#I AM CRYING AT THE HEAVENS

[pusangkambing]

I am on my knees and begging to whatever god out there for jaiden to log on at the same time as either roier or cellbit please please please

[nothingbizzare]

I still hope

[leclerrari]

he won his home grand prix after years and years of the universe denying it to him he threw himself into the arms of the team he has loved since he was a child he stood on the top step of the podium with his country’s flag on his shoulders as he sang both the monégasque and italian anthems he is charles leclerc and monaco has finally loved him back

[daphnalia]

and they were galpals

[hualian]

"Do you have any specific heavenly official in mind to join you on your trip to Ghost City?" "Anyone is fine, as long as they are easy to get along with and have a bit more magical power, so I can borrow some from them at any time"

→ TGCF Donghua update with a special mid-Autumn Festival video 🦋

[holymaccaronii]

UNDESERVED HEAVEN.

More of themmmmmm AAAHHH!! Maybe he just needed to frolic and rest on the fields all this time /j

The lyrics come from my favorite love song, “Exist for Love” by AURORA. Recommended to listen to, many if not all of her songs inspire me so much.

Version without lyrics

[fozzieosbourne]

Look at Matthew Porretta Respectfully Challenge (GONE WRONG) (I LOST)

Deadbeat (Season 2, Episode 9)

[toaster-fire-art]

SEASON 2 SEASON 2 SEASON 2

an incredibly quick Jun Wu drawing to celebrate and uh something i've had sitting around for several months...

[emotionaldisaster909]

This scene of him walking after QiangQui.

With an outstretched hand.

And a call of his name that got no answer.

Helpless to stop him.

Helpless to say anything else to him.

He accepted being nailed in a coffin, buried alive for 100 years for crimes he didn’t commit.

Yet he is unable to speak in the face of what he actually did.

In the face of his disciple knowing that his teacher lied to him.

Feeling that anything good he did for him by taking on the punishment far greater than anyone could ever deserve

Was just reduced to nothing.

He readily took a blame for a massacre he didn’t do

But he can’t handle the guilt of ending a life of a dying person and lying to someone who trusted him

Even if by this he prevented genocide and archived future peace for his people he once failed to protect.

Because he still killed.

And still hurt.

He can’t be pretend to be a cold-hearted Guoshi anymore.

His disciple won’t turn around.

[yumemiruuuu]

“Heaven Official’s Blessing moments that plague my mind like how the Human Face Disease plagued Jun Wu”

Xie Lian waking up, with no recollection of his last 800 years, in panic because he’s covered in hickeys and BITE MARKS (to which he swears he’s been violated by the “mysterious man”)

Mei Nianqing and his commentaries (most notably: “fluffy child” in reference to Quan Yizhen, and “He’s been STALKING YOU FOR 800 YEARS! Ew, too creepy!!” in reference to Hua Cheng)

Qi Rong spitting on the palace floor and vandalizing the walls with “GREAT GHOST KING QI RONG WAS HERE!!”

Qi Rong insulting Xie Lian and Hua Cheng with “DOG FUCKED XIE LIAN” and “DOG HUA CHENG” … which somehow makes perfect sense together

Qi Rong dragging Hong-er in a bag tied to a horse

“CAN’T YOU KNOCK LIKE A NORMAL PERSON?!” exclaimed Qi Rong, the abnormal green gremlin cannibal

Qi Rong having a massive cleavage in the donghua:

Xie Lian taking down Jun Wu, a GOD who literally couldn’t be taken down even with THREE MARTIAL GODS AND A GHOST KING, by body slamming him against a rock wall.

When Hua Cheng put on a little outfit changing show for Xie Lian like a disco ball because he was bored

Xie Lian, after 800 years, finding someone who would listen to him and care for him like no one else have and show him what it means to simply be happy and find joy in living (Hua Cheng)

[kevindavidday]

i lasted a full day without tumblr who is proud of me

[yeyayeya]

MY BOY FUCK YEAH

I know you can’t even see his face but this is the closest official art we are going to get for Quan Yizhen… for now

This is from the TGCF Season 2 audio drama preview to those who were curious

[canolaaoil]

To all my best friends, only twelve leagues and one text message away

1. Dearly Departed, Brockhampton. // 2. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion. // 3. unsent project. // 4. I am in Eskew. // 5. His dark materials. // 6. Where did you go? Hishaam Siddiqui. // 7. parts in motion, Vera Much. // 8. Your Name Engraved, Herein. 9. Hmu, spacegirl GEMMY.

Description follows

[ID: song lyrics reading, "What's the point of havin' a best friend if you / end up losin' him?" end ID]

[[ID: a photograph in the style of an early digital camera of two teenage girls cuddling under blankets on a couch watching something on a computer. end ID]

[ID: a poem reading, "Life changes fast. / Life changes in the instant. / You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. end ID]

[ID: a fuzzy photograph in the style of an early digital camera of three people huddled around a fridge. All of the people have brown hair, glowing golden from the lighting and only one of their faces is turned toward the camera. end ID]

[ID: a text entry on a pink background reading, "To: Harry I / i've written 43 / poems about you. / come back and i / won't have to write anymore. / -asle" end ID]

[ID: a photograph in the style of an early digital camera of a couple in a photobooth with only their feet and legs visible behind the curtain. one is sitting on the other's lap. ]

[ID: text reading, "The problem is, my love, is that I can't sustain the fact of your death. / I can convince myself that it's true, force myself to picture your rotting, ruined face dumped in a mass grave somewhere out in the world... / ...and then my phone buzzes and I'm still expecting an unexpected message from you, telling me what corner of the globe you've holed up in, the foods you're eating, the card-players you're outwitting." end ID]

[ID: a photograph of two people in an aquarium, shot from behind. they stand in front of a large window showing a tank of water and seaweed. the two pose as if dancing grandiosely with no one else around. end ID]

[ID: a paragraph reading, "And it was comforting to think she and Will had another thing in common. She wondered if there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him- didn't speak to him in her head, didn't relive every moment they'd been together, didn't long for his voice and his hands and his love. She had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most. She thought the tenderness it left in her heart was like a bruise that would never go away, but she would cherish it forever." end ID]

[ID: a photograph from behind of a group of people walking together down a city street. two of the people have their arms around each other shoulders. another two link arms. the image is slightly blurry. end ID]

[ID: a couplet reading, "One day I woke up and we no longer spoke the / same language. I haven't heard from you since." end ID]

[ID: a photograph of two people, focused on one in the foreground. A young woman looks lovingly towards something out of frame, her face resting on the meat of her hand. In the background a man looks away towards another subject. The lighting is dreamy and yellow. end ID]

[ID: lyrics reading, "Show me it all / Tell me what's wrong / You got your hard drive stolen / Your phone's been broken / Play me a song off of mine / Show me it all / Show me a rise / Show me a fall / Pay me no mind / Paint me in gold / I don't mean to pry, but give me a call" end ID]

[ID: a gif from the movie 'Your Name Engraved Herein' of Birdy and A-han riding a motorbike through the streets at night. Both smile widely as they breeze along, Birdy sitting behind A-han with his shirt off over his head, yelling happily. End ID]

[ID: lyrics reading, "They say everything has reason / Life fluctuates like seasons / And maybe someday soon we'll both find our reason / But bitch you're still the bro / Never letting go / Of the friendship bracelets we made when we were twelve // I'll be waiting by my phone / For you to hit me up / For you to hit me up / Hit me hit me up" end ID]

[ID: a photograph of a plaque on an outside wall reading, "LIFE HAPPENS BUT I STILL CARE FOR YOU. I HOPE YOU'RE DOING WELL." end ID]

[zeezeebum]

Time it took us To where the water was That's what the water gave me

And time goes quicker Between the two of us But oh my love, don't forsake me Take what the water gave me

[bloopitynoot]

Reading TGCF for the first time

So it begins!

For anyone interested, this will be my chapter-by-chapter read through (for the first time) of Heaven Official's Blessing complete with notes.

To read all of the notes and to follow/read along, check out the tag: Bloopitynoot reads tgcf .

RULES:

NO SPOILERS PLS I literally know nothing about the plot other than the summary

Do not admonish my character thoughts in the moment. Pls keep in mind that this is my first experience with the content- If I say something seemingly out of pocket about a character that is later resolved with context- let me keep reading and correct/check myself later.

If you want to correct me on a big oops I made because of not understanding the content or making an error because of me having a lack of cultural/historical competence, dm me! I will learn and correct.

I am always open to supplementary material 👏 if there is other content that explains choices relevant to the parts I'm on- pls feel free to send it my way! I especially love queer history related things that inspired/informed the plot

Vibe along, or read along, whatever along. If this becomes an asynchronous book club- hell yeah to that! I love chatting!

I am hoping to post a chapter a day! However, pls note that this may not always be possible so there may be times when I do not post- don't take this as a hard and fast rule but more a goal.

Tomorrow we start with chapter 1!

I cannot tell you how excited I am to cry about these two. I fully expect to since it is MXTX and I have been told this is the most sad story out of her three stories (do not correct me, let me live with this thought so at least I am prepared for the worst).

Omg looks at these little guys :'3 my partner even got me the most adorable little bookmark. These two sweet babes will be going on the reading journey with me.

I'm so excited to start!

[lo-sulci]

What are heaven will be mine & coquette dragoon?

oh my goodness, thank you for asking!! the short answer: they are incredibly good visual novels that I highly recommend, especially if you're a fan of mecha, sci-fi, great world building, yuri, and generally just amazing art created by transfems

long answer:

heaven will be mine (aside from being where I got my url) is the second VN made by worst girls games, best known for their first outing, we know the devil (also an absolutely amazing game). hwbm tends to ask a bit more from the reader than its predecessor- while wktd almost exclusively featured three characters and dealt with rather plainly stated themes of alienation, loneliness, and religious trauma, hwbm presents a setting cloaked in metaphor where human will literally shapes the universe and psychic mech pilots read spacetime like a narrative.

the cast is bigger, with the three routes allowing insight into each of the three main girls in addition to members of the factions they belong to, all in service of a beautiful story about queer people connecting with each other and finding/making their place in a world that would want to deny them their happiness (and a lot of other things, but I'm simplifying some here). begging to be replayed over and over, i've had different characters and details stick out every time ive played through the game, while also gaining a deeper understanding of and appreciation for hwbm's characters and setting. I've loved hwbm and wktd for years and expect I will for years and years to come, which, incidentally, is why I got a pair of tattoos based on these games LMAO. in other words: they're fucking fantastic and hit like few other things out there, imo

coquette dragoon is one of those other things, because holy shit does it excel at hitting incredibly specific and relatable emotional beats that are liable to absolutely tear you apart. created by ivy burgeroise, who (by her own fantastic description) makes art for sad perverts, coquette takes place during a seemingly endless war between the lilac fleet and the duchy of lucia, two spacefaring societies inhabited by animal people who have very differing opinions on magic.

focusing (so far) on xiomara rosales of the lilac and lady honey rose of the duchy, coquette explores painfully human stories from both sides of the war. (to that point, I'd be remiss if I didn't advise you to look out for the content warnings- coquette gets into some very heavy stuff and speaks about it very frankly and honestly, which is to its credit imo but i also understand that that is not something that everyone is in a space to deal with.) more than anything else, I feel, coquette is a work that puts words to feelings that you'd never before been able to describe, and, through the vulnerability of its author in making something so emotionally honest, makes me want to be more openly and happily myself. all of this in a story that examines war, exploitation, and the societal structures that prop them up, among many, many, many other things. I could keep talking in circles gushing about it, because I am so so obsessed with what's been released so far and so indescribably excited to see how it progresses in the future, but to keep myself from going on for too too long i'll cap this off with a tweet about coquette that i frequently think of and is one of the best recommendations I can offer:

OH and also coquette has wibbleburger, which, as we all know, is your favorite