#yes I am reading the novels now

[hayateart]

I had a dream tonight about MDZS, where WWX and the group had to go on a hunt, travel for days, camp in the forest, and they were generally tired but determined.

It was somewhere after WWX's identity reveal, but before final showdown against JGY, so while everyone was there, all sect leaders, nobody trusted WWX.

But still, WWX woke up at night, lying on the hard forest floor, with pebbles and twigs poking his side, but warm. So warm and feeling safe and protected because... Jiang Cheng was hugging him in the sleep. Because no matter what, Jiang Cheng missed his brother and he just loves him so much.

Jiang Cheng was asleep through it and Wei Wuxian went back to sleep, carefully as not to wake him, because obviously JC would not want to hug him anymore if he were awake.

It was a bittersweet dream, but I'm glad I had it.

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Sometimes I don’t understand why a fandom has decided to create a popular side ship out of whole cloth and like two onscreen interactions (sorry xicheng shippers).

But I absolutely respect the thought process behind seeing scorpion king, the poorest of meow meows, and his whole….deal with zhao jing and simply giving him a different less evil old man to work out his freudian issues on. You can take the xie-er out of his fucked up sugar daddy relationship but you can’t take the daddy kink out of the xie-er, etc.

xie wang/ye baiyi just makes sense really.

[whumpwillow]

just read a book where a guy said on two separate occasions, “I am begging you on my knees” while he was, in fact, not on his knees. cmon. you gotta commit to it

[icewindandboringhorror]

Apparently I can meet my goal of roughly 400,000 words in 6 months if I just somehow write at least 2,200 words a day ghbjh... Almost 2,500 today... huzzah...

[poisiyn]

u know what, i'm not fighting the mental illness anymore

[lloydfrontera]

i stand by my conviction that the best way to read tged is by stopping in ch 401 but i do have a rant concerning ch 402 that is locked and loaded for posting and i don't know if i should wait for today's chapter to drop so you guys have the full context or if i should pretend it isn't happening and i'm talking about a hypothetical ending that definitely didn't happen

[themidnightcircusshow]

@heartofstanding tagged me in this meme months ago and unfortunately it took me this long to get to it because I had a mild crisis over how long it's been since I've read a novel, let alone one that I loved 😅 so this is nine of my favourite novels (not books, because if I included manga/short stories/comics/etc this would be giant)

0The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Oscar Wilde// Pyrrhus-- Mark Merlis//The Scarecrow--Ronald Hugh Morrieson//Unnatural History--Kate Osman//Tunnels of Blood--Darren Shan//The Coffin Dancer--Jeffery Deaver//Hero--Perry Moore//Frankenstein--Mary Shelley//One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-- Ken Kasey

[thegirlwholied]

not to have a grudge against all books written in a certain POV but first-person alternating, we meet again, my beloathed

[void-bitten-ghost]

Okay I just had a dream where some sort of fae humanoid creature was trying to shape me into.... something? By having me witness and act in horrors???

It was a group of us humans and a group of fae and one of the people with me said they found something in thier grandma's collection that was like. A powder? But it turned out to be iron based and we used it in the water on the floor to sever and protect all the other people who'd been caught up in this horrible dreamlike situation. The problem with that, though, is I still wanted to know why. Why the hell this Elias Bouchard from Magnus Archives talking all seeing bitch had been so set on just giving me enough information about the scenes that had been set up to solve them myself but at great fucking cost.

Anyway while all the other fae were burning and retreating back behind a dark souls fog wall this fucker turns back and, to my utter surprise and delight, starts answering my questions while walking around in the iron tainted water like its nothing. So not fae then. Or maybe far too powerful for a diluted powder to affect? Either way it was like. Huh. This bitch really was going and then stayed just because I asked/he chose to. Ite. Lemme just re-evaluate real quick.

But yeah, they were trying to.... make an apprentice? But that wasn't the right word. A follower? They were making something, but it needed to be with a willing participant. Told me about failed attempts, about how after all the simulations the previous people had passed they'd frozen like deer in the headlights when a real creature with ill intent came at them. I was looking at their petrified remains when he/they said all this, so the evidence was there. I believed them.

I mentioned it being ridiculous that after experiencing what I'd just gone through and surviving that the people would choke Then of all times.

That's when they decided walk up behind me and show themselves as a Creature Of Ill Intent, still vaguely humanoid but with no discernable features other than a mouth and eyes. Too many eyes, all looking at me far too intently before stepping even closer, pressing me back into the statue-like corpse of someone who came before me and failed. It's saying something about fear responses, maybe how they're predictable?

Anyway yeah that's when they/it proceed to try and scare me by showing off it's sharp teeth, scraping them over my shoulder while evil monologing and uh. Long story short it had The Opposite Effect of what they were intending and I think I may have freaked out a creature of nightmares so much it made me wake up

Edit: I think it was the fear of being late for work that attracted the creatures that fed on fear so like. Go Capitalism I guess

[theultracharmingladynoire]

is anyone here into orv?

[onhoude]

I'm aware Liu Qingge is hilariously infuriated all the time, but just to be genuine for a moment, he's the only one reacting appropriately for the situation and the information that he has.

Really, Liu Qingge is the one who should be most exasperated, frustrated, and confused. He's only paying with half a deck, and he's doing very admirably, more honourable than most and efficiently to boot.

[lordsardine]

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[essektheylyss]

I AM attempting to read at least four books this weekend and that IS ridiculous but alas, here we are.

[hua-fei-hua]

when i was a kid i really resented the fact that my mom kept forcing us to check out nonfiction books alongside our fantasy novels in order to "broaden our minds" and basically ensure we were learning Real Factsies(tm), but now that i'm older, if i don't go off and learn some Real Factsies(tm) every so often, then i'll end up finding my fictions dull and uninspired

[kashmirichaiwithmehr]

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[nostalgia-tblr]

Second-hand Lore

A thing that a bit fascinates me is media that we know not directly but from secondary sources that reference them. Growing up in the UK I had never seen Gilligan's Island (still haven't) but I learned the names of characters and the gist of the plot (they're on an island and keep not escaping it, apparently) from other US TV shows that did get shown over here and for which the assumed audience was someone who would understand these references to the not-actually-mythical TV show about some people on an island.

It's like that thing in The Name Of The Rose with the lost work of Whoever-It-Was and what other people had said about it allowing Sean Connery to recognise the book when he saw it. Because he hadn't personally seen Gilligan's Island, but he's seen things made by people who had, so he knew the gist of it.