#god theyre so in love and doomed

[uselessimpulses]

so like theyre an old married couple theyre divorced theyre frantic teens in love

[chiquilines]

Whoopsie daisy im late to the panel redraw train but this page is tattooed on my frontal lobe

[carhorno]

How YAOI Saved Me From My Depression Spiral

coming to a books a million near you

is it weird that i only kinda hate that it's true? i mean, where would i be if i wasn't so caught up in the lives of fictional men

[atlaskrr]

Butterflies and Love

let's get back to it!

So there's a lot of themes of marriage and conjugal love and what not. Basically unity and happiness between partners but what we're more interested in is the legends.

There is a well-known Chinese tale known as “The Butterfly Lovers”—usually abbreviated to Liang Zhu (梁祝). In the narrative, a little girl named Zhu Yingtai (祝英臺) persuades her father to let her become a scholar. Between 265 and 420 AD, when the narrative takes place, girls in China were strongly discouraged from pursuing scholastic studies. But Zhu’s father gives in, and the girl goes to school dressed as a boy.

Zhu meets Liang Shanbo (梁山伯) on her way to school, and the two of them become friends. They form a strong bond and become inseparable. Zhu eventually reveals her actual identity to Liang. They fall in love, but Zhu’s father has already promised her to another man. Liang dies because his heart is broken, and he is buried.

On the day Zhu is scheduled to wed her arranged husband, strong winds prevent her from being escorted beyond Liang’s tomb. Zhu, in desperation, asks Liang’s grave to open, and it does. She throws herself into the grave, and two butterflies emerge from it, rising into the sky and flying away. This is often seen as a symbol of their eternal love.

The famous “Butterfly Lovers” story, a Chinese folktale about two star-crossed lovers who are transformed into butterflies, has been reinterpreted as a metaphor for the struggle for individual freedom and the pursuit of social justice.

In summary it's like Chinese Romeo and Juliet (MY THEORY IS HAPPENING). Anyway yeah its basically like cxs dying and lg trying to move on but he can't so he goes back to change thing. They're "rebirthed" in a sense like the lovers turned into butterflies. Maybe what lg needs to learn is what the story tells. The way for them to be together forever ended up being in the afterlife but idk if I like the implications that brings.

Some more things to note about butterflies and love is:

In the East, single people use butterflies to decorate their homes in the hopes of finding true love.

The shifting feature of the butterfly’s life cycle takes on special significance in the world of Feng Shui.

Their metamorphosis is caused by external energy in the world around them.

The changes that occur when people fall in love are commonly equated with this transformation.

As a result, butterflies can be used by people who are looking for love.

This also goes for those who have found love and want to present it to the world in the most charming and romantic way possible.

Aside from that, two butterflies flying together is a sign of a good marriage in Japanese culture.

Butterflies are associated with happy weddings and marriages in their culture, and the Romans have a similar belief.

Yall know the implications of a single butterfly :))))) *dying noises*. Since it's shining light we cant only assume it's brightly colored

When one enters the house, a bright colored butterfly symbolizes the arrival of good news in terms of romance. Chasing them out of the house is akin to refusing to accept such good news.

This isn't super significant to anything but I just wanted to add it. Cxs is not chasing it away (well he can't boy is kinda passed out there).

Anyway that's all for butterflies and love. It's not super significant but did I want to add it solely for tragic and eternal romance. Absofuckinglutely. Next part I'll be covering about other symbolisms and anything I missed.

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OP - old draft

Let's talk about Vortex? I recently saw that people were discussing on Twitter the draft for OP that had been posted a long time ago. I still have screenshots from that time.

If you haven't watched s1/s2, Friendly reminder - SPOILERS

It's obvious why the first draft was changed, although the idea remained the same - the original draft was too straightforward and contained too many spoilers for the plot, as I can say. I'm posting this purely to keep it in history, especially when the season has almost come to an end, and we already know the main points that could be spoilers in terms of visuals. Vortex. It's really Vortex..

The first part remained the same as it was: machins, water, drowning Cheng Xiaoshi who begins to “rise and fall” at the same time

Lu Guang and the broken glass shards still the same, he and Cheng Xiaoshi “fall” like a reflection opposite each other. And so do Li Tianchen and Li Tianxi.

Cheng Xiaoshi continues to fly in the air, but his direction changes. There was not just light, but a butterfly like light. Li Tianxi and control abilities.

While Cheng Xiaoshi is grabbed by the “hand” when the second part begins, the one who flies further in space is Lu Guang. This can be seen in the silhouette of clothes and hair. The one standing on the roof is Cheng Xiaoshi. Lu Guang tries to reach him, but :)

Initially, there are many more characters standing on the roof. Among them are Xu Shanshan (probably), Chen Bin, Li Fan, but not Qian Jin.

And then… the reverse begins.

Have a nice day ~

[this-tastes-lemony]

who’s up falsetting their os

[mikupepsi]

Jean excitedly telling a very hesitant and scared Rogue she found a way to block her powers

[passerinesoncaffeine]

tonight on thinking about homura and madoka.

[daily-linkclick]

What is the theory abt lg being from an alternate timeline? I’ve been seeing a lot of ppl talk about it and idrk where it comes from, and what are your thoughts??(have a nice day!!)

this ask magically appeared in my inbox just today but apparently it was sent weeks ago, holy shit! thank you for waiting op LMFAO

anyways, it's a theory that's been around before season 2, iirc! mostly because we had little to nothing lore wise around their powers, and its just fun thinking about while we waited for anything canon. there were a few things that did hint at lu guang being from an alternative timeline, being that we don't know his age and backstory, and his weird hair color (not a lot of people sporting full white hair, or any unnatural hair color in link click, at least)

those aspects don't necessarily point to him being from an alternate timeline, but they also could be hints towards it! but there's new content that makes this theory potentially canon! it's from this music video played during Bilibili World. it features an alternate mv for vortex, which is interesting because we see lu guang falling first:

in it, there are several shots with cheng xiaoshi wearing completely different outfits, some injured and one seemingly dead? Plus a frame that shows four cxs's merging into one. maybe it's just ooo pretty visuals, but there's a looot of imagery that implies different timelines (shard fractals, reflections, mirror images, etc)

There's also this shot, with lu guang wearing an alternate fit we've never seen - and he's wearing more black in this one?? his s1 fit also featured a dark shirt and pants but his flannel color was more dominant. this leads me to believe that this is lu guang but less experienced (another timeline).

maybe all of this is just non-canon for marketing, they did market lu guang as dead for all of pre-s2 lol, but i like to believe this is them teasing lu guang's past! even if he's the main character, he's someone who's past we know the least of. i'd argue we find out more about side characters than we do about him actually - which makes me (and a lot of other people) think he's from an alternate timeline!

that's the gist; i'll put my own thoughts under a read more so this post won't be insanely long

my own thoughts on the theory is that i think lu guang is from multiple alternate timelines. the frame with multiple cheng xiaoshis, and the one where four merge into one makes me believe lu guang met cheng xiaoshi in his timeline, but cxs either died or had a miserable life. he kept going into different timelines in an attempt to save him / be in a timeline where cheng xiaoshi is actually safe and happy, and finally got to the timeline we see in the show.

though that part requires him having more than just the power to look into what happens in a photo. but there's been proof of lu guang hiding what he knows / has with cheng xiaoshi (re: him hiding the fact emma died, and him hiding the photo that liu tianchen gave him). he's also an incredibly private person. if he hides from his closest friend, who's to say he isn't hiding something from the audience either?

we also don't know how they got their powers. if lu guang originally had the power to dive back into pictures, then it would make sense on how he's able to go to different timelines. also, studio lan clearly emphasizes the fact that the pair are two halves of a whole, and the show is more interesting because of that dynamic.

as an extra: lu guang's doting nature makes a lot of sense too, he just doesn't want to see cheng xiaoshi miserable again! it's a pretty known fact that cheng xiaoshi didn't have any friends (besides qiao ling) before lu guang, and his life insantly got better when they finally were a trio (interesting that it was mainly because of a mysterious person that popped out of nowhere). here's a fun twitter thread by t3mp0s about the trio's dynamic

lastly, i just think it'd be fun if at one point cheng xiaoshi slowly discovers what lu guang did in his past for him. and how hypocritical lu guang would sound after saying "past or future, leave them be" if he never applied that to cheng xiaoshi! either way i still want to see a cxs saving lg arc man... they keep teasing it EVEN IN THE MV

that's it!! i know link click's best quality is the trio going through other people's stories, but i think they're preparing us for the biggest one: lu guang's.

[asbestos-11]

huhu the struggle of finding blade fics that are about him and his struggle with immortality and whatnot. huhu pleaseeee there's too little gen fics about him.

[mofsblog]

Me when I get fixated on a ship so niche one of them barely has screentime and the other DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A NAME OR AO3 TAG AND HAS 0 TUMBLR POSTS ABOUT THEM 😭

[n3onwraith]

OH MY GOD JUNIOR SIGHTING!! YIPPEE JUNIOR MENTION!!

[thedeadthree]

— TAG GAME.

TAGGED BY the dear @marivenah and @leviiackrman to answer a few questions! ty ty so much love!

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THREE SHIPS: inspired by mari <3!

THREE CANON SHIPS: geralt x yennefer, corlys velaryon x rhaenys targaryen, and arianne martell x daemon sand!

THREE OC SHIPS: iovanna dayne x daemon targaryen, edelgard vanderweyden x reese verner, maekar targaryen x aeryal arvel (carolines dear!)

THREE MUTUALS SHIPS: mo @kingsroad's alyse x aegon (they mean the world to me!), ash @unholymilf's iconic varya x roman (forever the moment!), airika @chuckhansen's nina x adam (the loveliest! they're dear to me!)

FIRST SHIP: oo ok ok i want to say my first ship was I think? rajaion and ena from fire emblem path of radiance? that or? selina kyle/catwoman and bruce wayne!

CURRENTLY CONSUMING: an iced coffee ajanjnsk bc i am a responsible adult <3.

CURRENTLY WATCHING: my 3829838th rewatch of house of the dragon <3 am i surprised? nay nay! its not at all for oc lore! (leg says like a liar jnjanj <3)

LAST MOVIE: the batman! <3 and one i recently adored seeing was bullet train as well! (ty ty orion and ash for introducing me bc of ur ocs u dears u!)

LAST SONG: its been stuck in my head all week! the fruits by paris paloma <3

CURRENTLY READING: rereading fernweh saga by the dear aelsa! and fire and blood by george rr martin <3 (leg once again says its bc they want know more of what’s in store for the characters and not for oc lore at all like a liar <3)

CURRENTLY CRAVING: my mom is making sauce so i have pasta on the brain <3

[pepper-steam-milkshake]

we may be doomed, but for now, let us have this.

[desmondsdestiny]

replaying ac3 for the millionth time and i will never not lose it when desmond says "when this is all over I'd like to come home"

[oofuri2003]

[wip]

jaceni cringe comp jaceni cringe comp jaceni cr

[clavicuss-vile]

screaming crying i just realised that solaris only gets told his actual name by clavicus during the time where he's collecting daedric artifacts for martin. (before that he uses the name the cult gave him; Scelus) and he doesnt do that until the purification. oh my god icarus never knows his real name