#the word cis

[disgracefulthings]

Xie Lian: I married my soulmate, San Lang!

Wei Wuxian: My soulmate is Lan Zhan, and we got married too!

Shen Qingqiu: My soulmate is a pathetic rat man who is trashier than his own writing

Wei Wuxian: ...and you married him?

Shen Qingqiu: Gross no, I married his son

Xie Lian and Wei Wuxian: ????????

[overthinkingmoth]

I really disagree with the idea that "hua cheng hates everyone but Xie Lian" because it's more that we just hardly ever get to see him interact with someone he doesn't have personal beef with.

like the people in ghost city seem to genuinely like him. he's known to provide protection to ghosts being hunted by cultivators. he literally *ripped out his eye* to protect a group of random humans. he's not an evil demon king with a soft spot for this one guy. he is genuinely kind to people who aren't Xie Lian sometimes, especially people who exist outside heaven's sphere of "respectability" ie ghosts.

is he rude and abrasive? yes, but there is a difference between being nice and being kind. are his morals dubious? yes, but so is heaven; hua cheng just doesn't try to hide it. Hua Cheng is completely sincere and is transparent about all his actions both good and bad which contrasts him from the cover-ups and false politeness of heaven

[airplanecrashingtowardstheground]

something that makes shi quingxuan's corrupted ascension to godhood more painful is that sqx was a good god.

beloved by their followers, kind, charitable, and was always trying to do good things. sqx was a genuinely good person, who stuck up for xie lian, and didn't automatically assume the worsts of hua cheng despite what other heavenly officials said.

shi qingxuan being a much better god than many of the others who earned or "deserved" their spots, makes their fate sadder to me

[vaxxildamn]

finally…… the legendary Level 20 Scissor Gal-adin

[mimimar]

☆announcement!☆ i've opened a charity print shop with prints of my tgcf (and other cnovels) fanart!

i've set up a separate print shop where 100% of profit will be donated to charity and made my tgcf art available as prints for the first time! (as well as my jwqs, word of honor & mdzs art)

visit my charity print shop ☆HERE☆

at the moment ALL profit will be donated to palestinian aid, we'll be donating to more causes as well in the future. i'll be posting donation receipts on my twitter.

people have been asking me for prints of my tgcf art for a very long time and i've also been thinking about what else i can do to help, i hope we can all come together to help in this way♡

(and you can still find my main print shop with my non-tgcf/cnovel art here!)

[nothingbizzare]

No face

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

Xie Lian who was giving princely Etiquette lessons on how to treat a princess or his bride whipping out the books and bothering his Ghoshi, Feng Xin and Mu Qing so he doesn’t embarrass himself when Hua Cheng comes back meaning that when he does come back and Xie Lian is extremely awkward and trying court his Ghost King properly Hua Cheng has to take 8 calming breaths every few seconds or he’ll traumatise them both by exploding into butterflies again.

[totallynotsloughjykk]

junmei is so funny from xie lian's perspective. imagine your former mentor that dipped 800 years ago finally showing up to court for a proper custody battle, proceeding to expose your #1 lifelong idol to be the insane lunatic that fucked up your life back when you were a teenager and then finding out said insane lunatic that fucked up your life also fucked said mentor 2000 years ago creating the three realms's most toxic doomed yaoi

[heartinhyacinth]

Something that I’ve always loved about Hualian is that throughout the series, people had warned Xie Lian of Hua Cheng left and right, told him various horror stories, rumors of cruelty and malice, etc., and yet…Hua Cheng never once (as far as I can remember) tried to counter the accusations with words. He never defended himself or his actions to Xie Lian, never told him of the ways it was false or not as bad as it sounds.

At times, he even went as far as to do the opposite, one example being when Xie Lian said he’d heard rumors of eming (to which Hua Cheng responds, “like how it’s evil, forged from the blood of a living sacrifice?”); when Xie Lian brushed them off as only rumors that shouldn’t be taken at face value, Hua Cheng only smiled (in the donghua at least, we couldn’t see his reaction in the novel considering Xie Lian’s back was to him), and didn’t say anything else on the matter, not refuting or confirming whether it was true, nor proving the details that would surely paint him in a much better light than Xie Lian’s colleagues had.

He’s always let Xie Lian form his own opinions on things, and that includes himself.

Much like the novels themselves, Hua Cheng takes a very “show don’t tell” approach to things. He doesn’t need to tell Xie Lian he can trust him, that he’d never harm him, and that he has reasons for doing what he does. Xie Lian already knows this. He’s shown it to him in his actions. If he had to say the words for Xie Lian to believe him, he’d have seen it as a failure to live up to them. It’s very in character for him imo—he hates hypocrisy and hates when people say one thing and then do another. So it makes sense that he would simply sit back and trust that Xie Lian would see him for who he is.

It’s all very similar to the fact that they don’t say “I love you” throughout all eight books (which I absolutely adore and I’ll make a separate post on soon).

[lgbtqtext]

[kindofabastard]

I swear to god if I have to see one more person using TME to either exclusively refer to transmascs/men in a context that would be incredibly transphobic without the plausible deniability of "but TME includes cis people" OR to lump transmascs/men in with a group consisting of at least 99% cis people doing actual harm, I'm gonna explode

[transsexula]

Theres a problem. See, there's an active yet treacherous and dangerous fight to expand the view of womanhood. Right? Trans women, women of color, all fighting to be included when you think of the word "woman".

There is not, though, space being made with the label "men" or "man". Instead trans men, butches, dykes, affected intersex people, who are being shoved into the narrowly defined "men" category. People arent expanding their definition of man. They are packing us up and shoving us into a mold that frankly, barely holds cis men. Men of color, queer men, trans men, are left out, or forced to contort into a very specific mold.

Like- yes. The struggle with womanhood is continuous and hard as fuck. But there IS an effort made by allies to go "hey, so trans women exist. Women without the ability to have children. Women of color who this doesnt apply to. Please consider this when talking about this subject?"

But. When a trans guy says this about trans men. Transmasculine individuals. Or others- well. "Lol okay, 'not all men' MRA over here. Suck it up and stop being a whiny crybaby oh my god!"

[hualian]

"I won't forget. I'll never forget you! This time, I want to accompany you until the end." 🦋 | Heaven Official’s Blessing S2 Ep12

[wedarkacademia]

tgcf quotes that'll make u inhale ice shards

“only after having met you did I rediscover that it’s such a simple thing to be happy.”

“to some, the mere existence of a certain person in this world is, in itself, hope.”

“there was a period of time in my life that wasn’t easy, and during that time, I’d constantly think that, should someone witness the me who rolled in the dirt, unable to get up, yet still love me for who I was, that’d be great.”

“If I could, I would have you use me as your stepping stone, the bridge you burn after crossing, the corpse bones you need to trample to climb up, the sinner who deserved the butchering of a million knives. but I know you wouldn’t allow it.”

“something like a genuine heart is made to be trampled.”

“to watch with your own eyes your beloved be trampled and ridiculed while unable to do anything - that’s the worst suffering in the world.”

“to me, the one basking in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. what matters is you, and not the state of you.”

“those who have known each other for decades can become strangers in a day. we met by chance and we may part by chance. if we like each other, then we shall continue to meet; if we don’t, then we shall part. there’s no banquet in the world that doesn’t come to an end, so I’ll say what I want to say.”

“I will fight for what I don’t have. I will change fates I don’t possess. my fate is up to me, not the heavens!”

“I might not be able to decide whether the road is easy or not, but whether I walk it is entirely up to me.”

[hualianschild]