trojan-witch
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This came to me.. in a dream……
I decided to post my analyses and comments about Frankenstein in a side blog. I reposted what I put here there. @frankenstein-live-blogging
I read chapter 1 and 2 and have many thoughts about Victor's childhood and personality. Sorry for the long post.
First of all, he's first five years of life were privileged and self-centered. At the time he was a only child pampered be his rich parents, never knowing hardship. Through the chapters, he talks about how his parents were never strict, how they were nice, good people, etc.
This brings up, again, the facts that he never experienced real consequences for his actions, don't know how the real world works - believing that in the end everything always work out if you try hard enough - and see everything through the egocentric lens that he can never be wrong, everyone else just can't see his brilliance.
We can see this with his initial pursuit of knowledge about the Natural Sciences. He became interested in alchemy and don't believe his father about the lack veracity in this studies. He persists in this journey to the elixir of eternal life, seeking fame, but never stops to reflect what this discovery could mean to the world in its practical application.
He just stops when after receiving irrevocable proof that his scientific branch is wrong. This first disappointment's already too much to his ego, and instead of just correcting himself, he completely abandons the Natural Sciences as if it personally insulted him and his world view.
You can also see Victor's egocentrism from how, even though we learn he has a younger brother, he never tell us his brother's name and he never features in his stories of childhood. This brothers existence challenge his belief of being the center of his family, the center of his everything, so, therefore, is discarded.
We could talk, also, about how his relationship and thoughts about Elizabeth differ from his relationship and thoughts about his brother. He don't see Elizabeth as his own person, or even as family, not really. Ever since his mother presented her as "a gift" to him, that's how he views Elizabeth. She is but a extension of Victor, how he sees her is just a reflection of how he sees himself She's, like him, perfect in everyway and, as his present, every compliment she receives is a compliment to him, his "owner". Because that's what we do with objects that belong to us, if someone says: "I like your bracelet" the correct responde would be "thanks", because this person isn't really complimenting the bracelet, but its owner.
I'm stopping here, thanks for reading.
I just read the 4 letters in the beginning of the book and I've to say that I love Captain Walton, very cool, very passionate, very gay for "the stranger", who's obviously Victor, btw
I didn't mention before, but the book I brought have this QR codes in the pages that give me soundtracks while I read, very immersive
During the pandemic I lost my reading habit, I became depressed and lost the ability to focus in books.
After lots of therapy, this year I decided restart that habit. I already read 3 books about academic or philosophic discussions, so I decided that it's time to read some fiction now.
All this is to say that I'm reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley for the first time and will be live blogging about it.
Just thinking to myself… my predictions really are 50/50, huh?
spoilers for jshk chapter 94 below
Me, when Sumire first reveals she’s Six’s yorishiro: haha, well, that’s some place to have your yorishiro seal! guess they were more intimate than we know, I jokingly say to myself
Jshk chapter 89: Sumire and Hakubo almost fuck.
Jshk chapter 94: Hakubo bites that very spot (like, really bites).
Me, after chapter 89: wow, did not expect them to show this on-screen… “they’re gonna continue this night when they reunite, aren’t they?”, I joke to myself. eh, aidairo’s probably gonna reference it with joke, I doubt they’ll get more explicit than this, since it’s a shounen
Jshk chapter 93: ends with the steamiest kiss of the whole series, complete with lip-biting and moaning
Me, after chapter 93: oh, wow! well, now it can’t get more explicit than this. they’ll probably be interrupted, or we’ll cut to another pov
Jshk chapter 94: actually shows them having metaphorical (and maybe literal?) sex with vore
Me, after chapter 90: makes a whole theory about how Sumire will eat one of Hakubo’s eyes so they can be together, jokingly calls it ‘romantic eye-ball eating’ because it will symbolize them finally getting married/consummating their marriage
Jshk chapter 94: Hakubo devours Sumire so they won’t be separated again by someone else, symbolizing them finally getting married/consummating their marriage
Me, after chapter 94:… I actually got “romantic cannibalism” right?! … maybe I should stop joking to myself (amused)
made a uquiz to figure out what your basic assumption about the world is
what is the truth at the center of your universe?
there's 8 possible results and no song lyric or pop culture questions, enjoy
first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go
dont play hide and seek with an all seeing god
Do ya'll ever think about how every character in MDZS is living in a radically different genre of story?
Cause yeah, sure Wei Wuxian is living in a danmei fantasy novel with strong romantic comedy elements, but if you slide over a bit Lan Wangji is living a serious and heady drama about regret, loss, yearning, the passage of time, and ultimately atonement.
Scooch on over to Xichen and your in a straight up Greek tragedy, right down to the parable about hubris and trust. Jin Guangyao is living meanwhile in a political dark fantasy al'la Game of Thrones, Nie Huaisang is in a Gothic moody Monte Cristo-esque reflection on revenge and deception, and while Lan Sizhuhi and Jin Ling are living in two VERY different YA fantasy books ('magic boarding school/secret orphan of destiny' and 'Steven Universe style coming of age/discovering all your family are some flavor of evil and magic' respectively).
Everyone connected to Yi City is living inside a dark psychological thriller/horror flick, except for Xue Yang who is in a Found Family/Enemies to Lover fic right up until he isn't.
Jiang Cheng's entire life has been one long soap opera, and it is showing no signs of stopping anytime soon.
this quiz sorts through characters from like dozens of fandoms and finds the one you’re most like. I’m not even a little bit surprised by my result
Toilet-bound Hanako-kun Chapter 94
Thanks for waiting!
This month, a long story may finally be coming to an end...!? Read on to find out!
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Hello! While I know this point must have already been talked about a lot in the fandom but since I have only recently read tgcf, I don't know much. I came across threads on where people talked about Hua Cheng being obsessive and toxic, with his existence being centered around Xie Lian and hence not having a grounding personality and life of his own + the scene of Ten Thousand Gods Cave.
Since I have been reading your metas, I was curious about your thoughts on this? Thank you!
Sure thing! Apologies for the slow response, this whole thing with my back has been really disrupting everything I want to accomplish. Now, I think that Hua Cheng is obsessive in a way that could easily become toxic, but calling him obsessive+toxic relies on only a shallow reading of the character and limiting yourself to the point where he is at the very start of the story, ignoring all the character/relationship development that happens over the course of a very long book.
Now, when it comes to the flashback books? Hua Cheng can have a little obsession, as a treat. I’m not going to say that the way he feels back then is any kind of basis for a healthy adult relationship, but Hua Cheng is approximately ages 10-17 over the course of book 2, and isn’t much “older” after his death as the ghost fire and as Wuming in book 4. He’s not relating to Xie Lian in a way that’s going to lead to a relationship of equals at that point, but he’s also a kid who’s worshiping a god who saved his life at a young age, twice, and who comforted and reassured him when their kingdom’s guoshi told him that he was doomed to bring misfortune to everyone in his life. All of their interactions in book 2 are extremely good reasons for why Hua Cheng would idolize him and obsess over him in that way, and I’m not going to fault him for any of it.
Now, I would say that the end of book 4 illustrates how badly that kind of idolization can go better than anything set in the present day, but it’s telling that this is also the point where Xie Lian abruptly realizes how much he doesn’t want to be Like This, and hauls his life around. Even eight hundred years later, he’s more ashamed to speak of this part of his life than anything else. He’s way more willing to laugh at his own pain and suffering than he is to even mention a time where he was cold and controlling with someone who offered themself to him.
SO. In the present, Xie Lian has a very good reason to know that he does not want to take advantage of someone else’s offered devotion. It’s an old memory, but when we see how much he doesn’t want to talk about it, it’s clear that it made an impression. If the direction of this book was only up to Hua Cheng? He’s already made it abundantly clear that he’s willing to sacrifice his everything, including his sense of self, if Xie Lian asks, but Xie Lian has confirmed very strongly to himself that this is not what Xie Lian wants.
And Xie Lian is walking a very fine emotional line in a lot of ways that he himself isn’t even fully aware of, but the early development in the book has this really interesting balance in the dynamic between him and Hua Cheng. He’s happy to rely on Hua Cheng for advice and help, but he’s also completely willing to worry for him (when he jumps into the sinner’s pit) and to gently scold him (when he jumps into the sinner’s pit). Hua Cheng worries about what will happen if Xie Lian finds out who he really is, but Xie Lian pretty much confirms it to himself, and when Hua Cheng is finally anxious enough to ask about it, Xie Lian’s main reaction is ‘isn’t the important thing that I like you as a person?’
If Hua Cheng was left to his own devices, he’d obsess over Xie Lian in a way that let himself suborn his entire identity to whatever Xie Lian wants from him, but Xie Lian has been so horribly lonely for so long, and even before a relationship enters the picture, what Xie Lian wants is a friend. And Xie Lian, on his own, is determined not to let himself take advantage of a person the way he took advantage of Wuming. And no matter how much Hua Cheng wants to submit himself to Xie Lian, what’s more important to him is what Xie Lian wants. The meta that’s been doing good circulation that I bet you saw was about how Hua Cheng developed his own independent sense of self over the last eight hundred years, no matter what he’d originally wanted, but as he gets to know Xie Lian in the present, Xie Lian makes it clear that Xie Lian likes who he became.
Hua Cheng does still definitely take the position that ‘whatever Xie Lian wants is more important than what I want’, and that could go badly in so many ways, but from the very beginning, Xie Lian is firmly, firmly expressing, ‘I like who you are and I want to be friends.’ Xie Lian doesn’t scold Hua Cheng for being a dick to Fu Yao and Nan Feng, or for breaking heavenly artifacts, even one that used to be one of his own treasured possessions. He scolds Hua Cheng because ‘you jumped down into that pit and I was afraid you would be hurt.’ He doesn’t try to sand off Hua Cheng’s sharp edges or change him, and isn’t willing to sit back and relax as Hua Cheng puts himself in harm’s way. He doesn’t give Hua Cheng room to make himself a less-than, and (probably unintentionally) positively reinforces Hua Cheng when he lets bits of his own true personality show through. One of the reasons I love this book so much is because that relationship could have so easily turned toxic and controlling, but the main pair like each other so much that they manage to pull through into a healthy, balanced relationship.
It’s not a perfect relationship, because perfect relationships are boring and unrealistic, and there’s no tension in a story if two characters are perfectly in step. But by the end of the story, this is a more perfect relationship than I’d ever expected to be invested in, because they’re so in sync, haha.
I think the moments that show the ways it’s not obsessive in a toxic way best come through in the times when Hua Cheng has some sort of grudge against a person that Xie Lian genuinely cares for. It starts with the shitty teens in the Banyue arc, but even near the story end, Mei Nianqing is Xie Lian’s old beloved teacher, and is also the person who told Hua Cheng ‘wow! you’re destined to fuck over everyone who ever gets close to you’ when Hua Cheng was just a little kid. It’s clear that Xie Lian likes and respects him a lot, and Hua Cheng feels not at all compelled to play nice. He’s happy to continue being nasty as hell to Feng Xin and Mu Qing, who are Xie Lian’s next two closest friends. He’s not even willing to be nice to E’Ming even as 1) Xie Lian pampers it, and 2) E’Ming is literally a part of himself.
And he doesn’t hide this at all. He’s willing to act in ways not at all aligned with Xie Lian’s own opinions, especially as time goes on and Xie Lian doesn’t correct him. He’s willing to act against Xie Lian’s wishes in order to protect him (taking back his spiritual energy in the black water arc, overexerting himself to the point of dissipation at the climax), and it becomes more clear as the story progresses that he’s a person who wants only the best for Xie Lian, but who exists independently from Xie Lian, and isn’t willing to completely defer to Xie Lian’s desires or to override Xie Lian’s desires for what he thinks is best. To me, this relationship is primarily defined by how much the two of them like each other, and especially early on, I could see it easily tipping in an unhealthy direction, but it feels like most of the later relationship development specifically exists to undermine that particular flavor of toxic dynamic, and what we end up with is a very sweet, very balanced relationship. Hua Cheng’s willingness to submit himself to what Xie Lian wants is overridden by Xie Lian’s desire that Hua Cheng be himself, because that’s the person who Xie Lian loves.
I worked with toddlers and pre schoolers for three years. Sometimes I accidentally slip and tell a friend to say bye to an inanimate object (“say bye bus!”) & occasionally they unthinkingly just do it.
What actually happens to Beefleaf in Canon?
I feel like there are a lot of misconceptions about what happens to Beefleaf in canon. Most of this misconceptions are due to the deceptive way in which the story is constructed, which has the objective of increasing the perceived terror leading up to the confrontation against Black Water, to maximize it during the very confrontation and, in order to do so, temporarily gives the reader false information about Black Water, that is rectified later in the story, sometimes even after the end of the Black Water arc. Some of these misconceptions are actually encouraged by the author as a mean to create fear in her characters, before being disproved.
Due to the structure of the story, what actually happens in canon may be lost on a first reading, but it becomes more obvious during a second reading, when one can revisit older scenes, knowing He Xuan’s identity and motivations.
In this meta I will examine:
When does He Xuan substitute the Earth Master?
Xie Lian’s deduction
Ming Yi’s Face
When does He Xuan discover about the traded fates?
Xie Lian’s deduction
Why did He Xuan infiltrate the heavens?
What did He Xuan want for Shi Qingxuan?
The escape from the Water Master’s palace
Shi Qingxuan’s corruption
He Xuan hurting Shi Qingxuan
Was He Xuan really going to trade Shi Qingxuan’s fate?
The MDZS parallels
About He Xuan’s characterization
He Xuan’s goodness and his fight against tyranny
He Xuan’s diet
He Xuan’s bearing
The “Not your best friend” gag
As this meta’s focus is on misconceptions, Beefleaf’s romatic troping won’t be examined in here, unless relevant to the meta’s scope.
So, let’s get right into it!
Continuar lendo
love it when someone in TGCF is like "oh no, that's Crimson Rain Sought Flower! a highly dangerous supreme calamity who's so powerful he obliterated 33 heavenly officials!!" and xie lian immediately rebuffs them by basically saying: "no, this is san lang, and he's so sweet he cuddled me all night when i asked"
meanwhile, with qi rong is the complete opposite, because someone says "oh no, that's Night Touring Green Latern, one of the four great calamities! known for torturing and cannibalizing his victims!!" and xie lian, without hesitation, simply goes: "no, that's just my cousin qi rong. don't even look at him. he's doing it for attention."
the three tumours are the mean girls of heaven official’s blessing
shi wudu: he may seem like your typical selfish, back-stabbing, slut-faced, ho-bag. but in reality he is SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT
ling wen: that’s why her hair’s so big...cause it’s full of paperwork secrets
pei ming: one of the dumbest gods you will ever meet
and it’s all narrated by he xuan
feng xin: if i were a greek god, who would i be and why?
mu qing: ares, dumb war god
xie lian: apollo? the divine archer
pei ming: obviously priapus for tHAT HUMONGOUS D—
tgcf facts that everyone easily forgets
- hua cheng is a hot asshole
- xie lian is depressed
- mu qing is the only virgin in the xianle trio
- feng xin is the only character in tgcf who uses a bow and arrow
- pei ming is aromantic
- e-ming is an infp
- ling wen got discriminated cause she was a woman
- yushi huang is a feminist
- banyue was hanged more than once
- pei su is willing to get caught just to get banyue back
- xuan ji is not in love, she is obsessed.
- lang qianqiu was forgotten easily
- yin yu is described to look simple and plain in the novel
- quan yizhen is naive
- shi wudu deserved his death (rip to him btw)
- shi qingxuan and he xuan were born on the same month, day and year, and almost have the same name.
- qi rong is the funniest character in tgcf (might make alot of people mad but whatever)
- fengqing is canon. End of discussion.
has anyone done this one yet
shovel, talk…?
@animangacreators international friends day challenge
luffy, zoro and sanji for zebra ❤ @reddriot
People saying that Hua Cheng apparently has no interests outside of Xie Lian is so wild to me.
He is a sculptor and painter, he rules Ghost City, clearly has fun at the Gambling Den, pretends hes not friends with He Xuan (when they clearly share SOME form of camaraderie for him to LIE to XIE LIAN about it), is very well read (he would have to be, to defeat literature gods) and finally, clearly has fun with aesthetics/visuals, both in his residence and his clothing/powers (he didnt HAVE to go with a butterfly motif, he picked his aesthetic and IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH XIE LIAN).
He is a powerful ghost king who lords over his city and he loves it. Xie Lian also loves it (simp)
You know who didnt have any interests or opinions outside of Xie Lian? Wu Ming. Wu Ming followed him and didnt care about anything but him. And he didnt manage to stop Xie Lian or change his mind, a random guy with a bamboo hat did. In a way? That was a lesson for him. So he goes to Mount Tonglu, and slowly, over the centuries, he becomes his own person. By the time they meet again, he is fully his own individual.
Seriously, just because the guy is madly in love, doesnt mean he doesn't have a life. Dont take that away from him, just for a ridiculous 'hualian's relationship is unhealthy, actually' take.
Edit: thank you @ignite-the-moonlight for pointing out that he collects rare items as well
Wait...if I'm wearing a disguise, and you're wearing a disguise, and you're wearing a disguise, then who's flying the plane??
the yassification of crimson rain sought flower