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[a-lil-strawberry]

[withthewindinherfootsteps]

I AM NOW THE PROUD OWNER OF A 400-PAGE LONG BOOK OF ACADEMIC ANALYSIS ABOUT MDZS (both the novel and CQL, as well as the wider danmei sphere, internet authorship, fan reactions in both CN and non-CN spheres, and so many more interesting things – there are photos of the contents list below) >:DDDD

I only got it this afternoon so have only read the (quite long?) excerpt available online and pages I came across while flipping through, but everything I've read so far is really interesting and well-written. If you're interested, it's promoted on the blog of @pumpkinpaix, where there are also chapter spotlights with comments from authors of each paper/chapter about them and about MDZS in general (which is how I found out about it, one came up in tumblr's 'based on this tag you follow...' recommendation), as well as FAQs (including where to buy it, though I did link that at the start). Alternatively, all posts about it are in the tag #catching chen qing ling!

I really recommend it, especially if content about MDZS interests you! and I promise I haven't been told to advertise this it's just something so so cool... a collection of academic work about MY FAVOURITE BOOK... and I know people do follow me for meta/analysis so this might be the sort of thing people looking at this blog will be interested in..?

[artist-rat]

my old and new tes character Saima <3 she’s a combination of a couple of my prev. ocs!

[fromtheseventhhell]

Arya watched them die and did nothing. What good did it do you to be brave? One of the women picked for questioning had tried to be brave, but she had died screaming like all the rest. There were no brave people on that march, only scared and hungry ones. (Arya VI, ACOK)

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The night she was caught, the Lannister men had been nameless strangers with faces as alike as their nasal helms, but she'd come to know them all. You had to know who was lazy and who was cruel, who was smart and who was stupid. You had to learn that even though the one they called Shitmouth had the foulest tongue she'd ever heard, he'd give you an extra piece of bread if you asked, while jolly old Chiswyck and soft-spoken Raff would just give you the back of their hand. (Arya VI, ACOK)

Arya: *restrains herself from acting out when captured by the Mountain and his men because she knows fighting back/being brave wouldn't accomplish anything*

Arya: *takes note of the temperments of several Lannister guards so that she can learn how to navigate around their behavior*

Fandom: Arya is a feral idiot with no self-control uwu 🤗

[kang-yina]

I have a enemies to lovers-lovers to enemies toxic yuri story with mattel i guess

[backpackingspace]

The philoctetes is a comedy actually

[cntarella]

Fools! You whet every knife that wants to kill you.

My Work by Olga Ravn

[julie-su]

Some of you need to get invested in a character who has 2 pieces of fanart, one of which you found in the depths of a 20 year old website still hanging on by a thread, the other by yourself. Somebody draws that character for the love of the character, and apologises for it being 'amateur', but I'm about to cry of joy that somebody else feels the connection to this character. I don't care if it's the first creative endeavour of your life. You understand me deeper than any modern-day Davinci, baby. This artwork means the world to me.

[raininyourblackeyes]

My cousin, a published writer, a well-known poet in my country and a literature professor, for whom I've always been no.1 support ever since her first attempts at writing in high school, told me that I must stop writing as a hobby because that's her thing and since I'm writing fantasy mostly my writing could never have any important artistic value anyways.

[shoezuki]

trying to restrict myself from tumblr to get my work done but im writin an essay on the story The Tale of the Rose by emma donoghue and its so good. its such a fucking good story. like. its the kind of one you read and afterwards just need to think about and it invades ur head. like im so fucked up over it rn.

its a queer/lesbian retelling of beauty and the beast and im writing my essay on it cuz when we discussed it in class, other students were like 'huh i didnt think it was queer i thought they just Became Friends' n i was so gobsmacked bout it and i still am. cuz im reading it now again and like . the basic premise is that the 'beast' is a woman who chose to isolate herself and wear a mask and lean into everyone seeing her as a 'beast' to avoid suitors and those who didnt understand her until beauty comes along and the part where its revealed she's a woman goes like this:

"I pulled and pulled until the padded mask lay uppermost. I breathed my heat on it, and kissed the spot I had warmed. I pulled off the veils one by one. I saw hair as black as rocks under water... I saw lips red as a rose just opening. I saw that the beast was a woman. And that she was breathing, which seemed to matter more" (p. 39)

and for one its phenomenal because through the story a rose is depicted as the only thing she desired at the beginning, now her comparing the beast's lips to a rose. is. EOUGH. but also how the fuck can someone read this and not be like woaw theyre in love. like 'i kissed the spot i had warmed' she kisses her through hte fuckign mask????? thats so much its SO MUCH

[chiyana]

so anyway in other news

[lexalovesbooks]

Went into the bookstore today like “i am buying one book MAX. maybe two if I see one I really want but that is IT.” and then walked out with four new books

[monsterfloofs]

More robot doodles before I run off into the sunset... This is the robot from the 1998 remake movie of Lost in Space I really loved this guys design when I was younger and thought he would be good bot practice. u//u ) I heavily used reference because whew! This fella has a lot of complicated bits and bobs = )

[keydekyie]

just a couple of simple creatures

[encrucijada]

imagine coughing roses and crocus lane exist within the same universe (apocalopsis #0012)

[snixx]

middle/high school me didn't form parasocial relationships with celebrities they formed serial parasocial relationships with random lesbian 20-something bloggers with a penchant for being 24/7 haters on increasingly obscure platforms (often that they had abandoned years ago) and would stay up till like 4am every night reading their posts from like five years back and collecting the Lore