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[heavenshighway]

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[neversetyoufree]

Hey, no guarantee I'll actually do this anytime soon, but I'm flirting with the idea of running a big vnc-related poll bracket, and I'd like y'all's thoughts on some of the variables.

First of all, I'm undecided on theme. I've posted before about the idea of a "who's most likely to die first" poll, but I also like the idea of doing a sequel to my mxtx bugpoll from my other sideblog and making the theme "which character do you most want to study like a little bug?"

If I do the bugpoll, that also opens me up to doing a broader mochijun poll and including pandora hearts (and maybe crimson-shell??) characters as well. But! If I do that, then it's no longer entirely tailored to this blog, so I'd have to decide whether to host it here or put it somewhere else so vnc only fans can avoid.

Anyway, that's a lot of variables, but please tell me which version of this idea appeals to y'all most.

[grassbreads]

Okay I think I actually am going to take a few days' break from tumblr now. maybe up to a week.

I've been too online lately and I need to remind myself that I'm capable of living for a few days without the reblog button.

[withthewindinherfootsteps]

Welcome to my blog!

I'm Skye (she/her), and I primarily write metas/analyses about MDZS, though other things do get reblogged occasionally. I love analysing characters and waxing about the structure of MDZS, though there may be periods of inactivity. Regardless, I hope you enjoy the time spent on this blog, and that it may lead you down the rabbit hole of other people's metas as well – I've linked some of my favourite analyses down below, as well as a few of my own that I'm proud of.

Info

I'm about to start a reread of MDZS, and will post about thoughts I have/details I notice under the tag #skye rereads mdzs. For the posts that get longer and more analytical, I'll tag them under relevant #meta tags as well. I will be using online screenshots, but I do own all the books, if that's a concern!

Important tags (be warned tumblr does mix them up a bit when you search...):

#my meta for my analyses

#important for important real-world things, like donation links etc (because though this is a fandom blog, it's also the biggest platform I have, and the more people these posts can reach, the better – people can decide what to do with them after they've been seen)

#[mdzs/svsss/tgcf] meta for any analyses, mine or someone else's

#translation for analyses focusing on comparing translations

#[mdzs/svsss/tgcf] fanart for fanart i've reblogged

#fav tag for others' analyses or fanworks I particularly enjoy

#not mxtx is self explanatory

#asks is self-explanatory, too!

Metas

Metas I'm proud of:

My 'WWX is not a self-sacrificial idiot' series: 1, 2 (my favourite one), 3. Also compiled into one essay on AO3, with clearer definitions and an added introduction!

NHS and the morality of revenge

Trope subversions in MDZS and SVSSS

How might NHS have found out about NMJ's death?

Yi City + 3zun parallels

JYL is a well-written character, actually (second is unfinished)

How the way the world views LWJ reflects his character arc

On LWJ remaining in the Lan sect after WWX's death

The Morally Grey Debate^TM from a different angle

On the nice, broad road metaphor and how LWJ ties into it

Any meta around or over 3k words which I'm sufficiently proud of will also be crossposted onto my AO3 account!

My favourite metas to read:

LWJ and JC being foils/the theme of "love is an action word" by @/rynne (there are two parts, they're not dealing with two different subjects)

The theme of resentment in MDZS also by @/rynne

WWX, making miracles, and what defines him by @/righteousinadversity

The development of WWX's attitude towards LWJ in his first life by @/wutheringskies

NHS, WWX and masks by @/morethanwonderful

There are many more, and this list will definitely expand as I track down them and their links. But I love all the metas I've reblogged, so feel free to scroll through the #[fandom] meta tag to see more recommendations!

With all that said, have a great day!

[taisuiartgallery]

Guidepost

General Tags:

Art

Digital Art

Traditional Art

Fic

Video

Animatic

Memes

Comics

Crossover

Spoilers

Full list of more specific tags under the cut:

Character Tags:

Because there are So Many Characters, I've taken a page from E. Danglar's book and sorted them by region.

Southern Wan (Jinping)

Xi Ping

Zhou Ying

Wei Chengxiang

Bai Ling

Xi Yue

Pang Jian

Old Madam Xi

Xi Zhengde

Cui Jinjin

Zhao Yu

The Karma Beast

Chen Baishao (Jiangli)

Southern Wan (Xuanyin)

Zhi Xiu

Lin Chi

Wen Fei

Luo Qingshi

Zhang Jue

Lin Zongyi

Yao Qi

Chang Jun

Princess Duanrui

Su Zhun

Zhao Yin

Li Fengshan

Southern Wan (The Southern Mines)

Lü Chengyi

Liang Chen

Southern Wan (Other)

Zhao Qindan

Xu Rucheng

The Heart Demon

Western Chu

Qiu Sha

Hui Xiangjun

Yu Chang

Xuanwu

Zhuoming

Xiang Rong

Tao-er-nainai

Southern Shu

Wangge Luobao

Northern Li

Xie Chu

Kunlun's Third Elder

Wu Lingxiao

Accompanying Plant Tags:

Reincarnation Wood

Snow Shuffler

Late Autumn Red

Eternal Spring Brocade

Heartless Lotus

Item/Weapon Tags:

Tai Sui Qin

Zhaoting

The Law Breaker

The Unbound Furnace

Discard the False and Keep the True

Ship Tags:

Xi Ping/Zhi Xiu

Xi Ping/Zhou Ying

Zhi Xiu/Xi Ping/Zhou Ying

Wei Chengxiang/Zhao Qindan

Xi Ping/Yu Chang

Lin Chi/Hui Xiangjun

Qiu Sha/Hui Xiangjun

Qiu Sha/Hui Xiangjun/Lin Chi

Lin Chi/Wen Fei

Miscellaneous Tags:

Zhou Ying's Cat

The Sea of Stars

The Dragon Vein

Scenery

Fic Tags:

Gen Fic

Story Arc Tags:

(Any drawing/comic of a specific scene will have the relevant arc tagged. Tags for early arcs aren't necessarily spoiler-free.)

Midnight Song

The Dragon Bites Its Tail

Fragrant Jade Miasma

Demon Country

The Mountain Falls

Indignant Cicadas

Traveler Abroad

Unbound Knife

Eternal Flame

The Storm Begins

Flower in the Mirror

Tomb of the Sage

A Life of Regret

Conclusion

The Extras (Overall)

Antiquity Extra

New Capital Extra

Western Chu Extra

Frost and Snow Extra

Jinping Extra

Bonus Secret Info

For those of y'all that scroll all the way to the bottom of this tag list, here's an extra fun fact: this blog is run by ya girl Andromeda Grassbreads. You can find me TaiSuiposting over on my meta blog @morethanwonderful.

[whetstonefires]

#this is a really good post #but also. I’m obsessed w the casual use of the phrase ‘Wei Wuxian piths himself’ #what a description (via @morethanwonderful)

thank you! and yeah i. ever since i generated that description i have not been able to unthink it. there is i believe no more efficient, correct descriptor of what he did in the English language, and yet what a fucking thing to say.

jiang cheng is a funny character because i fully support either liking him or not liking him, but i see so many takes (especially when he shows up in a supporting role in fic) that seem completely unhinged until i pin down which of what i consider the fundamental facts of his character are just not being applied at all.

it’s like:

1) this is not a mentally well guy, especially after Plot starts happening, and he spends the entire story getting less okay. the only time we ever see any improvement happen in jiang cheng is when wei wuxian piths himself getting the guy out of his suicidal phase, causing many more problems going forward but fixing that one. jiang cheng is not okay and it’s all downhill.

2) he cares so fucking much. like you can write a jiang cheng who is a deeply selfish bastard and you have an excellent textual basis, but it’s not because he doesn’t care about other people, at least the ones that are his; that’s a different kind of problem than the one he has.

he would in fact be less of a problem a lot of the time if he cared less, because he does not have the emotional management tools to be useful about it. also the narrative is conspiring against him but like.

(there are a lot of ways to be selfish and jiang cheng and lan wangji are actually remarkably similar in the basic type of selfish impulses they have. they just have very different childhoods and values shaping how they act about it. and then lan wangji manages to become a mostly functional adult, while jiang cheng is generously an electrified pile of bad coping mechanisms. he’s functioning! but like. at what cost.)

3) jiang cheng is dutiful. even the most selfish jiang cheng is someone who perceives and values himself in terms of his function and obligation; he and wei wuxian have different personalities and worldviews, and for that matter expectations placed on them, but they both learned that lesson, presumably together.

4) sort of an extension of 1 and to a lesser extent 2, Jiang Cheng is emotionally insecure as a base state. his parents made some major errors, at least half of which should have been avoidable except they would have had to deal with their own shit first.

it’s not out of the question, in a different lifetime where he didn’t get several years of compounded irresolvable traumas as his coming-of-age present and then left alone to stew in pain and denial for over a decade, for him to have learned to handle it better and even mostly get over it! that could have happened! it just didn’t.

to an extent he’s insecure about different things as a grown man than he was as a boy, life experience makes a difference. he’s built confidence about some things and become absolutely shattered about others. but he’s a person who is easy to wound, in all kinds of complicated identity-related ways, especially by Wei Wuxian specifically, and his kneejerk response to that is to lash out in reply, whether the wounding was intentional or not.

the fact that Wei Wuxian spent most of their lives giving every evidence of being completely immune to being harmed by this reaction masked its toxicity until things got real ugly real fast.

jiang cheng absolutely has the capacity to not do this! it’s a deeply rooted bad habit, not actually a fundamental of his character. but it requires self-awareness, will, and (if he’s going to keep it up) a lot of practice. it’s not the kind of thing that just goes away on its own, even with a bunch of alterations in context.

i don’t have like a closing argument here i just keep finding that takes on jiang cheng that don’t work for me, whether generous or condemnatory, always seem to disagree with me on one of these main points.

[morethanwonderful-archive]

Heyy besties, so for various reasons, I’ve decided to put a pause on this blog (formerly known as morethanwonderful) and remake this url as a multifandom page.

So if y’all wanna see my mxtx posting (mixed in with a few other things), find me at the new @morethanwonderful

You can also always find me at my main @grassbreads

[wambsgraham-archive]

heyy besties, so for various reasons, I've decided I'm consolidating my sideblogs, which means I'm not going to be using this one anymore.

If you'd like to keep seeing succession (and hannibal) stuff from me, follow me @morethanwonderful. That's where I'll be succposting from now on :).

[jones092580-blog]

#MoreThanWonderful #JILTaiwanAt23 #GODblessthegiver #Xiexie 😍😍😍😘😘😘🤗🤗🤗

[niobefurens]

I would like to know the Chinese word used; if possible.

He harassed.

I have a problem in seeing Mo Xuanyu as the kind of person who would be hitting overtly on others (his peers) at Koi Tower.

That may be a personal feeling.

Given what we discover later, my take would be he was harassed/seduced/induced; then, maybe, he might have acted inappropriately because of being the country bumpkin he is, for example.

@morethanwonderful has two excellent takes:

Or maybe Mo Xuanyu committed no crime but coming out to his beloved brother, and when Jin Guangyao reported this back to his father in an attempt to get rid of Mxy, Jin Guangshan cooked up a rumor that would get rid of the useless son and embarrass the stubborn one.

Or maybe the fact that Mo Xuanyu really was gay was a complete awful coincidence, and the accusations were fully fabricated by Jin Guangshan to discredit the kid after he saw something he shouldn't have.

I don't think JGY was sect leader yet... he was one of the Sanzun

in the spirit of pettiness statistics, i wanted to make my own version of that biased poll from the other day so that we can have OUR OWN completely inconclusive results!

Please consider reblogging, since lots of people don’t check main/character tags!

[zamanthasee-blog]

Wherever He May Lead You

“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

— John 8:12 (NIV)

Being a Christian means having faith. Faith in the unknown. Faith in the unseen. Faith in the confusing. And faith when it counts.

Sometimes God leads us believers in strange directions. He commands us to change the life we are living, to challenge those around us, to be called to a certain place or a certain decision that we might not typically make on our own.

We get this strange feeling stirring in the deepest parts of our soul. We feel a weird, unexplainable urge to do something, sometimes something that makes absolutely no sense, yet we have this strong desire to do it—that’s God calling to our hearts.

And we must answer.

God wants us to be pushed out of our comfort zones. He wants to bring us into the direction of following Him, even when (and especially when) that isn’t what the world around us is doing.

Sometimes that means engaging a friend, a family member, a coworker into a conversation about Him. Sometimes that means being a more outward symbol of faith. Sometimes that can be something big, like changing your entire life to be more devoted to Him, going on a mission trip, moving to a different place to bless it with His word, or even something as big as sponsoring someone in need, or adopting a child that so desperately wishes for a family.

God’s plan is sometimes crazy.

He sometimes asks us to do things that make non-believers wrinkle their noses, roll their eyes, shrug their shoulders in disbelief. He calls us to change our lives in ways that doesn’t make sense. But that’s the whole point.

His plan is not our plan. And He calls us to follow Him, and to have faith.

”Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

— Galatians 5:25 (NIV)

When we are called to do something by God, we must trust in Him. And we must do it. We must put aside our fears and doubts, our negativity and the negativity of others and trust in something greater than ourselves, no matter where this may lead.

We must walk in His light and His spirit. We must trust that He will bring us where we are meant to be.

We must not be afraid of what the world is thinking, must not be afraid of what we look like or if we are making the right decision. We must trust that God always has our best interests in mind, and though we will definitely face pain and hardship, He will forever stand by our side.

We must have faith in His plan, a plan that doesn’t always make sense to our human standards, but a plan that is meant to serve others, serve Him, and bless the world around us.

”Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”

— Deuteronomy 31:6 (NIV)

He won’t ever leave us or lead us astray. He loves each and every one of us, His creation.

And if you find that He is calling you, trust Him.

His plan will change your entire life, but it will be good because He is good. This I promise.

[heavenshighway]

Sandi Patty & Larnelle Harris 🎤🤍"More Than Wonderful"🤍 LIVE in Church Closed Caption Spanish #sandipatti #larnelleharris #morethanwonderful #larnelleharris #ripcindy #ripcindyasher #ripcindyfox #ripfox #ripasher #highwaytoheaven #heavenshighway #heavenshighways #anothertime #anotherplace #anothertimeanotherplace #findmeinanotherplaceandtime #jesus #jesuslovesyou #jesuschrist #jesusisking #jesusiscoming #jesusislord #jesusismysavior #love #loveyou

[neversetyoufree]

Hmm ok actually I have a poll for the audience.

If I made a multi-fandom sideblog for all the things I do or have written meta about that aren't vnc, how many of y'all might be interested in following? At the moment that would mostly be Succession and the MXTX novels (especially mdzs), along with a bit of Hannibal and The Magnus Archives.

[grassbreads]

Thinking about doing something silly

(homestuck reread liveblog)

[morethanwonderful]

This may be a multifandom blog in theory, but yes, I absolutely did make my entire icon/header/mobile color scheme match my original morethanwonderful mxtx blog, because I am way too attached to that one russian tgcf piece (and I need everything else to be matchy).

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