#can't remember who it was

[sketching-shark]

ough it's been far too long since I've done any Yuebei Xing posting but I was just thinking that there's GOT to be a really interesting and disturbing story behind the fact that her father Sun Wukong was tortured into submission via unbearable headache by the golden fillet multiple times on the journey and then his daughter's skull weapon of choice curses people to be tortured by a likewise unbearable headache for three days before they die.

[uhhhhmanda]

Somebody on my dash recently said they were into fish worship and mentioned the great Ray Troll so I thought they'd like this. This is for you, fish friend.

[lotussart]

Icebreakers

[sunderwight]

What if the peak lords concluded that the most likely answer to the mystery of Shen Qingqiu's behavior is not that he's possessed now (because they checked and all the tests came out negative), but that he must have actually been possessed before?

No one thought to check him before, after all. They just figured he was an asshole. But then he suffers a qi deviation, almost dies, but comes back nicer. Only slightly lacking in context for his own past behavior and lifestyle, too.

It fits remarkably well, doesn't it? All this time the real Shen Qingqiu must have been trying to free himself from a demonic spirit that took possession of him in his youth! It was the demon who was the asshole, dragging his poor host to brothels, alienating his sect siblings so that they wouldn't investigate him too closely, abusing his disciples and probably weakening the sect from within as part of some nefarious plot!

But then the real Shen Qingqiu finally managed to beat back the demon himself, even being gracious enough not to point out what happened to his martial siblings and so save the sect's face. What a guy.

[lazylittledragon]

cooked an au while i was sick and i fear it has rotted my brain already

[thegalaxyinapaperbag2]

compiling trends in beatles fanart

[beanhusk]

[spellboundcities]

Is it too late to make this joke

(original v)

[hollis-art]

i love playing dress up!! yay!!!!

[mint-fixates]

There's this weird take I've seen floating around on TikTok that Bill doesn't actually care about his family/dimension or Stanford at all; that we're supposed to take everything in TBOB as non-canon basically because he's lying to garner sympathy from reader to make a deal with them. I'm all for having your own interpretations of media, but I just don't think this idea that Bill is a completely heartless unfeeling creature is supported by canon at all. In fact, it kind of feels like the opposite of the point of the book.

Like, yeah, most things Bill says should be taken with a grain of salt because he lies a lot, but he's not actually a very good liar? It's usually pretty easy to clock when he's full of it. But okay, even if we assume every word Bill says while trying to recruit the reader is a lie, there are three major things that this doesn't account for.

Bill is not the only source in the book. The lost Journal 3 pages were written by Stanford, we only know about the interdimensional Taco Bell incident because of an included police transcript, etc.

Even once he's lost any chance of making a deal with the reader to escape, Bill is having a complete breakdown and mentions all the people he so totally doesn't miss for real you guys. Why bother with reverse psychology double-lying for sympathy once his shot at getting the reader on his side is already gone?

Trying to garner the reader's sympathy makes sense to a certain extent, but why go out of his way to make himself look pathetic? Does revealing that he got drunk and cried over his ex in a fast-food drive-through really help his cause if that cause is to convince the reader he's still a powerful being capable of starting the apocalypse again so they can rule with him?

And that's all without even mentioning that, as previously stated, I think the entire point of the book is missed if we're interpreting Bill as having no genuine feelings or attachments. The book ends with Stanford healing from his past by being open about what he went through with his family and accepting their help, while Bill insists he doesn't need anyone and refuses to heal, actively making himself worse in the process. The clear theme imo is that accepting your past and accepting help from people who love you is essential to healing, while denying those things just makes everything worse. If Bill doesn't actually care about his family, his dimension, Stanford, or anything/anyone else, he has no trauma to heal from or regrets to learn from that he's refusing to accept and deal with, and the entire meaning of the book is made moot.

[isbergillustration]

Can't Help But Feel Like Somebody's Watching

[riddlerosehearts]

has anyone made a post on here yet about how riddle's tsum--the only one of the tsums that doesn't act exactly like the person it belongs to, hinting that riddle's tsum reflects the more playful nature that he once had and might still have if he were free to express it--got covered in grass because it was rolling around the lawn? and how the first thing rapunzel did when she finally left her tower was lay in the grass?? because i saw someone post about this on twitter and i haven't been able to stop thinking about it 🥺

[daily-beau]

Day 13: A blinding sun

[graphicsgirlie]

he didn't have to constantly drag his own ass, but he sure did.

[official-english-major]

Losing it over the fact that Odysseus says "there's a girl I have to see" in I Can't Help But Wonder..... he still thinks of penelope as the girl he fell in love with all those years ago...... and the next song shows she still hasn't forgotten or moved on from the boy she fell in love with, even though he has grown and changed......... I'm weak

[nick-nellson]

SUPERNATURAL 5.18 Point of No Return