#Unknown variables

[curapicas]

Yandere Lu Guang I love you yandere Lu Guang

I promise to not overlook your complex character, nor your tragic greek hero status - nor the fact that yingdu chapter as a whole explored your state of mind and the stakes that it takes for attempted murder to be on the table, nor the fact the light started really leaving your eyes once it was done, nor that you put high value in kindness and is motivated by devotion

But boy. Your answer to the story was "the detective is the culprit", wasn't it?

[worms-for-brains]

POV you woke up after a nightmare and decided to get out of bed.

[fortune-maiden]

Thinking about Shao Yuanyuan and her wildcard potential and it hit me today... just how much does she know? Does she live in a time loop similar to Lu Guang or does she hop in and out of the past like Cheng Xiaoshi? Does she know that Cheng Xiaoshi also has a death node?

It suddenly occurred to me to that the Shao Yuanyuan we likely saw during the fire in Ep 4, was either a time leaping SYY from the future or at least one who had information from her future self to know to be in Bridon at this point in time and also a Shao Yuanyuan who might have just realized Cheng Xiaoshi had awakened his own powers.

Given her meeting with Cheng Xiaoshi in Ep 6 where she acts like Cheng Xiaoshi should be aware of how this all works, I suspect that it's because the version of Shao Yuanyuan from Ep 4 arranged this meeting because she encountered Cheng Xiaoshi during the fire and thus knew he would show up in Bridon and go searching for them through Wang Qing. She needed to set up that meeting so she could tell Cheng Xiaoshi face to face not to pursue her anymore (and make things more complicated).

I also think that was her second attempt at doing so - the first being to go back years earlier to tell the Qiao family not to let him go to Bridon. But the future refused to change so she found another opportunity to try again.

And based on Lu Guang's comments it sounds like she would have also failed again in the original timeline. It's not clear how her conversation with CXS went last time (if there was one) but at the very least she might not have had time to make CXS promise not to chase after her anymore, and that would have likely sealed his fate. If anything, a sudden interrupted meeting like that might have even encouraged him further.

And this is all coming from a Shao Yuanyuan from an unknown point in the future...

Anyway this is a lot of words to say where in time is Shao Yuanyuan?

And what the heck does the timeline look like from her perspective?

[stan-joe]

hey so the optimal timeline for cxs's mother to save his father is also one in which cxs dies

[triptychofvoids]

*hands you a two-week old kitten*

1205 calories

[thatsgonnaleaveamark]

booked a hotel and got the concert ticket aghhhh

[crimeronan]

back to thinking about that worst timeline princess AU concept where luz and hunter end up with camila in the human realm when camila hasn't met vee and doesn't know about the isles. & so camila thinks that the two of them have just been held captive together for years.

i'm mainly thinking about my 100% certainty that luz would develop a Crippling case of agoraphobia for..... very obvious reasons. double-checked the definition just now because i was like "i'm pretty sure it's no longer referred to as a fear of being outside??" and yeah -- it's a fear of being in environments where you'll be helpless or unable to escape if something goes wrong. which. well. you guys know what she's gone thru.

that combined with the general confusion and sensory overload of the human world.... i think luz would get Very Very Very Upset if she was forced to leave the house. and going anywhere without hunter especially is a non-starter. like one of u guys said a few days ago, the sheer LEVELS that her separation anxiety would ratchet up to.... she's basically following him to the bathroom whenever he gets up and sitting outside the door like a lonely cat. i don't even want to CONSIDER the kind of breakdown she'd have if she was made to go out with camila to, like, a completely normal therapy appointment.

[ari-shipping-stuff]

the way keima really always had that inspiring flowery speech for every girl until the second chihiro conquest when she drops that "you don't need a reason to love someone" thing which is so different from his cause-and-effect style of conquering the girls. she just liked him. unconditionally. it was that simple

[a-shrieking-cloud-of-bats]

well time for bed

some VotV Lore by a collaborator on the project

[iztea]

no pressure or anything, but do you plan on opening comms again any time soon?! sorry to bother!

no bother at all! I don't think I'll officially open comms for the time being because I am ridiculously busy with school, but if you want you can fill out this form to secure a slot and I'll add you to a waitlist! I work on a "first come, first served" basis To give an estimate, I think I'll open them in the summer...july maybe?

[chipjrwibignaturals]

for all Joel postures himself as incredibly tall and handsome and confident it’s so funny to watch him immediately bend and silently panic when placed in an unfamiliar social situation. he’s JUST like me fr

[spacealiencafe]

i am within 2 hours of an important appointment at a new location so it is officially time for my body to enter panic mode

[twilightichor]

I'm remaking a few icons / making new ones of these cutscenes that I didn't before and I stumble upon this smile... she's too precious.

[thepringlesofblood]

google search: easiest way to become a captain of something so that i can be addressed as "Capt." on paperwork instead of "Mr.", "Mrs.", or "Ms."

[rimouskis]

I'm going to preface this story by saying: I don't necessarily believe in karma, but

I may have been walking through today with a vague sense of disbelief tainted with unkind smugness after my tiktok fyp was flooded with poor fans who tried to get presale ticket to one mr n. kahan's new tour only to find that demand was through the roof and GA pit tickets were seriously going for $300, in presale, and even the "worst" tickets in the lawn were going for $70

and while I undoubtedly think it's deeply unethical for both platforms (thanks ticketmaster) and artists to allow such dramatic ticket cost inflation, I also generally don't relate...

I (VERY LUCKILY) gravitate towards smaller acts, and the most I've paid for a ticket all year has been, like... $90 for a ticket to beyonce, which got cancelled and I was refunded lol. if I look back at all my receipts from shows this year, most have been around $50/ticket after fees, and several have been closer to $20. my favorite show I've seen all year was a $15 ticket.

it's mostly luck—I tend to like smaller acts, and I've been seeing mainly rock acts this year, and those tickets simply don't run as high as pop acts. and part of me is honestly very grateful that I haven't been swept into any of the really recent huge acts.

I think of all the people scrabbling for boygenius or taylor swift tickets and how much money they've had to shell out... how a lot of them don't even GET to see the acts they want to see because they've been priced out or tickets sold out. I can't remember the last time a show I wanted to go to sold out lol. maybe bastille in london?

and again, it's just a matter of luck that I'm not really into any of these megastars and therefore don't have to compete in the gladiator arena to try to see shows I want to see, but sometimes luck manifests as a feeling of self-satisfaction, you know? who among us hasn't experienced a little self-superiority from time to time.

look, if YOUR tiktok was flooded with people saying concerts have been awful since 2021 (including rock and metal shows), but every concert YOU'VE been to since 2021 was amazing and the crowds were really good and you always got tickets and it never broke the bank, you'd feel pretty validated in your choice of musicians and the crowds they attract too, alright?? sue me! I felt frugal AND undeservedly clever!

anyways back to karma. guess who got invited and subsequently agreed to shell out $70 to sit in a lawn and listen to mr. n. kahan sing. I'll give you a hint, her tumblr username starts with an r and ends with an s

[robinsnest2111]

psyching myself out over this festival ngl