#and I DON'T always do the latter :

[lgbtlunaverse]

Thinking of the Nie disciple that told Nie Mingjue it was Meng Yao who stayed behind to clean up corpses on the battlefield today.

Nie Mingjue didn't just randomly stumble upon poor lil meowyao eating bread in the novel, he was already looking for him to thank and reward him for his work.

That's what makes it so fun that nieyao's first conflict will end up being about someone else taking credit for Meng Yao's work.

And I'm sure that Nie Mingjue's actual opinions on plagiarism are a lot more nuanced, all we really get from him in this scene is "well you shouldn't kill someone over it!" which leaves a lot of room for what punishments he thinks are appropiate. But I bet that it isn't occuring to him in this moment that the only reason he knows Meng Yao at all, the only reason he got such a capable deputy, is that he noticed someone was taking care of the dead and cared enough to want to know their name. And then the Nie disciples didn't lie to him. The disciple he asked could have said "it was me, Zongzhu" to rise in the ranks himself, but he didn't. He went and asked others, who all also could have taken the credit, but they didn't. Someone saw Meng Yao working and decided to be honest about it and that simple decision is the catalyst for Meng Yao becoming Nie Mingjue's deputy.

Meng Yao can't just work hard to get results, others have to acknowledge that work. If they don't, it's as if he didn't do anything at all.

[sparklingdemon]

i know sorrow's quote was in referral to blue but i feel like it could also be applied to leaf/green herself and abandon lonliness: i am's new ending from a meta standpoint if you think abt it hard enough……….

i mean. did we not see OP try to rewrite history in order to prevent the tragedy of lonliness and leaf rotting in hell? do we dare to forget - to erase what she did to lonliness? can she be forgiven now that it never happened in the first place...?

[canisalbus]

happy birthday! 💕🎉🌻

I really hope it’s a lovely one!!!

Oh thank you! ;-; 🧡

[essektheylyss]

Unpopular opinion: I hate the extreme end of the concept "character who is Good and Kind in spite of adversity." First of all, if it's played straight, it creates a character who is never allowed to have negative feelings or do anything that even inadvertently hurts someone, which is unrealistic and also boring. Second of all, when it's not played completely straight, the character probably gets flattened by fans anyway and then villainized when they do inevitably have negative feelings or act like an asshole, if the behavior isn't swept under the rug as "out of character" altogether.

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

i saw the oceanid reader post a few days ago and HRRVVV my oceanid loving mind has been fed i love your writing smmm

can we get some moth boy with a feral oceanid reader as opposed to the lovely sweetheart reader in the last one? legacy needs someone to help him jump the traveler

ohohoho excellent idea!! most of the oceanids we've seen have been elegant and graceful we need more unhinged creatures

Legacy is the first other sentient being you've seen in years, the Primordial Seawater in your little cove chasing away any birds or fish that might've dared to meet your acquaintance. but Legacy- that magnificent Abyssal monster- was drawn to the glimmering pools of water and bioluminescence, and upon seeing him you had greeted your potential new friend with... an enormous splash of water to the face, completely drenching his soft fluff and hair. Foul Legacy coughs, shaking his head and staring at you as you snicker in delight, tail flicking and sending tiny droplets scattering in a small arc. with a joyful trill he pounces on you, the two of you playfighting in the lake until you're both breathing hard and leaning against each other with happy grins

you're never apart after that, Legacy's claws or Childe's hand always laced with the fingers of a human with blue-streaked hair. you're more mischievous than both of them combined, using your abilities to sprinkle water across his face or lure him into a lake- you personally think it's hilarious when you convince Legacy to transform back into Childe when you're swimming with him, instantly soaking his clothes. he always groans in exasperation, but smiles a tiny bit when he hears your delighted laugh. you both LOVE challenging the Traveler to sparring battles, your smiles mirroring each other as the Traveler wonders just what exactly they've gotten themself into- they quickly find out once you and Foul Legacy combine your powers and sweep the rug out from under them- Childe actually wins the fight for once!

[killjoy-prince]

Birthmas manga and merch haul

[pynkhues]

Hi sophie! I hate to be the person who brings bad vibes your way, but I keep seeing ppl twisting your arguments in the worst way possible and it’s honestly bumming me out. The latest vaguepost claims that saying Louis is traditionally masculine or a patriarch is antiblack (this is the post btw in case your curious: https://www.tumblr.com/nashvillethotchicken/770055675307065344/a-lot-of-people-in-the-iwtv-fandom-regurgitate?source=share). It made me wonder whether this pushback against Louis’ masculinity has something to do with a narrow concept of gender roles in general. Because there always seems to be this idea that being masculine equals being a hyperviolent abuser, while any gentle or submissive trait immediately gets interpreted as “feminine” (and overall I see a very strong correlation between femininity and victimhood -especially in the context of domestic abuse -which is understandable but not necessarily helpful when talking abt a gay couple). I agree a lot with your interpretation of Louis as a Byronic hero and the points you’ve made about his and Lestat’s gender presentation, so it sort of surprises me to see so many people believe that recognizing Louis’ masculinity somehow negates his sensibility and his capacity for tenderness (not to mention the assumption that we are trying to defend Lestat and make him into a victim, which is a wild leap and a very bad faith reading of the whole argument imo)

Hey, anon, and that's okay. I can appreciate feeling bummed about my words being twisted into a strawman argument - I do sometimes too - but at the end of the day, that's out of my control and I think says a lot more about the people who'd do it than it does about me.

It's actually kind of interesting to me, because I think with a lot of those sorts of posts, the person actually kind of knows they're strawmanning, because they'd address me directly if they actually thought any of what they wrote in that post was what I was saying, and they almost never do. They make these sorts of posts loudly and publicly to turn the argument into one that stokes outrage and becomes something they can adopt a moral highground to and win, and I think in a lot of ways, it becomes an exercise in control. If they can put words in my mouth and not actually engage with me, they can control the environment of the debate, and therefore they can attempt to control the discourse in the fandom i.e. dictate the way Louis is perceived and received as a character by others. They want it to look like they're arguing my points, but they're not.

They're arguing with the points they want me to be making, because if my points are that Louis' a mindless, hypermasculine 'brute' and a 'sexual deviant', they know they're right and they know how to argue against that, but if my argument is what it is - that Louis is pretty traditionally masculine, and in fact that he has almost all of the Byronic masculine traits which includes sensitivity, warmth, depression, egotism, a vengeful streak, and a complex relationship with religion, sexuality, and the self - it becomes a conversation that requires a more nuanced understanding of what masculinity is and has been throughout history and literature, which doesn't work with the TERFy talking points that are, frankly, endemic in fandom spaces broadly right now.

Which yeah, that goes to your second point about gender roles, because I think that you've hit the nail on the head. A lot of people in this fandom seem to view the concept of masculinity as inherently violent or abusive and femininity as - to borrow a phrase I loathe from TikTok, haha - demure and mindful - which is, again, literally TERF rhetoric. This desire to reinforce the gender binary and feel like you're not simply because you're applying reductive and stereotypical female characteristics to a male character is just sort of baffling to me, on so many levels.

And it appears in a lot of their arguments, like, gosh, even the post I was linked to yesterday about Eartha Kitt, David Bowie and Grace Jones being influences for Louis as indicative of his 'feminine divine', which to me - honestly - reads as a pretty homophobic and misogynistic take. Cisgender men can be (and are!) influenced personally, creatively and professionally by women, and the suggestion that to be so negates masculinity and is indicative of femininity feels like a pretty dangerous rhetoric to me.

The funny thing is, I don't actually have an issue with people liking femme!Louis at all. It's not how I see him, no, but I respect the fact that how we interpret characters is subjective, and people bring their own history and interests and yes, kinks to a show, and I actually think that's really cool! That's part of what makes engaging with stories and fandom fun! What I find exhausting is the recurring accusation that anyone who doesn't see Louis as a battered housewife entering his liberated woman era is a racist.

[bleue-flora]

why u so rude to every anon you get even when they agree with you or try to explain their point in nice way

you think I'm rude?... sorry you feel that way. That's genuinely not my intention. Though I hardly think I'm rude to every anon anyways. ;) But I do recognize that there are certainly some instances I think my response was perhaps out of line, in most of those I usually was confused or misunderstanding what was being said and why and/or missing context. For example, I don't know which ask(s) this is about specifically or which ones you read to get that impression so it is hard for me to respond. Rude is a broad term covering everything from asshole to interrupting someone to fact check them, so my question to you is, in what way and do you have specific examples, because that's honestly not how I want to come across, but I can't better if I don't know the areas that need improvement.

I will say too though, that I have noticed that it isn't uncommon for people to misinterpret what I'm saying or take it the wrong way in general especially since I can be intense, which perhaps is a fault of my own though I'm not entirely sure what to do to fix that to be honest...

[unproduciblesmackdown]

another fourteenth annual joe iconis christmas extravaganza rehearsal glimpse, from katrina rose dideriksen

[crabsnpersimmons]

i apologize ahead of time for the things i'm about to unleash this weekend /jk

[fennthetalkingdog]

Me (while first reading the autism diagnostic criteria): "I don't have routines, I must not be autistic!"

Me: *has a very specific time schedule in the morning so that they don't miss class and feels Wrong when a morning class is canceled and that schedule is ruined*

Me: *doesn't plan out their whole day but instead plans what actions they'll do next and gets upset when those are overruled by someone else*

Me: *doesn't always do the same thing for fun but cycles through specific pasttimes (reading, drawing, and writing stories) for weeks at a time before moving to the next*

Me: *doesn't wear the same outfit every day but plans out which bottom each top can go with and cycles through the same combinations*

Me: *studied the campus bus routes almost religiously during their first semester and took comfort in planning out which bus needed to be taken to go where, about how long they needed to wait maximum before a bus arrived, and where they could get on and off to maximize their riding time without looping the route and prompting questions*

Me: *dries their hands the same long way (folding the paper towel, then cleaning individual fingers and the back of the hand, folding again, and redoing for the next hand) and doesn't change it even if they're in a hurry*

Younger me: *wore the same fuzzy purple jacket every day in middle school (and got many art stains on it) to the point that their mom specifically bought multiple hoodies of the same kind so that wouldn't happen in high school*

Younger me: *ate the same lunch every school day from kindergarten to senior year and had certain foods that could be switched out for specific alternatives and other foods that must be there*

Me, still living in ignorance: :>

[broodwoof]

i am having Thoughts but i have no words. i just lay down on the floor and gesture expansively

[pasdetrois]

on the bachelor and resurrection

Thinking about how the concept of resurrection is touched upon in Daniil’s routes, and how the Marble Nest makes something of a mockery of it, casting him into the role of both resurrectionist and the resurrected. The man with an affinity for the living trapped in a cycle of communing with the dead..

+ the reminders that neither remaining nor returning shall constitute anything akin to a victory for him—just a trick mirror and, if you'll forgive the pun, a dead end

(p.s. the original marble nest line is a bit clearer in this connection, where the word for Sunday can also mean resurrection)

[vvelegrin]

incredible how people kneejerk so hard past a potentially valid point into being jerks about the idea of there being disabled people with different needs

[myatlantispoets]

Ik i sound like such a stereotypical straight woman rn but. How do i ask my bf for flowers without asking my bf for flowers

[joshuaalbert]

another thing I do wish had at least come up in ds9 while talking about the bajoran faith is the idea of just like. secular bajorans. I think the way they’re written that’s kind of ‘everyone just believes in the religion and that’s it’ is honestly a little flat? but I think there would be people who have a very complicated relationship with the prophets, who maybe didn’t believe in them before the events of the show and now maybe they have to but they think of them more as the wormhole aliens rather than gods, or just don’t believe (anymore, if they once did) that they should be worshipped because they allowed the events of the occupation to happen. but that wouldn’t mean entirely disengaging from the practices of religion as a community thing, or as comfort in times of need bc sometimes that sense of ritual can be a good one, who still wear the earring not so much as a sign of faith but just as a sign of being bajoran and being connected to their people.

idk not to sound like I’m overexplaining secular approaches to an ethnoreligion when that’s a lot of people’s lived experience but I’m just kind of thinking about what it would look like in this context, and I don’t know that it ever would have been a whole plotline but I think a mention could have been interesting. maybe something as small as rearranging duty schedules and it’s something that would interfere with religious services, but a couple specific bajorans are willing to take that because they’re not religious, and it’s a one line mention (which is the kind of thing ds9 often did well so it would feel natural), but it makes them a little less homogenous as a species.