#it must be the moonlight

[chicalepidoptera]

Day 9 of @vampirefest 's vfkinktober2024: Outdoors

[dangoulains-devotion]

you mustn't blame yourself

[theabstruseone]

With the announcement of the new movie starring Michelle Yeoh, it seems I have to go on my Section 31 rant again.

Section 31 was only done well in Deep Space Nine because the writers of Deep Space Nine understood that SECTION 31 ARE THE BAD GUYS.

They were used as a foil for the grey morality of the show as a warning of "This is where you will go if you continue on this path". Section 31 was the logical endpoint of the show's themes of sacrificing your ethics, morality, and principles in a pragmatic "the ends justify the means" mentality in order to defend those ethics, morals, and principles.

Because you CAN'T.

If you compromise your ethics, morals, and principles in an attempt to defend those very same things, what exactly are you defending? Things you yourself tossed aside when they became inconvenient.

All three (yes, there were only three) episodes of DS9 centering on Section 31 featured Bashir resolving the conflict of that episode WITHOUT compromising his integrity as a citizen of the Federation and a Starfleet officer.

Up to and including preventing Section 31 from committing genocide. Yeah, remember that? When Section 31 infected Odo with a degenerative virus so that he would spread it to the Great Link and kill all of the Changelings? Then specifically stonewalled Bashir when he attempted to find a cure?

Section 31 is not just a tool for telling happy funtime spy stories in Star Trek. That organization is called Starfleet Intelligence and was already around long before DS9. Section 31 is an unauthorized unelected black ops group that functions outside any chain of command or authority that can place any checks on their use and abuse of power. You know, just like EVERY OTHER evil Starfleet officer in every other episode where some Admiral goes off the deep end and starts doing shady shit the Enterprise then has to stop.

Section 31 are the bad guys. They are not antiheroes. They are not just the darker side of Starfleet. They are not the people who must do the evil things that have to be done. They are just evil. Period.

[wyzzze]

You guys will let me know when the good trauma hurt/comfort fics drop about Harumasa and Lighter being triggered about being touched and seen without their choker/sunglasses and feeling nervous about their scars/how skinny he looks bc he's sick, right?

You'll keep me in your hearts when those fics drop, won't you? 🥺

[violent138]

The Batfam is so busy that Alfred could be doing anything in that damn house and nobody would know a thing. Running a criminal empire of his own, meeting with MI6 contacts, cultivating several hobbies, hosting charity events and having unwitting, half-asleep batkids mingle on their way back from patrol (and heading to bed in civilian clothes) or distracted batkids mingle on their way to the Cave. Alfred could be watching fitness influencers and working out in the Greenhouse (he's got his suit and whatnot stashed in multiple locations for quick changes).

[merakiui]

me writing the 'sex by the sea' scenarios: i'll write 1k words of smut for each character and that should be good! :D

also me: it's imperative floyd spends most of that word count playing the ukulele for you. this is crucial to the plot.

(when i said smut without plot....... ^^;;; i may have lied. there will be some plot. orz also the word count will likely be more than 1k. ;;;;;)

[tovesaiko]

I still have two episodes of Moonlight Mystique left but it struck me how interesting the parallels between it and The Blossoming Love are.

After all these years watching xianxia I'm used to seeing the deities and their reincarnations as the same people. They may not have the memories or the powers, but they usually end up regaining them at some point and basically integrating the two personalities, with the reincarnation ultimately ending up the same person as the original deity, picking up where they left off before whatever calamity forced them into the reincarnation cycle (or simply going back to the heavenly realm after their human tribulations).

But in MM and TBL both the reincarnations assert their individuality - Mu Xuan Ling and Xie Xue Chen consider themself separate from the Chaos Pearl and Zhao Ming. Jing Yuan and Bai Shuo are both heartbroken when they face each other because the demon god isn't her beloved Fan Yue, and Bai Shuo isn't the lunar goddess Jing Yuan loves. And so, he ends up giving his body back to Fan Yue so he and Bai Shuo can be together and leaves to look for Xing Yue among the stars.

It's beautiful and heartbreaking at once. Often in xianxias we are shown the story of the deities first and only meet their reincarnations once we're attached to the deities, but in these dramas we get to know and love the reincarnations first and only learn about their origins later. I think this shift of perspective and focusing on whether a person (their essence, soul, core, however you want to call it) is still the same person after thousands of years is very interesting. Even if seeing Jing Yuan disappear into the aether to look for Xing Yue who both is and isn't Bai Shuo made me tear up.

Also both dramas have a demon lord with purple hair and I think that's neat 🥰

[freensrcha]

If I go, then we must pretend we're still together.

MOONLIGHT CHICKEN | EPISODE 4

[thedramadojo]

Ding Yuxi: Time to Shine

Explore Ding Yuxi's best dramas! 🌟 Check out this curated list of must-watch shows featuring the rising star and find your next binge if you can't get enough of him, as he takes the C-drama scene by storm this year! 🎬

[chickenstrangers]

A Tale of Thousand Stars // Moonlight Chicken // repetitions

[comfied-chriterature]

Was thinking about the scene where Kano sings "Colorful Moonlight" but so broken and small and alone after falling out with the Sundolls and Yukine and there's a hole in my heart again

She sings in front of Mahiru's jellyfish mural where she first discovered the lyrics for that song... Then later in the episode she and Mahiru fight and she sings it in that same hopeless voice, but she's alone in her room this time, because the jellyfish is Kano's dreams and inspiration and comfort but it's Mahiru's art and she feels like she's lost her, lost all of it

[nxven]

Was drawing and @classickatze walked up to me and says

“Can you make your cute little warhammer boys make sweet love under the warhammer moonlight?”

And I think that’s hilarious this might become a new ship tag

[sharpiedoodleee]

the man eating tiger

[petergabrielyuri]

it truly must be wild to Stede's crew that Stede is not only the guy who pulled Blackbeard but also the guy who pulled Blackbeard AGAIN after breaking up with him and leaving him emotionally distraught the first time

[joyridingmp3]

tee hee just put my spell jar into the local creek

[redmagicflower]

i would like to play the fields of the mistria too but alas i cant play early access games<3 i will be patiently waiting