#i blew my chance

[itwoodbeprefect]

i think the positive spin here is that 23.5 fumbling the ball quite a bit in its last three episodes is great, actually, because it's incontrovertible proof gmmtv's first GL is on the same level as nearly all their BLs. they dropped that ball for feminism <3

[jonismitchell]

in some sense ttpd is about being gay and having the most magical important relationship of your entire life with someone and having it torn apart by people who never thought it was real to begin with so you run away and try to be the good girl your parents raised you to be and fall into men you don't even like but you can fix them (no really you can) but you're always mourning the loss of something real that you think you might never have again

[danwhobrowses]

Ashton Greymoore we need to work on your charisma because there's only so many times I can mentally yell "KISS HER GODDAMMIT" at the screen

[tradingjack]

some fun with diablo

[silviakundera]

Haha I also used the dickless bore. I thought that only the two main characters came back didn't know he did as well. I still don't buy him ever being into her but that's just me I do wonder if he's going to try and kill her again. I do think Li Rong is treating him too well for my liking she should at least treat hit similarly or worse than she treated ML I want to see wet paper towel non stop suffer.

on one hand, imo a SRQ who is heartless doesn't work for the story the writer is trying to share with us. On the other hand, it's totally ok to decide to be a full-time hater towards a minor character, just because it's fun. I support haters! 🎉 \o/ 🎉

One thing that I think is relevant when comparing LR's reactions: if PWX had killed her, the motive would have been as part of his mission to have his childhood love Qin Zhenzhen's son become the next emperor. (Remember, he came over to threaten her life over that right before she died and called his ex Zhenzhen lmao) THE AUDACITY. In contrast, LR is viewing her murder at SRQ's hands as part of the revenge plan for the Su family's execution.

Some passages of Li Rong's POV:

After a few moments, she whispered: “Where did the scent on you come from?”

“If I say it, you might be upset.” Pei Wenxuan’s eyes had a hint of gloating at others’ pain.

Li Rong thought for a while and frowned, “Su Rongqing?”

“Yes.”

...Li Rong said nothing. She blankly stared into the fire.

Pei Wenxuan turned the fish over and looked at her with a smile, seemingly quite happy. Li Rong found that he had a fearless, unabashed look of enjoying a good play and couldn’t help but be a little fazed.

She believed everything Pei Wenxuan said.

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Su Rongqing was someone that she saved with her own hands.

That year, Prince Su rebelled, and Su Rongqing’s elder brother spoke up for Prince Su. Later on, he was falsely accused of colluding with Prince Su, implicating the Su clan with treason.

At that time, Li Chuan was so furious that he fainted. He put the entire Su clan in prison without going through the Joint Trial of Three Divisions first and put the men to death and the women into exile. She disagreed with this decision and rushed to beg Li Chuan before the Su clan received their sentence. After being subjected to ten planks, with Pei Wenxuan’s intervention, she was finally able to ask for amnesty for the Su clan.

Even if the death sentences can be forgone, it was impossible to escape punishment while still alive. Even though the men of the Su clan could live, they would be subjected to castration. The others couldn’t bear the humiliation, so they all committed suicide in prison. When she arrived, there was only one man “desperate for life and afraid of death” left among the men of the Su clan, Su Rongqing.

At that time, she had told Su Rongqing that she saved him without the intention of asking him to repay her. She could give him silver and a position, so that he could continue to live a good life in the future.

Back then, she didn’t have any special feelings towards Su Rongqing. It was just that he had saved her before, so after he took care of her, bit by bit, she felt grateful, and…vague sentiments towards him.

For the most part, she sought to save the Su clan for Li Chuan and her own conscience. The Su clan was a prominent, noble family. It was difficult for her to sit back and watch if they died in such an ambiguous manner.

At that time, Su Rongqing refused to go.

...It wasn’t that she had never thought that Su Rongqing would not take revenge on her. After all, it was Li Chuan who ordered all the men of the Su clan to be beheaded and exiled all the female family members. It was impossible for anyone to forget this blood feud, let alone the formerly first and most outstanding gongzi of that year?

For so many years, she had never dared to give him real authority, observing him and guarding against him while still trying to help him live a better life. She couldn’t actually kill him because of her own conscience, but she couldn’t actually trust him and give him power.

In the end, he still decided to act. He killed her first, then successfully took her authority in the name of eliminating Pei Wenxuan. If she guessed correctly, he would not leave with the advisors. Instead, he would borrow the excuse of taking revenge for her and enforcing the will of the people to join forces with the Empress, assist Li Xin in ascension, and fight to the death against the remnants of Pei Wenxuan’s faction.

...

She had anticipated this possibility from the moment she took Su Rongqing in, but she couldn’t help feeling a bit regretful when it actually happened.

[artist-issues]

Honestly, the song At All Costs sounds kind of like a love song. It could just be me, though.

Yeah, but it’s sung to a room of bubbles. It might as well be a love song written to a room full of photographs and family brooches, wedding rings passed down through generations. It’s pretty but it’s the wrong kind of song for the thing that’s receiving it.

[schmooplesthesecond]

as much as i would love a remake of BG1 and BG2 in the BG3 engine after the absolute character assassination of sarevok and viconia i don't want larian anywhere near those games.

[saving-people-haunting-things]

I'm kind of mad that I let tumblr convince me that the Confession Scene was going to be cringe and bad and possibly borderline offensive, when it was actually sweet in the most heartbreaking of ways.

Like the events bracketing it were.... ehhhh (it's s15 what do you expect?), and Misha Collin's acting could've been improved, but I think it was genuine and kind in a lot of ways. Like s15 Dean has been so desperate and convinced that he's a terrible person with severe anger issues who only hurts the people around him, and Cas tells him that, no, Dean is lovable and the best thing about him is how much he loves the people around them and tries to take care of them. He's not led by anger or hate, he's motivated by love and that's why Cas loves him.

Again, the premise and the whole Empty thing is.... ehhh (it's s14 and s15 what did you expect?), but the actual scene itself in isolation is great. 10/10 made me cry, never listening to tumblr about anything ever again.

[hollowflight-propaganda]

Would you still love me if I entered a dreamworks trolls phase?

[silusvesuius]

neloth getting cuteness aggression becuz of talvas, but talvas is just terrified and thinks neloth wants to do something insane to him again

aw mui followers have learned to read minds; this is actually what i've been thinking about for the past 3 hours

[in-tua-deep]

I think I may just have to accept that my mum had absolutely buckwild manic pixie dream girl game back in the day

[crabs-but-better]

YOU MUST FIRST ENDURE THE MORTIFYING ORDEAL OF BEING KNOWN

[dilf-din]

I play my Spotify on repeat playlist a lot when I’m doing housework or showering and the way it just went from Sabrina Carpenter to the Doobie Brothers to Fleetwood Mac to Fall Out Boy. I’m like damn this bitch has good taste

[marklikely]

[the-shinysnorlax]

POV me realizing that there is a small chance my parents met Dustin Bates when he was in college

[yusuke-of-valla]

I am so nervous I wan puuke!