#shouldn’t be perceived

[mumuqings]

tgcf book spoilers, but one mu qing and xie lian snippet that I think about a lot is this one, at the start of xie lian’s second banishment when he’s surprised to hear mu qing being described as generous and kind:

as opposed to this memory from before his first ascension when mu qing started giving out cherries to the kids in the city:

I think it just really goes to show 1) how deeply mq’s actions truly affected xl and what he thought of him, but also 2) just how different mq and xl are fundamentally in the way that they think and approach things.

I don’t have a lot of commentary on xl that hasn’t already been said, but bc we get the story from xl’s pov, we see a lot of mq’s actions being framed as selfish or suspicious (which is fair, bc again, we know how much his actions hurt xl), but we also see a lot of misconstrued kindness, like in book 8 where it’s revealed that he knocked out fx in order to save him. it’s also pretty obvious how much mq still cares abt xl, with how quickly he volunteers as fu yao and the lengths he goes to protect him when he deems hc a threat, so I also think it’s very likely that mq leaving the trio first was exactly what he said it was — that he thought becoming a junior official, ascending quickly, would be the best way to take care of not just his mother, but also xl, fx, the king and queen, and himself, and so in a way, him leaving was him acting on his kindness. but ofc it doesn’t work out, and he spends the next 800 years fighting w/ fx about it, defending himself, his decisions, and his kindness, and nitpicking the accuracies of his statues while he himself remains completely misunderstood by the two people he probably cares abt the most.

and idk, I guess I just think that’s probably a really lonely way to spend 800 years.

[purple-cinematic]

tf you mean S4 Starlight gets bullied for her looks ??? Meanwhile I’m still giggling thinking back about all the times she threw hands. In fact I hope she punches even more people in season 5.

[angelnumber27]

Do you think you’re annoying?

I think today is a beautiful day to pet a cat

[blossoms-phan]

im booooooorred can they upload

[rhymaes]

Anne Carson // The Untamed // Herman Melville // Anne Carson // Anne Carson // Euripides

[toasted-valentine]

@pyrotechnicarus was right, that tv can fucking glow.

[glitchedcosmos]

The amount of times I relate to blitzø on so many levels per an episode is probably concerning and something I should definitely rethink who i am as a human being but ha ha pretty pink pop star go brrr

[thebest-medicine]

when normie critical role blogs like and reblog my critickle role fics: 🙇‍♀️ hello 👀👀👀👀 ?

[punkleos]

Silco and Jynx did not have a cute relationship, idk how so many ppl dote on them. Maybe it’s nice to imagine them in wholesome interactions but they had an unhealthy dynamic with no boundaries. their interactions were supposed to make us feel uncomfortable, as confirmed by one of the writers

[dreamings-free]

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[thedreadpirateholmes]

I crawl out of my lurker corner to ramble into the void because- because the general consensus on Phee’s introduction appears to be that she gets her defenses up because Hunter calls her trustworthiness into question, but that isn’t quite true - that that interaction happened and that she gets her defenses up is true, but it’s not actually our introduction to her- it’s not her first response, not her first words.

Her first words are “Better late than dead, I always say.”

There is no defensiveness here, she’s not making a quip, it’s not a witty one-liner: her mouth is downturned, her eyes are distant, she’s looking into her cup and not at the room - she speaks those words with grief.

And then she looks up and speaks with levity, with a hint of teasing - like she’s preparing to share her own secrets in the hopes of connecting with theirs. Like she’s hoping to find a group of people with whom she can build a form of comradery. And then it all goes south, due to Cid sharing a secret that wasn’t hers, and also the mention of the word pirate? Anyway. Maybe Cid was hoping that they would hit it off, that they would be able to help each other find that ‘future’ she brings up to convince the Batch to go to Serenno. Maybe she was actually trying to do something good, before the empire arrived and she did what everyone warned them she would do(the irony of not trusting the pirate who ends up helping them in lieu of sort-of trusting the cantina owner who ends up betraying them). Who knows. It ends up working in the end, despite the rocky start - but the rockiness wasn’t really the start, at least not for Phee. Am I the only one who thinks that? Have I missed someone else bringing this up?

There is so much here that I cannot unpack because I’m typing this at work but aaaaagh!

Anyway, I retreat back to my lurker corner with the serious hope that we get to see more of (and learn more about) Phee in season 3.

[hsslilly-blog]

claire has been in therapy since she was fifteen which is why she’s so self aware but also what do you mean that’s her with therapy. what went wrong

[self-spaghettification]

the theories in my drafts 👁️👁️

the theories i haven’t read 👁️👁️

me the past few weeks😴

me now 🔥🔥

[chanoeys]

I’ve reached a mood low, a level of loneliness/lack of stuff going on in my life that I contemplated joining an improv group.

That ain’t right.

[besarelcielo]

reminder to myself that opportunity is created through consistent effort and setting yourself up to be seen. things do have the ability to fall into your lap but they will do so more easily if you are already in the mindset of attraction…realizing im a lot more closed off, negative and actually repellant than i thought i was because i assume the answer is no before i even ask a question. and yes it’s is a defense mechanism for self preservation but it doesn’t serve me and it never did. nothing is going to come to me if i don’t ever want to be seen

[helioleti]

Kinda cringe meeting new people pre t with girl voice and girl face and girl body like i wanna use my new name to introduce myself but then they’ll know I’m trans and what if they think I’m lying but also fuck what they think