#these aren't silly questions

[mxtxfanatic]

Do you mind if I ask something as a new fan of MXTX works? So if Lan Ying is Jun Wu in disguise does it mean from the start of the story, it's Jun Wu all along? Also, if He Xuan already fulfill his retribution to Shi Wu Du, how come he is still on earth and not moving on?

Also, is it just fanon or canon that Shang Qinghua already "with" Mobei Jun since he was a teenager and Shen Yuan never realized that Luo Binghe loved him all this time?

And is it true that Wei Wuxian never thought of Nie Huaisang as the "masterplanner" all this time and is Jin Ling reconcile with Wei Wuxian at the end?

Sorry for my (many) silly ask...

TGCF Questions:

1) Lang Ying was not Jun Wu the whole time. The ghost boy that we are first introduced to is Lang Ying, who then later gets devoured by White No-Face:

If “Lang Ying” had never existed to begin with and was only White No-Face in his weakened form, everything would be easy to explain. But when Xie Lian remembered the girl Xiao-Ying who had died on Mount Yujun, he wished that explanation made less sense than it did. Xie Lian swiftly thought of another possibility. “Or perhaps...he devoured Lang Ying.” The “Lang Ying” before them was growing taller. His body stretched upward, and the bandages on his face unwrapped and dropped away to reveal the mask beneath. He lifted his head slightly when he heard Xie Lian’s guess and seemed to smile. “You guessed right.”

—Vol. 6, Chapt. 94: From the Sealed Kiln, One Supreme Shall Emerge, official

2) Perhaps he does not feel like his obsession has been resolved. After all, Shi Qingxuan could be considered a loose end, though He Xuan seems to have left him alone since the Blackwater arc. Nothing says that the obsession keeping him tied to the mortal world would find resolution with Shi Wudu's death.

SVSSS Questions:

1) It's fanon that Shang Qinghua and Mobei-Jun were together for that long. They only officially "get together" (if it can be read as that) in the post-canon extra "Airplane's Fortuitous Encounter." Their business relationship (if one can call it that) is what began when Shang Qinghua was a teen.

2) I'm not sure I get what the second part means by "all this time." Shen Qingqiu realized Luo Binghe liked him romantically the moment Luo Binghe kissed him in the shared dream before the battle over Shen Qingqiu's corpse. After deliberating on it a bit more in the shared dream after the battle, he accepts that there were always signs that Luo Binghe liked him but he chose to not understand them in order to stick to the genre's formula and tropes. This is all in Chapts. 10-11 of vol. 2 of the official translation.

MDZS Questions:

1) It's hinted at throughout the text that Wei Wuxian has his suspicions about Nie Huaisang's actions and motivations, particularly when he questions how Nie Huaisang conveniently shows up during certain key events and is connected to all the key players, but we as the audience are never explicitly told when Wei Wuxian zeroed in on him as the mastermind behind the plot. We only get the confrontation at the end of the main story that Wei Wuxian has been connecting these dots for a minute.

2) Yes, Jin Ling reconciled with Wei Wuxian by the end of the story. He already wanted to reconcile by the end of the second siege of the Burial Mounds, but circumstances prevented him. By the extras, they are regularly meeting up for nighthunts, and Jin Ling goes to Wei Wuxian for help.

[inamindfarfaraway]

I would find Blondie Lockes very annoying in real life, but I love her in fiction. She's a genuinely good journalist in terms of both skill and ethical integrity, who only occasionally forgets to check the facts because she's fifteen and holds herself accountable when she does. She has incredibly high standards for everything and believes herself to be the ultimate authority on quality. She has magical lockpicking powers because her fairytale is about Goldilocks breaking into a house. She somehow completely ignores the story's moral that Goldilocks was wrong to break into the house, feels entitled to go wherever and help herself to whatever she's able to and cannot comprehend why people dislike this. She's been terrorizing an anthropomorphic bear family with her cheerful disrespect for privacy and is convinced that they love her. She has a non-anthropomorphic pet baby bear. Her motivation is dependence on external approval rooted in deeply internalized classism. She's desperate to be useful and important to those with higher social status and feels the need to lie that her family is technically royalty to fit in with her royal friends, even though they treat commoners like equals all the time. She positions herself as a conduit of true greatness; closer to it than the masses, but never the hero, always reporting on other people and evaluating what they've done. Because what she's done isn't enough to be worthwhile. What she is isn't enough. But this performative lifestyle makes her anxious about being judged as a fraud and an interloper, and ashamed of selfishly transgressing against social norms. Her microphone head looks like an adorable little bear head. That's one hex of a character alright.

[no-brain-just-akutagawa]

you're telling me they could've been wearing shoes this whole time??

[ID: An edited What are those? meme from Black Panther shwoing Dazai's shoes. End ID]

[itsblasttothepast]

I love the rumours mill, it can be annoying but look at how funny it is from a perspective of someone who isn't emotionally invested in this:

Checo saying over and over again that he is staying and that he knows his contract BUT everyone (media, mainly British media) are sure he is out - I guess more fans listen to the journalists (who do not at all have a history of fueling fire just for clicks) more and apparently everyone knows better than Sergio what he talked about with the team;

Horner is saying that they are the ones making decisions (changing his mind every week isn't a good management strategy but oh well) and they know what to do which I would say is a lie since he is still drooling over the idea of bringing Daniel back and he is constantly switching front going from saying Sergio is their best option to saying he will be the downfall of the team (I'm still bitter about "we helped him as much as we can");

Helmut is in higher state of delusion and thinks everyone wants to be in his team, he probably named all the drivers on the grid, now he is chasing after Oscar (or well in his imagination Mark, who knows how the team works and was burned by it, is the one wanting the seat for his driver), he said something about Fernando, Franco, Liam, Lando at one point even Charles I think and this is just getting crazier with every week;

The way they all overlook Yuki is borderline tragicomic because I have no idea what he would have to do to be noticed and considered as a candidate (I know he has the RBR test at the end of the year but we all know it means nothing);

It's all talks and gossip and no facts, even if RBR contacted Franco I doubt Williams (who is connected to Merc) would want to give him away this easily, not when he is performing so well and managed to make fans fall in love with him after only a few races, the kid is a goldmine that needs to stay in F1;

I decided not to believe anything until we have some real answers because this is a soap opera happening in real life and well, at least this season no one can say they aren't entertained because somehow Checo managed to make a lot of people angry by doing his job and somehow his seat IS the main event of the season (by the way, isn't it funny how it takes the attention away from the WDC fight?).

All right, we shall declare this silly season officially in business, right?

Exactly, all the rumors are so wild, that it looks like Jumanji. You never know when a Rhino will come and trample you.

However, there's something weird going on that we can't factor in our game: Horner and Marko are INSANE! Checo says he knows his contract, and unfortunately many claim that he had also an ironclad contract in Racing Point and he was still booted from there.

But that's not true. Yeah, he had a contract for two years, but it wasn't exactly ironclad, I imagine he learned from his mistakes and made sure that if he was going to be fired, at least he was going to be protected, so in this round of the game, I have these two theories:

Checo has a clause in his contract where he stipulates that if he's fired, they have to find him another team (and not the junior one) to race.

Checo has a clause that if he's booted, they have to pay him enough money to actually fund his own team and do whatever he wants.

Helmut woke up today being all hateful again, so not surprise there. It's surprising when he's supportive with Checo, now is like our normal schedule. My guess for who will be the next pilot who, according to him, came to talk to him to accept him in RBR will be... LANCE STROLL!

Yuki being overlooked is the joke of the season, honestly, it feels like a Mike Wazowski thing, he's in the cover, but not really, Liam, Franco, Oscar, Charles, Fernando... they all sounds like options for RBR louder than poor Yuki (also if he's having the RBR test in the RB20... yikes).

Nothing is official, and until it is, people can bark all they want. Today Checo seemed pretty annoyed with the fact that everyone was asking him about Brazil being his last race, but what I loved the most was one reporter who kept asking this and Checo said:

Checo: I'm certain I'll be here. Reporter: Marko said that nobody is assured and they will see. Checo: Well, I can tell you I'm sure, that's all.

Or something like that, it was in spanish, but the point is he even implied that Marko was wrong. I love that Sergio is now telling things as they are and not being coy and play nice.

Checo should get an award just for being in the mouths of everyone this year.

[bidamonalbarn]

Wait whats going on? Who is making up what about which celebrity?

dw it's just swiftie drama - one of my (ex) mutuals was mass posting bout how joe alwyn cheated & abused taylor (which is not even slightly proven - these allegations are from fans, not anyone close to taylor)

[averlym]

which is gayer? SIX or Adamandi (real)

adamandi

[musical-chick-13]

Regarding the previous post, I think the way I approach trying to evaluate a piece of art is asking "Do I think the positive things I get out of it outweigh the parts of it that I don't like?" And when I call something a "guilty pleasure" song/show/book/piece of media/etc. it's really more in the sense of, "Given who I am as a person, the flaws I've found in this should be complete dealbreakers for me, but somehow they aren't, and it makes me feel like I'm having an identity crisis."

[crownhcart]

@infernalpursuit Does your muse like music? Is there any genre they prefer? Do they sing or play any instrument? ( for any and as many muses as you want )

RUBS HANDS. oh how much i love thinking about characters' relationship with music. 👀 i won't answer for every single muse i have or we'll still be here next year, but for some of the most interesting ( for me personally ofc ):

castiel is fascinated by music. it's something entirely human, something the angels don't bother making, as the holy battle is so much more important to them. he shouldn't bother as well, but the harmony is just so... captivating. there is something in music, in what simple humans can do and how much emotion they can bring into it, that gets his attention no matter how hard he tries to ignore it. at the same time, so out of touch with his own emotions, he sincerely doesn't understand it. which, somehow, makes it even more captivating.

red likes it, but it... makes them sad. it's like a distant memory to them, a memory that isn't theirs, and therefore shouldn't feel, and yet. they won't strive away from music when they hear it - quite the opposite, it tends to make them stop and listen for a small while -, but it quite often make their mood drop in a way or another. ( is it ironic, behing them from a rhythm game? likely. still. )

they can't play any instrument. they know how to, she knew how to play a lot of them, but they feel too rigid with their body and can't play well. they also never stopped to practice, though. they have other thoughts.

for geppetto, it's not that he doesn't like music, but he's always too lost in thoughts or in his work to really listen to it. he will start to, for sure, try to remain focused long enough, but then oh i had to fix this puppet's arm actually and he WILL listen to it but as a distant sound, and as he fixes the arm oh actually, i think i can make it better, so he will look for materials but he WILL listen, he promises, and while he works he gets creative and makes the arm better and better and in the meantime the music will have ended but he won't really notice until maybe a few hours later. basically, what i'm trying to say: adhd king. but he DOES like it.

and the beheaded is the most interesting to me, because he... doesn't know what music even is? i don't think there's a lot of people left on the island lucid enough to sing and play an instrument, and he forgot everything of his life before becoming a walking corpse with a flame as a head, so he doesn't... know. he never heard it. but i bet he will adore it when he finds out what it is, and rest assured, if a guitar or a lute finds its way in his hands, he will become the BEST at playing it.

[llycaons]

oh my god the 'fanfiction isn't books' post is on my dash again...I just think it's so funny how people act like this is such a cut and dry argument when content matter, format, quality, length, editing, medium, style, originality, production value, etc. obsfucates the designation of 'book' so thoroughly as to make the argument nearly meaningless. there is nothing you could say about fanfic as a category that can't also apply to some kind of book. a lot more things fit into that category than you might think, and it kind of doesn't mean they have any inherent superiority in format

[grokebaby]

[RELATED TO THIS]

Ev:.. uhm..m... N-nice picture, A. Cola.. It seems even people like you start out as.. Small, and ordinary.

Mew: Oh-ah, thank nya Villy! But this isn't actually a photo of me, it's of my kids! When they were little tiny fuzzbals of course :3

Ev: your..... What?

Ev: You have Kids? How??! Did you make them??

Mew: Do you.. Want me to have that talk with you?

Ev: No.................... maybe?(??)

[pokeficdaily]

these pokefics are literally so low quality. the spelling mistakes, the blurry pixels, the plotlines directly out of a 14yos fantasy of what theyd do to their bullies. the absolute garbage font choices that cover the entire screen and are unreadable. its amazing. ive never seen one but i can only imagine the music must be so 14yo.

yes they're low quality but that's why we love them!

by the way, this ask gives me the opportunity to say something i thought was important.

i personally love pokefics, and i want you all to know that this blog isn't mean spirited! these fics were made with love and passion and we respect that with mod seal. it's good to just have fun and create, and with this blog our goal is just to look back at these years where we were all teenagers and made up silly stories and laugh together about it!

i know that we've inspired a few people to create their own pokefic and this couldn't make us happier, because yes pokefics are silly, some people would even say cringe, but i don't believe in cringe and i think it's good to just. do whatever we want if it makes us happy. and doesnt harm anyone, of course. if only we could bring this back

anyway sorry about this long answer and i know you didn't mean it in a bad way at all when you said they were low quality! i just thought id make things clear since this blog is growing bigger every day

[schwazombie]

Where can I get the Eccentric European Wine-Aunt certification ^^?

Ah, excellent question, dear tumblr user just-some-questions. You see it isn't something that you actively get, it's bestowed upon you. One gathers the pieces bit by bit: eccentricity may be inborn or learned; you may be born European or, like me, run away to Europe (which added extra eccentricity!); you may drink wine; you may or may not have biological niblings. And then one day your sibling makes a joke about how you could most easily be found at church by locating the communion wine (which, in their opinion, you would be drinking straight from the bottle), and then a friend sends you a picture of a candle with a bigass label that says 'the Wine Aunt' and is described as smelling like family gossip and bad decisions. You have made it. You are, to someone, somewhere, the Eccentric European Wine-Aunt

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Person on Avatar podcast: One fan wanted to know if Rangi or the events of RoK/SoK will be in Realms Collide. Me, watching the podcast: That's me. I was the fan. owo

[blujayonthewing]

I'm inserting a crisp dollar into the Thoughts About Felix machine, wondering:

What are his sleeping habits like?

What are his coping mechanisms?

He's granted three wishes. What's the fourth thing he would wish for?

How would you describe him, using only emoji?

me @ this ask

Left to his own devices he's naturally inclined to be crepuscular; in his home village it was normal for most people to sleep both in the middle of the night and the middle of the day (though a little longer at night), and for the day to start well before dawn and end well after dark. Since he's kind of a loner and drifter at the moment he can usually still get away with this kind of sleeping schedule even after having left home; people get the impression that he never sleeps, or must sleep really poorly, because he appears to be out wandering around at all hours, but really he's just splitting up his sleep. After spending so much time in human/ mixed cities he has gotten better at being able to adjust to only sleeping at night when needs be, but he gets noticeably sleepy around lunchtime if he's not getting naps in.

He's a pretty light sleeper, partly because his hearing is so sensitive; he likes to be cozy, and preferably somewhere very quiet and dark, but he can fall asleep fairly easily almost anywhere. I feel like I have a lot of OCs who routinely stay up way too late/ refuse to sleep or, like, sleepwalk, or are otherwise Bad At Sleep, but actually his sleep habits are generally pretty good, unusual circadian rhythm notwithstanding, lol.

YELLS IT'S GETTING SO LONG SORRY I AM INCAPABLE OF BREVITY SDFKJHDFKGJ

Coping mechanisms! Small scale/ acute: he fidgets a lot, chews on things. He's mostly gotten himself out of the habit of biting his nails by redirecting to other stuff (he goes through pencils a lot faster than he actually wears them out with use). A big go-to is seeking space to be alone, particularly somewhere high up; as a kid he used to climb trees a lot, and now in aboveground cities he spends a lot of time sitting on roofs.

For bigger/ more ongoing things... it depends. On the one hand, it can feel comforting to surround himself with people by spending time in places that feel crowded without being intimate, like markets or popular taverns, but it stresses him out if people can tell he's Going Through Something, so he ends up isolating a lot instead, or just hanging out with animals and avoiding people (pigeons aren't usually good enough at humanoid body language to pick up on and ask about anything short of an actual breakdown, for one thing, but on the other hand breaking down fully in front of animals still feels significantly less stressful than in front of other people, somehow). He hates talking about himself, and he really hates trying to explain his feelings, especially when he's already having a bad time, so he doesn't really get a lot of support even when he really needs it. He mostly doesn't Journal His Feelings with his sketch/ travel journal, but I think he's more inclined to do so at least a little bit when he's trying to cope with something just because he's got no other good outlet, much less someone he can actually talk to.

In terms of coping beyond the immediate 'managing the feelings' sense, he always wants to understand things as much as possible, so a big part of coping with anything is to try to learn everything about it he can. Like, not that this has happened to him but he's very much primed to be the guy whose loved one disappears/ is killed under suspicious circumstances which sets off a chain of events leading to his single-handedly unraveling some deep convoluted conspiracy-- you know? Something extremely upsetting and Deeply Weird happened to him before the campaign started, and now he's obsessed with making sense of it. Honestly, now that I'm writing this all out, I imagine his interest in studying people and body language and social nuances and motivations came at least partly from a way to cope with not understanding those things intuitively like other people seem to, and being really bad at performing social skills correctly himself 🤔

Lacing my fingers in front of my lips pensively. The wishes question is so intriguing. ...... okay. I have his three wishes. The unwished fourth wish is 'I wish for [people who left him for dead] to forget that I exist.'

the lad in emojis: 🥺🤫🐈👁👁👂🔍🍂💬❔

[sysig]

Predator and Prey (Patreon)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

already thinking "and by 'religious' really i mean 'christian'" re: how the term "religion" is not really useful when it's largely like, from a christian perspective, what is considered "equivalent" of christianity, see: perhaps a "rival"/obstacle to some person or group being considered christian....and even if not thinking about converting anyone, resulting in some at best misinterpretation / misrepresentation based on framing it through/as [element of christianity] and limiting of any more accurate language

like how tumblr recommends me a post about someone thinking about "religion" in general and concluding that it's Weird and perhaps Wrong for anyone who is a "true believer" in their religion(tm) to Not be proselytizing / trying to Convert everyone. like yeah why isn't everyone being an evangelical christian, they ought to be, benevolently informing all those around them that they're going to hell, otherwise. don't see any problem with this conclusion, or that someone's getting antisemitic in the notes already in agreement, or that That's Not How This Works and you don't just know how All "Religion" works based on considering it to be an alternate version of christianity (which in itself doesn't All work like that either)