Out Of Context But Im Gonna Make Accounting My Bitch
out of context but im gonna make accounting my bitch
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I feel like zyx and shen yuan could have interesting conversations about the weird things people sometimes say to them and in reality its the flirting theyre missing.
more like, the two of them would notice the weird things that happened to each other, but zero self-awareness
(let's say they'd have these interactions in modern au with all mxtx cast kicking around city neighborhood/college/local hangout/etc)
(it's gotta be college bc zyx is a fucking nerd, and they met in a general education course. and then they kept taking courses that overlapped each other's majors as out-of-major requirements for funsies)
(let's throw sqh in there too bc it's not like he notices mobei-jun's anything beyond angery)
(lucky for you, anon, i had some ideas rattling in my head)
mainly zyx and sy chill during lunch or after classes, under a tree next to one of the sequestered coffee shops on campus. it's their bi-weekly bitch session:
zyx, while laying in the dirt w coffee next to her head "dude why are the guys in the seminar so fckin sweaty"
sy, scrolling through phone "who?"
"take your pick; the guy that prob runs a campus fight club, or... huh. they both look like that."
"... liu qingge? that's just his face. i think i accidentally stepped on his pen once when i was trying to give it back, and he's never forgiven me since."
zyx shrugs. made sense - it explained the nearly murderous stare he had every time something fell off of sy's desk in lqg's vicinity (can't help it with those ridiculously tiny lecture seat/desks), and lqg picks the stuff up and thrusts them back at sy like he'd rather that motion stab sy instead.
"who's the other one?"
"uh, i think that freshman - bing something - always looks like i coughed in his face or some shit."
"oh, luo binghe. he's a nice guy; looks like what???"
"ok, he looks at you like he thinks your organs would fetch a premium on the black market"
"joke's on him - the black market would pay to never touch my organs"
"just don't follow him into an alleyway. either of them."
the two of them eventually get up and walk to the library to meet sqh, who is working with a classmate that's friends with the over-eager freshman luo binghe.
sy and zyx are sitting aside, waiting for sqh to squirm through his project. his partner, mobei-jun ('as his year calls him for some sport-ball reason, wtf' thinks zyx) is trying to set their work on fire through glares alone. he keeps pulling the papers from sqh, treating their poor (but sometimes deserving) friend like a non-entity. zero respect for personal space.
and instead of staying on his side of the friendship line, lbh spends a good ten minutes boring holes into zyx's head via his stare, and then saunters over to (...start a fight?) incongruously ask sy about last week's lecture. sy's sweating bc he was too busy getting into a twitter war over his latest trashfire webnovel obsession - he knows jack shit about last lecture.
zyx is about to speak up to help out (she was playing on her 3ds but at least she took notes and looked at the board), and lbh turns his eerie not-glare glare with 'i will kill you, sweetie' smile and she just decides to let sy waffle.
not her fucking fight.
=
sometimes zyx can convince the wimp wonder duo sy and sqh to gym w her:
zyx "it'll at least stop your posture from regressing into a crustacean"
sqh "i'm dying"
sy "i can sue her... i don't know for what, but i have a family lawyer..." *wheeze*
murderface lqg walks by while zyx is trying to help the boys with their form. "that's wrong," he barks at them
before zyx could "mcfucking excuse you mate; they're trying" sy, irate and near death snaps back "oh? what would you know?"
without asking, lqg steps up and immediately hands-on starts correcting sy. zyx looks and sees he's not completely out his own ass (nor should he be, with delts like that; and he seems to respect leg day) and she turns to focus on sqh.
when she looks back, sy is actually doing the lift properly, lqg spotting and saying words of ... encouragement? in that curt, no-nonsense way of his.
"you're not completely hopeless," lqg comments. "come back on monday. i'll teach you more."
sy, face down like a limp noodle "buy me dinner first if you're going to do me like this"
lqg looks like he's about to blow a blood vessel from anger. "... fine!" and stomps away.
zyx and sqh stare at him stomping away. both pairs of eyes look down at that supremely tight ass of his, and then look at each other. ('nice,' they both think).
eventually "... does anyone find it unfair that the richest asshole between us three is the one that gets free dinner?" sqh complains.
=
or the time that zyx is helping sy with an intro to programming assignment at the mech engineering dept computer lab:
sy, shifting around and losing focus every few minutes
zyx, losing patience, trying to do some homework at the same time "bro we'll leave when you finish. i'm not helping you this weekend - i have my own shit to procrastinate"
"how tf you work in here? everyone's so distracting!"
for the nth time, the printer near their corner goes off. the owner of the print bounces over to grab the paper, and turns to yell at his teammates
"okay guys! this one's the final CAD drawing! probably!"
zyx, unable to hold a grimace back. "fucking wei wuxian," she grumbles.
sy rolls his eyes. "that guy's been printing his crap for the last hour."
"i was hoping that he'd meet his team at usual fucking time and we'd get some peace and quiet in the lab, for once," she says, almost carving her derivations into her notebook with how strongly she's writing. "if i didn't already commit years, blood, sweat, and tears to this degree, i'd change majors to never take a class with him again."
"... i think he heard you," sy says awkwardly.
a hand, clutching a paper of 2d cross-sections, taps down next to zyx's workspace. "yunxun! hey, didn't see you working there!"
zyx's dead fish stare "... mhm. hi."
"is that the controls homework? i have mine, too - let's go over it in a bit! can't believe i got marked down one for the last homework -"
zyx is trying not to seethe. is this motherfucker mocking her? she got marked down three. he fucking saw that, with how nosy he was and sitting behind her in the lecture hall.
fuck. off.
wwx's still talking "did you finish the designs for mechanical design yet (zyx: "my team is iterating on it")? prof's given us hints with some of the load cases - i can help you out so you don't waste your time-"
"-thanks, but i already have the relevant load cases for my team's design."
(sy thinks that zyx's teeth might break if she grits them any tighter)
"oh! well, there's this torsion analysis that everyone keeps missing -"
"we chose a different design so we could ignore that case."
wwx laughs. "haha, i bet you're the one that thought of the new design, just to cheat past that!"
zyx "... hey, i'm sorry - i need to help my friend out with his work -"
wwx walks away cheerfully. "yeah, ok, see ya yunxun! we can check the controls homework in class!"
sy "... he seems nice."
zyx "i want him dead."
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zyx and sy sometimes dicking around in the music dept and using their practice rooms (because sy got them kicked out of the library with his loud rant on the latest sin committed by the subject of his hate-reading):
sy "when was the last time you had lessons?"
zyx "shut up rich boy - i have the right to play shitty anime covers whenever i want"
a knock on the door.
zyx "ah, fuck, it's that pretty boy"
"oh, pretty boy, huh?" sy teases
"pretty boy, derogatory" and she opens the door. "can i help you?"
said pretty boy is glaring into the room, a violin and bow in hand. "... if not practicing, you should not occupy the rooms."
zyx "yeah, we're done." goes to pack up, sy getting up and moving past the guy
as zyx leaves, the guy stops her with a curt 'hm'.
"for the piece i'm practicing - it requires an accompanist." the guy flicks his judgmental stare between zyx and the piano she was messing around with for the last hour.
"ah - I... sorry; your timing was good, i'm actually late for class." and she grabs sy and leaves before the guy can call her back.
sy starts wheezing when they exit the music building. "you?! accompany what? you haven't played since middle school orchestra!" he cackles. "'hey, i can't actually play formally, my guy', just say that!"
"shut the fuck up!" zyx drags him further from the building "look, that fucker keeps getting on my case since three weeks ago - my dance group was practicing nearby and we were 'uncouth and too loud', and i'll be damned if i let that uptight fuckwad sneer at me for being a weeb pianist"
"so if we want to keep hanging out here, like we've been for the past two years -"
"i will dig out every excuse i got. bitch has to sleep sometime. or just buy a piano for your apartment. for me."
"... no, i think this is funnier."
"fuck you, man"
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After reading a whole lot of danmeis by several different authors, I find the difference mindsets on morality by three of the most popular ones sort of funny :
MXTX: actions have consequences and when ppl have power those consequences might be terrible even if the intentions are good. Still staying true in one’s heart is important. Also, fuck mob mentality, social media and peer pressure, and celeb internet culture. Anonymous masses are vultures and they can both be terrible on their own or easily manipulated and weaponized. (this last part is really the metaphoric message of the novels, not a reference to any lead actor’s scandals…which makes the whole irl thing even more ironic…and yes I know I’m using it wrong but if Alanis Morisette can, so can I).
Meatbun: Okay, the protagonist is scum. Not just regular scum. Psychotic Genocidal Totalitarian scum (also very into BDSM). Do you think he’s bad in the first chapters? Oh he gets worse. Do you feel like stabbing him yet? Good! Only he is the biggest victim of them all and he is now horrified with his actions and bc actions matter regardless of personal excuses, he’s gonna suffer with that knowledge forever. Suffer along as the lead pines, despairs and crawls on his path of redemption and neither you nor the characters will ever truly emotionally recover. Conclusion: If you honestly repent then there is a chance at redemption no matter the crime (how very catholic).
Priest: Be Gay, Do Crimes, Have Fun Storming the Castle!, Murder Parties for all! No need to feel bad, or sorry. Just find a kindred ruthless bf, stir shit up and then retire together into a little cottage somewhere. The world is chaos, do what yo gotta do to survive, don’t sweat it. The ends justify the means. Morality is optional, a strong sense of patriotism is advised (“ For the Greater Good/ The greater good”), being utterly devoted to your loved one is mandatory tho!
Akashi: I don’t have a favorite friend. How could you even think that? All of my friends are of totally equal importance and worth.
Midorima: It’s Kuroko, isn’t it?
Akashi: I can’t help it, he has those “love me tender” eyes and I’m weak.
In a visual medium especially, a large part of a character is how they look. Like, looks can be deceiving and aren’t everything about a character, obviously, but ALSO: by making a character look a certain way (especially in the character’s daily life) the creator is (whether they know it or not) saying that that character is (usually) choosing to look a certain way.
Clothes, accessories, make-up, and hair can suggest any number of things about a person’s character. It can be a very useful tool in any story. Personal presentation can suggest things about a character’s gender, profession, religion, sexuality, personal wealth, native culture, and personality (and more).
Which is, I think, why a lot of female characters are sort of… I don’t want to say “broken”… but their execution has ruined their concept? (This isn’t exclusive to female characters, male characters can also suffer from unsupported unrealistic appearances, but female characters definitely suffer more.)
You have these female characters who are supposed to be relatable, realistic women, right? But you look at their perfectly curled-and-styled, super long hair and you see hours of hair-care. And you look at their perfectly made-up faces and you see at least a dozen different make-up products and at least a half-hour in the bathroom every morning. And you look at their figures and you see a strict diet and hours in the gym every week, and you see shaving or waxing, and you see well-maintained mani-pedis. And you look at their outfits and you see designer names and special tailoring, and an enormous closet somewhere in their apartment to store all this, and someone who has the time and energy for perfectly done, sorted, and ironed laundry (and is obviously not doing anything remotely physical or dangerous in those heels).
Which would be fine if that was an intentional visual statement about the character! There are women who put that sort of time/energy/money into their appearance! There are magical and non-human characters (male and female and neither) who can just snap their fingers to look perfect, and I buy it no problem! I get that!
But this gets done even with female characters who are supposed to be absent-minded workaholics, poor working single mothers, nerdy shut-ins, take-no-shit tomboys, post-apocalyptic survivors, and even faux-medieval warriors who shouldn’t have the time or resources for that level of personal grooming! And even with aliens and non-humans who shouldn’t know to decide to care!
So you have these “everyday” women with busy lives, but who somehow manage to keep an unrealistic level of personal grooming in absurd situations, and they… become visually unreal. Especially when (even if they are canonically said to care about maintaining a certain appearance) they’re often never shown putting in ANY of the time or effort it would take to manage their appearance (show me their skincare routine, show me them at the gym, show me them doing laundry)! They look like they stepped out of a magazine (often so “perfect” that they’re frankly bland, actually), but it’s not factored into their personality or background or their lives?
“I don’t wear make-up,” says the female character who is played by an actress very obviously done-up with eyeliner. “I don’t wear make-up,” says the female character who is drawn as though she is permanently wearing lipstick. There are no bad hair days and no laundry days and no moments of imperfection. What the character might be saying is immediately invalidated by the visuals.
These female characters don’t feel like women so much as they feel like impossible creatures the creator has pretending to be pretty women. They feel fake. They feel like their purpose by the creator is to pander to pervs and unrealistic beauty standards. Especially when they’re sent into combat situations with skintight/revealing outfits with no support and loose hair that’s a blatant liability (and the creators even make them bleed prettily sometimes which is related but different conversation). It’s a stark announcement (intentional or not, knowingly done or not) of the creator’s ignorance and apathy towards women and the choices involved in female self-presentation.
And it makes it… difficult… for me personally to relate to certain female characters sometimes, even when I care about these female characters and WANT to care about these female characters. Their character design is, by their visual appearance and lack of narrative support for that appearance, broken. They’re not grounded in any reality. The suspension of disbelief required can be… a lot.
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Pauline’s book recs : a MASTERPOST (II)
Shit, it’s 2020 and I’ve updated this Behemoth again. There’s both old and new in here. If you’re having problems with links overlapping, it is most likely the app/dashboard glitching—try the permalink version, and everything should work out, even on mobile. And of course, HAVE FUN.
Also: I had to split this one in two otherwise the links just poof, disappear. Part one is here.
THEMATIC LISTS By character Works featuring Persephone Works featuring Kassandra Works featuring Mary Magdalene Works featuring Narcissus (more or less) Works featuring male protagonists written by women Works featuring the House as a character Works featuring brothers Works featuring assassins Works featuring mermaids Works featuring musicians Works about scorned women and complex character development Works featuring the femme fatale archetype Works featuring female villains Works with Nature as a character Works with supernatural entities as a human double Works with introspective characters Works with narcissistic characters Works with “fatally-flawed” (hubristic) characters Romances featuring softer male protagonists Trope : Star-crossed lovers Trope : Friends to lovers Trope : Villainous love Trope : Toxic mother figure Trope : adaptating Beauty and the Beast Trope : adaptating Bluebeard By theme LGBTQ+ (a terribly old and lacking list) About love: pretty much a whole bibliography Suspense galore: books with good foreshadowing Suspense galore: a few good plot-twists Books taking place in a single building Books taking place in one House Books taking place in a high school Books with dysfunctional families Books about seeing into the Future Books by the sea (and a few pirates) Books set in Paris Books about hubris Books about loneliness and solitude Books about finding one’s life purpose Books about girlhood Books about introspection and self-discovery Books about melancholy and sadness Books about happiness and hope Books with symbolism and atmosphere Books about moral corruption and spiritual decadence Books about sex politics and philosophy Books about the female rage Books about or taking place during World War I Books featuring suicides Poems for mothers Poems about poetry Great love stories Unusual love stories Idealised, bittersweet love ; more By genres Rewriting Greek and Roman myths Rewriting Fairy Tales ; and again Writing and rewriting Arthuriana Favourites free-to-play text-based games Experimental literature Gothic and neo-gothic Southern Gothic Magical realism ; a few more Dystopias Young Adult Horror novels (but check the gothic instead) Crime novels Thrillers (thriller night); more Medieval historical fiction Sweet sweet comfort reads Just, like, sappy stuff
By context Beach reading Travel reading Halloween reading (spooky!) Winter reading Summer reading ; another Lockdown reading (you can still ask!) By book Books similar to The Secret History Books similar to Wuthering Heights ; again Books similar to Memoirs of Hadrian Books similar to Brideshead Revisited Books similar to A Grief Observed Books similar to The Brothers Karamazov Books similar to On Being Ill Books similar to Eros the Bittersweet Books similar to Dracula Books that might remind you of Avatar the Last Airbender if you squint Excerpts similar to Dido and Aeneas’ parting in the Aeneid Recommended editions of Romeo and Juliet Recommended editions of Shakespeare’s Sonnets Recommended editions of Wuthering Heights Recommended translations of Tristan and Yseult Some links to Rainer Maria Rilke’s Book of Hours Some links to a few of Mary Oliver’s works Lit criticism on Dorian Gray Lit criticism on Sonnets to Orpheus Books adapted to the screen (1) Books adapted to the screen (2) By author Favourite French writers Favourite Contemporary writers What to read? By Women French writers What to read? By Anne Carson (And some prep reading for Anne Carson) What to read? By Richard Siken What to read? By Roland Barthes What to read? By Agatha Christie What to read? By E. A. Poe What to read? By Daphné du Maurier What to read? By Sylvia Plath What to read? By Priya Sarukkai Chabria What to read? By Hélène Cixous What to read? On and by Branwell Brontë What to read & which translation? For Marguerite Yourcenar Which translation? For Hafez If you love Anne Carson If you love Angela Carter ; more If you love Louise Glück If you love Virginia Woolf If you love Sylvia Plath If you love Marguerite Duras If you love Emile Zola If you love Colette
