#shit that makes me cry

[dreamerinthemoonlight]

Do you think Zhongli ever has nightmares?

Like, the man is insanely well adjusted and takes things in stride, but he also seems to have a sense of nostalgia...

So are there nights where even millennia later he can't help but remember the past? How fucking hard must the archon war have been? Or the Khaenri'ah incident? He's seen war and death and has lost so many people.

And he isn't heartless. When you look in his eyes, you find intensity and power and more passion than his refined demeanor lets on.

So yeah, does Zhongli fall prey to nightmares?

[becauseimanicequeen]

Hi, Ice Queen.

Saw a comment you made on being obsessed with bls that make you cry. What bls are those?

I'm also not a crier and would be interested in testing them out for myself.

Thanks.

Hi, Anon.

What makes me cry is most likely different from what makes you cry. So, there’s a big chance these series or scenes won’t make you shed tears.

I’m personally moved by characters that go through loss and experience grief because I’ve had to deal with that a lot in my relatively short life. It doesn’t matter if the characters lose their parents, siblings, friends, lovers, pets, or whomever. I relate to it all. And if the actors can portray those emotions or the team behind the series/film portrays the right mood (or both), my ice melts. And I love those moments.

So, here are some of the QLs that have made me cry (and made me obsess over them for that very reason). I’ll start with two I’ve mentioned before and then I’ll add some others.

As per usual when I write about series/films, they’re not recommendations because I don’t recommend anything.

HIStory 3: Make Our Days Count (Taiwan)

Everyone and their aunt have an issue with the ending of this one. It’s understandable. The way it made me cry for a whole episode before tragedy struck, though… I could feel the tragedy coming. And my crying lasted until the very end. It fucking hurt.

Once Again (Korea)

I can’t remember that I’ve ever cried to something more than I’ve cried to this series. It broke me, healed me, and then broke me again only to end with a sliver of hope I held onto for dear life.

I loved the mood of this series. And I especially loved Moon Ji Yong’s acting (he’s in The New Employee as well). The way he portrays emotions! Seriously, when he gets that sad puppy look, I cry, and as soon as he cries, I’m already bawling.

Let’s not forget the music! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve listened to the ost, especially “Other Side” by RUNY. But it’s MANY. And I still get emotional.

This series hurt so fucking much. But it hurt really good.

Y-Destiny (Thailand)

Most of this series is blah, but Masuk, Tir, and Jia’s episodes broke me (I can’t remember exactly which episodes they were, but it's towards the end of the series, most likely ep 13 and 14).

Masuk is grieving for the loss of his partner, Tir, and the way Masuk basically just exists rather than live is relatable to me. And then there’s Jia who just wants to be there for Masuk, to love him, and make sure Tir isn’t forgotten… Fuck, I’m getting emotional just thinking about it.

I cried through most of these two episodes and I loved it.

Then there are certain moments in some QLs that made me cry rather than the whole series (like Once Again) or designated episodes (like in Y-Destiny). Those are:

When Yuan accepts that Qian is sending him abroad in Unknown and this scene.

When Yai loses his mom in Big Dragon and when Mangkorn’s mom tells Yai to think of her as another mother of his.

When Win lashes out at Team for swimming alone in Between Us and when Team breaks down by his cousin/friend’s (or whatever he was) grave. Most of this series was pretty bland for me (even though I love Boun and Prem's chemistry).

The moments leading up to Jom disappearing from the past in I Fell You Linger in the Air and when he actually does.

When the young Ongsa still decided to approach the young Suansoon in Absolute Zero even though he knew he would eventually get into an accident. But Mix (who played the young Suansoon) got criminally little time in this series when he was, by far, the highlight for me. I loved his scenes while the rest was pretty boring.

I’m sure there were other moments as well. But these are the ones I can remember obsessing over (as in rewatching again and again and again) right now.

Thank you for your ask.

[mentaiiyabsent]

OH MY GOD LITERALLY

when i want fluff/angst fics and all i’m getting is smut

the struggle is real

[inkyyasteroid]

current obsession is a younger teammate of mine who i've known for at least over a decade (played with her and her older sister) who i had suspicions of being fruity of sorts, or just a fun gal, being a lot more open about her life with her girlfriend now that she's out to her family

[honeysunchild]

Why do I have new different pains now??? This treatment was supposed to help with this specific pain, but now I have a surprise new pain to deal with?? This was supposed to make my life easier..

[ajthecrocodile]

IT’S A RAINBOW OF BILLS! A BILLBOW! RGBILL!!!

The clip of Bill saying YELLOW was all over my FYP and it inspired me…

[normal-thoughts-official]

Plain text: "whatever was left, that was ours for a while" in italics. End PT

whatever was left, that was ours for a while.

sunrise - louise glück

[dumpster-fire-sapphic-failgirl]

If Aabria has 1 million fans, I am one of them

If Aabria has 1 thousand fans, I am one of them

If Aabria has 1 hundred fans, I am one of them

If Aabria has 1 fan, it is Brennan Lee Mulligan and I have been killed, please avenge me

[dancinghannigram]

something something unlovable meets unconditional love and so on

[nayrring]

Don't u just love it when kamado tanjiro leaves the sun jobless

[relaxxattack]

micheal's going into first grade now isn't he. im going to be fucking sick

[fyllophobia]

[shorthaltsjester]

the mighty nein - critical role

this is a place where i don't feel alone. this is a place where i feel at home.

[thebibliosphere]

I’ve talked about this with some friends, but the whole Spotify/audiobook drama legitimately makes me want to cry.

If you are unaware, earlier in the month, Spotify, who now owns FindawayVoices -- an audiobook distributor and one of the only major rivals to Audible on the creator end -- announced that their ToS would be updating.

The ToS updates were horrendous and basically allowed Spotify to make royalty-free translations of our works, as well as create derivatives, and basically just fuck us all over and feed all of our hard work into AI.

The backlash was so swift that less than 12 hours later, Spotify sent out a panicked “Sorry our wording wasn’t clear!” email with a promised update. Less than 24 hours later they issued a statement walking back the changes to the ToS, and have since been pulling a “we never said that, you misread our unclear verbiage” when in reality the verbiage was very clear (Not Spotify trying to pull a “gaslight gatekeep girl boss ✌️”), they just didn't expect to get dragged out into the metaphorical court of social media and get publicly annihilated with authors withdrawing their work from the platform and customers canceling their subscriptions left right and center.

Anyway, the walk back was acceptable enough for me to not feel the need to remove my work entirely from FindAway -- which is good because I would have lost access to the global audiobook market if I had, not to mention global library access. Which, again, is good. A significant chunk of my audiobook earnings comes from Libby, and I’d honestly be lost without that $20 every month. (we get paid quarterly but it breaks out to about $20 a month.)

What the walk back was not good enough for, was for me to trust them to keep streaming Hunger Pangs on their Spotify streaming service. Because quite frankly, I don't trust them not to pull some more ToS bullshit, and this is the part making me want to cry.

Why? Because I’m going through my royalty reports, and for the single month of December 2023 alone, Hunger Pangs was streamed so often it earned $400.

In one month.

That's more than I earn from Audible in a year.

That's more than I earn from kobo, b&n, libby, libro.fm and several author distributors combined in a year.

I’m going to scream.

[akantorrr]

Anatomizing Your Synthetic Humanity

Comic I drew of a scene from @size-two-shrimp's fic :>

[ratatatastic]

maffhew who refuses to say runebergin torttu because he knows hes gonna butcher it so bad he might be kicked out of the country the second he tries and staunchly avoids that by going "the one dessert that barky is going to have to explain 😃"

sasha who gets faced with the most generic description of everything hes ever eaten in his life so far because of maffhew and going "???... oh you mean runebergin torttu!"

"he did good he liked the food and he likes the finland so far so its good" sasha says with so much pride now that all the anxiety has left his system that his husband teammate is enjoying his country and doesnt hate it

media availability | 10.29.24 (x)(x)

the smile of a man who knowlingly doomed his husband and said husband using all his brain power to context clues his way to whatever the fuck he just got asked that his brain is running hotter than a mid 2012 macbook air thats somehow still alive in the year of the lord 2024 but girl does she chug along shes louder than a fighter jet