#it's also just so grossssss like throw that OUT

[pokeathlondome]

I'll never understand why people will donate their dirty crusty musty socks and underwear to thrift stores

[ameliarating]

you knew I was going to ask: Yi City texting?

Okay, here we go, fist thing’s fist -

The Yi City Crew text each other wildly differently than they would have texted others before, because the Yi City Crew consists of one blind person, one person pretending to be blind, and one person who is highly motivated to keep that first blind person happy. And then later on one sighted person who really isn’t texting anyone joins the party.

That means no emoji and minimal punctuation as Xiao Xingchen (and usually A-Qing) use voice-to-text and screen-reader apps and Xue Yang texts but only messages that won’t be impossible for Xiao Xingchen to read.

It’s possible he’s been horrible and sends A-Qing texts with lots of emojis that the screenreader has to read out (”knife smirking face skull and crossbones knife knife knife”) but jokes on him, A-Qing just reads them anyways.

But here’s a closer look at their individual styles:

Xiao Xingchen, before he gave up his eyes, texted like my mom. Maybe like your mom too! He didn’t grow up texting, there was zero cell service on the Celestial Mountain, and he definitely started out signing his texts to Song Lan, “love, Xingchen” but he got out of that habit pretty fast by getting used to the way Song Lan texted him.

He uses emoji more as little illustrations rather than integrated parts of the conversation. They don’t fill the same role as gestures or expression or intonation because he just never got the hang of them.

He lets autocorrect do the work of capitalization and punctuation but doesn’t fuss much with standard grammar in his texts. He is in the habit of sending long blocks of text, rather than breaking it up in different messages too.

Xiao Xingchen is a Slow Texter and worse, sometimes if you send him a text and he doesn’t feel like texting back, he’ll just call. He even leaves voice messages. It’s ridiculous. 

Song Lan grew up texting, also doesn’t bother with standard capitalization and punctuation, but while he uses emoji fluently (but sparingly), he doesn’t mess with emoji or standardization (or lack thereof) for aesthetic reasons. 

Song Lan texts a lot because he does not want to speak to you on the phone, but they’re also pretty short. Sometimes, Xiao Xingchen answers his cell for him.

Here’s an example conversation:

XXC: I saw this tree yesterday that had lichen hanging from a branch so delicately that it looked like some spirit had woven a lace sleeve for it with the end of the branch peeking out like a wrist and hand. It was lovely Zichen. You would have enjoyed it. I hope you’re well. Miss you. 🌲❄️ SL: 😊 

Xue Yang would have texted people constantly if he had many people to text. He throws emoji out there like crazy with no sense of what’s appropriate. He doesn’t wait for people to respond, he just texts several messages at a time, and then sometimes he never writes you back after all that either.

Like Wei Wuxian, he backspaces autocorrect because autocorrect just doesn’t get him, you know? If he wanted that capitalized or with correct spelling, he would have done it himself. 

It’s unclear if he’s using emoji as a seamless way to make up for gesture, intonation, and expression, (because he really is that expressive) or if he’s just throwing them all out there for the fun of it. Probably a mix of them both.

An example conversations:

XY: ⏰⏰⏰ the fuck where are you been waiting 4ever know ur not 2busy4me 🙄

XY: on a schedule here

XY: lianfang-zun~~~~ 😘 big brother is waiting 🧟🧟

XY: guess I gotta come find you 🤷 1sec chifeng-zuns heavy 🧟 gotta get him 💪

JGY: STAY WHERE YOU ARE. I’m coming.

XY: read ya loudnclear 🤫 cant wait 2 see u 😇🔪

and another

XY: yiling laaaaaozuuuu ☠️ 🔪 🧟 🤩 😍 heard u were back !!!! ✨🎉 🎉

XY: huuuuuuuuge fan of ur work �� ☢️ 🙌 gotta favor to ask 😘😘😘🍆🗡️💓💓

WWX: ... how the fuck you get this number/???????

A-Qing never had a phone until Xiao Xingchen got her one and usually pretends to be blind, so she doesn’t use emoji. She does use all caps and extra letters and abbreviations, which is pretty strange for someone who’s not supposed to rely on visuals and it sometimes wreaks havoc with the screen readers. But neither Xiao Xingchen nor Xue Yang knows enough about that to get suspicious, Xiao Xingchen because he never feels super comfortable with his cell anyway and Xue Yang because he doesn’t use screen readers.

They all use pretty standard spelling in general though between voice to text and screen readers. 

A sample convo in their group chat:

XY: hey daozhang busy tonite?

XXC: No why is there something you need me to do?

XY: more like someone

AQ: OMG did you FROGET IM HERE????? ffs

XY: didn’t forget

XY: why would you think I forgot?

AQ: GROSSSSSS

XY: fucking deal with it not everything’s about you

AQ: you’re not supposed to fucking swear in front of me! daozhang is reading this!!!!!!

XY: what, who’s fucking swearing? I’m not swearing shit. 

Daozhang is not, in fact, reading this, because he left his phone in his room mid-conversation and forgot to check it until hours later.

Honestly, Xue Yang is just mourning the waste of his ability to use obscene emoji to best effect, but, you know, worth it.

As a bonus, here are their names in each other’s contacts:

Xiao Xingchen has them as:

Zichen

A-Qing

Friend

A Qing has them as:

Xiao Daozhang

Asshole

Xue Yang has them as:

Daozhang 😘

Little Blind 👹 

Find more untamed texting here! 

[doctorgerth]

Since we're on such an interesting topic: I thankfully can almost never hear when neighbors are having sex but when my dad married my stepmom they'd have super loud sex, and not only was their room right next to mine and my brothers' but the walls and everything were super thin too so you could hear EVERYTHING no matter where you were in the house. To make things worse? They'd joke about it at dinner with like zero filter 🙃 I was 15 when they got married and I was the oldest sibling, twas gross

G R O S S 😂😂😂 I would die at the dinner table, no filter jokes no thank you lmao like I heard you and that’s enough torment for me!

I thankfully have never heard my parents have sex. The worst are like suggestive comments and such. There was one time when I walked into my parents room and she was changing the sheets and my nanny (aka grandmother) was in there and made a comment about why she was changing the sheets and my mom just blushed and I wanted to THROW UP cuz that meant it had just happened like not too long ago before I was in there lmao

My parents weren’t usually ones to sleep with their door shut bc my younger siblings would sneak in and sleep with them from time to time. So when they had their door shut I was always suspicious...and nauseous lmao

Also, my parents used to take lots of showers together (we only had one shower in our house back then, so it was obvious) and I always found that cute even as a child and now when I think about it (and have showered with my bf) I’m just like grossssss now 😂😂😂 I’m usually not so immature but the topic of my parents and sex just weirds me out.

[book-pirate]

I CAN’T FEEL MY FACE BECAUSE I’VE BEEN UP FOR 31 HOURS BUT WE’RE HERE WE’VE ARRIVED DEATHLY HALLOWS PT 2 Y’ALL

- 10 points from slytherin for snape looking dramatically out at the courtyard - Ah griphook you have changed so much from vern troyer to warwick davis amazing - “the wand chooses the wizard” means the wand can think wtf did you think it meant - hermione trying to walk in heels as bellatrix is literally me - my ace dragon-loving son Charlie Weasley lives on in Ron’s continued extensive knowledge of dragons - you would never know harry knows what the horcrux is if you had never read the book. instead it looks like he has a spidey-sense for it. fucking movies - “i’ve got something but it’s mad” have i mentioned i love her - somewhere charlie weasley is smiling - oh my god they’re soooooo pale - “we plan and all hell breaks loose” that’s it that’s all 7 books summed up - WHERE’S THE GODDAMN CLOAK YOU STUPID IDIOTS REASON #17 - THERE’S STILL NO EXPLANATION FOR THE MIRROR - god aberforth is just draaagggggiiiiinnnnngggggg his brother amazing - “i trusted the man i knew” okay but why - NEVILLE MY BOY - “i need your help” “for what” “i don’t know” seriously dazzling me with your wit here - ron is so disappointed ginny doesn’t care about him lmao - RIP alan rickman i miss him every day - WALK IN TO THE CLUB LIKE WHAT UP I GOT A BIG WAND - YES MINNIE GO MINNIE WHAT A BAMF - what the movies don’t tell you is she got SIX STUNNING SPELLS TO THE CHEST IN YEAR 5 YOUR FAVE COULD NEVER - “YOU BLITHERING IDIOT” there go allllllll minnie’s fucks - “escort all the slytherins to the dungeons” alright this is bullshit and has got to stop - seriously can i just have an entire movie devoted to mcgonagall - and luna. “you listen to me right now harry potter!” iconic - helena get over yourself seriously WE’RE TRYING TO STOP GENOCIDE - “who said that” “me, right now” alright remus calm down - FRED AND GEORGE I LOVE YOU - oh neville. you’re going to regret that in 15 minutes - i still don’t understand how horcruxes are made release the information rowling! - also i thought voldy couldn’t feel the deaths of his bits of soul anymore because he’s less human whatever the movies make no sense - aw cuties - oh noooo, ooooohhhhhh nooooooooooooooo - MAKE IT GO BOOM INDEED - how you gonna kill stone my dudes? - RUN FLITWICK RUN - oh neville sweetie don’t worry you’re gonna make it! you’re one of the 25% that do - omg the room of requirement hermione it exists god do boys make you stupid - haha good fucking luck trying to find that thing harry - they should’ve kept the tiara on a bust with a wig instead of a box like in the books - edge lord Draco strikes again - Goyle is stupid dumb. Fucking Fyndefire or whatever it is. We have a new winner for idiot of Hogwarts, finally displacing Harry Potter, previously in the number one spot - Yeah, because what Voldy really needs right now is to be killing off his supporters - you know i feel like harry is getting some pretty big mixed signals. do you want him in voldy’s mind or not make up your goddamn minds - This just in, Lucius is still a lil bitch - OLIVER WOOD SIGHTING THIS IS NOT A DRILL - oh nooo oh nooo oh no no nooooo - RIP lavender you’re definitely dead - ABERFORTH REDEMPTION ARC - “do you know who this wand answers to?” yeah harry potter you bitch - unpopular opinion snape deserved to die and is a fucking mother fucking fuckboy whose obsession with lily landed harry in this mess in the first place - FRED NO - AND STILL NO PERCY REDEMPTION SCENE BULLSHIT - no no no no no no - JK Rowling could apologize every day of my life an I’d still never be okay - TBH snape’s memories in the movie are very rosy-colored like where’s the part where he called her a mudblood? this is some bullshit - listen according to these flashbacks he does NOT have her eyes jesus - lily wanted NOTHING to do with snape and he fucking rocks her dead body??????????? i am disgusted - and in front of her crying son??????????????? wtf - people stan snape? can’t relate - “after all this time?” “always” is the creepiest exchange i’m ever heard in my life full stop end of sentence - this walk to his death was supposed to be a lot more emotional but whatever the book is dead i guess - oh shit remus has a son???? you’d never know from these fucking movies - ooohhhhhhh noooooooooooo hagrid you deserve better - oh that’s gross gross gross grossssss - “actually if i think about it, it doesn’t seem curious at all” OF COURSE BECAUSE SNAPE WAS AN OBSESSIVE MOTHER FUCKER SO HIS PATRONUS CHANGED TO COPY LILY’S INSTEAD OF BE ITS MATE LIKE JAMES’S WAS GODDAMN FUCK SNAPE - Narcissa putting her son above voldy is something i have to give her props for since Lucius doesn’t seem able to do so - fucking wish they’d show how voldy can’t hurt them since harry ‘died’ for them - IN THE BOOKS DRACO REFUSES TO WALK OVER AND THEN THROWS HARRY A WAND FUCK THIS - YES NEVILLE YES - Narcissa is literally like Draco come Lucius idgaf about you which is A+ on her part - you know I really would’ve preferred the book ending to this light show but w/e again i have to lower my standards - we get it voldy and harry are alike you don’t have to give me visuals - HELLS YEAH NEVILLE THAT’S MY BOY - aww that’s the harry/hagrid reunion i love to see - lmao filch it’s useless man give it up - could u not have fixed ur OG wand first like christ man - Albus Severus whomst? I think you mean Arthur Rubeus

What a ride. 20 hours roughly

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