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My Wife is a Heavenly Big Shot
“The opening scene introduces a wife who has reached the peak of her influence, yet still wants a bicycle and insists on eating only soft rice! But when Xiao Yifeng says, ‘I’m truly your husband,’ I almost got strangled by my future wife… Something feels off—I must have ended up with the wrong script!”
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Hello!! New follower here! Do you make request for dion agriche? Can you make a continuon of but you can't stay away from me? It's it correct? Or not i hope, im not really good at english, Sorry!!
❝𝓜𝐘 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 , 𝓜𝐈𝐍𝐄 , 𝓐𝐋𝐋 𝓜𝐈𝐍𝐄…❞
━━ 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐇𝐖𝐀 💭 𝐑𝐎𝐗𝐀𝐍𝐀 / 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐘 𝐓𝐎 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃’𝐒 𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑
━━ 𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 💭 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 𝐗 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐓 / 𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 ! 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑
━━ 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓 💭 18+ , 𝐌𝐃𝐍𝐈 , 𝐘𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐄 , 𝐓𝐎𝐗𝐈𝐂 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 , 𝐔𝐍𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐑
━━ ��/𝐍 💭 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐎 𝐎𝐎𝐂 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐈 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐋𝐄𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐓𝐒 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐎 𝐈𝐓’𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 :p
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who doesn’t know how to love someone. he was nurtured inside the womb with resentment and entered into this world as an unloved child, loathed by his own blood, his own mother.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who desperately yearns to know what it feels like to love and to be loved. to be cherished by someone unconditionally despite the stygian blood pumping in his veins and the innocent life untimely looted by his hands. wether it be familial love, platonic love, or romantic love, he just wants to experience something. just once in his life so he could believe himself to not be an unlovable child, and yet people only seem to have contempt reserved for him, and so he never knew how to express this inherent need.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who was the first to feel the attraction towards you, the only person who reached a hand out to him while wearing a bright smile and not a scowl of disgust. your kindness had touched the forsaken child in him that constantly pleaded to be treated with even a speck of affection. he only felt himself more charmed by you since, invoking dion to desperately cling onto that feeling of what he believed “love” to be—and perhaps it purely was, at first anyways.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who fell deeper and deeper into the pit of attraction until his usually logical mind becomes shrouded, believing his growing infatuation towards you to be love and he was willing to do anything to have you return his affection. even if it meant stripping you of your loved ones and precious lifestyle, even if it meant confining you to his room brimmed with empty luxuries for your amusement, even if it meant all your heart could ever spare him was your vitriol. he wholeheartedly believed that you would one day return his affection because he simply adored you too much for you to resent him forever, and he’d show you.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who was deeply touched when you were confirmed to be pregnant with his child, a sense of feverish delirium that he’s never even experienced even on his birthdays fluttering through his chest. he was convinced the child in your womb to be the greatest embodiment of your love, that its existence must’ve reified your love for him.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who swore to himself that he would love your child, even if he didn’t know how to. the forsaken child in him has already known what it’s like to be nourished by enmity and abhorrence, something that still haunts him into adulthood, and dion wishes to shield your child from that kind of treatment because its existence is precious and lovable purely because it shared your blood, and dion thinks every part of you is lovable.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who usually indulges your every whims (not that you usually have many requests for him), but begins to overindulge you during your pregnancy. even if you didn’t ask for it, he hires tailors to consult with you about specially-designed baby clothes. he even builds a brand new room with a playroom that would be connected to your shared bedroom so you could easily have access to the baby, and even allows you to decorate it however you want.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who follows you like your own shadow during your pregnancy, which really isn’t that different. he can’t really help it. the agriche mansion is a dangerous place with his savage siblings lurking around, always on the hunt for a new toy. even though they know not to test their limits with the unofficial favorite child of their father and his lover, they can torment you in ways other than physical and it makes dion fret for your health as well as the child’s. it’s better to be safe and sorry, even if he sometimes receive sharp glances from you when trailing after you.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who worries over your health so much he creates a whole new diet for you with strict rules regarding things you’re allergic to and things that might negatively affect the baby. he also rarely allows you to walk on your own two feet for too long, always timing your steps in his mind and anticipating the moment before you begin to feel worn out. he always swoops in to bridal-carry you in his arms to wherever your destination is, and takes your lack of comment as it’s own form of praise.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who monitors the growth of your belly bump every end of the week. he always glide his hand over your stomach to feel the baby’s heartbeat because he’s trained to detect any heartbeat and feels comforted by the fact the baby’s heartbeat grows stronger every time he checks. he’s also quite fond of caressing your stomach once a bump starts to form, no matter how subtle. especially when the two of you are in bed together, he always has a hand on your stomach, hoping the baby could sense his effort to become familiar with it.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who spoils you with new clothes and imported accessories because your body’s changing and he wants you to be comfortable. even though it might not seem like it most of the time with his indifferent expression, dion cares very much for your happiness and does whatever he can to keep you contented, although with some limits. wether this means spoiling you rotten or allowing you to order him around, dion actually won’t mind and will do as you say, although it seems you rarely ever do so.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who gets incredibly anxious when your due date approaches. he’s complied a lot of information about child birth throughout you pregnancy, just in case you go into labor before your due date, but that only means he’s also aware of the risks of giving birth, and for the first time ever, he feels fear not for himself but for another person. he gets incredibly sensitive during this time, especially his senses which goes haywire any time your heartbeat starts beating quicker than it usually does because of course he has your heart beat memorized. let’s just say a lot of good servants were lost during this time since dion needed many stress relievers.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who is in full-blown panic mode when the big moment comes, and for him that means blanching paler than a dove and cold sweat drenching his entire body. he doesn’t even realize it but his body’s shaking because he feels pain even though he’s not wounded; your painful cries and sobs are enough for him to feel as if he’s been stabbed by a sword—no, perhaps even something so macabre couldn’t compare to what he felt when he was utterly helpless whilst you were suffering through something purely agonizing. he holds onto your hand as if you were his lifeline, and even your worst grip couldn’t get him to let go of you first.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who thinks to himself that maybe having only one child is enough. he partly believes so because he has no desire to see you in so much pain and losing unnecessary blood again, but also because he doubts wether he could love more than one child. dion’s heart is not nearly big enough to love more than you and hopefully this child, he could barely even love himself, and even then, dion doubts he would ever cherish your child more than he did you. even if you had asked so if him, he would fail to do it.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who feels lightheaded when he sees the bloody mess that spills from you. no, he’s not disgusted. he’s seen things much more gruesome and grotesque things, yet the fact that blood is coming from you makes him terribly anxious that something might go wrong and he might lose you. for the first time ever in his life, dion prays to something, anything for your safety because he’s simply helpless and he’s not used to it at all.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who doesn’t hear the baby’s cries but only your sigh of relief when the child is born. he immediately jumps to make sure that you’re fine and healthy, briskly checking your pulse and placing his ear near your chest so he could listen to your heartbeat. it has always calmed him down before and it works like a charm to calm him down once again.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who’s completely taut when the worries finally leave him. he’s like a dear caught in headlights that doesn’t know what to do, and his hands tremble slightly when the child is finally presented for him to hold. he first turns to you for a look of confirmation, and your hesitant yet nod of assurance had him gently taking the sniffling baby into his arms. it’s so small and delicate that dion doesn’t think he’s ever treated something so gently before—well, maybe you were the first.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who finds himself staring at its oddly shaped face as if he were bewitched. a smile never made its way to his callous face yet there’s a shine in his ruby eyes and an undeniable flush of excitement to his pale cheeks. even though he doesn’t find your child as adorable as you did at first, the beaming smile you wore as you held it was enough for dion to also nod along to your hazy words.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who pampers and cosset your child from day one. he’s always around to hold the baby when you’re tired, always admiring its cherubic countenance and incoherent murmurs. he treats your child as if it were a magical creature that’s never been discovered before, and his own curiosity about the baby is quite child-like in its purity and wonder.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who falls into the role of a father not without stumbling along the way. he’s not very expressive and has a hard time comprehending other’s needs, so dion finds it especially difficult to read your baby’s expressions and care for it correctly. he tries, he certainly does, so often that sometimes he’s just sitting around with your baby in his arms and trying to decipher its expressions and moods. he still doesn’t seem to get it right despite his many attempts.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who never lets the baby disturb your sleep. he doesn’t even do this deliberately. as a trained assassin his senses are naturally sensitive to the changes around him and a baby isn’t quite skilled enough to evade his detection. therefore, trust that you’ll have a peaceful sleep, and even if you are awaken it’ll be a gentle shake on your shoulder because dion just can’t seem to guess what the child needs, but you’ll never be awoken by a crying baby.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who doesn’t allow your baby to ever be close with his other family members. sure, his entire family might be aware of the fact he has a child and a “lover” but that doesn’t mean they also have the privilege to approach your child. he gatekeeps them so fervently that if another member of the family even mentions making an attempt, there might be a battle, and dion definitely won’t be the one loosing.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who personally teaches his child how to wield a sword and other self-defense techniques as they get older. it doesn’t matter if they’re a boy or a girl, they were unfortunate enough to be born into the house of agriche and knowing how to fight is the bare minimum to survive. of course, he won’t be as harsh as his instructors were in the past, often making some adjustments to focus on your child’s strength. he won’t be gentle even if they’re only sparring, and he doesn’t give out praises easily, however he does try to give physical encouragements such as head pats and the occasional hug.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who spoils your kid without restraint when they’re growing up and start having their own needs. be it imported toys or golden staffs for playtime, he doesn’t care as long as his child is kept contented. he even brings home exotic goods from places he visits on his missions for both you and your child as a reminder he was thinking about the two of you.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who is uncertain if he’s loving his child correctly or if he even loves them at all. sure, there’s an attachment that’s developing that will definitely grow deeper as the years pass, and yes, they do have a certain bond no matter how their relationship might seem. however, his feelings towards your child is no where comparable to the feelings dion has towards you, that which he believes to be “love”, and therefore he can’t properly gauge his own feelings but also partly can’t seem to believe that he could truly love his child with the way he was raised. if worse comes to worse and he had to chose between the two of you, it would never be your child no matter how much time passes.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who passes on his certain idiosyncrasies onto his child. deliberately or not? we’ll never know. it’s quite easy to pick up on this when you begin to notice just how attached your child is to you and how they start getting possessive of you around the maids and easily getting enraged when a servant accidentally bumps into you. sure, your child might be the opposite of dion which allows them to express themselves easier, but they often do so wantonly and has sudden outbursts when it comes to you, almost as if they’re mirroring what dion just can’t seem to express.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who is extremely proud when your child fervently agrees with his belief of keeping you to himself since you were the only one who was kind to him and how others were undeserving of your presence. this even gets to the point where the father-child duo will gang up on you whenever your emotions get out of hand and you start desiring to runaway again. they will manipulate you into believing that everything is just fine and that you would ruin everything if you acted upon those “passing impulses”, and they will do so without an ounce of guilt because in the end they’re still agriches.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who uses your child as another shackle to keep you tied to him along with the silver band on your ring finger that weighs you down. in the end, he’s grateful that you came into his life and gave him the taste of normalcy that he was so famished of. he’s grateful for the nights he would share his bed with you and your child, of the evenings the three of you would take a walk through the garden hand-in-hand, and of the dinners where the three of you would sit together like a peaceful family while your child would rant about their lessons.
━━ ✧ 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄 who knows he owes all the happiness in his life to you and who’ll make sure to repay you in whatever way he can, and that includes making sure he’ll stay by your side until you grow old together. even in your next life and the many lives after, dion agriche swears that he will find you, because one simply can’t exists in the dark again without getting greedy after having embraced by the light.
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To have the Agriche males vying for your attention? That was something entirely different and something dangerous.
DION AGRICHE loves you, although he does not express it. Nor will be probably ever due to his inability to express most of his emotions. Perhaps he'd show it in a subtle way, but he would never make it fully known to the public. He watches your every move, obsesses over every little thing you do.
If someone tries to take you away? He will shove them, beat them up, or even kill them on some instances where the male found the admirer very irritating. It was not irrational, not at all. You were his, and whether or not you knew so did not matter to him. He will make sure no one dared take you away.
JEREMY AGRICHE would be very open about his love for you. There is no denying the way he'd flirt in front of the people who he knew would like you in a sense. Men and women alike. He'd hold your hand, grab your waist, and pull you close to him just to make it know that you were his territory.
If anyone badmouthed you, they'd receive the same fate or worse. After all, torture was nothing new to the Agriche son. He would very much torture just about anyone who dares wrong you in any way. His darling did not deserve such treatment and never will. He is hell-bent on making that known and assuring that that will never be a situation deigned on you.
LANT AGRICHE, the head of the Agriche himself, obsessed with you? It was unlikely that he'd hide it. Not at all. He'd ask for your hand on the spot, buy you from your prestigious but greedy family, or perhaps he'd kidnap you instead. The man seemed to have a liking for this sort of violent and forceful act.
He would shower you with gifts, try to keep your mind off the fact that he'd taken you away from your family to be his instead of being married off to an old man, a suitor way over your years. He would keep you close, but not close enough to let his guard down and relax his ways with you.
He'd be very firm. Firm enough and strict. Strict enough to punish you, or threaten to, for even thinking of running away or proposing an idea he did not like. He'd also urge you to have his children, urge to breed you. Reason and convince with ease.
In the end, you were theirs, and they enjoyed that idea. Relished the thought of you wrapped around their finger. It made them happy and so much so.
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Hidden love really ended up being a gem through and through. It reminded me a lot of You are my glory not because they have anything in common in terms of storylines but because they were the becoming increasingly rare breed of cdrama/kdrama that is entirely focused on a single love story, there are no side couples added to pad the time and no murder plots, it's just two people growing together and I think that's lovely. Also her throwing the drink in that girl's face for disrespecting the ML ( they weren't even together yet) and saying something along the lines of " If you do something to him I'll mess you up every single time" Top 10 moments of the year.
#hidden love#you are my glory#it had one of my favorite female leads#We honestly don't get to see female leads defending/protecting male leads often especially with such ferocity and it's beautiful#cdrama#how I wish more female leads were like her
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genuinely bewildered at how it's just g@merg@te again. like it's just exactly the same strategy, except now it's a cabal of dark and sinister narrative designers instead of "there are women near my games" but it's like the same fucking thing and I'm so tired honestly
#thoughts#as a dark and sinister narrative designer I wish I was part of the secret club that apparently finance every game with a diverse cast#when I tried to fund my very queer game with a black lead I got told by a room full of 50 white men that “nobody wanted this”#in spite of our market analysis screaming otherwise#and then was ridiculed in front of my men colleagues and told I couldn't be trusted because I would spontaneously give birth#and forget all my dreams instantly#or I was considered the “fun girl” who was only there to present the game (it was MY game!!!)#and for every serious conversation they went to my male colleague behind my back#so yeah I want in on that sweet diversity money pleaaaase#without having to debase myself to get it#this is so fucking stupid#(and like there are things to be said about the handling of DEI in corporate settings)#(I had almost nothing but bad interactions with such structures personally)#(but it was because it was a tool turned *against* minorities to speak over them and police their self-expression most of the time)#(for the sake of corporate interests or to protect the feelings of whoever was in position of power)#(so I think there are conversations to be had and it's actually a pretty complicated subject that can get VERY VERY messy)#(but yeah this aint it gamers)
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Finally mad that tiktok account after like a month....
Put my country there so people know I know nothing about European countries and how they work
#kira's crossships#remarried empress#my in laws are obsessed with me#your throne#who made me a princess#actually i was the real one#how to get my husband on my side#i abdicated my title of empress#divorcing my tyrant husband#the villainess is a marionette#i became the daughter of the male lead#the way to protect the female lead's older brother#beware of the villainess#i want to be you for a day#kill the villainess
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#simple man#manliness#simple life#traditional gender roles#christian manhood#traditional manhood#chivalry#tradblr#traditional man#gentleman#patriarchy#pro patriarchy#male leadership#man lead#men are kings#men are priests#men are builders#protect and serve#seneca#stoic philosophy#stoicism#virtue#the pursuit of virtue
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wu zetian and li shimin ironwidow start out as a fascinating duo. she's a conscripted concubine/sacrifice who beat the odds and killed the murderer of her sister before he had the chance to kill her. he's a death row prisoner who killed his whole family in retaliation for some form of abuse (against him? against another person?) and has killed many more women via the cannibalistic system of in-universe mecha piloting. they're paired together with the explicit reasoning that he'll probably also kill her while piloting---use up her spiritual and mental energy until nothing is left, which he has also done to every other woman he's been paired with up to this point. I cannot stress enough that at least one woman has died because of li shimin in every battle he's ever fought, if only in the way that a murder committed with a weapon can technically be attributed to that weapon even if it's being wielded by someone else---and she hates him. of course she hates him! she's suicidal and being propelled forward only by her desire for vengeance and her deep, unwavering concern for the wellbeing of women like her sister, who are dehumanized and turned into statistics, considered necessary sacrifices. wu zetian rejects the idea that there's any such thing as a necessary sacrifice, or at least that if sacrifices must be made that they have to be women. why would she ever like someone who's representative of the systemic consumption of women? she and li shimin have such similar-but-different relationships to violence borne out of necessity and then it just.... doesn't really go anywhere. everything zetian found scary or untrustworthy about shimin was a misunderstanding all along. he's actually a big softie under the prisoner tattoo and the scars from years of mistreatment and the storied record of violent behavior. even his addiction was forced on him by other people (which isn't to say that being an addict is morally wrong but it's another thing he has no agency in. he has almost no agency in this book) and she forgives him. zetian forgives him for everything and pushes the women, the twelve dead women to whom li shimin was a gun pressed to their heads, aside. the women she's sworn since the start of the book she would never lose sight of. anyway let's talk about li shimin some more. he feels bad about it now. let's focus on his manpain about his girlfriend who he ate that one time
#bolo liveblogs#iron widow#I did genuinely enjoy this book quite a lot in case I need to clarify that#I just think zhao shot themself in the foot when they established that every mecha battle is an active trolley problem situation#where there's an unknown number of women tied to the tracks at all times and then let anything else supercede that in zetian's mind#is it perhaps unfair to expect this traumatized eighteen year old with very few options to always act rationally? yes#is it... thematically very uncomfortable for your female lead to be distracted from the women she swore to always protect#because they're dehumanized depersonalized and consumed for men's benefit#by her male love interest who killed 12+ women at least and who needs her to comfort him about it? YES
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A Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes/Love You Seven Times Feylin AU where Feylin fight the hand of SJM trying to keep them apart over the course of several lifetimes
#voice of the lost#anti sjm#pro feylin#feylin#the potential for tragedy tho#feyre remembering in the next lifetime the shit mr rhysand-demoted-to-second-male-lead pulled#also really capitalize on tamlin's guilt over not being able to save feyre from dying by basically spoiling her rotten in another lifetime#oh and since this would be in true c-drama fashion since feyre died the cosmos demands tamlin dies protecting feyre#to really milk the angst on both sides#but also in true c-drama fashion he doesn't stay dead and they get to eventually live happily ever after#idk man its 10PM and my brain worms stop making sense
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When will they ever air this drama?
#whump#whumper#asian whump#emotional whump#drama#suffering#asian whumper#whumpee#chinese drama#Cheng Yi#hurt male lead#protective whumpee
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98 icons of Dion from Roxana!
or The Way To Protect The Female Lead's Older Brother whatever
Here!
No credit required just like and/or reblog if using!
#manhwa icons#icons#rp icons#roleplay icons#roxana icons#the way to protect the female lead's older brother icons#why do all these manhwas & manhuas have such long titles#mi: male#mi: adult#mi: dark hair#also ignore that the inner folder is a different name lmao i forgot to change it since i made them for a muse of mine
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Me reading a cool new novel: hah wow this is cool it has a neat premise and a promising plot line let’s see our protagonist level up and learn how to use his new power in interesting and cool ways—
*MC meets a beautiful powerful girl and defeats her
*MC meets a beautiful powerful girl and impresses her
*MC meets a beautiful powerful girl and rescues her
*MC meets a beautiful powerful girl and defeats her PT 2
Me: Ah nvm it’s a harem novel god damn it
#it was cool at first but now I’m grinding my teeth like wtf#I was okay with it at first bc like. he defeats the beautiful cold hearted prodigy by a hairs breadth and we get this sad backstory for her#which could be better’d by the MC who doesn’t fear her and can teach her how to socialize and become a brighter happier person through their#developing friendship and potentially romantic relationship and it could have led to character development for both of them as they struggle#through the feeling of being cast aside as an ‘other’ by society and learning how to stumble through a relationship that involves#communication and admittance and honesty#something our MC and FL can’t get through their mentors#instead we get her genuine attempts at becoming friends being brushed off by him who assumes she’s going to eventually want a romantic#relationship by the end of it and ARGHHXHHD she’s a shy person!! she’s trying her best!!! you asshole!!!! and then the author has the#AUDACITY#to make her continue yearning after this guy who doesn’t give 2 shits about her and she’s only used as a support character for the#ensuing battle and then he promptly leaves her behind for his own adventure#and don’t even get me STARTED on the lack of compatibility with the other women in this story#they aren’t even being used as potential love interests they’re just there so the author can say he added strong female characters and then#IMMEDIATELY turns around and makes them fawn over this 19 yr guy who cAn pRoTeCt ThEM AnD HEs sO cOoL FUCK#I was holding out but now he just annoys me dude this is why I don’t like reading male lead perspectives if there’s a DROP of romance#it ruins it! romance is dead no one knows what chemistry is they only want to be fawned over by women to stroke their egos#not a reblog
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You know I'll admit it, once I learned and fully grasped the context of drag I did want to be a drag king as a teenager, starting at around fourteen or so. As a hobby if nothing else. I even had a drag name picked out, tho it prolly wasn't very good. But conservatives must be disappointed to learn that it did absolutely zero percent damage to my psyche, self worth, or physicality to be interested in drag before I was an adult. I ended up never getting into it seriously, during high school or as an adult, because the stage presence I had as a middle schooler in the lead role was slowly eroded by the thing that did do damage to my psyche, self worth, and physicality: being bullied for being GNC* and for being disabled.
*this is why I can't take "let girls be tomboys!" seriously because I was harassed and bullied endlessly by adults and my peers for being a tomboy years before I grasped the context of transgenderism and genderqueerness, just like all the GNC cis girls and women who are being harassed and attacked by transphobic hysteria mobs alongside their trans sisters
#drag#drag story hour#drag king#gnc#transphobia#also fun note: that lead role was the MALE lead role and i had a blast playing it at thirteen#trans kids#protect trans kids#protect the children
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Roxana | Kin, Summer Light, Baek Ji Young, 킨, 여름빛, 백지연
#The Way to Protect the Female Lead's Older Brother#How To Protect the Female Lead's Older Brother#Roxana Agriche#Roxana Agrece#ongoing#villainess#isekai#fantasy#psychological#powerful female lead#female x male#bamf mc#amoral main character#female lead#pretty art#favorite#manhwa#toxic relationship#transparent
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this drama is Intensely melodramatic and im furious (slightly insane, affectionate)
#the actors SELL it really well they believe so much in their acting plus microexpressions u end up swept up with the emotion#all the Emotionality of a soap opera compressed into twelve minute episodes#thanking dangermousie?? for the rec list i think LKDJFSF#listen...im so tempted to put dialogue like this in my fic All the time u have no idea how much im restraining myself HAHAHHAHAH#there is a story: revenge stolen identities pretty clothes#the male lead is...def sort of scummy in a I will Protect Her way and also pretend to be vicious all the time#and u have the perfectly chiseled jaw and eyebrows to balance it out HAHAHAHA#the girl also has a lot of tense scenes where she's willing to use whatever weapons on hand she has to progress the plot#cdrama#maid's revenge
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