#I'm gonna be rich!

[krebs-gorlon]

@hausofdecline you're so right for this x

[brodyfoxxsmassivetits]

dumb idiot british teanagerss

:3 meow

tom n jon centric follow up..comic.. doodles..if that tickles ur fancy.. teenaged conflict

[laurynjc-art]

Squip After-Effects Headcanons for no reason in particular

I've talked some about the side effects/after effects of Jeremy being squipped; electrocution scars, Michael occasionally disappearing from his field of vision... so let's torture everyone else why don't we

Rich: Also has zap scars, but fewer. Hears voices sometimes but that's more of a trauma thing than a squip resurgence.

Jake: His legs will go numb. It was just a nuisance while in the wheelchair, but once he was walking on his own again it'd catch him so off guard that he would fall over more often than not.

Jenna: Because she was the school's main gossip source, I believe that her squip tampered with her hearing, making her able to clearly decipher voices at distances that shouldn't be humanly possible. But no more squip, no more precision, and there are days where everything is just too damn loud.

It wasn't explicitly said if the other girls were physically tampered with, but everyone sure has this lingering feeling in the back of their mind that they're not alone in their body anymore. And then there's the days of mass migraines. Leaving Michael to wonder if it's a coincidence that all of them are gone from school at the same time.

[lgbtlunaverse]

What kind of saber is baxia anyway?

I love my bloodthirsty princess of a cursed blade, and in my heart of hearts i am nothing but a sword nerd, so i've been extremely fascinated by Baxia and how we know frustratingly little about what she actually looks like!

I mean, look at bichen, right?

Bichen in the donghua:

Bichen in the drama:

They're clearly not exactly the same. The scabbards are different, and the guards have a different shape. But these are recognizably different iterations on one theme, right? Thin jian with a white grip silver guard, light blue tassel and silver mounting accents on the scabbard.

Now this is baxia in the donghua:

And baxia in the drama:

????????

THAT'S A COMPLTELY DIFFERENT WEAPON

it doesn't stop there either, the audio drama is kind enough to give us ANOTHER COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BAXIA

pretty! But how is that he same sword??

And when we go back to the novel, we get very little information on her appearance other than the fact that her blade is tinted red with all the blood she's absorbed. Which none of these designs incorporate.

This is not a dig on the designs itself, they're all quite gorgeous in their own right and i'm going to spend a while discussing all of them! Because isn't it fascinating how, since we know little about novel baxia beyond "saber" all of these designs ended up so different? What kinds of sabers are these, anyway?

So, a chinese aber, aka a "dao" (刀) just means a sword that has only one cutting side. As opposed to a jian, which has two.

You can see how that leaves a LOT of room for variaton.

I've actually seen some people get confused because Huaisang's saber in the untsmed is thin and quite straight, making it superficially resemble the jian more than drama!baxia, but it is still clearly a saber!

See? only one cutting blade!

This, to me looks a lot like a tang dynasty hengdao

credit to this blog for providing his image and being a great source for all this going forward.

TANGENT: during all this I found out the english wikipedia page for dao is WRONG! Ths is what they about the tang hengdao!

So that sounds like the hengdao was called that during the sui dynasty, but then, after that, started being called a peidao, right?

WRONG

I LOOKED AT THE SOURCE THEY USED AND IT SAYS THIS:

IT WAS CALLED THE PEIDOU UNTIL THE SUI DYNASTY, AT WHICH POINT IT WAS CALLED A HENGDAO. Which would carry over to the Tang dynasty. This was the source wikipedia linked! and it says something else than they say it does!

Anyone know how to edit a wikipedia article?

ANYWAY

BACK TO BAXIA

Since we're already at the drama, let's look at drama baxia: She's also straight! the general term for straight-backed saber is Zhibeidao, but that's a modern collector's term, and doesn't really say anything about which historical kind of saber baxia could be based on. Another meta i found on the drama nie sabers already went on some detail here.

I'm gonna expand on that a little: The kinds of historical straight-backed sabers we see resemble the hengdao a lot more than they do baxia. They don't go to their point as harsly as she does (she's basically a cleaver!) and they're all way skinnier.

No, my personal theory is that instead of being based on any kind of historical sword, drama!baxia is based on a Nandao.

I mean, come on, look at it!

Baxia!

The Nandao... isn't actually a historical sword. It was invented for Wushu forms. There's a really fascinating article about its conception, but that's why the swords in the images look a little thin and flimsy. Wushu swords are very flexible and light, they're dance props, not weapons to fight with. There are actual steel versions of Nandao, but they're recreations of the prop, not the other way around.

So That's one way in which Baxia differes from the Nandao: she's actually a real weapon. The other is that, as you can see above, the nandao has an S-shaped guard. Baxia doesn't. She's also much more elaborately decorated, of course. Because she's a princess.

Now: audio drama baxia!

This is much easier. with that flare at the tip?

Oh baby that's a niuweidao, all the way!

There are more sabers with that kind of curved handle, but the broad tip is really charcteristic of the niuweidao. The Niuweidao is also incredibly poplar in modern media, often portrayed as a historical sword, but it originated i nthe 19th century! And it was actually never used by the military!

That's right, the Niuweidao was pretty much exclusively a civilian weapon! That makes its use here anachronistic, but so is the nandao, and considering that the origin story of the Nie is that they use Dao intead of Jian because their ancestors were butchers, portraying them with a weapon historically reserved for rebels and common people instead of the imperial military is actually very on theme!

Finally, Donghua/Manhua baxia. These two designs are so similar I'm going to treat them as one and the same for now.

Unlike both previous baxias, The long handle makes it clear this baxia is a two-handed weapon, though Nie Mingjue is absolutely strong enough to wield her with one hand anyway. Normal rules don't count for cultivators.

Now, this is where things get tricky, because there are a lot of words for long two-handed sabers. And a lot of them are interchangable! This youtube video about the zhanmadao, one of the possible sabers this baxia could be based on, goes a little into just how confusing this can get. This kind of blade WAS actually in military use for many centuries, making it the most historically accurate of all the baxias. But because of that it also has several names and all of those names can also refer to different kinds of blades depending on what century we're in.

So here's our options: i'm going to dismiss the wodao and miandao, because these were explicitly based on japanese sword design, and as we can see manhua baxia has that very broad tip, so that won't work

(Example of a wodao. According to my sources Miaodao is really just the modern common term for the wodao, and the changdao, and certain kinds of zhanmadao... do you see how quickly this gets confusing?)

Next option: Zhanmadao.

Zhanmadao stands for "horse chopping saber" so... yeah they were anti-cavalry weapons. meant to be able to cut the legs and/or necks of horses. That definitely sounds like a weapon Nie Mingjue would wield. But if you watched that youtube video i linked above, you'll know the standardized Qing dinasty Zhanmadao looked very different from earlier versions. It was inspired by the japanese odachi, and more resembles the miandao than its ealrier heftier counteprarts.

Earlier Ming dynasty Zhanmadao on the other hand were... basically polearms. the great ming military blog spot, another wonderful source, says these are essentially a kind of podao/pudao (朴刀) which looked like this

Now that blade looks a lot like baxia, but the handle is honestly too long. Donghua!baxia straddles the line between sword an polearm a little, but while zhanmadao have been used to refer to both long-handled swords and polerarms, this was undeniably a polearm, not a sword.

If you want to know what researching this was like, I found a picture of this blade on pinterest-- labeled as a "two-handed scimitar"-- and the comment section was filled with people arguing about whether this was a Pudao, Wudao, Zhanmadao, Dadao, Guandao, or a japanese Nagita.

So... that's how it was going. This has kept me up until 2 AM multiple times.

However! Thanks to this article on the great ming military blog I found out there have historically been pudao blades with shorter handles!

Specifically, Ming dynasty military writer Cheng Ziyi created a modified version of the pudao to work with the Dan Fao Fa Xuan technixues-- aka technqiues for a two-handed saber, which would alter heavily influence Miaodao swordmanship-- thereby, as the article points out, essentially merging the cleaver-polearm type Zhanmadao with the later two-handed japanese-inspired design.

This is the illustration for the Wu Bei Yao Lue (武備要略) a Ming dynasty military manual

This blade shape in the illustration doesn't match Baxia exactly, but since it's a lengthened Pudao-like blade and we've seen above that those can match Donghua Baxia's shape, i'm gonna say that calling Baxia a Zhanmadao with a two-handed grip isn't all that innacurate!

However, because all of these terms are so intertwined, there are a dozen other things you could call her that would be about equally correct.

To show that, here's a lightning round of other potential Baxia candidates:

Dadao (大刀)

Which are generally one-handed and too short. However!

Another youtube video i found of someone training with a Zhanmadao that resembles baxia a little also calls it a "shuangshoudai dao" (雙手带 刀) shuangshou means two-handed, and while 雙手带 seems to refer to a longer handled weapon, when looking for a shuangshou dao or shuangshou dadao (双手大刀) we find a lot more baxia-resembling blades like here and here

I also found that, while the cleaver-like Dadao is strictly a product of the 20th centuy, since dadao just means big sword or big knife, it has been used to refer to loads of different weapons! Some people could've called the zhanmadao and pudao "dadao" during the Ming dynasty as well.

Another potential baxia candidate that mandarin mansion classifies as similar to the later dadao (though longer, as seen in the illustration below) is the "Kuanren Piandao"

Which piqued my interest because this diagram classifying different tpye of Dao:

Claims that a Kuanrenbiandao (diferent spelling, same sword) is the same as a modern day Zhanmadao.

(So once again, all of these terms are interchangable)

Another opton Is the Chuanmeidao/Chuanweidao (船尾刀) below you can see a diagram, based on the Qing dynasty green standard army regulation, of blades all officially classified as types of "pudao"

The top middle is the Kuanren Piandao, and bottom left is the Chuanweidao.

Both of these have a lot of baxia-like qualities.

So there you go! live action baxia is based on a Nandao, audio drama baxia is based on a Niuweidao, and Manhua/donghua baxia is some kind of two-handed Zhanmadao/Pudao/Dadao depending on how you want to look at it.

I'm honestly surprised no one has made the creative decision to portray Baxia as a Jiuhuandao, aka 9 ringed broadsword yet.

I mean look at it! Incredibly imposing. Would make for a great Baxia imo. (@ upcoming mdzs manga and mobile game: take notes!)

[lesbianwyllravengard]

It really pisses me off when ppl call Wyll a nepo baby (esp bc the word has such an inherent negative connotation) because he hasn't actually been able to use his father's standing to his benefit nor advantage. At all. Like the actual definition of the word does not apply to Wyll whatsoever. The most you could say is that his education was bc of who his father was, but that's privilege, not nepotism. Wyll was kicked out by his father before he could even become anything, before he was even an adult, and he had to brave the frontiers on his own, making a name for himself and surviving off of his own skill and goodness and devotion and etc. He wasn't getting financial aid from Ulder, he wasn't using his father's influence to further his reputation, he was as good as dead in his father's eyes and it was rare that people even knew the Blade of Frontiers was related to the Duke of Baldur's Gate. Even when you get to the city and Wyll throws his father's name out to gain passage into the city, either no one believes him if he has the horns, or it does literally nothing to help him anyway even if he doesn't have the horns. The only situation where he could remotely use his father's position for his own advancement is when his father encourages him to become Duke or Wyll devotes himself to the position because his father died and he thinks it's his fault (and even then he's doing it out of duty and obligation rather than power or standing). Like the idea that just bc Wyll's father is Duke and had to work his way into wealth (Wyll was not born in wealth!) that it automatically makes Wyll a nepo baby is ridiculous. You guys need to learn what words fucking mean.

[martincrushcameback]

I love the holiday episode because it's like

Zach: I WILL MAKE A BLAND METAL TREE AND SELL ROBOT TOYS!!

Donita: I WILL KIDNAP ANIMALS TO MAKE ORNAMENTS AND SELL BEDAZZLED JUMPSUITS!

And meanwhile Gourmand is like: I baked eleventymillion NORMAL cookies! :DDDD

[maxdibert]

there are two lines about Mary in the books we don't know if she is a muggle-born or a half-b lood

I don't know i thin that girl who is inventing lies about me and befriending bullies and harassers just for hating on me that @mrstellmeafuckingsecret doesn't agree with you. And if she thinks different then you're wrong because she's the only who can have hc in that fandom. Their hc are the only only only one valid. If you don't se a character the same way as her and her little minion @vulcajes then you're a racist.

Hey, but you all spend your time talking about Nazi characters, about fascism, trivializing the REAL political terror caused by fascist dictatorships and the Nazi movement just so you can hate on fictional characters, and you don’t care. You also spend your days justifying rich, WHITE, abusive brats, but apparently we’re the racists. I mean, if you imagine a character who’s not described in the books as white, that’s totally fine. But if someone else imagines James Potter, canonically white, canonically rich, canonically someone who stripped people naked in public, canonically violent and abusive, as problematic? Nah, that’s unacceptable. You’ve officially won the progressive jackpot!

Hey, imagining irrelevant characters as white? Racism! The worst! Let’s burn that person at the stake! But defending and justifying an abusive, aristocratic, WHITE brat whose main abuse target was a working-class kid with ETHNIC FEATURES, much poorer and from an abusive family? That’s totally fine! He’s the icon of the wizarding world! Y’all are real social justice warriors, huh?

What I tried yesterday was meant as satire, I thought you’d react to a different kind of headcanon, I didn’t expect you to be this twisted about it. I think you’re just way too young and still think you can use the race card to validate your hatred or to destroy someone. Two things for you:

1) For someone to be racist, they need to do racist things. Imagining a character—who has been represented as white for decades and was white back when y’all still had baby teeth—as white, is not racism.

2) Your little Tumblr community, with its four diehard followers, is not the whole internet. It’s not even the whole Marauders fandom. You don’t represent any majority. You represent yourselves and your four internet friends who go along with your nonsense. Honestly, it’s sad that just because you read and consume the same ten fandom blogs all the time, you think that echo chamber reflects global reality. Like, self-importance is one thing, but you’re seriously overdoing it.

3) Just because I use certain tags @vulcajes doesn’t mean I’m going into those tags. I use tags related to characters I’m talking about or who come up in questions. I’ve used “Harry Potter” a thousand times and never looked at the main tag. I’ve used “Ginny Weasley” a thousand times and never went into her main tag. I know you’re desperate to paint me as the monster under your bed because it’s always annoyed you that I call out your cognitive dissonance—thinking you’re a social justice warrior while defending abusive characters—but that’s not my problem. However you imagine a character who isn’t even relevant to Lily Evans herself (who name-drops her constantly) is totally irrelevant to me. I have no reason to know, because unlike you, I’m not stalking anyone. I only respond when you say something about Snape, that is a tag I do check, and that’s how your posts come up, sweetheart. Keep up.

4) You should know that accusing someone of certain crimes (like offenses against protected groups) and spreading false rumors (as I’ve seen you all doing) is illegal. Saying Mary McDonald is white is not a crime. But believing whatever crap you hear about me just because you need to paint me as the villain, and then reblogging and spreading that crap, is a crime. It’s called defamation, by the way. And it’s reportable to Tumblr. You have zero evidence to back up your conspiracy theories. Meanwhile, I’m calmly collecting receipts and will be reporting you all for harassment as many times as it takes. Not just you either, your little circle of friendly accounts too. And anyone else inventing things. It’s all good.

5) I’m not racist, but you are hypocrites. And when I say “you,” I mean you, your friends, and the echo chamber you live in. You’ve launched an entire hate campaign, full of slander and lies, against me just because I imagine a character—who has been headcanoned the same way for TWENTY YEARS—differently than you do. Like, people were writing fanfics with Mary McDonald as a white girl before you were even born. I was 16, reading Marauders fanfics back then, and she was white in pretty much every one. It’s not my fault there are generational or cultural gaps, but it is your fault for not being able to look beyond your own navels.

It’s absolutely pathetic that you’re going this far, throwing around defamatory nonsense, just because someone disagrees with you. You know what it’s called when you try to silence someone, destroy their reputation, and spread lies just because they don’t think like you? Totalitarian methods. These are the same methods used in authoritarian regimes, including fascist ones—which you love to mention but clearly don’t understand at all. I’d be ashamed to accuse someone of racism without proof when you constantly minimize abuse, sexual assault, and bullying. I’d be ashamed to call someone racist when your favorite characters are WHITE CIS-HET MALE CLASSIST ABUSERS. The double standards you live by are honestly embarrassing.

Clearly, you all still have a lot of growing up to do, but that’s not my job. What I do ask is that you stop using insults, lies, and defamation. And if you don’t, that’s fine too. I have nothing to hide, and I haven’t done anything wrong, so I’ll just keep collecting proof (something you can’t do) and report you all to Tumblr as many times as necessary.

Sending my regards and a little kiss to all of you and your friends—you’ve really exposed yourselves as a bunch of hypocrites who only care about social causes when it’s about fictional characters no one even cares about. Everything else? You don’t give a damn. You’re drawing-room revolutionaries. Keep “boycotting” J.K. Rowling from the comfort of your living room while constantly using her character names and boosting her SEO. You’re really ruining her life, huh? Totally dismantling the system. Just a little more and you’ll reach Robespierre.

[respectthepetty]

I can only be the captain of one lying and scheming rich boy's apology team in Sunset x Vibes, but I can't figure out which brother I like more, so I need to rewatch the episode.

Sam is winning, mainly because of his glasses and puppy-dog eyes.

And I also like that he held onto Yotha in the gayest way possible as he rubbed his chest to calm him down.

However, I moved on too quickly from Sun tying Lin's robe and covering him up.

I didn't appreciate this rich boy catering to Lin quite enough AND showing he understands how to properly care for his partner in more than one way.

So as adorable as I think Sam is, and even though I love their brotherly bond so far

Sam's glasses are fake

And he did drop Yotha

So he has proven it'll be tough to excuse some of his choices.

Therefore, I am now the captain of Sun's defense squad.

And my boy has never done anything wrong in his entire life!

Which includes lying to Lin even when directly questioned multiple times, trying to skip out on important work events so he can try to woo Lin even though he just became the interim president, getting his brother to sneakily run interference for him so he can send Lin's entire team snacks that Lin refuses to eat, blowing up Lin's phone asking for forgiveness, tasking his assistant to figure out a way to get Lin on an international trip with him which includes his assistant having to manipulate his boyfriend in the process, *catches breath*

And most of all, the stack of HR violations he is about to accrue by sleeping with an intern as the PRESIDENT OF HIS COMPANY!

My boy has simply fallen in love for the first time at the age of 32 and his entire world is being turned upside down because of it.

He'll find his footing though.

Or get really good at begging for forgiveness since he has already proven he does well on his kn-- *gets yanked off stage*

*runs back while security chases me* KNEES!

[jisokai]

Shouto’s father doesn’t like you.

It’s a scenario you were prepared for—one you imagined in the private company of your nerves. But Shouto was unconcerned when you told him, and his dismissal lowered your guard; you figured he was confident in you and your ability to win his family over.

It didn’t occur to you that his attitude was because he wouldn’t care what they thought of you.

Dinner is rough, a thick wall of tension splitting you from Enji across the table. His eyes—the blue of twin raging storms—follow your every move, eyebrows lifting when you place your sake to the left. You wilt under his scorching stare, nerves crawling from the self consciousness of your etiquette, every subsequent change in his expression.

“Oyaji,” Shouto warns from beside you, eyes narrowing at his father in an icy glare.

Enji’s expression doesn’t change, meeting Shouto’s challenge. You swallow as the air in the room thickens. It’s silent, unnerving. 

Fuyumi laughs nervously beside you, raving about the sashimi to fill the space. Her chopsticks reach for the center of the table, piling tuna and salmon on your plate. You thank her with a grimace, eyes averting from Enji carefully.

You catch Rei’s face beside her husband, schooled in an elegant and unbothered expression. Natsuo and his fiance eat quietly at the end, only trading glances with one another.

Touya laughs across the table, a sharp sound that rings.

“Touya,” Shouto warns his brother this time.

Your cheeks burn, eyes falling to your bowl of rice. They sting, blurring as saltwater pools in your lashes. You blink rapidly to clear them, lifting the dish to your mouth to shield yourself from the many watchful gazes.

A gentle hand lands on your thigh—Shouto, trying to reassure you.

You inhale sharply, nearly slamming down the bowl as you slide the chair back and stand.

“Excuse me for one moment,” you say quickly with a bow.

It only takes three hurried steps to exit the room.

Behind you, multiple voices start—deep and loud and challenging one another. One is clearly Shouto’s, only angrier than you’ve ever heard. You race down the hall, wanting to be far far away. The sound of the door sliding open strikes panic in your heart.

Shouto calls your name. It’s a desperate noise.

You sprint as fast as you can.

[tricoufamily]

malcolm: my goals are beyond your understanding

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[crystallizsch]

you cost 150 gems/tokens from the memory shop i hate you

[dawnthefluffyduck]

feeling of being watched

[syluriar]

if sylus said to me "if you wanna quit your job and just live with me and use my money, feel free to" i would bid goodbye to being a hunter. you mean i don't have to keep fighting wanders everyday and end up with injuries that could land me in the hospital? instead i can go out shopping and get anything i want, and sylus will love it?? this man will provide me with anything i ask for and he'll happily do it??

[psychopomp-namine]

need this liu xiao in S3. WIDE BRIMMED HAT, hint of eyeliner, flowy clothes. the hat he wore in yingdu was a mistake, I hope he updates his wardrobe by S3

this is the best he's looked to me.

second best look is prometheus. I like the hints of purple on the inside of his coat. sunglasses, nice

and third best look is the owl birthday pic (which mirrors cheng xiaoshi's pose in the yingdu promotional poster)

[a-dumb-sarcastic-bisexual]

I’m gonna keep writing Nimona headcanons til someone stops me cause they’ve taken over my life

Ambrosius was forced to suppress his emotions basically his whole life 

He used to be one of those guys who would say shit like “I haven’t cried in 15 years”

But not as like a weird subtle brag just as stating a fact which made it more depressing 

Once the wall came down it’s like the floodgates opened this man will cry when he’s happy sad angry stressed 

You name it he’s crying 

And he’s not a pretty crier either which is funny cause there is a whole compilation of “Ambrosius being unreasonably photogenic” 

Bal was the typical crybaby growing up 

He was constantly bullied for it and it only got worse when he was at the institute 

A lot of his classmates and teachers would try and be “helpful” and give him tips to stop crying  

Ambrosius was the only one who encouraged him to cry and deal with all his emotions 

It’s pretty rare to see Bal cry now but it happens occasionally when he’s sad or stressed or really happy  

Seeing Nimona cry is a rare phenomenon 

Bal and Ambrosius have only ever seen her cry four times 

The first was when they were on Gloreth’s statue at the end of the movie, the second Gloreth’s statue was fully taken down, the third was when the adoption paperwork was finalized and the fourth was their wedding 

But she denies it literally every single time 

Pinky promises are sacred for the trio

Back when the boys were training they would only make pinky promises about big things 

And if they broke those promises there would be big consequences like giving up your dessert for two months 

It was a habit that Bal subconsciously passed onto Nimona 

The trio never really talked about it but there was a silent mutual understanding that they held weight

The first pink promise Ambrosius ever made was right after Nimona started trusting him and had enough respect for him to hold a conversation without hissing 

And he swore that he would never consciously hurt Bal or Nimona again 

Nimona made a joke about that being a big promise to make 

And Ambrosius said “That’s why it’s a pinky promise”

I feel like Bal and Ambrosius never tried to hide their relationship the kingdom is just stupid 

They were highly encouraged by the staff and family to keep it under wraps but they said fuck that noise I wanna hold my boyfriend's hand in public 

The fellow knights in training knew something was up but they didn’t figure it out until the wall fell

Todd was the most outspoken when they first started dating he used to go around and tell people “No one looks at their bro like that”

After a while they stopped giving a fuck and they didn’t really have enough time or energy to ask because they were too busy getting their asses handed to them by the boys 

A lot of citizens had this weird misconception that they had this heated and bitter rivalry 

There were entire articles written about how they were “The rivals of the century” 

And the boys would get together and dramatically read every single one of them

Whenever the boys were in a bad mood they would reference the articles like this 

“Hey sunshine did you know I joined the institute specifically to dethrone you?” “You know what moonbeam I didn’t but thanks for telling me” 

“Bal I just want you to know that I am utterly seething at the cruel defeat by your hand” “Oh I’m so sorry love I’ll make sure to kick your ass nicer next time”

[lolathelooptyloop]

shoutout to that one english teacher who brought snow to school & asked me if she could borrow my copy of sunrise on the reping, i sincerely hope you have an excellent rest of your life.