#i didn't want to go overboard with the quotes but!! i did lol

[captain-kraken]

Characters Out of Context Tag

Thank you @blind-the-winds for tagging me over here!

Rules: Include one character quote of your choosing ⁠from each chapter of your WIP (or as many chapters as you'd like). Give absolutely no context, save for what's between two parts of an interrupted sentence, should that occur. You may mention who said it.

No pressure tag for @writernopal @outpost51 @sam-glade and anyone else who wants to do it :)

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I didn't do every chapter otherwise this would have been even longer lol

Chapter 01 – “You are not weak, binu. You’ve been listening to Father too much.” [Mahrias]

Chapter 02 - “I doubt Father will even remember I exist when I come of age.” [Mahrias]

Chapter 03 - "What is it with you children and ‘love’?" [Rujav]

Chapter 04 – “Do you really think Father’s going to throw himself overboard, swim all the way back here, and catch us in his office?” [Mahrias]

Chapter 05 - “This day is about spending time with people you love. Why would he spend it with us?” [Mahrias]

Chapter 06 - “You have a really boring life, Tafgen.” [Mahrias]

Chapter 08 - “Stupid body always stops me from having fun.” [Viter]

Chapter 09 - “It’s in our souls now,” she gulped her drink down, “Death is the most toxic form of heiros to the living and ours are drenched in it. [Visesha]

Chapter 12 - “You did something purposely, because you knew Father wouldn’t like it?” Mahrias gasped gleefully. “Wow, Ravi! I didn’t know you had it in you!" [Mahrias]

Chapter 13 - “Why would the Solarks take Sahrav? He’s an heir, that’s not allowed.” [Mahrias]

Chapter 20 - “I’d be the worst Nivada in history if you died only three months after being bonded.” [Tafgen]

Chapter 21 - Can’t lose something if you never had it in the first place.” [Tafgen]

Chapter 22 - “What did you expect? Those are the kinds of sacrifices we make as gishars.  We exist to keep the islands in balance. What we want doesn’t come into consideration.” [Mahrias]

Chapter 23 – “If his corruption was having a physical effect, then think of how infected his soul must have been. Marakoth will be cleansing him for centuries.” [Mahrias]

Chapter 24 - “I understand why Einjal did what he did.” [Mahrias]

Chapter 26 - “But… surely then the balance would be for you to die?” [Mahrias]

Chapter 29 - “It’s difficult being a second child, isn’t it? We’re not really born for a purpose that benefits our own families, but another’s.” [Sharloh]

Chapter 36 – “Please! For once, please, please, help me.” Viter cried. “I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to make this better!” [Viter]

[mad-hunts]

romantic relationship hc q’s // 26. How much stock does your muse put in first impressions? What is the best way to make a good first impression with your muse? 

hello, hello, @masquenoire! thank you VERY much for the ask 💕 y'all are AMAZING for sending me these, tbh!! but ooh... okay, how much does barton rely on first impressions, hmm? whenever it comes to romantic relationships, i feel like he will put a lot of consideration into the first impression that he's going to be giving someone if he's interested in them that way. though barton doesn't go overboard with it so i'd say he puts a medium-high level of stock in first impressions. and this is because he feels as if, the first impression he made towards his prospective partner is bad, that it is possible of remedy his image with this person; at least depending on the circumstances.

buttt like i was saying before, because he does place extra emphasis on making sure this person gets a ' good ' first impression of him, he does actively try to avoid doing anything that could possibly make him look 'questionable' and/or bad. because, and fun fact here because why not am i right lol, human beings as a rule are thought of to take only seven seconds to make a first impression of someone. which is a very short amount of time whenever you think about it. though honestly, worrying yourself sick about appearing to be the best version of yourself in front of someone else has never been an appealing idea to barton, so the only thing he can do in his mind is try to do so and if that fails? well, it might be stressful, but it isn't necessarily the end of the world.

because whenever we trying to see whether we deem someone else as trustworthy and/or just how we feel about them in general (i did some research on it and i didn't know that our brains actually focus this much on something this faint, but apparently, they do haha), people tend to do this based on subtle facial and vocal cues. and so you've got to appear confident but not too confident as well as friendly, of course, which does put a lot of pressure onto the person being observed. thus, whenever barton's interested in someone romantically, his strategy is to just not think about what he's doing wrong so much as what he's doing right. but yeahhh, as for how you could make a good impression with barton — that is an excellent question and one that i haven't really thought of either admittedly (':

being positive and displaying open body language is a good way to do this, as well as finding the right balance between asking him questions about himself + making observations. being attentive is also a BIG one for barton because if he sees that you are distracted, then he is going to be less likely to want to engage with you any further, because no one really likes to be put on the quote unquote 'back burner.' so basically just try to keep the conversation going with barton and try to appear as if you are comfortable with meeting him / what's happening. and maybe, just maybe, curate your questions to him a bit because what you don't say to someone can be just as important as what you do say. anyhow, though, that's about all i have to say about the subject! but i hoped my response to this and i hope you've been having a good day so far, chip ((:

[quicksiluers]

5, 10, 15?

5. What is the most ridiculous statement on them you have ever read?

Oh god, let me think...there are so many. Almost anything to deal with Grant being "drunk" is probably up there. There was this story that this journalist Cadwallader (did I spell that right? who cares) wrote that Grant got CRAZY drunk one time on a boat trip, somehow got off the boat, got on a horse, ROAD THROUGH soldiers, got flung off the horse, was passed out in the grass, and he had to bring Grant back on the boat. The story is 100% false, historians found that Cadwallader wasn't even ON that trip and this story was told 10 or so years after Grant died...and YET you still see it in books. Shelby Foote bought that shit hook line and sinker and put it in his book. That's probably the most over the top one cause it makes my eyes roll into the back of my head.

In reality what happened was that Grant wasn't feeling well, his doctor gave him some alcohol for it (cause you know, that's what you give sick people) and then Grant fell asleep in the boat cabin and then the next day he was totally fine. But yeah that's probably the one that gets me I'm like y'all...come on now

10. What is your favourite quote by / about them?

SO MANY QUOTES

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on"

"Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished."

"If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back." Grant told a reporter this after the battle of the Wilderness and I guess when the reporter told that to Lincoln, he kissed him lol. So I love that story.

"No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works." I MEAN....this is THE THING that made him a hit!

this quote from Sheridan is long....but it's one of my favs:

"But so far as he was concerned, the only apparent effect of these discomfitures was to make him all the more determined to discharge successfully the stupendous trust committed to his care, and to bring into play the manifold resources of his well ordered military mind. He guided every subordinate then, and in the last days of the rebellion, with a fund of common sense and superiority of intellect, which have left an impress so distinct as to exhibit his great personality. When his military history is analyzed after the lapse of years, it will show, even more clearly than now, that during these as well as in his previous campaigns he was the steadfast Centre about and on which everything else turned"

15. Describe them one sentence (I know it’s hard, just give it a shot)! ^^

Oh god....let me think.... "Determined small horse girl who loves his family and smoking a good ol cigar."

that seems very on point for Grant

[redxblueihateloveyou]

honestly you're one of the rare ones who didn't lie about reading the dmbj og books bc after seeing some ppls tweets there are way too much of 'its bc i've read the book i hate it' and then they proceed to describe the thing they hated that was in the book and i just start laughing. anyways same about the 'restart'. like hell i'd exchange what zu yilong and huang junjie did for what was happening in there and it all ending with wu xie rapidly aging and going bald no thank you

I just think that this is the kind of a rare fandom, where whether you are a fan of the books or not, it doesn't matter unless you're making sense and consistent with what you're saying, bc the novels are a hot mess tbh. Like even if you're a huge fan of the books for some reason, there had to be places where u were like "well that was... strange" lol

So like it weirds me out when ppl keep agressively yelling ooc and he'd never do that, if that's what he did in the novel. you mean like "ooc compared to what this character is in your head?" but thats not ooc lmao

For me it's just the overall feeling I guess, like if I'm watching and it feels right or it feels.. well, not. Chemistry plays a huge role too.

Like the only Qilings I love are Yuliang & Junjie, but whoever came up with the "Yuliang is the closest to the book Qiling version" is hella wrong and lying, you can check it yourself. But I can't consider the fact that they're so much softer and more gone on Wu Xie as a flaw, although some aparently do xD

Same as I personally can't accept the Wu Xie's "don't worry about him" line in the new one, but know for sure that there was tons of moments in the books like and I quote here Wu Xie literally going "knowing how skilled Xiao Ge was I wasn't worried about him at all, so I just watched him as he ran, distracting the creature". Like I'd rather have SOP version of Wu Xie being hella scared even when XiaoGe just jumps down stuff and running to check on him first out of everyone else after bomb explodes. But thats not whats happening in the novels, so it's technically ooc haha

Those who read also know that like "I'll notice if you disappear" 'I'm a man with no past and no future' scene in UN that was done so touchingly and romantically.. well, to say that it didn't carry as much emotion in the book is to say nothing lol. It just wasn't the vibe UN went with.

And why would I even want the Reboot book reunion going "why are u here?" of nothingness, if I can have what these idiots did with their heart eyes and "you're here, I'm okay now" and everything?

I mean, if you want the book version, fine by me, but like blaming people who wanted by novel #...12orsmth for them to pass some stages and get the warmth we got in UN and SOP is insane.

I mean, just the fact that in the Restart book Wu Xie had an internal thought that next time they see each other they might not even know how to behave with each other and that for him he's just a random person he passes by in his long life just almost made me close the damn thing lolz

yeah, about him basically dying at the end.. also no thanks. stupid me prefers them living together and Qiling hating Wu Xie being hungry birdy and going to buy him food xD

"going bald" lmaaaaaao it said it'll grow back its ok

I honestly considered myself an extra Xiao Ge fan, until I saw some ppl's reviews and opinions and thought "omg lmao some just go straight overboard with everything", esp considering canon.

I was straight up laughing at that one comment "all he does in this part is looking lovingly at Wu Xie and protects him". I was like damn, so many of my faves are cancelled like that... I mean, you're watching HOB anime and like "my god it's such a bad representation of the Hua Cheng character, all he does is stares at Xie Lian and protects him" lol (I'm sorry but this 11 episodes are NOT the part of the book that tells his story and who he is, but this in fact doesn't mean that they "reduced him to a tool" lmao). Meanwhile some DMBJ books Wu Xie goes "I knew he was hired by the 2nd uncle just to keep us safe". LMAO SO WHAT? this is not making him a tool, that's just what he does, it doesn't make his FULL CHARACTER, just bc he does that.

Like seriously, it sounds as insane as someone splitting MDZS in 3 parts, watching the last one, then the first one and saying like "you know in the last part all that LZ does is stares lovingly at WWX and protects him, he was much more complex and flawed in part 1". Like wth lol... ITS THE SAME FUCKING CHARACTER.

Also I saw one UN review that was positive, but just went that Xiao Ge in that part felt more like humane or smth, bc "at some point he even grew a scruff". I was just sitting there like... out of all the things in this series that made him humane, why mention the scruff? Like since when it's a thing...? I mean just bc Shen Wei or Lan Zhan look perfect all the time that somehow means they don't have feelings or less human beings? I do not get.

So all these tantrums of "ISTG IF THEY EVER SHOW QILING JUST PROTECTING THEM... I'M GONNA BLEW UP" and the same one saying that they're the book fans, I'm like "how didn't u blow up during several books already?" lolz

I like love reading so many different opinions, when it comes to this fandom, bc it's so fascinating, but some arguments just don't go together well haha

And I'm a huge fan of UN, but like.. some go a bit TOO extra about it and their arguments just don't stick sometimes, bc they're trying again with the "it's the less-est ooc from books", but it wasn't as much it, as the fact that it just had soul in it, which sometimes in my opinion actually completely lacked in the og novels.

Anyways, as an extra Qiling's fan myself, I can tell that some are going waaay overboard with stuff.