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How to be a Disney princess: a Li Xiangyi/Li Lianhua guide
1. Magic hair
2. Magic hands
3. Be poisoned
4. Be kidnapped or enslaved
And the most important one: people must assume all your problems got solved because a big strong man showed up
Still feeling insane about this shot. "Checking you out between the crossed blades of our swords" yes good but Li Xiangyi is literally seeing his own face in Di Feisheng's sword as it obscures half of DFS's face. If swords and swordplay are the truest expression of - god how do I even describe it - who you are, your core, your relationship to the world and how you act within it, your morals, your standards, your beliefs idk just EVERYTHING - And here is the only other person who can match you, your rival and your enemy and your equal - crossing blades with you, because you think he's betrayed you, killed your shixiong, torn up the peace treaty you created together - but in his blade you see yourself.
The show is telling us literally in the opening scene that these two people are a matched set, do not separate - even as the scene is tearing them apart.
original post from changlinarmy.tumblr.com which has been deleted
I don’t know who needs to hear this but YOUR CHARACTERS DONT NEED TO FALL IN LOVE. PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS ARE JUST AS FULFILLING AND AMAZING AS ROMANTIC ONES. NOT EVERY STORY NEEDS A ROMANTIC SUBPLOT STOP IT
Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing 1/?
Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Li Lianhua/Yi Xiangyi & Di Feisheng 5/?
MLC 1 | MLC 2 | MLC 3 LLH 1 | LLH 2 | LLH 3 FDB 1 DFS 1 | DFS 2 JLQ 1 JLQ 2 FEIHUA 1 | FEIHUA 2 | FEIHUA 3 | FEIHUA 4 OT3
Xiao Jingyan 🤝🏻 Fang Duobing
Falling in love with their boyfriend's more scheming, sickly identities and actually appreciating and caring about that side of them before they find out that their boyfriend is actually the bright, glorious sun that was their childhood love
Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Jiao Liqiao 1/?
One character I loved in Arcane besides Jinx/Powder is Silco. He is a flawed character that isn’t good or evil but a complex grey character. Two things I best see it in is his relationship with Jinx/Powder and Zaun. While their relationship was somewhat toxic their care for each other was genuine. But their relationship was toxic nonetheless with Silco seeing Jinx as a younger him and pushing his trauma onto her. He enabled and manipulated her violent and unstable behaviors instead of helping her which is understandable considering he himself never healed from his trauma. Because Silco saw Jinx as a younger him he pushed what he needed onto Jinx not thinking that they were 2 different people in different but somewhat similar situations. With Zaun he does care for it because he grew up in it and wants better for but he pumps shimmer into it poisoning the people creating deformed addicts to bring him money. But after all of the years work and blood he put into Zaun’s independence he was willing to give it up for Jinx. Even after Jinx shot him and gave him a fatal wound he comforted her saying he wouldn’t give her up for anything and called her perfect even with her mental instability and violent tendencies. Their affection with each other was uncomfortable for people watching because of their trauma and Jinx still thinking like a little girl wanting affection from who she thought of as a father with no sense of boundaries. Silco did come to genuinely love Jinx like a daughter but he was still a bad father to her with the only reason why Silco spared Jinx is because he saw she could be of use to him and again he saw himself in her. He saw weapon he could groom to help him get Zaun’s independence that he later come to love.
can we talk about the sheer oscar-level acting ability it took di feisheng, a kinsey 6 gay man, to pretend to have amnesia and be interested in jiao liqiao. to let her touch him and not recoil. maybe post-canon he should be an actor
Started to play LoR again and I will forever be pissed this guy isn't a champion
Tumblr is currently serving me an ad for "Voda, the LGBTQ mental health app" offering "daily meditations, self-care and AI advice" and as a therapist I am begging you not to download an app where an AI tries to help you with your mental health. Please do not. They tried to have an AI chatbot counsel eating disorder patients and it told them to diet. That shit is not safe. Do not talk to an AI about your mental health please. You don't need to talk to a professional but talk to a PERSON. Edited to add: OK, it's been a long day and I wrote this when I only had the information that was in the ad. It looks like they may not actually have a chatbot, but something that just... churns out pre-programmed advice? That's genuinely a lot safer! But calling it "AI advice" feels a little misleading. This app may be perfectly fine and safe to use, but should probably stick to the fundamentals that people want from a mental health app and not try to use AI hype to market, since the intersection of AI and mental health support is VERY DICEY and bad shit has happened there before. And you should probably do further research on how they are using your data, since that is also an area where mental health support apps have gone bad before.
Finally watched Nimona!!!
It was so good!!!
However I am here to say one specific thing
It is so sad that it is so realistic that Nimona had to die (well 'die') for people to see her differently. Ultimately either you relate, or you love them enough to change yourself for them (we like to think of Ballister very positively but he benefited from both of these things), or you must make great risks and sacrifices for the mere chance for some to change. And it is very sad that this is realistic.
Oop was gonna say happy Mid Autumn Festival yesterday but forgot
Happy Mid Autumn Festival!!! Please excuse my lateness by 27 minutes
This except nothing is finished or published 😔
I wish though
Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.
Shout out to chengling, man couldn't catch a break throughout the entire thing
I would have suicided long ago in his place so props to him
Death be upon ai art
Reblog to make it die faster
The tags are so real, CR Ezreal as a skin and as a character are both the worst things in existence
Chromacrash Ekko and Jinx are supposed to paint white & empty stuff and make it colorful & fun
You know who are in full white outfits….yeah you know where I’m going with this…
#THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS POST
My professional artist friend doesn’t know how to draw hanfu either lmao I feel more secured now
Hey ho I don't play league but I do play WR and LoR and I have read some of the lore so here goes:
The celestials associated with Targon are human hosts of the Aspects which are powerful beings from the celestial realm. The Aspects choose human hosts to give some of their powers to and the hosts (such as Leona, Diana, Zoe, Taric, Pantheon as well but he's different) enforce the Aspects' will on Runeterra. I don't think we know why the Aspects are so interested in Runeterra, but we do know they are against the Void. This page is great for more info.
Other celestial beings include Aurelion Sol, the creator of planets and galaxies but were tricked by the Targonians into wearing a restrictive crown and is now sealing Void rifts under their control/command; Bard, a mystical entity who kind of steps in when they are needed in extreme situations to prevent Runeterra falling into chaos; Soraka, once a celestial being filled with so much compassion she gave up her immortality in order to help the people of Runeterra; and some more.
I do believe that other than the Aspects and other celestial beings, everyone else is either of the Void or native to Runeterra.
For example, the Watchers are powerful entities who have existed since forever, and they look to destroy Runeterra for waking them from their eternal sleep by creating void rifts and learning more about Runeterra so they can either unleash armies of Void monsters to destroy everything or if possible to physically show up and do it themselves. Basically, they are the Void.
The Freljordian demi-gods include Ornn, Volibear and Anivia and more, and they are native to Runeterra. I'm not entirely sure what they are (oop) but they do have immense power far higher than most if not all mortals.
Janna is a wind goddess native to Runeterra whose strength depends on her followers. She was originally in Shurima but after she was no longer needed she went to Zaun, where the people prayed to her much more often in hopes of warding off the dangerous chemical fumes.
Nagakabourous is again native to Runeterra and is the god which Illaoi serves. I don't know much else as the lore surrounding them has changed quite a bit and I'm kinda confused :/
Even Kindred, who is pretty much the personification of death, is native to Runeterra (I think?).
Kayle and Morgana are the daughters of Mihira, Aspect host of Justice. Due to this they were born with powerful magic but they, like the other Aspect hosts, are native to Runeterra (only the Aspects themselves aren't).
Don't know if these really count but the Ascended are humans given celestial magic by the Sun Disc. The Darkin are Ascended who became corrupted by the Void. Thus these are all native to Runeterra.
Hope this helps, please correct me if I'm wrong or ask any more questions :)
Here is a question for all the League of legends lovers out there. Especially the ones who read the lore.
What separates the celestials from all the other gods worshipped on Runeterra?
I know that the celestials are littarly what the name implies, celestial gods representing different aspects, like war, twilight, etc.
But what about the other gods? Are they celestials too, or are they gods/godlike beings who are purely native to Runeterra?
I know that this might sound like a stupid question, but I am genuinely curious.
never thought about this, arcane suddenly becomes scarily relatable oh no
saw that post n thought of em
it's 2:24 in the morning. why is gender so hard
I'm seeing mysterious lotus casebook being hyped so much because it's queer coded and so similar yet so different to nirvana in fire (which I love) and it's even rated 9.0 on mdl?
Don't get me wrong, I loved it, Rain Wang/Wang Herun was so good as the saintess, the main trio was amazing, choreography also was on point
However I do feel its been a bit overhyped and overrated and it has plenty of room for improvement so this post will focus on the negative points of what was a great c drama
(mild spoilers ahead, read at your own risk but this post is late so most of you might have seen it already?)
One of the things I (and my sister who I watched it with) really disliked was how the saintess got people to do things for her purely because she's hot? Like I get it fits the unrealistic and exaggerated nature of the wuxia genre but also? It's just a terrible trope? Maybe I'm biased because ace spec but it feels so cheap and wrong? It just doesn't make sense to me at all
Another thing was the entire character of Di Feisheng was so slept on? His personality and motivations were explored only on a surface level and despite his and Li Lianhua/Li Xiangyi's relationship dynamics being arguably the most interesting it was pushed aside in favour on focusing on the relationship between Fang Duobing and Li Lianhua/Li Xiangyi (which I must admit I loved their dynamic but still)
I also felt the characters of Qiao Wanmian and Xiao Zijin were boring and off putting, I felt the way they were written was so horribly predictable and unoriginal, like of course girl can't properly get over the MC despite it being 10 years? And of course the 'love rival' of the MC has to be a bad guy? Ugh
And then to the plot - the murder cases were interesting but didn't invite the audience to join in at all as Li Lianhua/Li Xiangyi always spouts out another random obscure martial art technique that does weird things to put the pieces together, also the entire treasure hunt type thing didn't exactly help the plot stand out from any other wuxia
The main villains were again one dimensional and not given the chance for development, the saintess in particular I disliked at the start because it seemed it was all out of her 'love' (obsession) with Di Feisheng (may I mention no reason is given for the obsession part? she's just crazy for no reason?), although she got better when she became power hungry as well so at least it's not her only motive?
Also I do wish we got to see more of the trio found family dynamics and more of how the trio as a whole develops but that might just be because I'm a sucker for the found family trope?
Anyway for these reasons I feel like it wasn't exactly deserving of all the hype I felt it was getting, maybe an 8.5 on mdl fits better? Of course this is just my personal subjective opinion so yeah
Feel free to ask me any questions :)
can I express my joy at finding that more people here follow #ten miles of peach blossoms than they do #eternal love
I'm just Akarsha fr
Have you ever licked a button battery?
the axe forgets but the tree remembers
Fluffy slippers >>> sliders (Ew)
I have and use both so
Have you ever considered cubes?
Like biblically?
All I can think about is cubits now and this is your fault