#trans-xianxian

[bipirate]

cql doodle request: hello beloved mewtchual floor. I would like to request ynmg bros taking a nap together 🥺 I don't think I've ever seen you draw jiang cheng 🤔

@trans-xianxian you're right, i've only drawn jiang cheng once and it was from the back... so i included a bonus jc <3 yunmeng shuangjie.....

[llycaons]

oh my god cor this is the fucking post I was talking abt in my tags. I found it Months ago and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. it was like 3 o'clock in the morning and it made me so angry that I couldn't fall asleep. it fills me w such an unquenchable bloodlust for op that I can't even explain all of the (extensive) reasons why they're wrong. straight to the guillotine

HI BEN THANKS FOR THIS AS I LOVE HATING RIGHT FROM THE SOURCE!!!! to be entirely fair I think class analyses of mdzs can be a little more structured and elaborate than what was intended or what was put into the original work (or any adaptation) but. well. it's not like he underwent periods of homelessness and starvation due to poverty to come out of them a huge fan of the cultivation world or of the political actors who move to consolidate power at the expense of others. in the show he hates cruelty, and abuses of power, and the murder and torture of innocent people, and politically-driven violence. and he acts on his moral compass rather than a set or defined philosophy, but it's absolutely absurd to act like someone who grew up homeless and dearly wished to protect the weak has zero understanding of how classist violence works. like sure you can't point to any one time where he looks at the camera and starts to quote marx, but out of any character in the entire series, wwx would probably has the strongest understanding of class

the second paragraph really confused me but I think they think that the subjugation of the wens post-ss was...eating the rich? and not the political fallout from a handful of powerful sects stepping into the power vacuum and enacting violence upon their conquered blood enemies. strictly speaking the wens that wwx rescued weren't in danger because they were poor, they were in danger because their once-powerful family was being targeted. but it's not like granny wenand uncle four were living in mansions like they WERE essentially commoners and they were being abused by wealthy and well-trained warrior class so it just doesn't hold up? a big defense of the wens was that they were literally farmers with no possible defense against cultivator's violence.

yeah this isn't very coherent but tl;dr I guess I see why people don't consider the wen massacres a class issue, and wwx's principles aren't as specific when it comes to like...structural analysis of the society he's living in, but his moral compass does point him towards people who are vulnerable and in a society with such strong class hierarchies, that absolutely includes the poor, which he knows because he USED TO BE HOMELESS. so no I don't see him overthrowing the sects and trying to establish a socialist society but he absolutely has an understanding of class wrt power dynamics

[mqfx]

1, 4, 15, and 28 :o

HI BEN HIIIIIII MWAH

the last sentence you wrote

technically i'm only on the outlines so no real sentences yet and what i just wrote rn (plot notes) is super spoiler but here's from the outline itself:

4. a story idea you haven’t written yet

sangcheng art theft and money laundering noir. nhs as the fence and jc as the hardboiled detective. wwx as an obvious subversion of the homme fatale bc i thought it would be funny if that role was for once not a romantic tie to the detective but a familial one. your brother is so cool it gave you substance abuse problems what do you do.

another idea: my shameless self-insert transmigration

15. favorite weather for writing

anything that isn't so hot i start sweating from the backs of my knees

28. your least favorite part of the writing process

literally only the fact that i have to stay up late to get anything done. SIGHS i have health problems

[ennuijpg]

good luck on your mcat!!!

thank you ben (and cooper)!! mwah mwah <33

[rosasappho]

surgery is scary always and ofc I don't know the risks of the procedure you're getting and all that, but I will say that for me the scariest part of surgery was the anticipation of it happening and all of the unknowns, but I barely even remember the 15 minutes before or after my actual procedure or most of that day. they'll give you meds beforehand that calm you down too. I assume that you're ability to do normal things is going to be super limited for awhile after, so my advice is to come up with set things you Can do that give you purpose, otherwise it's easy to start feeling Bad. I hope that you have good doctors and other medical staff that take care of you and make you feel safe and comfortable, and that everything goes well!! bnuy

this helps a lot thank you so much ben 🩷🩷🩷 i definitely have a lot of fear of surgery in general since the most i’ve ever had done is a cavity filling, but i’m happy to find out they give you medicine beforehand 🩷 thank you bunny i will get through this for you….

[torsamors]

IT WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY THREE DAYS AGO???? happy late birthday

WAAAAH TY BEN♥️💕 holding this rabbit in my hands so gently…..

[monachopsissssss]

hi I saw your tags abt being interested in my jiang cheng grief fic that will exist one day and for an actual legitimate answer my ao3 is mossymossy and if you follow it I think you'd get a notification whenever I end up posting it! anyway your tags make me laugh good luck w the insanity 😭

OUGhhhshhhhshhshshhahhahahhahahhahhehheheh <- evil laughter. i cant wait to fucking sob my eyeballs out thank you

[zhuhongs]

waittt since you reblogged that post here is their buglike gaze

🥺🥺🥺🥺 omg.. i love them thank u ben for sending this in

[trans-xianxian]

dude. i thought your username was trans christian

truly baffled by this ask. hello

[bun-a-day]

commission for @trans-xianxian 🐰🐰 their darling bunnies named sugar and spice! open ^^

[bipirate]

abt your tags on my post ajjdkcisk I wanted to say that I say wei wuxian is canonically gnc because I have heard many chinese fans say that within chinese culture he would be considered gnc! I don't know the extensive ins and outs of this because I'm not chinese myself obviously but it's what I have heard communicated by ppl who understand the culturally specific gender norms/roles more than I do

Ohh i see. Funny thing is i've heard the opposite so what is the truth jfnfjdjdj. i do feel like a lot of people call mdzs wwx gnc when talking about traits that are really just the product of him being somewhat feminized because it's a danmei/BL and there's a difference between that and being actually gnc. but you're also right that there might be cultural nuances that i'm totally missing here so!

if anyone has some insightful information i'd love to know!! Thanks for sending me this message ben ❤️

Regardless of canon i think he (and lwj) Should be gnc. As a treat <3

[llycaons]

I need you to know that sacabambaspis wasn't actually that terrifying. it's almost cute, in its own way:

ben omg... you know so much about all these extinct beasts!! thanks for sharing. they're a little dopey looking but endearing. also I found out they're a meme

This reconstructed model of Sacabambaspis in the Finnish museum began spreading on Twitter when user Kat Turk (@kat_scans)[13] posted images of the model on August 30th, 2022 (shown below). This tweet earned over 18k retweets and 111k likes in nearly a year.

and then internet artists started spoofing it by drawing it and things just escalated in goofiness from there

and even a PLUSHIE

what a fun little event hehe

[mqfx]

cutting room floor 🎤

cute scene but it fucks the flow so it had to go. tragic!

[ennuijpg]

okay every picture of a bigfin squid is like the most grainy ominous terrifying image in the world but here is a quality video of one up close (still kind of a freak but in much less of a horrible maneating sea monster way) https://twitter.com/SchmidtOcean/status/1643362391495720966

omg!! oughhhhh it looks so so cool ur right still kinda a freak but also so cool i love her tysm for sending me this ben bc ur right, all of the top results when i looked up bigfin squid were so grainy and ominous i was like,,,,wadda hell is this, but this video is so clear mwah mwah i am holding ur hand and we are watching videos of deep sea creatures together <33

[rosasappho]

sorry you're going through all of this scary medical stuff I hope you're able to get relief for your pain tho !!

thanks!! hopefully after the tests tomorrow i’m good for the most part, i just want a clear answer on what’s wrong at this point 😭