#hmmmmmm i'm having thoughts

[mrsgingles]

needed to get this image out of my system

[jin-zixun]

ok ok ok ok ok ok ok so... the whole thing where JGY has different smiles for different people... And one of them is just for lan xichen, and then he's got one for 'useful people'. And that sounds a whole hell of a lot like su she, su she is the most useful of people and he'd be happy enough with that. I mean, that's definitely the smile he gives him in their first on screen meeting in jinlintai so... makes sense right? I mean... JGY would want to encourage SMS to continue being useful, right?

So uh... How does JGY smile... What smiles does he give Su She... Literally any other time than that first meeting...? I mean lock in ur answers now I guess because I brought pics under the cut.

Oh. He doesn't. He doesn't smile. At Minshan.

Because smiles are performative and he doesn't need to perform? He doesn't need to worry? He doesn't need to wear a mask? Because this is an aspect of his life that has caused him pain at having to hide away and deceive and he can afford to drop with one person who won't in turn drop him? Because he... Doesn't really like Minshan? ...It's probably not that one.

IDK I just think it's neat! Crunchy little analysis tidbits in there. Because yeah it's kinda easy to assume one thing based on what's said, I mean who else does that refer to so well, but... Actual story here seems to be a lot more interesting.

(there are a couple where he's kind of smiling? Maybe? So I can include them here too! The first one is JGY hearing NHS passed out from shock and is telling SMS not to toss him around and stuff, which he follows with a smile to an unconscious NHS...

...The second is an expression JGY has on his face already before shifting his eyes to SMS, which like, instantly changes to one of concern once he takes in the sight of SMS's injuries...

...So. Thought I'd include them for posterity. But well...)

[lunarharp]

played dragon age 2...just simple scribbles

[silusvesuius]

this tree from my new drawing looking goated afffffff 👑👑

[girlfox]

ah the eternal battle of appreciating riot's world building & lore surrounding ahri, or yoinking her straight out and writing a general fantasy main verse for her . . .

[impishtubist]

Hi, Imp! I know you're not a big fan of Wolfstar, but I wonder if you'll relate to the following anyway. The Wolfstar fandom is so weird to me these days. Sirius and Remus are practically flipped in terms of characterization. For example, I think I could take a recent Wolfstar fic and do a Find & Replace for "Sirius" to "Remus" and vice versa and get a fic that somewhat resembles a Wolfstar fic from the 2000s/2010s. It's making me lose my interest in Wolfstar as a pairing, to be honest.

(Readers at home will not have heard the cackle I let out when I read that first sentence, because twentysevensummers witnessed firsthand my 3-year-long Wolfstar brainrot and the 26 R/S fics I posted before the Remus fandom drove me away 😂🤣 Excellently played, my dear.)

Anyway, YES, this is precisely it. I agree with this observation wholeheartedly. You could take, like, 75% of the R/S fics these days and swap the character names, and you'd find that Remus these days has actually been given all of Sirius's character traits. You would absolutely end up with a R/S fic from the 2000s. It's extremely annoying, and also part of the reason why my Wolfstar fics are now all gone. I will not be contributing to the Remus positivity and Remus apologism that runs rampant in this fandom. 😘

(Another writer friend was telling me that more than once these days they've run across a fic where one character will say a version of "you suffered far more than Sirius ever did and you weather it better than him" to Remus and I'm still FUMING about it. This fandom really does think that Remus suffered more, that he handles it better, and that he never once failed Sirius or Harry even though he absolutely did).

[i-am-become-a-name]

Sands of Time gives me a favourite analysis of Five and Tegan from someone who has only met them for this adventure. Like, yes! Look at how they complement each other! Celebrate Tegan's brashness!

[flowerakatsuka]

resisting the urge to make yet another osmt oc.....

[imwritesometimes]

when you know a little bit abt the history of something you wanna include in your fic and then you do some research and it turns out the more in depth historical facts actually help bolster what you envisioned for the fic

[magnusmodig]

||. maybe it's bc i'm work fatigued but it's "thinking about thor being the black sheep of the avengers" hours again, more at 10...

[amberantlers]

i wanna write alastor/vaggie so bad

[queenharumiura]

((Me suddenly remembering I technically have a NPC Yakuza-gumi that I could play with. HUM... I ... I could use this... for random plot devicing... and use that to help me better understand the dynamic between it and the Vongola for the gen 11 for Sayuri (an OC associated with another OC). HMMMMMMMM Imma go brainrot this. eue))

[deankarolina]

.....forgot to buy my hotel for mitski in london next year early so now I gotta decide if I want a cheap hostel or treat myself and pay double on a hotel choices

[woolmasterleel]

Tomorrow.........

[anythingbyadriannelenker]

computer, open RAADS-R and ADHD screening... its time to get to the bottom of this

[gggoofiestgoober]

Do you have any not spongebob images you like to use?

ya here are some of my faves