#nif ladies

[nifsrocks]

[dangermousie]

I really loved the first six episodes of AJTL. It feels adult in a way too few cdramas do nowadays. The protagonists are (sometimes sociopathic, weird) adults and the narrative is adult and the humor and darkness are both adult. Now, I don't mean this is some sort of meditation on the human condition like Royal Nirvana or NiF or Three Kingdoms, but the situations and characters are of a nature you wouldn't usually see in youth-oriented stuff nowadays - whether it's the fact that our FL just wants to ML for stud so she can have a baby with good genetics and no family ties or the fact that literally every politician in this is a complete scumbag.

I actually love that our FL isn't just the most terrifying mofo in the narrative full of killers but that she is a bona fide borderline sociopath who has no understanding of boundaries or proper behavior or consent or even any sort of flirtation let alone a deeper feeling. She's been a killer since childhood; what normal does she have? The fact that she's managed to have any sort of emotions left is a miracle.

So her deciding she needs a child because her benefactor told her she should as a dying wish and picking a sperm donor in our ML because he's suitable, all with about as much understanding of relationships as an alien - she doesn't want ML because she fancies him, she doesn't want a child to love. It's basically a weird duty thing. It all makes sense.

It's a wonderful gender reversal, with FL the goal-oriented, robotic psycho and ML going "but wait a minute, feelings, also no way, no how." His realization as to how crazy she is, is something else.

Look how she explains it, as if it's the most logical business transaction - your genetic material is great, you are not married so nobody will be hurt, if you die on this mission you will have someone to carry on your lineage, you are scheming so if a kid takes after you and is scheming, it's good. None of it will seduce a man in the least, let alone anything further. But I think in a way it's a weird mark of respect where she's not trying to lie but put all her cards on the table. But also - it shows how far from normal she is that she doesn't even realize how insane it sounds to anyone. He may be a spy but his life has been pretty different than hers; he's got friends and he had family - he is a fairly functional dude. She doesn't have any relationship, and the closest she had was weird stubs...

Like - she is acting like an alien...

Yeah, I don't think psychotic rose through the ranks assassins are big on consent.

She's bona fide nuts and I love that for once we have an unhinged FL. But one of the things I love so is that you slowly see her melt a little around the edges, if barely, because he keeps treating her as a proper lady however murdery and crazy she gets - she was an assassin and then she was a spy-whore, she's basically never been treated as a proper person instead of a tool, except possibly by the dowager and that was a long time ago. No wonder she gets drawn in - like she did by his decency in that rooftop speech scene. It's such a great reversal!

Like she genuinely doesn't get why he doesn't jump at the offer.

I really do love the ML who'd be the unhinged one in any other drama but here he's the sane one. And also his angry decency is mmmm.

I don't usually have fantasy casts for characters; there are very few exceptions - CFY and LYX for the mains of 2ha, Chen Kun for the ML of Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir, SZE for Prisoner of Beauty (alas), but LYN is on that short list - he's 100% my fan cast for Yuwu's Mo Xi and stuff like this gives me mad MX vibes:

I mean...

Anyway, this drama is awesome!

PS also the way secrets don't get dragged out. ML knows her true identity and we are long moving on to other stuff, hooray!

[kommissarkartofelov]

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i like this sorta ranty blogging style, brings back feelings of the old internet

flalout

to continue my love of the toyger hair i ported an oblivion port of the hair into fnv since i dun have the knowhow or patience to backport skyrim's nifs into the fo3/fnv era gamebyro engine plus someone made a freckled race (sadly hidden from the nexus as of writing)

unfortunately the preset for the freckled race was not sufficiently cute enough for me, so i decided to crack open the g.e.c.k. n make a freckled asian race

guess more than anything its a hapa race lol dunno where i put the files, so prolly lost to the zone

oh, and the reason why i felt that the lobotomite texture would work for a creepy-cute design is i played a bit (probably for 5 mins before quitting from a trauma loop in DUST) with the playable lobotomite mod and managed to mess with the sliders to make a kinda cute lady. fllatou 4 have toyger will tomboy

also tried making a tired/sad girl instead of a tomboy

pretty proud of her since she conveys the exact vibe i want

fits with the total desperation of FROST though unfortunately by the time i got done taking a handful of screenshots of her i lost interest in playing also yey not using the toyger hairdo for the umpteenth time

eh why not bonus sims segment i have an unhealthy like for character creators

wanted to try making an unconventional lass, ended up with a NEET goblin

think i had that one jewish girl who photo got posted occasionally on 4chins n popopoka's blind girl in mind when i made her

am tired now dunno if i'll do any more posts like this aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah bye

[circumference-pie]

Trick or treat! :3

Treat!

Nirvana in Fire:

I wrote most of a fic alternating between Xie Qi's (Jingrui's sister, the one married to Zhuo Qingyao) and Liyang's point of view for NiF Exchange 2021 (or was it 2020...?), before scrapping it all and starting over. But here's some of the scrapped fic!

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At six, Xie Qi is good at getting what she wants, which is to escape lessons, play tag in the garden, and wheedle piggyback rides from the older kids. Jingrui-gege gives her the most and Lin Shu-gege carries her the fastest, but Qing-gege talks to her like a grown-up, so she likes him best.

Xie Qi wants to be like Jingrui-gege when she’s older. He knows martial arts and can ride horses and shoot a bow. She copies Jingrui when he’s practicing his sword forms, stabbing at the air with a long wooden spoon, her nursemaid watching on indulgently.

Mama sees Xie Qi twirling and slashing alongside Jingrui one day, and there’s yelling and Xie Qi cries. The next day Xie Qi’s nursemaid is gone and instead there’s a tutor, an iron-haired woman who doesn’t let her out of lessons even if she screams, who makes her learn embroidery and takes her on visits to other little noble girls. And worst, when she runs to Qing-gege and lifts up her arms, he says, “No, Qi-er, the Dowager Princess says you need to behave like a young lady.”

Xie Qi hates behaving like a young lady. It means dresses with layers and boring people and sitting inside and no piggyback rides. She can’t watch Jingrui-gege practice anymore, and nothing interesting ever happens.

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NiF spoilers

The prompt was Liyang-focused, and the novel says she was a fiery girl who rode horses and competed with the boys before she married Xie Yu (>_<), and I felt like her relationship with her daughter must be really complicated because of that. Xie Qi is pretty much only in the drama to die (>_< again), but her death must had so much impact on Liyang, which isn't explored in the story.

[airgiodslv]

琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV)

Lin Shu | Mei Changsu | Su Zhe/Xiao Jingyan

Not Rated (I would say between Teen and Mature)

Rec: A character study in grief, beautifully-written and devastating. Pining for someone you love and can't be with...because they want you to believe they've died, again, and you're respecting their wishes because you're a stubborn, noble water buffalo. Also featuring nearly all of my favorite NIF ladies being their awesome selves.

[gamblins]

" thank you niffty " husk didn't except the tiny lady to down the whole drink in one go. blinking lightly wondering if this was a good idea to even give her more drinks. " nif i don't think its a good idea to have you drink more. . . "

but husk would be a hypocrite for he drinks a lot, but she was tiny compared to him . . . she was def a light weight. " fine fine , but im gonna cut you off you your get crazy . "

mixing up another drink for her mixing up a Strawberry Mezcal Margarita which is much more stronger in alchoal but still fruity " nif dont down this one too okie take your time with it . . . "

Her eyes light right up, sparkling with awe as he worked his fancy hands for her fancy drink, her own hands quickly clapping together as she reaches forward to grab at the cocktail.

✥✧∘* "Oh, Husk, this looks good...!" She giggles, moving the drink to her mouth to sip on it, squinting a little as she smacks her lips to really take in the taste before she downs the rest of it in the next moment.

✥✧∘* "Gimme something stronger...! Mama's feeling the zing now!"

[nifsrocks]

[semirahrose]

 kind people are kind because they know firsthand that life isn't   (insp.)    [ ♕ ]

[sugarbabywenkexing]

I'm only two episodes in to Nirvana in Fire but Mu Nihuang please call me

[galahdborn]

Nyx was silent as Lady Mercure and the Marshal de-bugged the room, a severe frown on his face as he carefully placed Johanne on the couch, keeping an eye on her even as he turned his attention towards his superiors. The older woman was likely correct, but it still felt wrong to look away, worried that something would happen if he did. He hadn't protected her and it felt like a failure. The Nifs had gotten inside a place that should've been safe and he wasn't sure what to think anymore.

"Yeah – pleasure to meet you too," he muttered after a moment, finally forcing himself to turn away so he could look at Lady Mercure. He took a seat, a small sigh leaving his lips as he did. Where to start? At the beginning, he supposed, but he was still wondering how their play-fighting had ended up like it had.

"Well, we were minding our own business. I was teasing Johanne and she was trying to get me to stop, since we were around the Crownsguard, but I didn't really care about that," he started out, part of him wishing that the day could've continued in that manner. This was beyond what any of them had expected. "We were being watched, but that's nothing new. Then... they stepped in front of us. I didn't want to start a fight, so I decided to leave the talking to Johanne, but uh – that wasn't necessarily a wise choice. She didn't instigate anything, but she did tell them to move out of the way or she'd make them and they escalated things from there."

He stopped for a moment, doing his best to remember exactly what had happened. "Then... we fought. Just fists at first, since it was supposed to be a normal scuffle between Guards and Glaives, but then someone pulled out a knife. It got serious after that. We used our magic, more arrived with more weapons and we found out they weren't Guards at all. Then you arrived on the scene and here we are," he finished, sure he had probably missed something, but it was the best he could do considering the situation. Having Johanne explain it with him would've helped, but hopefully they could make sense of things from what he had said.

"It seemed like a coordinated attack, but I can't figure out why we would be targeted. Sure, we're both good Glaives, but being specifically targeted is just odd, so they might've been planning to just attack any Glaive who'd pass by," but even that he was skeptical of. He just wanted to understand what was going on.

Johanne had taken a deep breath the moment the phoenix down was pushed into her, still unconscious but at least her breathing had evened out. Lady Mercure sighed in relief, patting Nyx and Johanne's shoulders before standing. "To my office. We're goin' ta have ta de-bug the room first just ta be sure." She turned to the Marshal as they walked, recounting what she had seen in quiet tones, gesturing towards the Glaives every now and then with a worried expression.

The typical expression on The Immortal's face had gotten grimmer the more she spoke. The amount of people that had been present in a building filled with important officials and innocents was a great cause of concern.

When they neared the doors, Johanne stirred slightly. Her entire body felt sore, the shock of the devices having seized every muscle in her body. Her hand that held the devices still felt as if it was tingling and it hurt to move. She kept herself from panicking, losing any of her sense was terrifying to her but being carried by Nyx helped ground her.

After the councilwoman and the Marshal swiftly de-bugged the room, thankfully finding nothing, Lady Mercure gestured to one of the couches in her office. "Ya can set Nivis on the couch, dear. I can imagine that the shock from those things are goin' ta keep her like that for a while..." She herself sagged into her office chair, forehead in her hand before smoothing down her shirt. "Now... Nyx Ulric, aye? Pleasure ta finally meet ya, although I wish it was under better circumstances." Her expression finally matched her title, now that they were in the safety of her office, and motioned for the other to take a seat on the chair across her desk. The Marshal stood to her side at the ready.

"If ya can recount the events that happened to ya and Glaive Nivis to the Marshal, please. In as much detail as possible."

[winepresswrath]

After spending NiF listening to my girlfriend explain how Lin Shu should die, she is now spending Mr. Sunshine listening to me explain how Lady Ae-shin is femmephobic because she will not marry Hui-seong and have threesomes and/or a protracted emotional affair with Eugene.

[ekuns]

[sovinly]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jinyang, Consort Chen, Princess Consort Qi, Mu Ni Huang, Li Yang, Xie Qi, Gong Yu Additional Tags: Female Friendship, Fix-It, Conversations, Women Being Awesome, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Relationships Summary:

Eight conversations of comfort, of solidarity, of changing events so utterly as to blow the clouds from the sky. Who can women trust but one another?

For @travelingstrawberry!

[things-arent-what-they-seem66]

Adam took a pregnancy test about three weeks after the first time they slept together.

He was so happy and excited to see that he was pregnant with Lucifer's baby. Adam couldn't wait to tell him, they were finally going to have a family together.

Adam exited the bathroom with a grin on his face.

Lucifer: So?

Adam: I'm pregnant.

Lucifer went over and picked Adam up spinning him around. Adam giggled happily. He was finally going to have Lucifer's baby like he always wanted.

Adam: When should we tell the others?

Lucifer: We should give it a little bit to make sure the baby makes it three months. No need to jinx things.

Adam: You're right.

Adam threw the test away and they went down for the daily activities.

Down in the lobby, Alastors shadow came back to him and told him what he saw.

Alastor: Oh really? Nifty dear!?

Nifty: Yes?

Alastor: Would you mind cleaning Lucifer's room? I think it's extra messing.

Nifty: Okay! Hehehe.

She ran off to go clean his room, when she got there she made the bed and went to take out the garbage when the pregnancy test caught her eye.

The King was having a baby with that Adaline lady!!

She snatched it up and ran down with it.

Charlie: What do you have there Nif?

Nifty: Your dad is having a baby.

Charlie: What!?

She took the test and sure enough it was a positive pregnancy test. She marched into the lobby with the test to confront her dad and Adaline.

Charlie: When were you going to tell me she's pregnant?

(Lady Adam AU)

*Adam woke still in hell and all the Exorcists gone*

Adam: What the fuck.

Adam internally: What’s wrong with my voice.

*Adam quickly stood up and the robes fell from his body which gave him a good look at his body, to his shock it was a woman’s body, instead of his dad bod, he now had a very curvy hourglass figure and what he had to admit were some really nice looking breasts that had to be at least a DD cup, he put his hands between his legs and as expected he no longer had a dick and balls, instead it was a pussy*

Adam internally: Fuck, my favorite part of myself was taken away.

*thankfully he still had on the black skintight body suit he had on under his robes and the black combat boots with spikes on them, he moved his wings and realized that they were a shimmery black instead of gold and his hands had black claws with blackened skin, his main annoyance was that his hair was as long as Lilith’s and when he put his hands in his hair it felt like he now horns on his head, he then saw the spider like demon and the one eyed woman from the fight at the hotel run up to him*

Angel Dust: Hey, are you alright? My name is Angel Dust and this is my friend Cherri Bomb. What is your name?

Adam: Ada…….. Adaline.

Cherri Bomb: Cool Name, he live at the Hazbin Hotel, we saw you passed out and we want to help you.

Angel Dust: We can get you something nice to wear and maybe you can stay at the hotel, Charlie would like more guests.

*before Adam could object he realized that going to the hotel would be the best option for him*

Adam: That sounds nice, thank you.

*Angel Dust and Cherri Bomb took Adam to a mall where they started to look at outfits for him, he got a look at himself and he had to admit that he made a good looking chick, he also had horns a lot like Lilith’s but they were deep purple instead of red, they picked out a black tank top with a sheer black long sleeved shirt as well as a choker with gold spikes on it, then they picked out a purple plaid mini skirt thankfully the black combat boots still fit, but now he realized that from the knees down his legs had thick fur the same color as his hair and they ended with black hooves*

Cherri Bomb: You want to get a hair cut unless you like that whole Rapunzel thing?

Adam: I definitely want to get a hair cut.

*Adam was dragged to a salon and they allowed him to get whatever hair cut he wanted which was a nice change from Heaven, he had his hair cut to the length of his mid back and had part of his head shaved leaving stubble there, he had to admit that if he met Angel Dust and Cherri Bomb under different circumstances, he would have befriended them*

Angel Dust: That looks bad ass, we should go to the hotel so you can meet everyone and get a room,

*Adam had to hope that now that he had a woman’s body no one at the hotel would recognize him*

(The hairstyle Adam/Adaline got)

Adam walked into the hotel, he had to admit that it actually wasn't that bad looking on the inside. They rebuilt it very fast, he wasn't sure how long he was out for but it hasn't been that long.

Angel: Hey Charlie! We brought someone!

Charlie poked her head out from around the corner and squealed when she saw Adam. To think not that long ago she stabbed a fucking trident into his shoulder.

Charlie: Hi! I'm Charlie and this is the Hazbin Hotel! May I ask your name?

Lucifer: Charlie where did you put the-

The words died in his throat when his eyes landed on the beautiful sinner standing in the lobby. Lucifer might still have technically been a married man but he wasn't fucking blind.

And Lilith probably wasn't coming back....

Adam: It's Adaline.

She even had a beautiful name....

Charlie: Welcome Adaline! Oh, this is my dad Lucifer.

Adam shifted his gaze to Lucifer who was staring at him, not necessarily at his face either. Was he looking at Adams tits? Well, when you're at eye level.....

Adam gave a tight smile: Hi.

He still remembered this guy beating his ass and calling him names, mocking him and everything.

Asshole. The nerve to look at him like that.

Lucifer: Hi.... Hi! Welcome, I hope you'll enjoy your stay.

Adam: I'm sure I will.

Charlie: You've already met Angel and Cherri. Over there is Husk the bartender, our maid Nifty and Alastor.

Alastor grinned widely as he approached Adam, not missing the once over he gave him.

Ew.

Alastor: Pleasure to be meeting you miss Adaline. As hotel manager don't be afraid to ask me for anything.

Adam could see out of the corner of his eye Lucifer glaring at the radio demon.

Adam: Thank you.

Charlie: I'll show you to your room!

Adam followed Charlie, he was given a room on the sixth floor. She left to let him settle in. Adam sat on the bed and sighed.

How was he going to fix this?

[guzhuangheaven]

Nirvana in Fire - Qin Banruo’s eyeliner of doom

[momo-de-avis]

Turns out the problem wasn't even the stupid numbers. It's that when you change your phone and you download the app onto the new phone, they block the app from you. It's a safety measure, fine, but 1) how the fuck do I access it again without having to waste 15 minutes on the phone trying to get past the automated message, and 2) i did not fucking know this????

The insane thing was that I was trying the help feature on the app, which is an automated message that asks you for a bunch of numbers to check your credentials (like ID, NIF, phone, etc) and at the end of this all, it said my credentials were wrong and didn't match the info they had, and I couldn't understand why when all the info was correct (I would soon learn that they'd blocked my phone number out as a safety measure). So then I went to an ATM to try and get my contract number and it told me to do something like "recover access to my account". At this point, I hadn't even realised I had lost access at all. So it gave me the number I needed but then it also gave me a random new pin number.

So then I log onto the app, put the number on it, put new pin, doesn't work. Then i try old pin, doesn't work.

Then I call two numbers. It took me a ridiculously long time to get through and find an actual human cause it was asking me for my contract number and my pin code and I didn't know which to use cause nothing worked, but then the new pin got me through and I got put on hold while 10 minutes away from the start of the tour, and that's when the lady explains to me that my bank account automatically blocked me from accessing it because I got a new phone (phone, not number. It was literally because I had a new device).

I had no idea this shit happened. I also still don't know how you go around this. But apparently it is symptomatic of this country to create problems that can only be solved with a physical consultation or needless hours on the phone with strangers

I changed my phone, which means most my apps require sign in. Needless to say, a lot of these sign in credentials I forgot. So far, recovering them has been easy.

Until the bank app.

You see, the bank app uses, for the log in, a number you will only ever see twice in your life, and so far, I have seen it once. That's your contract number. You'd think it's easy to find, but fuck that. It's not on a single email the bank has sent you, it is not on a single letter you possess, it isn't even on the bank statements you have on your email or at home. It's nowhere. You have managed since then to log into the website account but it's not anywhere there either.

So you google frantically and this. Like. This is fucking absurd. You have to call a fucking number and listen to an automated voice dictate your fucking number (which is about seven digits). What the fuck.

I did read elsewhere you could get it off an ATM so I'm trying that first