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yardsards · 2 years ago

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do people who have listened to taz balance but not graduation Know that it was HEAVILY IMPLIED that lup and barry eventually adopted a lil sorcerer child who got disowned by his family for his natural necromancy magic, and they taught him how to use his powers for good and were overall great parents that he looks back on fondly

(and said child grew up to be a dimension-hopping lich, caretaker of the dead, and very sweet adoptive father of a major npc)

#eliot posts #taz #the adventure zone #taz balance #taz graduation #lup taaco #barry bluejeans #blupjeans #like they never specifically say ''my parents are barry and lup'' so it's left up to interpretation but #he says he came from another world other than nua (nua is the name of the grad world like faerun is the balance world)#he says both his parents were highly skilled necromancers that ''travelled'' a lot because of their work #he says that inter-planar travel runs in the family #and he likes to bake #also travis apparently said on a livestrean that he got something carved by magnus for his daughter #it's a fun little easter egg for balance enjoyers but kept vague enough where it's like. you don't have to know about balance to enjoy it #anyway tho it's adorable cuz he talks about how much of a positive impact his parents made on him #and how he wanted to emulate them when raising his own daughter #and he's a good dad and his daughter loves him (also she is an absolute delight i love her #and like the only older adult to look at our college-aged protagonists and be like #''yeah it's messed up that you have to deal with all of this you're so young you're the same age as my child i will help however i can''#like balance easter egg aside gordy is one of my fav graduation npcs (behind his daughter rainer who is my fav)

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wyvernity · 11 months ago

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sss day my favorite national holiday WOOOOHHHH

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#pokemon #trainer lyra #rival silver #soulsilvershipping #timeskip tag #bao beis #i had so much more planned. but alas. college.#ANYWAY. sss my everything. ohh. always thinking abt them.#this is very obviously lyra's room! all the pink! massive bed to fit all her pokemon! the champion paycheck gets you that much at least #and plants!!! no. 1 horticulturist in johto #she's living somewhere around the base of mt silver... decently close to the league and her hometown #so i like to imagine her with a huge greenhouse so she can take care of plants even in the harsher climate #meanwhile silver has one of those decrepit malelivingspace flats in viridian. he's making it work.#i can only see sss properly moving in together liiiike in their late 20s #after they get to enjoy young adult independence for a while #but before they permanently settle down they should go on silly adventures again... just once. or twice. or #as much as i like to entertain the thought of them being homebodies i think they'd rather spend their lives travelling haha #since silver never got to fully experience it as a kid on the run #being a wanted man and all #and lyra is itching for the getaway #they deserve to be in nature and responsibility-free and *frothing at the mouth*#BTW i put my whole wyvussy into that wall decor #lisia signed poster... rosa's resemblance as mei(!!!) in the totoro one... bell tower + whirl island pics //#pokemon constellations... and those gen 4 mail templates that no one actually used. probably from dawn. champion penpals :]#i debated doing a lance poster because celebrity idol funny but nah she'd bin that immediately after moving out #oh yeah the drawover was um. inspired by the nonebinary neochamp fit. so happy for my son.#i'm glad i managed to finish the big piece in time otherwise i would've just posted that LOL can you imagine #okey bye happy sss day

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elizabethrobertajones · 3 months ago

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heeey they graphically updated the ARR world leaders with custom models (well. Nanamo has one too but she seems the same to my eyes and she seems like a normal lala when not wearing her full costume?)...

Aside from Raubahn and Merlwyb somehow being even hotter I have to shout out Kan-E's unicorn necklace's radical improvement :D

(unicorn way up so you also never unsee it)

Aymeric, Lyse and Hien remained low poly at the Alliance meeting, as did poor HW-style Thancred, who just dramatically collapsed in order to travel the rift into graphical fidelity...

Also very funny that earlier Asahai showed up with the old graphics, but Maxima was already boasting full new skin textures despite having of course a way more custom model than the completely character creator ready Hyur next to him... This is the exact right time in the game's history to be in late Stormblood to enjoy the roll out.

#accidentally made the hrothgal on a preferred server so I'm desperately trying to make the most of road to 90 #back when I was young it was road to 70 and you could cap out every job in HW and not worry about it #now I'm 86 and 84 on 2 jobs 73 on all hand/land and feeling scared I'll run out of buff before I hit shadowbringers...#ffxiv #I also have a staggering lack of character stuff to SAY about Anatalya even though I think she's great #not much Bozjan character building that leaps out aside from Huge Cid Feelings at every turn #ANYWAY back to clicking through cutscenes so I can get another 10 levels of hand/land before hitting another wall #unless you actually use the MB to buy mats (which I am not desperate enough to do) you can't do any hand ins at level :<#and if I wanted to do more than GC ones I'd have to buy crafting gear as well since scrip is expansion locked #so no collectables because I'd have to buy well over even levelling gil amounts of gear and mats #aurghhhh #I only wanted crafter/gatherer to save money on repairs and melding on an alt on a server I didn't have Frog's fc to nepo baby her on #and thought road to 90 would make it easy :P

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marzipanandminutiae · 7 months ago

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Reading “A Rather Haunted Life” and so far I have five main thoughts:

1. The author is such a great biographer generally that she really spoils her writing even more by utterly refusing to engage with any aspect of Jackson’s life through a homoerotic lens, than if the rest of the book were mediocre

2. Seriously, she addresses it once and that’s basically to say “yes, she wrote about being accused of lesbianism in college to the point where a male crush lost interest in her because she was so close with her best friend – whatever the actual nature of the relationship might have been, which is uncertain – and yes, she loved The Well of Loneliness, and yes, at least one of her books has seriously sapphic themes (and yes, she got so frightened- not angered, frightened -by having those themes pointed out that she wondered at her own fear, in private correspondence). BUT SHE NEVER SAID “hey I want to fuck women” SO PROBABLY NONE OF THIS MEANS ANYTHING AND SHE WAS 100% HETERO.” I mean. Come on.

3. Yes, Shirley Jackson seems to have experienced attraction to men. I would not say that she was a lesbian by the modern, usually exclusive definition. But like… There’s academic caution about a historical figure who never openly clarified her sexuality, and then there’s naïveté or outright homophobic erasure of queer possibility.

4. Fuck Stanley Hyman; all my homies hate Stanley Hyman

5. I need to read more Shirley Jackson I need to get weirder

#shirley jackson #a rather haunted life #to be honest I do get why she was so angry at the reviewer who called Hangsaman ‘about lesbians’#it’s about a lot of things! Only one of which is lesbians!#I would be annoyed at getting pigeonholed like that when a book had so many themes too #and a running theme of her life seems to be defying categorization both in her writing and her personality #but like. I work with queer history. There are ways of talking about this that leave room for more nuance #‘ her work frequently features sapphic themes‘#‘ she was accused of lesbianism in her young adulthood but the nature of her intimate friendships remains unknown‘#you can acknowledge the possibility without saying ‘she was totes gay!!!!’

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hanzajesthanza · 17 days ago

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the training montage in crossroads re-ignited a headcanon i had of geralt waking up and doing gymnastics, performing kickflips and mid-air spins around on a fencepost outside an hour before sunrise to ‘limber up,’ and bleary-eyed dandelion wrapping himself up in a blanket to be like "heyyy... what the hell are you doing 💖"

#if you're wondering what kind of moves he's doing he's standing on a fencepost and doing your typical flexibility stretches #but alternating between reps of stretches with kickflips from one post to the other #like ciri training in kaer morhen #i'm not going to lie witchers are cool but fandom ruined them a bit for me and now crossroads has given me that childlike wonder back #because fandom heard 'physical ability and stamina' and did you know what with it #but the agility and precision of witchers remain so underrated. as part of the deconstruction of the superhuman trope #geralt doesnt really show off as much in the books and does cool stuff only when needed but #like when (mentioned) he hit the rat in the darkness with his thrown fork... as a party trick #and killing renfri's men in the market at blaviken... and killing the scoia'tael on thanedd #and RUNNING ALONG THE BRIDGE on the battle of the bridge #and the nilfgaardians were amazed and they WERE AMAZED AS THEY DIED!!!!!!!!#and killing rience's mercenaries who didn't know who they were fighting so they were like hey what the fuck... what the fuck #i'm literally back to witcher 101 basics here. nothing interesting to contribute but like a little boy i am just smiling and saying #'dude geralt of rivia is soooo cool he can like fight a bunch of guys with his sword'#half of me wants to seek deeper themes and half of me is just like YOOO GERALT SO COOL !!#listen... there is a time to plant a time to reap #a time to analyze and a time to geek #i should probably just watch a bunch of ballet or best of gymnastics comps and i'll find what i'm looking for #also sorry CROSSROADS OF RAVENS SPOILERS artamon dying was a hilarious moment i know it was like oooh this will have consequences #but it was nice to have the evil antagonist get merked in the sme chapter as he's fucking introduced #and not even by mature experienced geralt but by some literal eighteen year-old who he tried pulling a fast one on #1) i was happy that sapkowski didn't drag it out terribly. this was humorous and refreshing after in season of storms #2) geralt almost riding off but having a feeling to go back... listen i know it's so cliche and it's giving lady of the lake chapter 4 #where he eavesdrops in the caves under castle zubarran and just happens to hear stefan skellen reveal that vilgefortz was in castle stygga #but it also was satisfying to me because after reading the hussite trilogy #where reynevan (stupid and young man; like geralt here) DOES NOT LEARN after several. SEVERAL lessons #i was honestly worried for a second that we were going to get a reynevan moment. but no. because this is geralt and not reynevan #and seeing geralt develop critical thinking skills in real time was not only satisfying but a bit funny #and yes nostalgiabaiting me #like omggggg yesss his detective skills yesss that's so geralt of him

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thedreadvampy · 25 days ago

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lmao it is undeniably true that I am Depressi Spaghetti but you know. fuck it we continue.

#red said #i am hoping!!!! that this is January Brain speaking #it FEELS as if I've been in an extended depressive episode since like. may or June #but depression is a Filthy Fucking Liar so that may or may not be true #either way it's very tedious. there is no reason for this. i am very loved and cared for. i am doing well. it is just that my brain is soup #SAD AND SELF-LOATHING SOUP #we cannot resist the Soup we can only swim on through #idk it is like. i feel as if i don't exist beyond work i feel like I'm losing myself i feel like I'm very alone #this all FEELS very true even though actually i have many passions i do many things and i am booked to the gills with social engagements #so you know. what's it all about? The Soup. possibly also The Dark.#possibly also also that many people i care about are going through really rough times and I'm kinda. not?#and that's WEIRD both that I'm not and that I've developed like a level of boundaries where people i live going through it #doesn't mean I'm in a constant state of panic.#and slash or. where I'm too depressi spaghetti to have the energy to be there for them #i don't THINK it's that. that's never been a thing for me before really.#but idk i think it's like when i reach the end of my to do list i panic that I've forgotten something vital #i am not panicking and that makes me feel. strange and empty and immobile.#even though in actuality I'm in constant motion like. barely a free moment. but i FEEL static i FEEL inactive #because I'm not in 24/7 crisis mode #and then bc i feel inactive i don't understand why I'm so tired. I'm so tired because I'm ALWAYS DOING THINGS.#but also i do feel kind of. numb. everything is just running past me. except sometimes i feel spasms of grief cause like #I've ended or majorly changed a lot of relationships this past year #but yeah i think the numbness is PROBABLY the January of it all and will PROBABLY lift in March/April #and if it doesn't. well. fuck it. we continue. i am yet young.

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abirddogmoment · 8 months ago

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We took our steadiness training out into the wild last night!

#dogblr #rory borealis #bird dog training #the goal here is just to wait until i tap her to go get the thing #she stands better on the ground than on the board #so in subsequent runs i just moved the cato board #but nbd #shes doing soooo good #im gonna stay at this stage for a bit #no need to move forward from here for a while #i overheard some people saying that doing steadiness foundations too young can ruin your bird dog but i think thats nonsense??#if it is true well whatever ill know for the next dog #but shes not lacking enthusiasm so hopefully im fine #some notes if youre doing this at home: dog should be standing of their own free will not you holding them back #dog should be looking in the correct direction before you send them dont ask for eye contact #and only work on one skill at a time (dont ask for a steady to throw and a retrieve to heel if your dog doesnt know both of those separate)#and if you have multiple dogs consider using their name to release instead of 'go!' like im using here #just to make it easier to work multiple dogs at once if thats something you want to do

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akkivee · 9 days ago

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A sudden thought I had in relation to my epiphany while thinking about the NGE parallels, but I'm starting to wonder if BB and BAT's lack of deeper plot is BECAUSE of their ages? Like they're so young, (Hitoya is 14 y/o at heart adsjflkasdjl;), so realistically why would they be involved in government shenanigans? But really, what I'm starting to wonder is if they're actually meant to represent the struggle of youths inheriting a world destroyed by the prior generation, a struggle that is pretty universal with the millennial and gen Z demographics globally. Like all they can do is survive the best they can with all the craziness happening because of the actions of the characters older than them.

i'm not sure if bat's there just yet, despite kuukou going thru some of that by proxy of being on a team with ichiro back in the day, but yes absolutely on bb's part lol, it's how they help hypmic's worldbuilding lol. bb also expresses a desire to change their world, but are pretty aimless about it for the most part, which you usually ascribe to youth lol

the block party tho shows ichiro's initiative to change the world and is also meant to show the hope for a better world adults (esp those in higher positions, like the neighbourhood president in bb's track) tend to push on to the youth, as evident from rei using this as a time to point ichiro to the real fight, and samatoki in his next appearance saying he understands the power hope can have. (hip hop was born from these high school kids throwing a block party calling for the end of gun violence that was killing their community. the block party is taking inspiration from that real world event)

bb and bat share a same writing beat where they introduce an ideal that's very important to live by in their messed up world and is an overarching lesson hypmic wants to impart, such as the need to protect your community or the importance of music, and i wouldn't be surprised if bbbat are in a more unique position to follow thru with those ideals bc they're young and without adult responsibilities, and that hitoya is there as the adult arguably with the best position to help them further along those ideals (bc adults need to be able to help clear the way for the youth too, instead of making it harder for them to change their/our shitty world)

#vee got an ask #thedragonofbadasstemple #like there's only so much a kid can do lol #but history has shown us the rashness/doggedness kids can have can inspire others #and change can only happen if the adults that run the world are on board but again #history has told us that adult responsibilities bog adults down from doing anything (and also being stuck in their ways)#we've watched hitoya be swayed by his teen nuisances' ideals and samatoki use the power he has as an adult help ichiro with his ideals #so i think bb kuukou and jyushi represent the ideal world #nemu too lol!!! she's the kind of youth that join the institutions that oppress in order to change them from the inside out #she's been struggling keeping true to her ideals in a very real issue of becoming part of the wheels that turn the machine #but she's also young and that strong moral code has changed both ichijiku and otome and just that has been changing chuuoku #it's all very fun stuff to see how hypmic is trying to tell us how to move the world and stay safe in it lol

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katierosefun · 2 years ago

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not to be like “ugh aos crew” again but ugh aos crew again spock really got accepted into the most prestigious university on vulcan and was like “haha fuck you <3″ bc they insulted the fact that he’s mixed-race jim banged his forehead in the shuttle within the first 30 seconds he was on board leonard was hiding in the bathroom of said shuttle because he hates flying sulu couldn’t get the ship to warp for the first 3 minutes of his first-ever flight on the enterprise uhura is mostly okay still except she’s also got a thing going with her former professor so maybe that raises some eyebrows (ha) scotty is literally in a butt-fuck middle of nowhere outpost on a death ice planet chekov is. seventeen. i don’t really have much more to add to that except guys your ensign is seventeen years old

#caroline talks #star trek #THEY'RE ALL SO. in their own varying levels. unhinged #me: ah yes. the best of the best. starfleet's best and brightest #[immediately cuts to spock being a sassy little bitch + leonard swearing up and down the ship + jim running around #because his hands have SWELLED TO THE SIZE OF BALLOONS BECAUSE OF A CERTAIN DOCTOR + sulu looking like he wants to die #because spock was said sassy bitch + scotty just being like 'do u know what i've been eating. it sucks'#+ uhura being mostly fine except girlie i know spock's attractive and i know u are both adults but GIRL + chekov just cheerfully going #'seventeen sir :)' and leonard going 'OH GOOD HE'S SEVENTEEN']#they are so. like.#frankly for all the hate that the reboot movies get i fuckign adore them bc it's like 'you know what. they're all like. young.#they can be stupid.'#like. some of them are in their twenties. do u know what that does to a person #jim kirk is in his twenties and that's the only reason why i'm like ' .. . . . . listen he might be a little bit chaotic but i love him'

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mars-ipan · 8 months ago

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some postgame doodles for pride month

#martzipan #komahina #hajime hinata #nagito komaeda #domestic kmhn likers pspspsps cmere #i never draw just fluff/domestic things bc i get too in my feelings lmao. this one was no exception #i had to take a break midway through bc i got sappy. IT'S OK THO we got it done :3 #neways these tie into some headcanons of mine so i'm gonna share 'em here #mainly i hc them having little ways where they just look out for each other #komaeda is usually the only one who can convince hinata to take a goddamn break without having to forcefully drag him away from his work #bc hinata does NOT take enough breaks. and he does not listen to reason #until there is a komaeda who is tired and can't go to sleep without his human teddy bear :((( can't let him go to bed aloneeee #n i think hinata just. casually feeds komaeda ALL the time #bc he won't eat enough on his own. and if you offer him food he'll be inclined to see it as a nicety and try to reject it #but if you just. Put Food In Front Of His Mouth. he'll eat it #it's kind of a reflex like komaeda doesn't realize he's being fed most of the time #they take care of each other bc they won't take care of themselves otherwise lmao. it's a little dysfunctional but they're trying #i think once they've recovered enough to be able to just enjoy each other's company they get REALLY really giggly #they have a lot of teenage/young adult love stuff to catch up on and since they didn't really have a puppy love phase. they laugh a lot #they'll try to do something tender or sweet but then one of them will start to laugh. and then it's not long before the other breaks #komaeda usually breaks first. bc he's always in awe of just how happy he is. bc he never thought he COULD be this happy #not without hell looming just over the horizon anyways #when hinata breaks first it's bc he's thinking of how much they've both been through and put each other through #and he's just sort of like 'how the fuck did we end up here'#(btw komaeda snorts when he's trying not to laugh. this is just fact trust me)#OH AND I HAVE MANY HEADCANONS ABT THEIR SLEEP STUFFS #as stated hinata runs hot and komaeda runs cold. but ALSO #hinata's a sprawler. komaeda gets Clingy. it works out for them tho #if komaeda doesn't have hinata to hold like a body pillow he'll curl into the tightest little ball. it gives him back pain lmao #oh and yes. they absolutely wake up with their legs incredibly tangled together

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kipperlillyforpresident · 9 months ago

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list of headcanons i've seen for kipperlilly copperkettle

NPD

BPD

IED

ADHD

Autism

And with YOUR help, we can get her headcanon'd across the entire DSM! Get working, folks!

#kipperlilly copperkettle #kipperlily copperkettle #btw. i think i might be the only person with the ADHD headcanon. but i will die with this one #the way that ally said 'oh i feel microaggressed by her as somebofy with unmedicated adhd. Because Of Woke'#<<< this was literally back when all she had said was 'hi i want to run for president my name is kipperlilly copperkettle and im a member o #the rat grinders :-)'#so out of spite (and as somebody with ADHD who can be a bit Type A myself)#like. i see her as somebody who well. she steel orb'd her personality #she was diagnosed relatively young and has always known. and so she has always been working to not let it show #she plans meticulously and sets numerous reminders on her calender and she forces her ass into producivity #and because of this her struggles are like. dismissed by teachers #<<< i was once told that i was ''too smart'' to have adhd

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ssaluss · 3 months ago

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I've heard "his world" in this trailer 2 im not crazy it was my jam when i was little IM NOT CRAZY I KNOW THE "DU DU DU DU" WHEN I HEAR IT (im sick and the fever got me but im not delulu... yet, its 3am, at 4am i might be)

#shadow #sonic #sonic the hedghog fandom #sonic 06 #sonic movie 3 #sonic the hedgehog #sonic 2006 #his world #long story short i'm kinda young for sonic 06 at the launch #but when i was around 6 my uncle had this ps3 #he borrowed the game from a friend #i knew sonic since i was 3 or 4 cause my dad put one of the flash bootlegs for me to play #i was in love with the franchise since them #i waited for te weekend to play sonic boom can 3D cause i was little (6 here) and here it wasn't very common sites like youtube in 2009/10 #so i entered the game cause i liked it #ya know various characters and all like my boy shads or mecha (idk of he was only in the 2d or if he was also in 3d #(i played both)#the soundtrack was like 5 songs: you can do anything (intro) sonic boom fight the knight blur on the run AND his worl #IT WAS MY J A M AND MADE MY PERSONALITY WITH WHAT IM MADE OF AND I AM ALL OF ME #my sonic jam today keep being these 3 with a lot more songs AND all of me by sins of a divine mother cause when i was smol i liked sth05 ost

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corvidaedream · 2 months ago

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its so embarrassing to be an adult w a schoolgirl crush on a friend and just when you're like "nothing will come of this so im just going to put these feelings into just caring a lot about my friend as a friend" they do something like make u breakfast in their handmade regency-era quilted banyan, and ur like. fuck. yeah no i stand no chance.

#messages from the ouija board #i can talk about this on here bc only a small handful of u will know who i mean and like maybe 3 people run the risk of ever meeting them #and then i think rebellionbae is the only person actively following me who knows them so #and ive had crushes on friends before but this is the first time ive done it this backwards where #i met them 4 years ago and was like 'oh this person is an absolute heartthrob' and then somehow they became one of my closest friends #at least as i approach 30 theyve stopped mentioning how young i am in comparison to them #that was real demoralizing back when i was smitten but not yet good friends when i was like 23.

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silviakundera · 7 months ago

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Haha I also used the dickless bore. I thought that only the two main characters came back didn't know he did as well. I still don't buy him ever being into her but that's just me I do wonder if he's going to try and kill her again. I do think Li Rong is treating him too well for my liking she should at least treat hit similarly or worse than she treated ML I want to see wet paper towel non stop suffer.

on one hand, imo a SRQ who is heartless doesn't work for the story the writer is trying to share with us. On the other hand, it's totally ok to decide to be a full-time hater towards a minor character, just because it's fun. I support haters! 🎉 \o/ 🎉

One thing that I think is relevant when comparing LR's reactions: if PWX had killed her, the motive would have been as part of his mission to have his childhood love Qin Zhenzhen's son become the next emperor. (Remember, he came over to threaten her life over that right before she died and called his ex Zhenzhen lmao) THE AUDACITY. In contrast, LR is viewing her murder at SRQ's hands as part of the revenge plan for the Su family's execution.

Some passages of Li Rong's POV:

After a few moments, she whispered: “Where did the scent on you come from?”

“If I say it, you might be upset.” Pei Wenxuan’s eyes had a hint of gloating at others’ pain.

Li Rong thought for a while and frowned, “Su Rongqing?”

“Yes.”

...Li Rong said nothing. She blankly stared into the fire.

Pei Wenxuan turned the fish over and looked at her with a smile, seemingly quite happy. Li Rong found that he had a fearless, unabashed look of enjoying a good play and couldn’t help but be a little fazed.

She believed everything Pei Wenxuan said.

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Su Rongqing was someone that she saved with her own hands.

That year, Prince Su rebelled, and Su Rongqing’s elder brother spoke up for Prince Su. Later on, he was falsely accused of colluding with Prince Su, implicating the Su clan with treason.

At that time, Li Chuan was so furious that he fainted. He put the entire Su clan in prison without going through the Joint Trial of Three Divisions first and put the men to death and the women into exile. She disagreed with this decision and rushed to beg Li Chuan before the Su clan received their sentence. After being subjected to ten planks, with Pei Wenxuan’s intervention, she was finally able to ask for amnesty for the Su clan.

Even if the death sentences can be forgone, it was impossible to escape punishment while still alive. Even though the men of the Su clan could live, they would be subjected to castration. The others couldn’t bear the humiliation, so they all committed suicide in prison. When she arrived, there was only one man “desperate for life and afraid of death” left among the men of the Su clan, Su Rongqing.

At that time, she had told Su Rongqing that she saved him without the intention of asking him to repay her. She could give him silver and a position, so that he could continue to live a good life in the future.

Back then, she didn’t have any special feelings towards Su Rongqing. It was just that he had saved her before, so after he took care of her, bit by bit, she felt grateful, and…vague sentiments towards him.

For the most part, she sought to save the Su clan for Li Chuan and her own conscience. The Su clan was a prominent, noble family. It was difficult for her to sit back and watch if they died in such an ambiguous manner.

At that time, Su Rongqing refused to go.

...It wasn’t that she had never thought that Su Rongqing would not take revenge on her. After all, it was Li Chuan who ordered all the men of the Su clan to be beheaded and exiled all the female family members. It was impossible for anyone to forget this blood feud, let alone the formerly first and most outstanding gongzi of that year?

For so many years, she had never dared to give him real authority, observing him and guarding against him while still trying to help him live a better life. She couldn’t actually kill him because of her own conscience, but she couldn’t actually trust him and give him power.

In the end, he still decided to act. He killed her first, then successfully took her authority in the name of eliminating Pei Wenxuan. If she guessed correctly, he would not leave with the advisors. Instead, he would borrow the excuse of taking revenge for her and enforcing the will of the people to join forces with the Empress, assist Li Xin in ascension, and fight to the death against the remnants of Pei Wenxuan’s faction.

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She had anticipated this possibility from the moment she took Su Rongqing in, but she couldn’t help feeling a bit regretful when it actually happened.