#this is my favourite shot of him

[lambiesvault]

You know what fucks me up but also makes my heart sing?

The fact Shen Jiu The Person™, living breathing and being is nowhere in the canon. We know of a Shen Jiu in the novel and all the character information is gleaned off anecdotes, author's notes and second hand reports, reactions of others to him and their perception of him.

We got what Shen Yuan's thoughts are on him (The scummiest villain to scum), we got Airplane's scraped backstory for him (erased and forgotten), we got reactions from other peak lords to the before and after in SQQ's behaviour and their limited interactions. We even get Luo Binghe's gratefulness for the 180 personality shift. That's all in reaction to ripples to Shen Yuan's presence and is again filtered through his biases.

The closest we could get to a real portrayal of Shen Jiu would have been from Yue Qingyuan but that man would not speak of what SQQ would not bring up himself. And it will still just be a portrait, very much flawed and altered.

He is the one character we will never truly meet.

All of those are outside of Shen Jiu. We never actually see him, only glimpses of him through others.

There's no Shen Jiu in the canon. He doesn't just show up in the novels, not even for a scene. (Even og Bing-ge does what the hell). Point being, Shen Jiu was whatever people saw him as and as what changed, even us readers.

But here's the kicker

We ourselves participate in building him anew from love and that makes me so feral

We as a fandom decided to make him whole, beyond the canon, because we saw those crumbs and said, no, he's more than that, he's a person, he deserves a voice that's his own and we will write to give him it and we will make him whole rather than the sum of others' perception of him.

(I might not make sense but tldr, Shen Jiu doesn't ever show up in the novels and he still got people who love him enough to create for him makes me so weak)

[darcyolsson]

avery explicitly using the word 'throuple' to refer to the three of them, ody3 hot tub cuddling sesh, captain massey referring to said cuddling as '...whatever this is', a joke about the threesome, a 'you can love two people at once' speech delivered by quinn fabray playing a hallucinated dead wife (also in a hot tub), avery sneaking both max and tristan into the operating room for her surgery... i can't quite believe it but a throuple endgame on doctor odyssey is actually fully within reach

[benewitch]

I spam post at this point but my heart was about to fly off when I saw the end result...so yeah 😅🥵

[clumsypuppy]

oru

[sam-reid]

Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt Interview with the Vampire 1.03: Is My Very Nature That of A Devil.

[jackabbot]

EVAN BUCKLEY + close-up 23/?

[maximura]

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

ALEX TURNER, RIO DE JANEIRO, BR. by Zackery Michael

[5-pp-man]

why is he so cutes.

[vcrnons]

DINO 'Wait' Official MV

[sopuu]

top ten creeper trickshots

[refractionrailway]

on an unrelated note it's so funny to me that they keep making Heathcliff the defacto "we have an id who's in a position of leadership and we need someone to be their sidekick" sinner, guy who is so "hot dog or hamburger style boss" coded

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

“How can I describe him? I have seen him twenty times and each time he was a different person; even he himself said to me on one occasion: “I no longer know who I am. I cannot recognize myself in the mirror.” Certainly, he was a great actor, and possessed a marvellous faculty for disguising himself. Without the slightest effort, he could adopt the voice, gestures, and mannerisms of another person.”

~The Arrest of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc

Moments of calm Nothing left to be found A mirror right in front of me That's where I find An empty glass Reflecting the sad truth It's telling words not to be told I need the mask I'm a shape-shifter at Poe's masquerade Hiding both face and mind, all free for you to draw I'm a shape-shifter chained down to my core Please don't take off my mask, my place to hide

~Beneath the Mask from Persona 5

“‘Why,’ said he, ‘why should I retain a definite form and feature? Why not avoid the danger of a personality that is ever the same? My actions will serve to identify me… So much the better if no one can ever say with absolute certainty: There is Arsène Lupin! The essential point is that the public may be able to refer to my work and say, without fear of mistake: Arsène Lupin did that!’”

~The Arrest of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc

[ptheviking]

Ragnar Sigurdsson - S1E9 (3/6)

[faunandfloraas]

I.N for W Korea.

[toetsencowboy]

the wait.