#LSS edition

[girlnamedangel]

Have you ever had that feeling of falling in love with a song that you just heard once? I mean, immediately after listening to it, you just want to put in on a repeat for the whole day.

Well, that's what happened to me with this song. It's from HYBS, the song called Tip Toe, and yeah knowing me, I definitely made a video out of it. And of course, with my OTP at the moment, our ShAmy.

[kelly-clarksons]

Love So Soft by Kelly Clarkson

[dramarants]

I've said this before but as much as I was screaming at my screen, this is an opportunity for ttj to raise roots somewhere that not only includes the love of his life but also relationships without ridonkulous power imbalances among a supportive community and a new way of life outside the expectations set upon him since birth. who knows, maybe he'll choose to embrace his devil god fate lord knows the tension would not only be palpable but sexy af or maybe he'll become the supreme ultimate botanical sword master but he finally gets to be an active agent of his own life, choosing people, values, and goals for his own future, and hopefully, his journey (and lss's own growth returning + learning her identity) will reunite them knowing they're stronger, happier, and simply uplift each other when together. ttj's enduring love surmounted death and five centuries of agony to bring him to her place in the immortal realm, now it's up to them to figure themselves out and truly make it their home.

[andromedask]

SUPER JUNIOR-L.S.S. 조크든요 (JOKE) MV but it is 50x speed (슈퍼주니어-L.S.S. 💙)

[gs-artchive]

i think my one gripe with the legendary super saiyan sprites (which are fantastic btw, don’t get me wrong) is that they put such an emphasis on the upper body alone to almost a comedic extent. the original lssj forms we see manage to emphasize the massive size & strength difference but also keep the design fairly balanced by dispersing it throughout the rest of the body so the proportions stay fairly consistent (consistent enough to look like it makes sense anyway). i understand there are limitations to the sprites, but that’s just my take. if i were any good at original pixel art i’d attempt to fix it but alas. i’m just good at coloring (sometimes).

original dbfg sprite on the left, my edit/color correction in the center, bonus stripped (no aura/effects) version on the right

[heliophaestus]

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[my-castles-crumbling]

💖🤩🔮👄🙊🙌👶🟥🏡💪🚿🍎🥘🎬

a lot of questions lol, sorry

💖 Which of your fics is your pride and joy? Probably Long Story Short, because I worked on it for so long, and it helped me through so much.

🤩 What's the most meaningful comment you've ever received? The comments on LSS that say it helped people work through things, too. Those make me feel so honored. Also, @starchasersunseeker always leaves amazing comments. I look forward to them so much!

🔮What's your favorite plot twist you've ever written? Actually, my favorite one has been brainstormed but hasn't been written yet.

👄 Your OTP are having their first kiss. What song do you imagine is playing? Enchanted- Taylor Swift

🙊Your coworkers or classmates stumble across one of your fics, but don't know you're the author. Do you fess up? Or keep quiet? Hahahahaha absolutely not.

🙌What's a line or paragraph of yours that you're proud of? I'm pretty proud of my most recent chapter of Clandestine!

👶Fankids: How you do you feel about them? Would your OTP have kids? I have no idea what fankids are lol.

🟥How long do you spend in edits? I re-read twice- once in the document to add/take away and once on AO3 to do final edits while adding formatting.

🏡What is your perfect writing envrionment? At home with music!

💪What motivates you to write? I think it's a mixture of brainrot, the enjoyment of healing through writing, and the wonderful comments/love I get from people who read.

🚿Where do your best ideas seem to strike? While listening to music, I think. Or while talking to @starchasersunseeker and @beautyoftheships

🥘What wip are you most excited about? Clandestine, definitely

🎬One of your fics gets turned into a TV series. Which one is it and what network is it on? Probably LSS because it's my only finished longfic lol. I have no idea what network, though.

<3 <3 <3

[serpentinred]

Okay … so I finally finished rewatching the first 35 episodes and finished watching the last couple of episodes of TTEOTM.

(Kinda a long post which turned into somewhat of a review+opinion+speculation+theory?)

I still don’t like the ending of the drama but maybe it’s because I’ve had time to sit on and prepare for it or maybe I’d gotten into it already ready to write a fix-it fic for it, but I wasn’t as upset with the actual ending as I thought I would be?

Or maybe it’s because I actually feel that there were enough evidence that it will be a happy ending with time but they just didn’t show it in the actual drama itself (whether it’s for censorship reasons or because “not enough time”, who knows?) The editing for the last episode still left much to be desired, but anyhow, more under the cut to avoid spoiling things for people who haven’t watched it yet.

Possibility for HE

The drama establishes multiple times, as long as there are sins in the world, the Devil God will not be destroyed.

It does not say, the Devil God will not be destroyed unless the All-in Distress Way is not destroyed.

The original Devil God literally says to TTJ, “You are the Devil God now.”

You can’t possibly tell me that just because the Devil God died, there’s no more sins in the world.

Also, the evil bone destroyed belonged to the original Devil God. But TTJ still had the divine essence given to him by YXW, so we can even speculate that this is synonymous to the “evil bone” for Devil God!TTJ. Except now, he’s no longer a “normal” Devil God who wants to destroy the world, but an “abnormal” Devil God who wants to protect the world.

And as I’ve seen on a YouTube video (I seriously don’t remember where; it might’ve been Discord, too, but I think it’s YouTube?), someone pointed out a very important fact: The most important factor in determining if a person/god/demon is dead in this drama is whether their primordial soul is destroyed. When Devil God!TTJ talked to LSS about whether people will remember their story, he specifically said “after our human bodies have disappeared” when he could’ve easily said “after our souls are destroyed and dispersed”. Like we’ve literally seen Ming Ye at the brink of death multiple times but as long as his soul isn’t completely gone, he still comes back.

Taking all of this into consideration, it makes sense for TTJ to be able to come back. Maybe not in the same body and nobody knows how long it will take (I mean, it took the original Devil God 10,000 years to do so), but it’s totally possible that he’ll come back in a different body.

Rant+sorta review+opinion

I’m actually angrier at the production for the quality of the whole last episode than the ending itself. It’s like eating a Michelin meal and then someone messes up the last course. Is it still edible? Sure, but it left much to be desired.

I have a feeling the whole of episode 40 wasn’t a complete total disaster because it’s Luo Yunxi and Bai Lu acting and not somebody else. These two can act out a script made up of gibberish and make it look interesting. These are facts and not opinions :P . #mypostmyrules

I mean, yeah, there were some plot holes, inconsistencies, and problems throughout the whole drama (yes, Serp enjoyed something, but that doesn’t stop her from complaining about and pointing out that there’s something wrong with it. What do you mean “Serp isn’t perfect either”? :P), and things felt rushed already for episode 36-39, but there were still some epic scenes in those episodes.

On the other hand, episode 40 … made me want to sic Bitchchang and Di Mian on the editing crew :).

Yeah, yeah, yeah, they didn’t have enough episodes, there was censorship, blah blah blah. But they also had choices and they chose to spend almost a whole episode for the fight between Ming Ye and original Devil God. And they dedicated more time to Ken and Bitchchang.

I don’t feel like forgiving them for the first and I can’t forgive them for the second.

But for the rest of the drama? Despite some complaints I might have, I still definitely enjoyed most of the ride.

[cellphonehippie]

So this is a bit random, but I'm currently on vacation in Virginia and found a print of yours at a DAV thrift shop in Williamsburg. I only know it's yours because I felt the need to search the "Long Story Short--Choose Your Own Adventure" on the internet, since it sounds like a game/book, and came across your account. The weird thing about it is, when I asked the employees if this print was part of anything, they guided me to other prints, but none of them were printed using the same paper, and all of them were anime pieces (LSS is on thick cardstock?). Anyways, I was just wondering if you ever DID make something to accompany your original edit (like a game/book), or if you happened to know why it would even have been at the thrift shop in the first place. My friend suggested maybe they printed your piece off the internet, but again, it remained dissimilar to the ones being sold.

omg hi!! that’s so wild that you found a print of it in a thrift shop?! i briefly sold prints of that edit for a short while in 2020, i think i only sold under 10 of them so it’s wild taht one showed up at a thrift if it’s was one i originally sold! the ones i originally sold were on thicker satin paper so it honestly could be! sadly i didn’t make anything other than that edit surrounding the long story short choose your own adventure idea. i am definitely not creative enough to write something like a game or a choose your own adventure story. hopefully someone one day comes across it and makes their own bc that would be so cool! thank you btw for reaching out it’s so interesting to hear that my art was found at a thrift shop on the other side of the world.

[lynninnerworld]

TTEOTM Mini-series (9)- Meeting Again

Series Intro

I’m a fan of the novel that this drama is adapted from. So I’m re-editing it according to the novel. This is my ongoing project. You can watch the entire Youtube playlist here.

About This Episode

This episode is about chapter 82-92 in the book.It becomes very difficult to edit this series now, since the drama deviates so much from the book…let me know if you don't understand the story...i can explain... Tantai Jin wanted to revive Ye Xiwu, so he worked very hard to fight in the immortal competition, to win the Soul-calming lamp, which can help searching people's soul. He also wanted to kill Li Susu because her spiritual body is said to be the best body for a soul of a person who's dead before. But he didn't know Li Susu is Ye Xiwu. They both entered the Cangyuan Secret Realm: Li Susu need another magic artifact, since Gou Yu's gone. Li Susu met Tantai Jin in the Illusionary Stone Array and saw TTJ's illusions: how he miserably searched someone's soul. But she thought TTJ was looking for Ye Bingchang.'s soul, out of her last impression 500 years ago. When Li Susu and Yue Fuya was attacked by some strange vines, TTJ took this opportunity to attack them, but at that moment, the mirror of the past showed to both of them their past, and that's how TTJ got to know, Li Susu is Ye Xiwu.

Afterwards, the strange vine pulled both of them to the bottom of the mountain, and there's another secret realm there. Being wounded, Li Susu lost her memory and become a little girl. A child with a simple heart can see through everything, so she easily told that Tantai Jin actually liked her, instead of hating her. She promised TTJ to forgive him and start over, but after getting out of the secret realm, all she remembered was, they were attacked by TTJ... so she also hurt him as a defense. Then the demons came to attack the immortals. TTJ used all his strength to fought, and LSS cured him, though she's also severely injured. She asked TTJ's sect brother not to tell him, but TTJ was smart enough to tell the truth. After that, in order to rescue TTJ's professor and LSS's sect brother, they met in the human world again...

Other Links

If you're interested in reading more about the book, you can find an ongoing fan-translated version of the book by secondlife translation here (but this translation has not be updated to these chapters...you may use google translation for the Chinese version here )

[whatiwillsay]

I ain’t a twitter kaylor but I can why some are sus about toe. But to the anon this is why I think so:

1. Joe didn’t attend the eras tour (which is fine since conflict of sched is a thing) but tay’s team was so quick to release a pr statement everything is fine and dandy for toe. Like for me the timing was so quick, it’s giving Streinsand effect.

2. She never alludes to him in the songs they wrote together esp betty which according to her was a song that joe wrote the lyrics first then she heard him singing so they finished it together. Instead, she is changing the narrative to be about her teaching a man how to say sorry. If she doesn’t want to say his name, she could say WB which brings me to number

3. She avoids saying his name and even avoided singing any explicit love song about toe that are cutesy stuff (paper rings, ciwyw, lss, peace) except the big ones she can’t avoid and invisible string which she then replaced with the 1. Like girl is singing marjorie, tolerate it and some other surprising songs when those toe songs were fan-favorite. This is weird since she was obviously making a point on saying his name in public like award shows so the weird pivot is sus. Also weird is her shift in narrative from wanting to marry him to hating/disliking marriage. Girl you wrote paper rings so don’t be shock that they’re asking you about it.

(Not really an evidence but there was no march drop for ig for joe. The guy the past few months always have an ig story bomb that contains at least one pic related to Tay but he didn’t this month. Maybe those insane theory of kaylors about the exile ending in march was right)

none of this is sus (some of it isn’t even entirely true taylor says joe’s name plenty when it counts for instance she thanked him in her grammy speech) taylor and joe are private and have always been private. she keeps stuff that’s legit important to her private. pr situations get boosted. real shit gets kept under wraps for the most part.

edit to add: i am a STUPID bitch

[fabulaee]

100% HOT !! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the air horn (?) sound throughout the song and the chorus and dance slaps

But like cheers and rock with you are bangers, first svt song I actually heard was left and right when it came out lol

Amg the siren gets me every time 😂 idk why but it sounds better live too like the hype it brings! But I live for DK’s parts like 😭😭😭 SIR GO OFF!!

OHHH GOOD TASTE GOOD TASTE! Rock With You was one of my biggest lss last year bc the mv was so pretty hahaha! (Also bc RWY!Scoups is so handsome 😭) Have you listened to their B-sides too? 🥺 Ash is one of my favorites in Face the Sun. I think you’ll like Back It Up too 😂

Oo same! Left and Right was one of my first exposures bc Pentagon’s Kino did the L/R challenge with Vernon during Daisy era but I think my very first was this Aju Nice edit where they scramble to get back on stage whenever the song plays 😂 so I called them Aju Nice boys for awhile before learning their name

[instantebookmart]

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[andromedask]

SUPER JUNIOR-L.S.S. C'MON (질러) MV but it is 50x speed (슈퍼주니어-L.S.S. 💙)

[shiegra]

#Unfortunately things fall apart in the last arc with all the edits but#I think she's set up as a compliment to ttj - both were abused but unlike him ybc can't accept someone truly loved her (xl) and tragically#She chooses revenge/selfishness and ttj does the opposite

with all due respect I think this is an enormously shallow, condemnatory reading of the situation.

without LSS, yes, Tantai Jin would have been much worse than YBC - laying waste to entire worlds - but it’s not simply that warmth was offered to him but that it fiercely defended him time and again. Yes she had ulterior motives, but Li Su Su stuck with it long enough that clear real emotions bloomed, and she protected him at all costs. The bond was deep, unconventional, life-saving and defiant of the bonds of their society.

Everything for YBC is trapped within the bounds of their society. For Ye Be Chang, her one chance out - marrying XL - is first poisoned with the status of concubine instead, meaning she’ll inevitably be subject to the same discrimination and threats as her mother and her children will face the same she did. And even with all her vows to die at his side, even with her escape from the Ye household, she still is never chosen first.

XL literally sends her to die slowly in his father’s hands, hungry and sick from cold and mold, knowing exactly what kind of despot his father is and exactly why his father is demanding his wife as a hostage. He’s too rigidly duty bound to rebel for the sake of the people, so he deals with his guilt by just going to ~honorably die on the battlefield, and he sacrifices not only the lives of his soldiers and starving people but also his wife’s wellbeing and probable life on the altar of his duty.

Don’t get me wrong - I still find him fairly compelling, consistent & understandable as a character, especially given that his relationship with his father is undoubtedly what we would nowadays call emotionally abusive which complicates the ability to rebel even beyond heavy cultural pressure - but at that point

literally everyone

that has ever been supposed to care for Ye Bing Chang

has willfully thrown her away to be abused and tormented. Her father and grandmother, who should have cared for her, turned a blind eye. Her sister degraded and crushed her. Her husband shipped her off to a monster that literally just declared and fully intended to kill family members of prominent soldiers if they fail unwinnable battles.

The moment when she pulls her handmaiden in front of the sword and then staggers completely shell-shocked through the active pillaging of the palace is an incredible character moment. Arguably the moral event horizon, when she gave up on all attachment and became entirely an animal thinking only of survival.

To act like there’s an anvilicious, 1-to-1 comparison to be made there between Ye Bing Chang and Tantai Jin is honestly a huge disservice to the work the writers did to flesh her out from the book and make her a fully realized character with a terrible and also tragic spiral into descent.

The impact of toxic family dynamics in Till the End of the Moon (长月烬明)

A bit random and I have never done character analysis posts so I won't be as good at it as some other people on here but bear with me.

I'm watching Till the End of the Moon (ep 25) and the recent development of Ye Bingchang's character into a full blown villain has made me hate her, but also empathize with her in ways I didn't expect.

To contextualise, Ye Bingchang 叶冰裳 is the second child and first daughter of the Ye family, and she is basically the perfect daughter of a noble Chinese family. She's sweet and kind, beautiful but not attention seeking, smart but not a smart ass, dutiful and filial, delicate and thoughtful. She shares a beautiful love story with Prince Xiao Lin 萧凛, the 6th son of the Emperor, so she's going to marry in the Imperial Family and no doubt bring honor to the Ye Clan. She seems to be doing everything exactly right.

And yet she's a second class citizen in her own family, who openly favours her younger sister Ye Xiwu 叶夕雾.

Now there are two levels to this.

1) They're openly and unabashedly favouring one child over the 3 others, but then still ranking the other kids, and somehow Ye Bingchang ranks lower than her brother who is a lazy and stupid gambler. Her family simply doesn't see her, she's completely forgettable to them, like her existence only matters because sure, she's their blood, but she's a complete afterthought.

2) The daughter they favour over her is Ye Xiwu, and Ye Xiwu is a monster of a golden child. She's completely selfish and narcissistic, she explicitly abuses her husband, she schemes again and again to seduce and try to rape Prince Xiao Lin, her sister's one true love and fiancé, and when this doesn't work she becomes physically violent towards Ye Bingchang as well.

Ye Xiwu is an extremely abusive and horrible person, straight up. And her family continuously makes excuses for her violent behaviour, dotes on her, spoils her, and barely has a look for Ye Bingchang, expecting her to forgive and turn the other cheek. The golden child / black sheep dynamic is at its peak.

I find it quite rare that in this type of situation, a show will have the golden child as our hero ; almost always, if there are complicated family relationships, the main character is the one who's rejected, underestimated, and who has to rise through those challenges (which applies to our main male character Tantai Jin 澹台烬 btw, and I think we could say a lot of the parallels between Tantai Jin and Ye Bingchang).

I can think of other cases where the child who was favoured is the main character over the child who is rejected (Jiang Cheng 江澄 in The Untamed 陈情令, Feng Chang 丰苌 in Who Rules the World 且试天下) but they're not as clear cut as this (Jiang Cheng being his mom's favorite and the only actual son of the family while Wei Wuxian 魏无羡 is also a black sheep on many levels, Feng Chang's more favoured brother Feng Lanxi 丰兰息 being fairly rejected as well and having to fight not to be poisoned).

The golden child as a main character works here because it isn't actually Ye Xiwu : we discover her character and the situation when the spirit of Li Susu 黎苏苏 travels back in time and takes possession of Ye Xiwu's body. Our main character is really Li Susu, and like the audience she's horrified to learn everything Ye Xiwu has been doing, disgusted by her abusive behaviour towards her sister and her husband, and at first disapproves of how much the Ye family favours her over Ye Bingchang. But she also comes to love the Ye family as her own, and the fact that they would neglect one of their daughters so much doesn't impact her affection for them.

We only learn about Ye Xiwu's abuse through flashbacks, so it doesn't have the same emotional impact for us as an audience, and we only brief moments of those memories so we don't have to confront the full magnitude of how horrible she was, including to Ye Bingchang. Again, Ye Xiwu tried to rape her sister's one true love and fiancé, and even after getting married herself she continued to throw herself at him, and when it didn't work she turned to actual physical violence on Ye Bingchang.

And throughout this, the Ye family excuses it all away, and even Ye Bingchang excuses it away. She forgives before Ye Qiwu even apologizes, because she knows that's what's expected of her, and she just tries her best to be a kind soul still defending her sister from people spreading rumors about her. In a way, she's a victim of domestic violence who forgives an abuser and thinks she just needs to be softer, sweeter, weaker, so maybe they don't feel like bullying her anymore.

So when Ye Bingchang tries to use the affection of men to get protection, to feel love and be sheltered from her condition, it's very understandable and to me resembles a lot of things I've seen in real life. And when she turns to resentment over her condition and decides she needs to gain control over her situation through getting some amount of power so she can protect herself, it's an arc we could expect from a main character.

She only becomes a villain after the arc of Bo're Life, in which our four main characters Tantai Jin, Ye Xiwu/Li Susu, Xiao Lin and Ye Bingchang are absorbed into a dragon's dreams of its past as a War God centuries ago. Ye Bingchang is "reincarnated" in this dream as a powerful immortal, a scorned lover but who has the power to actually be vengeful over the woman who steals the man she loves. The object of her ire being Ye Xiwu, reincarnated in a very sweet clam spirit woman, Ye Bingchang gets a taste of what power feels like, of what manipulation feels like, and of what revenge over Ye Xiwu would feel like. And when even in this dream life, Ye Xiwu is preferred over her and she ends up dying, she comes back to herself determined to change and not let others control her life anymore.

Every character (except Xiao Lin really) seems deeply influenced by what they lived in Bo're Life, having identity crises of sorts over who they actually are now. As an aside, it works as a pretty good plot device to suddenly get Tantai Jin a lot more open to Ye Qiwu/Li Susu and move their romance along, it almost feels like cheating but I'll allow it.

Anyway, Ye Bingchang has now slowly become as manipulative and cruel as her counterpart in Bo're Life, and it's easy to just see it as that counterpart taking over her body in a way.

But this manipulative and cruel streak is born out of the profound reality that she can not count on her family to protect her, and that the people who were supposed to love her unconditionally preferred her literal abuser over her.

She did everything right and it was never enough, so now it's time for her to claim her life back.

And again, in another show (like the Story of Yanxi Palace 延禧攻略 for example), this urge to climb to power so no one can hurt you anymore and take revenge on the people who ruined your life along the way, it would make you the hero.

But here, Ye Bingchang still can't win, and she actually turns into a villain.

[strandedcrow]

The past 24 hours sure have been -lss

sapnap is going to visit george, george has a vlog channel, dream and sap moved into the dream team house, michael was fake, nichael was c!dreams best friend, nichael has been murdered, wilbur published to ao3, i missed stream but sounded like love either won or lost maybe both, sapnap stole someone’s tweet and dmed them calling them a puny little shit for literally no reason, clingyduo lore is coming up soon, manatreed is streaming on saturday “with dream”, we got a number one victory royale, yeah fortnite we bout to get down (get down), ten kills on the board right now, just whiped out tomato town,