#but LSS doesn't know that

[harocat]

Late WIP Wednesday, featuring my first fill for @cdrama-action! This one is Till the End of the Moon, and the second one is going to be my first attempt at Mysterious Lotus Casebook.

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“What’s the use of a goddess who can’t even save the person she cares for most?” Li Susu held the scale out in front of her, watching the light refract off the vivid blue green of it. “Ming Ye, is this how you felt? Maybe we’re more alike than I thought…”

The scale warmed under her touch; or so she thought, but she was beginning to wonder if she was imagining those reactions; the flash of a glow, the moment of heat, the twinkle, so quick she could blink and miss it, as the scale elicited a short hum.

If Tantai Jin’s primordial spirit lingered within the scale, perhaps he had company in Ming Ye. Or had Ming Ye vanished for good, the day they’d entered Bo’re Dream? She hoped, if Tantai Jin was alone, he would be sleeping. He’d spent too much of his life alone.

Five hundred years, he’d searched for her in that horrible river, burning his body to waste over and over, only to be restored because of the immortal bone she’d forced into him. Although her heart ached over his absence, it was nothing compared to what he’d gone through for her, and she felt guilt gnaw at her over it. It’s not as if she’d asked him to. It wasn’t even necessary. She was alive and well in Hengyang Sect. She’d wanted him to live well when she left him behind in Jing Kingdom, but he had other ideas.

When she’d first found out about him searching for her soul in the Nether River, the sheer weight of it didn’t register. But now that he was gone, now that all she could do was think about him, as opposed to seeing him, as opposed to talking to him, it was almost suffocating to remember what he’d gone through.

If Tantai Jin had searched for her for five hundred years, maybe fate would have her do the same for him.

But she would find him.

[latransicsociety]

why call it a blog if I'm not allowed to LOG the LOGS in here. Blog? B-log. Log??? Log. I'm in fucking trouble now.

[shiegra]

super brief thoughts on Li Su Su

I feel like I ragged a little on her in the last post and I want to clarify - I find both her book and show counterparts fascinating. While I do love the uneasy-frenemy banter in the books between Li Su Su and Tantai Jin, where they always know the other is up to something and all their repartee has the edge of a knife even as they grow to have a strange understanding and twisted fascination of the other deeper than anyone else’s -

The narrative as it stood, this serial oft-travelogue in that subgenre of batshit action and over the top characters, would have been harder to sell on screen. I think they made an excellent choice to focus on Tantai Jin as a more complex, nuanced character and build up his personal journey. While the webnovel’s fast pace and action could carry the roadtrip adventures as they meandered back to main plot, both budget and the need for consistent overarching story structure complicate that for show.

(I also think this politely avoided some incredibly Unfortunate Implications regarding people with antisocial personality disorders due to the in-your-face allegory lol.)

In doing so they had to change up her character, and possibly played it safe due to genre conventions leaned into her directness to keep the plot moving. (Given the care and energy with which they fleshed out the two biggest secondary female characters.) But it’s also fascinating to me because even her lighter show characterization feels like it’s calling back to book characterization - but book characterization from the second dream, of her younger mischievous fairy self before the weight of apocalypse crushed her into what she is in the opening of the book.

(Plus on just a personal level maybe partly due to early fandoms I had and neglected female characters there, female characters with somewhat messy writing but who are so fascinating to explore the implications and potential layers of are like catnip to me.)

[rory-multifandom-mess]

Another fun fact, the pod Thad travels in has an AI, which he coded to sound and speak like Lizzy. He misses his sister ok. Anyway. When he goes to a new universe, it’ll give a short synopsis of what’s different. I’ll use @wildlionva’s Mercy Drones and Mansion AUs as examples

Mercy Drones; “In this universe, the human scientists were actually smart for once and created an ‘anti-virus’ program called the Mercy program. You, along with Lizzy and Alice, have this mutation.”

Elliott's Mansion AU; “In this universe, nothing goes wrong in the mansion; you and all of your friends and family end up in the Elliott’s manor as well, and your LED colors determine the job you do in the manor. Haha, you have to clean up trash, idiot.”

Yeah she’s kinda mean. The length of these synopses will change depending on how complex the AU is. Here’s an example of a less complex, and thus, shorter synopsis using my Late Solver Sam AU:

Late Solver Sam AU; “In this universe, Sam doesn’t die because Uzi thinks he’s infected with the solver even though he isn’t because she’s an idiot. Turns out, yes he is.”

I can’t think of any AUs I can use to show how much longer the synopsis’s can get but. yuh. whips and naenaes

Oh btw he calls the ship Liz, which is an acronym; Linear Interdimensional Zeta-shifter

Time Traveler AU Thad’s cool time traveling pod has a bunch of decorations in it; meaning all the old stuff from his room. How did he get them?

He stole from other versions of himself. Nah I’m kidding. He found Universes where he either dies in it or is just never able to return to Copper-9 and then stole stuff from those. Though it was never too much, y’know, just to be sure. Yeah his morality is a little shot but y’knooow. Shit happens.

Also! The pod has like a “spectation” feature where he can select a universe and a person and kinda watch past events from their perspective. He doesn’t do it often because he knows it’s an invasion of privacy, but he did use it like once or twice on Main Universe J and V because its really hard to place wtf happened to make them the way they are.

These Were Mistakes. He has never touched that feature since.

Oh hey, you hit the under the cut thingy! Awesome! You’re in for a fun fact then!

[universeEntity”THAD”Status;; Missing]

[Msg;AbsoluteSolver;] He can not hide forever. Sinister smile.

[dangermousie]

I had time to restart my rewatch of Empress Ki and what do you know? One of my all time fave sequences, a powerless emperor and hunted by everyone fighter love of his life, does it get better? No, it doesn't!

But also awwww, at her still trying to keep him out of it:

It does not work.

Of course she says she's fine, she'd say it if her leg got cut off but what makes me feral is his taking his royal headband and tying it around her wound...

This is literally my favorite sequence in the ENTIRE drama!

Cool under pressure, is baby emperor!

It's so continuous how powerless he is, because he is asked to provide explanations as to why he's freaking bathing. That's insane. I love his hauteur serving him well.

AAAAA!!! This is my favorite moment in the whole drama - TH diving into the pool (in front of general evil, to boot) to give some air to SN via kissing the utter amazing insane gloriousness!

I love himmmm, cool under pressure.

But the moment the general leaves, he loses it. MMMMMMMMM!!!

Glorious, glorious, glorious. It's a little bit like the LSS x baby general dynamic in AJTL but different enough I get why they are the endgame.

[blackmoonlightexpress]

Easter Eggs from Till the End of the Moon🎁(Part 1)

Now that everyone's had a chance to watch and rewatch, here's a list of easter eggs or hidden details from the show that I jotted down. A lot of spoilers below, obviously.

Throwaway lines that foreshadowed the end:

(1) At the end of ep 1, Susu asks her servant what is Tantai Jin (TTJ)'s Achilles Heel, and Chuntao responds it is Ye Xiwu (YXW). We all think this is funny because YXW is a bullying wife, but this is actually foreshadowing for the ending (Susu is TTJ's Achilles Heel after all)

(2) Pang Yizhi seems like a joke but is actually right on critical things:

When he first meets TTJ, he predicts that TTJ would be rich and powerful, which Susu thought was indication that Xiaoyou Sect’s standards have declined. Pang is actually correct as TTJ did end up reuniting the Jing and Sheng kingdoms.

In episode 6, he predicts the person who will unite the kingdoms and bring lasting peace is in his presence (Xiao Lin & Ye Qingyu). Everyone assumes he is referring to Xiao Lin, who is in line to be king, but in fact it is Ye Qingyu who takes over from TTJ in ruling for 500 years

In episode 8, he predicts that YXW would come into contact with water and the danger would be resolved. This ends up being true as YXW survives jumping ship. He then says YXW might even become queen of the Jing kingdom, which did end up happening.

(3) In episode 7, Ye Xiwu's dad was so excited that Ye Qingyu stayed overnight at a lady's place that he says he would accept this daughter-in-law even if she were a "widow or even a demon". Pianran is in fact a fox demon who's had a previous lover.

(4) In episode 19, when Pianran gives YXW the suggestion that she should cook for TTJ, she joking wishes that TTJ would be poisoned by YXW. He was indeed poisoned by YXW later.

(5) The entire sequence in the festival where YXW is chosen to play the goddess and TTJ is chosen to play the demon god is foreshadowing for what happens in the end. The demon god willingly allows the goddess to kill him. In fact, there's a fan theory that the "ancient tale" is left by the prophets as instructions for what must happen in the end.

Connections between the Dream Arc and the rest of the Story:

(6) Time God Jize says to Sangjiu that they have a special connection, a connection that "you [TTJ] know, she [LSS] knows, but Sangjiu and Mingye do not know", hinting he is aware that she is Susu is playing Sangjiu and that she would experience the dream of wisdom (Bo're Dream).

(7) Chuhuang also says she feels a strange sense of familiarity with Sangjiu. Susu is actually her daughter. She doesn't know because, unlike Jize, she doesn't have prophetic powers.

(8) You can think of the ancient gods continuing to fight a proxy war 10,000 years later through the next generation of characters:

Jize waits in the Abyss for 10,000 years to tell Susu the prophecy i.e. how to defeat the demon god and pass on the Mirror of the Past. He also leaves behind his student Pang Yizhi to provide continued guidance in his holographic form.

Mingye leaves his dream behind to educate the reincarnated demon god. He lures TTJ in, recognizing who he is as he's seen the Ancient Demon God without his mask on.

Chuhuang leaves behind her daughter LSS, the last goddess on earth and only person who can defeat the demon god. Upon her death she becomes the Chongyu harp, LSS's godly weapon, which is able to harm the Demon God as we see in Episode 1.

(9) TTJ didn't trust Dimian because he's the only one aware that he betrayed the Ancient Demon God

(10) The little boy that Jize pushes off the podium is Pang Yizhi (as indicated by the birth mark on his hand.) That explains why Pang has prophetic powers and helps move the story forward even in his virtual form - he's a student of the Time God

(11) The drama very clearly explains what happens to the three weapons of the Demon God after the ADG falls 10,000 years ago:

During the fight, the God-Piercing Bow (屠神弩) is cast into the Weak Sea by Mingye. 10,000 years later, it is absorbed by TTJ while searching for YXW’s soul

The Marrow Cleansing Seal (洗髓印) creates the Buzhao Mountains and was later collected by Mingye, who tries to repurpose it into a tool that can cleanse Sangjiu’s demon bone into an immortal bone. After Sangjiu dies, he uses his remaining powers to lock it under the water mirror in the Upper Immortal Realm. It remains there for 10,000 years until Siying attempts to steal it.

The Heaven-slaying Sword (斩天剑) is stolen by Dimian to stab the ADG in the back. It later resurfaces when a power-hungry Dimian uses it to kill Susu's adoptive father and steal LSS’s extracted demon bone

(12) Mingye and Li Susu experience mirroring life events: They both lose their sight, give up their immortal bone, become a True God, kill the Demon God, and lose the love of their lives at the end of their story.

Special Relationships between Objects and Characters:

(13) TTJ has a special connection with the Dragonheart Shield (护心鳞) – it comes from Mingye and is later refined by Cang Jiumin:

The Dragonheart Shield originally comes from the dragon scale protecting Mingye’s heart, which he gave up in order to retrieve the Marrow Cleansing Seal at the Buzhao Mountain, hence it was left with the Xiaoyao Sect. This happens 10,000 years ago in Mingye’s dream

The Shield is then offered as a wedding gift to Xiao Lin (perhaps to protect him from future events?) from the Xiaoyao Sect. (This is its first appearance to the audience.) XL then gifted it to TTJ as a gesture of goodwill in order to secure protection for Ye Bingtang.

The Shield protects TTJ from YXW's three final nails, suggesting some protection from Mingye and his faith that TTJ is still salvageable

After TTJ disappears, it was safeguarded by Ye Qingyu (as masked Jin emperor) for 500 years. In the draft screenplay, Cang Jiumin and Li Susu were supposed to collect it from YQY (that was why they had to fight the nightmare demon - YQY wasn't willing to give it up because the demon was impersonating Pianran).

CJM then distils the shield’s powers to form a protective boundary for the cultivation world and was given the shield for safekeeping

Later it's suggested he left a fragment of himself in the Shield. Some fan theories state that he would eventually be able to take physical form after years healing in the Shield

(14) Similarly, LSS has a connection with the Jade of Doom (倾世之玉) – it is created by Sangjiu and later absorbed by YXW, connecting and symbolizing tragedy in the two characters

The Jade of Death is created by Sangjiu with the fallen bodies of the Snake Clan in order to resurrect her family. As this is a violation of natural order, SJ invites a divine trial of purple thunders, which she does not pass, even with Mingye’s immortal bone, due to her lack of a physical body.

The Jade is then left at the bottom of the Mo River, which is later collected by YXW when she falls into the river. YXW has a dialogue with the jade’s unseen creator. The jade is later absorbed by YXW to divert it away from TTJ and prevent him from gaining its powers but suffering a cursed fate

Later YXW uses the Jade in her body to rapidly cultivate an immortal bone, which she successful swaps with TTJ’s demon bone, giving him cultivation powers. This also attracts purple thunders that serves as YXW’s divine trial, which she passes and travels back to 500 years later as LSS

(15) Similarly, the Ice Crystal Casket (冰晶盏) has a connection with TTJ, Xiao Lin, and Ye Bingchang – it is used twice to resurrect XL using powers of TTJ and YBC, symbolizing rebirth and redress:

It is first created by Mingye from a 10,000 year old ice crystal guarded by the Snake Clan (Tianhuan’s clan) in order to resurrect the Clam Clan, specifically Sangyou. Sangjiu breaks the box in front of Mingye and says she will find another way to resurrect her brother

After Xiao Lin dies, Pang Yizhi repairs it to resurrect XT, using TTJ’s blood and YBC’s tears as ingredients to rebuild him into a new character, GZJW.

(16) LSS uses the Mirror of the Past (过去镜), a sacred object safeguarded by the Xiaoyao Sect, to travel back 500 years, which is where she meets the Time God Jize. When Jize dies, his powers form the Mirror of the Past, which LSS collects and entrusts with Pang Yizhi to be brought back to Xiaoyao Sect for safekeeping, thus completing the time loop.

[deusvervewrites]

Saiyan AU: So if Izuku is essentially the Gohan of this setting, would that also mean his strength is tied to his emotional state and how much control he has over it? Also, would that mean that much like Gohan, Izuku's latent potential proves to be a key element in achieving an ascended state beyond that of the Legendary Super Saiyan?

Because HOO BOY, if Garaki and the MLA thought a Super Saiyan was bad enough, Super Saiyan 2 would make them faint from sheer unfiltered TERROR.

(Is-- is SS2 stronger that LSS? Whatever. Power levels are bullshit anyway)

Gohan had a sort of gentle rage that was unleashed in a sadistic fury when he hit SS2. Midoriya isn't like that. He's a lot like in canon, wanting to save people. And he knows that means fighting. Midoriya doesn't have Gohan's well of strength hidden behind rage, but he does have quite a lot of potential

[oikawa-s-milkbread]

Pairings : Sanzu Haruchiyo x Reader, Haitani Rindou x Reader

Warnings : choking kink, reader loves punishment, kinda smut??, foul language, not proofread, grammatical errors, incomplete ‼️

A/N : hi!!, this is my first fanfic. Bruh I don't even know if this passed to be called as a fanfic😭

“Welcome to vegas babyyy. I want you come and pay me. Give me the money, give me diamonds hmm hmm~~” you sang as you continue to dance and grind your butt to nothing.

After the long and tiring day, a nice and cold bath is what you needed, considering it was so hot today that you felt like you are cuddling with satan. You continued humming and dancing under the shower while scrubbing different parts of your body.

The song “Vegas” is stuck in your head. You can't get the song that you heard earlier out of your head and you keep singing it over and over.

'Is this what you called LSS??” you thought.

You closed your eyes and enjoyed the feeling of the cold water dripping over your face, still humming and swaying your hips while touching your thighs like you're seducing someone. You were so out of it that you didn't even notice the younger Haitani sneaking in. You jolt when you felt a pair of warm hands on your waist. You opened your eyes and looked over at the owner of the hands. The one and only, Rindou Haitani standing behind you, butt naked. He smirked and starts smelling your neck. His hot breath made you shiver and you felt hot all of a sudden.

“What are you dancing for, doll?” His hands moved to your tummy and squeezed it, ��You trying to seduce me?” you rolled your eyes and it didn't go unnoticed by the younger Haitani.

He pulled your hair to the side making you look at him, “What's this, doll? I warned you about that rolling eyes before, right? Or are you doing that on purpose?” his right hands went to your neck. His face was so close you can feel his hot breath. “Do you want me to be the cause of you rolling your fucking eyes all night?” your eyes widened and the thought of him fucking you all night while choking you like this.

Your pussy clenched at the thought, “mhmp, I'd like that, Rin.” his eyes went (☉⁠д⁠⊙⁠). He didn't know this but it was one of your many kinks. To be choked while being fucked raw. Even Sanzu or the whole members of Bonten doesn't know that.

He chuckled lightly, “You silly little fucking bitch, you are one hell of a woman” he turned your body and now you are facing him completely. His touch on your face is soothing.

“So, this is why this motherfucker is nowhere to be found and you're taking so long to shower, sweetcheeks” Sanzu appeared in your sight. He's still wearing his usual get up. Suit and his dress pant.

He went behind you and holds your waist, drawings circles using his long fingers. Heat made it's way to your cheeks and your big doe eyes widened when you felt a hard thing poking your ass cheek, “Fuck” Sanzu mumbled, “Stop grinding your ass on me, darling. I might fuck you where you stand, right here, right now.” his voice is hoarse and you shivered when a thought comes in your head. Imagining him doing that to you.

“Stop hogging her to yourself, fucker.” Sanzu sneered.

“Anyways, guess who has a choking kink, Sanzu~” Rindou's eyes went up and down while still looking down on you.

“Oh?” Sanzu looks at you and your eyes says it all. He starts cupping your breast and going down to kiss your neck. He gave your neck a long lick, “Ah!” a moan escaped on your mouth and instinctively, your hands immediately went upwards to cover your mouth. Rindou removed your hands on your mouth, his eyes full of naughtiness, “Now you're gonna get it.” he said before torridly kissing you.

'I am doomed' you thought.

A/N : Let me know what you think about my work in the comments! I do accept criticism so feel free to express your thoughts! Thank u <33

[astroyongie]

could you do ive or lesserafim tea??

IVE

X regrets have become an idol but as time goes by she is also learning to accept it

X has a lot of love confessions, from both idols and non-idols, and yet she keeps being single because she doesn't know which one will actually favor her more

X is dating but her relationship isn't all roses, because despite finding happiness there, she's also trapped on that and she isn't able to enjoy her life nor the opportunities because of her partner that doesn't allow her to

LSS

X's sponsors are putting a lot of money into her image

X's is like a femme fatal, she too gets a lot of confessions but she also doesn't push them away and instead takes profit from everyone that comes to her

X's mental health is really concerning to this point, her negative and dark thoughts are consuming her and she has to use stuff to make herself feel better. It seems no one cares in that company

X and X are extremely good friends, like more than just co-workers, the type that gossip that talk shit about everyone they know

X is completely trapped on the contract she signed and she is aware of it but for now she is just allowing herself to do her work. the company also makes her having an image that isn't her

X is extremely rich, not only for her own hard work but because her sponsor covers ger in gold honeslty

X and X cannot see each other right now, they had a huge arhument over the last comeback that haven't been solved yet. the topic x as probably favouristim

[teecupangel]

What if the Apple could play music?

Like, Leonardo would just be tinkering with it l, then WAP bursts out at full volume, causing Leo to drop whatever he was doing and completely freak out. Because he doesn't know English, or if it translated to Italian, wouldn't know any of the meanings of the song.

Then Ezio comes along and Leonardo is like 'My friend! I must show you a new discovery of mine!"

Then Ezio leans real close, then our bursts heavy metal, and the Apple gets thrown across the room before anyone could react.

Weeeeeelllll… I mean… Ezio’s Apple is still active in the modern day. It’s last known location is with William Miles so if you really want it to blast WAP…

William Miles is secretly a Cardi B fan.

Okay, but in all seriousness, the Apple being able to play music is not that much of a hard sell since it can show both the past and future according to Altaïr so playing modern day songs wouldn’t be out of the question.

Leonardo and Ezio could even play around with it, trying to get it to play other songs.

As for heavy metal, I’m just imagining they’re leaning close as the intro of Disturbed and then they get surprised by the “Uwa, ah, ah” XD

And the Apple could even try to troll them and try to Rick Roll them but it won’t work because they don’t know the ‘cultural’ meaning of it.

But…

Just imagine…

Leonardo and Ezio having LSS with Baby Shark.

Or better yet (or worse yet)

[queenbeeibee]

To build off of what you mentioned before about Beelzebub being redeemed:

Would she want to be redeemed? Her connection to the Hell Hounds could make it complicated. How would she react to severing that tie?

🌸🐝 - [ Oh, Bee would DEFINITELY fight against any idea of her being redeemed. She doesn't want it in the least - why would she? Go back to Heaven, and all its rules? Go back to do as your told, know only what we let you, don't question anything? She would be scratching at the walls in literal MOMENTS if she were ever back Upstairs. And that isn't even getting into the Hellhounds - Bee would flat-out refuse to leave them. They're her people, like Sinners are Charlie's, and Bee couldn't ever think of leaving them behind...

[ ... But if she was forced to? If Heaven didn't listen (and let's be honest: it's so rare they do), and MADE her cross the Pearly Gates, severed that tie without any thought to what it would do? I feel like it would be devastating, on both sides. The Hellhounds would lose Beelzebub, would lose their Queen, the High Bitch in Charge. They'd lose any connection to her, have no idea where she was, what she was doing, why she'd left them. Infighting would probably begin, then. Hounds blaming one another, one type or another, over the disappearance of Queen Bee. The Gluttony Ring would descend into a sort of chaos, like the Pride Ring, that Bee had fought so hard to keep away.

[ And meanwhile, Bee would be trapped in Heaven, unable to communicate with anyone in Hell, unable to get to her Hounds or the other Sins. She'd be isolated, which is honestly a fate worse than anything for her - she needs PEOPLE, all the time. Even if Redemption took the Sin of Gluttony from her, took that ever-increasing void and desire for MORE from her, even if it turned her back to Temperance, Bee would need someone to be with. She'd need friends, and she certainly wouldn't make any of those Upstairs. She'd likely fall into a depression - which Heaven likely wouldn't understand. She's in HEAVEN, after all - what's there to be depressed about? What's there to be SAD over? You're home! You're safe, and redeemed, and the world is so GOOD again... Aren't you happy? Aren't you FULFILLED? You've become a Virtue once more! WHY AREN'T YOU HAPPY, TEMPERANCE?

[ LSS: Bee would hate actually getting Redeemed, herself. Will she support Charlie's dream of it? Hell yeah! Redemption for others? She's all for it! But never for herself. She's happy as she is, bein' whatchu want, not whatchu need~ ]

[harocat]

Heartbreaking thoughts about Tantai Jin hour. I'm just thinking about how the whole first timeline of the series, Tantai Jin had no idea that Li Susu and Ye Xiwu were two different people.

Literally, from his perspective, Ye Xiwu just started being nice to him out of the blue after months of physical and emotional abuse; whipping him every night, leaving him out in the cold essentially to die, and letting him almost starve.

Yet, after Li Susu transmigrated into her body, he still wholly and unabashedly fell in love with 'Ye Xiwu', opening his heart wide open to her and offering his entire self up to her. He loved her almost unconditionally; even when he thought LSS poisoned him, he forgave her the moment she came back. Even after LSS really did do the soul shattering nails, though he tried to hate her, it wasn't possible.

And I can't think of many other things that speak to the depth of his loneliness and need for affection than that, because it seems like he just went 'well she's different now' and didn't even bring it up. Like this man was abused to the point of near torture for MONTHS, by the real Ye Xiwu, but it was just 'in the past' for him. Maybe a part of him was going 'I've changed, so maybe YXW has as well', but the thing is that even when Li Sisu questioned his morality at points, he never retorted with 'remember what you used to do to me?' He wouldn't use the behavior of the real Ye Xiwu against her even when it was relevant. This poor man is so fucked up.

Because this wasn't like, an abusive relationship where the real Ye Xiwu was kind to him sometimes and interspersed it with cruelty, then Li Susu came along and turned to just kindness. It was a total personality switch. He never brought it up. He was that scared of not being loved. The level of pain, the level of desperation he must have been in to just go 'well it doesn't matter because she's nice to me now', and to go as far as to even see LSS as a light, a person he aspires to emulate and the moral center of his world, despite the real YXW's behavior, is immeasurable. It kills me.

One of the reasons I love immortal era of them the most is because he knows all of this now. He knows the woman he loved was NEVER Ye Xiwu, and I think it's really important for forming a genuinely healthy relationship between the two. I can imagine a weight he didn't even know was there just lifting off his chest the moment he realizes it's Li Susu he's loved all along, and how freeing that must have been (we sort of see this in the scene where he realizes it's not him she hated, but the devil god). As cute as they are in the Jing Kingdom arc, and yes they are so cute, the baggage is immense. They can only begin to drop that when all the truths come out between them.

[midnightactual]

if I had to articulate the problem with Bleach, it's that Bleach ultimately doesn't work well as a shōnen story centered around one dude (Ichigo). that structure works fine for like, Yu Yu Hakusho, because that follows Yusuke's small group pretty much exclusively; and it works fine for One Piece and Naruto, because Luffy and Naruto are just the foremost guys of many, many independent competing teams. but Ichigo becoming Soul Society's pointman who must Do All The Things™ every single time gets really old really fast, and reduces everyone else to supporting characters in a really lame way

this feels extra dumb because the adults are still having all the adult conversations and making all the big decisions and we just don't see it happening because we have to follow a teenager. so we're following a relatively clueless guy with little to no agency as he plays gofer for those around him. like, so don't make it about the teenager then? you can split up the POV character and the protagonist. Mad Max: Fury Road did this perfectly. it would still be lame to have Ichigo being the solution to every problem, but it'd be a lot less bad if he wasn't also the focus. and no, saying this is vital for J. J. Abrams mystery box reasons doesn't excuse it, the mysteries and their payoffs are simply never that good

and you know what? the teenagers are the least interesting part of the series. of course they are! because teenagers… are teenagers! the most interesting teenager in the world will never be as interesting as the most boring thousand-year old in the world. their main function in a story driven by and composed of adults is to question the values and premises the adults are operating on (also given most of WSJ's readership is adults, as this 2012 survey by Shueisha shows, and Bleach was mostly read by girls, "it's for boys" is not an excuse so miss me with that)

and like, yeah, it's a shōnen. I've been accused of wanting things to be a different genre before. well, duh! because they very clearly want to be a different genre themselves! why do you think Kubo ditched Karakura as a setting when he'd planned to highlight everyone in Ichigo's class by turn? why do you think he dipped to explore so many other characters in FKT and TYBW besides Ichigo and company? why do you think LSS was a weird horror plot? why do you think SAFWY and CFYOW don't feature Ichigo or any other mains at all? because he (and everyone else involved) was sick of it too! in One Piece, even though the story follows Luffy and the Straw Hats, you get the sense everyone else is maneuvering around in their own ways even if you don't see it. in Bleach, pretty much everything waits for Ichigo. and it honestly sucks

I'm obviously super-biased, but to be what it clearly wants to be by series' end, the premise of Bleach should've been a seinen focused upon the Urahara Shōten on one end, and the Captain's meetings on the other, intercutting between those as events unfolded and focusing far more on the lives and perspectives of the people actually making the calls, especially given, unlike oh say Mobile Suit Gundam, as is there is virtually no payoff in the form of how all this actually affected the child soldiers who are the "main characters"

just the wrong damn format for the story it wanted to become, sorry not sorry. if you wanna focus Ichigo & Co. and Rukia, keep the story small. if you wanna focus a big sprawling epic, deemphasize them. pick one. you're not Tolkien, Kubo, you can't do both, and you clearly wanted the latter (yet you're still frustratingly obsessed with both the format and "mystery", both of which you also suck at)

[silverloreley]

Watching till the end of the moon is just making me appreciate LBFAD so much more, the conflict between those two made so much sense and xiao lan hua struggled with it but stood by DFQC and understood him and loved him. The way YXW is acting is driving me insane, it doesn't make sense in the context of the show, idc about the novel,things should make sense in the context of the drama on it's own,this is supposedly an epic love story but one half is constantly betraying the other

LBFAD is amazing and I don't think I would have started TTEOTM if the first had not stolen my whole heart. But they're completely different on so many levels: one is a fairytale, the other is a high fantasy bloody drama, one is a cheerful love story that has some heavy moments and deep themes at the heart, the other is a tragic romance that starts with blood and will probably end the same way, they are not the same at all, I can't compare the two.

Don't get me wrong, I love both in their own way, but they start from different standpoints and their FLs are deeply different too. We don't quite know much about LSS before she became YXW, while we have the whole life and backstory of XLH unraveled for us, their differences are in character also.

I still think TTEOTM is a love story, but a twisted one, the kind where love isn't enough alone, where there is no right thing to do, where one must lose more than the self to win because there is too much at stake. LSS is ready to give up her everything for the greater good, her identity, her love, her life... noble, sure, but the right thing would be for her to fight for her love and the world all the same, to communicate more (and wasn't that the same mistake MY and SJ made?), to try and find a middle ground and she doesn't. Which is probably due to her upbringing, we can't forget she was the daughter of a sect leader, the values they must have instilled in her since childhood are radicated deep down. We did see XLH grow from her prejudices and I really wish LSS will do the same, but I can't see it happening anytime soon and I worry there won't be the chance for her to, if the spoilers I found around are true.

But you're right about some things making no sense without the novel being involved, as someone who didn't read it either I was very confused when LSS went to XL, why would she do that? I can understand LSS jumping to the worst conclusions about TTJ's actions over and over again because she saw him at his worst and most powerful and she's constantly waiting, terrified, for the other shoe to drop and him going full on the dark side, I get it and don't blame her, yet I can't see why would she root for the Shang royal family when she knows they are scum (in the drama, again, which is the only thing that truly matters, the story must make sense on its own!).

In this respect, Qingyu is way more reasonable, he switched sides to save his men and is watching for proof of having made the right choice (and gets them, time and time again), while LSS is slowly starting to look at what's going on with more objectivity... but too slowly! While the time constraint she has (the 300 days that must be less than 200 by now, more or less) makes her antsy! I don't know if the demons being free en masse will mean the Evil Bone will react to them and activate or what (this is the only explanation I could imagine for it) but she's in a rush and that's never good when in delicate situations (that's what tragedies are made of, that's why I can't see a happy ending here, although I hope I'm wrong and there will be one).

Anyway, I still like the show with all its flaws (I liked way lower-quality stuff over time and I'll never deny it) and will follow it until the end, hoping the mistakes so far will be explained/fixed later on. Otherwise, I'll just do what I did before, fics and fandom support.

;)

[writers-ex]

hi you're back!! idk what happened, i don't wanna know as well but i'm sending you a huuug 💗 and hopefully you saw my ask about how to deal with nosy anons and found it helpful for you 💗

in celebration of me getting closer to finishing my backlogs (and claiming that I get all of it done today whew): a request! the one with the song stuff hihihi although i'll let you choose between two because i have lss from a lot of songs these days 🤧

A. Fluff!

song: I Feel Good by BINI

lyrics: *those in bold aren't sung in English*

"I feel good everytime that I'm with you, my eyes won't stray from you oh, oh, don't ever wanna part, even if I'll have to wait for you forever. Oh wait! turns out I can't wait anymore, I'm so eager for your love, and all emotions start to get real oh boy I love how you make me feel. It feels unbelievable, Cupid shot me, whenever you're there everything feels lighter yeah yeah"

idk but this song (and mv phew - it's a feast for my eyes lmao) is so colorful and fun it makes me feel like i'm also in love 😅

B. Angst :(

songs: Maharani (Great Queen)by Alamat and Hanggang Sa Huli (Until the End) by SB19

lyrics:

Maharani - "he doesn't understand what he's wasting, while I'm over here just waiting, like your numerous other suitors by the sides, I promise I'm not going crazy, you're my only Great Queen - will you give me a chance, if ever I might attain your love? Queen, let me be your King, I swear to god I'll never get tired of you, Great Queen"

Hanggang Sa Huli - "if our paths cross, then we're meant to be. Had I said everything then, would things be different now? With every breath, I pray that I could be with you. And if this is our last moment together, I want you to know that I love you, I love you, I love you"

okii I'm leaving it in your hands, hope you feel the vibe of the songs and get those creative juices flowing ang and and have fun with whichever prompt you wanna do!! don't forget to eat well todayyy 💗

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ok the girls in the MV are so cute and this at home arts and crafts vibe is so cute uwu so i thought of doing domestic things with lia bc yes like its a rainy day and you're both stuck at home so what better thing to do than use the paint set you bought a while ago and paint your jeans together to match each other while lia attempts to bake some cupcakes to watch a movie together however you panic and almost spill paint on the couch when you hear her cry out, running to the kitchen yuo see her sucking her finger that she managed to burn taking out the cupcake pan from the oven without gloves T_T so you kiss and wrap her boo-boo and start scolding her when she cheers and points out the window to show that the rain has stopped and a rainbow graces your window making you look at your shy girlfriend smiling before pulling each other into a soft kiss whispering how much you loved each other

the angst- its a bit dark for even my standards the mv actually made me think of arriving too late to stop yeji from leaving the office after your heated argument about a project you were both working on, she storms out furious and heads home but turns around to hear you calling out to her and…fails to notice the car turning the corner and hitting her, screaming you rush over to her bleeding body her face frozen in shock as the color drains from her face as she stares into your eyes, you plead and beg for her to hang on but its too late she can't hear your apologizes and i love yous as her body goes limp leaving you at the crossroad while the ambulance drives over too late T^T damn now im sad

[dojae-huh]

LSM is a greedy old man, shady with his business and his side company (Like Planning) - trying to take 1/3 of SM's overall income until 2092. But he has the vision, the will to conduct his plans. The shareholders and CEOs were on board of removing him as the income being stolen is too big, for this I'm with them. They were not right neither for not telling that old man about him being kicked-out of his producer seat. It is said that on March 26th both current CEOs will end their CEO terms +

+ hence they (LSS + TYJ) proceed with the plan they had talked with other shareholders. The plan has been ongoing since 2019, with final decision being made on Oct 2022, hence the news of SM no longer work with LP (LSM's side company) starting from Dec 31st of 2022. The shareholders have been fed up with LSM's shady stealing for awhile, hence they feel the need to end things with him. After ending things with LSM and his own company, the CEOs and employees might have had a talk abt the future +

of the company as well, hence the announcement of SM 3.0 and Kakao's acquirement of SM's share. But other directors (including Kim Young Min and Yoo Young Jin) told they are not on board (because they might have been a part of LSM's shady business) and will not move forward without LSM. Then LSM proceed to sell a huge amount of his shares to H*** (which is f*cking worse to me) and we now have this mess. It is also said that H*** wants to acquire around 40% of SM's share in order to gain +

the power to appoint new CEOs in the shareholders meeting which will be held this March. It is also said that Kakao just recently received funding from Arab (which is around 1,200 billion won), and for God knows what that amount of money will be spent on. All source isplus (/article/view/isp202302070037) etoday (news/view/2220860) joongang (/article/25139610) (don't know why the links can't be posted - so sorry!)

+ Here's my take on the situation: LSM is way too greedy (well notorious for this since JYJ's lawsuit). Even other SM's artists, I think it was Kangta who once said that he doesn't receive that much money from copyrights (he wrote Hope and that song is like just the anthem of SM), but that he's satisfied because he still has other incomes. There was also a post/picture circulating on twitter and said that for activities in Korea the artists only receive 10 out of 100, and we alr know that +

+ we already know that it takes years for SM's artists to buy their own houses... I mean if LSS and TYJ could proceed well with SM 3.0 it would mean more freedom for artists, but like they announced it without telling LSM and now we got this freaking mess 💀 The coming days will be stormy, I just hope everything is all and well for artists we love/like. I still can't get over the news of H*** acquiring SM's stock 😩

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I think, Korean business is just a super shady place in general. Sincere and law-abiding people don't survive among sharks. We can start from Samsung owning 1/3 of the country... the rules are different there.

LSM might love his money, but he also loves his artists. He produced albums that didn't bring money and supported artists who left the company. LSM is not white and not black, he is just a person with shades of grey. 6% royalties is a normal thing. Where did you get 1/3 of income? He probably took too long to decide to whom to sell his shares, so the minor shareholders became nervous and easily swayed.

I don't possess enough information and knowledge to have an educated opinion on the matter, to judge whether Kakao or Hybe is worse, who is the real problem - LSM, co-CEOs or Align. It is evident, however, that SM needs restucturing and fresh blood (from stylists to album designers and A&R people). It is also evident that music and production wise the company makes the right things. GOT, aespa's quick success with hit songs taking gp by storm, solo artists getting more freedom and experimenting with artistic expression, etc. So someone in the company is capable. The house is on fire but 127's comeback continues to run smoothly for now. There should be some margin of safety.

I was really surprised about Hybe, but I guess no other company free of Kakao or Samsung has the money. A lot of the time entertainment companies are sold to foreign investors (like Chinese companies), and it's worse than domestic ones.

Yes, Army will have a field day and try to live the life of rich enterpreneurs taking the laurels they didn't earn, but ignore them. Dem Jointz and other producers write for both companies, same with MV makers, and some idols from two labels are friends.

Lol, if NCT comebacks to Vlive I will even rejoice over this new development.