#He’s got the true doubt

[waitineedaname]

I was thinking about the trope of characters gaining weight to indicate healing/character growth, and I realized how well that would fit Shen Qingqiu

Qing Jing Peak's food is apparently bland, and I doubt Shen Jiu was eating for the joy of it. He probably only ate enough to keep himself alive and supplemented it with inedia, so the guy was probably pretty gaunt under all those layers of robes. Then Shen Yuan shows up and in very quick succession gets a fantasy chronic illness and access to The Protagonist's Cooking™️ and gets to live a pretty spoiled life for several years. He probably keeps himself relatively fit to retain the peak lord image, but he definitely gains some weight in the years following his transmigration. His face filling out probably worked wonders when it comes to softening his image compared to Shen Jiu's rather severe presence. Luo Binghe, with his trauma with regards to food insecurity, probably thrived getting to see his Shizun looking well fed and healthy

And then the Immortal Alliance Conference and everything that came after it. As much as he'd like to deny it, he is fucking Depressed™️ after all that. What's the point of eating Qing Jing's bland food when he doesn't have the protagonist's cooking anymore? So he returns to Shen Jiu's pattern of inedia

Can you imagine how Luo Binghe felt seeing how skinny his Shizun became in his absence? And of course, that gaunt version of Shen Qingqiu is the one whose corpse he preserved for five years, stuck in that hungry state. It doesn't escape me that he was always bringing a meal to corpsezun's bedside so on the off chance that he came back, the first thing he could do was eat Binghe's cooking

Basically what I'm saying is if you compare post-canon bingqiu to their PIDW counterparts, the most striking difference on first glance is that Bingge and Shen Jiu are skinny and rangy and miserable, and Bingmei and Shen Yuan are happy and healthy and well fed

[zeb-z]

see ok I don’t think it’s bad who stole the furniture because he didn’t go to f5 and zoom in on himself a billion times

[yamishika]

Tell me why is it when I am reaching the end of my extensive Jellal backstory fanfic, that my brain has now thought ‘oh what if I did a different timeline and Jellal IS allowed to rise to the ranks of the prestigious/elite heritage that he was born in rather than being deemed a social outcast, but then he’s now in the helm of indoctrination and a corrupt government for the dues of his blood….’

I mean morally bankrupt Jellal due to his upbringing meeting Erza and the others not due to the tower of cultists but the hidden horrors of his own blood and nation’s way where cultism is pretty much run on a national scale.

I can’t lie…this idea is really cooking for me and I really want to explore how the dynamic of Jerza will save Jellal and others from the chaos and chains that they were born and brought up in.

I don’t know, would anyone who has seen my writing be interested in me writing an alternate version of The Devil That Dreamt Of Paradise; however now Jellal is allowed to rise to the ranks bestowed to him by his blood, however rather than a means of being saved, it has damned him into the heart of corruption.

And it’s going to take the ones who aren’t blinded by the ploys of a delicately constructed society and birthed in corruption to free those who are.

Tell me what are the thoughts on this? Even if you haven’t read my writing, any Jellal fans would you be interested in seeing the character of Jellal being written into clear moral ambiguity and how that develops in the presence of societal corruption or is conflicted by external factors (e.g planned Jerza, Jellal himself questioning his circumstances naturally and facing internal conflictions, the sins and obedience rising to their limits and their consequences etc)

Would anyone be interested in seeing something like that written?

If anyone wants to see the original headcanon plots which the idea of this AU is being derived yet is subverting from, the link to the post is below :

Thank you to all that took the time to read this, please tell me your thoughts if you can.

I hope you all have a great day 🫶🏻

[katfreaks-hidyhole]

[boyfeminism]

sorry gay sex and testosterone Will fix constant sourceless sadness actually

[sysig]

My kingdom for a "So you say” (Patreon)

[quietlyblooms]

pls don't be mad if i say my head hurts and i'm sleepy... but my head hurts and i'm sleepy ;v;

[solar-halos]

okay i give up i cant write this pjo fic percy loves sally too much

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Just completely bonkers to me that in the total 7 hour runtime of BvS and ZSJL Wonder Woman says like two sentences to Superman and one of them is:

[todayisafridaynight]

sad to think about how daigo was probably grieving mines death alone

In my silly dreamland i like to think at least katase also showed up to pay her respects ….

[sonknuxadow]

ive seen so much talk about the spanish dub of the i heart you too shadow scene that makes me feel like im the only person on earth whos actually watched that clip. "sonic says te amo to shadow in the spanish dub!! they turned that scene into a serious love confession and sonadow is canon in spanish !" what are you TALKING about he did NOT say that. im all for making that scene gay but at least work with whats actually there instead of exaggerating and making stuff up come on.

[bombshellsandbluebells]

the Nate Shelley s3 arc reminds me of the s5 Murphy arc in terms of how much I actually loved it despite it not being widely liked by the fandom and was actually disappointed because it wasn't ugly enough lol

and it's basically the same arc. character with deep-seated wounds and a lack of true self-love has realistic, damaging coping methods and crashes and burns spectacularly by hurting other people around them and isolating themselves because it doesn't matter how good things get for you, deep-seated wounds that don't get addressed will eventually come out one way or another. and it will be ugly when they do.

the Murphy arc was disappointing because it got wrapped up way too easily with Memori getting back together which didn't actually address ANY of Murphy's issues and Nate's was disappointing because it just didn't commit fully to being ugly and didn't let him be enough of an asshole

[theheadlessgroom]

https://www.tumblr.com/beatingheart-bride/714377212850241536/theheadlessgroom-beatingheart-bride

@beatingheart-bride

“Together...?”

At this, Randall looked at Emily with wide, glistening eyes, having been leaning into her embrace when she said this, her words being enough to make him pause, taken aback by this response-somehow, it just wasn’t the one he was expecting, and so he remained frozen for a moment, as his mind processed her answer, and what it meant for them both.

“Together...” he murmured again, as he continued to look at her with wide, wonderous eyes: Even through the blur of tears, he looked upon her with complete and total reverence, his cheeks warming at the touch of her hands taking his to hold, to say nothing of the way his heart pounded as he gazed upon his angel, refusing to forsake him in his most dire hour. It was enough to make the tears turning from miserable to hopeful, as they ran down his sallow cheeks, while he held her hands in his, trembling all the while.

“E-Emily, I...”

No, he couldn’t possibly let the words get caught in his throat now: Not now, not when he was about to say something this important to her! He swallowed back any and all apprehension, pushing back his fears as he squeezed her hands and opened his mouth to speak. No turning back now-this really, truly was the point of no return.

“Emily, I love you!”

[nietzhat]

anyway if i was misty just saying i'd leave the group train on my own rejoin and watch ash's progress and pay attention to his fighting styles again and challenge him until i won and then i'd slit his throat i'm sorry

[imunbreakabledude]

before i started playing renegade platinum i feel like 90% of what i heard about this romhack was about how spooky scary the 12v12 battle on spear pillar is and after clearing it 0 deaths on my first try im feeling very elle woods What Like It's Hard?.gif