#Cultural Intrigue

[fereldanwench]

i was pretty sure i was gonna like emmrich but i can't get over how charming he is

i'm really fighting to finish my first run before i make another rook to smooch him :3

[darth-kote]

this may just be me but i really wish we could have seen more of dooku pre-sith. it was so satisfying to see him and padawan-age qui-gon together in tales of the jedi.

i am never not thinking about the cruciality of the master/apprentice relationships in sw. it's more than just having a teacher or a student; they form lifelong bonds and pass down the knowledge they've learned from previous generations to their predecessors - all with their own life-experiences and perspectives in mind. there's room for interpretation and breaking apart from things you thought could not be debated.

but there is, of course, also room for manipulation and deceit in these relationships.

edit: the word i was looking for was family.

[flour-is-a-spice]

The potential friendship between Connor and North is something that really interests me. Would she ever trust truly him? And if she did, what would their dynamic be?

[phoenixtakaramono]

Hi I just wanted to say I absolutely love your fic The Untold Tale so far. The way our favorite emperor is already obsessed with our favorite oblivious idiot is just perfection. You’re an incredible writing and all your fics are amazing. I can’t wait to see what you write next!

This is in reference to The Untold Tale (AO3 🔗).

Thank you very much for reading, anon! 🫶 I’m very happy there are still readers who are waiting for the next update and I’m very excited to return after I finish writing Truce ch3. 🥰 Honestly, after reading the Bingge vs Bingmei extra after SVSSS, my heart broke reading the passage where Bingge entreats Shen Qingqiu (Shen Yuan) to come with him and obviously gets rejected because Luo Binghe (Bingmei) won’t have his husband bride-napped even if it’s the PIDW version of himself and wanted to try my hand at writing a bingyuan story where our blackened Luo Binghe does get a version of Shen Yuan that’s tailor-made just for him. It also presented me an excuse to play around with a C-novel style of writing and granted me a small opportunity to write about my culture :) which is very rare for a writer. And I love it 💞 we also get to play with C-novel & C-drama stereotypes that I can playfully poke fun at and hope y’all find as subtly funny as I do . Playing with meta is very much aligned with the spirit of SVSSS, and this story was always intended to be a love letter to the novel series that got me through the pandemic and introduced me to the danmei genre.

I’m very excited when we return! I’ve got a lotta fun things planned. :) For the next chapter, we’re meeting the Jade Emperor. With SY being a celestial fortuneteller, we’re also meeting Shen Yuan’s PIDW equivalent family. After that chapter is the Moshang introduction chapter I’m most excited about because it’s the reveal of ✈️’s identity (and my illustration of him embedded in the chapter itself). It’s technically been foreshadowed already who he might be but you will never be able to guess who Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky transmigrated into in this new setting in PIDW in The Untold Tale. ✈️ can only blame his fellow novelist SY for this. He’s both lucky and unlucky. 😔😂

[thatsparrow]

giving psych another go after having watched the first season and a bit a couple years ago before stopping because I hadn't really been feeling it

only like six or seven eps in this time, and I am enjoying it, and I would like to stick with it this time, but god, now I do remember why I gave up on it in the first place. for all the show has going for it (which is a lot!) so much of the tone (and shawn is usually the biggest offender) falls back on those really insufferable attitudes from the mid ’00s of like. hit on every woman you see, getting laid is always the biggest priority. kneejerk disdain for anything nerdy or "uncool." I'm a guy and that means I care about porn and sports and that's it

[jakeperalta]

I'm sorry to this author who is probably just trying very hard to promote something they worked hard on but my god nothing has ever made me want to read a book less than this advert

[aphverse-confessions]

I don't think rewriters are bad people for not writing every single character as a good person. The canon series doesn't even make them all good. Including the uncomfortable and dark content doesn't make people bad or mean they support it.

With the recent influx of cannibalism, do we seriously believe those people support eating folks? No. Why do we think or assume people are evil or bad for writing other similarly dark themes? A lot of people include themes of abuse, like making parents bad, because it's an outlet for themselves, do we just hate venting and victims? It's weird.

( not "proship". just think it's weird to shun or attack people for writing abusive garte or keeping the whole ein thing)

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[batw1nggg]

we all agree that hajime is mixed brown + japanese but what specific country do u guys think the brown is from !! i love to see all the different headcanons

[yappacadaver]

broooooooooooo i really really REALLY prefer a non-MW rook + emmrich i just really do T_T

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: WOODWORM by Layla Martinez.

Up next! Still in my Haunted House Era™: Translated Lit Fic Edition!

The great thing about being on several indie bookstore mailing lists is that you then have Several Indie Booksellers recommending you new releases published by independent presses, which almost assuredly I would not have stumbled across on my own. This one's just a little guy (149 pages), but I've been looking forward to it all year. Will report back on how it goes!

[galactic-rhea]

i'm willing to give disney each and every penny of my savings to make them let u make a show on padme

Thank you for your trust in me 😔🙌

Disney won't even have to pay a plane ticket, i could hide in a box along with the luggage

[fiercestpurpose]

The “Marauders fandom” is bizarre to me bc

a) many of them are babies (teens on TikTok) so this isn’t even the Harry Potter generation (for the most part, obviously there are adults in it) and also I don’t even have any idea how you make fandom content on TikTok bc I am the crypt keeper

b) their “canon” is based around one particular fanfic and other fanon interpretations as well as and often more than the original books/movies, so the relationship between the Marauders fandom and the rest of Harry Potter fandom is pretty nonexistent (and you would not believe some of the characters they have chosen to focus on)

c) many of them see absolutely no moral issue with engaging with JKR’s work, probably as a result of the two previous points, like they don’t remember JKR’s fall from grace, to them she’s always been an internet crazy, but they also don’t consider themselves to actually be engaging with her work

[slettlune]

at one point the translator of the three musketeers edition i'm reading points out in a note that of the three, aramis is the one who's hardest for a new reader to like and sympathize with, and i resent that! every time he pinches his own ears to make them look attractively pink, i love him a little more. he holds his hands a certain way to make sure they look extra pale and dainty. this is a guy who kills people for a living. aramis is awesome, what are you talking about

[incorrect-ikevamp-quotes]

*MC is considering canceling plans, and Isaac and Dazai are advising her on what to do*

Isaac: Just don't go.

Dazai: Say you’re ill!

Isaac: Pretend to break your leg.

Dazai: Really break your leg!

[mariocki]

The Black Room (1982)

"I just want to know one thing up front: are there any restrictions?"

"Restrictions? No, none. This isn't the YMCA."

[embras-grace]

I think Ori feels very alone in Palia. Some of his memories are coming back, but its in short bursts and often Not Positive Things so when he remembers something good or soft or kind its... painful.

Ori had a big family and they had big get togethers for shabbat dinner. They had close friends they spent time with often and always wanted to travel the world but never had a chance. I think Ori lived and died in the general area Kamila and Bahari Bay is. His family all had jobs in the nearby area if not at the university and he ended up there too.

I think most of his memories are of the final days of humanity and the collapse. He never did get to live to see if his sacrifice saved his students or not, but he hoped in his last moments it did.

He's a secular Jew so any thoughts about an afterlife make no sense to him. He thinks when you're gone you're gone. So when he came back I think he felt something deeply wrong but couldn't place it.

Then as his memories came back, maybe starting as a yearning for traditions... lighting the candles, saying the blessings, making the challah, he started to remember what he didn't have.

He spends many shabbats alone with no one to study with, no one to talk with. He's been looking for Palia's version of Torah scrolls for ages now. Just to have a connection to the past.

His partners try to help, sure, but they know they can't give him the family he misses back. But them being there, listening to his stories, reading books he translated for them, and trying to be present means a lot to him.

When Najuma asks if she can light the candles one shabbat he cries.