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been reading non-hannibal fanfic for the first time in like 2 years and have come to the tragic realisation that the hannibal fandom has ruined me when it comes to fic quality
like my standards are so ridiculously high now. the bar is on the moon
you've all ruined me. RUINED ME I SAY
#nbc hannibal#hannibal#hannigram#i leave a fandom for 6 or 7 years and i come back to next to nothing new on my favourite headcanons and tropes#and i've already read most of the best fics from before#:(((#and now my favourite character is the less popular of the main ship so there's even less options :'(#and the writing of the stuff i haven't read and like the sound of is mostly okay... but it's not like hannibal fic...#i'm so grateful for the amazing writers in this fandom i love you all
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people are like "sy is so oblivious, how can he not realize liu qingge is in love with him" but when i first read svsss i was woefully unaware of the sy wifebeam. yall i was reading the scene where lbh is like "shizun waits so dutifully for liu-shishu" and thinking "silly lbh, why is he so jealous? it's so funny how he thinks liu qingge is a serious threat when he only tolerates sqq because of his life debt" when lqg fought 5 years to get sqq's body i was like "wow this really showcases the dedication of cang qiong sect to its members lqg is such a tsundere he refuses to admit he actually cares about sqq as a friend" im so glad im not a 20something chinese twink bc i would be in DANGER
bonus horrendously incorrect take from me: i thought mobei-jun was gonna be the antagonist
#i was reading feynites AMAZING fic IWYWMH and thinking what an INTERESTING take to have liu qingge in love with shen qingqiu#this is not ironic btw if i was transmigrated i would be the oblivious MC#browsing ao3 and being like huh...there's a lot of liushen here must be more popular than i thought#shen qingqiu#mtxt#svsss#liu qingge#liushen
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ra’s is always written so poorly in any story where he considers tim as a successor or even finds him particularly valuable outside of batman.
#not even just red robin my beloathed but also the resurrection of ra’s al ghul#i can’t bring myself to ever consider the two of them in the contexts of those stories because they’re so painfully racist…#no wonder tim and ra’s is such a popular topic among bat fans lol#it’s like even people who don’t read comics/ignore all of canon will go out of their way to engage with comics if characters of colour are#being used to tell stories built on stereotypes or prejudices. amazing.
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man i wish i could mute notifications from specific posts here on tumblr. my dunmeshi fanarts are literally eating up my notifications tab and it's impossible to see if people have left nice notes on other posts, which was genuinely the best thing about this app. on top of that, since the anime is basically mainstream, it's also impossible to read notes from people who are insane about it and which i would want to read if i wasn't fed up.
#petty complaint from someone with a big follower count i know#but if you've been following me for a while you know i've never asked for this#i don't want to be known just because i drew the popular ship of the moment#(and it's already happened so i can't change it)#and don't get me wrong i LOVE everything about falin and marcille#but i think my point comes across right?#anyway. i love you if you've read this far. thank you for your time and support. have an amazing day <3
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I’ll never forget how once my ex joked I “live under a rock” and when I asked how he showed me a Snapchat reel of “hot celebrity gossip,” after which he pointed out I don’t keep up with any of it. I really dated that that’s so embarrassing
#If anything I’m trying to get AWAY from that#I don’t dislike keeping up w pop culture but at this point id rather be reading a book watching documentaries learning something new#Idc if it sounds pretentious bc it’s true#I don’t like using the term “low vibrational” bc i don’t have to be spiritual not to consume what’s essentially brain trash#Do I judge people for being too invested NO you do you. But beyond very popular pop culture headline I really would rather be out of the#Loop#id just rather be consuming healthy brain food#And it amazes me how he full chest thought that keeping up w vain stuff like that is him being in the loop. Never again <3
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Modu by priest was truly such a good read. If you like romance? It has a sweeping romance, with a well done bisexual and gay lead (and straight best friend) all written in ways that manage to feel realistic, it's got features people likely found it for when looking for a danmei - rich manipulative younger man, older investigator who's got a hero streak, and yet those categories don't really do justice to them (and of course tao ran is the more grounded detective story lead who keeps his theories to himself and worries about dragging others into his mess).
They're so much more... Fei Du is a traumatized young man who's worried he's as monstrous as the people who scarred him, who is preparing to take the leap and cross the line to become an even more terrifying version of himself if it will destroy the corruption poisoning this city and harming so many, Luo Wenzhou is a cop that used to want to be a hero and learned he will fail people and be unable to save people and holds onto Fei Du as someone who reminds him he DOES fail but also reminds him why he wants so hard to keep Trying to help people even when it seems impossible... why trying and putting in effort to care and help Even when its too late to fix things is Worthwhile. Tao Ran is a contrast to them both, Fei Du living in a world where there's only monsters and victims and Luo Wenzhou desperately trying to force the world to be a place where justice CAN prevail and win even as he sees it fail over and over, trying so hard to believe all people have the capacity for everything and are worth trying to save. Even though Fei Du doesm't believe that, being around Luo Wenzhou makes him want to consider it. Tao Ran, their contrast? Believing the world can go either way, and its up to people like him to create any justice at all, any structure at all, or else everything is just meaningless suffering chaos. As characters, the three of them serve to explore how the world works and views on it in terms of a detective murder mystery encompassing the whole city, the small scale version of the world. Modu is a romance, but its also fully commited to being a murder mystery that wants to tackle the kind of themes that come up in the setting it's created. Its characters are so much more than Insert Character Ship types here. These characters were made this way to explore these ideas (just as the villains are all made to parallel and contrast Fei Du to explord these ideas in comparison to our point of view Fei Du moments, our impressions of Fei Du from Luo Wenzhou and Tao Rans varied perspectives, all of them are different lenses to view humanity and how it works, if the world is just or if we have to make it good, if we can be inherently good and if good people will reach out to us if we just keep treading water to survive, if its luck and chaos, and how much... and much more frankly).
Modu is like. If you want a story about a corrupt city and its victims, symbolizing a corrupt world and all of us at its mercy, and you want to see the heart of the people doing something about it. First the main trio, but also every victim Fei Du recruits to help, every murderer recruited to the corruption, all the people in the cases swayed to some side. Thats what Modu is about.
The romance is just one facet of exploring that, the personal debate about what these things mean about the world as told through two people who view this world incredibly differently. Yet find some way to exist in the same space, same mutual world, when together. It hooks you in and doesn't let you go and youre wondering right there with them, left to draw your own meaning in the end. Hopefully that its worth trying, that doing something is worth trying even when its just the trying you can do and not the succeeding, at least thats what I got from it (at least in regards to Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou meeting each other, unable to live up to the pillar they put each other on but trying anyway, is what I felt from them).
Then like? Modu gives you THAT story, which in its own right is enough to make you contemplate.
And if you're like me and care about people, about characters? Well it gives you, like I said, those big themes and a city's nightmares symbolizing the world, and brings them down to an individual level. You read from the mind of the little girl who grew up in this (one of my favorite scenes and when I felt this novel was going to not shy away from dark psychological moments and bringing them to you). You read from the mind of Fei Du when he knows himself, when he doesn't. You read from the minds of all kinds of people, and the heart of much of the investigation is peoples motives and things they'd gone through and how that shaped what they'd do next. Why they'd do it. Leaving you to wonder who's right. Jaded idealist Luo Wenzhou who wants to believe in the goodness of the people he loves, but also is willing to risk that strangers may have good intent? Fei Du who thinks theres only victims and perpetrators and everyone is going to fall into one in the right circumstance? Tao Ran, who feels the world is too messy to dare declare predictable, who thinks even your closest can betray you and even you can accidentally hurt them, nevermind strangers, and the only thing you can control and rely on is your own choices? Some mix? None of them? The side characters as they come up, grow and evolve, do they understand the world better or worse, and is the world they experience different than anothers and justify why their worldview is likewise different? Modu gives you that up close and personal, over and over. Im still thinking about it. And the way its done, they all get to feel like lived in people. Not structures to tell the themes only. But on their own, there's a personal struggle between Fei Du feeling like a monster who'll destroy Lup Wenzhou if he loves him, like his dad destroyed his mom, and Luo Wenzhou carrying the guilt he could never save Fei Du and desperate to believe in Fei Du (and keep trying to save him in that way if only that way) as person who can do good despite not being saved and despite Fei Du's fears. You could cut the entire city's plot away, all of the crimes and make the city calm, and still that core of their plot would be carrying a Lot of weight. Theyre playing a game of "enemies" to lovers sure, or whatever romance story structures they fit into. But they're also made to be deeply rooted into each other, their personal beliefs tied into the outcome of what they hope or fear happens if they are close together. Modu made me care about that. Its like the fears many people might have, abiut theur own flaws, about getting close to others, about trusting and being unsure if that trust is safe to give. Its that and magnified into bigger form, in this landscape of a fucked up city and the tragedy of Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou's meeting and former lives.
Its like. Id love to to read another danmei (Ive got a lot on my to read list). But what's going to give me roo
#modu#silent reading#lb#meta#like... modu was so fucking good.#it was 3 characters symbolizing their city symbolizing the world in terms of worldviews morality justice and if theres a point to#trying to help at all. like damn#i want to read ANOTHER danmei that makes me weigh those questions. that uses the characters this personally and intimately with the readers#because the Characters weigh the themes in their OWN lives so heavily.#like... i know priest can probably give me this kind of huge delivery in can ci pin and sha po lang (at least i estimate#priesr probably can as theyre very popular novels by priest)#and 2ha can (because ive read half and know its themes)#but like. what other danmei can? can thousand autumns? can peerless? can wu shang jie?#can Mistakenly Saving the Villain?#like... the only non priest danmei i read was svsss and i got supremely lucky#cause i personally LOVE satire and critique commentary affection for the topics it explores#and svsss AS a satire is incredibly well done. having read 2ha first? and seen Eternal Love?#svsss does an amazing job at critiquing webnovel culture and flaws. at the way capitalism effects writing#at the way some tropes have become staples of certain genres and when used well yeah you get 2ha but when used badly you get#the fake novel svsss was making fun of that there Are many real novels like
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I've seen things after SOTUS extreme actor harassment, I've been here through BMF "hate watching flashmob" and you know what, this year I will actually stop tolerating BL fans (at least on tumblr) who don't even have the decency to just ignore things they don't like and who think bullying someone is a good fandom sport, and start calling out. No matter if you believe clickbaits or you're a proud member of celebrity witchhunt or just don't believe people and situations can change, whatever, I really don't want to see KristSingto hate if - when - they will come back with another BL series.
Peraya fans have been waiting and hoping for KristSingto reunion for years, they wanted it themselves for so long as well, and we've unfortunately encountered way too many people who don't use their braincells and who encourage others to follow their footsteps when making derogatory comments about (mainly) Krist or Singto who they don't even know about, or their shows. For years. Some even go to talk shit and laugh right at his face. What the hell.
Maybe don't ruin someone else's parade and don't turn a nice community lake into a swamp. If you consider yourself a good person who can have an opinion "I just don't vibe with this person/show", watch it unbiased, be open minded and if you don't have a full picture, ask fans of the actual story or do research and read proper compilations about him instead of blindly stacking your opinions on repeated echoed insults from yt and tiktok. And if you aren't willing to be open minded and rational, well, let the fans celebrate and stick quietly to your swamp.
It's really no fun to gather around to discuss something and slip on poop piles thrown around for no reason. What happened to civil discussions?
#this might sound harsh#but i've watched many shows over the past few years and read a lot of opinions#and bl fans were vile for nothing about no other popular bl actor as much as Krist#all the snide remarks in metas and retold HoRriBle RuMoRs for someone who really does not deserve it#and who has been battling mental health for years already#it really became a popular witchhunt and the last year showed that people are still happy to engage in it#even when the extreme viewers pressure and harrassment is exactly what created an issue in the first place#people do deserve to be called out when they are being ugly to others#my heart still hurts for bmf tbh because it's a beautiful and well crafted meaningful show with good acting#but people ignored it because some popular accs decided to be bitch about it because Krist was in it#OR they wrote meta and excited fans had to read discussions enduring all the - ew considering Krist it is not too bad - posts#just ffs#why people still do it#there are amazing posts with explanations or updates or just showing how good of a person Krist is#why don't you read those first and form a proper opinion if you take time to hate on him anyway#kristsingto#krist perawat#singto prachaya#peraya
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Okay my random rarepair is Percival/Lancelot. Simply because when Lancelot comes back there is NO EXPLANATION as to who Percival is, or where they met, or their relationship, or anything like that. And when he introduced him to Arthur he doesn't say anything about it either . Like no "this is Percival, we were prize fighters together. Thank got we never fought each other!" Or even just "this is my friend, Percival." Like one line of backstory! Anything! And it reminds of how sometimes when you're queer, and especially when you're queer and your relationship is a little.... ambiguous?....and you don't necessarily want to introduce your Person as your Lover or Boyfriend to someone who might be homophobic (and let's face it, Arthur's a rich white guy, Lancelot doesn't know he ISNT homophobic) but you don't want to say friend for fear or insulting them, and you just don't want to get into the intricacies or queer relationships in front of The Straights so you just say "this is X" and let people make their own conclusions.
And thus a ship was born.
great stuff anon, I love the way you think
#always amazed by the things people will read into a single line#it's fantastic#i didn't know percy was so popular#i guess you guys like the strong and silent type uh#omg look at lance he looks so smol next to him#rarepair propaganda#asks#does this ship have a name?#perlance#< maybe idk#incorrect quotes
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it’s not actually that weird that people are saying “harry potter was never good, actually” after joanne went full mask off, and no it doesn’t mean that we all secretly think harry potter is amazing but don’t want to admit it. it’s pretty simple actually: most people read harry potter when they were children, when they hadn’t read a lot of other books and therefore didn’t have a lot to compare it to. then every time you reread it as an adult, you’re looking through pretty hefty nostalgia goggles. then, after you’ve realized that joanne is a violent bigot that wants you and / or people you love and care for dead, those goggles are broken and when you attempt to look at hp again you’re more likely to see it’s flaws. it’s not rocket science.
#like don't get me wrong people have pointed out stuff wrong with hp since the beginning#both the bigoted aspects of it and the simply bad writing aspects#but it was in bits and pieces and far less vocal#whereas now you see its more 'wait a minute the entire series is lowkey shit' and is a lot more people saying it#also for people like myself#you read a lot of fanfiction and saw a lot of fan discussion and so whenever you reread harry potter#that stuff was in the back of your mind whether you meant it to be or not#and it maybe caused you to think that what you were reading was a lot deeper than it actually was#because you were taking all this fan content as canon even if nothing of what you were actually read in the text suggested it#but then when everything fell apart you hadn't even thought about harry potter for a good while and that fan stuff wasn't in your head#and you could see the text for the mess it was without the bolstering and hole filling that fandom had done for it#i speak#anti jk rowling#and there's also the point that when harry potter was at its peak popularity the entire world was reinforcing the fact that this is amazing#so you're less inclined to find flaws because somethign this big cant POSSIBLY be bad
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the disparity in kudos between a skk fic and a fic for literally any other bsd characters/ship :/
#like okay i get it skk is the most popular bsd ship by a longshot#but it does kinda suck that my skk fics will always end up being more popular than literally anything else i write for bsd#when i have way better fics tbh#okay i'm unleashing this from my drafts lol#like i get it kudos/hits/bookmarks counts aren't telling of how good a fic is#but out of my last five fics. my skk one has ONE HUNDRED kudos more than the next most kudos#and idk it also sucks that i know my skk is better than 90% of the fandom but. even my skk fics get significantly less kudos/etc#than big writers in the fandom who AREN'T EVEN GOOD#or are like. mid at best#i know in theory that the bsd fandom doesn't care about characterization but like. not only do they encourage bad characterization#it feels like sometimes they're actively against good characterization#even in j.jk and a.tla where there are major issues with bad characterization#more people seem to at least appreciate the good characterization. (even if they aren't good at it themselves.)#but i swear to god no one in the bsd fandom cares about anything besides whether dazai and chuuya are kissing. it begins and ends there.#it never ceases to amaze me (derogatory) how a fandom where the source media draws So Much inspiration from classic literature#can somehow have NEGATIVE media literacy skills#why don't you guys take a break from your edgy dazai x softboy chuuya fics and you fems.kk with dazai in skimpy clothes and your#beast chuuya sobbing and killing himself over dazai's death#and go read some of the books by the actual authors. and then write me an essay about the themes that has nothing to do with shipping.#and THEN you can come back to the fandom.#listen i love skk but oh my god sometimes the fandom makes me hate them.#anyway one of these days i'm going to get anon hate for complaining about the bsd fandom so much but that's fine#at least i know there are characters in the show besides dazai and chuuya. and when i do write skk AT LEAST I DO IT RIGHT.#hello grace here
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Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie as Heathcliff and Cathy seems like out of The Onion
#Who knows maybe they'll be amazing like how Tom Hardy is able to pull being an amazing Heathcliff#But I doubt it I've never been into any of their roles much idk#And also#Couldn't they just#Even if they were amazing#Couldn't they just cast amazing people that actually fit the air vibes and look of the characters?#And not just some actors that are popular at the moment of the process of filming?#Besides very popular actors playing very popular characters is always ALWAYS wrong#I don't understand at all#And in 2024 year of our lord or whatever how do you cast a white man as Heathcliff? With all the significance it has?#Have you read the book or only wikiquote?#I think Jacob Elordi is a better fit than some others before him. At least he has some charm and you could believe he could throw a punch#But. Couldn't they just. Cast a man that also has physical presence but that fits the description of the book#and is not the pretty boy of the moment? It's detrimental for such an iconic character that the actor is that well known#and Heathcliff being non white is key. How do you mess that up every time ahfkabdkskd or#This will sprout more obligatory Dev Patel fancast and I don't want to see that either#Dev Patel is also famous and doesn't fit Heathcliff at all in vibes or looks. He is lanky and soft faced#Those fancasts always sit so wrong on me#Won't even talk about Margot Robbie as Cathy. The vibes are all wrong. She could have been Catherine Linton perhaps when she was twenty#But as Cathy? Cathy Earnshaw? All the wrong vibes#Truly like out of The Onion what is this mess#I talk too much#I should probably delete this later#Weren't they going to make an East of Eden adaptation that also had Famous Actress of the Moment as Cathy Ames?#Why do they always do that? Don't they know it's always shit? ahfkabdkskd#Why do the Dev Patel fancasts sit wrong on me? Because they feel lazy and kinda racist#You know one very famous non black actor of colour and cast him as Heathcliff. Come on. There's more people in the world#There's more actors of colour. There's more Indian actors. Many of them must be amazing and many of them are not famous#and many of them must resemble Heathclif's air and looks way more than Patel. Who is amazing but is not a good choice here#Tbh WH fancasts always kinda give 'Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie as Heathcliff and Cathy' to me haha
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TAD ask: is there is song that you know you don't fully understand? Where you're like "I know I'm missing something"?
For me it's That Unwanted Animal
#the amazing devil#that unwanted animal#the horror and the wild (album)#edit: actually i do undertand it it's just that i disagree with the popular readings of it
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Everyone seems to like Kanetsugu's route and it's so warming for my heart 😭 I remember when he was least popular among the new ikesen three and NOW LOOK HOW FAR HE'S COME
I feel like a proud mother 🫶
#go little rockstar#i mean he's already popular in japan#bc his route was absolutely amazing and y'all should read this immediately#ikemen sengoku#ikemen sengoku kanetsugu#ikesen kanetsugu#kanetsugu naoe#ikesen
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i wanna read Spirk fanfic but i’ve not finished TOS yet so i guess i’ll just read Rimster instead
#gay sci fi shows my beloveds <3#i cant wait to finish tos so i can read some epic fanfic#star trek has been around for 20 years longer than red dwarf and is infinitely more popular#there is bound to be some amazing fics and i cannot wait to read them#but rimster for now#they are possibly my fav ship to read fics of icl#star trek tos#spirk#spirk tos#spock x kirk#spock/kirk#red dwarf#rimster#rimmer x lister#rimmer/lister
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I wanna take just a quick aside to gush about and promote my dear friend’s second book publication! I’ve known Ehime for something like 13 years now and I was so incredibly lucky to be part of her spiritual learning early on. I’m just so insanely proud of how far she’s come and how bright of a life she is, and I truly believe that anyone with any sort of interest in ancestor veneration and spiritual well-being would benefit so much from listening to what she has to say.
I really will try to keep religious stuff to my side blogs for the most part, but I was just so happy and excited about this that I wanted to share!
#ifa#orisa#you can’t imagine how proud I am of how far she’s come#from secretly studying divining and ancestral spirituality with me after school#to reading excerpts from her new book at a massively popular venue on Broadway in NYC#i think I lost a lot of having a ‘normal’ young adulthood to my spiritual work taking up so much of my life#but I’m so glad it did really#because of it I was able to be part of some really amazing peoples’ lives#at a time when I think it made a difference 💜#personal stuff#spirituality
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gripping all my followers tightly by the shoulders and looking deep into ur eyes. if u have seen my dungeon meshi reblogs and don't know what it is but think it looks cool please look it up please look it up please read dungeon meshi please read it read it read dungeon meshi please im begging
#listen it's going to be a mega popular anime soon#and I am giving you this once in a lifetime offer of getting in on the ground floor and liking it before it's cool#imagine the bragging rights!!!#u can say I read dungeon meshi as a manga before it got swallowed up by the studio trigger anime fanboys on twitter#anyways it's really queer and progressive and beautifully drawn#and as much as I'm excited for the anime and as amazing as studio trigger is#it simply isn't possible to achieve the level of gorgeous detail that Ryoko Kui's art achieves in a long form animated show#well I mean it *is* possible but it would take decades probably lmfao#listen the art is just really good okay and so is the writing and the characters and you will fall in love with it#just read it read itread it read dungeon meshi please read it read dungeon meshi pleas#e#dungeon meshi#read it#lyla's talking again
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