#fangs blog

[spicy-mang0]

FANG !!!! what is your favorite thing about max ?

“That’s an easy one. I love how Max frowns a little bit when she sleeps- oh and how she always saves our butts.���

[sky-pie]

I'm writing a Maximum Ride fanfic even though I read it like six years ago. It's basically just the same story but my oc Adam is in it and it's from his perspective. And him and Fang dated because (to me) Fax is a little odd bc they literally grew up together. Like I'd never date my childhood bff and we didn't even live together.

Anyways, it takes place in Max but it has flash backs to earlier books, the earliest being Schools Out Forever which is when Adam joined the flock.

Lies in Being Bold (on Wattpad)

or I'm also posting the chapters here when I remember to

And because I'm even more desperate for nostalgia, I'm even writing docs as Fang in my au through the style that the extra material and online blogs use. So I'm gonna link those too.

Unposted Blogs

Pros and Cons List

For Dylan

I might make more docs and I'll link them here.

[bl00dfroma-fairy]

[magicalshopping]

♡ Vampire Mimic Belt Bucket by Psychic Circle ♡

[nicofromparamore]

[ethanhawke01lover]

Ethan in 1990⭐️⭐️

[romanticwrld]

[my-very-own-therian-blog]

I want fangs so badly. Genuinely. There are only benefits to having fangs. And I’d look sick as hell. Chomp chomp

[dearmyloveleys]

RE: the absolute fascination (and adoration) I have with the symbolism of Zhu Yan's and Li Lun's weapons, how it reveals their respective characterisations and the discussion of humanity

There are so many aspects that I love about FoF but I still believe how the show represents LiYan's relationship + worldview through their weapons is one of the best uses of visual storytelling and literary/visual devices I have seen in recent years. (long text ahead!)

A Gift and A Curse

Where did their complications start? The exchange of gifts. Why do we gift another presents? For affection. It's so ironically simple, free of malice and at its basis so, so human. For a demon like Li Lun who claims to not understand humans, he reciprocates the moment of kindness Zhu Yan shows him - the rattle to make him happy, and him giving Zhu Yan the umbrella to shelter him from rain.

There is something so beautifully ironic about two great demons eventually using ordinary, human household objects as their weapons. And items given to each other at that. When they first receive them, both the umbrella and rattle are just simple objects with no meaning attached to it, except for the goodwill of friendship. There is no inherent ill-intention and it is pure. Yet.

Li Lun ultimately only understands reciprocation, and not truly the innate kindness and affection which Zhu Yan demonstrates. Zhu Yan gave Li Lun the rattle to have him understand why he finds humans wonderful: Can any of our demonic powers have the ability to make someone happy just like this rattle does for a child? Li Lun gives Zhu Yan the umbrella because Zhu Yan gave him the rattle and made him happy. Li Lun understands the action, and does not grapple with its underlying intentions. He consistently struggles with this throughout the story, especially when actions do not match up with the speaker's reasonings.

Dissonance in character is an extremely human trait, and the understanding of this is where Zhu Yan and Li Lun’s stories and similarities diverge. Zhu Yan on one hand, understands the complexity of humans and is at terms with it. Li Lun on the other hand, never understands the ability to be complex and paints humanity black. Their gifts are still turned into weapons that will eternally curse them of their once-there closeness, because of each other and their inability to reconcile their ideologies. How they use the umbrella and rattle from here on, represents their differences in their views of humanity.

Double Edged

When watching any fantasy/wuxia/xianxia cdrama, everyone who is written as a fighter usually has an offensive weapon used and made for injuring and killing. But not when it comes to Zhu Yan and Li Lun - they are two individuals who will certainly be masters in weaponry if they wielded a sword or blade. But they don’t.

In the Wilderness, from what we see, none of the demons use weapons. Even Cheng Huang uses an hourglass. Both Li Lun and Zhu Yan do not own any weapons before gifting each other the rattle and umbrella, and these aren’t even supposed to be used as weapons. There is such an underlying innocence to demons that instead of choosing a blade to take as a weapon, they choose these essentially harmless items instead. Though, this innocence ends here. The concept of weapons is a human creation. The concept of making an item specifically just to harm others is an especially human conception. By adopting the identity of weapons onto their gifts, the multifaceted nature of weaponry and thereby humanity seeps into their characters. Weaponry is both ironically and ironically human, and their weapons represent both sides of human nature that Zhu Yan and Li Lun believe in.

A weapon is only causes harm in one's hands if you make command it to. Do you protect or do you do harm with it? I find it so telling and intriguing that Zhu Yan and Li Lun run off in either directions with the purposes of a weapon. Zhuyan has always been fascinated by the human world versus Lilun having apathetic views of the human world, and they reflect this in how they use their weapons.

Zhu Yan uses his umbrella to always shield his team, protect and deflect harm, while the harm he inflicts on others comes from his innate spiritual energy (one word spells). He protects this simple umbrella and preserves its goodness, indirectly making sure to not sully the goodness of humanity. Instead, he chooses to use himself as the offensive weapon. On the other hand, Li Lun turns his rattle into an offensive weapon, changing its tip into a dagger. Before it is destroyed, all his attacks are summoned from strikes against the rattle. He doesn’t care, and humanity is trash, therefore he treats this object of innocence with irreverence and violence.

Though, there still is Li Lun’s favourite question: Is it better to be a demon or human? He chooses human. Which at the very least, is interesting.

Who You Wish To Be

The thematic concern of LiYan's relationship is very much defined by this question they often pose or have been asked by others: Is being a human or a demon better?

On an even deeper level, the juxtaposition between Li Lun's use of the rattle and what he says, being a human is better, is even more encompassing of his character — driven, conflicted obsession. The same way he keeps trying to break Zhuo Yichen and Zhuyan, but manages to maintain somehow civil and emotional conversations with them, his treatment of his rattle but the fact he thinks being human is better, and his one-time statement “maybe the human world is interesting after all” are contradictory. He is never at peace with himself and cannot accept things the way they are. He is very much a child, misguided and believing that things are one-dimensional (all humans are bad, Zhuyan how could you hurt me for them) while things in reality are complex. Even his best intentions, from his line “I, Li Lun, will never run away from things (…)” is innocently one dimensional. He will never be the human he wants to be until he comes to terms with this. And most importantly, it's not even about being human. It's never about titles or names, it's about who he wants to be. Li Lun once again is fixated on surface levels that he doesn't grasp the depth of reality.

"Whether one is a human or demon, it's only a matter of titles. Just be whoever you want to be." - Zhu Yan, Ep 26.

Zhu Yan is the stellar opposite of Li Lun. He doesn’t sully Li Lun’s gift to him and uses it the way Lilun initially gave it to him for: to protect. And his answer to the Demon or Human question as written above is telling of his character, compared to Li Lun's set-in-stone answer. But despite everything, what makes everything so tragic is what started it in the first place: affection. One keeps that affection as a weapon to spread the same to others, while the other keeps and weaponises that affection to regain it all back.

Just like how he uses his rattle to relentlessly pursue revenge, Li Lun is so insistent on what should have been, that he doesn't see what can be, and it curses him. Zhu Yan sees the possibilities of everything, wants to protect the good, and it curses him. Perhaps its this inevitability of their separation and also the sliver of hope that they can reconcile, trapped in their shared respective curses, that troubles them deep down.

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Their weapons symbolise both their ideologies, and serve as physical reminders of their intertwined past. Regardless of how they use their weapons, they use a reminder of the other as defense and offense against the world. A diverged path still has met once before. The sharpest blade is still one crafted from the torment of memory.

On Visual Story-Telling

The use of these unusual objects in c-drama land as weapons is such a stroke of genius on the production team and writers' part. It gives so much more flavour and uniqueness to these characters instead of the usual sword or spear. Such small, precise, details with large implications on characterisation.

[garr9988]

I'm certain someone's already had these thoughts and posted them somewhere, but I recently got to thinking about how, in an alternate plane of existence, there are eldritch tentacle beings with a serious fetish for vertebrates and digits.

They're imagining the firm strength of arms, the multitude of fingers. The dexterity of a handful of phalanges, the rigidity of the bones inside the yielding squishiness of flesh, like steel rods inside sponges. The way arms and hands can squeeze.

Getting flustered as they imagine their tendrils intertwining and curling between a handful of fingers like ivy over a trellis.

The stinging stripes of scratches from hard keratinous nails as opposed to the bruising mini-vacuums of suction cups.

You know they get tattoos of dozens of overlapping, intertwining hands or long, visceral scratch marks down their tentacles.

Not to mention the fact that vertebrates can have hands and feet. Variety!

[fangshusband]

only lovers left alive (2013)

[into-the-feniverse]

Trigun Character Cheat Sheet Masterpost 🤞

(Cause I kept making updates to them and it just makes more sense to have them all in one place)

[Last updated: 9/11/24]

All cheat sheets can also be found here: bit.ly/trigunresources

Additional resources under the cut!

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Guide to TriMax Vash’s various outfits by nimpnawakproduction

TriStamp Vash’s arm guide by stepherscorner

TriStamp Vash's wing (compiled by revenantghost)

Tri98 Vash Studio Reference sheets (Reddit)

Tri98 Model Sheets (compiled by amethystsoda)

"The Totally Bitching 'Cross Punisher' Diagram" (angelfire.com)

Trigun Gun model sheets (mrbagel.tripod.com)

Prop Making for Trigun Stampede: Punisher (youtube)

Wolfwood's Motorcycle (comp)

If there’s other characters or items you’d like to see a cheat sheet for you’re welcome to drop a line in my inbox! I can’t guarantee when or if I’ll get to it but I’ll take it into consideration!

(Most likely I’ll get to it when I’m procrastinating on something else, which is often so ✌️ not guaranteed but v likely to happen lol. (Shameless plug but I’ll be more inclined to get to it if you buy me a coffee nudge nudge wink wink))

[poco-lovers]

BUSTER❓ (He‘s my main; I literally have almost everything of his 😭)

I actually got his second gadget from a star drop today!! It was fate heh! I wanted to draw Buster with Fang but after going through a few poses settled on this one which ironically ended up being more Fang than Buster… but I plan on drawing him more soon (he’s also one of my mains!) so I’ll tag you in those! I’m sorry if I didn’t deliver on this one— -💛

[ari-fire-arts]

I love lr, they singlehandedly got me out of art block

[nicofromparamore]

[visd3stele]

it's very important to me that we don't forget rin is good with kids. she raised kesegi, she convinced dulin to eat, she earned pipaji's and jiuto's trust... she is good with kids. pass it on.