#codes by xue

[xuethms]

☁ halite (about page).

Links: previews [ light / dark ] | install

Halite can work as an about, list, and/or tags page -- whatever combination you desire. Bold accents add pops of colour to the neat layout.

Features: no javascript, three sections, supports about/list/tag sections, unique accent colour per section, section banners, user icon & info (title, subtitle, description)

Credits (preview imgs): ZZZ/Hoyoverse, reispackers (unsplash)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm sorry I let down my guard.

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[thatswhatsushesaid]

[ithinkitsdashingshop]

Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli charms

[toxic-yaoi-tournament]

Toxic Yaoi Tournament Round 1: Kururugi Suzaku/Lelouch vi Britannia (Code Geass) vs. Xiao Xingchen/Xue Yang (Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed)

[twistedappletree]

Jin Zihao 🌻

[winepresswrath]

MXTX MC conflicts go:

Yi City: my boyfriend thinks I am a prolific murderer and specifically murdered a bunch of people his bff loves to get back at him. also that I tricked him into doing murders with me, for enrichment. I did all those things but did not anticipate having a feeling about his feelings.

Scum Villain: my boyfriend thinks I want to kill him but I don't.

MDZS: my boyfriend thinks I hate him but I don't.

TGCF: my boyfriend doesn't know I exist but I'm worried that once he finds out he's going to find my eyepatch ugly and my cavern of effigies offputting.

[malewifingonside]

Adding thoughts to Wu Qianyue, his life before this one is shitty. Sure he managed to get to the top, but it was a lonely place to be. His family is gone, leaving him on top of the mountain. When he came to this world, he resolved to protect his family. Every means was used.

He tried to help who he can. His father, second mother, Jianzhi, Qingsu and Qingxu. He knows why their father did what he did, and tried his best to break his family out if the cycles of trauma. Even if he knowingly trapped himself in it.

Enduring, enduring, knowing why they did it and wanted to help them, forgiving, forging, knowing why that did it. Smiling to elevate the pain, to soothe the other, to be the pillar where everyone can rely on. But even mountains can collapse after decades of abuse.

The day Xue Jianrong's crime was announced was the day Xue Jianrong died, sacrificing himself to kill Demon Lord Qin.

[withthewindinherfootsteps]

I sometimes see the opinion that MXTX took the clichéd tropes she'd critiqued in Scum Villain, and played them straight in MDZS. But though a lot of them appear in MDZS, I'd argue that none are actually played straight at all!

The main point of MDZS's tropes is subversion. Yes, WWX has a 'tragic backstory', even an arguably overused one (orphaned by his parents at a young age, forced to live on the streets with nobody to rely on, etc) – but how things differ in how it's used. Tragic backstories are normally used to build sympathy for a character, to make us care and get invested in them. But... we're never actually shown any of those street days, we're never shown and never dwell upon how much he suffered during them. They're only really mentioned in passing and whenever dogs come up! If the goal was to make us feel bad for WWX, this would be very ineffective writing. But what's actually important here isn't that WWX went through tragedies – it's how he doesn't let the tragedies he went through define him. He doesn't dwell on them, the narrative doesn't dwell on them, it's never used to earn sympathy points... because what defines WWX is his choices and how he chooses to act, not a backstory completely out of his control. What gets us invested in him is his personality and the character writing of MXTX, not tragic events used as a substitute for identity.

And this trope treatment fits extremely well with WWX's personality itself – he's someone who 'forgets the pain as soon as the wound has healed'*, but also who actively chooses to focus on the present because you can't change the past; someone who holds the belief that 'gains and losses [should] remain uncommented on' when choosing what to do.

The use of the tragic backstory isn't the only thing that's subverted, either – the other main thing is the 'blackening' of the protagonist, and its impact on the protagonist's fall. After being thrown into the Burial Mounds, on a surface level it does seem like this blackening has occurred: the first thing we see when he returns is his gruesome torture of the Wen cultivators; he's 'forsaken' traditional cultivation in favour of an 'evil but more powerful' path; and frankly, Sunshot-era WWX is terrifying. But MDZS is not a blackening story, and so the events of the Burial Mounds aren't used as a catalyst for that purpose. Though it's true that WWX's not entirely the same person he was before (because how could be be?), underneath it all, his morals, worldview and core** stay the same. Though gruesome, his revenge is directed towards the ones who wronged him, not those past that and certainly not the entire world. His experience in the Burial Mounds doesn't lead to him being some evil, blackened overlord... like everyone says he is at the start! That's subverted, because again, WWX's values and choices are more important to the story than genre conventions.

But the most crucial thing? What leads to WWX's downfall isn't any blackening! It isn't any vengeance or morally dubious actions***– he was praised for those things during the Sunshot Campaign! No, what leads to his downfall is something completely unrelated to that, something which would've disappeared had the trope been played straight. It's him doing what's right by defending the Wens, it's him following his moral code when it opposes the world's, it's him standing up to the injustice of others – not others standing up to the injustice of him. That's the subversion here.

(Also, once again, the fall of Lotus Pier, the Burial Mound, etc, aren't used for sympathy points – and if it was relevant, they wouldn't have been used to excuse any actions, either. Using tragic events as an excuse for doing bad things is critiqued many times in MDZS, through characters like Xue Yang and Jin Guangyao. And that's not exactly a trope subversion, but it is a critique of badly handled 'excuses'.)

These are by no means all the tropes MDZS subverts – the nature of guidao vs the usual nature of modao being another very major one – but they're the main ones that feature in Scum Villain.

So, though at first glance MDZS seems to play the tropes MXTX critiqued there straighter, it's not a simple case of using them as cliches, and we see that by how they're used to impact the narrative, and how that differs from what they're traditionally used for. MDZS doesn't fall back into clichés Scum Villain satirised – it's the subversion to Scum Villain's exploration and critique.

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*Which I know is generally used negatively, to describe someone not learning a lesson from a punishment, but it really describes WWX in general, too. He doesn't dwell on that pain, he does his best to move on from it.

**...heh

***And, because it's often debated – whatever the morality/culpability of Nightless City is doesn't even matter! The events happened at a pledge conference against him that was already taking place. WWX's actions there didn't make people want to kill him because that was explicitly happening beforehand.

[sueeeeesworld]

Hello,

My name is Xue Yan. I am a Ph.D. student in Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My academic advisor, Dr. Liza Berdychevsky, and I conduct a study titled “Sex Views and Sexual Self-concept”.

If you are currently 18 years old or older and willing to share your opinions about sexual-related topics, please allow me to invite you to participate in this study.

If you agree to participate, you will take part in a survey, taking approximately 20 minutes. All information collected from this survey is anonymous and will be treated as strictly confidential. Your name will not appear on this survey and the information you provided will be grouped with other participants’ information to protect your identity. Please click on the link below or scan the QR code to participate:

Your participation would be much appreciated and extremely important, as it would provide valuable insights to contribute to people’s sexual justice and effective sexual health education.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration!

Xue Yan

Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism Management

College of Applied Health Sciences University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

xueyan3@illinois.edu

[xuethms]

☁ gypsum (list page).

Links: previews [ aki / angel ] | install

Gypsum is a simple but bold checklist page, perfect for listing your new year bucketlist or long list of video games you've bought but never played.

Features: no javascript, endless list items, minimal design, icon image with border effect (optional), blog links

Credits (preview imgs): aki, angel

[pi-ying-xi]

Been reading The Marriage of the Di Daughter (because I still have The Double brainrot) and!

We were robbed!

(I see why they robbed us. Cdrama, specifically, codes bird owners as sinister in an uncool way, besides being Wrong; and Xiao Heng can be sinister but he's never uncool and cannot be wrong).

But in the book, when everyone is at the Shen Manor at a banquet given to celebrate the sister's marriage (never mind the details), Ji Heng pretends to crush to death the starling (fully black, remember this point) that Xue Fangfei saved way back, and which loudly and vocally recognises Fangfei in Jiang Li.

So he says there can be no witnesses, and she reluctantly agrees. They each go back to wherever.

Back at the Duke's residence, this happens:

He takes out the bird from his sleeve. It's alive. It flies off, sits on a sword in his room. (Lu Ji is present).

And it takes a look at him and loudly calls Ji Heng "Beauty".

🤣🤣

Lu Ji can't believe a birb is flirting with the Duke but instead of being crushed to death for real, Ji Heng not only says it has a sweet tongue, he also names it!

Lu is having a bad day on account of this.

Because Ji Heng names it Little Red.

Lu Ji is like, but it's a bird that's black?

Ji Heng is all, yeah but it's name is Like Red 😋

*

Later, he invites Jiang Li over, and says she can also meet Little Red.

Jiang Li has no idea what he's talking about but she's like, ok whatever you say, Su guogong.

*

What I'm saying is, WE COULD HAVE HAD THIS!

[mxtxfanatic]

Wei Wuxian would’ve never become Xue Yang, Jiang or no Jiang, and you wanna know why? Because Wei Wuxian had a moral code that he stuck to even as a street orphan, while Xue Yang did not and chose to kill innocent people as “repayment” for experiencing cruelty from one particular man in his childhood.

A Xue Yang found by the Jiang would experience one instance of mistreatment under Madam Yu and strive to destroy the entire Jiang and all affiliated in retaliation. A Wei Wuxian who stayed on the street would just be a good person under some other life circumstances (whether he would become a cultivator of another clan, a rogue, or just a businessperson in the civilian world).

[themaymoth]

Xue Yang, the magnus archives au

why pay for therapy when murder exists

*inserts homoerotic subtext*

*G A S P* they were cultmates

i needed the clothing reference now you get to enjoy smol xue yang

[SUPPLEMENTAL]

•Boo hoo i tricked my boyfriend into starting an evil cult and when he found out and broke up with me, i killed him so i could trap him in my creepy book but the ritual was interrupted and now he's dead for real, pooor meeee.

•He's so emo i'm sorry.

•Mary Keay coded, but serves the slaughter.

[winwintea]

WayV as my favorite songs

AUTHOR’S NOTE ↬ no one asked for this but i can do whatever i want lol. i need to flesh out every single nct member and this is the easiest way for me to write for them: music

PLAYLIST ↬ here just in case you would like to listen to any of them lol

OTHER VERSIONS ↬ dream | 127 | wish (when i post them eventually lol)

LIU YANGYANG ↬ 火 - A-Mei

yangyang is a certified y2k baddie. i'm fully convinced he was born in the wrong era. like he would've rocked the 2000s so much, if only he was born 10 years earlier. 火 is quite literally yangyang, don't tell me other wise, like yangyang is🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥the lyrics are so him coded. HE JUST LOVES MUSIC DON'T TELL HIM TO STOP! in true wayv fashion the song is probably about sex

XIAO DEJUN ↬ 爱 - 小虎队

my god. dejun....... literally such a romantic, but he's like the youthful style romantic?? (does that make sense) 爱 just fits him so well cause it's like young love, peaceful vibes, literally i'm in love with this man. I BET YOU ANYTHING HE KNOWS THE SIGN LANGUAGE TO THIS SONG BY HEART. heartthrob dejun of the 90s. LIKE CAN YOU IMAGINE HIM IN THE 90s???

QIAN KUN ↬ 你是我永远的乡愁 - fei yu-ching

you know the guy that sings the xue hua piao piao song? yeah this is one of his songs. another way for me to call kun a boomer but am i wrong??? is this man not a boomer??? i'm sorry. nah but i got a feeling that kun really likes old old music. i'm talking teressa teng, all those classics. and i can't blame him they're bangers. couldn't go straight with a jay chou song bc that'd be too easy i wanted to challenge myself.

DONG SICHENG ↬ 我愿意 - faye wong/王菲

i love love love faye wong....... all of her songs. she's so talented bruh. and i love winwin! wow those go great together! jkjk, i have reasons for this too. this song is quite literally so special so romantic like damn. i have a feeling that winwin, whoever his partner is, he would literally worship the ground they walk on. HE WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR THE ONE HE LOVES. these are literally all love songs but my wayv boys... i picture them in love all the time okay.

WONG KUNHANG ↬ 失戀 - grasshoper

everytime i hear this fucking song i laugh so hard bc WHO WROTE THIS???? WHY DID YOU MAKE IT HAPPY??? hendery is such a comedian, we all know that. he just has this extremely playful vibe to him. the lyrics of this song... are certainly tragic.... it's about a dude who's chasing after girl who doesn't like him but also talking to another guy who likes the same girl and they both cope with their misery together. LIKE... hendery gives me the vibe that for all his misfortunes and troubles he would just laugh it off. which is not okay, but it's how he is. :((

CHITTAPHON LEECHAIYAPORNKUL ↬ play/我呸 - jolin tsai

literally do not know any thai songs i apologize, but if you got any good recs. really any jolin tsai song could fit ten's vibe tbh, like especially 舞孃 could work too. i chose play bc the gays like it (this is a joke but also kinda true) i could say that she's basically the "lady gaga of cpop" (not my words okay) play is just so sassy, and playful, really fits the vibes that ten has going on there. gay.

perm taglist ↬ @lyvhie

[twistedappletree]

there’s no man alive that i can’t deceive

so give me a man who’s crueler than me.