#... i'm so sorry for the person i've become

[spittingspite]

I'M GOING TO BECOME THE MOST ANNOYING PERSON ON THE PLANET

[say-hi-intrepid-heroes]

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[flying-cat]

I'm stealing a tweet but what are your media literacy check characters

[azrantimes]

Me: & Juliet is a piece of media about a woman of color with queer relationships and a diverse cast. It shines a light on women and relationship dynamics so to make it about the (white) guy love interest is silly.

Also me: OMG LIAM ROMEO!!

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

[4.1 LEAKS WARNING]

Estimated new weekly boss, no concrete evidence on how it connects to story but many have stated this will be a new form of Childe above/connected to Foul Legacy.

We might get a FL cutscene.

STARES AT THIS VERY HARD I AM LOOKING INTENTLY AT THIS PHOTO

this looks sooooooo cool i'm chewing and gnawing on this!!!! this better be a really cool boss fight and not just like a normal world boss (poor Baptist you deserve better)

but also if this replaces Foul Legacy i will NEVER forgive Hoyoverse. give me a Foul Legacy cutscene and keep him around ok, i NEED MOTH.

[quatregats]

Going to teach kids who are on track for a career at Goldman Sacks about class consciousness, wish me luck ✌️

[llondonfog]

BOOKED THE TWST CAFE FOR MY JP TRIP AAAA

[tvdelrey]

i fear i can't explain how badly i'm tweaking from this or else i'd scare everyone off this app.

is he sick in the head.

[tls123]

Oh my god HOW DID YOU LIKE SVSSS!!!!!

i liked it more than i thought i would but overall less than i might have given the potential of the story, i think in general i really enjoyed the characters (mxtx never goes wrong with characters, she creates them in a way that makes me feel unhinged) and the world building but the pay off to the set up—which i really liked!—felt a bit........ i mean, just alright.

the dynamics too are pure mxtx, personally the bin/gqiu dynamic specifically really was the least interesting part of the whole story. to me!! but individually i loved both characters. my interest was just elsewhere because """elsewhere""" felt way more fascinating idk how to explain it

was very, very happy about the extra with airplane and the yue qingyuan / shen jiu one because that's exactly what i wanted more of in the story itself as well as just more shen yuan/qingqiu interacting with cang qiong mountain

maybe it's my orv brain but like i told jana a while back i think i would have enjoyed svsss way more if it was more about shen yuan (loner; hater; etc) suddenly finding himself among all of these people (disciples looking up to him; sect siblings relying on him one way or another; common folk admiring him; etc etc) and starting to.... live? again?

Shen Qingqiu hadn't noticed that, unconsciously, he no longer considered the disciples around him (...) to be mob characters the novel had described in a scant number of words.

^from volume one, he starts seeing them almost immediately because he's not actually that separate and he genuinely cares. all the time. about everything. even before that we get:

This was only a book, and all the people were constructs, imaginary characters. Logically, Shen Qingqiu was very clear on this fact...but when a character was actually being taunted and bullied right before his eyes, it was just flat-out unrealistic to expect him to be completely unmoved.

like why are you lying, shen yuan (<- svsss tagline if there ever was one)

just the idea of this really lonely detached guy finding a community, i know it's not the story mxtx was trying to tell but again, with the set up i really wanted to see it go in that direction.

there's one line from vol two where liu qingge goes "you fear becoming a burden to cang qiong mountain (...) but cang qiong mountain fears not your burden"

and basically what i'm saying is that i wish the story had been about THAT

(and also ning yingying's lines in that same chapter about shizun always taking on everything himself and why is it always you like that whole moment with the cang qiong mountain almost begging him to see that they care. idek what i'm saying but you know)

(also foaming at the mouth that we only got tiny tiny glimpses of shen yuan's life from before, those handful of times he mentioned his siblings i wanted to take a bite out of my kindle. tell me more!! dear fucking lord tell me more!! keep talking! elaborate!! he really felt very "kim dokja and his fourth wall" at times, sorry once more about the orv brain)

tldr: i guess i wanted a story about shen yuan/qingqiu but mxtx created svsss to be a story about bin/gqiu. and i just have to be okay with that.

[moe-broey]

I need like. A Don't Make Me Tap The Sign about Alfonse Fire Emblem specifically about his character and how he's perceived sometimes. Like Book 7 Chapter 12 he's just like that. He's always been like that.

I feel like I've def said it more eloquently before probably in Book 5 (regarding Reginn and Fáfnir), where like. He Will try for and favor a peaceful solution, but if it's clear there's no way out without violence and killing the threat/adversary. He won't hesitate. He won't falter. Crit line literally references this actually, "Above all, the mission".

Like I feel like the difference between Alfonse just doing Alfonse things (most recent chapter Seidr having to kill Kvasir, no way out of it -- plus also even considering killing Seidr herself, if that were to end Gullveig) and the Letizia moment was like. The Letizia moment was a BOLD gambit he played, which is WHY it was so shocking in the story and as an audience member, and why I think it left such a deep impression. Still very in character for him and the way he thinks/problem solves on the fly, carefully evaluating the situation and what would be the best move with the highest rate of success. (THAT LAST BIT ACTUALLY........ he'll do this even with low rates of success, out of sheer stubbornness as well. Which is why I still stand by him being rash at times, a LOT of his rashness is disguised as "calculated risks" and he just has the willpower to pull it off. The worst-best type of guy to me LMFAO)

Going back a bit though, the Letizia moment also stands out as an example of how far Alfonse is willing to go to win, especially if his back is pushed against the wall. It gives you a FASCINATING glimpse into his character and into his mind. A lot of times Lif would be an enigma to me, beyond the basics, character wise. Like yeah I guess that would fuck up a guy. But his methods (working and making contracts with gods when especially as Alfonse he knows better than that??) would be inscrutable to me. But everything absolutely finally clicked when Alfonse made that gambit, playing to Letizia's personality and whatever preconceived notions she may have, that maybe Alfonse could find a weak spot in and take advantage of. Lif is doing the exact same thing. His judgement is maybe a little worse for wear on account of, well *gestures vaguely to all of him* but he's still very much doing The Same Thing.

LIKE. I'm def straying from my point which is. Alfonse isn't shy about having to resort to violence. It Is a resort. But if it has to be done, it will be done. Any damage control (such as Sharena's feelings -- she has CLEARLY been extremely upset these past chapters) can be resolved later. (This.... is also fascinating to me..... bc it's always been clear to me his loved ones are the people who ground him, who stop him from losing himself, from becoming cruel in his practicality and tendency for detachment. There Is his morality as well -- but his loved ones are a huge part in what keeps him kind.)

I guess what I'm really trying to say is. Hit me up next time Alfonse is playing 4D chess with the enemy or throwing himself in a ditch on purpose just to indulge his baby sister's current pet project. THOSE feel like standout examples of Alfonse Off The Shits (but still completely in character for him tbh), while like. The rest is just par for the course for him. Just another (especially traumatizing) Tuesday.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

Babe you are SO CORRECT about everything you’ve ever said about Hum Hallelujah. I finally listened to it and it’s been on repeat. I was so pleasantly surprised about the hallelujah melody on the bridge. I am vibing SO HARD. Thank you.

head in my hands. there's another song on that record that rather sarcastically says "this is a love song in my own way" but the thing is. Hum Hallelujah IS. it is a love song in its own way, in the band's own way, and it's so insane that it even exists, like, I know I've said this and it's probably in my FOB tag but. oh my goodness. there is so much love in the fact that that song exists and not only is in the album, but acts as such a touchstone for it (in my opinion). also it makes me want to CRY.

[anaalnathrakhs]

"you're starting to be able to make your own decisions in life" IT'S A LIE IT'S ALL A FUCKING LIE. ADULTHOOD IS NOTHING BUT OWING EVERYTHING TO OTHER PEOPLE BECAUSE IF YOU'RE NOT THERE FOR THEM THEN NOBODY IS. IT'S FIVE THOUSAND MILLION RESPONSABILITIES PILING UP AND WATERING THE FRIENDSHIP METER WITH EVERYONE LIKE IM A FUCKING SIM. IT'S REALIZING EVERYBODY IS SO FUCKED UP AND HARD TO DEAL WITH AND YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO LOVE THEM ANYWAY EVEN IF IT'S REALLY HARD. IT'S NO MORE SAFETY NET. IT'S NOT EVEN BEING ABLE TO ARTICULATE HOW COMPLICATED YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR PARENTS IS. AND IT'S LIVING WITH THEM EVERYDAY ALSO. IT'S ABOUT INCORPORTATING YOUR SELF-DESTRUCTIVE HABITS SEAMLESSLY INTO YOUR ROUTINE AND CARRYING ON AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED. EVERYTHING YOU LOVE SUCKS. YOU DONT LOVE ANYTHING.

[undertheknightwing]

If Jon ever gets powers someone's gonna have to make sure I don't explode because I already almost did finally seeing Jordan's nonsense getting called out after two seasons of Clois looking over it

[vimbry-moved]

I think you could temporarily fix armand by showing him one of those dryers that plays a little song when it's done

[thedreadvampy]

guess who's in 🎶troooouble🎶

New Boss does not appreciate my Vile Insubordination (giving an informed opinion in an email chain where she said some factually incorrect things and got called out on it - I said hey yep you're right that what she said isn't true but here's why it's still important to listen to our team)

and now we have to have a Quick Chattette about my Behaviour and Unsatisfactory Response (didn't apologise for being correct)

[malleleothreesome]

I should be asleep but I saw Prim @rosemaze-reveries did this little tag game where you're supposed to post the titles of your WIP docs and I thought some of my names are pretty funny

Any duplicates are because every time I make major changes to a draft, I create a duplicate doc just in case I want to reference the original before I desecrated it. As you can see, Jealous Leona and I have been through some shit 😩

Oh, and I guess legally per the rules of the tag, I'm supposed to allow y'all to send me asks requesting snippets:

post the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! tag as many people as you have WIPS.

I'm too tired to tag anyone but if you see this and you want to participate, pls tag me in your post so I can see yours 🥺