#i hate and love both of them

[bellwethers]

Boo hoo did someone use spirit magic to blow up your factory?

[biboomerangboi]

Hua Cheng essentially cockblocking himself for possibly all of eternity will literally never not be the funniest thing MXTX ever wrote.

Xie Lian was pretty much completely in love with him the second he saw those lanterns (and completely oblivious about it) and then we get the wonderful first kiss underwater moment and Xie Lian is basically drawing hearts around Hua Cheng every time he sees him. While like quietly dying cause he literally has no idea what to do with it. Like at this point he doesn’t even really understand that he is head over heels totally gone for this man.

Until Hua Cheng is like I have a beloved I just haven’t won them over yet. Which he thinks is perfectly reasonable because his self esteem is the worst and he doesn’t understand how he could have won Xie Lian over yet. (He’s only on step 22 of his Marrying Dianxia 3000 step Master Plan ((that he debates throwing out on a regular basis because he doesn’t deserve to even dream about wanting Xie Lian)). So course he’s like yeah I have this wonderful noble beautiful beloved I just haven’t won them over yet wink wink nudge nudge.

But Xie Lian is like oh of course obviously I don’t deserve nice things and fuck I actually wanted him so badly I’m actually in love with him and now I will resign myself to never being happy for his sake. (Their combined self esteem is truly a so low it’s a hole in the ground which is hilarious because they think the other person is to good for them and unattainable forever because they literally have the same neurosis.) So he starts boxing up his feelings forever constantly wanting Hua Cheng and feeling guilty about it and literally dying inside because he wants Hua Cheng like he’s never wanted anyone.

Like essentially books 3 and 5 only happen because Hua Cheng has now cursed them both by saying he has a beloved because Xie Lian believes he isn’t wanted and therefore any nice thing Hua Cheng does is just him being nice and not Hua Cheng pulling out steps 23-34 of his plan thinking he still hasn’t won Xie Lian over. (He has he so has but he shot himself in the foot so badly it’s painful to read).

Like thank the Gods Hua Cheng is so unhinged and created the cave of 10000 Gods cause Xie Lian would literally be at his own wedding to Hua Cheng still convinced he wanted someone else and this was in fact a thing they were doing to solve a case together otherwise.

Like he needed something that unhinged to put 2 and 2 together otherwise he never would have caught on he’s Hua Cheng’s beloved. Meanwhile Hua cheng is like 🥺 he’s going to think I’m a weirdo now and I’m only on step 50 of the plan 🥺 like the two of them wouldn’t have been fucking nasty 2 books ago if he just kept his mouth shut and didn’t cockblock himself so violently.

[greykolla-art]

Don’t know if I ship it, but I do want them to have as many scenes together as possible…

[briarhearts-art]

resting after a long battle

[melonalemonade]

I think they umm they

[inkskinned]

did you really let them ruin that for you?

when i was younger i worked on a farm for 3 years. during late july and august we would have unfettered access to the strawberry plots. they were all warm and ripe and fresh. i think i ate a pound of dirt back then. i think i picked enough seeds out of my teeth to build a temple. the summer hours are long; i'd come home with the bruising stain of juice running in a seam along my cheeks and fingers and jaw.

why didn't you protect your precious things from other people? you knew this could happen.

i can't eat strawberries from the store anymore, they don't taste right. something about the florescent lights and the chill of them and the way they are absent from the vine. they feel bleached and bland, a wasted party dress. i watch other people eat strawberries and miss enjoying them. none of the store-bought strawberries will have mold or bugs, okay. they will be big and bright red and perfectly shaped. but they are not the ugly and real strawberries of my summer, awarded by the soil and the hot sun up ahead and hours spent crouched, plucking.

i didn't mean to let it get ruined. i wish it hadn't been. i miss having it. but i came back to it afterward and it just wasn't the same as it had been. i know love is never wasted. but it feels like - love did this. it's not that i never loved it, you know? it's that i did.

[spellbird]

"Illumination Legend of Zelda isn't real, it can't hurt you!"

Illumination Link:

[butyouaremymess]

Polin Bonus Week: Day Four

♡ Favorite Show Quote

S03E04: Old Friends: " They do seem upset, do they not? Eros and Psyche, battling it out."

[spicy-apple-pie]

yeah... I've been watching a lot of Criminal Minds...

Commission Info

[puppeteerpoet]

Sansa stark they’ll never make me hate you

[myuminji]

9 days, 12 dead.

[kinstein-art]

the vinsmoke siblings 💙❤️💛💚🩷

[aestheticallynotdeerlightful]

I was gonna wait and post these till I had more doodles but I’ll just post them now it’s fine. I’ll just explain stuff in the tags as per usual

Some Raz poses and some Dion and Adam stuff

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(Please do not use or repost my works anywhere without explicit permission from me thank you)

[carpetbug]

at my core i’m a marigami lover first and foremost

excuse the roughness I was too lazy to fix it up. and i had to redraw it like four times before it looked right

[alastorsfuckassuglyassbob]

I love how Charlie and Vaggie are both feminine!!! Cause I rarely ever see two sapphic fems in a relationship, in media. 🤔 Like I saw a reactor get confused on why Vaggie was the one wearing the nightdress, and said it would suit Charlie better instead, NO! Have you seen my girl? She loves wearing suits, any chance she gets! 😁 And that's so fucking awesome!

Also, let STRONG WARRIOR BADASS, WOMEN, wear skirts, and cute GINORMOUS pinkish bows, frills! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 Like that's so cute, she looks so cute wearing that bow 😭 And being a fighter.

But I also love how Charlie dresses more on the masculine side, while still being fem, it just GAH! Makes me so happy, like this Disney-esque princess wears tuxes, that's so cute.

But like she's this pretty, gorgeous sun-shiney princess, and she's feminine, yes. But she wears tuxedos, and that's so FUCKIN' amazing!!! GAHHH!! :D 💞💞

I love these girls so much, it's insane. They're both so cute, and GOD! They're both so pretty, and sweet! And they're both badass, strong, POWERFUL WOMEN! Like, LOOK AT THEM!! LOOK AT THEM!! I WANT ALL OF YOU TO LOOK AT THEM!

🌈🎀

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

i finally got to the "you manipulative bitch" scene and oh boy it did not disappoint