#I seem to be on a posting roll

[daydreamorama]

Chapters: 7/? Fandom: 重启之极海听雷 | Reunion: The Sound of the Providence (TV 2020), 盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Liu Sang & Wang Pangzi & Wu Xie & Zhang Qiling, Hei Xia Zi & Liu Sang (DMBJ Series), Kan Jian & Liu Sang (DMBJ Series), Liu Sang/Wang Pangzi/Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling Characters: Liu Sang (DMBJ Series), Zhang Qiling, Hei Xia Zi (DMBJ Series), Wang Pangzi, Wu Xie (DMBJ Series) Additional Tags: background Wang Pangzi/Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling, Background Wang Can (DMBJ Series), Liu Sang and Wang Can are Twins (DMBJ Series), Liu Sang Needs A Hug (DMBJ Series), Hurt Liu Sang (DMBJ Series), POV Liu Sang (DMBJ Series), Alternate Universe - BDSM, Aromantic Asexual Liu Sang (DMBJ Series), Asexual Liu Sang (DMBJ Series), Aromantic Asexual, Aromantic, choosing between & and / was impossible just know it's messy, Queerplatonic Relationships, (The end goal is qpr not romantic), Non-Sexual Submission, Non-Sexual Bondage, Rope Bondage, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Non-Sexual Kink, Spanking, No Sex, (well I'm sure some of the characters absolutely do but it's not the focus of this fic), Alternate Universe - Firefighters, Firefighter Liu Sang, Firefighter Zhang Qiling, detective wu xie, Detective Wang Pangzi, Submissive Liu Sang, Submissive Wu Xie, Switch Zhang Qiling, Dom Wang Pangzi, Getting Together, Hurt/Comfort, Professional Dom Hei Xiazi, (this isn't a fall in love with your pro dom fic), Shippy Gen, Unreliable Narrator Summary:

Feeling adrift after his twin moved away, Liu Sang asked his Ouxiang, Zhang Qiling, for help finding a dom. This changed everything. And nothing.

A story about Liu Sang finding a place where he belongs, all while fighting fires and being a hero.

[swedenis-h]

Fuck you *crunches Luke Skywalker with a crunchy brush*

[yardsards]

i needed to express a sentiment in the creative stylings of @dunmeshiminimumwage

[gilliontidestriderchampionoftheu]

new s1 el wiwi design <3

[bonefall]

Heads up! There is going to be a very long and detailed post about making sausages dropping in a few hours.

It's got a big red content warning and a readmore, so nothing is going to get gruesomely dropped on you, but make sure you add "butchery" or "cw butchery" to your tag filters to be extra safe if the idea of processing animal carcasses is upsetting to you!

It also has an image of sausage casings before they're scraped. I tried to whack the post with as many CWs as I can think of but I'd recommend "cw meat" or "cw organs" if you need them.

[shiningnightstars]

its mirabelle mwednesday (color palette challenge!)

[vehemourn]

guy in mabinogi rolled up on a vespa and began polling

[angelofdykeness]

satou's love for shio is not romantic or platonic but a secret third thing

[icewindandboringhorror]

recent lounging babey images

[boosterwithad]

I think every good character has their flaws. For instance, Alejandro wears socks and sandles and Phillip is a convicted war criminal.

[kiwisandpearls]

the statements “platonic relationships should not be undervalued” and “it’s ok to ship wlw ships and mlm ships even if the characters involved have no canonical romantic interest in each other” are not mutual exclusive.

[gilliontidestriderchampionoftheu]

ok heres the updated version with all the information i forgot

[wonder-worker]

"Among their complaints [in 1460, the Yorkists] specifically blamed the earls of Wiltshire and Shrewsbury and Viscount Beaumont for ‘stirring’ the king [Henry VI] to hold a parliament at Coventry that would attaint them and for keeping them from the king’s presence and likely mercy, asserting that this was done against [the king's] will. To this they added the charge that these evil counselors were also tyrannizing other true men* without the king’s knowledge. Such claims of malfeasance obliquely raised the question of Henry’s fitness as a king, for how could he be deemed competent if such things happened without his knowledge and against his wishes? They also tied in rumors circulating somewhat earlier in the southern counties and likely to have originated in Calais that Henry was really ‘good and gracious Lord to the [Yorkists] since, it was alleged, he had not known of or assented to their attainders. On 11 June the king was compelled to issue a proclamation stating that they were indeed traitors and that assertions to the contrary were to be ignored." - Helen Maurer, "Margaret of Anjou: "Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England"

Three things that we can surmise from this:

We know where the "Henry was an innocent helpless king being controlled and manipulated by his Evil™ advisors" rhetoric came from**.

The Yorkists were deliberately trying to downplay Henry VI's actual role and involvement in politics and the Wars of the Roses. They cast him as a "statue of a king", blamed all royal policies and decisions on others*** (claiming that Henry wasn't even aware of them), and framed themselves as righteous and misunderstood counselors who remained loyal to the crown. We should keep this in mind when we look at chronicles' comments of Henry's alleged passivity and the so-called "role reversal" between him and Queen Margaret.

Henry VI's actual agency and involvement is nevertheless proven by his own actions. We know what he thought of the Yorkists, and we know he took the effort to publicly counter their claims through a proclamation of his own. That speaks louder than the politically motivated narrative of his enemies, don't you think?

*There was some truth to these criticisms. For example, Wiltshire (ie: one of the men named in the pamphlet) was reportedly involved in a horrible situation in June which included hangings and imprisonments for tax resistance in Newbury. The best propagandists always contain a degree of truth, etc. **I've seen some theories on why Margaret of Anjou wasn't mentioned in these pamphlets alongside the others even though she was clearly being vilified during that time as well, and honestly, I think those speculations are mostly unnecessary. Margaret was absent because it was regarded as very unseemly to target queens in such an officially public manner. We see a similar situation a decade later: Elizabeth Woodville was vilified and her whole family - popularly and administratively known as "the queen's kin" - was disparaged in Warwick and Clarence's pamphlets. This would have inevitably associated her with their official complaints far more than Margaret had been, but she was also not directly mentioned. It was simply not considered appropriate. ***This narrative was begun by the Duke of York & Warwick and was - demonstrably - already widespread by the end of 1460. When Edward IV came to power, there seems to have been a slight shift in how he spoke of Henry (he referred to Henry as their "great enemy and adversary"; his envoys were clearly willing to acknowledge Henry's role in Lancastrian resistance to Yorkist rule; etc), but he nevertheless continued the former narrative for the most part. I think this was because 1) it was already well-established and widespread by his father, and 2) downplaying Henry's authority would have served to emphasize Edward's own kingship, which was probably advantageous for a usurper whose deposed rival was still alive and out of reach. In some sense, the Lancastrians did the same thing with their own propaganda across the 1460s, which was clearly not as effective in terms of garnering support and is too long to get into right now, but was still very relevant when it came to emphasizing their own right to the throne while disparaging the Yorkists' claim.

[razberrypuck]

finn tidestrider is the top contender for the title "world's sluttiest absent father" I think

[lunarrolls]

i’m. a little bit wrecked over ashton in episode 78 y’all. i’m a little sad. just a little . i just. damn.

they hurt themself really fucking badly. and they could have killed their friends chasing something that was never theirs, chasing a reality that never was, that they never actually wanted in the first place. all because he was just fucking wrong about something. they just—they made a mistake. and it was the worst possible mistake they could have made. and i’m just thinking about how awful that is, to realize how little you actually value your own life in the middle of a crater you made with your own body because you just died and reformed and all you can think is how much you would have deserved to stay dead, to hurt forever, for the fact that the people before you were cruel and horrible and you mirrored them without a second thought in a matter of days.

like that’s so fucked dude. how do you rebuild a self esteem you never had after doing something so monumentally wrong. you stop using that false bravado because it won’t do you any good anymore, now that they all know how weak you are. how do you start caring about yourself when there’s so much to loathe, so much to make up for, so much to apologize for. that’s fucking terrible. how is he literally ever gonna trust himself again? trust his own judgement? trust what he wants? the last time he wanted something that badly it killed him and nearly broke his friends. like holy shit. how do you. how. how?

[rotisseries]

i have GOT to stop going and checking out the notes on... that one post.... but it's CRAZY to me that people keep reblogging it very seriously being like "HOW CAN PEOPLE LIKE HENRY HE MURDERED 20 CHILDREN"

you mean the fictional child murder?? you mean the fake fictional child murder?? you mean the fake fictional telekinetic sci fi child murder by fake fictional telekinetic sci fi murder man on fake fictional telekinetic sci fi horror netflix show stranger things??? YOU MEAN THAT FAKE MURDER???

no you're so right there's never once been a history of fandoms liking a guy even if he did a bit of fake fictional murder what an insane concept