YinWar Will Be Switching In Jack & Joker, And We All Cheered!

i love tian ya ke so much because it’s a story all about grief and pain and understanding. and wen kexing and zhou zishu run around in circles trying to let the other know they fucking get it without revealing too much because they both fear being seen as monstrous. both of them hiding because they fear to be seen and to be abandoned or rejected. to lose even one more thing would be unbearable. and again and again they prove to each other they recognize the others pain. they say to each other ‘i’ve seen your heart and not your grief. ive seen what you become and i love you more for it. i understand what you did to survive because i did it too.’ they understand longing for death n they know they cannot save the other. but maybe since there’s another person in the world who recognizes their pain it won’t be so bad. maybe the only thing demons and ghosts need to become human again is just a little understanding…

AND because wen kexing is a Horny Stalker and i love him to death <333

Preach!!!!!!^

I JUST WANNA TALK ABOUT NIE HUAISANG FOR A HOT MINUTE.

Ok. The Untamed / Mo Dao Zu Shi has a lot of awesome characters. Wei Wuxian and Lan Zhan? Epic. Love ‘em. Wen Ning? Precious. And I would die for the Juniors.

One character I was absolutely sleeping on was Nie Huaisang.

Now, one of my favorite tropes is Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, except Nie Huaisang isn’t any sort of secret kung-fu master. He’s legitimately bad in a fight, and would rather other people do it for him anyway. And he’s not a schemer, not really - he stays in his lane, minds his own business. He just wants to sit here and feed his birds.

Except he’s always paying attention. He’s absolutely an airhead, but he’s listening. And watching. And asking the questions that sound dumb but make another character realize something important.

This ambush predator’s strength is being underestimated by literally everyone.

And he could have so easily been evil. He and Jin Guangyao have this in common: they are polite, and subserviant, and people don’t think much of them. But while JGY seeks recognition, power, and retribution, Nie Huaisang be minding his own business.

Until he isn’t. (Aw now you fucked up!) Then he’s gonna end this man’s whole career - with minimal effort and personal risk, of course. 

Just, wouldn’t it be a shame if the one guy with the power and motive to end you came back to life? And almost immediately met up with his soulmate “good friend” who would both kill and die for him? Wouldn’t it be a shame if the people who knew your darkest secrets were empowered and allowed to tell their story? Aw, nuts. Rough for you, man.

But my favorite part is how he absolutely wants no recognition. When JGY gets the chance, he monologues for two episodes. Nie Huaisang doesn’t say shit, and he would appreciate it if you’d stop bringing it up, actually.

I just - I might have to rewatch the show just for him, because during those last few episodes, every time he turned up just to say how he didn’t know anything about this or that, I almost died. 

Dude took a nap face-first on a dirt floor for hours just to avoid confrontation. Fucking legend.

So true thank god.

Being in fandoms are great but being in book fandoms are even better because people already know you’re a bookworm so when you’re reading fanfic at a family gathering they don’t even question it when you say you’re reading an ebook

I think Batman is genuinely thrown any time someone he dates as Brucie Wayne is legitimately attracted to him because he’s acquired such a reputation among women as Gotham’s Most Prolific Beard that if a woman asks him out he assumes she’s a lesbian trying to keep the media from outing her.

I don’t have a canon basis for this I just think it’s neat.

If Ateez are the pirates. TXT are the fairies. SKZ are the lost boys. And Enhypen are the vampires.

It’s just a giant neverland au.

I’ve been watching Not Me and Only Friends at the same time, having watched The eclipse of weakly two months before.

First is just coming at me with his characters. I am feeling very attacked.

But the thing I was trying to say is, it would be interesting if Only Friends and Not me were in the same universe.

Either one can come first and make a interesting timeline.

Only friends happening the year after Not Me. Yok changed his name to Sand and changed unis to avoid the fall out from Not me. He is still recovering from Dan but hasn’t learnt his lesson and falls in with Ray.

Or, Only friends coming first in the timeline and Ray breaks Sand’s heart. During one of his odd jobs he falls in with Sean and Black and joins the gang. He falls for Dan in hopes of getting over Ray (but we know how that goes).

Urgh I just want fics where First’s characters end up more with Khao’s characters cause they are amazing together. (Also I want Yok and Sand to have hugs).

me as a writer

I get what this person is saying but I don’t agree.

I read Seven Days the manga and watched the films years before I read Date Me Bryson Keller, and while they are similar with the whole ‘date for a week thing’ it’s different. I can see how the author of the book drew inspiration or took Seven days as a writing prompt. But the character’s are completely different. The whole dating for a week is a dare and is well explained. In the manga it is passed off as the guy breaking it off with girls because they don’t click. In Bryson Keller, it’s a dare and a game.

So no. I wouldn’t say that it is plagiarising. He only copied the ‘date for a week’ concept which I have read in other books as well. It’s a pretty common prompt. The book is so much more than that. The plot is about having the confidence to be yourself and how the main character develops his courage and bravery. It’s also about him confronting his family and finding the will to fight for himself.

The book also explores what it means to me mixed race and LGBT. It puts to words the complexity with being mixed and growing up, while also dealing with the difficulties of coming out.

While I loved Seven days the manga, it was all about the romance.

I will repeat myself. The book is far more complex and deserves not to be judged by the manga. Just as the manga should not be judged by the book. Both deal with their own cultures and characters. The writing prompt maybe the same. But they are also so different.

Please give them both a try. They are amazing.

It’s 2020 and people are still out here westernizing non-Western works and selling it as their own I’m so tired. Please go read Tachibana Venio & Takarai Rihito’s Seven Days instead.

My favorite thing about hobbits is how no other race has any idea how they work so they can just… bullshit their way through literally anything? Bilbo turns invisible and the dwarves just go “Yeah sounds about right, Gandalf did say they’re very sneaky” and don’t guess about the Ring. Frodo gets stabbed by a troll spear and survives unharmed and Aragorn goes “Oh right, hobbits are supposed to be resilient, that checks out. Very impressive!” and nobody thinks to ask if he’s got perhaps some kind of armor. I need to know what the line is. How weird does a hobbit need to get before they get called out??

My dad yells at fantasy movies for forging the weapons wrong. He’s a blacksmith and often the fantasy movies are about magic.

i love watching movies with people who are really passionate about something unrelated to the plot. yesterday at weird french movie night, my friend who likes to cook yelled at a character for sharpening a chef’s knife incorrectly because he would damage the blade. the movie is about cannibalism.