#STILL GOING TO SCOLD HIM

[deathfavor]

@diivineray said: WOUNDED // peiwen !!

KNOCK-KNOCK PROMPTS [ WOUNDED ]: sender arrives at the receiver's door with considerable injuries, in dire need of help and emergency care that only the receiver is either trusted enough or convenient enough to provide.

There's a distinct THUD at the palace doors that breaks Ling Wen's focus and draws her eyes upwards. It's odd because she isn't expecting anyone nor has she received notice of anyone suddenly dropping by. She presses her lips together but curiosity is enough to draw her up and to open the doors to see who or what has come to her doors at this moment.

She doesn't expect to nearly get crushed under the weight of a body the moment her doors open. Ling Wen manages to half catch Pei Ming with a strained groan ; supports him enough to be able to slowly lower him to the ground rather than letting GRAVITY pull him down full force. She'd almost chide him for getting too drunk. But he's not drunk, and something warm covers her hands. ( She knows what it is even without breathing life into the thought. She knows. )

" Ol' Pei? " Ling Wen whispers as she strains to get him onto his back, strands of steel-blue hair slipping from her careful hairstyle while her forehead beads with sweat at the effort. But she succeeds and she doesn't care about the blood that smears on her cheek as she wipes at her face and takes in the sight. He looks terrible. He's pale, his strength fleeing, and there's too much blood. Her hands are soaked in it and even she is left helpless and uncertain for the briefest of moments. She needs to do something. NOW.

" Ol' Pei, you idiot! " Ling Wen hisses as she unceremoniously yanks away the silk belt and pushes his bloody robes open to find the worst wound. There's several bad ones but- there. Her hands firmly press against the wound, trying to slow the bleeding while her eyes narrow with stress. She's killed men, she doesn't save them. His skin is burning beneath her freezing cold fingers, but maybe the shock will help. " You absolute fool. Why did you come here? You should have called for the medical gods or gone there. " She scolds him, forcing her voice to be firm despite how much she wants to tremble. " Men, you're all idiots. " She adds with a click of her tongue while she snaps at the medical gods in the communication array to get to her now.

Blood has never bothered her. His does. Ling Wen doesn't want Pei Ming's blood on her hands in ANY sense of the phrase but it is. Her throat tightens as she glances up from the wound to look towards his face. Ignores how her hair starts to unravel like she feels like she is. " Keep your eyes open, or I'll never forgive you. " She warns, lifting her hands off of him only long enough to yank off her outer jacket and press it to the wound, hoping the fabric will help along with the pressure. She doesn't know what to do beyond this. Breathe. ( It's funny. She feels more panicked now than she did when she was mortal and given the death sentence for her act of treason in her literary prose. )

" The medical team will be here shortly. " Ling Wen informs him, her voice strained to sound normally. No one else would notice it with how subtle it is ; she knows if Pei Ming's conscious he'll notice it. He always is able to. Her hands can't afford to shake and they don't, but her eyes squeeze shut briefly as she exhales slowly and tries to shove away all her thoughts. " Seriously. I don't know anything about healing. Helping answer prayers for students doesn't mean I know all that information. " She whisper-hisses at him, an attempt at vague humor while time drags on. " Just a bit longer, Ol' Pei. " He'll be fine. She's confident of that. It does nothing for her here and now when she's covered in his blood.

[courtmartialme]

woag .. otp

[fisheito]

@requiodile EXACTLY my thoughts !!!! rei's too old and tired and will probably have to clean the loads outa his butt for the next several hours. yakumo can carry HIMSELF back home after wreaking that kind of destruction

[flamingfalcon3]

Early Sibuna is my favorite thing ever because HOW CAN 3 PEOPLE BE THAT CHAOTIC AND STUPID???? I love them so much.

[twistedappletree]

if jiang cheng, wei wuxian, lan wangji and lan xichen all got turned into rabbits and the juniors had to coparent them, jin ling would obviously take care of jiujiu-bun, lan sizhui would take care of bun-xian, lan jingyi would take care of bun-ji (so wangxian could stay together) and ouyang zizhen would take care of zewu-bun 🐰

[waitineedaname]

One thing I love about that scene is how casually SQQ pushes Binghe around and manhandles him. Book 2 was heavily defined by his complete terror of Luo Binghe, and now all that fear is just gone. Binghe is even enraged with jealousy, but it doesn’t even threaten him anymore. Nothing has changed but his perception of the situation and it makes all the difference. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

that's so true!! I think that really says something about how far they've come, especially taking into account the two previous scenes. like you said, Shen Qingqiu spends so much of book two terrified that Luo Binghe wants to kill him, but by now he's figured out Binghe's feelings for him and is realizing that Binghe doesn't actually want to hurt him. before the Tent Shenanigans, there's the scene where they're fighting before SQQ's soul gets yoinked out of the plant body, and then there's Holy Mausoleum arc. there's a lot to unpack in their fight in the plant body but I think most relevant is that SQQ is less Scared and more Pissed Off, and as many people have pointed out, Binghe did not intend to actually hurt him in that scene, he was just trying to scare him because he thought he was fulfilling a role SQQ wanted him to play. and he was Also Pissed Off.

and then there's the Holy Mausoleum, which is just. so much. Holy Mausoleum I love you, best arc in the whole damn series. but SQQ spends most of that arc carrying Binghe's unconscious body around and protecting him, and they have their Moment when they're both sobbing at each other. at this point, SQQ is really coming to understand Binghe's feelings for him and that Binghe doesn't truly want to hurt him. plus this scene in the tent starts with Binghe kissing him and SQQ snapping at him to kneel and Binghe fucking DROPPING to his knees! this might be the first point in the story where they are truly Equals, especially in SQQ's understanding of things. Binghe might be the terrifyingly powerful demon emperor protagonist, but SQQ has the authority to shove Binghe around and the security in knowing he's not going to be dismembered for it

so yeah, he can manhandle Binghe as much as he likes! Binghe even enjoys it, even if he's also angry that someone else is daring to look at Shizun

[leah2eroes]

"european trans women on this site talking about their petty little problems with "transmisogynists" like. fucking excuse me???? im a TRANS MAN living in AMERICA do you even give a shit about the shit thats happening over here??? you are NOT allowed to voice ANY of your lived experiences if i decide that they make ME look bad!!! this is INFIGHTING! this is MISANDRY!! now is NOT the time for you fucking evil tra- uh.,, trans radfems, to be WHINING about how we 'oppress you'. we don't. now shut up and let the MEN talk."

-actual post i saw on my tl just now (obviously paraphrased with key subtext lol)

[suguwu]

jing yuan who feeds the sparrows that flock to him and gets scolded by you, the ornithologist in charge of their health on the luofu

[thesummerstorms]

Okay, but I do have an AU version of that AU in my head where Dick Grayson returns to earth and manages to find Annabeth (and Thalia and Luke) living in the streets before they make it all the way to Camp Halfblood.

We can explore the implications of that for Thalia and Luke in a different post, but basically Annabeth still has to go to CHB for large portions of the year, she attracts too many monsters, but when she isn't there, Dick Grayson has unofficial custody for quite awhile while Bruce gets his shit together.

The crack fic version of that AU of an AU has Annabeth trying to manipulate her way into arranging a meeting between Chiron and Roy Harper because her brother's friends have been kind to her and if one of them is going to be an archer, they should be the BEST archer so that they can keep Dick alive longer.

No one is more surprised than Chiron when he actually agreed to give Roy some "pointers", although he trained fully human heroes in the Ancient Days.

And to be fair to Roy his brain is stuck trying to work its way around fact that his friend's little sister staged an emergency to introduce him to a man who's half horse. He's kind of mad, which, fair. That said, once the actual archery lesson starts and he realizes that Chiron really is that much of an expert, he immediately gets into it.

Which is how a panicked Dick Grayson bursts into the scene a few hours later, expecting something terrible has happened to Anna & Roy because Roy isn't responding to comms.

Only to find his best friend arguing with a centaur about some obscure fact of aerodynamics while Annabeth is perched nearby watching, legs swinging, eating way too many popsicles and occasionally calling out questions when her curiosity gets the better of her.

Dick isn't sure whether to be pissed, relieved, or just plain confused, but he for sure isn't letting Anna OR Roy live that one down for years.

And if he also gets distracted and listens in to some of Chiron's archery explanations, well, it's always good to know your teammates' full potential.

[ratatatastic]

i keep going back to the ekky cam&strick podcast interview if not for the fact they got him to talk about the whole media storm during game 7 because 1. we almost get him saying "get off our dicks" 2. we get petty ekky and 3. hes like "im a happy guy i love everyone" as he looks down like a scolded puppy for admitting to all that

[todayisafridaynight]

What’s a genuinely sweet moment with Jo?

LOL

[shidoukanae]

drawing for a scene in the TME light novel (specifically, Paris helping out Lyla!!).

I drew this scene immediately after I read it because oh my god of all the things I was expecting from Paris's first introduction, him lending a (unneeded) helping hand to Lyla was NOT what i thought his first introduction would be like

[crescentmp3]

my cousin got a family plan for super duolingo and im included

[applecherry108]

Eughhh… 😬

I think I just encountered one of those middle schoolers operating at a fourth grade level that tiktok teachers have been talking about.

[pen-of-roses]

Uuuuuuughhhhhhhhhh

[salsflore]

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