an update. Doing something in the game unlocks a post credit scene. Randy lays on the floor, hunched against the wall with the sword in his chest. His body is stiff, pale, and cold, but he opens his eyes and tells the player, it's okay, it's not your fault, and he's sorry they couldn't go to the gamehole like he's promised. It ends after Randy says a stupid ghost pun

maybe there's a spooky cg of randy's ghost standing in the hallway to howard's bedroom, waving. He says something intimidating, then when the player character says they're not scared, Randy goes 'dang it. ill get you next time.'

In the note, Howard writes he doesn't remember adding that, but doesn't want to remove it.

i need to stop watching youtube

can I dump to someone about my murder mystery au pls I'm thinking about it again

[huacheng-zhu]

Relationships: Nie Huaisang & Wei Wuxian, with a dash of Wangxian (Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji)

Rating: General Audiences

Word Count: 4.2k

Additional Tags: Reconciliation, Light Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Post-Canon

Summary:

Wei Wuxian looks back to where Nie Huaisang had disappeared earlier, and feels a pinch to his heart. He does miss that time; when they were carefree, catching fish and trading silly porn books, getting drunk with Jiang Cheng while all of Cloud Recesses slept. Just. . . simple things.

But trust is a fragile line to walk, and after so many schemes and secrets, it’s hard to determine whether one’s intentions are good or deceiving.

or, Wei Wuxian and Nie Huaisang have a talk.

[maoam]

Everyone from NH to NARSAK to even SNS tries to find parallels between minakushi by looking at superficial similarities like who looks like Kushina or who has the same expression or gestures as her. But people are only looking at the superficial as usual in the Naruto fandom.

Sasuke doesn’t look like Kushina. He doesn’t have the same personality as her. He isn’t a woman. He’s a far more complex character than her too since well he is Sasuke while Minato/Kushina mostly exists to enchance Naruto’s character. But Kishi couldn’t have been more clear when he wrote about love.

Minato was the only one who cared and was persistent enough to save Kushina. Kushina said Minato changed her.

Even Orochimaru could see how much Naruto was changing Sasuke and saw that as a threat to his plans. Sasuke himself acknowledged Naruto alone had become his most intimate friend. Kishimoto wanted to make a point that it’s Naruto specifically who has this effect on Sasuke, not Sakura. And Sasuke himself acknowledges Naruto is the ONLY one who never tried to cut him off, or never gave up on him (take that SS!) and that Naruto was the one who saved him (take that SS!). In both cases, when Kushina and Sasuke had no one else to come to their aid and save them, they had Minato and Naruto. Why do you think Sasuke says “my one and only”? Because no one else had his back, and no one else can have such an effect on Sasuke. SS can cry about how he says “friend” but Kishi really couldn’t have been more clear Sakura had nothing to do with helping Sasuke or changing him. Sasuke himself said he needed to kill Naruto to kill his last connection. Because he loves Naruto.

I have talked about this many times before but there’s a clear parallel in the Kushina chapters and in the Boruto movie, where Kishimoto makes Boruto ask Sasuke about Naruto, in a similar fashion as when Naruto asked Kushina to tell things about Minato. Now why didn’t Kishi make Hinata tell Boruto about Naruto? Because he doesn’t see her as Naruto’s other half, or relevant to begin with. Just as her bento is ignored in Gaiden, she is ignored in the movie. Naruto is also told that Minato was able to achieve things because he had Kushina by his side. Sasuke is constantly being said to support Naruto as the other Hokage. Meanwhile Hinata can’t do anything for him in the movie.

 SP even tried to steal from Sasuke by taking the scene of him telling about Naruto to Boruto to Hinata! As if them stealing from Sasuke before wasn’t bad enough. There is also a filler scene where Naruto compliments Hinata’s cooking. These filler scenes exist to damage control Kishimoto’s writing. Afterall, he’s the one who wrote Naruto ignore Hinata’s bento and think about Sasuke when receiving it, him sleeping on the couch and him refusing to go home. However, unless you are a shallow consumer you can see through all this nonsense. Hinata and Sakura are both written as selfish and sheltered, they have nothing in common with Naruto and Sasuke. And Kishi knows this. Naruto knows Sasuke saved him, and Sasuke knows Naruto saved him, and that no one will love them more than they love each other. And anyone with a decent reading comprehension and emotional intelligence can tell it too.

[sneezemonster15]

Writing Sakura and Hinata in character would make ppl think you hate them for being in the way of your yaoi ship. They gonna put you in the mysoginist box as Kishimoto because "How dare you give those innocents pretty girls any flaws?! They just want to love their men, they are doing nothing wrong!"

I'm tired of reading fics where Sakura is understanding as soon as she learns about SNS secret relationship. Tired of people showing Hinata being understanding and moving on fast and finding a new man (often Kiba) as if she wouldnt cry herself to death because Naruto-kun dont love her.

Wished fanfic writers explored more about Sakura's loneliness and her regret and frustration. On one side, she is happy to be "married" to Sasuke but on the other side, deep down, she is probably feeling fucking lonely and stupid because he is never home and ppl probably talks behind her back about her husband who is never home and who probably cheat on her, and how she looks so miserable.

Like, lets be realistic.

My headcanon is that Sasuke hopes that the distance he puts between them will finally makes Sakura snaps and "cheat" on him while he is absent. He realized he will never be free as long as she dont realize herself bc she is too selfish to notice her "husband"is unhappy by her side.

I find it very ironic when female fans fight for these two ladies. Like when they self insert into these women, what do they get out of it? It's so masochistic. Ss and Nh have no love to speak of. None. But the force of wish fulfilment is so strong with these fans, they would gladly ignore or dismiss everything canon. And while I understand people would do a lot to preserve something that gives them so much pleasure, including denying things left and right without an iota of introspection or soul searching, the fact that they deny something that actually is of worth (SNS), that is emblematic of selfless love and devotion, that is a result of one of the most heart rending, impactful and meaningful love stories ever written in the history of fiction, it just breaks my heart and inflames it with rage at the same time. I just get very emotional. It's cruel to my boys. It's fucking unfair. They don't deserve this. It's fucking disrespectful to them. And when antis just run their mouths without understanding their story or their characterization or what it means to people who do understand them, I feel like ripping them apart. But also, requesting them to be more....human? More emotionally generous? More honest? To search within their own hearts as to what it really means to be that lonely and to finally find love in the other that everyone else denied them, including their own families? Anything that works.

How can they be so cruel to my boys? It's their story at the end of the day. Like what did Kishi even miss? He went to hell and back, he left no stones unturned to tell their story. But fans would just....dismiss it and demean it and disrespect it and call shippers delusional and horny and whatnot...and for what? Hinata and Sakura? Those two, that in almost any other media, would definitely be condemned for their actions and general behaviour, not just towards the boys but others? But because they weren't here, for obvious reasons, they are being venerated as some female role models that they are actually the opposite of?

Mind boggles. It ain't done man. Not if I have a say in it. Not here.

I agree that Sakura feels lonely and bereft. But she still hasn't done anything to change things. Which shows that she doesn't want to, because having Sasuke as a trophy is way more important to her than being loved and respected. Or even liked. She married his status, and she would rather live with the glory that 'achievement' bestows on her than doing anything to actually make herself and her family truly happy.

Both Sakura and Hinata are too self absorbed to notice how unhappy their husbands are with them. And neither one cares. If they really loved them, they would have strived to actually know them, because neither Sasuke nor Naruto are dishonest people. Naruto almost always wears his emotions on his sleeve. Sasuke also lets it show when he is happy and fulfilled. We have seen both of them when they were happy and now, when they are sad and dejected. And we can tell the difference. And if these ladies had bothered to do that, they would have never gotten married to them. But they weren't written to be that way. Not in their characters. From the start. So now we have this mess of a situation and no one is happy. Well, Hinata is. Because she is just way too selfish and oblivious and dumb to understand anything that doesn't directly concern her.

[coldest-blood]

Hi. Thanks for responding! I really genuinely mean that, I wasn't sure if you would, and I apologize again for how I might have come across at first. This is also an issue that is very close to me, so it doesn't take much for me to get worked up lol. But anyway talk about a long reply, here's this:

I want to address your second point first, which is that insisting that there are no meaningful channels of recourse is also unhelpful. I think that is a totally fair point! I wasn't really looking at it from that angle in my initial reaction, and I think you're completely right that we SHOULD stress that people DO have ways of reporting abuse. And that when they do, they are not necessarily going to come up against a brick wall. There are people in healthcare who do care, and do want to help, and if you're experiencing malpractice, it IS important to say that that's not automatically a hopeless situation. What I do take issue with, though, is the accusatory nature of the original confession. Saying "not every hospital is like this" is different from "why didn't she do xyz?"

And I am not here to in any way argue that she isn't incredibly problematic, or that she hasn't made some extremely questionable decisions! She is! She has! There are plenty of things to rightfully criticize her for! But just has her experience of inpatient mental health treatment is not universal, neither is yours. What I and people I know have personally experienced in very recent history, even as recently as THIS year, is not a far cry from the state of things as Emilie says she experienced them in the 2000s. I agree that public discourse around mental illness has come along way in the last 20-30 years, but if the same can be said of inpatient care, I have not personally seen it. And I don't think describing the deplorable conditions that she experienced, that are documented to have existed, and continue to exist is one of the things about her that anyone should be taking issue with. But you don't have to take my word for it: all the articles I included screenshots of in my initial reblog of that confession are very recent publications: ProPublica from 2022, Psychiatry Online from 2020, Mad in America from 2018, and NSUN from 2022, to be specific. And just to be thorough, here's yet another article from the Independent about the extremely widespread and systemic nature of abuse in psych wards in the NHS, from January of 2024. (Tho, of course, big trigger warning for all of those, the last one especially.) So, I'm sorry, but to say things aren't like that anymore just ISN'T true. Not for everyone. And when you're being sectioned and held against your will, it's not exactly as easy as just trying out a few different psychiatrists or finding a new care team.

I will be first in line to admit that she seems absolutely determined to undermine her own credibility at every possible opportunity, and yes, anything she claims generally should be taken with a BIG grain of salt. But (as I'm sure you yourself would agree with, seeing as you earlier said it was the only thing we CAN be sure of about her) there is absolutely no reason to doubt that she has spent time in at least one psych ward. You can tell me that you're not trying to just say "that's not true tho", but that is actually what you have done. A giant part of the entire problem is that, over and over again, no one believes victims of psychiatric abuse when they DO come forward. I get it that she is not the most trustworthy figure even at the best of times, but she is not unique in her experience of an, even now, very broken system.

As far as the actual content of the book goes: this is kind of a side thing, but I don't really see what changing a few names has to do with the message of the book? Like, she definitely should have stopped editing it years ago, there is such a thing as over-polishing, and I think she's only made it worse on each revision. But I feel like whether, for instance, one character is called Sachiko or not doesn't really have anything to do with the like. Themes and stuff. I could be wrong! Like I said, I've only ever read one of the earlier editions. But the main thing is that I'm not really sure what your point about "partial autobiography" is? Like autobiographical novels are very much an established literary thing, and are, by definition, half fictional. Like the wikipedia article says "Names and locations are often changed and events are recreated to make them more dramatic but the story still bears a close resemblance to that of the author's life. While the events of the author's life are recounted, there is no pretense of exact truth. Events may be exaggerated or altered for artistic or thematic purposes." (link) It has, as far as I know, always been marketed by her as a blending of fiction and reality, and that though there is truth at its core, we were never meant to take the events literally as described. It's also widely been speculated that she's actually had more than one hospital stay, and the events of the book are sort of a mix all of them. (link)

I feel I should really stress I'm not trying to insist that she is a perfect victim, or that no one should ever criticize her for anything. I'm really not here to be the EA ride or die defense squad. Like I completely agree that her pessimism can and does have a negative impact on her fans, me included!! There were definitely ways I was negatively influenced by her when I was a teenager that I'm not proud of. But there's a lot more that's she done that's actually worthy of criticism than her portrayal of psych wards, or the failure of the book version of her to report what was happening.

I hope this doesn't come off as overly aggressive, I'm not trying to be rude, I just have very strong feelings about this.

@watercolourferns

sorry, I did delete the post because I realize I was a bit heated. not trying to target anyone, just express my point of view, and maybe have a conversation. I'm mentally ill too, I think probably there aren't many EA fans who aren't, tbh. if other people have access to effective recourse when doctors mistreat them, obviously that's a good thing, that should be the standard in every case. but I still seriously don't understand what the point is of just restating that hospital administration exists, especially in response to someone else on that post sharing their own experience of how ineffective it can be. I will admit, I haven't read the more recent revisions of her book, but I can't imagine she's changed so much as to stray terribly far from the message "mental healthcare is still frequently bad for patients". Again, I don't want to attack you personally, however the original confession IS blatant victim blaming, and I am genuinely confused by your responses. I'm putting this under a read more so you don't feel like I'm putting you on blast or anything, but if it makes you feel any better to know, this is a blog that only has 2 followers anyway

[captnjacksparrow]

I dont feel love from Narutoʼs side in NH and their relashionship looks horrible from my point of view.

I know a guy who had a similar relashionship (I mean, being at work 80% of time and letting the woman take care of the children alone) but this guy was not happy, he had a lot of regrets... He talks about how he feels he should have been more for his daughters (his wife was almost never mention) and how he enjoys having time to be with them... This man used to have 3 jobs and he talks about them with pasión.

Naruto is not like that, the passion he had for the hokage post was lost at some point and he is able to leave everything without a thought if he think Sasuke has the slightest possibility of being hurt (Gaiden says hello).

The thing that makes me wonder is how NHfans talk as if their relashionship is the most normal thing in Japon (SStards says the same but nobody takes them seriously)

I dont remmember much but you said that the fact that Naruto allowed Boruto to cause that much trouble and didnt botter to go to Himawariʼs birthday would look horrible in Asia. I dont know much about Japon but in China people are super afraid of loosing face and Boruto painting his own facerʼs face would have made Naruto and his family a laughingstock

If you talk about the fact that they dont sleep together, they will cry all tell you that couples in Japon dont sleep together but in dragon ball super (the anime) makes pretty clear that Goku and Vegeta sleep with their wifes and Seikibing (an ex- animator from pierrot) draws Naruto and Hinata sleeping together. So... Is Naruto really a norma husband?

Uhhh.... These people!!! Pulling Culture Card as if these morons know everything🙄🙄

I just wonder if these morons had really peeped into an Asian Household, especially the bedroom and during midnight at that!!! And If they did, still they couldn't even do the peeping right. Because they are wrong.

Idiots.

If a Husband and Wife sleep separately,

It means they are not in speaking terms. And they had many heated Arguments in the past and they just decided to not cause any more drama.

Or it means either Husb or Wife is still thinking about the past love and they feel that they couldn’t do it with some random weirdo. [[Arranged Marriage hell]]

Or it means the Husband is Impotent.

Or it means either Husb or Wife is Cheating with someone.

Or it means, they lost the interest/desire to be next to each other. I mean they got Totally Worn Out. This applies to Couples who are above 50. You might ask, but still they can sleep next to each other, Right??? Well, Mostly this couple might have never had any interest in each other... They were together because of their kids... And Life just passed so quickly.

Now tell me, which category Naruto falls into??

He is not a fucking 50 year old guy to get worn out of his wife. He is just 32 and many people get married at that age here... There's no way anyone would sleep separately from their wife... At least At that age. 

I also don't think Hinata and Naruto had an argument over anything to the point of sleeping in a different room.

Calling Naruto as Impotent will go against their own NH fandom. Plus he had 2 kids. 

And that leaves with Cheating... He might be cheating with someone (??). Well, I leave that assumption up to you. Lol.

And the last one, Can’t able to move on from the Past Love??? Certainly so. I go with this. And I’ve seen it in many movies.

I remember I watched a movie, where the Girl’s parents visited her home after her marriage. And her mom found out that there are two beddings in two different rooms. The mom plainly told her, ‘Your life is with your Husband and Whatever conflicts you have with your husband, resolve it immediately’. And as it happens, that girl asked her Husband to not touch her since she was feeling uncomfortable being touched by him because she sincerely loved a guy some years ago and he died before her eyes... So, She couldn’t move on.

And if this Sleeping separately thing was emphasized in any Asian Media... It definitely means something is wrong with them and it might be because of any of the above reasons. So, No... It’s not common in Japan or anywhere else to have this dynamics between a couple. NH peeps are really dumb to proudly pull the culture card when they have no clue as to what it is. 

As for the Kids, I can’t believe Naruto had never spoken about Boruto to Sasuke... Like Sasuke didn’t even know Boruto’s name until that movie scene. So, Naruto wasn’t fondly talking about his Kids to his ‘Friend’ like your ( @katheristuff ) Friend does. But he didn’t mind talking fondly about Sasuke in front of Sarada though. 

All of these things are shady as fuck and I don’t know how these shippers are not even using their common sense to defend their Ship. 

Like I said before.... Asians may not be so open about PDA (exceptions do exist), but it doesn’t mean that we are some loveless morons. Even if people don’t like their partner for the above mentioned reasons... Still they would be very affectionate towards their Kids in their own way. But what Naruto and Sasuke are doing is not the representation of a Typical Japanese society. That’s for sure. 

Otherwise, Why would Japanese people got extremely furious and Bashed Naruto & Hinata while Gaiden (a plot which has no relevance for NH) was being released???? 

[[I need to cook up that Japanese people’s response to Gaiden post.... ASAP... Geez]]

[llycaons]

ep21 (pt 1): jyl the mvp!

oh god oh fuck I forgot how emotional the last one ended. jyl pulling wwx inside to get a look at him and everyone's crying 🥺

😭😭😭

this is so funny. jc what are you so worried about? your brother hearing that you looked for him for 3 months? which you did? he's so silly and emotionally constipated. that is a totally normal thing to do for your family

I remember ppl being SO mad at jgy for saying the same thing to nhs in fatal journey before a Mandarin speaker had to step in and be like 'that's actually a normal thing to say to someone grieving, he wasn't being rude or inconsiderate' which. jgy is so gifted with social graces, of COURSE he'd say the appropriate thing at that time

this is so dramatic lmao. I know how you die old man and it's pretty embarrassing

ah the dramatic look over the shoulder bc he misses his boy best friend who HE pushed away wwx you mess

literally shut the fuck up sect leader yao you would be dead and powerless without the protection of the jiang clan you owe your life and your clan to this family be polite

wwx saying this is very 😮 but it immediately cutting to jc is ALSO 😮 and I don't think its intentional

oh my sect sect leader ouyang???!!

ofc the lans get put in rooms that have a name like that

wwx getting sick of everyone there and just getting up and leaving. politically not great but he lives his truth. I think along with missing lwj he just got sick of the old sect leaders congratulating him for torturing and murdering a man, and then hounding him about his sword

jc I am so fucking proud of you I could cry

the kicker is that jc is for once saying the RIGHT thing, compared to his usual sarcasm and aggression and sneers. but wwx is the one in these episodes who's not cooperating. he's being deliberately contrary, vague, and disobedient. he's not playing nice with jc or the other sect leaders. and I can tell why politics is the last thing on his mind given the fact that he just pulled himself out of three months of utter hell and he's still traumatized, but it doesn't help. his defense mechanism of joking and dismissal to cover his severe trauma and his massive secrets doesn't make him look very good either. it's so sad bc it's all he can do though!

also this is a grade A eyeroll from jc here. impressive

do not break my heart like that wei wuxian

*cues the observation that wwx is wearing his robes in the way that corpses being prepared for burial are dressed*

it is very annoying when fans create content where wwx is unwilling/unable to meditate when 1. how the fuck do you think he formed his core in the first place and 2. it's clearly an important part of his process as a demonic cultivator as well

jyl is being so supportive and compassionate about chenqing in a way that literally nobody else is. she compliments it! she compares it to her mother's most powerful tool!

I think the other translation is 'to give a full account'. I think chenqing's name is really neat, I love reading analysis for it

kill me. and wwx's face after she says this...

she's like the only person here who halfway knows how to approach someone with trauma. express your love and support and concern but don't push them. allow them to tell you on their terms, in their own time. don't make it the only thing you talk about. don't make them have to ask not to talk about it. lwj gets a little better at this but it takes like 20 years

and who else says this!!! who else thanks him!!!! im going to cry

jc and wwx both take a great deal of comfort and guidance from jyl in these scenes - she's level-headed, compassionate, affectionate, caring, and gives solid advice that her brothers can act on. and she stands up for wwx in ways that jc can't or won't. love her

literally shut the fuck up jzx I know how you die

see jc!!! this is what you SHOULD say to those assholes who won't leave you alone and who question your leadership! THAT'S what's called showing a united front!

on the other hand, given how things progress I don't doubt the jins would invent some pretext to attack the jiangs if jc didn't go along with them so it's not like simply saying this would have solved things. but man, this was a good deflection