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[gayestbinnie]

an always sunny promo photoshoot photo can be so personal

[korrioak]

Portrait

[puppyeared]

Big cat

[vinlynce]

Mirror Image

[heartscrypt]

link click is an anime about a normal girl and her gay little freak foster brother and nothing bad happens to either of them ever

[waterfrontcomplex]

yanqing abundance + origin thoughts/theory

so, i was doing whatever and a thought came to me (story spoilers also there's a lot of text)

i took a look around the loufu and realized something; all of the people had essentially every hair color except blonde. the only exceptions are people not native to the loufu, such as luocha.

yk. the one who happens to be ON THE PATH OF ABUNDANCE

and who else has blonde hair?

YANQING.

yanqing's origins are relatively unknown, all we know is that jing yuan found him somewhere and decided to take him in for whatever reason. in yanqing's character story, it says that it's recorded in the military annals of the cloud knights how jing yuan discovered him, but not where.

yanqing mentions in his character introduction how he was RAISED BY THE GENERAL SINCE BIRTH which... like. what. ok thats actually crazy bc either

1) jing yuan took him from his parents when he was like a day old or something

2) he was given to jing yuan (although, this is unlikely considering it was mentioned jing yuan 'discovered' him)

3) jing yuan lied for whatever reason (to protect him)

4) jing yuan indeed found him when he was born, possibly from a fruit of the ambrosial arbor

in the pic above, yanqing says 'but as you know, children aren't grown on trees." is this foreshadowing? or just straight up dropping a hint that his 'birth' was not a natural one?

the ambrosial arbor was inactive for approx. 2579 years before the sedition of imbibitor lunae. after that, the seals on the arbor were weakened. i haven't exactly worked out the specifics yet, but since bailu was created around 700~ years before canon and is still a little kid, and dan heng was presumably an adult/teen when exiled, my guess is that if yanqing has the lifespan/growth rate of a xianzhou native, he would've been born sometime in between den heng's hatching and bailu's hatching, a little closer towards bailu's. but what could've happened during that time? please hear me out the next part is kinda crazy

my guess is that during the tampering of the transmutation arcanum to revive baiheng (and presumably to allow other species to become vidyadhara, although the wiki gave no source... i'll trust it for now), dan feng and yingxing fucked up and created yanqing in a fruit of the arbor, while during the transmutation arcanum ritual, bc dan feng previously fucked with it, it failed and created bailu (and separated his powers between dan heng and bailu)

now, this seems... really out there. how the fuck would yanqing and bailu, a presumably xianzhou native/humanoid and a vidyadhara, be created from the remains of a foxian? i'll start with yanqing. it was stated that after baiheng's death, only a few drops of blood and a tuft of her hair remained. dan feng and yingxing created yanqing in a fruit of the arbor (like some sort of hatching rebirth... but a fruit) using either the blood or hair (most likely blood) of baiheng. it was a somewhat failed attempt at reviving baiheng. yes, it created life from her remains, but it was not her (think how dan heng ≠ dan feng, and also how vidyadhara can be different genders than their previous incarnation). during the time he was in the fruit, it dyed his hair and eyes blonde/gold, and also created the ring around yanqing's eyes (his is unique, the other characters' eye rings if they have them are a lighter color while his is dark, yes ik silver wolf has it too but her's is different).

before bailu's hatching and after subduing jingliu, jing yuan eventually came across the fruit yanqing was being held in, or found him wandering about, probably recognized the blonde/gold as the effects of the abundance, and took him in because dude he's not going to kill a literal baby (even if he could). he knew it would be dangerous to give him to a regular family, so he took him in and trained him himself

for more info abt yanqing's connection to the vidyadhara, i suggest checking out this post by astralexpressarchives.

although he is not baiheng, he did take on aspects of baiheng's personality, such as her free will and even laughing/giggling while in battle. he also enjoys flying (although with his swords and not starskiffs) and even has eyelashes similar to her's. and, just like her, yanqing's missions would often be dangerous, but he would come out relatively unscathed.

now, about bailu. dan heng says she was created after dan feng's ritual failed. if you take a look at bailu, she strongly resembles baiheng, and even starts with the same 'bai'.

same hair, same eyes, similar eyelashes, she even has a similar eye ring to yanqing. there's not too much to say here. while yanqing got baiheng's personality and fighting spirit, bailu got her appearance. now, why did this happen? im thinking its because of dan feng's meddling with the transmutation arcanum. because of that, yanqing was born, but it was 'incomplete'. so while yanqing got one part of baiheng, bailu got the other. yanqing was made on purpose, while bailu was somewhat of an accident. maybe some of baiheng's 'life' from yanqing's creation was still there when bailu was created? idk

the funny thing is, their paths are like... the complete opposite. yanqing follows the hunt (although he was born of the abundance) and bailu follows the abundance (although she was presumably supposed to follow the destruction or hunt).

theory tldr; dan feng and yingxing fucked up and created yanqing and bailu out of baiheng's remains

this is a yanqing post, time to get back to yanqing. hooray! i took a closer look at yanqing's outfit, and noticed numerous leaf/plant symbols.

...which are closely associated with the abundance. especially the gold leaves.

this further solidifies my belief that yanqing has something to do with the abundance.

jesus christ that is. a wall of text. pls tell me ur thoughts on this whole thing, i took like 2 1/2 hours to write it and its 2:40 am so sorry if it doesn't make sense i just need to put these thoughts somewhere

[clowfish]

fanart of chapter 18 of The Thief by @wintergrew which is literally the best fanfic I have ever read in my life https://archiveofourown.org/works/14432472/chapters/51578533#workskin

technicalllllyyy tweek is wearing a shirt in this scene but I wanted the drawing to be a bit ambiguous without context

[cream-and-tea]

yeah i’m thinking about parallels in my own book. yeah it’s gonna be all day sorry.

[mis3rabl3m3lody]

The way I fucking tweaked at this goddamn scene/pos I feel so insane

That lady is me btw I'm kissing him that's me trust /j

[a-drama-addict]

finally sharing my durge <3 meet freyja (she/her) everyone

[brokenstarwishes]

.... I... um.......

.......I can get pretty upset when I run out of lives in candy crush actually, Siffrin.

it'd be nice to have someone to help calm me down.... relieve the stress...

(I'm just giggling about the idea of this being over candy crush-)

( You Kindly push your jerk of a host away from your console )

Iii I,,, wwould,,, hhelp. If yyoud want that?

ii imean relieve,,, stress,,, ii i can be pretty good at being an outlet,,,

for that...

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( You sound ridiculous. Stars why cant you flirt. )

[blueskittlesart]

ALSO WHILE IM STILL GOING CRAZY ABT THE CHAMPIONS. WORTH NOTING THAT REVALI IS THE ONLY ONE WITH ZERO PRIOR CONNECTION TO ANY OF THE OTHERS. god the more i think about revali the more insane i get. every other champion knows someone else there. mipha and link, daruk and link, urbosa and zelda. revali is completely alone. even within his group he is isolated and. god. NO WONDER HES SO PISSY ALL THE TIME. from his perspective, link won't talk to him and at least half of the rest of the group is solidly on link's side. with no connection to the other champions and no real way to MAKE connections amid all the insane interpersonal communications problems going on there, the ONLY THING revali has to go on to prove himself and make himself VALUABLE to the group is his combat skill. He comes off as arrogant because he believes it's the only way for him to prove himself capable and worthy of being there. he targets link because, in his mind, link is the closest one to his level. the closest to being a threat to his position within the group. he flaunts the advantage he has over link (flying) because, in his mind, this is the thing that places him solidly above link, and, since it's something physically impossible for link to achieve, it solidifies his position forever. in place of some actual bond to any of the others in the group, he needs SOMETHING to hold onto as assurance that he is needed, and that advantage is what he chooses. AGH

[lotus-pear]

MORE SKK DRESSED AS ACTUAL MAFIOSI 🙏🙏

YOU GUYS RLY LIKED THAT HUH…I KINDA JUST DREW IT ON A WHIM. HMM IG I COULD TRY AGAIN

[singeryuri]

I SEE THAT YOU'RE ALSO STARTING TO SELF SHIP WITH ODYSSEUS FROM EPIC AND I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW YOU'RE SO REAL FOR THAT !! love him sm <3

(also I couldn't find if you're okay with sharing but if you're not... feel free to block me, sorry to bother you </3)

HII YAYY NO WORRIES !! I'm only non-sharing with two of my f/os and he's not one of them :D

But YEAHH HSUSRHWJRHS funny story I started listening to Epic last month because I know a billion people who like it, somehow, and I started to develop a crush on him before I could process what was happening to me. And I felt really ashamed about it because it felt silly and weirdly shameful or wtv but I saw you rb some stuff of Circe with your tag for her one day, went "wait is this not as weird as I'm making myself believe", saw Odysseus on your f/o list and immediately breathed like 10 sighs of relief. I am a free man now and am gradually becoming more ok with reblogging stuff of him on here and not getting so flustered I die LMAOO!! But AUFBSUTHRH he's so. I can't even word it right because I genuinely have no idea why my brain latched onto him, but it did, and I now giggle and kick my feet while thinking about a greek myth guy™. I have no regrets life is GOOD !!!

[eon-bug-collection]

CHECK OUT 👇👇👇

THIS BUG ^^^

snakefly time!!! i like these guys a lot. and haven't seen one irl before so this was pretty cool! unfortunately it chose to land directly in front of the sprinklers so i didn't get to stare at it for too long. alas.

[bonyato]

This interaction has got me squealing at the highest of frequencies (x)